mr. greenberg and other lawyers that that work for mr. greenberg went back and researched the subject, found that they believe mr. elenhorn violated the new york ethics law, you're not supposed to take freebie trips from lawyers that you're, you know, fighting in court. cheryl: and greenberg saw the fox business story -- >> oh, yeah. cheryl: and he went, wait a minute, not so fast. >> what is this guy sayinn? cheryl: that's interesting. >> here's the thing, david boies, as you know, is one of the most prominent lawyers in america, maybe the world. hank green egger, one of -- greenberg, one of the most prominent businessmen. we don't know the outcome of this feud, but within the next 24 hours we will know, and it'll be a fairly significant story. i've never seen anything like this before where a top lawyer -- now, you have to realize that boies makes a lot of money from representing greenberg, but bo to ies is a prominent democrat, and the new york attorney general who this assistant new york attorney, david elenhorn works for is a democra

cnbc contributor and street.com columnist mr. herb greenberg. our very own seema mody. simon hobbs. great to have you with us. herb, what's the signal here? how much should we read from another late day selloff and now a three day losing stretch in these markets? >> i think you can read into this being a market that people don't -- there's no news. as people are talking about, they're locking in profits. i don't think people know what to do. they're all sitting here waiting for this santa claus rally that they're so convinced is going to come. and that it's so set up to happen. >> instead of us coming into the month and having all these positive december forces under the market, instead it feels like, well, maybe the money has been made. now we're a little bit wor rid about, yes, the fed. feels like a four letter word at this point. next year? >> we have earnings coming out in a few weeks. those are going to start seeping into the market. we've had so many earnings warnings going into the market. >> and for all of that, for everything that's happened today, simon hobbs, hilton hotel

darcy has, what, 5,000, and mr. bingly has 10,000. so, i mean, these houses are beautiful houses, and they're impressive. but compared to english standards of wealth and pomp and circumstance -- >> they're little. they're tiny. and alan greenberg, the really wonderful classical architect who's practicing now and building buildings as we speak wrote a book called "the architecture of democracy" about american architecture. and, and he's absolutely right. i mean, these guys were building houses for republican gentlemen, not grantees. and if you compare each mount vernon to -- even mount vernon to, you know, some english great country house like zion house or houghton, it's tiny. it's really tiny. and if you go up -- i hope everybody will get on the train and go up to 141st street and look at hamilton's beautifully-restored house. but compared to, you know, compared to an english gentleman's house, that's a tradesman's villa. it's a teeny, teeny, teeny, little house. so these guys did have their ambitions, but they were not to be lords.

peter greenberg is with us. good morning, peter. >> good morning. >> when i heard this, i thought this could go one or two way, either really good or evil. >> it's all about customizing airfares. the airlines have a lot of data on you every time you book a flight. they know how much you paid. how long you want to fly with a particular destination, who you went with, et cetera, et cetera. it's a revolution 787. it has nothing do-to-do with the dreamliner. it has to do with the proposal to reach out to passengers with customized situations. >> what does this mean? you logon online do you get different prices? >> based on history as well. if you spent x number of dollars you may get a solicitation saying we got a great package about the same time you went last year, with the hotel and airfare. difficult to be transparent there. then is gets crazy there. let's say you went with your buddies and paid x number of dollars. but if you went with your wife, they may customize that to say, oh, maybe he'll spend even more.

darcy has, what, 5,000, and mr. bingly has 10,000. so, i mean, these houses are beautiful houses, and they're impressive. but compared to english standards of wealth and pomp and circumstance -- >> they're little. they're tiny. and alan greenberg, the really wonderful classical architect who's practicing now and building buildings as we speak wrote a book called "the architecture of democracy" about american architecture. and, and he's absolutely right. i mean, these guys were building houses for republican gentlemen, not grantees. and if you compare each mount vernon to -- even mount vernon to, you know, some english great country house like zion house or houghton, it's tiny. it's really tiny. and if you go up -- i hope everybody will get on the train and go up to 141st street and look at hamilton's beautifully-restored house. but compared to, you know, compared to an english gentleman's house, that's a tradesman's villa. it's a teeny, teeny, teeny, little house. so these guys did have their ambitions, but they were not to be lords.