Appears that syrian president Bashar Alassad has been there for quite some time. Assad telling the bbc his government has received intel about strikes by the u. S. Led coalition. Here to discuss all that david asman, host of after the bell, jack hough, barrons senior editor. Rich lowery, senior politics editor of National Review and he is also a fox news contributor. Rich, let me start with you. Do we believe what assad is saying . What do you think . Wouldnt surprise me. Defacto Unspoken Alliance with him against isis. Our strategy in syria is basically nonexistence. We dont have a strategy in iraq. Were be making progress with kurds and shia militias allied with iran. This Defacto Alliance is one of the reasons we cant get the turks to have a military worth talking about to help us more. They hate assad. And they will not help us as long as were not working against assad. Melissa what a mess. I doubt very highly he is receiving detailed information about u. S. Strikes, this sort of thing. Sounds to me like bluster a little bit. Not exactly a reliable witness. Melissa it is his airspace. The men any of our men any i guess is our ally . David . You know i have a lot of problems with this whole issue, particularly given on one hand i want the United States to have more power. I want the United States to do more to get rid of isis. On the other hand i have a son who is in the marine corps. Do i want incompetent commanderinchief, i think it is fair to say this commanderinchief is incompetent. He is incompetent fighting our bitterest enemies whether in russia or middle east or wherever . Do i really want to give him more power . I dont know. We should play more active role. I dont want my son following orders of somebody giving bad orders. Melissa harsh words. Twitter page latest vick tim of proisis messages. 2. 4 million users displaying messages of support for isis and threat against president obama and first family. Rich, what is your reaction to this one . I dont think isis keeping up with media times. Newsweek, this would be outlet to hack 15, 20 years ago. Tough do vox or buzz feed. Maybe the president will at mid there is radical islam. At least 2. 4 million radical islamists targeting his family. Seems like isis is twitters most Enthusiastic User lately. Melissa feels like that. The more i all hear about them is connected to isis. Melissa in a way theyre communicating with folks around the world. There you go. The dow off session highs but still up 75 points on conflicting reports surrounding greece. Earlier today speculation emerged that greece was nearing a deal with its european creditors. Germanys finance minister shot down those rumors, setting the stage for tomorrows emergency meeting in brussels. Jack i let you hand them one. Some slivers of hope from greece. There was a big port privatization deal the new government spoken against saying this is giving away the companys assets when theyre in power. Looks like theyre going through with the deal. That is grownup move. That is good news. There has been a slight pullback on greek bond yields. Not meaningful one to show there is a deal likely but raises a little bit of hope. If europe gives greece a pass, everybody wants a deal according to reports, if europe gives greece a pass, italy will be next portugal spain. This, theyre thinking of giving melissa what is the option . Let them get out of europe. They didnt belong there in the first place. They had no intention of following the orders that youre supposed to follow if youre a member of the european community. Those orders are very specific in terms of gdp debt relationship et cetera. They violated those orders from the beginning. They shouldnt have been in the European Union for the past 10 years. Absolutely right. It has been a monstrous lie the whole time. Thats right. Just too painful for them to exit. So they will be drama and if theyre given a pass, it will be italy, will be spain, it will be portugal. Raise as question how the big the euro should be. This is still an experiment thinking you could have a currency block without a unified fiscal system. It still remains to be seen. Melissa or doesnt. It doesnt work. Im not sure. Remains to be seen what they will do to clean it up now. The Senate Holding a hearing on measles safety today as georgia becomes the latest state with a confirmed case. Health agencies shelling out 10,000 in taxpayer money for each instance a group of researchers at uchastings are proposing a tax on parents that dont vaccinate their children. Interesting approach. Im all for anything to do to parents who dont vaccinate their children. If you want to throw a issue at them fine. Dont put it in the tax code. There are enough tricks ad treats. Obamacare opened the door. Obamacare taxing people for something supposedly not in their best interests. That is what began this precedent. Melissa also interesting, its a financial remedy. Theyre saying it is 10,000 dollars cost on the system if you allow your child to go out there not to be vaccinated. If they get it, pass it along whatever. Theyre saying if this is confirmed you send them a bill afterwards with the personal belief exemption. Come on. You will not track down each individual case. Melissa they are also not going to pay it. Did you have measles . The vaccine . No i had measles. My generation grew up with measles. Not the worst thing in the world to get measles. You will be taxed for cooties. Taxed for cootie tax. Melissa i love jack. Tweet me melissaafrancis. I love hearing from you twice on this one. Call it a sign of the times. Amazon topping walmarts in the hearts and minds of american shoppers. In the latest pwc Consumer Survey 5 52 , listing amazon one of three favorite retailers, compared to 41 for walmart. I love me some amazon. Me too. Melissa what do you think . Amazon made the move first started buying things because those things were cheaper than anywhere else. It made the move to be a store where i rely on twoday shipping. No reliable, i know exactly when i get it. Even if its a smidgen more i will still buy it from them. Are you a primer . Im a primer baby. Melissa