david vitter is still happily serving in the united states senate. anthony weiner, the guy who sent a selfie over twitter resigned from the house of representatives. the question primary voter rs weighing in on tonight in south carolina's first district is does mark sanford get to come back? has he paid off the debt of his disgrace disgrace? and it seems like we should take this moment to ask ourselves if we think he should and to consider what it mean for our political system that this question of redemption does not have a clear answer. joining me, michelle goldberg, betsy woodrough, political reporter for national review online and david axelrod, nbc senior political analyst. great to have you here. >> all right, so, you have been reporting on this race, betsy. i want to play how mark sanford responded to the obvious question that one would be asked under these conditions at a debate when asked about his affair. >> how do you reconcile redemption with the mistrust in your personal decision, which could or may have compromised the state and the par

senator david vitter is leading the charge. we will talk to him, coming up on the "closing bell." but first, plenty of earnings surprising the market so far this week and it's only wednesday. we'll break it all down and find out where the big winners and losers are so far. stay with us on "closing bell." [ female announcer ] it's time for the annual shareholders meeting. ♪ there'll be the usual presentations on research. and development. some new members of the team will be introduced. the chairman emeritus will distribute his usual wisdom. and you? well, you're the chief life officer. you just need the right professional to help you take charge. ♪ >>> welcome back. earnings front and center on wall street. josh lipton president highs and the lowlights. josh? >> hey, there, maria. today and tomorrow, two of the busiest days in this earnings season. let's get you caught up on some big names and how they've been doing. this first column right here, you're looking at companies who boat on the bottom line and the top line. that doesn't necessarily mean you pleased everybody on the str

senator sherrod brown and david vitter joined forces to end too big to fail. the proposal starts a firestorm on wall street. senator vitter joins us next. do you ever have too much money? ♪ . melissa: big banks. senator sherrod brown and david vitter want the biggest banks to raise a lot more capital, extra 500 billion by some estimates. critics argue this will not just break up the banks but also hamper lending and hurt the economy. legendary analyst dick above say -- dick bove says the proposal is anti-american. joining me is senator vitter is. thanks for coming on the show. >> thanks for the invite. melissa: you don't buy the 500 dal billion number, right? >> right. i don't think we have an exact number yet. the concept is not mandatorily breaking up anybody. it is simply having a higher capital requirement for megabanks. three studies in the last nine months have shown that too big to fail is alive and well and it gives megabanks actually market advantage helping them grow even beyond other advantages and dominate the markets. melissa: do you worry about -

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. >> stephen: did you think about guys like david vitter. >> yes. >> stephen: or bill clinton. >> yes stephen: who had heterosexual scandals and maintained their political career and yet you had a homosexual and couldn't maintain your career. is the new gay rights struggle the right to have a gay scandal and remain in politics? >> i think that's probably on the edge of the civil rights -- i don't think it's a pry maury concern right now. >> stephen: jim, we're going to get there. thank you so much jim mcgreevey, "fall to grace" is currently airing on hbo. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: good night,

senator david vitter will be on closing bell today. >> due to cut government spending. .ning us first on cnbc is juniper networks ceo kevin johnson ch johnson. >> you do not expect the government business side to improve any time soon. how do you then counter act that? >> well, as we announced in our earning s yesterday this is the third consecutive quarter. 60% of our business is with service providers. and that business continued to grow. that includes federal government and financial services which are two of the big verticals. we also highlighted the fact that our service provider is starting to pick up. that's a very positive thing. >> our focus is being sure that we are doing the best that we can. federal government, financial services in whatever situation they're in. we continue to be very focused on working closely with federal government customers and help them navigate the customers that they have. that can lead to positive results for us long term. >> let me turn you to the events of yesterday afternoon where we saw that fake twitter tweet go out. twitter had

but like bill clinton david vitter was on a list of men using a im otheoba former south carolina governork sanford who went on a hike ended up in argentina. won his congressional seat. anthony weiner is trying to become one of the come be bk kids. s fan he front himself back int center stage in the new york s ayor. there's a mpb lion of them. i gak the u s ann coulter and k ann, what do you think? t ak s anthoavi wp wnewssstand chan and of coming be bk or sho he come back? should he come back? >> he spent 1 la,0 la dollawssw taolling. he has one question do you think he's a d for showing this? there's one question. s fan you over come that? but the question is short. le believe in second chan ands. and come bam i. the fact is for what purpose? what are you lacking in congress abo ir athe lon gthony weiner. what are we lacking? it is not the apology and rehang rehabpb itation tour. what is the rationale for your candidacy. what do you add? all we are missing is another pewsswon giving us trophy on cae tv. e re> on the other hand one of candidates for may year so far this november 30th o 20

