is actually better than it was earlier, but still with the u.n. in town it is just one gridlock that you just want to avoid. head west they say from here and don't look back the code security is a nightmare out there. if you're late for work, we understand. neil cavuto, you are never late for work. take it away. drink you it will be a mess this entire work. thank you very much geared keeping an eye on hurricane maria and she is barreling towards puerto rico as if bad commonwealth can afford to get hit again. keeping an eye on josé and stubbornly high gas prices that aren't going away and these two storms that the markets are closely following are a big reason why we are all over it as we were with these prior storms on top of them for you. staying on top of the president of the united states command making his united nations debut, president trump meeting with mr. benjamin netanyahu at 1:00 p.m. he will deliver his first speech to the u.n. tomorrow.

north korea vowing to speed up its nuclear program in response to the latest sanctions, but are they really doing enough. president bush 43, peter brook's, peter brooks. it seems that every time we do something like this either they upped the ante and ignore what we are doing our double down what they are doing or both. what do you think? >> well, they are proceeding at a measured pace bearded on measured pace don't think it's accelerating, necessarily it could it that these sanctions. north korea is committed with its ballistic missile. no doubt about it. i'm very skeptical to negotiate that away. if they come to the table, you will not be until they perfected those programs and they have some rain though it gives them tremendous leverage. >> what do they do to change their behavior. it looks like they kind of buying in the face of whatever other sanctions reconsider.

so if that isn't moving them, what will? >> sanctions take a while to implement. and limitation is the real challenge. everyone's got to be implementing. there's leakage from a smuggling, front companies and goods and services to move to north korea. we have a lot of people to make it tough in iran and they came to negotiating table. they are doing business with china and russia. these international sanctions with the turnkey operation for the team to see ben. tree until you know, does it make a difference that we could really use the one-on-one conversations with the leader of china, the leader of russia

skipping out on the u.n. general assembly. >> as opportunities to speak with others at senior levels and this is an opportunity to galvanize international beliefs about north korea, that it's an international threat. not just towards japan, south korea and the net is a spirit always proliferation. one of the things i've written and talked about and you and i have spoken about is what happens in north korea program in iran. a lot of capabilities be transferred down the road? that involves the middle east. if you have a nuclear weapons state nuclear weapons state can have the cascading proliferation and not part of the world. this is an international problem and gives the opportunity to say that publicly and also in private meetings with leaders feared transit will watch it close. peter brooks, thank you very much. master tom bolton representing us very well as the united nations. i want you to react to this. the president in his first

opening of the united nations, in a nice way to say they've not reached their full potential. take a look. >> in recent years, the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. while the united nations has increased by 140% and its staff has more than doubled since 2000, we are not seeing the result in line with the investment. ambassador john bolton. the only reform that will make any difference with 25 years of experience in failure trying to fix it. as you might expect, sort of a wall street approach 25% for

peacekeeping. that has to change. we should contribute whatever we want. if we think the money is being spent. they may contribute 0% of somebody's budget. neil: now every year. what are the percentages? >> percentages are modified from time to time. we are far and away at about 17%. they would join with us in an aggressive campaign to say contribute what you want. e.u. countries that think the united nations is so wonderful, mrs. merkel in germany get about 12%, 13%, contribute 13% of you think of though gray. what a surprise. we just try to do it unilaterally and they will get around to catching up. tree into a little bit on what the president might or might not say regarding north korea

tomorrow. if we'd said the time for talk is over, this is join the line and all of a sudden we keep saying with every missile launch that there were more emergency talks and they don't really change the behavior. what can he say? >> in iran and north korea cases, any cilia with the american argument is clearly once and for all. part of the problem is his government is divided and divided in public here this sends a mixed message around the world, but particularly north korea and china in this case which are the two principal audiences. secretary of state tillerson said that the pressure we apply a north korea is to get them to the table for constructive productive dialogue. that is not going to do any good after 25 years of trying. this morning in "the new york times," prime minister shinto abe of japan and a remarkable op-ed is more dialogue with north korea would he a dead end. absolutely right. he goes on to say basically the

united case decides to use force come he is with us. we've got a stronger position. neil: is a shooting a missile in a launch? what is that? >> the preliminary question before you get to the use of force is what is acceptable to us as citizens of the united states? susan rice, obama's national security adviser wrote her own op-ed saying we should accept north korea with nuclear weapons. i do not think we should live under fear of this bizarre regime, blackmailing us in the future, selling these weapons to iran. neil: i think is what we are getting not is is it worth going to war for something that might be inevitable. but would americans be willing to do that. >> the poll showed that they are and the question the president has to ask is how to best protect americans.

how many dead americans in my prepared to risk beard dream to win if he doesn't see that? >> we have north korea threatening us. they really only want nuclear weapons because they fear attack and that's not true. what does north korea want. it wants south korea. that's what it wants. neil: it must have a survival and think. they are not totally clueless. they must realize the more they do, the more they risk, you know, getting into conflict the united states. >> so far they haven't gotten into conflict. the president of south korea who wants my sunshine with north korea. so if next year they have the capability to draw a thermonuclear and take your troops out of south korea, stop providing sophisticated weapons to south korea, take your troops

out of japan come out of guam, you name it or we will use nuclear weapons, what would the united states do at that point? that's ever used the weapon as lovers to get what they want. neil: it goes back to his susan rice is getting. the nation deemed to be unstable, like pakistan that have been nuclear capability. begrudgingly accept it and live in a world where it's the case. >> i do not grudgingly accepted. and i don't agree with what i think is a dangerously fast file analogy to the soviet union during the cold war. number one, we barely escaped a nuclear conflagration on several occasions in the cold war. number two, i do want to go back to those happy days where we were doing duck and cover drills in elementary school. i don't want our children and grandchildren to do that. finally and most compellingly of all, north korea's not a crime and leadership during the cold war. it is national in its own sense, but in a bizarre world.

the ayatollahs in tehran, religious extremists are in an even different kind of world. the risk that north korea poses not just a direct challenge vis-à-vis ice. they are selling weapons to iran, hezbollah or anyone for hard currency. if we don't stop proliferation in north korea and iran, we are not going to stop it anywhere. neil: john bolton, scary stuff, but all this is playing out. our former u.n. ambassador reagan, if this is scary in the markets have a funny way of showing it. sort of shrugging off the threat of hurricane maria now a category three storm. still off our east coast. he's doing his own thing and of course maria galvanizing to do some thing, so much so the governor of puerto rico has indicated it could happen again. we are all over it and the implications after this.

