we were talking about rick steve's who has done a television show on martin luther, luther and the reformation. i encourage everybody to watch that show. you have been to germany. you know that the lutheran impact. for someone not as familiar, what would you say to somebody that does not know anything about the reformation? why is it important? >> our sisters and brothers in germany are living in this 500th year reformation. they refer to it as reformation. it is something that happened but it is also ongoing. luther began a movement. he started asking questions. the roman catholic church at that time had understandings of how we are redeemed by god's grace and how we are worthy before god. they didn't think it matched with what he was reading in scripture. that was the basis of the 95 questions he was asking. the church unfortunately did not react very well to those questions being asked. as a result of this movement beginning, it became a part of a new church. it was never luther's intent. but his hope was to live within the understanding of how we can reform the catholic church. and when th

rick: another body. steve: ha ha! rick just said another body. both of you got 13. you were first. u get the option. patrick: we'll play, sir. steve: they're gonna play. [cheers and applause] steve: what do you do for a living, man? patrick: uh, i'm actually a law enforcement officer. steve: ok. patrick: 28 years. state of california. former u.s. marine, too. steve: yeah. patrick: 6 years. steve: marine-- patrick: yes, sir. steve: and an officer. well, introduce everybody. patrick: well, i got my 4 beautiful daughters here. starting off with my oldest daughter, kaleena, my middle child, vanessa, and my twi

jeff rosenberg, joe terranova, ryan streeter, jared bernstein, rick santelli and steve liesman. seen everybody have wide standard deviations from the main. steve, you were on a roll, you know, i knew this was coming. i knew it was coming, and not only were you too low but even your reason that the revisions from the previous would go up, and they wouldn't be reflected in this one it was like the opposite sort of. you knew this was going to happen, steve. >> well, you know, there's -- >> very strong forces in the universe. >> all right. >> you know, as einstein said compound interest is the most possible force in the universe followed by the electromagnetic force followed by reversion to the mean. i was doing great for seven or eight months now, now i've got a couple of big misses. go back and check the calculations. look, who cares? 200,000 people hired is a very good thing. 4.4% unemployment is a really good thing. probably average the two months, joe, 80 and the 200 gives you what did hampton say, 180 was the average? >> that would be 140. >> you have people, the decline in the

for a responsible federal budget along with my panel, ned ryan, zerlina m maxwell and rick stengel. yesterday steveid to our colleague, john harwood, there needs to be some revisement or tweaking, but larry summers has said this is double counting. >> yeah, so it's very confusing what's gone in the budget in the first place because of the things that aren't there. there are no details about the tax plan, which is really one of the big centerpieces of the overall budget in this budget submission. so what we do know is that the administration is relying on very, very high growth numbers to help get to their overall fiscal goal of balancing the budget. they're assuming 3% growth. they then show that there is a dividend, a savings that comes from those higher growth numbers that's going to be $2 trillion. again, that's based on high growth numbers. and they use it to help get the budget to balance. but what they have been saying for months now is that they're going to use those growth effects to help make their tax plan not explode the debt. so suddenly you've got the $2 trillion used to help get to ba

former treasury official steve rattner and msnbc political contributor rick tyler. broke the story, later matched by buzzfeed and

joining us at post nine today, oliver porsche, and cnbc market analyst steve grasso, and rick santelli who is comfortably ensconced in chicago away from kelly's germs. >> away from the spray. >> at the cme. oliver, what about retail? how are you playing right now? >> so, we like the consumer discretionary space as a whole, but we don't like apparel. >> so amazon? >> well, amazon, but home depot. there's a number of different -- there's a number of companies in segments in there. to your conversation before, retail the whole landscape and business model changed, and so the old world leaders such as macy's, we just dislike that business model, and we don't see how they are going to win in the new landscape. >> back to the question i asked then. >> yeah. >> meaning every single department store goes out of business? something's got to survive. you you'd think. >> i'm sure. >> you're not going to try to pick it. >> i don't know which one. we'll stay away. there's better values in other areas within the consumer discretionary space where we know there's winners and where the momentum and bu

we have andy capra from post nine and news in the at lan times-union, steve grasso and rick santelli at the cme. thanks, guy, to all of you. andy, actually the full year has not necessarily ee involved the way a lot of people were positioned for it, right? you have bonds rallying the last few months, bank stops performing. where does it leave you in terms of going into june? >> think there's been a real dichotomy between expectations and result. we talked about the russell being worst performing index this month. actually one of the worst performing, everything to do with expectation. everybody talked about small-caps in u.s. seeing the next train. get real. we haven't had any reality in washington and we haven't had any progress on earnings from these small companies. where all of the action is, is in large tech companies, large multi-nationals. >> we should also mention, hillary clinton will begin speaking any moment, we will dip into that as soon as it happens, but what do you think about the russells? >> i think andy hit it on the held. everyone thought who would be most to game

