triggering our fireworks again it's a new all-time record high and climbing, folks. the bell is already ringing we're going up 27, 28, moderating around there. and, boy, what another day here. the s&p couldn't quite make it nor the nasdaq. there's the closing bell, david and melissa, can pick it up here for after the bell. microsoft and more. guys. david: and there is a lot of excitement on wall street. again, you see a couple of red arrows but focus on the green arrow because that is a record high on the dow. other markets were mixed but at least for the dow things are great, and we're expecting numbers for microsoft for the fourth quarter. that's how any segment we'll bring it to you live. i'm david asman. melissa: and i'll melissa francis, we've got you covered on the big market movers but first here's what we have for you this hour. we are just two short hours away from the delegate vote to officially name donald trump the republican nominee. sources just telling fox, though, they aren't sure how

tonight's going to unfold from who will provide over the vote to what ted cruz supporters will do. we're going to take you live to cleveland this as we're monitoring protesters gathering just outside the convention arena. we've got a busy hour for you with some all-star guests, including former presidential candidate dr. ben carson, who is speaking at the convention tonight. we also have ron paul for you. david: well, back to the markets. first, the dow managing to eke out another record close for the sixth straight day. other markets were down. but this marks the longest streak of record closes since december of 2013. phil flynn, price futures and a fox business contributor watching the action in oil and gold from the cme but lori rothman is where the action is, she's on the floor of the nyse. lori, this record wasn't a given today. a lot of people expected that it was going to be down. it looked like it might be,

but then it related at the end. what happened. >> well, you know, he didn't season kicked into high gear, david and about this time yesterday we were talking about netflix and what a disaster its report that was. so i think netflix casts a shadow early, mature he didn't reports and we're expecting as you said microsoft after the bell. microsoft is a little bit lower ahead of its report, but still i think overall there's a little bit of optimism there. but, you know, 25-point gain on the dow, sure puts us in record territory but fair to say markets certainly took a breather today. so let's take a look at some of the dow winners today, mcdonald's, johnson & johnson raising its full year 2016 sales and earnings forecast on prescription drugs. back to you. melissa: all right. lori, thank you so much. phil, oil settling at a ten-week low? >> this is the lowest level since last may and a lot of it is because the imf growth forecast, which actually lowered growth because of

concerns about the brexit. 3.1% this year globally. 3.7 when you have a glut of oil, you need growth to suck up that excess supply. but i will mention one thing the volume today in the oil contract was the lowest it has been in over a month. it was very, very light trading today. some of that had to deal with the fact that tomorrow's the last trading day on the august contracts, so you saw some rolling over. and they're waiting for the inventory numbers going to get the api report later tonight at 4:30 eastern, tomorrow we get eia. that's going to be a make or break for this market. now, even though the growth forecast took away from oil and added to gold; right? if we're going to have weaker growth, that means more estimat stimulus. and you know what? gold traders love stimulus, vascular bounce on the gold. take away from one market, give to another. back to you. melissa: phil, okay. thank you for that. steven. david: well, another record day on the dow, let's bring in

profitable trading.com and john, point view wealth management, john, we've got a lot of concerns sometimes markets climb these walls in concerns, but you have international problems with turkey, et cetera. you've got domestic concerns, and you have worries about the earnings not coming up to par. but the markets made another record today. why? >> well, i think fundamentals on the earnings side is actually what's helping push the market higher. tick last week, the other day with the banks jp morgan, citigroup, bank of america, and the bank he didn't, which has been a big trouble sector for the s&p 500 has come in better than expectations. david: so it's for good reasons. sometimes the market climbs for bad reason, this time for good reasons. jerry, do you agree? >> not so much. so 55 companies that reported roughly in the s&p we're seeing a negative 5.4% earnings growth. but the caveat here is, yeah, it's not as bad.