. >> michael: yeah david vitter had prostitutes.cted after that news. >> it's tough because you don't know if it's a real big problem with the public. the media goes crazy, the public is tweeting something else and eating corn flakes as they are judging you as a human being. and vitter just looked the public in the eye, and said i don't care. i'm just staying here. >> michael: now that we see weiner coming back -- every time i say it -- does larry craig have a chance? >> and mark sanford is right around the corner. he is all in in his response. he is like i know i did something wrong. he did his tearful weird apology, and now he is engaged to the woman he was hiking the appalachian trail with in argentina, which i think was a euphemism for something grotty. >> michael: all right. brett thanks so much. i'll see you back here on "the young turks." have a great night everyone. ♪ honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us.

you can be david vitter, and a patron of prostitutes and you're fine if you don't resign or spitzer resigneds out of office. i think sanford tried to do both things. he's now in the middle. he can kind of win, but not as well as he did. >> well, he's going to marry the woman we had the affair to, which makes it more wholesome? >> i think doing well is a relative term here. he's 20 points under water. his favorability rating is in the tank. >> it's a seat the democrat hasn't had for 40 years. >> 119 seats that are more democratic than this one right now. if they -- this race should have never been competitive. the fact that it is competitive, that they have to spend resources there is already a loss for the republican party. >> yeah, i think for sanford, is a vindication he went for authenticity. there are some things that are raw, human and frail about the way he came out and put his heart on his sleeve and said, you know what? i felt in love. for a lot of people around the country, and clearly in that district, they could forgive that. >> the polling among women is on the appalachian trail

johnson mike lee, mitch mcconnell jerry moran, rand paul, pat roberts, marco rubio jeff sessions david vitter, roger wicker. these are guys who had a chance to stop killing now the democrats who decided their senate seats and pensions of nra ratings are not getting primaried are more important than you max baucus, heidi high camp and sorry of the massacring of names. harry reid also voted no only because that means he can bring the vote up again but he gets honorary mention for

they were, you might say, slightly upstaged as republican senators jeb sessions of alabama and david vitterf louisiana organized their news conference detailing opposition to the plan. senator sessions already quoted as saying, quote, he's cold front confident the american public will reject it. a 13-year pathway to documented immigrants, $4.5 billion to help secure u.s./mexico border and new visa programs and high and low skilled workers. and shift immigration policy toward family members. >> this is an example of washington working. if you would have watched the contentious meetings in the room and everyone meeting in the minute. >> congressman grijalva. thank you for your time. >> thank you, tamron. appreciate it. >> part of the strategy is to find the bill quickly, we're going to be open-minded about making it better but this is an all hands on deck-approach. that is the strategy, according to politico, to stop conservative attacks already in place including as we heard with congressman sessions and vitter. >> i think that strategy is appropriate. i think that there are issues with this

david vitter. getting a lot of money. the senate is bought and paid for by the oil and gas industry or it has to go through them or not at all. >> the oil and gas industry has been incredibly effective in lobbying. i'm in favor of the epa regulations, auto emission are a much bigger issue than keystone. but and also it's time for americans to start realizing we have very cheap gas in this country. nobody else pays as little for gas as we do. i mean you know go to europe. and you're paying four times as much as here. and i think that it actually would help not only in terms of you know, the new standards and the emissions right away. but in terms of conservation. >> try telling that to a family that's struggling to make ends meet. living paycheck to paycheck. >> that argument sounds good if you're affluent, but a family struggling is a big problem. >> let's take what you said and what you just said and go back to mary landrieu. i'm going to play devil's advocate for a tiny second which i do a lot. why shouldn't mary landri

and when you've got mary landrieu, louisiana, her fellow representative of louisiana, david vitter, arepublican, so sometimes it's what happens with how voters in a state will judge the two senators who represent them. when they're both from the same party, it can be easier if they cover each other. if they are of different parties in landrieu is in that case, it makes a stark difference for voters. and senators don't go up against each other. but they often will use votes when they face their next opponent of their colleague to be a way to explain how they voted.ç that's a common practice here. so a key one to watch under that is if john tester is a yes, what will max baucus do? will he break with his fellow montanans? >> political cover, thanks for taking the time. >> you bet. in the streets of pyongyang today, north koreans marked the start of a three-day national holiday celebrating the birthday of north korea's first leader, kim il sung. the latest display of patriotic fervor comes as analysts wonder whether the north's leader will seize the moment to make good on threats of a n

