because major shareholders want more money thermo fisher sweetened the bid. maybe that wasn't enough it could give you a rare pull back how about another old cramer fav. danner the old was a diversified investor but slower growing business and a life science and diagnostics play since they acquired just the cream of the crop, the pristine ge bio pharma unit they had to sell the money there is thermo fisher's next closest competitor they have a ton of exposure and the last quarter was strong. these are all fantastic companies. they report thursday and haven't preannounced but i'm confident it will be solid maybe buy ahead. the stocks had a giant run and you have to have a chance to buy it since the march low put it on your shopping list because this is worth buying markets go down for in reason whatsoever as we saw this week maybe that's your chance finally, honey well. okay not on life since. we had darrius on last week and we announced the mask competition. a major producer of the n 95 mask and next generation equipment and healthy buildings equipment that m

thermo fisher is one of the best companies on earth marc fisher was on tv today, self-afacing gentleman they are not in the same league. i would prefer you -- actually, i'm hard pressed to find a drug company that i like lessthan navartis sorry. chris in new york, chris >> caller: boo-yah, jim. this is chris from long island, how are you today? >> caller: good, how are you good, thank you. thank you for making me a better investor i'm a member of the action alerts plus for your charitable trust and you made me a lot of money. >> glad to hear that glad to hear you're a member of action alerts plus that's terrific. >> caller: my elderly mother bought in 2008 or 2009 and this company had issues they merged three together and there was a class-action lawsuit that was settled for $32 million for share olders the name is apple hospitality, ticker is ap -- >> i know apple. i have not liked it. i have not liked it since the show began i don't like it now. i don't like the hotel business. i think that it's -- i own restaurants. the withones taking it on the cn and i don't think you should be in

look at thermo fisher.er -- secretary azar was talking about how there are more machines, why can't the states buy more of the conditions they are pumping out machines thermo fisher and pumping out stock. >> go back ten years take a look at the long term, too, jim on that stock that has within an incredible value creator. thank you, guys, that was a quick one. look at that look at that. >> look at that, will you? >> yeah. >> better than your index fund, david. >> that's true. >> i think most people would take 725% for ten years. that's pretty good numbers. >> did you know that mark casper built a plant in kansas, six weeks, he built it, to provide testing kits for specimens for covid. six weeks. so basically he is what we thought the defense production index -- defense production would do timo does not get enough credit. why? because mark casper is so nonpromotional that it takes guys like me to be able to you can at that about the fact that he did 389 million when people were looking at 289 million with or

joining us now is marc casper, ces of thermo fisher welcome. is what hhs secretary azar said correct? i know you're involved here in the supply chain of these vaccines what can you tell us about what you're working on there? >> thanks for having me today. we're playing a significant role in supporting the governmental response around the world. in the u.s. we'll play the role in the manufacture of therapeutics and vaccines. we are working with barta to use our sterile full finish capacity to produce the final form of which ever vaccine is successful that's one activity we do anticipate playing a major role i in >> is it right there will be enough supply when ready, whoever gets to the finish line first, all americans who want to get vaccinated vaccinated? >> i think that the actual strategy for who gets vaccinated in what order is something that the government will work on and we'll play our role, which is usually the fill and finish of the product to ramp up, i'm sure as will others i assume there will be a methodical ramp up over time so it g

we need hospitals to use their thermo fisher equipment that's sitting dormant even as we have 40 millionpplies available. >> secretary azar, thank you. >> go ahead, andrew. i thought we were done. >> mr. secretary, before you go i have to ask because it was just reported this week your number two, your deputy eric hargen's wife emily registered as a lobbyist on behalf of several health care companies and is now lobbying in fact your agency i gather he is going to recuse himself, but how concerned are you about the appearance of conflict this is something i have heard a lot about over the past 25 hours from people in washington. >> i just saw that news report, i had not been aware of that i assume that the deputy secretary is going through all the appropriate ethics procedures in terms of clearance as well as appropriate recusals. one of the core values we are here at the department of health and human services is ensuring ethical integrity in our work. the deputy secretary was in the bush administration here with me, so i am going to look into it to make sure, but i assume that everythin