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a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! ♪ i'm michael smerconish. the rocket man had a hell of a week -- frenzy, chaotic, turk lent. all words used to describe the latest two weeks in the life of president donald trump and for good reason. you know the laundry list. he re-tweeted a guy who implied that jeffrey epstein didn't die by suicide but was killed by the clintons, re-tweeted that the fbi ignored investigating the parkland shooter and convicted sex abuser larry nassar because they were too busy investigating
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him. he posed for a photo after a shooting with a child whose parents were killed in the attack. robert cuccinelli mocked the statue of liberty poem. the mooch suggesting his former boss isn't playing with a full deck, and that's just at home. internationally, the president has laid low on unrest in hong kong, has largely ignored missile launches in north korea, and of course unced israel to deny -- urged israel to deny admission to two sitting u.s. members of congress. the trade war has caused shock waves in international markets. the dow dropped 800 spurring speculation that we're at the beginning of a recession. uni didder itted, the president -- undeterred, the president raised the possibility of purchasing greenland. like i said, frenzied, chaotic, turbulent. by the way, he's been on vacation this past week. there's something else that happened to provided necessary context to the president's
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prognosticators of political doom. thursday night, he spoke in new hampshire. as he tweeted he set an attendance record claiming that he bested an attendance record previously set by elton john, not the first time that he's compared himself to sir elton. according to the manchester fire department, we checked, 11,500 trump loyalists packed the snhu arena to capacity, and 8,000 or 9,000 more watched on the jumbotron outside. so what does that tell us? it tells us that maybe none of the laundry list items from the seeming seemingly s show week the president has harmed his standing with the base. the items that work trump credit sbo ics -- critics is noise and confirmation about what the president said about shooting someone on 5th avenue. is there something that could jeopardize his standing with supporters?
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some data now suggests the answer is yes and the achilles heel is the economy. remember, the president's approval number has never been above water. unlike predecessors, he's never moved the needle above the 50% threshold. this despite the fact he's enjoyed a robust economy. he seems to be tapped out in the mid 40s which makes his re-election a game of inches. and what would happen to his standing if the economy were to take a tumble? my hunch is that he'd be back to playing second fiddle to the real rocket man. i want to know what you think. go to my website this hour at smerconish.com and answer the question. would an economic downturn cause president trump's base to abandon him? the economy is also a key subject raised in a new swing voter focus group conducted in minnesota, comprised of people who flipped from obama to trump and who switched from romney to hillary clinton.
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joining me is rich tau, ceo of engage us. set the stage. who are these people, and how do you approach this? >> michael, these are people who voted for obama and then trump and then romney and then clinton. they moved either from right to left or left to right between the last two presidential elections. and what we did was we recruited them through a random process. they are people who lived in minnesota outside the twin cities and agreed to spend two hours with us sharing the opinions about the candidates and the campaign. >> and minnesota much in the news for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that omar is from minnesota, getting headlines. minnesota is a state that republicans haven't won since ' '-- since '72, and donald trump has it on his wish less. what's the big takeaway from swing voters? >> when it comes to the economy they think that the president is -- is basically going to ride
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the wave of how the economy is performing. so if the economy does well, then he'll do well. if the economy doesn't do well, he's not going to do well. that's a real vulnerability that he faces. >> i've got a short clip from a woman speaking to you, rich. i'm going to roll it, and then you can comment. play it. >> i think that we were already getting better with obama and trump came in, and it stayed pretty much status quo. i think it stayed the same for us, so it hasn't gone down, which is good, but he hasn't done anything to increase my -- my wage. >> the president won't want to hear that. i mean, that woman is saying she's riding on obama's coattails. >> that's the challenge actually that the president faces. i asked people in this focus group straight up how many of you have seen an increase in your wages since trump became president. and only one person out of 11
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said that he had. and that's a real challenge that he faces. also, there were a couple of other things. basically the respondents said to us, if the economy turns before the election, they're going to blame the president. if their prices go up because of tariffs, they're going to blame the president. because there's no health care plan coming from the president, he's vulnerable on that. and also they don't see him securing social security before the election. and that's a concern for them, as well. there are all sorts of economy/financialers that the president faces -- financial issues that the president faces going into the election. >> i'm hearing about wages, health care, i'm hearing about concerns over social security. what about the impact of this trade war that's now playing itself out? >> the real interesting thing is a lot of these respondents in minnesota didn't think that trade necessarily affected them. i asked them on a zero to ten scale how much does the trade policy affect you, and the scores were like in the threes. it was very low.
