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nikola shares soaring today, trevor milton will join us and it is weed week here on "fast money. kicking off the long series on the cannabis craze with a look at the big risk and opportunities in this budding industry we'll start off with big tech taking a big breather. the nasdaq pulling away from all-time highs, the apple one of the five big stocks posting a gain today but while big tech tumbled, the rest of the market was better. the s&p 500 less than a percent away from a new all-time high and energy and industrials leading the way. so today's market action, is it a sign florithat the great rota is in place. guy? >> it would appear that way. and happy monday and i took french in high school and this move was as we used to say -- [ speaking foreign language >> we get what you're saying. >> that is what i said at any rate, it is a pretty -- and kudos to tim and karen they've been talking about the transportations for a while in terms of the stocks, look at the move in caterpillar today, a few weeks ago you played trade it or fade it with karen and boeing was 195 and she correct

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nikola founder, trevor milton.ave me out to the factory so i can test drive the f-150 look-alike but let's get to other things. when will you fulfill the order of 2500 garbage trucks. way down, the road, isn't it? >> that is huge order. largest electrified order in history. it is $1.2 billion order. we'll deliver those with republic in testing in 2022. full production in 2023. real steady growth next few years. we want to build a long, steady backlog of growth. stuart: the garbage truck is absolutely vehicle for you to move into with electrics. i heard the noise from a regular garbage truck. i have seen the smoke coming out of the top. this couldn't have been a better order for you guys, couldn't it? >> no. it is actually perfect. the refuse, or waste industry like you said it is perfect for this. it is a lot of stop and go. it is polluting. nikola order is awesome. congrats to republic. they're very methodical about everything they do. this took a year to get the contract done with republic. we've been working on

>> i suspect we'll learn more about the badger electric truck within the next couple of months trevor milton, who is the founder and chairman of the company is going to be on squawk on the street tomorrow morning one last note. a lot of questions about what's going to happen with the hydrogen fuel cell semis they are ultimately going to build in europe and ship to the united states their largest customer is an horizoner bush mass production doesn't happen until 2023. >> we're quite a ways off from manufacturing of actual vehicles it sounds like the few things we would outline they say investors would look forward to is finding investors for various components of their business. we knew they were looking. the fact that they're saying look for this by the end of the year is nothing new. they're giving investors nothing new to hang their hats on. >> there is nothing that makes you say wow, i've got to get a piece of nikola right now. nothing concrete from this call that you would come away and say, okay, now we definitely see xy and z. >> the analyst line keeps going through my head. sounds mor

you get in early and get the benefits of the rockiness or you don't. >> that's trevor milton.r short for words to at least give a sense as to his expectations for the company. very different, though, from his ceo and cfo. he says he likes it that way conference call yesterday, leslie, they were very tight lipped and frustrating to some of the analysts who were focussed on that of course, we've been focussed on nikola since it went public sometime right before people recall they announced the deal before we hit the lockdown of the pandemic and the stock has captured a lot of people's imagination, despite what are, of course, as trevor points out, and he is a unique, voice, no doubt about it, points out that our aspirational goals he believes will be met and met fairly soon. saying as well during the interview the next four months will be crucial and the most exciting for his company, he believes. >> no surprises here, he said, we are pre-revenue company normally if your goal is to get in early at a company, you would do so through some sort of an angel round or venture capital

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you don't want to miss this interview cnbc is talking with the founder and chairman of nikola, trevor miltonhat is an view you don't want to miss tomorrow morning, "squawk on the street. i'll be cure why us what they str to say about what they announce today after the bell. back to you. >> yeah. >> someone said they're very good at putting out business plans and drawings of future cars two minutes to go in the trading day. what you are seeing? >> firm internals. all day, they're outperforming the index. you had a skew to the positive side right now that continues more 2-1 to the positive side the indices get a lift going into the close going take a look at some of the dynamics regarding those reopening plays versus stay at home here's a look at the leisure and entertainment etf. compared to the online retailing. can you imagine longer term it's not a contest. the i buy is way outperforming today you have a 2% outperformance of that reopening proxy in the pej so that is a little bit of a shift or mechanical rotation as i was saying before. finally, the vix volatility index, it is doing the ri

people like milton shaft and sergeant trevor and then another group they dropped out were , replacedrelay by jerry brown, mike church, others like that. richard: yes, because the people who started against him in february and march, whom we were discussing in new hampshire, illinois, other states left us long since. now carter was unemployed, and if he had the stamina, one of the great things working for him was that he was a centrist. he was not identified as being one of the govern left or wallace right. both of these seem to have diminished in the years since 1972. stephen: yes, yes. the democratic party was a uniquely nonideological campaign. the party will go into the general election with a much greater quotient of unity. you don't feel the death wish that so has divided the party during the years of vietnam. richard: i have a feeling that in much of this, the very fact that the war is over means the cement that held together the new left, new politics group is gone. other solutions are being found that wallace emphasized. because you are quite right that even now, your effort,