>> defense wins championships. [closing bell rings] liz: jason katz, of ubs. tech stocks got hammered second day in a row, down 7points. the dow showing a point swing -- 70. see you tomorrow. david: the dow reversing earlier losses to end in a gain. the dow is up about 21 points. doesn't sound like a lot but could have been -- melissa: absolutely. david: good comeback. tech driving nasdaq lower. s&p 500 closing in the red. i'm david asman. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." we have more on on the big markt movers, here is what else we're covering in this very busy hour. drama and grandstanding continue on day three of the senate hearing for judge brett kavanaugh. new jersey democrat, senator cory booker under fire now for vowing to risk losing his senate seat in order to release what he claimed were confidential documents. david: right. melissa: now it appears like, it

may have been all an act. that is so shocking. we will explain that. social media showdown. attorney general jeff sessions says he will now look into accusations of conservative censorship on facebook and twitter. ohio congressman jim jordan says his twitter account has been affected in the past. we'll ask him in the regulation is the answer. no. new fallout from the bombshell anonymous or unnamed "new york times" op-ed. the white house staging a full-on assault to find the traitor within the trump administration. we will have a live update from the white house ahead. media buzz host howard kurtz, former bush staffer brad blakeman, weigh in on this unprecedented piece. david: a lot of buzz about that. first the market as turnaround for the dow closing the day in positive territory boosted by shares of boeing, visa, and home depot. nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. i want to talk about, i don't want to talk about the nasdaq. let's start with the dow. >> all right.

you want to keep it in the green. i get it. that is the positive, david asman that we know. we're up 21 points on dow jones industrial average. that is a slight gain. we were down 100. up 100. we settled in the green nonetheless. s&p and nasdaq to the downside. nasdaq is down .9% today. pretty amazing today we saw the dow finishing in the green. we had three key sectors in the read, energy, also technology and financials were for the most part in the red. amazing to show resiliency of this market. we'll show you social media stocks. david asman, doesn't listen, facebook, some viewers at home, somehow hold facebook. it is in bear market territory. down 20% from the january high peak at the close. it is down another 3%. that is big selloff over again. this is a of jack dorsey testified yesterday.

the group gets hit again. department of justice is looking into wells fargo the wholesale banking unit see whether employees improperly altered customer information. is there a pattern? are they unhealth call. is this potentially fraudulent employee behavior on a regular basis? these are things they are looking at most closely. look at ford, the f-150, the most popular truck in america, recall is on. two million trucks. this is because of safety belt concerns. in fact when you pull the safety belt there is sparks causing snoke and fire. but if you do have this truck, get in there and check out to see if you're part of the recall of the f-150s. two million trucks that is no joke. david: yesterday prius, today, ford. i wonder what tomorrow will

bring. melissa. melissa: shrugging off all the turmoil in d.c.s. kevin cali, benchmark investment, keith fitz-gerald from money map press. what are you looking at right now? when is the most important thing for the horizon coming from the stock market. >> i think you have to do two things. separate where money has been and anticipate where money is going. to me logical visa making strong move. boeing, one is tied into the way money moves and latter into defense spending, both absolutely necessary in world we're going to live in. melissa: kevin, what do you care about more, jobs data coming out tomorrow or the decline in tech? do you think facebook is opportunity where it is been or has it seen the best days? >> tech will drive the market. it is 25% of the overall market. so goes tech, so go the market. especially because that is where a lot of people have their winners. when they start to trim winners

to reallocate the risk, they will go into sectors that will work. we've seen that with the defensives. most notably real estate investment trusts are defensive. they had a great two days. is it goes back to the strength of economy. also the dollar last year was down about 10%. that helped lead to earnings growth for a lot of the large multinational corporations. and so we've seen the strength of the dollar over the past month, really weigh on markets. david: guys, stay with us. workers at whole foods looking to unionize, at least some of them. connell mcshane live outside of whole foods in new york with the very latest. what is going on, connell? reporter: a group of whole foods workers say things took a turn for the worse after the company was taken over by amazon last year. so they have been, they have gotten together already. at least had talks with a union, retail union here in new york about organizing.

