Melissa all right. First lets take a look at the days market headlines. Cautious optimism over todays fiscal cliff negotiations put stocks in the green. The dow rose for just the second time since the election gaining 45 points. Shares of dell got hammered today. The computermaker announced its Third Quarter profit dropped by nearly half while giving a cautious revenue outlook. Facebook shares close out their best week since the companys may ipo the end to a lockup of 800 million shares failed to bring the stock dive that many experts had predicted. Mr. Obama opening fiscal cliff negotiations with congressional leaders at the white house today. Lawmakers attending a sitdown called it constructive but tension is rising which side may blink first. Pressure is intensifying on republicans to be the ones that do it. Is a compromise on tax hikes just around the corner . Joining me with more on this, republican senator from north dakota, john hoeven. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Give us your take on todays meeting. What happened . Good to be with you, melissa. I think you said it just right, cautious optimism. I think we laid out the construct that could lead to a big deal and we need to do it. Melissa what is that construct . What do you think the final deal looks like . Progrowth tax reform, entitlement reform and better spending control and a deal that is in that four to 6 trillion dollar range. Melissa what is progrowth tax reform . To me that, from a republican sounds like the closing of loopholes and not raising of marginal rates . Well it is closing loopholes. It is limiting deductions and then getting revenue from growth. And thats really the only way you will get revenue because you have to have the economy grow. If you start raising those rates you will have just the other effect. You will have a shrinking economy. You will not get more revenue. So we are putting revenue on the table the right way. That is what i mean by progrowth tax reform. Melissa sounds like youre still saying no to an increase in marginal rates which a lot of republicans would applaud. But others would say, you know maybe were not going to get a deal done at this point if you dont raise marginal rates. Do you not agree with that . Were doing exactly what president obama is asking for. Were saying dont raise rates. Therefore youre not raising taxes on the middle class. By closing loopholes, by limiting deductions now you do have as he says, the wealthy paying more and look the only way youre going to get more revenue is with economic growth. We have to get to economy going. We have got to get people back to work. Combine that with real entitlement reform and better control of spending and we get back on track. Melissa the way that you just phrased it, while many people might agree the president says the math just doesnt get you there. You know but the math does work. Melissa makes me feel like were not going to get to any kind of a deal. Look at the math. We already have one trillion that well capture next 10 years as a result of budget control act. You have another, trillion excuse me from the vca. One trillion because we dont have cost of wars. What i just laid out would easily get you another 4 trillion. That is 6 trillion dollar deal. That gets us back on track. Melissa a recent poll found 53 of the people say if a deal doesnt come together and we go over the fiscal cliff they would blame republicans for that. Do you care . Does that make a difference right now . Look, its about getting a solution. It has to be bipartisan. Were reaching out in a very bipartisan way. Were taking both republicans and democrats to get the deal done. We do it, we do it together or we share the blame together. Melissa what is the most important thing you want to see democrats put on the table . We have got to do entitlement reform. We can do entitlement reform where we dont change at all for anyone 55 or older. Younger people want to see the kind of reforms that will keep those programs solvent for the long term. So look, republicans and democrats can come together. And older and younger demographics can come together with the construct we put forward. Im hopeful we can get a deal. We need to do a deal. I believe, or at least have it in place before yearend. Melissa what does that mean have it in place . Do you think that were going to end up having some sort of cobbled together temporary solution to get us through the end of the year where you set another exploding deadline where you have to do something real, maybe in june or later in the year . Melissa, that is a great question. No. What i mean is that you have the construct of the deal and it is agreed to. You may have to have a shortterm extension so you have time to fully implement it. It has to be agreed to. So youve got, as Speaker Boehner talked about, penalties that would go into place if it is not done. So the construct in place. A short Term Agreement to get it fully done, not kicking the can down the road. Melissa that can