stuart paul, appreciate it. moving on to the trump economic team, it's taking shape. he chose paul atkins to lead the sec and last night we learned david sachs will serve as the first ai crypto's are, underscoring the trump enthusiasm for the crypto sector. adriana has been following the trump moves closely and she joins us now. so, who exactly is david sachs, this new ai crypto's are? i heard he is a part of the ai mafia, venture capitalist with softer businesses there. is he intimately tied to crypto? >> the important thing to note is that he has been supportive of crypto for a while now, as well as in the ai space. we had reported previously that there would be a crypto's are. it was not clear at the time if that would be combined with this ai's are role. we now know that it is. again, that points to how far, you know, these emerging technologies, how big a role they will play with the trump administration. this is really capping what has been a turnaround because of his relationship with crypto. right? originally he was skeptical of it. on the campaign trail he sai

scarlet: joining us is stuart paul. i look at the numbers, and you can look at it in different ways, right? whether it's growing overall or how it compares to expectations. when you compare it to economists' expectations, it's pretty much bang in line. people expected prices would grow, and that's exactly what they d. >> we saw headline and core price measures rising 3.3% month on month. that was enough to boost the annual headline measure to 2.7% on an annual basis, keeping the core for the third consecutive month at 3.3%. if we look at the monthly rate and annualize it, it's still running way above the fed's 2% average inflation target. not the sort of thing that is going to give the fed a ton of comfort. under the surface, you see some of the contribution to headline and core inflation came from unfavorable seasonal adjustment factors in autos and within housing, which is a major lagging indicator, but a major contributor nonetheless. we saw favorable disinflation in rents and owners' equivalents of rents that could

stuart: trump has tapped crypto advocate paul atkins to head up the securities and exchange commissionkevin o'leary, joins me now. kevin, looks to me like this is the trump bitcoin rally. are you buying more or are you selling some? >> i'm in a dilemma, stuart. this move is almost unprecedented in how fast it's occurred, but it's the not just bitcoin. you got some of the blockchain technologies that were just left aside for so long that have exploded to the upside. hbar, it went up 40, 50, 60% this week in anticipation of policy coming out of both the sec and the cfts -- cftc. institutions are talking about these technologies now in a way they never did because they never thought they'd come to fruition. so the whole crypto community is trying to figure out what's next. we think bitcoin is the granddaddy of allocation to sovereign wealth, and we're amendment thing some rules out on this right after -- anticipating some rules right after trump takes over. now, the challenge is most institutions have some regulatory boundaries. for example, no more than 5% in any one position or 21 or 20

you're seeing from netflix with the live sports and you stayed up to watch tyson against jake paul, the fight. stuartflix on christmas day will have the two football games on, nfl games. you'll be able to watch them only on netflix. they've addressed password issues and putting out more content and stock has a bit more room to run from here. stuart: you also like snap chat and you've mention that had one before : >> you know, it's huge with the seens and the younger generation, the 20 somethings. they use snap chat religiously and they haven't figured out yet how to monetize all the users they have. they continue to lose money but when they turn that around, similar to what uber did. when they turn that around, the stock is off to the races. stuart: got it. thank you, mike. now this, the u.s. is calling for a deescalation in syria after a rebel group seized control of aleppo. jennifer, we have trooped stationed in syria. i believe there's 900 there. what are they doing? reporter: that's right, stuart. they're there for counter lightning mission but the second largest city, aleppo, by the syrian oppos

reporter: stuart, speaker mike johnson will need all the chickens he can count onto remain speaker in the new year. one idea floated by rand paulsident elect trump should consider just making elon musk speaker of the house. stuart. stuart: that's the first time i've heard that one. it won't be the last, i'm sure. hillary, thank you very much. kentucky congressman andy barr joining me now. thank you, congressman, for coming on the show. >> thank you. stuart: i'm hearing that throughout the saga yesterday, a lot of people in congress were looking at musk's tweets. he was sitting there on the phones and there were the tweets coming in. you were one of them and looking at those tweets. does musk have too much influence? >> no, i don't think s. i think this is exactly what the american people voted for when they voted for donald trump, they voted for ken polcari ten seizure disorders and voted for -- k competency and invoter visitative thinking and that's 'em -- innovative thinking and that's elon musk and vivek ramaswamy and bringing inefficiencies to the government and we have a $36 trillion national debt. so when our phones were

