Impact in the longterm. And look at this video, thats a government oversight hearing on an epa investigation today. Thats right, today, in the midst of the Government Shutdown. How and why can that happen . Were looking for answers. Well look for the chairman of that committee in a few moments. Reaction to all of this from none other than jim cramer himself. Hes here at the New York Stock Exchange marking the 2,000th edition of mad money. Well have a special interview with him where hes talking what happens next with the markets, the shutdown, debt ceiling mess and what he has planned for tonights big mad money show, number 2,000. In the markets now, where we stand on the street with one hour to go. Up 28 and off the best levels, still positive on a day when many thought we would be in negative territory given the shutdown. The s ps up nine points, nasdaqs positive by 31. The federal government has been shut down for 15 hours. The white house rejecting the latest overture from the gop to get things going again. John harwood, what is the latest . Well, the latest is theres no progress in washington today. What we saw this morning was that the senate rejected the last offer the house put on the table last night which was to open a Conference Committee to resolve disagreements over the continuing resolution. Harry reid said that was a nonstarter, the white house said thats a nonstarter. House republicans have been meeting this afternoon. Theyre considering an offering and some republicans in the senate have already offered mini crs designed to extend government funding for certain favored programs. The white house is not enthusiastic about that. Democrats say thats a nonstarter and president obama came out into the rose garden and tried to place the blame squarely on the republicans. This republican shutdown did not have to happen. But i want every american to understand why it did happen. Republicans in the house of representatives refused to fund the government unless we defunded or dismantled the Affordable Care act. Theyve shut down the government over an ide crusade to nyffordable he iurce milliof americans. In other words, they demanded ransom just for doing their job. Now, democrats are confident they are winning this fight in Public Opinion because theyre united, republicans are divided, we have seen a slight amount of evidence today. We saw one member of virginia coming out and saying we fought the good fight now its time to move to a clean cr, extend government funding, reopen the government, but there are not enough people who have done that so far. The question is, when does that happen . And everybodys watching and waiting. And the longer we watch and wait, the more this gets rolled into the fight over raising the debt limit which as you guys have observed is much more serious, much more potentially damaging than a Government Shutdown. I was going to ask you really quick, john, if it hasnt happened yet, how long until these holdout republicans come to the table . How much more pain do you think theyre willing to take . Well, the speaker told me over the weekend he didnt expect if we had a shutdown it would last more than a day or two. John boehners hoping to regain a greater grip on his caucus and get them to move remember, john boehner didnt want this strategy in the first place but it was forced on him. But its very hard to predict, you know. Ive opinion way over optimistic many times in the past about a big budget deal, about avoiding a shutdown. I think im going to watch and wait like everybody else. Could be short, could be by the end of the week, but it also could run into the debt limit. All right, thank you, john. Yesterday the market sold off in fear of the government shutting down. Today, the government shut down. Markets are higher. So why the positive swing today . Joining us now in the closing bell exchange, rob morgan, anthony chan and our own rick santelli. Rob morgan, can we shrug these things off nowadays . Ill tell you, michelle, the last time this happened in december of 95, when the government was shout down for 28 days, the s p was down slightly but the dow was actually up. I think however long this takes, the market is going to shrug it off. And its not impacting corporate earnings. So why not . Amy, the dows down 1 over the last week or so as sort of the buildup to the shut down got closer and closer. Does that tell you that this is going to be a buying opportunity at the end of the day . Well look back at and this and say we had an opportunity to get in on some of the stocks that we really like. Well, high guys, its interesting because if you look at the options market, the positioning would tell you thats what investors are thinking. Weve seen several large trades levered to the upside so funding downside to buy upside, even past the march expirations. Youre really seeing people continue to put on bullish positioning through the options market. Rick santelli, wheres the armageddon. This was a disaster waiting to happen. Couple of things. I like the way you came into the show. I would question even yesterdays activity. Come on, stocks down, prices of treasuries up after the quarter that both those sectors went through. I think it made sense. I think today made sense. If somebody wants to point to something that actually may be affected in the market based on whats going on in washington. Ill say it, fourweek bill auction today. Okay. Over the next four weeks, we have a lot of things. A lot of streets coming to intersection. Went off at the highest yield in 44 weeks. 