Loyalties. Meanwhile, its black friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Shoppers are expected to spend a 27 billion today alone. Some groups are calling for boycotts based on political reasons. Both supporters and opponents of president elect donald trump are urging consumers to continue to vote with their dollars and sean retailers who spoke out in favor or against them during the campaign. Which leads us to todays question for our viewers. Would you boycott a company for political reasons . If you support politicalbased boycotts, you can call call 202 7488000. If you oppose them, you can call 202 7488001. You can also reach us on social anda, on twitter, cspanwj, on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. At a little bit more about some as weveboycotts already started the black friday shopping day, according to business insiders. The antitrust movement is calling to boycott 32 retailers. Its hard to separate Donald Trumps businesses from his politics. As a result, some are calling for a boycott for companies that sell trump run next. The hashtag grab your wallet, after the leaked tape of trump taking lewd comments about women. They encourage people to Boycott Companies doing business with the family. Includes 32 Companies Including major retailers like amazon. Com. There are also people who are supporters of donald trump you are also urging a boycott of some businesses, it according to the International Business times , in the campaign to drain the ofmp and shrink the wallets government elites, supporters of president elect donald trump urged one another monday to boycott a number of corporate behemoths in support of Hillary Clinton in general liberal ideals. Macys, included pepsi, dell, dreamworks, and netflix. Companies toured support, which has several massmarket breweries and fast , the nationalts rifle association, nascar, World Wrestling entertainment, and cars made in america. Boycotts are underway both in favor and in protest to the incoming president. We are asking you what your thoughts are on that today. Nick is calling in from fairview, tennessee. You support clinical boycotts. Tell us why. Political boycotts. Tell us why. Caller you have to think god now that us deplorables are now ruling, you have your money you have the right to spend her money where you want. Im going out with my grandson today, in the first thing im going to do is buy some more ammunition. I might look at the firearms. Avoid well, i love robert de niros talents, but i think i will boycott his next movie. Its fine, spend your money where you want, but also dont spend it where you want. Theseing to avoid sanctuary cities. When others quite a few of them, but i dont travel that much anyhow. Host have you always voted with your pocketbook . Have you always taken politics in mind when you make a choice of where you shop . Caller not always, but i have many times. Its so rages like these sanctuary cities. ,ortunately, where i live nashville is a century city. I can avoid nashville as much as possible. Theres other towns around here where i can spend my money. They are going to sit there and give sanctuary to criminals i get so tired of hearing undocumented worker. Is tols favorite pastime bastardize the language. They are Illegal Immigrants, not undocumented workers. Cashspent 55 billion in to their home countries. Meanwhile, a lot of them getting benefits here free from us. Usees a lot of reasons to your pocketbooks, Martin Luther king use it effectively with his people, and i was with him, believe it or not. I know im a racist now according to the liberals. But i was with him one is uncool be with people like that. Host to talk more about these boycotts that are underway, were joined by kate taylor, she is a retail reporter and at business insider. Guest thanks for talking with me. Host tell us more about the origin of this grab your wallet boycott. Guest Shannon Coulter basically started this hashtag before the election was over in october. And since the election is finished, it picked up a lot more steam that i thought i had prior tohashtag used the election completing. It really picked up steam with a lot of people discussing it and discussing different brands they are going to boycott. Nordstroms, the ceo sent out a companywide email earlier this week discussing the boycott and why nordstrom was not making the decision to stop selling the market trumps line. Line. Nka trumps after the election, people who do not support donald trump continue to discuss boycotting not just Donald Trumps businesses, but businesses that do any business at all with the trump family. How big docted we expect this boycott to be . Its amazon, nordstrom, belk, how big of an impact do you think this will have . To say. Ts really hard at this point, it seems that for every person who has said theyre going to boycott a business that sells trump family items, ive seen another person saying i support donald trump and i support the trump family. Im going to buy from the business. I think a bigger thing is people making their voices heard on this issue. If it starts to hurt the perception of a company, i think thats going to be a more likely than actual loss of sales to hurt their sales. Or people say will keep shopping a nordstrom to refuse to buy any of our contract items ivanka has saidms, nordstrom if a certain item is unpopular, they will be fortunate drop that line for financial reasons. Host tell us about the counter protest for people who support donald trump and are protesting companies who supported Hillary Clinton or were critical of the as pepsi,aign, such macys, and dell. Guest that is something i find especially interesting. A couple of retailers on both of the lists. Amazon. Com, both people who support trump and people who are protesting trump are saying they should boycott amazon. Com trumps items,ll but leadership has been critical of donald trump in the past. In a lot of ways, through actual sales, these things cancel each other out. But as the caller before he said, people have the right to kind of vote with their