Transcripts For CNBC Squawk Box 20170504

Finally a quick look at crude. You can buy a barrel of wti crude for 47. 49. Here are the big stories were watching. A phishing attack has targeted googles 1 billion gmail users. An email coming from a trusted source asks you to open a google document and it redirects you to a page to open a google goc pdo page, which then trooef retrie email addresses. Tim cook saying apple will start a 1 million fund to promote manufacturing jobs in the United States. Were creating an advanced manufacturing fund. Were initially putting 1 billion fund in the fund. This i did not know about. Were announcing it today, youre the first person im telling. And im not the first person, because we have talked to a company that were going to invest in, already. But this a billion dollars of apples 256 billion. A billion dollars of our u. S. Money, that we have to borrow to get, thats a whole other topic, but were really proud to do it. And by doing that, we can be the ripple in the pond, because if we can create many manufacturing jobs around, those manufacturing jobs create more jobs around them because you have a Service Industry that builds up around them. And well be announcing the First Investment from this fund later in the month of may. Cook said the company should have values and should give back. One of the ways to do that is job creation. Shares of apple up more than 25 year to date. On the economic agenda me and andrew are together on this. Arent we a little cynical on the apple thing . I want manufacturing in america. This is a good first step. I would argue its a small step in a 2 256 billion pond. 256 billion. I would argue apple has the right to do what its done in ireland and tax avoidance within the law. Of course. But this, to me, kind of does not offset that im not saying thats the only reason offset meaning what offset the negative pr that comes from that. A billion dollars seems like he said a ripple in a pond. Id call it a tiny drop in the pond. I think means theres more jobs to supplier the, more jobs to the app community. But also 256 over there. He says thats over there. We have to borrow you think its hard for them to get a billion . You think the interest they pay on a billion over here they sneeze and they generate a billion dollars. And you have the iphone thing. They could use a little this is a billion dollars of goodwill. Goodwill for some in d. C. I feel like im seeing what youre thinking, because you wont say it again. I want you to be as cynical as i know you are because of because of commercial i feel rumors of cynicism. During commercial breaks. Be you. But not so much. Not too much. 8 30 a. M. Eastern time we get a trio of reports, initial jobless claims, International Trade and productivity. Kraft heinz coming up short of wall street estimates. The food company hurt by weak demand in the United States and canada. Shares premarket down about 1. 25 . Tesla posting a wider than expected loss. Still the Company Managing to more than double revenue from a year ago. Record deliveries boosted sales. Shares down about 1. 5 . Well talk to an analyst in a few minutes. Well ask him. But do you believe this mass market car is mass market enough . Is production really on track . They say that. The bears say that it will be difficult. I think the 5,000 is reasonable this year. The idea that its going to double in a year from now the 5,000 is inclusive of the model 3. To believe theres an ontime ramp you believe the 5,000 by the end of the year. If you dont believe in an ontime launch, you cant believe that. Can you get to 10,000 in 2018. If they had a second back seat vehicle. A third. I need three rolls. Maybe the crossover, the model y. Youre counting the front. Im saying a second backseat. You need three rows of seats. The one with the the ll. They already have one. Does that have a second back seat . It has a third. So youre in the money. Im not in the money because its expensive. How much do they cost . 120,000. 120,000. Do they . Once you get the fancy things you want. For weekend driving . You have to do it in style. That or the toyota sienna. Youre buying this to get out of the sienna . Arent you buying this to get out of the city . Yeah. Its not just driving around here. You might need more than the do you have a summer house somewhere . I need to drive out and about. Connecticut, right . Sometimes connecticut. Sometimes in other places. Pennsylvania, tristate area. Tristate. All right. Good. Good to get your kids out of here. Let them see some trees. Breathe some real air. Aig news, is that yours or mine . Oh, its me okay. Aig ticking higher helped by investment returns and cost cuts. The insurer announcing a 2 2. 5 billion stock buyback. The shares are higher on the news. Up about 1. 4 . Kevin mccarthy calling for a vote on the gop healthcare bill scheduled for this morning. Mccarthy said republicans have the votes to pass the bill. Eamon javers joins us from washington with more. Good morning. Republicans as you point out are saying they do have the votes today for this other obama care showdown. We expect around lunch time a vote for final passage. Do they actually have the votes . That is the big question. They passed three amendments through the rules committee yesterday designed to wrap up the last moderate votes here that they think they need to get this over the threshold this afternoon. Here are the three amendments that passed yesterday. The changes to the bill that they think will get them the votes they need. An upton amendment provides billion over 5 years to help those with preexisting conditions. The initial version of this bill removed obama cares protections for preexisting conditions if the states granted a waiver and moved people into a highrisk pool. Theres concern that wouldnt protect people with preexisting conditions enough so now theyll put 8 billion towards addressing that. Theres the macarthur amendment that allows states to waive the essential benefits clause. And the mcksally amendment removes language allowing Congress Members to be exempt from the ahca. The question is will this get passed today before they leave for recess . And then what happens in the senate. It is not clear this slerversio this bill can pass in the senate. So they may have to deal with compromised bills from the senate. Then they have to hash out the differences between the senate and the house, put together some final bill. Where that all lands is anybodys guess politically. They made the tweaks they think they need to get this bill passed today. If they do, thats a win for the Trump Administration, which is still smarting from its earlier failure to get the healthcare bill to a vote in the house of representatives. They could at least do that today. They think theyre on the verge of a win this afternoon. That upton stuff, because the day before when you had two sort of middle of the road guys that supported the last one. When they came back, that started it. I know you questioned tying the stock market to things in washington, but its been a weird correlation with things like this would you say how can healthcare repeal affect the stock market. But it has seemed to be correlated. The reason is that it makes tax reform easier and could be bigger. You see it again this morning. Some of the positive sentiment. And i think just, you know, if you get a rwin, maybe tax refor, where that would be the first win rather than this. I think it affecting things. I agree with that. Analysts on wall street look at this and sayf they can get healthcare done thatlears the decks politically, they can move on to tax reform and suggests that the Trump Administration knows what its doing in terms of passing legislation. That gives you a sense that maybe theyll have some more wins when it comes to the tax reform bill that theyre planning later on this year. Both of those things give momentum and are heartening people on wall street today. Well see. Its going to be a showdown. Theyre very close to the number that they need. 216, right . Yeah. They can afford to lose 22. Theyre Something Like 16, 17, 18 no votes now. So theyre really on the margins. So well have to watch this closely. Eamon two quick questions what are the implications of voting on a pill thats not bbi scored by the cbo. Republicans said they wanted to go back to whats called regular order, all the traditional due process. One of those things is you get a score from the Congressional Budget Office which tells you how much this bill costs, who is helped by it, who is hurt by it. Its an nalltianalysis done by Nonpartisan Organization up on capitol hill that helps people understand what theyre voting for. This is being pushed through so fast they wont have the time to do that before they vote on it. A lot of democrats are critical saying youre just making us vote blind on this thing because you think you have the votes. But in washington the answer is when you have the votes, you call the vote. Thats what theyre doing here. Ultimately a lot of democrats will squawk about that throughout the day. If they dont have the votes, they cant stop it. What happens if the 8 billion is not enough . Theres a couple Research Reports out this morning quoting two conservative economists from aei suggesting that to make the program work, you need Something Like 15 built illion to 2 20 bi. The 8 billion, to be clear, is not the only money thats in there for that purpose. There was a larger fund that was created in the original bill. So this is 8 billion on top of additional money ithere. But even so, youre right. Analyses suggest that this is not enough to deal with the cost of these preexisting conditions. Critics say that in the past, before obamacare, there were these highrisk pools set up for people with preexisting conditions. And they were too expensive, ran out of money and didnt cover everybody. So the question is will that happen again with this . We dont know. We dont know which states will apply for the waivers to be exempt from the preexisting conditions. Its tough now to find the money to cover preexisting conditions what was the state yesterday . They lost the last one. There was one left, theyre losing the last one. Which statement was tha was tha i dont remember. The losses were so big theyre done. Theres no one. When you ask the white house this question, the white house was asked yesterday, why are you doing this if you want to mandate that everybody with preexisting conditions is covered, just simply keep the obama care language that says everybody with preexisting conditions is covered . Why go through this weird states thing, a waiver thing, why add that complexity and uncertainty when in reality the goal as stated is to cover all those people . What sean spicer said was they feel obamacare will fail, and that obamacare is too expensive, so a lot of people might be technically covered under the law, but if you cant get access to the coverage, the program doesnt work. They feel this is their solution as convoluted as it may be. Okay. Eamon, thank you. Lets talk facebook. The earnings just out. The social media giant beating on the top and bottom line results, helped by surging ad business. Joining us now is victor anthony. Good morning to you. This is a bit of a complicated quarter for analysts to understand. They changed the way they described some of the numbers. Yeah. They went to gaap reporting, same thing that alphabet did as well. I think its a good thing. More companies should go that direction. Your headline on facebook right now . This is probably the longest streak of quarterly outperformance versus consensus of any company i covered in the past decade. 