12 basis points. Last weeks auction was 1 1 2 basis points. The week before was a goose egg. You basically gave the treasury your money to hold on to and give it back to you. Theres something we complain to. At least traders looking at the timetable of issues like the debt ceiling and actually trading on something based on it. So on a percentage, thats a lot higher. Yeah. Thats it . Yeah. Thats all i could find i really feel confident we could truly say a ha because of whats going on in d. C. Anthony, how much of golds slide of some 3 today alone has to do with d. C. . Or why do you think its down that much . Well, i think its down because i think the markets realize these things get resolved. The Financial Markets already realized that. If you look at all the closings back to the 1970s, 1976, the first five times that the government shut down, the decline, the average decline going to shutdown and the s p 500 was a lot larger than the last five. And you also know that if the shutdowns are seven days or less, the declines on average for the s p are a lot smaller than the shutdowns over seven days and we are getting inklings they are going to cave in. Both sides will cave in and this will be a relatively short closedown. We dont know that for a fact, but if thats the case, thats why the relative action hasnt been that severe. Not likely to be so severe. I hope youre right and i hope its soon they cave in because im to here with having to talk about all this. Rob morgan, are you as scared about the debt ceiling, which is the next topic everybody wants to talk about . Rick santelli talks about 12 basis points in the bond market. Oh, my god, people must be terrified. The white house is promising armageddon if we get to the debt ceiling. Is it going to be that . Well, i dont know about armageddon, but in defense of rick, i think he does have a point. You know, i think we are going to see some yield spikes and i think were going to see big selloff days in the market when the rhetoric is such that it is going to appear like were not going to raise the debt ceiling. And im sure well have days like that. I think at the end of the day, we get a deal done and the u. S. Isnt going to default on its debt. All right, guys, thank you, for joining us today. 51 minutes before the closing bell, dow and s p 500 in positive territory. We are fading from the highs, though and the nasdaq composite higher by about 30 points. Darrell issa is not happy about capitol right now. How dare you presume a failure. How dare you. How dare you. Yep. Well, up next, were going to ask representative issa how he thinks its going to end. How he really feels. And then investors of always long been told you cant buy and hold airline stocks, you can only trade them. But how do the annoying fees change the stock . 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[ goodall ] i think the most amazing thing is how like us these chimpanzees are. [ laughing ] [ woman ] can you hear me . And you hear your voice . Oh, its exciting [ man ] touchdown confirmed. Were safe on mars. [ cheers and applause ] hi. [ baby fussing ] the u. S. Federal government has shut down for the first time in 17 years. National parks are closed. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are being furloughed. But that didnt stop our next guest from holding a Congressional Committee hearing today. Representative darrell issa joins us now. Its good to talk to you on the closing bell. Thank you, scott. Arent you worried about the optics of holding a hearing when the rest of the government is shut down, some 800,000 federal employees furloughed not getting paid. Well, i think the most important thing that our committee does is root out waste, fraud and abuse in the government. A breakdown in the control systems that failed to keep something from impersonating a cia person, retiring but still getting paid, getting paid more than the amount allowed statutorily by law and getting paid for trips to go see his mom in california when he said he was going to boston. So on a bipartisan basis with the full support of my ranking member, were continuing to look for the failures of internal controls and make sure the administration uses your money more wisely. Thats certainly an essential part of what congress does. So clearly, youre not worried about the optics of that. What about the fact that you and your colleagues, even the president for that matter are all getting paid when so many federal workers are not as a result of the fact that you guys cannot come to an agreement . Well, first of all, i think we should look at history, no federal worker ever lost a days pay. The fact is that if history predicts whats going to happen, theyll be paid for the time theyre on furlough. Notwithstanding that, we offer several times in the last couple of days ways out of it with full funding, including an offer to go to conference. Our side of the aisle in the house has been saying lets talk. Lets negotiate, lets come to a compromise to both fund the government and protect the American People from a system that has some not ready yet portions. And were getting stone walling from the senate and an outright refusal to even consider any kind of compromise by the Administration Even though they themselves have repeatedly delayed parts of obama care theyre not willing to talk to us. Where does this go . Whats the end game here finally . Well, certainly Speaker Boehner, leader cantor and the entire team are asking for an opportunity to reach a compromise. Theyve extended repeatedly the offer of shortterm crs to give us more time to negotiate. But right now, were