honestly. [laughter]. liz: these two guys will have fisticuffs. >> we'll straighten them out. liz: thank you so much. thank you guys. that will do it for the claman countdown. we wish you a happy and healthy holiday weekend. see you monday. now "after the bell." melissa: the markets may be closed but fox business is open for business unlike another channel we know. cnbc. we're coming live with the latest developments on all the big store voice. stock futures are poised to continue the rally when they reopen on monday. good news, april is historically the best month for stocks. did you know that? david: i did. i'm looking forward to it. i hope it performs this year. melissa: climbing nearly 2% on average going back to 1950. i'm melissa francis. >> i'm david asman. glad you can join us. this is "after the bell." a lot to talk about. facebook first of all rocked

once again after an internal memo was leaked which an executive says all growth is good, even if, quote, someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. melissa: that is so nice. david: how about that executive? ceo and mark zuckerberg are responding right now. there will be no second special counsel at least for now. attorney general jeff sessions refusing the request from key republican lawmakers. instead tapping a federal prosecutor to investigate fbi abuses. where do things go from here? violent clashes along the gaza border with israel ahead of the passover and easter holidays. we're live in jerusalem with the latest. among our guests this hour, rebecca heinrichs of the hudson institute, "town hall" guy benson and forbes media chairman, mr. steve forbes. melissa: it is getting worse for facebook. a memo from facebook executive shows the company's eagerness

doing what it takes to continue to grow even if doing harm. deirdre bolton has been digging into this alarming memo, and, what can tell us about this? >> melissa, this is unbelievable. in 2016, this vice president, a very senior at facebook wrote that damning memo. no other way to say it. his argument is essentially that they are in the business of connecting people. so he is saying even if people end up being connected end up being targeted by bullies, end up losing their lives for that very reason or end up being targeted and even killed in a terrorist attack, actually going through these very specific, quite frankly, morbid examples. one thing i do want to highlight, we have part of this ugly truth facebook memo. we're calling it that because he used the term, ugly truth in the memo. we connect more people, that could be bad if they make it

negative. maybe it costs a life. this is what i was talking about, exposing someone to bullies, maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools, still we connect people. one thing i do want to say mark zuckerberg has distanced himself very clearly. he said there are so few people within facebook who subscribe to this mentality. he personally does not. he talked about the vice president who wrote that memo and he said, listen he is a very creative thinker. he says a lot of controversial things. he writes a lot of controversial things but he made a very clear statement, mark zuckerberg did earlier saying the ends do not justify the means. short of firing this person he has taken as public a stance as possible against him and against that mentality. there is mark zuckerberg's comment there, saying basically we never believe that the ends justify the means. that is the official line coming through from the cofounder and ceo of the company, mark

zuckerberg but if you own the stock this does not change the fact that this leaked memo is just happening at the worst time possible. of course as we know mark zuckerberg is slated to show up to testify in front of congress on april 10th. most analysts we have been speaking with some form of regulation is going to come to this company. even before the cambridge analytica scandal there was this whole idea after our presidential run-up after 2016, more than 25 million americans, half of the voting population saw an ad either created or manipulated by a russian agency. even though a lot of people say facebook should not get a free pass -- it should be treated as a media organization. it should be subject to the same guidelines as we are, for example, or any newspaper or any tv outlet, any magazine. those are the fcc guidelines. based on experts i'm speaking

with, facebook will face regulation at some point. a very bizarre side story to this whole thing, there is now a conspiracy theory, no other way to phrase it about this leaked memo. people are saying junior employees at facebook have been planted there to leak damning information about the company at the worst time. i have not followed through. i made one phone call. i don't know if this is about short selling. i don't know exactly where that is coming from or is just a distraction. but at the end of the day if you own facebook shares it will be a little rocky road again. melissa: what incredibly toxic work environment, in fact that they're having a conversation about whether or not it is okay what they're doing could cause people to die. that is extreme by any standards. we're talking about, you could die, we could have terrorists, people could, bullies could kill each other but i didn't agree it was okay this is going on. are they acknowledging do they understand what they're doing leads to death?

