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mr. wonderful. >> reporter: that partnership taking him from rags to riches. you are amazing. [ applause ] >> all right, so kevin is here and we're going to break down your tips. forget the tips, i don't vuf to invest. >> you always have a way to save 10%. something you're spending you don't need. look at the crap in your closet. always a way to make 10%. >> fair enough, right so here's what we'll do. three audience members and they'll answer our questions, they'll give us their best guess. your best guess and kevin will let you know if you're wrong or right. three really important tips. here we go. question number one, what is the most common financial mistake people make? number one, not invests, number two, not having an emergency tundz and number three, not paying off debts. i know my answer. which was your answer, guys? >> not paying off debts. not paying off debts. >> debt, 100% right. pay your debts off. >> i like all three. i would have said all of the above. >> you have to get out of debt first. you can't save money while paying interest to somebody e

mr. wonderful is getting a smack in the head because of the apple action.really -- >> a lot of head smacking. >> a lot of head smacking. will be a really close horse race into the stock draft. countdown is on. >> 13% move for your buddy in one day. >> see more of him on fast money at 5:00 p.m. see what i did there >> clever. thank you, michelle, see you tomorrow >> see you tomorrow. >> "closing bell" starting now ♪ >>> welcome to this closing bell, i'm kelly evans. >> we have a new musical director dow is up 181 points, down 103, and nearly 300 point swing, now back 42. we start on the floor with a recap of the seesaw action today. court? >> yes, the major averages have taken a jagged trip,

mr. wonderful taste the prepared doughnut? >> we did.epared light before we went on, so they got nice, warm doughnuts. >> you're not allowed to tell us how the whole pitch went, but can you give us a general idea? >> it was action packed for sure. i think for us, it was a surprising experience because we felt so much support from the sharks. you know, a lot of the time you see really harsh moments, but in general, we felt they were encouraging and very supporting and gave us a lot of great advice. >> i've got to taste something here. >> you have to. that's our original protein rice crispy bar. >> this tastes good. i got to find out. spencer and i are going to go over the nutrition on the back of this. but you can see andrea and marquez fernandez on shark tank on abc7. >> let's get things things heated up during the break. >> absolutely. >>> i'll skip the glaze and go on to the good stuff, larry. here's a look at our live doppler 7, skies are bright, conditions are dry, overnight look for partly cloudy skies, a little cloudier in the nort

mr. wonderful said maybe we're not optimistic enough given the fact that cash flow numbers are going to go up earnings are going to go up and nobody has a grip on how powerful that's going to be. >> very true i think the indicator wes find now as people are saying oh, get out, but i think two things are putting a floor to this market right now. one is we know business confidence is up we know corporations are going to have a ton of cash flow and buy back stock if they need to or spend it. and now, consumer confidence you're getting wages increasing, housing is so strong so you've got a combination of consumer and business at the same time that i think provide some type of floor now does that mean an xhonlg niehaus event comes in in yes, that could happen, but i think stay ng the market looking at valuation is really important at this time because momentum stocks are still carry iing this market and looking for value i think that's the opportunity to go forward. >> richard, did you just give us a road map to 3% or higher >> we get to 2.5 with three. we could be at 275 on the ten-year. yeah,

mr. wonderful talked about yesterday, right, it gives them the ability to do that >> the sectors that you want to be overexposed to right now are what financials, technology anything related to the consumer and you want to raise your allocation to materials and energy >> i'll give you one sector that you don't want to be overweight. this is the only one i can this of, i'm not being facetious. i'm sorry, two, very good. some of the more desperate retailers. the department store retailers >> jcpenney. >> i don't know. there's an issue of -- >> i'll throw a name out that would have fallen in that category a couple of months ago. kohl's >> i knew you were going there >> good. >> i think we have a pretty robust discussion about this, maybe this week, maybe last week, if you're getting into kohl's right now, this might not be the right time. by the way, the point or the question you asked is, where should we be underweight, not totally out of the market. i'm not killing kohl's, i have no reason to do that i will tell you the department store brick and mortar sector has challenges sears, take a