getting a, we wont negotiate and everythings being tabled. And thats simply not the way business has been done in washington in the past. In the past even during the Clinton Administration with newt gingrich, these very tough situations, at least they kept talking and negotiating. And quite frankly, the request is small but its pretty essential if were going to have people not get into a system that isnt ready. That may all be true. But the polls radio iight now s the republicans get blamed. Will the republicans pay for this in the next election . Michelle, theres been plenty of times in history where people get blamed for telling the truth and doing the right thing. Weve made the case were trying to do the right thing for the American People and willing to compromise with the president in the senate, but there are areas in which if they were really in charge and caring about the american worker, theyd be making these compromises. Remember, churchill said, you know, after world war i, leading up to world war ii that youve got to watch out for the nazis. Churchill even said youve got to watch out for the communist growth after world war ii. He got voted out of office for it. My obligation is to do the right thing. To start off with a premise that we dont the right thing and try to reach a consensus between the bodies. Thats what washingtons supposed to be about. What theyre trying to do. Okay. You keep using the word compromise, sir. It seems like a compromise is most needed not between you and the president or your party and the president but members of your own party and the leader of your party, Speaker Boehner who says the strategy being employed right now essentially is a losing strategy. Well, i dont know what quote youre getting from thats not a quote, but i think hes made it clear he disagrees with shutting down the government and defunding the Affordable Care act as a means to do it. The speakers been very clear we do not want to shut down the government. We didnt want this to happen. We voted repeatedly to try to prevent it and well con do so. What ive done in supporting my leadership in Speaker Boehner is not necessarily exactly what one of us would want. But can repeatedly delay or provide waivers to people to get them out of it, including businesses and unions that he should look at people like the people of maryland who right now wont have an exchange to go into even though theyre mandated to go into the exchange. Representative issa . Yes . The debt ceiling is the next situation so to speak. This whole issue of trying to delay, defund obama care. Once you get past this with the Government Shutdown, are you done . Or does this become part of the debt ceiling debate, as well . As you know, i work on waste, fraud and abuse in government. Ive always said that we will raise the debt ceiling to at least equal our level of spending. If we pass a cr, we certainly should increase the debt ceiling to the amount equal to what we vote in the cr. Are you willing to use Health Care Reform again for leverage when it comes to the debt ceiling debate. I dont think anyones using Health Care Reform. Were using portions of the Affordable Care act that arent ready right now to go live. And were trying to convince people. Do you use those again during the debt ceiling . Again, we have not, we have tried to get the reforms, to get the president to do for the individual american citizen what hes done for the corporations and so far hes been unwilling to come to the table to talk. Were trying to get him to the table to talk again. I have always said we should fund to the level of appropriations how do you do that . Again, our leadership makes the decision on the exact nature of some of these. Ive offered alternatives to obama care including id like to see every american have act says to fehbp the same Health Care System the president , Vice President and every member of the cabinet are in. Id like to see that open up to every american. I think that could be a kind of exchange up and running in a matter of weeks because it already serves over 8 million americans and 300 different choices. There are alternatives that we could get the Affordable Care act enacted sooner. Give people an opportunity right. Youre not managing to get them on the table at this point. Scott, go ahead. Congressman, let me ask you as long as the president says he wont do anything except what he wants to do, he wont recognize he was elected but so were a majority in the house. And weve got ideas and opportunities, we hope, to be heard for what the American People would like to vp ask get a better solution. I came to congress wanting to make health care more affordable, wanting to do patent reform. These are all areas that quite frankly the president says he wants to be involved in. Id like him to engage. I think the American People at this point have heard both sides of the argument and frankly so tired of the fact that you guys just cant come together and work together. I just want to ask you one final question. And that is, i read a comment you made to a journalist earlier today where you said that congress has the right not to fund the government. Do you regret making that statement . We have the right to fund or not Fund Anything in the government. Since george washington, president s have come and said what they want. Now, under tip oneill couldnt spend enough under ronald reagan. Its absolutely in the constitution, article one, not a debatable point. So, yes, we have the right to choose not to fund something and if no funds can be used to do something wrong, thats