50 advertising Revenue Growth against that scale, probably doing 39 billion in revenues. Buying back stock. Engagement is up. Monthly active users is up 17 . 1 1. 9 billion users. Stock is up 30 this year. What is the stock worth . I have 1 60 price t60 price the stock. Strong ad demand, still undermonetized assets, whats app as well as messenger. Theres possibly entering into china at some point. A lot of optionality with the platform now, undermonetized assets and growth are the core platform. Instagram has been a home run for them in terms of acquisition. The free cash flow, that was up. Everything is coming up roses except for the fact that it reiterates revenue ad growth will come down meaningfully in 2017. The back half of the year. What do you make of that . Should we be concerned about that . Is that why the stock is trading lower premarket . They made that statement with the Third Quarter results. Of course. Now its getting closer to the second half of the year, and it will come true. Thats reflected in my numbers and consensus numbers. Given the demand, thats one thing that came out of the call, the demand for advertising on facebook was enormous. Price per ad went up 14 year over year in the First Quarter, versus 3 or so, low Single Digits in the fourth quarter. Demand for the platform may trump that commentary about ad loads theyve been given. Over the last several quarters prior to snap going public, we talked about facebook, you would always talk about snap nipping at its heels, or we have that conversation. How do you feel about snap now . First, theres nothing in the facebook numbers that indicated to me that snap has been an issue to them as far as advertising growth or user growth. I think theyll be challenged from a user growth perspective. Particularly, you know, coming out of that core 13 to 24yearold demographic. Are you a believe their facebook has Facebooks Instagram has usurped snap . They replicated everything that snap has done. I think that may be an issue. Will they be able to capture the younger audience that snap has . Im probably using instagram more than i used to because of the new features and im not using snap. But can they get the 18yearolds to do that . Remains to be seen. If they do that, the value for snap is at question. That remains to be seen. Im not sure they can do it or not, but theyre giving it a try. Do you cover twitter . I do. What do you make of the new tv shows that theyll broadcast. Is that a good strategy . I think its the saving grace for this platform. Live video, video content is the direction they should go. I have a sell on the stock now. Hasnt changed your mind. Hasnt changed my mind. I think theres challenges from an ad growth perspective. That may help. As with everything from the twitter, you have to wait and see whether or not it works. Victor anthony, thank you. We have a lot coming up. Tesla nearly doubling its quarterly revenue from a year ago but posting a bigger per share loss than expected. The stock is sliding this morning. Well talk to an analyst next and get some thoughts. Hey, ive got the trend analysis. Hey. Hi. Hi. You guys going to the Company Picnic this weekend . Picnics are delightful. Oh, wish we could. But were stuck here catching up on claims. But we just compared historical claims to coverages. But we have those new audits. My natural language api can help us score those by noon. Great. See you guys there. We would not miss it. Watson, you gotta learn how to take a hint. I love to learn. Hey youve gotta see this. Cno. N. Alright, see you down there. Mmm, fine. We got . Okay, watch this. Do t thing we talked about. What do we say . Its going to be great. Watch. Remember what we were just saying . Go irish see that . Yes im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. Tesla reported a wider than expected loss for q1. A loss of 1. 33 a share, vers an expected loss of 81 cents a share. Joining us is carl langdon from ubs. Good morning. Good morning. A miss of 60 it doesnt matter, right . All that does not matter for a stock like tesla. Thats why youre sticking with your sell rating. Still, the longterm story is about model three. Thats what the bulls are buying. Yeah, theres probably less focus than most companies on the quarter. I think the stock will be under pressure. If you go into their guidance, it implies a weaker q2. I would expect numbers to come down. We took our number down. They stand by a july launch for the model 3. They say they entered the end of the quarter with 4 billion in cash. They say by the time they launch the model 3, they will spend 2 billion in cash. Do you believe that . Do i believe the the launch the cash that thil ha theyll have by the time they launch . Yes and yes. I would say this. Im skeptical about the model 3 launch. I think july timing is aggressive. Especially to ramp. I do think theyll get products out within the quarter . Thats possible. The volumes may disappoint and the ramp may disappoint. The 2 billion in capex, they have already done about 600 million. There will be a giant spike. Thats ahead of the launch. A lot of equipment needs to be added to the factory. We were talking before about my minivan issues, whether they were going to be the third row. Thats separate issue. Whether they would be able to grow, not just get on track for this year, but whether you can double capacity. The target their target is 500,000 by next year. I think, again, thats an extremely aggressive target, particularly given their history. They have a history with the model x of delays, and the production schedule was slow. Hopefully they learned some lessons, but these volumes are larger and they dont have a long track record. Theres a high risk things get delayed. The 500 in general is a tough target. That would put them at best selling luxury car in the world within a year. Thats aggressive. Theres a certain amount of discounting in the stock, tesla says that, we believe x percent of that, and thats okay and we bid the stock higher. You look ten years out, they would have to sell about 2 million cars, about the size of bmw. So a lot of optimism. Model y, 2019 aspirationally, 2020 launch. Is that going to what will that do to your models . I think we have to get through the model 3. What was interesting about those comments, they said 2019 which means we have to Start Building a factory and another giga factory soon, which is more capex. He said before the Earnings Call they would have four more giga factories. And thats a lot more money and they wont be generating the cash to fund that. We talked in other reports about the strinfrastructure needs. You will need more charging stations, more dealers. So thats all cost in capex. A long road ahead. Colin, thank you for joining us. Coming up, the countdown to tomorrows big jobs report is on. Well get you ready for the april Employment Data next. And President Trump set to meet with the australian Prime Minister in new york today. We will talk with the former Prime Minister, kevin rudd, at 7 30 today. Before we head to break a look at yesterdays winners and losers. The force will be with you. Always. Its our little differences, that can make a world of difference. 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How did that go, considering you dont speak french . It was on cspan 3. Had subtitles. No it was an interpreter, but a lot of french in the background being spoken by the moderate tirors trying to contr and the candidates speaking at the same time. If this passes today what do you think happens to the senate bill . The senate, im not an expert on. Were all talking about this. The first obamacare, they went to the senate, did all stu didnt get passed back. Does this pass muster for reconciliation in the first place, thats what Charles Schumer was asking yesterday. You got to do this before you do anything else. For more on the jobs record and broader markets, lets bring in lindsay and david. Just since its staring us in the face, the jobs number tomorrow and because of what we saw in the last report, and that 0. 