rick? >> rick: lucas tomlinson. rescuers working around the clock to find survivors. why those on the island nation may still be in danger. >> rick: plus, a war of words between president trump and senator bob corker over the partial government shutdown. how president trump is responding after corker blasted him on sunday. former utah congressman jason chaffetz joins us next. >> now, the government is shut down over what ultimately is going to be $2 billion. this is a made up fight so that the president can look like he is fighting but even if he wins, our borders are going to be insecure. insecure. >> anita: welcome back. 13 minutes after the hour now. a big food recall alert just before christmas. jenny-o recalling 164,000 pounds of raw ground turkey products that may be contaminated with salmonella. look for markings on pass jages use or freeze by november 12th or 13th. they can be found in these states, arizona, california, florida, georgia, iowa, illinois, indiana, louisiana, michigan, minnesota, missouri, new

rick? >> rick: we've certainly seen that. you. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. so i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shutdown. i'm not going to blame you for it. >> anita: president trump saying he'd take responsibility for a government shutdown but in an op ed, t"the new york post" writin that chuck schumer doesn't deserve a pass. president trump may deserve all the heat he's getting for his bumbling role in triggering a government shutdown over the border wall sunday, but democrats, senate majority leader chuck schumer are no angels. ted harvey is chairman of the committee to defend the president and former colorado state senator. and jim kesler is former legislative policy director to senator chuck schumer and senior vice president for policy and co-founder of the third way. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >>

good to see you. >> good morning, rick. how are you? >> rick: great.tics. what is the point there? >> it has become an issue because the two political parties in our country have decided that voters are either so gullible or so cynical that they will do this. it is really about every voter should feel that their intelligence is being insulted by what is going on in washington right now. it is truly appalling. but you have a compromise, an obvious compromise. $3.3 billion is exactly between the two sides request. semantics about whether it is all wall, spiky fence, it is all immaterial because it is all money for the same thing. border security. no one is going to build a wall from sea to shining sea. no one is going to have open and borders. is it this much for this much? obviously people choose and all that is between those things and move on to more important issues. that is why this is such an unworthy -- >> rick: this is the first time that i have heard it called the spiky fence. there has been no movement at all, no back channel negotiations, noth

rick?> heather: so heart-breaking. thank you very much, william. ♪ >> rick: another big story this morning day seven of the partial government shutdown as both sides dig in over funding a border wall. it's likely to stretch into the new year when democrats take over the house. republican congressman mark meadows saying president trump is trying to find common ground. >> so whether it's republicans in the house or democrats in the house, the president and his team have made several very reasonable offers. and the american people want us to compromise. 5.7 in my mind was a compromise. it was a down payment on the wall. not fully funding the wall. >> ellison barber live at the white house. ellison, any signs of progress? >> not at this point stalled i think would be the nice way of putting it. everyone dug in on their side seems to be the more realistic way to describe it the president tweeting this morning. we build a wall or close the southern border. he has called democrats obstructionists

and with it, rick.es with her old boyfriend. >> it sounds like she had your back, rick, and then she didn't. >> yeah. >> what happened? >> jail changes people. you know? >> rick was hoping it would be just a matter of time before he, too, would be released. the forensics they had against you, no hair, no fingerprint, no dna. >> nothing. >> but he did have charlie's blood on his shoe. to humphries, that evidence was part of a bloody trail from the crime scene that was about to lead both the prosecutor and rick gagnon into a courtroom showdown. >>> coming up -- one of rick gagnon's fellow inmates comes forward with a damning story. >> he's been given a fairly detailed account of what occurred that evening, and what the crime scene looked like. >> stuff that hadn't been in the newspapers or on tv. >> no. >> not at all, no. you're gonna love if ythe best of geico.ercials, it's geico's all-time greatest hits back on tv for a limited time. and if you love the best of geico, you're gonna really love voting onl

