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More regulations, a leaked memo blowing the lid off this scandal and were live in West Palm Beach where motorcycle riders are raising money in honor of parkland victim meadow pollach, her father arranging it all he joins us live. Welcome to cavuto live. Hi, everybody and happy easter to you all, im david asman, in for neil cavuto and no rest for facebook this weekend, as it scrambles to contain a massive scandal. And wall streets very worried about the fallout spreading to f bn Lauren Simonetti with the very latest. Lauren david weve got a lot to get to first new reports that facebook allowed the sale of users personal data to the survey app that gave the information to cambridge and ultimately to the Trump Campaign the Financial Times says automated updates to the app didnt show facebook employees the changes and conditions and policies, and that ultimately allowed the sale of data. Meanwhile, facebook pursuing a pretty ugly growth strategy, buzzfeed published a memo from 2016 from the Vice President of facebook, andrew bosworth. In it he said growing the company was more important than anything else, here is a quote. Maybe it cost someone a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorists attack, coordinated on our tools. Well, bosworth did clarify what he said on twitter saying that the purpose of this post was to bring to the surface issues i felt deserved more discussion. Well Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg has diplomat a vowed the memo and agreed to testify before congress about his companys privacy practices and that testimony reportedly scheduled for april 12. Since this scandal broke facebook shares are down nearly 14 and guess what . Facebook theyre not the only tech titan getting scrutinized. President trump also attacking amazon claiming that company doesnt pay enough in taxes to state and local government among other allegations in fact just this morning this is what the president tweeted on amazon. It is reported that the u. S. Post office will lose 1. 50 on average for each package it delivers for amazon. He goes on to write if the post office increased rates, amazons shipping costs would rise by 2. 6 billion. This post Office Scam Must stop, amazon must pay real costs and taxes now. All right, truth be told, well start with taxes first. Amazon does collect sales tax in all 45 states that have one. It does not generally collect state sales taxes for its Third Party Sellers although that is slowly changing. Of course the ceo of amazon, jeff bezos, he also owns the Washington Post and that is a newspaper often critical of the president at the white house, if you take a look at amazon shares this week, i mean an Amazing Company on the year, but they were down in the past week, david. David they took it on the chin thank you very much lauren so did facebook just open the book for more regulations . Joining us now is financial analyst, Adam Lashinsky and forbes media editor in chief steve forbes. Steve, lauren read some of that memo, i just got to read one part where the writer this is not like a lowfunction area of facebook. This is the Vice President his name is andrew bosworth. He wrote the ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good. Didnt facebook go over the line here . It did and its paying a severe price for it today, but the key thing is what you do in response. We dont want what mark mills the technology are you calls big regulation, that will stifle innovation, help facebook by keeping future competitors out that fall under heavy government regulation so the key thing is what you do about it. Apple has to tighten up and the industry comes up with its own standards because if government gets in all of us are going to pay a price for it. David adam you spend a lot of your time covering Silicon Valley youre out there quite a bit. Is this really the tone of what goes on there that anything goes as long as its good for the bottom line . Yes, absolutely, aided by respectfully steve with the kind of mentality that just steve just articulated these are people who believe that all government regulation is bad because as steve said quite accurately just now, it will stifle innovation. I obviously david but wait adam then why is it that if theyre against government regulation why arent they protrump . [laughter] so are you, [laughter] yeah, youve got it. Well thats an interesting question, i mean, the history of Silicon Valley is that these people are largely libertarians. Just leave us alone to develop this great technology. I cant begin to answer why or what their actual political views are but theres no doubt in my mind, david, that facebook needs to be regulated just in the way the broadcast arrivers are regulated and many other examples. David but heather, there is an irony here a dramatic irony that is the internet is so successful and these companies are so successful, theres so many billionaires out there precisely because there isnt that much regulation. Im kind of surprised and shock ed that they are so anti trump when hes delivered so many antiregulatory business advantages to america. Youre right antitrump because it benefits them right now taking advantage of tax loopholes and corporate welfares in the case of amazon with jeff bezos the richest man in the world amazon raking in 5. 6 billion right now trump is going after them, President Trump is, he is in favor of supporting the middle class and small businesses, not big business, so they are democrats because democrats have become the party of the elites actually , and its the other way around. David very strange. Very very strange. Yes. Were changing the subject here david. David go ahead adam. With regard to amazon and heather and President Trump are misrepresenting whats going on, im not taking amazon side here. He says amazon doesnt pay its taxes. That debate is about david well talk about that for a second but lets keep it on Facebook Adam and the point is here when youre talking about regulation and i want to get to steve on this too but first to you since you spoke up. Who would you rather have in control of all that personal information . Facebook or the government . Well its a false choice. David no its not at all. The government is going to be regulating our information and the government has more access to our information. Sure, sure, well if you put it to me that way david i have no problem putting the responsibility with the entity that keeps our skies safe, our food and drugs safe and we can go down that list. David yeah we can go down okay let me go to steve now because we can also go down a list of the way in which the government has abused their control of our information and, you know, its not that i want facebook to have all of my details but im not going to give facebook all of my details. I have that choice. Im not sure i want the government to have the choice, steve. Not at all, david and the thing is hightech is on the verge of a huge breakthroughs as we bring in a lot of new companies if you dont have government regulation in the areas of healthcare, construction, manufacturing, big breakthroughs are coming this is precisely the time you dont want government getting involved and in terms of privacy information i guarantee you facebook is going to be a little more responsive to safeguards now than they were in the past, following up to make sure people follow their policies about against abuses. David heather, in the end, its up to us. I know that theyre always talking about these long forms that youre required to fill out most of us dont read it. I agree. David perhaps we should emphasize the part that says you dont want facebook to share this with any other person particularly people that have a political interest in my information. Okay i get that, i understand that, but other than that, what else should the government be doing that its not . Well, i think right now, obviously we dont want the government over regulating the tech sector but Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg are on an apology tour right now. Its not right to sell our data without our permission and thats what were going after that they violated our trust and therefore the got has to step in but im by no means for over regulating the tech sector. Its been phenomenal but in this case they violated our trust and thats not right. David adam lets stick on business the business of whats going on in Silicon Valley. How much and of course the stock implications of it, how much did the stock downturn and not just to facebook but of the entire tech sector have to do with fears about the government getting in and regulating . Well thats part of it. I dont think the government theres any concern that the government wants to be the arbit or of this data. Thats what i meant when i said you were presenting a false choice. David but just in terms of the money that were talking about here and what happened to the stock in facebook and in other Tech Companies how much of that downturn is because of concerns about overregulation . Its a concern as heather put it that facebook has violated the trust of its customers and though facebook does a good job of connecting people, they also do a great job of selling this data. The concern is they will have a harder time selling this data. David i understand gang thank you very much good discussion. What more republicans demanding a Second Special counsel to probe the fbi after attorney general Jeff Sessions rejects their request, House Freedom caucus member dave brat is one of them and he is here. And youre looking live at harley riders hitting the road in honor of