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neil: keeping you posted on evacuation orders issued for a large swath of puerto rico is that commonwealth braces for yet another hurricane. this is hurricane maria, now a category three. not too far off in the middle atlantic is leah, still a

tropical depression, but accelerating rapidly. josé, off our east coast. number one on that list could cause a lot of wind and rain and with the full moon may be higher tides. keeping on top of all of these developments, but not doing anything now to dissuade traders are rattled the energy market. all of them appear to be out of refinery row as they were so far, but that does not mean i can change. it could explain why gas prices are holding stubbornly high in anticipation of these still newer storms will keep you posted. charlie gasparino right now on all the crosscurrents. mother nature prolifically deride. for the pressure on this president of the united nations, his opening salvo essentially kind of question in its relevancy of this day and age. not going so far as to trash him. maybe that is coming tomorrow. but he is juggling a lot in the backdrop of these tax cuts that he wants unleashed, the better

he looks as president i would imagine, the better the prospect for selling those. >> i agree. although, attacking the u.n. is not exactly the worst thing in the world. this is a body that you know, when gadhafi was around to libya, i recall them putting libya on the human rights council of the u.n. you had john bolton on before. he can go through the whole thing on some of the absurd things that is, that the u.n., including the sort of rampant hatred of israel. nl, that permeates. so i think you sound pretty strong ground going after this weird. where he's not on strong ground as i think in dealing with the democrats on tax cuts. here's the thing. i'm a guy that watches markets, okay? i try to deal in rationality.

when was the last time and i followed the tax debate for a long time. when was the last time chuck schumer said anything about cutting corporate taxes or cutting individual taxes for doing anything supply-side -- >> item and its ever ever getting anywhere near 15%. but you are a renowned and what's attached to it. >> chuck schumer was a much more moderate democrat before the democratic party was taken over by the left. he was a guy that wall street kind of like for a long time. a lot of campaign contributions. some sort of liking to corporate tax reform. as the democratic argument is further to the left, and i never heard him say one word. so this is the guy attacking business. donald trump essentially trying to break bread and cut a deal with the guy that represent the

democratic party which was far to the left. neil: his argument as i've got nowhere relying exclusively. train to what is he going to get? >> especially in the senate, more democratic vote that would be the case to put me over the top with the majority all the way to 60. >> i think it's crazy. neil: what do you think the markets are episodic, some tax cuts are better than none? >> here's what i think. if nothing happens and i said this time and again. if nothing happens, the inertia, we have a federal reserve likely to not unwind its balance sheet in a major way. even if yellen is in there or jerry collins becomes the fed chair. you will not see a lot of selling of the bonds coming in no. interest rates will not go well. they will not unwind totally i don't think.

tree into the process initiating it. >> they are going to get very slightly. >> $4 trillion. >> the feds hold all these treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities. >> would have to unwind those raised. when you sell, bond prices go down. not in a major way. on the other hand, you have trump literally taking apart through executive orders a lot of the regulatory apparatus. that goes right to the bottom line. the bottom line is this is better than what hillary clinton would've done unless he does something crazy with taxes. neil: we don't know whether he's on board. >> is a big story they should pay attention to what my sources on capitol hill say they are so

wrapped up in daca in all these other issues which you may or may not think it's a big deal at tax reform has taken a big-time vaccine right now and who knows what's going to come out. >> given their strength of markets, they still anticipate it will get done. >> the market is just singing this day says what trump wielding an executive order that he can whack out some regulations and putting pro-market people at the sec, justice department. >> that's better than what would've been the case. >> would have had bernie sanders running the economy. she was taking her cues from him. neil: switching gears, what do you make right now if president obama very busy on the speaking circuit and some big paydays have come from financial institutions, carlyle group, the latest of which they pocketed 400 grand, >> keeps getting.

>> no one begrudges him making money. this is the same group for making money. >> the group is run by david rubenstein, a longtime democrat. used or can the carter administration back in the day. >> may be nominally -- not politically active. neil: i don't know why the financial institutions the president obama, whether you agree or disagree targeted. >> he targeted wall street. that's what raised the eyebrows. he didn't really target the private equity industry which is carlyle. as a matter of fact, he wanted to get rid of their favorable tax treatment. >> of $400,000 tag. charlie: of course. neil: i guess the only thing i raise this, you know the muted protest this group a lot as president. >> ray. he did more than that.

he gave aid and comfort to occupy wall street, and which was a somewhat watered-down version of the nt file. i went down there. those guys were right on the cusp of violence. i tried to stay away because a lot of them didn't take showers i noticed. so i didn't touch. hands in the pocket, the whole thing. >> incognito. charlie: i put the glasses in the nose on. thank god they are not big watchers of fox news. can you believe that? he gave comfort to these down there spouting marxist death in attacking secretaries they were likely work for banks as they were equivalent to the people that created the financial crisis. you know, that is what makes it so hypocritical. he uses a prop over the years and now he is bringing the

exchange, the cash register. hillary clinton never really demonize wall street. she was friends with tom, but even before she got the paycheck -- neil: is sort of be like me addressing -- it would be so weird. charlie: a pumpkin spice latte. bill clinton didn't hate wall street. neil: thank you my friend. charlie gasparino. in the meantime, more on hurricane josé and then we've got maria. in the atlantic, still a depression right now. isn't there a famous general named lee. someone is owing to rename that puppy, i'm telling you. that's not half the heat of this. up next.