wallets, even once the election is over. Host talk a little about the starbucks protest. Its not a boycott, but people are voicing their support for the president elect on their coffee cups. That one is especially interesting. I have seen a lot of people say they are protesting starbucks. The ceo has kind of repeatedly supported Hillary Clinton and thatery progressive values he discusses very openly. Its not quite a protest its the idea of both normalizing the presidency of donald trump, normalizing the right altld right movements, and seeing how bartows reese does istas will react. Its silly to protest starbucks by giving starbucks your money, but its showing support of trump and trying to make the barista uncomfortable, not to withdraw economic support of starbucks. Kate taylor from business thanks for joining us. Washington post, says Trump Supporters have seized on a tradition of starbucks as they asserted telling starbucks employees at their name is tomp, promoting baristas shut out trump. Host were talking a politically motivated boycotts and asking if you are going to do it. Samuel is calling in from fort worth, texas. You oppose these boycotts. Tell us why. Caller hello. Im mostly opposed to boycotts not in the sense that i think that the blue boycott or wrong, but more in the sense of is it really a good way to spend your time . Something i personally wouldnt do. I think our entire lifestyle in theseays depends on companies and these economic forces that rely on taking advantage of people in very poor economic situations. If you own apple products, you indirectly are relying upon workers who live in conditions that historically are so bad that some of them have decided to commit suicide. Not that im immune to it, like several products have that somewhere down the chain. Im not trying to be too nihilistic here, im just saying , itself,ering doesnt cause change. Id rather do something that matters. Or that has a higher efficacy. Something like contacting or trying to change regulations. Host loretta is calling in from pennsylvania. You support politicallybased boycotts. Are there any retailers you will be avoiding the shopping season . Caller yes, all of them. Host tell us why. Caller well, i do like to shop. So im not going to shop area i just give money. The first thing i want to say is , i want to thank donald trump for bringing his beautiful wife and family to the white house. And bringing christmas back to us. Thank you, donald trump. And i think that president obama should keep quiet. Hes had his turn. Then now, its time for a new president. And if anybody doesnt like it, they can leave the country. They are free to go. I think hillary should move down to one of molly to guatemala in that mansion she built in state on there and keep her big mouth shut. Host in keeping with our discussion of economic boycotts, a little bit more about some of the companies that are being targeted by those who oppose donald trump. It says thenews, campaign is targeting brands that align themselves with trump , such as new balance, which ended up in the crosshairs when one of its Company Executives made comments supportive of s comments and the all right website the daily stormer called the brand the official shoes of white people. New balance, one of the retailers in the crosshairs of ongoing boycotts of retailers for political reasons. Dawn is calling in from cooksville, tennessee and he supports political boycotts. Caller i believe its a privately legitimate way to have your voice heard. Streets marching in the and burning buildings and smashing car bill car wiltings. Windows. Companiesparticular eye out to boycott right now, but i think it would be nice to boycotts and the entertainment outlets, such as broadway and wayma, and records, for the they mistreated mr. Pence at the broadway showing. I think it will be marvelous to put a boycott on the entertainment like that. Host have you changed, this year, or in the past are there particular retailers that you are considering avoiding because of the election . Caller not because of the election, i just feel the being able to boycott like that is a perfectly legitimate, acceptable way to have your voice heard. Host ok. Some other headlines today president elect donald trump continues to shape up his cabinet. Top of theat the list is retired marine corps general james mattis, who is a front runner for the spot of defense secretary. Washington times, reports that had beenattis, who forced out of the pentagon over his outspoken opposition to the Obama Administrations nuclear deal with iran, has emerged as a leading candidate to head the Defense Department as president elect donald trump moves to fill at his cabinet. Host we continue our discussion about economic boycotts for political reasons. Marianne is calling from albany, georgia. You oppose political boycotts. Marianne, tell us why. Caller you know, if the tables were turned and this was clinton got in, we wouldnt be having this. Mrs. Clinton i just cannot i just cannotler believe that the people of United States voted for him. And he got in. And why dont they just let it go . Boycotting these different that going to is accomplish . Host marianne, what about the supporters of donald trump who are boycotting some companies that voiced their support for secretary clinton during the campaign, including pepsi, macys, dell, and dreamworks . Doesnt work both ways . Isnt that a way for people to express their views about the campaign beyond election day . Caller why . Why do you need to do that . Even his supporters thats doing that, i think its ridiculous. I mean, pepsi is going to go on. People are not going to boycott pepsi. Im not going to boycott my starbucks. You know, he has been elected. She has not. In my opinion, he is going to do for the people, ok . I dont understand i have never in my 60 years of lifes riotsots life saw after the president being put in there. I will tell you up front, i did not want mr. Clinton back in office because of what he did in my exhusband got kicked out of the navy for. Host up next we have esther calling