Meeting with conservatives over charges of news bias, and apples ceo tim cook fielding tough questions on working conditions in china. Donald trump punching back at jeff bezos, saying that bezos is using his ownership of the Washington Post to slam him so that politicians dont tax amazon as they should. With me now, former republican president ial candidate, successful businessman herman cain. Herman, it is great to see you. Happy friday. Thank you. Happy to be here. Deirdre you are always a wonderful guest for us to have, but particularly today because there are a lot of issues. That is to say, the Business World and the political world overlapping. Yes. Deirdre so i want to ask you first and foremost if you look at a boxing ring with donald trump in one corner, jeff bezos in the other, what do you think . Billionaire against billionaire. Deirdre thats right. I think donald trump is going to come out in this particular fight, and heres why. The big question isnt whether or not bezos is doing something relative to antitrust or monopoly, its the assigning of 20 reporters to dig up dirt on trump. Theyre not going out there to dig up good stories on trump, its to dig up dirt. And the American People are tired of that. And i happen to think that it could possibly backfire. Deirdre so in many regards, people who see trump as embattled and fighting the system, they just want to support him more. But let me ask you this, what if the Washington Post is also digging up dirt on Hillary Clinton . Because in theory, journalists should be asking questions of everybody. Equal dirt would be fine. But they havent announced that theyve assigned anybody. Do you know what lame excuse i heard someone give as to why theyre not putting on Hillary Clinton . Well, shes been in the public limelight so long, there isnt much to find out. Are you kidding me . Youve got benghazi, youve got the email scandal, youve got the foundation, youve got a whole lot of questions. Deirdre theres material. He ought to be putting just as many people over there to connect the dots on all of that, but hes not doing that. Trump has a very good point. Deirdre so speaking of fair treatment in the press, theres a Company Called gizmoto which published a report, essentially, on facebook saying that in facebooks news feed that any kind of story that is conservative in nature has, essentially, been struck from this live feed. Yes. Tier deirdre now, Mark Zuckerberg says it is not happening, he put out on facebook today, this is not what we believe, and he says in the coming weeks ill be inviting leading conservatives and people from across the political spectrum to talk with me about this, share their points of view are. I want to have a direct conversation about what facebook stands for and how we can be sure our platform stays as open as possible. So at least in theory this feels like the like response, right . Yes. Thats the right thing to say. Whats going to matter is if he finds out that its true, he needs to come clean with the public and describe what is he going to do to fix it. If he continues to deny it when some former employees have said that this is, in fact, the case, he has a problem in terms of the integrity of facebook. It is a universe thats of itself. Deirdre yeah. Theres more than a billion daily users. It actually, it has a lot of power which i think we shouldnt just gloss over that. But hes going to have to come clean with the public if he finds something and explain what hes going to do about it. Deirdre speaking of what a leader needs to do to address a difficult situation, apple right now is investing a billion dollars in a competitor to uber, the rideshareing company, and this is in china. Yes. Deirdre some people are saying, okay, apple wants more exposure to china, or apple wants to bet against or hedge its bet, not support uber, support a competitor. Cynical people say apple is actually trying to grease the wheels, if you like, in china. Favor a home grown company so that its other business dealings are made easier. Thats a good possibility. And the thing is apple has enough money that if that doesnt work out and they lose money, they wont be hurt. See, as a leader, im a big proponent of focus. What do cars and transportation and taxes have to do with iphones and ipads . Thats my question. So, but theyve got enough money to try that. Deirdre i was just going to say, apple has 178 billion on the Balance Sheets theyve got plenty of money to try something else. And maybe youre right because in china this i do know. The better you get along with the establishment and the government, the better you can open some other doors. So i think your theory could have some credibility. Deirdre and i think some people have said, look, apple has had a difficult time innovating since steve jobs passed away. Tim cook may be a good steward, if you like, but its hard to come up with gang gents that were all gadgets that were all going to want to buy. They cant think of another gadget, so they have to start invest anything businesses. In order to grow their sales and profits, this might be the strategy they have. I dont know, but like i said, theyve got plenty of money to lose. Deirdre theyre also taking some hits, herman, for video of Living