7 gdp, maybe its a First Quarter thing, maybe its not, what you are looking for tomorrow . The market is looking for a rise of 190,000. Slightly less optimistic. Were looking for about 175,000. Even at the 190,000 number, youre still talking about a moving average around 180,000. Month to month, yes, we are putting americans back to work. You can see a noticeable slowdown in momentum from a pace closer to around 230,000, 250,000 in the previous 24 months. So, from the feds perspective, y the la yes, the labor market is on solid ground but far from rob t robust. Against the back drop of a weaker than expected q1 gdp report, well be looking at the april number with more scrutiny to get a sense of whether or not we can expect better Growth Numbers in the Second Quarter and beyond. Someone pointed out yesterday it was a good quarter for corporate earnings. What if you look at this as a as sort of a governor on fed rate hikes. And so once again, with we got this goldilocks scenario, profits are going well but the fed wont overstep in terms of rate hikes. Its another good scenario for stocks, isnt it . Well, its interesting because when we look at the statement, the fed was actually cautiously optimistic subjecting the weakness in the First Quarter was likely to prove transitory, but they did not dismiss that weakness. Theyre still cautious. Looking at the may statement, there was no specific reference to june, meaning that if jin un was a forgone conclusion, we would have seen tispecific language, such as in the coming months, and we didnt s that in the may statement. The fed is still hedging in terms of additional policy adjustments in the nearterm, waiting to see if we do, in fact, see some better numbers translate into improved gdp. David, youre still buying. You like growth stocks. Why is growth better than value given the economic background . Tech has done well. Yes. We continue to recommend growth stocks. Tech, i would suggest even for the summer, really rotate into healthcare. I think well have it will be clear that there will be reform in healthcare, but incrementally, moderately overtime, healthcare stocks are still delivering strong earnings sales growth. Not as strong as before, but relative to the rest of the market. At a 16 or so pe on a forward basis that pe should be 20 with Interest Rates. Now, its growth stocks, tech and healthcare, and the one exception in value is banks. We do expect the fed to hike in june. Labor market is on track. So when you look at the u. S. Market, tech, healthcare, and banks. Something ill be discussing on our monthsly call for financial ed advisers today, were looking for value opportunities in europe. We see value opportunities in i industrials in europe and now financials as well in europe. If le pen won we dont expect that. We would have to reassess our view. As we said before, it was more likely change cant happen overnight. You cant exit the eu overnight. So the point is first off macron will win. Were already positioned that way. Stay away from oil. Thats something weve been saying for a long time. Stay away from energy stocks. Worst performers yeartodate. Thats a big reason why i dont like value. Many u. S. Industrials stretch as far as valuations, though things are bter there than i thought. The truinfrastructure spending something long down the road. Youre better off looking at european industrials. But in the u. S. Market, tech, healthcare. Is there anything that would cause you to say sell 30 of your stocks . Youre usually asking me to go 130 . Right. What happened . I want to know. I worry about yeah. I always worry about north korea, or if some outlying black swan happens, the market could george bus could you could lose a lot. Yeah. I agree. What would it be . North korea . We already navigated the profit recession that we expected from the collapse in commodity prices. Thats an important threat to earnings and the market behind us. Now were focused on Interest Rates. This is going to be a longlasting expansion. We need to make sure inflation doesnt overheat. We do have evaluation s dependt on this but i dont see strong inflation threats out there. David, thank you. Lindsey, thank you. Have you seen in the last couple weeks we launched an icbm that travels 5,000 miles and hits a target. This is at the same time their scuds are not making it into the sea of japan. You guys are doing that, trying to miniaturize your weapons to put it on one of these things. This is what we got right now. This case you were wondering. Its weird that weve done two in the last couple of weeks. This is scary that were actually showing what we have. Did you see north korea rebuked china. They never do that. Yeah. They said this crazy, you know, this incendiary language. This is your black swan for the markets . Thats my black swan for the world. Hawaii, california, japan, south korea, its these are this is right. Now its real. When you got an unhinged crazy guy leading the country ill not talking about trump, andrew. At me and thought he looked him. Yeah. No, i didnt. I knew when you started down that road of thinking you would then about to it was a joke. I was leading into got to watch out with the jokes. The north korean guy. Ceos sound off on tax reform. The head of the Business Roundtable is here to reveal the new results of a survey. And at t ceo, Randall Stephenson weighs in on media deals and the tax plan. Stay tuned. Youre watching squawk box on cnbc. Some stocks to watch this morning. Fit dbit beating the street, saying product launches for this year remain on track. Squares results topping analyst expectations. The Payment Processing company raising its full year outlook. Shares up about 3 . Avis reporting a larger than expected loss citing higher fleet costs, price pressure and a late easter holiday. Shares are down 7. 5 now. Time for the executive endg. We told you earlier in the week that millennials are set to be the least entrepreneurial generation in history, theyre being outpaced by baby boomers. Kate rogers continues her tour for National Small business week with that story in philadelphia. Then i got a quick update at the end, kate. I dont knead need to involve everyone else, but i will at the end. Take it away. Thank you very much. When it comes to launching new businesses, millennials are being outpaced by baby boomers like philadelphiabased brian kravits. Kravits began fixing type writers in the 1970s. He changed careers once computers came on the scene but realized typewriters were back in vogue. At age 65 he launched his new business philly typewriter because he said hes not ready to settle down and retire just yet. Im i really good health. Ive i just feel good. I get up every day. I dont want to sit around. What can i do . Go to the golf course . No. Not me. I want to do things. Kravits says years in the work force have helped him to run this late in life venture successfully. Hes already making money doing it. This rise in boomer entrepreneurship is partially a byproduct of the Great Recession but also the new retirement in which Many Americans have decided theyre not going to retire at all, at least in the traditional sense. Work is an important, you know, emotional contribution to peoples sense of identity. I dont think that disappears just because you hit a particular chronological age. In 2015 the Kauffman Foundation said baby boomers were twice as likely as their millenniumal millennial counterparts to launch a new business. On june 7th we have some great speakers at the iconic conference. Its hard for a millennium, if youre snapping. How do you do that . How do you find your raise money, you know, rent a place for the business. Do all this, while youre snapping the entire time. Its difficult while youre on your any way. I wish millennials will get with the program. Snapchating . Im not expecting it any time soon. Well, joe, i am a millennial, so ill try not to take offense to your lack of hope for us. But for what its worth, im not on snapchat, maybe ill give you hope for the generation. You do. What i was eluding to earlier was your video your netflix taste, bloodline comes back may 26th for sb threason three. I was thinking of you. We visited the rayburn the place in florida, down in the keys. You di yes. I got a lot of reall nice. Cool pictures. It exists. But its more beautiful than you can tell on the series. I was going to send you pictures, you would be like why is this guy sending me pictures. When you come in, i got them all. You can send me vacation pictures any time, joe. That would be weird. Kate, heres my vacation but it is if you didnt know what i was sending you, you would be like this guy is weird. She may not want to open the pictures. Youd be afraid. Id be afraid. Could be weiner gate all over gate. Kernen gate. Oh, god. Just went there. I knew that went e. Whhen you s with sending the pictures this is where we would end. Its natural. I am not being to send them to you. Theyre on my iphone. What else is on there . It exists. This squawkard moment has been brought to you by joe kernen. Its in islemadora, halfway between key west and miami. Its stunning. I have pictures where danny is there. Great. I cant wait to see. May 26th it comes back. Thanks, joe. You watched a couple, right . I have. Excellent show. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I dont want danny to be i dont want never mind. I want to thank you for sending me the vacation photos. We enjoyed those. Did i send any to you . Im going to. Coming up, spending on Home Renovations picking up. A new report says it will continue to grow this year. Details straight ahead as we head to a break. Quick check on whats happening with european markets. Green across the board. 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The report predicts even more spending in 2017. I like going to house just to look at the pictures. I have the app here. Do you hang out on houz . If you nd toook for furnitu furniture, renovatn ideas, its like the greatest thing ever. I bet your wife knows about it. Renovating. We do but i wasnt that involved in the actual choices. I was very involved in certain ways but not involved in the choices. Paying for the merchandise. Exactly. So help us try to understand where you think these renovations are taking place. Is it a regional issue, by the way, in terms of where this is happening . Generally what we have seen in our house data is the renovations are very much concentrated on the west and the east coast. It has been going on in the last three years. As well as the urban areas. Thats where were seeing a lot of concentration in renovation. First time home buyers spning is spending is up. What are they doing . The renovation cope is very large. MultiHome Renovations, three rooms on average at a time, especially kitchens, bathrooms or Something Different . Discretionary spending is leading, kitchen and bathroom is big but roofing, siding, outdoor upgrades are very popular right now. Outdoor lighting is very much in. Its a full whole house renovation from the exterior to interior. Is this driven by low Interest Rates . How are people financing this . Generally with Interest Rates on the rise, its a great sign for our industry. In our industry, when homeowners are staying put, longer the stay in the home, they invest more. But also you got toot supply so people are staying even with Mortgage Rates low. Tight inventory is a blessing and a curse. Do you think that millennials are more inclined to renovate than others, generationally . Our housresearch shows baby s are are spending three times more than the millennials. The concentration of renovation activity is on the older generation. Millennials, firsttime buyers are they renovating places they own or buying places and renovatin renovating . The baby boomers, 55 plus, theyre staying put and theyre investing the dollars. In term of the millennials, they are clearly the new blood in the Home Ownership realm. Theyre coming into new homes and renovating and customizing their new homes. I thought they were still living with their parents. Is it because theyre buying fixeruppers, theyre going to a lower price point and they have to put more money in to make it acceptable . The 22 is reflective of the fact that the those priced out of homes are going into older homes so they have to invest the longer they stay in the home. It is a reflection of the quality of home theyre purchasing whats the most popular thing people search for on a house. Dunk . In general we shall have a very broad offering. There as not just one thing people are looking for in. Kitchens and bathrooms have been a very large always. Absolutely. Now we have over 40 million unique users on houzz. From kitchens to bathrooms and all the way to shopping on the marketple, its everything. Thank you. Good luck with your own renovations. Shares are under pressure. Still ahead, the Business Roundtable conducted a survey on tax return. Josh bolten will join us to reveal the results next. Earnings alert, facebook posting blockbuster results but are the days of easy growth over . Straight ahead. New this morning, republicans say they have the votes to pass an obamacare replacement bill. And a key read ahead of tomorrows jobs report as the second hour of squawk box begins right now. Live from the beating heart of business, new york city, this is squawk box. Good morning. Welcome back to squawk box. Were live at the Nasdaq Market site, Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen and melissa lee this morning. The nasdaq looking to open up 9 points higher. We talked about it earlier, facebook shares are under some pressure this morning, despite earnings and revenue that beat street forecasts. A warning from the giant that a growth will slow down for the remainder of the year. Tesla posted a loss for the First Quarter. The automakers revenue did come in above estimates as it delivered a Record Number of its model s and x vehicles. And heinz is hurt by weak demand for the food makers products. The other big story investors need to watch this morning is the health care vote. Hi, eamon. Around lunch time today theyll begin with procedural votes early this morning. But Kevin Mccarthy offered an optimistic perspective about whats going to happen today. Heres what happened last night. Feel great about count. You have the he said he thinks they have the votes and why they have the votes is because of three amendments passed in the rules committee sterda the upton amendment would provided 8 billion over five years because the original health care balance here remove there was sot concern that wouldnt teak car of enough people with that insurers cover technical medical procedures and a mcsally amendment that allows Congress Member to be exempt from this Health Care Bill so presumably house the the house will have to live with whatever happens today. If they get over the threshold of 216 votes this afternoon, which is not entirely guaranteed, what happens in the United States senate is anyones guess. Right now the guess is theyll strip out a lot of these provision and put in stuff of their own. When they conference the two bills to the. Youll be in the vicinity. Ill almost never leave the belt way. And i have urged you at times maybe that might be a good idea to ksh. I thinkhat one to you. You did. No, i know. I rarely give them to you and you swing at the pitch. I rarely leave the belt way. You dont want to leave the beltway. It could be dangerous out there, people arent wearing brooks brother. Okay, thank joining now president and ceo josh bolten. If you want anyway, great to see you. Thanks for coming in. Who better to talk about tax reform. They all say this is what we want, this is what we need, well start doing all the right things in terms of capital expenditures, we wont buy back stock anymore because Interest Rates are so low, we wont do sort of Financial Engineering to juice our results, well really about do what were supposed to do. Would they . Absolutely. That will spurt them to not on do what would be the right this evening long term but maybe in their own selfinterest. Absolutely. Theyre all doing fine as it is and their share pra os, if tax reform of a reasonable size went sfrchl sfchl if tax goes through in a reasonably substantial form, oaf 70 say they will hire more and a large number say theyll invest more. And thats what this investment is good at. You got to get the p. R. People say why feed the fat cats more . The narrative works if you can get the message out. Otherwise you get killed. Thats what the message says. You got to convince andrew. Do you think that filters down to the people we need we had a reporter come on from kansas, i dont think. And the experience is an interesting one. The idea was going they were if and what theyve found kr. Revenues have been down so theyve had to cut things like education in other areas and they havent had the sort of boost that they expected. By the way, some companies are prompted what does that say about the rest of the country . State taxes are significant in some places but what really dounts most of our corporations is the federal tax rate. It now the highest in the shelled world. 35 , a lot of our companies are paying somewhere around 35 effective rate. We got to get that down. Were making ourselves uncompetitive. The premise is it will make for strong are Economic Growth and then the growth add then well hire. I mean, they have to see it filtered to gdp first and then they hire. Theres a warning in the survey as well because we ask if tax reform is delayed, what will happen . And a marriage of our members said that plans they now have on the books to hire and to invest, to do more cap checks, a majority of their expig i overwhelmingly our ceos are saying if tax reform goes through, i will hire more and spend more the if its delayed for any sstantial amount of time, theyre going to take clouds off because a lot of our ceos have bikd in so critically long ter if what the survey would say to me is time to focus on that tax return and get it done this year. Do you feel reince priebuss pain . Is it worse now . Has it always been terrible . Being chief of staff is a hard job. It also one of the best jobs in the world if things are going okay. Do you get great tables at restaurants . Why is it great . You get to work in the white house and you get to work on whats important. If youre chief of staff, get to work on whats important to the president and the country. Its a terrific job. I do feel for reince because it a hard job to do in a new administration. Its an even harder job to do if a new straegs the key. Yeah, weve tried that. It worked okay when i was there. Yes and no. But we got a different kind of president now. You didnt get much done. But the second term not a whole hot happened for w. But i will tell you that i think they can get things on the right track. Heres where tax reform comes in. The health care stuff i think is now defensive for the republican party. It just important to get it done, get it out. The way. But to really put points on the board for the leadership in the house and senate, for this president , i they tax reform is the key and i think they well ceos who think theyre about to have a meeting with donald trump, they all privately talk what is it we can say and bring to him to show we are seeious about new jobs in america . Why is that happening in administration . I say to the president s credit, the fact that hes actual will been able to get us to even think this way in a way that didnt feel that way under obama, dare i save under bush and probably evennd clinton. Theres a couple things going on. Which the ke. The other thing is across the board our ceos are saying, wow, theyre really listening to us. Mplaint about a regulation, weve got a situation thats holding us back unnecessarily. How much of it is part of meaning and thinking if i can get him some points on the board, maybe i can get a point on the board. Or maybe i can avoid getting a sweet storm on the board you understand that . I do. Its just you werent expecting enter joe six pack . Yeah. Im proposing this to someone in france. You know who this is. Something we could never live without michael bolten. How am i supposed to live without you, now that youre leaving, korb . This sho has sunk to a new level. A new level. Playing michael boaton. The shows about to start how do i look . 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Youre the leader . Yes. Would you be happy with this report . Yeah, we were happy with it. The stock is up 30 year to date. They reiterated. Is it an, pence story or a revenue this company should be aggressively investing. Theyre going to do about have completely unmonetized facebook and tur. This is probably the single best growth story do you have ideas on how they can monetize whats app and Facebook Messenger . I think now theyre trying to figure out how to insert ads. Have you seen anybody monetize messengering in a meaningful way . Yes, but not in the u. S. How do they do it . Theres a lot of gamification of the apps and advertising align in johnson does this, does this and two in china. I think this can be done. You are inserting ads in peoples conversations but thats what they did with saz because snap was supposed to steal the thunder of facebook. If theres one major risk to snapchat, it what facebook is doing. Its one of the riskiest prks all of the ad format that oo prng and they repurpose it for other platforms that are that much longer. How much better can faked target that ad . In tr pb be fwrks fwrk youre really starting to see pricing take off at football, i think. So theyreor an alphabet and it yes, it probably not actionable. And wofr that kfrmt if theres ever one company in i mean, absolutely, they count for 95 of search in the u. S. And in europe. Those are pretty strong numbers. There are a few things goolle has done over time by putting some of its own results in the search results that do look monopolistic where do you stand on we continue the sell on that. Last quarter was interesting, if they can show a couple quarters in a row of up 25 or so in pat month. But well see, if they can continue to reaction sell rate theyve done a few thanksgiving to in the i use you for a certain