>> rick: never writer's block. if i'm stuck on a research question i ask my dear friend nicole, who is phd in history, and worked for the guilder layerman institute, and she can figure out everything. the one thing the marshal book, one of the famous cases was cohens v. virginia, and i had a hard time finding out anything about the coens brothers, they had sold out-of-state lottery tickets, and virginia -- this became a supremacy case. there's nothing about the cohens in all the other biographies, and i think it's a fossilized anti-semitism. i think albert -- did a pulitzer prize winner in 1919, and thought lottery sellers name cohen. he just dismissed them, was uncurious about them and other biographers following in his footsteps did the same thing. i wanted to know who were these people. so nicole siri found an article in the maryland historical journal from 1923 or something. the cohens of maryland, and it told me the whole family history from bavaria on. >> rich: o every day so you have a wonderful blush -- you

eight months later, rick got some promising news.ught he recognized the walgreens guy from another shooting. >> and i might want to check him out. >> his name? kenneth williams. rick compared several williams' mug shots with the walgreens video? and you think boom we've got our guy? >> i think it's our guy. the picture and the video is not real good, but i start focusing in on him. >> then rick's investigation got lucky again, an unlikely witness came forward with information about that same kenneth williams and the night that erica and her mom was shot. >> but the witness was questionable. he was charged with murder himself and he was also gravely wounded in a shooting. prosecutor john peck. >> he's on his death bed. he thinks he's going to hell and he has something he needs to say. >> week's later, turner's health improved enough to talk to rick arnold. >> james and kenneth williams. they supposedly had hit a lick on some lady. >> they had a lick on a lady. >> what does that mean? >> slang for a robbery. >> robbery that quickly esc

remind our audience what happened to rick pitino at the university of louisville. >> guest: rick pitino was gifted, brilliants coach, won championships without the best players all the time. his master motivator, but the recruitment of brian bowen to the university of louisville became the central thread, one of the central threads in the federal case that sort of lifted the lid on a big back scandal that breck about a year ago. and pitino lost his job over this scandal. wasn't the first scandal he was involved in, pretty much the last straw. >> host: the ncaa, keep more and more talk about how the players are being used by the universities, making money for the university, and then when they accept a 100 decide gift cart to a rather restaurant they're penalizees. what are you thoughts. a big problem in college athletics in to that there are billions of dollars generated and good to the players so creates what economists call a gray market. the players are worth something, and they're not being paid anything beyond their scholarships, so there are middlemen and go-betweens and street ag

important writers like rick brookhiser. this past february was ten years since wfb's passing, a valuable opportunity to reflect on his contributions to our nation. we held successful events all around the country, timed be not only nostalgic and also inspirational. we real a's the young staff at our organizations were just barely reaching their teens when bill passed. so them buckly and his passionate advocacy of conservative principle, sis civil and inclusive manner, those could be just words another wikipedia page so we took those legacy events to over 15 college campuses. we were at berkeley, last night at kings college and a forum with rich lowerey, national reviews editor in chief, in execution but the important views at buckley eespoused. i as ronald reagan warned freedom can be lost in a generation. we must continue to read, appreciate the fill osi and experiments, success failures and reflect with gratitude for those who have paved the way before us and that is an important reason why we support rick brook highsers

rick, what are you talking about?there's a difference between someone who on occasion does stretch the truth when it comes -- >> known as day and night. >> -- public statements. there's a difference between doing that and lying when you can be prosecuted for that lie. >> this president -- >> and lying under oath is a very different thing than political hyperbole and other exaggeration -- >> rick has a point, christine. that's why the president didn't want to testify in front of mueller. other than his boasts to jonathan karl, i can't wait to do it under oath -- >> you answered the question. >> but he wouldn't do it under oath. >> you wouldn't tell your children it's okay to lie on these things, but not when you're under oath. that's the only time you have to tell the truth. and this president has shown that he is able and willing and consistently will lie in any way you define a lie. be it immortal sin, however you decide to do it -- >> uh-oh, she's getting catholic on you. she's coming into your wheelhouse! >> i get

maria: my thanks to david ricks.hina trade tensions, brexit, government funding, the president's tweets? what will be the big market drivers of 20 the 19. maria's all-star panel gazes into their crystal balls and makes bold market predictions next on maria bartiromo's "wall street." street." ♪ muck street." ♪ muck comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast. maria: welcome back. between tensions over trade with china, technology stock struggles as well as the government shutdown fears, a booming u.s. economy and a shift in power in congress, it's been a volatile year for business. so what will 2019 bring for the

