Cant trace of general liberals who may someday run the country. I grew up in mexico. Very briefly. Mexico was a horrible backward authoritarian place with his loser president s, and all of a sudden you get guys like fox and calderon, and where did they come from . They have a ph. D from the university of chicago. Thats how it happened. Find those 10 people, educate them and maybe some good will come 20 years down the road. You mentioned the justice component of a lot of these islamist parties. Theres an argument that can be made that this is a response to the corruption of these you sponsored regimes. I would say that in the case of gaza which you mentioned, rob, that was a very series component. Any thoughts how to combat that or includes this in the right direction . For the record im against corruption. [laughter] , good, good, good. Wanted to clear that up. Yes, look. It goes back to the point i thought it made in my remarks that islamists didnt win and nonislamists lost, whether t
Very, very famous legendary jazz club the blue note. Usually room at the bar. Theres always room at the bar. Well see you in an hour for the closing bell. Thanks so much. Thanks, bob. Speaking of the market shortened session one more hour. Lets head over to maria at post 9. Thanks, carl. Hi everybody. Welcome to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiroma at the new york stock exchange. No, your watch is not wrong. The closing bell ringing three hours early today at 1 00 eastern for Christmas Eve. Hi, bill. Hey, maria. Im Bill Griffith here at cnbc world headquarters. A down day not terrible, light volume as you might imagine on this half day. The dow down about 40 points right now. 46point decline at 13,144. All the other major averages lower as well. The nasdaq at this hour down about ten points at 3,011 and the s p 500 down 4. 25. Certainly volume on the light side today. Though were facing light volume there is still money to be made in these markets. Remember after the closing bell rings
Incredible run, not only for that one, but facebook has doubled in 2013 this year. That really is one of the stories of the year. Remember, when twitter went public, there were lots of people saying the retail interest, thats how we should have known, the retail interest wasnt that strong. There was a lot of institutional interest, and people thought after price, hitting near 50 on the first day of trade, drifting back to the 30s. Instead, it has marched steadily higher. You can feel people buying in, ramping up into the year end. Going back to november early november. And just an incredible run. There it was at 38 when it was at its low, and now were at 68. Unbelievable. Well get to more of that. Meanwhile, the dow is heading for its fifth Straight Record close after a much betterthanexpected surge in durable goods orders. A lot of the Economic Data have been pretty good. So i think it was a prescient decision by the fed last week. And some fed officials are saying how surprised they
Ii veteran, i am honored to be entrusted with this care. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce the chairman of the board of the friends of the National World war ii memorial, lieutenantgeneral mckiliter. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us as it as we commemorate the 71st anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor and the beginning of world war ii. We want to welcome our distinguished guests today, admiral james winnefeld, our keynote speaker. We are also honored to have with us general px kelly, chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission who played a role in establishing this special monument. [applause] it is always good to have superintendent bill vogel, our cost for this to work together. Also the director of the bell honor flight the film honor flight. There are many other distinguished guests to give a welcome to our honored guests, the pearl harbor survivors and all of our world war ii veterans and your fa
Happening now, volunteers in San Francisco are busy in the kitchen getting ready to serve about 5,000 meals tomorrow. They are marking 50 years giving back to the community. For many, volunteering is a longtime holiday tradition. They helped me get my life together. This is my way of giving back. Reporter earlier today, about 3,000 people enjoyed the Christmas Eve prime rib lunch, donated by San Franciscos house of prime rib. Theres also a lastminute push to gather toys for needy children. Cabbies were among those tributing to luckys. They will be expecting 10,000 toys to hand out tomorrow. And there are still a do you mean of hours left couple of hours left to hit the malls. Toys r us stays open until 9 00 tonight. And we saw some dedicated shoppers getting ready to make the rounds. A christmas tradition is up in smoke tonight our continued stag nan weather pattern is stagnant weather pattern is leading to another burn ban. If you dont have a gasburning fireplace like this one, youre