saudi relations with conservative commentator steve malzberg m.l.s. so our mo the c.e.o. of the stock look at stocks going into next year twenty nineteen that's coming up but first we get some headlines with there are no britto let's go. to a major market moving address from chinese president xi jinping leads our global report today the chinese leader defended his policies even as he avoided direct references to increasingly urgent questions about the future direction of chinese economic policy in the face of u.s. president donald trump's china trade crusade threats to china's major tech companies and multiple signs of a slowing domestic economy mr xi addressing communist leaders said the chinese economic success happened quote precisely because we've been here and to the centralize and united leadership of the party the speech came on the fortieth anniversary of china's official reorientation towards state directed capitalism under the late chinese leader done shopping markets around the world reacted unfavorably to mr speech today and in the region the a.s.x. shanghai c

from cia director gina haskell back on december fourth here with morris conservative commentator steve malzberg steve thank you for being with us my pleasure good seeber so this is such a troubling story i mean because somebody is actually murdered and a journalist we both are journalists and that's uncomforting but i'm just curious after this briefing in the senate where ms haskell finally appeared and first of all she didn't appear then she appeared even had people like lindsey graham. supposedly you know one of the president's best friends on capitol hill saying no i mean it's obvious what happened here what do you make of all of it yeah well here's what happened there were two briefings one for the entire senate and she was supposed to head of the cia it was supposed to show up and she didn't so my pompei of the secretary of state and madison defense secretary basically gave the president's version where they said there's no smoking gun we don't know for sure and a lot of the senators were upset and said where is the cia director well she met in the second meeting that you alluded to but on

steve malzberg and hilary forge are standing by to discuss and as we close in on the end of the year and markets seem to be reacting more like a roller coaster is that anything else we talk to market volatility with and he's the president and c.e.o. of signature profits and speaking of hot seats there is more boeing bad news as the aircraft maker continues to be plagued by problems with the seven thirty seven max a jet we've been telling you about for the last month former national transportation board official jamie financial joined us with the latest from the philippines from manila and he's done it again tesla c.e.o. on lust continues to prove he's not only a great innovator but his old worst enemy the car coach lauren. will joins us and address his most recent messy missteps and look to other auto related issues from today all that directly add but first let's have some headlines of. the intersection of business and politics and the internet leads our global report today as the chief executive officer of google sundar pic k. faced questions from the judiciary committee of the u.s

us federal communications commission tries to stop the media merger madness margot suspect and steve malzberg will join us for that conversation and as we go to break here are the daily new york numbers at the closing bell we'll be back in a flash. that. want to see stocks were up pick up truck it up since he's been pushed across the worst point on the losses since comedic i'm comfortable . if possible will continue. to push at. the system but what's joined up with what you got to put that up because. you know you those little. kids as they do you know. we dispose of know what door you will get for. each. purpose to persuade a person or stock. that when you respond to the customer because. president trump indeed has has he's way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on the you know fate news and junk news because one of the foundations of a democracy has to be the trust in news facts and information and if that trust is fu

pundit steve malzberg guys welcome how are you going to be here ali dateline buenos aires just before president trump was about to meet with lead amir putin he called it off based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia i have decided to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in argentina with president vladimir putin i look forward to a meaningful summit again this soon as this situation is resolved one meeting mr trump has been eager to take chinese president xi jinping as tough tariff talk escalates steve who thinks a trade war is a good idea. well a trade war is not a good idea if it's going to last for a long long time i think what donald trump thinks is that you put tariffs on you make threats you increase in height in the rhetoric and you'll get what you got with the new nafta deal that was signed at the g. twenty to kick off the this summit with canada and mexico again tough talk with good results so i hope that that's what happens i know everybody that has any stake in this economy or the world economy hopes the same thing and if c

