ok chris hedges was booted from the new york times after coming out against the iraq war a jolt was sidelined at emmaus n.b.c. after speaking up a lot about the transpacific partnership which was largely considered a global corporate takeover and he was the only one talking about it on that network governor jesse ventura had a major new show with m.s. n.b.c. set to go set ren ready to start for the iraq war began but then they found out he's opposed to war. and this is true they asked him if he could change his mind on that excuse just jesse oh you for actually going on the whole let's not kill a million innocent people under false pretenses. kenya kenya flippity property on that he said no and they paid him like a million dollars to get out of his contract they paid a million dollars just to make him go away they will. i mean honestly i would love to be got annoying i'd say. that's where the real money is the annoyance is going to go right back you can see i just fire fire fire big guys of a nuisance to m.s.n. p.c. as you were like happen tonio also now on r t america called out a major corp

or convincing arguments against what we're saying so they just attack where we're saying it as chris hedges put it the ruling elise to grasp the reigning ideology of global corporate capitalism and imperial expansion no longer has moral or intellectual credibility have mounted a campaign to shut down the platforms given to their critics the attacks within this campaign include blacklisting censorship and slandering dissidents and considering they've done all of that to us i have one question. what happened to the honey pots they used to also throw honeypot to dissidents sexy right sexy ladies who would try to get you into a compromising position. what's a disadvantage trying to get. i'm. ready to compromise the corporate oligarchy knows they have no solutions for everyone struggling across america look at flint michigan look at puerto rico look at west virginia we have they have no answers for the people chris hedges said this ideological collapse of the united states has transformed those of us who attack the corporate state into a potent threat because the elites no longer have a plausibl

against our military industrial complex or our corporate state or the bank own fold democracy ok chris hedges was booted from the new york times after coming out against the iraq war a jolt was sidelined at emmaus n.b.c. after speaking up a lot about the transpacific partnership which was largely considered a global corporate takeover and he was the only one talking about it on that network governor jesse ventura had a major new show with imus n.b.c. set to go set ren ready to start for the iraq war began but then they found out he's opposed to war. and this is true they asked him if he could change his mind on that excuse just geneseo you for that simple on the whole let's not kill a million innocent people under false pretenses. kenya kenya flippity property on that he said no and they paid him like a million dollars to get out of his contract they paid him.

giving a platform to voices like myself, or abby martin, the former host of breaking the set, or chris hedgeswho hosts an emmy-nominated show for audit . the former middle east bureau chief of "the new york times." this is an unprecedented step, an attack on press freedom, and we are hearing complete silence from the mainstream media, which is pushing this campaign of hysteria. >> tucker: to me that is the remarkable part of this, because reporters have, and i think it's noble most of the time, this reflective instinct to defend the right of news organizations to say what they want. but not in this case. i just don't understand, where was the committee to protect journalism on this? >> during the obama era, i think it was robert gibbs, his press secretary, he said fox news is not a real news organization. jake tapper stood up in the white house press gallery and said no, fox news is our sister organization, we must defend it, but jake tapper has been driving the campaign against rt america, basically inciting against its american employees and we see this from cnn and msnbc with no content an

chris. that's a hedge. >> of course. that's a band-aid. >> there's not a trial.here will not be a fact finding. that's a hedge. it would make perfect sense. but isn't he fundamentally compromised on this, chris cillizza? people are going to jump on his head about the women who came out about him. >> it's dicey, much dicier than it would be for a different president, yes. i'm not sure that that prevents donald trump from doing it. he does lots of stuff like that where you think ooh, this could be politically fraught. it makes it more difficult. i think it does make it harder for him to speak from a position of moral authority on that. to david's point about these cross currents, donald trump doesn't love mitch mcconnell but he needs him, right? he needs him on taxes, tax reform and tax cuts. he need thes the rank and file senators on tax cuts. by the time donald trump lands tomorrow in washington, you're going to see a majority of the republican senate conference. donald trump needs those folks. does he need to say something? to your point, chris, does him saying

