betsy, you and the news. i think the president we're not clear what prompted the tweets this morning and might have been seeing something on fox fews about folks making way to the mexican border. he sends off the series of tweets and says no more daca deal f. you're a democrat or if you're a republican in washington, thinking there's a compromise to be worked on here, what's your reaction to this tonight? >> it's certainly a reaction of pessimism for democrats. the tweets and miller for years back to his time on capitol hill under then senator jeff sessions is one that people are coming to the united states because they want to get daca, there's scant if any proof that daca was a driver of illegal immigration. however, that line is something that stephen miller and folks in his broader cohort have been pushing for years, that daca was the reason for all sorts of bad things that happened at the border, that have happened over the years since the policy was put in place. so, the president seems to be tweeting a

pompeo will get somewhere between 52 and 55 votes on the floor, more than betsy devos, less than rex tillerson, but i think this shows drama could continue, expect him to make it out of thb senathe end of the week and that's important because there is a n.a.t.o. summit for foreign ministers in brussels friday, and are owning he can make it to that. >> lisa desjardins with thea dr from the senate foreign relations committee today. our poiltics monday team pick it up with other confirmation battles looming and how vulnerable democratic senators are considering their votes. i'm joined by amy walter of the "cook political report" and eliana johnson of politico, welcome to you boh. >> nawaz: let's talk about the

but to you, betsy, is this about religion? or is it about politics? there is a suggestion out there that the conservative democrats, rather, the conservative republican, the southerners in the party, didn't really like the fact that this was a catholic jesuit. the most liberal part of the catholic church wasn't meeting their pastoral needs. is it politics, religion, what is it? >> in the view of many dozens members of congress this is sort of intersection between politics and religion. what's interesting, paul ryan is also a conservative catholic but he's from a different wing of the church that father conroy. je jesuit tend to have more liberal thinking. pope francis is a jesuit. and you could imagine the pope saying the prayer similar. and the focus how equitiably we can distribute the benefits. something that's important to the jesuits. and something that makes them uncomfortable. the idea that the government should play a role in making sure that everyone benefits from the wealth that an individual nation has. now, was this mostly about pastoral c

i want to go quickly around the horn here and start with betsy.sk me this question on the basis of your reporting and everything you know, is rosenstein in serious jeopardy at this moment? donald trump goes back and forth on everything. is he in jeopardy or relatively safe? >> i think rosenstein is always on slightly thin ice because the president just doesn't like him very much personally. he doesn't see him as part of the team player. i don't think rosenstein is on thinner ice than he was at the middle or the beginning of this week. i think he's probably going to be okay for the time being. >> barbara, what do you think about that? >> i think i agree he's always on thin ice. rod rosenstein is someone who plays by the rules of being loyal to the mission and not loyal to the man. for that reason trump would fire him in a heartbeat if he thought he could. i think he understands fierlg rosenstein could lead to a saturday night massacre which could spell the end of his presidency. as long as there is that risk for president trump, rod rosenstein is s

politics reporter for the daily beast and msnbc dribber betsy woodruff. national political reporter for action yo, jonathan swan. white house reporter for the associated press kathryn louis i and nbc correspondent jeff bennett. welcome all. after i know what has been quite a weekend. jonathan swan -- >> went very well, didn't it? everything was perfect. >> i heard that. pitch perfect. >> we'll talk more about that in a second. i know you had been doing a lot of reporting on ronny jackson. this is somebody the president very much liked personally. what's kind of been going on behind the scenes? i know you're still working on confirming this report. >> i can't confirm the specific report, but what i can tell you is one of the reasons why jackson didn't withdraw immediately was there are a number of people inside the white house, including the president, who saw political advantage in them kind of leaving him there, hanging sort of in the wind because the more that democrats pile on, they thought a lot of these allegations were false, particularly the one ab