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the threatening is they are vulnerable and know they're -- the thing is they are vulnerable and know they're vulnerable with prices. if prices rise for consumer products before the election and those are pegged to the tariffs, he's got a real challenge on his hands. >> okay. so i'm hearing that the president is vulnerable recoto the economy. there's an addage at least in philly that you can't beat somebody with nobody. let's talk about the other side of the aisle. you had interesting findings in minnesota about the perception of this split in the democratic party between the most progressive and the more moderate forces. speak to that. >> well, so we showed snippets from the last presidential debate to our 11 swing voters in adina. and they heard a lot of commentary from the more progressive people who are running and the proposals that they put forward. and when i asked them their reaction to these comments from the candidates, they said to us that it sounded unrealistic, pie
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in the sky, a pipe dream, these are actual comments that these respondents said to us. they think it's completely unrealistic that you're going to wipe away student debt or that you're going to make health care free or -- or just give it to immigrants. these are things that people just cannot abide. it's unrealistic. then we showed them usnippets from candidates criticizing this and it was more what the people in the groups believed. the moderates weren't particularly well known, so they weren't able to think that the candidates were that viable. you had this yin and yang thing between progressives who are known but not necessarily believed or moderates who are believed but not terribly well-known. >> you remind me, i was at the cnn debates in detroit for back-to-back nights and in my twitter feed i said, well, these are a number of comments playing well in this hall among partisans, i'm not so sure they
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play well in a general election. i was thinking of people like those in adina. thank you so much for coming back. i'm fascinated with your work, and i appreciate it. >> thank you, michael. what are your thoughts? tweet me @smerconish, go to my facebook page. i'll read responses throughout the program. what do we have, katherine? just because you are promoting an economic downturn doesn't make it real. horrified that any person would wish this on america. tanya, what are you talking about? i'm not wishing an economic downturn on america. i'm sitting here as an analyst asking the question of whether the president's achilles heel, because thus far nothing has impacted his standing with his base, that's why i went through the litany of these supposed s-show incidents of the last ten days. but i'm asking, would the economy be different than all of this, greenlands, in the end it's a joke, who cares. but the economy, that could change his political fortune. that's the thesis.
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the crowded democratic field, elizabeth warren is the candidat candidate on the rise. she's also making in democrats anxious. why? she's built an impressive campaign organization, raised $25 million without big-buck donors, and is rising steadily in the polls. in the crucial first states of iowa and new hampshire. meanwhile, her most similar rival, politically speaking, bernie sanders, has been steadily dropping. but according to reporting by jonathan martin and "the new york times" even many of her admirers are expressing concern about her electability. it's a fight between head and heart. are they better off taking joe
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biden who is not lockstep on the issues with progressives but supposedly has a better shot of winning? i spoke with jonathan martin recently. is there an election analogy that you hear from walt disney skeptics? >> yeah, it's 2016. it's the last election. and by the way, it isn't the skeptics, it's people who like her but are worried about, you know, committing and wiebding up having a repeat -- winding up having a repeat of the last campaign where their hearts were broken. it's a collection, by the way, of men and women who are uncertain about warren for a variety of reasons. it's partly the hillary ptsd. but it's not just that, michael. it's also questions about has she veered too far to the left to appeal to voters in places like michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. and it's also, you know, what is she going to say when the president hurls his pocahontas
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slur at her? when i talked to her, she didn't really have an citizen on what she is going to -- an answer on what she is going to do when he does that. >> they're not looking at mcgovern -- they're not looking at dukakis, they're not looking at mondale. >> no. i think in a polarized country the idea of that kind of a landsli landslide's probably out of the question. there's a lot of blue america out there that is going to vote against trump regardless. i don't think that's the issue. i don't think it's a fear of being skunked and only women, you know, 150 election -- and only winning, you know, 150 electoral votes. the fear is you run into the same challenges in the three critical states that you had in 2016, that she couldn't get over the top in michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, and would still struggle to win florida, and there goes the election. i think that's more the concern than, you know, losing blue america. i think that's not the issue. >> you wrote the following, "these democrats worry that her uncompromising liberalism would
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alienate moderates in battleground states who are otherwise willing to oppose the president. many fear ms. warren's past claims of native american an existry would allow mr. trump to drown out her policy message with his attacks and slurs against her. they cite her style and harvard background to argue that she might struggle to connect with voters from more modest circumstances than hers, even though she grew up in a financially strained home in oklahoma." so how does she combat all of that? >> i think that she has got to show that she is a formidable candidate and can confront trump and can you do well him effectively. i think, by the way, there's a way to do that. i think she had two good debate performances that have helped start to dispel some of these concerns, although they're obviously still out there. and i think more strong, sure-footed debate turns will help her. frankly, there's nothing that succeeds like success, michael.
