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Second amendment. Charles the president s comments coming on the heels of Congressional Ethics Committee launching an investigation into long time democratic congressman john coniers after he reportedly settled a wrongful dismissal complaint for more than 27,000 in taxpayer money after former female staffer alleged she was fired in 2015 because she would not succomb to sexual advances and he expressed denying the allegation in a statement. This all unfolding of course as several left wing activist groups are now demanding democratic senator al franken resign after two women have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct, to my panel now, tammy bruce, fox news political contributor member of the independent womens forum board of directors and Washington Times columnist, and columnist for the fiscal types. Com, and a contributor to the hill and ashley pratt, contributor to the u. S. News and world record. Ladies thank you for joining us let me start with you tammy. Its just all coming as an avalanche like two or three a day but now the names are huge. Al franken a u. S. Senator, the oldest serving democrat in congress and of course now, the interesting part, the more aspect of this rather is taxpayer money being used as hush money for it all. Right social media is now calling it shush money. The fact is everybody was wondering if this avalanche would just affect hollywood right . Well clearly its in every industry and industries where theres a significant power and significant money at their disposal, so were seeing this now. Its not a surprise especially since we also know congress has a list over about the last 15 years where weve paid about 15 million in shush money. Charles 17 million. Tammy its 17 now . So this is where we know that for every year money has been paid out to accusers quietly. We still dont know the names on that list which means there are many more that would come if women of course apparently nancy pelosi says they signed non disclosure agreements but i think as weve seen in these other cases that might not necessarily be adhered to because of the nature of this kind of volcanic eruption of accusations and situations. Charles of course, it was only a few weeks ago where democrats were demanding republicans ask roy moore to get out of the race, liz and of course, i havent seen an elected democrat demand that al franken step down and its early for coniers, but we havent seen that either so what do you make of the idea someone not elected yet on 40 year old charges is being demanded to dropout of the race where now you have two sitting formerly higher respected senator and congressman who are in serious hot water and yet theres not a lot of pressure on them. Its pretty embarrassing moment all around. In fact i found liz warren sort of dance around this question today. Someone asked her, do you think that al franken should resign and she really couldnt bring herself, liz warren the great champion of womens rights and movement and so forth could not bring herself to say yes. Its all about politics charles and it should not be about politics, this is not left and right this is whats right and wrong and in the case of franken , you know its just the beginning i think of people coming out to make these accusations, and in the case of roy moore, at least you have the opportunity there of alabama to make their decision and my guess is i always think voters are pretty smart. My guess is they will make the right decision in that case but to leave these other two in place and particularly this offensive thing of taxpayer money being paid out, its pretty abhorent. Charles ashley your thoughts ashley now is not the time for hipocracy or party shawnship when it comes to these allegations of Sexual Assault. I think there needs to be a clear message sent by the hill and by especially the women on the hill to say enough is enough none of this partisan crap that were seeing going on right now and excuse my language but thats what its coming down to. When it comes to the roy more instance were seeing democrats calling for roy moore to resign but yet were not see ing it when it comes to al franken and all of these other sitting senators, so i really think at this point in time this is happening with republicans too. Trump should be saying roy moore should get out of the race but he doesnt want the liberal there instead. We need to say enough is enough as a country. Enough is enough as women because for years Sexual Assault has just been swept under the rug and now all of this is coming to light is really expos ing the dark underbelly of media, of politics and Sexual Assault in general and how this has been so pervasive in our culture weve just turned a blind eye to it. If i could just add the president is moving on lizs point where it is appealing to the fact these individuals in alabama will be voting and thats an argument that you can make about people having to make that choice but let me also just say that this is clearly nothing new. I think this began the argument politically with bill clinton. The democrats have constantly made it a partisan issue. Theyve regularly lied to the american people. Their movement has been flawed, but yes indeed. Of course we want it to change but the fact of the matter is to expect the democrats, women or men, to suddenly find their spine and be against this when theyve been the ones who facilitated it for 