rick tyler is a republican strategist. jonathan allen is politico's white house bureau chief. ck, if i were to come to you as a progs prospective republican candidate, now that the affordable care act has been put into effect and people are getting insurance who heretofore couldn't get insurance, would your advice be to argue for repeal or reform? >> well, what i've been saying to all my candidates is the affordable care act, it can't work. it's a lead airplane. though people claim there are good things in it, i don't think it can be reformed. i think it has to be repealed. but what's going to happen is the republicans got ahead of themselves. the country needs to want to repeal it first. and we're getting closer to that. the affordable care act, despite the cold open here is as unpopular as ever. president obama is as unpopular as ever because of the affordable care act. and the democrats lost their majority in the house in 2010 because of the affordable care act. i'm advising my clients run on the affordable care act and hope your opponent does too. >> but i'm confused. am i

rick tyler is a republican strategist. jonathan allen is politico's white house bureau chief. ck, if i were to come to you as a perspective republican candidate, now that the affordable care act has been put into effect and people are getting insurance who heretofore couldn't get insurance, would you advice be to be repeal or reform? >> well, what i've been saying to all my candidates is the affordable care act, it can't work. it's a lead airplane. though people claim there are good things in it, i don't think it can be reformed. i think it has to be repealed. but what's going to happen is the republicans got ahead of themselves. the company wants to repeal it first. and we're getting closer to that. the affordable care act, despite this here is unpopular as ever. president obama is as unpopular as ever because of the affordable care act. and the democrats lost their majority in the house in 2010 because of the affordable care act. i'm advising my clients run on the affordable care act and hope your opponent does too. >> but i'm confused. am i as your candidate, am i arguing fo

we have seen every signal to believe he will. >> let me bring in rick tyler. what do you think, rick, if you could advise the president, give you that soap box, what would you say, is this the right move? >> probably is the right move, john is very capable intellectual. he brought in not so much for policy advice, we know where that is on the center left, he is anti-energy, anti-progress, anti-wealth curious that a lot of health care corporations were donors to the center for american progress. i think the reason john podesto is here, this president knows his presidency because of his credibility is effectively over. and what presidents need to do is have political capital and president obama is in negative deficit. that political capital lends itself to getting congress to do what he wants it to do. he has no political capital. congress can't do what he wants to do. he relies on john to see what he can do without congress. >> to rick's point, is it all over for obama? is there any hope for immigration reform, given the way health care reform started on a bad

rick tyler, senior vice president of the strategy group and former spokesman for former house speaker newt gingrich. ellen ratner, talk radio news service bureau chief and fox news contributor. here now to talk about this. good to see both of you. >> thank you. >> good to be here. >> of course, more people working is always good news. do you think we need more placement, though, in jobs that are paying more than minimal wage or are more stable than part-time jobs? if so, how do we get there? >> we certainly do. part of the way we can get there is by developing more infrastructure projects because our infrastructure is crumbling in some places. certainly know the bridges and roads are doing it. jim pinkerton talks about this project he's got going. there are ways we can get these higher-paying jobs. every time there are people who make more money, they put more money into the economy. so that also stimulates the economy. >> rick, you say what to that? >> well, i agree. we got to put more money into the economy. the infrastructure jobs are fine. the way to get it working again is to low

rick tyler is president of the strategy group and a spokesman for newt gingrich.ing. >> good morning. >> 60% ever young voters, 18 to 29 backed president obama in 2012. aisha, 47% now like him so little they'd replace them if they being. where did the enthusiasm go? >> i think young people are just a microcosm of america at large. most of america is completely disenchanted with what's happening in washington and the partisan gridlock and all we're seeing is the numbers declining for young people are the same as those declining across the board for all americans. >> the harvard institute of politics found 57% of millennials disapproved of the president's health care bill. more than half expect their costs will go up. rick, how are republicans helping young people get health care? i mean, what we're hearing is we want to repeal it. >> i'll say it over and over again especially on this network, the republicans need a vision, one that includes keeping children on the family plan and crossing state lines and lots of things. the reason young people have rejected obama c

