ralph nader? >> the two-party tyranny is so exclusionary of ballot access barriers, keeping independent candidates from being on the debates and on and on. here we go again. that the hillary cowdrey is getting ready basically to say, drop out, dropout bernie sanders. i don't think anyone should be told to drop out. they're exercising their first amendment rights of speech, petition, simply. you want to oppose them, fine. but to tell them to drop out is to tell them to shut up and give up their rights. i wrote in 2008 a letter to henry clinton, urging her not to drop that when the obama forces in june of that year were telling her to drop out. so i think that is a very anti-democratic and very presumptuous, especially since the only reason hillary clinton is ahead now in delegates is because of closed democratic primaries and the superdelegates who are her cronies, as i mentioned, mostly in congress. amy: explained that, ralph. i think people for the first time in 2016 maybe waking up to all of the

our speaker, congealed, ralph hodgkins. a finishing sophomore majoring in physics, came up to me and said can i go to washington this summer and work on problems affecting people with disabilities. i said of course and he was a paraplegic in a motorcycle accident, sliding soft sand, soft curved type motorcycle after his freshman year. he was in on the ground floor at the movement, one of the greatest success movements in american history. those who are of older age remember we didn't even see a student with a physical disability in school. out of sight out of mind. there are no ramps. they didn't want to take the students upstairs, they were segregated. the americans with disabilities act, buildings have been renovated, buildings have been retroactive, there is still a lot to do. the special olympics, racing down connecticut avenue with four people in wheelchairs joyously talking to one another, rules and hospitals and that is right. on the ground floor, part of the demonstrations, the brilliant inventor of much more durabl

thank you, ralph. let's bring on one of the democracy fighters right now, shawn armbrust is engaged in the life and death side of public interest work. more than a decade has been a executive director of the mid-atlantic innocence project, literally trying to deal with folks who have been wrongly jailed, imprisoned for 10, 20, 30 years even more. she's a board member of the innocence network all across our country as well. you have to be tenacious and you have to be creative do this kind of law. my mama taught me years ago two wrongs don't make a right, but i soon figured out that three left turns do. and that's the kind of creativity that shawn armbrust has been practicing for many years. shawn armbrust. is [ applause ] >> good morning. thank you so much for including me in such a terrific event with such terrific organizizations. it's an honor to be here today and i hope i'm able to give all of you a sense of how the innocence movement collectively has brown throuken through powe only free hun deads

ralph: i doubt it.eeing what happens every four years, elections, come in, they happen to the same year and tend to boost advertising spending somewhat. absent therm trend emergence of new products and new growth is gradually downward. david: in fairness to cbs, it was not just advertisers. they're shooting for over $1 billion in retransmission. fran. ralph: that is the continued emerging strength of content versus distribution. the delinkingout of people pulling the cut -- brian: court shaving is what is happening. we are taking smaller bundles. hulu's ofix and wh the world, this is incremental. people are taking additional subscriptions. david: les moonves likes skinny --dles because ryan: their share of audience rises. because advertising budgets get ofocated on the basis audience share in general. david: content versus distribution. cbs and hbo did very strong. ralph: there has been a proliferation of means of distributing content. mobile, over the top, satellite. that has fragmented distribution. y

well, i believe in the image of ralph nader nakedly own imagination but the naked truth is that ralph is always coming up with something, including this great democracy rally. ralph nader. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you, jim hightower, including to all of you here and those watching around the country to live streaming, thanks to the real news network out of baltimore, maryland. this is indeed the largest gathering of a conference of the citizen advocacy groups covering more issues and reforms than ever brought together under one roof. most conferences are focused on single important issues, but we thought that it would be important to demonstrate one speaker after another, what is involved in building the civic community, the civil society. it was in many ways a demonstration the whole is greater than the sum of its partner we all know problems and injustice in society are all connected to one another even though they may be treated in a specialized way. but what's important to focus on is how did these groups accomplish what they accomplished? that's why we

famous doctors and scientists will be there and so will ralph nader. >> yay. >> ralph nader is our leader and we're really pleased to have him here with us today. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, jay. >> so and then there are poll nay tors. you heard about the colony collapse disorder, health. our job is to bring issues like this into the forefront. it takes years. those stories didn't just appear on the front pages of our newspaper. it was years and years of education. one-third of all the food we eat is dependent on pollinators for its production. yet epa is eager to register the next new pesticide. so they did that. they invade the vascular system of the plant and express themselves through the nectar and pollen and indiscriminately attack beneficial organisms, bees, birds, butterflies. we brought a truckload -- the bees aren't actually in the hives. beekeeper came to the epa to make that point. congressman kiss sin niche joined with us. and then beekeepers speak. >> started seeing things that nobody ever knew was there. looking at pollen samples, finding as high as 27 d