gets kicked all the time. Senator, thanks for joining us we appreciate it. Thanks, melissa. Melissa not just d. C. That is coping with uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff. Stocks suffered a brutal week despite the modest gains we saw today. Jonathan hoenig is Portfolio Manager at capitalist pig. Com. He said there is a lot more ready to come unless we get the fiscal house in order unless we do that fast. Catching up on your book. Congratulations terrific new book. Enjoying quite a book. Melissa you are a genius. You are a fantastic. My favorite guest of all time. What is that book youre reading there . I dont know if i saw the cover. Oh. Outstanding. You will learn a lot. Unfortunately not what the market wants to know which is about the fiscal cliff and future of our economy. Melissa yeah. Im enjoying your new memoir. Melissa fantastic. I love you for that. I already, sent the check ahead. No, no. Melissa i was going to say i hope you got it but obviously you did. The market, heres the problem. I dont see any reason to buy stocks right now. I mean it seems like you want to sell before the end of the year because you want to get any gains that you possibly can at a lower tax rate. You certainly dont want to buy anything youre not willing to hold for the next four years. I just, i dont see any reason to invest in the economy not Getting Better. Is there any reason to buy stocks . That is just it, melissa. What kind of confidence can any investor, whether joe sixpack or big institution in having a system, investing in a system and a market that is so wrought with uncertainty . We heard that a lot. It is not economic uncertainty. It is political uncertainty. Business people of all size are trying to make the rational longterm decisions we literally can not when literally trillions and trillions of dollars is on the line solely based on political whim. Melissa is it fiscal cliff, even if they come to a deal on the fiscal cliff not like the economy is Getting Better anytime soon. I see why it would be a disaster if we go over but i think were in bad shape either way. I dont disagree. Short term fiscal cliff or tumult in washington creates uncertainty. Longer term the policy that will govern where this economy goes. And i think, as you pointed out some of the tax issues if that alone, the policy, as long as you continue down that path of highers taxes higher regulation, more intervention, a lost folks are saying will i want to participate in a game that simply seems rigged . Melissa what would you do from here . A lot of people asked me before the election, if president obama is reelected wont the stock market go up. I said no, absolutely. Everyone says it will go down and that is exactly what happened. I want to give them the same sage advice. What do you do . Do you buy gold . Do you maybe, maybe real estate now is starting to make a lot of sense. Prices are very low. Interest rates are very low. You have to invest in something you can hold for a long time right now. God forbid you dont want to make any money. The government will take it away from you. What do you do . One of the most interesting things i have seen, melissa, since the election, since this downdraft has been incredible weakness a lot of old lead he is. Like gold as you pointed out. Income and dividendpaying stocks, utilities. Those have been exceptionally weak. What im putting my clients are in other types of inflation plays. Most notably selling short bonds. All the intervention in Interest Rates. Holding down Interest Rates to abormally low levels i think will result in substantially higher rates and im selling short bonds in advance of that. Melissa you have to really understand the timing on that though, right . I mean isnt timing important if youre going to try to do that . Well, i think timing is important when it comes to any investment. Thats why i think most for every investor. Whatever seizure to resist the urge to look at the days headlines and make all or nothing decision. You want to invest, slowly overtime. Not all in, all out one day. Evaluate current market conditions. Take your position. Watch and wait. Dont make investing any sort all or none deal. Melissa that is such fantastic advice right now because god forbid, you make any money the government will take it away from you. You want to invest in something you can let ride quietly and hide in your bunker is only way to deal right now. Get back to your reading. Thanks for coming on. There you go. All right. Thank you. Melissa fiscal cliff isnt just shaking up the stock market, an unnerving new report from zillow. It says it could slam the Housing Market. There goes my other investment idea. Just when we seem to recover here is explain, stan humphries, chief economist from zillow. I only had two ideas here. I was going with gold and real estate. Now youre saying the fiscal cliff will destroy real estate . How is that the case . It was hard to hold my tongue during the prior guest how attractive real estates