Conditions for chinese workers. And i remember we spoke about this probably more than a year ago. There were nets put up at foxcon because so many of the workers in china were putting together the iphones we all buy were committing suicide. This is are the dailymail. Com, the video, that is to say, is exclusive to them. But it shows conditions that here i think we would put on par with a jail. Yes. Deirdre and some people saying with 178 billion on the balance sheet, maybe apple could do better for the workers there. I have had people correct me and say, you know what . The workers are doing that because thats the best work available to them in their region. But on this issue of wages, i want to know what you see when you think of minimum wage, because you ran a very successful pizza chain for a very long time. Yes. Deirdre so when you hear people talk about minimum wage, what is your take . They are deceiving the public. The minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage. Secondly, i think you know from joes crab shack, you know from seattle, washington, that if you raise you force a huge increase in the minimum wage, two things are going to happen. Youre going to lose jobs which has been the case, and people who depend upon the minimum wage as an entry wage, they are out of luck. The teenagers that would normally start out with minimum wage with very little employment skills, theyre going to be left out. All you have to do is look at the evidence. But the people who are out here talking about raise the minimum wage, 15 the minimum wage, you cant live off minimum wage at what it is today to. You know what . Deirdre it was never created it was never created to be something that you live off of. I used to tell reporters when they would ask me, well, what are you supposed to do if youre trying to live off minimum wage . Dont. Do what my dad did. He lived off three jobs until he could live off of two jobs until he could live off of one job. This is just political narrative to try to make people feel like one party the democrats are in their coroner. No, theyre not corner. Deirdre well, and it covers up the larger problem of the low Labor Force Participation rate yes. Deirdre weve been talking about. Maybe for somebody that is the only job he or she could find, and maybe it is somebody whos 45 years old and doesnt have any other opportunities, and thats a bigger problem. Yes. And it also covers up the fact that this economy is stalled. Nearly 2 gdp growth is stalled. not a recovery. Its not a recovery. This has been the worst socalled recovery in the last 50 years. Someone has done, there have been analysis after analysis. So it strives to deflect it over to this rather than face the real problem that these economic policies more taxes, more regulations they simply arent working. E herman cain, u so much. Around the world in a minute. [laughter] herman cain with me there, former republican president ial candidate, successful businessman. Speaking of minimum wage hikes, both mcdonalds and yum foods, parents of taco bell, pizza hut, didnt fare so well if you look at their stocks, closing down. Wendys, by the way, slightly higher relatively unchanged on the day. The dow if you look down almost 200 points, the nasdaq lower for the fourth straight session. Longest losing streak, we want to point out, since october 2014. As for the dow and the s p 500, first three week losing streak since january, so you had financial stocks, consumer stocks and Energy Stocks all lower across the board. We do want to bring you an update on a story we covered last night. So the subject, a bill that some say would have expanded rights for Illegal Immigrants living in delaware. The state senator sponsoring the measure, brian townsend, has withdrawn, since withdrawn the legislation. We have reached out to townsend to invite him on this program to discuss the issue. Of we hope he epps. There is a new report out that the clintons charity arranged a 2 million pledge to a firm owned by one of bills friends. We will bring you the details. And forget private emails, details emerging that allegedly show Hillary Clinton may have used her home phone to discuss official tate business. State business. Well talk about the evidence after this. Have you always told the truth . Ive always tried to. Always. Always. Some people are are going to call that wiggle room that you just gave yourself. Well, no always tried to. I mean, jimmy carter said i will never lie to you. You know, youre asking me to say have i ever i dont believe i ever have. I dont believe i ever have, i dont believe i ever will. [bassist] two late nights in tucson. Blew an amp. But good nights. Sure,musics why we do this,but its still our business. We spend days booking gigs, then weve gotta put in the miles to get there. But its not without its perks. Like seeing our album sales go through the roof enough to finally start paying megs little brother i mean,our new tour managerwith real,actual money. We run on quickbooks. Thats how we own it. E. T. Phone home. When you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. Change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. Deirdre critics of the Clinton Global Initiative say some donations it has received are from