bill caruso. appreciate you sticking around and having you here. i think each side will say they won this debate. here is what i got out of the deflate there is no question from murphy's own words that murphy is going to raise taxes to solve fiscal problems in the state and wants to cut taxes and stem late growth p. what did you say? >> murphy is going to raise taxes but going to raise taxes in a fair plan. i didn't hear a plan coming out of kim guadagno. >> matt? >> murphy has man'sed to go for two one-hour doe lates without taking a stand. he cannot take a stand on whether or not bob menendez should resign. he cannot take a stand on whether we should convict illegal immigrants t. when are we going to find out what he believes? january when is already inning a rated? bill: let me ask this you. i don't think murphy looks strong tonight. i think he needed to look a lot better. kim land serious pumps. i disagree. he think murphy did a better job than he did the last debate. he left some openings in the last debate and came back and cleared them up. i

jennette huffman is here and bill caruso. another political strategist let me start with you.first question is: if you still up in a trump costume this year. what kind of chaos might end you? >> yes. think this is crazy. don't people have anything better to do than worry about halloween costumes on social media? i also think it is a brilliant marketing take tactic by party city to put out aic ture of the pear ty costume of the wall because then people go back on their website. >> what do you think? it is a little bit more pink floyd to me. yeah. it could be multiple things, right? butte in the eye of bow holder. i don't get this one. my bigger question is: who is were up set bite. you will be confused with who is going to be wrap seth. who is not going to be were up set. >> it becomes the nfl protests and both sides protesting something that neither side agrees on. you know, this is has gotten out of control think. >> you cannot be anything for molo wean something is going to oh fen something. >> it sounds similar. cyclely. everything is controversial. political pair ty costum

joined by bill caruso, welcome back and jeanette hoffman. good to see you. and former mayor wayne smith. jeanette, these are heavy allegations. let's put this in context. how do you feel hearing accusation after accusation in our criminal investigation. >> it's terrific. i can imagine how this is going on for three decades and no one has said anything. the victims, it's terrific. i can imagine it happening but it's the worst kept secret in hollywood. how did these big stars who praised him and given millions and millions to the democratic party, how did they not come forward and say this is wrong and he's doing terrible things to women. hollywood liberals who support women. >> what about the prosecutors in new york? thirteen years after someone is alleging she was forced into sexual activity. by this guy who bullied her. >> interesting revelations were learning about the influence that he was able to pedal around. it's not just within the industry. i think the political side -- and focus on how to people not know enough to report this. not the victims but pe

let's break this down, bill caruso is here. let's start with you, jeanette. you are a woman. >> yes, i am. >> mentioned in the weighing in on women's issues? >> it was a pr disaster. i give the magazine credit for having this women's empowerment series. but what the advertisement did not say is that it is a serious and they're having a lot of other panels with women and this particular panel had four men. >> it says a man's point of view. >> correct. >> i am telling you what people do on social media. and people don't understand that this is a whole series that they are doing. a lot of notable women are speaking during the series. >> before this even got out there, he just dropped out. why? >> i think his statement was an articulate one. given the issues and how was presented, he is not going to participate. it was not presented in the right way. that being said, it is unfortunate. this could've been a good panel. they did it last year and it was a success. >> for men, women in business. what am i missing. [laughter] >> in regards to the panel, i cannot agree

and bill caruso, good to see. >> what i found most interesting about this press conference that you have corey booker and ross, dominidemocratic leaders in new jersey, this seems to be as close to bipartisan progress that we have ever seen. >> i was surprised by that to see the current mayor standing with the former mayor talk about economic incentives. apparently his on the wagon out to support them it was an interesting press conference to talk about it. question is what can happen next. >> the candidate for lieutenant governor they went added and sheila oliver, the democrats are not so fast. talk about overthinking it. >> i was shocked to hear a candidate for lieutenant governor would be against 50000 jobs in the largest city. this could be a game changer for newark. have jill all over sending mixed messages to the leadership at amazon who's looking to reloca relocate. >> this is corporate welfare. >> it's about being economically competitive with new jersey. >> we don't know what the deal is. let's see this, what she said was not know, it's, let's see. >> isn't that lend credibility

. >>> and welcome to "the closing bell" i'm michelle caruso-cabrera in for kelly evans. >> i'll take that. i'm bill yourselves this is the busiest day of the earnings season. plenty of other things going on right now. in one hour we're going to get an onslaugt of reports again this write this down, everybody, amazon, alphabet, intel, gilead. that's only for the start. we're going to tell you what t

. >>> and welcome to "the closing bell" i'm michelle caruso-cabrera in for kelly evans. >> i'll take that. i'm bill griffeth. brace yourselves this is the busiest day of the earnings season. plenty of other things going on right now. in one hour we're going to get an onslaugt of reports again this write this down, everybody, amazon, alphabet, intel, gilead. that's only for the start. we're going to tell you what to expect how does this happen who planned this >> easiest -- busiest day of the earnings season. sometimes less is more listen to this dunkin' donuts looking to boost sales by offering fewer types of doughnuts in some stores we'll talk to the ceo on a first on cnbc about that move and this morning's earnings report. >> apparently they identified 18 what they call core doughnuts. >> those pour doughnuts. >> wonder what the poor doughnut is see if nigel can name all 19 of them coming up. >>> president trump is going to crack godown against bad actorsn the opioid epidemic. number of drug distributors and pharmacy benefit managers have been getting hit hard on those comments among other things