carl can try to orchestrate a short squeeze. he can do whatever he wants. okay? he can try to scare my investors from investing with me, which it sounds like he's attempting to do on this call. >> i don't want to get between these two men, and you shouldn't either. herbalife the too hard to trade or own right now because it's all about these egos going at it. even as ackman may have done the best work on the fundamentals. i'll give him that. that's where i can help. i want to deconstruct the fight to show you how either man can either win, not in the court of opinion from today's battle but in the battle that is herbalife. first ackman's saying herbalife's going to zero. >> but frankly if they got out at a price higher than zero they're going to be ultimately better off. >> if herbalife goes to zero, he will make all the money between where he shorted the stock and zero. that would be a huge win for his investors. we know he has done a gigantic amount of work, well laid out, about how herbalife is a dishonest pyramid scheme. here's the problem. to get the stock t

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to cross-talk events in egypt i'm joined by carl show in london he is a middle east blogger in cairo we have while he is a blogger and a journalist and in washington we crossed ratner he is a fellow at the truman national security project or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it karl in london what's going on here how do you look at it and because it looks like it's two step forward two steps back i mean what's in play in the egyptian revolution if it's even a revolution anymore. i think we have to put this in a more historical context of what the revolutions go through and they take time and if you look in previous examples they would take five ten twenty years to settle onto something now the immediate context of what's happening in egypt is there was a process of change that resembled their evolution but in the aftermath of that there is no single authority that have stomped it's not active on what the meaning of the egyptian revolution is unfortunately the political opposition currently isn't kind of able to art

carl cameron is back with us from capitol hill. karl, what has to happen? >>carl: will sponsors and advocates will talk about being a path to citizenship contingent on, and they will rattle off a list. first is securing the borders. that is contentious. there are some who believe the only way do secure the border is with a fence from the pacific ocean to the gulf coast. maybe say that is unrealistic and it would be porous and people could get over, under, or around it. border security first is a primary contingents. the other contingent is the e verify program which critics say could get dangerously close to a national i.d. program but would prevent illegal workers from being hired in the united states with a documentation program. how that is accomplished is also a major hurdle that has frankly left a gridlock in the past. there are many things that fall under "comprehensive immigration reform," that john mccain talked about. four, and, also, eight years ago, and remarkable come tear when he said that republicans are losing the hispanic vote which is a rea

now, listen, to carl's point, they're adding a lot of customers. they're activating a lot of devices. we talk often about the subsidy for the apple iphone, but don't forget there is also a subsidy for the samsung galaxy. when you've only got two devices to choose from, not enough competition for these carriers to say, no, we're not going to pay that much. that certainly would seem to be something here that investors are going to continue to pay attention to. the margins are the key here. we'll see. high multiple stock, 15 times, does have a nice dividend as you point out. investors may be looking closely at the margin number for their guidance for the year, despite what are some positive comments. >> we love the stuff. how does it change. how does the metric change. if we look at the fios numbers, they start making money on the dvr, no, now it's just wireless. >> you don't want to forget about the other important parts of the business. there's a wire line business, and that's where they took the sandy charge in terms of the wire line. the positive

so our next guest with us is carl bloomgren. welcome. >> nice it be here. >> tell us your background and history and your involvement. >> well, i grew up in a house full of books and i got interested in selling books when i was in my early twenties and, and i've been involved in the business ever since. but i love books and i think they are fascinating and i like to work in that field. >> the love came at an early age? >> yeah, i was always a big reader and i enjoyed the history of books. i also -- i'm a specialist in photographic books and also illustrative books. so i was fascinated with that. and that's one of the areas that i focus on. >> great. and you brought some books. let's go right into it. >> well, one of the books that might be of interest right now is -- this is a book by julia peter kent and doris almond. it's a photographic book, "roll, jordan, roll." i believe that is a spiritual, african american spiritual song. >> that's right. >> and this book is considered one of the important photographic books of the 20th c