but ralph stood next to me. he stood by me.l forever be grateful to ralph to breakthrough that other sort of cultural power if you will that's out there. so thank you, ralph. and let's all give him a round of applause. he's done something for all of us, right? so i love breaking through power. but i have to say i didn't used to when i was gidget, whatever that means. i was a homemaker. i believed in the system. i believed that if there was a problem, something -- someone would come to our aid. some government agency would do something. how silly. but i believed it. and so we went at love canal, we had 20,000 tons of chemicals. it leaked out of the dump. it was in our communities, for those who don't recall the struggle, because it was quite some time ago. and our children got sick. so we went to the agencies and they said they weren't going to do anything because we don't evacuate communities because of toxic waste. we don't do this. we have no laws. we have no regulations. we are going to do nothing. i thought, well that's not

at the time of our interview, ralph menzes had been on death row 17 years. >> i remember when ralph menzeshe lights getting the microphone set making sure the lighting is just so and it's important to establish a rapport very quickly and ralph and i start to have a little bit of small talk, and i'll never forget. i asked him, hey, what are you watching on tv these days? and he told me that he was a big fan of "the oc." >> i see "oc" all the time. >> yeah? >> i like that. >> what's your -- got to be honest, i love "oc," too. what's your favorite character? >> my favorite character is kelly rowan. >> yeah? >> she's pretty hot. >> menzes' interest in women became more disturbing when we learned the details of his crime. >> ralph's crime allegedly was a brutal one. kidnapped a female from a convenience store and took her up one of the canyons, tied her to a tree and then cut her throat and then left her there. >> well, i've always maintained my innocence. i've done a lot of things in my life, you know, that i'm not proud of, but this particular one is not one of them. i just come to the conclu

one who has already spoken, ralph nader. using our statement of purpose as a quite, chapters decide which to pursuit that best fit the communities. they decide our national efforts. we believe peace is possible. the name of our organization is not veterans against war, it's veterans for peace with a capital f to emphasize peace. we know peace is possible and we know that to advocate for peace, we have to believe in peace. we cannot champion peace if we do not believe in it. this is the proactive answer to service members and coming home to fight street violence and homelessness or what people call war at home. we understand if we are to have peace, we must not look at it in isolation and think of peace as an international issue and advocate for peace if they are not at peace in their own communities. if a person faces gun violence or other social ills, how can they act for peace,000s of miles away? two recent efforts as well as justice for veterans and victims of war are the deported veterans work that seeks to help detorted

it focuses on state agencies as well as ralph briefly mentioned. might think, well, that's esoteric and very important. they regulate much more perfect vase civilly and detailed well beyond any federal agency, well beyond. they regulate the lawyers, accountants, dentists, veterinarians, the contractors. you name it, it's a state regulatory agency doing it. and when i took ninth great civics i took very seriously this notion that government should be separate from private interests. i didn't like and still don't like socialism where the state owns and operates the means of production. i'm sorry, bernie, i don't like that. there's a worst system, industrial system. to me the ideal system is you have two independent entities, the state and commercial enterprise and they're independent from each other. one does not capture the other. one is not over balanced of the other. there's a check and balance there. we've seen that being corrupted with campaign contribution limits, 1500 in california, almost all representing horizontal associations. what is a ho

i would like to thank ralph for inviting me to this event. i'm going to talk today about this issue on pharmaceutical drugs i'm going to talk about the way that things i was involved in early on in this debate and also the current state of play where people are interested in changing the relationship between people and medicine around the world. he already talked about some of the early issues. i was asked in 1991 to look at the pricing of a drug for cancer is a drug that was invented and was being licensed to do a pharmaceutical company and there was a clause in the agreement but said it should be priced at a reasonable price so i was brought in to evaluate the claim. the congressman at the time was interested in the issue. i started working on this and then that lead to taking a look at the role of the federal government and funding all drugs that have been put on the market

