Supporters later today where hes expected to praise the economy and two major trade victories this week, we are live at the white house with the latest. Plus on capitol hill, democrats preparing to make their case for impeachment next week, but will it put the peoples business in jeopardy . And disney is cracking down, you better grab your black market baby yoda while you still can. Connell sounds like a threat. Melissa i know. Connell Edward Lawrence live at the white house saying the president left leaving edwards and the others behind. Yes, thanks, as melissa alluded to, the white house focused on getting the message out about the economy, white house economic adviser larry kudlow today saying reelect the president and you will get tax cuts, more deregulation and trade agreements, more of them. Listen to what he has to say. This is a middleclass, bluecollartype boom, what you want to do, and this would affect the stock market negatively, you dont want to change this. You dont want to change the progrowth policies. And the president wait to go finalize usmca, right now waiting for house member in power to sign it and send it to the white house, sources say that could be as early as next week, now today officials in mexico indicated they could be implemented by july 1st, canada would ratify in the first quarter. On china President Trump still taking a victory lap over the phase 1 deal even as he introduced the lsu tigers, the national champions, listen. We are joined by many loyal fans of the purple and gold including ambassador Robert Lighthizer who just did our great deal, where is robert, just did great two deals, largest trade deals in history, one with china and the other with mexico, canada. [cheers and applause] and the bottom line from the white house is that its almost a unanimous voice, they would like to keep, and they believe the economic expansion. The third record close in a row. Lets go to gerri willis with the details, gerri. Finishing at new record highs, the dow, the s p and the nasdaq all higher, s p 1. 7, the nasdaq up 2 on the week, strength across the board as we see, lots of stocks, all kinds of stocks firing on all cylinders, i want to talk to you about j j which is also up as well, philadelphia judge has reduced the amount of punitive damages that the company has to pay in lawsuit over drug called respidral. He sued the company, the judge in philadelphia saying hes going reduce that award, the stock is higher at this time, but boeing not doing so well, downgrading boeings debt to a minus from a, not good news, stock under pressure as you know reporting all kinds of problems with 737 max jet, just saying today that software associated with that, they found a new problem with it. Stock is down as you can see, having lots of trouble. Overall, though, good week and good day, good finish on a friday, thank you. Melissa gerri, thank you. Connell we move to talk about the Housing Market where the momentum keeps on going, construction of new homes skyrocketing in december. Highest level, as a matter of fact, in 13 years, according to latest figures from the commerce department, to jackie deangelis, jackie. Good afternoon, connell, this was way above expectations and when you take it in context, you see part of the reason why the market is up, strong earnings, great progress on trade but strong fundamentals, very important piece of the puzzle, total housing up 40 year on year, Single Family up 32 , multifamily up 74 year on year. This 1. 608 million for the month of december, its the highest level since december of 2006 and as i said more than 40 year on year, Single Family homes, the highest since 2007, multifamily, the strongest since 1986 and as you said this is all coming from commerce itself, whats fueling the strength, though, low rates; the fed, sure, of course, freddie mac has the 30year rate as 36. 5 but not just the fed, its also the strength in the u. S. Economy, thats what makes people feel more confident, they become more confident buyers, people who are scared dont want to commit their money even if rates are low, when you step back for a second, so many out there who are saying right now and you know who they are, the stock market its not barometer for the economy, this kind of data is a measure and could help support further economic expansion and as ive been adding this could potentially be the longest economic expansion on record, guys. Connell all right, noted, you know who you are, jackie, thank you. Melissa tesla under fire, new claims that half of million of cars can suddenly accelerate on their own and are being blamed for more than 100 crashes over the last years, Dierdre Bolton in the news room. Exactly right, sudden acceleration said to have caused crashes and 52 injuries, some drivers say the sudden acceleration occurs when drivers attempt to park in a garage or as a curb and some of the before and after shots are extreme, drivers crashing into their own garage doors, some say using the driver assistance system can also trigger the problem, now a few months ago there was another potential defect, one that could have resulted in battery fire, so this is a separate concern, but at that time regulators allowed tesla to Issue Software upgrade in place of recalling 2,000 cars. Since october when the Company Posted a surprise profit for that quarter it has been steadily climbing higher. Another stock that investors are buying even with pr issues is facebook, president ial candidate joe biden calling for drastic action to be taken against the social network, he says facebooks antifactchecking policies for political ads should be illegal, mr. Biden is personally the subject of a phasebook ad run by the Trump Campaign that may