. >> thankou. gerri: that is awesome. on to the stay in business. 1879.0 opened up the first $0.5 store in new york. undercutting the price of other local merchants and sell discounted general merchandise at six -- fixed prices are five or $0.10. the company was the first to use display cases so customers can see what they wanted to buy without the help of the salesman . opened 8,000 stores around the world, selling everything from lipstick to diapers to milk. it was worth $65 million at the time or 800 million inoday's money. pave the way for big companies like kmart, walmart, and target. on of the most successful american and international five and dime stores. the first woolworth's $0.5 store opened february 22nd, 133 years ago today. when we come back we will take off our oscar preview with a look at what to expect from the world of fashion. look at that. only a handful of stores will walk away with oscar gold but they will eat nearly $50,000 worth of free stuff. don't you want to look into the swag bad? that is what we will be doing. stay with us. ♪

lcom >> thankou very much. charlie: i'll say this to you.f you're going to write a book, then you need somebody to endorse it. this is not bad. a master piece. simple. straightforward. and wise. president william j. clinton. >> i have to admit i was pretty pleased with that endorsement. >> he actually read the book. i thought he would skim it. >> charlie: could you tell for sure. >> i wasn't going to do that. i think it's impolite to a former' president. >> charlie: you think he read the book. >> he said he read the book. charlie: here was the question though. before we talk about the book. let's talk about where we are today. we had a dip in the fourth quarter. do you read anything into that? >> not very much. we had a dip in the fourth imparter in the g.d.p. we didn't have a dip in jobs you might have noticed. a few strange things happened to make the third quarter higher than we thought. one was inventories one was government spending. they both reversed in the fourth quarter. we got a zero. you need to average through the third and the f

>> thankou, sir.hereas i was not a part of the process that helped to generate the proposals or the numbers of troops that we have drawn down and the rate at which they should be drawn down, i can tell you that from having been a part of that process before, the types of things that commanders consider going into those recommendations really account for whether or not they can accomplish the assigned objections and missions. i would assume that general allen and general mattis as they went through that process provided their best military advice and i would assume that to be the case that having not been a part of that i cannot speculate as to whether or not not -- >> how quickly we become a partner and taking a look at that in that determination? >> if confirmed served i will get into that right away and confer with general dunford and the chairman and make sure that i have full understanding of the objectives, the missions and te resources that have been provided to accomplish those objectives. >> a