questionable sources. Now the foundation says it has strong toe nor integrity and donor integrity and transparency practices. There are new allegations, though, that one of the charities the Clinton Global Initiative helped to arrange at least a 2 Million Investment to an energy startup, one that is partowned by a family friend of the clintons. Peter barnes is with me now. So, peter, what does this mean for the integrity of the organization . Reporter well, its clearly a new controversy, deirdre, for the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Campaign over who the foundation was working with while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, especially companies that had business the Government Back then. The wall street journal reports that possibly in violation of irs rules the Clinton Global Initiative helped arrange 2 million in financial commitments for investments in a forprofit nebraska startup company, Energy Pioneer solutions, which weatherized houses. The firm is partly owned and headed by a clinton friend. Some investors were other clinton friends and contacts, and the Company Received an 812,000 grant from the department of energy in 2010 while Hillary Clinton was still in government. Now, in a statement the foundation did not deny its involvement with Energy Pioneer but said it did nothing improper or illegal here. It itself gave no money to Energy Pioneer. It said that one of the missions of its Global Initiative is to Contact People and organizations and put them all together and sometimes to get investors to invest in promising startups in the area of Climate Change and others, other areas. And some of these people may have been clinton friends. Now, the statement goes on to say, quote dozens of cgi commitments involve forprofit companies. The journal says Energy Pioneer lost money and has, basically, wound down most of its operations. No comment yet from the Clinton Campaign itself. The Energy Department says it awarded its grant in a competitive selection process. There you go, deirdre. Deirdre all right, peter. A lot of detail. Were grateful for it. Peter barnes with me there from fox business. There is also new information about the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. Conservative Watchdog GroupJudicial Watch released emails that show that Hillary Clinton directed one of her top aides, cheryl mills, the call her. The problem with the call that the phone line may have been unsecured. Former Intelligence Officer and retired Lieutenant Colonel tony schafer is with me now. So, Lieutenant Colonel, welcome. If this were an unsecured line, what kind of decision, what kind of information does that mean to the fbi . Well, look, it means that nothing of a classified or sensitive nature could have been discussed. And lets remember that it doesnt have to be classified. It could only be sensitive, it could be official use only, essentially. We have to remember that people are listening. We know that gucifer broke into her is server, open phone lines especially, you know, the phones get bounced all over the place, so theres ways of penetrating the signal. Thats the reason why you have technology thats given to these senior officials for purposes of securing the phone call. What appears to be happening here, and i just talked to Catherine Herridge whos been covering this, is that ms. Clinton refused any government technology. Zero. So in her house where you have, you know, you have a phone, we would have either what we call a stew or its essentially a secure device that attaches to the phone. She didnt want that. So the bottom line is as far as i can tell looking at the facts, she violated not only the policy, but the law jeopardizing national security. Deirdre Lieutenant Colonel, i want to ask you and i heard your point there because it is well made, indeed. But i want to turn your attention just in the interest of time if thats okay to this president ial candidate. She will most likely face donald trump in november. Right. Deirdre hes walking back comments on his idea of a temporary muslim ban. So heres what he told our colleagues on fox friends. Sure. Look, anything i say right now im not the president. Everythings a suggestion no matter what you say, or its a suggestion. I feel strongly we have to do something about when you look at radical islamic terrorism, we have a president that, as you folks know very well, we have a president who wont even use the term. Ive spoken to rudy giuliani, were going to put together a group, were going to look at the problem. Its a temporary ban. Were talking about immigration across the border, were talking about the problems that we have, tremendous problems we have on the southern border with the drugs pouring through. Deirdre so what do you make of his comments from your perspective as a military expert . Look, i agree with donald trump. Im sorry. Look, you have a problem in europe. We have seen multiple attacks, much of which were perpetrated by those who are in the refugee stream creating these small clusters of refugee communities which then became enclaves. Weve seen this. So i understand what hes saying. Hes saying we have to have a process of review. That makes sense. And then you determine what is potentially