[ indiscernible ] >> we'll find out. >> are you willing to go to war with iran? >> you'll find out. you'll find out. i have a feeling, and i may be wrong, and i may be right, but i'm right a lot, i have a feeling that it was a mistake made by somebody that shouldn't have been doing what they did. i think they made a mistake. i think that somebody under the command of that country made a big mistake. >> charles: joining me now, retired general anthony t after. you're also the author of the book, double cross fire. we appreciate your expertise this morning. how do you assess what went down? how do you think the administration handled the situation? >> thanks for having me. i think what we're looking at right here is the president ordered one of two things which could have been a probing attack to see what kind of air defenses the iranians had and then there were a series of decision points built in there to go or no go, based upon the level of defense that we saw. or it could have been simply a show of force, used in concert with a deliberate diplomatic overture. this president, this administration has been very good at synchronizing the elements of national power where you have diplomatic, informational, military, economic. we've got sanctions going on, squeezing iran real far for supporting hezbollah and developing the nuclear program and all of that. then we've got a military show of force in persian gulf with carrier strike group and we also have very good information campaign going on and iran gets a vote too. they have an information campaign. we're playing brinksmanship with iran and this chaotic picture that the new york times is trying to paint i think is pure trump attack. it really to me, my sources tell me that we had jets in the air. we were probing. and we had a series of go, no go decisions. >> charles: general, i want you to take a listen to what lawmakers from both sides of the aisle had to say as they weighed in on the situation. >> here's what iran needs to get ready for. severe pain. inside their country. that their capabilities pale in comparison to ours. we're not going to let them disrupt navigation of the seas, attack our allies and u.s. interests. if they're itching for a fight, they're going to get one. >> the president may not intend to go to war here, but we're worried that he and the administration may bumble into a war. we told the room that the democratic position is that congressional approval must required before funding any conflict in iran. >> how we go forward from here has to be strategic and smart and close alliance with our allies. we have common interest in the region. we know that the high tension wires are up there and we must do everything we cannot to escalate the situation. >> charles: general, i was shocked a little bit not only with some of the comments from congress, but also with the mead media, would seem to take president trump to task for not acting for aggressively. what are your thoughts about all these comments? >> you know, the president is not an interventionist and he does not want war. he campaigned on really getting us out of the wars that we were in and defeating the enemy quickly. he prefers overwhelming force and quick victory, sort of president hw bush style in desert storm one, i think that's more akin to what president trump seeks as opposed to what we've been involved in over the last 18, 19 years. and he will not -- i see know path to war, ground war in iran. what i see is him defending our vital interests in the region. we have serious vital interests in the persian gulf region, relationships with many of the countries in that area, and the free flow of oil and commerce through the persian gulf. the oil fuels the world economy. so as you led the show with, the prices of oil. i think that's what we're doing is protecting the shipping lanes and that's what the u.s. navy does. >> charles: the federal aviation administration taking action, barring all u.s. carriers from flying over iran, other carriers around the world also announcing similar moves. what's your reaction to that? >> i think that's prudent. i think right now iran is in a pretty aggressive posture. they're feeling the pain from the sanctions and they'll do whatever they can to continue to get the headlines and get attention. they're playing a little bit like kim jong un did in the past, a couple he'll years ago, and i think-couple years ago, it would not be surprising if they were to go rogue and have what the president called, quote, another mistake and shoot down some kind of civilian airliner to make a statement. i think the faa is being prudent and cautious here. >> charles: brigadier general, thank you very much for your expertise this morning. oil prices extending their gains on this tension, crude surging nearly 6% yesterday, jackie delandeangeles, what does commos look like from here? >> the commodities are in a wait and see mode, after the u.s. called off potential strikes back against iran. prices making that near 6% move yesterday, that was big. a lot of supply out there in the market, so not as large of a percentage gain as we might have seen, say, 10 years ago. but still, oil is trading around $50 not long ago, now it's closer to 60. this is a substantial move. when there are geopolitical tensions overseas, the markets can be rattled very quicklies especially if tensions escalate. it's something to watch. i want to draw your attention to gold prices. we say a big bump-up, just under 1400 yesterday. we haven't seen those numbers in quite some time. gold is moving a little lower today. some would say this was a safe haven trade on the back of geo politics, but mostly moving higher because of what we heard from the te fed this week, soung like it will be poised to cut interest rates this year. when you have a doveish fed, you see the dollar move lower and the gold prices move higher. that's why we saw a big jump in gold. but something to watch as we go forward as well. >> charles: thank you very much. we'll see you in a bit. a refinery goes up in flames in philadelphia and cheryl casone has those details. cheryl: we've been tracking this breaking news since last hour. he local reports say it began about 3:00 this morning eastern time. here are the pictures that we're watching. hazmat fire crews are on the scene right now. we don't know what caused the explosion or if there were any injuries. some neighbors are reporting that they heard the explosion knocking the art off of their walls and saw it happening in the middle of the night. pretty scary stuff. this refinery produced 350,000 barrels of oil every day and was the largest on the u.s. eastern seaboard. again, breaking news out of philadelphia this morning. we'll get you updates as we can throughout the morning 678 also this, a police officer in texas shot and killed in the line of duty. the unidentified officer attacked as he responded to a report about a man holding a gun. that suspect has been arrested. 21 officers had been fatally shot in the line of duty so far this year. and in florida, a highway patrol trooper dragged nearly 100 feet when a traffic stop went horribly wrong. the trooper holding onto the car door as the suspect hit the gas in orlando. the officer not seriously hurt. the suspect is charged with attempted murder. well, american airlines pilots want more simulator time before flying the embattled 737 max, sending a letter to boeing chief and here's what it said. our participation in every aspect of returning the 737 max to service and restoring public trust in the airplane is absolutely critical. earlier this week, remember, hero pilot sully sullenberger stressed the need for for training, he was giving testimony on capitol hill. and the pilot union chiefs are getting more vocal about the need to make sure this airplane is safe before they get back into that cockpit. >> charles: and everybody understands exactly where they're coming from. cheryl, thank you very much. coming up, walmart paying up, the retail giant settles with the government over bribery violations and it's an eye-popping number, straight ahead. flack's stunning opening, shares of the work social media app skyrocketing after debuting on wall street. we're going to take a closer look, next. ♪ this is something big. this is something bigger. [ "movin on up" by primal scream ] that is big. not as big as that. sure that's big. that's