>>carl: the excitement is building but the clean up is something to behold. there are 1,500 portable toilets that have not been cleaned but the liter was like something in a time-lapse photography, the cleaners ripped through here and cleaned it all up and the address here on the mall we do not have exact estimates but probably over half a million people and it came off at least as far as we know without incident. a couple in the ought conference tried to climb tries and law enforcement politely asked them to step down. other than that, it is now on to the parade. so far, a beautiful day with weather. >>shepard: is treat climbing a capital offense? >>carl: no, the reaction do what the president said from republicans and conservatives, there is all right the beginning of rumbling it was too combative and he is advancing an agenda that is sure to guarantee more gridlock and partisan warfare for the next one, two, three, or four years but it is worth remembering the founders set up this country for the express purpose of checking power. the checks and balances o

carl, lastly as we go, for people who want more tips, obviously, a lot of woman in our newsroom asks me questions to ask you. where do they turn. >> carl require makeup arti artist.com and i work at george salon at the four seasons. >> all right, makeup artist to the stars, ashley you look fabulous. thank you, with that said got to run. >>> it's 11:27. >>> coming up in the next half hour, new information released just this morning from the faa. on why the agency is taking a close look at the safety of boeing 787s. >>> and new divide lines for a popular drug millions of people take. why it applies to women only. >>> and storm team4 meterologist tom kierein is back and he changes to the weekend forecast is 70 degrees still a >>> a man is in custody two days after escaping from a hospital ward in tacoma park. the 27-year-old turned himself into police this morning many rockville and he escaped wednesday from washington adventist hospital and police were on heightened alert because he's considered dangerous. >>> the faa is look closely at boeing's newest and most hi-tech jetliners and th

thanks, carl. well, harder for the mainstream liberal media to ignore the brewing sex scandal surrounding democratic senator bob menendez of the jersey three last that the fbi raided the office of the south florida eye doctor who allegedly provided underage prostitutes to send german mendez, a claim he adamantly denies. according to the miami "herald" the fbi investigation centers around the doctors finances and allegations about his contact with prostitutes. the doctors what senator menendez top financial backers contributing more than $30,000 to his federal campaign. the obama administration today moving closer to implementing the highly unpopular individual mandate in obamacare. that is the provision that forces most taxpayers to buy health insurance or pay a fine to the irs. today the irs issued 73 pages of new regulations that now line the process for determining whether taxpayers are subject to the mandate or exempt from it third. republican senators introduced a bill to repeal the mandate la

you can go higher with or without carl icahn. dan in florida, please, dan? >> caller: hello. >> go ahead, dan. you're up. >> caller: dr. jim, dan, how are ya? >> i'm fine. >> caller: hey, i have a question. i'm concerned about this ppg takeover or split, whatever's going on. >> no, that's just arbitrage pressure. the arbs had to buy a certain amount of georgia gulf. this is just another opportunity to buy ppg on the cheap and i think you should take advantage of it. it might be tempting to stop worrying about all the things that could go wrong for a moment. you'll miss what's going right. don't just read the stories and decide retail's back, therefore it's got to go down, think bigger, think immigration, think shale boom, think cantor, think congress no longer something we talk about on cnbc. "mad money" will be right back. >>> coming up -- clinical cash. the prognosis has been positive for medical technology company optco health, already up over 30% this year. iss the perfect drug for a profitable 2013, or should these shares be quarantined? discover the an

all right, on the carl sorensen bowl here being held up, on the sorensen bowl. ten for the bowl, any interest in the bowl at all? five for the bowl. no one needs a bowl, huh? five, now ten, $15, $20, $20, now $25. now $25, any advance for the sorensen bowl? sold on my far left for $20. okay. wow. don't be so quick to point we're all burning. it's getting hot in here. it's getting very hot. on this marilyn monroe some like it hot thermometer. interesting collectible piece here. anyone want to start it for ten dollars to start the bidding? i don't know... ten, now $20, $30, how about $40? $40's way in the back. $50, now $60. $60, sir, yes or no? nope. down. i have $50 in the front. $60, now $70. $70, how about $80? $80, now $90? really? $90, yes or no? $90, now $100. $100, $125. please start fanning me down. $100, how about $125 any advance? (chuckles) sold for $100. hey, all right. wow, it's close, miller. walberg: and the winner is... miller gaffney. yes! wow! yay! i told you... congratulations. whoo! i knew it was going to happen, my first win. these boys can't

