Transcripts For CNBC Squawk On The Street 20170817

Walmart is down on earnings and well dig through that report and talk about the Amazon Effect and shares on alibaba spiking on earnings first up though, the watch is on to see what effect this could have on the trump agenda a few of the quotes jamie dimon i strongly agree with the president s statements must speak against ideas that divide us. Im ashamed of our president s behavior what does this all mean for the agenda and the degree to which business was going to help push it no republican that ive seen has called ut trump by name the way some of these ceos have an theres a desire to get something done in tax reform but repeal and replace that budget are going to be ahead of that and i think that they themselves will be more attracted because of this. If you look at the calendar its probably not possible but it wouldnt have mattered either way because i dont think the ceos are able to influence congress and congress has its own agenda. The thinking was tax reform specifically was going to get a big push during the vesz areces with the help of the round table or others. I just think youre either in favor of the tax reform or youre not and the ceos want tax reform and their views are known. They have made their statements and i think that they, its really just the listics and the time frame and the time frame has gotten better bad. All right so its a mechanism. Its not whether things happen or they dont know, that didnt change but the timing may have changed. Yes we have to do tax reform everybody accepts it were going to talk to probably one of the ceos most impacted by tax reform in a few minutes. You may believe that tax reform is going to happen with rep repatriation the ceos outlined what they want they dont need to be outlining it over and over again. Obviously a huge story yesterday as companies try to workout this political calculus. Walmart is the other big story moving lower despite better than expected Second Quarter results. The dow components with a 12th straight quarterly increase in comps. They did raise the low end of the full year guidance but the Current Quarter guidance is below the midpoint and margin versus gotten some attention. Yes, mar jins got some attention but theyre shifting so rapidly so ecommerce, you have to put walmart on the plane of amazon. There could be some gross margin pleasu pressure if this stock were at 78 it would go to 80 but its at 80 so it goes to 78. Sometimes that period happens. Walmart is the beacon throughout this period. Coach just imploding and dicks the stock didnt do anything so it didnt go down with the group so when we finally see the number we get a little bit of a profit taking but this is not l brands which also reported this is against expectations. Thats interesting. Strongest grocery comp in five years. Thats what im worried about. Worried about groceries are under pressure throughout the country and they had a little inflation but youre going to talk about eggs and milk and eggs and milk and what i like and theyre going to be tough. Fastest grocery comp before the walmart acquisition is absorbed and they start drivi driving. I dont think that walmart would want any of its suppliers. You mentioned it before. When microsoft that partnered with scisco has a great data center alphabet they call every one of these supply yes, sir and say lets get on the phone with red hat and move it over i think amazon has an achilles heel. Your point is walmart has some leverage that maybe underappreciated. Walmart has more leverage than in many cases the government. Notice Doug Mcmillan when he comes out against or for anything now southwest airlindo i like as our people without paying a membership fee they are going after amazon like no one i have ever seen and mcmillan is a quite soft spoken fella but have to tell you if i were amazon i would say, these guys arent rolling over and playing dead and im going to call all of my customers for Amazon Web Services and say, you know, lets talk maybe lets talk means ill charge less. Thats interesting, by the way, a number of stores, locations at walmart now doing online. They have to keep that because theyre so close to every consumer remember they have a brick and mortar model that they can convert and thats gross margin pressure they convert to be able to be the depot then what you have is amazon buying a 400 store chain which is not that close to everybody and high prices maybe they can slash that versus walmart being a place where you can take things back it is easy to ship things back from amazon and sometimes i wonder howl people get it down and then ship it right back. Thats a rental organization with that scott paper towel blue tuxedo i wore but im watching this and thinking okay walmart and mcmillan is underestimated why . Because he does not carry himself as if he is a goliath. He comes out as a david. Sort of the antielon. Totally thats a good one. He actually recognized it but mcmillan actually thinks im a person. Yes, when we come back theres a lot to talk about with Chuck Robbins including earnings and of course how American Business is dealing with the white house right now. Take a look at the premarket as we look at some weakness on the back of cisco and walmart. A lot more after a break times up, insufficient were on prenatal care. Es. And administrative paperwork. Your days of drowning people are numbered. Same goes for you, budget overruns. And rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. Were coming for you, too. For those who wont rest until the world is healthier, neither will we. Optum. How well gets done. Tmobile announces zero down for all. Now, get the whole family the hottest smartphone brands like Samsung Galaxy for zero down. Plus, get 4 unlimited lines for 40 bucks a month, taxes and fees included. More reasons why tmobile is americas best unlimited network. For years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. 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Number one when i became ceo two years ago i said were going to increase the pace of innovation particularly in our Core Technologies and what you saw in june was this beginning of a cycle of innovation that were going to bring forward when we launch this new era of networking that was incredibly well received by the analysts and our customers, our partners, our employees, theres an excitement about that and youll see that continue over the next few years and this was the beginning of that and the second piece is in this Business Model transition that we talked about as we shift more of our business to software and subscription we got some great metrics this quarter. Our deferred revenue grew 50 and now sitting at 5 billion and two quarters ago you and i sat in San Francisco and i said jim thats sitting at 4 billion so we have gone from 4 billion to 5 billion in two quarters and we also had the First Quarter where 1 billion of our product revenue came from recurring offers which is growing 40 year over year and during this transition we also had record eps, we had record cash flow so were executing really well and were also working on bringing these two together where this new networking platform that we bil built were going to integrate that which is something we have never seen before and we have seen early success with that as well. I agree 31 recurring revenue. Thats really monumental but then you go to the next page which is totally transparent and you see product categories, switching down 9 . Mgm rally down 9 . Data center down 4 kt. Service provider video down 10 . Wireless up 5 and security up 3 so all of those things are some what masked by the different categories dont you have to reorganize the way you report chuck because youre reporting in a way that doesnt show frankly the changes that youre making. Youre exactly right and we actually expected when we gave guidance last quarter some of the results we saw today obviously and the switching portfolio in particular. We knew we would be making the launch in mid june we knew wed pause and take a look at the newa architecture bu i think this quarter we began by showing more of the me tricks around our Software Business as a data point our Software Business today if you look at the size of it first of all, our Software Business and you look at where that would stack us up against Software Companies you would be surprised 51 of our overall Software Business, think about how it used to be an integrated software system. 