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in georgia on the republican line, betsy. caller: good morning. i agree with the guy that called with the gas prices. every summer, the gas goes up and it has not gone up this high. anyway, my point to call is i just woke up. before i went to sleep, i was watching fox, the only truthful channel on this tv, about suing the president or the united states. i cannot remember what that is about, but here is my point -- i am so sick and tired of the democrats holding back president trump. he is the best president that has ever been on this earth and democrats, nancy pelosi and all i wish they would come together and not block everything donald trump is trying to do. you turn to cnn, you are on a different planet. it is because of the democrats. if they would get together with president trump, this country would go far. president trump is a true, true, great president, and he is trying so hard to help america. he does things. he does what he says. i am 63 years old and i have never seen such a great president. that is all to say. the democrats need to st

so betsy, i want to ask you this question.seems to me, you know, there was a story in "the new york times" a week ago that first hinted at the notion that not only was therein ae early morninging view that the cohen case was more of a threat to trump than the mahlueller probe but trump and his people believe that to be true. so given the developments of this week, whether your sense is that is more true now than ever that people in the white house, around donald trump, are still worried about bob mahler, of course, but really lacking at the michael cohen situation and going, we have a problem here. >> i think it is. and what happened today in court is really the key indicator and it crystallizes the extent to which that's true. remember, michael cohen will have to go into a federal court, probably early next week and say that he thinks he's about to be charged with a very grave crime and that he can't deal with this civil litigation, because it might force him to incriminate himself. imagine being in a position where you were

ken delainny, betsy wood ruff, carol leng. ken, first to you, what is the difference between being a target and a subject of an investigation? >> i think chuck rosenberg may have said it best. prosecutors use the term target when they're about to diet someone. the term subject is much more broad and more commonly used. another chuck rosenbergism is there are small "s" subjects and capital "s" the subjects. paul manafort was a subject of the investigation before he became a target and now he's facing multiple felony counties. it may be robert mueller can't designate donald trump as a target until he leaves office, but that does not mean robert mueller hasn't developed substantial evidence of impeachable evidence. >> this is "washington post" reporting, carol. walk us through what exactly you guys were able to find that mueller's team is telling the white house that he's not the subject, but he's still -- not a target but still a subject. i'm twisting myself around. what was the reaction from inside the white house? what's the r

i'm joined by the reporter, natasha bettertrend and betsy woodruff, both are msnbc contributors. want to get a sense about the jeopardy andrew mccabe is in. the inspector general report from the department of justice been referred to a criminal prosecutor. how worried should he be about that? i know his attorney spoke to reporters this week. >> right, he's under a lot of pressure, he was just referred for a criminal investigation to the u.s. attorney's office but now his strategy has really been to become to -- become to attack jim comey, to say for example that james comey knew he was talking to authorize disclosures to the wall street journal, what mccabe was fired over, when discussing who authorized these leaks essentially to the journal. and he is now saying that no, james comey has a fallible memory and doesn't remember exactly all of the phone calls we had and e-mails we exchanged about this very thing, specifically alerting jim comey to the fact he was going to speak to the journal or authorize others to speak on his behalf. now the strategy is really to go on the offensi

how about betsy in california. >> caller: hey, jim, betsy in california 77-mile south from where a man slept in his car under a bridge. first stock is boeing. second is helm rich. and next one is fiat, chrysler next one is lam research, going to go in like a lion, and out like a lamb on earning tuesday last one is steel dynamics i compared the return to one, three, and five years to nucor and mine is better love you so much. >> thank you so much helm rik and pain is one of the best drilling. boeing, fiat auto. nucor and lam. semiconductor, equipment, steel, auto, aerospace. and yes, that was a nice bridge that i slept under "mad money" is back after the break. >> announcer: lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade >>> it is time it is time for the lightning round on cramer's "mad money." sell, sell, sell we'll play this sound -- [ buzzer ] -- and then the lightning round is over. are you ready, skee-daddy? it's time for the lightning round on cramer's "mad money." starting with nolan in arizona. >> fmc. >> i think it is good. esther in new jersey. >> caller: pa real estate, pei. >

betsy, reporter for daily beast and contributor.ion network and politics nation here on msnbc. michael and joyce are still being held hostage by the 4:00 p.m. let's start with you, he have -- evan. >> mueller special counsel investigation and how the fbi -- how james comey, how mccabe handled themselves led the fbi with regard to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, those two things are -- >> wait, let's put them together for a second. didn't he win because of the way jim comey handled the hillary clinton investigation in part? >> he isn't upset about the investigation into hillary clinton because he didn't handled it well enough. perhaps maybe because they didn't do more against hillary clinton, that it didn't go the way the president wanted it to go, that investigation. the president, though, is upset with comey and upset with mccabe because they are investigating him, because they were investigating him at the fbi. this is the issue. he's conflating the two. it will be great fodder for the conspiracy theorists at fox news an

