Meeting oneonone with janet yellen. This was the first time she was confirmed as fed chairman they met oneonone. The small it comes with clear summit ccmes as voters say the economy issthe number one problem. Reports are emerging, republicans and democrats shied away from the issue, finding it murky ground on the campaign trail. Here to discuss all of that charlie gasparino. Veronica daguerre of the wall street journal and management. What do you think . I think that is a mistake. Listen, the overall economy by the numbers looks pretty good but when you sort of drill down how peoole feel, they feel this is kind of a listless economist. I will say this. Two races im following, massachusetts aboves race, connecticut governors race. If thooe two go to republicans, think about it, that is the heart of liberalism. Massachusetts and connecticut. You have got to think that louisiana, easily reeublicans. You got to think the kansas race, pat roberts is kind after tired incumbent, he wins. Got to think a big day tomorrow for republicans. That will be good for the markets. Melissa you mentioned the Economic Conditions out there. If you look at the latest fox news poll, 47 of espondents think the economy is only fair. 33 think it is poor. Dan shaffer, what do you think . It is poor. Rankandfile out there are hurting very badly. Food stamp programs. People dont have enough money to pay their bills. Logic with gas prices going down, helping economy issmost riddick includes thing. Melissa why is it ridiculous. More money to pay out of their pocket. Pay down debt. Spending went down by. 2. This is what happened to the japanese cycle. They started to save money and stop spending. Veronicaa millenials living in the basement of their parents house. There are millenials with tons of school debt. Not having a Job Opportunities theyre hoping to have. And theyre, under really tough times. Right. When you talk about lower gas prices, be here clear, people are much more fuel efficient than they were back in the 70s, when i pumped gas and you pumped gas too . Every job, you always have a new job you had growing up. Literally done everything. But good thing i only had one job for last 25 ears. But, you know, you know, the different economy. So i dont think that that lower gas price, listen it helps but it is not like it used to be. Melissa back to the market. Apple not falling victim to the rumor mill. The stock hitting new alltime highs despite rrports that the apple watch will be delayed until spring of 2015. Veronica, what do you think about that one . Who knows when it will come out but it will be interesting to figure out how to get the battery lifelonger to keep that on for people when they wake up and go for their run. Will they be charging all the time. There is so much about the watch we dont know. There are some high hopes for it. Well see if it actually delivers. Melissa i dont think it has to deliver. Apple, everybody wants them. My kids already heard about it. They already want it. I dont agree with it. It is ridiculous the way the public sucks up apple products. Want the latest technology and latest fad. Then it dies out. I dont know if it is exciting. Melissa im not sure yourest. Their target demo. I would buy the apple watch. Melissa 12inch ipad. 12. 2iich. That is size of surface tablet. That is enormous. It makes sense. Theyre between the lab top now and tablets, or smaller tablets and iphone. You have a market for 12. 2inch screen. Laptop smallest, is 13. 5inch . They have filled that gap. You go from the littte iphone like this or go to the ipad or this one in the middle, go to laptop. Got it covered. 2 3 finished with Henry Kissingers book melissa on your phone. That is testament right there. Herbalife probably giving bill ackman sweaty palms right now. Shares soaring after the company agreed to settle a classaction suit for just 15 million. The plot expected to thicken when herbalife reports earnings after the bell. Charlie, what did we expect . What did we report a couple weeks ago . Herbalife patrols and shorts on this melissa i love the name calling. They attacked us. What we said, based on what the3 company has been telling people, a lot recently, they expect to settle with the ftc. Armageddon. Like there will be some sort of, they will not close them down. They may face some fines, some penalties. This is not going to be end of the world. That is far cry from what bill ackman said this is massive fraud. Listen, if this was massive fraud, and have a significant classaction suit you dont settle for 15 million wwthout admitting or denying any wrongdoing. Melissa they missed earnings last quarter. The stock has fallen 20 since then. I should point out in my last story, a lot of investors think they will miss again tonight. That could drive the stock way up or way down. Melissa dan, go ahead. Miss of the expectations is in the stock. It is priced right. If they clean this up with this political that is even bigger. Media problem. If they say something. If he say something. Sales are declining over last four quarters. That could change dramatically after this report. Melissa emotional milestone taking place in new york. One World Trade Center officially opened for Business Today with 175 emmloyees from anchor tenaat conde nast becoming first to move into the building. Veronica, were all watching this today. Historic event but only 58 of the building is leased. There is still a lot of room. I give credit for conde nast and employees goinggin there. Courage to go into this spaceof with so much emotion attached to the area. There is great sign for the economy that people are moving in. Were getting closer to getting this thing leased. 