thing, leave me alone. What are you following. I dont know. This person said this. I only follow a hundred people. Mark, thank you. joesquawk or Something Like that. Ahead of this weekends peoples election in france. I just requested more michael boaton. This looks look a gate ho coming up, why you need to Pay Attention woor it heres what jim kram are said to what frp and so were buying it back. So from that pointf view, theres an opportunity in that as well. But over the long haul, i think it will i strongly believe that it will be at a fair value. And so thats how we look at it. Then were gonna go in and remove your 67 corvette. My vette . Its just a gall bladder you dont have. Aflac paying you cash, so you might have to sell that sweet little muscle machine just to cover your rent. More funny juice. But my papa gave me. That. Car. What do you wish you had . Aflac. Ohh, i love doing that. Health can change, but the life you love doesnt have to. Keep your lifestyle healthy with aflac when we return, breaking economic news, were going to talk layoffs unfortunately. And former Prime Minister kevin rudd is going to join us on the set. Find out what he wants to hear when President Trump and the current Prime Minister meet today. Youre watching squawk box right here on cnbc. The power of a low volatility investing approach. The power of smart beta. Power your clients portfolio with powershares. Before investing, consider the Funds Investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Call 8009830903 for the prospectus containing this information. Read it carefully. Distributed by invesco distributors inc. Outlook profit was down 60 from a year earlier on higher programming costs and lower sales. Youre seeing the stock is a little bit up this morning. Its been a bit of a roller coaster ride. Also American Airlines back on capitol hill facing a senate hearing. Scott kirby will be there this time around. They spoke about the dragging of the passenger off that flight last month. Morgan stanley customers will no longer be able to buy van guard mutual funds from the firm. They want to weedut less popular funds. However, customers will not be forced to liquidate van guard positions. Van guard does not pay firms like Morgan Stanley these fees. I do have a lot of things i like to talk about. That is something we have together. Yesterday did you see the media stocks based on this hulu thing, 40 it could have also been on to report about cord cutting. But yesterday the media stocks across the board i thought cbs initially was down because of colbert but i dont think thats no i know you loved it. You dont think they should be saying that kind of stuff . He said he would not have used that same language. Thats big of him but you saw the fcc commissioner say if this is obscene, theres going to be consequences. Its not obscene . Im saying the language was huge. What if somebody said that about president obama and the last administration . You dont think it might have been more i think on all ends does it matter that he was talking about a president or the language he used . Both. I think it just matters what language you use. Okay. All right. In the debates yesterday they were using french, which made it very hard to follow. A fiery faceoff in french as the nations two remaining president ial candidates, mary le pen and centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron squared off in their final debate, watch this. Translator what are you going to do opposite mrs. Merkel . You said i wont be opposite her,ll be with her. Translator of course i want france to measure up to germany. Translator france will be led by a woman, either me or mrs. Merkel, thats the truth. That was a great sound bite. The other great sound bite weve talked about in a purent way when le pen said dont play games with me, this is not a student teacher relationship, im not into that sort of thing. This debate is just as bad as one of ours. And of course a reference to the fact that mac thats increased his appeal in france. I think the point in takeaway, you know, whether there was some point scored by le pen on that was that mr mr. Macron didnt have a car crash moment. Le pen otherwise has actually gained ground. We gone from 65 35 to 60 40 so still a massive margin it make up. Its been a bad ten days for macron. So a little bit more confidence coming away from this. Theres certain areas you could point to like sounded nigel. And so much talk about currency and so much talk about the euro. Thats what macron pushed back on saying it going to cost the bregs i think this is an area where there has been complacency in the market in the long terms. France of course is relatively one of the strongest economies in northern europe. And le pan has done better where unemployment has been and the top two but to say extrapolate from this and say the problems are there isnt you got the accent down. Youve got the british accent down. That one i practice. He goes in and out on the british accent. Theyre telling us i need to go but i need to know about the royals. Overexcited overnight because we knew there would be an announcement at the age of 95, thats to be expected. The quinn continues with all of they are how great is that, that he did it to 95. Still all the way up to 94 1 2, he still has a full schedule. So do i. Just know its going to be fun. Just know that. Im not going anywhere. Okay, lets tack jobs and chris out, it wrings brings the apartment of jobs cut year to date is at the lowest level. Big headline, john, is what . I suppose the key here is what were seeing most is that retail is the dominant sector thats shedding jobs, just like energy last spring, First Quarter, was shedding jobs at a rapid rate. Retail right now is dominating with many store closings, several thousand store close announced so far this year. And none of it is season certainly but this seems to be now more long term decisions to cut costs and react to the eretail phenomenon. Let just talk regionally. Where are you focusing . Heaviest cuts so far and in the month were california, ohio, texas, so really spread, no particular region hit haest. That makes sense. Ra rail. So hey hi joining us now is kevin rudd, former Prime Minister of australia. The traffic on the west side today, just think about it. It going to be who were. A hort of a good relations between ill bet you things go better than what theme pi today. Spm sfm snfrm. Its not. These things happen. Bad telephone connection. Grumpy people on the other end of the phone, thats it. But this align has been going on sense 1941, sur voofd 12 or 13 Prime Ministers, including me and survived about 12 or 13 u. S. President s. So the key thing is security relationships betwe the asianpacific region, topic number one is north korea. Its not going to go away. Its getting harder, not easier. The core should be on the question of focusing, on what leverage both governments believe china can apply to the North Koreans to bring about rile and i can name about. Hes a beg personality but very easy to get along with in a way. Yes. And president g, rapport. Netanyahu rapport, abbas yesterday, rapport. You just hear again and again when you meet him personally, and thats helpful in lot of these situations and twothirds immovable National Interest but one third is about do these people get along. That affects how you prosecutor the business, whether its on trade, security or other dimensions in the relationship. What ive seen with President Trump so far, particularly in his dealings with xi jinping from china, despite the enormous cultural divide, that so far has gone quitewell. For this one i dont see any hugeproblems, other for those poor commutes are later this afternoon who are going to get upset. Ill be making my way down to the intrepid as well. Down to the intrepid. What do you think finally happens in terms of china putting pressure on north korea . Theyre the only ones that can do it, arent they . I think if you strip all diplomatic stuff away and just go to the Core National security questions here, there are three of them, i think. One is will kim kicjong un resp to any pressure of any form, political or economic . I think the answer to that is highly unlikely but still possible. Second, what would turn husband dial his dial on this stuff . That is if china switched off energy supplies, aviation gas, and simple refined petroleum. They are hugely dependent on those supplies from the china ands they cant get it elsewhere. So the third element in the occasi occasion. What prevents them from doing that . The chinese are deep strategic realists and they ask this question, and its not a dumb question okay, we tur the dial, theres huge destabilization in pyongyang, kim jong un, if he goes, who do we get . So the devil you know its not quite that. The chinese have an aversion for strategic uncertainty. One thing that was disturbing about the President Trump in the first place is the president s often stated interest as being unpredictable. That doesnt fit the chinese play book at all. But visavis north korea, its quite hard because the opinion who comes next, do you have a general military breakout at that point with some north korean general taking over . Do you then have a war in the peninsula and does it all boil down to big, general war . Rex tillerson yesterday spoke to the state department, talked about the division in terms of how hes thinking about policy versus values going forward. Hmm. And human rights and things like that. How does that change the dynamic . You know, the United States because youre always consumed in your domestic politics and i understand that, ive run for office in my own countr but you know somethingwhen people look around the word at you because if youre going to be historically lights on the hill, out of roosevelt, out of truman, reinforced by its en worry wise it becomes like anybody else. So do you think this is a mistake . I dont know secretary Tillerson Andes only been. Coming up, a new era of trading. And adenna friedman will join us in just a moment. Can we push the offer online . Brian, i just had a quick question. Brian . Brian. Legacy technology can handcuff any company. But yes is here. Youre saying the new app will go live monday . yeah. With help from hpe, we can finally work the way we want to. With the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. Wont replace the full value of your totaled new car. The guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. No, i picked the wrong insurance company. 