is stillristian schulz with us.di comedic asian in saudiive, isn't it -- communication in overdrive, isn't it? they have scheduled this off 50 $50 oil. what is your best case scenario in terms of looking at the oil market? christian: jacopo oil price hasn moving up and down quite a bit this year. our experts are expecting the oil price to sort of generally rise as demand and supply globally come into a bit more of a balance, but there is so many on the demandnd side that i think you have to be cautious. we do expect the oil price to be roughly stable, slightly higher going forward, and in that sense, it looks like this is a relatively conservative, you know, baseline for that budget, which, i guess, is good news. manus: the other thing i was trying to think, i was watching the saudi news as it came through, and this came to mind. this is the relationship, the trading relationship between saudi arabia and the u.s. suppose,look into, i the belly of who the trading relationships are. germany number six, italy #, france

. >> schulz, what do you think of this meeting? and should they be excited about trump? >> when you are a billionaire it is nice not to talk to thousandaires. it is nice to be around billionaires and you can talk about things like non-consensual sex. that's a fun billionaire combo and everybody can relate. even the girl who was on there she was like, yeah, sometimes i grab a joint. >> she is well behaved. >> until she gets into that meeting. >> donald trump may have been the poorest person in that room. everybody in that room has more money than him. >> he has several billion dollars. >> so he says. >> was everyone a billionaire in that room? >> look at the tax returns. >> too late! >> finally i give up. fair and balanced be gone. >> welcome! >> no recounted wisconsin for you. >> don't ever feel pressure. >> next season major league waitresses won't have to dress up. there will be an anti-hazing practice that covers the practice. the policy prohibits requiring or encouraging players to dress as women or wear costumes that is offensive based on race, sex, nags mall tee an

charles schulz is not walking away -- >> howard schultz. >> not the creator of "peanuts." we are going to be speaking to howard schultz and the incoming new ceo of starbucks, kevin johnson, tomorrow on "squawk box" 7:30 a.m. eastern time. that will be a great interview, and i'm pleased to join them tomorrow morning. >>> coming up, the ceo of allergan has a big warning for other drug companies. president-elect trump could be a thorn in the industry's side. we'll explain why. >>> donald trump arrived in indianapolis today to take a victory lap for saving jobs at the carrier factory. is what's good for workers good for stocks? >>> and it is the penny stock that's burning you want ticker at the bottom of your screen. we're talking about dry ships. is the stock worth all that hype? much more "fast money" after this. >>> we don't negotiate the price of the drugs. we're spending 300 to $350 billion more for drugs buying from our drug companies. people say how is that possible? it's possible because the drug companies have probably the second or third most powerful lobby in this c

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schulz. things do turn eventually a good deal could. don't forget on boxing day for the north of scotland we have storm connor to deal with, gusts of windsor is around 80 mph. very wintry showers for a good part —— with wind to reach gusts. a lot of sunshine around, but in much fresher vuelta the day. —— feel to the day. and on hello. this is bbc news with christian fras the headlines at 12.30am. the queen has missed the christmas day service at sandringham, as she has a heavy cold. the duke of edinburgh and other members of the royal family are on their way to church on the norfolk estate. in her pre—recorded message to the commonwealth later today, the queen will say she draws strength from "ordinary people doing in his christmas mass at the vatican, the pope has urged world leaders to negotiate a peace deal in syria — telling thousands of spectators that "too much blood has been spilled". more than sixty members of a celebrated russian military band are among those killed when their plane crashed on its way to take them to entertain

and two of russell schulz's friends died but he only suffered minor injuries. >>> a watershed moment in syria. for the first time in four years government forces have full control of aleppo. the announcement came after state television reported that the last remaining rebel fighters were evacuated from the war ravaged city. president assad said retaking it was a victory shared with his russian and >>> major problems could be ahead for the millions of people who are traveling today, especially at the nation's airports. chicago's o'hare airport could be one of the bottlenecks with rain forecast early in the day followed by snow. flood watches and blizzard warnings prompting weather alerts in 18 states. we'll have more on that in a moment. >>> l.a.x. is another trouble spot. hundreds of flights have already been canceled or delayed and hundreds more are expected to be impacted today. officials say it's a combination of rainy weather and thousands more people flying this year than last. >> here's why that's bad. those delays are expected to ripple across the country on one of the busiest

we are looking at gusts over the well schulz of 60 mph, as well in the pennines.rt deal with, wintry showers for good part of scotland. generally speaking for the rest of the british isles, a little bit breezy in places but a lot of sunshine around and a much fresher feel to the day. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines at 1.30pm. the queen has missed the christmas day church service at sandringham, as she has a heavy cold. the duke of edinburgh and other royals were at holy communion on the norfolk estate. in berkshire, the duke and duchess of cambridge are spending christmas with kate's family, the middletons.

