question or concern of ours was, was charlie one of the concerns was charlie covering up for someone else. >> the prosecutor seemed caught off guard. >> he addressed charliee effect of charlie, your lawyer is calling your mother a killer. and he picked up the shotgun. and he approached the jury very, very closely with it. and he was trying to make a point, a very passionate point. >> brandishing the murder weapon as a prop did not sit well with the judge. he told the prosecutor to calm down. >> we knew what he had done exactly what we wanted to do. we had totally taken him by surprise. >> after a week of testimony, the case went to the jury. out in the hallway, tv cameras dogged charlie's every move. he had been out on bond the entire time, but his freedom could be coming to an abrupt end. >> he knows his life is hanging in the balance. that's a tough thing for anybody to go through. >> but he had the unwavering support of team charlie. they all waited with charlie at deliberations began and spilled over into a second day and then another. >> every day we'd show up to court being, like, oh, is it going to happen today. everybody was super nervous. and cha

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charlie gasparino has been predicting the deals demise for weeks the man himself, charlie. what is next for sinclair? charlien't want to see my gold chains do you? liz: i don't want to see. charlie: by the way before we get into this. liz: i have a correction. tribune does not own chicago. charlie: no, they don't. this is a little bit off topic but i've been trying to get my head around this just all day. if trump wants to start this space force -- liz: president trump. charlie: if they beam him up to mars and he was on mars would donald trump be an illegal alien on mars? >> [laughter] liz: elsewhere around the nation , sinclair and tribune, charlie? charlie: think about that. that's like one of these like deep philosophical questions. liz: indeed, all right charlie: anyway we'll get back to that later. i read the lawsuit by the way. now here is it was pretty much we've been hearing this for weeks that tribune was likely to bail out of this deal following the fcc throwing cold water on it and basically putting this into the courts which would be a very up hill battle. i've also heard over this period of time

charlie: if he said funding might be secured or is on the verge of being secured he could get away with that probably. ashley: i agree. whatever happens next we know you'll get it first charlie. charlie: i'll try. ashley: you're doing a terrific job. charlie gasparino thanks so much appreciate it. let's check the dow 30, big pharma pfizer and merck holding gains along with travelers and the down day on wall street there is some green up there, walgreens, boots, verizon and 3 m, in the green the dow up 182 a lot better than it was this morning when it was down more than 300 points and a comeback, kind of. up next trade wars blamed for the days sell-off but could a trade war turn it all around? the mexican trade minister is in the nations capitol. edward lawrence will have the latest on finding a deal for a new nafta, that's next on countdown. >> on the next kennedy the president's war of words with former white house aid omarosa continues, how much nasty will it get? join me right here. .s. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your

attorney and fbn 's charlie gasparino are here with me now we'll talk about this and go first to charlie because he has a leg up on this story if you invest in tesla listen to charliee: a little bit of breaking news from inside the tesla legal team sources close to the team this is what they worry about right now two things they worry about significant pressure on the sec, securities and exchange commission, to bring some sort of case against musk for that funding secure tweet whether it was accurate, there's a lot of evidence that they did not have the funding secured when he said we want to bring it, i want to take a private, we have funding secured sent the stock market up there's evidence that that did not comport with reality right now and they do believe, they worry that that tweet is problematic from an sec standpoint because of that countervailing evidence that came out and look at the new york times story and then look at musk's own blog postings about his conversations with the saudis. adam: let me bring in professor mrowicki. so tesla the day of that famous tweet was trading when they halt ed trading at $358 a share, it shot up to 371/372 now we see it d

here comes charlie! charlie is there! look out for rufus! >> a park in the park championship.ecial battle featuring basset hounds, corgis and dogs. battling each other to be crowned, top dog. >> i really want jasper to do that. i think he would excel wildly. >> he barely moves. >> my turn, lions and tigers and hyenas? oh my. there were eight cobs including siberian tigers. an african lion to nurse with a golden retriever alongside her own poppies after the cubs were abandoned by their own mother. they been enchanted by watching the unlikely dogs have a time there. getting to know each other a little bit. you can see more of this on her facebook page. >> they are cute when they are babies, they are horrible and they are adults. hyenas? they are disgusting creatures. by the way it is time for, i hate these people! this just came to me, i have allergies. i sneezed and emily goes, you don't do the arm crook thing! no i don't! this is an expensive jackets. due to how much this jacket cos cost? >> you don't sneeze into your hands. >> oh, my gosh, . >> germs or for the immune system!

charlie he promised to do post campaign trail that's let's put republicans. in he saw this after the tax cuts and accomplishments that took but also the fight that it took. charlie charli: definitely worg harder than being team captain. >> harris: he wants his kind of republican. that's what he said char >> he is having success and had success in a number of races. another thing going on going to prove to be very problematic for democrats is that the whole thing that we witnessed with the tea party, with the republican party, it was so incredibly disruptive. we had more progressive candidates win in several races last night. more success last night than we have had in the previous primaries. it's going to -- you're going to -- you are pressing the envelope to the left of what the rank and file democratic voters will support. and it will be very interesting to see whether or not those democrats succeed in those races where they have picked a far more left ward candidate than even the mainstream part of the democratic party would like. >> harris: you kind of are bringing up similar points about whether the people who those on the far left have chosen can win in november

listen to what he responded toor charlie. charlie simply pointed out that our first lady is running a thinner, leaner operation, where there are fewer people working there. he responds this way to her. but what goes farther, this is happening on social media in a lot of different places. remember what google did to the republicans in california a week before the primary. g they said our philosophy wasek nazism. remember what twitter continue to do were to republicans? shadow ban. this is got a step i go into the campaign. how many individualso are settig out there that want to have a communication or talk about a conservatives object getat bannd or their views are never being seen? but individuals can talk like this and they never got suspended?ei this is what is wrong. >> laura: the problem congressman, when young people do basic searches for information, they do basic searches for "capitalism," t "tx cuts," it is interesting to see what comes up on those searches. invariably, the most left wing progressive, even socialist views, wh

