Rich edson, we have flown him all the way to chattanooga, tennessee. I dow the fine folks there will understand a word that you say, rich. Rich they are picking up on the accent. Looking at this movement that pushed against the effort to organize workers here at the volkswagen plant, the uaw was granted somewhat unusual access. Almost a partnership with volkswagen. There was an expedited election. They are saying that this is a big failure. This all continues. It has been the first bite. One employee says he does not want this town to become detroit. Who is growing. Who is moving forward. Look at detroit. Look at city blocks of empty houses. What is the common denominator . The uaw. One possible other chapter this past election. It could be a point of contention. The uaw said there is influence from outside. Theyre basically saying that volkswagen would decide to build another plant here if they rejected the uaw. The nlrb could decide to hold another election if they determined there w
Better battery, bigger screen and we will talk about that later in the show. Out, house of cards came friday and more people are binging on this show than ever before. We will tell you how many and has netflix is more more shocking storytelling. Our lead story is the company that makes the addictive and super popular puzzle game candy crushed saga has filed to go public. King Digital Entertainment raised 500 million in an ipo. The company is based in dublin. We got to see a lot of numbers and some pretty good numbers but not some great numbers. What is your take away . These numbers were pretty much what we reported about six months ago and it shows they are reliant on one game for the majority of the revenue, about 87 . What we need to find out is if they can parlay candy crushed into other titles to make a lot of money. The next two titles fall off by a massive amount in terms of the amount of revenue. The way they make money is that users within the game by Digital Goods and thats w
Exchange. The nasdaq is up eight days in a row, the longest winning streak since july. To the russell 2,000 you see some weakness for the ddw jones, down 18 points, a big reason would be cocacola contributing nine dow points, and positive dow points. Home Builder Sentiment and new York State Manufacturing numbers, both of them were big misses and huge disappointments and the weather has something to do with this so we had those reports and i want to point out we had an awful month of january but there seems no panic in the market and coming off of the best week of the year, no excitement as well on the way back up. Connell we are moments away from president obama expected to announce tighter fuel efficiency standards, holding maryland, part of the pledge in the state of the union address. Dagen is a heavyduty vehicle. Connell now that you mention it, good point. Dagen the column that is there with more on this, this all trickles down to the consumer one way or another any time you incr
See Charter Schools as the only way out of educational and economic poverty. A new study seems to show sec staffers are selling stocks just before sec investigations of those companies are announced. Either way, heres the big question. Why are sec staffers allowed to trade individual stocks at all . All those stories much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Welcome to the kudlow report. Im larry kudlow. Were live here at 7 00 eastern, 4 00 pacific. Two in one crimea, the ukraine where 2,000 Russian Troops moved in and what new government in kiev is calling an arms invasion. Nbc news Steve Handelsman joins us now with more. Good evening, steve. Reporter good evening. Headline is definitely those Russian Troops, medium size force newly in ukraine. The question is, what is Vladimir Putins plan . The day began with just a few Russian Troops seizing control of a pair of airports in crimea, southern ukraine, an area historically linked to russia with mostly russian speak
Paul senator flake echoing a familiar refrain from democrats at thursdays hearing on capitol hill with cav, and his accuser Christine Blasey ford. Each of these allegations should be you by fbi. You want to reach the truth ease way to ask to investigate judge kavanaugh if he to rule believes there is no evidence no wans can approve the case should join us demanding a thorough fbi investigation. Judge michael mccasey 81st attorney general of the United States, welcome good to have you back again. Good to be here. So focus again on the fbi. And i think, there is a lot of misunderstanding out there, but just what the fbi does, in circumstances like this involving nominees not a criminal probe is it no, it is not this is not the fbi and this is the fbi conducting interviews with people who know or know about the office and they ask questions along axes having to do with a persons background with character, reputation, having to do with finances use of controlled the senate has a job to dec