Attacks on amazon. Sentencing day. A lawyer with very close ties to Paul Manafort and rick gates is set to be the first person sentenced in connection with the russia investigation. This, as newly revealed memo defends the special counsels charges specifically against mr. Manafort. And growing protests. Schools in oklahoma and kentucky remain closed as thousands of teachers fight for better pay, pensions and crucial funding. We need textbooks and chairs and software and special classes and arts. I mean, all those things are gone. You hear that, shes asking for chairs. We begin today on wall street. One familiar for me. Where right now futures are up slightly after markets suffer add massive selloff yesterday to kick off the Second Quarter. I have a great panel to break all of it down. But first, a look at how we got here. Monday marked the first day of trading for the Second Quarter of 2018. And it was the worst start since the Great Depression in 1929. The dow plunging more than 400 points at the close. The nasdaq shed nearly 3 . The s p 500 closed down more than 2 , falling back into official correction territory. Right now, futures are showing minor gains. Pointing to a mixed open. The market, as you know, tanked monday, in large part because investors are worried about the possibility of a trade war with china. China announced monday it was officially slapping new tariffs on more than 100 different u. S. Imports after President Trump imposed tariffs on chinese steel last month. The Tech Industry is taking a major hit as the president wages a war not against the whole industry, against one company, amazon. Tesla fell more than 5 following a deadly crash involving one of its cars last month. Intel dropped about 6 over reports apple may start making its own computer chips. Facebook still in the cross hairs, fell as it prepares to testify on capitol hill over its controversial privacy practices. As for amazon, the president again accused the online retailer of exploiting the u. S. Postal service on monday, threatening in a tweet, quote, this will be changed. Amazon stocks tumbled 5 . Wiping out more than 36 billion of its market value. And heres what former white house ethics chief told me last night. We just today had the president of the United States making statements that were false. Probably knowingly false about amazon driving the stock price down. If an investor lost money on that stock that investor could sue him for securities fraud and those investors ought to be calling a lawyer. Were going to cover this. I want to bring in my friend, cofounder and editor of risk reversal and cnbc contributor. What the president is saying about amazon and the white house is a lie. Right. Is false. So why is the market reacting to this . When you think about it, theres other issues weighing on tech stocks. Amazons one of the largest stocks in the u. S. Markets. One of the largest stocks in the world, right. Weve already seen some issues related to its internet peers, like facebook. When you think about whats going on, this is a political attack by the president , but, you know, listen, theres some points to be made here. At the end of the day, the United StatesPostal Service is a money losing operation. Heres the most important part about it. The Parcel Service that they offer is actually one of the only areas thats growing. When you think about first class mail has been decimated by email and the like. By email, by text messaging, not by amazon. Amazon is taking half of the ecommerce growth in america now. The president in speaking to his base sees that as a tremendous threat to mom and pop retail. This is an easy angle for him to come at. At the end of the day, this is about his coverage from the Washington Post for all intents and purposes. Lis, could the u. S. Postal Service Charge amazon more for delivering their packages for last mile . Of course they could. At the end of the day, its the only thing growing at the u. S. Postal service. Its been a lifeline for them i think theres a way amazon and the u. S. Postal service can figure out something that the president could probably not have too much issue with, but dont forget this, amazon is working drone delivery. At some point, amazon will not be using the usps for deliveries. They actively are in trialing for that last mile sort of thing. So to me sort of you talked about taxes, amazon hasnt paid taxes to the u. S. Federal government, you know, they did i guess they were losing money in 2014. But you know what, theyve been investing in their business like drone delivery. Even if amazon isnt paying taxes, theyre not breaking the law. Of course. The president himself has boasted about avoiding taxes saying listen, i followed the letter of the law, it makes me smart. If it makes the president smart but it makes us it makes the president hate jeff bezos, do the math for me. Theres no truth to the tax thing. Theres the issue whether they were collecting sales tax, and they do, in all 45 states. That ask for sales tax to be collected on ecommerce sales. Were they paying taxes . They were not profitable. If youre a business in the u. S. And youre not profitable, you dont pay taxes to the irs. So amazon has been given a pass by its investors for nearly 20 years. Up until 2014 when they first decided to be profitable, they laid off their investments in their own business and they started to show profitability. They started paying taxes. To me what i think is going on this is really important when you think about it, the u. S. Retail sales about 5 trillion, okay. Amazon is about 230 billion expected this year. Its a fraction of total retail sales. What has amazon done . Its been this massive deflationary force. Its caused price wars with their