improving and employment is better, okay, marginally, why would people spend a lot country might like to see their prices going up if they think we re winning a war with china any way that they didn t mind the gas prices going up when we went into iraq. they think we could winning a war. when they can t pay their cable subscription, it is going to be a problem. neil: it would be a problem for us if that happens. [laughter] neil: i want to thank you all very much. we re going to explore the impact of that later in the show. also keeping on top of the president of the united states, supreme court choices here. one that has been getting a lot of consensus build up here may not be the choice in the end for no other reason than his particular connections to a president bush. we will explore that in some detail and get the read from charlie kirk at the supreme court, the fallout, after this. ) beautiful just like you.
candidates. they are brett kavanaugh, raymond kethledge, amy barrett and thomas hardiman. the president s interview with kethledge lasted longer than the others. the president spoke with him for about 40 minutes. hardiman is said to be sort of the dark horse candidate of those four. sources say that vice president pence net with met with kavanaugh and also met with barrett and kethledge. the meeting with kavanaugh in d.c. on wednesday. last night president trump sat down for dinner with vice president mike pence as well as his wife. we were told the plan going into that dinner was to compare notes on the top supreme court picks. neil: thank you very much. with the president in new jersey. let s go to charlie kirk. charlie it would be hard to top the ride he got off of neil
very difficult for them to oppose whoever the president puts forth. they will have to look their voters in the face going up to the midterm election in november and say i either supported or i opposed the president s nominee and you saw with gorsuch gorsuch, you saw a couple defections come that eventually put im put him across the finish line. neil: charlie, thank you very much. this has been a week of the protests, the woman who climbed the statue of liberty, all the run-ins cabinet members have had with protesters. sarah sanders being escorted out of a restaurant. the i.c.e. protests where democrats are claiming i.c.e. should be shut down and return to what it was before i.c.e. came around in 03. however they may be resonating with the party s base, some are beginning to wonder whether it s alienating the party from the public.
mean a wall or something like it, so, both sides would appear to bend, is an agreement like that i m simplifying it, that s what they seem to be kicking around with it. what does ben stein think about that. ben stein thinks that it s fine, put up a wall they re strong and agile people. let s have the wall and let s have a path to citizenship, let s have them both. neil: all right. ben stein, good seeing you, thank you very much. good bless you, sir. neil: and good time having charlie gasperino, coming up he has shcuttle scuttle butt on th influencing it. he s also a volunteer firefighter. (low-pitched yelling) but when it comes to mortgages, he s. less confident.
all right. $5 million for a spot to advertise for the super bowl, all sold out. everybody is anticipating super ratings. of course, this has been an off year for the nfl, hasn t it? charlie gasperino on what could be a tough one. what are you hearing? well, the advertisers and sponsors are scared to death of this sort of scenario appearing, that on the eve of the super bowl, that donald trump goes out with a tweet that either that repoliticizes the national anthem and what the players have been doing, taking the one knee, which has unnerved, drove driven crazy the average nfl fan, so much so that during the time when this one-knee controversy was going, one of the major sponsors, pepsico was getting inundated by e-mails and telephone calls nonstop they should pull their sponsorship from the nfl. companies hate hearing that.