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We want to make sure every investor has an opportunity ultimately to join in the growth and success of these Great Companies that we have that have been formed in the United States. We also see that 74 of all job creation over the last 16 years has come after the companys gone public. If we dont have the companies go public, it could ultimately limit the jobs theyre able to create and achieve. And yet companies are really hesitant to join the Public Markets. And if you look at it, we do believe that an imbalance has been created over the years of regulation and creation of different structural issues we think we need to revisit to reassert a balance. One of the things you talk about is technology. The other you talk about is shareholder rights and how often times small shareholders are the ones that are making a lot of the proposals rather than ones with true skin in the game. Not to say they dont have skin in the game but on a relative basis and what should be the threshold. That is the big debate. Proxy access today means if you own 2,000 shares and you own the stock for a year, essentially you can come in and propose significant 2,000 worth of shares. Im sorry, 2,000 of the share, then you can propose major changes to a companys governance and structure. What we found was that 30 of all of the proxy proposals last year were proposed by six small shareholders. Clearly thats become a cottage little industry for them to go and agitate at the companies. Our proposal is an investor should own at least 1 of the shares and have held it for three years. So theyre a longterm investor, they have real skin in the game and therefore proposing the ability to come in and suggest changes to the governs and instru governance of a company. Entrepreneurs come in and they have easy access to capital on the private markets. And at the same time they want to be able to tap the Public Markets but they want to be able to maintain their longterm view of the company and be able to manage it for the long term. So should we make it it these companies are incentivized for a small subset of investors to have access to the companies or so long as things are disclosed and they understand theyre only buying into a financial interest that a broad sector will have access through the Public Markets . So one of the big issues has always been the idea over the past 20, 30 years weve tried to democratize investing. I think its what cnbc and squawk box, what weve always tried to do. And the idea of a level Playing Field has always been at issue. Yes. And dual class or changing the threshold on whether you can make a proposal and maybe a level Playing Field has always been an artifice and a lot of people believe that. From a financial perspective, i think thats a really, really important part of Wealth Creation in this country. But the question is at what point does it go too far in terms of a very small investors beingabl to thats not necessarily good for longterm job creation and growth. Are these things that are preventing Companies Moving from the private market to the Public Market . Is this why youre out against you want to see that wave of ipos unlashed . Our blueprint is very comprehensive. There a lot of reasons why companies are much more hesitant today to go public, litigation issues, i think theres some tax benefits. In asort termism, activism, these are things were talking to companies about as theyre considering tapping the Public Markets. Its a big, big step to go public and it a more attractive. It makes it harder for them to get back on board and it makes it more of a professionals game. I disagree with that. I think at the end of the day the key goal of investor access into the market is wealth accumulation and the ability for them to join in our companies through the investment of entrepreneurs. Sometimes you have to make sure the Companies Feel they can control the future of their company while still giving Investors Financial access to that company and thats what were trying to create here. Its a longer, larger conversation. Since we live together, come on back. Thank you. You better. 00 years since the first stock index was created, as a benchmark for average. Yet a lot of people still build portfolios with strategies that just track the benchmarks. But investing isnt about achieving average. Its about achieving goals. And invesco believes doing that today requires the art and expertise of highconviction investing. Translation . Why invest in average . Im dr. Kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. Energy lives here. Coming up, facebook coo Sheryl Sandberg. Well be right back. burke at farmers, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a coupe soup. [woman] so beautiful. [man] beautiful just like you. [woman] oh, why thank you. [burke] and we covered it, november sixth, twothousandnine. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum i like russo. His on off splits are the best here. Yeah, but his offensive win shares didnt even break 4. Come on, check out that stopandpop what do you think . My tradeoff analytics indicate no one creates more space on offense. This allows him to nail a jumper from a densely populated urban area. What youre trying to say is from way downtown . I am still learning. I can see that. The house set to vote on a replacement bill today. I feel great about the bill. Everything you need to know out of washington straight ahead. And Randall Stephenson talks krp ceo optimism, the president and getting it down. And may the force be with you as squawk box begins right now. Announcer live from the most powerful city in the world, new york, this is squawk box. Welcome back to squawk box here on cnbc. That music is just i feel, i dont know, i feel like going out and doing Something Like for good. Like what . I dont know. Some good. Doing some good. Do some good together. We do every day from the Nasdaq Market site every day. Im joe kernen along with Andrew Ross Sorkin and melissa lee. Becky quick is off doing good to talk to oracle. The futures now indicated higher. I would say its not a stretch, believe it or not, what does Health Care Repeal and reform have to do with the stock market . It maybe means a bigger Corporate Tax cut. That is the top story and druchdruc andrews going to talk to you about right now. House majority leader Kevin Mccarthy calling for a vote on the gops Health Care Bill scheduled for this morning. Mccarthy says republicans have the vote to pass the bill. Republicans spped that previous version obamacare replacement back in march. The latest version contains tom price explained why he thinks its necessary to repeal and replace obamacare now. He writes, quote, if a house is on fire do you not wait for it to burn to the ground before trying to save the family inside. He said health care is in a death spiral. Debate continues and well see if it gets passed and then has to go through the senate. And does it pass muster on wrereconciliation, too. Theres a lot of questions. Its complicated. Thats why i dont know if the market should its 50 points. Along the way. I know, its 50 points. Apple ceo tim cook will start a 1 billion fund. Thats a billion dollar of our money but were really proud to do it. By being that, we can be the ripple in the pond. If we can create many manufacturing jobs around, those manufacturing jobs create more jobs around them because you have a Service Industry that builds up around them. Well b announcing the First Investment in this fund later in the month of may. And our top stock to watch this morning is facebook. Facebook beat expectations on the to t the top and bottom and reported 2 billion users. They expect a slowdown in ad Revenue Growth and an uptick in expenses put pressure on the stock. Ceo Sheryl Sandberg told me, they benefiting she also explained yesterdays announcement that facebook is hiring 3,000 more people to monitor videos. Were in constant conversation with our advertisers but we have not seen a revenue impact from this yet so thats no why we did this. We did this because as take every step we can and that includes hiring more people in big numbers, as you saw, but also building better tools to keep ous safe. And theyre making changes to crack down on fake news and hoaxes and he said theyre laying the groundwork to turn messenger into another profit engine. What were your big concerns going into the quarter and did facebook address them . I would imagine the violent content might be one of them. The inbomb inable content that facebook carries on Facebook Live and other sites. Dziuk ber zuckerberg is not doing much despite this. Freedom of speech, no. Hes got to draw a line. There are companies out there that have software that can stop these sites from even getting on to facebook but hes not using them. Hes trying to cut down the time that it takes to stop and help if somebody is in a dier situation. From a shareholders standpoint it doesnt matter until advertisers pull out en masse. When you saw 50 plus advertisers pull out of oreilly on fox because of allegations of sexual molestation and harassment, thats going to hit back soon. Advertisers do not wan their ad on objectionable sites and even an hour or two, what its taking on fabds now to get them off, thats not acceptable to an advertis advertiser. In terms of the news feed, theyve really cleaned that up, correct . Zuckerberg, lets give him credit. He saw mobile as the dominant medium years ago and now he sees video as the dominant medium on mobile and whats happening is facebook is the first, highest two happens that anybody globally picks up and hes not hes got to be aware of the advertising so the reaction just hasnt caught up. You will see it is your prediction . Thats right. Porter, thank you. We have some time left. But they got to hire 3,000 people just to watch on top of the people they already have. And they have 4,500 people now. Watching monitoring and what is it now that they have . They need to monitor a lot. Youre saying if theres a billion users. That shows you what a billion entails. Why cant they watch this stuff . I mean, 3,000 people . Thats an First Amendment issue. It took 24 hours to get the murder video that that guy in cleveland posted in facebook. Just the sheer size its a thousand, thousand, thousand. There is software out there, thdparty software that could prevent one of the things that nobodys talking about is the enormous recruitment postings that isis and other terrorist organizations are putting on facebook and google and theyre not stopping it. Cesspool, andrew, im telling you. Its the end of the world. Its the end of the world. You think theyre not policing the isis stuff . Well, they take it off but it sits there for x number of hours before and they can stop it. There is software out there that the story fold that you mentioned that fox just deployed to stop fake news on fox sites, why isnt facebook using that . Theres another Company Called gpack that can stop it from getting on there. His priority is cutting down the time that these things run on facebook because he wants the advertising to be there and the advertisers are going to resist. Theyre going to say, no, we cant be side by side with objectionable programming. Four horsemen. Facebook, twitter, take your pick, snap and the apocalypse. Focus on video and live video. Twitters going into television. Facebook is exploring putting tv programming, content on and all of their technology is amazing and mind blowing but thief ggavo do something about the objectionable content. Just because you can do something doesnt mean you should do it. Phil leau joins us now. To be honest, very few people were focusing on the numbers of whether there was a bigger loss or where it came in relative to the revenue of the previous year, which by the way, they beat. 1. 