betsy, start with you on this. partial listing of pruit. you decide what you want to pull from from the bag of tricks here. pruit able to hang on in the white house, evidently the president saying,ir am going to hang on to this guy. >> pruit is lucky in the timing of the scandals, the white house has three cabinet vacancies, it is working on filling. the veterans affairs, and cia, he has to go through senate confirmation, and gina haspo will have a tough go getting through congress. you want to have someone with senate confirmation running an agency as politically electric as the epa is. they don't want to get four confirmations for four slots, and before major election season, scrambling to have a cabinet that is functioning, trying to keep the seats warm. part of the reason he has been able to hang on as long as he has. as the shoe drops, there will be more pruit stories, it will make it tough to last as long as he has. >> emelba marcos here. >> he said this on air force one on thursday. >> i think scott has been a fantastic job. i think

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betsy, what do you make of the timing of the air strikes? i think we have to put this in context, not only of the negative headlines that have surrounded the president of the last 72 hours or last week. but tomorrow, the headlines are going to get even hotter with the james comey interview and with the lease of his new book. there are some people out there, maybe a cynical view, but there are some who say this is a distraction that's meant to make the president look strong and in control. >> that's a view and not necessarily backed up by any reporting that i myself have done or have seen. one thing, within the 24 hours of the chemical weapons strike that assad's forces conducted in syria, the intelligence community presented a list to the pentagon. so it wasn't a slow turnaround from the strike happening to the military, having a list of places they could potentially target. that step happened rapidly. what followed, and i believe the reason that we didn't have this strike until just now, which, of course, coincides with comey's book being r

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betsy, thank you. [applause] secretary robert wilkie, who is doing a great job over at the v.a. i can tell you that. thank you. [applause] and a great friend of mine and a woman who i'm getting reports from everybody who is doing well, who is -- i'm always asking who is doing the best? and always, right in the top is linda mcmahon. thank you, linda. [applause] thank you. and bill, senator, stand up. bill, stand up. please. [applause] a lot of good congressman. my friend, this is a brave one. [applause] these guys, they fight for you. they fight for you. you fought for them, the fight for you get that i can tell you, especially this group. thank -- these are amazing people. the military spouses and families. could the families and spouses please stand up next -- stand up? incredible people [applause] their love and dedication and support is really the foundation of our military might. we give them a lot of credit. thank mikey want to remington and everyone at the wounded warrior project. mike has done an incredible job. mike has done 35 years leading soldier,as an infantry rising

the protest group betsy riot. the congressman joined us tonight. thank you for coming on. see you. >> tucker: tell us what happened. >> would happen to me twice. about a year ago, i happen to not be home, one of those unusual evenings were my wife was away, so one of my older daughters was taking care of the young children. my child comes out to go to school -- >> tucker: how many children do you have? >> five children, five daughters. my younger child comes out, there is a sign in my yard, we live in nebraska. nebraska is a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family. that is the heart of our values. it's not only shocking to me but it violates a fundamental principle of civility that we have and it scared my child. the protest -- protest me, be angry at me come but don't scare my children. christmas morning,t i pull the curtains open, snow is all over the outcomew i thought i saw something unusual by my mailbox, again, two more vulgar signs of thee yard. i called the police and all that, there is a basic violation of the standards. you have differences, people have

we are very haphave betsy woodr winter, an investigative reporter who was at that hearing yesterday. and gabe sherman is an msnbc contributor. phil, you're in the hot seat today, because you're the prize winner, i'm going to start with you. we have sean hannity coming out as the secret client number three, stormy damaniels is in t courtroom. the president is according to everybody around him very unhappy with this. fact is stranger than fiction in in scenario. i'm going to leave it to you, where do we go next? what happens? >> well, it's just more and more intriguing details by the day, including this new connection with sean hannity and it underscores the heightened unease at the white house and at mar-a-lago where the president is. i mean that raid on michael cohen's home and office and hotel room was extremely upsetting to the president. it's all because they don't really know where the federal investigators are going and what they have. they obviously obtained a number of records, they seized records from cohen that pertain to his work with trump, but also with his other clients,