51 this quarter came from subscriptions which is a huge shift so we are going to next quarter begin to change how we cat fworize and how we report our technologies what a week we had where ceos are having to deal with political questions in ways theyre not used to. You have some experience on this so far you havent been on these particular councils. What is being said among your peers . What advice do you give to your peers that are more directly affected did they do the right thing and how does the relationship change now . Well, first of all, everyone one of these ceos has to make a personal decision based on their company, their own conscience and what they believe and i think thats what all of them have done and i communicated with several of them as they have gone through this process but what happened this weekend its incomprehensible that were even having this conversation in 2016 as americans and as cisco we absolutely abhor racism, white supremacy. None of it is acceptable period. We need to drive job growth. We need to drive gdp growth. If you see the latest numbers you see areas around the world beginning to accelerate ahead of us which shouldnt be happening given where we are we need tax reform and those things that we have to focus on and just because of what has transpired over the last weeks we cant abdecate the need to get those things done and finally i think in my opinion this country needs to focus on the things that unite us and have united us from the beginning and made this country great and stop focussing every day on the things that we disagree on. Thats just my opinion about how we need to move forward. I share your opinion and you know that. Chuck, are you capable, meaning the business committee, not just you, of being a force now working with the president and i say that because you have 70. 5 billion in cash. Chuck i want to buy your stock if you can repatriate that money but does that make it so that its less like lie thly that th happen you said it earlier theres lots of ways to work with washington to get the right outcome for the American People and the Business Community which i think are very aline on this topic and working with congress that actually has to craft a bill and working with the house and senate and trying to get that done. Theres lots of ways for tous t still work with washington and i dont think regardless of the decisions that ceos made over the last few days i dont think anyone plans on abandoning the partnership that we need to have with the United States government on key issues related to policy that impact not only our companies but also the wellbeing of the country Going Forward. Now you have a huge federal business and i love the federal business you talk about how it could get better you talk about that. Have you ever concerned about being outspoken about what happened in washington could that hurt the shareholders im not speak negatively about the Administration Im just speaking about what needs to be done and our customers in the federal space we have Wonderful Partnership with them. We build Great Solutions to help them achieve their Mission Every day and were going to continue to do that as we talk about our federal business in q3 with a continuing resolution not being clear that it created challenges for us we saw later in our quarter in q4 after the budges became clearer we saw some improvement and now we have to get through the next 90 days and the next budget timetable but were very confident in our ability to bring value to the customers and they feel the same way. You used words like the u. S. Government, washington, you havent addressed the president by name. Does the relationship with the president change well, i think that, carl, look what happened over the weekend brought to a head an issue that the country needed uniting words. We needed words that were going to bring the country together around what happened this weekend. And i dont think we got those words. From him you mean thats what we need to focus on is how do we bring the country together now we focus too much on the things that divide us and its not going to serve us well on any point as we move forward. Chuck, i feel im doing disservice to the accomplishments that youre taking i think people dont understand. I want to point out how much of the transition do you think youre ahead versus say a year ago and would you ever think that you could be valued at say only 10 times 2020 earning ifs the transition occurs because of the deferred revenue we really see a different kind of number. You know jim if you look at our business, first of all if you go back a year ago and you look at how much progress we made we made a significant amount of transition in our collaboration business moving to cloud and our security business moving to software and subscription and even in our wireless business moving to cloud based management and now were beginning that journey into our Core Technologies we launched enterprise license agreements and software in the enterprise about 2. 5 years ago and we have 20,000 customers that bought those at this point. I think if you tried to value the company and you broke it down into components of how you would look at it i think that overtime goitits going to taker of itself and im really pleased with how the company embraced this transition is how the company embraced this shift to software and how much our customers and partners want us to move in this direction which makes it easier. I want to thank you for coming on. Chuck is the ceo of scisco and thank you for answering questions. I think we all recognize its part of the dialogue that has to be discussed. Thank you guys. Well get cramers mad dash as we countdown to the opening bell take another look at the premarket. Some red on your screen this morning. Opening bell in about 7 minutes. With at t you can get your entertainment right here. Right now, when you get the incredible iphone 7 from at t you can get unlimited data and live tv. The channels you love. Your favorite shows and movies. Making your iphone into more of a. Oh my tv is ringing. Hey. Im in the middle of a. A second iphone from at t . Okay right now when you buy a new iphone 7 from at t youll get a second iphone 7 on us. And power both with unlimited data and live tv. Adults are just kids with much, much better toys. The cclass sedan, coupe and cabriolet. The thrills keep getting better. Lease the c300 sedan for 399 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. 