3 my dad worked on original World Trade Center. He was iron worker. I worked at wall street journal during 11. Melissa you didnt work on the original building . I went there when i was a kid. I worked across the street. I was this close walking into the building during the attacks. I had a doctors appointment. I wonder rents will be like down there, why anybody would like to work there. That place is a target. Melissa man. Let me throw in there, i was at dean witter back in the 1988s for six months you were there. I was on like the 78th floorrof trade center two. My door used to sway in the wind when that building moved. After i finished my six month and do other things i said, in cant stay. I cant work in this building. I never took an opportunity in that building ever again. I think t is scary. Too tall. Melissa a lot of people on the ooher side of the fence you have to move on. Melissa you have to move on. I dont disagree with that. Melissa for sure. Two california cities on the verge of nations first sugary drink tax. San francisco and berkeley set to vote on proposals to tax sweetened beverages tomorrow. In news that will absolutely not surprise you at all, Michael Bloomberg is involved in his. Theeformer new york city mayor giving more than half a Million Dollars to make sure that this whole thing passes. I mean theyre focused on nonalcoholic drinks with caloric sweeteners. Like coke and pepsi, were coming for you. A tax on it. Theyre targgting wrong ingredient. Should be targeting artificial. Get rid of the artificial sweeteners, the stuff decode and genetically modified. Sugar melissa only dating myself. I will make that decision for myself. Orrnge juice, raisins . I like to eat healthy and drink healthy. I drink pure vodka so. No sugar. No sugar. Natural sugar. You know, but you would think that listen, were legalizing pot everywhere. Melissa thats true. Were making sugary drinks. Melissa and taxes sugary drinks. I happen to like mike bloomberg. I thought he was very effective mayor. Melissa nanny bloomberg. He lost it. He was good mayor melissa compareddively. Good no matter what. He should his vast resources i dont know melissa something else. You would think there are more pressing matters out there, not backing down. Why experts refuse to give up on commercial space travel despite last weeks tragedy in the deeert. Wrlds best ceo, i will need to hear from you guys on this next one. Head to twitter. Follow me melissaafrancis, who the best ceo in the world is, from Warren Buffett to elon musk. Who do you think is the very best in the Business World . More money cooing up. Solly bank really hano hidden fees onavings accs . Thats t. Its sthat im woied about you know hiddenhings. Ok, whys that . No hidden fees, fr the bank whe no branches equals eat rates. Trobaron of t buildout. You need a permit. To be this awesome. And you. Rent fronational. Because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. And go. 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Youre welcome. Melissa you heard the latest from the ntsb that the spacecraft feathering system was deployed too early. Does that sound to you like what happened and is that pilot error . Well, i think the ntsb was talking about a fact, not the exact cause of the accident. So they mentioned that the system was activated early. It still shouldnt deploy. Based on what, you know, i learned and heard from the ntsb statement, there was a, somewhat inadvertent arming of the system and then, inadvertent deploying of the feathering system and then shortly there after, that was the catastrophic accident, the mishap. But, you know, this is not the ntsbs final conclusion. That will take months. But i think it is pretty telling they would come out and give a statement this early, they saw things, that din exactly occur when they were supposed to. Melissa telling in what way . The feathering system, in some ways, yoo could equate it like a flap on the airplane. Adding a flap on the airplane will give lift when they need, land. In this case it is used to increase drag. It is part of the entry, the entry approach, the entry from space and normally not deployed in powered fliiht. In this case it seems like it did but like richard said earlier, and he said in the past couple days, you dont want to necessarily draw conclusion on that but, you know, it is some evidence that the ntsb will use melissa you