justice department will look at it very, very carefully. because there s case law holding that once you get to that neighborhood, you can buy up your competitors and there for stifle competition and influence prices and therefore interfere with competition. neil: but it s a moving target especially when it s this type of technology that you could say that facebook at its market value dwarfs what is being talked about here. absolutely. and how do you measure the marked? is it the u.s. market? is it the u.k. market? is it the e.u. market? when you talk about something like cnn, what do you measure? are you measuring eyeballs on the screen or measuring the precious eyeballs that we all look at on the screen, the buying public between age 24 and age 54. so this is virgin territory for the justice department to bring a lawsuit of this nature and say in effect, we will go away if
pictures taken with him, how happy of a gang will this be? they might be better off with what the president is calling a liberal democrat is not a liberal democrat at all? he s a ku klux klan busting prosecutor. they could be better off than someone like that that they can talk to and have eye contact. neil: thanks, judge. all the best to you, neil. neil: stocks closing at record highs. averages are focused apparently on not only good earnings but the tax cuts. if they do pass and all of a sudden for corporations taking advantage of the lower rates and they don t pass that on in terms of expanding plants and equipment and hiring more folks, just buying up stock, but that s their legal right, is that considered a disappointment? let s go to charlie gasparino
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that s not being touched here and jamming everybody else. so what you got here, you re literally raising taxes on a lot of individuals to pay for a corporate tax cut. if that doesn t show some benefit immediately more than just the markets going up, economic benefit, where we say definitely we see 4%, 3% economic growth, the republicans will have a huge problem. they did it to themselves because they just totally wimped out on the individual side. neil: you have to understand the reasons. reconciliation and more. heather, let s say it goes through. we re waiting to see the details on the reconciliation. there s no sure thing that it goes through in the senate, that this will have a positive effects on the market and the economy? it will absolutely have a positive effect on the stock market. steve mnuchin and gary cohn, it s no secret that the stock market is predicated on some anticipation of tax reform getting done before year end,
4th. every thanksgiving was a reminder that they still have our hostages. that was low key. neil: but that wasn t the entire administration. from 79 and 80. but in 77, 78 did they hide from the world or what? well, it was it was a reminder. they were counting every day, there was a tv show named day number 382, kept going on and on. but abraham lincoln, that was really the classic. could have gone either way. tad got the pardon. he understood the power of pardons. the wife openly wept and the white house wept and tad broke into sobs a at the wonder of what he done. so jack, he insisted on a pardon. lincoln could have been criticized for that. some said that you pardoned that dumb turkey but killed my son.