charlie. charlie simply pointed out that our first lady is running a center lienor operation, where there are fewer people working there. he responds this way to her. but what goes farther, this is happening on social media in a lot of different places. remember what it googled her to the republicans in california a week before the primary. they said our philosophy was not nazism. remember what twitter continue to do were to republicans? shutter ban. this is got a step i go into the campaign. how many individuals are setting out there that want to have a communication or talk about a conservatives object get banned or their views are never being seen? but individuals can talk like this and they never got suspended? this is what is wrong. >> laura: the problem, congressman, when young people do basic searches for information, they do basic searches for "capitalism," "tax cuts," it is interesting to see what comes up on those searches. invariably, the most left wing, progressive, even socialist views, which are couched in the most beautiful terms, come up first. that is a problem when you have companies that get so big, their market cap is larger than most countries. and they have such an outside influence, it's a problem. >> is a major problem because we found facebook, prior to the last election, was suppressing conservative views that were go. it's exactly what you are talking about. they are only allowing other views to come forward. that is why they have to have a very clear policy, have to be held accountable. >> laura: is there anything you can do on the gretchen a level? >> we brought them in for a hearing. what i fundamentally believe is they have to stop the bias. ever since i came out with us, i have simply did a tweet, one time, of what i found has happen, stop the bias. it even happened to my own mice in the process. i was able to speak up for it. i am getting many people across the social media showing me what has happened to them. they don't have a voice. >> laura: code, we have to have the evidence. i did my opening "angle," congressman, on four ways to avoid impeachment and avoid losses on my terms. i focused on the economy, and the focus has to be on economic growth and how pelosi will reverse the gains that have been made. at the same time, there is concern that we will have a risk of the government shutdown. now president trump said at his rally tonight that he is considering "drastic measures" if necessary to get the funding for the wall. he campaigned on the wall and congress hasn't delivered on the wall that he campaigned on and i believe the american people want this enforcement done. what is your read on this? what a government shutdown hurt republican chances in november? >> i think timing is everything. if you shut down in the 30th and you've got 60 votes in a seven, the democrats would take advantage of that right before the election. let's be very clear, we have put money into the wall, we are currently building it, but we have to finish it. >> laura: $25 billion, congressman. >> we have a lot further to go operate in the house, it's not a problem. it's a senate and the rules of where we go. we have to pick the right timing. you are correct when it comes to the economy. think for one moment -- there's three entities you really want to watch and a selection. women, independence, and seniors. if you watch and you look at from all the democrat open seats, when it was a race between a woman versus a man, a woman won 78% of the time. what happens when this tax cut went through, 1 million new jobs. women in america, the unemployment for women, the lowest point it's been in 65 years. >> laura: congressman, don't women want things to calm down? women want things calm and peaceful, more happiness. i think trump has to be the happy warrior. he was happier warrior tonight. we want happy warrior trump. he is very charming -- i think it just makes people happy. we want that. do you agree with me on that or am i overstating it? >> i agree 100%. people rarely saw the president trump i always see. he is a happy warrior. he's a lot like when you watched ronald reagan, if you believe that his policies bring him more freedom, could liberty, you should be a happy conservative. >> laura: we know what happens if the democrats get control, it's going to be mired in investigation mania on capitol hill. it's all going to be undone. congressman, thank you for joining us exclusively tonight. we really appreciate it. up next, seven illegal mexican immigrants attempt a brazen robbery in texas but why do the local authorities not tell us about it initially? stay with us. including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. ♪ >> laura: if viewer warning to all of our liberal viewers, you won't like the story because we have yet another example of crimes committed by illegal immigrants. brazen. this time is coming from the border town of mcallen texas. on saturday, masked men is termed a jewelry store in a botched robbery attempt. as you can see, the surveillance video, at least some of the men appeared to be armed. thankfully, authorities quickly took the man into custody. there were no injuries. according to customs and border protection, all seven of the suspects were in the country illegally. what a shocker. a fact that the local police neglected to disclose in their initial statement! joining me in every action, christopher comay spokesman for the national border patrol council. chris, i always find that it's like pulling teeth to get immigration status out of local authorities or reporters who are covering these stories. this was amazing. you have some background information in at least a few of these rappers. tell us. >> a couple of these individuals that a temper that robbery had been arrested in california in a smash and grab type operation, where i think ten people went into a store in the los angeles area and two of them ended up, t of the previous group. >> laura: chris, what i think american people get frustrated by is that these people coming to the country illegally, some of them get arrested for crimes, they do sometime, and then they are released into society because california is a sanctuary state. they are released into society, not related porta, some of them are both in and they come back over. they commit yet another crime. they do time here, we pay for three square meals a day, we pay for their incarceration, and then perhaps they'll be deported into mexico. how bad is it right now at the border and what in your mind has to be done immediately to stop this flow across the country? >> i think we need to be tougher on the prosecutions, tougher on the sentencings, and make it a real deterrent against coming over here. also we need more agents in the area, on the ground, however we managed to do that, it remains to be seen. but it needs to be done because right now, it is wide open out there. the american public deserves security along the border. >> laura: i have a friend of mine who actually used to work for me years ago, but he works in mcallen, texas, he loves the people of mcallen, but it is in some ways, it is the wild west, as a border town. is that accurate? >> it denies community, a great community. there are times when there is crime out here, there's a lot of home invasions usually, those are done -- those are within the drug community, guys fighting against each other. but it's just a matter of time before something breaks off. we have had cross-border violence for some time. unfortunately, the local authorities, whether it is the city or the county municipality, they don't want to admit that we are having over violence from mexico, and it is coming slowly but surely, increasingly has gotten worse, it's just that people are pretending it's not there. >> laura: the new president of mexico, it's not going to end. there is no more thruway from central america through mexico or mexico into united states. not going to happen anymore. chris, thank you for that insight. it's fascinating. we'll be right back. close at this hour. do not go anywhere. there. bold choice, charlieand go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken! so chances are, you've seen us around the house. or... around the yard. on the shelf... or even... out in the field. your mom knew she could always count on us... and your grandma did too. because for over 150 years, we've been right by your side. advancing the health of the people, plants and pets you love. so, from all of us at bayer... thank you for trusting in us. then... and now. >> shannon: by the way, our earlier guest made the point about trump's approval rating, s so low. trump's approval rating is at about 48%. okay? 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charlie cook got cut off by the satellite gods. but thank you, charlie cook. we were just about wrapping up. what charlies still more likely to be republican on the senate side, and they still are expecting the republicans to hang onto the senate, and perhaps the house not so, depending on the margins, of course. we'll see what has to happen. charlie, you want to quickly button it down? i was trying to summarize what i thought you would say about texas. >> yeah, this race has gotten very, very close. but cruz still has a little bit of an advantage. those last two or three points are going to be tough for o'rourke. we're looking at a lot of polls with four, five, six, eight-point margin, which is very, very close for a senate race in texas. so i think o'rourke is going to beat the point spread. does he get over the top or not? i'm a little skeptical. >> thank goodness i was on the same page in my quick summary of what charlie cook might have said. thank you, charlie. >> you're a pro, andrea. >> you're the pro. thank you very much. and happy weekend to you. >>> coming up, swinging at sessions. the presiden

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colombian that county in ohio where he was running against charlie wilson -- not the famous charlie wilson, different carlly wilson. -- charlie wilson. i kept telling everyone, he's going to win. he's going to win big, and they laughed at me. but the way i approach journalism is a little bit different than sort of the more conglomerate, larger institutions. i think it's the really important because smaller newspapers are starting to shed people who cover traditional politics. i don't fly except to here. >> thank you. [laughter] >> i don't take an interstate. i only use back roads. and i never stay in a hotel. i always stay at a bed and breakfast. so the first person that i meet is a small business person. and they know where all the bodies are buried. and usually i get to a town -- >> and hopefully they haven't buried them. [laughter] >> maybe they have. there's been some of those bed and breakfasts that i had all the lights on. [laughter] but, you know, and usually when i go into a community, i go to church, i go to, like, the elks. i am an elk. or a rotary club or a basketball game or hang out in town and figure out what's

charlie gasparino. charlie says the markets just came off the highs this is all michael cohen. before charlie in, bubba, what do you think? >> he has a point. markets hate uncertainty. if colen will spill beans nobody wants to hear that could create problems. the problem we don't know what he will say until after 3:00 or 4:00 eastern time. so the issue comes down is he going to implicate president trump in any wrongdoing, which would then create some pretty good selling on the market. i think that is what you're seeing, a little bit uncertainty pushing the market down. the vix has been rallying since about 2:00. >> does he have a plea deal? that is the real question here. i will say this, the market has been trading on negative trump, mueller investigation news. does michael cohen have a plea deal? does he know enough? liz: look at this vix index, starting when the news broke. >> trading off of michael cohen given his role is risky. i'm not quite sure how much he was involved in these real estate deals and some of the russian stuff itself. liz: it's a question whether he sings like a canary s

charlie: we'll see. but again, listen two sides of the coin here. he says he's innocent. ashley: yeah, i know that's two sides for every story charlie gasparino great stuff as always charliehank you very much. the closing bell is in about seven and a half minutes from now a little bit of selling into the close. we're up about 400 we're still up 376, not to be sniped at the reverse of yesterday in other words but today's rally is exactly how volatile the market sentiment is to come. how do investors basically navigate the choppy waters right now after the billion dollar closer will give us some help, after this. . . . . ♪ a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. ♪ ashley: closing bell will ring in just under four minutes. the market is losing some steam. two major chip names you knew to watch when they report earnings. nicole petallides on the new york stock e

charlie kirk. charlie, this is a bombshell. these guys are pretty gutsy, they will go through unjustified attacks, being anti-minority, and shut them down too? >> pretty amazing, heart-warming some people within defect against this intolerant culture in silicon valley. the left hates the idea that there are other ideas and it is amazing, they say they're for tie versety but not intellectual idealogical diversity. this is a wonderful sight to see, flies in the face of mark zuckerberg telling us, we're welcome of other views. no you have employees disagreeing at base left. anyone not even conservative, if you believe in america, if you believe in freedom, you're under attack if you use these social media sites. it is very scary what they're able to do. they are able to silence differing opinions. select who has bigger reach, less reach, totally arbitrarily. they are the new guardians of speech. i'm glad people from within start to realize this, as most of the political conversation is now happening on facebook, google and twitter,. liz: you make a important point, people of the hard left, they say talk to the hand. they act like the people on the tv show "the view," who storm off, if they disagree with you, or kick you off the show. what is happening, google, facebook, social media, we're free speech people, we support a free independent press. charliet, a handful of companies like google, facebook, they have a lot of power. should they be reined in by the government? i don't know how you do that? >> the analogy that the great dennis prager uses is imagine if united airlines, delta air lines, american airlines colluded together, they said anyone that reads "the wall street journal" is not allowed to fly on airline. if it's a private company they're allowed to say, you would argue that is political discrimination. here is the problem, those three companies, twitter, facebook, google, a vast majority of online political speech. i don't like government getting involved at all in almost anything, but the question is, this is something we have to start to wrestle, reconcile with where do you draw the line they become so powerful and olgopolic, monopoliestic behavior, engineer people's thoughts based on capacity to control conversation? we believe in free speech need to take a look at that. liz: you make an important point. you know how w

