so glad stu wasn't here. he hates tattoos. >> right out out of the movie "hangover" had the word champ put on his back side. ashley: glad he didn't share it with us. we'll leave it at that. neil cavuto, take it away. neil: that is for another day. dow off 65 points. well off the worst levels. a lot of crosscurrents we get to later next couple hours, this battle over higher interest rates, whether they are good or bad, stronger dollar. both are perplexing traders today, as well as disappointing earnings out of likes of walmart. which accounted for a big chunk of the losses we're seeing in the dow earlier on. again those losses have come down. far more important matters to be considering in florida where busloads of students from that region are expected to head up to tallahassee to make it known to state officials you have got to do something and you have got

to do it now. also indications some republicans who heretofore have been reluctant to address gun control measures of any sort, seem to be changing their tune a little bit. among them, john cornyn, republican from texas, this might be a good time for congress to pass some sort of a gun control bill. we need to do more for our thoughts and prayers. the president as we've been saying is open to tighter background checks. we go to blake burman at white house with the latest. reporter: that's exactly right. the white house will dive head first into the issue over the next couple days. tomorrow they will host what they are calling a listening session here at white house on issue of school safety and violence. parents, teachers, students, sitting down with the president. they say that the president really wants to listen to those individual. then on thursday, it will be same kind of an event, more so with state and local officials and lawmakers as well. back to the issue, back to the

event on wednesday remains to be seen, whether or not students from parkland, from marjory stoneman douglas senior high school will be here at white house as well. no official word yet if it will be students that survived the shooting last week or just selected students from across the country. at white house, they were saying in the initial days, they were focusing on issue of mental health. there seemingly is a little bit of a shift as you just noted they are instead focusing on the need to shore up the background check system. here was the deputy principle press secretary raj shah speaking with maria. >> we want to understand what is the breakdown in our systems. whether law enforcement issue. whether it's a state, local, federal issue at many levels. the other thing the president talked about, he talked with senator john cornyn on friday about improving background check system. ways we can strengthen it. reporter: critics want to see

actions, not words on this one, especially relates to the president's own budget he released a couple weeks ago, the national instant criminal background check systems proposed funding was dropped by the administration from $25 million down to $10 million. blake, thank you very, very much. neil: i mentioned earlier about all the students right now heading to tallahassee, the state capitol there, to make it known they are not going to put up with this. legislators better come up with something and soon so this sort of thing doesn't happen again. joining me on the phone, sun-sentinel reporter steve hobbs. thank you for taking the time. do we know how many students or teachers are expected to descend on tallahassee? >> thank you for having me, neil. we don't know at the moment. we're hearing, what you all are hearing as well. sound like there will be a contingent of people but we don't know the numbers at this time. neil: separately, you're aware, governor rick scott, who already

called on the fbi director to resign over these revelations it had access to information and dropped the ball as recently as january 5th about the shooter, asking to release any and all documents pertaining to the screw-up. is that something these kids are expected to talk about as well, do we know? i don't know, in addition to what the governor said, having some listening sessions to talk about the education officials, law enforcement, with child welfare advocates. don't imagine those conversations may come up in the midst of the multiple conversations that are going to be happening up there today. neil: you know, stephen, this is unusual after some school shootings, that numbingly sadly get used to, the kids are taking this into their own hand to go to politicians themselves. some have been tweeting the

president in not so rosy terms, going at him for, you know making this about him. some of them arguing it was more about russia and everything else not about what they're going through. that is very, very unusual, isn't it? >> yes, absolutely. they have been very outspoken, even just in a short period of time, within days with the rallies that have occurred, very much have taken a very public stance. as you mentioned on social media and just in our local community. and now up in tallahassee. it looks like in washington, d.c. in march. neil: steve you mentioned washington, d.c., it might be before march. do you know whether any of these students are among those who might make it to the white house tomorrow for this summit the president is having with those affected, directly or indirectly bit shooting? >> i don't know. i know that, that there are students planning to be up in

tallahassee but i'm not sure if any of them are are going up there for that tomorrow. neil: finally, it wasn't just exclusively your reporting but reports have gotten out that the gunman, nikolas cruz, had multiple guns that he bought up to 10 rifles over the past year. all without incident. in other words, he was approved for each and every purchase. do we know much more on that or where he presumably kept the other nine guns because the people who were sharinging their home with him had no idea, certainly about those other ones? >> yeah, we don't. in terms of the total, yeah, we haven't been able to independently confirm that number but it does sound like at least the people that he was living with, this mead family, they were aware there were additional guns but they didn't know exactly the total but they knew it was more than just the one rifle that is believed to have been used in the shooting. neil: only that one rifle that

was locked in their gun cabinet, right? >> from my understand, i believe, that that one was locked in there but i'm not sure about the other ones. neil: gotcha. stephen, thank you for taking the time. you've been mildly busy to put it again mildly. stephen hobbs, "south florida sun-sentinel" reporter. to get the botched fbi handling of that telephone call that pretty much telegraphed everything that nikolas cruz would ultimately do. he was acting erratically. that his special media posts were getting more dangerous. so a fbi special agent on this. the governor already called, john, as you know, the fbi director's resignation, does not appear to be in the offing. where is all this going? what are we expected to see here? >> the director of the fbi came

out publicly there was a tragic mistake that was made. the director asked there be immediate investigation that whatever caused this problem can be fixed. neil: the predictable things, that you and i got into this before, wait a minute, we were told see something, say something. if we find something out of place mention it to authorities. a lot of those kids going on buses to tallahassee are very angry about that. they did their part, feel agencies, police, let them down, better than three dozen visits on part of the police to nikolas cruz's home. what do you, what are some lessons here besides just tightening communication and improving communication? these kid, a lot of them interviewed feel collectively let down? >> certainly their feelings are understandable but let's also remember, this was a lead of what somebody was saying. there was nothing based on that

information that was arrestable offense. at very best, the fbi can gone out to knock on the door ask the young man to speak with them. i done that hundreds of times. many people shut the door but other times people talk but can not be arrested. what he was saying are still things protected under the first amendment. neil: revisiting the gun laws, privacy law, improving background check, at least raise flags, then 10 guns over the course of less than a year. that has not been affirmed by all accounts, that, is there anything else we need to do. >> there is plenty of room to look at what the existing gun laws are and how they can be improved. everybody in this situation specifically looks at it, clearly background checks, but incorporating other things as