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rick. let's bring in steve liesman for more on the data.2.3% on the 10-year? what's wrong with this picture? >> well, i think the idea of this secular stagnation story, or the idea that interest rates are going to be lower for longer because we just need less capital than we have in the past -- >> you're making it's different this time -- >> well it sure seems to be different. you know, we're down to -- i mean, definitely the case and the idea that the skernly the fed has some effect here. still has a big balance sheet. still, has rates very low. but the market to the extent that it can and does express itself through open markets right now does not seem to be clamoring for higher rates. you have a number like this, which by the way is a real head scratcher. i came on here all to tell you about how housing was going to rebound. you had a great february because of weather. you had a weather related bounce off in march and this was supposed to be the big rebound. we're down 2.6. they did revise up february a little bit so that was a little bi

steve ban non, rick perry and others say let's get out of this thing because it gives china and indiaremendous advantage over us, while we spend billions of dollars. >> well, you know, first of all, the whole basis for having this agreement is, in my mind, still suspect. i know i will be called a flat-earther and that, but i believe there's climate change, but the question is, what causes it and is it manmade gases or is it something else? and the question is, we're not in a warming stage now, we're in a cooling stage and that's been documented, so, what-- the whole basis for their philosophy before we got to a cooling stage is man was causing this. now you have the new science that we're causing it, but causing it to cool. that's ridiculous. charles: do you think it's a scheme in this case from america to other nations? >> what we saw from the administration is poor ability to negotiate good positions for our country. and you can look at almost everything that was negotiated, whether it be the nuclear talks with russia, which was a terrible deal, even though it passed, terrible agree

steve used this picture on ktvu. hey sal castaneda. >> we used to work together at live 105 back in the day. >> with you and big rick stewart. >> yes. d.j.s. >> steve masters. >> nice stuff. >> thank you, irish greg and sal. >> that was our picture from the morning. the fog has come back in a big way. that also means we have a lot of fog. may the fourth fog be with you, steve. thank you. thank you. most of you are just saying thank you, thank you for the fog. some of you say steve i want the heat. i don't see any more for a while, 7, 10 days out. why are you showing us the national weather picture? because the forecast high in atlanta tomorrow will be 57 degrees. no, i'm not kidding. 57. so here is the pattern. there will be a blocking pattern setting up over the atlantic. it's like putting a bolder in a river. so there will be low pressure cool temps in the southeast. 57 in atlanta is unheard of in may. they should be 74, 75. the ridge will be over in the northern plains and the rockies. we are going into a significant cooldown as well. sometimes these patterns, blocking patterns can last two to three weeks. i think we're going int

we have market analysts with us and rick santelli from the cme in chicago. steveoil stocks are higher. oil's up again, but how much do you think the market bounced as a result of the deals that the president and his administration has made over the weekend? >> well, i think the -- look at lockheed, boeing, general dynamics, all of them are up based on those deals, could have bought them friday, and in the news, bill, which is uncharacteristic of this market. it was thought to have. priced in already, based on the speeches. we all knew what was going to happen, and we all knew about the deals, contracts, proposed contracts supposed to break over the weekend. when you look at oil, flip it over here, opec did as much bullishness as they can for the spot price, yet the xle is down, and although it's small today, it's definitely come conflicting viewpoints. for me, i think that if you look out on the time horizon, saudi is the most biggest, bullish thing for oil. there's analysts that are bullish on oil for a piece of the 5% ipo. not the only reason, of course, but, st

rick tyler, ed rendell, jennifer haberkorn, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, steve. >> thank you. >>> we're going to take a quick break. still ahead, more on the fallout from the passage in the house, republican obamacare replacement. the first ad against that vote is already out. >> republican leaders are trying to do this to affordable health care. >> that's a democrat running for governor of virginia. i'm going to talk to him ahead. >>> plus the most important number of the day, if you have been paying attention, you know i'm a fan of throwbacks. this one is pretty good reflection of how the times have changed. and how quickly they're changing. the topic even made its way into the "tonight show" with jimmy fallon. >> you don't have a smartphone or a phone or a cell phone. or anything. >> that's threw. i don't have a smartphone. >> do you -- >> i don't feel i need the phone to be smart. >> no. but you do have a landline phone, like a -- >> yes, i do. they still make them. >> they still do. >> yes. >> so, and book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want.