parkland shooting victim meadow pollachbeings traveling 43 miles to the Coral Springs home of her father, andrew, where a fundraiser will begin and he will be joining us, live you dont want to miss it thats coming up. David attorney general Jeff Sessions says hes still not appointing a Second Special counsel instead hes asking a federal prosecutor to look into alleged bias at the department of justice and the fbi. Our own peter doocy is in West Palm Beach with the latest on this. Hi, peter. Reporter hi, david conservative s are still very disappointed with the attorney general for not appointing a Second Special counsel to investigate with an outsiders perspective potential law breaking at the fbi but democratic lawmakers are now saying that theyre not surprised they see this as the republican playbook, just where the attorney general sessions just follows the lead of the House Intel Committee which wound down their russia probe earlier this month. Its really lockstep with what chairman nunes was doing creating additional investigations on separate matters is the only way to describe it. Reporter the leader of this new investigation is u. S. Attorney for utah john hoover, doing all of this work outside of the belt way, and the primary purpose of his probe is to try to figure out if fbi agents who Text Messages who suggest favored Hillary Clinton in the election and then used an unverified and sensational dossier to fudge applications for a fisa warrant so that they could spy on a Trump Campaign advisor named carter page, who now says that he was not trying to shape the campaigns russia platform that he was never a central figure in the campaign, but page is the central figure of this new probe s origin story. I feel guilty that i didnt fight back harder when this first started 45 days before the election when the fake news story started coming out and defaming me and so part of me feels bad that i didnt do more to stand up for my rights. Reporter the only investigation tied to any of this thats wound down so far is the House Intel Committee. They cast carter page as someone who had his rights violated in a major way by the Justice Department but the results of that investigation so far have been dismissed by some on the left as partisan because democrats did not sign off on the majority on the republican conclusions. Now though theyve got a season ed prosecutor looking to see exactly what happened with page and who knows what hell come up with. David . David peter doocy in a setting down in florida good to see you peter enjoy your easter weekend, House Freedom caucus member dave brat has been calling for a Second Special counsel the virginia congressman joins me now, now congressman im guessing youre not happy with this move, right . Yeah, no, were not happy at all. The new appointment isnt sufficient. He reports to rosenstein and hes in the middle of the dossier fault lines, the entire problem. Youve got 10 fbi starting with the top comey fired or displaced 10 top political appointees that the fbi are missing and the attorney general sessions who i respect says theres not enough there to go forward with the special prosecutor. When youve got 10 of the top fbi officials stepping down or being fired theres enough there and then the new hire reports to rosenstein whose now in charge of the investigation and its like the fox guarding the hen house, right . So everybodies friends, theyre all formally under comey and the American People say whats going on here, where is the closure . No one gets fired, no one goes to jail. Theres nothing Hillary Clinton had a 2 billion foundation funded a lot with International Money that now goes to zero when she loses political influence so economics right i taught economics for 20 years. When you see incentives like that when somebody gets 2 billion and it goes to zip, its paytoplay all over the place. David also congressman, Jeff Sessions is saying that theres not enough there for a special counsel. What was there for the mueller special counsel . I mean, there was no evidence of a crime. I would venture, even though theres, there have been some convictions or at least some plea deals with mueller clearly thats true but it didnt involve the election itself, it involved past crimes. You think of what happened with regard to not only the carter page situation and fisa and whether that fisa court is so important for our freedom in the United States was misused for political purposes, you think of all the people that were working for mccabe working with peter strzok and his friendlies a page and then brian ore at the doj there seems to be more there than there is in the mueller investigation. Yeah, thats exactly right and so thats why the person people are scratching their head theres nothing there that shows russian collusion with the white house and the administration so now theyre probing for other stuff. On the other side we have mccabe lying four times as my colleague jim jordan noted the other night we have 12 material breaches of information not provided as my colleague mark meadows mentioned the other night on breaking news and you have a dossier which is funded by the Clinton Campaign and thats the only short tie to russia that we know of, right . Russia is our enemy. We are in clear opposition of them on policy, on Foreign Policy on economics, but david but congressman just one final question. We all know what happened with ken star who started out investigating whitewater and ended up with monica lewinsky. Now, we have prosecutor special prosecutor started out with russian collusion where there doesnt seem to be any so hes going off on other topics, why wouldnt the same happen with a new special counsel . Yeah, well i think thats fair right . I taught ethics for 20 years too and you put down the criteria ahead of time so these thins need to be constrained. David but we had a criteria for mr. Mueller and hes going far beyond that criteria. Yeah, well i think we need to tighten it far more, so its too sloppy. We need to con strain it this is very clear on the democrat side, right . The obstruction with the dossier , false documents, 12 material breaches, four lies you just go right down the list its all there connected to the thesis statement. David congressman brat great to see you have a wonderful Holiday Weekend thank you for joining us. You too everyone out there happy easter. David well pro trump roseanne bars show is a big hit with americans but now one of her cast members is bashing women who voted for trump. Plus, as more california cities and counties fight the state sanctuary law, californias top prosecutors threatening to arrest anybody who disobeys the state law. Well meet someone who is facing that threat, coming next. Its my job to enforce state law. I will do so and we want to make sure that every jurisdiction including Orange County understand what state law requires. Ull need in retiremen . Then we found out how many years that money would last them. How long do you think well keep oooooohhh you stopped youre gonna leave me back here at year 9 . How did this happen . It turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. We have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. Lets plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. Prudential. Bring your challenges. 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Not at all, but i suppose having never been arrested it would be a little sporty, but no thats not something im concerned about. David well youre taking it in good cheer but it does put county officials in a very difficult position who do you obey . The federal government or the State Government . Well the good news for our sheriffs personnel is our sheriff has made it clear they are going to follow the law. She was able to sort of outsmart the legislature. David im sorry follow which law the state law or federal law well right now the state law because of course theyre sworn peace officers in the state of california. The reason were starting up for them and fighting is because theyre put in a predicament being asked to ignore federal officials who rightfully they need to communicate with thats what this fight is all about. David but mr. Nelson its more than just we can laugh about it there are some extraordinarily crazy things about this but there are real consequences and the main one being are dangerous criminals being let out on the street by this state sanctuary law . 