that union, rwdsu, talked to us earlier what they say are part-time workers who cannot get enough hours to make an income above the poverty line. single parents make two or three jobs to make ends meet and young workers face health and safety risks that they say will debilitate them for life. and they all need a union voice and rwdsu is that voice. they will see how whole foods responds to a email sent to small group ever workers, from a white group of workers to urge them to unionize. we have a copy of the email on screen. every store team member in whole foods market was negatively impacted by layoffs in 2015 and every store team member is to be impacted by future restrucking it. help us to stand up to amazon, the parent company, while foots market and john mackey. who sold it to jeff bezos and

amazon last year. whole foods gave as you statement. they already provide competitive salaries and benefits. we haven't heard from amazon which is the interesting part of this story. amazon has been able to resist other efforts at its company to unionize. this is the early stages. we'll see how it plays out here if enough workers agree to some demands in the email which included a $15 an hour minimum wage. david: connell, thank you very much. back to our panel on this. keith, the irony of all this, john mackay, the founder of whole foods is a big libertarian was extraordinarily just to the workers there. he was attacked mercilessly by unions, leftists all over the place because of the fact he had libertarian ideas. it turns out he was a pretty good boss? >> yes, he was, wasn't it. david: yeah. >> it is interesting, the situation reminds me of any company that has come from the top. it is very easy to become number one. it is very hard to stay there and i think the question really

being asked here do we want to inconvenience 300 million shoppers on amazon for higher prices or pay for 91,000 employees at whole foods who want to have higher wages which would result in higher prices? it is not an easy argument. everybody deserves to make as much money as possible, last time i check the free markets will sort this out and i think amazon has the upper hand here. david: kevin, my point was, there is nobody more free market than john mackay. he was attacked being free market. he was very much against obamacare he provided a health care system for his employees, and obamacare interfered with it. turns out he was good compared to bezos which is more to the left of the political spectrum. >> the fascinate aspect, workers at whole foods were averaging $20.15 they were making more than at walmart any other grocery retailers. david: not to mention their health care plans which were

extraordinary. >> yeah. i think the real headline here, guess what unions are trying to do? this is a money grab. they made it about, hey, jeff bezos is worth $150 billion. why are not workers making a living wage? here is the reality of situation, they can go work anywhere else they want to. it's a free country. if they don't think they're being treated right by whole foods, making more money and getting better benefits go do it. david: thank you very much, kevin. appreciate it. melissa. melissa: tax cuts 2.0, republican leadership sounding on the second round of cuts will be voted on by end of the month. we have someone on the tax writing committee. he will tell us where things stand right now. david: president trump is not ruling out a partial government shutdown if money is not secured for the border wall. jim jordan says they need to keep this promise to america if they want to keep the majority in the house. the that is coming up. melissa: did you see this?

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a presidential nominee, right? reporter: that is what senator john cornyn believes. he basically said, he is not running for president here in the grandstand that you're seeing. fireworks did continue even through the afternoon. relate to this, senator cory booker said he would release confidential documents, committee confidential documents from brett kavanaugh when he worked for president george w. bush. now, however, senator chuck grassley said that those documents were deemed by the committee to remove the committee confidential tag at 4:00 a.m. this morning. he also says that all of the senators were notified of that. now when asked if booker knew specifically, he deflected. listen. >> number one is, they released those documents after i had already read through them, broke their sham of a rule. if you look what i'm doing all day today, i continue to release committee confidential documents. they will run and maybe try to release, say they're okay afterward. reporter: in fact the committee

this morning released 1066 documents from when judge brett kavanaugh was working for president george w. bush. now this is the last day of questioning for kavanaugh himself with a vote expected on friday. now this afternoon more questions on roe vs. wade. in fact, he said it is an important precedent. he said that a number of times but senator amy klobuchar tried to pin him down if precedent means settled. >> i'm trying to get at difference between when people come before us say it's precedent versus settled law. do you think there is a difference in those two words? >> well with, here is what i know, senator, which is, for cases or issues that might come back before the court it is important as a matter of independence as reflected in the nominee precedent not to give a forecast or hint about that and part of that is giving a thumbs up or thumbs down. reporter: kavanaugh talked about