be now debunked claim that he promised 1 billion if they fired the prosecutors investigating his sons company. Mark zuckerberg, founder and ceo, personally, mr. Biden said, ive never been a big Mark Zuckerberg fan, i think hes a real problem. Senators warren and sanders have criticized facebooks antifact checking policy for political ads but not gone so far to call for repeal of law that protects the company, iowa caucus february 3rd, set the tone for primary, we will be hearing from the candidates on all kinds of subjects, im assuming big tech is going to be part of that, melissa, thank you. Melissa dierdre, thank you. Connell major revelation around epsteins death, recently uncovered information points to homicide. Melissa prosecutors releasing brandnew evidence against Lori Loughlin in admission scam, key details about the actress trial. Connell cheating scandal thats leaving Major League Baseball reeling, speculation at this point but getting crazy online can potentially implicate even more players, the latest. The latest coming up, right again. This rounds on me. Eat. Hey, can you spot me . Come on in. Find your place today, with silversneakers. Included in most Medicare Advantage plans. Enroll today by calling the number on your screen or visit getsilversneakers. Com i waited to get treated. Thought surgery was my only option. But then i found out about nonsurgical treatments. It was a total game changer. Learn more about the condition at factsonhand. Com oh no, here comesal gthe neighbor probably to brag about how amazing his Xfinity Customer Service is. Im mike, im so busy. 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Thats right, thats going to be the big question, Something Else we are learning today the cast of characters in this drama, the president kind of bolstering his defense team, white house lead counsel, he would be the lead person in the senate but they also added several other attorneys today notably alan dershowitz, law professor but also ken starr, he was a figure in the clinton impeachment, he did not have a primary role when it went to the senate but he was the independent counsel and the house of representatives used the starr report as they went to impeach president clinton and used that as evidence in the senate trial and robert wray who worked with him in that capacity in the whitewater investigation, as you say the question is about witnesses and fairness, here is the Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. It would mean the first impeachment trial of the president in history with no witnesses. So in the coming days, each of us, democrat and republican will face a choice about whether to begin this trial in the search of truth or in service of the president s desire to cover it up. Now mitch mcconnell, Senate Majority leader, says democrats are whipped into a frenzy over impeachment, he said the senates job is to calm this down. This body, this chamber exists precisely, precisely, madame president , so we can look past the daily dramas and understand how our actions will reverberate for generations, so that we can put aside animosities and coolly consider how to best serve our country in the long run. Now this is, in fact, a trial here, so trial briefs are due over the weekend and into early next week, the houses brief is due tomorrow, the administration can follow up with its brief on monday and then the house if it wants to rebut the administrations brief, it has until tuesday, tuesday at 1 00 oclock is when things start get started again here and we are probably going to have a roll call vote, a proposal by mitch mcconnell, the majority leader to set the framework of the trial, theyll be a vote on that, mcconnell says he has the vote to follow the model for president clinton in 1999, they would decide witnesses down the road, melissa, back to you. Melissa i dont know that i trust them to coolly consider anything, chad, thank you. Connell democratic campaigns are being halted by the impeachment trial, of course, senator Bernie Sanders, senator Elizabeth Warren, among those back in washington as jurors in the trial a couple of weeks before the caucuses in iowa. Now President Trump tweeted about that dynamic earlier today saying and we quote, they are rigging the election again against Bernie Sanders just like last time only even more obviously. They are bringing him out of so important iowa in order that as a senator he sit through the impeachment hoax trial, crazy nancy thereby gives the edge to sleepy joe biden, very unfair says the president , but thats the way the democrats play the game and he adds at the end its fun to watch, with that we bring jenn caldwell. You know, absent all the crazy nancy stuff and all that, the idea that these guys would be off the campaign trail and it would help biden, so we have no way of know if thats the reason she did it, but if it is the case, if thats the strategic goal, do you think its effective one that will help joe biden . Well, honestly for anyone who is willing to be intellectually honest we can all see that the fix is in, certainly as the party move forward in this primary process, im sure that nancy pelosi had to consider the fact that it would hurt those individual senators and considering the fact that now that bernie is in a dead heat per the aggregate of polls, showing dead heat with joe biden, this is something thats certainly would take the edge off and help joe biden, so for those who are watching this very closely and considering the fact that theres not a lot of folks excited about joe biden, theres people that are saying they are going to vote for him but not necessarily excited, they are excited bernie bros are everywhere, stale still excited about Bernie