100 and i have the data to prove it. The opponents want to claim that thats not happening but those are just not the facts and its not too difficult to prove otherwise. David well isnt your primary responsibility of any Government Official to protect the citizens and if a law is interfering with the protection of citizens, its clearly a bad law, if not something that should just be thrown off the books. Well its not only a bad law in this case, its unconstitutional to prevent Law Enforcement officers from appropriately communicating with the right federal authorities. David so why are you following an unconstitutional law . Well for right now, what were doing is the sheriff has a workaround but the challenge that were in is our deputies are the working men and women and the last thing i need for officer smith is to have them suspended. Weve chosen to file a lawsuit, and join the federal government so we can clear this up and not put these people in the pickle theyre already in. David i always like to bring it back to the real world and there was a very real world example of how dangerous all of this is in sacramento, this cop killer who was convicted of killing a cop and he made a pledge in the courtroom with a s mirk on his face he was going to breakout and kill more if he could. There is the person i wont even mention his name he doesnt deserve it to be mentioned but would the California Law, i mean he is an illegal alien and would the California Lawfully give sanctuary to somebody like that . Well they would when hes arrested. What the California Law does and if you listen to the opponents carefully they try to hide behind it. When hes arrested here is our problem. If you get arrested on real serious charges but you bail out youre not yet convicted. California wants to only deal with convicted people. A lot of people are about to be convicted but if they make bail which is our problem, whose more than likely to never show up for court again for a serious felony someone who just bailed out and those are the people im most concerned about but california also made a lot of misdemeanors a few years ago and thats a whole other set of problems. David we only have 30 seconds but im wondering how far the attorney general becerra is willing to go if he loses in the courts would he defy the courts . Thats a great question. I think he represents a group of Government Officials in this state that would rather that the state have to follow no federal rules and if they could let all the criminals out that are alien s just to prove a point i suspect they would. Its ridiculous and putting people in danger and someone had to stand up and thats why we got involved. David shawn nelson we thank you very much, good luck to you. Thanks for having me. David absolutely well, coming up the main character in the hit show roseanne loves trump but one of her cast members saying in real life, some women voted for trump because they cant think for themselves. Well play the tape. And we want to take you back back to florida where youre looking live at the ride for meadow pallach. Motorcyclists raising money in honor of the student killed in the Florida School shooting her father andrew is an extraordinary human being joining us in the next hour you dont want to miss it. Turns out the prints at the crime scene awwwww. Did Mcgruffy Wuffy get a tippy wippy . Im serious we gotta move fast before whos a good boy . Is him a good boy . Erg. Im just gonna go. Oh, you wanna go outside . You gotta go tinky poopoo . I already went, ok . In the bathroom as long as people talk babytalk to dogs, you can count on geico saving folks money. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. David well after just one show the roseanne reboot already getting picked up for a Second Season the sit com getting high praise from viewers and the president for tackling political issues from both sides of the aisle take a listen. I guess i didnt mean to imply that youre some right wing jack ass. I should of tried to understand why you voted the crazy way that you did. [laughter] and i should of understood that, you know, you want the government to give everybody free healthcare because youre a good hearted person who cant do simple math. David [laughter] but that explanation may not have been good enough for one of the shows cast members. Listen to this. White women for trump. Cant understand it. Dont know where it comes from other than, you know, being i think that its a couple of issues its being either under the thumb of your husband or it was being so offended by Hillary Clinton and bill clintons legacy that you turned on her or feeling inadequate. A lot of women have compromised, given in, gotten married, raised their kids and not had the luxury of being able to think for themselves. David of course Hillary Clinton recently saying something very similar to that, so are they right or wrong . Back with us is fbns Lauren Simonetti and joined with Fox News Contributor jessica tar love. Cat first you what do you think . I think that not being able to think for yourself is something that people often do but thats an idiot thing and not a woman thing and i think that its very offensive to suggest that these millions of american women who voted for trump only did so because they were idiots. David jessica how does hillary or sandra for that matter know that some women werent actually the ones to direct their husbands to vote in a certain way . I know in my household very often my wife convinced me of things that i was on the other side of . Absolutely and i think at base here we know that one household has one economic interest right . Everybody has the same bills to pay and they have the same amount of money coming in and most people vote on the economy so it would make sense that a husband and wife would share the same political interest. Hillary clinton is making a point that there are a number of studies that support this about how women vote and thats what Hillary Clinton was going off of and what sandra is echoing here. David what do you think about those studies by the way because theres studies that tell you just about anything you want them to tell you. Totally. You can find studies. David do you believe that women will do what their husbands tell them to do politically . I dont think its like hey honey youll do this type of thing but within families its obviously complicated and people get pushed in certain directions thats not how i would explain Hillary Clintons loss its not how i would explain why it is that white women tend to vote republican. I think it has a lot to do with a certain set of values that are aligned with the republican party. Im just saying they didnt just make this up. David lauren lets talk about the politics of hollywood so to speak. Ben stein used to say that hollywoods the only place where carl marks was right where there is no rhyme or reason but at least abc is not ignoring the marketplace. It seemed that a lot of people in hollywood they would see the ratings go down with all of the antitrump stuff and they wouldnt change their ways. Abc is recognizing if you have at least a hint at a protrump character, its good for ratings lauren well theres more than just the coast. Theres the whole interior of the country that might not see things as new york and california too. David the coast did not tune into roseanne. I think both new york and la turned it off. Chicago was the only mass market actually. Lauren this is an awakening i think for so much as a country that you can have successful entertainment that has different views. Back scott Sandra Bernheart commentary. I dont even know if i should take it seriously. Shes older, this is a different generation but i worry about my mortgage and how im going to pay for my mortgage. Im worried about how were going to do all the things we need to do and i do not rely on a man, not only for my political views but for anything financially and im married. So its just david and about to have another baby. Lauren so i think she was just trying to understand where this is coming from and then to say that women would be jealous of a successful woman like Hillary Clinton . David right. Lauren why would you be jealous of a woman like whose successful david we here, particularly because its our bread and buttere tend to focus on politic s all the time. Thats what he talk about and what we get paid to talk about lets be frank about it. Most of america probably is not, i know its a more political time than it used to be but still, theyre more interested in the bread and butter issues lauren was talking about than politicals right . Right absolutely and people voted for donald trump for all kinds of reasons. Some people he was a prolife candidate so whose ever is pro life thats who they vote for. For some people they saw him on the apprentice and kind of liked him i dont know but to say all these women voted for him because their husbands made them first of all in the ballot box youre by yourself so you can kind of do whatever you want and nobody will ever know. You could just lie about it. [laughter] but theres something racial go on here and why did white women vote for trump and the New York Times picks this up in an editorial that was written and the author was saying well, part of the election was the fact that only white people lost their jobs, so thats why they might have been more inclined to vote for the president so racial nuances but thats the same in every election. David ladies we could go for an hour. Thank you very much. Next week well get back to you next week. Meanwhile an american held captive by terrorists in syria is accusing the fbi of using him as bait. He is here. Wait until you hear his story plus mcdonalds and walgreens latest companies sharing tax cuts with their workers but some democrats are back home telling voters that cuts are a big scheme. Will that backfire come november with expedia you could book a flight, hotel, car and activity all in one place. Were waking up america and telling them whats going on in the world. That is such an awesome responsibility but its fun. What were trying to do is tell you whats going on. Were able to tell the folks at home that this is important to you and this is why you need to listen. We have a great honest conservation about whats happening in the news. And people meet us when they see us they feel like they know us because guess what they do. The only way to be successful on fox is to be yourself. And do you know what you do that every day. David meanwhile, call it the gift that keeps on giving. More companies are sharing the tax cut with workers this week, walgreens saying the Corporate Tax cut will allow it to give employees a raise and mcdonalds is using it to triple the tuition benefits for its workers all this as the upcoming corporate earnings season is expected to be the best in seven years but some democrats are still calling cuts a scheme. Here now is the Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee democratic congressman from kentucky, john yarmoth. John you dont think all these benefits are just crumbs do you . Well, no. I think if somebody in the middle income range gets 50 a week, 2500 a year or so, thats significant. David not if youre a wealthy millionaire congresswoman though like nancy pelosi then its just crumbs. Well but you look on the other side at a company like pfizer is going to benefit to the tune of 220 million a week, so david but you know how many millions of stockholders there are for a company line that so they benefit as well but the point is that 50 a week thats a couple extra bags of groceries i mean this could be a significant change in peoples lives this tax cut. Why are democrats still running against it . Well, were perfectly in favor of giving middle income americans a break, and were all supportive of that. What were not supportive of are these massive tax cuts to billionaires and to large corporations. The vast majority of which is not going to be used to raise salaries to reinvest. We already know more david but congressman just last week we got word the gdp was increasing to 2. 