meet with four different senators including rand paul and trump's defense secretary pete hegseth meets with two senators today who could tank him, stuartwski and sun colins and comes after progress he made with joni ernst yesterday and said she'll support hegseth through the process but not a clear yes though. reporter: now tulsi gabbard was on the hill and said it'll be a tough one and he does see a path for her confirmation and senator ernst aren't saying no publicly or even privately but they're deferring to this confirmation process, the advise and consent. they want to see the fbi background checks and they want to have the folks go through the nomination hearings but again, things could take awhile, especially for those that are facing scrutiny out there. stuart. stuart: thank you, we'll be watching. former president bill clinton adding to the list of excuses about why kamala harris lost for donald trump. watch this. >> vice president harris had an almost mappable job because r are she became a candidate when she couldn't legally access the money given to joe biden is she was essentially a stranger to people. stuart: jimmy failla

mortgages, we did not purchase a home at that period, when paul volcker was the rate share, needed a place to live and find a way to make it work. stuartg us. see you again next week, got a related story. what is this about guest bedrooms making a comeback. lauren: fewer americans are having children so there are extra bedrooms in the house. it's great if you're hosting christmas, family can stay. realtor.com puts numbers on it, they are at 31.9 million guest bedrooms, an all-time high, when i was a kid it was 7 million. a huge jump in 40 years. but when that is a huge jump. lauren: used to be 3 people living in a house. stuart: amazon founder jeff baeza's moving from seattle to florida. stuart: savings of one billion. no state income tax, no capital gains tax, no estate tax, his with $250 billion, when he moved from washington to florida earlier this year, he sold amazon stocks that saved him one billion dollars. just like that. stuart: i love that story. still had nestlÉ launching a new drink that will mimic the effects of weight loss drugs like ozempic. we ask dr. frank contacessa. the timing of a strike is nasty. hard to respect un

stuart: we shall see. mamary katherine ham, thank you for joining us. bitcoin hit the $100,000 milestone after president trump picked a pro crypto guy paul atkinses to headkevin o'leary was on the show earlier. here's what he said. >> institution are talking about the technologies now in a way they didn't and never thought that he had come to fruition and the whole trip toe community trying to figure out what's next and we think bitcoin is the granddaddy to sovereign wealth and asking sec to put rules out on this right after trump takes over. stuart: lou basenese with me for the hour by the way. lou, i'll call this the trump crypto rally. any argument? >> no, no argument. we're going from a crypto dud in gensler and now to a crypto king. it was predicted that crypto would hit 100,000 this year and i text him saying where are we going next 120,000 and then he said it'll tank next year. interesting take and options market supports that stance in terms of going to 120. next year when rubber hits the road on what kind of crypto policies we'll get, you'll get volatility. crypto was always volatile and how high before it tanks? stuart: yeah. last time you were

paul atkins, have given it its legitimizing moment. bitcoin's at 98 today. it's up 40% in 4 weeks. since the election. stuart: that's called a rally. it was 68 or 69k at the election. stuart: still got green on the screen, up 60 on the dow, up 25 the on the nasdaq. ryan payne with me this friday morning. the jobs report, 227,000 jobs added in november. not much of a reaction from the market. kind of neutral numbers. >> i mean, it's a great number, let's not make any mistake there. 227,000 jobs is a great add. 4.2%, we're still at, like, 50-year low in unemployment and, you know, i suspect here now that we're looking -- if i'm a business owner, which i am, you're looking at deregulation and lower taxes. there's going to be a lot of pent-up demand to hire more people now that we're past the election. so i think that number's going to stay strong for quite a while here. bottom line, yes, it was expected but also it signifies the fact that we've got a red hot economy right now. gdp is tracking 3.2 2% this quarter. i said we're going to get here, and we're here now. stuart: look, we seem to be making new highs every other day on wall st