ralph hodgekis. i first met anymore in over land a sophomore majoring in physics and he came up to me and said can i go to washington this summer and work on problems effecting people with disabilities? i said of course. and he was a paraplegic from a motorcycle accident. a sliding soft sand, soft curve type moik after his freshman year in overland. he was in on the ground floor of the movement, one of the greatest success movements in american history. those who are of older age remember that we didn't even see a student with a physical disability in school. out of sight, out of mind. there were no ramps. they didn't want to take the students up the stairs. they were segregated. and now look at it. there are accesses all over. americans for disabilities act. buildings having renovated, buildings have been retroactive. there is still a lot do but whether it is special olympics, whether it's racing down connecticut avenue with four people in wheelchair s joyously talking to one another, whether it's a

ralph: it's always a balance.om a larger -- from larger institutions, they are more focused on commercial lending. on the retail side it is much more driving business from existing customers but the smaller banks i'm talking about are going after market share from the banks in 2008 or 2009 have disappeared. i think what we are seeing from the banks we own is they are not loosening terms or pricing. banks are you say poised to do well with a rate hike, volatility earlier this year, they did not do well. could the volatility in markets on the heels of a rate hike offset the potential benefit from extra 25 basis points? ralph: i think it's less about the next rate hike. it is more about the pace but also the direction more so of the interest rate cycle. at banks thatg have been starved of interest income for the better part of eight years now. once we get out of 75 or 100 basis points, the interest margin will expand. david: ralph basset, asset management head of -- thank you for joining us. jon: what to cross over t

host: ralph in michigan, you are next. theer: i want to call about system -- the money and corruption in the political system. more like ag we are plutocracy dominated by the corporations and by the wealthy. especially with the citizens united decision that just opens the floodgates for money from the corporations to dominate state, local, and federal positions. --ust don't see how money is it is going to be a huge flood of money into this election and it is going to control the congressional elections, even state elections. the most popular politician of according to the polls, bernie sanders, is on your side. he is saying we have got to get rid of big money, super pac's, billionaires trying to buy hasticians, and he demonstrated with millions of people giving him $27 average contributions. he doesn't go to park avenue or beverly hills for these fundraisers. this is a person running for a major presidential nomination. .hat ought to give you heart in our constitution hall gathering, we will have mark green talking about e

in the campus of claremont mckenna college in claremont, california and we are joined by professor ralph rossum, who is the author of this book, "understanding clarence thomas: the juisprudence of constitutional restoration." professor, what in your view is the biggest misconception about clarence thomas? just go the biggest misconception would be that he was somehow a shoe shine boy as he was disparagingly put shortly after his confirmation. thomas is altogether his own man. i had a chance a few years ago to do a book on the jurisprudence of antonyms kalina and i admire him enormously. in fact, they have asked me to do and "after words" to come out in a new paperback edition. so i am going through all of his cases since the book was published. and enormously able man. having done the book on him, it is deeper, more profound, more consistent, is a giant. he is not as good. he is not as witty or sarcastic and his opinions, but he writes valid opinions. one of the things he does is each year when the court does the big cases coming his way, he will assign a clerk or two to look at one part

ralph nader won zero. only thing he and ralph nader they have in common are neither of them owns an iron. [ laughter and applause ] but the nader comparison wasn't the weirdest analogy pundits use to talk about bernie. >> bernie sanders taking some strong criticism tonight labeled a zombie candidate who's damaging hillary clinton's campaign. >> he's like a zombie candidate. she actually can't kill him, but he can continue to do damage to her. >> bernie sanders says he's no zombie candidate. >> bernie sanders is the zombie candidate. he's the walking dead wreaking havoc on hillary clinton and the democrats' chances. >> seth: hey, can you just wait until you're out of the car to do your report? you're not in a hummer in the green zone. this isn't reporters in cars getting coffee. [ laughter ] and bernie sanders is not a zombie candidate. although it is fun to picture him as one -- "the top 1% of the zombies are getting 99% of the brains!" so, bernie sanders is a brain-eating nader-esque spoiler zombie. next

ralph menzies has been there for 17 years. >> ralph's crime was a brutal one. he kidnapped a female from a convenience store. took her up one of the canyons. tied her to a tree and cut her throat and then left her there. it was so brutal, that's why he is on death row. >> my window is always covered. if i can't go out there and walk on the grass, i don't want to see the grass. because it does bring back a lot of memories. and it does tell me what i can't have and can't do. so, i just fit into my little world and i'm all right. >> ralph has always maintained his innocence. that's ralph's fight. that's not the state of utah's fight. our staff here manage him day to day because he is a death row inmate. and he will get what's coming to a death row inmate, and nothing more. >> from death row, the condemned will be transferred in a state van to the back of the uinta-3 building. >> i personally wish they would either overturn my case, my conviction, or execute me and get it over with. now, you don't know if it's going to be five years down the road, if it's going to