charlie sykes. charlie is an msnbc contributor. tom, to you. david pecker the latest to turn on the president. what do you have? >> well, so katy this relates to count 7. this is one of the counts that michael cohen pled guilty to on tuesday. this has to do with causing abillegal campaign contribution by a corporation. it says michael cohen was involved with in helping and putting together this deal where american media, which is the company that david pecker runs, that american media paid $150,000 to karen mcdougal in order for her story essentially. it's part of this catch and kill we have heard about over the past several months wherein they get somebody's story and kill the story, meaning it's not published. that story was her relationship with the president. so in this particular case what we see in the criminal information, the court paperwork that was filed in association with michael cohen's guilty plea on tuesday, is be see it laid out the exact nature of this transati transaction. in this particular situation where we hear that the ceo of this media company that was involved in this payment was granted immunity by prosecutors as part of their investigation, we would expect he would be able to provide context, witness testimony perhaps, and that he would be able to provide maybe a bit of a roadmap for federal investigators as they try to look at this deal and say, okay, how did this come together? who originated it? who was involved in controlling it? and that would have helped them with the potential indictment. of course, we didn't get an indictment. >> can we say he implicated the president here, or is it too early to say? >> since we don't know the exact nature of his testimony and what he provided federal investigators and prosecutors, we would be going a step too far beyond what our reporting is as far as what he was able to provide to hem and if he directly implicated the president. he is a long-time friend of the president. the fact that he would assist in a federal investigation, which he would know, would involve the president certainly his former personal attorney i think is not insignificant. >> sam, just look at this "vanity fair" headline. holy word i can't say on television. i thought pecker would be the last one to turn. trump's "national enquirer"le a lies are the latest to detect. >> it's surprising he had to be granted immunity. i am not sure the crime he would have committed is. >> campaign finance violation. >> but what kind? >> in kind contribution, right? >> an excessive campaign contribution by a corporation in excess of $25,000. since the payment is $150,000 to karen mcdougal, since that was at the direction of a candidate -- >> in order to help him get elected? >> to influence the election, exactly right. >> look, this goes to i don't understand why michael cohen had to structure these agreements like this. >> you are saying this is michael cohen's problem? michael cohen said the president directed him to do this. here is what i want from you, whether you want to blame it on michael cohen. to have "the national enquirer," david pecker, the president's long-time friend, a man he made a deal with, to say i am going to catch and kill these stories to help you along, somebody on his side for years, to have him get immunity in order to cooperate at least on some level with federal prosecutors, what is your reaction to that? >> that this is something where it was something that we never knew, this is something along the lines that would be investigated, and it's extremely interesting that pecker had to be granted immunity. i am not necessarily sure -- i understand the campaign finance violation, but knowing what i know about what david pecker a claimed to others that he had on other people, i am not sure why selectively this would be a crime, what he committed. >> well it's pretty simple. an organization that makes an illegal payment and they want testimony from him, i wouldn't testify to anything. i would say, look, i am perhaps going to tell you that i committed a crime. i would like some immunity. >> let's move on. the david pecker news is big news. also big news from the president's attorney general. the president, as you heard in that interview on fox news, has pushed back on his department of justice, claiming they are corrupt, you shouldn't be able to do things like flip. the attorney general who has been under fire by the president quite a bit has release his own statement pushing back on the president. this is consequence because the attorney general did this right as he was going to the white house to meet with the president on criminal sentencing. here is what he said. while i am attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political conversations. i demand the highest standards and where they are not met i take action. however, no nation has a more talented, more dedicated group of law enforcement investigators and prosecutors than the united states. i am proud to serve with them and proud of the work we have done in successfully advancing the rule of law. just another note. i spoke with the doj official after that statement came out, asked what the mood is at the doj, and the person said, defined is not exactly the right word, but that they are confident that they are doing their jobs there. amber, it is quite a statement to have jeff sessions put that out as he is walking in the door at the white house to see the president. >> yeah. i'm starting to wonder if in one week we see the president lose not just two allies in michael cohen and david pecker, but his attorney, jeff sessions as well, who was one of the first high-profile members of congress to endorse him. this language that i hear sessions use, the justice department will not be bowled over by politics, is what i hear deputy attorney general rod rosenstein say repeatedly when he has a chance to speak publicly. and until now i haven't seen the two match up in that kind of -- again i agree defiant isn't quite the right word, but that sort of defiant rhetoric towards the president. here they are finally aligned against the president in terms of his attacks on the justice department, specifically it raises the question of what could happen next if the president keeps blaming jeff sessions for everything that's happened to him so far. >> here is a hint. senator lindsey graham a moment ago said that maybe the president should fire jeff sessions. but if he does, do it after the midterms. listen. >> the president's entitled to an attorney general he has faith in. somebody that's qualified for the job. and i think there will come a time sooner rather than later where it will be time to have a new face and a fresh voice at the department of justice. clearly, attorney general sessions doesn't have the confidence of the president, and all i can say is that i have a lot of respect for the attorney general, but that's an important office in the country. after the election i think there will be some serious discussions about a new attorney general. >> not just that. senator grassley, the current judiciary dhar, reversed course in what he was saying, which is that the judiciary committee had no time to confirm a new a.g. now he is saying, yes, they do have time. so lindsey graham and then there is chuck grassley, who are saying maybe it's time to get somebody new in there. when you hear this, charlie sykes, i don't see republicans running for cover with the president and all of the convicted felons that now surround him. trying to find a way to it seems help the president push back on all of this. >> and the timing is awfully interesting. you have donald trump's own swamp turning against him at the same time he is giving interviews where he sounds like a mob boss and he is clearly at cross purposes with his own attorney general. this would be the moment i would think for republicans congress to say, okay, mr. president, we will stand with the rule of law. there are limits, but again as we have so many times, you know, in the past seen, they are not doing that. they are apparently very, very comfortable with donald trump's swamp. i'm afraid that lindsey graham appears to be giving the president a green light here. >> the deputies are going to make this at least in part an election about corruption. s sam, saying the republican party is tied to corruption. look what the president ha

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charlie: did you see what he said this morning? neil: yes i did. charlie: not good stuff. neil: well you know it's a pressure-filled job. charlie: i know. neil: charlie gasparino thank you very very much. he's the best. all right meanwhile toxic algae bloom in florida hurting businesses sickening people and wildlife. jeff flock is literally in the middle of it all in fort myers, florida with more. hi, jeff. reporter: well neil we spoiled your breakfast and now i'm here to spoil your lunch it is an amazing thing and we've got a drone. our team from new york is up and maybe go ahead and fly it, frank this entire canal that you see and of course you know southwest florida has canals up the ears and many of them are clouded with what you see as a green algae and maybe i can show you in an effort to really show you how disgusting this stuff is and if you could smell this incredible, but if i scoop this out, that is what this water looks like. it's not just on the surface it goes down deep. this is a green algae fed by the experts believe agriculture run off and look at all of the scum on "the rocks" here as the tide goes down it reveals all o

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charlie, good to get your thoughts. charlie brown.ratly islands in the south china sea. the spratlys are a chain of islands which lie between vietnam and the philippines, with china to the far north. all three countries have claims on the spratly islands, but it is china that has been building on them. rupert wingfield—hayes joined a us navy surveillance flight over the islands, and sent us this report this is the chinese navy politely telling the us navy to go away. far out in the south china sea, we're approaching one of china's huge new island bases. it's very clear they do not want us here. for the crew aboard this us navy p8 surveillance plane, this is now a daily encounter. it's a routine occurrence for us on these flights. it happens throughout the flight, when they come over and then we just go back with our standard response. it really has no effect on any operations or anything we do. as we close to 12 nautical miles, we can now see the huge extent of china's development out here. so, what we're seeing on the screen here is