Sanders. Nancy pelosi had to realize that before he made the decision. Connell Pete Buttigieg as well, they will spend every day in iowa, now, to think im maybe overthinking this, what if one of them dont win, so biden doesnt win . Iowa is all about expectations. Then we start to say he ended up winning, maybe this lowers the bar to think about it from the other side for somebody like Bernie Sanders in the next couple of weeks. I dont think that theres a lowering of the bar in any way, the democrats as weve been seeing and van jones even said through last debate that he didnt see on the stage that can beat donald trump, so now they are going to need every bit of momentum that they can possibly get to present a case to the American People that theyre next in line to win and what we have seen especially with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders is these farleft policies are exciting their base in a way, certainly not excitement for a candidate like a barack obama or bill clinton back in 92 but certainly get folks out to the polls, anything that will hurt that effort which impeachment, whether they realize it or not is hurting effort. If you look at iowa polls, more than at least about half of their voters there dont want to see the president removed from office and they dont like impeachment at all. This is something thats going to be problematic for folks like Bernie Sanders and especially Elizabeth Warren, joe biden and joe biden hes running with it. Connell well, understandably, from his point of view, as i said the other one is mayor pete. Hes a guy who has got to win in iowa. He still has problem with africanamerican voters. Connell maybe part of the point, if he doesnt win then, when is he going to win . Right, so some people really like him, they think hes a smart guy, if you cant win African Americans which since 1984 African Americans have been the reason that bill clinton and barack obama and Jesse Jackson won a democratic nomination. Your point he wouldnt take advantage of the momentum. Right. Its almost like hes almost like a nonfactor at this point in my view because if you cant get African Americans to coalesce around you as a candidate and youre a democrat, then you have some really, really big issues. Connell we will watch it over the next couple of weeks, a lot in the mix, giano, good to see you. Melissa gamers we want you for the u. S. Army, how the military is using esports to recruit, the red light, the california governor solution to make sure people pay their traffic ticket tickets. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Stay resthe new rx,the icon thatcrafted by lexus. Lease the 2020 rx 350 for 419 a month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Most people think as a reliable phone company. But to businesses, were a reliable partner. 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Opening an investigation into the personal conduct of corey barry, the ceo at best buy, there are claims that she had an inappropriate romantic relationship with another executive at the company, best buy, the board has hired outside counsel from announcement to conduct investigation and stock down 70 cents in after hours trade, melissa. Melissa a fine for not fully stopping at a red light, gavin newsom, californias governor, now considering cutting the state insanely high traffic citations for lowincome drivers with the hope that is the tickets will actually get paid and not ignored like they have been, kirk is in los angeles with the details, i cant wait to hear this one, kirk. Melissa, good afternoon to you, one of the stories fresh out of the State Capitol with governor gavin newsom coming out with controversial idea, there was a Pilot Program and what they did that they realized they write 3. 16 million tickets in california and they got 1. 8 billion of unpaid delinqent tickets and they went to lowincome people, if you dont want to pay it, how about you pay half of it, so that Program Brought in revenue for the state, but its bringing about a whole lot of controversy if you ask people out on the street. The price of all the tickets is too high whether youre rich or poor, its a moneymaking scheme for the government. If the poor can get a break, i say go for it. I think it would be good. I think its absolutely wrong. I dont agree with it, under the law we all should be the same. I understand its less money for the city, but not everybody in the city is in the same financial position. It makes a lot of sense to me. All you have is poor people and really rich people and so we need to adjust our policies accordingly. We should help out the less fortunate, i think thats a good thing. I dont think its fair, they are committing a crime so why should they get a deduction, pay the fine. [laughter] melissa and a lot of people are wondering the same thing, why would one person not have to pay the same penalty as you or i might have to pay when we have done the very same thing on the street and is this going to raise insurance rates for everybody because inevitable you know what comes next, people take advantage of that, the driving habits change, risk goes up, Insurance Companies smell new profits and they start charging us a little bit more. Its an idea that i think needs to be worked on, but the governor i think has good intentions behind it but riling up the feathers of those who live in california. Melissa you know what would be good intentions if he spent less money so he didnt have to charge people 500 for a ticket. Youll love this, 56 million to turn on the program just to give away the money. Melissa unbelievable, classic california, thank you. Connell expensive switch. The case that is showing no signs of slowing down, the federal government out with new evidence varsity blues scandal and directly challenges Lori Loughlins legal strategy. Melissa we are breaking down all the fallout later this hour. Connell mark your calendar, tesla founder elon musk sharing new details about his plan to colonize mars. Melissa what a great idea. Connell announced he wants to build 100 spaceships per year and thats in order to put 1 million humans on the planet by the year 2050. Melissa can i nominate people to go . Perfect a new brokerage account, your cash is automatically invested at a great rate. Thats why fidelity leads the industry in value while our competition continues to talk. 