it is amazing. deeder. >> more to come. david: jack how much, "barron's" senior editor and carol roth. as we were hearing this is not some joe who is working at facebook trying to get ahead saying anything is necessary to get us ahead, this is senior vice president, senior executive at facebook. it came in 2016 long after the terrorist attacks became a regular appearance. so this guy knew that what he was saying would be incendiary. it seems to me this is one of those young people, it is a rookie error that people, more seasoned people wouldn't make and just sort of highlights the fact as melissa was saying, that there are too many young, inexperienced people without really strong convictions at the top of facebook right now? >> yeah, there is a rich irony, in that the people working at facebook now complaining that their privacy has been violated.

that being said, i am a shareholder of facebook for full disclosure. i am not so bothered by this memo. i think if you look through what the memo was trying to say it, was trying to say we're a platform and we can't be responsible for every aspect of people's behavior. there has to be some personal responsibility which is something i believe but i think that, david, you make a really good point as a shareholder, what concerns me is the management of this company. i have always really believed mark zuckerberg and sheryl sandberg have really done a great job in managing the company up and to this point. >> right. >> now all of the information we're getting out is really making me question that as a shareholder. david: exactly. >> that is where most of my long term concerns. david: jack, what happened politically with the cambridge analytical stuff. it just shows what they have been making money on in addition to advertising -- advertising is fine. there are problems in terms of

placement they have been dealing with as well but when you begin to sell the information that you have and you have a callous attitude like this one executive has that is a dangerous conversation. >> dade, you want big thinkers to say crazy things behind closed doors of the that is what they do. not coincidence things are coming out now. we're going in and finding them. no one in the media wants to tell cuddly stories about facebook. they have to make changes. david: yes, they are. >> i think one of the best values in the s&p 500. david: i would encourage everybody to read the memo entirely. we're not nitpicking, taking things out of context. when you read the entire context just as damning from my perspective when you read all about what they're willing to do in order to get the market share that they want. thank you very much. actually we have more of the panel. melissa. melissa: potential shake-up in the health care industry. new reports now that the world's biggest retailer, walmart in early talks to acquire health

insurance company humana. carol, what are your thoughts on this? first it was jpmorgan and a bunch of big companies and big thinkers getting together to tackle health care. now we're looking at this combination. i mean the upside is that we could see the change that government never provided? >> well, you know we seen it also with vvs and aetna. this is a move on walmart's side both proactive and defensive. it is defensive what amazon could potentially be doing. it is proactive realizing it needs to create other points of connection with its customers. and certainly in these senior market, having that ability to continue in wellness and health care is something that makes a lot of sense especially with the footprint that walmart has all over this country. so i think if you've been following the space. this is something is that makes a lot of sense and whether or not they can execute on it and actually be that change, melissa, i think is a big question mark.

from a business strategy sense, vis-a-vis the landscape it does make a lot of sense. melissa: jack from someone who is a health care consumer, everyone of us alive, exciting to see innovation. one of the difficult models we're seeing come out could be a free market solution what is dysfunction in the health care and health insurance industry. am i being too optimistic? >> no, i think you nailed it. i think there is a price crash coming in health care. melissa: i hope so. >> walmart and amazon will help drive it. melissa: yes. >> these companies are in the business of squeezing suppliers walmart was in fight with campbell's to squeeze prices. how much can you squeeze out after mushroom? have i love jack hough. david: cream of mushroom, never thought of that. tesla's largest recall, issuing a worldwide recall related to the power system in the 123,000

