Height of the recession. Youre protesting these Retail Stores in chicago and chicagos tax base has been eroded. All youre going to do is drive people to buy more stuff online or to not shop. The problem you have in chicago right now specifically with the police department, with social services, is politicians. That you should be protesting. You have 62 billion in unfunded pension and debt obligations into the city of chicago only 0. 33 out of every dollar promised by these politicians who knew they couldnt pay for it is funded right now and to go out there and to hurt retail, youre hurting your own city by doing this and yes, i think the cause is lost. Dagen patrice do these protests help or hurt their cause because they do have the attention and they do get in front of television cap ares. It doesnt help. I mean if your idea is to win people who are either agnostic or opposing you, to create a scenario where youre either cutting the tax base as the other guest mentioned or making it difficult for workers to get to work or shoppers to get to shop when youre not Winning People over to your cause. Criminal Justice Reform is a critical issue if this is what theyre protesting about but this year this isnt what they are going after. Last year they tried to unseat ram emmanuel and it didnt work so they may reassess whether they are accomplishing what they set out to do. Dagen gary b. , help or hurt . I think it hurts to be honest with you. I agree with patrice and john made some very good points. As far as the hurt part point, it certainly hurts the retailers when they did this back in 2015, those retailers along the miracle mile there in chicago said their sales were up 2550 . That means the people coming down just turned around and went elsewhere. I guarantee because im this way , people live in their own little bubble. Theyre not going down there see ing a protest and saying i really ought to do something about that. No what they are is annoyed that they cant do their shopping, so they turn around as john points out it hurts the city of chicago as patrice said people are agnostic, theyre not paying attention to this. Its not the right environment. They have their minds on Something Else so it at best it does nothing but as we seen with the nfl what happens with their protest, people just turn off the tv and look elsewhere for entertainment. Dagen julie i will point out that when these protests in Chicago First started it was back in 2015 it was after the la Quan Macdonald shooting video came out but since then in the two years after that, you just havent had the number of protesters out there. Well i think thats why its interesting for you guys to say that the reason that retail sales were down last year and chicago on black friday have to do with the protest when in fact the protest didnt really reach Critical Mass last year. That said the question is are we helping or hurting the cause and the cause is raising awareness for police violence, not is it helping or hurting the local retail economy. Its certainly helping the cause as far as raising awareness. There is a lot of studies that show that protest is an effective form of raising awareness of getting policy makers to Pay Attention of getting communities to be politically activated so if the goal is to raise awareness and get people to start taking action against what has been some pretty scary Police Action in chicago specifically with the macdonald case and its helping that particular cause absolutely dagen but jonas, whats scary is the fact the homicide number in chicago this year topped 600 for only the second time in more than a decade. Well its a sign the protests are failing because weve reached like protest already. If you told me there was less protest with trump in the white house than obama over Police Brutality i would have been like thats not likely because we miss manage the protest because i think earlier to your point people dont know why they are at the root of the retailers like i dont these protests should be at city hall or the police stations, these are legitimate issues but the public just wants to shop and this isnt about wages. Dagen speaking of ongoing beats, unions have a beef with walmart. Walmart is always open including on thanksgiving, and one pro union group is running this ad about it. Hard working walmart workers with no holiday pay and no chance for a better life so this thanksgiving give thanks for one thing that you dont work for walmart. Dagen so thats this pro union ad, gary b. , but they used to actually protest like 1600 stores a few years ago on black friday. That stopped now this. Exactly here is the funny thing youd think that walmart workers themselves will be just disgusted with their pay, unhappy with walmart. That union you are talking about the ufcw couldnt even get walmart to participate. The people participating in the protest are nonwalmart workers and other Union Members they bust in, so on average the average walmart person is very happy with their working conditions and their pay so this is another thing that is just up in the air and its as julie points out it might be causing awareness but theres no follow on or followup action to it. Dagen but patrice i think what the unions are concerned about is if you could in theory if you protest enough, if you drop customers away from these stores you actually destroy jobs for people. You send people shopping online and you actually hurt workers whether theyre unionized or not and thats the unintended consequence of their what theyre trying to do. I know someone who works for walmart was an immigrant new to this country and worked his way up and built skills and was able to move beyond just that walmart job and i think thats the story that gets lost when you have these unions that are hitting an easy target which is walmart talking about people not being able to spend time with their families. Perhaps theyre already known what their schedule is and made alternative scheduling with their families, so this is just the unions