. >> bob menendez suggest new regulations may be needed to protect consumers but dan mitchell says that will do the opposite. dan, the teeth, the good senator, my senator, from new jersey, says give the fcc more teeth. do we want to give government more teeth? >> we want government to fulfill its proper role which is to help track down the thieves, and then we want the court system, which is part of government to handle any liability issues that arise against target because people lost money. that is the proper role of government. for senator menendez to do a bit of grand-standing here and get himself on tv, which i guess he succeeded with, what does that actually do? we start adding fines on top of the cost that target is already going to suffer? who does that help? doesn't help workers at target. it doesn't help consumers. we'll pay higher prices and dent help target shareholders. so let's just keep government within its proper confines of dealing with this mess. let's not politicize it. >> didn't target happen this the right way? showing the free market can handle their own mess? tar

. >> dan mitchell and david k. johnson, appreciate you joining us to talk about this tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >> switching topics now from the economy and freedom for financial equality for freedom for some of the smartest animals. the non-human rights project filed a habeas corpus suit in an effort to win release from a cage for a 26-year-old chim pans e called tommy. the suit will file for a 26-year-old cheek named kiko and two used in a research lab. the non-human rights project says it plans to file suits on bhaichld of gorillas, champ pansees and elephants, whales and dolphins. for more, i am joined in our new york studio by steven weis, the president of the non-human rights project. i know your group said that chim pans ease are self-aware and ought often muss and to be recognized as legal persons with fundamental rights. what rights should they have? >> right now, they don't have any rights at >> the owner wouldn't live there. worst of all, perhaps, he is by himself. he is in solid area confinement crime. >> the owner said he has tried to put him in a sanction