9 , theres a 4 increase in retail sales, theres signs of Economic Growth all over the place and of course the unemployment levels we have some of these levels are at 45 year lows thats really good news for the majority of people in this country. You dont think it has anything to do with the tax cuts . Well i think its too early to tell. We havent seen much re investment, Morgan Stanley estimated that twothirds of the Corporate Tax cuts would go to dividends and stock buybacks and to mergers and acquisitions. Stock buybacks already totaled about 220 billion so i think it still remains to be seen whether this is going to trickle down to most americans. On a permanent basis because remember, neil, those tax cuts evaporated a few years. David well youre absolutely right the individual ones and the president wants to do a tax cut phase ii in which he would make those individual cuts permanent. Would you be with the president on that . Depends how far he goes. Again if its targeted at Middle America which is what the republicans said the initial bill was, then i think we would be receptive to that. If its just an excuse for more tax cuts for everybody else for the rich as well, i wouldnt, and here is the thing. David but hold on a second ive got to correct something. You said just for the rich. Its obviously not just for the rich. The takehome pay of millions of americans are increasing. If the balance of the benefits go to the rich. David okay. But here is the thing that we need to focus on. That the economy functions in obviously very complex pays. David sure. And what we want to make sure is that any tax changes dont mess up the deficit that they dont, they actually do promote growth and again, were going to see the jury is still out on whether theres any growth promotion from here but again youve got republicans calling for a balanced Budget Amendment and how disingenuinous is that . David well some would say how disingenuinous is it to talk about the debt when it doubled under president obama but you look at the generic polls that is would you generally vote for republicans or for democrats, and the democrats have been going down, the republicans have been going up and im just wondering if you think that has to do with you guys focusing on how bad tax cuts are that most americans seem to like more and more. I dont know i think its probably a little bit of a natural balancing out but six or seven points is enough for us to take the house back and neil you remember in that special election in pennsylvania, republicans tried to use the tax cuts as an argument to elect their candidate and they had to pull those ads off the air because they werent effective. David rick saccone a lot of people say he ran away. Best of luck to you congressman, have a wonderful Holiday Weekend all right . Thanks, neil you too. David thank you, thank you very much. Its an honor to be called neil even though im david meanwhile american photographer matthew sh rier was kidnapped and tortured in syria by a Terrorists Group and he managed to escape but now he says the fbi actually used him as bait to help track the terrorists. His amazing story is with you next with matt himself, thats coming up. Youre saying the fbi used your safety in order to track al qaeda . Yes. Has Proskin Technology designed to quickly wick away moisture to help maintain your skins natural balance. For a free sample call 1877gettena. David this is an incredible story and also very disturbing on new years eve 2012 an american photographer named Matthew Shrier was kidnapped by an Al Qaeda Affiliated terror group in syria while documenting the nations civil war. He was able to escape and now says the fbi mishandled his case , even using him as bait. He describes it all in a new book called dawn prayer, matt sc hrier joins us now. Matt good to see you again briefly explain a lot of people dont understand why anybody would want to go into a war zone like syria when you have these crazy Terrorists Groups chopping off peoples heads. Why did you go in there . Well at the time this was before everyones heads were getting chopped off. The only journalist missing was austin tice, and he was captured outside of damascus. Actually there were three missing but the fbi was encouraging all the families to keep quiet which gave off the impression that as long as you stayed in the forth with the fsa , the Free Syrian Army you wouldnt exactly be safe but youd be in good hands which wasnt exactly the truth. David and now you were leaving the country, going to go through turkey which borders syria, and thats when they captured you, right . Right. I was there for 18 days, didnt have a scratch on me, and when i was 45 minutes from the turkish border, they grabbed me. It took me seven months. David this was not just so people know this is right before ice became the number one terror group in syria which fortunately they are no longer the number one Terrorists Group but this was at the time they were the most brutal terror group and they treated you pretty badly for months, right . Correct. At first they treated me really well for the first month and five days because the guy who ran the prison liked me because he thought high was funny but then he caught me trying to escape and got a little upset and things went downhill pretty quickly. David now they tortured you and out of you they got all of your passwords and all sorts of credit card information with which they were able to buy a lot of things particularly computers. The fbi apparently found out about this and they were interested in kind of using you as bait because they then could track through their computers what it was they were doing, so even though the fbi was telling your family that they were trying to get you out they were kind of using you werent they . Yes, they were actually telling my family i was the one making all the purchases. This is all documented in emails that i was using my Bank Accounts and my cell phone. Theres a mountain of evidence i want to turnover to the department of justice. On march 19, i believe it was the day that my folder fell on agent lindsays desk somebody went into my pay pal account and changed the password so that all purchase receipts would be sent to a new email address. This email address was setup within the United States by somebody using a vpn, virtual private network. Thats the fbi and this is weeks before they contacted my family. So they were investigating me. David now the fbi put out a statement im looking on my computer we can put it up on the screen. The fbis investigation into the kidnapping remains open, therefore were not able to discuss details surrounding the case. The fbi fully supports the work of the agents and victim specialists who have remained professionals in working with mr. Shrier, since his return home we worked with our partners in the u. S. Government to provide a full range of services and guidance to help him rebuild his life as we do for all victims however it is at the discretion of the victim to accept and elementary these. Now they dont directly approach what your main premise which is that you were being used as bait but what do you think of that statement . I think its a bunch of bolog na. They failed to mention they have two suspects or terrorists for four years who extorted me for my Financial Information and when they say its at my discretion yes its at my discretion not to go to a doctor that refuses to prescribe fda approved drugs and not to keep making appointments with a shrink they gave me who canceled five pointments my first two months old and at my discretion to get frustrated with an fbi agent who keeps asking do you need anything and i said yes i need a new Social Security number, i mean the list goes on i can talk for a full hour on things like this. David but matt the bottom line is that the main charge that you make in your book is that the fbi setup the protect american citizens and they werent interested in protecting you. They were more interested in using you as bait for this Terrorists Group. Quick 10 second final. Go ahead. Correct, that is it. I have the evidence to prove it. Ive been on the highest rated network saying i want to turn it over to the department of justice. Now its at their discretion to take it. David the book is the dawn prayer matt we wish you the very best. Please stay in touch. Thank you very much. David coming up, House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte is here with a message to attorney general Jeff Sessions and we are tracking the ride for meadow pollach. 