of its electric model s vehicles. jack, just look at the stock. it has gone from 390 bucks a share back in september down to $266. that is where it ended yesterday. is this a bottom? >> i would be very worried about tesla. don't worry about the cost of the recall, worry about the stock. sometimes the company has a liquidity crisis, that creates a stock crash but some companies rely on their stock in funding going forward. if you have a bad stock that can create a liquidity pinch. tesla will certainly need to relies on shares going forward for funding. i would be concerned at this point. david: carol, the problem is they make better promises than they do cars? >> absolutely. there is always an elon musk premium on this company and elon is an incredible visionary and thinker but the question is, can he execute. jacks makes a really great point

and the credit situation and where the stock is do they have enough capital to deliver long-term promises and can elon deliver promises. that is what you need to worry about. david: you wonder if it's a car company a battery company, a space company. it has a lot of different aspects. jack, carol, have a wonderful holiday. >> you too. melissa: plenty of evidence tax cuts are working across the country. seems like a winning strategy for republicans in the midterms. why aren't they out touting success more in their campins? we'll discuss that with steve forbes coming up. david: defiant hillary clinton why she will not quote, get off the public stage and shut up. as she take as major pay cut for speech at rutgers. melissa: requests for a special second counsel denied. attorney general jeff sessions tapping a internal prosecutor to address fbi abuses. we'll hear from "town hall"'s guy benson where the investigations go from here.

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david: the latest appointing a debate over appointing a section special counsel. attorney general sessions will not appoint one to investigate alleged misconduct at fbi and justice department but he does seem to be leaving the door open a little bit. fox business's peter doocy is in west palm beach as president spends holiday and i think president will spend the holiday

down there as well. peter what is the latest on this? reporter: the attorney general will keep the new probe in house but the work is done outside of washington, d.c. that is what the attorney john hubert, with republican lawmakers doing their own detective work. that the fbi should have scrutinized dealings between the clinton foundation and a russian company and while clinton was secretary of state and the fbi may have not got through proper channels to get a warrant to spy on trump campaign advisor carter page on the run-up to the election. these are serious charges but they do not rise to the level of a second special counsel yet he wrote to the republicans appointment after by design is reserved for use only in the most extraordinary circumstances. so far most of the publicly available evidence of possible fbi bias comes from text messages exchanged between peter

strzok and lisa page, former fbi agents. the white house is pleased that the doj is probing all of this deeper. >> everybody is able to read these texts. there were people at the top involved in an investigation who obviously had political points of view they were not shy about expressing and frankly acting upon it seems. so having this prosecutor take a fresh look at everything that we know and could know is a very positive development. reporter: but there are republican lawmakers who wish the attorney general jeff sessions would go a lot further than he is right now. >> this is more than just somebody looking at it. this is a experienced prosecutor looking at very serious allegations and if i were people at the top levels of the fbi i would be very concerned right now. again i think a special counsel is ideal. i wouldn't write this off. i wouldn't minimize it the way some people are. reporter: no word yet today from president trump about this. he spent a few hours at his golf

property here in west palm beach before heading back to mar-a-lago just a few minutes ago. david? david: the possibility the fbi spying on people for political purposes seems to me to be kind of extraordinary circumstances but we'll let them sort it all out. peter, thank you very much. have fun out there. melissa. melissa: guy benson, townhall.com political editor and fox news contributor. give me your thoughts on this one, guy. >> look, i think what we heard from the white house and from some republicans is right, it's a serious matter. it should be looked into very closely. whether it rises to the level of requiring a second special counsel i'm not totally convinces of that, although i will say i was less convinced of it before trey gowdy came out for it. his argument was, it is great the inspector general is looking into this, opened up a two-fold investigation on this front and there is prosecutor in tow which would be very helpful but there was some question whether or not

various relevant witnesses could be probed by just the inspector general. melissa: right. >> we'll see if they get all the access that they need. the people who are looking into it. if they were being stonewalled, if there are stones unturned then perhaps it would be time to revisit the question of a second special prosecutor. melissa: you know you live inside of the beltway there. does it make a difference that this guy is out in utah? it is visually, obviously he is somewhere else and they're trying to make a bunch of hay about it but he still reports to rod rosenstein. he is still in the same system. he must still have his own, you know, career ambitions. do you feel like it makes a difference? >> i think it is probably better to have someone who is not inside the beltway and very far outside the beltway looking into this. someone who does not to my knowledge have an entire team around him filled with donors one party to the other. that is one of the knocks on