now, betsy, you have said that states say one thing, i.c.e. says another.ut in court? obviously this is going to be a court batle. >> the taxpayers of new york state are going to be funding a totally frivolous lawsuit. i have the cease and desist letter here and it is factually incorrect. it is not true that i.c.e. has to present a ju additionally issued warrant before making these arrests. i.c.e. uses administrative warrants. if they have probable cause, they can get the warrant afterward. so cuomo needs to get his law facts straight. in addition, what he really has to do is pay attention to new yorkers who want safety streets and communities, rather than pandering to the advocates to illegal immigration including all these criminals being picked up. 80% of those picked up have criminal records. we want them often the streets. >> but according to isis, 225 of the people arrested, there were 180 who had prior convictions or criminal charges pending. >> brutal crimes in many instances. >> yes, but, you know, lieutenant governor respectfully there's not neces

this is a test farm, where betsy peabody of the puget sound restoration fund and a team of scientists an experiment to see whether seaweed can help fight the growing problem of ocean acidification, caused mainly by increasing carbon dioxide levels in the seas. >> betsy peabody: roughly 25% of co2 in the atmosphere is being absorbed into oceans. >> stahl: and that is what we're getting from fossil fuels? >> peabody: from both carbon emissions, from deforestation, and i think initially people thought, "well, thank goodness the oceans are taking up some of that carbon dioxide." but then, scientists started to document that, in fact, when that carbon dioxide goes into the ocean, it causes chemical changes. >> stahl: changes like increasing the water's acidity, as documented in the u.s. government's 2017 climate science special report. the excess co2 causes "a decrease of carbonate ions, which many marine species use to build their shells and skeletons." worldwide, "ocean surface waters have become 30% more acidic over the last 150 years." and in the pacific northwest, the problem is compo

of little kids. [ light laughter ] the sweet moment when one of the kids said, "sound it out, betsy.an do it." [ laughter ] [ applause ] very cool. i think i can, i think i can. during his speech, trump was talking about the white house. i think he forgot what it was called. watch this. >> keep this incredible house or building or whatever you want to call it, because there really is no name for it. it is special. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jimmy: "it's a house, it is white. [ light laughter ] and that's why i call it the big building. it's a very special big, special place. [ cheers and applause ] right, easter bunny? i want to thank this incredible creature next to me, this big-eared rat. [ laughter ] this albino squirrel. whatever you -- there's no name for it. whatever you want to call it, it's a very special thing." [ applause ] and did you see this? a photo of president trump with all the white house interns is going viral, because of its lack of diversity. this is a real photo. take a look at this. ooh, boy. [ laughter ] not a lot of diversity there. but to get a better sens

one about betsy devos. knowledge ofotal the educational process and zero experience in the classroom made attacks by notto just teachers unions but any teacher who would see her giving testimony. her aside, i think she has an agenda that has been given to her to push the charter school system. that is also not going to win with realooperation educators that exist throughout this country. most of them, like myself, spent our years in the local public school system. in new jersey, most of our schools operate at a level above many other states in the union. -- a callout we do to my brothers and sisters in west virginia and oklahoma. athink you are seeing there problem of the recession. of a community that does not want to find the schools -- fund the schools at the state levels necessary to provide for quality public schools. fighting a mindset thehe right to work, or right to work for less state of united states of america. i think we need to go back to the basics. we have to support all of our children in th

joining me is kurt bardella and betsy woodruff. kurt, you used to work for, back when you were a hill staffer, darrell issa who made it his business to investigate democrats for various things that he thought they were doing wrong. what do you make of what's going on? there's new reporting from abc news this week that pruitt's morocco trip, he rented a room in the chairman of williams & jensen, which i believe is a lobbyist. carl icahn associates is the largest institutional holder in this company that exports liquefied natural gas. now several are calling for the internal watchdog to look in at one of his missions while there, promoting liquefied natural gas. two of the clients had lobbyists working on issues tied to l & g. he seems to have been in morocco selling one profit ducts of his land lady's client. what would darrell issa back in the day have done if an obama administration official had done the same? >> if we had anything remotely close as to how flagrant the conflict of interest is here, we would have waited for subpoen

