 The report, as I mentioned earlier, another sort of a flying the ointment for the markets of late has been Facebook right now getting closely scrutinized by the government, everyone and his proverbial uncle in Washington wants to talk to Mark Zuckerberg and in fact he's going to be a busy fellow because in the next couple of weeks he could be popping in and around town meeting with a variety of committees including the FTC now that is the sort of looking at the overall operations of Facebook and you know what that can mean but that stock which had careened about 14% over the last so roughly 10 trading days or so inched up today now whether that means a turnaround is in the offing and that the selling has stopped it's a little bit premature to say that but that too was a constructive development that few people saw coming certainly for a stock that has lost about a hundred billion dollars in market value with us now Melissa Armo and Lenore Hawkins Lenore and it with you begin with you what's real what happened last week or what happened today I think both because the markets just really confused when you have a lot of policy coming through via Twitter people get a little nervous we're not really clear how this is all going to pan out we have a very different administration that the world than we've ever experienced before and we also have a new sheriff in town at the Federal Reserve people aren't really sure how that's going to pan out because he is definitely very different than either Bernanke or Janet Yellen so the markets just trying to figure it out all right now others have said the president's crazy like a fox Melissa and that he got the desired concessions out of the Chinese without them being formally outlined whatever the market seemed to like today in the sign that China might be not capitulating but rethinking things where do you stand well I definitely think that there's a method to Trump's madness I mean look at even with North Korea he calls the North Korean dictator rocket man and all of a sudden now he's gonna meet with him he threatens to put on these tariffs for steel and then all of a sudden they're talking about sitting down to renegotiate NAFTA with Canada and Mexico now he's saying about the tariffs with China putting 60 billion on and all of a sudden now South Korea is talking to him so he there's a method to his madness it's working it's effective even though we had this off last week again we're still in a bullish trend in the market do you buy the winner that some of those trade tensions could be easing though that whatever we come up with here given the South Koreans are making some concessions to avoid getting slapped with steel tariffs of their own and some of these other issues that it is having the desired effect now obviously the proof is in the pudding countries following up on commitments they make but your thoughts I think it does look like this is going to be potentially effective to a degree but what I'm worried about is that for years US trade policy has been about more than just dollars and cents it has been a way for the US to expand its influence around the world and at a time where China is really looking to grow its influence and expand its base the United States is somewhat withdrawing and becoming more isolated when it comes to these kinds of trade barriers and in many cases some of the stuff hurts our closest allies more than anyone else you know it's funny those when you flip around watch and see the other news channels and business channels because that's what I do and I'm telling you there's a certain fixation on a certain form of porn star and what she said in an interview then the craziness in the White House and people coming and going with abandon we now have a you know a more hard line cabinet that's going to be when it comes to foreign policy the most militaristic ever and that this is frightening that you know what out of everybody else and then I see what happened on Wall Street today what what what's going on right all that stuff is crap I don't want to hear about my president's sex life I really do not care I want him to run the country well and I think that so far he's doing a good job and you got it let him do a good job these people are going to keep attacking him it's not gonna go away it's going to continue and it has affected the market and like I said before that's unfortunate however in the long-term business people really see the benefits of some of things that's Trump's doing and that's probably one of the reasons why the market picked itself up today and rallied and whether we follow through or not I don't know but I will say one thing I don't think the volatility is over I still think we're gonna go up and down and go up and down for a while all right I'm glad the camera was off me when you said the sex life thing because I was going ladies I want to thank you both very very much to their point if that was supposed to sort of unhinge stocks it had a funny way of doing it just the opposite Kevin Corker the wife