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No. with claim rateguard your rates won't go up just because of a claim. i totally could've - no! switching to allstate is worth it. >> time now for our hits and misses of the week. james. >> paul,s this is a hit to facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg. his company collects terabytes of data about all of us. apparently, it is not enough, so he is personally going out to middle america to meet people, find out what their concerns are, hockey moms, oil workers, steel workers. i think there's some question of what his motives are here, but i think we a ought to give him some credit. he's will...

Senate rule. republicans, what do they do about it, james? >> well, i think they may go further to change the rules. we saw how chuck schumer, the democrats, basically put up the goal line stand against neil gorsuch, bad move, he was a blue chip nominee, should not have been a big fight about that. that ended up killing the filibuster for judicial nominees going forward. so i think normally the senate, a lot of it runs on unanimous consent. >> right. >> and that's how they waive all these complicated rules that basically prevent anything from happening. if the democrats are saying no, we're go...

Joe rago and james freeman. james, let's take a step back here, for a second, as they approach the august recess, 7 months, almost 8, into this -- i guess it's seven into the presidency. typically a time when a new congress, a new government with the same party running both sides of pennsylvania avenue, gets a lot done. what do they have to show for it so far? >> by the traditional measures maybe not much. we think of pelosi and reid putting a huge stimulus on barack obama's desk within a month, that hasn't really happened here. but if you are a trump voter reflecting on your choice, you can s...

The up keep of the plant. let's take the mta, for example, subway cars, if you invest in the unions, the workers, you skimp over the years on things like buying trains or upgrading signals. >> that's right. the politicians have been paying off their public unions who are big donors to their campaign and just neglected these repairs, but they've also been investing to an extent in some, you know, the 2nd avenue subway >> they finally built that -- >> they could cut some ribbons. they can maybe win some more voters on the upper east side. >> there's i think four stations there. thank you very mu...

♪ ooo baby let's... ♪ ...let's stay together... >> time now for our hits and misses of the week. james? >> paul, this is a hit to facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg. his company collects data about all of us. apparently it is not enough. so he is personally going out to middle america to meet people, find out what their concerns are, hockey moms, steelworkers, oil workers, i think there's some question of what his motives are here. is it marketing? is it about a political run? but i think we ought to give him some credit. he's one coastal elitist who is willing to go out and find out...