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we useded to buy the dip at 3:00 p.m. >> and sell the rip. i'm saying you're back in play it's just happening faster than it used to be. >> hoping come 3:00 p.m., we can hold this together i want to bring up ge. crazy today. >> nick haymon at william blare. is who you're referring to >> he calls himself crazy. >> that's not anything that we, i used to call nick. he said i'm crazy. >> i'm sure he has no offense taken. but he has reiterated, outperformed eed on ge today as to why ge can address their issues oil price, three and a half year highs. >> baker hughes. you've got the performance of aviation and health care you've got key cash generation and previous cash uses are all expected to improve. to reduce rnits largest liabili in '18 jim, what say you? >> i like nick very much there's enough in here to give people a little comfort. then you've got this inch, they come out they're a one-two battery. wait a second, how about punch punching i think there's going to be a consensus that if ge has to -- that you want to buy it. you want to buy it

pandora and twitter, useded to be losers. each up about 5% >> and yet look at the market.e dow, too. >> facebook up 1.6%. so people are trying to figure out if maybe we had kind of this crescendo of concern about facebook >> perhaps zuckerberg not such a tragic figure after all. >> right >> despite the huge mark to market losses. >> that jury remainso out we haven't seen a big comeback since the 2% nasdaq day yet. >> still caught in the middle of this range fed today, maybe that's the thing the market's been waiting to least get a sign and get out of the way >> if you're on the east coast, be careful on the roads. now it's time to drive into the half with scott at headquarters. >>> and welcome to the halftime report i'm scott wapner top trade this hour, facebook under fire the fallout from the data scandal growing. already this week, more than $50 billion in market cap wiped out but, it's the silence of mark zuckerberg drawing more criticism today. still one well-known hedge fund manager is speaking out. brad is the founder and ceo of a firm best known for its high profile

basically transforming this sick jungle into almost like a -- curatedre garden and grew flowes usedded ceremonies and then so forth so these people really transformed the jungle now there was yes a lot of rain like the rain ten feet a year or something like that. rain comes in a six month period and then six month period where it rainses a lot less when we were there supposed to be the dry period and rain inches and inches every day on us so i don't know. but that's, what they think they really -- as they believe now that the -- prehistoric people of the amazon transformed that jungle. like 90,000 acres that they discovered of -- of earth in amazon in the amazon where they created this artificial elevated platform to grow crops. but it really cleared huge area in the amazon prehistorically as well. >> lots of time to work and no screenen time, right lots of people -- >> didn't go with their iphone. [laughter] so -- >> we have time for probably one more question. >> i gather you have a little bit of an entertainer in you, and i would like to take you back to -- the book cities of gold w

usede h.w. bush famously his southern campaign advisor, lee atwater, pioneers of the willie horton hat which is this racially coded way of appealing to the sense that democrats are touron law and order and the criminals? the african-americans -- who are the criminals? the african-americans. play out withis george w. bush and john mccain, as well. what is so striking and unusual about donald trump is the way he embraces the politics of the right with no concern. he is not worried about losing voters. the test is whether there is a moderate republican vote that trump can lose. will they abandon trump? u see jeff flake, corker from tennessee denouncing trump but they are resigning, not running again. going to be the more centrist vote that is going to challenge politically -- challenge trump politically? we have not seen that. reagan makes reference to his own experience of welfare reform in california. can you comment on what that reform was and outline how that fits into his conservative ideals?

i don't know what you get financing for that you don't have the growth here this useded to be the r staris stock, so i still think it's a value trap. not like u you can really break up the company they talk b about it in terms of their ip versus what they're doing on the chip side >> were the big emergenciy e men this >> typically, the ones i talked to weren't really involved in it some were, but just the ones i know >> this is b about as negative a note as you will ever find on anybody i mean, the potential for a long-term underperformance, organic growth opportunities severely capped. investment pressures mount the government sees this of strategic importance licensing challenges >> it's been flat for seven or eight years. >> you left out a critical component of this. how can a large cap technology company in world we live in now, the debt be questioned by moody's and s&p. the debt levels of this company just don't make sense in the environment that we're liveing n right now. and i think that's the biggest challenge that this company has, whether to take it private, attract someone or

clinical trial process we are doing things like the repurpose thing of old drugs we have not used usede, that have been not and a long while, to see if they are now effective. we have a whole strategic plan and agenda for that. [indiscernible] dr. fauci: yes. if you're asking is there work on looking at commonalities , a molecule of some sort i inhibit hold classes of bacteria, the answer is yes. we are working on that. that is referred to as broad-spectrum. but it really is not broad-spectrum. it is mostly within a class of bacteria that you have a molecule that can essentially block everything within that class. >> we have time for a couple more questions. >> [indiscernible] there are a lot of areas that the military medical community is also working on, such as anti-bacterial resistance. how much are you working with the army and maybe grab some of army medicines money? i never work towards grabbing other people's money. put that on the record. i can give you a non-facetious that myo questions historicallye always worked closely with the department of defense. examples, thegent hiv v

usede h.w. bush famously campaign advisor, lee atwater from south carolina ad.eering the willie horton that democrats are soft on law and they coddle criminals. that is the infamous moment of this line of politics going on. you can see it another examples with george w. bush and john mccain as well. what is the striking and unusual and unprecedented about donald trump is the politics in the right with no concern about voters.oderate the real test is whether there is a moderate republican vote that trump can lose. will they abandon trump? you see a lot of it. jeff flake, corker from notessee, but they are running again. where will the more centrist boat be within the republican party? we have not seen that. that is what is unprecedented. george? toreagan makes reference welfare reform and california. can you comment on what that welfare reform was? and outline how that falls into his conservative ideals. joseph: it was reforming welfare to make it more financially feasible and to cut down on the

not just because goldman sachs useded to be b the best trading, biggest trading firm in the world, but when you drop from first to worst, which they did last july, with that 40% drop year over year in revenue, on the fixed side and so forth, that's tough to survive. tony, we all see these kinds of things you know how it plays out in the board room, scott. so i'm not a barber of lloyd blankfein. i agree with andrew that he did a great job stewarding them through the crisis, but the performance is the bottom line and the performance has been lacking for years so i think the pressure just got to a point where he's made a decision >> you disagree? >> i think he wrote more than one bad quarter. >> it was more than one. >> let's take a look at their business, okay we heard that he wanted to go out and make an acquisition, but the board was against it >> the stock was at an all time high today >> number two, it's like being a lead paint manufacturer. it's not used anymore. their businesses are businesses that are not as profitable as they used to be, so despite shrinking the business, the pro

and he useder coach -- until mike took over, he was the guy who won bank -- who won the most games in collegiate history. i realize i was not going to be a starter and we did not get along very well, probably my fault, so i left the team and i went to other activities. host: as you progress through and you get ready to branch, what was in your mind? go torlson: we all had to reentry school because they did not send us to the basic course. they figured maybe if you went to ranger school, you would learn enough about comment that you could succeed in vietnam where we were all going. said, it was at buckner that i made this decision that i wanted to go irma. armor.o they put us in a trench one day and they showed us a tank attack. they drive right over the ditch and they tell everybody, get your head down. commission, i'm want to be the guy in the tank, not in the ditch and that is why i wanted to go armor. host: you were high enough that you got it? mr. carlson: yes. host: were any guys higher? mr. carlson: wesley clark was the top guy and usually the top guys go into near -- go enginee