so all those banks calling good, other revenues earnings are lower, but we're, like, oh, it's not as bad as we thought. and, again, it's more of the same. remember dollar still funneling into the u.s. why? we'r thing going internationally. david: john, then you have netflix. that was a bit of a ha wasn't it? >> well, well, the evaluation is at historic highs and they're under competitive pressure from amazon prime and facebook video and eyeballs being steered away. so there's other ways to get your content than having to go to netflix. david: jarod, even though today was a record high in the dow, you still get the sense that we're tope; right? >> you have to. i mean, david, you look back historically and we're kind of in uncharted waters; right? you have multiplies at records, you have growth negative, you have a swirling pot of issues around the world. but, again, fitzgerald keeps

coming back to this and morgan stanley said it today. it's the american economy, even though, you know, estimates are coming down, it's the best thing going. american stocks are the most, you know, transparent and the best out there. the best of the worst. melissa: well, in spite of that we're hearing no rate hike until 2018 that's according to morgan stanley strategists who are expecting lower than economic growth in 2017 due to consumer spending. john, how does -- how do you reconcile all of this for the best in a bad neighborhood but 2018? >> yeah. good luck trying to invest off of a 2018 fed action. the fed is a massive crisis of confidence in the janet yellen and the fed. only two months ago when the fed was talking about very positively where rates may be headed and then we had the weak june jobs number and the brexit vote, that through everything off the table. so right now the market will only believe the fed when they

act. melissa: they say nothing until 2018 and as a result they're bullish on equities. do you agree with that? that sounds like more of the same. >> that's kind of a -- yeah, kind of a crazy call; right? i don't think you can plan to 2018. but the key in that story was they say consumers are going to be weak. they dropped -- their forecast for gdp growth is 35% less than consensus and yet they're, like, buy equity. so it's this backwards mind messing deal. i don't think -- i think 2018 is inaccurate. i do think we see some hikes before then, but it's going to be slow because remember, everybody else in the world is bringing their rates down, and we still have that brexit. melissa: okay. guys. thank you. microsoft down fourth quarter results, let's go to lori rothman who has those numbers i believe standing by. nope i guess we don't have lori. okay. we are -- we're seeing that microsoft shares right now are up about 3% in after hours trading. you can see that. so obviously investors are liking what they're hearing.

we're looking ahead to the number. david: by the way, the revenue was expected to be about 22.14 billion. the revenue is how much, producers? revenue. okay. the eps is 39 cents, which is a miss. what about the revenue? we don't have the revenue numbers? 20.6billion. again, both a miss, a miss on both the revenue and the eps and yet the market is showing a gain of about 3% right now after hours. lori is with us now. lori, what are the details. >> hi, guys, sorry about that. we've got a miss cue over here. it looks like a good report, at least the way investors are interpreting this. so it looks like cloud computing up 102%, microsoft has been trying to shift the business toward cloud to offset some of the losses in the windows operating system demands and whatnot. also phone sales were down a lot.

shares now up 4.2%. it looks like they're at least sticking by their guidance and 39 cents a share looks like at first glance, a little bit lower than expectations but investors shrugging off what they're doing in this quarter and the strategy. david: why is the market up after hours despite the loss? >> i'm surprised at that. my models were showing high probability of a miss in earnings, which that happened. i think the reaction possibly here is due to the cloud computing -- that was sort of the focus of a lot of investors, you want to see growth there. and also the linked in deal. i think folks believe that they're going to parlay something better, and they held their guidance. i believe that was also the key -- david: john, that is an amazing degree of faith in the company when you can lose on both the top ask bottom line, but they have faith that they're going to make these other deals work. >> yeah, that's right. i mean all emphasis -- melissa: hang on we're hearing it's 69 cents adjusted.