schulz leaving to focus on high-end starbucks shops. this isn't the first time he stepped down. return 8 years later. >> sara: princess will pay 40 million-dollar fine after pleading guilty to several pollution charges. cruise line allegedly been using secret pipes to release waste and princess says parent company carnival submit ships to 5 year environmental compliance program. >> gene: jury awarded $750,000 and after day of killington ski resort 2011 and says she was on the ride for 15 minutes before it shut down. ski resort claims to have stopped the gondola's earlier than usual because of bad weather conditions. hiker was then stuck in the air for 5 hours before being found there by search crews and claims to have suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder after being trapped for so long. >> temperatures today up around 50? and above average temperatures just 1 day, things we got below average temperature by sunday. town by town look at what to plan around coming up next. >> sara: incredible video. 100 miles per hour on new england road and wasn't the only dangerous thing h

crosby makes a great pass to justin schulz to blast through the shastri became tried at one paper penguinvertime. scores game-winner. they won it for-3. nicole: coming up, we'll hand it to mornings with her rip. a selloff yesterday back in the green this morning. dow futures of 42. s&p futures up for. you are watching trends havewhie more after the break. s? eese. xerox helps hospitals use electronic health records so doctors provide more personalized care. cheese? cheese! xerox healthcare services... ...soon to be conduent. that's it. how was your commute? good. yours? good. xerox real time analytics make transit systems run more smoothly... and morning chitchat... less interesting. xerox transportation services... ...soon to be conduent. . . lauren: thanks, everybody, for watching fbn:am this morning. nicole: we will turn it right over to mornings with maria. good morning, maria. maria: good morning to you. happy thursday, everybody. thanks for being with us. i'm maria bartiromo, it is thursday december 15th, top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. a meeting of the minds yest

andy schulz has more in today's bleacher report. >> yeah, the last thing any coach ever wants is for players to say something, give their opponent bulletin board material ahead of a big game. well, dabo sweeney probably not thrilled one of his players has done that. the safety was asked a question about buckeyes quarterback j.t. barrett and said well, he's not impressed with what he's seen from barrett on tape. >> we have played better quarterbacks than him. i'm not taking anything away from him. i don't think that he's a bad player. he's definitely a good player. but you know, he just doesn't stand out as one of the best quarterbacks we have played this year as a defense. >> barrett will get his chance to impress johnson in person on saturday. they play in the night game on new year's eve. >>> after a rough couple of weeks, minnesota ending their season on a positive note last night. the team had threatened to boycott the holiday bowl because ten of their teammates were suspended after a sexual assault investigation. their boycott lasted 36 hours but they were on the field last nigh

andy schulz has today's bleacher report. >> let's start with the wake forest story which is rather unbelievable forest says their radio announcer, who was a former player and assistant coach, provided or attempted to provide confidential game preparations to opponents several times starting back in 2014. the man's name is tommy elrod. he has been fired and banned from wake forest athletics but before that, he had unlimited access to the team. wake forest originally started an investigation after their equipment manager found play sheets inside louisville stadium before their game with the cardinals in november. head coach dave clawson says tp incomprehensible el rod would betray his alma mater the way he did. no comment on the accusations. >>> the nfl announcing tuesday for the first time ever they will play four games in london next season. you will have ravens taking on the jags, saints playing the dolphins, the browns who may still be looking for a win will play the vikings and the cardinals will take on the rams. >>> major league baseball has created an anti-hazing and anti-bullying policy

i asked white house press secretary eric schulz. >> what's your biggest -- i don't want to agree vance but what would you change about the media today. >> how long do you have? >> that's interesting. often times a story happens, a medline happens and you try to put context around it and it's too late. >> this is an observation from myself but something i hear from journalists all the time. giving the economics of the media environment, there's fierce pressure to report content around the clock and these deadlines hint err journal itself's ability to think things through, get more viceth voices in -- voices in a story. >> there were a times when this administration would criticize fox news, president obama himself would criticize fox news sometimes suggesting it isn't a legitimate news organization. was that appropriate? >> i'll let people judge for themselves. what the president has talked about is the trend of people being able to self-select their news. so in other words if you only watch fox news you get a certain perspective just like if you only read left wing digital news outlets