that's what ralph remembers about growing up in bethesda in the '30s. it wasn't until he was a teen he began to hear wispers his father had been a suspect in a car barn murder, up with of the region's most famous murder mysteries. >> my dad was home asleep and came and got me out of bed. they want to know where his uncle was. >> reporter: his father worked at the car barn and a ticket station on connecticut avenue in chevy chase. along with his uncle emory smith. the station's night watchman. on a cold january night, police say there was a robbery. more than today's money stolen. the clerk murdered inside of a locked office with no sign of emory. >> they found him the next day in the park. >> reporter: ralph smith said his father was quickly cleared of his uncle's murder. he said his dad and three uncles continued to work for the trolley. >> they thought it was an inside job. >> reporter: as time passed, the police had given up on finding the killer. until they saw our i-team story showing how montgomery county detective stafford is working on the oldes

>> ralph lauren -- how is it it's ralph laur-en. >> i think it ee's definitely lauren. >> we should doe that. how the annual fund-raiser for the past. these were wornt last year's gala. >> that's beyonce. we remember that. >> that is -- >> gaga? >> oh, my gosh! >> you guys have to give me pictures up close because i'm old. >> kim [ bell ringing ]y. >> i have no ide i literally cannotpend on a diet? depending on how long she lives, obviously. >> during the course of a lifetime? >> this surprised me. they say six years of their lives. i think it's more than that. >> i definitely do. because you know you start worrying about it at, like -- >> puberty. >> 13, 14. then plus if you watch your mom dieting you start then and then from then on it's -- i've been on all of them. i was onhat' no fun. >> that's when literally just drank the liquid p nd bacon. >> wha 30. >>'t don't hese things. >> i definitelyicks out his bes friend. let's see this cute video. >> this is a puppy named benji who loved his best friend, a stuff doll moose but there's nothing she loves more than that stuffed moose. so t

[applause] >> so i thank you, ralph neighbor--ralph nader... >> [laughter] >> ralph nader, the consumer advocate in our neighborhood. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [laughs] [applause] ññ1111@1@1@1@1púúa xx [applause] thank you. thank you very much, and good evening to every body. thank you so much for coming out tonight. to the muslimell legal fund for inviting me here and for the outstanding work they do. i'm as genuine as i can be when i say everyone in those two organizations is extremely impressive, even inspiring to me because of the work they do in areas where very few other organizations are able or willing to venture. i'm truly delighted to participate in any event they sponsor any work they do. for the last 6, 7 years, i have been writing about the systematic erosion and attack on civil liberties in the united states and the war on terror that justifies those erosions that drivesm-phobia those. the past few years i have been spending an increasing amount of time traveling around the country speaking about these issues at events like this, si

his name was ralph nader, he spoke for the trees. he put seatbelts in cars to prevent shattered knees. he led the green party. his speeches were soaring. and he took votes from gore. my god, gore was boring. ( laughter ) ( applause ) he took votes from florida! he took votes from ohio! he took votes from sneedle, and wumbus, and xylo! i know those aren't actual states. but there were a lot of voting machine irregularities that year. okay. he even bagged the odd florida resident, and that's how george w. bush became president. thanks to ralph nader, who gave it his all, we got cheney, whose heart was three sizes too small. ( cheers and applause ) so once in that booth, vote your conscience and heart. go with the person you've backed from the start. but think it through carefully, don't press your luck. because, trust me, 2000 was a real cluster-- ( laughter ) ( applause ) unfortunate event. ( laughter ) now say hi to jon batiste and stay human, everybody! ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: this is going to be a big saler. this is g

ralph neal -- >> of mr.brisette included in this year's ceremony. >> i am so happy to have found you 20 years after i started my research. i look forward to hearing from you. sincerely yours, mr. mori. >> we are joined by barry frechette. thank you for joining us. first, i have the to tell you how moving and powerful this movie is. this is a story that certainly i wasn't aware of and i think a lot of people aren't aware of. how did it come to you and why did you want to tell this story? >> well, it came to me in a couple of ways. one is my great uncle, norman brissette's best friend growing up in. my family we knew of it but as a kid growing up, it doesn't have the same impact. through family members, the brissette family made a book memorializing norman and had newspaper clippings. it made its way into my hands three and a half years ago and it has a picture of norman on the front and i was captured with the idea of a 19-year-old kid in hiroshima, so far away from home and witnessing something absolutely te