journalists and the first amendment. he says, he was asked if journalists sources, the confidential source should be protected? >> that is set forth as important part of reporters privilege. confidential sources are important i understand the role of journalists bringing sunlight to american democracy. reporter: kavanaugh was also asked if he thought the supreme court has ever made a mistake? kavanaugh answered on at least three occasions but if he is confirmed, kavanaugh said he would thoroughly look over his decisions. david. david: a lot of fire works. edward, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: here now is fox news capitol hill producer chad pergram. start with all the drama over the documents released behind the scenes. i raced online to see what they were and rolled my ice. turns out, doesn't not only feels like bombshells in there,

feels like drama for nothing. where am i wrong there? >> some people wonder if this was a profile in grandstanding by cory booker. a lot of republicans, he wants to run for president. we'll see. he put up this big fight. in the past couple minutes, cory booker is releasing what he calls, more quote, committee confidential documents. we reached out to the majority on judiciary committee, to see if that is in fact the case. we don't know, but he made a big to-do, he would be willing to be tossed out of the senate if in fact they felt he violated senate rule 29 which prohibits you from releasing these documents. keep in mind, they haven't kicked anybody out of the senate since 1862. only 15 people have been kicked out of the senate. melissa: we should be so lucky. in fact no, the whole thing, is what the score right now, in terms everybody watching up there? does it feel like the democrats are getting any licks in? has it changed anything? >> i just talked to chris coons,

democratic senator from delaware who is on the committee questioned about brett kavanaugh 20 minutes ago. he said i pray i'm wrong about some of my assessment hearse. he just wouldn't completely answer my questions as it pertained to u.s. very just nixon. if we find out that he is in fact wrong, our country is in a real problem. if he is right, and i agree with him in fact, i will kiss his robe. so we're going to go tonight, deep into the tonight. a closed session. other witnesses tomorrow. then a committee vote probably next week. looks like right now he is going to have the votes to be confirmed. some of the republicans have said that the democrats have been able to quote, lay a glove on brett kavanaugh. melissa: beyond that though, the obsession with the "new york times" unnamed piece, right? are people on the sidelines still talking about that chad? >> absolutely. house speaker paul ryan was asked a question about that this morning as whether or not there would be a role by congress to

investigate this. he said not really. the people up here are talking about prospects of a government shutdown at the end. month. the senate has taken the last vote for the week. house is in tomorrow. we have jewish holidays. most of the house and senate are out monday and tuesday. there is a lot to do towards the end of the month, including confirming brett kavanaugh. people are talking about other things on capitol hill, including keeping the government open. melissa: just between us you want to guess who it is? are you hearing any whispers? just between us, i won't tell anyone. >> i would point back to the fight in 1995. there was a book by anonymous concerned washington for a long time. and think that sometimes, things get accelerated in the age of twitter. so if we do find out who this is. that took nine, 10 months to find out who the author is. we'll probably find out the end of the month. right about the time the government funding bill runs out. melissa: interesting. chad, that was a good little

detail you gave us without guessing at all. i like that. >> i've been watching the judiciary committee all week. melissa: there you go. thank you. david: tucker carlson says he knows who it is. melissa: really? he thinks he knows. david: he thinks he knows. if he knows, probably somebody in the administration knows. at least they have an idea. more on the resistance within the president's ranks. new details on white house search for the anonymous critic inside the administration. next fox news media analyst howard kurtz and brad blakeman, former staffer for president gw bush, sounding off on the hunt to eye identify senior official, so-called. melissa: quote, unquote. >> i think it's a disgrace. anonymous editorial published in "the new york times" represents a new low in american journalism. i think "the new york times" should be ashamed. ♪ drive safely.. . with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast...