carl bernstein and carl sullivan back at the table in new york. dan? >> you don't say brian or carl you just say, dan. >> we have my dad on. dad, i'd like to start with you and i'd love to hear from fred, especially as it pertains to the atlantic council. but, first of all, john kerry and chuck hagel along with the nnc, what do they bring to the table, if nominated, if the nomination goes through as a foreign policy team? >> i think they bring together a remarkably cohesive and strategically minded team. it's really quite impressive. they have been in this game for years. they know the issues. they have served the country and hagel, particularly, has served the country extraordinarily brave fashion. i think it's a strong team that will help the president, especially if the president is to be preoccupied with domestic issues. i think this team is cohesive, experienced, strategic. and in a sense, it has a slightly different emphasize than the proceeding team. i thought secretary clinton was terrific and involved very much in the long-term global issues,

carl icahn the "wall street journal" just breaking the story has taken a long stake in herbalife. look at this intraday picture. the hedge fund manager is a guy who has said you know what, i will short this stock. getting hammered the past couple of days. today it started off that way until the news just broke that carl icahn is jumping in and saying herbalife, i am in. the stock is well off of the lows of the session now down two-thirds of a percent. had been down 1.8% earlier today. just about 13 minutes ago at about nine minutes to the hour. wwe're watching herbalife right now. turbulence at boeing. a top analyst out in front. we also have ol goldman stellar quarter. and stocks are mixed. weakness in the dow jones industrial. so much of that has to do with boeing. so what is the story? boeing is the biggest drag on the dow jones industrial pulling it down by more than 20 points. getting clipped by about three and change%. another dreamliner safety issue in response japan airlines grounding their entire fleet of 787 today. particularly noteworthy because these two airlines own t

civil liability traps-- >>> carl, let me ask you this. i used to sign pistol permits when i thought they were appropriate for people who did all the background check and the fingerprints. how do we find out if someone is mentally capacitated, going forward? how do we know that? is there a system that says a guy is on anti-depressants or anti-psychotic medication? >> this is a perfect opportunity for intelligent people of good will to sit down and craft safely legislation to deny all firearms to certain people -- criminals and dangerously mentally ill people, rather than trying to deny certain firearms to all people, including law-abiding citizens. >> jeanine: but, of course, carl, my concern is -- my concern is that -- if you do a fingerprint check, you can find out if someone is a dangerous individual or a felon. you don't know if they are crazy. that's part of the problem. pat caddell, does this bill have a chance of passing? >> not at all. the problem is, partly because this is an off-the-shelf, we hate guns, we are going to take them

carl icahn is in it. you have never retreated from distinguishing your company from these others including an excellent white paper where you say that herbalife is a network marketing company, and you along with others are a direct seller. can you define what direct selling is and why are you distancing yourself from some of the other companies that claim to be in your industry? >> i'm not going to take issue with network marketing, multi level marketers but they are chalk and cheese from traditional sellers. what you had from prior to 1950, direct selling companies, avon, fuller brush, even tupperware where people went out and sold to a retail customer. you had the emergence of these network marketing companies that recruited people not so much to sell, but to consume their products, and you saw it in cosmetics and supplements and a lot of them came and went because their episodic kind of businesses. they are not direct sellers. they are wholesale buying clubs and based on sign up to save money and consu

carl cameron, thank you so much. we can thank brian for you being first. >> brian: right. >> gretchen: let's go to the number two guy, doug mckelway who is sometimes number one. thousands of people joined the president and vice president as they make their way from the capitol to the white house. this is all part of the parade, right, doug? >> sure is, gretchen. i wish you guys had come to me about a half hour earlier because we had the most spectacular sunrise. we're facing east along the pennsylvania avenue, facing toward the capitol and the sun came up directly behind the capitol. we are situated here at freedom plaza, at 13 and pennsylvania avenue. right in the heart of the parade ground. i would venture to say i have probably the single best seat in the house. because so many roads are shut down in dc today and there is no vehicular traffic aside from the metro rail system, the fox news corporation put us all up in a hotel downtown and so i walked the distance, maybe a half mile here to our live shot position. 1

