Charles stocks continue to record run, dow, nasdaq and s p all record highs, mostly because of upbeat earnings, in fact, housing went through the roof, punt intended, 1. 4 million, the number well over 1. 6 million, thats what we call a monster beef, folks, jackie on more of the housing renaissance, jackie . Good afternoon, this is a monster beat when you take it bo context, you see why the market is up, strong earnings, great progress on trade but also strong fundamentals, thats such an important piece of the puzzle. Take a look at this, the month of december, that was the housing start, highest level since december 2006, more than 40 year over year, increasing to highest level, multifamily strongest since 1986, this is all according to the commerce. Now whats spewing the spread, the rates, its not just the fed, also strengthening the u. S. Economy, thats what makes people more confident to go buy homes, people that are scared dont want to commit their money even if rates are low, when you step back so many are saying the stock market isnt barometer of the economy, fine, charles, that may be true, this is the kind of data that is, a measure that could help support further economic expansion and may i add, this may be the longest expansion that we see on record, so something to watch here when it comes to these housing numbers. Charles jackie, thank you very much. For more on this i want to bring vision forefront distributor. Thank you. Charles jackie made a great point, people can argue, okay, half of america is not in the stock market, the stock market pushes people that arent in it. Putting that aside, when you talk about wealth, the feeling of being wealthy, nothing does that to america like a strong Housing Market which have been but coming on strong. No, it sure doesnt, i mean, america is making money, right, charles, thats your tag line and democrats are pointing out the argument that half of america isnt tied to the stock market, most half of america is tied to the Housing Market, when you have the booming housing start, i mean, the data for multifamilies that jackie pointed out, 74 over 74 year over year, housing start as a whole nearly 17 , that is a big win for the economy, it shows that people are confident, shows that wages are going higher, factor of the low unemployment numbers and its just a big boom for 2020. Charles has not gone unnoticed larry kudlow talking about this very topic with stuart varney. Nice sort of transition rollup in all those housing numbers, the last, i dont know, stuart, 3, 4 months, a lot of it is because of lower Interest Rates, Mortgage Rates are way down, about i think a full percentage point from the peaks, a lot of it is because the job numbers are strong and income and wage numbers are strong so people have pretty good affordability. Charles heather, no doubt, you talked to anybody who has bought maybe 10 years ago, lower rates help, the fed certainly did a great job by correcting the error in 2018 but this is certainly level of competence that people have to have because we had low rates for a long time since the Great Recession and finally now we really see housing breaking up, whats the difference here, what do you think is sort of the intangible thats making this happen . Well, intangible is the policies coming out of the administration, whether you love the president or not, deregulation and tax cuts have really spurred growth and in the market and in the economy and hence that spillover into the American Population whether you own stocks or not. And i think thats where the confidence is coming from in the Housing Market only going to get better, if you look at this morning the Early Morning rally was fading until we got this data on the Housing Market and then it sent stocks higher after that. Charles we had names on the screen that i like, home depot, Restoration Hardware which has been a monster grand slam but volatile stock, what i love about it is warren buffet took a stake that gives me a sense of comfort. Can investors in your mind, individual investors be able to make money in the housing boom, can they buy some of the names and still do well . Well why not buy a house, i think builders are frustrated right now, they cant find [laughter] charles extra cash. Maybe get you a summer house, maybe if you buy the market. Then you buy Home Builders on top of that, the builders are frustrated, buyers are frustrated because of lack of inventory, so if you cant get your arms around buying a home at historic low Interest Rates, yeah, you take a look at Home Builders, home depot is near, new highs which is not a home builder but youve got the rest of the Home Builders up on the screen there, those are stocks that can benefit from the booming Housing Market right now. So if its residential investment, 800 million to our economy, Housing Services and things like that, 2. 