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if she wins iowa and new hampshire, that's going to brands her as a winner. and she'll be on her way at that point. look, some people you're never going to convince. the ideological concerns are going to gnaw at people especially the moderate wing of the party. there are people concerned for performative reasons whose unease you cannot allay, you cannot assuage those concerns. some in the party are never going to be anything but uneasy about her candidacy. but i think there are people who are willing to be converted. >> thank you, jonathan. let's see what you're saying on the twitter and facebook pages. what do we have? the left moves so far left that obama would now be considered a conservative. i must say i had the same question watching the debate. the conversation with jonathan martin dovetails nicely on the countries i had previously with -- on the comments i had previously with rich tau. can you sell elizabeth warren to those people who gathered in
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adina, minnesota, recently, who are swing voters, who really are not partisans but are in play? medicare for all, the green new deal, decriminalization of illegal immigration. can that sort of thing wash in a general election if it's trump versus elizabeth warren? don't forget, the survey question ator some connick.com asks they iffing ---er some c a smerconi smerconish.com, asking the question. coming up, does this commercial for cream these seem cuter offensive? it's one of two banned in england because of gender stereotyping. is this valid? you're covered. (dramatic music) and you're saving money, because you bundled home and auto. sarah, get in the house. we're all here for you. all: all day, all night. (dramatic music)
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two tv commercials have been banned in the u.k. for per p perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes. in this commercial, new dads enjoy the product so much that they forget all about the kids they are tending. >> that's the philadelphia. >> mm. >> yeah. >> let's not tell mom. >> the other ad is for volkswagen and shows men doing adventurous things while the only women are seen sleeping in a tent and sitting with a baby carriage. ♪
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>> the u.k.'s advertising standards authority said that the ads violated a rule new this year which bans the depiction of men and women engaged in gender stereotypical activities. the rule aims to stop, quote, limiting how people see themselves and how others see them and the life decisions they take. did the watchdog overreach? joining me to discuss is jessica tye, the investigations manager for the advertising standards authority in the u.k. jessica, thank you for being here. wherein lies the harm? >> well, we brought in a new rule two months ago that bans ads in the u.k. from featuring gender stereotypes that are likely to cause harm or serious or widespread offense. that new rule followed on the back of some really longstanding work that we've done carrying out. so research, looking at academic research, speaking to the public about how they felt about gender
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portrayals in ads. and really extensive consultation with the industry. the work that we did showed that actually there was potential for ads to contribute to real-world harms, you know, for example, we know ads affect people's behavior. and for example, they could affect how people feel they should act or behave or perhaps their career aspirations. so that was why we brought in this new rule to ensure that ads weren't contributing to those real-world harms. >> but apply it to the conveyor belt. the cream cheese commercial. and tell me, wherein lies the harm? if i'm an advertiser, i would be struggling trying to understand what's permissible and what's impermissible. what's wrong with this ad? >> well, we received about 130 complaints about this ad, and members of the public were concerned that it was portraying men as essentially incapable of looking after their children. and the guidance that we
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produced which accompanied the rule said that it was -- it was unlikely to be acceptable for ads to suggest that men and women would fail at a task because of their gender. for example, not suggesting a man can't change a nappy. and our view was that this featured the daddy duface stereotype and suggests that men are less capable of looking after their children than women. that is harmful. that is harmful to men who are capable. looking after children and harmful to women because it suggests they need to be the primary caregivers. >> okay. to quote another great brit, robert plant from led zeppelin, does anyone remember laughter? >> well, you know, we're not here to stop advertisers from being creative. but at the end of the day if ads are contributing to harm, to society and to individuals, then humor isn't much of a defense in that situation. and you know, we think, you know, advertisers are very used
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to being creative, we don't think that saying to them don't use harmful gender stereotypes is going to stop them from being creative. >> but i'm -- my reaction is in this case that, you know, the advertisers are damned if they do and damned if they don't. if they put men in the role they can't do it because they're poking fun at men doing parenting. if they put women in the role, i imagine your group could say you're reinforcing the stereotypes that it's always the woman taking care of the kids. by the way, you i nmay -- use my not know this. last month in the united states a child got caught on a conveyor belt on at airport, i believe in atlanta, and it was a mom printing a bearding pass at the time. i was reflecting thinking if pay put a commercial on the air in the u.k. and it were a mom who lost sight of a child on a conveyor belt some kind, there would be criticism like, oh, you're bashing mothers as parents. you get the final word.