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Brand new claims of fbi misconduct in the russia probe coming out after attorney general Jeff Sessions ruling out a Second Special counsel to look into it. What is Committee Chair bob g d goodlatt demanding . A question about citizenship to the census. At least 12 states are planning to sue the Trump Administration to block it. Joining me is steve forbes, and patrice, and good to see you all. Steve, ive got to say, im not a big fan of census forms. Theyve gotten a lot too personal for me over the years. They have. David they ask me that, they ask me that, but their main purpose is to see how many citizens live in a particular area of the country so we can adjust our congressional county visavis that, but these are citizens. Thats their job is to count citizens. Why is it not proper to ask that the person theyre asking is a citizen . The constitution says theyre counting people. David forgive me and youre a better constitutional scholar than i am. No. David the real point technically speaking why they wanted to know how many people were living in each area of the country was so they can adjust the number of congressional representatives, right . Thats right, but they did the whole population. Notoriously and they said only threefifths of a person then, that part of the constitution that got amended, but they ask how many cars you have, your income and everything else. I think they should just count the people and take the other junk out. But if they ask all of that other stuff, citizenship is a valid question. David and capri, why are your democratic colleagues so furious about this . Let me couch my answer in saying i get it. I understand why people would want to say, look, you know, we need to know how many citizens there are. And they shouldnt be utilizing government resources, whatever the circumstances may be. Theres a 2015 or 2016 Supreme Court case actually coming out of texas that addressed the issue of one person, one vote and they unanimously rejected that saying we have to count versus human beings. And at large, generally speaking, the question of citizenship could depress the responses coming back for the u. S. Census bureau. I happen to be concerned of a few things. Number one, it came too late to be tested in the sort of dry run thats happening in a few weeks and starting in providence, rhode island. I think that thats going to be, you know, a concern we havent had a chance to see exactly how this is going to react and we have to remember that you know, a decade is a very long time and you know, there may be significant sea changes within our government. What happens if these people dont fill out the census form and later on theres a path to citizenship and we have problem with redistricting as well as federal grants. David but if im here illegally, i apparently have no qualms about saying things that arent true because thats the only way that i can survive here if i lie about my citizenship. So whats to prevent me from lying to a census taker and saying, yeah, im a citizen. Youre not supposed to lie to a census taker. David but youre not supposed to be here illegally. I agree with you. What happens, you have democrats whipping up unfounded fear among the immigrant communities. Theyre going to have immigrants here legally who are going to say, well, maybe this is against my friends and lets not forget that this information cannot be used by Law Enforcement or immigration enforcement. So, this is really just about kind of a head count of how many people in this nation, are they hear and what is their status. I will say there are positive things, new additions to the census, and to be really happy about. Me as a black woman, i can talk about i can write in my ethnicity that wasnt able to be captured before. So, you know, theres some theres some positives to the census and i think that the question is about citizenship, which is fine. David i always put other when it comes to race, steve. I dont like to tell it so i put other. Im a whole lot of different things, but the bottom line, steve, call me cynical, but i really believe that whats going on here in the democratic protests about it is that eventually they are hoping that a lot of these illegals are going to become legal and legal enough to vote and this is about a vote count. They think that if they provide any kind of benefit at all to illegal aliens right now, theyre going to add to their vote count at election time. Thats their ultimate goal, but in terms of finding out who are illegals and who are citizens theyve asked questions like that in the past. This is nothing new in the history of the census. Recently everything has become politicized saying its a question about citizenship. As you say, a dozen states are up in arms about it. David patrice, isnt there a political goal for democrats, so many of the immigrant issues were going right now, democrats really see this as an enlargening of their pool of potential voters in the future . Im sure there are some democrats that feel like that. Here is one thing i think we need to remember, the group of individuals that are undocumented are promise merrill from, you know, hispanic and latino communities and i think that the assumption that the hispanic and latino communities are somehow a voting monolith that will all go democrat i think is wrong and i think that the republicans actually have an opportunity, you know, particularly in the faithbased communities and the catholic communities, to get these voters no different than democrats. So, you know, i think that if democrats think this is going to help them, it may actually backfire. David interesting, very good discussion, gang. Thank you very much. As russia releases a video showing a new rocket test for nuclear missile, were hearing President Trump tell putin if you want to have an arms race, ill win. Someone says that its making the world safer. How sister jean is helping one march madness teams dreams come true. Will their prayers be answered tonight . Well, a titfortat between the u. S. And russia could escalate. The state department saying we may retaliate over russia deposing our diplomates and all before a u. S. North korea summit. So is the talk making us more or less safe . And with us is showdown gordon chang and can we end the fiction that trump is too weak to deal with russia . Good morning, david, the answer is absolutely yes. The President Trump is viewing the world as it is and being forthright with the American People and telling what were facing as a nation and when you look at it, russia, north korea or iran hes having an open and honest dialog and conversation so the American People can appreciate the threat and know what may be expected of them in the months or years to come to confront them. David and commander, you think of all of whats happened every the past year in President Trumps dealing with russia. You have the expulsions most recently and next week, by the way, hes going to be meeting with the leaders of the baltic countries, lithuania, latvia, astona and weve been building up arms shipments to the Ukrainian Government to prevent more russian incursions into the ukraine. The firing of the tomahawk missiles of the russian allies in syria and the buildup of oil in this country which, of course, makes their oil cheaper. If nothing else, President Trump is a realist in how he views and takes on the world. You have to look at it and say, look, the nice talk has gotten us nothing for literally decades from both sides of the aisle. This is one of the benefits that President Trump brings to the presidency. For once were having an honest conversation about some of the shortfalls were having and some things we need to do to strengthen our nation. Clearly one of them is Energy Dominance when you look at russia and iran are trying to do, we want to have the ability to export our natural resources, our natural gas. The oil that were getting from fracking because that gives us leverage in the real world. David and gordogordon, you wan talk about honest talk, think about what hes talked about north korea the past year and some of which scared the heck out of the folks in the state department, its undiplomatic and too harsh. The tough talk and the maximum pressure seems to be paying off with north korea . It certainly has been. Now were on the verge of talks with kim jongun, the north Korean Leader directly. This is important because President Trump instinctively made the right move by the talks. He drove a wedge between them and moon jaein wanted those talks and kim concerned about what the United States might do to him, were sitting down and having direct talks. Thats a great idea. David for the all the talk how undiplomatic President Trump is,s working with Ambassador Haley to try to get a whole bunch of u. N. Sanctions, they just were announced and the u. N. Has been doing sanctions things without results for years, but with the backing of this maximum pressure that we have going now with the Trump Administration, we might be getting somewhere and its being done diplomatically as well as militarily, gordon. We have sanctions issues on friday, and the thing is that those u. N. Sanctions and the u. S. Sanctions the unilateral u. S. Sanctions are having an effect because we know that the chinese are saying Office Number 39, kim jonguns personal slush fund is running out of money. And the South Koreans are saying that north korean may not have any Foreign Exchange reserves by october. I dont know if thats actually going