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melissa: president trump and the white house unloading on

"the new york times" as the hunt is on for the unnamed alleged senior administration official behind a scathing opinion piece. blake burman following fallout from the white house. blake, this really is unprecedented. i have to admit everyone is having a lot of fun with this. reporter: who isn't, right? that is the big question. this was a full-on assault, melissa, today, from the highest levels of the trump administration, both on the author of this op-ed, this anonymous senior administration official within the trump administration, both an assault on "new york times" itself. for example, the first lady had rarest of statements she put out today, she rarely does a thing like this, this is how her statement ended, quote, to the writer of the op-ed, you are not protecting this country, you're sabotaging it with your cowardly actions. vice president mike pence commenting on it earlier in the day reiterating the stance that whoever the anonymous senior administration official is needs to find a new job. >> look, anyone who would write anonymous editorial smearing

this president, who has provided extraordinary leadership for this country should not be working for this administration. they ought to do the honorable thing and they ought to resign. look, the bottom line is, the american people see through all of this. reporter: we believe the number is up to 33, number of senior administration officials so far come out publicly or their spokesperson came out publicly said they are not the ones behind this op-ed that appeared in the "new york times." this even followed the secretary of state mike pompeo who was traveling abroad in india, and he was asked about it there. >> i find the media's efforts in this regard to undermine this administration incredibly disturbing. >> next question. >> i will answer your other question directly, someone will say, gosh, he didn't answer the question. it is not mine. reporter: press secretary sarah sanders put out a statement today on twitter which she said if you want to know or want to start calling around, asking are

you the person, she said, the ones that should be called is the editorial department of "new york times." so much so, that the press secretary in her statement put out a phone number to "the times" as well. melissa: everybody was really upset about that. you can google that stuff. it is not hard to get those phone numbers. there is another one the outrage she would tweet the number. i don't know the google machine works great. thank you,. david: here to react, brad blakeman, former bush 43 senior staffer. howard kurtz, senior analyst and host of "media buzz" on fox news channel. howard, talk about the journalism of all this first. i was op-ed tore of "the wall street journal" i would never allowed a piece like this to appear without a byline. the raider deserves to know, the reader in an opinion piece the reader deserves to know so they can fact check and judge veracity of person writing the piece, right?

>> first of all this unnamed official i'm calling deep state throat commit ad spectacular act of political betrayal against the president he works for. and you know, he also undermined, even if you grant, he is one of the adults, trying to restrain anker rattic president he undermined his own cause because he obviously infuriated the president. david: did "the new york times" undermine journalism doing what they did? >> i will not agree with that because if this is senior person and credible person sending a distressed signal from inside the palace i think it is clearly newsworthy. from the times. i know you disagree. david: i totally disagree. the point, brad, even in an opinion piece you have to have something to hold on to you can trust is real. simply the veracity of the newspaper itself is not enough for a piece like this to be printed in the new york types. >> i couldn't agree more. i think it is an act of cowardice. i think "new york times" did no

favors to itself, its reputation or journalism at large. this is not something that should have been printed. if you have a disagreement, then it is incumbent upon that person to put their name on it, come out and tell the public what the grievance is. the fact is, every senior person of a senior, who deserves that title, has come out and said it is not them. which leads me to believe it is not so senior. by the way, their motto all the news fit to print. this was not fit. david: howard, the asman method of veracity in terms of all the op-ed pieces we republican liked 75% of all the sources had to be named. maybe that is old-fashioned but that is the way i view journalism. >> would you have had a problem with a news story which a reporter went and interviewed this senior or not so senior official quoted him on background? david: there was something other than one anonymous source, yes. if he could back it up with other sources, but just one source, this was. let me ask another journalistic

question about this, came out the same week that bob woodward's book came out, it did draw a lot of oxygen from the attention that book was getting. i'm wondering if maybe the "times" had been pocketing this piece for a while, waiting for woodward's book to come out to draw attention away from it? >> well my take was the person who was the source was trying to ride the woodward wave because the press is all, all of these unnamed officials, senior officials who are not named but attributed to woodward book, making similar charges how they have to protect the president and steal papers off his desk, all that. the media love this narrative because they can say to themselves and to readers and viewers, we've been telling you for two years with our unrelentingly negative coverage the president is not up to this job. now insiders are saying. the president has a right to ask, who can i trust in this government because there so much leaking going on? david: i'll say. brad, i hate to give any veracity at all to the piece,

but it made the point that the president had accomplished a lot, both in economics and in foreign policy but the author, whoever that is, took credit for it, said it was in spite of president of the president's leadership. isn't the argument pretty solid now, as much as you might hate his style, that style has a lot to do with what he has accomplished, no? >> absolutely. look, he is a agent of chaos in a town that is used to establishment principles and policies and going along with the boys. that's, that's not this president. if you told him, mr. president this is the way things have been done in the town for 10 years he would throw you out of the room. say this is watt way you we'll do it. you can't argue with success. he had success despite people in the administration who are disgruntled they don't have the kind of power, access or prestige they don't think they deserve. david: howard, they're giving me the wrap.