major competitor, walmart, target, okay, about 130 billion in sales, and then costco, about the same. So this nearly 1 trillion where you have deflationary pressure, thats good for u. S. Consumers. Good for u. S. Consumers. Remember, President Trump loved to say thank you you should thank me and your 401k should thank me when the market was up so much. Id like to remind you who owns amazon. Its pensions. Its endowments. Its 401ks. They got whacked yesterday. Why . Because amazon got hit by our president. Peter navarro can say all day long that the white house doesnt look at the stock market day in, day out, but you know what this is, another lie. Every time we have a big up day, guess what we see, maga. From the president s twitter account, from his daughters twitter account and from his sons. Dont go telling me that lie, peter navarro. Another wave of bad headlines for epa administrator pruitt. The Washington Post reports pruitts aides considered leasing a private jet, thats right, a pj, for this guy to accommodate his travel needs. But the plan ghaixed because the agency decided it would be too expensive. New york times reporting the epa approved a pine line project last year during the same time pruett was renting this apartment from the life of a lobbyist linked to the pipelines, wait for it, owner, pruitt, he paid 50 bucks a night to rent a place in a luxury condo in washington, d. C. The daily beast reports that condo also served as a hub for republican lawmakers to raise money for their congressional campaigns. According to that report, at least three members of congress had fundraisers at the condo during the same time pruitt was living there. That sounds like a party pad. Amid all the negative headlines, pruitt announced monday he is revoking obama era standards requiring cars and light trucks sold in the United States to average more than 15 miles per gallon by 2025. I want to bring my panel in. Jeremy peters, reporter for the New York Times. And eddie glog, msnbc contributor. Elise jordan, former white house aide. Dan, still with me. Elise, can scott pruitt survive this . Hugh hewitt says this is about the media and left, they dont like pruitts policyings. You can put the policy aside. This is about conduct, ethics. I would ask hugh how he would have felt in an Obama Administration cabinet official had behaved this way. If theyd been accepting room for 50 a night in a rental thats market value of 5,000. If theyd been shopping around for net jets to fly around the countries. Is that fiscal conservativism . Is it fiscal conservativism not being involved in the free market when you are accepting that room that end you approve the lobbyist deal . I think its incredibly hypocritical of conservatives to ignore the clear corruption. Jeremy, take me inside the white house. Because politico has reported that john kelly has considered firing pruitt in the coming months but this one is very tricky for the president. He doesnt have a lot of people he likes around him. He likes pruitt. People have told me pruitt is a guy he has considered to get sessions job if sessions were to leave. I think some of pruitts career ambitions or kind of the ambitions dont quite square with the reality. I think the idea that he would ever become attorney general is a bit of an right wing Koch Brothers fantasy. I see that path as very, very difficult in the senate. He does as we know from the reporting has designs on running for the governorship of oklahoma. What you see here is a pattern that youve seen with other new officials to washington who have flown a bit too close to the sun, have come from outside of the beltway, outside of National Prominence and decided they are entitled to a lifestyle that they see others, especially in the trump administration, with its excessive wealth, living. That appears to be what happened here. I think the political problem for trump though goes kind of beyond this immediate scandal with another cabinet departure. It gets to heart of the drain the swamp promise. Obviously the swamp has captured this administration. And when you combine that with all the other Campaign Promises that this president has failed to deliver on, namely the wall and immigration, which are most important to his supporters, i think this all adds up to a pretty depressing despiriting picture for the midterm voter on right. Eddie . I like the keeping up with the joness theory he put out there. Given all the billionaires that are part of this cabinet. I also want to say, you know, i was thinking that, you know, theres a loch ness monster in this swamp and it seems to be pruitt and trump. That hes not draining the swamp at all. In fact, hes actually thriving on it. I dont want to get beyond the policies. Rolling back fuel efficiency for cars. You think about his refusal to enforce epa rules. 230,000 americans die every day from hazardous chemicals. He slowed that process down. Theyre not suing folk. Scott pruitt from my voantage point has been a disaster at epa and now he has revealed his character. I pray he doesnt survive this, for the good of the country. We forgot the most recent breaking story, which is he used the safe water act to raise the salaries of two political appointees after the white house said no, you cant raise their salaries. This might be bad, this might be a bad appearance, went ahead and used that law probably did it from the secret phone booth you said pruitts been a disaster. The last month and a half or so, every single major kind of cabinet member whos been replaced, weve gotten something worse. When you think about how bad pruitt has been, hes a science denier for all intents and purposes. You think about their negotiation. These are the art of the deal crew. The Auto Industry wasnt even asking for the sort of rollback that they just gave them. So its like these guys, you know, youve heard this expression, they always shoot the hostage in the negotiation. Theyre horrible at it. The thing thats scary, its like the devil that we know. When pruitts gone, what comes next . Thats really the thing that i think going back to that really quickly what is causing some prep days of the investors. Who owns stocks . 