bigger. big. bigger. big. bigger. big. but that's bigger. wow, big. so much bigger. this is big. but that's...well, you got this. >> charles: flack going public, the tech firm stock ending the first day trading over $38 a share, nearly 50% higher than reference price of $26. it gives flack a fully diluted valuation of $23 billion. joining the conversation this morning, fox business' jackie deangeles, the assistant editorial page editor for the wall street journal, james freeman, along with former u.s. army special operations and strategic advisor, brad zelikovich. jackie, flack wasn't a slacker on the first day of trading. >> there was a lot of appetite for the deal. that was reflected in the volume we saw yesterday. there was some concern that because it was a direct liftingg and it wasn't an ipo, that it wouldn't get the attention. in fact, it did. i think that speaks to investor appetite, which is they're looking for deals, looking for alternative places to put capital and flack is not profitable but the profit -- the losses are actually closing in each year and i think investors are optimistic. >> charles: it's been a good week for enterprise software, right. or even ipos. you had pager duty which did very well, you had zoom which did extraordinary, oracle and adobe through the roof. very few are paying for slack right now. >> i think it really is a show of force, not just the stock rising but to do a direct listing, cutting out the traditional wall street underwriting model with a brand that is not one of these big consumer brands, it's a business application. i don't use it but obviously a lot of companies do. but yeah, another sign that the weakness on uber and lyft coming out is not indicative of overall very strong ipo market this year so far. >> charles: extraordinarily strong ipo. i think there were too many bites of the apple for those privately. people were smart enough to say you know what, you bid the stock up to the moon and you want me to buy it. no thanks. having said that, though, i think wall street will come back later as this stock trades as earnings come out and if this takes a tumble, they'll say to companies in the future, hey, you don't need me on ipo day perhaps but you may need us later if the stock is under some form of pressure, you may need analyst research on this. you may need us to talk to institutions. you may actually need us, not on the first day but later on. >> hindsight is 20/20. first day showing is pretty good. >> charles: it was. there's a reason that only a handful of companies try this. over $800 million in cash, they'll be around for a moment. we'll see what happens. slack's debut highlighting the growth of new workplace tools. chief information officers, tech firm executives, analysts on wall street telling the wall street journal that it's really driving a shift from individuals to group productivity. they also say that the showing is how much office workers have come to hate e-mail. slack says we won't have e-mail in seven years. >> it's very possible. i worked at a company where all they used is slack. everyone would say i slacked you, i sent you a message on slack. e-mail was not as pervasive. it depends on the culture and how sort of the diversity of the workforce and people that are working there, whether they're going to adapt to that model. >> charles: i support slacking off in the workplace as a general principle. but i've never really seen the problem with e-mail. i think it works pretty well. there have been so many instant messaging tools that have come out over the last decade or so. i'm a reluctant consumer. >> i put up a post one time that says i'm old school because i carry luggage without wheels, i get a paper paycheck and i still use e-mail. >> charles: i'm old school. >> i'm into all the different messaging apps. >> charles: he's ahead of the curve. >> the apps are the future. this is the way it's going to be. i'm surprised it did so well in this initial public offering. i mean, the market is so t saturated with these different types of apps. i mean, i'm just surprised that it did so well in this initial public offering. >> charles: they made pretty good penetration in the workforces out there. every time i turn on my computer, slack pops up. that's everyday advertising for this company that i don't use. another company that may be in hot water, wee works. they're being accused of gender and age discrimination. a spokesperson says the lawsuit is meritless and they will fight it. >> you'll have to monitor the story and sear where it goes. if there is any merit to this kind of suit it could be a black eye ahead of a an ipo. if not, wall street will tend to overlook these kind of things and look at the company and valuation and decide if it's worth it. as i said, even with chewy last week for example, it gives you an idea of how much appetite there is for new issues and for some more diverse places for investors to allocate capital. i think most of these deals are going to do pretty well as long as the market continues to have this positive momentum behind it. >> charles: over the last deck ate or so, the amount of publicly traded companies out there have been sawed in half, to your point. so there is an appetite, but it helps to be controversy-free. coming up, the record run on wall street comes amid the tariff tug of war. more american companies urging the u.s. to drop plans that are in place for more tariffs on china. plus, a real brawl game, two city workers suspended for this massive fight at a little league baseball game. i was wondering where james was yesterday. ♪ they're doing the mess around. ♪ they're doing the mess around. ♪ everybody's doing the mess around. ♪ dear tech, you've been making headlines. smart tech is everywhere. and you've done a lot of good for the world. but is that enough. dear tech, we've got some 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until it's over. all right, james, what do you think? which one is more fascinating? >> the brawl, you weren't here yesterday for the brawl, what do you think of that? >> kids sports, something about it just drive people insane and i try to put it -- sort of separate. people can be completely nuts about-not that i've seen this kind of thing, i've got to say, at a kids sporting event. it's obviously way over the line. but you've got to wonder -- it is a problem. >> what do you think? >> absolutely terrible to see this. i think the sporting events are getting to the point where kids aren't even having fun because they're worried about their parentparent interjecting and mt fing it about themselves. >> charles: it's almost like pro leagues, they have traveling teams, a speed coach. they have taken this -- people think their kids will be noticed by the nba at age 7, that a scout will come around. >> it's competitive. they're looking forward to college, are my kids going to be scouted to 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europe, sort of mixed ftse and cac up. overnight the nikkei was the hardest hit following week manufacturing data out of japan. we are following breaking news, philadelphia watched by massive fire and explosions at a gas refinery. wall street's historic highs, market closing solidly, the s&p 500 setting an all-time record, gains amid signs the federal reserve moving toward an interest rate cut. joining me, tim mahoney. what do you make first of all of this rally? i thought yesterday was phenomenal. lindsey graham almost destroyed the rally with that tweet. ironically donald trump talked it back up. >> tweeting war. charles: everyone looking at the fed as their friends. >> i like what is happening. i'm in the bullish camp. we gone too high too fast. the doubt 25,000, now it 26,700. charles: sell your stocks? >> sentiment goes wildly bearish and the china and us couldn't get it together and widely. this way because the fed recovers in the cycle of us looking for investors looking for weakness to cut rates, the best cycle you want to be in. i don't like when we have to encourage bad economic news. charles: throughout this whole seesawing of people selling on these headlines trying to avoid these dips they might have missed out but what about the notion that powell is looking not for week news but to prevent that weakness. mueller referenced low-inflation. at the fomc there inflation, 1.8-1.5 but powell in a press conference said this