25 years but how can we as republicans stand there and say this that its hypocritical if we sit here and say they did this but now its the president but to understand the real nature of the animal and what theyve been doing for a quarter of a century. I understand the real nature of the animal to be Sexual Assault and we expect the president to do that right now, we cut back on democrats and say the same thing with the clintons , but why dont we change that . Charles ashley let me jump in ladies and ask will there be a set of game rules on how to go about this or to someone step down from an office that theyve held for a long time after one accusation, two, three, four, five after physical evidence, he said she said, or should any accusation make someone abandon a job they pursued for a few decades or a job they had for a few decades . Charles i am not calling for that but what im saying if it has been investigated an proven theres been wrongdoing then i think at that point there needs to be a larger conversation here and clearly what were seeing are multiple instances of this with the same person, so i think at this point, when were looking at these settlements where taxpayer dollars are being used when were looking at multiple women coming out against one person, clearly there is a pattern of behavior theyre with that specific individual that should be looked at and should be treated as such charles hold on for a second liz before you jump in i want to let the audience know about the congressional nonaccountability act so youve got congress which can already illegally trade and do things we dont do. They can give us obamacare but they dont take it. Acrosstheboard when it comes to Something Like this they built themselves a mote, if you will where they cannot be legal ly held accountable for actions that will put a lot of other people in prison. Its pretty extraordinary and we could start with Greater Transparency right . I dont think there should be shush money as tammy refers to it paid to basically get people off the hook. Thats money that we are paying the federal government, its not supposed to be going in this direction but i think its a honesty issue thats again so offensive here, and we just after all the major democratic candidate in the last election was an enabler for her husband, bill clinton, and now everyone is sort of looking back 35 years 40 years and saying oh, we really should have been harder on bill. Its a little too little too late but to your point its not onesizefitsall. They have to be individually investigated but there have to be standards. Charles it is interesting of course now it is really easy for the democrats to throw hillary under the bus and now theyre indicting bill clinton a little bit late, now Kirsten Gillebrand some people are hailing her as a hero she took the money, the fame, the favors and its easy to dismiss them. And senator gillebrand has done the same thing warren did. She was asked about al franken after saying bill clinton should have resigned and she danced around that because now we have ethics hearing which go nowhere. I think the long term dynamic here is that it is a generational framework of those individuals will have to be swept out at one point and elect new people and that understand what the difference is and re make this government and when we talk about the swamp this is part of it. Charles of course ladies theres a lot of passion here weve run out of time and believe me i understand completely and i will say that obviously there needs to be new rules established, new standards established and at least at this period in time maybe a chance for the entire country to be introspective and do the right thing going forward. And more transparency. Charles thats part of it all thank you very much. Bipartisanship. Charles by the way the senate is sticking to President Trumps aggressive tax reform lines but the problem though is theres still a lot of confusion and still doubts that they could get it done. Well discuss what can move this economy forward, next. Lets begin. Yes or no . Do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet . Do you want 4. 95 commissions for stocks, 0. 50 options contracts . 1. 50 futures contracts . What about a dedicated service team of trading specialists . Did you say yes . Good, then its time for power e trade. 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Many senators complained they were never even part of it and now theyre being demanded a vote for it. Right some senators are saying well at least this process is a little more open than the obama repeal and replace process but not that much more. Theyve had all year to get this i know you know guys like steve moore have been gotten two months ago and now republicans are getting around it as the holidays are upon us and they have a difficult pitch to the american public, specifically, you need a situation where republicans can creditly say that nobodys taxes will go up under this bill and had a difficult time saying that, so as a result, you know this and really comes down to the messy process of trying to fit this through a very narrow keyhole in the senates budget rules and that just doesnt make any sense to the american taxpayer watching as the senate tries to push it forward. Charles one thing we keep hearing is dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Should we let the shot clock be the enemy of the good also . Well they want to get it