well. as far as the background check there is no information on mental health. somebody from child services looked at this child but yet nothing could be passed along to law enforcement that can be actionable. these things need to be addressed. neil: you don't have an action on mental health unless passed along with law enforcement or that is not going to be conveyed to a gun store owner, right? >> that's correct. we've seen it before. in the gabby giffords shooting there were many issues of jared loughner yet nothing could be passed to law enforcement to do something with that information. neil: john, thank you very, very much. we'll speak later to former whitewater independent counsel robert ray and his thoughts, that to the president's notion that distractions like the russia investigation actually hurt tracking down the killer in this case in florida. he is coming up later on. now the dow is well on its way to trimming a lot of losses, 3/4

of them early on. a lot has to do with sentiment here, higher interest rates are reflection of improving economy. walmart coming off the worst levels. accounted for lion's share of losses earlier on but we're nowhere near done. more after this.

neil: the dow down of 2 points. the -- 62 points. walmart, concerns maybe their online venture wasn't going as well as planned. that is an overstatement and probably an overreaction. that has since reversed a little bit, still now, not nearly as much before. the read on all these developments with "barron's" senior editor jack hough. >> good to be here. neil: quick on the walmart thing, that was sentinel event, maybe the consumer leaves that consumer rivaling amazon ain't panning out or maybe the tax cuts are not panning out. maybe that is pretax cuts. >> with walmart this is not about an earnings miss. walmart became a story stock last year t did twice as well as the market. had a small acquisition,

jet.com. good things happened for e-commerce. neil: rival to amazon? >> maybe 50% growth in the quarter. suddenly thatdown shifted to 23% thereabouts. people saying where the is growth coming from. the jet.com numbers were an versed out that is technical thing. amazon, 38% growth. amazon whole foods numbers are included in. they will get lapped out eventually. that is skewed comparison for walmart. they had some operational issues. i don't think this kills their story, but look when you go down the road of the story stock, investors will forgive you if earnings are not great in one quarter but you have to bring ex-most system growth. neil: beneficiary from lower taxes especially individuals predisposed to spend that at a walmart? >> it's a double beneficiary. it is own rate goes lower. it makes good money there. also this goes into the pockets of a lot of its shoppers. neil: we wouldn't see that in this report. might see knit the next report? >> we might.

walmart shoppers are skew a little lower income than amazon prime shoppers. what we know, the obviously thing about lower income people, you put more money in their pockets they spend it right away. that is what people who don't have as much money do. i would expect a good chunk of money to go to walmart and similar businesses. >> what do you think of the numbers? they're anecdotal. they come from online surveys. they're not always reliable. the trend is consistent with number of americans say we like the tax cuts. "new york times" online poll show more than half have a favorable view of them. what do you think? >> i'm going to guess that your viewers are probably right on top it but the average person out there it becomes difficult to do the math, right, how much they're going to get exactly? they don't quite see how long the benefits will last. neil: some start to see it, right? >> i would imagine this thing will become more popular. you put money in anyone's pockets they will like it. neil: no matter how much? more is better than less, right? >> i would think so but i think there used to be in a time in

america we worried about the debt. we haven't done that in a little while. i'm hopeful we'll start doing that defend because we were terrified we were running trillion dollars deficits at depths of recession. we'll run them late in economic expansion which is a bad time to run deficits. neil: which wins out? you and i were chatting during the break, this notion that taxes are coming down but interest rates are moving up? >> and i think, as rates move, as rates move up you have a 10-year treasury 2.90 thereabouts today. people start to worry about stocks. we have seen a little weakness a little volatility lately in stocks. i don't think it will last. i do think the market has another leg higher just because people forget how absurdly low the bond yields are. if bonds were at the historic average relative to stocks right now, you would have a 10-year treasury paying 5%. we have a long way to go before we get there. neil: is this taking the oomph out of consumers excited with

seeing higher net in their checks but paying more for whatever? >> rising interest rates? i don't think zoo early on. the reason we talk about consumers, we talk about credit card debt. credit cards interest rates so far removed from what happens with the fed funds rate. they charge -- neil: refinancing rates, that kind of thing. >> they charge what they want. i think in the initial period, we're going to start to see people say, getting one or 2% on my bank account. i haven't gotten interest in years. good to get a little bit of interest in my pocket. early on it will be good before it becomes bad. it becomes risk at higher levels of bond interest. we'll not see these for some time yet. neil: that would be mean and the norm. jack hough, "barron's" senior editor. kids are heading to tallahassee. first wave of buses are leaving momentarily. we're on top of that. a former top prosecutor what the president has to say about what

happened in florida and why the fbi dropped the ball. it is too concentrated on russia. what does robert ray think about that? we'll ask him.

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neil: all right. i want to take you to coral springs, florida. parkland students are ready to depart to tallahassee. they're going in waves. hundreds of them. some said thousands. i don't know if that many but hundreds of students will make their way to the state capital to push personally for better control of guns. better scrutiny of those who already made observations about suspicious characters as they did in the case of nikolas cruz, the assailant in last week's devastating attack. they want answers. they want action. they want laws. they want it now. and a lot of them as young as 13, 14 years old. they're descending on legislators to make that known. all of this as governor rick scott of the state of florida indicated right now he wants to

get the timeline how it is that the fbi botched that telegraphed january 5th meeting or phone call from someone very, very concerned about nikolas cruz and that the harm he might inflict. now he is already gone on record that, governor scott, to say that fbi director chris wray should resign. that's not happening but a full accounting for what happened is. former whitewater independent counsel robert ray whether the fbi deserves a lot of the raking over it is getting here. what do you think? >> it always deserves scrutiny and i'm a firm believer in the view that with regard to the big things, the country gets things right but part of gotting things right is a very thorough evaluation when we get things wrong to figure out what went wrong, why, and how we can do better to prevent it from happening again. there is going to be an accounting here to figure that out. resignations are not the solution. first of all chris wray hasn't been in the job long enough to

have had a opportunity to make the kind of changes necessary so we don't have this problem. it's a communications problem. understand the task the fbi is faced with, whether terrorism, domestic issues, whatever it may be, you get thousands of calls literally. the job to separate ones you need to pay attention to the one -- neil: having said that, robert, i'm interested in saying a lot of what happened is distraction on the russian probe and left other offices, field offices at a disadvantage? >> i don't think they are bereft. i have every confidence in the fbi to be able to do the things that it needs to do separate and apart from the obvious distraction that the investigation with regard to russia represents that is at a higher level. talking about thousands of agents across the country, day in, day out do the job they're charged to do.