trying to stay relevant and trying to grow their ranks which have been increasingly shrinking. Dagen right and john you do at walmart if you work on a holiday you earn a day of paid vacation and when i worked in Hospitality Business among other jobs that ive had, do you know what . You had to work on holidays its just a fact. Yeah, it is just a fact and a lot of people are very thankful to have a job and walmart has done more for lower skilled pay than unions have. Walmart is the one that did away with the minimum wage and target felt compelled to follow suit. This is one of the most miss guided ads ive neverly ever seen and one of the reasons unions have died and youve got to understand im not sure why walmart is so evil. Listen to what amazon they have a 25 growth rate right now so the next three years they are doing as much to retail as far as damage they have done in the past 20 years, total. We lost more jobs in retail than weve lost in manufacturing and going after retail right now, people should be thankful they have jobs because online is coming and its going to destroy a lot of mom and pop stores with good jobs. Dagen and julie the average full time hourly worker at walmart makes at least at the beginning of this year makes close to 14 an hour. Well i think one thing thats interesting is to say going back to the initial point made that they couldnt get walmart employees to participate in these protests a lot is because they feared that they would face punitive action. You know, there have been a lot of charges against walmart for paying women less than men, for miss treating pregnant employees , for having sick leave , and disability leave, policies that are bordering on illegal so to say that walmart is treating its employees really really well, i think that that is dagen well 75 of the store managers started out as hourly employees and they moved up to making between 50 and 170,000 a year so they wouldnt have stayed with walmart if they were treated poorly and in fact, they have really improved their Health Insurance for example, in recent years. Jonas, final word . I think the mistake here is again again a legitimate issue of workers being dead end and income equality and yet the illusion is that somehow the amazon workers on thanksgiving are at the spa and no one is working there. Those jobs are also pretty hard and dont pay that much and dont always have upside, and just focusing on the visible worker and simply oh, the problem is solved we shutdown walmart its like when we moved kid labor to abroad, the problem didnt go away. We just dont have it in america any more so the problem is overworkers are treated well so i think they made a mistake. Dagen thanks guys and gals cavuto on business about 20 minutes from now neil what have you got . Neil dagen had to do with lower taxes . You may want to hold off on the uhaul. What some democrats are considering to keep you from moving. And guess which generation is back to buying homes . The answer will have everyone smiling. See you soon. Dagen thank you, neil. We cant wait but up here first still reeling over the kneeling President Trump blasting another nfl player and a possible new game plan that could keep all players off the field during th bears. Dagen ahead of tomorrows games President Trump slamming a new york giants nfl player for kneeling on thanksgiving. As the military hero was singing our National Anthem. The president tweeting can you believe the disrespect for our country, our flag, our anthem continues without penalty to the player . The commissioner has lost control of the hemorrhaging league, players. Patrice you say that the president has it right on this . I actually think hes correct this National Anthem protest are really not about Police Brutality or criminal Justice Reform as some of the players suggest and you know, they instead theyre trying to unfortunately the left has used this as a tool to divide americans based on race rather than trying to put forward a positive vision for what they can do. You know and to their idea that maybe nfl players should be kept in the back until the National Anthem is sung, thats not going to change their behavior. If theyre authentic about what they claim theyre protesting for they will find another way to be disruptive and at the end of the day they will be the one to suffer. Dagen gary b. , does the president have it right on this . He does have it right and patrice made some very good points. The only thing i would kind of twist a little bit is i dont like President Trump being involved in this. This is i know he speaks kind of for the every man and i respect that but this is beneath him. He doesnt need to get involved with the nfl. Theyre putting out a lousy product right now all by themselves. Witness the Miami Dolphins which i have to follow each week. Its a horrible product. The nfl is doing more harm to themselves than they ever could do as a result of President Trump tweeting. Let them hoist themselves in their own direction if you will and then they will change. It doesnt have to be the president to get involved. Dagen to dairy b. s point john of the rough nearly 1700 players in the nfl, theyre one giant, two dolphins and one oakland raider that didnt stand for the National Anthem this past week and one stayed in the tunnel. So hes pointing out something a behavior that is very few player s in the league. Very few players in the league and we cant assign motives and say how they are thats being able to mind read and thats impossible to do. I had to deal with this because im part of the major league, our season is next year we had a League Meeting to decide what we do with anthem protest and even though i personally agree with what they say they are protesting as inequality and judicial system and incarceration rates among minorities we decided all should stand and respect every National Anthem and thats the way they should Going Forward but the nfl is a business to gary b. s point they have a right to do whatever they want. Dagen jonas, does