i love how "the new york times" criticizes trump for being new wave of destrict tiff leadership in politics when in fact things have changed quite a bit in terms of journalistic standards over the years, you think for the better or for the worse? >> definitely for the worse. the president has every right to counterattack against unnamed official, by doing so he boosted the story into the stratosphere. most people in the country don't care about a "new york times" op-ed. david: there i agree with you. brad, thanks for coming in. melissa. melissa: it serves his purposes about the deep state. this is entrenched people who don't like him mixing it up. david: there are some of them there. melissa: targeting conservative censorship. how justice department looks into allegations of republican bias at facebook and twitter. next, steve hilton, host of "the next revolution" on fox news sounds off. david: we'll speak to a lawmaker who claims his twitter account was targeted. coming up, congressman jim jordan responds to the doj's move and what he thinks of the president's threat to partially shut down the government.

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intentionally stifling free speech. here to discuss that, steve hilton, host of "the next revolution" on the fox news channel. he also the author of a fantastic new book, "positive populism" which seems impossible right now. i can't wait for you to spell that out for us. talk about social media, the left, very clever, they dominated the beginning of social media. so of course these platforms totally lean left. what's the answer to it? is it government? it couldn't be. >> kind of. full disclosure, my wife works at facebook. melissa: okay. >> i get that out there. but i have my own views. melissa: get in trouble later. >> get in trouble later, sleeping on the couch. melissa: right. >> i think the real issue here is one of concentration of power. it's a real -- the it is the way these platforms have become so dominant. melissa: yes. >> we can say they're not transparent about the policies they use to block people or whatever. yes, we can criticize them for blaming it all on an algorithm

when in the end it is individual people making those judgments. yes we can say those people are overwhelmingly liberal. you can say all of those things, but none of that wouldn't matter if they weren't so dominant. melissa: right. competition. >> competition. the one kind of regulation of conservatives and all of us should support, regulation to bring about competition. yes, we need to be pro-business and actually promarket as well. you need real competition. the antitrust system has been completely absent when it comes, antitrust policy is completely absent coming to giant corporations going bigger and bigger and buying up more competitors. melissa: breaking up google and facebook or clear the path so somebody come out there? why doesn't somebody crop up, i don't know, a right of center cable news channel that came out, got everybody so frustrated? >> this is great comparison. in the media you have tons of competition. it is cheaper and cheaper to start and do things.

it wasn't cheap a few decade ago. nowadays much easier to launch that media landscape is competitive. in the net there are network effects. i have an idea in this book, in "positive populism" would actually not be the government coming in to break up these companies. i think that would be a disaster because they don't know how it works. actually there are two steps. first of all create incentives in the marketplace for companies not to get too big and dominant. for example, the bigger your market share, if you get over 50% for example, you should face higher taxes tied to regulation. that is the way of actually making a market incentive for companies to remain competitive. melissa: i can never wrap my head on higher taxes at anytime. that sounds like blasphemy to me. >> one other thing i want to tell you why companies have ended up so dominant. because of the data. the reason you can't easily set up a competitor, what is valuable about these tech

companies the data they have on you, you, and everyone else. if there is a way of liberating that from the companies, so there is basis which new competitors could come in and build new services that's another way you could -- melissa: better product or better algorithm, so you steal the customers going there to do that thing. none of the kids are on facebook. they think it is lame. all the rose rest of think us lame. i deleted my facebook page. >> i don't have a page. melissa: i love it. who do you think wrote "the new york times" anonymous? >> i'm sure one of the people who denied it. melissa: do you think it is jeff sessions? no? you think it is one of the people, i bet somebody not high up. >> i think that alternative. somebody pretty unimportant or just one of those people slipped in, one of the establishment types slipped in when they were hiring, didn't have a whole bunch of people who signed up to the president's agenda. melissa: thank you. >> we'll see. melissa: steve hilton, positive populism. >> thank you so much. melissa: david?