6 trillion and the whole thing, 15 of our gdp, folks, we are really on a way to another great year in 2020. Heather, thank you so much, always appreciate your help. Housing is an example of how the economy is booming under President Trump, inflation remains low, wages on the rise, unemployment as you know record lows and the stock market just keeps hitting new highs, trump economic adviser steve moore, he just got out of the meeting, we are lucky he gets to join us right now from the white house, all right, give it to us, steve, whats coming next . Hi, charles, i have to say the mood over here is pretty exuberant when the news keeps rolling in day after day after the really spectacular performance of this economy, about as good as any time in your or my life in addition to those wonderful numbers on housing, you know, yesterday or the day before we got, you know, another decline of people signing up for unemployment insurance, by the way, i was looking at the numbers on whats happening with price of corn and wheat and cotton, those agriculture products that having, you know, so depressed over the last couple of years and they are starting to rise again, charles, and why do you think thats happening . Obviously because of the trade deal where china will buy more of it. They are positive, you know, kind of attitude here about the direction of the economy. Charles steve coming into the year, i had 3 gdp, the only wild card is boeing and we just have bad news on boeing, more bad news for the company, stock is at session lows which is why the market is pulling back a little bit, you know, i know theres no way that the administration can factor that sort of thing in, but is it possible to get to 3 gdp or even better this year . You know, its funny that you should say that, something that i wanted to mention to you, some others were saying, we could get the 3 growth under trump and we did, you know, trump in 2018, 2019 closer to 2 and a half percent, but, yeah, i do think that given the two trade deals, you know, what a week by the way for the president. Charles mindbogglingly. Trade deals in 2 or 3 days. Look, i think that takes the one big dark cloud away from the economy and the thing that most every investor and ceo was worried about was trade war with china and removing that risk, i think, means youre going to see an improvement in Capital Spending and improvement in agriculture and improvement in manufacturing, so, yeah, you can put me on the record, do i think we can get close to 3 growth in 2020 which, you know, by the way when you consider the rest of the world, at 1 and a half percent growth, thats a really good result if we can get there. Charles before i let you go because i like talking to you, so we see lower rates, thats obviously had positive impact, now good news that the treasury is trying to reduce deficit by introducing 20year bond, does that make things better or what, what would that do . I read a piece in the wall street journal 3 to 4 months ago that they should introduce 50year bond, anything longer in the bonds, charles, in my opinions saves the federal government potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of our debt over next years or maybe trillions, we can lock in, i love this idea of locking in these 2 Interest Rates now, charles, for the next 2 years or 30 years or 40 years or 50 years because that takes the risk of big Interest Rate shock away from federal government and lowers Interest Payments over time, so i dont know dont you think its a positive thing to do to go longer on the debt . Oh, absolutely, i wonder would it embolden government to keep spending, though. Well, theres always the impulse to do it, anything that brings down or 23 trilliondollar debt i think we should all be in favor of, but cutting spending, that is the one thing that i think, you know, that Neither Party has had much interest in the last couple of years. [laughter] charles you know, amazing, steve, you were a great part of this, many people dont give you credit but youve been youre part of you were one of the architects early on and its all working out like you said it would. Charles, what i said to the president , i told him, mr. President , this, you know, the program that we put helped put together, its working better than we thought it would. We had underexpectations of how its actually turned out. Charles keep the tariffs going, no you didnt. [laughter] charles steve, i will talk to you soon. A new member of the trillion dollar club, you want to guess who it is . 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[laughter] thank you, im excited about the numbers, charles, you know, past history, you look at comparisons when the first billion Dollar Company happened, u. S. Steel, exxon mobile, how big a company that was once upon a time, it feels different this time with respect to the trillion Dollar Companies that are out there with apple and amazon and so forth and google, as you mentioned because its such a part of todays economy but they are bearing Forward Thinking Companies and when you think about the next 5 to 10 years, you should own the companies in portfolio, theyll be such a big part of our lives in future. Charles i think thats a great point, you think about internet of things, autonomous vehicles, you know, i was reading where rollsroyce will put out a personal plane with 6,000 chips in it, i mean, its, rob, it doesnt seem like this is going to end any time soon and by the way, apple just got an upgrade, new high target on apple, morgan stanley, 1. 4 trillion, that takes over 1 and a half trillion dollar. I agree, im scratching my head, charles, so i feel a little bit jury was duly sworn understated. We have seen the show before, lets remember microsoft was the First Company in 1999, they hit a half a trillion dollars, 500 billion. It took 17 years for that company to get back to even. We have to take a look at what is going on here and ask ourselves with these Companies Hitting a trillion dollars is it a warning sign or Something Like youre saying that the company is really changing, its part of the industrial revolution. Across the board you have to ask that question. Is it a warning sign or does it get better, rob . I think it gets better for companies that we are mentioning, to be quite honest, charles, they havish filtrated our lives on a daily basis, theres a lot further room to grow, when you look in 