done because theres other things that need to be done including setting forth a budget for next year getting a spending bill through and so forth. This isnt the only thing they have to work on and i think you have to cut a little slack to the republicans theyve been working on this pretty much all year but dont forget going in initially they had counted on charles it always feels like a eureka moment when they come out with this. But thats not true. Charles like what is this thing . I know people who have been working on it believe me theyve been in the trenches really since trump took office. The problem partly was Trumps Administration in the white house there was no real tax expert, nobody had had been working on it. Paul ryan there for charles but it takes a lot of smart people. He did, but either youre a tax expert or youre not and they were not so paul ryan if youll remember picked up the sort of baton on this and then we had the border adjustment tax charles let me ask you this that was a crazy thing. And then the repeal and replace of obamacare which skewed the numbers that didnt get through so they had to go back to ground zero. Charles but the individual mandate thing is a key component i hate to see them get rid of it to lower Susan Collins but having said that ron johnson in that same interview said he feels better now hes being included and we know theres a lot of horse trading how do you feel . How do you feel about this thing actually happening and perhaps by christmas . I think theres legitimate concerns mainly the one that johnson has brought up that individuals are not treated as well and Small Businesses as corporations. I really think though if you start getting away from that 20 maybe 22 that Susan Collins is talking about the Corporate Tax rate then you might as well forget it and not even do this. Someone today was talking about a 25 tax rate. Come on, europe is below us on this number it would be ridiculous so were talking about a competitive issue here. The bang is from the corporate and business tax relief. Individuals are supposed to be made happy in this process but the real economic boost is going to come from lowering corporate and business taxes. Charles you have to sell it as a middle class tax bracket. Thats because wages go up, jobs will be better et cetera not because their individual rates come down. Charles youve got to make main street leave it as well and vince youre there help handicap for us now. I will tell you personally going into the weekend i thought it was a 90 done deal. I felt more like 80 after yesterday. Yeah, i think i mean this is a lot of balls in the air right now and well see if the white house can secure them. I do think its possible but even i mentioned the budget rules even if they were going to the regular process they come up with 50 votes and they already have more than two that are on the fence so thats an issue. Ive seen some people suggest that maybe President Trump should get in there with those democrats who might be on the fence and try and come pain in their states and say why cant you pressure democrats to join you. Didnt they do that for a while . They did. Charles im not sure thats the ultimate of hail mary just on the football from outside the stadium. Coming up the stock market is rising the job numbers are through the roof and the health of the economy, our economy is really rocking. Mainstream media is not giving them credit but President Trump delivered. Were going to discuss it, next. 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See the wheels of commerce are firing on all cylinders under scored by that report i talked about yesterday leading Economic Indicators nine out of 10 components were higher, moreover last week the new york fed adjusted its Fourth Quarter gdp estimate now 3. 82 and we got that, it would be remarkable so with the market surging and Economic Data clicking, wall street now theyre beginning to sound confident and a note to their clients Goldman Sachs says that its exuberance to expect the good times and keep rolling it to next year perhaps the s p 500 up 11 to 2850 thats right the smartest guys in the room have joined other firms including bmo capital, ubs, credit suisse, and Deutsche Bank all of them recently calling for doubledigit gains in the market next year. Now goldman does add the caveat that if tax reform doesnt pass then we could see a slight dip in the s p, however ive got to tell you things are going very well last week there was a headline in the la times, Strong Economy boosts trumps among otherwise skeptical voter now, it really went into details by democratic pete heart in which his respondents talked about the Overall Administration being chaotic and disappointed and then they zeroed in on the economy so even nontrump voters not only voiced appreciation but excitement so even as the Mainstream Media refused to give President Trump the credit, wall street bursting with enthusiasm so the question is how long will the good times last, so joining me is eric shiffer, also Management Consultants chairman along with a vision for Fund Distributors vice president. Heather ill start with you. The good times have begun. The wheels of commerce are turning isnt that just soft, its hard data and corporate earnings. How long does it last . Heather i think it lasts as long as we can climb some sort of wall of worry like you said President Trump hasnt gotten a lot of credit from any sayers and he