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neil: doorman for a dozen years and it seems like every other day another hurricane threat name. berea intensifying right now in the caribbean prepping it again. connell mcshane has the latest on a lot of storms in a lot of ways this potentially. >> its major hurricane maria. preparation certainly underway. similar to our map, the forecast around here saying for one thing it's a little too early to tell about the east coast in the united states although they haven't moved florida out. for right now, you look at the u.s. virgin islands under hurricane warning. puerto rico getting ready. all the government preparations. it could be a cat for by the time they get there so they have to be ready for the storm surge and everything that goes along with it. they are talking about six to nine-foot storm surge and that really gets into wednesday with the dominican republic also in

the site here for maria. watch them into next week around here new york will keep an eye on josé, category one, maybe not a serious threat expected to make landfall. along the east coast passing and things could be rough. into wednesday. so you get the wind gusts with tropical storm strength. the local governments will be getting there as well. >> thank you very much but a little bit dicey. in this neck of the woods and worst. joseph, what is going on here. >> well, we were talking to you this week. a lot going on.

josé wants nothing more than a glorified nor'easter for new jersey all the way through long island, new england. pretty hard rain in long island for a little while. a lot to see. and about 150 miles southeast of cape cod. what is interesting in about three or four days they will be in the southeast bahamas as a major hurricane and the interaction between josé and maria may determine as to whether murray hits the united states. before that happens, this is going to be the worst hurricane for puerto rico in 1989 and then the worst case could be as bad because the storm is going to be passed close to the southwest tip of puerto rico in the case if you go on the eastern tip of the island.

probably down to a two or three. in the turks and kate goes. >> when puerto rico is issuing an evacuation now for maria, this is a serious situation. this is going to be worse than armor for puerto rico. the virgin islands got hammered, but it will be worse on puerto rico when it will be -- it's going to challenge the island.

>> i am wondering if it is in that neck of the woods like the dominican republic and some of these with only so much pounding she can take. we have back to back storms have great confidence. >> we have had to storms like this in previous years. you go back and look at all the other tracks. the only other thing i can tell people is this. if you look at the preseason forecasts, you would see the way we painted the red column, spinning equal distance towards the united states because it was set up before. i went and looked at the high-impact hurricane season forecasted pressure patterns of the book out, here comes this year. what we are seeing, i don't know what i need to say to say look,

this look, this is all absurd before you can see it happening. not saying it after the fact. the rest of the way in. maria is likely where it's going to -- there's nothing over africa now. as the caribbean in 10 to 15 days, died in about two weeks will be coming out for the united states whenever develops there. matching it up against what happened before. >> there is back. thank you, my friend. a little bit from a week ago. roughly about the time by which harvey could be the case for a

while right now. the prices are stubborn and not going down very much. the ceo joe piotrowski. i only see this happening coming from the refinery areas are not. is that just a knee-jerk reaction? they assume this will have an effect on reduction and sorted out later. >> absolutely right. it is by the room for sell the fact. so everybody gets ahead of it and get a little panicky. generally, prices are going to come down and stay down. neil: when you say down, go back to pre-harvey lowes. a lot of that was based on the end of summer anyway in the peak driving season. what now? >> i think much lower. retailers face worries about

losing gasoline volume long-term and for them, and the traffic driver to get inside the store. so there is a lot of pressure on retailers to hold prices, hold the line, will the customers and the regulators are also watching for anybody in the price gouging. neil: what always happens. it's not common. it is the exception. you are the expert that the reason prices could get back to sticking to these ties are close to the highs is the allowances that have been made not forcing, you know, fuel additives than the rest in a lot of those requirements lifted. will those be re-implemented and i think the thinking was that the downward prices you are seeing would be interrupted by the return of those

environmental lands returning to the market of forcibly returning to the market. is that true? >> actually is beginning to winter there is a winter blend of gasoline which is much cheaper because you are allowed to blend in butane and painting and there's no restrictions on not. you are going to see a lot more components going into gasoline which will keep gas prices down. plus there is no structural damage to any of the refineries so expect refineries have to be back up and running full bore by the next two weeks. tree into a must maria do something wacky. >> absolutely. the only disruption we have seen us a little bit on the east coast with shipping because the east coast in the united states still gets a lot of its products from europe, european refineries who don't have the use of gasoline. so the ships get a little bit delayed by the storms in the atlantic.

otherwise, there is no interruption. we haven't had any damage to the pipelines, transportation systems all working well. prices will head down. neil: thank you very, very much. just my thoughts some of my e-mails couldn't get any more entertaining, and i got one that says neil, your anger at maria bartiromo is uncontainable and unfathomable. what is your problem? tree into i am talking about hurricane maria. a little more after this. today, we're out here with some big news about type 2 diabetes. you have type 2 diabetes, right? yes. so let me ask you this...

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neil: if it flies, soars to a going an all-time high today. one of the big catalyst in the down not only today but the one stock north of 60%.

in fact, aerospace related issues, big drivers within a sorted funds that deal with this has been on fire. aerospace has been on fire. who knows better than one of the smartest guys i know. jack otter. what is going on? >> it's really an exciting tech dirt. i look at boeing before coming on and it was up 98% year-to-date. you might get an even 100. neil: i know they have big orders last week saying yeah, we're going to order 20, maybe 30 of these planes. what else is happening? >> step back with aerospace defense have outperformed the s&p dramatically over five years of 160%. neil: that's despite the fact the defense related spending has actually been going down. >> addicted little bit. it's a scary world out there. all of these common boeing and

northrop and rockwell have great big portraits of kim jong un in their boardroom. who better for sale than a crazy guy. neil: that is what it was this year. >> one thing i find particularly interesting is people used to joke about "star wars," missile defense, how would never work against russia and that the novel lot of icbms and coming away to another track record to knock them down. kim jong un is not going to throw more than two or three. we can easily not is down. northrop announced it was by an orbital adk which makes some of those missile defense system and they could protect us. >> that's almost $10 billion with the revised market a rockwell collins $30 billion. is much of this going on driven by some ordeals and combos or is it a standalone, global sector looks promising. >> i think it's both that

everyone is on m&a watch. the hook up and then today's northrop. but also, if you look around the world, and radiate it eyeing more and more from this company because they are fighting in yemen and are worried about iran. if you're in eastern europe, you are probably going to be a customer because putin is obviously japan in north and south korea, even talking about getting more aggressive and they don't have defense industries to speak up like we do. they will be good customers, too. variants, we never like to recommend a company that doubled in a year. we are a little shy, but at the same time trends will continue. i don't see any reason they wouldn't. >> you see a doubling in a stock. are we overly panicky in? or would overly fretting about kim jong un or if we have the same kind of run off with ronald reagan and defense stocks, and