inflation drifting lower and lower is difficult to arrest. i thought that was a key thing. we know deflation is worse than inflation. >> get behind the curve because trillions of dollars -- that is what the market reinforced, a decent economy slowing down a bit, the fed could be supportive but it has been doctor jekyll mister hyde of fed policy, october 4th far away from neutral to december raising rates. now we talk about cutting rates. it has been all over the place, the volatility has been the policymaker of the fed weaving in and out. charles: what about beyond the headlines, beyond trade and fundamental. >> if you want to do something like that we encourage selling. we have a good blueprint on what is going to work, stocks are higher throughout the year, earnings season coming up. those are the go to stocks, companies like microsoft and software companies, raising guidance and those are the news you want to be in raising guidance. charles: i wonder about the source of your bullishness, not a bad economy. some bad signs but generally pretty good. do you assume the china trade fight gets resolved soon or the if you whether it does or not this is still a pretty good economy? >> a pretty good economy. we get a partial philby have seen for a long time. we won't get the full monty. i don't see the chinese government cracking down companies that invade our individual properties. china can walk away from the table, they got a win and the president says they got a win but even without that, the economy could be pretty strong. >> how do you see the us iran tensions playing out when the us has gone to war in the past, military conflict can be stimulative, the country doesn't want that conflict. >> hopefully you put enough pressure on that we don't escalate this to a war. we tried sanctions but certainly they will start shooting things down and hitting things, the president will not -- the bull's in iran's court. they got the message, stop playing these games but should they escalate it i think we will have a conflict, a military conflict. charles: more american companies speaking out against tariffs against china, apple on the list, dollar tree, a bunch of them have joined trade talks between china and the united states, resuming at the g 20 meeting. for me, i feel next on this because when these companies -- i never hear them say anything about china having 1 million people in prison camps or learning camps because of their religion. the brittleness they have shown, the lack of freedom of speech, stealing $200 billion a year in intellectual property. i could put -- if it is hot enough, a knockoff version will come out of china we later. i know they are trying to protect their bottom line but if everyone has skin in the game, a trade war, how about putting your multibillion-dollar buyback on the side for a second for one quarter. for one quarter. i bet they put it aside forever because they are about to go bankrupt, $2 billion of stock that went from 60-5. why not be more supportive of this? >> the silver lining in this, hopefully companies diversify away from china, 90% of their imports come from china. that is not a good strategy that is learned, the tariffs down the road, maybe they go to vietnam or taiwan or start manufacturing and bring manufacturing back to the us. the silver lining is because of this feud, companies look to diversify their sources and supplies. before we've seen a lot of that, mexico is the big winner so far. they have done extraordinarily well. that is why i think quickly -- >> stock buybacks? this is the go to. this is how we get those eps numbers. charles: when joe biden announced his first official campaign speech, i'm not against the but i'm against them when a family company or companies stumbling that somehow ceos and executors are being paid in that stock but those other companies you won't be buying back. >> blog on bad investments. charles: game stop is a good example, they started buying that back big time. at 56, 5 or 6 bucks right now. 2017, the ceo's compensation with 6.5 million, 4 million of that was stock. that is nuts. in a company that was laying off people, closing stores, they should have been a digital formula but they didn't. we've got it on the board. $56 a share, that was a terrible decision. >> you bring up a great point. one of the criticisms of the tax cut was companies are using this money to buy back stock instead of reinvesting it which is what the goal would be. you can't tell them what to do with it 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is g rated. charles: i want to move on to another hot story. we got a teaser from disney's live-action reboot of the lion king which features beyoncé and donald glover singing the soundtrack. ♪ can you feel the love tonight ♪ >> look at the stars ♪ >> of kings looked down on us from those stars. ♪ the world for once ♪ in perfect harmony ♪ >> and so will i. charles: the song sounds beautiful and was that james earl jones? >> that was james earl jones. charles: they sold me. >> that is the film that will break almost every record. toy story iv won't break incredible's ii which is $182 million. this will be between 150-160 but lion king, forget about it. might as well print the money. charles: it looks like it appears to be live-action but is actually computer-generated. >> it looks real and that is all that matters. like avatar. charles: so far this has been a dismal box office here except for disney. it has been held back by all these sequels was how many times can they keep going back 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blackstone chairman steve schwartzman blocking $188 million to oxford university. >> oxford is the number one ranked humanities faculty in the world and the number one rank philosophy department in the world. what is compelling for me was looking at the way their expertise, their knowledge of humans and humanity and western culture basically fit in terms of what we have to do to figure out with a i what you can introduce, what appropriate regulations are. charles: we are headed out of this world literally, nasa opening the international space station to a private astronauts and international business. >> day-to-day in space working on experiments keeping the space station running at peak performance and going about our business as astronauts. we are orbiting the earth, 250 miles above the surface of the earth. living on the international space station in an environment that was never designed for humans, humans were not designed for this environment. >> 600 million viewers by 2020 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europe. but i think we have two of the three major indices there up. you can see right there, the german indices down very fractiofractionally. in asia, markets mostly lower. there are new warnings on china tariffs, apple, fit bit, among the latest companies joining in a letter to the administration. jason penny says tariffs will affect women more than men. a massive refinery fire lights up the sky in philadelphia. a sec n shun o shun of the refi- section of the refinery still operating. and zion williamson is the number one pick in the nba draft. it's the post-selection interview that goes viral. with me this morning, jackie deangeles, james freeman and former u.s. army special operations and strategic and white house defense, brad zelikovich. it was such an amazing day yesterday with so much news coming off the fed, the iranian strike, president trump. were you surprised at the he restrainrestraint that he showe? >> a little bit. we're sort of speculating his comment that he thinks it was a mistake, the iranians don't say that. the iranians you say it was in their air space. we say it was in international air space. i tend to believe our military over theirs. >> a little bit. >> the rising oil prices today suggest that maybe there will be more action, although i think jackie made a good point at the top about how things have changed and this is really the u.s. energy revolution and of course we've got an embargo on iranian oil but even instability in the middle east doesn't move the price that much and i think it's because of this fracking awesome energy development here in the u.s. >> i remember the days of $20 geopolitical premium in oil. >> charles: president trump saying okay, he called off the strikes but that he wants to talk to tehran