are the founder of world view, a company out of arizona, planning commercial space trips. Does, how does this impact your business Going Forward . Well, i dont think it does. Everybody knows this is a Risky Business to be in. Youuknow, Space Tourism is something that hasnt been done before. You hhve to give Virgin Galactic an incredible amount of credit for attempting this. Im confident in time they will figure this out. At world view, you know, it just reminds us, i think it reminds us all that this is risky thing to do. A, you know, great progress without taking some risk. And you know, im looking forward to the day when Virgin Galactic flies the first passengers in space. Melissa speaking of them. 700 people paid 250,000 for trips into space. How do you think this impacts them . Knowing the type of people that would sign up for that and pay for that, do you think it impacts their decision to go forward . I think it depends on the individual. I think some people look at this, say, okay, maybe it was a little bit riskier than i thought. But i would remind thooe folks that there were no passengers on board. These were two test pilots that have, you know, have to take this thing out there and evaluate it and bring data back to the engineers. They know theyre taking additional risk. When theefirst planing flies on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft, by that point we hope the risk has beee substantially reduced. So i would expect some of their customers will look at this one way. But i think the vast majority of them are going to say, hey, this is, they knew it was a risky thing to get into. 3 this is the devvlopment program, and it will be different, when it becomes an operational spacecraft. Melissa one space pilot lost his life and our thoughts and prayers are with the family. Captain kelly, thanks for joining us today to shed some light on this we appreciate it. Youre welcome. Melissa first trading day in3 november off to upbeat start. S p 500 hitting new intraday highs. Lets go to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york tock exchange with look at individual stocks in record territory, nicole. There is a lot to take a look at, melissa. We had good manufacturing numbers. Everybody is waiting on jobs tomorrow we have elections. Dow and s p, record highs. We want to look at big movers. These are names hitting highs. Individual names. Were looking at alibaba and yahoo yahoo has 16 stake in alibaba. It moved it down. Sold some of it. As alibaba does well, so does yahoo yahoo is doing well on its own. Waiting on yahoo numbers to come out. Were expecting revenue to grow 45 some say yearoveryear. Apple a new high there. Dow component visa has been shining as well. A lot of new highs to note in addition to the major indices. Locking in serious gains. Nicole, thank you very much, from the u. S. To every corner of the globe, money is flying around the world starting in germany more than willing to see the uuk. Leave the European Union . Angela merkel said to have warned british they are at the point of no return and sieving them leave than changing labor laws to accommodate their needs. Europeans that come to work in the country. China which is using lasers to shoot down small drones. Officials launch ad laser weapon machine that can bring down aircraft one one mile range. China says it will insure safety during large events. Landing in russia where a school book purge brought big business to president putins friends. Tte number of school books approved by the kremlin slashed in half. Leaving only handful of publishers in operations. Turns out one of the Biggest School bookmakers to win all of the new orders is managed by one of putins childhood buddy is shocking. An old partner from his judo class in st. Petersburg. Very subtle. Zuck and elon who, bested ceos. A walk to remember as a daredevil cross as tightrope between two chicago skyscrapers with no net oh, he was blindfolded unbelievable. Do you have too much money . Your customersour financing. Your aspations, our anytics. Your goals, our chnology introducing syhrony financia bringing new meaning to theord partnership. Bankin loytyanalytics. Synchrony financial. Enagage with us. They take us to rlds full o. Enagage with us. For respawn, buildg the best t beginsith the clou this is titanfall, the rst multiayer game built anrun on micsoftzure. Empowering gers around thed is cloud turns data intoyever thoughtexcitement. This is the microsoft cloud. How can in china,sumption impact wool exports from new zealand, texand the usof micaltechlog . At t. Rowerice, we understand the nnections of comex, glal economy its just one reason over 70 our mutual funds beat their yt. Rowe price. Rage. Ospectus with investmentequesty information, rks, fees and expenses to read a conside carefully before investing. Melissa the numbers have been crunched. Can i get a drum roll . Best performing ceo is jeff bezos. The panel is here to sound off. Charlie is back with rob basso and veronica daguerre is back. The numbers just dont say