wrong with the current process and then reopen it up. I think simply put having the gateway completely open for anyone who wants to come here is going to result in the same tragic offenses weve seen in europe. We want to prevent that. We dont want to see american lives, you know, butch chery of american lives deirdre or people attacked new years eve and new years day exactly. I think hes trying to define more clearly what hes doing. I think its a prudent move forward. Deirdre all right. Retired Lieutenant Colonel tony schafer, we thank you, as always. Thank you, maam. Deirdre quick note on a programming note, anthony scaramucci, a member of Donald TrumpsNational Finance committee and host of fox business wall street week has a oneonone interview with former treasury secretary larry summers. He did have some choice words for the spectrum ty nominee, that is to say summers, on trump. Youll want to catch that conversation. It will air tonight at 8 p. M. Eastern time. Well, speaking of donald trump, our own jesse waters went out and spoke with millennials about the candidate. Heres a small piece. He [inaudible] if trump only likes his kind, why did he marry an immigrant . See i didnt know that, thats just something i bounced that by you. Deirdre all right. So more for you from the streets of new york. First, though, hollywood actor turned Hillary Clinton fundraiser George Clooney calling out trump at a press conference in the south of france. Were going to bring you his comments and the point of view from another hollywood actor who could not disagree more, scott baio is my guest next. I know what i can expect from usaa because i have my checking with them, my savings with them, my credit card with them. And then i learned i have this usaa car buying service. The usaa car buying app was really helpful. All the information was laid out right there. I was able to see the savings that i qualified for. It makes your life so much easier when you have to purchase a car, so ive been telling everybody. Usaa car buying service, powered by truecar. Exclusively for usaa members. Theres not going to be a president donald trump. [laughter] thats not going to happen. [applause] its not going to happen because were not going to be used fear is not going to be something thats going to be what drives our country. Deirdre actor and Hillary Clinton fundraiser George Clooney on donald trump at the Film Festival in cannes in france. So clooney vowing to do whatever it takes to keep donald trump from winning the white house. Actor and trump supporter scott baio is with me now. So, scott, i think i want to be in the restaurant where you walk in and clooneys there. Okay. I know george a little bit. Deirdre you know george . Yeah. Deirdre do you ever chat . I havent seen him in a long time, but i can tell you what hes thinking. Deirdre what is that . Hes a little afraid. I think he looks at crooked hillary, and he sees an old windbag, tired, worn out, establishment, lies a lot, might be indicted, and then he sees the force of nature that is donald trump deirdre a lot of democrats are actually changing the party what we saw in the primary in massachusetts, it was 20,000 people changed their Party Affiliation to be able to vote for donald trump. Yeah. And hes got a movement behind him, trump. And clooneys borderless, constitutionless vision of network is probably going to come to an end soon, and i think thats whats bugging him. Deirdre so clooney blamed the media for creating trump. Were going to play his comment now. [laughter] trump is, actually, a result in many ways of the fact that much of the news programs didnt follow up and ask tough questions. Thats the truth. It was, you know, its really easy because your numbers go up. All these cable news numbers, 24hour news doesnt mean you get more news, it just means you get the same news more. So the more and more and more you hear, you know, these guys the ratings go up because they can show an empty podium saying donald trump is about to speak, you know, as opposed to taking those 30 seconds and saying, well, lets talk about refugees which is the biggest crisis thats going on in the world right now. Deirdre i mean, the media also created George Clooney or any movie star, right . Who people want to hear from. Exactly right. Deirdre so theres a bit of you see the hypocrisy in there. The fact he thinks that nobodys asked trump tough questions is absurd. Its just patently absurd. Theyve asked him everything. They beat him up over the wall and over the muslim thing. I mean, come on. I mean, if you want to get in the game, Talk Straight and be honest, dammit. Deirdre so how do you find negotiating in hollywood . Im just curious because hollywood, at least on the east coast we think of hollywood as being very liberal, very leftleaning. Have you ever been denied jobs quietly because youve been vocal about having conservative views . Ive been a conservative my whole life. Ive worked from the time i was 9 until two years ago pretty much nonstop. So i dont think anybodys had a problem with m. I think there are more conservatives out there than you think. I think people will say theyre not conservatives or say theyre not republicans deirdre just in case it might cause a problem. But i think