to be true, but the point is that kim, if he doesnt have money, cant launch missiles, cant detonate nukes, and cant engage in gift politics, the buying of loyal of senior regime elements. And kim wants to talk to trump and that means weve got to be doing something right. David commander, one thing we havent been doing for a while now is keeping our military as prepared as it should be. We dont have enough ships, thats something of particular concern to you, i know. We dont have enough planes and planes we have are in disrepair. We dont have enough pilots, the training that we need in the military. The president just got the budget through and didnt like the domestic spending, but did it primarily for the military spending. Is that going to prepare us for the russian threats, particularly as we see the satan two Missile Launch . Its going to prepare us, but the keeping of the 700 billion budget we had, merely a down payment of a decade of short changing the military. When you look at it today, every ship at sea is undermanned, undertrained, underequipped and that comes under time when you look at the number of aircraft accidents across the services its because the pilots arent getting the flight time they need. We dont have the parts to get the aircraft up and running so we need to make an investment and part of what we need to do is have an honest conversation with the American People, here is what it takes to run a military. When you run it, you only get this much money. This piece right here is called risk, and what were having today is theres a lot of Senior Military Leadership that are not being honest with congress in what that risk involves over the longterm. David commander, there used to be an axiom that the u. S. Had to be prepared to fight two major wars at the same time. Do we have that capability right now . No, and we have not had it for a long time. Weve chipped away from two major front wars, down to one major front war and a minor war and then its one major war with minor squirmishes, were chipping away at or ability across the globe and its time to have a realistic conversation once again, because we need a military that can predict our interests, the interest of the American People, and to a degree, our allies as well, calling them to task, especially in n. A. T. O. , to begin to pony up, pay what they need to and do whats necessary to confront the threats facing us. David gordon, quickly, some people thought that the president was giving kim jongun too much time to do more Nuclear Research to set up for the talks and some people say because of the what the commander was talking about, we need the time to rearm, reup our military in case things dont work out with north korea diplomatically. It takes time to build up the military. I think time is on our side because of the sanctions which means that kim needs to come to the table to talk to trump because he wants sanctions released. Time is on our side, thats the first time in a long time, time is on our side. David its good to have it going the other wayment gordon, great to see you. And commander as well. Thank you. David house Committee Chair bob go goodlatte, wanted a special counsel to look into fbi, sessions says he wont. What will goodlatte say . As the ride for meadow continues for his daughter. She was killed in the parkland School Shooting. 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All this after attorney general Jeff Sessions just rejected calls to appoint an independent special counsel to look into possible fbi conflict. Instead he named a u. S. Attorney to do that. House Committee Chairman goodlatte asked for a special counsel and he joins us. Happy easter, glad you to join us. Happy easter to you, david. David is john hoover enough . Hes a very good prosecutor, he gets accolades from all over the place, but is he enough to investigate this whole slew of stuff thats cropped up . Well, we hope so and we dont know for sure and that, coupled with the fact that we really think this should be an investigation outside of the department of justice altogether, is why we continue to call for a special counsel, but we do think this is a step in the right direction. It gets it out of washington d. C. , out of main justice, if you will. It shows that the attorney general and the department are taking this matter more seriously. I think that, coupled with their scramble here in recent days to comply with the subpoena that i issued last week, shows that the attention to this is increasing. Its very important. David but, youve brought up a great point which is that the Justice Department cant investigate itself, particularly, you know, you hear these charges about a deep state, an entrenched bureaucracy, however you want to describe it, of people that have been there for generations, practically, and they their purpose is to maintain their positions and the positions of their friends in the department of justice so they can investigate themselves. How much is mr. Hoover going to have to rely on this entrenched bureaucracy to cooperate . Because he doesnt have the kind of subpoena power that a special prosecutor would have. Well, he will have subpoena power and he will. And hell be able to prosecute. Yes. The Inspector General is working on a report that is due out in april and were very hopeful that he, working with the Inspector General, will make substantial progress in this area. So were reserving judgment on his work. David i see. But, again, we think that ultimately a special prosecutor would be needed and would be best. David but if mr. Hoover can deliver subpoenas, what is it that he cant do that a special prosecutor could do . Well, he what he cant do is what you mentioned and that is he cant be outside of the department of justice. He is a president ial appointee, confirmed by the United States senate. In fact, appointed first by president obama and then reappointed by President Trump. So, he has that form of independence, but he still is a part of the department of justice and that, i think, is a difficulty unless he steps up and shows us that hes willing to take on anybody here, including former senior employees of the federal bureau of investigation. David now, you folks in congress are doing a lot of investigation yourselves and getting a lot of material and were reporting as much of it as you give us, but im just wondering if you have been stonewalled. Have there been individual moments where youve tried to get something from the department of justice or the fbi or even the state Department Regarding these matters and have hit a brick wall . Well, we started out last fall. Congressman tray gowdy and i handled a number in 2016 and 2017 and at first it seemed as though we were going to be getting the documents we needed, but that slowed down, particularly as some of the information came out through the page struck text, for example, that showed an extreme amount of bias on the part of a number of people at the higher levels in the federal bureau of investigation, a very serious matter, and things came down to a trickle. So, we issued a subpoena last week and i think that the department, the attorney general is very upset about this. I think that action is being taken to increase that production and i think that the subpoena, which is due next thursday, will be honored, but well wait and see. David now, we talked at the opening about how mr. Mccabe is were beginning to understand more about why it was that mr. Mccabe was fire, the deputy fbi director, the media portrayed it as a oneman firing, that is President Trump didnt like him so he had him fire. And in fact, were finding out there were numerous occasions during which mr. Mccabe gave conflicting information about his own experience at the fbi. In fact, one of which concerns mr. Comy, his boss, which mccabe said he got permission to release or leak some things to the press because mr. Comey was aware of it, whereas mr. Comey says he wasnt aware of it. Many people have now seen the conflicting statements made by mr. Mccabe and the former testimony of mr. Comey, and one of this is an investigation that congress is conducting and mr. Hoover should be looking into and Inspector General horowitz as to who is telling the truth. David its difficult to come to the essence of, especially when both parties are antagonistic to people like you and the president , frankly. Finally, we touched on this, there is an entrenched bureaucracy, ive seen it all over washington, ive seen it in the state department and department of justice. Name the agency and youll see an entrenched bureaucracy. Would you go so far as to call that a deep state . Well, i wouldnt go that far. Lets be clear, there are tens of thousands of people in the federal bureau of investigation who every day work very hard, very professionally to keep us safe, fight crime. Prevent terrorist attacks like they did last week in austin, texas with the bomber down there. So, this is about a small number of people. We dont know exactly how many and that, again, is the purpose of the investigation. We keep getting material thats redacted that has names in it that are blocked out and we need that material unredacted so we can find out the extent of what was going on in 2016 when the fbi in an astonishing manner conducted one investigation with regard to one president ial candidate, and bent over backwards not to prosecute her, and then launched another investigation where they definitely were leaning into it with insurance policies and secret plans. David was that because they were taking sides, chairman . I am very concerned there were a number of people in key position at the fbi who were taking sides. David chairman goodlatte, a lot of investigating left to be done. We wish you the very best at least for the next two days, jest enjoy the holiday. Thank you, david. David appreciate it. At 96 years young, will sister jeans prayers be answered tonight . 