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rick, what's your reaction to whitaker's role in this company.continues to sit on the advisory board. >> the guy sat on the board of an invention promotion company that involved time travel, and big foot. so i think that really says a lot where we are with matthew whitaker. is he spectacularly unqualified to be as even acting attorney general. he's unqualified to be as the manager of a waffle house, unqualified to be a slip and fall lawyer in a strip mall. he's an embarrassment. he's only there because he went on cable television, yelled as loud as he could how wonderful donald trump is and managed to the convince the president of the united states that he would be the one guy lold be there as an effective loyal political lieutenant and put the rule of law second and let the justice department be sub orrined in order to prevent trump from being investigated any further by robert mueller. that's why he's there in this position. he is a guy with his background alone is disqualifying. his statements about the mueller investigation before this are di

all of you, let's jump into this, starting with you, rick. realistic is congressman costello's prediction? are we looking at several more weeks of this? >> yeah, i think it could go on for weeks, maybe longer. donald trump seems to have an intransit position and it's his position the house and the senate have both passed bills to fund the government. what they haven't passed is one that's passed both houses and sent to the president. they could do that very easily. the mitch mcconnell has said he will not put a bill in front of the senate that the president won't sign, but the president hasn't indicated what it is he will sign, and you noticed everybody left town and you notice that the republican leadership hasn't really informed its surrogates, no one is out there with a coherent message over the air waves about what we're fighting for, and they seem to have just left this up to donald trump. i think donald trump's strategy is to wait until nancy pelosi is speaker and then see if he can actually blame her. i think that's a misguided strateg

joining me is heather, jonas and rick. stocks logging their worst year since financial crisis of 2008 driven by fears of a trade war, worries about global growth, concerns about rate hikes and the political chaos of an increasingly dysfunctional political system. when all is said and done, what do you think was the biggest market mover obviously to the dow side for the year. >> you used the word dysfunctional. that's being very generous, my friend, david. the main words from me is slow down. i believe that the foreign markets topped out in february because months and months in advance they saw a slowdown in europe, in japan, in china and then finally it hit home as we are not immune. and all of the sudden all of the economic statistics here, the norm is a surprise and expectations to the downside. and i suspect it's going last into the first couple of quarters of next year. >> i see a slowdown coming but i think we're far from a recession. the fund man fundamentals remai. goldman sachs saying growth may slow. gdp growth fo

joining me, morgan ortega, john layfield and rick unger. powerful stock rally today breaking a string of losses, obliterating the losses we suffered in the worst christmas eve trading session ever and making today the best day after christmas rally ever. going into today's rally, president trump said this was a terrific buying opportunity and at least today, he seems to have been right. so has the market hit bottom, gang? >> i'm not going to throw cold water on a 1,000 point day but i have to throw a reminder in there. before today, the dow was down, get this, 4268 points in 14 trading days, so we were way overdue. i also want to mention, i coined the phrase many years ago in bear markets, rallies are sharp, quick, make you feel good, suck you in and then bury you soon after, and during this bearish phase we had a 2100 point rally and a 1700 point rally. so i love it, i'll take it, i need to see a little bit more before i'm ready to say the big low is in. >> i was feeling really good until gary -- david: me, too. >> gary's a smart guy. he's

. >> bob pisani, thank you >>> let's head over to rick santelli good morning rick. >> good morning saraan unusual week i have to say it has been an unusual week for the yield curve and treasuries as well we down one and two for the day. we are down on the tens, on the day we are down three on the weekend. 30 is out there by themselves or down one on the day. it has been some curves steepening going on. let's look at a july start, that's the last time we close down at these levels in july i still contend that we may be able to get chose to that as we whine down the year. on monday, if you look at what's going on with the yield curve specifically, 10 minus 2 for two months you can see it quite dramatically and 30 minus tens as well. >> the last chart is going to be on the dollar index. now the dollar index is really fighting and you can still argue it is fighting we have not had our close below 96 as you see on this chart, we are down close to three quarters of a percent on the week. the more stabilization that we tend to get on equities. i think that's something not only to pay attention

no. >> rick: only one of those games was this year.oma gets to punch the ticket as big 12 champion. that resonates with the committee. but georgia is going to be in this conversation. this was an epic game and we turn to ohio state and urban meyer has no doubt told his team you've got to go and you've got to keep going. look for them to have the gas pedal flat to the ground. >> adam: against a northwestern team that's not easy to score points on. >> brian: they demolished the number one in the land in michigan and now you're going against a middle of the road big ten defense in northwestern. i think they put on a show. ohio state. >> adam: we're not questioning. georgia were top four coming into this day but what becomes of the dogs after the loss here down to the final play against alabama? let's go up to brad nessler and gary danielson for more after an epic s.e.c. championship game. >> brad: it was a great one for sure and i heard commissioner sankey say on the podium "i think these are two of the best four teams in the country." i