. >> representative charlie dent, former representative charlie dent, a cnn contributor, was there. he's joining us from capitol hill right now. give us your impressions, charlie. >> you know, it's ofbbviously vy emotional for all of us who had the honor to know and work with john mccain. the only thing you can say is the man was a titan. he meant so much to so many people. so tough, such an institution to himself. i keep thinking we have to honor this man. if there's one thing that we can do, i think when he's laid to rest, let us not lay to rest his capacity for governance, his capacity for compromise. and too often, too many people around here and elsewhere consider those qualities as surrender or capitulation. but john mccain, he taught us. our job right now is to try to, you know, do what he'd want us to do in these difficult times. and to lead and show some courage and be like he was, fearless. so i really think that's what i'm taking from all this. and to watch henry kissinger, who's here today, and you think about the international order that these men helped lead and accomplish and defend, and i just -- it really makes you appreciate that generation o

charlie rose remember charlie rose gayle king on right had to do with a book written, do you believe in magic -- alternative medicine gayle king is one did interview when you are on television, especially, it is -- less with radio more likely to have read your book, you are happy if they read the flap of your book pretty happy if they read title of your book gayle king read whole book had the book in front of her had -- tabs throughout book great questions great discussion about the industry megavictims can do harm it was great until it wasn't the reason it wasn't had to do with steve jobs in the book i talked about how steve jobs had pancreatic cancer he died from but didn't have ab typically pancreatic cancer did not have carcinoma -- sort of almost uniformly fatality he had neuro-- happened to be in pancreas with early surgery 59% chance every survival didn't choose early surgery rather a variety of alternative treatments like, coffee enemas, megavitamins until too late for surgery charlie rose was good friend of steve jobs angry i chose to bring up steve jobs in his care, so we had this interaction with respect to the to you sir, isn't it dangerous to skai if you never treated a person what might or might not have been consequence sir, by the way, is also a bad. i am sorry i am not understanding mild panic sets in, in other words, did you treat jobs no, i didn't i said isn't it dangerous to suggest what he might have been able to do if you didn't treat him. >> get pulled into rabbit holes where facts i said correct ice iconicson in book said all the things i just said to you about what was choice of care choice of delayed care what was pancreatic cancer, that is basically what i said, have 95% chance survival early surgery that if delayed two things, i think that the fact put himself unnecessary risk choosing alternative course the lesson for me here don't go down rabbit hole it is easy to do that who fund that had study what is your association with those funding was

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charlie sykes always. paul butler, thank you. nick confessore, thank you, jonathan lemire and zerlina thank you as well. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> hello. >> don't you wish you had charlie sykes? >> i love charlie at 4:00 -- you know the way the rules work. give charlie my best. >>> if it's thursday, it's a rudy awakening. tonight, law and disorder. how rudy giuliani's mueller strategy is about anything but the law. >>> plus, inside the lawsuit over d.c.'s trump interna

charlie kirk. first time of the show charlie, great to see you. >> i'm excited to see charlie. doing great work with turning point. >> i want to get to the word corruption. it's amazing to me. what goes on in washington every single day. that's literally legalized corruption. they don't have shame about throwing the word around. >> that's because the focus is to try to damage president trump. that's where the mainstream media is focused. they focus on things like manaford and micheal cohen. neither of them are doing good things. they focus on this because they want to hurt president trump. people at home see it. as the wall street journal showed president trump's approval ratings are untouched. he didn't try to be someone else. they wanted economic opportunity. we have seen that under president trump. that's why despite numerous reporting on the few individuals it hasn't hurt him. >> what's going on is the system, the establishment. whatever word you want to use they can't bear the thought of this outsider who has come along and doesn't understand how it goes is being tripped u

charlie was at the height of his career. he was the founder and ceo of a music company in atlanta working with recording artists like rapper two chain. despite all his success, charlie wasn't happy. >> when we won a grammy, for example, i didn't even want to go. >> reporter: as charlie'shis health suffered the brain tumor he had as a child started growing. his weight increased to more than 300 pounds. that was charlie then. and this is charlie now. >> he decided once and for all to get healthy. what was the tipping point for to you do that? >> business for me was becoming toxic in my life the stress. at that moment i knew like everything in my life had to change. >> reporter: so last year, charlie quit the music industry, committed to getting healthy and set an ambitious goal to himself. >> you wrote a contract to yourself a little over a year ago, have you been sticking to that contract? >> i have. 100%. on that contract it says i want to be top 1% of athletes in the world. then i asked myself, what would be the most difficult feat to do as an athlete? i said, i'm going to complete an ironman. i'm going to do it in ten mon months. i dropped 125 pound. i f onnd i did a full ironman in new zealand. i was 2nd from last place, but i finished. >> reporter: but charlie did

charlie sykes always. paul butler, thank you. nick confessore, thank you, jonathan lemire and zerlina thank you as well. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> hello. >> don't you wish you had charlie sykes? >> i love charlie. you know when you have him at 4:00 -- you know the way the rules work. give charlie my best. >>> if it's thursday, it's a rudy awakening. tonight, law and disorder. how rudy giuliani's mueller strategy is about anything but the law. >>> plus, inside the lawsuit over d.c.'s trump international hotel. we'll talk to the man leading the legal charge against the president over a key clause of the constitution. >>> and the award for worst pandering to the masses goes to, the oscar. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." rudy giuliani is a lawyer but he is not playing one on television. folks, if you want to understand the president's legal strategy, don't look at it as a legal strategy. first rule of legal strategy in trumpland, don't talk about a legal strategy. his lawyer, rudy giuliani, is now all but telling us that they're running a political campaign. listen to this quote. when i first got involved, i

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charlie gas a trin oh. charlie: elon musk has been waging a jihad against short sellers as the stock has gone down the last 6 months. this guy has been going off the rails lately. adam with a tweet, did to shorts we wanted to do for a long time. was it legal? could the sec open an investigation to the way he handled it? charliethe stock was trading flat line this morning. there was a report citing sources about saudi doing the 3% to 5% in the company. stock starts trading up. 10-15 minutes later he comes out and says i want to take it private. that to me is so strange in and of itself it leads me to believe the sec will look at the trading and option activity in that period of time. a leaked story citing sources. stock trading up. then all of a sudden the big whammy he wants to go private. a 3% stake in tesla does not equate to taking it private. he said he had the financing secured. it was a weird hedge like i may take it private. i don't know. did you see the official announcement? there is a couple things we have to look at here. i think it bears watching how regulators respond. the trading activity in the stock before his announcement and how the first story went out minutes before this thing could leak. the ultimate story on going private looks really weird. i'm sure the sec will look at the stock tradi

charlie gasparino has been breaking news on the story all day long. charlie, what is the latest? >> what we have now are subpoenas. we should point out when mr. musk put out the tweet which said he wants to to private, take tesla private, i guess a $70 billion deal, something at $420 a share, he said in the same tweet, funding secured. which usually makes people think you have the papers drawn up, the banks lined up, sovereign wealth funds writing you the check. there is some question whether that is essentially the case in the days following that tweet which was put out on august 7th. what we have the se c-ramping ups it investigation or scrutiny of the tweet whether it is materially faust. we were the first to report this, the fox business network learned that tesla received subpoenas from the sec about the veracity and the materiality and truthfulness of that tweet. the investigation has gone from informal inquiry where the sec calls up company officials which they initially did, which was previously reported, which was not previously reported now, subpoenas and a formal inquiry by the sec. so the question is, what could happen to mr. musk? first of all if he is just under investigation, there is to finding of guilt just yet, i think they're going to, they're going to be very watchful, make sure they have a case before bringing a case against elon musk, a serious one. they know he is pretty es -- existential to the stock and to the company they don't want anything to happen to the company. maybe mr. musk can not use twitter. melissa: get the heck off of twitter. >> from company announcements to a big fine. way out, a possibility, i'm not saying it will happen, a banning from the securities business, something along the lines of you can't be a ceo, a director or a senior executive. i mean maybe he can -- something along the lines what happened with martha stewart after her stock market problems a couple years ago, stock selling problems. she was more or less like a creative executive but not the ceo of the company. so that is, those are the range of remedies, if that is where it goes. we should point out mr. musk has another side of the story. he thinks what he said is perfectly okay in that he, having a conversation with the saudi wealth fund and then, indicating that they like potentially to do a deal, to take them private is suffices for funding secure. so we'll have to see. the news is, it is now a formal investigation and subpoenas are flying. back to you. melissa: charlie gasparino, thank you so much. great reporting. charlie and. ed to and heather are back with us. they were really mad because you can't say something like this unless the deal was signed and if we had done it we would be in jail. i was kind of surprised to hear that reaction. that is how people felt. what due think. >> charlie had it right. he reock the story hour ago. i know smart people really do dumb things. if he secured funding i don't see why you can't use twitter a public and free outlet but probably not the wisest way to use it. or you preannounce that after market hours, before the market opens or after the market closes, that you have a big announcement a stocks-moving announcement coming that would have been the better way to handle it given that he has secured funding which we don't know. melissa: todd, there is big difference between talking to someone, yes, we want to help you take the company private, yes that idea sounds great and actually having the lawyers sit down an