33 was the lost versus the estimate of 81 cents. Everyone was focused what is the guidance when it comes to the next vehicle coming out and that was with the model three. Tesla reaffirmed it will begin production in july. The plan is to build 5,000 model three vehicles, not all vehicles for the company, and then 10,000 per week in 2018. Heres elon musk talking about what happens after that as the Company Moves toward its goal of building 1 million vehicles perrier by 2020. I think we need to come out with the model line sometimes in 2020 or aspirationally late 2019 and then i think that a Million Units is quite likely. By the way, the model y would be an electric crossover utility vehicle. Were showing you tesla versus apple over the last year becauson the cabecause on the call there was a very specific question about whether or not tesla and apple could ever partner up. Heres what elon musk had to say to that suggestion. Yeah, i dont think they want to have that conversation. But apple makes some great products and, yeah, i mean, i use their phone, its cool. The laptop is cool. Thats all he had to say about the possibility of tesla and apple partnering. Could tesla ever get a valuation of or a market cap of 700 billion . Theyre at about 50 billion. He paused and said i dont want to sound delusional, i dont think we should sound delusional but i see a clear path to that happening. Didnt he say that to a letter he wrote to the workers in he wrote a while ago and someone reiterated it and said markets apple cap is whatever it is, could you see yourself getting to that level . He said i see a clear path. Where are you going to sit, lebeau, on the airlines . Because they got rid of the two inches. Hes an airline reporter, you dont think theyre going to upgrade him . Lets go all over the country. You cant fly american anymore. You need a shoe horn to get in and out of your seat. Oh, come on. Thanks, phil. Media taking a hit. Well talk to aanalyst next. And markets continue to rise and fall. Predictable is one thing you need in retirement to help protect what youve earned and ensure it lasts. Introducing brighthouse financial. A new company established by metlife to specialize in annuities life insurance. Talk to your advisor about a brighter financial future. Welcome back to squawk box. Viacom just out with earnings, topping expectations for the quarter, profit, however, fell 60 from a year earlier on higher programming costs and lower ad sales. Joining us is Michael Morris from guggenheim securities. You hear those numbers and you say is this a buy at this point . Yeah. We are very focused on what we think is the early stage of a turn around at viacom under a new Management Team. Under the prior Management Team, we felt they lost their way, the their program want reaching their core udenaudience. Theres a new Management Team and its going to take some time to show results. This is all about the new ceo. Whats the money moon period . At what point do you have to see results turn in your favor . I dont think its a long honeymoon. This Company Needs to start rolling out new programming on mtv. The ratings have improved at a couple networks. Nk loadion has soon improvement, only mtv and kpedy central. It not going to be a long honey moore period baes improvement in the linear story as opposed to digital . This has to go beyond just linear. We think theres a clear expectation in the marketplace that they cant get anything right. So we see, you know, from a stock price perspective, we see low hanging fruit just by identifying and airing some programs that can get some ratings traction. But we stand the future of reaching consumers and making money in this industry, you have to be in front of them on multiple screamulti multiple screens and monetize appropriately. That will put them in a stronger position, whether its on linear tv, whether its on apps, whether its on different mobile devises or formats. Real quick, whats the potential up side and whats the down side in your mind . Well, we see the up side, you know, we have a price target of 50. We could give you a blue sky case of 60 per share based on improving whats going on at paramount, their film studio, has been losing money. We think if it even could perform at a profit level on the low end of peers, theres probably 5050, some improvement on the go worst case zmario . You go back to the mid when we had speculation in the marketplace they would recombine with cbs and there would be perhaps an evaluation event there. When that came off, the stock retraced down into the mid 30s. Seems like a clear case of riskreward is on the up side. Michael, thank you. A. Joining us now be jan rogers. Always good to see you. I would imagine directionally you agree with shorts, going against retail but you do like some and top on your list is best buy. Why . Well, i have several on my list. Theyre the last man standing. Theyre doing a pretty good job of competing against the big beast out there of and zoj. Because right now if youre not online, if youre not off price, off mall or if youre not local, youre having a really hard time competing. But there are people who can still compete in those spaces and i think thats a good example. Also, if you look across the street from the mall, you see ross stores, burlington and alta. If your full price onmall retailer theyre the best retailers in the world. Walmart as dlat may include the players like that that have been the darlings and has now fbsed itself and has come out the other side of the ditch and is crawing up the hill given. I like them because i think strong brands i like that kind of vendor, strong brands. I like the vendor side of the space because i think theyre more in control of their own fate than the intermediaries who are trying to sell their product. Jan, great opinion will. Im going to tell you which businesses are getting in on the celebration. Tomorrow on squawk box. Doesnt make, former yahoo president susan becker and more, did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Im a rainmaker. I make it rain. Madoff securities is the Worlds Largest ponzi scheme. Thats what you get for believing in magic. We got a problem, bernie. Lives are going to be destroyed with this thing. How much did you lose . 50 billion. This is really our crowd right here. Coming up, our newsmaker of the morning, ceo Randall Stephenson will join us, including the 85 billion time warner deal. Well look at u. S. Equity futures, higher across the board. Youre watching squawk. Good morning, welcome back to squawk box right here on cnbc. Among the stories that are front and center at this hour, cereal maker kellogg out, besting estimates at 7 cents, gave a fullyear forecast that pfalls largely above current consensus. And there are signs of a turn around going on in brazil, the second biggest market. Better than expected First Quarter sales were helped by an improved price mix as drinkers go for more expensive beers. Job cuts fell 15 in april from the prior monday saying yeartoday job cuts were the lowestthe year. I dont know if you saw, arconik has now a so that just happened crossing the wires a little bit ago. Were about a half ament away from weekly jobless claims, also productivity and costs. Also the trade deficit. The market is up above 40 points on the session. Weve been positive most all day long, europe has been positive. Maybe its a little bit of a sigh of relief that there was no real horrible moment for macron yesterday, just some funny moments maybe. Got seven minutes to go. Theres the 10year. Rick santelli standing by. Give us the numbers, please. All right. Lets start out with jobless claims, a pretty big drop. 19,000, from 257,000 to 238,000, 1. 964 million on the continuing claims, 33. 7 billion deficit, thats minus 43. 7. Thats aso somewhat lot rahal what i always think now is most important set of productivity points, preliminary not a good number, down 0. 6 . We were expecting a light negative. Thats a bit more than the light lengths. From 1. 3 to 1. 8. On our last wook our first look at the last number was 1. 7. Now it 1. 