[applause] >> thanks, jim, and thank you, ralph nader. i am so honored to be a part of this illustrious group of people and organizations. what i would like to do in my 20 minutes is take you on the journey that i've been on because it's been an extraordinary one. ralph has asked that we all tell our story, so i'll share that journey with you going back 40 years. we are -- we're now facing a sustainability/survivalbility issue in this country when it comes to public health and the environment. i always like to take an upbeat approach to that question as we sit on the precipice of worsening environmental public health problems, we can see the solutions in sight. beyond pesticides was set up to take advantage, leverage those solutions and empower people to act. you know, a lot of us grew up with ddt. and these are the kinds of ads you could see in magazines at the time. ddt is good for me. and the advertisers were telling us that not only did it kill destructive pests, but it was a benefactor to all of humanity. that's in the small print on

plus, dana warns that bernie sanders could be the 2016 version of ralph nader. i'm going to ask the man himself about that comparison. remember this exchange i had with donald trump. >> you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no? >> the answer is that it has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> it has to be some form. >> trump says he didn't mean what everyone heard him say. we'll dig into that. let me finish with a test of leadership for the democrats. this is "hardball" the place for politics. real is touching a ray. amazing is moving like one. real is making new friends. amazing is getting this close. real is an animal rescue. amazing is over twenty-seven thousand of them. there is only one place where real and amazing live. seaworld. real. amazing trump leads clinton by four points. trump, 45-clinton, 41. we'll be right back. even a ufh2o. [man] that's not good. [pilot] that's not good. [man] that's really not good. [burke] it happened august fourteenth,2008, and we covered it.talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a

you may recall ralph nader wrote the book about the car dangers 51 years ago. well, today, "7 on your side" asked him about metro safety today. >> is our metro system safe? >> well, obviously not. there are a lot of deferred maintenance and repairs. there has been serious crashes. it's symptomatic of the country. we spend trillions of dollars blowing up places around the world. and we don't pay attention to our own leon: he argued that it affects all of us. he insists congress needs to step up with funding to fix the issue. maureen: while metro receive decline in ridership, the d.c. new streetcar is beating expectations. ddot says it is averaging 2,600 riders a day. it expected to average 1,500 passengers a day. 64,000 people rode the streetcar last month. the streetcar is free until august. leon: it's been as constant as deaths and taxes in the area. it seems like the stuff you see here, umbrellas, mud puddles, windshield wipers going on the cars around here. well, today marks 150 straight days of measurable rain at the reagan national airport. will the streak

with me retired lieutenant colonel ralph peters. colonel, thanks as always for being with me. what do you think about u.s. ag eric holder making a statement it wasn't so bad after all. snowden did put people in danger. >> no, he killed people. these were scandalous words from a scoundrel. eric holder's legacy as attorney general is going to be dead cops. remember he's the guy that vilified the police while portraying young thugs almost as violent heroes. now wants to pronounce on snowden. there was no debate, shouting match. totally unfair, snowden didn't leak this stuff to the "new york times." snowden gave it to the chinese and russians and put it all around the world. terrorists. islamists learned how we were collecting data, changed patterns, made it tougher to locate the terrorists and the terrorists killed people. the russians, chines, other enemies of the united states learned about multibillion dollar technical programs that were never, never aimed against american citizens, they were aimed against our enemies. by the way, deirdre, since the snowden case just broke, i

deirdre: retired lieutenant colonel ralph peters, thank you, sir.d to have you with us. >> thank you, deirdre. deirdre: when we come back, facebook is tee nying systemic content bias but admitting possible need for improvement. a guest who is still waiting for his apology. cpac chief organizer, matt schlapp is with me. >> i hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as others. instead of building walls, we can help people build bridges. ♪ deirdre: analysts say hope is not a strategy. twitter's stock is tumbling to new lows. analysts say twitter has done too little too late to drive revenue. they're lowering revenue projections downgrading stock from neutral to a sell citing advertiser fatigue. the stock is down around 3%. it has shed more than0% in the past year. >>> speaking of social stocks, facebook's revamp if you like is coming. this is in response to a bias or investigation over a bias that the social media company was censoring conservative news. the company said it found no evidence of systemic bias on tr