that's the easy part. >> thank you rick i am a longtime admirer of yours but it is a weird situation we find ourselves in i am amused to read online and on twitter every single minute i am not a real conservative that i told you i did a good job fooling you i spent a lot of years working and writing for publications like the commentary of weekly standard i advise candidates on foreign-policy so i was a maid guy part of the republican establishment as rick was as well so it is kind of weird i cannot speak for him but is weird for me to be sitting here in the role i never thought i would be doing even when donald trump announced his candidacy summer of 2015 that something i write about in my book corrosion of conservativism how i was instantly repulsed and this is literally repulsed he began attacking mexicans as rapists and murderers. then a few weeks later he followed up to say that john mccain was not a war hero i thought he was toast there is no way somebody that says stuff like this could possibly win the nomination of the republican party i didn't think he would win us single pri

coming up in just a few moments, wall street journal jon hilsenrath is here, ceo of eli lily ricks joining us. later all-star panel, crystal ball to tell us what have market stories in 2019. first federal reserve hiking interest rates on wednesday while signaling it could raise rates 2 more times despite pressure from president trump. federal reserve chairman jay powell responding to president emphasizing this. political considerations play no discussions or decisions in monetary policy. joining me to talk more about that jon hilsenrath, jon, good to see you this weekend. thanks for being here. >> hey, maria. maria: we also have to talk about where we are in the economy, things have been going well, the u.s. economy humming along but are things slowing down on the horizon, jon, how would you characterize things? jon: 2018 will go in expansion. unemployment rate got down to low r lowest in 50 years, that's great news. does look like things are slowing down on several fronts. one is global growth has softens, china is slowing down, europe has slowed down. now it's upturn, one of the big ques

scott jennings is here, rick wilson. rick is the author of "everything trump touches dies."re were a lot of tweets but they ended with this one. totally clears the president. thank you!" i mean, is he talking about obama? is he talking about bush? i don't know. but him? if he's talking about him, that clears it. >> i'm not sure -- i'm not sure individual 1 understands exactly how the law works. because just wish casting yourself and saying oh, i'm cleared now, it's all good is you know, donald trump fastball fab lymph -- fabulism writ large and this is a guy who clearly spent the day in a growing state of anxiety and rage. i mean this morning was some classic rage tweeting. and you've got to imagine they were trying to beat the door of the john down trying to get the guy out and he ends today. >> just look at your screen, everybody. this is just today. sorry, rick. continue. >> it's okay. >> 14. 14 times. >> no, this is not a well man, don. this is a guy who honestly believes that he can change the fabric of reality and make the law go away by tweeting at it. this is like ki

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, rick, rick, so -- >> yeah. mark: you're speaking out more about the country. you're speaking out more about capitalism, about liberty. is that because you're recognized and you're part of the culture and concerned about the future of the country? >> i am concerned about the future of the country. i have six kids. i have three grandkids. and there is going to be an economic reckoning in this country eventually. you know, the government will give you all their voodoo economics about how social security is fully funded. it's insanity. it's the equivalent of me saying i had a million dollars and loaned it to myself and i gave myself an iou and partied and spent all the money but i'm still a millionaire because i owe it to yourself. mark: there's no money in social security. >> they have a social security trust fund that there is no social security trust fund. mark: the government took all the money. >> the government spent all the money. and -- mark: don't people go to prison for stuff like that, in the private sec

michael cohen and rick gates. what could they have done?hanie winston wolcot. >> is she cooperating? >> in the recording, she expressed concern to cohen about how they were spending the money. that's someone i see and i say, okay, let's bring her in and see why she was concerned. what conversations she had. what did she learn that made her concerned about it? so, yes, i mean, rick gates was on the transition committee at that time. was involved in the inauguration, obviously michael cohen has been very close. i think what we need to keep in mind, and this is very hard in the crazy news cycle that we're in, is that robert mueller has a lot of cooperating witnesses. has a lot of witnesses who are cooperating with him. and while we may move on to the next thing or ami or whatever it is, he's not. and all these people have been extensively debriefed way more than anything we know. so we learn these things and they trickle out, and it's, you trickle out. nick is right, it was always odd, but there is so much information that he -- that they have