on various issues and they have a short period of time to respond. so the clock is ticking. where do you see it going? >> i was very surprised we didn't wake up in the morning with some sort of strike that took place over there. i'm not sure if it was maybe intelligence they had to indicate there was confusion over who -- >> charles: president trump said something about scientific evidence, in other words, that it was a mistake but that it sounded like they had some sort of evidence to prove it was in international -- >> maybe that's the case. the iranian hard liner versuss e been covertly at war with us for years. this was a drone for intelligence collection, it flies a very specific pattern. there's no mistaking that they wanted to take this down. they absolutely did this deliberately. i'm really surprised that this happened. i don't know if maybe there was conversation can congress where it was maybe restricted, the authorization to use military force, so there was a debate there. either way, tensions will continue to rise. if we don't stop this now, they will to d continue to do it. they've been doing it for 39 years. >> charles: president trump ordered a retaliatory attack yesterday but then called it off at the last minute. he commented on this yesterday. take a listen. >> iran made a big mistake. they made a very bad mistake. >.>> [ indiscernible ] >> you'll find out. >> are you willing to go to war with them? >> you'll find out. you'll find out. i have a feeling, i may be wrong and i may be right, but i'm right a lot. i have a feeling it was a mistake made by somebody that shouldn't have been doing what they did. >> [ indiscernible ] >> i don't know. i find it hard to believe it was intentional, if you want to know the truth. i think it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid that did it. >> charles: joining me now, pennsylvania congressman, foreign affairs committee member and iraq veteran, scott perry. thanks for joining us this morning. help us unpack what happened in the last 24 hours or so. >> i do think that the president doesn't want to go to war but as your other hosts say, the iranians have been doing this to us for 39 or 40 years. weakness is provocative and they've seen no sign of strength from the united states for a long time and they're testing the limits of this president. they're trying to provide more space for good deal for them, provide bargaining space, a place to come back torques that's why the escalation. once they escalate, they can drop down. i will say i don't necessarily think it was a mistake but as i guy who has flown on border, there's no line. the iranians will fire at you if you get close. we have absolute -- we lived through that. but i think there's probably more to the story here and the president has provided some space. there's something going of on behind the scenes and the other shoe is going to drop. it might be military but it really might not be. i think there is a lot of levers that the president has to pull on individuals in iran, on financial issues that really are going to be crippling. i think he can turn the screws down a lot more than he has already and it doesn't necessarily mean military involvement. that is the final push when you get to the military, but even at that, there are stages that we have to go through and so i think there's still a lot of room here to get to where we want to get to. the question is, are the iranians really serious at all? >> charles: congressman, it feels like when those initial oil-when the waivers were removed, it seems there's a serious correlation to stepped up acts of provocation, the tankers, the actions in different countries. it feels like maybe that's when iran started to really step this l wholwhole thing up. you have to remember -- i mean, obviously they know they would lose in a serious military confrontation with us. i heard one thing they think they would win, though, is nationalism. they've got serious issues within their own country, that this may be a way to regalvanize the country and maybe quell some descent. could that be part of their strategy? >> i do think that's part of it. with the protests going on, this makes a common enemy for all the citizens. there's a lot of peace and freedom-loving iranian that's would love to get rid of the regime. this kind of does help to galvanize them in that. they've got a tough nut to crack here because as you said earlier, with the energy dominance of america and america exporting, they don't have the influence that they used to have in the energy markets and you can h see just the prices at the pump aren't as inches flensed as they used to be. -- influenced as they used to be. the other countries that are receiving iranian oil are going to see the pinch, not america. we're really in the driver's seat. iran knows it. they've got to play it carefully without getting into a military conflict. >> charles: a lot of people who weighed in on this, particularly the other side of the aisle, are saying we need to get our allies involved. every time i hear of that, i think of the yellow flag, maybe red flag. i'm not sure our allies move fast enough or if they're on the same page we're on. >> i would agree with you. if you look at common history over the last 3 39 years, folks who we thought were our allies, we found out they were doing a lot of business with iran, which led to death of american citizens, whether in iraq or elsewhere. we have to be careful when our allies are involved. sometimes they're not quite the friend we hoped they would be. it's better when america drives the train and sets the conditions. as long as we do that, i thinkal lies can be involved -- allies can be involved, but we have to lead. in the past, we have not been there. i said weakness is provocative and iran is testing this administration to see if it's like all the rest who have talked big and delivered little. i suspect they'll find something different with this president as pormost of the world has recenty seen. >> charles: the faa has banned carriers from flying over iran. your thoughts on that? >> it's all about turning the screws down on iran and isolating them. that's one more measure. they want to be part of the world and want to be able to ship stuff in and out, whether through the ground, air or the sea and it's one more hurdle they have to go through and explain to their people that are suffering under the joke of the theological totalitarian regime where their life those be so miserable, it makes it tough for them to rule. that's the point here. change how you act and all this will end. you keep on threatening neighbors and killing our allies and friends, then you're going to have to suffer this. >> charles: congressman scott perry, thank you very much. really appreciate it. folks, breaking news out of philadelphia. a massive explosion and fire at a gas refinery still burning this morning. plus, market rally, record highs on wall street as u.s. businesses protest u.s.-china tariffs, who are they really trying to protect. that's next. ♪ so wake me up when it's all over. ♪ when i'm wiser and i'm older. ♪ all this time i was finding myself. 