Out of best buy warehouse in new jersey. You can see behind me, we are just in the middle of a shift change. They are doing a team meeting. It has been very busy here all day long. They have been busy fulfilling all of those cyber monday orders. As you said, were expecting 9. 4 billion in cyber monday sails, online sails. What exactly are people dying . It includes clothing followed by home goods, small appliances, smart home gadgets, pcs, tvs, travel experiences. Here at the ecommerce center, its all about efficiency. The robots you are looking at our supplement to the human workers. They sort through thousands of products for faster ordering. This is how you are able to get your order the very next day. We are taking a look at the computer tracking of all of the robots to see where they are moving which products they are grabbing from here, they will go down to a worker who will sort through them. Then they will be boxed by a machine that creates custom shipping boxes to perfectly fit any item which cuts down 40 of the waste. You mentioned that we could hit a record later today, maybe even close to 10 billion with this snowy letter. Adobe analytics says that the golden hours of retail is from 10 00 p. M. Until 2 00 a. M. Eastern is when 30 of todays sales are expected to be done. Those people are getting the last minute deals. Neil thank you very much. Maybe folks are unloading stocks to get quick cash for shopping. Stocks were not soaring today. Worries about trade and manufacturing weighing on the market. Will strong consumer sales outweigh any of those fears . What do you think . It depends on what you mean, outweigh. Consumer spending has carried a lot of the economy in the last year with the trade uncertainty. Its a good thing that people are feeling generous at christmas and well enough to shop. Neil we talk about Consumer Confidence. Do you think it will last that way through the season . Yeah, i do believe that Consumer Confidence will likely last to the end of the year. I think we really would need a dramatic shift in trade war talk, something really tangible for the confidence overall to shift. Neil there is concern that the china thing is bumping along. One day we get good comments and other days we get medium comments. Some days the market shrug it off. One thing that will take Consumer Confidence a lot lower, the stock market. If that will do it. Consumer confidence is very high and has been high for some time. A year ago, the market at 20 under. A corrected top to bottom 20 was discounting to greater risk of recession. Our clients are up 25 . Now i am telling people to hedge position, protect your position, or so mike your position for a profit. I think the market is way too complacent for current levels. Neil and things were hunkydory in the first half of the month. And the bottom fell out and certain things happen. You are richly rewarded sticking with stocks regardless. What do you think the lessons are this goround . If i knew the lessons of the stock market, i would be in aruba. Neil you would still be reporting on this from a rubella. I the workaholic that you are. I follow a consistent buy high arc sell low policy. That trade deals that you mention not just with china but with mexico and so forth are the big question marks. If the president can conclude them, just having concluding the deal, that could add more to growth. Its good but its 2 . Its not the 3 number we were hoping for. It seems to me if i was the president , that would be the idea to concentrate on. Neil as we look at retail, and whatever you might say about the reluctance of cfos and ceos and purchasing managers, average folks have a totally different mindset. What do you of that . I think we have seen a lot of wage growth. People do feel more confident. And i think another thing with respect to cyber monday, using a big shift not only in the younger buyers buying everything online, but even those from the 39 to 59 years old spending more and more online in understanding the ease of use, being able to pick up at the store and making everything easier. With six less shopping days, anything can make it easier, and something that consumers seem to embrace. Neil the fact that online is so easy to do on days like this, a reminder of how easy it is to do. Do you see anything disrupting that trend . The only thing that could disrupt it is a big increase on imported crisis. We dont have that. We have almost half of imports from china taxed at 25 for the past year. Consumers dont care to answer your last question because their costs have not gone up. Inflation has been stagnant. Neil are you surprised that it is the case with the tariffs and Everything Else . The president has mentioned that the chinese devalue their currency. The other factor has been american distributive stores that have absorbed a lot of that. Do you think that has helped here that those american entities were doing that . I think it certainly helps the consumer. When you look at the actual stores on the companies, we are looking at about an 89 revenue increase but an 8 decline in profits. Just to your point, these stores these retailers are eating those tariffs and taking it. This is certainly not a sustainable type of Business Plan where youre going to absorb higher costs and not passed on to the consumer, and eventually we will have to see a change. Neil this snowy first trading day of the year. A bumpy start. Keep in mind. 5 Percentage Points from records last wednesday. Meanwhile as the president heads to london that he just flipped off the house Judiciary Committee, or is he working on a deal . After this. When i switched to geico. And this is how it made me feel. 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I think it would be a mistake. Neil wouldnt it be a mistake to get your views acro across . I think there are plenty of members that will do their best to make sure that both sides are heard. For anyone to have to answer question on behalf of the president is problematic. Neil does it strike you as odd i know where youre coming from and may be the president , where he rips his own arguments. He has been saying throughout this process that hes not been able to have his say, or his people have their say in response. Heres going to be provided to Judiciary Committee. If there were in fact witnesses, i think thats what the president was talking about. He should hear from the actual fact witnesses. I think the president has the opportunity to have members of his cabinet were others come before the committee and talk about what actually happened instead of talking about the hearsay and speculation that the committee hurt. Neil what did come out is that the president might have according to some of the republicans been urging a potential quid pro quo. Even if you did, it wasnt a big deal. You share that view . I believe what happened and what the facts have shown so far have not risen to the level of impeachable conduct. I think the terrible mistake to bring the country through this process when the senate will clearly find that this was not impeachable conduct. Neil talking to a leader of a sovereign nation about inserting himself into a u. S. Election whether it was that granular is not impeachable to you . Asking a leader of a foreign nation to conduct an investigation into criminal conduct and the leader of the foreign nation did not and aid have been withheld is not impeachable conduct to me. Neil if this evolved anyone but joe biden, with the president have been that concerned . I dont think he wouldve been that concerned. Im not saying its good conduct. Im saying its