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>> are you still planning on voting on tax cut 2.? >> yes. >> in september. >> yes we are? >> more of those? >> yes. david: said yes about four times. house speaker paul ryan confident about a second round of tax cuts as republican leaders prepare to hold a floor vote, can they get it done before the election? congressman tom rice, member of the tax-writing house ways and means committee. there are two things going on.

one to provide more tax cuts. one to make the tax cuts we already passed permanent. in some cases lasts beyond 2025, when they're due to expire. how goes it? >> it goes well. the case is easy to make with the results of the tax act we passed in december. i mean the economy is booming. consumer confidence is at decades highs. business confidence is at decades highs. we reversed trend of the obama administration where we had more businesses closing than starting. now we have more starting again. david: right. >> we had a 49-year low in unemployment claims. we've got record lows in african-american unemployment. record lows in hispanic unemployment. what is not to love about this? all we want to do -- david: regulations as well as tax cuts, they all conspired in a wonderful way to provide economic growth. they're not individual cuts, are not permanent. a lot of that had to do with

corporate cuts. democrats of course complained loud by about it, as though they would have vote the for it. now they have a chance to make the individual cuts permanent. do you think they will still vote no? >> i will, we will test them. it will pass the house. the question is in the senate. but, no, i'm very excited about this possibility. it will give certainty to individuals and in terms of how they make their financial planning and investments. it will give certainty to pass-through entities. these are very important -- pass-through entities, small businesses employ most of the people in the country. david: will you, forgive me, we don't have much time. will you keep the 10,000-dollar cap on interest on deductions for state and local taxes? a lot of, a lot of republicans from some high-taxed states like new york and california have problems with that is it. >> look i think that is a very important part of our tax plan. it was one of the ways that we

paid for a big bulk of our tax plan. and you know, my opinion, the federal government should not be subsidizing high-taxed states. david: okay. so, it is going to stay in there? final question, very quickly -- will tax rates, will other tax rates come down? melissa and i complain for a long time, the highest rate didn't come down enough. 28% during the reagan administration. melissa: i know. david: will we get the high rates down further? >> we'll not do in anything tax reform 2.0 to change the rates. we would like to see some movement on pass-throughs to get more of pass-through income to be at a lower rate but, our primary focus is on making the cuts permanent, number one. david: okay. >> and improving saving opportunities for families and educational opportunities for families, making things simpler. with a tax bill that we passed, only about 10% of americans will be required to itemize anymore.

finally much more simple. the good news just keeps coming. if we can get a win on trade, with this nafta, looks like mexico, the agreement is almost ready to ink, if we get a win with canada, the eu is coming into line and the last one is china, if we can get wins on trade, it will keep this economic boost moving. david: let's hope. >> we'll move on to infrastructure. we've got a lot of very positive- david: that is whole another discussion. we'll have to have you back for that congressman. thank you very much for being here. really appreciate night thank you for having me. david: i appreciate it. i'm very disappointed top rate comes down. melissa: i hate all taxes. david: 35% is too high. anyway. melissa: threatening a government shutdown. president trump says he will do what it takes to secure the u.s. border. coming up, silencing political views. why attorney general jeff sessions says the doj, pardon me, is investigating censorship on social media. republican congressman jim jordan says he was one of

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melissa: not back being down. president trump keeping a potential government shutdown on the table as he works to secure more funding for the u.s.-mexico border wall. >> i'm willing to do anything. we have to protect our borders. if we don't protect our borders our country is not going to be a country. so if it is about border security i'm willing to do what has to be done. melissa: here is republican congressman jim jordan, house judiciary committee member. what is your take on this? is this issue, frankly a lot of people are surprised it has gone so long in this administration, when it was really the cornerstone? >> probably single biggest promise we made to voters back in the 2016 election. we should have done it back in

march when we had the crazy omnibus bill that passed. look, we need to focus in doing what we said. this was a key thing we told voters we were going to do. no one want as shutdown, let's have this debate, put it on a spending bill now, not wait until the end of the month, end of the year, let's have debate. i think that is the best course of action. we'll see. melissa: what are the odds it would really happen? >> i don't know, melissa. like i said we should have done it on the omnibus spending bill, there has been one shutdown, done by chuck schumer. early part of the year we had a short-term funding bill, got on friday afternoon, he will cut shut the government down, amnesty was more important than funding troops and funding government. he learned american people don't like that approach and reopened government. we should put the wall funding bill and send it over to the senate, have them deal with it.

