major league baseball's most powerful agent is behind them, scott boras ajoins us following by what wasster week, negotiating close to a billion of contracts scott, nice to have you with us. >> pleasure, david. >> a year ago this time in free agency a lot of big names were languishing on the market. this year very different why the difference, so dramatic in one year versus the next? >> i think the fan basin baseball has kind of spoken about the models that baseball is using, and that is that these predictive models where they felt that the successes of teams were going to be measured by is something other than i think the fans' perception of the ballpark, who great players are. and we've had drops four years in a row, a lot of metrics that illustrate the fans want competition. a lot of teams chose to be noncompetitive for a period of time, and it didn't favor the game now i think owners have taken a view of the predictive models, said they're not working and are looking more to traditional approach certainly a team that followed traditional approach, won the world series with the natio

rendon helped washington wing its first world series this past fall he is the third client of scott bora's deal in the last three days following stev stephen strasburg and gerrit cole. >>> a shoe designed for medical professionals always on their feet the new air zoom plus will be available for purchase on december 14th. it comes in six different patterns and it costs $120 you are up to date that's the news update this hour i will send it back downtown to you, morgan. >> they're certainly colorful. very sharp sue, thank you >>> stocks hitting record highs. president trump tweeting that the u.s. is, quote, very close to a trade deal with china the white house reportedly planning to push back sunday's scheduled tariffs. meantime, in a new op-ed joe scarborough's former chief economist jerald bernstein saying they should campaign against his trade war. he joins us now. good morning i'll tart with you here's a headline of your op-ed. trump's china trade war is failing. democrats should campaign against it as we talk about the possibility for a deal today, how are you judging success? why do yo