1999, the market was much further stressed and valuations much higher, the companies, charles, are not that expensive right here. Charles scott, another concern with passive investing, the way it normally works, the money comes into the market, automatically buys the hottest stock, they go higher because all the money goes into them and all the money coming into them goes, it can work in reverse, at some point when the super ultra hot spots are going down, it will be lethal, wont it . It was really just a handful of stocks, a lot of the ones that the 3 of us have talked about today have really been largely supplying the upside and so it makes you a little bit cautious as i agree with rob again this friday about just be careful and dont be hesitant to take profits, know that if you get a pullback or when we do because gravity will pull these guys down, you need to get back in because i believe that a lot of the guys, they have a lot of cash, excited for mergers, stock buybacks, those are reasons to own the guys long term. Charles beyond here, though, again, are they taking all the oxygen in the room up . Do you ride these out, do you diversify with something dull and not necessarily a trillion Dollar Company yet . You know, i dont know, charles, the way stick with the momentum, stick to where the growth is, the narrative today is how do we build a company that we could sell to google, apple, amazon, microsoft to be able to scale, i think its a very different way of thinking and to scotts point like i said, as investor you are waiting for a pullback to get back into the names. Charles real quick before i let you go, how do you feel about earning season, scott . I like it so far, usually, charles, as we have seen in the last year, year and a half, if financials can lead us off well as they have this quarter so far, good things for the rest of the way. Charles as scott mentioned before the break, u. S. Steel, first billion Dollar Company led by charles scwhab, thank you, next time im wearing my best, buddy. You better. Charles should rich people pay more, not rich people pay more for speeding but poor people not pay as much if they break the laws . And elon musk, tesla ceos response is going to blow you away, weve got it for you next. Charles we all know that elon musk knows how to crack a window but can he track secret to twitter, former jack dorsey apparently thinks so, enlisted tesla ceo to fix social media giant, what is musks solution says, find the box, something musk deals on a daily basis. Chris bedford, chris, yesterday i put out a tweet wondering why with the china trade deal the day before, i never saw trump tweet once but when i turned on twitter yesterday the top tweet was trump hotel. I dont get it. What drives the news there, what drives the narrative there and as much as we complain about russia, the platform itself should be policing, finding a better way to police itself . It should. Its kind of strange for jack to do what he did, one to have secrets to being a successful ceo is talking to smart people, getting their ideas and convincing your employees that you came up with those ideas yourself. [laughter] he beamed him in, what do we do here. I like elon musk solution cautiously, twitter used to be famous for being a spot, free speech was mantra, its easy to follow, you dont get caught up on trying to please that party or that party until the last few years they have been dragged in the horrible swamp of trying to sensor people, its the opposite of what twitter is supposed to be, elon musk got an interesting idea, identify the bots, how do you get to coordinated nonhuman campaigns that are being launched by different groups and comment sections are on twitter to target accounts, to get accounts shut down and get people censored, it is a problem and pushes a lot of viewers away from twitter, i think. Charles yeah, i was with a group of people at dinner with jack dorsey and then i had a private lunch with him almost a year ago or so, he was great, you know, he seems sincere that he wants to listen and learn, he didnt do any of my ideas, but we talked about the bots, how sophisticated they are, over a 24hour period they will hone in on Something Like with me its either black conservative, race, or really slurs, really like slurs toward black conservatives and so whenever something happens, lets say President Trump retweets me, i know the next 24 hours will be hell, not the first couple of hours but once the bots get informed and he should be able to stop that or filter it. One of the big secrets behind facebook and twitters constant censorship is the companies are not as sophisticated and intelligent as they pretend they are, they dont have the technology to track this stuff down the way they want to and try to catch onto people who are being rude or racist or being over the line, they end up censoring people who are just sharing actually valid political opinions. Its because their algorithms which are written by humans typically cannot keep up with it. They are not as good as they think they are. Charles how good of an impact do you think this will have in the election . I have to wonder exactly what will happen to twitter at all once donald trump stops tweeting, i dont know when thats going to be, though. [laughter] charles wont be before the election, i believe its going to have some impact, although i have to tell you, if i see someone with zero followers, you know, they are following zero people and have been on twitter for 2 years, normally its a bot. You can figure it out. Charles see you soon. You know him from my pillow commercials but much deeper story, my pillow ceo mike lindell will share how he overcame addiction to reach the ultimate success. Any comments doug . Yeah. Only pay for what you need with Liberty Mutual. Only pay for what you need with Liberty Mutual. Con Liberty Mutual solo pagas lo que necesitas. Only pay for what you need. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. This rounds on me. Eat. Hey, can you spot me . Come on in. Find your place today, with silversneakers. Included in most Medicare Advantage plans. Enroll today by calling the number on your screen or visit getsilversneakers. Com robinwithout the Commission Fees. 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Charles how can you go from being a crack addict to a multimillionaire, just ask mike lindell, hes otherwise known as my pillow guy, im sure you know him, selfmade man, pulled himself by the bootstrap, built empire from scratch with foundation of sobriety, mike joins us now to share the story, new book, what are the odds, from crack addict to ceo, by the way, very innovative cover. Mike, first of all, congratulations. Thank you. Charles you know, ive heard bits and pieces about your story, im thrilled that you put it in a book, explain to the audience how did you go down this route in the first place . You know, all addiction, this is my belief, its not a disease, comes from wounds in childhood, trauma, could be a divorce, fatherlessness, these things manifest from childhood, my parents divorced when i was 7, i got put into a new school and trying to fit in and all of a sudden your selfworth goes down and i think i wouldnt talk to people or strangers i didnt know, you dont get reject today people that you dont talk and got into cocaine in the 80s. Charles were you in school or after you came out of school . Came out of school and got into it and started cocaine, functioning addict and raised a family, in the book i have all kinds of entrepreneurs, ive always been an entrepreneur, i never gave up, i tried many different things, learned by my failures but turned crack cocaine in 2000s. Any addiction is going to eventually, you know, effect you. Charles crack is what really its a different drug, its very paranoia. I invented the pillow in 2004 and ended in 2009. People are like, what. Two parallel tracks, i put everything i had into, you know, because it made me feel good, i am someone now and when i sold my first pillow, wow, this changed my life, it wasnt about the money. Charles so acceptance part of it felt good, society . You broke through the shyness that you had . You do pretty good in the commercial. I will tell you, after god sent me free of addictions 11 years ago yesterday, i still had where i couldnt really talk to people, didnt feel good about myself and we got up to we were still about to get company back, so much portrayal. Lets pull money and we did that and the first night we went to film, i wanted the real audience and me be in it and the producer the night before texted me, this guy is the worst ive ever seen, he will never make it on tv. [laughter] he was kind of right. After god sent me free i was able to talk to people. Charles you talk about religious aspect of it and im sure that will pray prominent role, so many people look up to you, mike, congratulations. I want to tell people never give up, god has been i owe it all to god to help me through it. Charles folks, you should know about new podcast level headed with jack brewer, michael and jack brewer on the podcast. Thank you, im taking proceeds on the book and starting Lindell Recovery Network that will help millions of addicts. Charles you cant help it, you love helping me. President trump having a stiller week when it comes to trade with two major deals signed, im going to tell you who may be having a better week, americas farmers, what do adam schiff and tom steyer have in common as we pick winners and losers to have week. Tweet me at cbpayne, we will be right back. 153rd of californias house delegation is this Intelligence Committee chairman. His name is adam schiff, back to you, veronica. Charles having a hell of a week, manages house impeachment trial move to the house, in case you were wonder if people were paying attention, not even the smartest minds in america know who he is which puts him in the loser category for my winners and losers of the week, as always for that i want to bring media district president beverly hallburg. Of course, President Trump took a few shots at adam schiff too but by this point i think you would have thought somebody in jeopardy would have known who he was. America is a tough crowd apparently, as you were saying its not just the average joe, we are talking about some of the smartest minds in the country still not knowing who adam schiff was, not just because of a question but actually seen his photo, now, this was recorded about 3 months ago but lets be honest, adam schiff was very popular during Mueller Investigation but i think people arent paying attention. Charles as for the win they are week i have to give shoutout to farmers, President Trump pointed out that they are big winners from this weeks trade deal, saying that the farmers are really happy with the new china trade deal and soon to be signed deal with mexico and canada but i hope that the thing that they most remember, massive income and tariff money and use it to get them through tough times, recent report that income could top and how in my mind how farmers stood up, they were deliberately targeted by china, they have fed us forever and thats another reason, beverly, i tip my hat to americas farmers. Definitely they are the winner but here is where i will disagree with