mrs. wonderful thing that he said, but go back to the bushes and their feelings about trump, george w, one of the things he said was that when he is asked about what makes a great leader, he says humility. that's a hallmark of great leadership. so when donald trump said i am my own advisor, he thought wow, this guy doesn't know what it means to be president. george h.w. bush was a little bit more blunt. i saw him in may of 2016 on the day that john kasich pulled out of the race so we just had donald trump who was pretty clearly going to win the nomination battling against ted cruz, anti- moderates, to say the very least, antiestablishment politicians and, actually, i was the one who told him that kasich had just dropped out and i asked him about trump and he said you know, i don't know him, but i don't like him and i'm not excited about him being a leader and then he said he's a blowhar blowhard, but the most resounding statement both of those men made was not a statement at all. well, it was a statement but it wasn't verbal. it was by casting their first ballot, in george h.w.'s case, cas

mrs. obama wondering what to do with it in that moment. >> there was a gift exchanged. >> oh, yeah. >> thereas a box given -- >> the tiffany box. >> yeah, so, what was in there? >> it was a lovely frame -- >> a frame? >> it with us a frame. well, there's all this protocol. i mean, this is like a state visit, so, they tell you, you're going to do this, they're going to stand here, never before do you get this gift. i'm sort of like, what -- what am i supposed to do with this gift, and -- >> what do you do with the gift? former first lady saying former president obama put the gift inside before the pictures were taken. >>> when we come back tonight, that baskel player not even looking at the baske did this. you are not going to believe what he's done now. we'll stay with me, mr. parker. when a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. stay with me, mr. parker. the at&t network is helping first responders connect with medical teams in near real time... stay with me, mr. parker. ...saving time wheit matters most. stay with me, mrs. parker. that's the power

mrs. haslam -- wonderful people -- for joining us, along with members of the tennessee congressional delegationd i, sort of, have this beautiful list that i wrote. some of us came in on air force one. and they're great people, and they're fighting for you. in addition to the governor and your great secretary, senator bob corker. and they're out here someplace. bob? [applause] pres. trump: senator lamar alexander is here. senator pat roberts. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, pat. oh, does he love the farmers. pat, does he love those farmers. right, pat? stand up, pat. do you love the farmers, pat? yes. [cheers] pres. trump: he'll come in -- we're talking about a different subject, he'll say, what about the farmers? that's good. that's why they love you. representative diane black -- terrific woman. [applause] pres. trump: representative marsha blackburn. marsha. [applause] representative scott desjarlais. i love that name. [applause] pres. trump: hi, scott. thank you, scott. right from the beginning. representative chuck fleischmann. [applause] representative david kustoff. thank you, david. [

mrs. haslem, wonderful people, for joining us, along with members of the tennessee congressional delegationsort of have this beautiful list that i wrote, some of us came in on air force one, they're great people, they're fighting for you. in addition to the governor, and your great secretary, senator bob corker, they're out here someplace. bob. senator lamar alexander is here. senator pat roberts. thank you, pat. oh, does he love the farmers, pat. does he love those farmers, right, pat? stand up, pat. do you love the farmers, pat? he'll come come in, we're talking about a different subject, he'll say, what about the farmers? that's why they love you. representative tie an black, terrific woman. representative marsha blackburn. marsha. representative scott desjarlais, i love that name. hi, scott. thank you, scott. right from the beginning. representative chuck fleischmann. representative david kustoff. thank you, david. representative phil roe. i talk about zip by, soy don't ave to mention zip by duval. i talk about him. om nasauf, and mark mor sis, state senate majority leader. all right, i

mr. wonderful and the ladies taking over flash crash gordon >> make sure to tune in the results for the show february 5th, that's the day after the super bowl tim seymour is way in the lead there because of valeant >> just take one, does anybody want to see seymour win? >> i am calling you out seymour. >> all right, amazon, new fresh, all time highs today there is a lot more room to one there is a lot more room to one as one analyst it predictedt's refreshing. will tell us whyks like. tomorrow is important, but she's only seven once. spend your life living. fir at northwesternmutual.com. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. >>> amazon hitting an all time record high today. piper jaffray boosting their amazon price target. that's about 15% upside. joining us now with the cnbc news line is the analyst behind that call, mike olson. it makes jeff bezos worth about $15 billion? >> unbelievable. >> what's behind your call >> so we did a survey

mr. wonderful still in the lead., amazon and facebook all report their earnings this week, so anything can happen between now and the end of the competition it's going to come down to the wire that's why you have to join us on monday -- you should join us every day but next monday, really, because that's the day we're going to reveal the winner it is a show you cannot miss you'll notice, tyler, in the prompter cannot was underlined so i emphasizeded it slightly by raising my voice and leaning forward. >> lean in. >>> ahead, lots more on apple's town downturn. tdohe technical say it's time to buy we'll have more when we return on "power lunch. you always pay your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it? news flash: nobody's perfect. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty st