all this other stuff and of course he committed himself at the outset of his presidency to a dramatic defense buildup. we are to spend quite a bit. >> although today the bill is expected to pass to appropriate $700 billion in defense spending. neil: around 600 billion now. that's about four points i've boeing's right there. there's clearly a lot of money on not bad. also, we haven't talked about the aerospace side. no income is 70% of revenues has nothing to do with defense. 787 infantry minors and all of that. you know, a more globalized world. china is a bigger and bigger market for these things. >> when you talk about boeing and all these others if you get in a trade war, the irony would be that some of the same defense

issues could run down. >> sure. first of all, i won't get too much into geopolitics, we often sit down with china and say let's solve this kim jong un problem. he's not good for you, not good for rest. trade wars could help because they are multinational companies. if it starts getting into acting like they buy airbus. that is not good. there is a robust business in yet another one is space. that has to do with white northrop bought orbital the number one reason and there's lots of others, satellites and our like shoe boxes. we need to send out any. that's great for the rocket makers. neil: big time. quickly is it your sense that china can't control north korea? what is the dirty little secret is they can rein them in? >> yes, that is a very good question. i can't answer for sure except when you say what does north

korea have? just about nothing except for weapons. this is very scary. to raise cash can raise cash can and does he start selling weapons to terrorists? we don't have to worry about that, but the point is -- i think china -- they start about china's help, so with china wanted to they could help us, but then think about their endgame. what if south korea takes over the northern half of the peninsula and they don't want that. they are annoying the americans in the japanese. maybe they don't mind that so much. we have to figure out a way how to make it in their interest. neil: is anyone going to next year's winter olympics? >> i remember the last time it was there it did pretty well. i think they will. yes, it is scary, but who knows. maybe by then this will have somebody to at least calm him down for a moment. neil: jack otter, behrens.com

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>> unlike the presidency, and is go to the winner of the popular vote. >> you put that orange wig on comments birth control. trust me. mr. president, here is your enemy. >> in 2017 we still refuse to be controlled -- [inaudible] ego bigot. neil: i'm going to say they are not fans of the white house. holy toledo. liberals standing up for a fake, showing donald trump getting hillary clinton with a golf ball. joe piscopo i'm not obvious

hypocrisy. you and i talk about this kind of thing a lot and i don't think it's alert -- you've dealt with them in the profession. not a big deal, but he gets to be a big deal when that's their only deal. they can't let go. almost a year now. they've got to move on. >> i know. let me just tell you. i was on another network if that was okay, mr. caputo. on that network -- goodnight, ladies and gentlemen. did i tell you -- the car didn't show up in was okay, and so one of the producers said it was their mistake, not foxes. i drove in, just now within the hour. 78 through the tunnel damir du bois zeal cannot run traffic. you are here, you are here.

neil: i understand. >> will come as a rival network i voted for donald trump unapologetically. i'm going to vote for him again. given the chance to seems to be evening out. everything seems to be great. you've got to have a sense of humor. you've got to keep a sense of humor. i will say something, take up all my friends, my fellow supporters of the president. stephen colbert was brilliant. it was brilliantly executed. i know that. you have the writing was brilliant. take the shots. you're the president of the united states. take the shots. trained to tedious to perform, no doubt about it. do you ever feel like you get sold? >> to me, yes. neil: they are preaching to their own choir. >> i didn't want to watch the birds of vietnam thing because i knew would be all anti-american i didn't want to watch the emmys but you know what -- >> you can assume ken burns.

i hear it's brilliant and maybe i meant jaded old guy. first of all, you have to let the guy with the comedy back round, i appreciate the opening number, the jokes. don't forget he took a shot at elmar before he went after donald trump. that was a great joke he said, but the n. word, wow, look at that. and then he went on. you've got to laugh. i think i think the moderates, the people down the middle who want to be bipartisan, we have a sense of humor. who doesn't have a sense of humor of the progressive left. neil: if they are going to have the humorous night and they have a lot of funny stuff, you can't take very seriously a kid mowing the lawn at the white house and all the sudden the child labor laws. you can't do that.

>> packet sold. i felt bad for dolly. dolly who we love it really is a comic genius. there was no funny there. you need to make it funny. i can live with that as a trump supporter. also the race thing. >> the ratings surge doing that. in general, and the breaking news that i bring for you. i heard it was the lowest in like six years. so let's have a sense of humor. stop the hate. just appreciate it. the progressive left, you've got to take a chill pill. neil: live cameras on joe leaving after this. ture mlps? think again. ture mlps? it's time to shake up your lineup. the alerian mlp etf can diversify your equity portfolio

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playing right now, helping the north koreans and maybe iran mixing that deal or cheating on the deal of which the president has not been a fan. adam shapiro with the latest on all of the above. hey, adam. >> hi, neil, and, yes, the meeting is a discussion with the prime minister from israel about compliance of iran with the nuclear treaty that was enacted during the obama administration, of course, the trump administration has to comply that they are in compliance, the iranians in october. so the president will be meeting with mr. netanyahu. he's also going to be meeting later this afternoon with emmanuel macron from france disgusting the middle east and iran's destabilization of the middle east, as well as compliance with the nuclear accord. now, the other issue that is he at the united nations today is the reform of the united nations budget. the united states donating roughly $3 billion to the budget, the largest single contributor and the president is meeting with his counterparts.

128 member nations who are committed to reigning in the spending. here's what the president said earlier today. >> we encourage all member states to look at ways to take bold stands at the united nations with an eye toward changing business as usual and not being beholden to ways of the past, which were not working. >> now, the president will address the united nations tomorrow morning. of course, he is expected to talk about north korea. north korea is front and center and the continuing problem that the rogue state poses to stability in asia, it's nikki haley, the un ambassador from the united states who actually said that if north korea keeps on with its reckless behavior, north korea will be destroyed, and we know that none of us want that. none of us want. so this is a big issue. the president speaking to the united nations tomorrow. back to you. . neil: all right, adam, thank you very, very much. i want to dip into this.