neil: what about the russia probe? he said surely there are not thousands of people on the russia probe? >> clearly not. it is an investigation within bob mueller's office. there is obviously assistance by a number of fbi agents, but i wouldn't cast them into the thousands. probably under 100. neil: let me catch up with you. you got headlines when you were discussing the russian entities that were cited by mueller's office and rod rosenstein spelled it out all, that this would be interpreted as good news for the president. can you explain that to me? >> because the word that was used in the charging instrument which was, unwitting, made it clear that any connection between the russians and the criminal allegations that are contained in the indictment and the trump campaign were only ones where they were essentially unknowing participants in assisting what otherwise were russian evidents to interfere with the election. i mean that is a fairly important word to have been

used. i have to think -- neil: co-conspirator was used a lot too. >> well, okay. neil: we don't know who that would be, american or russian, right? >> you have to be careful. neil: you can't be unwitting co-conspirator. >> that's correct. that is in every indictment. neil: really? >> persons known and unknown to the grand jury conspired with the people we are talking about. that wouldn't necessarily signal anything with regard to the white house. the more important word was any connections with the trump campaign were unwitting connections of that is a significant thing. i have to think that word was obviously used and selected intentionally, there was a great amount of thought that went into that before special counsel mueller and hits people used it. neil: lo and behold, the associate of trump advisor richard gates is fingered by mueller for lying to the fbi. is it a -- where is this going, in other words? >> i think you can expect that bob mueller will use all of the tools in the tool box and press

to find out those who obstruct, those who lie, to figure out whether they're lying or obstructing about anything that he does need to be concerned about. you can expect those types of -- neil: clearly you're saying as former -- you have to find out why they're lying? >> absolutely and that's critical to the investigation. so obviously within his machine date but more importantly for the general public to understand the reason you bring cars like that, you have to find out why they're doing what they're doing. if they're making false statements to the fbi in connection with the investigation, you want to find out whether that takes you any place. and it may but it also may not. neil: president has been non-stop ripping the fbi particularly after the florida thing. as someone who has been affecting bill clinton and others, does that affect you going about your business. >> no. and it shouldn't. your job is to do your job. you're operating in a political environment. it may be politically expedient for any number of people, united states congressman, united states senators, even the

president to criticize what you're about doing. i'm certain bob mueller has been through this drill before. that will have no effect on his ability to continue to proceed with the investigation and to a timely conclusion of the investigation. neil: what is timely conclusion? >> from the beginning you and i talked about this, i think timely conclusion of the investigation with all significant prosecutorial decisions having been made can be accomplished before the election cycle begins in november. neil: really? >> i do. neil: before november? >> i think that is still possible. you don't know what you don't know and you don't know what he might find but at least on the sense that i have that there is not going to be proof of russia collusion, this investigation will continue to identify interference with the 2016 election. it will prosecute people along the way who deserve to be prosecuted for false statements obstruction of justice and other substantive crimes but whether it travels far into the white house i suspect that is not going to happen. if that doesn't happen, you can expect i think a timely conclusion to the investigation

this year, ideally prior to the election. neil: wow. i will hold to you that. >> we'll see whether i'm right. neil: you are right on lot of other stuff. robert ray, former whitewater independent counsel. i love having him as a guest ticks off both sides. that is good quality, very good quality. you remember the google engineer who lost his job because he said he was just speaking his mine and talking about practices at google that weren't fair or remotely balanced. he is still out of that job but he is coming here with his lawyer next. the things we do rising before dawn. sweating it out. tough to do it all. but we can always find time to listen to great thinkers and explorers whose stories take us places our hamstrings can't.

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♪ neil: james dem more lost. he was fired at google for simply he said expressing his point of view, a conservative point of view which he outlined to some of his colleagues at work that google was being unfair, questioned the role of biology and career choices and

some left of center biases that put conservative workers in some peril. the case was brought to the national labor relations board and it was there that the nlrb decided he didn't have a case, that google did. that his comments bordered on discriminatory, that is why he was canned. james damore is here and his attorney. welcome to you both. i appreciate it. >> happy to be here, neil. neil: let's get to this a little bit because there is so much to get into. and, james, the first thing, this started with you discussing among your colleagues points of view that were opposed to what? the way google hired the results of that hiring, political correctness, how would you describe it? >> it was partly just the shaming within culture, within the culture, and also discriminatory practices in hiring. neil: now, there you outlined

biological differences between men and women, why they were so few female employees of equal stature to male employees. that is something that happens at a lot of companies. 17% of the workforce at google had women in such positions when it came to leadership. fewer than one in five are women. how did you address that or what did you say about that because the company says that you implied that women weren't up to that task biologically? >> i simply used the psychological research to explain why there may be fewer women interested in current tech jobs and how we could change the jobs more welcoming to more women. neil: in saying that, you brought up, you write very well, very clear but you cite among other reasons that women might not have the temperment for moving beyond -- higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance. this may contribute to the

higher levels of anxiety that women report and that lower number of women in higher stressed jobs. a lot of women got upset with that. that was obviously a deal-changer for google. what do you say when they questioned you about that? >> this is a well-founded finding in psychology that women report higher levels of stress on surveys and google was using that as evidence that women were being discriminated against. i simply wanted to show that, no, women tend to experience more stress and if we make the job just less stressful, less 80-hour weeks we can make it just more appealing to more women. neil: all right. well here is the chance i want to talk to your female lawyer. and maybe, you can help me with this, because when the company ceo was asked about this during, i think the davos summit, he