mr. wonderful is at the number one spot. only holdings, apple and boeing on his heels, todd gordon, the beardstown ladies with facebook and amazon what about tim seymour he made a valiant effort but no playing around. mattel has been treating him like a little baby treats a diaper that's dirty did you make a poopy, tim? the next hours are crucial earnings from facebook, apple and amazon who will walk away the champion? we'll move from diapers to pull-ups find out on monday i have a 3-year-old. i know from which i speak. >> oh, boy. >> it's been a hot january in the stock market but not for general electric straight ahead, we speak to an analyst who thinks ge may not be on the dow much longer speaking of the dow look at the markets. s&p, nasdaq, negative. the dow, higher by a big .004% oh, and there's the closing bell. (sighs) i hate missing out missing out after hours. not anymore, td ameritrade lets you trade select securities 24 hours a day, five days a week. that's amazing. it's a pretty big deal. so i can trade all night

mr. wonderful. he takes the thing off and he throws it to the crowd, and i caught it.ughing ] yeah, we do. >> i was like... and i caught it. it was amazing, right? so, now, my dad was wrestling on the card that night, madison square garden. i was so happy that i caught this thing from hulk hogan. i go in the back of the dressing room when the matches were over, and i go to my dad, and i was like, "look, i caught hulk hogan's headband." he's like, "oh, that's cool. that's awesome. take it home." i'm like, "okay." but then hulk hogan was right over there, taking off his wrestling boots, right, getting ready to shower. i want to go over and just say hello to him. so i went over to him, and i was like, "mr. hogan." he's like, "hey, hey, kid." and i was like, "i caught your headband." and he goes... "oh, man! that was my last one. i didn't want to throw it out. thank you so much." i was like... [ gasps ] and he was like, "thanks, man." i'm like, "oh, okay. you're welcome, hulk." and i was just so happy, and i went back to my dad, and my dad was like -- >> he really took it

mrs. haslem, wonderful people, for joining us along with members of the tennessee congressional delegationd i sort of have this beautiful list that i wrote, some of us came in on air force one and they are great people and they are fighting for you. in addition to the governor and your great secretary. senator bob corker. they're out here someplace. bob? [applause] senator lamar alexander is here. senator pat roberts. [applause] thank you, pat. oh, does he love the farmers, pat. does he love those farmers. right, pat. stand up, pat. do you love the farmers, pat? yes. [applause] he will come in, we're talking about a different subject because, what about the farmers? that's good, that is why they love you. representative diane black, terrific woman. representative marcia blackburn, marcia? representative scott desjarlais. i love that name. hi, scott, thank you, scott, right from the beginning. representative chuck fleishman. [applause] representative david kustof, thank you, david. representative phil rowe. [applause] i talk about zippy. i don't have to mention zippy duval. i talk about him

mr. satterfield, it's wonderful to have you here and we look forward to our discussion today. there are many issues involving syria in which this committee has primary responsibility on oversight. the use of force, the fact that we're using a 2001 aumf and what happens, many of us question whether that really applies to isis, but what happens after isis is defeated? where is the authorization to maintain u.s. troops in syria? we see a rapid increase in the number of u.s. troops. i believe the number now is close to 2,000, at least it's been reported about that. what is the role for u.s. development assistance working with other countries. as we all know, there's no military-only solution here. how will american diplomacy play out and what is russia's role here in the future. will it be effective in preventing mr. assad from being held accountable for his war crimes. where is our concern about iran and developing a land bridge between tehran and beirut which certainly affects israel's security. on each of these issue, the trump administration appears to view syria through a mil

i wonder, mr deputy president, if your hands are tied as leader of the anc, because let's face it, inhip contest, with nkosazana dlamini zuma, former wife of jacob zuma, you only won very narrowly, 179 votes out of the 5,000 cast? yes. you are presiding over a divided party, a divided executive committee, where there are lots of supporters ofjacob zuma, and you're thinking, i cannot really move as fast as i'd like, my hands are tied. that is the state of affairs, isn't it? well, it may well look like that, but when we emerged out of that conference, we came out with our commitment underpinned by two things, unity and renewal. unity means that we're going to unite all the different strands within the anc and work together, and everyone committed to that. it is a battle for you, isn't it? admit it, it is a battle for you? well, it is a battle because we come from different sides, different strands, so my task as president of the anc is to pull everyone together, to unite everyone, so that we all move in the same direction, and so far, i think we have done pretty 0k. really? because will