it is case. The point being, sir, i think the American People would clearly argue they have more of a right to have their government open than you do the right to shut it down. Well, thats your opinion and pretty partisan opinion. And the fact is we have offered to fully fund the government. Weve asked for compromise on the date of implementation of the individual mandate and weve been told no compromise. And we continue to try to believe that the American People want compromise and a reasoned debate here in washington. And whether its about 1 level on one thing or a mandate on the other, were trying to do the American Peoples work and do it in a way that would work together. This problem, this threeyear problem since House Republicans came in to take the speakership is a problem of the potresident lack of willingness to compromise. Thanks so much for joining us today. We appreciate it. Thank you, michelle. About 35 minutes or so before we close up trading on wall street. Not great, up about 18 points on the dow. Its disappearing here. Right before our eyes. Forget the Government Shutdown, the debt ceiling. Coming up, why some are warning theres Something Else on the horizon that investors need to be much more worried about. Earnings season. Thats right around the corner, isnt it . Yeah. Also, for years, americans have been told to trade not invest in airline stocks. But up next, were going to hear from somebody who says airlines are now a great investment because of the billions in fees theyre racking up for things like luggage, leg room, peanuts, pretzels. Bathrooms. Just about everything else. Lets hope it doesnt come to that. You really love, what would you do . [ woman ] id be a writer. [ man ] id be a baker. [ woman ] i wanna be a pie maker. [ man ] i wanna be a pilot. [ woman ] id be an architect. What if i told you someone could pay you and what if that person were you . When you think about it, isnt that what retirement should be, paying ourselves to do what we love . Airline stocks have taken off this year. The main Airline Index up 40 since the start of the year. Bill miller expressing bullishness on the sector. Heres what he said on squawk this morning. Airlines are basically the cruise line industry, especially with a really bad history. Very similar except for people dont have to go on cruises and they do have to fly. Ive heard jim cramer talk about the shutdown being a negative for airlines. It is a negative for airlines. Its a shortterm negative. Well, jamie baker agrees with bill miller, but regent chief Financial Officer thinks investors shouldnt go for the ride. Theres more room to run with these stocks . Yeah. We believe so. Analysts are taught early on in their career to never say things are going to be different this time except when its true. And this time in with regard to the u. S. Airlines, we think it is. And we think theres certainly a sufficient body of evidence to prove it. We can debate the sustainability of change but i dont think theres any question that, you know, where we are today is a far different place than what investors have come to normally expect. Chris, youre not buying it, what about the new Revenue Streams that are coming in that way you dont have to worry about the fluctuation in ticket prices and gasoline prices. That doesnt convince you . No, im not buying this. I think the new revenue stream but i think longterm passengers arent going to tolerate this. Nobody likes being dinged that many times when you get on a plane. So to project out the growth of this revenue stream, i think is foolhardy and i dont think thats going to save the airlines. Jamie, you said we could have a debate. Lets have one. You know, chris, hypothetically if we lived in the same Apartment Building and you moved out, i might be nice enough to hold the elevator door open for you but i wouldnt subsidize the cost of your move. Theres so many products where people are accustomed to simply paying for what they actually, you know, consume. And in this case, all the airlines have done is figure out a way to extract revenue from the individual that is commensurate with the costs put into that individual. I dont think buying an Airline Ticket is any different than buying an iphone. I had an iphone repaired a couple of hours ago the other day, luckily i paid extra for apple care. Its no different when youre flying. I disagree, i think if apple dinged you every time you went into the genius bar, you wouldnt be going to the genius bar very often. And i think passengers arent going to tolerate it what are they going to do instead . Well, i think airlines, theres so much competition. The competition will get fiercer, margins will get tighter and bumpup in fuel costs and there goes all your profits. What about the sheer fact that the stocks have run so much, we gave a stat at the beginning about the Airline Index, thats a head wind in and of itself, is it not . I suppose it is. The fact of the matter is the airlines are finally beginning to run themselves like real businesses. Instead of competing over the smallest shreds of market share, theyd be competing over dividend policies and buyback, you know, policies. Who can return, you know, capital to shareholders in the most value creative way. That is, you know, a dramatic shift for an industry that longer term and im not defending the past behavior. I spent the bulk of my career identifying these were nothing more than trading stocks. You look at how theyre behaving, look at the fact theyre running these businesses like real businesses, look at the returns on invested capital