in from california. You support politicallybased boycotts. Why is that . I think politicallybased boycotts is sometimes the only recourse that ordinary people have to try to make change. That is what helps to bring about the end of apartheid in south africa, and it was used during the civil rights movement. We have a long tradition of political boycotts. Companies that are profiting from these israeli occupations of palestinian land. One of these companies is hewlettpackard. Theh is very involved in Surveillance System in the west bank. Host esther, have you always taken into consideration political views or world events when you choose which retailers you shop . Caller no, i havent. I am pretty much focused right now on israel palestine situation. But i guess im somewhat aware i do sometimes apply to other situations. I cant come at the moment, think of what i have done that. Host a little bit more about the president elects cabinet picks. Washington post, reports that wilbur ross, the king of bankruptcy, for buying beatendown companies with the potential to deliver profits is expected to be president elect Donald Trumps choice for commerce secretary. Host we will continue our discussion about economic boycotts for political reasons. Gerald calling in from clarksville, indiana. You oppose it, gerald. Why you think thats a bad idea . Caller in my opinion, here is a man who is coming into this country. He is trying to turn around what our current sitting president the trauma he created. Now you have these people now coming in because the man is a businessman, ok. As youve seen in recent news, he was going to put his family basically in charge of his affairs anyways. What the conflict here is. I mean, hes willing to basically the man was willing not to even accept a salary for what he was doing. I think we should give the man a chance. Hink this is all political a political thing to try to get people to turn against him. Host people that voted with their pocketbooks since the beginning of commerce. What makes this different than other people who choose not to support a particular Company Based on their hiring practices or based on other reasons besides politics . Caller i could use an example back when Jesse Ventura ran for governor of minnesota, back in the day. Jesse ventura used his own money. He didnt take any outside profits or anything else. He didnt want any part of making any Campaign Promises or anything. But he was still basically he wouldntbecause work with the public. To answer your question, yes, people have opened up their pocketbooks in the past. I guess for political reasons. But i would like the idea of at least giving the man, donald trump, a chance. Host sean is calling in from sunnyvale, california. Very Early Morning to you, sean. You oppose economic boycotts for political reasons. Why is that . Caller i just wanted to say one thing about what that guy was talking about and you had asked him why boycott these companies. The way i look at it is, why are we boycotting companies when it doesnt matter who won, hillary or trump, it wasnt a win win for everybody on either side. So why dont we just boycott the election . Whats the point of letting someone stupid or even evil, like some people say that hillary, run our lives . Taken intoyou ever account things outside of an actual product when you chose which retailer you where you shop . Caller thats why im not into the whole iwatch or the whole be our stuff. Stuff all just nonsense to trick our minds and blindness. Blind us. Just to make us all like cattle. Host a little more information about todays black friday. According to the wall street journal, black is often early start in the battle for shoppers. In an effort to hold off advances from online rivals, such as amazon. Com, traditional retailers have been moving discounts earlier in the month, linking their stores and websites more closely and finding ways to capitalize on the rise in mobile shopping. Brickandmortar stores are pulling out all the stops. Host a little more on how brickandmortar stores are competing with Online Stores this Online Shopping season. Vernon, you support political burn boycotts. Are you supporting any particular retailers this year . Caller not really. I support it because they are biased. Theyve shown that they are biased on their advertising. What i really dislike is all the cbs,ce news media nbc, all of these different ones that just every day they just spoke all negative towards donald trump. Thats what people really hate most of all. Thats why they are boycotting any company, any news media if i could get a different news media, i would go to that. At least they werent biased. Host do you think that economic boycotts are effective . A major retailer like amazon. Com is expected to do very well during the Holiday Shopping season. Do you think that its worth it for people to do it . Caller if thats the only way they can get them to shut up and to be nonbiased, yes, i do. Change they will whenever their agenda is, what they speak. I think they will hear what the people are saying. People are not against the companies, they are against what the companies are saying. Thats it. David is calling in from denison, texas. You oppose politicallybased economic boycotts. Why is that . Caller generally, i would oppose it. It specifically has to do with the political part. The gentleman before me was talking about tv stations i dont see that so much in political. Individuales to companies, like what growth of did with the ceos letter which was pretty stark when he was talking about it to his employees about what attitudes he expects or they need to resign, with a treatment the new balance got, i think that conservatives such as myself, i dont consider myself a republican, but a conservative. Boycotts,involved in its more of a retaliation against what the left has done. Like the chickfila people. They boycotted because of their desire to adjust what obamacare was doing with just two out of 26 Birth Control options. They were boycotted by the left. The result was they got tons more busin