plus, media insider ross levinson on whether the snap lockup is a buying opportunity or not we'll debatead of the report tomorrow. and the financial stock barons says is about to rally big time. halftime report as i said, noon eastern. carl, we'll see new ten minutes or so. >> scott, thank you very much. let's get over to the cme group and get the santelli exchange with rick. >> thank you, carl you know, the last quarter q 2 we obtained the most recent advance look for gdp up 2.6 the previous quarter was 1.5 to 1.2. the averagest two, 1.9 now the president and any president, of course, will always be the end desk in a long series of desks. that's where the buck stops. so if the economy and the markets aren't doing well, the president will get blamed. when the markets are doing well, i it this president should get credit but maybe, maybe ought to keep a little more silent on the topic especially being happy about 2.6 gdp. it isn't about the level of gdp on any given quarter it's the fact that we haven't had sustainable growth much higher than 2.75% since before the credit crisis. let's go

darling with us today joe, jim, josh brown, steve is here as well also from los angeles today is ross levinson. the media insider and cnbc contributor. >> investors are considering the risks to the companies growth. making that move today joins us live brian, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> yeah, one of the big reasons that you made this call today. >> there's several my view on the stock in business is that it's a great business and a great stock accept for the fact that it hasn't gotten a lot better in the last 8 months. in fact the conditions around it have gotten worse. you know political macro uncertainty. that's not good for them you have more awareness at least on my part that's a new consumer privacy protection policy that will be in effect as of may of next year. that's using data to target advertising that very few investors are even aware of in the united states. next you have increasing problems with viewability that marketers were not aware of last year and 2% of ads viewable by one study i have seen. 20% by some others i don't think most large marketers are aware of this and