rightfully so is touting his stock Market Performance since he was elected. Its the fourth best stock market rally in history behind clinton, bush, and kennedy so theres a lot to let the good times roll and a lot happening we could be happy and grateful for and celebrate. Charles heather here is the thing traditionally the stock market is a sign of things to come so its suggesting the next six to 12 months could be huge. Heather the next six to 12 months could be huge but all eyes are on tax reform right now charles and that needs to happen bite end of the year. Charles eric i think tax reform could certainly boost its economy and market even more. I believe though that if enough levers started to move that youre not going to stop on a dime. If youre a business and you decided to build a plant, to hire and put more money to r d you wont change your mind. Eric youre not and i think youre seeing it im certainly seeing with clients, clients that wouldnt have been as aggressive or tripling down on things, and this optimism, this will to invest is because we have an entrepreneur in the white house. When ceos see an entrepreneur calling shots, thats in the white house, it gives them confidence and contrast that with Hillary Clinton who was not an entrepreneur. We would not have the same kind of results if we didnt have an entrepreneur in the white house and its going to get better. 2018 is going to be like the 80s again. I see it. Charles heather . Heather yeah, part of the 80s i wasnt alive but ill do my best to remember what i can, [laughter]. Charles dont mix it with 70 s, two different eras. Heather i heard my parents tell me it was a good time but i do think that some Market Correction may happen again if we dont get tax reform and just the nature of average market cycles that we have gone up 27, 28 on the dow since President Trump was elected, so maybe a pullback wouldnt be such a bad thing. You can lessen people with a lot of catch on the sidelines to take in this market rally too because a lot of my friends right now are waiting for some sort of pullback. Charles ill get some 80s music and the rest of the one hit wonders. Sorry guys thank you very much. Coming up, a judge issues a major blow to the trump team sanctuary city crackdown. Also ice ready to make a move on a major industry in this country well be right back. What powers the digital world. Communication. Thats why a cutting Edge University counts on centurylink to keep their global campus connected. And why a Pro Football Team chose us to deliver fiberenabled broadband to more than 65,000 fans. 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This as the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to fully reinstate President Trumps travel moratorium after the ninth Circuit Court of appeals allow for impartial implementation of that moratorium earlier this month. Back with me now tammy bruce, Washington White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner and john laurel former federal prosecutor now a trial attorney. Cheryl let me start with you. Is this just more judicial activism, it seems clear to me that the relitigating this stuff over and over again and i thought it was pretty clear that President Trump had certain powers in the executive branch . I think there are two sides to this story. On the one hand this is always the risk that president s of any party face where they try to push ahead on a policy through executive order and they dont wait for congress to enact the policy that theyre seeking and on the other hand we have seen an enormous amount of pushback in the courts from liberal groups, from liberal jurisdictions who sue over President Trumps policies and unlike in the very First Executive order the travel ban executive order that trump rolled out during the early part of his presidency which you could make an argument that it was arranged and not legally airtight and they exposed themselves to a legal challenge this is a more thought out policy its something that they sought to do from the beginning of the administration and what its doing is trying to enforce laws that are already on the books, so this administration is confident they are going to prevail. Charles john as a former federal prosecutor should they be confident . Well i read the decision and President Trump has a legitimate beef about the sanctuary cities because theyre violating federal law; however the executive order unfortunately for him is unconstitutional in two respects as the judge failed first of all, it imposes a limitation on spending which only congress can do only congress can condition spending bills and second, it encroaches on the sovreign power of states under the tenth amendment. I think the judge got it right and it is a nonconstitutional order. Charles i find amazing tammy all of a sudden progressives care about states rights . For eight years they tried to exceed all of the rights to the federal government and the king in the white house and now all of a sudden these issues become states rights. It is also offensive to the average citizen these sanctuary cities that allow Illegal Immigrants particularly those with criminal records to prey upon ordinary citizens whether Illegal Immigrants or native born. Obviously for them its situational ethics so theyre not rooted in any kind of principle. Here of course the president s lawyers are arguing that all he does in this executive order as has been mentioned is asking the agencies