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He talks to planes. He talks to planes. Watch this. Hey watson, whats avionics telling you . Maintenance records and performance data suggest replacing capacitor c4. Not bad. Whats with the coffee maker . Sorry. We are not on speaking terms. Time for cramer and mad dash. Amazon doesnt really care about the bottom line. Last year delivering alpha, interviewed the executive team and they told me that we can really grow at a level that no one has ever seen. Carl today they do 1. 17 revenue plus 58 , 466 Million People we forget that that Chinese Market we only have 317 million in our country so this was a remarkable quarter. Someone asked me on twitter why didnt you run this through your Charitable Trust and i answered because i was wrong. Youre always straight about it, jim. Well. It does bring to mind some of the interviews that steve bannon has given in the last 24 hours one of which he says the economic war to china to him is everything that unless the country does something china will wind up dominant in five years or so. Its a tough issue because have been, well before the president i always felt china played unfair. I saw our Steel Industry decimated. I understand also if you do tariffs that signifies the wrong thing and theres a faction in the white house that says tariffs arent economic and then theres someone like my idol that used to run a very good Steel Company that says we cant put these people out of business its case by case but the Steel Industry does need help from china but you know what, korea, south korea and europe dont play fair. I wish we have a lot of trade partners that dont play fair. Lets get to the opening bell and the s p at the bottom of the screen its Community Options providing Housing Support to developmentally disabled individuals. At the nasdaq its Discovery Communications and the science channel celebrating the solar eclipse. My daughter is in the path and id love to go visit her but have to work. And if you buy classes might not get here in time. My daughter is in oregon and it is going to be a game changer for system peoples lives its going to remind us how small we are. You have to remember that. Down about 67 . You mentioned it earlier today. Theres guys sticking by it but i rarely laugh at research but jeffreys came out with data again. Ten reasons why you should tell l brands and really list them talking about pricing, Victoria Secret not that good but most important, 1100 victorias secrets and bath and body works and theyre in the mall the answer is they havent they could still pay the dividend i believe but id love to hear what they could pay the dividend and buy back stock and the fact is that mall based retailing is no go. Thats a turn from a couple of years ago when they were the poster child for consistency because of the power of brands like vs. Yes, Victoria Secret was something that overrode everything margins are in trouble there pink has been a total stand out. He would tell you that pink is doing very, very well but at the same time, sometimes you are what your record says you are and this one is is going lower. Retail is going to be a laggerd this morning along with the xle that someone pointed to on the chart setting some new lows that break out that we had in the latter part of junejuly is fading. Big time. Big time and i think that matters. Theres certain sectors in this market that are in plain old bare markets and when i look at the energy i saw chevron rolling over yesterday the leader of the big caps. I think it can go to 39 or 40. Really . Lower than years prior. Yes, the failure at this price was rather, it was breathtaking because opec did nothing. The future selling was really great. Very few quarters define what a company is which is Gross Margins going up more production and costs under control so yeah, you cant buy them yet as much as id like to because i love deep value. We were worried about the balance sheet. Ten years ago today exxon was the Biggest Company in the world. The Portfolio Manager wont eat these. There is an overriding sense that one day this could be the next coal. No 81 of our energy is still the same its not changing but it doesnt. I think this group has a little bit of tobacco fuel to it. Cash flows can be good but its got that overwhelming my kids are not going to be fossil fuelling. Without the dividend. At least not to the same degree. Some of the independents were so cheap that i would buy them but the leader, if you want to sew what can happen to your stock, go to a really Terrific Company that a long time ago took out its low and had to do an equity deal and on the pipeline you go to Energy Transfer partner which is is struggling to stay at 50 million shares the other day those are the leaders. Please wait until the future is settled. Dont forget, needs to go down tomorrow theyre talking about being Gross Margins better if he delivers it will be a fabulous thing. Scisco and walmart outsized o the dow. Some mention whether it can trade tomorrow the way they did after. Home depot, its the jackels on the analyst call and i apologize for them, the Analyst Community but i would point out that i think that could happen upon further review people will want to come back to walmart i am a big believer in Doug Mcmillan watch all the things he says on ecommerce that dominated his thinking i am very, very confident that walmart is going to be able to be the one that can challenge amazon. Thats a big call. Yeah. Thats a very big call. A couple of things we havent mentioned. Hershey got love on the sell side. It was very good. Mond mondelez has a new ceo they went after hershey. It didnt work i wish they had gotten them. Mondelez would be dramatically higher. And then united rentals. I have to tell you, this ceo, he is a brave man in the sense that he wants to expand his company into what a lot of people feels is slow growth environment. Look at his stock goes up on that acquisition which is one of the top ten, top 15 rental companies in the country but it was immediately 25 this is listen watch me when he came on mad money. We need to do acquisitions hes doing them. That stock could blow through 120 on the basis of that. Dow is down 53 though. Good morning, bob. Happy thursday. 21 declining through advancing stocks and walmart is not changing the detail our Market Leader and semiconductors and banks. Forget about it. Nothing going on there bio tech which is a Market Leader fractionally to the upside look at the major retailers this morning. Let me just note here, lb missed, cato corporation, they had a loss, they had a negative sales trend. Look at that, down 15 buckle is opening up 1 here for walmart its very simple this was a good report thats not changing the narrative its down for two reasons. Number one they raise the guidance on the low end but still leaves the boelow Analyst Consensus for the year this is the white line as walmart. The orange line is the s p retail xrt so walmart is up 17 and it reminds us what a difficult environment were in there you see it costco tjx huge moves here. Ross stores sals very weak down about 17 here we are getting revenue clips so targets will be about 6 below 2016 jcpenney about 1 . Macys about 8 . Kohls about 4 . Its very simple the 4th quarter is going to be very crucial here. People are just asking what are they going to do to innovate theres innovation j. C. Penney is adding pplianc appliances target is doing this enormous modeling of the stores so theyre making attempts but we dont have a sense that theyre turning things around to get Growth Investors want more than a bottom at this point its not enough to say same store sales are down they want growth thats