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residents, making sure that that fire is under control. well, the families of two more tourists who died in the dominican republic are coming forward. chris palmer, an army veteran from kansas passed away last year. barbara mitchell, a retired nurse from pennsylvania died in 2016. dominican officials say the deaths are all coincidental and from natural causes, this as the fbi has begun testing mini bar samples to see if the alcohol is possibly behind the he deaths. we'll have more details later today, we expect. navy prosecutors say they have no intention of dropping the murder case against a navy seal. even after a witness confessed to that crime. cory scott said he was the one who killed a teenage isis fighter. prosecutors say scott is lying to protect edward gallagher after being granted immunity. gallagher served nine months in prison awaiting trial in the killing of the 15-year-old isis member back in 2017. and the supreme court has ruled that maryland can honor fallen world war i soldier was a peace cross that's on state property. members of a lawsuit were fighting to remove the cross on constitutional grounds. the majority determined the cross was a his r tor his histok with historical decision. >> charles: a 7-2 decision. wow. i want to ask you about your reaction to the navy seal case. that was a twist no one saw coming. >> what a bomb shell. it's tough to say what is the truth with this trial. the fact is that we can't tell if this is good lawyers or just teammates sticking together. i mean, that's how navy seals operate. they stick together. and i think a lot of people are scratching their heads about what's going on here. the fact is, this is war. we train these guys to kill. and then when they go out and do it, we throw them in jail and we second guess what they're doing. and so this case i've never seen anything like it. but did you notice also that the president's go-to lawyers are a part of this case, behind the scenes. i've seen some of the videos of the lawyers behind it. seems like he's wanting to help this navy seal out as well. we are seeing that behind the scenes. >> charles: some people say despite the fact that it is war, maybe because it is war, we should have rules. it's been long established there are certain rules of war. do you worry about not -- listen, no one is ever similar pathetic to isis-similarsympatho isis fighters. >> there has to be rules. we follow the geneva convention and there should be an investigation if there is a case where this isis fighter was killed because he should be treated as any other individual. we should protect him, that's what you do after you capture the fighters. i notice it was after this guy got immunity that was when he basically came out and said he was the one responsible and not the person on trial. >> charles: scott also said he felt it was humanitarian to do this because the fate that awaited this isis fighter would have been a lot worse, right, jackie? >> he said that. he also said that he thought that the torture that this victim would have suffered if he stayed alive would have been worse. so he was making a judgment call there. but definitely a twist in this case that nobody expected. to your point, there were so many stories from different people, people changing their stories, stories on both sides and in some ways there's no winner here at the end of the day on either side, obviously. people don't want to seagal gear go to jail. >> i don't like the idea of them going back and litigating these cases from iraq. seems like these are starting to p pop up more and more. years ago, these things happened. we're seeing more investigations start to come out about the situations like this. i hope it doesn't continue along this trend. >> charles: a lot of people agree with you, particularly as we have a massive homeless problem with the vets who went out there and served. thank you. coming up, kohl's under serious pressure, the company offering a buyout to some 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you closed a store, your web traffic went down in the geographic ai area. creating a store creates brand credibility and a relationship with consumers. >> charles: they can't be loss leaders, they have to be profitable. >> what a lot of people don't realize, the most profitable distribution chan he he'll in retail -- channel in retail generally is the physical store. the customer acquisition costs of online only retail are quite significant. that's why you're seeing so many online only retailers moving into opening you up stores and there's a recent report that you'll see about 1,000 online retailers open up stores in the next year, couple years, and you're seeing casper, wayfair, there's plenty more that are opening up stores who said they wouldn't originally but now are. >> did that work for amazon when they did that? seems like it wasn't that successful. >> i think you're seeing amazon -- i mean, amazon's made a big bet on the convergence of physical and digital. obviously, the whole foods acquisition, the amazon books, amazon go, et cetera. what i find fascinating and this speaks to the convergence, you have the world's largest digital retailer, amazon, going heavily into the physical space. you see the world's largest physical retailer, walmart, going heavily into the digital space which speaks to the importance of convergence. >> charles: best buy, the showroom for the electronics industry, is that a model for other retailers and other industries in terms of making the physical store an appealing and better experience than you might get online? >> unbest buy's a great example of of a retailer that took advantage of making their store an experience, as you said. i think experience can be something like what best buy did, where you took the opportunity to interact with a digital product but experience could also be like a t.j. maxx where you go in and it's like a treasure hunt or apple where you're interacting -- >> charles: burlington. my mom introduced me 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businesses go beyond the expected, to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. >> charles: welcome back. i'm charles payne, in for maria bartiromo. it's friday, june 21st. your top stories at 7:30 a.m. eastern. rising tensions, president trump planned a military strike on iran, then abruptly backed down amid u.s., iranian tensions. gold turning around. it's been up and down, but now up. futures, however, have been under pressure all morning long. actually a little lower than they have been about an hour ago. yesterday stocks rallied big-time. the s&p surging to a record close. the dow just 75 points away from a new record. over in europe, it's been sort of mixed overnight. you had two major indices up, the german index was lower. in asia overnight, the kne nikki was hit hardest. we are following breaking news, firefighters battling a massive refinery fire in philadelphia early this morning. the cause of the fire is under investigation. there have been reports of no injuries. firefighters say they have contained the blaze. plus, an emotional nba draft, the number one pick, zion williamson, reaction going viral this morning. honoring the apollo 11 moon landing, we're going to show you the out-of-the-world donut in celebration of the 50th anniversary. our tor top story, the s&p 500 climbing to a new record yesterday after the federal reserve decided not to cut interest rates, president trump encouraged the central the bank be ready to cut rates in the future. take a listen. >> i guess they indicated they're going to be lowered. should have been done sooner. can't win them all. he should have done it sooner. can't win it all. eventually he'll do what's right, programs. let's see what he does. >> charles: joining me now, global economics editor to the wall street journal, john hilsenrath. eventually jay powell will do what's right, that's the overarching opinion on wall street as well. >> can the esb, the european central bank, both signaled rate cuts are probably coming. the market's behavior this week is remarkable to me. the u.s. is -- more with iran in the middle east, oil prices are rising. five, 10 years ago, if that were happening stock prices would be sum bling. instead, we're flirting with record highs. one of the big story lines this week i think is how much the american fracking boom is insulating the u.s. economy and u.s. markets in the face of these new tensions in the middle east. we are an independent oil producer now and so you can have all this tension in the middle east with iran and not have to worry that it's going to disrupt oil supplies and push prices higher. >> john, jackie deangeles here. question question on powell. he's looking very clearly at the data and watching inflation very closely as well. but i'm wo wondering if china te tensions and could potentially come out of the g-20 or not out of it in terms of a deal is more the focal point at this point. >> i actually think it really is two things. well, i'll say three things. it's very low inflation. the inflation numbers have been below the fed's 2% target for months now and it looks like they're not going to get back above it for a while. i think the fed is worried that it could lose credibility on whether it can keep inflation at that 2% target. that's one. the other thing is i think the fed is kind of spooked about what is going on in the bond market. when you have 10 year treasury notes down to something like 2%, the yield curve, which is the relationship between long-term interest rates and short-term