and those who work for him to apply the law, as it exists, and when it comes to constitutionality there could of course be an argument that if you are in fact breaking the law by breaking federal law, then that is the thing that trumps of you will the nature of the argument so this look, i think the president should welcome this getting another element getting the Supreme Court because these are positions just like with the executive travel order that he has every right to take and these are measures and i think that we do need the Supreme Court and higher courts to confirm that. Charles while we wait for this to be hashed out guys late this afternoon a report saying that ice now planning a nationwide operation will target foodservices chain over these undocumented workers. Now apparently tammy this industry has at least 9 of the workers undocumented. This will be huge but people have been talking about this kind of action, everify taking this into your own hand the courts wont help you enforce the law at least let ice do their job. Thats it this is existing law about having agencies in Law Enforcement apply the law. It is a message to business that we can do business and we can get everify but weve got to be able to make sure theres law and order one of the major reasons why the president was elected was the promise there would be the rule of law that would return and this is an example of that. Charles john do you have any problems with this . Well this is unsafe ground because this is exactly what a president is responsible for doing and theres no constitutional issue there. I want to say one thing ironically the judges position is exactly what conservative scholars have been arguing about for about 25 years which is putting limitations on president ial power and putting limitations on the federal government to coerce states. Charles sarah let me ask you about ice making this move because you know theres a major uproar by the Mainstream Media and yet there are a lot of americans who probably could use those jobs once theyre freed up right. Everify enforcement is something that congress is trying to get into some kind of daca deal its something that conservatives have been pushing for and its one element of Border Security if Immigration Enforcement that some democrats have indicated they might be able to get on board with. Now mass deportations just that word has such negative connotations that it does make a lot of people uncomfortable even people who in theory would support what that actually means , so obviously, it could be some uncomfortable optics for the administration but it gets them closer to their ultimate goal of having everify. Charles at some point if you dont enforce the law somewhere somehow why have it in the first place. Thank you all very much. Coming up the major averages soaring to record highs as the market really really picked up steam and ill go overall of the reasons why i continue to be bullish. Well be right back. Its all popculture trivia, but it gets pretty intense. Ahh. The new guy. Whoa, he looks he looks exactly like me. No. Eparated at birth much . We suld swit name tags, d none would know who was who. Mijae, youeriously think you look le him . Uh, ipretty good with comparisons. Like how progressive helps people save money by comparing rates, even if were not the lowest. 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Now i think theres a chance we could go parabolic from this point too but even if it doesnt you have to have exposure to this market if youre considering it i love materials, i love the industrials, technology, also it starting to spot some of the value names, oversold, household stocks that could rebound on their own merit or through acquisitions. You cant be afraid to chase stocks where the fundamentals are improving particularly when they improve faster than the share price and you could of course balance that in your portfolio with industries that could rebound as well. According to a report from bloomberg, breaking news just late this afternoon, uber hit a cyber attack that exposed information of 57 million customers around the world, management paid a ransom only 100,000 and they got the promise that information would be discarded and also after the close Hewlett Packard enter prizes posted their Financial Results and saw a slight initial revenue earnings came in line but the real big news, the official announcement that company Ceo Meg Whitman will step down on february 1 of next year. Now she dont really step down from Hewlett Packard the Bigger Company on july 26 and in fact rumors she would depart the company completely and she denied it. It happened tonight. By the way hp, inc. The shares are up about 120 since she was elevated to ceo back on september 22, 2011. Meanwhile, while the market was grappling with blockbuster news about the doj suing to stop the timewarner at t deal President Trump today said its not good for the country. Now weve got major news in the meantime the fcc is going reverse its position on Net Neutrality in an effort to create what they call internet freedom. Kennedy has an exclusive interview tonight with the chairman, tonight here is a glimpse. Some companies are very worried is the internet going to be free and open and the argument i made is before 2015 before these regulations were imposed we had a free and open internet thats part of the reason why Companies Like facebook and amazon and netflix and google have become globally known names. Charles you can see the full interview tonight 8 00 p. M. Eastern here on fox business. Coming up the return of harvard facing a doj probe about its admission practices and Major League Baseball hall of famer calls off players linked to steroids get there on merit, novel idea well discuss it, next. Liberty mutual stood with me when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. Liberty did what . 