said as a company we support freedom of speech but you have to understand the context of the work place, the representation of women is very, very low, it is moral imperative we create a environment more supportive of women he went on to say this was not a biological issue. this was a fundamental issue. the points that your client was making deemed, were deemed to be dischromer to. what do you think? >> well, neil, there's no denying that there are differences between men and women. so i think that is a legitimate point. a lot of social justice warriors in the work place and outside don't want to accept that now the question is how do companies deal with it? james was trying to provide constructive solutions. what google does, what many companies do, employ quotas mandate hiring of women, despite the fact poop line coming out of our engineering institutions is 20% women. we need to change cha as society if we want more women to have the jobs. quotas are illegal under

employment laws. while google may prefer and have what they call moral i will pair tiff they must -- imperative. they must abide by employment law. there are employment discrimination laws that protect the rights of workers to comment about these issues and to not be discriminated against on the basis of their gender, their race, their -- neil: or their views, right. >> or sexual orientation. or their viewpoint. neil: james, if you believed it was your conservative viewpoint what is deemed to be a liberal working environment, that worked against you, did you have any other instances of that where you felt ostracized or you were laughed at, picked on? i know, the company did have to respond to an emailer who had threatened but did it go beyond that? >> there were many instances of shaming within our culture. if you look through the lawsuit there is hundreds of pages of this just repeated over and

over. i wasn't an isolated incident. neil: are there other conservative or right-leaning figures like yourself or workers who are afraid to speak up and what is condoned versus what is not condoned? >> so, recent surveys suggest about 80% of conservatives feel like they can't bring up social issues at work in silicon valley. it is really unclear what exactly you can or can't say which adds to the chilling effect. neil: so, when you said you couldn't come through with your views but you still wrote what you wrote and shared with your colleagues what you shared with your colleagues, did you ever bounce it off your superiors first? >> yeah. i actually had many one-on-one conversations. a manager actually suggested that i spread it further. so, it wasn't clear that this was wrong at all. it was only once it became viral that the company started responding and deannouncing me. neil: all right.

so the company was saying at the time it acted as it did, this is something echoed by the national labor relations board to make the decision that it did, employers must be permitted to nip in the bud, i think that would be you the kind of employee conduct that could lead to hostile work place, rather than waiting until an actionable hostile work place is created before taking action. in other words if your views were left to go unaddressed and by extension make women in this case feel uncomfortable, then that's reason enough for to you go. what do you say? >> so, neil, if i could address the issue about the nation labor relations board. first of all, james, withdraw his national labor relations charge, we focused on the class-action lawsuit. that is one misconstruction. neil: they both came to the same view. >> they really don't actually. they really don't actually. the national labor relations

board, national labor relations act has a limited scope. what is covered there, concerted protected activity. in our lawsuit we talk about equal employment norms not covered by the national labor relations act. longstanding precedent in the national labor relations ability conduct like jails is was protected. at regional little in san francisco area the national labor relations board decided to who have forward with james's case. we had one lawyer in the national labor relations board who wrote this memo, it is an advice memo, not a ruling, there was no evident taken, there was in hearing, nobody was sworn. interesting they released the thing month after they wrote it. james doesn't have a case in front of the national labor relations board anymore. it was odd and gratuitous to do that. google didn't lobby them to restrict worker rights. they have done that in a area and that is on going thing with the national labor relations board.

neil: maybe you can help us with this, the company can be seen to be saying this was something they thought long and hard over here and that they didn't want to treat you unfairly but they felt your comments left them no other choice, quoting, this coming from the company today, because we asked for a statement, their hr manager saying that i want to make clear our decision is based solely on the part of your post that generalizing and advancing stereotypes about women versus men. it is not based in any way of the employees's posts, programs or training. again and again when you differentiated between capacity where men and women handled job that is where you crossed line. what do you say to that? >> they didn't think long and hard about this. after it was viral, they fired me monday right after that. i repeat over and over in the document we shouldn't stereotype people and there is large distributions but this is really important in just hearing out

why we see certain trends. neil: when you say why you see certain trends, to be clear on this, why such a small percent of that workforce, not only google across the whole tech industry, you cite some of these reasons, whether it's a temperment issue or whether a biological issue, could you see how a company would respond to say, is this your thinking, addressing other workers there, is this your thinking google? do you agree with this? >> i think google can have their own opinion on this but i think that this is well-founded psychological research and it really should be used if we want to improve the work place. neil: so to address that how would the numbers improve for more females in your industry at that former company and elsewhere across silicon valley? >> if they used this and

actually take advantage of it, then we can really make tech a more appealing place for women. neil: all right. but it isn't right now. and is it your sense that it should be equal? you should have equal number of men and women? or is it just the nature of the beast, that in this area it will be disproportionally men? >> i think maybe it won't necessarily be equal number but that down mean that it should be built solely for men. it should be welcoming both to men and women. neil: so when, when you're hearing this from the, as a woman, other women took offense, not all, i want to stress, not all, to you? >> not at all, neil. i'm not threatened by different viewpoints being discussed. seems like today everybody is a snowflake and can't hear a different viewpoint. i think that you know, women should be free to make their own choices. that is what they're doing here. there was an interesting, some

discussions came outs over the weekend, some studies have shown that in countries where women have more choices like the united states, there are fewer women in tech. women have a lot of different choices in this country. more repressive countries more limited mead eastern, where i come from in india, women have very much fewer choices in the career work place. they're limited to certain respectable occupations. so what james was trying to do in the memo to point out how google could do a better job attracting to women by not shaming and degrading men and -- which has been done by executives at google but follow the law and make it more attractive. that is market based solution. most of us who are more conservative believe in market based solutions. google is failing in the market place to be attractive to women. google should be more welcome to opportunities -- neil: quoting from their statement here to me. james, i want you to answer here

to this, they argue again and again in the statement this had nothing to do with their political viewpoints. saying having different political view is absolutely fine. advancing gender stereotypes is not. your reaction. >> they can claim that it wasn't about politics but we see time and again that they make politically-motivated actions and, this wasn't an isolated incident. neil: when you say not an isolated incident, we're told in silicon valley, in the high-tech world in general that to mention even the president's name or republicans in general is verboten, it is a career risk. was it, is it? >> yes. the general sentiment, you don't know anyone that voted for trump because no one is willing to admit that they did. and it is really unfortunate that people can't bring their whole selfs to work. neil: were there quiet closet trump voters that were cheering

you on? >> yes, there are many people that showed their support privately but told me they really weren't willing to show any public support because they too feared they would get fired. neil: was it your view, after you will of this where they say your views, particularly regarding women, were anathema to the company, that you were almost treated as some sort of a right-wing kook? did that bother you? >> yes. they definitely tried to smear me as some misogynous, racist, you know, crazy person, and i was really just trying to improve the work place. so it's really unfortunate. i felt betrayed by them. neil: so what do you now? what do you guys do now? separately the nlrb is one issue. but where do you go, where do you go with this now?