mr. lubin: a wonderful painting s-curveng mother in an position. in oneholding an infant arm and the hand of her daughter, in a sailor suit, on the left. this is on the hudson river, up in the mountains. they are watching the troops go off to war. presumably dead is one of those soldiers we see marching off. it is a splendidly beautiful picture. i love in particular, nobody know about this painting until about 10 years ago. the philips gallery in washington. ors wereservat looking through paintings in storage. they discovered the one they were looking at had another beneath it. it turns out the artist, gifford beale, hadn't been able to sell the painting because after the no longere know wanted paintings of the war. he put a fresh canvas over it. it was only discovered half a century later. steve: talk about the color in that artwork. mr. lubin: artists talk about aerial perspective. mr. lubin:this is almost a lessn aerial perspective, with the haze softening the mountains in the distance. steam clouds here on the side of the river and the other si

mr. knuckles? >> yes. >> i just wonder if i could have a quick word about the food. >> you want to complain?oh, no, i wouldn't say complain. ? o >> oh, that's a shame, because i just love it when people complain. >> really? >> oh, yeah. >> well, in that case, it's very gritty. >> oh. >> and lumpy. and as for the bread, need i say more? >> love the little bear in his prison uniform. that's good. it. the critics are loving paddington too, giving it a 100% certified fresh saying good >>> the morning on world ani"w now," presidential profanity. >> and what the late night comics had to say about this. >>> and a powerful winter storm is on the move bringing with it heavy snow and freezing rain. it's going to be a dangerous day for millions caught in its path. >>> yes, alabama won the big game, but we're now hearing about an alabama coach's playbook being stolen ahead of the national title. what georgia fans are saying about this.

mrs. wallace has mother-in-law? >> interesting. wonderful question. mrs. wallace -- ok, so this family comes from independence, missouri. the wallaces were considered arisstrow cats in this -- a istrocratses. -- ar truman was a former. and the wallace lived in independence. all the letter exist of this courtship. and she was very much not in favor of this farm boy because she said "he was never going to go anywhere. and even when they were living in the white house in 1945, mrs. wallace was living in the white house, she still looked down on harry even though he was president of the united states. >> how much education did harry truman have? > again, a great contrast to roosevelt who went to harvard law. truman never finished college. the family was broke when he finished high school. so he had to go and work on the farm. and he worked in kansas city for a little bit. at some point he took law classes at night. i think he had pretty good grades, a's and b's. but he never finished. no college degree. no law degree. this was the man who took over for f.d.. >

mr. deputy attorney general i wonder if you would speak about the priority of your department. with the issue of piracy content theft and whether that is an important issue for the department of justice. >> it is still an important as it was when you were there 25 years ago. one of my curly colleagues at the department of justice. we have not talked about the intellectual property but that is one of our top priorities. in fact recently, established intellectual property around the world announced identified ip coordinators that we set up with detailed department attorneys stationed in foreign locations to coordinate efforts in those areas. because we recognize a lot of the threat comes from abroad. and intellectual property is critical to the success of american industry. entrepreneurs deserve to know that we are going to do what we can to protect their intellectual property interests and so, yes we are concerned about piracy and our department criminal division does have experts who focus on ip and it continues to be a very high priority for us. >> one more. >> kathy, attorney

mr. satterfield, it's wonderful to have you here and we look forward to our discussion today. there are many issues involving syria in which this committee has primary responsibility on oversight. the use of force, the fact that we're using a 2001 aumf and what happens -- many of us question whether that really applies to isis but what happens after isis is defeated? where is the authorization to maintain u.s. troops in syria? we see a rapid increase in the number of u.s. troops, i believe the number now is close to 2000, at least it's been reported about that. what is the role for u.s. development assistance working with other countries. we know there's no other military-only solution here. how will american diplomacy play out? what is russia's role here in the future. will it be effective in preventing mr. assad from being held accountable for his war crimes? where is our concern about iran and developing a land bridge between tehran and beirut which certainly affects israel's security. on each of these issues, the administration appears to view syria through a military lens