you winner with trade agreement with china, we will have to wait and see if phase 2 leads to phase 2 being reduced, we have to wait and see what it means longterm with china, American Farmers who are getting subsidies, definitely a huge win for them. Steyer. You came up with your you would think that somebody who is a billionaire could afford more than one tie but his tie has made appearances not just in the most recent debate and in the last debate but also in previous tv appearances and looks very christmascy, plaid white and yellow tie. Charles lets see what she has to say . Sir, it is january, it is time to take the christmas tie down. [laughter] turns out that tom steyer chose this because it belongs to the wallace clan as in william clan as in brave heart. The only thing tom steyer has in common with braveheart is that they lose at the end. Charles billionaires wearing the same ties, i want to ask you about winner, you say spotify, i dont understand why. They have figured out a way to sucker me one more time, a play list for your pet, you can choose which animal you have at home and when youre at work and they may have some anxiety about being alone they will design play list for your dog or cat, not exact science but they did hire somebody from the the the l charles ive seen your dog on twitter, looks like he may be messy, here is my dog, this is what my dog would like the sound of dog food opening up, whatever the noise is, if we can play that over and over again he would be content and maybe the sound of the back door opening up so he can go out there, if spotify put manager like that together then i will join the service. That makes sense, who knows, maybe they will after this, they got us talking about them so thats a winner in my book as well. Charles have a great weekend, thank you. Thanks, charles. Charles im going to ask her if americans could really be persuaded to give up all of this economic momentum, plus should poor folks get a break for speeding tickets, thats what california gavin newsom is proposing, i will give you the details after the break. Es could save you 15 or more on Car Insurance. I think were gonna swap over to over seventyfive years of savings and service. What, were just gonna swap over . Yep. Pump the breaks on this, swap it over to that. Pump the breaks, and, uh, swap over . Thats right. Instead of all this that ive already . Yeah. What are we gonna do with these . Keep it at your desk, and save it for next time. Geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. And now for their service to the community, we present limu emu doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] its an honor to tell you that Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. And now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Charles bitcoin is spiking as i told you in the beginning of the week its having the hottest start to the year since 2012, i want to bring in claman countdown, liz, where do you see it going . Well, oh, to the moon, im kidding, you know, how do we know, we know its been at 19,000 and right now at 8,820, charles, you know we have viewers of all different ages and all different time horizons, right, im not sure Everybody Loves bitcoin, you know they dont, right . Charles well, people are skeptical, i have to be honest with you if it goes up and break out, you will have a lot of folks who never heard of it maybe thinking they can make money on it. They never learn, right, because the time to get in is when it is way down, tom lee has been that guy who back around december of 2018, after it imploded he filed piled in and he really likes it, what hes going to do join us exclusively to not just give the gen x, y and z, but he has something called granny stocks; stocks that work for the older, some might say the greatest generation, hes going to join us, hes such a smart guy and gutsy too. Charles i love tom lee, more often than not hes right. Be sure to tune in to claman countdown at the top of the hour. Theres a catch, only for lowincome drivers, the cyber kirk hits the streets of california, youll find out what the residents think of the proposal, kirk. Hey, charles, good afternoon to you, one of the stories out of state of california where you have to look at the governor here and saga vin newsom, what are you thinking, hes got a plan and the plan will cost just to get it going 56 million, here is the idea, welcome to california where you can sit on your bum or earn less than 27,000 a year and we are only going to charge you half of any penalty of a traffic fine, how does that sound to you . Well, lets see what people thought around here when we posed the question to them. Im all for it. I think it would be good. I think its absolutely wrong. I dont agree with it. Under the law we all should be the same. I understand that its less money for the city, but not everybody in the city is in the same financial position. All you have is poor people and rich people. We need to set our policies according to we should help out the less fortunate, i think thats a good thing. I dont think its fair, they are exciting, why should they get the deduction, pay the fine. Charles, you know how it is out here, you come to california enough, here are facts about this that just seem completely whack, that is what california has done over the last 11 years in response to losing a lot of money, state revenue coming in from taxes is they packed it onto tickets, for example, youre not driving around and we do whats called california stop, we dont do a complete stop at red light when you make a right, the base ticket price is 100, thats not bad, dont