[ theme ] stephanie hello current tv land. Here we are. Good morning Jacki Schechner. Do we look unprepared in any way . Dont be ridiculous. Representative John Yarmouth coming up on the big show today. Were getting a serious gun control debate in this country. How about that. We are. Were going to have the conversation. The idea is to keep the momentum going. People are outraged after newtown that it is time to do something. We have to keep the momentum going in order to get something done. Stephanie i thought wow Gabby Giffords and her husband a lot of the stuff they said powerful. Stephanie both gun owners, both Second Amendment people but just who more powerfully can make that case . 11 Mass Shootings since tucson. Stephanie i know. Well get into all of it. Here she is, Jacki Schechner in the current news center. Good morning, everybody. Vice President Biden is holding a meeting at the white house today with victims groups and gun safety organizations. This is the next in a series
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
The way . Student loans up to 1 trillion, huge delinquency rates, default rates going sky high, no credit standards and sky high tuition. Sound likes a real bad story to me. Ceos have just wrapped up their meeting with president obama about the fiscal cliff and minutes ago john harwood landed a big fish. Goldman sachs ceo lloyd blank finefein. The highlight of the meeting was the intensity from which the white house emphasized that marge al rates as a matter of math and politics have to go up somewhat, if not all the way to 31. 6 had to go up and as p he said as a necessary ingredient of a deal, he would support such a rate. The president said we would pursue our own interests. Im not im certainly not insisting, i dont even desire higher rates. I think there lab drag if revenue goes up and rates go up. But i think there will also be a drag on the American Economy if our budget deficit widens out forever, if were irresponsible and governor doesnt work. Left with those four choices, thin
Thursday night escorted walmart worker lisa lopez from walmart because she felt that she should not be working on thanksgiving. Cenk dont miss it. And then its interesting whistleblower. Blowing the whistle on aforprofit scam. They were raising jobs with which they did not need a degree for. Cenk ill give the elbow of the day away. Its on fox news, its by one of their guest and its awesome. Dont miss it. It is, in fact, go time. [ music ] cenk so it appears we have an internal fight within the Republican Party. Weve got drama. Oh, my god they might stop live living to Grover Norquists pledge. Hes the guy who says, no tax increasesever here is a collection of republicans. Even an and of fox news action saying, i dont think so grover. Ill violate the pledge. Im not obligated on the pledge. I havent talked to Grover Norquist so i dont know what he wants to do or not want to do with his pledge. A pledge you signed 18 years ago is for that congress. Republicans should put revenue on the tab
Thursday night escorted walmart worker lisa lopez from walmart because she felt that she should not be working on thanksgiving. Cenk dont miss it. And then its interesting whistleblower. Blowing the whistle on aforprofit scam. They were raising jobs with which they did not need a degree for. Cenk ill give the elbow of the day away. Its on fox news, its by one of their guest and its awesome. Dont miss it. It is, in fact, go time. [ music ] cenk so it appears we have an internal fight within the Republican Party. Weve got drama. Oh, my god they might stop live living to Grover Norquists pledge. Hes the guy who says, no tax increasesever here is a collection of republicans. Even an and of fox news action saying, i dont think so grover. Ill violate the pledge. Im not obligated on the pledge. I havent talked to Grover Norquist so i dont know what he wants to do or not want to do with his pledge. A pledge you signed 18 years ago is for that congress. Republicans should put revenue on the tab