we have chris lu back with us, republican strategist rick tyler and jay newton small.this list of acting staff, we have acting chaff chaff, acting attorney general, acting epa administrat administrator, this is quite a few temporary positions. does it hurt getting things passed with so much instability? >> when you don't have continuity, it's hard to get your policies done as you've got the chiefs of all of those departments coming and going and coming and going. all of these are senate confirmable positions. to allocate the floor time, it takes a long time to vet and hold hearings for a cabinet level secretary and hold debates on the floor and get them through. the senate isn't busy with a lot of other things anyway these day, frankly, but it will become the vast majority of their schedule looking forward to next year, all these confirmations. >> it's also about who is taking these roles. chris, the white house was so proud of how many generals they had at the administration but one by one they've been fired or resigned, flynn, mack macmaster mattis, kelly. >> there's

rick... i forgot his last name. doesn't matter.e bearded guy i see at all my rallies, rick claus, everybody! >> no collusion! maga! hillary is a lizard lady! ( panicked screaming ) >> hold on! this is against the constitution. aha. article five: a duly appointed santa claus, confirmed by the senate, cannot be discharged of his duties... unless the ident wants to.t,th'll let me finish up one last christmas. ( helicopters ) oh, ( bleep ). >> hello, munchkins! >> we're elves, you bigot! >> i come in peace. that's what we call this helicopter. you've all been reassigned. you're going to the border to stop the caravan. >> aah, get your jingling g tony! god damn you, rick! >> stand down, kringle. merry christmas, go-go-go! ( wind howling ) ( singing sadly ) ♪ you better not pout you better not cry ( crying ) ( knocking ) huh? mueller? >> kringle. >> what in the chestnuts are you doing here? >> i came as soon as i heard. you're not back on the milk, are you? >> i... i've got it under control. >> come here, buddy. >> you saved my ass back

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hi rick this is officer honea with the paradise police department. hi how are you? i'm well how are you? i'm doing good. i'm calling in regards to your request to get escorted to paradise. yes that would be awesome.officer kassidy honea said she's escorted so many people back home she's lost count honea: these people are getting things like cars that they left. i can't imagine going from having a car and not having one so just waiting patiently i empathize with them.officer honea met up with rick printz to escort him back home. he's the head football coach at paradise high.honea: so what i will do is i will just follow you. oh really? yeah. thanks a lot.printz's family hugged as they saw their home for the first time since the camp fire started.i appreciate them letting us in because there are things we want to get our hands on.the home is still standing, but the patio and workshop were destroyed in the fire.we feel blessed to have our house, i don't know why it's there, but it is. the next step is building what's left of the town with the families we grew up with.

let's get to rick santelli at the cme group in chicago. good morning, rick. >> good morning, carl. we are consolidating off of lower yields. yields we really haven't seen since basically the end of august. however, having said that, we are still at a mode where many traders are paying very close attention to what is going on overseas. if you look at a february chart of our tens you can see there is plenty of action for the beginning and mid part of the year. that's right about at the levels we held. now, as you switch to a one week of bunds there isn't a lot on the one-week chart which speaks volumes. the rates are in the mid 20s. if you look at bunds from june 2019 which is kind of the zone we are trading in, the market must have not expected a lot different. that was dovish with respect to how everybody reacted to mario draghi thus far. the market isn't shocking but i don't think it shocked the market. if you look at the intraday, no doubt there is volatility. open the chart up also hovering in a range from june of 2017. like the dollar index, the last five or six weeks really ha

listen, scott, not scott, sorry, rick, the president fired back.is doing a great job. i am very proud. rex tillerson was dub as a rock and i couldn't get rid of him fast enough. he was lazy as hell. now it is a whole new ball game. great spirit at state. tillerson ran a global corporation, very profitable. widely respected as one of the top ceos in the country. comments like that make the president look a little pessy you think? >> look, rex tillerson negotiated deals as the ceo of exxon that where the rounding error was greater than every penny donald trump has ever made in his entire life. this is who has scene as somebody who led a gigantic multinational corporation successfully. this is not some two-bit manhattan person that puts his name on building and goes bankrupt every five years. trump is always jealous of business success and makes him . he said he was uncomfortable with the president's management style. how is anyone shocked by this now? look, we saw it today, southern district of new york was reporting -- >> i got to run, rick -- >> as

