so that attitude, he made dave portnoy a legacy threat to media organizations and they truly hate himo destroy his life. they dispatched a robot reporter to snoop around in portnoy's life. they did not find anything illegal or surprising, but they tried their best to humiliate him. now they're harassing his advertisers. the question is, can the business insider whoever it is succeeding killing dave portnoy. that's a question anybody is interested in free speech should care about. up to answer, we invited dave portnoy to join us tonight and grateful that he has. thank you for coming on. i guess the rules are, they do not like your posture, the college of your gym, that attitude, you do not take orders so they send some little robot to sneak around in your personal life, don't find anything illegal, but parens all the stuff anonymously about your life and try to destroy you? these are the rules now? >> eight months, i've heard about this they've had it in the works for eight months. people i didn't even no, people who talked about me, every single person that asked me this reporter reac

dave portnoy was in the cross-hairs this week. publications around wrote a hit piece insinuating that one of his sexual encounters crossed the line. portnoy who is not married was smeared or a manufactured scandal. while portnoy was asking for fair treatment, business insider was work to pull away his advertisers. he's a major player in the media sports and betting world. because he had loyalty, facts and a platform to present them, he survived the kill shot. >> if anybody looked at the facts of this case, you will realize there is nothing there. i got accused of rape. that's as horrific a crime as you can be convicted of. and accused of. i got accused with it so far two sources i was able to disprove in three days. jesse: he laid out text messages and videos blowing gaping holes in the hit piece. but not everybody is fortunate to be in that position so that's why these episodes can be so scary. what did you learn this week about the media? >> it was actually scary. i already knew a lot of people didn't like me. you hear the term f

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. >> pooling back 30%, was it that substantial because of headline more is regarding dave portnoy.w do you feel, would you go to a shopping mall to get fresh amc layered popcorn, home to live reopening kiosks to sell their own goods and popcorn is probably the headliner of all the products. stuart: i wasn't aware popcorn was so popular. >> would you go - not my favorite. >> more cost-effective. stuart: i have a lot of important stuff to jam in to it. it is up $5. >> the 737 max. >> the s&p winners. >> the s&p. >> nasdaq winners. >> booking holdings. another 5% rally. stuart: we are 10 minutes into the trading session, new highs across the board, the nasdaq and s&p down, quite a friday. next case, senator lindsey graham not mincing words. here's his warning for democrats after tuesday's elections. >> any democrat who claims to be a moderate, if you vote for the socialist spending package tonight you will get beat and you deserve it. stuart: will it derail speaker pelosi and the squad from ramming through trillions and spending? the white house doing damage control after denying paym

the ceo was talking about the importance of diversity in governance there's an article about dave portnoy'seged sexual encounters and he denied the allegations and he blamed quote/unquote cancel culture for a hit piece he said. portnoy is central to the brand. and penn ceo talked about portnoy on the call and had him doing the promotions in the earnings slide deck and a controversial character and investors may now see him as a bit of a brand risk so if you had 10% drop in the share price for the earnings report you got another 10% drop or so because of the news about portnoy. sara, wilf >> thank you down 18%. >>> hi, sue. >> hello great to see you good afternoon, everyone covid cases and hospitalizations are rising sharply in europe up 55% over the past 4 weeks the world health organization calls that surge a warning shot for other regions of the world in belgium hospitalizations have reached levels last seen in october of last year just before a fall loktd officials say almost all of the people in icus have not been vaccinated. >>> jenna ryan has been sentenced to 60 days in prison for pa

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think about all last year it was up to dave portnoy to raise money for many small businesses who wereg yet our government has $450,000 to hand out to people who broke our law? it is just obscene. will: walk through this, you made the point yesterday, rachel. walk through this logically. it is sad whenever a parent is separated from their child. it is a sad situation. the question becomes does that make the trump administration, larger, america culpable for that sadness? so joe biden anger suggest the answer is yes. so you pointed this out yesterday, there are american criminals who commit crimes and are separated from their children every day. every day. that is sad. that is objectively sad. whose fault is that? is that the american government, the prosecutors and local counties, states who separated the parent and child, is that their fault, must pay a fine or criminal's fault committing a crime doing something forcing separation from your child. the point i'm getting at, this is the part that becomes political, ultimately the debate lies. illegal immigration is a crime. if you commi