80 are owned by the 10 of the wealthiest people of america. This is the donor class speaking in the stock market, right. They do not like this sort of chaos in washington. And i think the pruitt thing is just, you know, a grifters going to grift. Another grifter there. Grifters going to grift. Jeremy, take us inside the white house. The president and Sarah Huckabee sanders would love us to think everything is honkydory. Right. From those i spoke to, theyre saying the wheels have come off, though i argue im not sure when they were on. This pruitt scandal cuts right to the heart of that, that anxiety, that dread really, of oh, my god, not another one. Because as we were just talking about, pruitts ambition has really rankled some people inside the white house. The fact that he has been telling people privately he would like Jeff Sessions job. I mean, you dont Say Something like that, even in this white house. And i think that the president and john kelly really who is going to have a lot of authority and say so in this decision of whether or not to keep scott pruitt has been espec lip troubled not just by the political ambition, the raw ambition that pruitt has shown, but also all of the ethically questionable decision hes been making with regard to travel on private jets and the lease of this condo. Yes, i think its a siege mentality. Its kind of i think for a lot of people inside the white house just another scandal they dont need to be dealing with. At a time they are trying to hold on to the senate and hold on to the house of representatives and hold on to what remains of this presidency. Tom price is watching it, sitting back, Drinking Coffee right now saying see, it wasnt only me. Great conversation. All right. We got to take you to d. C. Because in an00 t hour, the fir person is expected to be sentenced in connection with special counsel muellers russia investigation. Alex vander swan, a lawyer who worked with Campaign OfficialsPaul Manafort and rick gates pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in february. Nbcs justice correspondent Pete Williams joins me now from outside the courthouse in washington. Pete what ive been racking my brain on since we heard about the story. If youre a lawyer, you understand the ramifications of lying, yet this guy did. Whats in store for him . Well, what he says, his lawyers say in court documents, when he was interviewed by the special counsel, he wasnt worried about bob muellers team he was worried about the lawyers because he didnt want them to know about his conversationings with richard gates in 2016 about the work that skanden arps did for manafort and gates when they represents ukraine. Thats what this case is about. I think really this prosecution is intended to send a message that you dont lie to the special counsel. I think thats what this is all about. I dont think this is one of those cases where theyre squeezing somebody to get cooperation. The sentencing is happening pretty fast after his guilty plea. So it does seem intended to send a message. The question is will he get any prison time at all. His lawyers are saying no he shouldnt, that he suffered enough, hes lost his legal career. Hes estranged now or at least separated from his wife, whos expecting in august. He wants to be there in london for the birth. And that his life is basically in taters, they say. The government says hes married to the wife of a russian billionaire. He can afford any fine that the court imposes. The question is will he get prison time. His lawyers say zero to six months is the guideline range. Government adegrees. Id frankly be surprised if he gets any more than a couple months in prison if he gets a prison sentence at all. Soninlaw of a russian oligarch, im pretty sure, is going to be able to make rent. Pete, thanks. 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That detail comes from a newly revealed memo sent in august defending the scope of the special counsels investigation. I want to bring in former chief spokesperson from the Justice Department matt miller, also an msnbc justice and security analyst. Okay, matt, help me understand why this is significant. Paul manafort filed for a motion to dismiss his indictment and toss out the claim, claiming these charges are tied to businesses in the ukraine and they were outside the scope of the investigation. You know, one of the rules sometimes in law is the same in boxing. The punch the counterpunch can be stronger than the initial punch. I think that was the case here. Paul manafort made what was really kind of a frivolous argument. Arguing that the entire indictment should be dismissed because bob mueller was acting outside the scope of his appointment. That was a pretty frivolous argument on the face for a number of reasons. The special counsels response filed late last night goes through in pretty painstaking detail why why that motion should not succeed and why the indictment should stand. I think if you look at what manafort was really up to, this was a little bit i think of a press release masquerading as a legal filing. Never likely to succeed in court but i think it was his way of arguing publicly that the special counsel is acting outside his authority. That he is, you know, off on a witchhunt. His words, weve heard the president use except appeal