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Sister jean has been a phenomenon and loyola is wracking up sales of her merchandise. They theyre opening up pop shup shops for stars, and the bobblehead. And theres a Bobblehead Hall of fame museum and theyve been sold in all 50 states and more than twothirds of sales come from outside of illinois where the team is located. We do have some bad news for you, the bobbleheads wont be ready until june if youd like to place an order. They cost about 35, but im sure for a couple of hundred you can get one on ebay, david. David probably. Better late than never, why care if its after the final four. She was asked whether god really cares about basketball. She says because god cares about the whole health of a human being and because play is an element of the human experience, god cares about play. Very logical. I love this woman, love her. That was great. David all right. Well, thank you very much, lauren. Now, the sit com roseanne shocking hollywood with an epic comeback. The show which features her protrump character has a lot of folks wondering if this success will set a new conservative trend in tinseltown. Even look at roseanne, i called her yesterday, look at her ratings. Look at her ratings. They were unbelievable. Over 18 Million People. Prudential asked these couples how much money do you think youll need in retirement . Then we found out how many years that money would last them. How long do you think well keep oooooohhh you stopped youre gonna leave me back here at year 9 . How did this happen . It turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. We have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. Lets plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. Prudential. Bring your challenges. How could you have voted for him, roseanne . Because of the jobs, jackie, he said hed shake things up. This might come as a complete shock to you, but we almost lost our house the way things are going. Have you looked at the news . Now things are worse. Not on the real news. Oh, please . David its actually a pretty good show that night. Well, things are looking rosie for roseanne. The show reboot already getting picked up for a Second Season after just one episode, or actually two episodes in one hour. Turning out more than 18 Million People tuned in, making it tvs b biggest this year. And will roseannes success make hollywood think twice about the constant antitrump narrative. Lets ask conservative actor. Good to see you, david. David happy holidays to you. Happy passover and easter. David thats right, passover easter. There was a time when hollywood executives didnt care about red or blue, they just cared about green, but recently they seem to be more just on one side than caring about the bottom line, am i wrong . No, david, youre not wrong, but there is a little addendum do that. Hollywood had always had its certain kind of leftwing leaning, they always had that, that was always there. Not so much probably in the 70s and 80s, but for the last at least 50 years its gotten a lot worse and i think the roseanne show, as youve been showing the clips up, as weve seen had massive ratings. Its about being able to communicate to the American People, something thats happening around their living rooms, instead of it being the left and right coast, new york and l. A. , the group think of l. A. And new york, and talk amongst themselves and theyre programming according to what they have around their conversations, forgetting theres a whole group of people in the country forgotten. David if thats true and im sure it is, did the success, the extraordinary success that absolutely did not include a lot of people in l. A. And new york, who turned roseanne off because they knew it was going to be a pro trump element to it, must have shocked people. I think it had. I know that that next morning over the offices, people are chagrinned in a certain way about what was happening or what happened there and now scrambling, youve heard the last man standing may be brought back, the tim allen show. David tim allen show. Yeah, and i think its also, you know, you see, most of the programming on tv that you see is absolutely bent for a certain kind of society, and without being able to expand on whats happening in the rest of the country so they had to look at that, hollywood had to look at that. David it took them so long to wake up to this all of this. They had these awards shows one after the other and finally by the oscar awards which were just so antitrump and so predictbly antitrump and not real that funny in being antitrump, getting terrible ratings. It seemed pretty obvious to most people that werent politically inclined, its not funny, im not interested and its not about what its supposed to be about. But have they finally woken up . Are we going to see award shows, for example, that wont be so predominantly antitrump . You know, david, thats very difficult, very difficult because or to predict because there are certain very influential elements that bleeds down through the rest of hollywood because its a job, its hiring, its also, its a mindset or a world view the antithesis to what america has been. How silent was hollywood been on the meeting with kim jongun and thats on purpose, these guys are very smart, quick with the media, with the socalled fake news media, propagating, i guess, an ideology they want forward. Its going to be difficult and continue to be difficult. Now roseanne we dont have much time. Ive got to ask you, what do conservatives like you do when youre confronted by this . I mean, why do you still bang your head against the wall in l. A. Trying to break down this onesided view of the world . Well, its so necessary. I mean, if we dont, its the responsibility we have. Its educating, its you know, giving a different point of view. If we had just one side and we didnt go up against it, you know, back in the 50s, sterling haden was the head of the communist party in america, he was the actor in the godfather. Ronald reagan crashed a party at an actresss house, big actress of the day that they were having for the communist party and it was John Garfield when reagan wanted to speak, it was John Garfield who said, they were shouting him down, let him speak and a different point of view. And later on sterling haden called Ronald Reagan a oneman wrecking crew. We have to have voices out there and who knows whats going to break through and influence and affect a different point of view. David you say who knows. Who knew it was going to be roseanne, her new show, that may be the break through. It didnt take long, like a day after the ratings were announced you heard the news that the show was going to get a full run and they picked up on that pretty quick. And dont forget, roseanne did a pilot last year or two years ago that didnt go. So theres something that shi t shicht shifted and she had the pulse and the producers, again, its showing both sides. I dont mind them programming, but lets show both sides. Lets find out where it is, where america is, not just left and right coast. David and its a wonderful change to see that, a breath of fresh air. Roseanne tweeted out whats going on with the show. She says anyone who watches roseanne should see we know life is a struggle for most americans and it didnt get easier during the 20 years we were off the air. Lets face the issues we have in common and help our families, neighbors, and leaders pull together towards solutions, please. And thats what she seems to be saying on talk shows, its not so much that shes pro trump, its just that she wants america to succeed. Thats kind of a nice change. Well, thats how it should be, you know . I mean, roseanne always had an everyman appeal, everywoman appeal when she first showed up on the scene. A friend of mine managed her early on in her career and i remember them talking about her when they first found her, an essence that cut through a Political Correctness and here we have 20 years later, reemerging again as a cultural force and i think its wonderful. About bringing us together as a nation, which we have to do. David yeah. Ive got to say though, i think its too early on, i mean, one success doesnt mean that weve seen a sea change in terms of the way hollywood deals with things, so, i think were going to have to see something beyond just what happened with the roseanne show, dont you . Oh, absolutely. I mean, thats the believe me, its a successful show, but its going to take a lot longer, its going to take a force of nature and a continued dialog from the higherups. That calls for people like norman lear and Clint Eastwood and really shall the elite of hollywood to get together with opposing points of view to talk about this and bring our country together. I wrote several articles about that a couple of years ago, please, bring us together and these are elder statesmen that have the power to call up each other and say, you know what . Enough of this, lets sit down in a room and discuss how we can move our country forward. David right. And you know, cause i dont have that kind of clout. David you mentioned the 60s and 70s and id go back further, frank capra, a director in the 30s and 40s. Yeah. David who basically nobody knew exactly how he voted, some people thought he was democrat, but he could have been republican. He talked about American Values and got all of his