robert mueller. i support the mueller investigation but i think it is fair criticism how many partisan democratic don't in he has around him. having someone out across the country in utah taking the lead on this i think is better than a politically-connected d.c. insider. >> let me get your take of former presidential candidate hillary clinton speaking at rutgers university, blaming sexism of all things for critics telling her to go away. listen to this. >> i was really struck how people said that to me, mostly people in the press, for whatever reason, like, oh, you no, go away, go away. and i had one of the young people who works for me go back and do a bit research. they never said that to any man that was not elected. [applause] melissa: and they all cheer. i mean, mostly depressing. that is depressed. her own party. the media loves it. the only people who don't like

it are people in her party. >> including many reporters and journalists, right? it's true. so look, it is not accurate to say that men are not told to shut up and be quiet and step aside look at any tweet president trump tweets out. there are tons of people telling him to be quiet, kindly. mitt romney went through all of this. this tends to happen to men and women who are in the political sphere but to your point, melissa, the people who are most vociferously begging hillary clinton to stop talking are democrats, including a number of female democrats who came out saying please stop. the republicans would love to, i think fund a speaking tour of the they should like raise the money and send hillary clinton across the country to speak from now until the midterm elections because that helps the republican party. it hurts the democratic party. it's a little bit delicious

watching this embittered loser attacking her own party with the sexism card. melissa: she is deranged. she says that people are sexist to helloer to to go away, she perpetrated one of the most sexist remarks that people like me, married white woman, vote based on how they are pressured by their sons, husbands, bosses of the that is deeply offensive. she is sexist and she says people are secondist against her. she is deranged. we solved it. david: howl many men are -- speaking as one man. my wife convinced me into doing something, she doesn't take that into account at all. melissa: how many men were pressured about to vote for hillary clinton and quietly did the opposite. david: she is just angry. anger, ainge remember. speaking about anger, deadly

protest erupting along the gaza borders. palestinians clashing with israeli troops. how long will the violent protests continue. we have an update for you right after the break. president trump says the u.s. will pull out of syria very soon. what does this mean for the fight against isis? that is coming next. ♪

[shouting] david: devastation in gaza, clashes between palestinians and israeli troops leaving hundreds injured and at least 16 dead. this along the israeli gaza border. this is the bloodiest day in gaza since 2014. we're getting word that the u.n. security council will hold an emergency meeting on all this. conor powell spent the day at border. what can you tell us?

reporter: david, for several weeks independent palestinian leaders are calling for peaceful sit-in protest along the security fence that divides israel and gaza. very quickly the protests turn into violent clashes as thousands of palestinians turned out at five locations near these fences. it very quickly turned into a violent scene. 16 people were killed. 1200 or so were wounded. the main reason for those protests according to palestinian leaders, was an effort to protest the israeli and egyptian blockade of gaza that has gone on more than a decade and mark the 70th anniversary of creation of israel that will happen on may 15th. of palestinians want to hold protest until this. the next section weeks palestinians call it the catastrophe.

given economic situation and trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem, there is a lot of anger and tension among palestinians but particularly in gaza. israelis took a hard-line on the protests warning that any protester, even unarmed ones that try to cross the border fence would be met with force. a member of prime minister netanyahu staff tweeted out unarmed palestinian will be shot as warning. palestinians are pushing issue, border security fence is way of drawing attention to the plight of themselves in gaza, david. david: conor. thank you very much. melissa. melissa: here now to react is rebecca hine rings, senior fellow for national security at hudson institute. if you listen to the report, and see the video, what is your reaction? >> this is just another moment in which the palestinians really protesting the state of israel, at the root it is anti-zionist. the pretext might be marking the