the president -- this is from a few minutes ago, meeting with the prime minister of israel. >> discussing among them peace between the palestinians and israel. a fantastic achievement. and we are giving it an absolute go. i think there's a good chance that it could happen. most people would say there's no chance whatsoever. i actually think with the capability of, frankly, the other side i think we really have a chance. i think israel would like to see it, and i think the palestinians would like to see it, and i can tell you that the trump administration would like to see it. so we're working very hard on it. you'll see what happens. historically, people say it can't happen, i think it can happen. but i want to say thank you very much. >> mr. president, it's great to see you again. i want to say that under your leadership, the alliance

between america and israel has never been stronger or deeper. i can say in ways people see and don't see. so i want to thank you. equally i look forward to discussing with you how we can address together determined the nuclear deal and how to roll back iran's growing aggression in the region, especially in syria. as you said, we will discuss the way we can sees the opportunity between israel and the arab world. i think these go together, and we look forward to talking about it how. finally, we're going to be speaking tomorrow at the un. and i want to say that under president trump, america's position at the un has been

unequivocal, it has been strong, it has both clarity and conviction, and i want to thank you on behalf of the people of israel and israel's friends around the world. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you. >> also, as you well know, the jewish new year is this week. so i want to wish you the jewish new year of america and people everywhere. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, everybody. have a great afternoon. we'll see you soon. okay?

thank you. . neil: we're talking about it now. i think i heard that correctly of the president responding to a question about looking into that iranian nuclear deal again and whether we rip up the agreement itself, the president's never been a fan of that agreement. but we always had to have proof that the iranians weren't violating it. they say at the very least, they violated the spirit of that accord. but the president indicating with benjamin netanyahu, of course, he's no fan of that agreement was dead set against it when barack obama signed that agreement. but the president making it very clear that they are continuing to examine it. to international human rights lawyer, and fox news contributor lieutenant colonel allen west, state official under president obama joe reuben. joe, we begin with you. this president is now very much inclined to want to find a way to get out of the deal he says the iranians have violated. have they? have you heard any developments or updates that would indicate that the

iranians have violated it or as the president says, at least the spirit of that accord. what do you make of that? >> well, neil, it's great to be with you. and, no, the iranians have not violated the deal. the international agency has corroborated that they're living up to it. the trump administration just last week said as much in waving sanctions. so what the president is articulating is a legitimate concern about iranian behavior in the region. there should be no doubt that there are real problems there in syria, iraq, and elsewhere. but to undermine the nuclear deal would potentially give the nuclear bond to iran. we need to be very careful about not weakening this agreement and not isolating ourselves at the un and with our allies on this critical national security issue. >> you know, allen west, one of the things that benjamin netanyahu has been arguing, of course, he was dead set against that agreement but that the iranians are secretly funding or helping the north koreans. do you have or know of any

proof to indicate that? >> well, all you have to do is sit and look at some of the collusion activities between the technology that's been shared, the fact that we just recently had a north korean vessel that was intercepted on its way to syria, which is a state of iran delivering chemical weapons. and i just take offense to what the gentleman just talked about. iran was -- explosive force penetrators to terrorists in iraq that were responsible for about 20 to 23% of the casualties and deaths of our troops there. iran has been firing off missiles as well as been testing missiles, and that's a violation. iran has been making deals with russia and others for the reception of conventional weapons and arms. that's a violation of the deal. so iran has completely violated this deal. they continue to be the number one -- neil: i don't know what the truth is, guys, to be honest. and the one question i would have is the biggest fear we have of north korea right now

is that the more we put into a corner, and it's a rogue possibe candidates. but does that worry you? >> what worries me is that we decide that we're going to outsource american foreign policy to the united nations on north korea. i mean, there's one thing that the united states -- the united nations is good at, and that's adopting resolutions. and there's one thing that it's not good at. and that's stopping nuclear proliferation. anybody who thinks the un is going to protect america national security has been taking their political lessons from movie stars. sooner or later, we're going to have to get serious about north korea and, you know, it's true, yes. it's more isolated. but isolation sure isn't

stopping kim from putting food on his table. . neil: well, there is that. joel, one of the things that' what should that tack be? what do you think? >> you're absolutely right, neil. and we've had 15 years of failed policy. and the danger now is that that policy is continuing under the trump administration. but with an additional layer of blunt language that it is war-oriented language that essentially prevents our ability from getting allies onboard like china who we need. they may not be an ally, but we will need them to strangle against them. neil: the chinese aren't bundle. >> but without china onboard -- neil: no, i understand. what you say is accurate but china's not bundle right now. right, colonel?

>> no. he's absolutely right and one of the things we need to understand going back to the speech that bill clinton gave all the way up to the strategic patience under president obama. the platforms for these missiles are chinese made. that's what north korea there.

but we'll watch very, very closely, guys. thank you, all, very much. as they're speaking here, we're getting our first estimate on damages from florida and, of course, irma and insurance regulators are now estimating at least $2 billion in irma-related losses and claims. that is as of the 17th. that would be yesterday. obviously, those will escalate. but it represents more than 347,000 such claims. this as other storms are festering in and around that neck of the woods, including, mostly maria. more after this

. neil: if carl wasn't right the last time when he was here, the problem might not be so much this across the aisle the democrats, and that was before all of the president's to the democrats. but his own party, the far right in his party, former george w. bush deputy chief of staff that's selling off fox

news contributor carl is with us right now. you're saying that right now it's those conservatives who are going to undo it. but particularly, carl, your final paragraph in your latest column in the journal where you say if the freedom caucus acts on its threat, the budget resolution could be voted down, making reform possible. no doubt following their mo, the group's members then blame the gop leadership as the resolution passes, the freedom caucus may delay tax reform until 2018. these lawmakers are demonstrating that once again the freedom they most prize is freedom from the responsibility of governing. so if it goes kaput, it's on them. explain. >> well, it should be if it goes kaput because, look, the house budget committee passed a budget resolution out in late july. they did so only after a freedom caucus member demanded that the house leadership dropped the border adjustment tax from any tax reform

package. otherwise, he was going to either try to amend the budget resolution to kill it specifically or would not support the resolution. so the house budget committee comes out with a budget resolution, that's important because without the passage of a budget resolution by the house and senate, the senate would require 60 votes. but if you pass a budget resolution that includes language allowing for a tax reform bill, then the senate can pass such a bill with only 51 votes. so the house comes out with that budget resolution, expects to take it up in early september. but now the freedom caucus is saying we will deny you the -- our 30 votes for the budget resolution. there by bringing about its defeat until we get to see all the specifics of the tax reform bill and get to go up or down. so you have 30 medication of the house of the 241 republicans in the house saying it's my way, our way, or the highway, and we're willing to vote with nancy pelosi and the did you come to resolution to bring this whole thing down unless we get