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Yeah, there were two status hearings today and two pieces of news is that the judge who will ultimately preside over the trial judge Nathaniel Gordon does expect to break the trial into several groups of defendants, another big take away is many lawyers in this case who represent various defendants are complaining about the volume including Athletic Director who received 1. 5 million emails alone, now some 500 pages of documents were filed hence revealed to the public by the government earlier this week including an email showing that was asked by usc to look into suspicions raised by high schools regarding some students being admitted as athletic recruits, the official wrote that the school doesnt think either of the students are serious participants, secretly in on the whole scam, there were other documents including email exchange, a usc admissions official in september of 2016, the official offers to flag application and provide customize tour of the campus, prosecutors alleged was working to cheat his daughters way into usc, thanks so much, i think we are squared away, sends exchange to his wife, of course, lori loughli, in the nicest ive been at blowing off somebody, the longest sentence thus far 6 months in prison, now as for the impending upcoming trials, the judge presiding noted that judge gordon expects the trials will happen this year in 2020, connell. Connell element, molly line battling the elements. Melissa erin pero, give us insight here, one question is why do we keep hearing all of the details . I mean, it seems like thats poisoning the jury pool . You would think so but ultimately all attorneys in such highprofile, highrisk case, they are strategizing because they want to present most advantageous case for their clients, its probably the reason why we are also seeing that Lori Loughlins team is saying that the prosecution has failed to turn over critical documents, critical evidence, critical information that would potentially exonerate her. Are we suppose today know about the emails that are so damning . Yes, this is all public information. Melissa wow. Goes into the public forum, part of the reason why you may see in other cases, not necessarily in this one, people lawyers attempt to go attempting to not disclose information. Melissa what do you think about this . We thought we were legitimately giving money to the school and in this email, obviously the school is trying to solicit money from them saying, let me tell you how it might help and we are squared away on that front, how do you spin that . It does raise questions about how the College Admissions works, it doesnt still identify or at least isolate knowledge of using a fake athletic profile to get their daughters into school, its perhaps inferred, perhaps its implicit but lets not forget what the prosecutions burden is beyond all reasonable doubt. And what they are ultimately probably trying to do piece together enough of this information, enough of the emails to create beyond a reasonable doubt knew what they were creating was alternative fake athletic profile as a way to get their daughters, does seem questionable in and of itself, legitimate melissa i feel like you know whether youre kids are playing sports or whatever. This is according to forensic pathologist hired by the family to look into the details, listen. With hanging when the loop comes up under the windpipe, usually not dem rankings in the eye, with homicideal theres hemorrhages in the eye, thats not conclusive but greater evidence of homicide than suicide. Melissa what do you make of this . Whats interesting about the developments is that it raises the question as to why the government made such a quick decision to autopsy report that can be considered ambiguous, you have to see which side of the coin youre going fall on, there was evidence that this could have been homicide, why didnt the government go the extra step to try to figure out or investigate this further so that the public, the victims could have a clear and rational toons what actually happened here. Melissa yeah, i dont know, we will see, erin, thank you so much. Thanks for having me. 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Army said, well, why dont we come to the video gaming conventions to help grow our ranks, they have a line of people here trying to get in on the action, play the games and its all about starting a conversation they say, its not so much that the skills are transferable, although you do learn tactics and team work by playing video games but they also say you can, you can simply talk to people when they are out here, you have a conversation, this has been so successful coming to the conventions that they also have a bus i want to show you video of, its a massive 18wheel trailer that they take from place to place especially high schools and they introduce it to the High Schoolers and, again, they start the conversation, here is how successful thats been, take a listen. We did an event last week where we got 2700 