speakers include consumer advocate ralph nader. >> this week "the communicators" goes to the intx show in boston, the internet and television expo sponsored by the national cable and telecommunications association. we interviewed fcc chair tom wheeler. >> host: as a regulator and a consumer, what's your view of the cable industry today? >> guest: so, you know, i was listening to pat, and he was talking about roots 40 years ago. and i was saying, golly, 40 years ago i was working at ncta, and so my relationship with the cable industry goes back a long, long time. and it was always a great privilege, i thoughting, to be associated with this industry at that particular point in historiment -- history. and, you know, michael powell was kind enough after i balm chairman to ask me to come and meet with the ncta board. and i sat down and i said, you know, folks, everything that i believe about the relationship between government and industry were, was a philosophy that was developed while i was at ncta. because that was a period in time when the cable industry was the voice of competition and

i like ralph lauren, pvh, vf, columbia, haines brands. those are vendors are i think are going to be better in the back half of the year, sell more themselves. so i like that space. you also mentioned something else i like. i like strong brands that have a real serious presence in the mind of the consumer. kate spade is a good example. their mind share is a lot bigger than their business. you said michael kors, i'm not a fan, i think they're on the downside now. but i like coach's resurgence require like them. i also like things that i would call amazon-proof. that's not going to be forever. but things like bali beauty, alta, i like things like that as well. >> lots of ideas, jan, thank you so much, have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> jan nissen, j.r. nissen worldwide present surprises. >>> our market monitor has retail names she says are worth owning three to five years. >>> down day on wall street. stocks dropped sharply pressured by consumer companies and energy shares which followed oil lower. the dow jones industrial average dropp

. >> we have a history with democrats, which is ralph nader, and a lot of people feel ralph nader turnedction -- republicans don't ask. >> if you look at trump as a noninterventionist on foreign policy. some of the rand paul supporters have drifted toward trump, because they see the main republican party as too hawkish. >> actually, kellyanne, trump would be more comfortable in the libertarian party. >> the libertarians are comfortable with trump as their nominee. and i think they will be. none of the above this year is no more outsiders. who is the change agent. and i don't think there's a single hidden hillary vote in this country. i think there are hidden trump votes. >> i heard that it's a fascinating debate. i've had people swear there is hidden hillary votes on the right. hidden trump votes on the left. we'll find out in november. we'll be back. 45 seconds end game segment with a look at what a trump-sanders debate might have looked like had it happened. >>> and our colleague got access into america's drone warfare operation. and a sitdown with the cia director, john brennan, to ta

retired lieutenant colonel ralph peters is here on this mess the administration is leaving for the next president of the united states. plus hillary clinton buying votes with your dollars. pushing for government to subsidize child care costs. sheryl sandberg weighing in, government must do more to help single mothers. a lot of those liberal policies they have actually been a big problem. of economic policies had huge social implications and you could point out that there are big reasons we see so much poverty among single moms in the first place. he will explain it all. head of fbi now acknowledging so-called ferguson effect. alarming spike in violent crime in america have a whole lot to do with our police not taking on crime aggressively because they're fearful they are called racist and video will hit the internet. sheriff david clark is here. he will have a lot to say about this one. >>> let's go back to our top story. donald trump speaking with house speaker paul ryan sitting down first time that he blindsided trump and the party by refusing to back the nominee last week. trump ente

joining me is lieutenant colonel ralph peters, fox news strategic analyst., thank you so much for joining us. what do you make of this news? what is your reaction? >> well, objectively speaking our casualties have been very, very low but we value each life. we value each one, beyond the casualty, this navy seal who was killed in ground combat period, what's really painful is listening to the white house try to talk around it and just not say the word combat and deny our troops are in combat. melissa, when you have got soldiers, call them advisors, they're not advisors, got them in one, two, three, 10 miles from the front lines they are in combat. president obama is typical intellectual. he believes that the words are more important than the facts on the ground. melissa: so what harm does it do that he won't say it? because when you talk to military personnel, they say, that those troops that are on the ground there, those forces know they're in combat, whether or not the president says is doesn't really matter because they know they are there fighting a war.