anniversary of the jewish state or maybe president trump moving the american embassy to jerusalem where it should be but all of that is pre-text. at its root is anti-zionism. i would argue that netanyahu and israelis are being incredibly restrained here. they have issued warning saying don't cross the fence. there is explosives being used. rocks are being thrown. israelis are trying to minimize casualties against unarmed people but can not risk or tolerate those who are using violence to get across the border fence. melissa: do you think it has any impact on this movement to move the embassy? there are many circles everybody loves to blame president trump for everything, basically. >> that's right. that is just a pretext. it is not as though if the president didn't do this, by the way it is american people's will. there is legislation that says that the u.s. embassy should be in jerusalem, but even if he

didn't do that, the anti-zionism would still exist. violence would still go on. so i don't think it exasperated anything, exacerbated anything. these are continue all patterns where the palestinians are looking for a fight and israelis are showing restraint to put the violence down. melissa: the president made comments about leaving syria. let me play that for you, get your reaction. >> we're knocking the hell out of isis. we'll be coming out of syria like very soon. let the other people take care of it now. very soon, very soon we're coming out. [applause] we'll have 100% of the caliphate as they call it, sometimes referred to as land, taken it all back quickly, quickly. melissa: problem with that of course is that syria is a two-fold problem it is about isis. then it is about russia getting a foothold in the region. >> about russia getting a foothold in the region. it is about iran having a proxy state there. so it is a very serious problem.

melissa: you're right. >> president, he is channeling the feelings and emotions of a bulk of the american people which are very frustrated and fatigued about these wars in the middle east where it doesn't seem to be solvable. i do think that the president, when he talks about, you know, taking out the caliphate, that still exists to some degree in syria. the problem there is that as we put down the caliphate there, you start to see other pro-assad forces move in that are just as violent. if there isn't stability there, the caliphate will keep coming back. isis keeps coming back. i understand the president's concerns. i do hope he does listen to his advisors and stays as long as we need to so we're not in there a couple years from now with a much more serious problem. melissa: rebecca, always great insight. we really appreciate having you on. >> thank you. david: slamming president trump on trade. why the white house trade director says the new deal with south korea has critics singing

a very different tune right now. steve forbes, forbes media chairman, reacting coming next. melissa: plus look out for our nation's heroes. what the va shake-up could mean for the future of our veterans. that's coming up. ♪ >> i don't think that the president should be happy with where we were and as secretary i wasn't happy where we were. we have to figure out how to move the bureaucracy and move it faster and be more responsive. >> weil cnbc is on tape, we're open for business.

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>> we were critized, the president was heavily critsizessed trying to mess with the deal by all sorts of people here in the response but lo and behold there is universal praise of the outcome. david: president trump's national trade council director peter navarro, was crowing about the south korean trade deal that was announced but not quite finalized. so did free traders jump the gun in criticizing a trade strategy that seems to be working? here is the dean of the free market, dean of capitalist tool, forbes media chairman, steve forbes. steve, does the trump team have bragging rights here? >> not much. with all the hoopla, people are heaving a sigh of relieve that the deal was not blown up entirely but in terms of opening up for services not much done even though the u.s. has a 12 billion-dollar surplus with

south korea. farm products not hardly anything done. a little bit for the auto industry. a lot of hoopla about very little but i'm glad the whole deal didn't blow up. david: but navarro and trade geeks inside the white house saying hey, essentially we'll get a lot more cars into korea that we could have before but you say what? >> we sell 10,000 in korea because people don't much like our cars. they're raising it from 25,000 to 50,000. big deal. david: south korea will not have to pay a steel tariff as a result of this deal but navarro ace they will be subject to quotas which have essentially the same effect, is he right? >> it has the same effect, yes, will restrict steel. all that means, companies will buy the steel from other countries. it's a world market. david: but a tariff is something that affects u.s. consumers. that price importers have to pay in the steel tariffs is going to be passed on to consumers. will the same thing happen with