not impeachable conduct. It is not bribery or treason. Neil what did you think . The congressman is free to make that judgment. Heres what happened, and i dont think its impeachable. Other people are free to say that heres what happened that it is impeachable. It seems clear that the president pushed an agenda which had the ukrainians trying to do something against the president s political opponents. While he pushed that agenda, he held up 391 million in aid. Neil it is not blackandwhite. It is not blackandwhite. In my view it is clearly impeachable because it involves two potential bribes. As the failure to and act until a favor comes your way. Not conduct an investigation, announce the existence of an investigation of joe biden. The other crime is asking for Campaign Aide from a foreign national. Thats a crime in and of itself, just asking. They are free to say thats not an impeachable offense, but they are not free to say it didnt happen, because the evidence that said it happened is overwhelming. Neil im not a lawyer here. I am confused. I am curious what you make of the fact that the president might want to skip out of this Judiciary Committee opening hearing and others to follow, because it is essentially a Kangaroo Court or its not fair. The rules about which the president are complaining were written by the house of representatives. The president would be very unwise not to send lawyers the there. Legal scholars are arguing neil these are not the exact same rules that the democrats are taking liberties and republicans themselves did not. The rules in 2015 about the majority to take those liberties. The democrats are not doing anything that the democrats did not do to nixon or the republicans didnt do the bill clinton. But i think he makes a mistake when he refuses to participate. It is a valid vote by the house of representatives that authorized this. Its a valid hearing that congressman adam schiff you may not like the rulings he made, but he has the authority to make those rulings. Neil what will the difference be . I dont know the answer to that except it appears as though the witnesses will testify before the congressman will the legal scholars giving opinions as to whether this set of facts that adam schiff sit over constitutes appreciable offense. If the president participates, his lawyer would have the right to call someone that says its not an impeachable offense. His lawyer would have the right to call rick perry or mike pence or mike pompeo. Neil participated not to exonerate himself or plead his case . He also loses the argument that its unfair if he doesnt take the opportunity to participate himself. Neil thought a former lawyers speaking out saying among other things its intimidating because he is still the president of the united states. When the president accuses you of treason by name, even though i know there is no fallible way i may have committed any crime at all, what she is saying is not there, not now, im not going to keep taking it silent silently. It is a little surreal when the president treats about you even if he says things that you know are not true. I can tell you from personal experience except my personal experiences in minuscule. Now she wants to say something. Neil would you give her advice . I would tell her not to say anything, because she still a potential witness and even a potential defendant depending upon what the Inspector General comes out with early next week. Neil that is very well put, young man. I like the young man part. Neil facebook is under fire for its political ad policy. The Ceo Mark Zuckerberg bringing in a major, major reinforcement. You wont believe who it was. More after this. For what you. I love you only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. 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It is not the first time and about a public figure has turned to a spouse to try to turn things around. Bill clinton relying on heather a. Candidates of john kennedy to barack obama astutely showing off their better halves to help close the electoral deal. Distinguished fellow on how stuff like this does work and have a new phase or a new facebook on the guy in question. What did you think of this . I thought she was phenomenal. She certainly humanized him in ways that i think he tried, but failed. He was having to address an editor at that was critical of him. I think his wife being there was helpful to him in the interview. Neil i think she calms his interpresence. He has this offputting antisocial guy. Hes anything but. When they have been in interviews together, hes a very different bill gates in a very appealing couple. Make a difference. She is an attractive woman, and it makes a difference. In the political realm, its more important because all the businessmen are trying to select products, the politicians are trying to seek votes. There may be a more direct connection with an appealing wife. He had the picture of president kennedy up there. Certainly it was very effective. Neil she was all about 31 years old when he was running for president. He obviously recognized the appeal. You could argue much the same with other candidates who have tried that. Less so with someone like Ronald Reagan and nancy reagan. Ronald reagan always remain so much more popular than his wife. It depends on the marriage. Ronald reagan has a softer image. Nancy reagan was accused sometimes of trying to influence the people he was appointing an office. Of course, she consulted that astrology. She sometimes to have been a drag on his strategy. Jimmy carter had trouble not so much with his wife but his brother. You remember billy carter. He had a connection with libya where he was trying to leverage president carters fame in order to secure a loan from libya. Also he had that redneck image. He was guilty of public. He said im not running a threering circus. And so, it can be embarrassment. Neil i remember his late mom saying im running for president. She said president of what . We all know how that turned out. Let me ask you a little bit not aligned with all of these examples. That was always a much scrutinized, ripped apart marriage. I was wondered when they did media interviews together, they never seems to click. Lady diana was so much more appealing than Prince Charles. Apparently there was jealousy that set in and that worked against Prince Charles and the long run because the marriage didnt last. And he had to take black somewhat for the problems in the marriage. Neil is america ready for mayor pete . We will soon see. I will that be received . That could be an awkward situation thats in a totally new dimension. The whole issue of spouses. President s have only been an issue since president kennedy. We had Eleanor Roosevelt that was active. The kennedys were the first one to use it in a spectacular way. We had television coverage. It was important by then. When the kennedys went to paris, you may recall that she was so well received, she could speak french. She had a College Major in french literature. The french were captivated by her. President kennedy ended up saying, im glad to have been the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to paris. I enjoyed it. Neil a great example. You never know. That timing is everything. The appetite americans have could be somewhat different. You never know. Then there is Mike Bloomberg. He might not be too worried about being left off the next debate stage. That could be his strength. More after this. May 1 of 75. The magic moment. Congress really democratized wall street. 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