can you say it a little bit more clearly? 69. okay. that's what the traders see after hours. so it's an adjusted trade up in terms of the eps. there you still see a miss on the revenue side. john. >> yeah. that makes a lot more sense having a big hitter like microsoft up 4%. ten-cent beat on the bottom line makes a lot of sense. but going back to the comments on the market rising, the heavy hitters are outperforming. johnson & johnson big numbers today, microsoft, jp morgan big numbers today, you know, the big heavy large cash stocks are doing their job to make the market move forward. david: all right. but final word, jarod, once again it seems the markets are producing more than the results seem to indicate. >> yeah. you know, microsoft, again, i think john hit it on the head. the big players, which, again, the are the companies that are going to be most sensitive to the big picture, they're doing okay. and okay. right now is good enough. david: all right. so, again, we get the adjusted, we see 69

cents is the earning per share and actually we have a new number on the actual earnings at 22.6. that is a beat. at first glance it looks like it is a loss, it turns out now it is a beat. the investors were there ahead of time, they knew what it was. although the after hours trading is coming back a bit, melissa. melissa: we're getting pushing and shoving from antitrump protesters demonstrating outside the national republican convention. connell mcshane is there now with more on this. it looks like, you know, the heat has been turned up there quite a bit. what's going on? >> yeah, well, things have -- you're right. heated up in the last few minutes, melissa. and really what happened was you had a mix. so this is what we were thinking coming into this week. any time you would have antitrump protesters mixing with the trump -- a group that is pro trump, what would happen? well, we found out, and we found out a few moments ago where the chief of police calvin williams got involved personally.

we saw him do this, but he got up the public square from blocks where the republican national convention is being held and once he got up onto those steps, somebody behind him, an agitated clearly pushed somebody it appeared to us that was in front of them. that person then went flying into chief williams, he lost his balance for a moment, was able to regain his balance, pushed back, bicycle police came in using their bicycles almost as weapons holding them out front, they were able to move the crowd back. now, as i move out, you see part of that crowd, many of them with the signs are pro trump. they have gathered at the center of the square. on the outskirts of the steps coming around the other side, almost all of the groups that are gathered are antitrump. see up here on the side, the types of signs that you can read here. this is the antitrump protest crowd that we've gotten used to seeing over the last few days. but, again, melissa, they are mixing with this pro trump crowd. i'm going to show you some of

that video we got just moments ago it on from the steps i'm standing. chief williams is the man in the white uniform. he's chief of police here. this and the new york city equivalent lebanon like bill bratton getting up there. he's involved himself. i talked to him last night, he wants to be down here with his guys and get involved as much as he can. he did today, a tense situation is now starting to calm down. we'll keep you updated. david: connell mcshane, thank you. we'll come back to you again for another update soon. thanks for that. david: boy, let us hope they calm things. it was great yesterday the way they dealt with the protesters. they did a great job, so let's hope this is just a blip. melissa: just a few short hours from donald trump's official vote for nomination may not go so smoothly. never trump not giving up. we may see more of this floor fight emerging this evening. plus we've got a live update from inside the convention in reaction from one of trump's big speakers dr. ben carson is coming up right here. david: well, tonight's convention theme is all about the economy and jobs. former presidential candidate

ron paul joins us with his take on donald trump's plans. david: and hillary clinton just weighing in on last night's convention moments ago. simulators to the wizard of oz. david: okay. >> lots of sound and furry, even a fog machine. but when you pull back the current, it was just donald trump with nothing to offer to the american people. you both have a

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shots were fired. the police officer is currently in critical condition. this is according to a department spokesperson. we are bringing you this breaking news and staying on top of this story because this is the narrative that, unfortunately, has become all too familiar. we're monitoring this story and bring you updates on it. david: one we heard last night. meanwhile day two of the republican national convention's focus is make america work again. involving a frustrating slow economy and highlighting donald trump's business career. our own peter barns in cleveland with the very latest. peter. >> that's right, david, an all-star line up tonight including donald trump junior and tiffany trump but also members of the republican establishment and it just so happens we just locked out house speaker paul ryan, the chairman of the convention is just leaving the podium after doing some rehearsal up there. you can see him walking to the back of the stage. we've had parade of top

officials. now ryan and earlier today senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was out there rehearsing, among the other speakers that are going to be talking on this theme tonight make america work again. the founder of the ultimate fighting championship and these are -- just sold his company for $4 billion. also new jersey governor chris christie and finally the big headliner tonight is dr. ben carson. we're also going to be watching these never trump delegates. i did talk to one of the leaders of that movement, and they are going to try again tonight to at least get attention during the roll call to nominate, for really nominate donald trump. for some of them to maybe try to grab some of the microphones during that roll call process. be watching that as well. david, back to you. david: all right. peter, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: dr. ben carson former republican presidential candidate and donald trump supporter will be speaking tonight in cleveland. he joins us now, sir. thank you so much for joining us.