that are being generated. Its different this time. No doubt about it. All right, gentlemen, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thanks. Right now, the dow as weve said is holding on to that gain of 20 points. Merck, ibm, goldman, j j and b g. Is it ironic that today many of the new health cares opened as scheduled . We speak with Silicon Valley veterans looking to be the apple of health insurers. What does that mean . Also ahead, jim cramer has been conducting mad money 101 classes around the country for years. This is going to be the most important, most useful class youll ever take at any university anywhere texas, virginia, penn state, michigan, ohio state, iowa isnt he amazing . Later on the show, were going to get jims take on the markets, shutdown and his 2,000th episode of mad money. Cant wait. Youve got to join us later on so you can see him at 6 00 p. M. Right here. Hes going to be at the nyse. Bny mellon combines Investment Management investment servicing, giving us unique insights which help us attract the industrys brightest minds who create powerful strategies for a countrys investments which are used to build new schools to build more bright minds. Invested in the world. Bny mellon. Get this, the government shuts down but stocks are higher since hitting their lowest level in september. The big movers today. Well, in honor of our update for stocks, were going to lead off with the two stocks doing the best in the s p 500 today. Its a neck and neck race between netflix and walgreens. Lets take walgreens first, the biggest drugstore Company Posted earnings beaten sales roughly in line with estimates. Now the bulls are keying on a 4. 6 improvement in same store sales thats driven by growth in the pharmacy sector. Then, theres netflix record highs here, raised the price target for the online Movie Company to 370 a share. It had it at 285 before. Activist investor carl icahn also spoke on todays Halftime Report like you said and continues to hold on to his netflix position. Merck is up after americas second biggest drug maker outlined a plan to eliminate an additional 8,500 jobs, targeting about 2. 5 billion of annual savings by 2015. Myriad genetics up, a medical maker of testing equipment. That company said it reported a decrease in medicare reimbursements for cancer tests as a result of a clerical error that should be resolved in a couple of weeks. United health care, aetna, cigna all gaining. On the kickoff day for enrollment in the Affordable Care act or obama care, michelle, as its more commonly known. Even the president calls it that. Thank you, dominic. The government may be closed today but the Health Exchanges are open for enrollment. Bertha coombs is at a call center in albany, new york, see how its going. Bertha . Reporter the shutdown had no impact today on the open enrollment start of obama care. But technology has been part of the problem. Were at the new york state of Health Call Center and they have been busy here today. As of 2 30, they took 5,800 calls. They have 300 workers at three different sites, and its a good thing they had that backup system. The majority of those calls coming early in the morning. Because this morning when they kicked off at 8 00 a. M. On the site, they had a number of issues, they had more than 2 million hits on that website in the first two hours and the volume overwhelmed their capacity, theyre trying to add server capacity. We had a problem also we saw in maryland where they had connectivity issues there. And for four hours this morning, they actually couldnt get the system up and running. As of noon, they got it up and running but if youve logged on, there are still some glitches and thats certainly the case when it comes to the 36 states that have federally operated exchanges that go through the health care. Gov. It is the call centers today that are working. We spoke with one woman in texas, in fact, who gave up trying to go online and found the information she needed in person. With websites, you know, its highly possible, its overwhelming. I hope its not going to be. I hope well be able to overcome it. Indeed. A lot of folks watching. C. C. Connolly says folks will probably endure with the glitches. Theyve been told there will be glitches. But after a week or so if they keep coming back, thats going to be a more material problem. And certainly they need to have the glitches worked out by december when applications are expected to peak because thats when you really need to enroll in order to have your Cornell Medical College starting in january. Michelle and scott, we werent supposed to get an update from the federal government about the exchanges at 2 00 this afternoon, thats been pushed back to 4 00 eastern. Well bring you anything if we learn anything new. Back to you. So people compiling that data, theyre working today . Yes. Thank you, bertha. At this point, thats part of the aca is already paid for. Got it. Thank you. Those new exchanges are supposed to change the state of health care in america. And now oscar, yep, oscar, which is a new Startup HealthInsurance Company is aiming to change the state of Health Benefits through technological interfaces, telemedicine and transparency. You know how its nearly impossible to understand your insurance claims . Now, well, they want to simplify that so anyone can read and comprehend it. Joining us now is the cofounder of oscar. Welcome to the Stock Exchange in post nine. Pleasure to be here. How does this work . We built a Health Insurance that was simple from the ground up using technology. So we put our benchmark