we can see you carl. we can totally see you. come on you're better than this...all that prowling around. yeah, you're the king of the jungle. have you thought about going vegan carl? hahaha!! you know folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. how happy are they jimmy? happier than antelope with night-vision goggles. nice! get happy. get geico. >>> angry news conferences and attack statements from republicans as well as democrats are flying everywhere and they're directed at speaker john boehner. eamon joins us from washington with the details. >> reporter: the new york-new jersey delegation met with john boehner and came out with a commitment to have two votes on hurricane sandy aid. the first on friday will cover $9 billion in aid and a second vote on the 15th of january will cover the additional $51 billion. that marked the end of an amazing political drama today. it all started last night when boehner adjourned congress without addressing the aid for sandy victims. republicans and democrats took

carl ended up landing the drone from inside the suv. we've seen lots of stories about swarms that cluster on cars, but we could drone on forever about the time the bees went after a drone, calling a s.w.a.t. team. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> i don't know about you, but i'm scared of bees. >> bees sense fear. just remember that. >> i'm very fearful of them. don't like them. that's it for us. thanks very much for watching. you can always tweet us, tweet me. "outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" next, weeks after newtown, another shooting at an american school as two gunmen open fire at a texas college. we go to houston for the latest. >>> plus the family of an american hostage murdered in algeria spoke out today. >>> beyonce's natural anthem. what you may not have known about it. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, a shooting at a texas campus. shots rang out at the lone star community college in houston today in what officials now are blaming on a fight between two people. it was pretty a

if carl and carter are buying, so am i. but there was a problem. 100 shares cost nearly eight grand. mark ain't got that kind of money. so to spend left, they sold the january put for 4.10. that's the most he can make on the trade, but in order to keep all that money, mike used netflix stock to stay above the put that he sold, or above $80 by january expiration. below $80, profits trail off. but with the money mike collects, he won't see losses until netflix follows below the strike of the put that he sold by more than the $4.10 he's taking in, below $75.90 by january expiration. he can make money where the stock goes up, down, or nowhere at all. >> i think he's done an excellent job. >> relax, there's a catch. he's now obligated to buy at $80, even if it falls below that level. no worries. since the time of the trade, shares have surged over 10%, making this trade a winner. now these three find themselves partners with a common goal, hoping netflix goes higher. "options action" fans want to know one thing, what will these

carl, we'll talk to you later this morning. carl cameron on the mall. martha? martha: people who are here are very enthusiastic and excited to be part of this big day. no doubt that means very tight security here in washington as well. there will be extra air and boat patrols around the city along with checkpoints and metal detectors along the parade route. 2000 police officers from 0 states are helping with security. lined up motorcycles behind us on the parade route. more than 6,000 members of the national guard, one on the plane with me last night coming to help out. they will be deployed around washington, d.c. with another 2,000 stationed outside the city limits. choppers are overhead that started last evening as well. the fbi sending out a lot of agents. the bureau says there are no credible threats against this event today but they will be watching everybody very closely. bill: you can imagine planning for this is years in the making. first the president and vice president scheduled to arrive at the capitol building at 10:50 a.m. eastern time. they will

we can see you carl. we can totally see you. come on you're better than this...all that prowling around. yeah, you're the king of the jungle. have you thought about going vegan carl? hahaha!! you know folks who save hundreds of dollars by