>> we have this lawsuit pending and we have been contacted by literally dozens and dozens of people. it is like overwhelming number of people calling our office wanting to join the lawsuit. people who didn't get jobs at google, based on gender, race, political orientation. discriminated otherwise. neil: how would their political affiliations come up? i guess if you're google you know? >> you would google them obviously. it does come up, does come up in interviews. it does come up, it is readily available to people. we have numerous examples of people who have been stopped during the interview process because of their background and their viewpoints. this is pervasive problem. google is definitely the worst offender. but other companies in silicon valley -- neil: if you went to left-wing rally or hillary clinton rally, free the internet rally, whatever, you would not be held accountable for that or you would not be punished for that,

is that what you're saying? >> to the contrary. it is social justice warrior dominated work place at goo gel. neil: is it a good company? do you think google is a good company? >> they make good products but i think it is becoming more and more hostile to work there if you have conservative viewpoints. neil: what if you're a woman, is it a hostile work environment? >> i think it is actually very welcoming to women and it's, it's not this, tech bro culture that people make silicon valley out to be. neil: very interesting. guys, keep us posted on this. startling story. we'll have more after this. this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible.

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>> all right. congress wrestled with the issue of gun control. they are taking the matter in florida to state legislatures to have them do something about it. hundreds of kids were affected by the school shooting are going up to tallahassee to tell lawmakers

they send out demand signals that never land in a place like flint, michigan or youngstown, ohio. what we trying to do is connect the two, because economics should work out for the companies. neil: it is not a bad idea, congressman, talking about becoming insulated. many said the same of both parties in washington, when it comes to host of bills. i'm reminded of nancy pelosi's comments not too long ago. i know you didn't vote for them. neither did she, not a single democrat, referring to bonuses individuals are getting from companies is chump change or crumbs, all of that. you faulted her i believe at the time for that. do you think she is out of

touch? >> well, you know, i do have my disagreements with the democratic leadership. i stated them pretty clearly on this show a year ago and many others. i do think we need to get back to the message what we talk about with the comeback cities tour. how do we grow the economy in these regions of the area where democrats are bleeding democratic voters and independent voters and we get thrown off the message. i think that the democrats, what we need to do, we need to have, what's america 2.0? what is the economy 2.0? i would end up disagreements, $2.3 trillion tax cut primarily to the wealthiest people, you would say how would we get the wealth created on coasts incentivize to drive in the communities. neil: that is fair enough. you are getting a lot of your colleague's attention. i know i mentioned this every time you're here but for good reason because of the good

reason. took over challenger her for democratic leadership in the house. whether you're if the minority, or a lot of folks seem to think you could be in the majority? >> i don't have any interest in running for leadership again. i spoke my peace. i felt compelled to do it, in part no one else was going to do it. i felt like we needed to have a national conversation. and so i have no interest in doing it now but i do have an interest -- neil: what if she runs you will unchallenged, congressman, will you let that happen? >> you can have me on if that is the case at some point. i don't know if that will be the case. i don't know how the elections will turn out. between now and then, between now and november, democrats have to jump on the economic message and wages pensions, things important to working-class people. neil: would you vote for her? would you vote for her? >> well, i don't know. i don't know. we'll see what things look like in a year from now. you know, but i do think we have

to continue to get new faces out there. and talk about the issues important. i just saw tweets, a lot of times, the social media, twitter, facebook, is not talking about what working-class people are talking about every single day. if i walk out of this studio and in youngstown, ohio, sit down at the coffee shop, it is going to be i'm insecure about my pension. i'm insecure whether the general motors plant will get another car or get the third shift back. i'm insecure whether or not the steel mill will stay open. these are the kind of insecurities people are living with. we have to get off of the twitter, the crap on the social media that incites people and get back to solving problems, whether it is the gun issue which congress and the president haven't solved or getting wages up like they need to be up. i feel like we're failing a lot of people at this point. neil: congressman, thank you, very good catching up with you.

venture capital is very unique idea. we'll watch it closely. >> thanks, neil. neil: thank you very much. speaking with the good congressman here, the good rally is on and upward here. these are florida students who are going to make their way to tallahassee, the state capitol, where they make their peace known. these are 14, 15, 16, 17-year-olds who said enough is enough. after the shooting last week, we had it with the school shootings. we want you, the leaders to do something about it. they will make a case countrywide for the nation as a whole in washington in march. but for now letting authorities in the state know it. this comes at a time a lot are very, very angry, for good reason, some of those authorities dropped the ball when it came to information available on the shooter that never to the relayed and they're furious about it. in fact the florida governor already said, that the fbi trek tore should go. at very least, he wants a full accounting what went behind that

decision. who dropped the ball, how many memos were dropped back and forth. let's go to fbi director hosca. this is anger at the institution you served nobly for your country and people are getting increasingly angry, it not only screwed up but consistently screwed up on this, missing, many, many clues and cues. what would come of getting all the documents that the governor wants and what would change? >> well, neil, first, i think it is important for the fbi to conduct a thorough review what went on out in west virginia, with the tip line. not only in this case, but looking back at other cases, you know, to see, has the system been validated. is it effective? is it, i understand it is probably was designed this way for a cost savings measure, to

