Investments, as well great to have you all here get to you in a second but i want to start with you, lee, if i could. Why are you speaking out its a good question. I dont have any dog in this fight. I retired from the board five years ago. I made a mistake i gave all my stock to charity i should have given cash, because the stock has almost tripled in the five years that im off the board. But i feel and i have, like i said, in dog in the fight. And i know and respect bill ackman so its difficult for me but notwithstanding, i consider his behavior to be, in this instance, somewhere between foolish, inappropriate, and irresponsible. And i feel its my job to speak out and speak my view. What was your reaction, though, when you sort of first found out that he was i was somewhat incredulous. Let me explain, basically. Ben graham wrote a book, i think in the mid50s called the Intelligent Investor and he pottsized in that book that an an analyst evaluates management twice in the decisionmakin
House. Europe is mostly green. The tenyear cracks 2. 51, Oil Inventories are headed our way. Our roadmap begins with retailers meeting President Trump. Wellknown Retail Executives headed to the white house this hour expected to make their case against a proposed border tax plan. Plus, the s p eyeing its longest winning streak in three and a half years with fed chair janet yellen back on capitol hill today, can the broader markets continue to hit these multisession highs . And pepsi beats on Strong Demand for healthy snacks and drinks. Hue johnson, the cfo will join us on cnbc. First up, Retail Executives set to meet at the white house this morning amid industry concerns about a border tax on imports. Including ceos of target, gap, best buy, jc penney. Later on the president will hold a joint News Conference with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before their white house meeting in the middle of the day. Jim, so many directions to turn today. Our coverage is going to sound a lit
What else could happen in this hour. Its a lie picture of trump tower. We just saw whos coming through Silicon Valley. In turn weve artie seen already seen the brexit vote. Plus in the the freezing cold and driving snow. What looks like a legal victory for them. Why are they not taking any chances. We could see the 19th record close of the year. Lets start the countdown. Were less than an hour from what could be history. We stopped getting excited after the 14th record has been two years since we saw this many record closes over the same. Of time has pulled back as 19,191. We are above the alltime closing level. Something could happen here. They spiked 15 dozen a barrel. Something is going on here. Its a big news for oil. And how about this. All of them are ruth reed join the rally. Its really focused on natural gas. After a lackluster performance big banks staging a major comeback. All are posting pretty decent gains here. Bank of america is up nearly 3 at the moment. At just three bl
Environmental concerns after a sinkhole opens at the mosaic Environmental Concerns after this sichg hole opens up near mull ber rism more than 200 million gallons of slightly radio active waste water has gone into the fla aqua fer. The 99. 993 clean was what we were actually discharge oog. Environmental concerns in the bay too. Were braking down just how much raw sewage was dumb nooptd water during her cane hermine. When you hear from federal rg you lay towards and the u. S. Government gts involved, that means its serious. And a major recall over exploding funds foans. Look. That the one thing samsung users youre watching fox 13 and the 10 00 news starts now. Good evening eerchlt and welcome. Ill kelly ring. And im chris kay to in for mark tonight. And we start with this news alert out of polk county. An environmental threat that started three weeks ago but we just now confirmed the size and dishoach problem. Your yr look now at skyfox video of the problem. Its happened at month say ca
Apple made the argument that the governments request is unprecedented and violates among other things the companys First Amendment rights that protect against compelled speech. On the other side of the corporate story thats capturing the worlds attention is fbi director james comey who earlier today testified on capitol hill. I love encryption, i love priva privacy. When i hear corporations saying were going to take you to a world where no one can look at your stuff part of me thinks, thats great, i dont want anybody looking at my stuff. Then i step back and say, Law Enforcement, which im part of, really does save peoples lives. Rescue kids. Rescue neighborhoods from terrorists. We do that a whole lot through court orders that are search warrants and we do it a whole lot through search warrants of mobile devices. Were going to move to a world where that is not possible anymore . The world will not end but it will be a different world than where we are today. Amon jaffers has been follo