so carl might not have known that he was gay and he might not have been bullied and harassed because he was gay. perhaps it wasn't about his sexual orientation, it was about the fact he wasn't acting like a boy enough or girls aren't acting like a girl enough, in other words, it's gender stereotyping. that's a violation of title 9 and we made it clear, right? so that kind of training and recognition and help the superintendents and school officials so that what happened to seth walsh here in tehachipe where for years he was subject to bullying and harassment makes the leaders in schools realize they have a responsibility and also gives them tools in ways they haven't known they had before to do something about it. it is also, though, not just about civil rights enforcement. when we talk about bullying and harassment there is no federal definition of bullying. in fact, one of the things we're working on is getting a common definition so we know what that means. and tom and i have an enormous amount of jurisdiction and team support to help ensure that when it comes to race, when it com

let's go to carl cameron in washington. how do you break this down? is there a big difference from what you heard from president obama, compared to the bipartisan commission of eight senators yesterday? we heard a lot more from the so-called gang of eight. they got more granular. what we heard from the president was a campaign rally. he is going to head out on the campaign trail and push his agenda items with campaign-style peaches of that nature. you could hear the crowd getting wooped up with campaign-style rhetoric to advance this. it's generalities and we haven't seen the details. what is noting is that the president has changed his language. in the past when he has been talking about comprehensive immigration reform, he has talked about the desire as an end game to get those here now illegally, quote, legal status. now he is saying this is a path not to legal status, but a path to citizenship. that's much more aggressive. the time table he is likely to propose is a slightly faster path to citizensship than what the commission has put forward. har

to cross-talk events in egypt i'm joined by carl show in london he is the middle east blogger in cairo we have while he is a blogger and a journalist and in washington we crossed ratner he is a fellow at the truman national security project or a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want my very much encouraged karl in london what's going on here how do you look at it because it looks like it's two step forward two steps back i mean what's in play in the egyptian revolution if it's even a revolution anymore. i think we have to put this in a more historical context of what revolutions go through and they take time and if you look in previous examples they would take five ten twenty years to settle onto something now the immediate context of what's happening in egypt is there was a process of change that resembled their evolution but in the aftermath of that there is no single authority that have stomped it's not active on what the meaning of the egyptian revolution is unfortunately the political opposition currently isn't kind of able to articulate

i'm sure senator reid is yeah but i mean publicly so we don't know right now other than the carl levin is is in bed with john mccain other than that we don't know for sure and he's going to i mean we we we are right on the line there so is important to keep the pressure on we know we have fifty one votes for supporting filibuster reform i think the question is what it's going to look like i think we will see something right. i sure hope you're right diana thank you so much for being with us thank you oh my pleasure. coming up the phone lines are now open for our your take my take a live segment so if you want the chance to ask me a question live on the big picture right here give us a call at two zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four and you'll be talking with you right after the break. wealthy british style. that's not on the title of. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g. me is he he. seems. like. a.

lot of chaos a lot of contestation before it's down towards a more kind of progressive path forward carl if i can stay with you it looks like a lot of the opposition though or are they aren't willing to give more time western media doesn't want to give more time or some capitals are disillusioned i mean do you think they're giving up on this revolution too quickly if you look at the historical context. i think part of the problem with the egyptian revolution is that turned into a form of a spectator sport where outside there is get to have their saying i mean i shouldn't be saying that i'm a spectator and external observer is well but to the extent that it's kind of interfering with this process unfortunately that form of intervention is egging one side or the other you can also look other than western countries are there all of the gulf countries are playing in supporting certain parties within egypt but those processes are normal again in the aftermath of an evolution what you need to arrive is the consistent drive by a large block of the egyptian people towards the original aims of ge

we can see you carl. we can totally see you. come on you're better than this...all that prowling around. yeah, you're the king of the jungle. have you thought about going vegan carl? hahaha!! you know folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. how happy are they jimmy? happier than antelope with night-vision goggles. nice! get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >> now insta-weather plus and traffic pulse 11 together. >> good morning. sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. right now and looks pretty clear and most of the area roads. fork road and kuro cherry hill road. we have an accident at maria the d.avia roa westbound liberty road, watch for the downed wires taking up the right lane. this is 795. no problems to report down to the beltway. 48 on the j.f.x. traveling reet.ds 28th straigh that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> we had pleasant weather overnight. high pressure cap does mostly mostly dry. there is some moisture trying to creep into t