gabriella santos with us, next to her kevin nicholson from riverfront investment group, steve grasso from stewart frankel and rickantelli from chicago. i want to get your response on the fed minutes, rick. not a huge response, but more than we had recently. how do you read the declining yields, the dollar index after the minutes came out? >> i think it is a great question and it is enlightening even though the moves moderated a bit. the dollar index yeefr, five year down the most, three or four basis points, stocks still higher. only one way to describe that. less aggressive. somehow the interpretation is that the fed is going to move slower, balance sheet reduction will take longer in terms of its final completion of the plan that they discuss. i can't tell you the reason. it is such a rohrshack when you read statements, but the market was universal. i agree with that. is by far doing more the right things than any other central bank. however, i still think they're going to go kicking and screaming on the final tightenings balance sheet reduction. >> all right. well, how do you make moves in this atmosphere? we

. >> steve, your take? >> i think rick is right. it's a big beat.ke note. he's also right that the connection between the price changes on the whole sale level and consumer level can be different, that are a profit margins, not necessarily good for profit margins. food and energy had been a source of deflation on the whole sale level in the past year. that has turned around, looking at 0.9 and 0.8 respectively on food and energy. those are pushing up the index. so we got to watch tomorrow retail sales very important as well as the consumer price index. i just want to look and show you the unemployment rate versus claims. what i'm looking at here is the unemployment inshoord rate, which is the percent of those covered by unemployment insurance and look at those numbers, folks. they are going down, down, down, down. you want to wonder why. just recently there was a reuters headline emblematic of the change. it said hawk eric rosengran. he was one of the original doves and now they just use the word hawk. neither of those news, the unemployment rate as

steve grasso is at poersz nine and rick santelli at the cme as well. forest, starting with you, you like technology but do you agree with it right now? >> i love technology, and i do agree that it's a crowded trade. maybe not add to the positions, but always have technology opinion it is thee thing giving you productivity. facebook, i can argue can subtracts from productivity, but that aside, most of the other things actually give human beings productivity. we love it. >> by the way, i have to say, facebook for small businesses has been phenomenal, maybe that's one place it helps. sandra, what about you? technology affect you right now? >> well, it's funny because it's not like these names just appeared in the last six months. i mean, these are names you should have been holding for the last few years. quite honestly. if you have not, you missed out. these are long term stories. i would argue that, yeah, right now, i would not be adding to the positions, but i'm hoping for somewhat of a pullback so i can get some new money in, but at the end of the day

rick perry since he became energy secretary? i have a feeling he's sitting in a room full of plutonium waiting to become spiderman. that's just my hunch. a lot of people think steve ban none is the reasonable donald trump dog whistles to racists. that is just not true. ask steve ban none. is steve ban none here? -- bannon here? do not see steve bannon. i do not see steve bannon. not see steve bannon. ot see steve bannon. ot see steve bannon. frederick douglass isn't here and that's because he's dead. someone please tell the president. mike pence wanted to be here tonight but his wife wouldn't let him because apparently one of you ladies is ovulating. good job ladies, because of you we couldn't hang out with mike pence. ivanka trump is not here either. i wish she was because i would ask her the question we were all thinking. why? why do you support this man? because i get it. we all love our parents. but we wouldn't endorse them for president. it's like hey, fun. shouldn't dad be president of the united states? 'd be like my dad? the guy who tries to return used underwear to cost could he? -- cost dr. o -- costco? no. jeff sessions will be here tonight. he was bus

steve, but that's interesting stuff all the same. appreciate it. right out to the cme group in chicago. ricklli has the santelli exchange. >> well, thank you, mike. i would like to welcome our first friday of the month guest ed lazear, thank you for taking the time. >> nice to be with you. >> i know we have our list of things to talk about. but after that last spot by steve, i'm sorry, we have to talk about it. stan fisher, vice chair, we don't need any rules, are you serious? i mean, we don't have rules, bank of japan doesn't have rules, ecb doesn't have rules, bank of england doesn't have rules, how are investors supposed to invest, how are they supposed to invest consistently, efficiently and predictably if it just -- by committee. nothing works well by committee. that's why we're the greatest country on the planet. your thoughts? >> well, every central bank implicitly looks at rules, whether they say that they follow any particular rule or not, they're all looking at rules. for example, janet yellen spoke about this out here at stanford about a month, two months ago, and talked about a v