david vitter is still a u.s. senator. nathan ryan says the difference between weiner and others like clinton and vitter is that weiner resigned his public office. that makes it tougher to return. >> bill: so did eliot spitzer. >> that's true. karen simply says i love the weiner. thank you very much for your comment. >> bill: oh, here is our roving ambassador, arnold with his finger on the pulse of the american public calling from cincinnati ohio. hello, arnold. >> caller: brother how you doing? >> bill: doing good. what are you doing up north? >> caller: well, i'm sitting over here in the volvo truck facility. my truck broke down last night. >> oh, no! >> caller: yes, yes, yes. it happens every once in awhile. >> bill: we'll send a crew out to help you here. >> caller: oh, no, no. i'm waiting for them to open up the gate. i'm going in to get this truck fixed. >> bill: what do you think? anthony weiner? >> caller: the democrat party is to far left, there are so many guys in democrat party that's always in front of the micro

>> i don't know about david vitter.ord's issue here has always been one of character. the perception on some people's part, i think, a well founded one, he's a little unstable and flaky. watch the campaign he's been running with this debating the cardboard cutout of nancy pelosi. i thought he did a little better last night, actually, than with the cardboard cutout. but nancy pelosi is pretty tough. the phone number business, releasing his phone number. all of that kind of stuff. but, you know, as colbert bush alluded to, she didn't actually talk about the affair, what she mentioned was he left the governor's office without telling anybody where he was going, took taxpayer money and took off for argentina with his girlfriend. now, he alluded to that last night in the debate as something that had happened to him. now, a meteor crashes through your roof. that's something that happens to you. this is an entirely different category. >> you mean mistakes were made? >> the voters of south carolina are left to choose between th

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the measure from republicans david vitter and democrat shared brown would also reportedly toss out the basul 3 rules. banks with more than $400 billion in assets would have to hold 15%. under basul 3, some regulators have called too complicated. dan, if this gets any traction, what does it mean for bank investors? >> well, the first thing you said there is the optist sentence, which is if this gets traction. we're -- i'm not under the impression right now that this is a bill that we should be particularly worried about. it's obviously something to pay attention to, but i don't think that this becomes the force of last right now. but taking a step back from this particular piece of legislation, for financial investors and bank investors more generally, we're living in a period of time or greater fiscal and can government intrusion into their operations. and one thing that we've seen quite clearly is ledgit laters around the world forcing banks to hold more capital and derisk their balance sheets. and whether this particular bill in its current incarnation passes or not doesn't really ma

. >>> coming up tonight on "money," senator david vitter of louisiana joins me to discuss the new brown-vitterquire banks to raise an additional $500 billion in capital. critics say it will break up banks and hurt economic growth. dick bove says it is anti-american. we'll talk about all of it tonight at five p.m. here on fox business. >> business confidence falling after the rising last three months. in. fib chief economist bill dunkelberg weighs in on the shift. he joins tracy byrnes and ashley webster next on fox business. don't miss it. @ ashley: good afternoon, everybody, i'm ashley webster. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes. jcpenney plunged. shares tumbling 11% as investors are totally fed up with the latest disaster at the long-struggling retailer. the company's board ousting ceo ron jon's sonsz and -- johnson, replacing him with the man he replaced mikes ullman. some are calling for the entire board to resign. ashley: job creators losing confidence in the economy. nfib chief economist bill dunkelberg will tell us what small businesses fear the most. that is coming up. tracy: president obama

we have bill clinton, newt gingrich, david vitter caught up in a prostitution scandal, got re-electede appalachian trail and now he'll run against stephen colbert's sister. >> vanessa, i want your opinion. we're thinking in terms of former mayors in new york city -- oh, and we just lost ben. down to three. can we still keep rolling? we have three. let's keep going. vanessa, to you, because we were thinking, we have a picture of a cross-dressing rudy giuliani from some time ago. supposed to be a joke, right? a little kerfuffle, like a political roast. it is new york. not like it is peoria we're talking about. >> right. i mean, you know, politicians have nine lives. we have such a short memory in terms of what they have done in the past, and people have come back from a lot worse things than tweeting out, you know, their indiscretions over the airwaves. i think that if he comes out legitimately humble with policies that the new yorkers believe are strong and can actually help the city, then he might stand a chance. you never know. >> okay. ben ferguson, wherever you are, thanks for join