us federal communications commission tries to stop the media merger madness margot suspect and steve malzberg will join us for that conversation and as we go to break here are the daily new york numbers at the closing bell we'll be back in a flash. but watts when you go. to the filter. you know you go to the. door you know your good fortune this creature has a purpose to play good for. the customer because. president trump indeed has has his way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on you know fate news and junk news because one of the foundations of a democracy has to be the trust in new facts and information and if that trust is fundamentally shaken and the independent media all criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. there's a saying. look there won't be cheap you know bust and then prove it come true so let's ideas really right let's go to his company he said if we give them ev

pundit steve malzberg and mitch caesar's joining us from florida former a florida state democratic party chairman gentlemen welcome dateline oval office eleven remember this. yes if we don't get what we want one way or the other whether it's through you through a military through anything you want to call i will shut down the go ok and i answer out and i was just wondering i am proud to shut down the government for border security check because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country so i will take the mantle i will be the one to shut it down i'm not going to blame you for the last time you shut it down and didn't work i will take the mantle of shutting down and i'm going to shut it down the border but we're going to you shouldn't shut it down but you think well as they say the camera never blanks and as we do this show on friday just a little earlier today the senate said no to the nuclear option mitch will the democrats or the republicans end up owning the shutdown. i think the republicans own it first of

have become the largest local television company in the united states conservative commentator steve malzberg joins us to discuss and we look at water scarcity with the author of bet the farm food stop being food bread hoffman and later we take a look at a particularly socially responsible investment firms with shane very merrily harvest what they are doing is really impressive all that directly had but first we get some headlines with daniel britto let's go. next part the escalating one m.t.b. corruption scandal leads our global report today as malaysian authorities file their first related criminal charges in the case against goldman sachs bank as an entity and goldman employees goldman's exposure on this front increase dramatically in november with published reports that goldman c.e.o. lloyd blankfein attended a two thousand and nine one him to be fund raising meeting in new york with low take joe aka joe low a key figure in the massive multifarious scandal malaysian prosecutors are now charged mr low as well as tim weisner goldman's former chair for southeast asia in the case and are dema

credit communications commission crisis the media merger of marvel suspects and steve malzberg will join us for that conversation and as we go to break here at the daily new york at the closing bell will be back in a flash. share that's where the playing field the battlefield of the furniture center and we're at war right now i mean so whether you know it trickles down to bullets and bombs and guns and stuff i mean that's immaterial we're already out war right now it's being played out in our collective unconscious if you wake up in the morning and you feel it was massive headache because china and america are at that war in your mind. there's a saying. there on the cheap. and then we went through all of the countries don't let the idea of the right things go through this country he said. to the best. in this country. this is what we don't understand how we have to live in such countries. that are sent to the mines at the same time. there was a mountain into. the saloon for them similar to similar john a good one the one that i guess about the us if you feel. the minutes of on will or no

percent growth in wages and here to discuss and break down the numbers is conservative commentator steve malzberg see thank you so much for being with us what do you make of these numbers sort of overall first of all well overall as you mentioned although the jobs numbers were disappointing according to the expectations the unemployment rate stays at a record low from one thousand nine hundred ninety three point seven percent when you break it down to demographics men women etc everybody say just about the same but significantly black unemployment went back down to its record low from a down three tenths of one percent to five point nine and hispanic unemployment just for the record was a just one tenth of a percent off its all time low so those numbers were good labor force participation rate stayed the same at sixty two point nine percent and you have for the thirteenth time under donald trump a record number of americans working nearly one hundred fifty seven million so i think all those numbers are positive even notwithstanding the fact that the actual jobs number itself was below expectation