3. So 3 is pretty much a big deal. How did the market react to that little any nm some of the other data points, especially our final read on durable good. The plim rip reads are like puzzles with. Lets get over to steve looezman for the datait needs to be brought back up though you can average is in with al the reinvestigations there out there. What now is the odd for the june p prn. But thats where we are. It was around the low 60s, jumped up to 75 . Taking a look at the keys there to that is the statement the fed made about that wook be week. Joe, a lot of interesting stuff to come here, the second hike of the year looks fairly baked in. There will be debate about whether or not they do that third hike or do they end up reducing the balance street instead of that third hike, joe . Thanks, steve. We still need you. Everything you know what term everybody uses now, like a fire hose trying to take a drink from a fire hose with the news cycle. Like yesterday it was, you know, it was a boss, which any other day that would have been the biggest thing in a week and instead there was health care and comey and today you got all this stuff going on. So we still need you but just doesnt feel quite as relevant joe, there ale is it or the roon nal. So people are still sort of misunderestimate being the fed on this. Right. And peters comments were key. He said they want a hike in june. Youre going to misuse underestimate. Im going to use refeudate. Were not refeudating your work. Its different now. Im the one whos always wanted this to happen. Pass the ball, pass the buck to the fiscal side. We used to have a nice, pleasant job. I could be on the golf course with an official by 3 00 in the old days. Not anymore now. Those two things dont go together because casting and the golf swing are in fact, this next guest can comment on that. We got randal. We have so much to talk about. The new survey out this morning, more of what ceos are expecting. Randall stephenson, at t chairman and ceo, actually when you do that. As you know, joe, im the last person in america who ought to be giving golf eninstructions so lets move on. Ceos should not be good golfers. I fit the bill. Ive succeeded. Lets start because were talking about business round table and talking about tax reform and then well talk to some of the or its importan toxplain that it jus not a tax cut. Its a way to get hiring and a way to get jb. I think thats something you need to focus on were inv t investi investing, Corporate America is investing. You can go back to world war ii. Those go hand in hand. If you can have a tax reduction of 35 down to to think it wouldnt cost, its none as soon as cawe would investment in the house that its 3,000 additional jobs we have to put on to put that captain on the so these are high paying, really good jobs with great benefits. So the correlation is very be very fight. If squm so all of this fit to the. And lower taxes drives more investment, drives more hiring, drives great are wages. In the past youve been very strock would do if they tell you theyre not going to invest if something happens, they can actually make that happen, not hire people, not expand. If we got above zero on Interest Rates and we got some fiscal and transcat go and Financial Engineering for pr. Of course. Its arithmetic, right . If you take the tax of the profits on the investment you make down, meaningfully, you will get more investment. Er frrp regulation, it effectively a cox pb we saw the opposite happen with title two, real stringent rules by the prior fss. T the. Sffrmt it may n be what ceos do no, no, no, i think in randals case, its 100 true and accurate so im not disputing what randal is saying at all. The question is and in businesses like his that want to spend more on infrastructure and feel look they cant or theyre being held back, this is a huge boone. The question is there are other types of businesses that you would imagine would wait for demand and the question is whether you can get that full circle to rap. We all have a will the of prrn you drop the tax rates down as were talking about doing here, there will be a step up in investment. If you go a step further, as chairman ryan, speaker ryan is suggesting, and allow immediately ability of investment. If america isnt invesing, nm or a gathering at a Corner Grocery store. While we have you here, lets talk about the deal and the prospects of change. I would just say this, that President Trump did campaign a certain way. I think there have been some differences in the type of governing yuriing that initial on session that he expressed to your deal, that may be less now and it more likely that can have it what they do to decide on andy trust issues or ive had no conversations directly. The deal is front of the department of justice. Theyll do it. Theyre doing their so far things look good. Can we talk real briefly media stocks took a hit yesterday because of a real anxiety around cord cutting. What do you think is going on . Its a real surprise, people cutting the cord or never getting the cord, if you will. Thats why we launched directv now. Its had a terrific amount of success. So, look, whats happened over the course of the last few years is content costs continue to escalate. They continue to go up and up and a lot of so theyre opting identity of there see every googling, whether its youll low thats more directed toward pacific consumers at a lower price point, and a lo the coming up to the prorty Companies Like yours in terms of net knew tramt no, we need congressional action. Nobody argues whether the key provisions of Net Neutrality ought to be in place. There should be rules against blocking and throttling and so forth. Those are really, really important to have. The fcc is in a quandary. They dont have really the authority they need to make those rules legitimate. So we need something out of congress to pass simple legislation that basically codifies this no throttling and so forth into law. And i think that is, theres going to be years of lit gays around this. Thats exactly whats playing out and thats exactly whats going to continue unless Congress Puts in place rules that make this very clear, who has the rules of authority. Did you watch cnn at all . Have you seen it lately, randal sp. Of i was going to ask you about mark wahlberg. Hes played in the at t at publ beach today. I like the commercial. I do. I think that you dont even have to pay him probably. Ere. And when we return, President Trump is giving boeings faa team super hornet new life. We did see a dip below 47. Ins its been over 100 years since the first stock index was created, as a benchmark for average. Yet a lot of people still build portfolios with strategies that just track the benchmarks. 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Well be following this story all day and keep you posd with the latest. Thank youery much. Elan miler. Hes got a look inside boeings 18foot production line. Good morning, morgan. Good morning, melissa. This is is an aa18, it is the jamming plane from the f18 super hornes. Both players are made here in solution and boeing says it is ready to make more. For decades, the fighter family has dominated carrier decks. But with Lockheed Martin expecting to expecting to be operational next year, many speculated that the days could be numbered. Enter President Trump, spurring a pentagon review and in february saying hes looking at a quote, big order. Now, that coming on the heels of years of take talks between boeing and the navy about the need to replace the fighter jets. And now the production is poised to double. Today were producing two ships per month, Super Hornets and growlers and as we think of the additional need of the airplanes we can see that going up to three or four per month by some time in the early 20s. The budget thats moving through congress right now includes an allotment for 14 new Super Hornets and boying expects the navy to and boeing expects the navy to buy more trains through 2022. That will ensure the f a18s dominance well into the 2040s, but guys in focus whether the new plane orders are the traditional Super Hornets or a more advanced version. Boeing makes the argument that the newer planes which cost about 3 million more would serve as a good complement to the f35s and planes like this growler behind me. Back over to you. All right, see you later, morgan. When we return, can apple ceo tim cook lift apple iphone out of the rut . Well show you what he said to jim cramer coming up. I am benedict arnold, the infamous traitor. And i know a thing or two about trading. So i trade with e trade, where true traders trade on a trademarked trade platform that has all the. Get off the computer traitor i wont. cannon sound whether its connecting one of or bringing wifi to 65,000 fans. Causes. Businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. We didnt grow in china. But we did remarkably better than we did over the second laugh of last year which is what we expected and its what we delivered. And we feel that well do even better there this quarter. That was apple ceo tim cook speaking to jim cramer last night on mad money. He joins us now from san francisco. That was great to hear it there. I love your reaction. Did you know for sure it hadnt been because i would be like, i hope this isnt the first anyones hearing of it. Because then it would you know, if he had already announced it, you didnt know about , youd look bad. No, that was the first time. He was he knew i was going to press him on jobs. He knew that because apple had been part of the campaign promise. Like what are they going to do for jobs, so when i pressed him which is kind of followup on what trump was saying, he revealed that. I was thrilled that he revealed that. I think he probably waited until i got out there because he did not do it on the conference call. I think that this was a very important initiative. Yeah. What do you think like we were talking about well, a billion dollars to apple doesnt seem like a lot, but what do you think it could end up being . Thats just the beginning, right . What would really, you know what would be commensurate with what apple is capable of doing if they were all in . 10 or 20 . What do you think . Go ahead. Look, i think that they could build a lot here. He praised the austin facility. Obviously theres parts of the new phone that we believe are going to be made here. Not sure what that is. But in general, i think that the man is just saying, if you give us the tax reform, it sounds like a billion. Look, we can borrow. Most companies cant borrow. Thats why its really vital. But i think they can put more behind it once they see what comes of it. 1 billion, nobody else is doing anything. Even though they have a lot of cash, i thought look, were here, were building a lot here. I thought it was one of the things that thprident should take notice and give him a call today. You know ticook, it was a few years ago over a year ago he emailed you about china. Now china has been problematic. Do you think that was that email damage control or was it totally forthcoming . No, that was two years ago when things were really flying and then there are obviously some cross currents there. Theyre not buying some of the older phones. I think that will change. All right, we have to run. See you in a couple of minutes. Thanks. The power of the Nasdaq Market. 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In fact, watch a lot of the commodities, oil breaks 47. Now the lowest since november