the president is it right these men need to stand . Well hes right about the part about where they talk about sticking them in the locker room thats the craziest thing i cant even imagine how dumb that is but the nfl players are actually if you want to raise awareness of issue theyre doing a much better job than the union unions and all of the groups were talking about its relatively interesting and whether you agree with it or not they are raising the issue at the point of doing it they have a right to do it, theyre celebrities i like my sports hero being politically agitated even though i dont agree with their politics so i think they need to be staying up for this and i dont think hes right about them not doing it. Hes right about the mistakes he made to the nfl. Dagen but we have to point out prior to 2009 the players typically did not stand out on the field during the National Anthem. Right, precisely so to say this is a new idea like donald trump tweeted today in fact i believe its an idea that theyre coming out within reaction to the fact that donald trump has created such a huge st ink about this so when patrice said this is about the left being divisive this is not about our president being divisive. He is the one driving this narrative and so i think that the nfl is kind of saying okay, maybe well just opt out of this because apparently this is something that the president of the United States thinks its worth his time and to agree with gary b. Id rather my president find this below him and focus on things more important like why is he spending his time on this . Dagen patrice you get the final word on this but the president didnt start it and there are a lot of americans who are angry that people cannot respect the anthem. You know whats interesting is these protests had dwindled down to nothing at the very beginning of the season and it wasnt until President Trump did tweet which to the point of some of my colleagues here that all of a sudden this antitrump resurgence of interest in the protest came forward. Again, i stand by my comments about the motives of these guys. I really hope criminal Justice Reform supporter and i hope they are here but if they are not its hard to believe they are really being sincere and not just stepping up as soon as the president says something about it because they feel slighted by him. Dagen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Cashing in just over an hour from now, trish regan, what do you have coming up . Trish hi dagen. New revelations in the uranium one scandal what an sci informant uncovered about russia and what it could mean for hillary clinton. Plus, north korea declared a stay sponsor of terrorism by President Trump. 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Were made up of the states and the states have rights equal if not superior to the federal government and second of all the funding is controlled by congress not by the president. Congress wants to decide against it thats them. Its not President Trumps issue to get involved with. Dagen julie . Exactly. If trump wants to bully sanctuary cities constitutional ly he Needs Congress to write those rules and what hes trying to do is slightly unconstitutional. Dagen maybe congress can step up for the family of kate s tinley. The deliberations in that case continue monday. Jonas . First of all they will already financially punish california and they are taking the away the deduction for state tax. They pay more state tax than anybody and second of all the solution is in federal immigration troops you dont takeaway their allowance even though its tempting because some of the places need their allowance taken away once in a while. Dagen but how do you force john, these municipalities and cities to enforce federal law . Look they just arent going to enforce it but everybody is right about this the separation of powers here its constitutionally a violation if the president Overrides Congress because they are the one that direct the spending but the problem we have is congress and we have an incompetent congress who has no immigration policy. If we had an immigration policy sanctuary cities would not manifest thyself. Dagen lets call on congress to step it up. Thank you guys and a very special thanks to patrice and julie for being with us on this holiday week. Thank you ladies. Thank you. Dagen amazon looks over its shoulder because someone here says an overseas rival may be taking over. That could give you overthetop profit. Drownings are the number one cause of accidental death for young children. Simple safety steps are the best way to prevent these tragedies. Make sure kids learn how to swim. 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I will say no im not ready to reinflict the chinese stock bubble quite yet. Dagen john, your prediction . At t has 5. 5 yield while waiting on the timewarner deal the stock is up 20 i do own it. Dagen gary b. , are you long . No, im not. Just had a what we call an unauthorized stock split this year, its down but if you like that it might be good for you. Dagen jonas . Youre not getting on my plane then. Dagen [laughter] jonas, quick . Cyber monday, black friday who wins online, brickandmortar, you need brickandmortar to build the factory, up 25 in one year. Dagen john . Its thanksgiving and youre talking about investing, come on. Dagen neil now. Neil well is it this or some democrats are now rethinking tax hikes on the rich, hi, everyone im neil cavuto and with republicans in washington pushing to take state and local Tax Deductions away, some democrats in high tax states like new jersey for example, are worried that any hike now will millionaires away. After i got elected i said first thing on the agenda is the millionaires tax we got to get it for School Funding and then this happens and its like wait a minute. I got to take a step back and be more pragmatic and think about whats best for the state of new jersey. You know, 1 of the people in the state of new jersey pay about 42 of its tax base and they can