jobs report is out steve malzberg helps us break down the new marrows he's standing by and the continuing conflict with china has more wrinkles as other nations and through the fray archies eligible hyla but joins us from canada where that prominent chinese national was arrested and has instigated the heightened tensions plus fear chrysler has made some positive pronouncements we'll take a look and consider the auto industry from this year and look to twenty nineteen with a car coach lauren fix and later we look at the economics and big bucks of the beauty industry as startups challenge the status quo companies molly burrows would be here to discuss all that directly ahead but first we have. those headlines let's go. opec and oil prices lead our global report today as russia lends key outside support to a plan to cut production the organization of petroleum exporting countries on the second day of the one hundred seventy fifth meeting is firming up plans for a total cutback of one point two million barrels of production per day after opec member states iran was given a waiver to gain thei

host and political commentator steve malzberg thinks the new remake of carol of the bells we just heard makes a rather valid point. i thought it was brilliantly done it address the problem that we really have to address in this country here in the united states and it did it in a satirical fashion ironically enough maybe some people would be offended that they took that christmas song and chose it for the error of their music and to do their parody none the less it addressed every one of the problems going on on our universities and college campuses today that address the safe spaces that the college students are given because they can't take it they addressed capitalism being taught as evil gender that you can't assume somebody gender freedom of speech freedom of thought it's all encompassed in this parody and i think it was brilliantly done although speaking of political correctness we discuss whether children hugging relatives at this holiday time could send the wrong message in a moment to our guests in america. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accep

host and political commentator steve malzberg things the new remake of carol of the bells with that we just heard it makes a valid point. i thought it was brilliantly done it addressed the problem that we really have to address in this country here in the united states and it did it in a satirical fashion ironically enough maybe some people will be offended that they took that christmas song and chose it for their of their music and to do their parody none the less it addressed every one of the problems going on on our universities or college campuses today that address the safe spaces that the college students are given because they can't take it they address capitalism being taught is evil gender that you can't assume somebody is gender freedom of speech freedom of thought it's all encompassed in this parody and i think it was brilliantly done. a scandalous russian town after the children filmmakers travel to tokyo saying money donated to a charity for kids with severe illnesses but in a caution of picks up the story. a group of children from the russian town of clinton say five hund

expect that in some cases even except joining us for the lowdown is conservative commentator steve malzberg thank you for being here steve oh yeah i'm watching you by the way absolutely i mean it seems like all of us are being watched this seems like a big huge hairy deal isn't it way it is and you know we we all know that we are our information compromise our personal information from facebook and other platforms and we've come to kind of almost accept that we know that that people are watching us we cover the the computer screen camera that we have with tape we take all we beat them we get them to smart t.v. cover that camera of now we can we can do whatever we know is not so bad so fast i mean what the patents that google is is is seeking and it's no guarantee that this is what's going to have but the patents are seeking puts all that to shame it's almost as if that's prehistoric flintstone stone age stuff you know and this is going to be the next generation of spying eavesdropping stalking in your home listening picking up on things that you're say every. day we're going to go out to t.

that's good to hear and here to discuss is conservative commentator our friend steve malzberg hey steve first of all the deal on li appears from the chinese side at this point to be they're going to buy some stuff at some point i mean there is that claim from secretary minutiae in that when they get to the deal after this ninety days that there will be some specifics but at this point it looks like they're just saying yeah we'll work towards a deal am i missing something here. no i mean we've gotten two very different pieces of information donald trump today most recently tweeted out that china has agreed to end the tariffs of forty percent tariff on cars coming into his country from the united states then you had larry kudlow a bit little bit later on saying there's no firm agreement on that there's no details and as you mentioned we got over the weekend we got not just from donald trump but from the the you know the united states side if you will who was at the g. twenty the people around trump who said that china is going to buy a massive amount of products to shorten and lessen the

host and political commentator steve malzberg thinks the new remake of carol of the bells we just heard does actually make a valid point. i thought it was brilliantly done it addressed the problem that we really have to address in this country here in the united states and it did it in a satirical fashion ironically enough maybe some people would be offended that they took that christmas song and chose it for the era of their music and to do their parody none the less it addressed every one of the problems going on on our universities or college campuses today it addressed the safe spaces that the college students are given because they can't take it they addressed capitalism being taught is evil gender that you can't assume somebody gender freedom of speech freedom of thought it's all encompassed in this parody and i think it was brilliantly done. book markets in the united states close to christmas eve at the lowest in decades for that day and comes off the president donald trump lashed out at the federal reserve system. the only problem our economy has is the food they don't have a f