looks. Melissa you have it. Depress me. Affordability is extrordinarily high. Definitely uncertainty is the not the friend of the Housing Market right now. That is why the fiscal cliff is concerning. Look what happened to the debt ceiling debacle last summer where really our failure to navigate that very successfully really dinged Consumer Confidence which in turn rippled through the Housing Market with lower sales and lower prices. Melissa drill down on that. You say nobody will buy a house in the next few weeks until we get this resolved because we dont know what will happen to the economy and buying market will slow down or is there another reason the fiscal cliff is hurting the Housing Market. Near term, six weeks or five weeks until the end of the year the market believe there is no credible plan in place there will be bad response in terms of equity markets and a number of other economic indicators. That ripples into Consumer Confidence. Consumer confidence has been trending up since the middle part of late part of last year. And Consumer Confidence is really important because its what helps employers feel better about hiring and also helped household formation rates increase. Without jobs growing and householding forming you have a ding on housing demand. Housing demand in turn spirals into falling home prices. What if for some reason you believe this plane load of jokers we sent back to washington is going to pull it together and they will come up with something . That does that make housing a surprisingly good buy if you happen to believe that for some reason . Yeah i think right now that is the expectation. So in a sense the market is already, i think the Housing Market is already baking in the expectation that well ride this out. I think it is Downside Risk versus upside risk. Melissa thats too bad. Well i think the upside of housing right now is 2013, fiscal cliff aside if we handle that successfully, 2013 should see a nice ride. This year we were up 10 from the prior year. Demand is returning to the marketplace. Affordability is insanely high for housing. I see were looking at Mortgage Rates right now and another record on the average 30year fixed Mortgage Rate 3. 34. I mean this is the lowest rate since 1971. And youre looking at folks out there, anyone who has money, is saying to themselves, well, i dont want to buy stocks because im going to get punished for that. I dont want to buy anything short term. I dont want to make any money working. That will be taken away from me. All i can really do is invest in assets that can appreciate quietly over time the and i dont have to realize those gains. There arent that many that are that reliable. Real estate happens to be one of them. Prices are incredit i low. Mortgage rates are incredibly low. This seems like a real entry point to me. I think it is for a lot of homebuyers depending on your time horizon. Even with people with very low time horizons being under three years in the house. Look at break even horizon to make a buying a house more advantageous of renting, detroit, Central Valley of california and many parts of florida that number sunday two years. It is incredibly affordable. Melissa yeah. Certainly for investors as well, so seen if youre not a homebuyer but investor instead that potential is looking very good. A big chunk of phoenix and miami purchase demand is coming from investors seeing these 5 increases in rents. Melissa buy something cheap that you can rent out to someone else. Seems like a decent investment to ride out this time. Thank you so much for coming on. I think i talked you out of the your position. But no, im just kidding. Thanks for coming on, we appreciate it. Thank you. Melissa a massive Oil Rig Explosion rocks the gulf. Could this spawn a new freeze on drilling by the federal government . Well get answers to that coming up. Oil prices leap with israel reportedly preparing for a Ground Invasion of the gaza strip. The stakes for Mideast Energy supplies could really not be higher. Details what is standing in the crosshairs. 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Well, you know on the onset when you see the spill and hear bit of course the tragedy were worried about. Two people are missing. We have the human tragedy. Melissa of course. But then there is the oil spill and heres what is interesting. You realize what happened with the bp oil spill in 2010, that what we didnt know what was going to happen was this . Apparently Mother Nature has no qualms with slapping the human race with a storm like sandy you about doesnt like when the human race slaps it back with the oil spill. When we had the bp oil spill hydrocarbon chewing microbes came out of the ocean and ate up the methane gas and all the oil that was spilled. Something we didnt know happened until that oil spill. Believe it or not as ugly as it seems we have something on our side, Mother Nature helps to clean that mess over some time. So i dont think it will stop the permitting. Melissa i didnt know about that