tyler. >> rick, thank you very much. >>> so how will the world change over the next five years? sure don't know, but we found someone from ibm who makes predictions like that for a living. hear what he says next. >>> and speaking of innovations, venture capitalists always need to be one step ahead, isn't that right, josh lipton? >> that's right, tyler. listen, venture capital players always need to be way ahead of the game. so where are they seeing opportunity in 2014? i'll show you after the break. hoo-hoo...hoo-hoo. hoo-hoo hoo. sir... i'll get it together i promise... heeheehee. jimmy: ronny, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? ronny:i'd say happier than the pillsbury doughboy on his way to a baking convention. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>> protests erupting as turkey's corruption crisis deepens. police breaking out the water cannons to keep crowds in line. the currency plunging against the u.s. dollar as three ministers quit protesting the rule of turkey's prime minister. here's chief intern

rick. >> reporter: hi, tyler. well, everybody knows that interest rates are moving a bit higher. now, if you look at a 24-hour chart or a two-day chart, even better, you can see that that 2.82 level was important yesterday. it's important today from different directions. that's why it's a pivot. but many people believe, many traders on the floor, many investors that write to me via e-mail that tomorrow's number is the key to whether we get above 3% in a timely fashion. i can't disagree with that. open the chart up, these are the highest yields. since the 17th of september, keep that date in mind. i like using it for the dollar index as well. look at the 80.5 level on this chart. that's the piflt. we've talked a lot about the dollar index looking weak based on this pattern, but it's always interesting to look at the pieces. today the euro is strong. think mario draghi, 8:30 eastern and the pound giving some back. tyler, sue, back to you. zmoo thank you so much, ricky. appreciate it very much. you're up to date on the bond market. >>> straight ahead on "power lunch," "the power hou

tyler, back to you. >> thank you very much. rick santelli. >>> to the countdown now. three big overseas stories and our chief international correspondent michelle caru caruso-cabrera here to tell us about them. first let's start with snow in sochi. putin has ordered snow, right? >> that's right. as almost dictator of the country, committee demand it, and it will arrive. >> it will be there. >> yeah. no, so the story is that sochi is actually in a subtropical climate, believe it or not. it's dicey as to whether or not the mountains will have snow. they papged because they didn't have enough snow. what did they start doing it? hoarding it. stored from last year. plus 500 snow machines and they brought in a finish company called snow secure. so whether the snow is natural, manmade or even used, they are going to have enough snow. and you know what's really funny? it snowed this crazy this week. they have plenty of snow. read about it on cnbc.com. >> interesting article there. putin also in the news. he says he is now going to pardon mchale kortokovsky. >> he wanted to su

joining me in studio is keith boykin and from washington, d.c., republican strategist rick tyler. thanks for being here. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> rick, i want to start with you. i'm going to read this statement from cracker barrel. they had initially pulled their items from the shelves, decided to put it back up. they say, quote, you told us we made a mistake and you weren't shy about it. you wrote, you called and took to social media to express your thoughts and feelings. you flat out told us we were wrong. we listened. today we are putting all our "duck dynasty" products back in our stores and we apologize for offending you. so what does it say about this issue that cracker barrel initially pulled these items and then essentially caved, right, to all of this public pressure? >> well, it tells you that they overreacted and they probably should have waited a few days to see how this would play out. look, cracker barrel made a decision. i imagine it was based on a financial decision that their customers actually liked phil robertson and they agreed in some part wit

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but tyler, it's a solid, solid auction and, of course, tomorrow's auction will be a bit early for obvious fed statement and press conference reasons. back to you. >> very interesting day ahead. rick santelli will be with us, of course, throughout the day today and into tomorrow. meanwhile, the senate voting on that budget deal that was reached in the house and passed over there last week, our chief washington correspondent john harwood has the details. what's the timeline now? is it all done, jon? >> not all done but it's in the process of being done. senate and the congress is giving markets the kind of present they wanted for christmas, that is a little calm and stability and not any more continuation of the crisis atmosphere. last week the white house passed this patty murray/paul ryan budget deal. today the senate with 67 votes, cleared a potential filibuster hurdle, 12p areps joining with all 55 democrats. this is a noncontroversial baby step kind of deal, but there had been some suspense as to whetherp areps were going to go along, enough of them to clear a potential filibuster because it does raise the short-term spending by adjusting the sequester caps. this is now done.