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because betsy devos, i mean, she is not smarter than a fifth grader, for god sakes.re you kidding me? host: back to the teacher protests, what do you think of the long-term effects, though, of schoolnts stay out and other support staff that work at a school that are not teachers? caller: well, that is the only way they are going to get a raise. look at the kids in florida. how many of these kids -- 17 massacred? they are going to change history. that is the only way -- to protest. host: let's hear from a teacher in michigan. this is jackie. good morning. caller: hi, pedro. how are you doing? host: i am well, thank you. give us your thoughts. caller: i have been a teacher for almost 30 years, and one of the things that has really changed -- at least in michigan -- is that we are not allowed to strike any longer, for about the last 15 years. they have changed the laws, so between that and becoming a with lessork state and less power the unions have to help us with pay and supplies for schools and safety and all that, things have really changed dramatically, unfortunate

heavens to betsy. >> just to get your reactions to these. >> oh, i didn't edit these. >> all right, sweetow about that hairdo? oh! yeah, that's the real short hair. that's when i got it cut off in '97, i'm pretty sure. >> how about that one? >> jacked up to jesus. >> for six seasons reba also headlined her own sitcom. so how about a comeback? >> we're all talking about it. >> yeah? >> we're so excited that everybody else is having such great success with the rebooting of their sit comes. we want to do it, so until they say yes we're kind of on hold. >> reba is into this. she's pitches story lines. she's into it, people. >> we are taking notes. >>> well, like reba, shania twain has had a hit residency in las vegas. but now shania is heading back on tour. i had to get the scoop about her surprise get-together with taylor swift. and will they meet up on stage? >> let's go, girl. >> you two are going to be on tour at the same timement i'm wondering if you could be popping over@pepation tour. she likes to pull out a guest on stage. >> i owe her. >> one time i just dropped in at one of her hous

privilege to introduce to you betsy cavendish. [applause] d.c. vote,k you, bo, and all the organizers of today's policy summit. good morning. i'm glad to be with you today. welcome to washington, d.c. who doesn'tone here already know this great city of 700,000 will enjoy our neighborhoods, restaurants, parks, and divers cultural life. washington, d.c. is a great place. i would like to make three points in connection with today's event. everyone here bo, should be an advocate for d.c. statehood. how does statehood have anything to do with cannabis? people from all over the country face a complicated legal environment where marijuana is a controlled substance, illegal federally, but it may be legal under various state regimes under medical or recreational use. but here in washington, because we do not have statehood, congress places extra controls on our budgets and laws. that is, cannabis is extra complicated legally here in the district of columbia. congress has forbidden washington dc from further relaxing penalties for marijuana

i brought betsy. plastics for plastics and i got for each plastic is one point. two ten so at least five states he bought three hundred is good to go. stella who has founded an ngo where girls can go after school to improve their math and technical skills here they also learn to program the gap and create a business plan for the system. most of the student actually have been the one who is. the bias because they actually went online and sex with. viral me to see one who uses plastic. and so they did it themselves i do think it will help them do it. the girls who want to clean up nigeria's waste hope to go public with their app soon their goal is to sign up at least two thousand users in the first quarter of twenty eighteen. you know people on the part of being really very important for the ecosystem and the people and in the democratic republic of congo are one of the world's largest tropical people land areas but they are not being protected like they should be shark. that's right but now it's about to change thanks to the help of scientists from england togethe

betsy devos, it's like you couldn't make this stuff up for an snl skit said it's amazing how quick please taken control. nobody's watching this on a saturday night but he realized something is going to happen and i feel like that was the beginning of the end and it will probably take 67 of the to get out but we are heading towards that end at that point in those the party started to pick up on phi hearing people and the idea of visualizing this meeting with the leadership they say stop i will do it and that was after the tariff. no common sense that he's not listening to anybody now by himself and he feels very comfortable. i have another important question before we turn it over. i do believe that he's not going to survive 22020. it's not going to be a quick back to democracy to go back out and then we will look at a book and say all these regulations have never met with environmental groups. this is happening but i think there are three things that will result in his ads. the first one is the need to movement at its nothing to do necessarily with sexual misconduct per se. it's not a cri