. >>> steve smith and andy schulz. >> ravens playing at the patriots on monday night football. should be a good one. meantime, steve smith in the holiday mood. in the "star wars" mood as well, rocking the full-on yoda onesie earlier this week when buying christmas presents for underprivileged kids. he thought it would be a good idea to wear it when meeting with the media yesterday. >> there's been a few decades since i have worn a onesie so we were -- i tried it on so i bought it and i thought i got to use it. it was raining yesterday. kind of doom and gloom. try not to waste money. >> we will see if the force is with steve smith come monday night when he takes on the patriots. >> i'm sure it will be somehow. somehow, something good has to come of wearing that thing. andy, thank you so much. >>> thank you for joining me. i'm carol costello. "at this hour with berman and bolduan" starts now. >>> hello. i'm kate bolduan. >> i'm john berman. if it's thursday, donald trump must be meeting with a retired four-star about a p

kim learned to skate at santa rosa in the ice rink owned by cartoonist charles schulz. >> my first professionalld put on yellow eye shadow because i wanted the element of showgirl quality. >> reporter: she and other skaters are ready to get you in the holiday spirit. dan ashley, abc 7 news. >> looks neat. the skating spectacular airs this sunday afternoon at 2:00 right here on abc 7. >>> officials in australia are still trying to figure out how a little baby penguin ended up all alone in the streets of sydney. >> the people and he was taken to a zoo for a checkup. >> look look how the. >> he's slightly underweight but overfall good health. >> he's adorable. >> yeah. >> the baby ping win, only a few months old. he'll be returned to his colony as soon as he makes a full recovery and they figure out which colony is his. i don't know how they do that. >> must have a way. >> i don't know. good luck. >> 7 on your side's michael finney wants to hear your consumer questions. >> back with us live at broadway plaza. >> we're having a great time. weather is actually very, very nice. great time to be out h

andy schulz has more in today's bleacher report. what is going on?is cool last night against the hawks, ended up taking an early shower. here's the play where it all went down. let's take a look at it. you will see melo getting tangled up under the basket and he ends up throwing a punch. the two had to be separated. it was originally just called a foul but after reviewing it, the officials gave him a flagrant two, an automatic ejection. the knicks would lose this game in overtime 102-98. >>> tomorrow night, ronda rousey makes her long awaited return to the octagon in ufc 207 fighting amanda nunes. this is the first time rousey will be back in the octagon for a year ago. after her loss she said she considered killing herself. you won't see her doing prefight interviews this week. she's staying away from the media but ufc president dana white spoke about her mindset heading into tomorrow night. >> i think she was trying to do too much. she was doing movies, working very hard for us, too. she basically would take on anything that came her way. all she's

. >> andy schulz, thanks so much. >>> in other news this morning, some of the victims of the gatlinburg being allowed back into the fire zone, their first chance to gauge the damage done by the flames. at least 11 people have been killed in the wild fires and several people are missing. >>> take does it for me. thank you for joining me. i'm carol costello. "at this hour with berman and bolduan" after a break. put some manwich on the table... and give boring weeknight meals, the night off. ♪make tonight a manwich night you tell your inthey made a mistake. the check they sent isn't enough to replace your totaled new car. the guy says they didn't make the mistake. you made the mistake. i beg your pardon? he says, you should have chosen full-car replacement. excuse me? let me be frank, he says. you picked the wrong insurance plan. no. i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. call and if you have more than one liberty mutual policy, you qualify for a multi-policy discount, saving you money on y

and the eu parliaments president martin schulz who wants to get involved.t was agreed last night that the eu parliament would be able to send some representatives to participate in some discussions because remember the eu parliament will have to ratify any brexit deal that is decided and finally, we heard from the minister at the end of the dinner last night who expressed his concern about the relationship with northern ireland, the trade relationship and he wants eu leaders not to do anything to -- the peace process with northern ireland. prime minister meeting with angela merkel today. what are we expecting? inhe needs angela merkel order for greece to get more debt relief which is as you know a precondition for the imf to get on board and for greece to quantitative easing. angela merkel has her hands tied at home as well because the conservative allies do not want more debt relief for greece. angela merkel of force also want the greek crisis to be over with as soon as possible. she is also facing a election's next year and she will have many issues to de

andy schulz, i would be a little upset. >> i certainly would, too.ly play in memphis once a year. this was arguably the grizzlies' biggest home game of the season. for the cavs it was the second half of a back-to-back so their head coach decided he was going to rest lebron, irving and love. those three didn't even make the trip so fans clearly upset about spending hundreds of dollars to not see lebron play. there were creative signs. this one says lebron, thanks for ruining my christmas. another said michael jordan would have been here. at least all the angry fans in memphis got to see a win. the grizzlies beat the cavs 93-85. >>> the nba and its players union reaching an agreement on a collective bargaining agreement. with the new cba, the league average salary is expected to jump from the $5 million a year range to nearly $9 million annually. great time to be an nba player. >>> seahawks' richard sherman not happy about playing on three days' rest but will be out as seattle hosts the rams. kickoff is 8:25 eastern. the rams have beaten the seahawks t