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charlie black, charlie good to see you tell me a story i always tell people when someone passes away, that all americans knew john mccain from watching him on television just watching his -- his life and a career unfold. but tell us a story about this senator that you think remember him. >> well there could be very many dagen. but you know, in addition to being the champion of freedom, for the whole world and -- being a champion for regular order and bipartisan compromise? the senate he was a terrific friend. he was a championship friend to many, many people somebody said over the weekend that there were over 100 people who considered john their best friend pep and you know what he had the capacity to be the best friend to that many people. i traveled with him a lot during campaigns especially during the '08 presidential campaign, and among my duties as a i was his debate coach. now, when you're in a presidential debate all of the primary debates with general election debates, you have time limits on what you can say. sometimes it is 30, sometimes it is 60 sometimes it's more. and believe me trying to get john mccain to discipline himself, to 30 seconds, 60 second messages was not easy but he would do the work. sometimes we would have to push him to put the time and -- and he would about the third time i would say john you've got to take these words out or shorten it this way he would say i got it. i got it when he said he had it. he had it and that meant you better shut up and better move on to next question. [laughter] >> charlie this is carter i've been just fascinated watching the remembrances of all people across the aisle. and so many people have been quoting the president -- of senator mccain and how he just rose above and reached out with friends, with so many people on the left as well, i think there's -- sort of this mentality of people saying wish we could make that happen. do you see anyone that close to the senator anyone who he might have been grooming or anyone who has that same heart and capacity for partisanship and standing up for what's right. >> john mentored dozens of other senators in both parties, and he always expressed his belief that we should use regular order in the senate. meaning compromise in the committees come out with a bipartisan bill. that use reform and that senate an congress could pass. in course of that sure there are plenty of peel who think like he did. and to give you a few examples and not meaning to be exhausted but obviously lindsey graham believes the same way. sena

now we go to charlie gasparino who has more, charlie. >> why is, i'm trying to figure out why this is a positive for the company. liz: probably, because i was thinking the same thing. sounds like they have their act together, this is what we'll do, we'll tap the credit line. we'll pay everybody on line. >> we will tap the credit line but we have cash. some of this doesn't make sense. say one thing about tesla and elon musk. now i'm into the stock after the story we exclusively broke about sec starting formal investigation with subpoenas. i'm looking at mr. musk's statements take a page from jamie dimon, underpromise, overdeliver. he does just the opposite. keeps saying that they are cash flow positive. he keeps saying they're going to be profitable. never happens. keeps making very high production estimates on the model 3 which are never met or haven't been met. i mean this is a real problem for the company, if you keep overpromising and underdeliverring, at some point theket will look at you as a class half-full, class-empty as opposed to glass half-full, what you have despite today.

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charlie dent. and our national security analyst. charlie, if i could go to you first, former republican lawmaker. have you ever offered a campaign job immediately following firing someone from their position? >> no. i've never done that. and i wouldn't do that. obviously this was done simply to shut her up. but it's hard to shut up a villain. this is what happens when you bring people into the white house are not serious. they're reaping the whirlwind. omarosa is not credible, but that doesn't mean everything she says is untruthful. >> on that point, it's interesting because she claimed she was offered a $15,000 a month job. do the math. 12 times 15,000 is $180,000 a year. lara trump just offered her a job for $180,000 a year. on that detail, the job offer and the salary, the tape seems to prove that. >> yeah, and i think that it seems very closely aligned, as you heard on the tape, to basically her white house salary, to keep her at that same income level going forward. it seems hard to read that tape, to listen to that tape as anything other than an offer of hush money. >> yeah, samantha, you worked in the administration. you ever witness something like this happen? >> i didn't. i was going to comment on this $180,000 being paid to omarosa at the white house. i worked there. you're paid a salary based upon your rank, for sure. if you're a special assistant to the president or a senior director, something of that nature. but also based upon how much work you actually do. omarosa was reportedly doing very little work at the white house. then her salary was being matched on the campaign. we know that the trump campaign the first time around made a series of very poor personnel decisions that plagued them. there's legal issues now. >> well, the chairman of the campaign, if i remember, there's a jury deliberating on his legal fate right now. >> indeed. >> on the first trial. >> exactly. >> barely knows him. >> now we're seeing that happening the second time around with someone who had damaging information on the president. that's a differentiating factor. >> to be clear, white house salaries follow government scale, do they not? isn't 179 the top level? you have these various levels which follow military ranking, i believe. >> it is. and it's based upon your rank and the am ount of work you actually do. >> julie, tell me your reaction to this, first of all, as you listen to that tape. credibility is the issue here, right? the classic white house tactic when anyone criticizes them is to attack them as a partisan or as just being a liar, right? now here we have a tape that at least backs up some of the claims she made. >> right. well, i think just getting away from the substance of the tape because i agree with congressman dent but also jeff zeleny. there's a lot left unsaid. some leaps have to be made to get to the idea this is hush money. you have this former trump loyalist who was a savage, vicious defender of the president, now going savage and vicious against him the second he turns on her. in some ways, she is going full trump on trump. it's an interesting dynamic to watch. you have a president and presidential adviser. one is leaking tapes and describing tapes. the other one is calling her a dog. i mean, it's not something we're used to seeing maybe out of the commander in chief's office. >> not something we're used to seeing. that's an evergreen comment. charliereally painful for me to see that omarosa was making $5,000 more per year than a member of congress. very painful. but bottom line -- >> should have recorded more conversations. >> well, yeah, it's just inexplicable you bring in people like this to the white house. i visited the white house a few times during the trump administration. every time i was there, i bumped into omarosa. just wandering around, doing whatever she was doing. it's just really a sad spectacle. you're going to see more tapes. let's face it. it's all about money. >> thanks to all of you. it's a story we'll continue to follow. coming up, another story we're covering, remembering the queen of soul. aretha franklin's long-time bassist is going to share his memories. ♪ ♪ you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. b

charlie. thank you so much. i hope you do get on the call, tell us what is happening. ask that question. great to see you, charlie gasparino. here is the question, should cbs have disclosed to investors this "l.a. times," or let me backup, the lapd according to the "l.a. times" several months ago was investigating the sexual assault allegation. that's the issue. several months ago the lapd had been investigating sexual assault complaint against les moonves. that was way before ronan farrow's new yorker story. "the l.a. times" story is based on two anonymous sources. the story says prosecutors did not file charges because the alleged incidents were in the 1980's, way past the statute of limitations. the company hired a law firm that the allegations did not require further investigation. the author of against the case the case of impeaching trump, alan dershowitz. great to have you on. is the cbs board in trouble here? >> this is nationwide, worldwide problem. we have to make sure we see in place due process safeguards that protect all parties, protect those women who say they have been abused and the men accused o