to the president ultimately for a pardon. Except weve learned rosenstein said nope, its not outside the scope. Yes. Because weve learned that, isnt that going to make the president more uncomfortable, more unhinged, knowing how broad this investigation is . Yes, e thii think thats exa right. Anything he sees anything about this investigation, gets increasingly angry. Now we see for the first time government itself, the Justice Department, using in a court filing a memo that, you know, explicitly references collusion between a member of the president s campaign and the russian government and the fact theyre investigating that. I think it is likely to upset the president. But, you know, i think thats probably what manaforts team was going for here. They had to know this had little chances of succeeding in court. I think its highly unlikely hell side with manafort. This is a way for his lawyers to appeal to the president as they have done in Public Comments before the gag order was issued. Appeal to the president about the scope of this investigation. Try to convince the president that ultimately their client deserve as a parten. Because you know this would upset the president. Yes, thats exactly right. I think his lawyers know, if you look at the weight of the evidence in the manafort case, it is damning. We found out last week in negotiations with rick gates, bob muellers team made clear they didnt even need rick gates testimony to convict manafort. They have a very serious, very strong case against mannaed for. So manafort doesnt have a lot of Legal Options. His Legal Options are basically to at some point cooperate and meet guilty and turn against the president or others in the president s orbit. Or hope for a pardon or hope the president somehow closes down this entire investigation. Flip, pardon, go to jail. Those are not great options. All right, thanks so much. Coming up, markets set to open in just a few moments. After mondays massive dive. And right now, u. S. Stocks are on track to have their worst Second Quarter start since the Great Depression. What can we expect today . Maybe a comeback. We know were going to get one thing, volatility. You may be at increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia, that can take you out of the game for weeks, even if youre healthy. 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What we have is a market that gyrates a little bit and thats what investors are more accustomed to. So in that way, the pullback we saw yesterday, it was, yes, a big one, but it wasnt nearly as panic driven as some people want to make it out to be. What we didnt see a lot was a lot of participation. So whether or not we do see some of these bouncebacks hold today will be key. We have seen in the past where markets start off positive for the morning but then fade for the afternoon. Whether or not we see these gains hold, that could be a big test for this market overall. Help me understand why do investors some days care what the president has to say and others not . If you look at last year, there were days when i felt like there was huge geopolitical risks but the market shrugged it off. Why now do they seem to care . Thats a great point. I think 2017 was a honeymoon period. Americans had to give this new administration a chance. You think about some of the adults they put in the room. I think people felt pretty comfortable about the National Economic adviser being gary cohn, a guy from Goldman Sachs. They felt that we got to give this a chance in 2017. And then the hope for some sort of tax cut, which they got. What dom was saying is yes, yesterday was ordinarily. Think about whats going on since january 26 or so. A 10 pullback. Were back at the levels where we were when President Trump signed the tax bill in mid to late december. So weve given all of that back, okay. So to me that was kind of the fuel that was put on the fire last year of the steady rise in the stock market. Now its a really important point to say, okay, what happens from here, and as far as im concerned, the chaos in the white house right now is the thing that is causing the volatility because the market is kind of discounting mechanism and right now i think investors are speaking with their wallets and saying we dont know whats going to happen with tariffs, with geopolitical risks. Lets take a little bit of a pause, you know. So i think it makes sense. As a pretty rationale selloff, all intents and purposes. I say its the threat of regulation. When you see President Trump go after amazon so hard, thats somewhat fruitless because you cant go after one specific business. Whether youre talking the president and amazon or Congress Taking a close look at facebook, isnt the real threat here that these companies could face some serious regulation . They could face some serious regulations and that is of course a risk. Thats the reason why i mean, dan mentioned something interesting. Mentioned this idea the stock market is a discounting mechanism. Meaning it takes all the information thats currently available. Takes all the information that people are forecasting or trying to predict will happen in the future and will assign a price to a stock today. Like amazon, rather, revalation. This idea there are these risks out there. A price it currently trades at maybe isnt as robust as it should be because of all the risks. As you start to see traders price lower, regulation is going to certainly be a part of it. We talk about facebook and the trials and tribulations its gone through with regard to data and customer information and that sort of thing. All of these things will factor into the prices that were seeing. What will be interesting and curious is facebook, amazon, apple, many of these