The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, everybody. Its great to have you with us on this tuesday. We have a spectacular Investment Committee today as well. Yeah joe taranova, john and pete, kevin oleary, cnbc contributor, guitar player and youtube chef star well get to that in a minute. Bryn talkington from requisite Capital Management and Jeff Killburg of cck financial. Thank you very much. All right. Let us start now with the financials i think this is one of the sectors with Interest Rate moves and their relative importance in the markets, have you been happy with the numbers goldman, jpms you have seen very happy. Im long jpmorgan, citi, results from the financial everyone on the desk has done a fantastic job about talking about the potential opportunities. Pete and john had unusual activity in the last two weeks or so in the financials. Listen, if you could finally get kevin disagrees, but if you could get the financials to participate in a market that looks like its not pr
Dave barry and scott turow. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to scott turow and dave barry. [applause] [inaudible conversations] at afternoon and thanks for coming. We cant believe you are still coming to these things. This is scotts fifth panel. Scott will be doing his part fully in mind. But i want to start, im going to tell you some things about scott turow. My friend and bandmate and you all know that he is probably the most accomplished legal thriller writer fall times and im sure there are very few who didnt. You know everything about him now and you probably all have samples. But there are two things you dont know about scott. First of all i performed at his wedding. I hope we can get some point to discuss it. Scott got married last summer in wisconsin and asked me if i would perform the ceremony. I am a notary public in the state of florida. [laughter] and floored it means i can do anything. I can sentence people to death in florida. [la
[applause] and now from the 2018 Rancho Mirage writers festival in california authors and historians john and margaret mcmellon and douglas discuss is their favorite historical figures. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the stage Douglas Brinkley morgan and john with your moderator, jeff. [applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biography about more president s than most of us have ever heard of but also done so many other in
My sons to car seat in the back seat of the previous. My dad was driving and my mom was up front. I felt like i was nine years old all over again. Nice little field trip there. We met i tell myself, i am a woman. I am a professional. I run a household. I have a great job. I just feel like i am nine whenever i am with my parents. Does this happen to you . In the back seat in the middle between the car seats. I love it. Hey, mom and dad. We love you, mom and dad. I wanted to share with you. Like you i grew up in the bay area. We never really see the weather like this. When we talk about wet weather, this winter we have seen is just head and shoulders apart and above what we are used to. Well, it is ahead of 1997, 98, and 82, 83. In 82 83, thats tough to beat. We are ahead of that as far as precept goes. Theres a lot more today and probably into tuesday. Occultism drops down on the weekend. We have artie seen some three plus. Some areas have had pretty good gusts. Others have had nothing.
We have met the generations test to stand for freedom against a tough challenge, and we have persevered. We are wiser, better, stronger. Today, as we remember the fallen, their families, the bravery of those who face saved countless lives on those dark days and those who are still fighting today, we stand united, dedicated to never forget, never give in, and never lose hope. May god surround and comfort those who lost so much of that day, and may he bless and protect our great nation. It is hard to believe it has been 15 years since 9 11. For many of us, we will never forget the memories of that day. For me, i had breakfast in the pentagon and left 20 minutes to before the plane hit. I remember getting back to my office on capitol hill and a policeman comes running through the halls saying, get out, get out, there is another one coming for us. And people streamed out into the streets not knowing what was happening, how many attacks there would be, or who might be affected. I also remem