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>> i think we know that there is a very longstanding stereotype that men are less capable of looking after their children. there is not the same stereotype for women. you know, we're not here to stop advertisers from being creative. we want them to be responsible. and that's what we think the message is from these rulings. >> if there were a commercial of a man on a john tractor doing yard is work, would that on its face be a problematic? if there were a commercial in the kitchen a woman cooking, you could say you're reinforcing stereotypes that the man does the yard work and the woman does the cooking. >> when this rule came into place, it was accompanied by clear guidance. that makes very clear that we are not setting out to stop any portrayal of gender stereotypes in ads. so we're explicitly not banning ads from showing women doing cleaning or men doing yard work, as you say. what it's about is particularly harmful portrayals.
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when it adds contrast to men and women or suggest they can't complete a task because of their gender. this is about being proportionate, it's not about suggesting that all cleaning ads have to feature men, for example. >> jessica, thank you so much for being here. >> no problem. thank you. let's check in on your tweets and facebook comments. what do we have? from facebook, we've been using incompetence as a way to make people laugh in commercials forever. banning in the name of political correctness is an attempt to look accepting without actually having to do anything. laurie, i think by this standard, as i understand it, virtually every commercial would be objectionable on some grounds at some level. and it is to me p.c. run amok. the cream cheese commercial, the volkswagen commercial, you're going to say it's because you're a guy. no, i'm in the class that should be offended, right?
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was this week's showdown over whether to allow america's first two muslim congresswomen to visit israel ultimately just an act of provocation to embarrass israel? representatives rashida tlaib and omar, critical of bds boycott movement had been granted permission to visit. then president trump tweeted israel allowing them to visit would show great weakness claiming they hate israel and all jewish people. soon after, prime minister in the in the's governor decided to ban them. the itinerary was called, quote/unquote, unsided because they were planning to only vfrt palestinian sites. tlaib reapplied citing the humanitarian grounds of visiting her family in the west bank including what might be her last chance to visit a 90-year-old grandmother. when israel reversed its position and said that she could
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visit, she pledge friday writing if she -- she pledged in writing ton commit boycotts against israel while there she turned down the invitation and called it humiliating. quote, visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything i believe in, fighting against oppression and racism and injustice. the interior minister who had approved the visit called her actions a provocation saying, quote, i approved her request as a gesture of goodwill on a humanitarian basis. but it was just a provocative request aimed at bashing the state of israel, apparently her hate for israel overcomes her love for her grandmother. joining me to discuss is journalist and foreign policy analyst rula gabril. some look at this and say, aha, if it were really about visiting the grandmother, she'd be making the trip. what are your thoughts? >> look, it's the conditionality of that visit. i think if you're a liberal
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democratic state you would allow a duly elected rep of congress to visit regardless. what are you trying to hide? the fact that the visit was banned in the first place it reflects on this trajectory where israel is heading where it looked like south africa or the soviet union where you have to ban people because you're hiding the violence of the occupation. for a country that received billions of dollars, they owe more respect to congress. they've been very supportive of them. this is the globalization of the ban. there is disgrace that the president of the united states is lobbying a foreign country against two sitting members of congress simply because they are black and muslim. i find it really outrageous. i'm speaking now, michael, as an israeli citizen. we want a democratic israeli state that doesn't look and judge people and define them by