charlie gasparino who predicted the appeal. charlie: i reported that they were planning it if i was to predict i would have said they weren't going to go this route but they are going this route and we're getting bits and piece s from inside the doj what they're telling other people about how they plan to proceed here, and i don't think there will be a lot of differentiation first off you really can't introduce tons of new evidence in an appeal so it'll be standard and i think what they're saying what doj official s are telling people on the outside as to why they lost this case, they're going to say the judge on the case at the federal court, judge leon did not like their arguments or buy any of their economic arguments about harm to consumers did not give them a chance to even explaining a lot of those arguments he ridiculed those arguments and he left and he forced as evidence out some of their economic arguments. what they plan to do at least this is what they're telling people is they think he errorred so much on this with a visceral hatred for their case, that they think that they'll do better with just about anybody and at the appeal level remember you do three judges and some of those judges could be obama-appointees who ironically will be much more favorable to a trump case in this case, a trump argument in this case primarily because they're more consumer oriented you'd think. they are against big mergers more from the elizabeth warren wing of the democratic party so what they are saying is we're going to retry the case and press forward the economic arguments that we think judge leon ignored, denied, left out, and that's if you merge these two companies together here are the stats as to why we think prices will go up, what at&t will do in terms of drilling up new contracts, how they will squeeze the consumer, how this will hurt the consumer we should point out that we also understand they do, they are looking to introduce new economic evidence in this that judge leon left out. it's not new evidence in like a whole new theory. it's new economic evidence apparently that judge leon said can't go there, they're planning on bringing that back so this will be very much a numbers appeal. i remember one of them, listen that trial was pretty, the case itself was pretty let's just say dry, right? lengthy and dry. >> yeah, but at&t had a great team of attorneys. charlieey did. dan petrocelli did a great job and the one part where i thought it was kind of funny is when judge leon started taking apart their economic analysis saying how do you know that if you predict you put these two together prices will go about, it will rise x amount. that was kind of funny. i mean, rolling his eyes and things like that apparently, i wasn't in the courtroom but i heard that, but this is what i heard. we read it and i wasn't paying a lot of attention to it so i guess my point is be prepared for more numbers, be prepared for them to roll the dice back on their argument and they, ironically, and i think this is one of the more undercoverred stories here the trump adminitration is bigging on this case to have this case tried before, not conservative lawyers , not free market lawyers , but obama-appointees that they think will give them the benefit of the doubt. >> charlie gasparino thank you, sir great to see you great stuff as always looking forward to this appeal. clo

charlie hunnam right now. because his next role requires him to be barechested a lot of the time. something etonline's lauren zima just had to get to the bottom of. >> charlie, is it now in your contract that you're shirtless in every movie that you -- we're not complaining, it's just we get a lot of shirtless charliem which is wonderful. >> you know, yeah, it seems to be a running theme. >> i mean, there's some paparazzi photos from your new movie with ben affleck and garrett, you guys are all shirtless. >> what can you do? we were doing swim training on the beach and all of the sudden paparazzi showed up and it did look like sort of a boy band music video or something with us frolicking in the waves. >> if you're into shirtless hunnam, then "papillon" is for you. the drama is based on real-life story of a man who was framed for murder and sentenced to life on an island with prisoners. this time, rami malek is t esca >> you can be savage. >> you had to lose weight. how much weight did you each lose and did you kind of stick withacat process? >> i was down to 145 for this but i think i probably started at 180, maybe like 35 pounds. >> and you were a little worried about him during all this? >> sitting in the mud and hanging out and watching charley starve so i was a bit concerned. but he's all righ

charlie gasparino, he broke the news, the s.e.c. is formally investigating elon musk's statements. he's back on the phone with us again. charlie, repeat your news and its significance, please. >> it's simply this. this is not just some informal look under the hood sort of thing by the s.e.c. they are formally investigating the company, the statements made by the ceo, elon musk, regarding going private, because it looks like, and we can say it looks like, his statement that he had funding secured was not accurate. and under every securities law there is known to mankind, putting out a statement like he did on twitter that's materially false is a major problem for the company. now, here's the point i was trying to make before. this is the dilemma the s.e.c. finds itself in. if they get rid of -- if somehow they ding musk or if they ban him from the securities business or prevent him from being an owner, director of a company, or director or executive of a company, that's going to materially impact tesla and the stock, and will hurt investors. so they know -- the s.e.c. knows that on one hand they have a pretty strong case against him. it's obvious that the statement was not accurate. i mean, the funding is not secured. we know that right now. he's all but admitted that on one hand. on the other hand, you know, doing something to musk will hurt investors, will prevent the company maybe from going private. it will be a big, big issue. so that's what they are weighing, you know. you go back in history to arthur anderson, remember when they put arthur anderson out of business? the s.e.c., that established a precedent. that hurt jobs. that's one thing they don't like doing. stuart: charliethis program, tesla's stock was down $9. now it's down $13, $14. charlie, great story. thank you very much. you said earlier musk is finished. >> i think so. the s.e.c. is going to come after him hard. may take a little while because their investigations take a little time to roll out. it's going to be problematic. if that is the case, ultimately he will have to take the company private in order for him to remain at the company. otherwise if he's becoming executive of a public company, he's out. it's going to hit the stock. stuart: who will give him the money to go private, i should say, at $420 a share? >> charles is correct. he won't accept $420 but certain shareholders will. it's got to be someone who is really more interested i think in the energy part of this business than the car part. liz: he needs $25 billion, right? if you consider musk's ownership stake is $20 billion or so, that brings it to $50 billion. let me back up. when he made that tweet, when he said funding is secure

charlie gasparino is here. as well as "bullseye brief" founder adam johnson. good to talk to both of you. charlie, i am going to start with you. i want to understand perhaps what his rationale is here. >> let's give a little context, sorry, i have a little bit of a cold here. what his rationale his, over the last three or four months, elon musk has been in a massive, knock-down drag-out fight with shorts and certain reporters he believes are, kind of in bed with the shorts and promoting their line about tesla, namely, negative stories how brakes don't work and certain models are being delayed and just all -- look this up. his, the main sort of two, i guess targets of his ire has been jim chanos, famous short seller, man i know very well, annette lopez a business reporter. trish: yeah, sure. >> i am full disclosure, friend with both of them. trish: likewise myself. >> very high integrity. he has been in battle with both those folks and others over their negative coverage of tesla. generally when you face the negative coverage there is always talk about taking the company private, why is that? publicly-traded company. its stock will be going all over the place. if you can find someone that believes in its future, maybe you can fix it, fix the company in private and then resell the shares at some later date at a higher price. that is the theory here. we have to find out, who is unanswered questions here. who will back this up. trish: he said he secured the funding. >> said he secured. saudi aramco or saudi wealth fund. maybe your guest knows this they're pretty much intertwined with each other. saudi aramco was going public. one of the reasons why it was thinking going public, it postponed or curtailed for indefinite period of time, one of the reasons it wanted to diverse away from oil, right? it wanted information. trish: would be diversification away from oil for sure. let me bring adam johnson into the conversation. i guess this would stick it to jim chanos and the shorts when he talking about privatization at 420? >> certainly sticks it to anyone who is trying to play the short side. that is interesting narrative, trish, charlieing me by the way. interesting narrative amongst the hedge fund community, that tesla became shortable when elon musk freaked out to use the word going around on the street at the analysts on the earnings call that happened, you know, a couple months ago. if you're buying tesla, you're not necessarily buying cash flow. they don't have much of that. you're not necessarily buying visibility. they don't have much of that. you're buying elon musk. the fact that he did what he did on the call, then followed up with some crazy tweets out of thailand suggested that elon might have lost the touch. that is why the hedge funds have been short, whether chanos or anybody else. from my point of view musk is saying you know what, i don't need this anymore? i don't want to have to explain myself to the public every three months. you know, it makes all the sense he would try to do this. >> i agree with your end point, but i want to make it clear with chanos, i have been following this, i know jim a li

charlie. good morning. james, it is charlie. good morning. you know you were talking about the talent there is now. some people who just can't watch rowing on big occasions, and i would include myself in that, are coming back to the times when you add sir steve redgrave when in a boat together, the bar has been set high. whenever team gb get into a rowing boat now, we think they are going to win, do you think it was your generation that marker, do you think that haunts rowers now to a degree, or is that an incentive? that is a really good question, charliehine in the gym or on the water, they are far faster than my generation or steve's generation were, so they know they are better athletes. the one big change, and this is a good thing for british sport, if you remember back to atla nta sport, if you remember back to atlanta in 1986, we only won one gold medal at the olympics, and it was in rowing, so rowing event became a very high—profile live export, whereas you think in atlanta we had two guys come back with gold medals, steve redgrave and matthew pinsent, and in rio in 2016, we had 60 athletes come back with a gold medal, so every sport has raised its level, and therefore most stars are going to shine particularly bright in any one sport, because medals are two a penny. it is a success that just continues, doesn't it? james, what is this idea about a tree and skewering the spectators at the strathclyde rowing lake? —— obscuring the view for the spectators. it seems a very strange place to put a grandstand. in fairness, the tree was