quotas? >> less so. think of tariffs as sale taxes. if you think of ales tax you automatically understand higher prices. korean deal, not a big deal but by golly there's a deal there. that is what i take comfort from. david: let's move on to something that is dear to a lot of people's hearts and your heart. a lot of people say corporate earnings will be best in seven years because of tax cuts. it is increasing gdp up to 2.9%. we had a 4% increase in retail sales this week. we have all these benefits, plus individuals, look at this, tax cut benefits. single taxpayer making $50,000 they get additional ven hundred dollars a -- $1100 a year. family of four, get decision $1400. isn't this a great selling point for republicans making on campaign trail? >> this is great selling point

but they should sell the point there is more to come. this is the down payment. have people look to the future. not the present and past. if they do that i think they have a huge issue this fall. david: we had the special election in pennsylvania, rick saccone avoiding issue of tax cuts. is this a strategy we'll see more of from establishment republicans. that is why they should throw consultants out. go with something positive. don't try to hedge. thinking people will get offended. go with something bold. that is how the president won his election. reagan won his elections. positive things are happening. more to come. david: on the other side democrats are apparently using tax cuts to harm republicans in november election. will they get any traction at all? >> only if the republicans let them like they did in pennsylvania. it is in the republicans hands. david: the budget is coming up again before the election in september and october. a lot of people unhappy with

president trump, the fact he signed instead of street toting budget deal but kim strassel is of "the wall street journal" has a piece about impound, the way a president and simple majority that could pass a budget lot less expensive to taxpayers in september? >> that is good idea. president takes certain items in the budget we'll not spend the money. that was taken away from the president back in 1974. back then democrats didn't like richard nixon. nixon used it to impound. it's a good device. david: you could do it with the president and simple majority. the question majorities are not that simple among republicans. you have very establishment republicans like mitch mcconnell, kind of hess kateing in something. would -- hesitating. could he be coerced to go ahead with it? >> the president has to make an

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melissa: construction on president trump's border wall is underway. earlier we got a preview where they stand with the progress. here is kevin corke. reporter: melissa, the agency would like a barrier covering 1000 miles up from the current 654 miles. the beginning of that journey is underway so do customs and border protection officials we

are here at the nation's capitol in ronald reagan building. they said 100 miles of border fence will be replaced with the funding from the 2018 appropriations. also at the briefing, the reagan building were showing various pictures and digital files of wall construction. more importantly they were willing to engage in an important discussion about not just current construction but what has been done and what's yet to come. >> the u.s. border patrol and sector chiefs and agents in the field were vocal about effective barriers to deny entry of illegal aliens and contraband. the data shows walls work and data shows it and agents know it. we are fully committed to balanced investment in physical infrastructure, access and patrol roads, technology and personnel to support critical border security missions. reporter: of course build the wall was a major complain promise and yesterday the president was actually over in the buckeye state of ohio. yes he was talking about infrastructure and sort of in a

winding speech he eventually got talking about the wall. now, here is what we don't hear as much about to be candid. we don't hear as much about how the president will plan to get mexico to pay for the wall. we remember that campaign pledge. well administration officials, melissa, insist there are number of metrics which the cost for construction, i say could be paid for by mexico. for example, they could be direct fees on those transactions where you send money back home to mexico. you could do it that way. there are more subtle ways we're told. one ever them reducing flow of illegal sub is stances here. reducing need for increased incarceration rates and associated costs all tied into that. listen, i get it, people say that is smoke and mirrors political style, but by any metric i can tell you this a barrier in combination with additional security measures as promised is going up along our southern border like the president said it would. melissa? melissa: kevin, thank you so