lieutenant colonel ralph peters. liz claman at the salt session. she wrapped up a talk with mark mobius. we will have her exclusive interview with him. and about all the turmoil in brazil. liz chatting with the former president of mexico, felipe calderon, the drug trade and we're less less than an hour from the closing bell. i'm ashley webster in for liz claman. let's start the countdown. ♪ we just told you the markets are selling off into the close. the dow hit a one-month low. all the major averages on track to end the week in the red. this will be the third week in a roy for the dow and s&p 500 i with nasdaq on track for its fourth straight losing week. a lot of red out there. apple taking a shot at uber, falling to two-year low yesterday, still above the $19 mark. the tech giant investing in one billion in chinese ride-hailing service. other ininvestors alibaba and 10-cent. the reason behind the investment? apple says a chance to learn more about certain segments of the china market. also a way to get in with beijing. we'll see. apple falling b

up next is ralph right here in washington, d.c. ralph, do you consider yourself to be middle class? caller: yeah. i'm pretty much retired now. the reason why i'm very interested in this conversation is i do a lot of reading. i'm an investor. and there's couple of things that i think people just are not aware of. inflation rate has been tweaked by the federal government because they don't want to pay social security and other inflatable items. if you calculationed inflation the 1980's standards, we're 9%. in 19. 0, we're about 6%. but somehow, they are telling us the inflation is 1% and yet our housing is going crazy. and so our government is reduced interest from effectively to negative. and that's driving up the housing costs. and the other thing that's been going on is they've reduced the taxes on the wealthy so much as trump says, and i'm not a great trump fan, but as trump says,'s got wealthy friends that don't pay any taxes at all. you have johnson & johnson saying i've been hiding my money in shell companies and i don't pay any taxes. you have romney, he made $44 million and h

we have had this discussion many times, either bernie sanders will be ralph nader or he is not. >> that is a low blow. the. >> basically, saying that there is no path to the nomination for bernie sanders at this point. at this point, if bernie sanders does not want donald trump to be president, he has to start thinking about something else, not leading -- that is what i am reading here. >> the very first conversation they had with bernie sanders. >> give me a break here. i have to say, the first conversation i had with bernie sanders running for president, i told him, you can't be a ralph nader, bernie sanders promised the world, he will support hillary if she is the nominee. >> what about mccarthy. >> he doesn't come out -- >> you say that, that is one thing to say it, it is another thing to actually do it. every time he speaks, from this point forward, what he is doing right now, what he did tonight, was dele jit myself hillary clinton. >> he didn't. >> yes, he did. they are yelling, bernie or bust. when hillary was running against barack obama, she didn't go out and say he was a wond

ralph nadir ralph nadir got 2%. >> not taking it seriously. >> bernie sanders has started a revolutiont candidate and if there was a counter veiling independent on the republican side like a ben sass or somebody else bernie sanders could be elected president of the united states as an independent. he could be the first independent elected if there were counter veiling republican like ben sassir or mitt romney on the other side. he could win. he is never going to get what he needs from the democratic party so you wonder with the massive crowds why doesn't he take this political revolution all the way to november? >> it doesn't look like he is not. >> he's got the money. >> he has ballot access in almost every state with the exception of texas. this thing now to me has echoes of 1980 kennedy versus carter which was intensely personal. i mean, they really disliked each other as the campaign ensu ensued. you get the sense from watching bernie sanders, the angrier he gets and he has far more people with him than ted kennedy had. >> i don't see it. depends on how you define personal. i see d

you can also buy that but ralph tibbs for your daughter, right?. >> absolutely. >> what's next. >> it might not feel warm outside just yet but no need to cry me a river. things heating up with justin timberlake's new song "keep stop the feeling" being declared the song of the summer. currently sitting at the top of the itunes charts and loads of people are calling it the new happy because the catchy chorus isn't the only similarity it shares with pharrell's hit song just like "happy" "despicable me" it's supposed to appear in "trolls" which stars anna kendrick and you can see them and other members from "trolls" in it. >> is there a new move we have to learn? >> i mean, i don't know. >> j.t.'s moves. he's just like effortless cool. >> i can't do it without the derby. >> if you need the hat for inspiration there's one over here. >> stop. >>> if you woke up to a crying teenager, let's explain. one direction star harry styles has chopped off his long locks, guys. yeah. >> oh, no. >> that's the pony right there. >> "a," who is that person, ron is like