steve bannon wants out. we have seen publicly, which is remarkable, the head of the epa and rick perry on television during ahe white house to go on television and say we should withdraw. and if you -- again, if you believe these accounts and you talk to people inside the white house, jared kushner is more skeptical and ivanka trump is saying can we find a way to stay in if we change environmental policy at home. how is it going to end? >> we don't know. we saw president trump on his first 100 day there will be some sort of announcement on this in two weeks. sort of been teasing. of course he promised during his run that he would pull out of this agreement saying that it's sort of globalism and reducing american sovereign tee. the problem is they really gutted a lot of regulation that would lead to the united states meeting the agreements that they signed on to in terms of carbon admissions with this climate agreement. so it's a really tricky thing. now it's sort of a legal question whether or not they can still stay a part of it or reduce the actual carbon admissions that they're saying we would agree to by

former treasury official steve rattner and msnbc political contributor rick tyler. a lot to break down. "the post" broke the story, later matched by buzzfeed and reuters alleging president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian ambassador in a face-to-face meeting. according to the paper, the information considered so sensiti sensitive, details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the u.s. government. the foreign partner had given the u.s. permission to share the information with russia, and trump's decision to do so reportedly endanger z cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the islamic state. officials told "the post" trump revealed the city in the islamic state's territory where the intelligence partner detected the threat. "the washington post" is withholding the information at the urging of officials within the trump administration who warned it would jep diesz important intelligence capabilities. u.s. officials said this is code word information, terminology that refers to one of the

rick. terror fears rising at home and abrothered. this is how homeland security secretary john kelly described the feeling this way. >> i was telling steve on the way in here, if he knew what i knew about terrorism, he would never leave the house. >> if you knew what this guy saw first hand with terrorism before 9-11, you too might think about ever leaving. the u.s.s. cole commander, kirk liphold. very good to have you. people have been privy to have this, let alone you witnessed a dozen of your men dieing to a terror attack. people are not aware of that until they see it up close. they're not aware of the fact that this is a perennial concern with any country anywhere. and yet we sometimes get comfortable in this country. these days, it's been so far since 9-11 that we don't need to worry. what to you think? >> secretary kelly was right. there's a lot of intelligence out there, especially at his level where he's exposed to raw intelligence. there's a flip side that the american people should know. there's many dedicated men and women in the military, the cia and nsa, the department of homeland security with secretary kelly that are work

david saurby is with us, steve grass el from frankel sitting next to him, and rick santelli in chicagom going to start with you, rick. what are you seeing, if anything, in terms of market response to the fed meeting? i mean the two-year note up is three basis point, dollar index up just a tad here. is the market starting to get ready for a fed rate increase next month do you think? >> i think that the markets are ready for rate increase. i just think the question is, a, how many rate increases and is the notion of reducing the size of the balance sheet a 2017 infomercial that happens in 2018 or not. many traders on the floor believe that's the case. so, you know, the market's prepared for this. the moves everybody is talking about that have, you know, somewhere in the 70% range of a june tightening, those are predicated on fed fund futures which really, you know, as they go lower, the percentages go up, they didn't close that much lower soechlt we' lower. so we're kid of splitting hairs. the markets were prepared for this and it is evident by everything you pointed out. one thing i thi

steve liesman bringing us those comments from george. let's get to the cme group in the meantime, get the santelli exchange. hey, rick. >> hi, carl.now, everybody is talking about it, the vicks near a quarter of a century low. but it really is not the vicks that's the issue. a few seconds ago i told you there's a group that predicted ultimately a computerized worlds of trading, markets would come to a halt and volatility would be very low. you know who that group was? human floor traders. i can remember many meetings in the early '90s where the notion of floor trading moved to the electronic media would in many ways end up with a stalemate. now, what does that mean? i'll tell you. i can go back to the early days of computer trading here in chicago, and what everybody did was bought these huge mounds of data on disks, data in everything. you know, all of the treasury data, soybean data going back sometimes to the 19th century, okay, and they put it all in the computer and they would start back testing. ultimately they would come up with algorithms that would be profitable. think about the world we're in now. is there any doubt in a