leads in 2 days, 3 days using the truck, so successful we are building a second, we dont think another truck like that exists in the united states, you pull into a high school, 100 z geners will get in line to pla they have to talk to a lot of people to get one recruit, it takes 40 people to get one recruit, thousands of people into the trailer in one day or one weekend, it really makes a difference and theyre having Great Success at it. Connell. Connell creative no doubt about it. Grady thank you. Melissa toy wars have officially begun, disney is hunting down the most popular baby yoda toys forcing sellers to remove unlicensing merchandise of breakout star, creator of the future file legacy planning system, carol, we know that disney is so tough about trademarking but etsy, people at home doing craft trying to sell them and make some money. I understand, has enabled selling to become more easy and if youre a crafter its easy for you to kind of skirt around the intellectual property issues and frankly disney did themselves no favors by not having the baby yoda merchandise ready, that being said, its hard to go out to licensees saying without having the leak, i understand why they didnt do it, i also understand why they are going after crafters, its very important for the brand. Maybe even cause liability issue, so i understand having done a lot of licensing deals including ones with disney why they are doing it. Melissa all right, could this be a slippery slope, major beer beverage using algorithms to identify Money Laundering and fraud with venders sometimes before the transaction is finalized and the Justice Department is taking notes, carol, so many ways to go with this one. I mean, first of all, they are profiling and they are stopping transactions before they happen, they say if they flag something thats wrong, they can clear it up with just a quick phone call, but i dont know, i mean, its kind of minority report, they are deciding that somebody is committing a crime before they commit a crime. I know it sounds scary but as a recovery investment banker who has built Financial Model in my day, this is predictive data and analytics thats been around forever, whether its the ads that youre served on the internet our your tv, cops using to it figure out where crimes are likely to happen, data is data, now obviously if youre building this, theres something called garbage in and garbage out, if you have bad inputs youll get bad outputs, but this is the future, its just using data and using it more intelligently, sounds scary because its faster and better these days, but i dont think its a big concern. Well, also because the government, you know, wants the technology for themselves, they are the next ones to come at us with this. One last thing before you go, plantbased seafood, welcome to yukville. [laughter] new startup for seafood called good catch, is this a good catch for General Mills or is it stinky . What do you think . I dont eat anything that swings as primary mover of movement, i thought the whole point of that is had Health Benefits like omega 3s, not that it tasted good, from my standpoint it defeats the purpose, that being said im not the best focus group obviously, theres tons of people who love seafood and there are issues with pollution and sometimes just availability, so from a worldwide basis i understand why they are investing in technology, melissa, i will not be eating this no matter what. Melissa what i dont get about the whole craze is, why dont you just eat a vegetable, why does the vegetable mashed up and be like fish . Seems completely counterproductive to me. Melissa obviously im the only one who is not in on the whole fake meat trend and taking over, going to mcdonalds, all over the place, now theres fish, i have been a seller of this from the beginning but i dont im not really getting the logic, its not like it has tons of salt, its not good for you. All right. Melissa basically take a potato and soak it in something and make it like fake meat. Im with you, im squarely on team burger, we will go out and get burgers and leave that to everybody else. Melissa we will leave that to connell. Connell im on team burger. At t facing pressure, Associated Press report that the company is in talks with washington about pulling the plug on an agreement it has in venezuela. So essentially at t can choose to comply with Nicolas Maduro and risk losing installations in venezuela, so what kind of a threat might this bring to any telecom giant, who better to ask, we are always joking around, south and central america, you are the guy to ask with your experience in the region over the years, what do you make of the story . You know, it shows corporate cowardliness for one thing, maduro insisted that during the the possible coup that happened around 6 months ago that they take all of the new shows, bbc and u. S. News shows off of the air, those people at direct tv, the folks in venezuela blacked out on what was going on in their own country. The president and pompeo allegedly, now, this is sort frm Associated Press on the story, they say that pompeo and the president were trying to convince at t to change their policy, get direct tv directly involved in News Coverage back in venezuela and this could this could provide a huge change in the way things happened in venezuela because if youre running blind and the country is about to be turned over, you cant really help out the good guys and youre stuck believing the bad guys. Connell you go somewhere and you spend so much time in those countries, even when i was in china i thought of that, when you dont see something its jarring for people that are used to it. Whats coming up tonight . We have dan, Media Research