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>> that is why i made changes i wasn't happy with the speed which our veterans were being taken care of. i wasn't happy with it. we made changes because we want them taken care of. we want them to have choice. so that they can go to a private doctor. david: president trump explaining his decision to replace va secretary david

shulkin with his personal doctor, ronnie jackson. can dr. jackson make up for lost time with the va? we have kathy barnett, former vet and conservative commentator. are you happy with the changes made at va? >> i'm not sure if we'll be happy moving forward. there is so much disinformation out in the public and there is so much manufactured rage going on right now. i think it would do everyone, would do everyone really good to remember, especially at executive level and below, everyone serves at the pleasure of this president. he has within his purview the right to move people as he sees fit. david: sure, he does, but i'm just wondering if you felt that shulkin was part of the problem and that getting him out of there and the doctor in is a good thing? >> yeah, you know, dr. shulkin has done tremendous amount of

good from the time president trump appointed him to lead the va. he did a wonderful job reducing how long it takes for a veteran to receive a decision. he turned the g.i. bill into the forever g.i. bill. i for one benefited from that particular program. other things getting poor performance out of the va. however again the president is within his purview to pivot and move into a different direction if he sees fit. i think that is, that is something that is paramount. for me and for i'm sure many veterans what is really important to us there are over 20 million veterans and 22 commit suicide every day. david: just awful. just awful. >> one of the things we want to do is see continued movement. david: yeah. it is not being addressed properly. one of the things, shulkin is not happy about being fired. he addressed that in an editorial he wrote which he talked about privatizing the va and his charge that some people in the administration want to

privatize the va. let's just play what he says and get your reaction. go ahead. >> we are not trying to privatize the va. we are trying to improve and transform the va. what i said in my editorial is, is that there are a number of political appointees within va that are pushing to privatize much faster than i think is in the interests of veterans. david: now i haven't heard that from anybody in the va that they want to privatize. i have heard they want to give veterans an option to choose between either going to a va hospital and taking, taking maybe a voucher of some kind going to a private facility. that is different from privatization, right? >> yes, it is. not only that, but again i think a lot of dr. shulkin's editorializing this issue is really political cover but again, you know, when i was in the military most veterans have an antidote of going into the va

and some of us even have the commentary, you go in with a splinter in your finger, and you came out with a amputation. that is a very real thought and consideration. we've seen that. there is a reason why the va is in the state that it is in. there is a tremendous amount that is owed to the bureaucracy of it all. so perhaps, getting someone outside of the bureaucracy to come in and take a fresh look at it may not be a bad thing. but again, the president is within his purview to pivot. david: sure. >> if he so chooses too. david: absolutely. would be great to have veterans more options than what they have. >> competition works. david: very quickly, there is a town in connecticut wants to replace memorial day or at least force some children to go to school on memorial day because of the snow days. what do you think of that? >> you know what? listen, this school would have us to believe there is clerical issue. just an administrative way to resolve the snow days but i don't think it is. and in fact i think not

observing memorial day, there is no difference between that and taking a knee during the national anthem, turning our back on the american flag. it is same form of disrespect. it is the same subtle move to redefine our american values. we need to take it seriously. david: cathy barnett, great to see you. >> thank you. david: have a great weekend appreciate it. >> new concern about long-term effects coffee? why your daily cup of joe may come with warning label. david: oh, no. david: this will be good. ...

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melissa: awarding label for your coffee cup just what we need a judge ruling that coffee sellers in california must post cancer warnings due to chemical produced during the roasting process. only california. david: starbucks and other defendants have until april 10 to file objections, national coffee association saying " cancer warning labels on coffee would be misleading the u.s. government's own dietary

guidelines state that coffee can be part of a healthy lifestyle" and i'll go one beyond that, one of the greatest doctors whoever lived said coffee is good for you. it's very healthy for you, i stand by what izzy said. melissa: here is risk & rewards. john: it's good friday and the markets are closed but unlike our competitors we're open for business a bombshell facebook memo leaks a top facebook executive caught justifying the social media giant's questionable practices admitsing facebook would do just about anything for more users. new reports of wal-mart taking over health insurance company hu mana. tesla recalling thousands of model s cars for faulty steering wheels, and under armour hack attack, 150 million accounts at risk. a judge ruling starbucks coffee in california must and i'm not joking, have a cancer warning. we have the details, and