what nobody can answer now. How do you get growth with sales going online, particularly in the 4th quarter and the margins lower because of the price competition. You cant . Thats what the problem is and thats why you have the xrt and everybody else sitting at 52 week lows. Finally yesterday traders glued to the tr set when they were announcing business committees were being disband and the feeling is its still very much alive. Congress is the main trooidrive tax reform and not the white house and everybody wants to see whats the news on passing the debt ceiling, raising the debt ceiling and the budget resolution and once those get done that will greatly increase the likelihood of tax reform everybody down here wants to know if it doesnt happen what happens to the market, generally 5 to 10 lower if tax reform doesnt happen thats the bottom line right now. So the dow is down 65 points back to you. Thank you lets get to the bond pitts as well and check in with rick santelli. Good morning, carl. Its been almost three years to the day that the european two year has been under zero without any trade above zero prior to august of 2014 it was slipping in and out but as you see on this chart, zero, were now minus 70 70 basis points and while all of that was going on of course they stacked up 17 quarters of positive growth in the dax and many stock markets around the globe have made new all time highs. You look at our two year over that same period and obviously its an ams to oranges but still fascinating were up about 73 basis points from august one week of tens yesterday it felt as though the buyers had completely taken everything back we holding below 220. Things start to change it changes as well foreign exchange, you know, yesterday rates moved down, the dollar moved down, but look at a one week of the euro versus the dollar it did regain the 117 handle but still looks as though maybe its going to have give back and a lot of this could be in the context of what traders are going to position themselves for as much as its been walked back in a variety of issues finally the mirror image its still a coin toss but it is fighting down here carl and jim back to you. All right rick thank you very much when we come back this morning, bill ackman addressing adp investors today. Well get a refrxaction in a fe moments. Dow down on the weakness from cisco and walmart. Back after a break im a big believer in you are what your record says you are. How have you done shareholder returns versus competitor paychecks and versus the s p 500 . Thats a great question, jim. Shareholder return was 202 during that period paychecks is 129 or 130 and i believe mr. Ackman is 29 or so. Thats interesting. I know the s p is up 128 . So its almost double the s p. When you go after a company thats wellknown as being the Gold Standard you can claim an its true that the margins may be too low given the fact that adp as i know as a customer is a high Touch Company is there a way to get the margins up even more without sacrificing business theres always ways to look at business to improve mar jins and adp does that particularly well its i impossible for me to imagine that you could double or triple mar jins as mr. Ackman is suggesting without losing much of what makes adp, adp but it is a company that has significantly transformed itself as its been described by him and his associates as a feet on the street operation its much more of a Technology Based company. Its something along the order of 83 or so of our customers are on a single version platform. Now let me just, so mr. Ackman buys a lot of stock and over the course of the last year what have the conversations been between mr. Ackman and you that he feels he has to get people on the board . Has it been contentious . Has his plan been presented to you . I stopped being chairman of adp in 2015. How is the negotiation going on what plan did he put forward. Dont hold me to the exact date jim but i think it was 2008, 7, 9 but he was a shareholder then and came into the stock and left the stock. Im not sure what he thought he saw then that he sees differently now. But there are activists and there are activists, its a broadly used term. It covers a full spectrum of people theres good activists and then theres more difficult activists. If the spectrum is 0 to 10 id say bill is probably on the 11 or 12 side of difficult to deal with. Difficult speaking of the style of all of this, the way this has come down to style, this is what rodriguez told us a couple of weeks ago about ackman himself take a listen. The real question i guess is why does he need an extension or why does he need an extension. Not how long is the extension or what did he ask for or really not ask for. Reminds me a little bit of a spoiled brat in school asking the teacher for an extension. So is there anyway ackman could have come at this differently and still got your attention . I think the first order of business is why adp . It seems to most illogical given the performance over time an given its history but anyone thats voted with their feet and their pocketbook meaningfully as mr. Ackman has should be listened to. You never know what kernel of good idea might come from whatever resources they have done to generate their investment pieces. So all of those conversations ought to be had by management and boards as we have done at one of the spin outs from adp, as we have done in another spin out from adp, but it doesnt have to be contentious or go to what this is which is a pointless proxy battle that serves no ones service in particular the shareholders that will bare the expense from the get go. The companies are telling me that he first contacted them on august 1 which means that, its not that long ago. No. I would have thought it would have been a much longer tdialoge where they feel like they get frustrated and then come forward but mr. Ackman is the dog ate my adp nominees but you know what, im a fellow like lincoln thank you for coming on. Its going to be with us for a long time. For quite sometime unfortunately for no good reason but i find another dog to go after. Dow is down 57. Well get to stock trading with jim after a short break. And if thats not enough. We should move. 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That is a lot of Cost Technology whether it be hp or any company that makes some hardware and i want to tell you that the stock has been strong they expected that prices were going to come down in those cases micron is a buy she could have easily said, she just gave up she could have said i see prices coming down but she is way too honest to have her go out on that rim i like her very much even though its spelt with a k. Whats on mad tonight we have aaron levie he has been outspoken about the president but also how great his cash flow is which is something i want to focus on i didnt sign up for this. Well tackle the mission whatever it is. Exactly and dr. Gaur, allurion, weight loss theres a universal precept. That could unite us. Theres an issue toii want t get behind. Well see you tonight cramer mad money 6 00 p. M. 