a lot of people in hollywood are going, you know, i cant get behind this woman. Shes just an old gasbag, i cant do it. Something has to change here, and real change, its time to fix stuff not to keep going down the same path, another four years of obama. Cant happen. Deirdre so when we speak about different movie topics, clooney is actually in this movie called money monster. Looks good. Deirdre it looks, you know, okay. It looks good, i dont know. Deirdre are you going to see it . Am i going to see it . No, i have an 8yearold, i dont see adult movies anymore. [laughter] door toar speaking which, we saw the cutes picture ever with nypd oh, yeah, we like the police. My uncle roy was a Longtime Police officer out here. Walked the beat many years ago. Deirdre shes a cutie. Deirdre, good to see you in person. Deirdre i know, its usually via satellite. Scott baio, actor and supporter of donald trump. Well, gold, if you take a look, a stronger dollar affecting the price of gold. Worth noting, settling up just over 1200 an ounce, a big loss for the week though. Gold has risen 19 this year. Investors, especially anxious ones, perceive gold as a safe place to invest. And that is where some choose to put their money. Amid allegations of facebook blocking conservative stories on its trending news feed, billionaire founder and ceo Mark Zuckerberg is extending an ini invitation to conservatives, conservative radio host david webb will join me with his take. 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I think she knows what shes doing, and shell get stuff done. Reporter if she knows what shes doing, why couldnt she protect the embassy in benghazi . No comment. Reporter how many jobs has Bernie Sanders created . A lot of jobs. Reporter more than donald trump . From what i see, yeah. Reporter how did bernie create jobs . All the Old Buildings he creating into businesses. Reporter i think youre talking about trump. Thats trump . Reporter yes. I apologize. Reporter trump is the real estate developer. Real estate, like housing . Reporter yes. Bernie is the senator. Why would you say that for . Reporter thats the truth. I dont think so. I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. [laughter] reporter i dont know if bills going to be okay with that. Do you know who i am . Yeah, jest i water withs. Reporter do you want to do the thing . This is your world, Washington Square park. Reporter you want to try that . This is what you get paid to dosome do . Deirdre with me now, radio host david webb. [laughter] that is fantastic, right . I love the fact at least we got airplane in there, one of the alltime great movies you couldnt make in todays society. Deirdre you went out and spoke with protesters on both sides of the aisle. Protesters, supporters, you name it. Deirdre you ran the gamut. Are they that misinformed . Yes. The answer is, yes. Maybe its just the nature of where politics is today. There are people that at least they have some facts. They might have them part wrong. I went to the hillary rally down in new jersey. A lot of the kids werent hillary supporters who were there. It was on a college campus. But when i asked the older folks, they could tell me, well, shes a great example. But can you tell me the policy, the bills she sponsored . She didnt know it, and to be fair sometimes on the right its the same thing. Deirdre so where do you find okay, so youre saying in general people not that they repeat the talking points. They get the marketing from the campaigns, whats on the web site. They dont dig any deeper. Thats the big problem. Nobody digs anymore. Deirdre so what was the Biggest Surprise to you then in that experience . Just how Little People knew . How Little People knew. Just like that guy in the green that jesse had, ive got plenty of them. And i run the gamut, 30, 40 interviews trying to get answers out of people. I dont know, or they just literally and, by the way, if you feed them wrong information, its a clever you say, okay, well, you give them information, you dont tell them which candidate, theyll attribute it to the candidate they like until you tell them, by the way, thats this guy. Deirdre and this is the biggest demographic in our country right now, the millennials. Yeah. Fastest growing population especially in the hispanic quarters. Thats why the democrats are playing to them, because they want the votes. Deirdre david webb, i know youre going to stay with me. 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Andy, congratulations on putting behind you what i can only imagine to be an exhausting and frustrating experience. You got the states permission. I want everybody to know this. To build the pond on your own property in 2012, but then the epa threatened you with fines of more than 37,000 a day for not getting federal per in addition so permissioning . So why doesnt the state contact the federal government . Well, pretty much what it boiled down to right there was that the epa didnt recognize that the state had any authority at all. So we went through all the proper hoops to jump through. We got a stock pond permit through the state of wyoming and thought that we were in the right, and turns out that we didnt need the federal permit that they thought we did. Deirdre