films. It doesnt matter whether youre a democrat or a republican, you watch mr. Smith goes to washington or a movie like that and it gets goose bumps because it reminds what makes this country great and to have folks in hollywood emphasize the great things about this country and use that wonderful artistic form that they have to play with, known as film, in order to do that is a wonderful thing. You dont have to be one side or the other to do that, do you . No, you dont have to be and you know, frank capra became catholic or more of a devout catholic later on and he was a sicilian from italian immigrant family, a wonderful life, a classic, when i first came out it was not successful, the film with jimmy stewart, a classic. And it was not. They called it capricorn because he had certain American Values and he understood that and he was involved deeply when the bank of america helped the earthquake victims in San Francisco at the turn of the century. So, its a very interesting dilemma that we have here, culturally and we keep pushing a certain kind of edge. You know, david, this is so important because they want to talk about the violence in schools. Now, when i grew up, there was a moment of silence, there was prayer in school. Whatever you wanted to pray to, but there was and this was a public school. There was pledge of allegiance, we were taught respect for our elders and our teachers and authority. Even if the authority was wrong at times, our films, our video games, the violence in our society that hollywood and ive done films, ive shot many people in movies. Ive thrown a lot of guns and a lot of punches. So the violence is in that society and i have friends of mine from astona and latvia and havent had the cultural experience that weve had over the last 40 years and theyre getting it now so who knows whats going to happen in terms of their society if theres going to be a different kind of violence thats propagated. By the way thats another issue that hollywood has to look at. David is there a place where conservatives get together . There are other conservatives in los angeles and hollywood, in the industry. I can think of a couple of doctors who i wont name, who are pretty wellknown and a couple of producers, but is there a group of you guys that get together, like the catacombs in ancient rome when the christians were being purse persecuted or you never know who is who . There used to be a sort of conclave, you can say, but over the years now, it has kind of spread itself out and its not really that way. Its more of an individual. And i wont name the actors that call me up and come to my house, and are afraid and name actors, name guys, and theyll come and well have a discussion of politics and get whats off their chest. And thats with everyone, a couple of organizations out there that do that. And theres a group thats been very vocal for many years, David Horowitz wednesday morning club and there are people there and you have other organizations that i wont mention because they dont want to be mentioned. David yes. But, one of the first ones in the Hollywood Community to come out and have a group. David its interesting recalling the communists back in the 50s. If youre called a conservative right now in hollywood, you could lose parts. Weve got to leave it there. Thank you very much for being here, appreciate it. David, great to see you. David well be right back. Stay with us. You know what they say about the early bird. He gets the best deal on the Perfect Hotel by using tripadvisor thats because tripadvisor lets you start your trip on the right foot. By comparing prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. Saving you up to 30 youll be bathing in savings tripadvisor. Check the latest reviews and lowest prices. We wanted to let you know what is happening now with this ride for meadow. This, of course, was something that was put together by andrew po pollack, the father of meadow pollack. And it is finishing up and we have them on the line. I believe weve got you on the line now. Andrew, can you hear me . Its david asman. Dave, how is it going . Its fine. Tell me how you got involved with bikers down there. Oh, its not so much bikers, its americans. You know what i mean . Were americans and we want our kids safe. Every american wants it, its not just bikers, its everybody here. The whole community here. David and are you making headway, andrew . I mean, that was clearly your message right from the beginning of this. Yes. David that we deal with a lot of political stuff later, but what we have to do now is keep our kids safe. Have you made progress there . Well, i dont know. Im sitting here with some officers, are we making progress with the movement weve got going on, guys . Yeah, were making big progress. Its not a political message, thats why were so busy right now. Its not a political message, its a message of we want our kids safe. You know, and theres no everybody wants their children safe, so thats whats great and theres got to be a few, a couple thousand people here. David andrew, last week we saw these marches all over the country. A lot of them had a tendency to get very political. Did that disappoint you . Oh, you know, its kids. So, what kids do doesnt really disappoint me. What were doing is not political. Its nothing about being on the right or the left. My message is, we want our kids safe and its a powerful message and there are thousands of people here supporting it and its only the beginning that were getting more done here than, i dont know what they did last week, but they brought awareness, but this is wonderful, everyone coming together for one thing and thats schools and keeping our kids safe. David you talked about a lot of what you wanted to do and what we needed to do as a country when you were at the white house in february. Yes. David i think we have i think we have that sound bite. Could we play that, please . Oh, you can play it, i havent my daughter im not going to see again. Shes not here and it stops and we all Work Together and come up with the right yeaed and thats school safety. Its not about gun laws right now, thats another fight, another battle. Lets fix the schools, and then you guys can battle it out, whatever you want, but we need our children safe. David now, andrew, when i look at that man and you were clearly look at the camera, by the way, andrew when youre talking to me, not necessarily the selfie. When i look at the man that was at the white house in february, you looked like the angry he is man in the world and you had every right to be so and now you look very different, youre more purposeful and you seem to have gotten a lot of the anger out. Its easter time and this is a time of when theres tremendous forgiveness by fathers for people that mistreat their children. Explain what happened. How you came to change the way you did . Well, to tell you the truth, dont let dont let me dont let it kid you how i look, im pretty angry, you know what i mean . Yeah, theres a bunch of people here, but inside im a lot more being angry, im going out there and fight for the kids and the grandparents and the parents that drop their kids off at school. So, its not like many not changed, that was just i spoke from the heart when i was at the white house and i speak from the heart and people feel it when i speak and thats why its such an important message. David what specifically, andrew, do you want us to do . I mean, there are a lot of people that arent down there right now, what can the people watching do in order to help everybody get their make sure their kids are safer now than in the past . Sure, theres its not a political message. This is a message of just being american and this is what the message is. We live in the greatest country in the world. Weve got to protect our kids and people are forgetting weve got to protect our teachers, also. Teachers, i met with a lot of teachers. They are worried theyre going to school and they cant just worry about teaching science or math, theyre worried someone is coming in the hallway and shoot them. You know, we failed as a society if we cant send our kids to school and teachers and theyve got to worry theyre going to get shot and thats my message. David its extraordinary that we can assure people are safe travelling at the airport. We had a couple of horrific hijackings after 9 11 and we changed the system all around so that we wouldnt be unsafe in the way that we previously were, but these School Shootings happened and we dont seem to be able to make our schools safe. I mean, if you can do it at airports, why cant you do it in schools . Its an easy answer. I can tell you why. If you shut the airlines down for a week theres billions of dollars lost to corporations. And business all over the world. When they kid my kill at the school, nobody loses a dollar. All of those kids and teachers, 17 people murdered, nobody lost a penny. So, thats your answer right there. Its the same thing with a football stadium or a concert. Shut down the concert halls, shut down the nfl for a couple of weeks because theres a shooting at a stadium. Right. Billions of dollars, but when our kids get shot, no one loses anything, thats why, but now theyve got me. David andrew, were not going to ignore your cause, not going to ignore what youre doing, unfortunately we had some technical difficulties which is why we had to talk to you the way were doing it now. Not a problem. David we wish you the best, andrew in that ride for meadow, god bless your daughter meadow. That will do it for cavuto live, as always, thanks for watching. Have a wonderful easter. 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