as being like Consumer Products rather than the state of the insurance world today where its really hard to understand. Youve already been offering this . We started today. Okay, so when i go into that exchange, theres silver, bronze, gold, et cetera. How do you compete when the government dictates what youre supposed to offer. As part of the aca, theres a baseline set and its up to us to different for consumers. In the case of oscar, we offer a rich set of benefits starting with unlimited ability. More more than the more than the baseline. Push a button, call a doctor call you within 30 minutes, 24 7. We give you up to three free physician visits. These are a set of consumer packages that we put in on top of the baseline. Technology takes care of the cost there . So for us, one of the things we do when we looked at the industry, we got a little confused for a while when we toured insurance companies, we thought we were visiting paper factories. We take a lot of costs out of the system and pass those on to the consumer through additive elements through our offering. Lets say i enroll in oscar, i get sick, i dont call my doctor, go directly to you and you have a doctor call me . You have a choice. Oscar has over 40,000 doctors and 83 hospitals in our new york area, you could go directly to one of them. But if its 11 00 at night and you want to get an opinion from a doctor before you decide what to do next, you can push a button and have a doctor call you within 30 minutes. Are you only in new york city right now . We are in new york state in nine counties. It would be lowhanging fruit, right . Because this is the state where you could have a preexisting condition and still get Health Insurance in the past. Most people didnt get Health Insurance and only got it when they were sick. So premiums in this state were extremely high compared to the rest of the country. Does that also help . Yeah, i think the trend weve seen, the dynamics at play, the Albany Call Center you just showed is lighting up. You have about 18 competitors entering the market as well as prices on average for an individual being cut in half. And so its a right market to enter in because consumers didnt have a choice. Now they have about 18 choices. Am i always seeing a physician if i want to. For us what it is, empowering you through transparency and choices. What we do is give you the option to engage in the manner thats most appropriate and convenient for you. And we think that for some people if their kid is crying at 11 00 at night, they may want to click a button, have someone call. For other people, they may want to wait until the morning and see a doctor. All right. Kevin, good to talk to you, good luck. Thank you so much. Again the oscar cofounder. Have about 20 minutes to go before the bell rings on the street. Up on an overall up day on the street. Forget all the dysfunction in d. C. Jeff cox warns a bad earnings season is on the horizon. That berish call coming up. 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Are you as confused as others . Let me go through them, i wont pass judgment on them. A couple more plausible. The first, its the start of the month. The first day of the month. That makes some sense but not always the case here. The second is the rally, nobodys on tv, none of the congressional people are on tv confusing everybody today. Mr. Obama did come on in the middle of the day, president obama. But that lack of talking heads is helping markets. And finally, theres one out there and this is the one everyones talking about. There may be a broader deal, the continuing resolution and debt ceiling combined. Then we can get a deal. If you want to see shortterm whats going on, weve got a fairly broad rally here. Everything across the board, all the sectors to the upside just fractionally. You want to see a little confusion, look at yields here. I dont normally put up one month yields. But look. 07 . Thats a rather strange yield curve. And thats an indication that shortterm yields are popular because of the uncertainty, but longterm, the bond market seems to be saying everythings going to work out. What does that tell you about fears about the debt ceiling. You hear the white house making all kinds of fear mongering statements about the debt ceiling and skyrocketing interest rates, its going to be armageddon. 07 on the tbill, thats so frightening. Its an indication of whats going on. Lets talk about apple and the buyback. Ever since we had the announcement of the 5s, apple was about 450, prior to that, up 6 , 7 , moving nicely. I know you want to talk about icahn. From my point of view, id love to see a dividend raise, not a buyback. Thats what a lot of companies are doing. And right now apples got a 2. 5 dividend yield. Microsoft 3. 3 , intel, 3. 