okay. So you didnt even need it after all of that, but how many years of fighting did it take for you to unearth that fact . And im assuming nobody offered that fact to you. Well, it took us two years of fighting. They gave us the administrative order, threatened us with 37,500 per day which ended up being over 16 million in potential fines. We had to hire experts. We gave them all the hard facts of why we were exempt, and we didnt need their permit. Ask they just wouldnt and they just wouldnt accept it. They just kept on ignoring us until we filed suit last august, and then their attitude changed. Deirdre okay. So it took you basically becoming all offensive, getting a lawyer and launching a countersuit for this to be resolved. Pretty much. We had Mountain States Legal Foundation backed us up. They helped us for free, Mountain States Legal Foundation. Dan frank was our local attorney out of cheyenne, and we had to file suit. They left us no option. And then all of a sudden their attitude changed, and they gave us everything we wanted and then some. Deirdre and then under the settlement i know you dont have to pay the fines, but you have to plant willow trees, which i know essentially is supposed to keep the land from deteriorating, is that right . Well, pretty much what the willows and the temporary livestock fence was, was just them feeling like they got something. Deirdre okay. You know, at the end of the day they really didnt get anything. They didnt get any jurisdiction. Theres no fact or law determined, there was no fines, there was no admission of wrongdoing, and they have a covenant not to sue me ever in writing pertaining to the administrative order. So at the end of the day, they got nothing. Deirdre so, andy, let me ask you before we let you go, when you read stories about like in flint, michigan, where children have been poisoned by lead water and youre getting bugged for putting, basically, a pond on your own nineacre ranch, what do you think . Well, this is what i have to say. Its just like in my case, the environment didnt matter, clean water didnt matter. This whole thing and what this agencys about is money, power, overreach. It doesnt make any sense. Theyre trying to justify their job. It just makes no sense. Deirdre well, we wish you sincere congratulations on getting through it. We hope you spend a lot of time out there by the pond this summer. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. Deirdre thanks very much. Andy johnson. All right. The Obama Administration announcing its intention to order every School District to have genderneutral bathrooms. One of the men who organized the nowmillion person target bathroom boycott says there are bigger educational issues for the president to be focusing on. Theres no one here at the American Family association who believes that the Transgender Community is synonymous with sexual predatory behavior. 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Hes either paying back the lesbian, gay and Transgender Community that helped him defeat Hillary Clinton in 2008, or he believes in this policy. I dont know for what reason hes doing it. Deirdre texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick reacting to the Obama Administrations message. That message, Public Schools must let transgender students use bathrooms of their choice or face the loss of federal funds. Some conservatives are calling the move blackmail. Last month target began a new policy of allowing transgender customers to use the bathroom they identify with. A concerned group organized a target bathroom protest. The group is called the American Family association. Its executive Vice President is with me now. Ed, thank you for the time. I know more than a Million People have signed your online pledge to boycott target. Are you surprised by the numbers of support that you have . Well, thank you, deirdre. Were not surprised at the number. I would have to say were pretty surprised and pretty pleased at the speed with which we reached that number. This is unprecedented for us here at afa, and i think, though, it hits at something thats beneath the surface. I think that there is a lot of frustration with political correctness, and this policy on the part of target and now with the Obama Administrations bullying of public school, i think people are just very uncomfortable with the possibility of a threat to their own kids safety. Deirdre so, ed, one point that one of your colleagues made which i thought was a great point, its not that people are necessarily worried that somebody who happens to be transgender will be aggressive towards his or her children, its more the idea that people who do wish to cause harm to children now have an easier will now have an easier cover. Is that how you see it . Yeah, thats absolutely right. We dont think the threat is from the Transgender Community. The policy at target and now if this policy were implemented nationwide for the nations 50 million kids in Public Schools, the policy removes the first obstacle to a predator getting at someone whos vulnerable. In targets stores, for example, if a man is going into a ladies restroom with genderspecific bathrooms, somebody will, under normal circumstances, stop that individual. If you