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their ethnicity or what they say, their criticisms, or their gender, or even their color. there is what's happening in israel today. we have a government that's been promoting racist policy against anybody that is not jewish. this is the opposite of the founding father of israel envisioned for the israeli state. the founding father in the declaration of numbers ta-- dl s declaration of independence talking about equal rights regardless of ethnicity or skin tone. this promise is being betried by the president of the united states and by the sitting president of israel, netanyahu. >> a lot of this is about the bds movement. a subject that came up on bill maher's program. here's part of what he had to say -- >> bds is a bull shit purity test by people who want to appear woke but slept through history class. i think it's very shallow thinking that the jews are in
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israel, mostly white, the palestinians are browner, so they must be innocent and correct and the jews must be wrong. >> did bill maher have a point? >> well, bill maher has been banning muslims from his show for a while especially those critical of his views. as an atheist who claimed to be an atheist himself, to be endorsing some kind of -- some kind of a racist government that view and define people based on skin tone and color, for me it's not shocking because it's -- i think bill maher and any other hypocrites don't understand that if you advocate for freedom, equality, morality, and legality, you cannot say, oh, we're fine that palestinians can live under military occupation, but we are not fine that in america we have donald trump who is trying to import that kind of
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system to the united states. >> but part of the problem -- >> in bill maher is not fine with -- >> part of the problem is that each side is claiming the moral high ground. in fact, katherine, put on the screen the netanyahu quote. you know, each side claims that they're on the righteous side. and what netanyahu said is -- >> there's no both sides, michael. there's no -- >> just -- you can respond. here it is. "israel is open to all critics and any criticism with one exception, the law that prevents entry to people calling andand advocating for boycotting the country like in other democracies that bar entry to those who they believe will do harm to their nation." you get the final word. but respond to that, and then i have to leave you. >> well, let's put it this way, benjamin netanyahu is a liar. and another thing that i want to say, when you have richard spencer who was a white nationalist say that he's a white zionist and you are standing with that and he views
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israel as -- as the kind of staft th state that he wants to import elsewhere where you have a master race and everybody else is treated as subhuman, if you subscribe that that in israel or iraq or south africa, then you shouldn't be surprised that we elect people like donald trump and his ilks. either -- there's no both sides. it's like saying the neo-nazis, there's fine people on both sides. there's no both sides. either you stand with democracy, equality, and legality and human rights, or against it. so you have to choose. i stand with the government. any government that stands for equality, morality, and legality. anything else, it's really a joke. >> thank you. appreciate your being here. i was simply trying to make the point that both sides praise the that other seeks their destruction. answer the survey question at smerconish.com. would an economic downturn cause president trump's base to abandon him? still to come, should consumers not patronize a
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should you refuse to patronize a company based on the political views of its management or ownership? my next guest was working out at an equinox gym recently when a story came on the news about a boycott being organized against equinox. the reason -- because of a trump fundraiser being hosted by stephen ross, the billionaire real estate developer, owner of miami dolphins, and majority owners of related companies. they boown equinox and soul cyc and the home to new york offices. my guest had a reason to feel conflicted. carla hall is an editorial member of the "times" and contributed to its collection of editorials titled "our dishonest president." after she finished her workout, she wrote this piece, "do i have to dump my equinox membership just because i don't like trump." what's the answer to the question? what decision have you reached?