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And the retail earnings parade continues walmart reporting a big quarter. Well discuss what has that stock falling. Business leaders walking away from the president s Economic Advisory groups in protests over his response to charlottesville. The move prompted the president to dissolve those councils via twitter. Aman joins us live near the president s new jersey home with more on the fall out good morning. Good morning, carl. The president had a chance to reflect. He is here in his new jersey golf resort. Were just a couple of miles away monitoring developments the president had a chance to reflect on everything that happened and he made a political decision here this morning he decided to continue to make statements about the confederacy this morning in a series of tweets let me bring you what he tweeted in the past hour sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and mon yuments a reference to confederate st h statues. You cant change history but you can learn from it. Robert e. Lee, stone wall jackson, who is next washington, jefferson . Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities towns and parks will never be able to be replaced. Not sure why he has decided to continue to make statements given all thats happened this week but its a political decision that the president is now doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on. However you want to describe it thats what is happening here in new jersey this morning. Lets review how we got to where we are today an incredible 48 hours or just over 48 hours in corporate American History starting at about 8 00 in the morning on monday when ken frazier said he was resigning from the president S Manufacturing council. Shortly after that the president attacked merck on twitter saying that frazier would have more time to lower rip off drug prices now that he was stepping off of the council but that didnt stem the tide we saw more ceos continue to resign from various councils and affiliations throughout the following hours on tuesday 1 21 p. M. The president tweeted that the ceos quitting his council are grand standers and that he has many who are in line to take his place and then on tuesday at 4 00 p. M. We saw a fiery and angry press conference in trump tower where the president held a News Conference an impromtu News Conference sthag very fine people, ceos were resigning an not taking their jobs seriously still though, ceos and executives continue to resign from the various councils and affiliations up until wednesday at about 12 50 p. M. Thats when you had the Conference Call of the strategic and policy forum ceos from various sectors deciding they that couldnt move forward with that council deciding to disband it we saw the public announcements of additional ceos resigning and yesterday the president tweeted he was dissolving the strategic and policy forum at least 9 after that released statements rebuking the president of the United States in the harshest terms. One saying he was ashamd ed of h president s conduct. Not clear that the president s continuing to tweet this morning will do anything to repair his relationship with the Business Community. Well have to watch for the fall out politically otherwise from this mornings barrage of tweets from the president of the United States. Aman well come back to you what happened over the weekend brought to a head an issue that the country needed, you know, uniting words. We needed words that would bring the country together around what happened this weekend and i dont think we got those words. For more on the president s relationship with business were joined by former National Association of manufacturers ceo and the 46th governor of michigan its good to have you back good morning to you. Good to be with you. We have the disbanding of the councils people ask questions what happens next what if gary cohn leaves the Economic Council do you think thats likely do you have any edge on that intelligence i dont i hope he stays because i think hes the star of the administration and is an important figure when figuring out how were going to go forward with tax reform and infrastructure agenda. We need gary there and we need b bannon to quite down and let him do his job general kelly has to tamp all of this down over there and its tough when the guy at the top has his own mind and willing to speak through twitter. Do you believe the president has any interest in Building Back the bridge between himself and these Business Leaders i hope he has an interest in getting his agenda done and as such then you try to build coalitions thats what governors do and successful political leaders do. You bring people together and he needs 218 votes in the house he needs 60 votes most of the time in the u. S. Senate and you bring that together not by dividing people and class fieg them and singling them out but trying to figure out what do we agree on and theres a lot we should be proud of the Business Leadership in this country. Theyre focused on the nation. Theyre leaders themselves the president is talking about his election which is increasingly in the Rearview Mirror but they face an election every day in the marketplace. And to that point, governor, dont you think that when koimts to issue like tax, infrastructure and many issues that are already on going in discussion with members of the Administration Like Work Force Development and apprenticeships and deregulation, that press conference before it got high ja jacked by the president he was putting in place an executive order to cut down the regulation process on infrastructure. Arent ceos going to come to that discussion even if theyre not going to have the photo ones. Sure it matters frankly very little you still have the business round table. You the chamber of commerce and a lot of groups that can talk on behalf of the larger Business Community. I think theyre just as credible ceos are just as credible. Theres a lot of ways to have input and i would say they have a great opportunity. I think the ceos obligation is to put Forward Solutions because it seems the white house is struggling. Where are the plans . Put them out there so we have something to start with. Thats the whole reason health care collapsed nobody had a plan. They had a lot of positions but nobody had a plan and i this the business round table has a plan on tax reform that would be spectacular if it could be adopted. The business round table has plans on parts of infrastructure but not the whole enchill la da so thats something where we can all work together. Theres a lot of work to be done and Business Leaders are well aware that the congress is a coequal branch. Usually the executive is able to put some of their positions in to actual policy proposals this group hasnt figured that out yet but thats an opening for congress and business to work together. Governor, is there a possibility that this shakes congress into action almost an opposite reaction to what a lot of people are talking about if theyre thinking ahead what ticket am i going to run on in midterms next year and they realize we need to have some legislative achievements to offset the negatives they fear they might be associated with. I think thats a very good point and i think the one thing the president is probably willing to assign whatever hits his desk so in that sense he almost removed himself from the process so i would say to congress lets have at it. The big problem in congress is that you have some hardcore groups in there and they do fall on the right and the left. Some are full, flat out resistance anything that could be done or opposed because President Trump might get credit if it isnt my way then we shouldnt do it. Its give and take and compromising sometimes you take what you can get. If you can get 60 and not 100 take the 60 and validate the direction youre headed in and you get the other 40 later on. You talk about congress being a coequal branch. Thats true but less so when it comes to trade to me he says the