take away those complaint, tip responsibilities from 56 field offices but is other information that is critical being missed, not sent to the right location around the country? neil: ron, you and i chatted about this before. it is not the first time, not just the fbi, where things weren't communicated, before 9/11, after 9/11, patriots day bombing where the fbi and local police apparently didn't share information on the culprits behind that. so it happens a lot. why do you think it does? is it just institutional indifference? or hanging on to your stuff and not sharing it with others because viscerally weakens you if you're helping the other guy? what is it? >> neil, it is much more complicated than that. in this case we have yet to find out but clearly something significant, detailed, credible was missed, and never made it

from west virginia down to south florida, but i think in other cases, there is a factor here that relates to the fbi guidelines. those guidelines are pretty clear and they're pretty stringent on when and how the fbi can investigate and when they must shut down an investigation. so i think we need to look at all of these things collectively, but we have to look at them individually too. neil: yes. >> i think the case of the boston bombing, the brothers there, there have been other cases in south florida. mateen in the pulse nightclub shooting where the fbi had a look at this guy, determined at a place in time that they had no information in to proceed. and then something about him changed, and the lack of an alarm going off where the fbi should have reopened its investigation, that alarm never went off. neil: you're right. >> the same true of the boston

bombers. neil: ron, the president said it was distracted with the russian investigation, the fbi in this case, so much it compromise the folks that do this sort of thing, what do you think? >> i think, neil, the president is distracted with that >> there were very few fbi agents supporting the bob muller fbi investigation. there were very few supporting the hillary investigation. those are not big distractions. that is a small part of what they do and a huge mission. if congress were to look at these pickups serious, as they are, a politically, maybe they start thinking in terms of the fbi guidelines and broadening out what they can look at. i think the book is valuable and i think it should occur. can we do it a politically? that is my question. >> i wonder. thank you my friend. very good to see you.

thank you for your service to the country. >> i want to go to adam shapiro. there's a big push that the president is more open the background check. senator cornyn is watching as well. >> the president has said he would support or be open to discussion with john cornyn and chris murphy, the two sponsors of a bill to fix the national instant criminal background check system. they introduced this back in november. a man had shot 46 people and 26 were killed last year end that bill was stalled on capitol hill. a spokesperson at the white house said this. >> ways in which we can prevent, we can identify troubled individuals and prevent, we can ensure that the information is going across government and going across to the right authorities so when folks go to buy a firearm that

shouldn't be, we know in time. >> is there a distinction between new background checks and what this bill would do. a lot of problem is that there's a hundred 19 million background checks run between 2008 and 2014. a lot of of them failed to accurately go through the system were because state and local municipalities were not uploading the proper information. the bill addresses that but this would be fixing a system already in place. back to you. >> the president will be meeting with florida students and teachers tomorrow. we don't know who or the selection process, let's go to patrice. we've also got the host and fox news contributor. jeanine, what do you expect to see out of this. >> neil, first of all, i think the president is showing compassion and leadership by meeting with the students, teachers, parents and

administrators. he is going through the community that is hurting and he will hear their concerns up close and personal. >> some of those students have tweeted some nasty things about him saying he misplayed, mishandled and was selfish in the way he reacted to events over the weekend. do you think folks like that would be interesting or would they avoid it. >> i'm not sure who is on the list. folks have the right to freedom of speech but it's a very emotional issue we are dealing with. the president doesn't know what he is going to be faced with once he's in the room with these individuals.

that is something that needs to be taken into consideration. it's a very difficult time right now. a lot of people will say you represent the government. whether it's the party or the system, we been here and done this and experienced the tragedy many times under democrat and republican predecessors and nothing gets done. it's time to get stuff done. should he be compared for that? >> i think he will be prepared , acknowledging where government has failed, big government has failed will be a really great starting point. having a listening ear because it's true, those emotions will be rough. when you look at what the right course of action is, you don't see a ton of support for certain part types of gun ban

assault. i think americans realize the second amendment is very important to protect. >> some of them get a little crazy about some guns. some say it seems to be pushing it but do you think the president, when he talks about background checks would extend that to include limiting access to just those types of weapons, depending on your background? >> i don't think he will. i think he wants to keep it focused on this individual and how the law enforcement failed and didn't identify this threat. when you look up what these students are asking for, they

are brought in terms of wanting to have safe communities and safe schools. >> one of the things i heard and tom was asked about this, a big gun advocate himself who is saying we have to address gun rights advocates, privacy advocates, mental health advocates, each and all must be part of this answer. yet, with one side only once the gun guys to do something, the gun guys only want the hollywood crowd and those who are susceptible. then there's a whole mental health issue. none together in tandem. i always think that unless that is addressed, we are not going to make progress. what you think. >> again, it's very emotional neil, but we are also looking at the fact that our law enforcement did not do due diligence. adam shapiro mention the fact that the lack of uploading

essential information on individuals, especially criminals information that was not uploaded, the fbi did more than drop the ball and a lot of these instances. with what happened in florida, the local authorities were aware of this individual. someone was brave enough to come forward and notify the fbi about his erratic behavior. >> whatever the mental state or how that was ultimately telegraphed to people or not -- >> and my point is there was a tip involved with this individual and law-enforcement did not follow up on it. plus, the authorities were at his residence numerous times, not just recent, this goes

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that carries the amazon logo. 5% back on amazon.com purchases, 2% back on restaurant and drugstore purchases and 1% on everything else. it's a big car that's getting a lot of attention. it will be interesting to see if they can make a difference with whole foods. if you are not a prime member you can get the discount but only up to 3%. finally, whole foods was acquired in august by amazon. the company is also getting into the delivery business. drug distribution and the grocery store business. the grocery store business also with amazon go was announced earlier this year for the company now has a market cap of $1,700,000,000,000. very big indeed. back to you. >> thank you very much. that's a conundrum if you're in amazon or whole foods fan, to get 5% back on arugula, i don't know. but it's a very healthy place to eat.

needless to say, i don't go there. i'm kidding. we have a lot going on, the dow about 140 points and a lot of people were worried if interest rates would dislodge this whole thing. we had up trading days, is that in jeopardy? what's really going on. business development leader is here. >> it's interesting. it's almost as if the markets, yeah we like higher interest rate but we don't like it if they go too high. it's good if they reflect a good economy, but we don't want them going back to craziness. >> what's too high? at 3% i think were okay with that, i'd say were okay with three and a half percent. is 4% the line in the sand?

