elizabeth: scott bower, guide us please because when it comes to investing in stocks, how can you look at this as some type of who horrificically flagging economy and some commodity prices are rolling over and it's not just oil, wheat has come down and corn has come down. there's very expensive things out there and i'm looking at the dower leadership at this very moment, jp morgan is popping dramatically along with goldman sachs and cvs and interpret this higher bond rates, is that good for the financial s? >> it absolutely is. jon said it perfectly if the fed had to make a decision today, they couldn't. they're in a corner. they are absolutely sandwiched into a box. fortunately they're going to get not only two cpi reports before their next meeting in september, they'll get another jobs report. it is really tough, liz, and to just pick a sector, to just pick a sector and say, you know what, this is going to be where you want to be for the next month, next six months based on inflation or based on recession. almost impossible to do because we see the landscape changing on a daily basis

bring in scott bower and george ball. scott, thin volume anded from reserves are affecting the final hour of at the same time what else? >> i think that's what it is, liz, just a lot of making sure people have the positions they want to have on prior to friday, but the volume is so light and what we've seen over the last week or so is the volume can be light on up days and the big down days. even yesterday, volume was really light. you're going to see a lot of just positioning prior to friday. the trajectory is to safety right now. ahead of friday, i think people are thinking that all right, if it is a little bit more dubbish than what people think, they'll maybe be able to catch up to the market. but they don't want to be caught with being behind the 8 ball if he comes out hawkish and the market takes a big downturn that being said, liz, you and i had this conversation last week when the vices was trading almost under 20, about buying cheap protection when you can and not when you have to. that's what you're seeing now. w

john carpena live at stock exchange and scott bower live. it's the actual floor show and not the name only. welcome to you both. john, i'll start with you. market bottoms are synechiae, reich. it's hard -- sneaky, right. hard to see them till they're in the rear-view mirror. where do you think we are in this investing cycle? >> hey, liz. you're never going to pick the bottom or top and you're always looking in the rear-view mirror but the opportunities are there in front of us. the headlines over the last few months and quarters are still headlines that are near the surface. we're still talking about interest rates, supply chain, the covid headline has quieted down for a little bit now. those things are certainly still there that's gob narath -l our markets but our markets have shown that our economy is strong, able to shrug off bad news and we are able to rebound off the lows. where are we in the spectrum of things? s&p up 10, 15% off the low and still down 10% on the year and things i'm actually looking for that's going to help me decide w

scott wong, for all of that from capitolhill. >>> voters in six states are headed to the polls tomorrow including arizona where election deniers backed by donald trump are running in key primary races and rusty bowerace for standing up to trump. in missouri, there's a heated three-way. and kansas will be the first state to vote whether to keep the abortion rights to the state or keep a complete ban. joining us now is nbc news correspondent von hilliard and our reporter in washington, missouri. vaughn, a number of races to watch, including a grip on the republican party. there was a piece you did with rusty bowers. talk about that. >> we're looking at the reality, andrea, there could with b a clean sweep in arizona. this is the first major primary coming out of these public january 6th hearings. there are a lot of national implications we could take away from essentially of these races. you know, one of them is the governor's race. you have two political newcomers. you have kari lake and robeson who's also endorsed. and you've got an running for attorney general with trump's endorsement. he's also called for the decertification of the 2020 election. of course, blake masters for the u.s. senate is a