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in fact, there is a wonderful letter that mr. vanderbilt wrote to his friends about having meetings to discuss this idea that this man named thomas edison has, and maybe we should invest in the concept of electricity. so, they were hedging their bets by having both gas and electricity. the dining room table can be extended to accommodate 32 people. so, all of the chairs from the original dining room are here. and the table is not set for 32 right now, but you can imagine, it just swelling up and what a great celebratory moment it would be to be at a dinner party of 32 people. and, as you can see, everything a piece of sculpture is life sized. and,a gain, you have no doubt about the fact that you are in a real palace when you are in the dining room. not unlike many that you have seen in europe. bringing back the spirit of european architecture. and, of course, gilded as it could be. and this is a room that was used for entertaining purposes. we're told that the family ate most of its meals in the morning in the breakfast room. and

mr. schatz has mentioned, i have wondered about how they could solve this. the only idea i came up with, why can't the speaker of the house guarantee to any member who is against a bill and has no real good reason, why can't he promised him that if there is a bill that he is interested in passing, that the speaker of the house would guarantee that that bill would be brought up at the house, discussed, debated, and voted on as a replacement for earmarks. host: what do you think? guest: i think there's a process . i do not think the speaker should be dictator. certainly, speaker ryan has been far from that and has been very fair in allowing the committed is to do their work. .- committees to do their work it is one of the reasons he did not put his foot down and express it. i think he has been a very fair -- has been very fair about the whole process. you cannot say we're just going to do it. it was never more than 1% of all discretionary spending. the 29 billion dollars was a little over 1% of the total discretionary spending. that is not entitlements, social

so there is a wonderful deadpan line, mr trump's comment took downing street and buckingham palace byening of the american embassy but he didn't because he doesn't like south london. he did make a big impact at davos this week. he arrived with a massive entourage, a bit like a rock star there. there was a wonderful photo on the front of the guardian. the evening standard in london and it was snow apocalypse now, his fleet of helicopters and it was like the scene from apocalypse now of all the scene from apocalypse now of all the helicopters flying through the air in vietnam with snow added. there is a sense of pique about the fa ct there is a sense of pique about the fact he hasn't had the official invitation, he has been banging on about how macron in the french capital rolled out the red carpet for him, they closed the eiffel tower. anything that smacks of sell relate rope and red carpet, he is a suckerfor relate rope and red carpet, he is a sucker for that. if we want a trade deal he should spend three weeks in buckingham palace and it would be a done deal. what he hasn't. .. what

mrs. wallace has mother-in-law? a.j.: interesting. you will wonderful question. now will 'mrs. wallace -- ok, so will work with former will and will all the letters exist of thisll or not courtship.a and and areyou brian: how much education did harry truman have? a.j.: again, a great contrast to roosevelt who went to harvard law. truman never finished college. the family was broke when he finished high school. and so he had to go and work on you the and avoid farm. a farm. you and he worked in kansas city for a little bit. you will at some point he took and will on law he had been the head judge of jackson county, missouri. which he was the chief executive of the county most of which was rural. had kansas city in it. but most of it was rural. he had never been chief executive of anything. brian: how did he ever get elected to the united states senate and what role did mr. pendergas play? a.j.: mr. pendergas, fascinating figure. a fun person to write about because he was this larger than life man. he had a bull frog head and bull frog eyes. extraordinarily powerful man. he was t

. >> first, one wonders, did mr. rosenstein make notes of that conversation. after jim comey was asked by the president for his loyalty, comey was so disconcerted by that he made notes. i have no idea if rosenstein did but that's something mr. mueller will want to know right away. did mr. rosenstein or anyone in that meeting make contemporaneous notes. second, does this fit a pattern of attempt to obstruct justice. if you have a situation where you ask the fbi director for his loyalty, then fire him, he asks the assistant fbi director, who did you vote for, fires him. he asked mike rodgers, would they intervene? he asked several members of the house and senate. you're getting a body of evidence that the president is obsessed with russia and trying to stop the investigation. that's a real problem for the charges of obstruction of justice. the president is giving mueller a whole lot of proof. >> nice try, paul, but i think it will fall short at the end of the day. today's reporting by cnn on this, there are three people in the room according to the sources here.