what is the worry. >> if you mortgage up to 6%. >> home depot did that. they're not worried about an impact their business with home prices and home sales cooling off as a result of higher rate until they get to about six or 7%. >> let's say we had 3%. i think were just begging for that. it will happen. then what. >> 4.7% mortgage? >> it doesn't sound bad, but not too long ago mortgage eels were under 4%. when you start think about it, if it wasn't for the storms and hurricanes, housing may be a lot more sluggish. you might not be looking as strong. we'll have to see whether or not middle-class america has the stomach for a 70 basis point rise with a 30 year

mortgage yield. i'm not convinced. my business, we rate corporate bonds. the high-yield corporate bond market, that issue and has gotten clobbered by the financial market volatility. >> very true. the first few weeks of february it's down 50% year-over-year. maybe that's a sign of trouble down the road with the real economy. >> are you worried about that. >> not entirely. we were talking during the break. volatility is new so people learn to cope with that but everything is happening so gradually and measured. the first time you see a spike and rate it freaks out. then the digestion goes away and were over the worst of it. >> what would happen is computers are making trades based upon things that happened off the grid and then when that sort of settled down and human beings kick in, then we had this day where i was news in the morning, the cpi guy and it was sold off

immediately and the market closed up. once human beings that been, more normal behavior kicks in. >> but the human beings made those computers. let me get your take on this sentiment that's building up we know people are thinking which more positively about tax cuts. we do know the benefits the economy, so much so that democrats are admitting their helping. but there's also a higher interest rate. there's good if you can get a higher yield on your cd or savings account and if you're a borrower, offsetting whatever gains are getting. >> that is a major concern right now. we have two camps coming out today, the whole morgan stanley, the main course, the downfall will come in the second half of the year. if rates and inflation rise too much and the economy can't handle it. they're very bullish on you as equities. they upgraded them too overweight. they like financials and they

like technology too. >> on the inflation front, the same day the cpi came out we had a report on retail sales. retail sales were down and it means that real consumer spending fell for the month of january. >> you mentioned the magic word, savings. the personal savings, in 2017 it fell to a very low level. who's to say that a larger than expected portion of these tax cuts that people receive will be saved and not spent, especially with the population getting older, especially with the workforce aging. >> there is that. >> and then the year ended with a trend of saving less and credit card debt more. hopefully when americans start getting those refunds coming from less withholdings and also these 4 million americans who got their problems, hopefully that money goes into savings and the receiving at a

higher rate so it could be a good thing. >> does the market build in the possibility that republicans lose the house or is that a given. doesn't matter. >> political uncertainty. >> i'll tell you, we talked to traders and ceos, they are very concerned about midterm elections. they been that way and the level of concern is increasing as we get closer and closer. thank you very, very much. we are just around 2.91 on that note our down on start. if you don't think there watching it very, very closely, you have another thing coming. more after this make something for dinner.

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>> facebook under fire after the latest bob muller indictmenindictments. hillary has more details. >> facebook exact rob goldman

is saying sorry to facebook and the special counsel after he went on a twitter rant over russian meddling. it sparked controversy internally and online as users react to the bombshell revelation he tweeted about. he said influencing the election was not the main goal of russian meddling, adding most happened after trump was elected. he also said russia was using free speech and social media against americans to spread propaganda and adding a final blow to everyone on the internet. he said russian propaganda would not have worked if americans were better educated. goldman tweets were retweeted by the president's personal account and now goldman is walking back his statements posting in internal apology that reads in part, the tweets were my own personal view and not facebook. i conveyed my view poorly. the special counsel has for more information about what happened. seeming to contradict his statements was a serious

problem on my part. he also set the record straight thing nothing they have found runs counter to muller's indictment and to suggest otherwise is wrong. neil. >> thank you very much hillary von. the president lately has been targeting a lot of issues about indictment, real and imagined and whether the fbi's after them and whether this will and anytime soon. interesting read from the former whitewater council, robert ray as to that timeline. >> i think a timely conclusion of the investigation can be accomplished before the election cycle begins in november. >> really? >> i think so. i think it still possible. you don't know what you don't know and you don't know what you might find. >> philip wegman on that. these are such fast-moving developments, i can appreciate it's a guessing game, but his

argument was that the russian indictment pretty much triggered he doesn't have anything showing direct american or known american involvement, at least at that level. whether there is obstruction of justice is another issue but something that could be wrapped up by the end of this year, do you do that. >> and the only thing we can say for certain, because this new cycle is moving so quickly and there are new developments, it shows that russia wanted to be and succeeded at being a chaos station. didn't think donald trump is going to be the republican nominee let alone the president. none arrested. i think there's a real risk when we continue to feed this hysteria, instead of taking real steps to prevent this from happening again. we are in an election cycle right now and the longer we continue with this the more we

play into the russian hands again. >> he was making this so much about himself, whether he was exonerated or not, find i understand but he did get the electoral votes. i understand his frustration. he is mr. establishment. he will have a vested interest making sure the russians don't pull any of this on him. what i took away was they were key at selling discourse after the election. they like the confusion they want to tear parts of the society and make sure people on the right can't speak to

people on the left. i'm telling you, we cannot tolerate this but he cannot do that. >> if you are one step closer to understanding donald trump when everything that happens to his thinking revolves around him and to an extent it does, but i understand one 100% if you look at this not as a political issue to win points but to take her closer look at security threats as if it was a national security issue, i think he would have an opportunity to step above the partisan fray and would put him in a good position ahead of the midterm election in november. >> he's not going to do it. >> i wonder what the applications are if he does not, for whatever reason. >> every time you celebrate early, you run the risk of an ugly embarrassment and there are so many things that are not discussed in this indictment, wikileaks, hillary

clinton server, his meeting with russians at the hotel, there's a whole walk-in closet of shoes that can drop. if he's going to celebrate early, he runs the risk of looking pretty foolish later. >> if he doesn't say anything, do anything, lead on anything regarding this investigation to say what the russians are doing is bad, all of his top surrogates have said that, his national security advisory, his secretary of state, his defense secretary, no one in their right mind's questioning if the russians were involved. by the same token they are suggesting they can change the outcome. he can feel he is leader of the free world and has to make sure the russians don't do to us what they tried to do in 2016 and screw us up. he can look like a hero. >> absolutely. this is low hanging fruit for the president. he can try to exonerate

himself and try to shore up the electoral system. for crying out loud, he took an oath to defend and uphold the constitution pretty can also uphold his own reputation by going after the russian threat. this is something that is a no loss scenario for him. if he treats this issue seriously, that would require him to get on the same page with his officials, but if he does that, i think he can bolster himself and his party and maybe begin to put all this behind hi him. >> thank you very much. now i think the never trumpeters are going to start coming at me. it's true. that's our country. dammit. more after this.

