The Halftime Report started right now. Welcome. Good to have you this thursday jim lav leventhal, the brothers najarian, we have a big show first we want to get to Steve Liesman who has just sat down at the table with what the fed may do in the weeks ahead. Yeah, scott i think the story has to do with that a pause is coming and the question becomes when its coming i think theres an oddson bet that the fed is likely to cut in october. But its a massive cut and if they cut in october, is the market thinking about that the fact that there would be some kind of pause and powell has signaled this several times publicly hes talked about the 1998 cutting regime three times this will be the third time. I will tell you, the comment yesterday from charlie evans, a guy who has been massively in favor of rate cuts, he said i dont push any cuts the rest of the year match that from tweets of others, too. And kaplan said said im agnostic about additional rate cuts and there was a speech by powell, ev