everything, lets be honest here. Melissa yeah . Listen, i think you need vision. I think you need strategy. I think you need to appoint the best people for the job. And im going out on a him here and say that the best ceo, dollars to doughnuts, and ceo who is offered america a choice, is rupert murdoch, our boss. Melissa very inviting. I will go out further on a limb, when he was smart enough to do is pick the best programmer, newsman in the country, his name is roger ailes. Melissa wow. That is true. Let me cut this off. Let me cut this off. Bill shine, head of fox business. Melissa so the official Harvard Business review that did this study, they looked at actual stats like return to shareholders. That down tell the hole story. Melissa of course it doesnt. They normalize it for the country youre in. Also industries because they didnt want to get the starve bump from the industry youre in. How the stock market was doing in general and they camm up with jeff bezos. What do you think of that . Veronica. I was surprised. Arent their margins not so great if you look at amazon . Right. Return to shareholders terms of stock price. They say you make the mistake that jeff bezos hasnt turned a profit. He has. He reinvests profit. He has buu operating in a hot space. Melissa what is your pick . What is your pick. I like elon musk. 3 he have has got the innovation. And got government kickbacks. Melissa whatever. Theyre giving it to him. Dont make apologies for taking it. Im just saying. He has innovation and first that we like to see in america. Melissa i asked folks on twitter. You guys had really great answer. Melissaafrancis on twitter. Doug, says he is going with fred smith from fedex. That is good choice. I say Howard Schultz. Before we got on air, Howard Schultz you went to the well with. That i did go to the well. Here is why. He really supports his people. He went into the depths of recession. He didnt cut his 401 k plan. He kept it going. I remember when they had real they ended up emerging out of it. The fact of the matter he has done a good job. Their stock is up 70 . Were here and so used to what goes on around here. I will make, this is a serious point, people forget when it was like when fox news first came. No, listen to this. You had, at least 50 of the country saying the news media does not speak for us, speaks against us. It attacks our values. It provides one set of, one set of facts and not the other. Were sick of it. Guess what, he rolled the dice and picked a really great guy to perform it. And you know, this, this company is an utter success ecause off that that is why melissa other twitter followers, easy researcher, faithful viewer, says he is the best. He runs his company. Hats off to the small businessman. I love that. Dont buy my analysis. Melissa i do. I dont want to wade into this. You think media matters might have something to say . Melissa i dont know. President plays to base and gets hostile reception in connecticut taylor swift is in another fight. This one doesnt involve the next boyfriend. Piles of money coming up. How much mon do you haven your pocket rit no i have 40, 2 could sothing that small make an impact something as big asour retirement . 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Colorrdo cory has built a lead over mark udall, the average of poll giving him a two and a half percentage lead. A fox news poll shows joni ernst is up slightly on democrat bruce braley a seat republicans hope to capture from democrats and a race republicans thought wouldnt be one. The independent greg orman has a slight lead over pat roberts. Republicans saeu orman would join are democratt if elected. Republicans need to pick up six ssats. Voters decide that tomorrow. Ifftheres a run off election in louisiana we may not know until next month. If theres a run off in georgia, we could find out in january who controls the senate. By the way, thats day after the new senate convenes. I was wondering about that. I want to bring in katy, she joins us as well. Here in the studio, digital politics editor, two of my favorite. Thanks for joining me, guys. Thanks for having us. Melissa the republicans take the senate. You wake up the in morning. What is different . How can the average feel a difference . Go ahead, chris. Heres the point the test will come for president obama. Midterm elections are about the incumbent president. The president comes for president obama if hes ready to negotiate. He might be willing to negotiate. Or ddes he go nuclear. If the republicans take the senate, it becomes a temperature test for president obama. Melissa whether or not the president goes nuclear, he was campaigning in connecticut and did not get a warm response. Let me play this for you and get your response on the other side. Obama thanks to leaders like them [shouting] obama now, where was i . Where was i . Melissa that was that was not the barack obama of old. I mean, he looked very agitated. Shouting shame on you. Yeah, thats pretty unpresident ial, i think thats a perfect example of why candidates overall didnt want president obama out on the campaign trail with him. What does this mean for voters on wednesday morning . Look, president obama with a Democrat Controlled Congress hell go nuclear and use his executive authority in ways that i think will probably want be okay with the congress. This is not okay for just president obama. Will republicans sit by and say president obama is out of control and he can use his executive authorityyand complain about it or a will they do something to bring him in . That will be a huge thing for republicans. Will they restore the balance between the legislative branch and the executive branch in government. Melissa chris, what is our bet . I think he goes nuclear. The response from republicans probably some mixture of confusion and fear. Melissa really . Probably. Its hard. Its hard. Then you start to talk about impeachment debate, you start to talk about what are the limited options they have. Unless they can force the president to the negotiating table on his court,f they think make him deal, what are you going to doo melissa let me talk money. Because that is after all the name of the show. You know, the income gap has widened no matter how you think that happened, it has happened. The economy is slightly better than before. When you look at numbers on the conomy, the public gets that. So you so on how is each side using that to their advantage and who is winning . Well, youve seen a lot of democratic campaigns especially in colorado and in New Hampshire not focusing on the economy at all instead womens issues which actually isnt working out for them. With republicans they focus on things like obamacare and the economy, but the bottom line really is that people who are voting are seeing that the better that theyreng paying more for their be sure health care premiums. The person they voted for, their senator, if they voted for obamacare and promised them that they coulddkeep their health plan, theyll be accountable. Theyre the ones focusing on that. Melissa are republicans really making the most of that, this idea that the economy isnt better . Are they able to put it in their favor . The president and democrats talking about raising the minimum wage. I mean, it seemed like they were taking the ssue and using it, even though there were many out there who actually think its their fault. Theyywere usiig it successfully. Are republicans making the most of it . No, but midterms arent about that. Do you want do help or block the incumbent president. The republicans have been running on blocking him. One of the things that has changed the dynamic, big issue, understated, cheap gasoline makes people feel a lot better about their economic circumstances. Im sure that will help the democrats. Melissa guys, thank you so much. Stay with fox business tomorrow. We have full coverage and announces of the midterm battle all across the country all day. Dont miss neil cavuto tomorrow at 8 00 p. M. I will be joining him through the night as well as we tally the votes. I wouldnt miss it for the world. Who is who is making money today. Anyone with a piece of sprint. The stock moving higher as investors await its earnings after the bell. Theyre expected to post a lost loss of 200,000 subscribers. Shares are up around 4 percent. Has around 3 million shares meaning hes made about 780,000 since breakfast. Nice. And angry at losing money. Taylor swift the singer cant shake off her ragg at spotify. So shes blocked access to all of her hit songs. Her to comeeback. Ed with ppeader 16 million users have played her last month alone. She feels her art is being undervalued. Also making money, a dallas home that is due an adorable baby girve. The naming rights for 50,000. I would have bid on that. The owner of the rights can call the baby whatever he or she likes. The money will be used to fund the zoo. I dont know. I dont feel good about that. I wish they put some limits on that contest. Its no longer a pain in the gas. Prices at the pump are going down. How long will will it last . Ship happens. Into a nightmare for passengers. I cant say im surprised. At the end of the day its all about money. Melissa im melissa francis. Former governor mitt romney will not run for president n 2016. That was his message during an interview with fox news sunday. He will be joining neil cavuto tonight at fox business ahead of the midterm elections. Automakers hyundai and kia have the fuel efficiency of their vehicles. Hyundai admitted a million of its cars did not have the efficiency advertised. And 2 billion dollars worth of lottery winnings are left unclaimed each year. Thats way more than the 800,000 previously estimated. Most of the tickets are worth less than five bucks. How issttat possible. That is the latess on the Fox Business Network giving you the means on prosper. Melissa talk about a cruise ship horror story, more than 900 passengers aboard a halloween cruise in the bahamas got an unexpected scare. Passengers were plunged into darkness when the bahamas celebration cruise line ran aground and started severely tilting. Can you imagine . Passengers caught the chaos on their phones with people saying they were left scared and hungry for hours. Passengers had paid 400 for a twoay halllween event which included a zombie ball. I think it was much scarier than they expected. Spare change. We are seeing 3 gas for the first time in four years. Jeff flock as the story. Jeff, is it going lower . I dont know, bbt this is pretty low right now. Dont you think, 1,449 days that it has been since we had 3dollar gas. It was december of 2010. Its now down below we said 2. 