rick that he shared classified information that he shouldn't. he's responding to that argumen argument. if i did, i have a right to do it. he's not saying -- >> steveissa: it's an argument where everybody dives into the fight. we could all sit here >> meghan: i take deep offense to that. we're trying to figure out whether or not president trump president trump -- melissa, i understand this is highly politicized. my first reaction when i first saw the tweet yesterday, i don't trust "the washington post." i've were not to trust "the washington post," but i also can't sit here and be someone who can't look at this and say if something happened, if you reveal classified information to people that shouldn't be in the white house to begin with, these are rational questions to be asking. >> melissa: i do care about that question! >> meghan: you just said it was a personality test. >> melissa: i'm saying that the conclusion that you reach we just heard reflects our preconceived notions about what's going on. i think we all have the same objective that we would like to know, did he share something that was inappropriate? we all want to know that. i'm not as

i was telling steve on the way in here, if he knew what i know about terrorism, he'd never leave the house. >> martha: we start tonight with senior correspondent rickeventhal on the overwhelming pressure right now on security forces in england, rick. >> to say this city in this country are on edge would be a major understatement, not only is the threat level still critical but armed police are writing and patrolling trains for the time. possibility of another terror attack this weekend which is also a holiday weekend here in great britain. now with the holy month of ramadan starting tomorrow, comes where is that isis has called on followers to rise up and all-out war on so-called infidels in the west. the attack on arianna ground a fence is just the latest in a wave of terror that has put intense pressure on am i five, the british intelligence agency. authorities juggling an estimated .500 active investigations focusing on 3,000 persons of interest. the workload facing officers and agents is unprecedented in one of the people who was on the radar was the arena bomber psalm on a , more than a dozen raids have led to this investigation, age terror su

(steve) so we sent her out to her neighborhood car wash and she got a work out. darya folsom spends a day at matt & jeff's car wash in novato. the manager rickher through the paces.. just like he would for any new employee. rick: the green ones are for the body of the car. darya: body of the car. rick: the blue ones are for the windows.darya: body of the car, windows. got it. rick: so you can dry the windows off with the green ones when you're doing the outside. darya: okay, but not the inside?rick: yeah, not the inside.darya: okay. rick: and then you got to get to vacuuming. darya: okay, okay. yeah, yeah. i'm falling behind right?rick: anytime there's plastic mats, you want to take them out and vacuum underneath them.darya: okay.darya: but you know i'm on a tight schedule here. customer 1: thank you very much.darya: honey, did we do your car okay? did we do your car okay? customer 2: yeah. you did my car fine. you did great, thank you. darya: you're welcome. have a good day.darya: i'm gonna do, i'm gonna do better. i'm gonna do better.rick: stop taking so many selfies with people. rick: she's doing a good job on the cars she's cleaning. she

steve: how county president plug the leaks? ainsley: here to weigh in on this is secretary of the u.s. department of energy rick perry. you? ainsley: thank you. we are great. how do you think the president can stop all of these leaks? what needs to happen? >> number one have a cadre of people around you that are loyal. that believe in your philosophy. want to go where you want to go. i will be pretty blunt about it those that want to govern through leaking go work somewhere else. brian: who are they? you have been in charge of the state that decides the most countries. how do you quickly. can you offer advice to do that. >> having people that you know are going to be loyal to you. that is something that -- the advice that i would give is have people truly loyal to you, to your vision, the president knows who those individuals are and sort it through and, again, ask people, you know, what ised in the best interest of america? and if out gossipping, passing along leaks is your idea of patriotism, i greatly disagree with you. find another place to work. steve: sure. it's good advice. governor, the president is in a pickl

steve. amazon planning to break into the multibillion dollar pharmacy business. should cvs and walgreens be worried? shares are lower. first to rickantelli for today's bond report. rick? >> reporter: thanks, melissa lee. one week shows you lots of activity. here we are doing a beeline. we failed last week to get above unchanged on the year. now we're giving that 2.17 low close from april a run. see the way it's collapsing. yes, there's relative value trade but a sprint right now in terms of dropping yield. the bunds just barely breaking a sweat but following. if you look at one week of the dollar index there's the market to pay the closest attention to and maybe the area to pay even closer attention to within that spectrum is the midair yeah right around it at 97.06 from early november. that is the bottom that is left before the dollar index potentially makes a beeline for what looks very comfortably on the charts around the 96 area. hey, don't touch that dial. "power lunch" will return. at fidelity, trades are now just $4.95. we cut the price of trades to give investors even more value. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear ad