i feel like they cant make money on the prime. Im ordering at least one box from my door every day. Cuetips, a bottle of aspirin. If they charge more i end epbuying less. Because if i go to duane reade i buy more than one thing. My wife says, oh, im going to duane reade. She pulls me back inside the door and goes to amazon snow just bought a book less than a dollar and shipping it for free. Melissa unbelievable. I dont know if that is good for shareholders. Definitely booed for all of us right here. Looks like well need a cleanup on aisle three. Did you see this . And possibly a doctor. Ouch. Melissa throwing down, this is Jackson Hewitt tax worker inside of a walmart in deer park texas. It started when the shopper came to file tax returns. Remember we told you about this we said right here on money, that walmart was making a big push to get you to come in and file your tax return. Im not sure if this is what they thought they were getting into. I mean it is amazing. The woman who threw head butt person filed return. Woman on receiving end, was in a yellow sweater, there you go. She was the Jackson Hewitt tax preparer. That was in there. Apparently they had gotten in a scuffle before. Wow. Melissa the day before. The customer came back, fit to be tied. Next day you know what . I get frustrated about my taxes as well. I hate paying my taxes. Im not sure i head butt anybody. That is serious throwdown. Do you think you are capable . Melissa no, no definitely not. I threw a marshmallow at someone. Remember why Maggie Thatcher was cutting taxes . Not so much to have people keeping money. We were becoming, britain was lawless society. So many people got crazy trying to deal with taxes this is an example. Weve gotten crazy trying to deal with taxes. Melissa taxes are crazy. We have to go. Less violent efile. Melissa, google announcing a brand new running robot. Have you seen this . Look at that thing. Thats scary. Melissa none other than than elon musk weighing in. He doesnt sound too convinced. I think it is amazing. You know him as vince from the hit series entourage. Actor adrian again ney has a new movie. He will join us next for exclusive interview. More money coming up. Your daughter has a brilliant idea for her science project. And you could make it happen. Right . Wrong. Because youre not you youre a Cancer Hospital and your daughter. Shes a team of leading researchers. 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You better hold on to your wallet. My first two years in office when i had a Democratic House and Democratic Senate we were as productive as anytime since Lyndon Johnson and when the majority went away stuff got blocked. Melissa hmmm. By product tiff the president means spending your money. Obamacare, cash for clunkers, 787 billion stimulus program. Bring the david asman back in jack hough, rich lowery. When he says productive i hang on to my money for my life. Tax dollars flying out distributed by washington. David was shedding a tear. Im joked up. Chokes me up. Melissa i love the way they shot the thing. For vox, so dramatic with the black background. Best interview ever been conducted. Melissa really . Talking about Brian Williams how he fudged things and made things up. This is guy who is totally making things up. Wall street journal two years ago went through some of these programs that he started in those great two years, first two years, particularly wind farms. They found out of the tens of thousands of jobs that he claimed to have created, permanent jobs, they were only able to find 200, 200. He was claiming tens of thousands of jobs. The claims this guy make, the whole administration has fibbed so often, so many times that they make Brian Williams look like an altar boy. Melissa pause you didnt go back play the clips like we did with Brian Williams. Like your insurance you can keep it. Like your doctor if you can keep it. Looking at New York Times article where he said premiums will go down, not up. They pressed him. You promised they would go down 2500 by end of first term. Hehe said, we are projecting amounts. Make no mistake they will be down, not up. That is not even close. Would have gone up by more if it werent for obamacare. He hasnt been truthful on any of those items, the law would not have passed. Barely passed with all the deceptions. Correct about first two years, democrats with unified control of congress. Put a lot of big points on the board, obamacare, doddfrank. A heck of a lot of spending then Republican Congress came in as check. Putting aside argument things were going well for two years, stuff got blocked. That is part of the job. He raised his hand. Put stuff forward that wont get blocked. Come to a compromise. Im sorry. When has the economy done best over six years . Past two years precisely with the sequester, gridlock, et cetera. When he doesnt have a chance to do anything that the economy finally begins to take off. Melissa this is the way the framers designed our government. It was supposed to be gridlock so you couldnt just fly stuff through that wasnt what i mean they wanted it to be. I think everybody would just like their own way all the time. I know i would. There you go, guys. Thank you so much. Breaking news. Halliburton hitting session lows on confirmation it will cut up to 8 of its global workforce. 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Developers say it can be used for searchandrescue missions, mapping, access to disaster zones. After elon tweeted what in the world could we use these things on. People piled on. All kinds of things. Therapy pet. Doesnt have to take outside and pick up after it. Here in new york a lot of advantages. What do you think . Remarkably alot of applications for this. Overseas in dangerous places and all sorts of things. Question when do they apply Artificial Intelligence to a device . Then you have more moral and regulatory questions i suppose. Melissa safety questions. That is sort of where a lot of great minds have gone saying this is a dangerous thing down the road. Including, elon musk. But seems like it is inevitable. Boston dynamics the Company Behind this i