interest rates, has inverted which means that long-term rates are lower than short-term rates. that's been a recession signal in the past. i think that spooked the fed and the fed wants to get short rates down. and then the other thing that powell talked about was global growth. it looks like global growth is slowing down. you know, i think on the trade talks with china and the g-20, that's something that the fed really can't control. it's totally out of their control. it's up to president trump and president xi and frankly it doesn't look like -- it looks like they might agree to keep talking but i don't know that they're going to -- looks highly unlikely they're going to reach some deal next week. >> james freeman here. wondering -- a lot of talk about this 2% target and it seems like there's room under their criteria with inflation running below that to ease if they want to, but are there any voices in the fed saying you know what, lower inflation is great. who wants to have the currency devalued 2% a year. does anyone sort of make the case that price stability would be the ideal? >> well, you know, the fed's view of price stability is that it's 2%. you know, the currency devalues 2% a year but incomes are also rising by more than that. so i think the fed feels comfortable that -- like they just want prices and inflation to be on a steady, predictable track and they've defined that steady, predictable track to be a 2% inflation rate. the worry at the fed is if it goes -- if they allow inflation to go all the way to zero, that means interest rates are extremely low too and they have very little room to maneuver if we go into a new recession. usually in a recession, the fed cuts interest rates to try to stimulate the economy. if they allow inflation to stick at zero forever, they can't do anything in a he recession. you've got to look somewhere else for help. >> charles: there's one person that's worried at the fed, jim bullard, the president of the st. louis branch. he was the lone vote in favor of a cut right now. he put out a statement this morning, part of it read, i believe in lowering the target range for the fed funds rate at this time would provide insurance against further declines and expected inflation in a slowing economy, subject to elevated downside risk. i just want to shoot to the part that caught my eye more than anything else, john, it's contrary to what jay powell said on may 1st. the force that's are keeping inflation below targets seem unlikely to be solely transitory. i mean, when jay powell said transitory on may 1st the stock market, the dow made a 200 point reversal to the downside as the investing public does not believe these are temporary factors. >> right. it looks like powell might be coming around to jay bullard's view. i'm sorry, to jim bullard's view, that this slowdown in inflation might be with us for a while. and i should say, bullard's concern isn't that inflation is too high and wants to he get it down to zero. his concern that inflation is too low and he wants to get it higher. >> charles: right. >> and he's what w call a done,e wants the fed to be more aggressive. >> charles: what about the notion that rate cut would be assurance against down side shock? most of the rate cut cycles over the last -- five or six of them, began with 50 basis points. we saw some that began with 100 basis points. to me that suggests, hey, they were way behind the curve, now they're trying to catch up. feels to me there's an argument maybe jay powell's accepting the argument, why do we need to ever have to catch up like that, why can't we be more preemptive. >> he actually said that at his press conference. he said -- i'm going to mangle the saying, but an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. i think that's the way the saying goes. the idea is if you do a little bit before the disease sets in and helps prevent the disease, then you're better off doing that than having to pour a lot of medicine after the disease hits. so i think powell is buying into that idea and thinking maybe if we just do a little bit to get things going now, we won't have to worry about a recession down the road. >> charles: you talked about the trade tariffs of course. i want to turn to them a little bit more here. president trump meeting with the canadian prime minister, just continue true dough yesterday. we know -- just continue true dougjustin trudeauyesterday. it's part of the effort to get the usmca done. mexico ratified it the night before. on the other side, you still have a lot of pressure from american companies, apple, dollar tree, walmart, fit bit, a bunch of them, vocally, publicly pressuring the administration to drop at least the latest round of tariffs on china. it's becoming a x-ra complicate. president trump sees it as his main tool as he heads into the g-20 meeting. >> you mentioned canada and china. on the canada front, it looks like the canadians and mexicans are going to pass this deal pretty easily. the president's biggest challenge there is getting congress to move to pass the usmca and working with nancy pelosi on that front. so his biggest challenge is here at home and not necessarily in canada. on china, you know, american companies have placed very big bets on the chinese economy in the last 20 years and they're not at all happy about these tariffs. and so i think the administration is 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about conducting these strikes. but i tell you what, if they kill an american, i mean, pompeo made it very clear, there will be hell to pay. if they cross that line, there's no going back. we're going to strike. >> charles: the faa's move seems very smart, the idea of stopping all carriers, u.s. carriers from flying in iranian air space. we'll see what happens. but that's huge. coming up, folks, zion going number one, the top nba draft pick's emotional response, it's gone viral. we'll share it with you, next. ♪ if you are wrong in all the right ways. ♪ all the undertones. ♪ we will never be, never be anything but loud. the first pick in the 2019nba draft, the new orleans pelicans select zion williamson from duke university. >> charles: zion williamson, picked first in the nba draft. it's his emotional reaction that's gone viral this morning. jared max has the details. jared: charles, good morning. one year at duke and zion gets to play basketball for new orleans. 68% shooter. as we saw last night, ever humble alongside his mom and his first coach in brooklyn. >> i didn't think i would be in this position. my mother sacrificed a lot for me. i wouldn't be here without my mom. he she did everything for me. i just want to thank her. jared: you think zion and his mom are happy? how about dukes' basketball coach, three of his players picked in the top ten, rj to the nicks, back to zion, he and his new represents, he creative artist agents being sued for $100 million in punitive damages by prime sports marketing llc who zion signed with back in april but filed suit last week to terminate the contract. as of may he moved to caa. zion's first contract expected to be worth $22 million over two years. gold's for, 18, -- goals for, 18, goals against, zero. usa beat sweden yesterday, 2-0. usa will play spain monday, 12:00 noon eastern on fox. major league baseball returning to montreal, it may be. and in unique fashion. 15 years since the expos left quebec to become the washington nationals, mlb gives the green light for the tampa bay rays to explore the possibility of splitting the season, home games between st. pete, florida and montreal, new stayed jumps in sh locations. the games in florida would be played early in the season. did you hear about the professional golfer who got disqualified because he ran out of golf balls? yeah. it happens to us, we ask a friend for a ball. when you're a professional, different story. aclement berard disqualified, played so poorly yesterday at the challenge tour event in spain, he ran out of balls and he was disqualified. that's kind of embarrassing. >> charles: a lot of things we've got to unpack here. the first and foremost, i think zion, what do you make of it? i think for fans, particularly older fans, felt like a lot of players -- one period were playing strictly for the money. it's sort of a turn-off. i remember when people sold insurance in the off season. his humbleness brings me back to sports over and over again. jared: love to see it. we saw it with a lot of the parents and whatnot. what's so special to think about this draft class, charles, that i can't recall seek, i predict we're going to see younger players have a larger impact in their first season in the nba than i can recall and the nba seems to be getting younger and younger and a lot of guys who were drafted last night i think will be all-stars. i would love to see the commissioner, adam silver, look to the college game and try to adopt a style like we see at the ncaa, stop the time-outs, all the commercials. the flow of the basketball game can be killer. i'd love a new generation of basketball as well as the special players. zion is very -- >> charles: they're giving me a hard wrap here. 18-0, we should point out the margins are getting smaller and smaller. real quick, real quick. rank 1909, how many people can be professional? 