rick, thank you very much. let's get more reaction on this right now. bring in steve liesman. >> i don't know where to start.hat are very important. let's start with the good news here. income and spending, up 0.4. look at this pages and salary number up 0.7. now unchanged in march but that's a very healthy number. consumption up 0.4. the nice revision of march. what this tells me i think is that we're going to be on track for this around 3-ish gdp number in the secretary quarter and there was some doubts about that, because the data was a little squirrely. a good number in durables up 0.9. nondurables up 0.6. there's the savings rate, which even though you have this nice 0.4% increase in personal income, and 0.4% in consumption you still did 5.3% on the savings rate which is higher than it was before the crisis. but, it's still a healthy number. 2340u we've got to talk about the inflation number. robert kaplan talked about that earlier. he was concerned about weak inflation. and the trend is unmistakable here. here's the head line. 2.1 in february, 1.9 in march, 1.7 in april. those are progressive steps dow

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rick santelli. >> good morning. we just want a note throughout the nasdaq chart, nasdaq flirting in record territory. looks like it's dragging other indices higher as well. today ben bernanke on "squawk box." stevell's well that hasn't ended yet. we open everything ends well. when it comes to balance sheet, pretty much full strength. i digress. let's start at the beginning. ben bernanke called out his critics on hyperinflation. he's right. in many ways, i was one of those critics. i made a bad assumption. you know what my assumption was? all of these wild things they were doing throwing all this money out there would result in growth. it would result in productivity. it would result in a pretty big economic move. it didn't. because we all missed one chapter of the book on the road to inflation. that was stock buy backs in large part. financial assets definitely experience what i call some pricing upside there. yes. the strategy was this is for the middle class. this isn't for wall street. this is for main street. it didn't turn out that way. unintended consequences. it was recycled into the financial assets. they absorbed it. but the key to this conversation is quantitative easing. i'm not sure

rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. stevetening up. centrist candidate, emanuel macron holds the lead with just under 60% and far right candidate marine le pen has a solid 40. brian: here is hoping i can some day say those things like you just did, steve. last two weeks le pen has been closing the gap on the favored to win candidate. could would he be seeing the frump effect happening in france? here to weigh in is author and journalist mark steyn. who do we root for in this in the american progressive. >> i'm routing for marine le pen, macron is like a hollow suit. sock puppet of the euro establishment. i was listening to whirl whining a couple days ago why she lost. if you think back just six months or whatever it was, everyone was saying if you are a woman it's time for a woman of achievement we need a woman president. no one is saying that at all about marine le pen. no french feminists or european feminists say it's time for a woman to lead france. she has just being demonized. ainsley: is she mother of the donald trump.

rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. steveng 31 innocent people wants a lighter sentence because he says police shot him too many times during his arrest. claims the brain injuries and ptsd he suffered when he was shot 11 times by police should be taken into account in a potential plea deal. and special delivery. inmates at a chicago jail can now order pizza to their jail cell. the menu includes six pies all made by prisoners. the prison claims they aren't calling inmates. they're simply teaching them skills that they can use to then get jobs. ainsley: that pizza looks good. thank you, steve. booze, booze, and more booze. that was the reaction. secretary of education betsy devos received during buffoon cook man's graduation yesterday. >> as i said, i'm very grateful for the opportunity to be with you today. [booing] one of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with and learn from those with whom we disagree. ainsley: the secretary's commencement immigration was met with an outcry of prot

machine tallied to keep production numbers that because you have to keep replacing rick very quickly. >> this is steves here. is the global economy, is there much growth that will increase demand for energy where we still going to have this relative sluggishness? >> there's a lot of concern about china and india right now. the data is really mixed. if you look at one hand, we see a slowdown and concerns about banking. if you look at actual imports, they continue to stay strong. the other big thing for global demand is you have to look at india. india government has been slowing down their economy with regulation. that's been hurting things. the other big thing is that donald trump situation. if this slows down the u.s. economic reforms in tax cuts will hurt gasoline demand and oil demand in the lesson that could be a big issue going forward. >> all those laid-back to washington. good to see you so bright and early in the morning. so fled from the cme group. national security advisor h.r. mcmaster biting back at allegations that president trump revealed classified information to russia. his comment and