mr. cooper, i wonder if you can talk about your company's ethics and how you arrived at a place to be an ethical company not to take -- not to take advantage of some of these predatory examples that we've heard about in the testimony. >> sure. thank you, mr. banks. that's a great question. we as a company are based on a set of values that we worked really hard on as a group, as all of our employees to set how we wanted to act as a company and we carry that out every day and it's something that we believe strongly in and so we came up with a mission, as well, and we want to help get veterans into homes, and we are very focussed on that. we offer earl refinances and we offer traditional cashout refinances, but our marking practices don't focus on bringing those people right after closing to churn through them and that's just something we felt is always in the best interest of we're looking out for the best interest of the veteran in what we're doing we feel like, we want to educate veterans on the v alone and how they can best make use of the program. >> have you seen a decline during your

mr. vice president, i wonder if you might expand on the earlier questions about syria. this has been touted as a great foreign-policy success for the united states. especially forward, with the delicate balance between all the players and region,lly iran in the is there a way forward for the u.s. aggression cooperation and visdoes that play vis a russia being looked? look, letdent biden: me organize my thoughts here. that the idea -- i used to always, i would say to the president, when our kids are writing their doctoral thesis only as good question, what are we doing about the arab spring, "whatestion starts out makes you think they could do anything about the arab spring" in the book. syria is a classic example of the biggest conundrum that we have to deal with. now, the nonstarter is, for ssadia, the idea that a stays in power and continues to control means there is a guarantee that there will never be peace or security in that many lawscause so have been broken here. there is no way he can put that together. and there seems to be no willingness on the part of the ru

mr. vice president, i wonder if you might expand on the earlier question about syria? certainly, ais great foreign-policy success in the inverse, is the great policy failure of the united states. looking forward, especially with the delicate balance between the players and especially iran, is there a way forward for u.s.-russian cooperation and how does that play these are the iran -- how does that play via i ran? mr. biden: let me organize my thoughts. think, might would be in these meeting sometimes, the president, you know when our kids are writing their doctoral thesis and asked the question, what did they do with the arab spring? whathen the kid says, would make them think they could do anything about the arab spring> ? what you have in syria is a classic example of the biggest conundrum that we have to deal with. russia, theer for idea that assad stays in power and continues to control, means there is a guarantee that there will never be peace or security in that country. so many bottles have been broken. there is no way he can put that together. there seems to b

mr. faulk, i'm sorry. i'm just wondering is there some reason that, you know, if there is another hearing on march 2, can it just be moved one month. we postpone thing all the time here. i'm just wondering if there is something about this particular date, mr. knapp? you know something about this? >> maybe i didn't explain it before. they meet four times a year only. and in the hopper of nominations, the staff in sacramento have approved, they can't hear them all at one hearing and there is this jockeying. so my concern is not only could we get bumped three months, then we could be competing with other people who are better at lobbying than we are and find ourselves bumped six months. that is my concern. >> ok. i appreciate that. thank you. that's helpful. thank you. is >> commissioners -- >> oh, ok. [laughter] i'll move that we -- i'll move the staff recommendation that we do the edits, that we explained here and described today. and that mr. knapp work with our staff to support our recommendation for nomination to the natio

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mr. speaker. we will all certainly miss the gentleman from ohio. he's a wonderful member and we have and joyed his service to our country. mr. speaker -- we have enjoyed his service to our country. a judge ordered the administration to continue accepting renewal applications for daca recipients, although this is welcome news, this should not undercut the urgency for us here in congress to pass a permanent legislative solution to shield our dreamers from deportation. this week i again have the great honor of meeting another great group of bright and hardworking young immigrants from my district whose daca permits will expire in the coming weeks and month. despite their circumstances, living in fear and uncertainty about what their holds, each one of these individuals has demonstrated great resolve and perseverance to continue the fight. they visit members of congress, they share their unique stories, the facts about their contributions and our communities, and they implore us to take -- to give them the opportunity to stay in what they consider to be their home. the

mr. vice president, i wonder if you might expand on the earlier question about syria? russia is touting this as a great foreign-policy success. the inverse of that is that it is a great foreign-policy failure of the united states. looking forward, especially with the delicate balance between the players and especially iran, is n the region, is there a way forward for u.s.-russian cooperation, and how does that iran?is-a-vis is it the reverse? mr. biden: one thing. look. let me organize my thoughts. that the idea -- like , i would say to the president, i would say, "you know, when our kids are writing their doctoral thesis and asked the question, what did they do with the arab spring? and then the kid says, what would make them think they could do anything about the arab spring?" i am being a little facetious, but not very. and what you have in syria is a classic example of the biggest conundrum that we have to deal with. is fore nonstarter , russia, the idea that assad stays in power and continues to control means there is a guarantee that there will never be peace or