big tech and retail oriented stocks have been consensus winning trades over the last few years. The trend has been their friend. If it stays that way, maybe this viable bounce area is something people are looking for. If this really is a turning point and the Large Cap Technology stocks that are out there are going to be the ones that lag, it could be a real problem for the market going forward. Quickly, before we go, i want to go out of the market and into the mall. One of the arguments the president likes to make is amazon has killed mom and pop shops. And it has. But thats because the American Consumer decided he didnt want to go to the mall anymore. He and she wanted cheap stuff fast delivered today. If you go after amazon, are you really going to put Small Business back on main street . Listen, before it was amazon was the target, 10, 15 years ago, it was walmart. A company that has 500 billion in sales, almost double what amazons expected to have this year. Walmarts been putting mom and pop businesses out of business for decades. At the end of the day, we had this conversation about 20 minutes ago. I think the price wars going on in big box and between amazon is good for u. S. Consumers. Is basically driving the costs down. The cost of delivery is coming down. Look at what walmart did last year. They institute thread own sort of prime target. Just announced it, twoday free shipping, same day free grocery delivery, that sort of thing. Its unavoidable. Theres no regulation thats going to stop it. Theres nobody in the white house whos really going to stop it. These attacks appear to be pretty political. Tom hanks, meg ryan, youve got mail, one of my favorite movies but the shop around the corner, just not coming back. Next, teachers in oklahoma walk out of class for a second straight day, but are they any closer to having their demands met . First, watch this will novembvillanova wins. Taking home its Second National title in three seasons after defeating michigan in the championship game. What a win. Millions of you are online right now, searching one topic. 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Im begging you to pay attention. More than 50 schools in oklahoma and kentucky are closed for a second straight day as teachers remain defiant. Demanding more pay and basic classroom resources. The teacher walkout, the latest in the series of protests that have also included West Virginia and arizona. My colleague is in Oklahoma City where protesters are expected to gather in about 20 minutes. Walk us through this, because the governor approved raises last week and says the budget is tight. Talk us through any movement because someone from the outside could say, well, these teachers just got raises, but this is making up for years and years of budget cuts. A decade of budget cuts, and it seems like neither side is really moving. Yesterday, you had the governor putting out a statement were only able to do what our budget allows. Today, growing frustration among educators. Hundreds of them have started to gather here inside the Oklahoma State capital. The focus were told today is going to be inside, with tables like these, urging educators to find their legislators, to pressure them into hearing their demands. Because teachers are telling us that that revenue bill that was passed last week is quite simply not enough. I want to speak to sally over here. You teach first grade. I do. Can you tell us about any sort of movement, were you left with any hope with meetings with regulators yesterday . I did finally contact one of my legislators and i have a fiveminute meeting with him tomorrow to have a dialogue which is going to be interesting because five minutes just i dont think is enough time to discuss the dire problems we have here in this state with funding. I left feeling disheartened. I was at the house of representative session yesterday. Representative inman brought it up twice trying to talk about it. He was shut down every time. Another representative, representative stone asked to not adjourn. Because the teachers just want to know, were here, like talk to us, let us know. He was shut down as well. Referring to democratic legislatures who tried to bring up a package that would have brought 100 million in additional funding. That wasnt even brought up for discussion according to her. I want to ask you, how long will you keep this going . Youre out here for a second day in a row. Theres hundreds of people around you. What will happen . Im from a very supportive district and our superintendant and our board of education, our parents, they have our backs. Were out tomorrow as well. Im just going to follow the lead of my leaders, of oea. When we get whats right for the kids, well go back. I dont want to be away from my students. I mean, ive done this for 15 years. I dont want to leave them a lone. Thank you so much. Educators telling us it took historic cuts to bring them here and its going to take historic funding to make oklahoma schools be up to par with the rest of the country. Oklahoma schools. Its not just oklahoma, this is happening in a number of states. I want to bring my panel back. Eddie and elise. Eddie, to you first. Its not just teachers walking out. Theyre standing with parents and kids. This is about the whole Education System breaking down. Is this a Tipping Point . I think so. Budgets reflect what we care about, what we value. Over a tenyear period, what weve seen is republicans and democrats and state legislators across the country have proven that they value folks who are rich, the top 1 , the top 10 . We want to give them tax cuts over our children. You cant possibly say you care about income inequality if youre Cutting School budgets. You look at how teachers salaries havent increased with the pace of inflation, with the pace of cost of living. From 2010 to 2016, only 12 states actually raised their salaries. It previously was college graduates. They only made about 2 more than teachers in 94. Cue to 17 and the difference is about 2. 