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more and more people are feeling positive about the tax cuts and that something democrats are noticing as

well. congressman brian said democrats have to get a better handle on this idea that growing the pot for everybody is not bad idea. he has different dictations about. the numbers can't be denied, liz. there is more of a feel-good feeling with the tax cuts. even going back to reagan or jfk after he died in his tax cuts came to fruition. they were greeted by doubt and then people see them for themselves and they like it. >> it's easy to see why they become more popular because contrary to what democrats told you like me too close the that the tax cuts were going to be armageddon and people would die, americans actually see tangible results from the tax cuts which is not only the bonuses but they can look at

their paycheck and they see they can keep more of their own money. they see higher wages. they have tangible benefits. on my 2010 when republicans stood unified against obamacare, democrats stayed unified against tax cuts but tax cuts are actually popular. obamacare wasn't. they had to own it in 2010 and it led to a wave election for republicans. republicans can only's tax cuts and i think it will help them in 2018. >> the question is whether it helps him enough to hang on to the house. they almost invariably lose the party of power in these election. >> democrats should have a natural advantage going into 2018 because republicans have unified government. they control -- this has to be a bigger outside issue. the democrats ran on the

unpopularity of the iraq war. then they ran on obamacare. what do the democrats have to run on if it's only opposition to trump, i don't think that's enough. what issues have they picked up. they picked up the dreamers and now they're picking up gun control. >> you follow the stuff so much better than i, but i get a gut feeling that the school shooting last week in florida is a little bit different. not only because of the rage on the part of students, students heading to tallahassee to protest next month, that they are sick of

it. they're tired of it. you hear about the navy notion that you see something coming say something. folks did, some of these kids did and nothing came of it. they're tired of it. they are angry at the president and congress and the lawmakers that don't establish between parties. when you think about what happened in newtown which was horrific, nothing changed when i came to gun laws because there was an argument that what would gun laws do to stop. how does someone with a mental background like this guy still get a gun, people are questioning the whole thing.

more of this is in hollywood, it's all in the mix, and young people, in particular are throwing up their arms and their parents are saying no no-no. >> right. it really should be dissatisfaction with law-enforcement, government. all the warning signs. >> will be interesting to see who benefits from that. >> hopefully neither of them more after this.

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>> he would be a challenger to mitt romney if one should appear. >> i don't think the president will get involved in those primary. >> he has done it in the past. >> he is not indicated any

intention to get involved in that primary. we want to make sure we keep the present focused on his priority. >> by the way ms. fancy pants, she is a great leader of her party but mitt romney has gotten the endorsement and full support of the president of the united states, so he did get involved here. that's to protect and keep a republican seat in utah. they could pick up one in north dakota but the real ballot will be in the house. charlie is watching all of these. >> i will say this, i felt was really interesting about romney's lukewarm thank you for the presidents endorsement. it wasn't like thank you, you're the greatest, it was just thank you. then he moved on. people around romney are telling me this and speculating so take it for

what it's worth. yes he plans to be a stabilizing force in the senate. he plans to have a platform there. he won't admit this, but, if donald trump blows up, he is willing to step into the fray and run. at least that's what the people around him. >> you mean if donald trump blows up and can't run again? >> doesn't, he may challenge mike pence. were talking in four years. he is not there purely, not just to represent the people of utah, he was born in michigan, he spent a lot of his life in massachusetts, he did some great work in that state for the olympics back in the day where basically save the olympics that was filled with scandal. >> there's a wing of the party that don't like him and relate to him, particularly in utah. they weren't overwhelmingly in

trump camp. they wanted to stay. >> where they stand with the party and the president, he's the leader of the party, he's gotten tax cuts, his approval rating is inching up a little bit, what you think of that. >> i think the establishment republicans are accepting him as their leader, it's always in the back their head that he is walking a tight rope with his actions. all you have to do is look at his twitter page to know why people in the back there had are worried about him in the future. >> he's got a get in front and say they influenced, didn't influence the vote. >> i notices with the dow, markets sold off on both null

muller indictment announcements even though it was just somewhat related to trumpet there must be an algorithm that is starting to plan -- >> if it looks bad, i saw that in the trading today. the other thing is -- >> on the muller charge against his or associate, the former trump official. >> you're right about that. >> the dow sold off on friday, the same thing. on romney, the republicans i talked to say he's a placeholde placeholder. >> that's a bit of a leap. that doesn't mean he's not an insurance contract. if someone said to you. >> to think the president would be challenged, i get the question he's all set to challenge him for the republican nomination.

>> if kasich can do it, why not romney. >> but it won't be a party formation for the president, which normally happens. by and large that kind of thing doesn't happen. >> my guess with romney based on the people i spoke too, trump would have to blow up for him to get in and challenge him. it would have to be something existential. >> and usually for the party, whenever that happens it goes down in defeat for that party. >> it's usually not a good sign. >> we are getting ahead of our skis. bottom line is the tax cuts are resonating, the numbers look better for them, that might be the win the republicans have. >> it might be. the only thing i would tell you is if the markets get a lot more jittery, one of the thing priced into this market at the fact that the tax cuts a not work.

>> already that first quarter gdp are rationing down. >> think about that. if the atlanta fed, the most over-the-top said branch out there is ratcheting down, that means the others will ratchet down and that's not good for the market. >> thank you body. good to see you. they have since cut it down to about 3%, a little more. time to bask... in low prices!

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