im betting a lot of people who live in the area and a lot of people who oversee the regulations may not know or be educated about that. They may see Something Like this and say, here we go again. Yesterday we had folks on from virginia trying to ramp up the offshore drilling in that area when those leases had been canceled after the bp oil spill. You know, it is just this kind of picture makes politicians nervous about allowing these things to go on because they know that people in the area get upset and worried about their own health, right . Absolutely. And its horrible, horrible for the people who live anywhere near an oil spill. We should never have these oil spills. It is a manmade horror. Really an atrocity but they do happen and heres the thing though that is changing in the united states. In utah last year we found over a billion barrels of oil deposited in utah. This year a couple of months ago, in nevada we found the largest oil deposit they think ever on record. They think it rivals if not passes saudi arabia. From what i read in the statis it beings u. S. On line by 2017 to 2020 to surpass saudi arabia in the production of oil and gas to supply the world. Melissa youre talk about fracking and talking about shale. That is good point. Does this make the case for shale and fracking when you at the same time were hearing about the Bp Settlement . Were remind of a story, 4. 5 dal billion in fines at the same time were looking at photos like this, that maybe while it is obviously a vote for offshore drilling, does it encourage more onshore shale and fracking . I would think yes because if there were a spill it could absolutely be contained right there. We can continue the spill on land. And it is not, it doesnt spill the way they do fracking. The process is such, really only spillage water theyre using, some steam to clean it up. Of course it is not environmentally perfect and im not saying it is but we have to save the american way. I think that is way more important. Melissa we need energy, we do, but when we look at pictures it is always tough. Oscar, thanks for coming on. Have a great weekened. Thank you so much. Melissa time for todays fuel gauge report. Intensifying violence between israel and hamas sent oil prices climbing. Crude rose nearly 1 1 2 settling at 86. 67 a barrel. The epa shooting down a waiver request for ethanol fuel production requirements. 10 governors made the request, 10 governors they say because of lack of corn from the drought. Epa says they found no evidence, no evidence to support the claims. The Long Island Power Authority is facing 800 million in damages from super storm sandy. The utility is eligible however to get a 75 reimbursement from fema. The remaining 25 will likely be passed on to customers. So that means were paying it either way. Either fema, that is our tax dollars or customers, also us. All right. Egypts leaders throw their support behind hamas as jerusalem comes under rocket attack. Could egypt be ready to intervene with israel gearing up for a gaza Ground Invasion . Plus an American Icon gets baked for good. Hostess is shutting down. Im going to do this while i still can. That is good stuff. Nothing ever tastes this good. So sad, at the same time. Can we live without the twinkie . Im stockpiling. The ceo is coming up. You never have too many twinkies. Melissa so fighting between hamas and israel escalating to fever pitch today. Hamas firing rockets at jerusalem for the first time with israel reportedly preparing for a ground offensive in gaza. In a disturbing twist egypts leaders are getting behind hamas in the conflict. Does this mean that egypt could join the fight . For insight were joined by kt mcfarland, fox news security analyst. Former Deputy Assistant secretary of defense. Welcome to the show first of all. Thank you. Melissa thanks so much for joining us. The development with egypts Prime Minister is scary. Visiting the gaza strip. Voicing support for hamas. It seems like this is really escalating and taking a new turn. Well there are two things to look at with this. One, they have been at war for a couple days now. Hamas on the gaza strip has been firing missiles into israel. Now, israel could do one of two things. They could decide this is my clint eastwood, make my day moment and go and attack all of the missile batteries along the gaza strip. There are thousands, tens of thousands of missiles capable of reaching israel. That is why israel has the tanks along the border and preparing potentially for an invasion. Why would they do that . Obviously to get rid of missiles. It gives them options with iran. Say six months from now israel decides to have a preemptive strike against Irans Nuclear facilities. The retaliation that iran would launch would be those same missiles on the gaza strip coming into israel. This is sort of preemption of the preemption. Melissa precursor . Gives them better option. Melissa why did this break out now . Why is this happening . I think a couple of reasons. One is because, you