glad to have you coming up the day we look at us saudi relations with conservative commentator steve malzberg arm of the c.e.o. of the stock look at stocks going into next year twenty nineteen that's coming up but first we get some headlines with daniel britto let's go. to a major market moving address from chinese president xi jinping leads our global report today the chinese leader defended his policies even as he avoided direct references to increasingly urgent questions about the future direction of chinese economic policy in the face of u.s. president donald trump's china trade crusade threats to china's major tech companies and multiple signs of a slowing domestic economy mr xi dressing communist leaders said the chinese economic success happened quote precisely because we've been here to the central.

jobs report is out steve malzberg helps us break down the new marrows he's standing by and the continuing conflict with china has more wrinkles as other nations and through the fray artie's eligible hyla but joins us from canada where that prominent chinese national was arrested and has instigated the heightened tensions plus fear chrysler has made some positive pronouncements we'll take a look and consider the auto industry from this year and look to twenty nineteen with a car coach lauren fix and later we'll look at the economics and big bucks of the beauty industry as startups challenge the status quo companies molly burrows would be here to discuss all that directly ahead but first we hit those headlines let's go. opec and oil prices lead our global report today as russia lends key outside support to a plan to cut production the organization of petroleum exporting countries on the second day of the one hundred seventy fifth meeting is firming up plans for a total cutback of one point two million barrels of production per day after opec member states iran was given a waiver to gain the

have become the largest local television company in the united states conservative commentator steve malzberg joins us to discuss and we look at water scarcity with the author of bet the farm food stop being food bread hoffman and later we take a look at a particularly socially responsible investment firms with shane very merrily harvest what they are doing is really impressive all that directly had but first we get some headlines with daniel britto let's go. next part the escalating one m.t.b. corruption scandal leads our global report today as malaysian authorities file their first related criminal charges in the case against goldman sachs bank as an entity and goldman employees goldman's exposure on this front increase dramatically in november with published reports that goldman c.e.o. lloyd blankfein attended a two thousand and nine one m.t.b. fund raising meeting in new york with low take joe aka joe low a key figure in the massive multifarious scandal malaysian prosecutors are now charged mr low as well as tim weisner goldman's former chair for southeast asia in the case and are demandi

steve malzberg and hillary foragers standing by to discuss and as we close in on the end of the year and markets seem to be reacting more like roller coasters that anything else we talked to market volatility with and he's the president and c.e.o. of signature profits and speaking of hot seats there is more boeing bad news as the aircraft maker continues to be plagued by problems with the seven thirty seven max a jet we've been telling you about for the last month former national transportation board official jamie pinch will join us with the latest from the philippines from manila and he's done it again tesla c.e.o. elon musk continues to prove he's not only a great innovator but his old worst enemy the car coach lauren fix will joins us and address his most recent messy missteps and look to other auto related news today all that directly ed but first.

tell us why this deal happened and what it means for the industry is conservative commentator steve malzberg thinks the banks be in here great to be ok so first of all what about these two companies we know a little bit about tribune and a little bit about sinclair but tell us more right now next are. they on about one hundred seventy five broadcast t.v. stations and you know in this day and age that sounds like a lot but they're going to they're going to buy a lot more and what's going to happen is they are at about forty percent of how. olds in the united states to make this work they have to sell off some stations because there's a threshold if you're in thirty nine percent of households as a threshold of the number of stations you could own so in fifteen markets they overlap with tribune stations and we're talking about places in maryland we're talking about places in portland like portland in indianapolis so they're going to sell them off is going to bring in about one hundred seventy five million dollars which isn't bad they could package them they could sell them separately and they a