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>> i'm still a member. i was there last night. i decided to stay with the gym. my feeling is even though i'm also a strong critic of trump and have been as a member of the editorial board of the "los angeles times," my feeling is that the connection between the gym and related companies and steven ross is attenuated. this is not a gym that trump owns. this is a gym that related companies has a minority stake in. yes, the money that i spend there ultimately does go in part to him. and then he has held this big fundraiser. but my feeling is that he's a fundraiser, and it's not like trump owns this gym. >> my radio producer has a window washer. she doesn't agree with his politics. i think because of the -- the bumper stickers there are displayed on his vehicle. but she says he really does a
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great job on the windows. so these dilemmas, you know, they impact all of us. and i guess developing a litmus test for us, a standard by which to judge them is really difficult. >> i think it is difficult. and i -- i completely support economic boycotts. i -- i support boycotts of things that are related to social justice. i would not go to trump's golf course where he has a big fancy restaurant here in rancho palos verdes just outside of l.a. but i do think at the end of the day i -- it's difficult to disentangle your life and what you do with your life from people who own businesses that you patronize because you don't like their politics. and i just decided that in this case i could stay at this gym. >> do we have steve ross' statement, katherine? could you put that up on the screen? this is the response from the
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owner of both equinox and soul cycle. much higher up on the food chain. i want to take a look and react. i have been and will continue to be an outspoken champion of racial equality, inclusion, diversity, public education, and environmental sustainability. and i have and will continue to support leaders both sides of the aisle. is that enough for you? >> well, no. that doesn't make me like steven ross any more. if he believes in all those things, i'm not quite sure how he can be a big fundraiser for donald trump. but again, i think it's okay that i can stay at this gym which he's getting some profits from. at the end of the day, the way that we change the government is that the way that we change the presidency is that we put up a viable candidate that people will vote for against trump. and whether or not steven ross, whether or not i deprive steven ross of some money, there's
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still going to be fundraisers for donald trump. and in fact, steven ross will probably still continue to be a fundraiser for donald trump. so i think, again, we should concentrate on how do we elect somebody who can beat donald trump and not just figure out how to take out the fundraisers. >> i think you're right. and my -- my started is as follows -- are the windows clean? if the windows are clean and if that -- if that treadmill is working, then i'm fine with you continuing your workout. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. my pleasure. still to come, your best and worst tweets and facebook comments like this one -- you don't have to you about it helps to know you're not supporting a creep in any way. imagine people still bought jell-o pudding pops after bill cosby and subway sandwichwiches after jared -- where does it end? if all of a sudden you're going to view everything through a political prism then, you know,
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here we are as summer winds down. before you know it we'll be gathering around thanksgiving tables. are you going to determine who gets an invite based on the politics heading into this election? man, i hope not. the result of the survey question are coming up in just a moment. and it is this -- you can still vote at smerconish.com. would an economic downturn, would that be the thing that would cause president trump's base to abandon him? the third stair always creaked. and your mother told me all her life that i should fix it. and now it reminds me of her. i'm just glad i never fixed it. listen, you don't need to go anywhere dad. meet christine, she's going to help you around the house. the best home to be in is your own. from personal care and memory care,
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would an economic downturn cause president trump's base to abandon him? survey says. 7,559 votes cast, the noes, 61%, no, it would not. i don't agree with that. i don't agree with it for the following -- it depends who his opponent would be, for sure, but on the issue of would this be the exception to the fifth avenue rule, you know, the one thing that president trump would be held accountable for? i think he would be held accountable for it. i tell you why, the blame game wouldn't work. if the economy tumbles he couldn't lay it off on obama, he couldn't lay it off on hillary or page or the dossier or christopher steele or all the usual suspects. he could try and pass the buck to the federal reserve, but i just don't think so. i think it will all be about him. he's taken full credit for the economy, great, but if it should turn -- and by the way, i hope it doesn't -- i think he'll be
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held accountable for it. that will be the skpepexception everything else we've discussed. katherine, what else do we have? you are a trump supporter, you hope like hell, he is reelected. you you claim -- what could cause you to come to that conclusion? people hear what they want to hear about me, and you know what it is, you're so preconditioned to believe that every host must have a bias that's far to the right or far to the left that you just can't understand a guy like me who's a mixed bag, but that's the case. so next, what do we have? i love you even more after you referenced robert plant. does anybody remember laughter? pretty sure it pertains to the country in general right now. jesch, come on, i don't understand. the epitome to me political correctness rung amok are the brits through that council that governs their air waves saying you can't show fathers parenting
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losing their attention span and the kids end up on the conveyor belt. it's meant to be funny. it's not meant to be harmful to a stereotype or perpetuate a stereotype of any kind. i don't think it does that. what's next? real quick. one more, my dog is offended when ads for pet care only -- why am i even needed here? that's better than anything i could come up with. i'll next be in sunnyvale california on september 30, the october 1st show is sold out. thanks for watching. see you here next week. never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. and there's never been an easier way to get great advice. a place for mom is a free service that pairs you with a local advisor to help you sort through your options and find a perfect place. a place for mom.
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good morning. i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm christi paul, so grateful to have your company here as we begin with faith and politics, hosting five 2020 presidential candidates in atlanta this week. >> senator elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, cory booker, julian castro, former hud secretary and mayor pete buttigieg joining some of the biggest names in christian ministry to pitch black voters on their vision for the future of the country. >> so vanessa, so far is there a theme this year, a take away? >> reporter: hi, good morning, christi and victor, in vjust a short while bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are going to be
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