what can we expect from your remarks tonight? we don't want you to give away the whole and things spoil it of course. but give us a little taste. >> well, i hope people will come away with the understanding that we the people are still in charge. but we may not be in charge if we don't use the brain that god gave us and intelligently analyze what's going on. also, i want people to recognize that it's not about democrats and republicans. it's about americans. and the issues that face us as a nation and that threaten us as a nation are not democrat or republican issues. they're american issues, and we have to stop allowing ourselves to be manipulated into a position where we weaken ourselves. melissa: the theme today is obviously make america work again and when you look at the past eight years, the middle class has fallen behind. that's real data according to the census bureau. you've seen wages fall, and you're wondering why this is happening and looking for specific results, people want

to hear specifics from donald trump. what have you heard that about how he can help the middle class? >> well, i think there are a ton of things but some of the really basic things is create an environment that once again is business friendly. there are trillions of dollars sitting on the sideline that not invested into our economy because we have a unfriendly environment. we have regulatory burdens that are outlandish for a small manufacturer to comply with all the regulations it's $34,000 a year per worker. it makes it unable to compete on the international market. so, you know, these kinds of things obviously are relatively easy to change. but you have to understand them first. and there seems to be that lack of understanding that has been in place for several years now. melissa: but real quick the other side is giving tax breaks to donald trump's friends, to wall street, to rich people, and that's what

lowering taxes and diminishing regulation is all about. how do you respond to that? or how does he respond to that? >> well, interestingly enough if you think back to the beginnings of this country, the reasons that the patriots were willing to fight the most powerful nation in the world is because of extensive taxation and overregulation. people trying to control everything that they were doing. we face the same situation today. maybe we haven't fully realized it, many of us have. and we're going to have to be just as courageous in fighting it. melissa: yeah. dr. carson, on the other side of course hillary clinton says that the way to solve these problems is infrastructure, spending, and also focusing on green energy, which of course sounds very familiar to what president obama said when he came into office. why don't these solutions work in your opinion? >> well, you know, two-thirds of the people in america will tell you that we're on the wrong track. we're moving in the wrong direction. and the third that think so we

are moving in the right direction probably simply are not paying very close attention. and, you know, they -- it's really a question of do we want to continue down the pathway that we've been going? and quite frankly both democrats and republicans have been guilty of leading us down this pathway. or are we willing to be able to treat our economy like we would our household.like we wous and do things in a logical fashion. melissa: all right. dr. carson, thank you so much. tonight's theme is all about the economy, and it is tailor made for fox business and we'll be covering it all for you live starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern. david: well, protesters heating up outside the quick and loans arena, the latest from the streets of cleveland where it is getting hotter by the moment. that's coming up next ♪

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. >> reporter: on each side of the square, as lori looks over my left shoulder, she sees different groups represented. one of the religious groups that you saw. police on bicycles are moving in quite aggressively towards that group in now, as they chant in unison move back to give them a lane to get up towards the crowd.

we've seen that a number of times. if we can see the men, it's difficult to make out, with the white uniform and white hat. the chief of police is in the midst of it. chief williams, is leading his own officers. this is the local cleveland police moving. in given the protesters as much leeway as possible. the group we're looking at mostly religious causes, one way, shape, or form. abortion is murder. those types of signs. just over our other shoulder you have black lives matter chanting over and over, black lives matter, and other groups represented throughout the park as well. has it calmed down, david? no, it hasn't. but is it a violent situation? no, it's not. a little pushing and shoving brought quickly under control largely because of police chief williams. david: thanks to the cops on bikes, separating the warring factions who again are doing a

lot of shouting going on but nothing beyond that violencewise. connell mcshane will give us updates as things develop this hour. thanks, melissa? melissa: the dow managing to eke out another record close for the sixth straight day. this marks the longest streak of record closes since december of 2013. wow. david: does feel toppy, though. republicans pushing a strong economic message at the convention. ron paul is here to weigh in on trump's economic plan. many think donald trump could be the guy to get the economy back on track. >> he's actually created private sector jobs. he signed a front of a paycheck. not just the back of one. hillary clinton never created a private sector job in her life. never.

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he understands the economic policy. an individual that doesn't understand the economics can make a lot of money with bad economic theory. sometimes can you make a lot of money when interest rates are artificially low in the boom part of the cycle, and some people then lose a lot of money too because they overinvest and bankruptcies they have to put up with. david: at the very least, doctor, donald trump had to put up with a lot of regulation -- a city like manhattan, chock-full of regulations, he understands how that can hurt businesses? >> well, i think that is true, and it's hopeful he can do something about it. there's an empire that loves regulation, sometimes it's the big business people that love the regulations. >> it is. he based his campaign so far at least partly against the power of those crony capitalists. >> well, he also knew how to deal with them because he wheeled and deals and knew who

to donate too, most of them are democrats. i agree with your basic thesis he should know and understand and he should thrive or strive to reduce the regulations, and i think he said that, but that doesn't make me go to bed being reassured, we're moving into era of less regulation, i heard that too many times. david: would you be reassured if hillary clinton was president? >> no, i'd be every bit as wordied about her, you know her ideas. she has 3500 people in congress to deal with, and the congress, when we had the republican congress, we have the power and authority legislatively to cancel out all the regulation physical we want. i think we've done it one time on thousands and thousands of regulations, so i don't know it is the best. >> the vested interest have the hooks inside the beltway. very last question, who are you voting for? >> i haven't made a decision to vote for anybody at all. right now i'm still looking

around and studying it, but it won't be trump or hillary because i think what that vote is all about is finding out who the worst person in the world is, and whoever comes in second has been voted the worst person in the world because everybody is condemning both of them. it's a sad thing, from people who are looking for better policies. so hopefully i'm completely wrong, and if trump wins, we'll have peace and prosperity. we won't have a federal reserve. taxes go way down, and spending reduced, but quite frankly, spending will not go down with either one of them. david: nobody can accuse dr. paul of not being an independent thinker. good to see you, dr. paul. >> thank you, david. melissa: uplifting. the crowd was roaring during night one of the republican convention. here are some of the highlights. >> there would be good times and hard times and unexpected turns. it would not be a trump contest without the excitement and drama. [cheers] ♪. >> we're going to win, we're

going to win so big. thank you very much everyone. >> what happened to there's no black america, there's no white america, there is just america! what happened to it? [cheers] where did it go? half of it's flown away. melissa: bruce turkel of turkel brands is here. okay, bruce, from a marking perspective, talk to me about the grade from last night. there was a lot of excitement there. the walking out on the stage through the smoke, give it a grade. >> you have to decide what you're grading, of course. the spectacle is spectacular, it's like watching the super bowl. the question always is, what is the intention with this debate? the audience, was it to fire up the base, it was to say what in fact people thought they were going to say. come up with new things. melissa: fire up the base.

bruce, i think these events are about firing up your base and getting your team excited. it's like in the locker room before you run out on the field. on that basis, what grade do you give it? normally these things are boring, it wasn't boring. >> it wasn't boring, they get a high score, a b, an a. there was a lot of great people. the amazing thing to me, it goes from the heights to the developths so quickly. amazing so well-thought-out and make such blunders in the evening. melissa: with the blunder, are you talking about melania trump? >> absolutely. for a number of reasons. first of all, you have someone who's supposed to show the softer side, the other side of donlt. and then to use someone else's speech, and not use it as well as it was used before is unforgivable, but worse. we talk about this all the time, melissa, you don't get in trouble for what you do, you get in trouble for the cover-up. for them to be saying that

wasn't true, in many ways she didn't write it. the speechwriter wrote it? melissa: the argument is she's just someone's wife. she's not running for anything. i was taught you can't attack the wives of these people who haven't volunteered for this. she walked out. english is not her first language. she puts herself out there. the campaign did her a disservice by setting her up with, you know, language that seems very clearly to have been lifted, and that is a problem, but i don't know about the pile-on on this woman, it makes the people piling on vicious. >> i disagree with that. if she wasn't prepared or qualified, she shouldn't have been out there. i'm also married to a woman who english wasn't her first language. you can be assured my wife wouldn't read someone else's words. melissa: everybody at these things -- be honest, everybody has speeches. we both write our own speeches and do that.

most people do not. they are not writers, they have other professions, they're politicians, this, that, and someone else makes the eloquent words for them? >> still, the words politician's wife is really putting her in a position that's not fair. she is a professional celebrity. she should have known what she was doing. they say the key to this is honesty and sincerity. if you can fake that, the rest is easy. she couldn't fake that, didn't do the job. if you are going to judge her, she shouldn't be out there. melissa: i love your perspective, thank you for coming on. always interesting. >> i love your passion. melissa: i wanted to ask you more, let's do it soon, thank you. >> i'll be back. david: and remember president obama when he ripped off entirely duval patrick's just words speech. he ripped it off! okay, and he was running for president. he wasn't just the husband of somebody running. meanwhile, as the

than others, but on the whole, all of them say very good over the last few days. >> this year, 2016, unprecedented as far as business. we seem to grow every year, the company, this year is one of

the best times. >> three times more for lunch business. folks here in this city, spending money. david: good for cleveland. glad to hear. that thank you very much, blake. melissa: i think i need a couple t-shirts. david: yeah! bring us back something, blake. melissa: protests heating up outside the convention. this is what it looks like right now while hillary clinton feeling the heat from the rnc floor. the former secretary of state getting slammed for jeopardizing u.s. safety. her fiery response is next. >> i have called on hillary clinton to drop out of the race

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. melissa: failing to keep americans safe. rnc speaker slamming hillary clinton for jeopardizing the safety and security of our country. clinton firing back. >> what he has laid out is the most dangerous, reckless approach to being president than i think we've ever seen, and i say that -- >> the most dangerous man ever to run for president of the united states? >> i believe that. i believe -- >> there you go, here is peter brookes, former deputy secretary of defense. you would know. what you think, of what you heard so far, do you think donald trump is dangerous?

>> this is pure speculation on secretary clinton's part. and, of course, she's got a record she has to live up to which is very, very troubling. considering last night at convention they talked a lot about benghazi but didn't talk about the withdrawal of iraq, which led to isis. didn't talk about the russian reset, which was a tremendous, tremendous failure. didn't talk about north korea policy. secretary clinton often talked about being the most traveled secretary of state of all-time and still may be true, but many people asked what did she actually accomplish during that time period? melissa: this is the narrative she's going to weave about him. the word she uses again and again is dangerous, and fits into the profile when they poll people, you hear hot head is a lot what people respond to in relation to him. she says he has no self-discipline, no self control, no sense of history. no limits on the power any president should suppose upon

himself. you couple this with the ghostrider who said he would be afraid for him to have the nuclear codes. this is the narrative. what do you think? >> well, it's just a narrative, and obviously, we're in a very heated campaign, and you have to look at what mr. trump might say later on in this convention about foreign policy. those are very, very strong statements on the part of hillary clinton about mr. trump. so i'm not convinced that these are things that are substantiated. she didn't say how she substantiated them. this will be played out and we'll have to see, remember, the president is advised by people. being president of the united states is very, very technical and look to people with expertise in foreign policy and intelligence and defense issues, they advise him about stuff like this. melissa: hitting isis very hard. the idea of forcing nato to engage. he has a fairly low opinion of

nato in the sense he doesn't feel like with all the money and effort and troops and everything we contributed to it that other nations around the country are doing the same thing. still, he would like to engage them on this issue. we have heard he likes to engage vladimir putin, that our current strategy there isn't working. what do you think of those ideas as a military expert? >> well, of course, i'm all for burden sharing, very concerned about nato not doing what it needs to do in terms of defense spending, melissa. supposed to spend 2% of gdp. they're not. very few countries are, in the bigger countries, critically important. russia is an important country. it didn't go well for the obama administration. we saw ukraine, this new star treatise where the only reductions were taken by the united states. so there's a lot of things out there that have to be looked at, and we don't know exactly what the situation will look like when the next president will step into the ovals on. i will say the next president

will have been unprecedented number of security challenges. melissa: we've got to go, peter, thank you so much. david: will the party finally, finally, after all the infighting, be unified? we'll talk about that coming up. you do all this research on a perfect car,

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. david: after yesterday's put-down of the never trump revolt, the republicans finally unite and accept donald trump as their nominee? joining us, lisa boothe and "national review" editor rich lowry. lisa, first some news, i'm wondering if the cruz folks will put his name up for nomination. have you heard anything about that? >> i have not, look, for the cruz folks this is about 2020 and hoping donald trump loses and he has the opportunity to run then.

it's not about actually having a candidate outside of donald trump because that's not going to happen. they were not successful in the rules committee last week, nothing is going to happen this week as well. what's interesting, 538 had a blog recently looking at data going back to 1980 and found donald trump's support and share of the republican party base is right on in-line with previous nominees dating back to 1980. david: very interesting. well, there is sort of a coming together moment, rich, for a lot of people that had been in the never trump category. the "wall street journal"'s bill mcgern wrote a case for donald trump from the perspective of those wary about donald trump. he wrote out a long list of what we know hillary clinton would do to the economy if she was president. wasn't hopeful from the business side and said the following, fair enough to argue that mr. trump represents a huge risk but honesty requires this risk may be weighed against a clear-eyed look at

the certainties the clinton administration would bring. what do you say about that? >> you know what you are going to get from hillary clinton, it's going to be left wing. david: further to the left than we thought before the bernie sanders campaign. >> right. he is -- sanders pushed her to the left. she's running for the third obama term. david: why aren't you then for trump? >> well, my problem with trump is one, i disagree with him on a lot of substance, and two, the question of suitability for the office of presidency and his character. i'm never-hillary, opposed to her but have serious doubts about donald trump. david: still? okay. lisa, john kasich has signed this pledge, he was going to support the nominee. donald trump is going to be the nominee and nowhere to be seen. there was some suggestion from donald trump that maybe he'll show up late. do you know anything about that? >> i don't. look, typical politician.

this is what people have come to expect from politicians in every party. they say one thing, do another. it is time for the party to come together. look, i say to people in the never trump category. if you don't like donald trump, that's your business, focus on the senate races. the republicans are defending 24 senate seats, 71 of which president obama won in 2008 and 2012. look towards keeping the republican majority, you have a republican senate inhouse to keep hillary clinton in check or donald trump if donald trump wins. either way, checks and balances. david: rich, and lisa, thank you very much for being here, sorry we had to cut it short. melissa: dressing for more than fashion, melania trump clothier serving as symbol of immigration experience. ants to sell him that truck. so i used truecar. it told me what other people in the area paid for the truck i want. and because we're a truecar certified dealership, i already know the truck he wants.

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defining elegance and has a subtle meaning as well. the dress was made by a beshian-born designer who moved to london. david: she gives attention to a woman whose immigration story is similar to her own. >> what happened to there is no black america, there is no white america, there is just america. what happened to it? >> i have been speak for years to get the project done or even started, an does not give up. if you want someone to fight for you and your country, i can assure you he's the guy. >> had a chance to spend time with mr. trump. i know he understands what it's going to take to fix this. and the only way we are going to