where, if you look at the headlines, they just increased the wages of hourly workers at cvs, phillip morris is giving it tax cut bonus to employees, and this terror certain extent, if you are a market investor, you want people to have consumer confidence. it is cynical and selfish. you do not wanted to be so hot it causes a spiral, where people keep asking for wage hikes and companies pass the cost in their products. the likes of which we have not seen since the 1970's and 1980's. points, theas this stock market is only perfect calves. a small guy can't be wiped out with little corrections. i believe it is planned this way. guest: i do not buy that, with all due respect. paper losses. if you pay attention to these, are the minutes, by the hour, especially if you are near retirement, we see time and again, and of course, there's no guarantee with this, it is a ause that refreshes it with new high and it is an opportunity to buy things on sale. one investor said, markets without sellouts are like christianity without hell. it is hard to go out there and teach what has to be taught about it. i

chamber president tom donohue admitted as much in a letter to the tobacco company phillip morris. he wrote that small businesses provide the foot soldiers and often the political cover for issues big companies want pursued. end quote. why this service to giant corporations and the ultra rich? easy answer. they pay the bills. the vast majority of the chamber's $275 million per year budget comes from just a handful of donors. for instance, in 2014, just 119 donations accounted for over $160 million of the chamber's fund-raising haul. who are these donors? well, the chamber doesn't want you to know. it does all it can to resist transparency. but thanks to voluntary disclosures by some corporations and the tax filings of some nonprofit groups, we know that its donors include many of america's biggest corporations as well as political front groups run by the billionaire koch brothers and karl rove. the chamber took in at least $5.5 million from koch-backed groups between 2012 and 2014. a karl rove affiliated group gave the chamber $5.25 million in 2014 alone. it would be interesting to

. >> are you going to tell that to phillip morris and everyone else that -- you know, i don't think sois morning, house majority whip, steve scalise is here. glen youngkin will join us to talk about private equity. and patrick bur is here. gordon chang will weigh in on new sanctions going to north korea that we'll talk about it. do stay with us. we've got a jam-packed hour coming up. we kick it off with a preview of president trump's speech at cpac today. border security expected to be among the topics that the president will address. this comes after he urged california to start working with the feds yesterday to secure the borders in the country by issuing this threat. >> we're getting no help from the state of california. have we ever said let california alone, let them figure it out for themselves? in two months they would be begging for us to come back. i'm thinking about doing it. >> maria: the president took to twitter this morning to highlight the importance of i.c.e. agents. he wrote ms-13 gang members are being removed by our i.c.e. and border patrol agents by the thousands.

where, if you look at the headlines, they just increased the wages of hourly workers at cvs, phillip morrisgiving it tax cut bonus to employees, and this terror certain extent, if you are a market investor, you want people to have consumer confidence. it is cynical and selfish. you do not wanted to be so hot it causes a spiral, where people keep asking for wage hikes and companies pass the cost in their products. the likes of which we have not seen since the 1970's and 1980's. points, theas this stock market is only perfect calves. a small guy can't be wiped out with little corrections. i believe it is planned this way. guest: i do not buy that, with all due respect. paper losses. if you pay attention to these, are the minutes, by the hour, especially if you are near retirement, we see time and again, and of course, there's no guarantee with this, it is a ause that refreshes it with new high and it is an opportunity to buy things on sale. one investor said, markets without sellouts are like christianity without hell. it is hard to go out there and teach what has to be taught about it. if ma