betsy mccaughey, we'll see you again soon. >> thank you. stuart: thank you.xpected to happen in the senate this afternoon. next we have sean steele, the republican national committeeman, california. he says pompeo is going to be the most successful secretary of state since henry kissinger. he'll make his case. and we'll also get his case on the growing revolt in california. republicans are taking on the gas tax hike. that's a big deal. third hour of "varney & company" rolling on. ♪ ♪ today we're out here with some big news. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill proven to both significantly reduce the chance of dying from a cardiovascular event in adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...and lower your a1c. wow. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, or lightheaded, or weak upon standing. ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may be fatal. symptoms include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, and trouble breathing. stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right a

tom price used praifer at jets and betsy de vos had the scandal because she abandoned a bunch of kids on a school trip to the grand canyon. a lot em people think she shouldn't have done that. but recently everyone is talking about scott pruitt, head of the environmental protection agency and love child of george w. bush and a baked potatoe because you see, he has taken cabinet scandals to a whole new level. >> president trump is standing by epa administrator scott pruitt and the growing ethics scandal. >> let me put a list of all the other things that have come up. there is the condo that he rented from energy lobbyists. he approved raises apparently for two aide salaries after the white house had declined the request. he had security to cut through trask traffic, rea siendz staffers when they raised concerns about spending, requested a 24/7 security detail on personal trips that racked up tens of thousands of dollars. >> trevor: hold up, hold up. am i the only person who was shocked when they went to page twoment like when your scandal resume goes to the second page, you're done [ble

he is also the brother of education secretary, betsy devos. he was also a lee sayson between the russian transition. here, prince is leaving a closed session with congressional investigators clearly annoyed. >> i've already wasted four hours of my life. >> reporter: but tonight, sources tell abc news the special counsel has obtained evidence that may conflict with prince's sworn testimony. at issue, a meeting prince attended at this exotic seychelles resort just two weeks before the inauguration. also there, a russian banker with ties to the kremlin. prince has said his meeting with the russian banker was unplanned, a chance encounter while on business trip. >> i happened to be there, and i met a russian, some fund manager. i can't even remember his name. we didn't exchange cards. >> reporter: prince remembered the russian's name when speaking to those congressional investigators several months later. prince said he traveled to meet with some potential customers, and they, quote, mentioned a guy i should meet who is also in town to see them, a

secretary betsy devos has made a lot of tank -- a lot of changes that are not in line with your foundation priorities. what is your reaction and how concerned? >> and did you watch on 60 minutes? mr. gates: no, i read articles about it. , the federal government under the obama administration and bush administration was very active in trying to say, how do we manage teachers? are we looking at how they are achieving things? are we getting feedback to them? ok, theredone to say, government has some ideas about what we could do to change that. ,nce we got the reauthorization the role of the federal government was greatly reduced. k-12, most of what counts is at the state or district levels. there have not been, under this administration, there have been slight tweaks here and there, but there have not been a dramatic set of changes to the money or the overall emblem of money. even in the areas they have talked about, the idea of school choice, there is a bit of that that we agree with that have shrunk charters and try that out. that could be very positive. we are never going to have more than

betsy devos is great in the department of education because she is opposed to it. he might as well put up the most of extreme people he can find. but they have a long road to hoe. you have hogan hugly say not on what he did on the quotes you did. you have president trump say i think he's a great guy. kennedy: despite his haggling on the apprentice, i don't think he like firing people. >> he never fires them directly. >> you the president's alerts for his tweets. >> you are tweeting and firing people without telling them? >> it, much dirtier when you are face to face and you have to interact with them. >> this is not a corporate look. >> i did it for you. kennedy: michael malice -- we have breaking news on the tariff battle with china. plus do you support president trump? don't tell robert de niro. he says he's done trying to see a didn't point of view. he's done with you. what would dennis miller tell bobby d. if he ran into him in a dark alley. here is dennis. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission