The house that once could still see through the dark know they really cant go on like this. Margaret is not alone. Down in baton rouge governor bobby jindal says we have to stop being the stupid party. Haley barbour warns this party to stop making stupid comments again, that word about rape. But dont lose heart. Like an old car that wont turn off even when you turn the key to off, some character out in new mexico wants to stick women who are raped with stiff prison sentences if they get an abortion. She calls it tampering with the evidence. But wait a minute, crazy guys. Didnt one of your republicans say you cant get pregnant in case of a rape . Anyway, tonight finding our way through the crazy even as we hear the first loud barks and meows from the backyard of american politics. I have with me joy reid and mother jones david corn. Anytime i can get you to giggle a little bit, joy, i consider myself a success. I owe some of this material to a lot of republicans today. Pegging noonan, a
Hedge fund manager. He said it is wrong. It is easy to borrow herbalife shares right now and the cost to carry is not that bad. So was icahn wrong on the short . One Hedge Fund Manager says perhaps he was. Meaning ackman wrong . No. Icahn was wrong on the short talking about how to short the stock and whether it is too difficult. This guy says i could find it right now. Great job. Thank you. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. Thanks for watching street signs. Closing bell with bill and mandy now. Happy friday everybody. Welcome to closing bell. Well revisit the ackman icahn brawl weve been talking about in the last few hours. Were also on top of the markets that just wont stop right now. Take a look at where we are right now on the dow. And the alltime high from 2007. We get ever closer to that number. Were not that far away at all. Absolutely right. Hello everybody once again. Im mandy drury of course. And weve got more huge interviews including bill gates, right, bill, would
Guess whos here. Thats jim cantore. This is jim cantore, mr. Weather man himself. Hes got the whole thing, thank you. You did very well. Thank you very much. So did you. He told me it was going to be very hard to make snow balls in this weather, right . I did. Andrew too dry. Andrew, we cant wait to see you back here. Have a safe trip back. That does it for us. Squawk on the street starts right now. Appreciate it. Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee, with jim cramer and Carl Quintanilla and david faber. How are we poised to start the friday morning session. Right at the open, the s p 500 looking to add to fiveyear highs at this point. Looking at about six points. As for europe, gdp figures in the uk nearing a tripledip recession. Capping off a big week for the nikkei, up almost 3 for the week. Our road map this morning, dow taking aim at a new record high on track for the best january since 1997. The s p also poised for its longest winning streak since
You could have lacrosse down there. A canadian tycoon bought the place. It cost 55 billion to build. He got it for a half million dollars. He wanted to put a casino in there. Voters said no to that. Pontiacs formerly 55 million silverdome right now. Look at that. Over the past week, windstorms have shredded the silverdomes inflatable roof so the weather comes right in. Do not worry, the owner says they were going to build a new roof anyway. This is not really the diss ter looks like. A very, very rough phase one, the demophase. For his next big plan to make money on the dome that nobody wanted in the city that is so broke. Michigan is amazing. Republicans, you in particular are amazing. On inauguration day, being sworn in for the second term. Michigan republicans spent the day talking about turning an island into a new independent country. It would be ruled based on the fictional pseudo economic nominals of ayn rand. After insisting there was no reason to strip union rights, michigan r
2014. The 73yearold saying, quote, its just time to step aside. Harkin has become a leading liberal voice in the senate. He was also a key backer of president obamas 2010 health care bill. President obama meanwhile and outgoing secretary of state Hillary Clinton have given their first ever joint television interview. It airs tomorrow night on 60 minutes. The president in that interview thanked secretary clinton for her hard work. I think hillary will go down as one of the finest secretaries of state weve had. It has been a great collaboration over the last four years. Im going to miss her. A few years ago it would have been seen as improbable because we had that very long, hard, primary campaign. I worked very hard, but i lost and president obama asked me to be secretary of state, and i said yes, and why did he ask me and why did i say yes . Because we both love our country. Congressman paul ryan today is spelling out what he learned from the election, he speak out as the Vice Presiden