2,000? 3,000? jared: we can all lose too many golf balls. >> charles: catch jared's sports 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following weak manufacturing data out of japan a refinery fire lights up sky in philadelphia sensation of the refinery is still operating, even after area residents felt a series of explosions. wall street debut what is in store for first full day of trading, here to help break it down fox is about next jackie deangelis assistant editorial page editor james freeman, brett. talk about breaking news. the markets, have not changed are you surprised by that the futures you know, didn't go down on that news. >> i am not actually, i think good for markets to be calm and maintain you know, some -- sort of approach to this that is rationale. i think market is going to need more from the president we do know that he ordered an attack took that off. >> more clarity. >> more clarity what exactly is going to happen iranians saying we would have shot down a drone had people in it changes the game completely if president punches back with military strike he is changing the game as well taking this to the next level i think market is saying we have to see how this develops charlesyou've engaged -- are you do i iran is capable. >> not capable the ability to do it i mean are they cable, what they actually used as -- is that something they really would consider doing. >> i think people want to lump iranians the hard liners, rational the truth is they are irrational the majority iranian people want good he relationships with west talking about hard liners at the top sitting there pulling strings, run by rgcommittee rogue elements some may go off the reservation conduct some sort of strikes without knowledge of the top leadership it is possible that we do see something like this happen but, at the same time, you know, we don't want a war i don't any american appetite for american people for war not appetite for iranian people as well we need to figure this out. >> something happened last night for trump to change his mind i am wondering if they are not looking at inside strategy or another way to approach this without involving a military complex. >> certainly does not want go to war not hawk media portrayed him as on campaign trail for sure, to continue with breaking news again escalating tensions with iran president trump ordering retaliatory attack on iran on pause the last minute blake burman at the white house with more blake people are really, are intrigued by what happened here. reporter: we're trying to figure that out a lot of questions ez about how long this might play out charles there is a requestion as to whether or not, the u.s. is set to carry out a retaliatory strike inside of iran u.s. defense official tells fox last night military was set to carry out a strike against iran halted the last minute that happened 7:30 in the evening remains unclear why that was the case. the targets for the u.s. military included iranian technology used to shoot down american drone yesterday iran focus of top officials lawmakers over here at the white house, agency they were summoned to situation room for a meeting preponderance before that president seemed to suggest even though iran made a mistake, the decision to shoot down a u.s. drone might not have been made from the top. >> i have a feeling and may be wrong i may be right but i am -- i have a feeling that there was a mistake made by somebody about that should not have been doing what they did. i don't know, i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to mother the truth i think it could have been somebody who was stupid that did it. >> potentially part of the puzzle rioters reporting citing iranian officials oman communicated a message from president trump to iran u.s. attack was i amment according to that report said would come in i cola but quote we made it clear the leader is against any talks that from reuters this morning, also this morning charles from iranian state tv it is claiming that iran refrained from shooting down u.s. plane, that had 35 people onboard, that iran says was acome. >> we don't know veracity specifically of the claims whether or not there was a claim accompanying that drone as well -- >> joining me now great america pac chairman former reagan white house chief poly advisories ed roll inns welcome. >> i thought fascinating yesterday lindsey graham puts out hawkish tweet dow jones industrial average around 26753 on the way to record highs, starts to fall precipitously down more than 200 points then sound bite of president trump saying hey, we think a big mistake pushing off idea of military action, the market rrs goes straight to the moon. i think the markets were thrilled at temperament president trump displayed yesterday. >> i think -- even though he ran on not wanting any wars, a very positive thing. the i think also a tough guy i think to a certain extent no matter what he said yesterday clearly loaded the gun ready to fire back made a very deliberate decision a positive decision, at this point in time we don't know all facts i will tell you this the iranians are basically pushing a envelope on a lot of things if they fire on aircraft on a ship a plane ship of with men -- with passengers there is a big hole in the ground there we will bomb the daylights out of them not going to land war not anything like that, but always consequences you throw a punch the punch comes back i think thinking this through i think good policy thing to do everything positive right now economy what have you they are not going strong center struggling, they are not thinking wisely i think to a certain extent consequences for decent people in that country under situation, you know you basically he to be very careful in targeting. >> we know president trump is a counterpuncher politics business a counter puncher everyone anticipating some message sent maybe there is time offered for iran to come to the tables they are saying he they don't want to talk being more belligerent how much can they poke get away with until we have to do something more drastic. >> i think pretty close to the end of letting them poke us. and again, the consequences are not o o going to be -- knocking don -- if we go in damage. >> you wonder why they keep poppinging us currency has been crushed you would hope some point they would realize that the costs of being such a -- a i belligerent force would make them reconsider o. >> noun of you are old enough to remember iran-iraq war. >> we remember it a crazy war i remember reading tens of thousands of soldiers running over massive lines. >> hundreds of thousands not like they don't have will the religious leadership of that country is crazy by our standards my sense if is another activity here, i think we have reached point of intolerance i think it is important congress on bored clearly yesterday the democrats made it clear they don't want this i think if they basically attack u.s. ship or basically attack an aircraft, airplane with people in it consequences are going to be very severe. >> do we look weak not conneding military action in this case, 20-million-dollar drone -- >> i am not one i am a puncher, so from my perspective i assume next 48 hours, 72 hours, something will happen. >> i don't think it has to be all-or-nothing we don't have to go to full scale war can be limited. >> could leave more ships in there protecting that part of straits as you know, so very important. and i think they are