economic war with china is everything we have to be focused on that. If we continue to lose it were five years away, ten years at the most of hitting an Inflection Point from which we will never be able to recover. Are you worried about that like all things theres elements to be concerned when i was at the round table theres great corporate concern about the intellectual properties of the chinese. It seems to be unabated at the moment and the policy is to figure out how to insource everything and often by acquiring the u. S. Technology or intellectual property so thats a big deal there needs to be a strategy there. I think that trade generally speaking is very poimportant. Thats been a big winner in my opinion. It was a huge savior of the Auto Industry it brought the Auto Industry back so theres things that can be done there but you dont throw nafta out. I thought not Going Forward with the Transpacific Partnership that would have been a check on china and thats why bannon is completely wrong and other people are right if youre going to check china then you build stronger relationships with other tragd partners you dont put yourself solely in that chinese basket so i think bannons style behind the scenes and the opposite of team work something that kelly had to agree with i dont think an administration having these debates in public are helpful to congress and figuring out what to do and often it can give a few people what they think is licensed to go off in a direction that doesnt get you to the finish line. Yeah. We will see what the president said about steve bannon. So on the nafta point now that the administration has officially kicked off the reopening of this negotiation and talks do you have confidence that theyll be able to deliver something, tangible changes that will help industry as youre talk about and may or may not decrease the trade deficit will this president consider it a win if it doesnt decrease our trade deficit with mexico and canada thats his prerogative and im not sure that thats possible in this modern day trade negotiati negotiation. One thing is first of all what is the actual deficit the way we score this sometimes is very confusing and doesnt give tus the whole picture ill take mitch. Theres some parts of a car that go back and forth across the border im not sure that we capture that effectively but i can tell you that has allowed for companies in michigan to be competitive and in some case opened up new markets for them and i also think this is an area where Business Leaders go far, far out in front theres an understanding that growth is the driver how do we get that we got 6 million jobs today and many of those are good jobs. One of the reasons that there are these jobs that are open, can we bring more back to the u. S. You bet. We can be more competitive but that means fixing your infrastructure and getting your tax structure right. Part of the problem is we have so many people that want to grab ahold of one piece and say thats unrelated or not interrelated to Everything Else and my view thats just the wrong way to look at it. Finally governor, i know you said you want cohn to stay and any idea what the fall out would look like. I think the one thing, i worry that its going to be hard to recruit people to come into the administration if they think theres such a lack of loyalty or you could find yourself being tossed over the side if you fall out of favor with a group that you didnt even appreciate had a significant role to play this is general kellys challenge. The president isnt going to change donald trump isnt changing. We have to deal with what we got. Almost all the ceos on these councils never met donald trump before they appointed these councils i heard one station suggest they were all friends and tight allies theyre not. Thats the challenge for donald trump being in that private company all of his life he has been cocooned away the responsibility of a public ceo is a very differ role and i think if cohn were to leave, hes been a bridge, globalists tendencies that bannon wants to fight. A lot of that is in his mind rolling around what the president has talked about from time to time thats growth in america and thats jo jobs thats something that cohn is very interested in very important to let the labor secretary and the education secretary get going on that agenda theres just so much work to be done and the president diverts all the time from the real focus. Governor we appreciate your time and insight much appreciated today. Thank you very much. When we come back, ackman ramping up the pressure on adp right now make his case to investors. We have the late frst on that one company dodging industry issues has been walmart but shares are falling this morning. Well dig through the report taking a look at stocks at this hour, most Industry Groups are lower. Walmart is hurting the dow taking 12 points off the dows lbeiginrit w. E ghno wel rht back. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . 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They need to stem client losses there and improve technology they said they could actually increase the operating margins by as much as 2,000 basis points increase the value per share of 221 to 225 per share by 2021 so obviously this presentation and before the presentation has received quite a fair dose of skepticism by analysts and investors saying adp has performed quite well over the last year and in response to that skepticism about adps condition the company has actually been masking their big issues. In my experience when a company reduces disclosure and its gotten worse over the past six or seven years as a company thats not a good thing. Usually means the company is trying to hide something and obviously losing clients in enterprise that would be the thing you wouldnt want people to know. Specifically hes talk about the cash that comes through adp and holds up for about a day thats from employers before distributing it to payroll which he says overstates the operational profitability relative to its competitors. In terms of mr. Ackmans recent issues himself in terms of performance and high profile stock mistakes does that make it harder for him to make his case as to why he should be listened to as an 80 kviactivist investo . They used that defense from day one with they pointed out how their performance under the current Ceo Carlos Rodriguez is up 202 since he took his position thats certainly something that bolstered their case it will be interesting to see what investors say when theyre able to vote next month on ackmans three nominees that he he supports including himself. Leslie thank you for that well let you get back to the next 100 slides or so of that presentation. When we come back, shares of walmart falling despite the beat for the retailer stocks at this hour, session lows here in a market is a tad nervous. Down 123 well be right back. Their experience is coveted. Their leadership is instinctive. Theyre experts in things you havent heard of researchers of technologies that one day, you will. Some call them the best of the best. Some call them veterans. We call them our team. Revenue up 58 from a year earlier. That brings the 12 month gains for the stock to around 70 . Sticking with earnings shares of walmart the other way. Lower this morning despite beating on the top and bottom lines, u. S. Online sales surging 60 but the company raising the lower end of its guidance. Lets bring in the senior managing director here at post nine thank you. So bob you like this stock and, in fact, just raised your target what do you think is bothering the market here . Guidance or margins . The expectations increase going into the results and i think the comp was a really good comp, people wanted to be a little bit better. The stock is within 5 of the 52 week high so it was more of an expectation piece and then when you look at the higher end. 63. So it sounds like nothing to change your thesis here. Absolutely not. I think bob said it well. Expectations were high particularly on the heels of target yesterday he put up 2. 