exactly our way. neil: the irony being you can see why donald trump made overages to democrats. but i'm wondering whether that would reverse this or what. >> well, there's no chance at all that a democrat that more than one or two or three or four democrats in the house is going to vote for the budget resolution and no chance at all i suspect in the senate a single democrat will vote for the budget resolution. don't ask me why, but it's always that way. budget resolutions advanced by one party never draw support from the other party. so this is a bad -- this is a big threat because there are 241 republicans. if 30 freedom caucus members do not support the republican budget resolution, it will get 211 votes, and it needs 218 to pass. it will go down in defeat. and without it, we have no chance at all getting tax reform through the senate. neil: now, one of the ideas of not getting the rich a tax cut is it might make it more palpable to democrats who might put that on their red line as the tax initiatives the president's considering. do you think that even if that

were the case, left out of this tax code or the well to do that democrats support is still not going to be there? >> i think there may be a few democrats in the senate who support tax reform. joe manchin of west virginia, joe of indiana, heidi in north dakota. neil: those three did not sign that letter on the part of the; right? go ahead. >> right. the first three did not sign the letter. and then claire did of missouri and john of montana did. but if there's no decline in the top rate, this five are going to be under pressure because they come from states that voted overwhelmingly for donald trump. every -- trump carried every one of the states by 18 points or more. he carried west virginia by 42 points. joe manchin is going to be under a lot of pressure to support a tax reform package backed by president trump. neil: you know, president bush, george w. bush said when the tax cuts came, that he --

that they were going to be across the board. everyone would get a tax cut because he didn't want to pick or choose who did or who did not. donald trump has considered and weighed this carefully, i'm sure, and concluded or at least it looks like he has concluded that the wealthy are not going to get a tax cut. most of the big tax cuts of substantial value were across the board whether jfks or ronald reagan or your old boss george bush. what do you think of this one is not? >> well, it's not going to be as pro growth as it would be otherwise. our object here not to be -- are we inflicting pain upon the wealthy, our object ought to be are we growing the economy at a rate that's going to give prosperity to everyone? and, look, 49 -- 50% of the taxpayers pay 1% of the tax burden. the bottom 50% of taxpayers, federal taxpayers pay 1% of the burden. the top 50% pay 99%.

and so if we're going to have a middle class tax cut for the people who are there just above the 50 or the 50th percentile, the 60th percentile is not going to give a big kick to our economy. let's be honest about it. so i think there ought to be a limit on what the government can take from anyone. right now, if you're the top tax bracket, you're paying close to 40% in your income tax you're paying over 40% with all the kickers added by obama. i think most americans think there ought to be a limit what it can take from anybody because if it could take it from some, it could take it from all. neil: this is outside your normal purview. but this is coming to us from a host of publications that last night's emmys hit a close to 20-year low. and i'm wondering if the dip even from last year, which was low, was viewers fed up with all the trump bashing. whether they like donald trump

or not. >> yeah. look, i can't -- i'm not an entertainment expert, but i can tell you this. i turned it off. i couldn't stand it anymore. it was so heavily political, the choices were so heavily in tune with the political sort of herd mentality of hollywood, i just couldn't stand it anymore. i turned it off and read a book instead. and i suspect there are a lot of americans that are fed up with the politics that's effecting our culture like this. it's fun-to-an occasional whack. these were not fun moments. this wasn't sarcastic. this wasn't fun. this wasn't meant as a jive. we had angry people up there on the stage last night ranting and raving about the president of the united states. and i for one wanted to hear about who did well in their -- in their television programs. i wasn't interested in a lot of political opinion. i suspect a lot of others weren't either. neil: yeah, whether you like donald trump or not, it got a little long in the tooth there. thank you very much, carl. >> thank you, neil,. neil: in the meantime, it

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>> there's no way anyone could possibly watch that much tv, other than the president, who seems to have a lot of time for that sort of thing. hello, sir. thank you for joining us. looking forward to the tweets. >> my wife and i had three children in three years, and we didn't la child last year during the snl season. i wonder if there was a correlation. all you men out there, you put a wig on, it's birth control, trust me. >> we abandoned that because we were worried that someone else might get to it first.

. neil: all right. that was the emmys last night. a lot of that on the president of the united states is to be expected, but they go too far because we're just getting ratings here hitting an apparently all-time low or at least the lowest in 20 years. variety is calling it an all-time low and since they follow this stuff, i would imagine it is. now, that has been happening year after year after year, so it might not just be on the attacks on donald trump and the phenomenon where we're sick of seeing these guys congratulate each other, but it is. we've also got democratic strategist jim green. what do you think? just people turn on, hear the trump bashing whether they like the guy or not and say heck to them. >> perhaps there's just so much entertainment in politics right now, it's taking away from the value that the emmys brought into people's lives. who knows what the issue is with the ratings. on content-wise, though, i think it was a great night for

strong female narratives. neil: why not leave it at that. >> well, i think either of them are a reflection or reaction to the trump administration. you have, you know, at the time that nicole kidman is winning an emmy for actually putting a real life representation of domestic violence situation, you've got the president tweeting a gif that shows a golf ball hitting his former opponent and thinking it's funny to laugh about something -- neil: you think that advocates violence against women, something that goofy? you don't believe that. >> it certainly tries to make it jovial in a way. neil: you can laugh at other venues but when someone tries to turn it around and do something, you get too serious. >> when it comes to hitting a woman. i think someone who has been a victim. neil: you don't believe that. >> the mother or father of a victim knows that it's not funny. neil: i love her to death, but

i find her rage to be selected. what do you think? >> well, look, i don't think anybody should be making fun of hitting politicians with anything. whether we're talking about golf balls or tomatoes or whatever. let's not throw stuff at politicians. neil: would you apply that to an award show where it was nonstop? >> the award shows, i think we should maybe come to an agreement with hollywood. if they avoid the commentary, we won't sing and dance. how about that? i think that's fair. if they're going to bring up into the political commentary, we ought to break into song now. neil: do you think it has anything to do with the constant trump bashing? or is this the trend, and it has been going on for each and every year for 20 years, i guess. so maybe it's just we're sick of award shows. >> look, i think in that room where they held the awards, that's 90, 95% hard left democrat room. when they engage in this sort of thing, they should remember that whether or not 1918% of the populous voted for trump. they don't want to hear it and they listen to something