dont have are that barrier, then theyre one step closer to the intended victims. And in Public Schools, while you may not have external predators coming into the school, that does open up the possibility for crimes committed, assaults especially against young ladies in restrooms and changing areas. Deirdre so, ed, let me ask you this, because theres a pastor whose comments on the subject have actually gone viral. He says pointblank its a safety issue much as youre saying, so were going to play it for our viewers, and then im going to ask you for your reaction. Here it is. Yeah. Deirdre okay. Actually, im going to paraphrase it because i actually wrote down what he said. He essentially said people are bending this new rule, and he says as a 40yearold man, they would just let me walk right into a bathroom looking just like i look, and he says i dont even have to put a dress on to do it. Hes a lot more animated, he had a lot more style, but he made his point very clearly. So target is target. Its a big company, it has shares that are listed on an exchange. What about what this means to smaller businesses . Because i suppose you can make the argument, okay, fine. These Big Companies can actually put in individual bathrooms, right . With locks on the door. Right. Deirdre schools cant, and maybe not every shop has a budget for that climb of thing. Thats why i think its important for the government to stay out of this issue. Target did this voluntarily. It had this policy in place already. It publicized it in the wake of the controversy over north carolinas law and the controversy over that. But i think the government needs to stay out of this. Look, we are still wrestling as a culture with the issue of samesex marriage. To now come in and try to bludgeon companies or, you know, Public Schools into submission over an area where i think most americans are just waking up and saying, huh . Whats a transgendered student . But for companies that are not big, as long as the government stays out, i think that theyre going to stick with their genderspecific bathrooms. The percentage of people in this country that are transgendered is very, very small. Deirdre yeah. I think its about. 3 . Yeah. We dont want to disregard their concerns or their struggles, but that does not mean we need to hold captive an entire economy. Deirdre ed, thank you very much. Joining me there, executive Vice President of the American Family association. Taking a look at the stock since were talking about it, closing lower today, and thats pretty much how its peers did, if you like. A lot of consumerrelated stocks closed lower. Keep in mind target release its Quarterly Earnings on wednesday. Well, two celebrity parents now being called out for taking weekends off from taking care of their own child. Our power Parents Panel is back with me in just a minute talking about whether or not taking a break is a good idea or not. Deirdre model and former Miss Universe australia under attack after revealing she spend weekend without her child. She says childfree weekend help her and her husband feel recharged. David webb, welcome. So whats your take as adifferenta mom. Its so important to have a differentia date night, leave the kid at home with the babysitter and a weekend away. Its so important for your marriage. Deirdre the think the former model and personality is taking a lot of criticism because its every weekend, though it is with the grandma which i file many a nice opportunity for the grandma and child to connect. Anyone criticizing is trying to find a story that fits their narrative. I had a close relationship with my grandparent. You have this couple that raise their child how they see fit and you have hollywood actresses running around talking about how its cool to be a single mom. Thats good when you get 15 million a film and can afford nanny. Thats not a good message for women out there. This message, i see a couple working together, if it work for them, do it. And its grandma. Deirdre they add a didnt perspective. They treat you really well then send you home. I think its wonderful, and they are rekindling it and keeping it alive. Thats. The important part of this. You dont lose yourself in the child and the relationship. Maybe they can find a better way to do it from the publicity and point. Deirdre she did respond on instagram and said a mother should never be made to feel they are not doing enough for their child. I value dearly that violet has with her grandmother and i believe think is one of the most important and influential relationships growing up. This is a family evident. I just went away with my girlfriend and my kids respect me because they know mom needed a few days to go and recharge. I work full time and i have three kids. My husband was pushing me. Just go a few days to recharge your batteries. There is nothing wrong with that. When i got them back, there you go, family again. Deirdre glad you are here. Thank you for joining us. Charles donald trump pushing back against jeff bezos, amazon and the Washington Post. But is threatening antitrust going too far. Also mark cuban for vp . He take a political stand at the salt conference offering a way to win the general elect. 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