despite host chris cuomo's prompting, ball continued to hedge on thanking trump. >> why won't you sayank you to the president? >> it doesn't make -- well, if somebody does something for you then you say thank you. >> somebody did something for you. say thank you. >> okay. i would say thank you if he would have put them on his plane and took them home. there's a lot of room on that plane. >> earlier this week trump lashed out against ball on twitter calling him unaccepting and saying he should have left the player's son in jail. >>> pop star gwen stefani lights up new york city just noom n. time for the holidays. she flipped the switch to symbolically light the empire state building with the holiday colors of red, green and gold on monday. the kickoff to the holiday season is also promotion for the empire state building's holiday lights show. the building lights will change color to the rhythm of zwep stefani's new song "you make it feel like christmas." her first holiday album titled by the same name also includes a duet with her current boyfriend blake shelton. >> too cute. can't tak

. >> chris, isn't even active using passive investments to hedge their portfolios so you get a double whammy where they're worried about those single stock blowups so they wind up buying the passive vehicle. >> of course that's a terrible hedge. >> right >> i think you're right. but chris, you also use the metaphor of qe isn't this a function, isn't this passive generation all because of qe? you've had a central bank put. you take that away, i think this whole thing changes dramatically >> what we say in the back half of '18, we think the market will become a lot more discriminating, because you have the e wcb, you have the fed, th boe, all taking back accommodation. at this point in time the market should become more discriminating, focus on people who are better allocators. >> this is really a short term call you're making in terms of the impact on the markets. not for us on "fast money," but in general, saying things will change in the back half of '18 >> right >> you're seven months away. >> so what we're saying is, everything is expensive at this point in time. you look at the te

chris, thank you. carol: the hedgeund titan behind steve bannon may not be finished with politics. julia: unions see a rise in allegations of sexual harassment. carol: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." julia: you can find us online at businessweek.com and the mobile app. carol: billionaire robert mercer is known for bankrolling the nationalist movement that elected president trump. julia: he may now be listening himself to be even more politically active. zach: mercer is the co-chief executive officer of renaissance technologies, the most profitable hedge fund in the history of the world. he is also kind of the financier behind this brand of insurgent republican nationalist insurgency that propelled donald trump to the presidency last year. carol: he was involved with steve bannon and breitbart big-time? zach: he met bannon in 2011 and has been his atm for various projects. he pushed it in a populist, nationalist direction. mercer basically bailed out breitbart news wh

chris, thank you. fund titane hedge behind steve bannon may not be finished with politics. julia: plus allegations of , sexual harassment. carol: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm carol massar are. : i'm julie chatterley. you can find us online at businessweek.com. carol: and on the mobile app. in the politics section, billionaire mega-donor robert mercer is known for bankrolling the nationalist movement that elected donald trump. julia: he is positioning himself to be even more politically active. >> robert mercer is the officer ofecutive renaissance technologies, perhaps the most profitable hedge fund in the history of the world. financer also the behind this brand of kind of insurgent republican nationalist insurgency that propelled donald trump to the presidency last year. carroll: and specifically, he is involved with steve bannon and breitbart. big-time. >> that's right. he has been bannon's atm for his projects. to take over the republican party, push it in a populist, nationalist direction. mercer basically ba

erik: hedge funds, right? chris: correct. it is a basket of different strategies. it is not.people would say long bonds are a lousy investment. drop around the world, what is the one thing that goes up? the 30-year u.s. bond. it is a hedge against the rest of the portfolio for us. we do have what some people call hedge fund strategies. we do not think hedge funds are an asset class. we are very specific about a couple of strategies that are structured similar to hedge funds, but even some of them we will employ passive strategies to replicate what they are trying to do. you are building a portfolio. as a long-term investor, you can invest in strategies that are not daily valued, that go around the world, and seek out returns that are the opposite, or not as correlated to the u.s. stock market. erik: so, to the degree you are looking for things -- you are looking for more risk mitigation, looking for more real estate, where are you finding it? who is offering attractive solutions? lot is attractive. we are actually finding it outside of the united states. we have a team lookin