melissa: censoring political views. the attorney general jeff sessions says the department of justice will look into bias of social media whether facebook were intentionally steveing viewpoints. i know you feel you have been shadow band on twitter. how big of a deal? >> it wasn't feel like, it happened. 435 members of the house. there are 100 members of the senate. 535, four, mr. gates, mr. nunez, mr. meadows, myself were in fact shadow banned. not us saying it, a liberal news organization says we were in fact shadow banned by twitter. it happened. twitter's response, glitch in the algorithm. really? what did you put in the algorithm, the names meadows gates, and jordan? we know it happened. we have to highlight to make sure it never happens again. we'll see what the justice department uncovers. melissa: how do you make sure is doesn't happen again? more government is never the answer. what is the option? >> i'm not advocating that.

what i am saying, if you put yourself out there as a neutral social media platform, you can't say some points of view are not going to get the same rights and privileges to be able to be aired. you can't have it both ways f you're a neutral social media platform, don't shadow ban conservatives, particularly the fours conservatives most active on the fbi-doj investigation. if you're not a social media platform, you're a newspaper, there are different laws that governor enyou. you can't have it both ways. i'm not saying the government should not come in and regulate. i'm saying you have to be one or the other. you can't play it both ways. melissa: i have to ask you about the unnamed, whatever, anonymous op-ed in the no, times. who do you think did it? >> who knows. my big takeaway from this, it is opinion piece. it is op-ed. you have to sign your name so an op-ed. what kind of newspaper runs an opinion piece, something on their opinion page that is anonymous? i never heard of such a thing. this is just ridiculous. and frankly though, my guess, my

understanding is of course that this person who wrote it probably should resign. i think as sarah huckabee sanders said. melissa: do you think it's a high-ranking person or someone -- by the way they sourced it could be kind of anybody? >> i do know their name was not on a ballot. to be undermining the guy elected by american people who was elected president and i think had amazing year-and-a-half leading this country i think is flat-out wrong. melissa: what do you think about idea it is distress coming from the white house? there is this big group of republicans or people who seem to be on the president's side, very distressed what is going on? is that a legitimate group of people? or do you think this is call-out from the establishment, or you know who are entrenched in washington don't like someone coming in and creating chaos that threatens what they have built for themselves in order to profit and have power? >> melissa, who knows. all i know, we're 62 days away from an election. we have a president over last 18

months, cut regulations reduced taxes. 4.2% growth rate. lowest unemployment in 20 years. gorsuch on the court. kavanaugh on deck. out of iran deal. embassy going to jerusalem, hostages came home from north korea. that is pretty darn good year-and-a-half. i will match that up with what democrats are campaigning on. abolish i.c.e., raids tax, i am pipe the president. that is what i will folks us. melissa: jim jordan, appreciate it. david: if you have a hunch who "the new york times" columnist is, you might walk away with extra cash. reno, nevada , the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that's very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours.

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melissa: white house is searching for the unnamed critic went th administration, you can place our own bet. david: bookies are taking bets. ivanka trump is 12:1.

jared is listed by cnn and melania possible writers,. melissa: such wishful thinking. the "evening edit" starts now. >> this stuff is junk. >> someone in the white house who is very afraid that our nation is being damaged on a daily basis. >> the fact that white house is functioning, the fact is that we're about to get our second supreme court justice. >> one person in white house feels it is necessary to blow the whistle. >> if you are not in a position, you have a similar option -- similar option, that is to leave. >> the economy is growing, if trump is so incompetent, how is all this stuff happening. liz: about a quiet resistance within administration, not hitting wall street. we have list of