know, gaza, they sort of fire missiles off every now and then. But the other is renewed relationship now, very different relationship between the hamas, which is a Muslim Brotherhood organization, and the Muslim Brotherhood which is now running egypt. And thats what you got to watch. You were right to point out egypt. What will egypt do . For 40 years, egypt and israel have not gone to war with each other because they have a peace agreement. You have new leadership in egypt. Leadership which already said, maybe well rethink that peace treaty we have. If there is israeligaza war, would egypt join it . Would they help . Would they abrogate that peace treaty . Most importantly will they open up the border between the gaza strip and egypt and then that allows arms to go from libya, eastern libya, through egypt, into the gaza strip. Melissa would you. All this gets more complicated we think about energy, a third of the worlds oil, 36 comes from this region, a little more than a third. I also worry about the sue west canal which is right there. You should. Nobody is paying attention. Everybody looking at persian gulf. Look at the suez canal, 120 miles long. I it is so narrow it is a single lane with a few passing lanes in it. The Sinai Peninsula which is the piece of land between israel and egypt, pretty vacant. Desert, nobody is there except al qaeda set up shop there recently. If somebody decides they want to take out a tanker that is going through the suez canal or mine part of the suez canal, 120 miles long, loosely defended, you could do some real damage there. Then that takes all the trade that goes from europe to south asia, all of a sudden they have to go around africa. Melissa real quick, before we go, looking at the pictures overnight and this morning and even our reporters there in the area that are in helmets and in gear, seems like this has gotten very serious all of a sudden, has really escalated. Is that just right or is that the pictures . We havent paid any attention to israel because were worried about the arab spring and iran. I dont think it will happen in the next 24 hours. Not while the egyptian Prime Minister is in the gaza strip. Israel doesnt want to kill him in any way, give them a reason to go to war. Melissa you think that is why he went . Is he there i think he is there for couple reasons. One supposedly to maybe broker a peace agreement. Melissa right. More likely, hamas, what are you guys going to do . Maybe well be in on it. Melissa kt, very scary. Thank you. 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The ceo is on the phone from winstonsalem, north carolina. They shut out the lights so he is on the phone. How much are you blaming the union. I think you made a deal with the teamsters. 30 of the workers are represented by the baker as union. They were the ones you couldnt make a deal with, is that right and how much blame are you putting on them . Quite a bit, melissa. Certainly the catalyst for making a painful issue to shut down is directly as a result of the strike the bakers initiated starting last friday. They do represent 30 of our workforce. Theyre not our Largest Union the teamsters are our Largest Union. The teamsters voted to approve the concessions. They were, and they were still at work this week. We had other Union Engineers and others that were crossing picket lines and working this week. And we had every Management Team member we could find trying to bake product but the damage was too great from several plants just really being out of. Melissa let me be the devils advocate here because there are some people who say that, you know, that this has more to do with the fact that americas taste has shifted away from these products. That while i love the twinkie and a good ding dong as a kid and likely less to buy them to give to my kids in this day and age were so much more focused on health and healthy ingredients. This is clever way, you blame the unions maybe it just makes sense to break up the company, break up the union contracts, liquidate it and sell off these brands, you know, to various private equity and that is better way to make money . Is there any truth to that scenario . Well there are a couple of points in there i like to address. Melissa sure. One, i dont think the Health Trends have affected hostess. If that were true you wouldnt have anybody making chocolate and selling chocolate bars. There are Candy Companies do extraordinarily well without healthy canned day. Melissa sure. Our sales were 2 1 2 billion prebankruptcy filing. Before i got on board, you about they didnt go down very much during the bankruptcy. 2. 