but they have a problem here, chris cillizza, which is it's not a balancing. it's a hedge. a balancing is where you compare equities, values of the two candidates. that's not what they're doing. they want the seat. so, just as we see this alleged morality about who we are and america first, it is absent when it comes to roy moore. the president will take on lavar ball. he will not take on roy moore. >> yeah. >> because they want the seat. they should vet doug jones, criticize doug jones, make the issues there. but to ignore what's going on with roy moore is as obvious as it is political. >> right. i think in the open you played sarah huckabee sanders saying the people of alabama will decide. if donald trump were willing to say something, which candidly he should. if he were to say something about the race, that's what he should say. i'm not going to get in front of the people of alabama, which is not leadership, but that's a different thing. i may disagree with you a little, chris. i actually think that this is her sort of, you know, acknowledging the tribalism that rules o

chris. these dealings, these relationships were his. so it's not like this was part of some activity within the campaign. that's why i'm hedging. they may have him on something. at least on reporting of income he may have some legal issues. but people are making a leap on the political side because he may know something about the president or somebody else. that's not necessarily so. >> i think you're absolutely right. and i think people make that leap because general flynn, as he was national security adviser to the president for 24 days, that's a heavy duty powerful insider role. >> and for a long time before that. >> absolutely. >> and also we know flynn was dealing with turkish authorities as part of the business flynn intel. a lot of things that suggest this guy could have relevant inside information that would implicate a lot of people. once again we're speculating here. >> i got you. while we have you, let me run the numbers by you. feel free to shoot it down. but we made a graphic. >> it's a nice graphic. >> just the numbers. the numbers are impressive. you tell me if they are not to you. 12 associates had contacts with

reporter: she admitted that on the morning of the murder she picked up chris and drove him to her house on hot springs drive. she just hedgede reason. >> the implied reason was he was going to go next door. >> to kay's house to do what? >> we didn't talk about it. it was an implied reason, he was going to go to kay's house to -- >> -- because he was going, in his mind, to do whatever it took to make me happy. >> and -- >> and that would be to get rid of kay. >> so she's the puppeteer, putting all of these things in place for him to be tempted and act on it. >> she's pullin' all the strings. >> "i'm not saying do this, but you and i both know what you're supposed to do here." >> yes. >> reporter: in her interview becky continued to insist she didn't know what happened in kay's house, that is, not until chris called her later that morning and asked for another ride. >> when he got in the vehicle, could you see blood on his clothes and stuff? >> i didn't see any blood on his clothes, but he had blood on his -- i think he had blood on his face. and i asked him, "what did you do?" i said, "oh, my god, what did you do?" and that'

deferrals for hedge funds, and if you want to raise so bee comes -- my rate, it, but don't have an uncompetitive tax system in a competitive world. that is a mistake for america. whalens bring back chrisith us. dimon.y fired up jamie the one line, he's willing to pay higher taxes to get a corporate tax rate of 20%. is he a lone wolf in this camp right now? >> there are a lot of responsible people on wall street who feel the same way. i am delighted to hear him talk about carried interest. is wrong for financial professionals to pretend they are taking risk when they are not. overall i have always liked jamie dimon's take on public policy. he is right about the crisis. the government's behavior was shameful. the way they strong the bondholders was wrong. they did the government of favor, but there you are. >> talking about how he once to get rid of carried interest in deferrals for hedge funds, which the house and senate bill currently does not completely do, even despite the fact that king the campaign president trump said he wanted to drain the swamp so to speak, so do you think these loopholes will derail the tax reform getting done this year? >> it is a strange calculus in washingt