rick: very good.ow, but pretty much cool has entered everywhere across the lower 48 except for that one lower state, florida. very cold. here we go we've got the storm that continues to fall winter storm warnings infect throughout the day today storm tapers off by tomorrow. nicole: thanks. rick. ed: you've been trying to get me to sing all morning long. i finally sang a little jingle bells. nicole: but do people know all of the lyrics of the popular christmas songs or are they just really humming along? nicole: we sent pete to the streets to find out. pete: we've got a great group out here how we doing? merry christmas. [applause] pete: we've taken over the corner of 48th and 6th avenue for sure so the rules are i'm going to say a lyric, i'll sing the lyric of a christmas song. if you get it right you're done. if you get it wrong i'm going to keep quizzing you. there's punishment for failure. lewis, you're from new jersey? yes. pete: merry christmas. merry christmas to you. pete: you just walked up yo

for that, we'll get to rick santelli rick, good morning. >> absolutely.ction spending coming up. this will be for the month of october. expecting the number near half of 1% higher we're down one tenth of one percent and we lost a tenth from unchanged to minus one-tenth as well minus 0.1 for both these months is now the lowest since june when it was down minus.7, so down .7. now for the november read on ism. chicago has been powerful so here we go it's out at 59.3 it's a solid number. much better than 57.5. sequentially it followsed e57.7 we had an august read 61.3 anything 60 or higher is tremendous and that 61.3 was the best read going back to 2004 so this is lofty we lost the 60 handle. the employment index jumped from 16.8 to 58.4 prices paid. wow, really laid back, from 71.6 all the way down to 60.7 and new orders, a nice move from 17.4 to 62.1 so we lost a little on the inflation read everything else looks sizable and here we sit, a few basis points above 3%. sara, back to you. >> a lot to digest, rick, thank you. overall headline, better manufacturi

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jennifer granholm and rick santorum. rick an especially valued guest as a former u.s. senator.to sign on to this letter but would you have? >> no. but i think it tells you something that i wasn't asked to sign on to this letter. if you look at the 10 republicans who signed on the letter, all very good people, friends of mine but they are not i would say conservative republicans or supporters of the president so that's number one. number two, the fact that they didn't reach out beyond a group of folks who are anti-trump gives you more perspective on this. and the other thing what does this letter say? it looks like a letter that maybe was put together or the idea was put together to call on the senate to go after trump or the do something but it looks like a letter written by committee. they couldn't come up with anything other than stand for god and country but it says nothing so i don't know really what this is about. is it a missive to say this is a wink and a nod vote for impeachment when there isn't i think any realistic possibility that that will occur in the next two year

rick: you want my job.the unicorn the entire time jedediah: it needs at roof affection. greg gutfeld demands a lot of attention. that's what i named him. pete: i will try to read serious headlines in a yuge christmas sweater here. louis farrakhan, yeah, you know him. he is known for his hateful rhetoric. >> the satanic jews. because you see white people deserve to die. pete: now his group, the nation of islam is defending using taxpayer money to prich to inmates. that will end well. we discuss coming up next. griff: president trump take as jab at beto o'rourke. you know him. pete: i think his name is robert. robert france. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and

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let's get out of here and get to rick santelli while they fix this issue out good morning rick. >> yese. this morning we had the weakest empire read since may of 2017. it may be that caught some off guards the market is definitely paying attention. although the paying attention was definitely more of an equity fund treasury continues to take things in stride look at the one week of twos you can see the volatility did not get too crazy around 8:30 eastern, two days of 10-yr, you see the same thing and opening the chart up to november this is fascinating whether you look at t2-yr or 5-yr or 30-yr. if you open it up to august 1st, clearly see what i mean. the left side is from february through august had a lot of work in the 280s and around the 270s that many traders think it is not only substantial but the intraday lows, many days in a row were not able to get close to that level. dollar index, it is down of a third of a paeercent today it is 97 -- it is 97.50 for a high close going back to summer of 2017. it did not manage to get that close friday and it is down a bit. as you see on the

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