1 growth in traffic. Its been a long time since target has seen a greater increase in traffic than walmart. Now the key here is when can walmart see sustained profitability improvements and generate Earnings Growth i dont know that we got a lot of evidence to support either side here so tsa part of the reason why the stock is down today. Michael we always talk about the Competition Online of course but theyre facing a bit of competition at the lower end in terms of bricks and Mortar Stores is that taking a big effect on the margin or is this a question of amazon verse walmart overall . Youre exactly right. Walmart is facing competition on all sides of the business. What thats probably going to do is put downward pressure on its mar ji margins over the long run as it has to make these investments in order to win there is a big part of the story. They have been investing for a couple of years and part of the forward looking expectations is that expenses will get some leverage and i believe that for this stock to continue to work, we have to see the top line continue but we need to see the bottom line start to pick up and accelerate and i believe over the next 12 days and months were going to see that. They have a commitment to expense leverage for the year which means some evidence in the back half of the year. I think they have been very diligent and be able to achieve that. Since you compared it to target, target is down 20 this year walmart is up a little more than that amount. Which is the better buy . Well, walmart certainly has the momentum the larger ecommerce business one way to look atwal mart is its on pace to have 25 million of gross merchandise value by the end of this year fix a three times multiple on that its about a 75 billion business you take the rest of its market cap an its basically trading in line with a target and a kroger so its not as though the market has not acknowledged some of the very favorable trends that walmart has experienced. I think over the long run thats going to push momentum behind it and they can probably do better from a stock perspective. Well leave it there. Thank you very much for talking walmart today. Story of the morning now lets get to sue herrera for cnbc news update at this hour. Good morning, everyone. Heres whats happening at this hour joint chiefs of staff chairman meeting with chinese president in beijing culminating his visit to china now those two countries signing an agreement that would pave the way toward improving military communication. You and President Trump have committed through our improvement in military relations and we approached it with great commitment, candor and we certainly want to deliver results. More than 30,000 Public School students in guam returning to class this as tensions between the u. S. And north korea decline a little bit but some g aurksuam officials are worried about the effect of planned military drills involving u. S. And south korean forces. The number of Labor Day Weekend travellers is expected to jump 5 thats according to an Airline Industry group 16. 1 Million People are expected to fly between august 30th and september 5th. Thats the news update this hour ill send it back downtown carl i cant believe were talking about labor day at this point. What a fast summer. It was fast, sue. When we come back, ceos parting ways with the president. Well talk about the fall out with andrew ross sorkin. Down 105 its fascinating to really understand how some of this came together early conversation happening between mary bara at gm and of course pepsico all seem to be some of the earliest movers. He was part of this and then there was a conversation that happened before yesterdays final meeting of the entire council where larry fink from black rock had gotten together or gotten some of these folks on the phone as well. There does seem to have been a concerted effort going into this meeting and to put some pressure on him to call the meeth and then of course to disband it we reported yesterday jamie dimon also was active in all of this so from what we understand it was always a comply katd situation for him given that he represented jp morgan and of course 200 ceos their job is to have a seat at the table but were told when that meeting began he got on the call and he said it is over from his perspective and then of course the great combination with all of this, he called Jared Kushner to say we made the decision we have to call the president Jared Kushner says can you put in the press release that were doing this all in agreement . They do it almost as a stop to him and then before theyre able to even release it, he puts out his tweet. Im going to jump in and add more color as well in terms of jamie dimon. He did issue a statement as early as monday but didnt resign at that point and i spoke to a source close to jamie half an hour ago he always felt a moral responsibility to help leaders on all sides of the political bargain and that he had already pub hickly disagreed with President Trump on various issues whether that was immigrations or transgenders in the military and they didnt consider resigning then and didnt consider resigning from the Strategy Forum at the weekend. It wasnt changing his mind. It just wasnt what was on his mind according to a source and when the extra statement came on wednesday he thought things had gone a little too far and perhaps was the fact that they only met twice and that things werent necessarily achieving as much versus as andrew was saying that seat at the table, the business round table something that is considered more influential and thats what changed in the 48 hours between his two statements. It just underscores the point and andrew jump in if you agree that these councils have become some what politicized but the real work being done behind the scenes whether it was people on the councils or other ceos that this administration was talking about can still move forward as planned even though theyre disbanding the council. Thats the distinction here and thats the distinction that many of these ceos are making in their own mind which is is to say that to some degree the councils had become a bit of theater. Some of them described themselves to me as feeling like they were props in the president s theater if you will to some degree you can play it both ways that perhaps the president was props in their theaters but nonetheless while i think they wanted to discuss and move forward with policy theyll still be able to do that and they still will without the association if you will of these councils themselves. Well they have a responsibility to do so for their shareholders. You can read the memo to her employ he yee employees ibm is committed to working with the government its just not going to be done with the cameras. Thank you very much for all of your work yesterday well talk to you soon for more on the president s relationship with the Business Community were joined by wal r walter issacson. Good morning and congratulations to andrew for the story on the New York Times