5 billioo is one heck of a lot of twinkies, ding dongs and hohos. The demand is not the issue but it is the cost structure. You have to make them and sell them at a profit. Cost structure was driven by a number of factors and im not solely blaming the unions on this the history here is that the company was not, there was not enough Capital Investment in this business over the past, say, decade or so. And there probably wasnt enough money in r d to do brand extensions they should have done off those iconic brand that exist today but the high cost structure, the union cost structure, union work rules. You know, pension exposure, all of those things, you know, combined to pretty ugly picture. Melissa where do you go from here . Were making a lot of jokes about the twinkie going away, which i mean, for me the love the twinkie. Always just right. Ding dongs to rich for me. Snoballs too much twinkie. A lot of people feel that way. A lot of folks in private equity said those are some really valuable brands. People will swoop in bankruptcy and pick them up. I mean is that the real plan Going Forward is that you resell the individual brand and we are going to see twinkies and ding dongs and all the deliciousness boeing forward . I hope that is the only plan we had left. We had a plan to emerge. We had lenders that would finance us if we got the unions on board. We couldnt get the bakers on board. What we have to do now, we sent everyone home today and well certainly market the brands. If there are buyers for those brand and those brand live on, that is a good thing and there will be some recovery. Melissa okay. To go towards the claims. Melissa great. Just in case i have got to tell you i have stockpiled several crates of twipg can is in my office. It is really hard to get in there right now. I got books on one side im trying to sell and i have twinkies on the other that im not sharing. If you have any twinkies to unload give me a call, okay . I was told 10 minutes ago they are selling for quite some fortune on ebay. Melissa im not looking to make a profit. Im hoarding. It has gotten very serious for me over here. Normally i would be tempted. I would be reselling on ebay. This time im hoarding. Good you can luck to you. I will trade you twinkies for a copy of your book. Melissa you got it. All right. Fantastic. Well set that up. Have a grade weekend. Thank you. So heres the question of the day are you going to stock up on hostess products now that theyre going out of business . More importantly are you willing to send those to me . We want to hear what you think. Like us on facebook. I wasnt supposed to say that i added that part. Facebook. Com medicals list is a francis fox. Twitter, at melissaafrancis. When you drink a beverage with four times as much caffeine as coke what could possibly go wrong . Apparently plenty. The fda backs the makers of 5hour Energy Drinks against the wall and that is not easy because theyre really ramped up. It could bring lawsuits galore against the Energy Industry drink. That is coming up next. At the end of the day it is all about money. Having you ship my gifts couldnt be easier. Well, having a ton of locations doesnt hurt. And myaughter loves the santa. Oh, ah sir. That is a customer. Lets not tell mom. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. Fedex office. But with a advair, im breathing better. So now i can be in the scene. Advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. Unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an antiinflammatory and a longacting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. 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Lets break this down. You had three twinkies in the break. Admit it. Thats it. You got to get. Melissa dont need the Energy Drinks. You have got the twinkies. Fda reports a possible link between the deaths and the Energy Drinks. What does that mean . Well, it means exactly that, it is a possible link. There is no finding that theres, that it caused the deaths. There is no causal link between it. It is simply the people have reported that theres been deaths and that theyre going to look into it. So it really doesnt mean anything at this stage. Melissa but does it mean, i mean, they have to be getting nervous at this point. What would they have to prove. What would the people, families of people who died have to come out and prove in order for the Energy Drinks to be liable and what could it mean for their business. It would kill their business if they are found to be liable. It will be different cult because they have to prove a causal link between the energy drink and the deaths. They have to show it had something to do with the death. Melissa is it hard . It is hard. There are a lot of different ingredients. People think maybe it is caffeine. Maybe the vitamin b6. They dont know exactly what it is. They dont know what the effects of all these different ingredients are. It will be difficult to move that is the cause. Melissa must be something there, if the fda found a link, there must be something there . Sometimes, they havent found a link. Theyre looking for a link. What they have done, people have complained that they have had these drinks and that people have died. Melissa so theyre just investigating . Theyre just investigating. And one of the deaths i heard that somebody died in a car accident and they found, they found 5hour