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The probe stems from prior complaints at harvard intentionally limits the number of asian students or admitted back with me to discuss vince, ive got to tell you, you can certainly say that its at one point these are affirmative action programs where nobel in fact perhaps even necessary against a racist culprit culture , but weve come to a point where the people are being penalized who deserve to be in harvard and other schools. Vince right so when you have two students and a student that is overperforming the other there should be no question, that would be the student that harvard an elite institution like that would want to take but theyre forced to instead assess the racial characteristics of the students applying to their institution. As you noted going back to the 1960s when affirmative action was first installed it was done to be a temporary measure but here we are in 2017, it still exists and now you have a situation where sort of an interesting spin has happened in that Asian American students have disproportionately benefit ed all of a sudden from this and now, theyre being held back because of these affirmative action policies. Its totally twisted and on its head and time i think colleges and universities are called to assess students based on their merits rather than skin color. Thats what were going for in the first place. Charles i also believe that even before you get to the College Level perhaps parents and schools starting from kindergarten on up need to reassess the idea of just achieving, bringing out the best in people and i think if the people are forced to do that no matter what their color, race, religion any of that stuff if they say on your own merits youre forced to do that they will step up to the challenge. Yeah, and ultimately its about content of character not the color of your skin of course like Martin Luther king says and you hear in this case its interesting when it came out in august the trump Justice Department was looking into a university about its affirmative action policies instantly, trump s critics were under the microphone saying hes doing this, no its for Asian Americans and an unresolved complaint from 2015 in which dozens of Asian American groups sought the Obama Administration Justice Department to look into this and they didnt and now the Trump Administration is picking it up. Charles theres something about merit in allowing people to unleash their own internal potential that i just hope the pushback on this doesnt mask the fact that people can get the job done and thank you very much , vince. I appreciate it. My pleasure. Charles turn this discussion to baseball for hall of Famer Joe Morgan is calling on constituents to keep performance enhancing drug users out of cooperstown, a day after the hall of fame named 33 players on the ballot. Morgan sent a letter to all of the voters saying in part, we hope the day never comes when known steroid users are voted into the hall of fame. They cheated. Steroid users dont belong here, players who fail drug tests admitted using steroids or who are identified as users in Major League Baseball investigation into steroid abuse, known as the mitchell report should not get in it. Joining me fox news contributor, jim gray. Jim thanks for joining us. Reporter hi charles good to be with you. Charles its great to have you too. Youve covered it all. Super bowls, world series, major boxing matches and one thing about the world of sports is it typically is the epitome until these performance enhancing drugs arrived on the scene. Reporter well thats correct it became part of the landscape and baseball profited off of that and baseball allowed it to go on while it was going on and then they cleaned it up and when they cleaned it up they tried to get rid of it all. The problem is a lot of the times like in track and field and these olympic sports the cheaters are ahead of the drug testing so now joe morgan sends out this letter and its interesting, its a dilemma. Are you going to punish these guys in the steroid era because everybody wants it to be clean and everybody wants it to be pure but they were part of an era that as i just said baseball profited on. We didnt keep out people of the hall of fame when they werent playing against the negro player s because the league s were not allowed in. We didnt keep people out when they changed the height of the mound because they changed the height of the mound. We didnt keep people out in the amphetamine era so now its a very difficult decision for these voters and barry bonds was a hall of famer long before he took a steroid. His performance on the field was great so i love joe morgan personally. I dont think that this is sustainable and i just dont happen to agree as we go forward charles would you put someone like a barry bonds who by the way at one point was my favorite player at, i had his rocky Baseball Card but would you put him in the hall of fame with an asterisk attached to his name. He didnt break hank