charlie has epilepsy. >> the oil is legal where charlie lives but not where these family lives. >> i look to see when my daughter's lips are blue and i look for the rise and fall of her chest at 14. >>> now, these parents are fighting to make this oil legal and we're with them every step of the way. >> anybody say well, that's crazy, because it is never going to happen. >> you say marijuana and they are like -- >> how much are they willing to gamble? >> if i have to choose between losing my job or losing my kid, what would any mother do? >> the promise. >> this is what you give up when you use cannabis. >> we don't know the potential sigh side effects. >> it is awesome, i don't feel like a monster anymore. >> one kid one day of no suffering is worth it. >>> hello and welcome to "date line" should medical marijuana be legal? does it work. for doctors it is about the science and for lawmaker it is is about politics and the families you are going to meet it is simpler. it is about their children. here is harry smith with "growing hope." >> three mothers and their children t. is 2015 and on this winter day in virginia, they have a big hill to climb. each child is desperately ill, each has a form of epilepsy. >> no one else i knew had a kid with seizures this bad. >> they have an army of specialists and doctors. >> a year of huge emotional stress on our family. >> these women believe that there is something that might help. something illegal in virginia. an oil extracted from marijuana. >> what is your hope for medical marijuana? >> to meet our daughter. to meet who she really is. >> to make that happen, these families would attempt to do something they've been told was impossible. change a law that has stood for decades. we'll follow them on a remarkable journey through halls of government and to the rocky mountains where people with all sorts of illnesses are seeking help. these people, marijuana isn't about getting high. it's about getting well. >> give kisses. okay. that's enough. there we go. >> lisa and bobby smith were elated when their daughter haley arrived on august 20th 20000. she was the perfect little baby, or so they thought. >> her first seizure was when she was five months told. >> up until that point? >> normal and happy and developmentally right an track. she was my first child so i could have had blinders. >> her seizures happened often. >> we didn't know what was wrong the first seven years. >> over the years. haley's mystery only deepened. and she was eventually diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy that can be fatal. treating it is a challenge. epilepsy drugs don't work and can do more harm than good. >> she was in the emergency room every week from january to april in 2005. that's not exaggerating. >> by 2012, haley was a teenager and the seizures was getting worst. >> she was having 300 seizures a year was okay. >> 300? >> you know nobody can comprehend that? >> i know. >> all of those seizures took a toll on lisa raising and home schooling twin boys and bobby trying to make a living as a contractor and supporting his family. >> what else starts with an h? >> hat. >> lisa stumbled upon a most unconventional treatment. she found a mom in colorado who said march juan worked wonders. >> -- she was diagnosed as a toddler. >> she was an seven daily seizure drugs and failed every drug at two years old as well. >> charlotte was so sick, she was in hospice care. her husband was a green -- deemployeed for much of the time. >> paige felt alone. >> i hit rock bottom with her. the hospital said there is nothing left. there is nothing left to do. we're sorry. go home and deal with it at home. >> when they tell you go home, are they saying go home and watch your child die? >> i brought her home and my husband had to sign a do not resuscitate. >> every night i was praying for her to die because it was so bad to watch her suffering. and she didn't t is hard for manyme to admit that. the only way for it to stop was for her to pass away? her sleep. >> paige didn't give up. she kept looking. she and matt found online reports that the seizures disappeared when given marijuana. >> i got her a red card and two doctors for medical marijuana and started looking into it. her especially leptologist gave me the go ahead. >> oils made from a cannabis plant. a nonpsycho active element in marijuana seemed to be effective in reducing seizures. >> paige was in touch with a grower and together they -- >> she is on oxygen and a feeding tube and i put it in the feeding tube, in a measured amount and a low dose to see if it would work. she didn't seizure for seven days. >> she was having 300 seizures a week and you think she is going to die and you introduce this for the very first time and it just stops. >> yep. her seizures stops and she didn't have a side effect. that was then. >> where are you going? >> up the trail? >> this is her after being on the oil. that squeal of joy was from the 8-year-old charlotte speeding through pine trees of colorado. reading this gave her new hope and cause for concern. the use of marijuana as a medicine made her family uncomfortable. yet, the benefits seemed to outweigh the stigma. pot isn't legal in virginia. the big question is should we uproot the family and move. >> so what did you do? >> we chose to fight. >> mentally is a smith would have to get the virginia general assembly to change what they thought about marijuana and she knew she couldn't do it alone. >> at age 14, she has nothing left. if she was was your child, what would you do? >> can they change minds and the law? >> coming up. did anybody say well that's crazy because it's never going to happen? >> yes. all of the outsiders said no way. you say marijuana and they are like. >> when dateline continues. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that's very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. now that you know the truth, are you in good hands? with advil liqui-gels, what bad shoulder? what headache? advil is relief that's fast strength that lasts you'll ask... what pain? with advil liqui-gels ♪ protect your pet with the #1 name in flea and tick protection. frontline plus. trusted by vets for nearly 20 years. > for 14 years, lisa and bobby smith have cared for their daughter, haley, who suffers from a confounding form of epilepsy. over time, they have connected with other families in virginia with similar stories. in 2014, some of these families finally met in person at a seminar to learn how to lobby their state government. together, they decided to do something audacious, convince the state legislature to make legal room for a very specific medical marijuana. >> if it was just a matter of getting the oil for the children, health-wise, everybody is on board with that. >> we are from fairfax, virginia. >> reporter: this was the core group, beth and patrick collins and their daughter, jennifer, who suffers from jeavons syndrome, another extreme form of epilepsy. >> and jennifer has a statement, but she is a little nervous, so i'm going to read it for her. >> we came down to the capitol today to lobby for medical marijuana. >> reporter: rounding out the group, theresa elder, her daughter, ashley, and her son, tommy, now 22. he wasn't supposed to make it to his third birthday. the hope for all these families was that an oil extracted from a marijuana plant might help when all other medications had failed. so you, as a group, get together and say well, we have got to get the law changed in virginia. >> right. >> did anybody say, well, that's crazy, 'cause it's never gonna happen? >> outsiders. >> oh, yeah, all the outsiders said, no way, it will never happen. >> and why? >> because it's the m-word. you can be in there talking to someone, legislator, delegate, senator and they say, oh, hi, you know, what's your name, blah black you're talking and you say "marijuana" and you can see the reaction change. >> reporter: changing the law in virginia is critical for theresa and her son, tommy, because -- >> as soon as tommy doesn't become a resident of virginia, he loses all the services that i fought 22 years to get. >> reporter: services tommy can't live without. >> like he has home nursing. now that's an adult, he qualifies for medicaid. when your bills are between $500,000 and $600,000 a year, that's loalot lot. >> reporter: so the virginia families' fight begins. on this day, they cram into a crowded hearing room, nervous, but determined to begin the long process of changing the minds and hearts of these lawmakers. the families are not asking to legalize marijuana in the state, but they are asking for permission to use cannabis-based oils that have shown promise in treating epilepsy. republican speaker of the house, james howell, listened to thw m parents in a meeting but was far from optimistic. >> please don't hold out any great hopes. it is a tough thing. i don't want to set up any false aspirations. >> no. no. >> reporter: a new law would have to pass both chambers of the virginia legislature. this is the first step, a committee hearing. the proceedings begin with state senator dave marsden explaining the bill he is introducing. >> virginians shouldn't have to become medical refugees from their homes and live in other states. if you would, if could you introduce yourself. >> reporter: then, it's the families' turn. >> my name is beth collins and this is our youngest daughter, jennifer. she was going to testify, but she is not feeling well today. we had exhausted all other treatments. the side effects of her medication included rages, cognitive functioning issues -- excuse me. this was not the happy-go-lucky child i once knew. >> reporter: before beth collins can finish testifying, it happens, right there in the hearing room, haley has a seizure. lisa struggles to stabilize her daughter and tries to regain her composure. she still wants to speak to the lawmakers. >> this is lisa smith. >> reporter: she collects her thoughts and she steps to the microphone. >> this is -- this is normal for me. this is daily for me. it's been stated we don't know the long-term effects of medical marijuana. but i can tell you, i know the long-term effect of uncontrolled seizures. it will be cognitive decline and premature death. i look to see if my daughter's lips are blue. i watch her when she sleeps. i look for the rise and fall of her chest. at 14, that's not what we do. so, i ask you, i beseech you, please allow this to come out of committee. >> reporter: finally, it is theresa elder's turn to speak, she doesn't say much, but what she says comes straight from the heart. >> so, let me leave with you this, if i come back here next january, it's very probable i will come by yourself and you'll recognize me if i have an empty stroller, this very testimony will come flooding back to you. please, help us help our children. thank you very much. >> reporter: just seven days later, tommy would be rushed to the icu and put on life support. for theresa, and the other families, the stakes comment be higher. be higheo be higheu be highel be highed t be higher. >>> coming up, help from a higher power? >> i started to realize there's absolutely nothing that's unchristian about helping people with a plant. >> meet the remarkable stanley brothers, when "dateline" continues. fruits and veggies are essential to your health, but it's tough to get enough of their nutrients. new one a day with nature's medley is the only complete multivitamin with antioxidants from one total serving of fruits and veggies try new one a day with nature's medley. >>> good job. >> reporter: seven short days after theresa elder told the virginia lawmakers her son was running out of time, tommy elder was overcome by a powerful seizure. his sister, ashley, says it's never easy for her brother. >> sometimes, he will come up to you and just give you this look, like, hey, i'm about to have a seizure and i will, like, grab on to you. and then sometimes, he will kind of yell out as he is going into it and you just hear this big, you know, grunt or yell while he is going into his convulsions. it's pretty scary. >> reporter: this seizure lasted almost an hour. it was so severe, tommy was rushed to the icu. he went into respiratory failure. his lung collapse and the seizures continued.d and the seizures continued. seizures continued. his mother captured one on camera. theresa sat by tommy's bedside day and night as doctors work to stabilize him. this was the 39th time in his life that tommy needed life support. theresa and the other virginia families were now more focused than ever, but as the legislation that they believed would help their children made its way through the virginia general assembly, lawmakers continued to ask whether there was proof the oils even worked. the old hippocratic oath said, "first, do no harm." we seem to have abandoned that and replaced it with, "first, do something." >> reporter: to try to find the answer, we went to colorado. medicinal and recreational pot are legal here and because of that, the state has become something of a new force, with people flocking here for cannabis-based cures. >> the main character of this beautifully written novel are the stanleys. i would like them to step forward. >> reporter: in the middle of it all are the stanley brothers, all six of them. [ applause ] the brothers' story begins small in a personal way. they had begun to legally grow medical marijuana and gave some to a cousin dying from cancer. >> really prolonged his life and gave him a better quality of life. i mean, the doctors pretty much told them, go home. >> get ready to die? >> yeah. >> reporter: but it was another patient who transformed the brothers' mission, for it was joel stanley who brought page figgy the marijuana that was just right for her epileptic daughter, charlotte. >> we had what she was looking for. a non-psychoactive type of plant. and i went to her house and i started talking to her and charlotte had two seizures right there within the first hour of us sitting down, talking. so, this became very real, but it became a very difficult question. will you make something for my child who is already very sick? >> reporter: charlotte figgy was the first person to get the oil the brothers made. >> what are you going to watch on here? >> reporter: page says it stopped her daughter's seizures. >> say i want minehaha please. >> i want minehaha. yeah. >> reporter: now, having hired botanists and scientists and built a lab, on a large scale, they are making the very oils they want to give the children. they named the first oil after their first user. it's called "charlotte's web." the oil was so effective, the figgys eventually took charlotte off of all of her meds and to this day, charlotte's web is all she takes. >> we just do that in the morning and the night and that's all charlieeeds. >> you have to indulge me on this. did anybody think it is a miracle? >> i still think it is. and then another one happens every day. >> so you're from this big family. evangelical christians, right? was there a part of whatever moral tuning fork is inside you to say this is a non-starter? >> a lot of evangelical families produce rebels? i mean, i was all about it. >> once i started to look into it i started to realize there's absolutely nothing that's unchristian about helping people with a plant. >> reporter: the brothers say the oil is now helping hundreds of other children with epilepsy. the does, $250 a bottle. it lasts two months. >> i wanted to have some kids come up. we are gonna plant this flower. >> reporter: a number of the families who come to colorado seeking help wiped up at the realm of caring, a support group the stanleys helped establish. heather jackson runs realm of d realm of caring, a support group the stanleys helped establish. heather jackson runs realm od