today. Now we have the president making more tweets about statues. Sit clear to you that he wants those relationships to be repaired or not . Clearly he doesnt and people say should john kelly make a difference or should people get to the collaboration and then you wake up every morning and you find out its him. Its not the people around him this is donald trump unfiltered and to keep fighting Confederate Monument battles when you have tax reform, infrastructure, health care and a lot of Foreign Policy things just seems unhinged to me. Now we have speculation about how long various stars of the administration stay. We just had the governor talk about gary cohn. Cramer sat at this desk. Gary has to stay how much is riding on his continued tenure in the white house walter as i said i dont think its about gary cohn or whether or not jared and ivanka can put out statements quitely saying they disagreed or whatever. Its about the guy thats in the oval office and he doesnt seem to be tetherred by his advisers. If he were coming out with a very coherent tax reform plan this week or doing an infrastructure plan like he was supposed to be doing then you would say well its really important that we figure out the infrastructure in this country this is where a guy is not tetherred to knowing how to work with the Senate Democratic and republican that a normal president would be doing and instead he is getting up and sti deciding to fight the heroism of confederates. But that said we have been discussing how the policy forum havent really achieved that much anyway. Lots of republican members of congress havent explicitly criticized the president and so far none of them resigned could we all think. I hope so but every week we said in a weeks time when we quit focussing on whatever he had tweeted about this week and this will just be looked at as a little bit of a tempest. The issue here is that the conservative movement in america and the Republican Party in america ever since the days of reagan and even before have had an umbrella big tent in which big business is at the table and very influential Corporate America but also social conservatives and people. That coalition is being broken apart. He doesnt really have any members of that coalition anymore. He is getting down steve bannon and david duke as his last two coalition members. You know thats not true. Theres work being done at the treasury and gary cohns team that are working actively with the ceos and on apprenticeship programs and infrastructure programs and theyre still having the outreach and without the councils coming and doing the walk up to the white house im not sure how much of that changes and im not sure how much the market is thinking anything changes as well as far as the legislative agenda. Youre right. I should have said in the beginning something i said three or four months ago when the councils were formed so the issue is not whether or not you have the council but whether or not your stiffing it to the ceos trying to work with you including after they decided to disband and after they have been asked to put it in to put out a tweet that basically is untrue theres work being done on tax reform we havent seen a concerted president ial effort to say heres what i believe on border adjustment tax heres what i believe on tax reform and let me start getting this through so its fine that people are working pretty well under him. Its not fine that he hasnt gotten his agenda and started to sell it. They outlined it a few times and the expectation was that at least on taxes we were going to get another round of granularity in september that groups like the business round table would help promote do you believe that still happens . I would have thought you started with a tax reform and infrastructure bill and repatriation you would have started in the beginning on that but to make your first two moves health care that you cant get through and the Confederate Monument doesnt seem like pushing the agenda that, you know, people who thought trump might be a good independent president were hoping he would push right away. Were going to see what the coming days and weeks bring. Its already been a heck of a week thank you for your time. Its good to see you. I hope youre right because every week i hope that. Walter thanks. Its only thursday. Walter thank you much more ahead. Squawk on the street will be right back a quick look at the dow. Isly dow stock thats green mcdonalds cisco is the biggest loser which well talk about dont go away. Afind out at trading nation. Cnbc. Com. More squawk on the street coming up stay with me, mr. Parker. 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Our moldels are pointing up 2. 8 3 gdp growth now. Its sustainable because one of the things not getting a lot of oppress is tax receipts have been accelerated all summer long and were seeing acceleration s like some of the soft data is finally starting to translate into some of the actual data that were seeing now. So Tax Collections are going up, im sure d. C. Will throw a party over that, deciding how they can spend that and more all right, another topic i think thats important, all the central banking activity, yesterdays minutes, in the end do you think that, a, anything the fed may do for the rest of 2017, whether its on rates or balance sheet, is it going to take the bunch bowl away from the party that you think we are all now in attendance at regarding the economy . So on an absolute basis, whether or not they cut some of their bond purchases and raise rates maybe another 25 basis points will do nothing to the u. S. Economy and probably wont even push up Interest Rates all that much. The question is relative relative to what the bank of japan is doing relative to what the European Central bank, et cetera im giving you a standing ovation in chicago, richard farr, a standing ovation because in the end if the rain clouds blow in from another zip code, liquidity is liquidity so my final question with 20 seconds to go is do you see the ecb or the bank of japan any time soon . A yes or no answer, what do you say . Mostly no. I got you, richard farr, a man of few words i like that, you ever think of running for office listen, thanks richard, i want you to come back when we get more data points, especially the Current Quarter on gdp wilfred frost, back to you. Thanks very much for that. When we come back, Natural Gas Prices may be shutting down an island. We have the details on that story, dont go away, were back in a couple. 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What if it moves to 5 this plant becomes profitable once again from a community standpoint, were talking about 650 jobs, a little bit more than that during maintenance and a town that relies on this Business Activity now, those who are against Nuclear Energy all together will say these plants are unsafe, they should be shut down but at the same time the folks we spoke to here say its this plant that keeps the town going from 2013, five other Nuclear Facilities have been closed down and three mile island is one of a handful thats on the list to go, guys. Interesting trend based on this market. Jackie, thank you. Ceos are revolting, former American Airlines president and chairman bob cndl raalis here with us to discuss the significance dont go away. At fidelity, trades are now just 4. 95. We cut the price of trades to give investors even more value. And at 4. 95, you can trade with a clear advantage. Fidelity, where smarter investors will always be. 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