98. Its down to 2. 96 on average. Pretty amazing stuff. What that means is, 250 million extra a day in the economy not spending on gas. Melissa good stuff. A lot of people are spending that money on new gas guzzling cars. Isnt that an incentive to buy an suvs. Auto sales out today. The small cars have taken a beating. If you look, for example, the chevy sonic all the small ones, the little fiats, the small fiats didnt do well. No, theyre not buying the suvs. In fact the bigger car, the chevyysuburban, even the big cars likes the cadillacs, its the ones right in the middle, those suvs right ii the middle. Or the Chevy Traverse had a big month and the jeeps are on fire. So people are buying i think if they can the cars that they want which are those ones right in the middle somewhere that gives them the capability they want, it doesnt really guzzle gas, but, you know, jeeps obviously drink more gas that night chevy sonic. Melissa thank yyu so much, jeff. Before we head anywhere, something i just had to show you. This indiana couple just got married at 32,000 feet in the air. This is a couple on Southwest Airlines flight. They had their ceremony somewhere between nashville and dallas. From their mobile phones. So in the crowd were 30 friends and family members, ut most the people on board were just random passengers who happened to be flying on this flight with them. Can you imagine if that was you . The couple danced in the aisle in celebration to their nonstop love. Did you guys see this . Veronica, is that what you did . Thats exactly what we did. Its cute and cheesy aal at the same time. I just cant imagine being on a Wedding Dress on a plane. Melissa what do you havv 20 take off during security. You have the metal thing in your hair. All kinds of not the least of which is tush lance and delays. . do you love flying so much that you want to have your wedding there. They fly like fivee days a week. What state did they get married in . What does it actually say, their certificate. Theees no state up there. The state of airplane . Melissa i dont want to cast doubt, but i wonder if one of them thought of that. Yeah, exactly. Melissa whose idea was it to do it randomly in the air. I wonder if it was the wealthier of the two. It could not be a real marriage. Melissa we might have ruined the whole thing. Were headiig into the last hour of trading. Lets check in with liz. Maybe they were just getting prepared for the turbulence that comes with marriage. . wellplayed i like thaa one. Liz ill tell you whats possibly wellplayed, another s p record. Will we see it in this last our. Kind of straddling the flatline. The Dow Jones Industrial has crossed the line 35 times so far so were watching it right now, but the s p couldnt be flatter at the moment we will see if we hit a record. But where do you put the money . Why dont you ask a guy who has been f with fox business watching the money since 2011, now, has 5 billion in assets under management, three names, an airline and not necessarily a car company, but a car, very interesting youll hear from mark mattson on the way he feels you should be playing the markets. Plus the auto sales, you were talking about bigger cars and bigger trucks that are the selling. The truck that has sold well even if theres an xl after it, as in extra large, which name jumped 51 percent in sales. Wait until you see. Weve got duo suuerstar auto watchers one from kelley blue book. Boat of them will deduce from which models became hot this month as to which stock you should be buying. Yes, they will name names. All that and so much more. Will we see a record . Melissa getting even with isis, but not until the spring. Find out why iraq and the us want to wait months before confronting the terrorist group. More money and answers coming up. Melissa another mass killing isis murdering 50 iraqi men, women, and children over the the weekend. The militants have now killed at least 150 members of the same sunni tribe. Here to talk about all this former cia mike baker. Thank you so much for joining us. The un security counsel this may onstitute as war and crime against humanity. May . Yeah, once again the un taking a bold decisive move here president tortures, the rapes, the mass murders, it may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity, but this is typical of kind of this half measure that were whether its the rest of the world or whether its the us leadership at the presenn moment where