brother charlie another has met them in a lather. the man the man marmelade the man. the landlord a man are now under. the law they are lower than the man they. say and stands and the lame. painted. white. when katrina hit the president bush. and his allies along with some foundations across the country and people in louisiana said this is a great opportunity for us to try an experiment and charter rise the whole public school system sensually have a public school it's given to a private company and the private company gets the public money to run it but the private company decides who's going to be the teachers what are they going to have bus service what the curriculum is going to be and all that so how that happened was within two weeks the louisiana legislature at the request of the governor and with the support of the president had a special law passed the just applied to the city of new orleans and it was a takeover literally a legal takeover of the. thousand five when act thirty five was winding its way through the legislature many of us were still living in ot

i blame the koch brothers. charlie: there's a lot of blame to go around, is there not? al: the republican party, john mccain in 2008 was for putting a price on carbon. and we can't get our republican colleagues now to acknowledge climate change and to do something about it because they're afraid of being primaried by someone from the right, that the koch brothers will put $10 million or $20 million behind. i know there's a debate going on n the trump administration and i don't know why today we had an announcement early in the morning and why this is being drawn out. i hope that the news we've heard isn't true. >> when you look at the -- what it says about america's leadership if you withdraw, and what it means for china, emerging as a global leader, not just a country that's interested in getting its own house in order. how do you see that playing out? al: again, i see it just in terms of jobs. just in terms of the investment in this technology that we need to deploy. i don't know what happens after this administration. i'm hoping we have an administration that underst

charlie. lemonis: okay, so you guys are brother and sister. -mary ellen: yes. -lemonis: is this your dad? harlie: correct. -chuck: c.e.o., designer. charlie: when i go home, at the dinner table, he's my old man. he's my dad. i love him to death. in business, it's chuck because i'm going to get a little emotional. lemonis: and who's in charge? charlie: i kind of run the show. mary ellen: i mean, the loudest person usually does. lemonis: the loudest person. charlie: i think everyone can agree. -mary lou: no. -mary ellen: [ scoffs ] charlie: everyone comes to me. i'm the one person that you all communicate to. lemonis: and whose name's on the door? -chuck: oh, my name. -lemonis: okay. just wanted to clarify that. it doesn't say, "swim by charlie handy." chuck: no. lemonis: do you have a business card? charlie: yes. lemonis: vice president, that's you. and then... mary ellen: fit, tech production, and sometimes sales at the trade shows. -lemonis: how about yourself? -mary lou: i'm a teacher. -lemonis: okay. -mary lou: full-time teacher. lemonis: this is a side job. mary lou: this is nights. le

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my brother works with me every day and my family comes and i get to sit there and laugh with my dad. it is such a unique experience. charlie does he think of it question mark aziz: -- it? aziz: he loves acting. i never knew that until recently, that he tried to start a trauma program in his cool in india when he was in high school and stuff and they did productions and stuff. but he is a very funny guy and loves making people laugh. he loves acting on the show and stuff. when we have moments like winning the enemy or things like that, obviously, your parents are proud. to be integral to the success of it, it is a unique thing. youlie: how comfortable do feel speaking out on political issues? not a need or not a need or an obligation, but how much a sense that it is something you feel you have to do? i kind of just, i feel it when i feel it. i wrote an op-ed for the new york times at one point about islamophobia, and i did that because i knew if i did that, a lot of people would get hold of it. thing i have done in my career that people have come up to me wasn't anything, an op-ed for "the new york times," a comedian, it is

charlie daniels and his band and my friend recently departed greg al man and allman brothers bandied5 which was he is always a good-hearted man when he comes on the stage at "fox & friends." he is a wonderful, wonderful, charitable person. look at him we're both still rockin'. ainsley: he says he is 80 years old. >> i'm not that old. but i love him. he still looks good. he still play as mean fiddle. steve: sure, speaking of charity events, congressional baseball game historically raised money for a lot of charities. he raised north of a million dollars last night. geraldo, for one day it seemed washington, d.c., came together after the awful shooting in lax leaks. it started with a very -- alexandria. started with emotional prayer where steve scalise would be the second baseman. of course he is still in the hospital. what is the observation where you we go from here. >> this was a bitter sweet moment. bitter because of grievous injuries suffered about congressman scalise. we're praying for him as he completes the third surgery. bitter, that the tone, rhetoric, could lead to such horr

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charlie is headed to another baseball game today. >>> right now, over to hoda. >> this portion of "today" is created with our response sore, warner brother'swhy you think someone you know deserves money towards a college education. we got almost 2,000 submissions. this morning, we want to bring out one of the finalists. samantha watts here. >> hi. >> you go to ithaca college, right? >> i do. >> you said you needed money for college. tell us why. >> i'm studying speech pathology and education studies. and i have to go to grad school in order to practice. i love my school and i love everything i do there. but my dad has recovered from cancer from esophageal cancer. and a lot of our money had to go towards that last year. so, we're dependent on scholarships and loans right now the it would be life-changing for me. >> are your parents here? >> they're over there. >> i have to confess something. you're not one of the finalists. you're actually the recipient. of the college scholarship. are you all right? okay. can i tell you something else that you're going to love? there's somebody special who wants to bring out the little presentation for you