else. it's okay to have a joke or two but when it goes on and on and on, and it seems like you're watching fox news sunday, you have half the people watching voted for trump and don't want to watch that thing. >> perhaps they should thank the emmys because it was hollywood that gave donald trump president to be the first reality star. neil: well, wait a minute. hollywood actually helped him get elected because people were recoiled at the way -- >> look, i certainly think that the entertainment industry complex helped get him elected. everyone is making more money, getting more accolades because of the trump administration from saturday night live to every cable news outlet just getting more numbers. this is not -- neil: so i get a feeling they were talking to each other. >> they certainly were talking to each other, and they took some hits at each other. i think they could probably take a little bit more and be a little bit more pointed in their critique of what the

message is that they put out. but, again, i think the message last night was great for some stories that have been told, for new artists. neil: going to be a very diverse list of winners and all of that. it's sad, though, that this gets to be the story because that's all that a lot of people can remember. and quite a few trump haters and found the show and even for them a bit much. >> yeah. i think, again, it gets to be a bit much. i think a little satire is fine. they often start with topical comments, that's great. but it goes and on and on, and i think it's good to bash both sides and be an equal opportunity offender if you will. but when it's tilted like that, i think it aggravates a lot of people. neil: but a lot of those individual entertainers like colbert's case and others, they've gotten good ratings to do that. so obviously, they read that. so we can probably expect more of this; right? >> yes. it's what we're seeing on a daily basis. emmys are not -- doesn't take an awards show. all of these shows are doing

better with this type of -- neil: the oscars when they happen and everything else, it's just -- >> i think that first, we have to believe in freedom of speech. everyone can express themselves as an individual. they have that right. they've built a platform. they should be able to do that, of course. and we have a responsibility. if you see some of the things that we've seen from this administration, and you've got millions of people watching and this platform that's been given to you, of course, take a stance on the issues you care about. neil: and those on the right by something out of an awards show, and they wanted to say this about barack obama. you would agree there? >> look, i have no problem critiquing former president barack obama if it's deserved neil: yeah. i just see it more skewed left when i see that. >> yeah. i think, look, again, it's very skewed left, and this is not a surprise you're dealing with people from hollywood who tend to be 90% democrat. some of the biggest donors to hillary clinton, the democrats are people who come out of hollywood, they raise a lot of money there. but my god, we heard about 24/7 news cycle and all the

social media. can't we just get a break from this stuff and enjoy entertainment, not have everything politicized? i do this for a living. i like to go out and see concerts, movies, i don't like to do this all the time and have to worry about hurricane and disease and earthquake and obamacare going on and what are the republicans doing and why can't mitch mcconnell -- can't we just get a break from it? . neil: can't we just all get along? >> can't we just all entertain? >> talking about donald trump ag. >> take a break from it for a couple of hours. neil: yeah, it was steadily going down for the broadcast going down, down, down. there you go. a little bit more after this

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. neil: just seem to be backing up like planes at laguardia. hurricane josé could be threatening the east coast and way out there is a system

right now not even a tropical storm at this point named lee. to meteorologist and severe weather safety expert charlie. what's going on here? >> well, i think part of it is cyclical. we've gone several years without major hurricanes in high numbers like this because the pattern hasn't supported it. this year, the pattern supports it. we have warm ocean water, we have low wind shear that tends to tear the storms apart. so in part, the time is due and the conditions remain favorable for these storms to continue out off the coast of africa and move in our direction. the good news right now, it appears that josé will continue to weaken. it's moving over cooler water, hurricanes need really warm water to keep going. but this system is going to africa the east coast much like a nor eastern would. you're going to have coastal flooding and winds anywhere from 30 to 45 perhaps over

50 miles per hour as it moves offshore. it's expected right now to remain offshore. but all the way from delaware up through new england, you have to watch this storm carefully. it could be spotty power outages as well from trees coming down on this power lines. neil: i could well understand, but i want to get your thoughts about puerto rico whose governor is going to be on with us later today on fox news. take the unusual step of calling for evacuations. half the commonwealth. what do you make of that? >> i think that's exactly what's needed because at this point, right now, the forecast calls for the storm to go right over puerto rico, winds are forecast around 100 miles per hour, it could be the biggest hurricane to hit there since hugo. so it's certainly that folks there need to take very seriously, prepare for, and i think any -- even what might seem extreme measures in this

case, they're wandered. neil: all right. thank you very, very much. charlie, meteorologist in nashville, tennessee following all of these developments. also, we're following the on going back and forth on this tax cut status. and if and when it materials. >> we are unified around a very strong middle class tax cuts. i want to lower the rates at every level so people can keep more of what they earn, and we can grow the economy. i just honestly believe washington takes too much of what people earn, and, frankly, they also waste too much of what they take while they've got it. neil: . neil: steve forbes, the back and forth on this. what do you make on this? the given peril, especially on the fact that they're not on the same page. kevin brady seemed to innovate with maria versus the president's view everybody except rich guys. >> i think the bottom line is going to be self

preservation. political self preservation. they know that if they don't get a big tax cut through, they're going to suffer probably big time in next year's elections. so all of this backing and forth is just a normal kind of really debate you have before you put something on the table. and then when you finalize something, but there will be a big tax cut. there will be a big business tax cut. the individual side. they know 5% of the people pay 70% of the revenue. so if you want capital creation and have incentives for investment, they've got to do it across the board. so it's not going to be a big radical reform there's not enough time for it, but there will be significant cuts, and they'll say to heck with projections and deficits, which are never accurate anyway. we've got to get this economy moving. neil: you know, steve, i wonder what your thoughts are. carl was here a little while ago, and he was saying it's not so much democrats or this that are trying to water down this thing. i'm paraphrasing or i hope i got the gist of it right. but it's groups like the

freedom caucus who could torpedo any initiative in the house and have in the past done so again and again and again. what do you think of that? >> well, i think there's going to be enough in this bill when it finally gets passed that this satisfies everyone. on the health care side, they really didn't know what they wanted to do. so people got dug in on various positions. and when they finally got something done with the house, they had to do it all over again with the senate, and they couldn't. but this time, they've been on the tax position for a number of years, they know they had to make everyone richer. so i think they'll get something done on this, unlike what they didn't do on health care. neil: you know what worries me, though, at least on taxes, the broader agreement than on health care then orrin hatch comes along, part of that gang of the big six, and he's the man who runs the senate finance committee says that this actually, the tax cut thing is going to be much harder than health care getting on the same page. that worries me. what about you?