charlie gasparino in the chair as well. charlie, weigh in here, he said $420 would be at the share he'd like to take it private. >> yeah, this is like one of the more bizarre trading days i've seen in a long time. liz: historic even. >> historic and biz art way this thing unfolded. i've been talking to the shorts, take it for what it's worth. they're getting crushed here. they're trying to call bs on the trading on this stock. here's the thing, they're going to say a story leaks in the ft that says something about saudi wealth fund may be buying between 3 and 5%, shares start spiking. might have been spiking before then and guess what? the ceo of the company announces that he's going private, and in between there you have an interesting run-up. now was that run-up based on the saudi arabian thing or based on someone might possibly be leaking that the saudis are getting in as they're going private. i am telling you these are the questions that the shorts are raising, probably going to raise it with regulators in the next couple days. they're also going to raise the fact the way this thing was disclosed. twitter and elon musk, elon musk must be followed by 20 million people. liz: the stock is up 12%. >> how many people follow elon musk? generally when companies release this type of announcement, michael dell is the last major company that i remember going private in this way. liz: he's got 22.3 million followers. >> usually do it through a press release put on the website so everybody in the world can see it. obviously if the sec thinks there's an issue with fair disclosure, that's one of the disclosure rules that say everybody must get the information at the same time. i think what elon musk's lawyers would say listen this guy is widely known. liz: can we take a shot on the computer. we've got the blog that he had said he would now post, and the company now has a taking tesla private blog. we're going to take a shot of this for you. >> that's what this have been -- the problem with that, liz, is that what i think people might say and it's already getting out there is that is what should have been put out immediately. not his tweet. again, he goes to 20 million people, not his tweet. liz: but charliesing market drama. >> no, no, no, this is huge. you cannot selectively disclose a story like this, a corporate action like this. liz: here's the e-mail that they sent. >> i don't care, they should have sent this out on the website immediately. now, he's obviously going to argue that my twitter page is as big as donald trump's, everybody pays attention to, it it's a disclosure mechanism. that's not how do you it. he's going to get flack to that. liz: following an e-mail he sent to tesla employees. i announced i am considering taking tesla private, $420 a share. i wanted to let you know my rationale and why i think this is the best path forward. final decision not made yet. >> that's what he's saying now. liz: yep on, this blog. i believe we're at our best when everyone is focused on executing when we can remain focused on long-term mission and when there are not perverse incentives for people to harm what we're doing to achieve. let us not forget, folks, elon musk accused a former emplo

charlie sykes, contributing editor for the standard. charlie, you know republican politics had. you heard anna and sahil talk about the political implications nationally of this. what's your view? >> this is the problem for republicans, they have a swamp problem. this is one of donald trump's most effective lines, he's going to drain the swamp. but think about the collection of sleaze that we are now learning about, not just members of congress, but of course the ongoing manafort trial. and i think that the longer this goes on, the more of a cloud that it's going to put not just over this congressman, but over republicans in general. you have this sort of, you know, corruption and insider dealing and swampy behavior. so i do think this is going to have national implications. >> what do you think the president's reaction's going to be, charlie? because remember chris collins was somebody who -- and i remember from covering donald trump as a candidate on the campaign didn't have a lot of support from what you might call establishment republicans or anybody inside the beltway. but chris collins changed that. he came out and backed the president, he endorsed him when it seemed like not a lot of other people would or were at the time. you've got to imagine president trump sitting in somerset county not too far from where we are right now on his so-called working vacation perhaps watching cable news, perhaps seeing the coverage of chris collins' arrest might have something to say. >> yes, well, under normal circumstances the president of the united states should have nothing to say about an ongoing criminal investigation, but these are not normal times, this is not a normal president, and i think that it would be more surprising if, in fact, the president exercise presidential restraint. so i don't think anybody will be surprise