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you know, this donation comes from john and pat stryker who are honoring their father who understoodthe importance of civil rights, and i think we have to create spaces. the holocaust memorials are very powerful places. you walk through them, understand things, you come out and say never again. i think we need to create spaces in america where we begin to confront this history of racial inequality and we walk out and say never again. we want them to be sober places, we want them to be informational places but also places where there's beauty, where there's hope, where there's the chance for transformation, and i think we can do that, but we can't do it without spending more time creating the kind of cultural infrastructure that i hope this memorial will contribute to. >> sreenivasan: is there a true line or a legacy of lynching in the criminal justice system today? >> oh, absolutely. you know, at the end of the civil war, we didn't really deal with the great evil of american slavery. the great evil of american slavery was an involuntary, the evil is because we didn't address it in th

i'm joined by stryker mcguire of bloomberg markets, abdel bari atwan who is a writer and broadcaster on arab affairs, agnes poirier of marianne, and steve richards who is a british political commentator. britain first, to coin a phrase, and we can all predict that article 50 will indeed be invoked by march, beginning the formal process of leaving the european union. but where will brexit, and indeed the eu, be by the end of 2017? with political change in france and italy, and possibly in germany too. what do we think is going to happen? i think 2017 will be much more difficult than this artificial period we've been living through prior to the triggering of article 50. all kinds of things have been read into what has happened since the referendum. "the uk economy has been better than expected." we haven't triggered this thing yet. and so far, the focus has been on the british position. what is theresa may's plan? again, completely artificial. in 2017, we are going to get real, because we will hear the european union position as well. and when that becomes clear, i think the dynamic of

i'm joined by stryker mcguire of bloomberg markets, abdel bari atwan who is a writer and broadcasteritain first, to coin a phrase, and we can all predict that article 50 will indeed be invoked by march, beginning the formal process of leaving the european union. but where will brexit, and indeed the eu, be by the end of 2017? with political change in france and italy, and possibly in germany too. what do we think is going to happen? i think 2017 will be much more difficult than this artificial period we've been living through prior to the triggering of article 50. all kinds of things have been read into what has happened since the referendum.

so companies like stryker orthopedics, just this morning alone, they announced a quarterly increase inir dividend of 11.8%. this companying is growing dividend, annualized 17% a year last five years. it is hurt a little bit by foreign sourced companies. fischer therm -- thermoscientific. tmo. great aggregator. 15% of earnings foreign sourced. [closing bell rings] liz: okay. ernie, i know you hear it. there is the closing bell. ernie with bryn mawr investments. today another day of epic records. connell: it is indeed. melissa: look who is back. connell: we both have the same color. the market going exactly the opposite direction, thank goodness. dow, s&p 500, nasdaq, they're all ending brand new record highs. i'm david asman, good to be back melissa: i'm melissa francis. here is what we have for you at this hour. donald trump tapping a fast-food ceo for a key cabinet post. he is meeting with the former

you worked ad stryker and pfizer. >> med tech is great field.of wine. liz: good for you, greg. this is coravin wine needle. getting close to recession lows. down 89 points for the dow jones industrials. we have the closing bell in eight minutes. 2016 we're about to wrap it up! you have got to stay with me. ♪ liz: five minutes, guys, five minutes away from the closings bell of 2016, the last one. look, get over it. the dow just couldn't pull off 20,000 before the year and we're at 19,783. but my guest called it back on october 5th, we would see dow 20,000 before the inauguration. that is january 20th. will it happen? the man with the big call jordan kimmel. we're bringing in griffin capital securities chief economist randy anderson. great to see both of you guys. can wegree investor scared off by all the drama this year, whether early issue with china, "brexit" and who knows what else, they were wrong? >> liz, this is uptrend. i don't know why people are fighting uptrend waiting for shoe to fall, if you see this as bear market or don't understand