playing i think they are playing doubtful i -- playing tough i don't know rationale to a certain extent, national security advisory is onboard to be more aggressive i think defense wants to basically make sure all options are looking at carefully. >> congressional leaders democratic leaders saying bring in allies, let's do this in a way where we don't -- chuck schumer used to word bumble into war stumble into war when it comes to these critical matters to wait around, to meet with allies to get them to check off on any kind of action. >> i don't think they end up with the 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>> [laughter] >> inevery won talked about now these the private jets, and idea that it is background more democratic more affordable but is it really? i don't know how i got on a couple e-mail list also i open them up now and then like, three grabbed four gra-- three grand four grand. >> start-ups want to uberize private travel model doesn't work there is basic fundamentals it is coastaltly mt business travel utilize travel to manage it time efficient. >> the majority of your customers. >> split 50-50, high network individuals seen interesting trend corporate departments are using shared models like flexjet. >> a lot of corporations have gotten push back for owning planes. >> sure charles: and, you know, so it is it would seem that that would help you dramatically okay. we don't own plan we've got fractional uppfraction a.m. ownership. >> boards the pressed aviation departments to be more thoughtful about how they deploy capital rather than buying additional whole aircraft you can being buy a fractional share with us and be smart about it. >> time-share in air kind of thing? our model is more long-term consumers you buy or lease undivided interest of share in aircraft gives access to fleet in excess of 150 aircraft spread arrange the world, really we will pick you up anywhere in the continental united states within hours of you calling us -- 8 hours of you calling us. >> ceo wants to make the case to his board i really want this, it is going to save tons every time we're going to be more productive what is the basic case? is it minutes per day? hours% week? how do you sort of make the case that this is an efficiency benefit? >> there are several factors first of all, a lot of executives are going to places not easy to get to particularly manufacturing facilities have remote locations to be able to take two and three flights now you can go directly to where you are going, secondly, in our corporate world would you be surprise there are a number of people that are onboard when the aircraft itself traveling so like you are having a conference call in the sky so effectiveness is really the major, major point. >> folks that are traveling to manufacturing destinations have you noticed any changes to volume as a result of trade tensions. >> international travel up 25% year-over-year i know we are all -- it is hop topic on trade issuess but our international travel up significantly primarily to europe popular european snaeksz i think people are travel more than ever before. >> what about -- the -- >> everybody wants the status that is one of your key selling points right now. >> i tell you never really talk anybody into flying privately but once they decide you can influence their decision, but i'll tell you it is -- it is pretty cool, so if you have the money, it is not only effective business tool, but for those to choose spend money this way easy way to fly. >> i believe this is slight of celebrityism material sem consumerism statement, i think driven by instagram things like that, i mean people will rent a jet to take a -- >> selfie day. >> i think that today charles that is today but it is the world that we live in, but our sustained business we have been in business over 25 years, we have seen sustained growth, so i think our model is more subinstantive kinds for medium use this more consistent basis less affected by the time. >> sounds like could be a brand extension to sell a -- a rental for selles never fly, operate the aircraft? >> we have customers. >> some people take toilet seat have you seen those. >> no i have no the. >> you take it actually lean looks like looking out of airplane window, like -- >> our customers are sophisticated. >> more sophisticated than that. >> o i got to turn to following thing head of american airlines need safety experts 737 max, everyone wants to get inside this simulator before they take planes back into the air, remember, american ordered 50 new airbus jets that was a blow to boeing obviously, saved by british airways the idea of training -- has been a big topic, particularly with 737 max but in general, how safe are our skies right now? how much training do pilots have with more than aviation? >> i will tell you that first of all, there is nothing more safe than an architect than welcome trained happy crew. and i would like to think at flexjet we created a culture of great pilots wonderful very, very well trained average pilot has 10,000 hours flight time training is critical we invested in a training company, because and we wish people at booing very, very well to be able to get at boeing very, very well. >> combination, you need simulator training you also need time in the air, a combination of two of them, i think is critical for future safety. >> so boeing i think the concern especially with case of 737s that companies were putting basically profits oefrn safest has that affected your calculus to look more at safety standards and maybe send spend more time monday than you normally would because of the situation where the company could go belly-up if an accident that actually occurred? >> so all that we had fun about talking about you know, the -- thank you know the photographs on instagram we do have a culture to be able to surprise delight customers exceed expectations but at core of everything at flex jet is to provide a safe operation for customers and crews never compromise on safety. >>. >> the world's greatest yachts periodically, blows me away how many 80-million-dollar yatsdz in t-- yachts in the wor there is a lot of wealth i see hard to fathom this many00-million-dollar yachts, page after page after page then you are growing like crazy there is a lot of wealth in this world. >> there is, year-to-date, customers new to flex jet this year, i am up over 50%. so i still believe there is enough wealth out there that people have note chosen yet to fly privately, for us we are very optimistic about our future. >> getting cheaper to fly privately. >> not necessary not necessary. >> if you look at this company from afar does this look like an issue to be resolved or long term problem? >> well i wish only wish best for boeing for themselves, as one of the major players, in the world, it is two of them airbus, but i think the quicker that we can get behind this the best for the entire aviation community. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> next time on one of your planes, right? wink wink, wink, wink. >> coming up heightened tensions in tehran markets taking it in stride i am going to ask stuart varney about it. he weighs in next. >> ♪ ♪ watching tensions between iran and united states stuart varney host of "varney & company." >> that is me charles, i got up this morning, what do i see? whoa we launched attack on iran then pulled back the last minute you think would spook market a little bit wouldn't you? but no, it hasn't in fact as of right now, we are going to be down what about 40 points on the dow, 30 on nasdaq, that is not much of a pullback, despite what is going on internationally, so trying to figure out you the why is that what is with this market why so resilient when you got this kind of thing around the world, my answer is, that what is going on around the world, is not likely at this stage, to have that big an impact on the future profitability of american corporations that is why there is no significant pullback, even after yesterday's big rally, i think that profits are the bottom line for stock prices going forward, that is why no big pullback, because profitability when feds on your side, looks to be not a sure thing, but a likely thing, down the road. now you know more about the markets you forgotten more about market than i ever learned, so how am i doing? 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