9 . I think that would be interesting, but i didnt hear anything about that. Well, i think carl upped the ante today. By saying im not going anywhere now the balls in apples court really to come back with maybe something. Carl is probably the most powerful guy out there, but still the market cap of this Company Relative to the size he owns, he owns a lot, but still 2 billion what can carl do . What kind of fit could he possibly throw that would make everybody could he do some kind of proxy fight . Who knows. The Shareholder Base is so wide, its so big. Could he do that . He made it clear hes not done yet. That makes it fun. Isnt it amazing that tim cook is willing to sit down with him . Could you imagine this happening with steve jobs . I dont think so. Im answering my question. When carl waves the stick, the biggest stick on the street, you have to listen. But steve jobs he could make it nasty for you if you dont listen. Thank you. I think the answer is no, he would not have met with carl icahn. Maybe they did meet. Who knows. Ten minutes ago, before the closing bell rings. We leave it to the greatest generation to best the Government Shutdown. Check out this video, a group of world war ii veterans crossing barriers at a closed memorial in washington, d. C. Today. More on this incredible moment and what else the shutdown has actually shutdown coming up. Also ahead, the last Government Shutdown in 96 saw then congressman barney frank in the house minority. Frank has retired but the dems are the minority once again. Coming up the legislator offers Lessons Learned and how they can apply them. Stay with us. Its as simple as this. At bny mellon, our business is investments. Managing them, moving them, making them work. We oversee 20 of the worlds financial assets. And that gives us scale and insight no one else has. Investment management combined with investment servicing. Bringing the power of investments to peoples lives. Invested in the world. Bny mellon. All right. Welcome back, we want to continue talking about the markets with dave and george. Dave, to you first. What do you make of todays trade . And what do you think lies ahead here . I think the little bit of a circus with the Government Shutdown. And if you look back on the last six times the Government Shutdown, ten days later the market was up by 2 . Shortterm, it seems positive for the market. Sanguine, mr. Young . I am pretty sanguine. We had a nonevent today all together. The market didnt move, gold didnt move. Were looking longterm. But it was supposed to be very traumatic. It was supposed to. Be remember the story about the boy who cried wolf . Eventually this will be a problem. Dont you admit the market could have a bit of a problem . Sure. Maybe the market thinks its going to end quick, thats why its up. Youre exactly right. And thats a Good Opportunity for us to buy. Weve been holding cash, we see some opportunities out there. But theyre not quite pricey enough. We want to take advantage when we can. Dave, what would you be a buyer of today . As you know from my last couple times on here, ive been bullish on emerging markets. Those seem to offer the best returns out there right now thats a very cheap asset class, looks like moneys starting to flow back into that space. People got very worried about india and turkey and countries that, you know, not to go into too much economic vocabulary, but payments and worries and things like that. Were generally buying broad basket with respect to markets. Okay. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Breaking news. Okay. John harwoods going to have breaking news regarding the debt ceiling. Thats on the other side of this quick break when were also going to be back with the closing countdown. [ engine revs, tires squeal ] [ male announcer ] since we began, mercedesbenz has pioneered many breakthroughs. Breakthroughs in design. Breakthroughs in safety. In engineering. And technology. And now our latest creation breaks one more barrier. Introducing the cla. Starting at 29,900. Customer erin swenson900. 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The stock market, by the way, looks like its going to brush off whats happened in washington, at least for one day. Dow jones industrial average holding on to a gain of 38 points, positive throughout, was a bit stronger. Lets break it down with jeremy hill. What do you make, jeremy . What do you make of the trade today . What do you think happens here in the days ahead. I think first and foremost this is almost like a peter pan market in the sense that all the children who touch peter pans hands they fly off, radight . Hes still the fed, even though completely obsessed with whats happening in d. C. , these risk assets are actually benefitting from the backstop of the fed. And we think the reason why the markets are sanguine right now is the fact that the fed is going to be the last man in the room. They will be the last marine. Youre telling me this is a nonevent . In the big picture. Its a nonevent for the next ten days until we get a real calamity around the debt ceiling. I dont know what John Harwoods report is going to be. Considering that the shutdown is not over yet, what if it continues to go on for a matter of days. What happens if the debt ceiling fight becomes more contentious that its already likely to be . Well, our chief concern is the fact that the debt ceiling fight is what we would classically call a fat tail risk. So very little probability. But if it happens, of course, its a huge effect to the market. We think what investors should really be looking at is buying volatility protection. The vix looks you know somewhat cheap at these levels. Longterm average vix is 20, right now at 15. I think thats a good place to be. All right, its good to talk to you. Thanks so much. Stick with us, im going to head outside with michelle. Were going to be with jim cramer. Were going to talk to jim first after this. All right. The market closing well off the highs, still in positive territory. Jim cramer will be on in a few minutes for his 2,000th show, but john harwood standing by with breaking news. Oh, were going to bob pisani first to talk about the close. Well, the important thing here today, michelle, is markets ended right near their highs. Take a look at the major indices. Right across the board, everything up. 8 to about 1 . The dow jones was the big gainer