5 . Theyre not on pace with other professionals. You combine that fact with the escalating student loan debt. The fact these students ballooning student loan debt. Youre worried about the subprime crisis . Guess whats coming next. Having to be uber drivers or and teach our kids, right. It makes no sense. All the while, you have a particular id eology designed t starve state government, to redistribute resources to folks who already have money and our kids arent getting educated. I think this is really interesting. We cant read this ideologically. We cant read this as simply unions have suddenly returned, right. Its parents and kids there are heads of unions. This is not simply the traditional kinds of strikes we saw in the 80s. This is another sign of a kind of political realignment. Read this moment in oklahoma. In kentucky. In West Virginia. Alongside what the kids are doing in parkland. This is my concern with it being futile. We can talk about it. They can protest. But to that teachers point, their agenda wasnt even on the docket yesterday. The government leaders who wanted to talk about it got shut down. Betsy devos, i cant find what she said yet. Do you know . You dont want to know. Because it wont make much sense. What i think is interesting about the moment in terms of activism is the relationship between the protests surrounding what happened in parkland and then now the teachers protesting their pay. And theyre protesting the resources that theyre given for schools. You look at the pictures of some of the textbooks theyre still using. With duct tape on them. You cant believe this is 2018 america. Theres so much Energy Around both of these movements. And the activism and the agency of these high school students, too, and their parents who are coming out to support this. Combined with the activism thats in sacramento. Theres a political realignment happening. What will be the payoff . What will be the cash payoff quote unquote . I dont know how it will cash out but i do know politicians who are in statehouses, in d. C. , they need to be shaking any their damn boots. You want to address income inequality, address education, thats where it starts. Coming up, money, power, politics. The me too movement takes on wall street. Or it starts to. With one of the nations largest investment banks now under fire. Be sure to catch Andrea Mitchell reports today. Andrea will be speak with former Campaign Manager corey lewandowski. Thats today at noon on msnbc. Wr choicehotels. Com badda book. Badda boom. This year, were taking it up a notch. 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It appears the me too movement has finally hit wall street. Judges cleared it had way for 2300 women to proceed with a suit claiming Goldman Sachs systemly paid feel employees less. Por began stanley also on offense, ignored allegations against one of their former employees. Novak, we heard they might be women but what are those women going to get paid . I spent 14 years of hi life on wall street, kpeng at wall street could not be more private. There are loads of lawsuits but that are tied up and closed arbitrations you never see them see the light of day. Is this a moment where things are going to clang . What you just described is why wall street has been indemnified from the me too movement. You described the problem, they have a fantastic, for their sake, arbitration infrastructure that protects them from things. You mentioned the Goldman Sachs ruling yesterday. The judge in that case leaned heavily on that rare piece of data that did publicize in some cases the paid gaps. Vice president at Goldman Sachs according to the ceo was 20 moreless than men. She moved on that to move this case along. This is not about women not getting the biggest jobs, this is about men and women with the same titles getting paid different amounts of munch Goldman Sachs will not be able to explain that and look you straight in the eye. Thats why there are some legal scholars that think this might get settled now. This decision by the judge didnt come quickly. Eight years this case has been running through the court. They finally has this class action the orr day on good friday. Its so rare to get this fact out to the public eye. T going to make it hard for them to win. If it happens to goldman are they going to see it happen to the rest . I think thats another point i made to do as well. No one i think thinks this is just goldman. This has been a systematic financial issue. Youve got four different women, didnt just say they are harassed who sought Police Protection against one financial adviser, Douglas Greenberg over the last 15 years. One woman said she was choked. Another said he threatened her to death. We reached out and a spokeswoman said this, mr. Greenberg has been placed on paeft leave pending further review of the situation. Heres what i dont get. Pending further review of the situation. This has been going on 15 years and the police involve. How is this guy still at the company . So, were talking about the fact that they have these great arbitration rules. Another thing that indemnifies wall street. You were in the business for a long time, you foe the names. People who follow the news they never heard of Douglas Greenberg or they may not know who the ceo of wall street is. Compare that to james franco or al franken, other big stars, those are much bigger names than wall street. 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