basically . in a strategy that seems designed to create a stalemate for some undefined period of time any stalemate say victory for isis. Melissa it does seem like this sort of wait and see attitude is what our policy is all about righttnow if you look at the idea that, you know, iraqi forces backed by the us are scheduled o launch an all scale offensive they say in the spring. I mean, why would you make an announcement like that, its like sending a save the date card for when youre coming in. Unless its where you said theyre trying to have a stalemate of some type. Theres a lot of political overturns. You could argue the push were engaging in right now is basically based on political speedancy as opposed to sound operational planning. . surprise is typically a good thing when youre talking about military activity, weve now announced to a variety of individuals both to be fair us and iraqi officials have announced were moving our way to a spring offensive. Now, the theory, the theory is fine. The theory is well train up more iraqi troops because right now we dont believe theyre sufficient. 20,000 more troops because we dont believe they have the capability to do it on their own. While were training those troops, well continue some airstrikes. Well continue to provide some advisory ta very high level not on the battlefield. Then in the spring, well start this big push. Well take back this territory in the north and western iraq. Well try to isolate them in urban centers where they have their strongholds and then eventually at some point also assuming the iraqi current government is able to be inclusive. Were going to defeat isis in iraq and then well turn our attention to isis in syria. This is, again, in theorr you can understand what people are thinking, we dont want to get preggant. We want to be seen as taking action. In reality again, i would argue that unless we take decisive bold action, at this point we are doing nothing more than engaging in an exercise melissa the flip side we go in with our own troops thrrnlingsz seem like the appetite for that here in the u. S. Thats absolutely correct. Were all fatigued and tired of engagement in the middle east. And so the idea that the us is going to commit Ground Troops is right now just not acceptable. And the Current White House has no intention of doing that. Were already in mission creek. Were already adding more advisories. Those advisories will move down to more in the weeds. . so we are moving in that direction, but i dont think we will have the commitment the willpooer to commit actual trrops and neither will our allies. Melissa thank you so much. On the much lighter note, taking crazy to new heights and living to tell. Were going to show you the high wire act that had the windy city holding their breath. At the end of the day, its all about money. Melissa the Discovery Channel learning it is still possible to get massive tv ratings, you just have to put someone in lifethreatening danger. Thank youfully the wire walk between two chicago skyscrapers went off without a hitch bringing in 13 million vieewrr. Great news for Discovery Channel. Well report tomorrow morning. 13 million just the people who arent there understand what that means. Abc who done it got 8 million. Nbc crossing lines 4. 2. They went up to a whopping 3 Million Viewers because people want to see somebody die. Thank goodness it didnt happen, but for discovery, absolutely, so they have honey booboo giant disaster. That was one of their big moneymakers. Similar thing. Net net, how do you feel about earnings going in tomorrow. Wall street is expecting some pressure on their stock. This goes to show the length theyll go to get that live viewer. We live in i fragmented world now. The networks really are trying to get that live viewer to see their commercials realtime, see their programming realtime. Theyll put someones life on the line. Melissa potennially kill someone. . it has to be hanging in the balance. It may or may not happen. We think its a real problem how would you like to be our next person that potenttally dies on the set . On the set . You want me to do it on the set . Melissa we can think of something more creative. Listen, im scared of heights. I like to be on levels. This set is peefect for me. But this dock its been down. The earnings have been in line. If they can straighten this company out, it could do well. I dont own it, but they need to ccean up their act. Melissa i hope you are making money today. Markets down 25. Liz claman starts now. Liz the s p is just so close to turning yet another record right over. We are just under two points away. Now, its two and thirds. As you look what is happening with whats going on, if it an turn positive for the close, it will be the s ps 36th record close for the year. Anything could happen in this last hour. As for anything in the green for the dow that would also mean another record close. The dow and s p hitting records earlier today struggling just a bit in this last 60 minutes. Investors eyeing two critical events