>> i think somebody says the big six will be the deep six if they don't get a tax cut through. neil: i would think it's self-evident -- very obvious that all of your hineys are on the line; right? >> yes. and so they will get something done. one of the things that i think they're going to be dusting off is what happened five or six years ago when they allowed the first two points of your social security tax to be excused for a couple of years. i think they'll do that again first two or three points to make sure people who don't even pay income tax but if they're working will feel that their pay is going up. so i think at the end of the day they're going to say let's go big, there's the only way we're going to get out of thi t. neil: all right. steve forbes, thank you very, very much, my friends. we'll have an update on where these tax cuts stand back and forth. remember, it's supposed to be a week from today we get all the details on that. but kevin brady said gee, maybe not. so that could cause some concern here. again, not evident in the markets now.

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. neil: all right. there are new reports now that facebook has been busy handing over some information related to russian election medaling, of course, the guy is probing all the administrations reported ties to russia deirdre bolton here with the very latest on that. >> yeah. so it's all about the power of a search warrant; right? so robert mueller had the search warrant. congress, not so much. it was just an inquiry. but there are plenty of congressman who are furious with facebook basically saying, hey, when you came to dc and answered all of our questions, how come you were a little bit circumspect and kind of showed us the example of an ad, didn't let us keep an ad. but then has everything including copies. and the answer is a search warrant makes a difference. so i think -- neil: so he didn't volunteer that. >> no. absolutely not. . neil: okay. >> and essentially -- i'm going to go through what the special council now has two key things that congress doesn't.

russian ads that ran on facebook during the election and detailed information about the accounts that bought the ads and the way the ads were targeted at american facebook users. so special council robert mueller now has copies, evidence of those two components. facebook stock not responding to this. but if more information comes out, which we have to assume it will, the stock could take a hit. i mean, it's already up 33% year to date, s&p 500 up around the same amount. so it's just one to watch. neil: so dumb question on my part. is it purporting to show that a lot of facebook users -- because that's the number that's going to be crucial -- were influenced by this and could have voted presumably for donald trump based on ads that were coming from russia? >> so that is the hypothesis that we assume is being tested. no one has actually come out and said that.

neil: but throw this out there. >> right. and let it dangle. neil: right. >> it is dangling over our heads. no one has put in point-blank that thesis in. right now, it seems to be collecting evidence. as you imply, it's a little bit dangerous because it's just here, and we have to wait for more. neil: that got the guy elected. all right. that does seem like you say to be a stretch here. but let me ask you a little bit about equifax and what they do and whether they knew it. they can't get out of their own -- >> this is horrible. i mean, like, horrible, horrible, horrible. the only thing that you can think of, it's already facing i think 23 class action lawsuits. neil: is that right? >> and more to come. everyone's going to sue this company. shareholders, the government, i'm assuming, and the fcc started an investigation. we learned today the department of justice according to another news source saying they began a probe on potential insider trading because three executives, including the cfo sold about $2 million worth of

stock between the time of the hack, which was essentially may, june, july, and the summer, and the time that the executives themself found out about it, which we presume is around august. the company went public with it in september. tons of customers, say, 40% of the u.s. population is beyond annoyed; right? because they didn't find out at the same time that the company found out. the company was kind of treading water for a month. how do we handle this? what's the right pr channel? and then -- neil: almost too evil. you know that would come back to people would time this revelation that you knew you had to make. >> the best of cases, maybe if you're the cfo, you say, oh, i'm sure we have this under control. i know this stock is going to take a hit. maybe i just -- but at the moment, it seems nefarious again in neon letters. so that's why the department of justice has started a criminal probe. i mean, that's pretty serious. neil: absolutely. >> the stock worth pointing

out as well. neil: and this isn't like a target or -- >> this is the worst ever. neil: no one expects to be a equifax customer, but you are automatically with these credit searches. >> that's the most important point is that these companies were built, essentially, to serve banks; right? so you're right. you never said, hey, i want to be an equifax customer. i want them to hold all the data. no, these companies were built for the facility of banks and other loaning agencies so they can evaluate us. and 40% of the population. the other troubling thing is that a lot of experts are saying this has to be state acted. this is too sophisticated. it's too widespread. it has to be a state actor. no one throwing out any country names yet, but that seems to be consensus. neil: yeah, that's almost every adult household in america. >> yeah. one thing some people are suggesting for what it's worth to our viewers, probably going to do it myself. you call and request a credit

freeze because with your name, your address, your social security number, and your date of birth, some can impercent nature any one of us. >> a credit freeze isn't a bad thing to look. neil: . neil: deirdre, thank you very, very much. of course, she'll be exploring this as the day ensues. and in the meantime a lot of people are just steamed. but if wall street is concerned about this in the aggregate, it doesn't seem to be because right now, we're in record territory. united nations is in the middle of a session that could decide whether we take any more action against north korea. what i love about wall street is that even on the verge of potentially getting blown up, if they can make a buck off of it, they're okay. that is america, my friends. a little bit more after this

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neil: all right. i, it is united nations week here. this hour the president meeting with benjamin netanyahu of list rail. that bilateral meeting to look by israel's reckoning the iranians are playing a key role here in providing intelligence, money and support for their nuclear weapons program. i believe the president at 3:50 eastern time will meet with french president emanuel ma cron, my favorite leader name.

all these defense deals, anything defense, aerospace related is on fire right now. investors are keeping them up. here to take you on that, and so much more the next hour, trish regan. hey, trish. trish: macron. like you do it in france. you have a nice way about it. world leaders meeting in new york city ahead of his big speech tomorrow at the u.n., united nations where he is expected to call on every single nation to do more to pressure north korea into giving up its nuclear weapons. as we see yet again another record day on wall street. look s&p, dow, nasdaq, all green on your screen. hitting new record highs. i'm trish regan. welcome to "the intelligence report." ahead of his first address to the u.n., president urging more to do more militarily and financially to make every within