want to lose it but its added 400 for that now. That turn on a red light is now going to cost you and me 500, we are not making any money, we are not doing anything, we have to pay half. Charles if you get a chance, the last woman, if you see her again give her a kiss for me because, its everything is free pass because youre poor and the idea is that, you know, its someone elses fault that youre running its just crazy, if they really want to help, help them get a job, teach them a skill, if you really want to help. Lift us up. Lift us up. Dont throw out a freebie and dont raise my Auto Insurance rate which are likely to happen as a result of getting people a break on traffic fines. Charles you thought we were going to give multimillionaire a triple ticket, i might not be so upset with that. Kirk, my man. See you soon. One of our shows favorite, liz peek will give us her take on economic boom, Live Audience show where you get to ask the questions hosted by me, go to foxnews. Com right now if you want to be part of it, i would love to see you there, its going to be a lot of fun. I signed up because i was curious. 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Whats interesting is that this report also looked back at the clinton impeachment and not only did it not derail the economy, it actually gained momentum and you got to wonder if the same things going to happen for President Trump. Joining me to discuss, Fox News Contributor liz peek. Im fascinated with this thing because right now only 1 of consumers mention impeachment. Only 1 . Then they say if you look back at clinton, not only did the economy do well during the impeachment process, but it kept going for another couple years. Thats what were seeing happening exactly now. There is no indication that the consumer has been oppressed by this impeachment inquiry, because retail numbers for december were great. Consumer sentiment is up strongly. Bloombergs comfort index of consumers is nearing an alltime high. These are extraordinary things. Look at housing starts, up almost 17 in december. Charles, we will have an acceleration of this economy throughout 2020. People are going to be raising their estimates and by the way, thats what the stock market is telling us. Charles i agree with you 1,000 . Yesterday was really funny to see the bloomberg comfort index, whoever had to write that story, i wonder if they are still working. The part that was really intriguing, married adults comfort is at alltime high. Something else, too, like the whole different little socioeconomic story there. There is so much good news. Do you know the startups for applications for business startups are at an alltime high. When was the last time you heard that . That is supposed to be a sector thats really under water because of all the uncertainty. Production is beginning to pick up. Manufacturing is beginning to look a little bit better. There is really so much good news out there. I think, we have talked before about real estate and how millenials put off buying a home and stuff but that household formations are very strong. I think housing is going to be the unexpected plus in 2020. Its all good news and you are totally right, you know, who is really watching impeachment, people on the east coast, people on the west coast, people in the Media Business and people in the beltway. Thats it. Charles that is it. That is it. The household formation and housing boom is part of my economic thesis for 2020. I see it coming, Even Stronger so far than i had even anticipated. Yet, you know, the polls, im not a big pollster, but the polls and the media suggest that enough americans out there want a new president. How logical is it that people would throw this away . Now, there was a report from the fed that says because things are better doesnt mean theyre great. I get it. If you are making ten bucks an hour, now making 12, you are still struggling. But do you throw that away, that finally you made the transition, you hit that turning higher, do we throw that away as a nation . Its pretty hard to imagine because what we saw when President Trump was elected was immediate surge in consumer confidence. In other words, it was his election, his policies frankly, the man himself who is upbeat and positive and talking about growth and making America Great again. You look at the democrats on that stage the other night, what a sad sack group. They are all angry, they are all telling everyone that they are so badly off. 76 of the American People according to a cnn poll say their own personal situation is either good or very good. These are off the chart numbers. Charles alltime highs. So when trump begins to campaign, hes going to go out and say its either me or you are going to lose all this. Charles jamar chase at the white house today was simple but he was happy to be at the white house and i think thats what its all about. I think so, too. Charles from one liz to another. Claman, all yours. Liz liz peek to liz claman. Thank you. Will the third time be a charm for the dow and s p 500 . Two in a row for the nasdaq, as markets zero in on yet i know, unbelievable another day of records. Solid earnings, popping housing numbers and the afterglow of 2 trillion in major trade deals with china, mexico and canada lifting wall street to new alltime highs. President trump is about to leave for florida at this hour to mark this weeks two Major Economic pacts or parts of the pact for china but also to begin preparation for his impeachment trial which begins in earnest next week. He is, as we said, about to leave the white house and could stop to speak to the press at any moment