center, on the whole thing we had extraordinary deal yesterday thats going to affect the economy, could bring extra 1 and a half trillion dollars in our economy and guess what, the broadcast, the news didnt report anything, they had all of the stuff on the impeachment and the procedures and everything, zero on usmca, we will be asking dan ganer. Congressman who was a jag officer in iraq, iran is up to no more good in iraq, we will ask him what their next step is going to be and what our next should be against iran and iraq. Connell all right, that is all and more we will see you at the top of the hour. Melissa new details emerging from the scandal thats rocking the baseball world, thats next. Call 8662851934 or visit tdameritrade. Com learn. Get started today, and for a limited time, get up to 800 when you open and fund an account. Thats 8662851934, or tdameritrade. Com learn. Most people think as a reliable phone company. 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Connell so things are escalat ing to put it mildly in this whole baseball scandal with the Houston Astros there are two players now being accused of wearing some sort of a device that buzzed, apparently, and it would function in unison with the Team Stealing the sign with a camera, and then they would buzz it all of this is just online and unsubstantiated i believe but it adds to the story of the stuff we already know, ja ro d fox our sports guy, 24 7 on the radio is with us here to break it down once again so we talked about this the other day and what we know is bad enough but that was the garbage can, the astros but now may be wearing a device. Connell if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck you know how it goes. Major League Baseball has certain parameters that it needs to meet to say innocent or guilty but you watch the video of josealtuv e and getting them into the world series beating the new york yankees and he starts to clutch his jersey clearly telling his teammates dont low pressure my jersey. Connell which is the things teams were doing to celebrate home runs and you say well why not rip the jersey. Oh, well because then you start watching stuff and theres a lot of belief that he was wearing a buzzer, the receiving end of a communication device so he would know what picks there would be. We also saw another player, theres video out there, where something came off his bat. He goes and picks up what has a Little Silver something on it and its stuck to his finger and then he puts it out there. Connell that was weird. I watched that. We dont know what that is. Andaltuv e is denying it and i want to show you a tweet from cody belling er of the dodgers so hes talking about what youre saying for the sake of the game i hope this isnt true if it is there needs to be major consequences to the players, it completely ruins the integrity of the game thats where this is all going, you have guys on other teams especially pitchers, who are looking at this saying im literally losing money on this, because i could have been a World Champion or had more strikeouts or whatever the case may be. I never thought when i was watching the astros celebrate the world series that it reminds me a little bit of a steroid scandal. We had so much watchingsosa how did you feel when you found out that oh, because its of performanceenhancing drugs, here we find out theres cheating and we feel cheated because theres so much money involved where players would be profiting if they had the opportunity to get there and Something Else connell. This all seems like its new, hightech, 21st century with the buzzers. The story came out about a former major league pitcher, cy young winner who played 12 years and he says his former manager or tonylarusa who managed the white sox before he got there had a system in place so the guy who pitched the next day sits in the manager office, watch the monitor and then hit a button which could send off a light on a gatorade sign at center field. Connell years ago. As far as hightech stealing thats been around for a while. Connell with all that said do you think this has any Business Impact on the sport broadly . Yes. Connell you really do . It may but i think the biggest Business Aspect here is that we see baseball has its antitrust exemption status because of the rule to be primarily a sport, not a business. Well if its not a business explain to me why the met, the red sox and astros need new managers this week. They did these moves because of pr and image to protect their bottom line. Baseball primarily a sport, think about it. Connell interest angle there. The lawyer in jar ed comes through. I want to leave you with something to think about. Connell crazy story good to see you we appreciate you coming in. It does kind of ruin the whole thing. Connell some people believe its like bigger than the steroid thing in some ways. I dont know its crazy. I dont know about that but it does really it takes the fun away from it but you know. On that happy note, happy friday connell have a great weekend here is bulls bears. President trump we just had another alltime high for our stock market just hit, so thatll be 149 times in less than three years, thats not good. Coach thats good, right . [applause] President Trump we just made the two largest deals in history , with with china and mexico canada. David the president celebrat ing withlsu, two major trade deals done with our top three trading partners and he says they will have a huge impact on the u. S. And on your wallet this as investors cheer a record run for the markets all three major averages closing at new record highs again today the dow already seeing its fifth record close of the year its the sixth for the nasdac and