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They didnt panic. griff: despite attempts to do otherwise. story we are looking at now, the consumer confidence is tells a different story than what we are seeing in these day-to-day slides. >> consumer confidence is is remarkable. last friday the university of michigan came out with their number far better than wall street anticipated. not just the surveys. its action. we see the holiday sales. at least the best in six years. amazon having its best selling period ever. consumers are two thirds ...

For congressional recounts. it took eight months to decide the 2008 minnesota race. here we go. >> and im not good at math which is why i went to law school. >> its a lot better to spend the next couple of months in florida covering this recount than montana. >> shannon: were going to take the show on the road, thank you so much. florida is living up to its reputation as a battleground state once again readying for massive recounts. lets bring in senator tom tillis of north carolina, the vice ch...

Case for congressional recount. a two who eight monster decided to thousand 8 minnesota race so here we go. >> im not good at math which is why i went to law school. >> better to spend the next couple months in florida covering this recount than montana. shannon: thank you so much. florida living up to its reputation as a battleground state, once again readying for massive recounts. lets bring in senator tom tellis, vice chair of the national republican senate committee. nice to have you with us...

Gutsy decision the man to beat. people like people who make decisions. who act before events make them do it, who act in a way that leads the way. its how we spot leaders. the united states ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley strikes me much the same way. when the the uproar arose over the confederate flag, the south carolina governor said to take it down. she got two state senators to go along with her. she act and made the call. someone said shed been confused about an issue. her answer came ba...

When you say hit the pause button, that would mean at the moment weve got scheduled hearings starting on september 4th which chuck grassley has said will go on. when youre talking about pause, youre talking about pause on that, dont start those hearings on september 4th? >> thats exactly what im saying. senator grassley asked for documents from the white house and the national archives said it would take until october to get the records that he requested, that the republicans requested. lets at ...

>> yeah. >> not good news he was winning by seven but a generic democrat, he was winning by 13. if the democrat nominee were a ham sandwich, he would beat biden. >> bernie, elizabeth, joe. get past 2018. let the dust settle. >> it used to be the last nominee of the last president of your party, you had a reigning leader of your party. obama said goodbye when trump came in. there is no leader of the democratic party. >> if it is joe biden, he is going to have the same problems of hillary clinton....

>> its over blown because they are launching ets which is just social media ets. they way waited under the end. >> apple never indulged. >> social media companies are driving the growth. >> a lot of technology fund. >> i wouldnt buy a fund i would be stock specific. with social media i would let the dust settle. >> the greatest winners will be in technology. the timing is off. there will be some monstrous new applications ten years from know that will go up just like weve seen in every decade. >...

Would be wise to let the dust settle and then we can discuss all of these questions in a business-like way, but not now. >> interesting. still ahead, lawyers for the justice department say they will be able to reunite all separated migrant families by tomorrows dead line the whereabouts of other parents remain unknown. tomorrow jeff sessions last as students chapt "lock her up" at a high school leadership summit. those stories and, of course a check on your weather when we come back.

Our next elections from an ongoing attack by the russians, congress is supine under the republican leadership. >> obviously, the latest we have, i believe it was from chief rogers was, you know, nothing -- they havent been given any authority by the president to go ahead and do anything about an attack on the elections. thats the latest statement we have. i mean, the russians today said, about this invitation, that the president has issued, right, theyve acknowledged theyve gotten it, right. the...

Because the situation is far from resolved. thats going to be uncertainty that weighs on wall street and that is something thats going to keep wall street looking at those headlines. this market will continue to be headline-driven. as we see the dust settle, we keep a couple things in mind. the s&p 500 and the dow have wiped out all of their gains for the year, and now the focus turns to fundamentals. first quarter earning season kicks off next week. investors will be listen to what ceos of thes...