energy. Melissa on the ground all over the place and thought maybe there was the connection . Im exaggerating. So yeah, that is one of the connections that theyre making. Melissa what do these companies have to disclose . What do they have to say in order can they just say, hey, this is dangerous. You may get all hopped up on caffeine and then theyre off the hook . Or what is their liability and responsibility . Labeling is tricky and, and one of the ways that somebody could file a lawsuit is saying there wasnt adequate warning labels on these bottles. Melissa yeah. There is warning labels on cigarette packages. There is warning labels on alcohol. And. Melissa would a warning label take care of it . Could they say this could be really dangerous to your health and theyre good . It could because right now i dont think they can make the jump, i dont think there is any Scientific Evidence that says these Energy Drinks are going to kill you. Okay . Melissa i have a more important question that is little off topic though. Because the twinkie is going away now, if i kill someone can i no longer use the twipg can i defense. It is a sad day for the legal community. Melissa remember that, the twinkie defense . 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Its friday. Its time for a little fun with spare change. Today we are joined by joey jackson and kendra smith. A food critic from the New York Times to be discussing view to guy fieri about his new restaurant. He said that his margarita tasted like formaldehyde and look like radiator fluid. The same day the review is printed from the New York Times had a party at that very restaurant. We think of that . When you think they would poison on their food . I mean, obviously, they are spreading i mean, i cant even. Talk about meanspirited. It is one thing to write overview. But to be objective and go off like that, what was the agenda there . To be hypocritical and have the party with all the people there. My guess is the author was about to get fired or something and he wanted to draw a lot of attention to himself. Thats all i can come up with. But i wouldnt expect that much. Its in the heart of times square. I wouldnt go in there expecting a culinary beast. What they did, it was unbelievable. And you scratch the surface. Is the one oh, yeah, it was so long. They just torched them. Torched him and torched them. I wrote the elevator with guy fieri that day and i kind of looked at him. You dont want to mention the elephant in the elevator, and i just let out online. But he looked happy. He didnt look like it was bugging him. But for them to have the party that night that is what makes the stories are funny. Okay, moving on, the independent reports show that furniture suppliers use force is in labor from east germany to make products. Of course, this was back in the 80s, but ikea says they deeply regret that this ever happened. Perhaps this explains why their stuff is so cheap. You have to hire forced labor in order to putting together once you get home. Fortunately, this isnt like forced child labor. It happened a long time ago. I think that ikea will get over this. I think they have a strong name and strong sales two thats all true. But i am traumatized. I have ikea there and ikea everywhere. Unbelievable. Im supporting that im not going to get over it. Melissa go ahead and sue them, i love it. Next up, a new proposal in a nudist. To show their passion for nudism, they showed up on the steps of city hall naked. It reminds me of that seinfeld episode where there is good naked and bad naked. I definitely dont want to sit on a park bench where im paying taxes were gemmill and just got up in that state. All right, thank you guys. Fiscal cliff is drawing closer and no one has offered any solid solution. He was going to step up for the deadline comes crashing down . Tom sullivan has a Little Something to say about that. Reporter i have heard a bunch of grumbling from my republican friends since losing the election. Some are suggesting that john and the House Republicans hold strong and not vote to raise taxes by one thin dime. But the let the country go over the fiscal cliff. Be strong. Others, they are suggesting that the House Republicans pulled their arms and let the tax increases on the upper income folks folks going folks going through. And then sit back and watch the economy crumble. That way, no one will be able to blame them for the lousy economy that is sure to come. Both ideas make no sense. Have a great belief in the business cycle. I believe the economy is bigger and stronger than washington politicians. So what if the democrats raise taxes on the wealthy, and the economy does naturally start to improve . Then people will shout, see . Raising taxes work. Instead of playing games, the republicans need to be part of the solution. The president is determined to raise taxes on the wealthy and i think its going to happen. Just make sure that he gets credit for it if it doesnt solve the deficit problem. Then you will we have to