aarons record on his own. Reporter well they put bud s elig in the hall of fame and he presided over the steroid era. He did a great job in growing the game but also was apart of that era. They dont put an asterisk next to the commissioners name and he watched it all go on so no i think they have to be very very careful how they judge history here and how they decide who are their friends and who arent. Charles is the hall of fame for the fans or for the players and lets not forget these same steroid using players were richly rewarded they all became multi millionaires in fact they had distinct advantages over folks who they played against who didnt use steroids so in many ways they have been rewarded. They made commercials, they lived a pretty comfortable life. What about the fans in this regard. Where do we come down in the consideration for the fan who may say i dont want to see someone who didnt do it the right way. Reporter well the fans have a voice. They dont have a vote but they certainly have a voice and i think that the fans should be listened to and i dont think youre going to find a plurality of any of it. Its interesting that joe morgan who writes this letter also supports pete rose who signed his own banishment from the game , who committed the cardinal sin, so on one hand he says steroid users you dont belong but pete rose my teammate you do belong. Theres a hipocracy in this and you cant make the rules your friends. If you dont like it nobody is for cheating. Nobody is for cheating, but it was a part of the game and i think they have to come to grips with that portion and that era of the game. How they exactly do it, do they mark the plaques, keep these guys outdo they let them in eventually i think they have to come to grips with it. Charles if cooperstown is a cathedral to baseball they need to find a way to point out the purity and nonpurity i would say. Reporter one last thing charles we dont live in the soviet union. You dont wipe out a mans record because you dont like the era he played in. Charles a little bit of proverbs for us thank you very much we appreciate it. Coming up is the Mainstream Media versus donald trump but this time, things have gone way too far, newsweek takes the occasion of Charles Mansons murder to say theres similarities between that mass murderer and the president of the united states, prepare to be outraged. Well be right back. Lets begin. Yes or no . Do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet . Do you want 4. 95 commissions for stocks, 0. 50 options contracts . 1. 50 futures contracts . What about a dedicated service team of trading specialists . Did you say yes . Good, then its time for power e trade. The platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. Looks like we have a couple seconds left. Lets do some card twirling twirling cards e trade. The original place to invest online. Charles the Mainstream Medias criticism of President Trump isnt anything new. But this takes the cake. How murderer Charles Manson and donald trump use language to gain followers. He doesnt believe President Trump is similar to the convicted killer, but he did say we can look to the current president to see how language is used to form a bond with followers. Sharia, to me its ugly and damaging. And its not unlike the narrative of the Mainstream Media that called on hit lire to make comparisons. They could have found less emotionally charged example of language. This lends credibility to the president s claim that the Mainstream Media is out to get him and much of it is fake news. There are articles like this that are intentionally provocative and have no insight. Its every reason why people dont trust the Mainstream Media. Charles i want to read from the new york times. Manson was a backlash against the civil Rights Movement and a harbinger of race warriors like dylann roof. I think what we are seeing here are a lot of liberties taken by the Mainstream Media when they cover this white house. I will say in this situation this is completely out of line. To what sarah says, this plays into trumps narrative of the Mainstream Media constantly attacking him. Newsweek did come back and edit that story, they took out the part about trump and said this didnt reflect the views of their editorial views at newsweek. I think it was smart to do, but the damage had already been done. I have seen news boards, editorial boards stand behind their writers, and this crossed the line. Charles it would have been great if they had caught it before publishing the original article saying that this is crossing the line. Even people who are apolitical feel the media has been harsh on President Trump. I think its hurting the media. Reporters in this day and age have to be careful. Their mistakes are amplified 10 times over where the president could attack you personally if you happen to get a story wrong. Thats part of their job to get things right and think things through before they hit the publish button. Charles manson and say dove h hitler are not names i want to see associated with our president. Lou President Trump making his first oncamera comments about the race for the Alabama Senate seat. President trump on his return from his trip to asia had been quoted saying the race for the senate seat should be left to the people of alabama. He talked about the importance of the seat remaining with the Republican Party and says its too important to have a democrat take it. Congressma