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i am the first to slam a conservative like david vitter or mark sanford when they do something idioticead of trying to tie it to a group -- >> stephanie: i attack the weaner in my box. >> sorry, what? >> stephanie: anthony weiner. i'm just saying i did. >> and his pick dill lows. >> no wonder he didn't find a man. >> stephanie: exactly. yesterday was george bush libary day. >> the political winds blow left and right, polls rise and fall supporters come and go, but in the end leaders are defined by the convictions they hold. and my deepest conviction the guiding principle of the administration is that the united states of america must strive to expand the reach of freedom. [ applause ] >> stephanie: free doom trademark, george bush. >> i believe that freedom is a gift from god. and the hope of every human heart. >> stephanie: you know what my deepest conviction is that you will go down as the worst president in history. >> whatever challenges come before us, i will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead. [ applause ] >> stephanie: now that you are not in office anymore, that co

david vitter still in the united states senate.ld love to see anthony wiener back in politics. he was a damn good congressman. >> a lot of people have brought up on issues. >> dumb. >> especially during this gun debate. >> that's a voice that democrats really, really missed in filing to get gun control legislation. >> back to mitch mcconnell. back to your calls. maybe this is why mitch mcconnell is taking ashley judd so seriously and they would not have the been having all of this oppo research on her if they did not take her seriously. the politico is reporting mitch mcconnell's popularity has sunk to a new low. he has 36%. 36% of kentucky voters. only 36% approve of his job performance. he's been around too long. people of kentucky have caught on to him. >> people are commenting on twitter @bpshow. paul says mitch mcconnell is saying the left is dirty. if the left is playing dirty exposing my dirty tricks somebody allought to call the whambulance. >> out in joshua tree california, hello, robert. good morning. >> good morning. tha

today on capitol hill, jeff sessions and david vitter spoke against the gang of eight immigration billthe bipartisan bill released today, saying it would amount amnesty if. this is from our earlier today. >>al is good t withou. this is an important event today, i think. i think -- tnk all of you, will be withitter us in a little bit. and thank you for sharing your expertise on these issues. enforcing ball all in the united states is tough. we provide a panoply of rights and privileges to people that come into contact with law enforcement, and just a few loopholes in the procedure can make it frederick -- virtually impossible for these to effectively do what they are asked to do. as these officers will tell you, this administration has aggressively defied federal wall. we can have no confidence in promises of future of law enforcement until the current constitutional role of law is upheld. special2007, the interests were brought in, being engaged behind closed doors, to help write a bill while law enforcement officers, the ones given the duty to make sure the laws complied with, have be

host: let's take a listen to david fitter's -- vitter's criticism. [video clip] >> we're concerned this bill is the same fundamentally flawed model from the past. it is immediate amnesty with promises of enforcement. we have tried that model before. it has failed miserably before. if we all want to solve this problem, not continue it, certainly not to grow it. so we are fundamentally concerned that an immediate amnesty with promises of enforcement grow the problem prevent what happened in 1986. that was the model in the 1986 reform. the promise and then was we will just do this once and we will solve the problem and never have to look back. of course we did not solve the problem. we did not nearly perpetuate the problem. we quadrupled the problem. what was 3 million illegal aliens than is milr 12n host: that was the senator from louisiana critical of the bill. let's hear from a louisiana caller. ruth from lafayette, democrat. caller: hi. theve been listening to prob in boston. hon a person from chechnya be a prominent citizen after only one year? see

up next, jeff sessions and david vitter. this is about 25 minutes. >> all right. it is so good to be with you. this is an important event today, i think. i think all of you for attending. and those who are here to speak in share with you today from senator ve w with us and a little bit. thank you for your knowledge and expertise on these issues. enforcing the law in the united states of any kind is tough. we provide rights and privileges to people that come in contact with law enforcement. just a few loopholes in the procedure can make it virtually impossible to effectively do what they are asked to do. as these officers will tell you on this administration than aggressively defied federal law. we can have no confidence and promises of future law enforcement until the current constitutional rule of law is up help. like in 2007, the special interests were brought in. they have been engaged behind closed doors. they helped write a bill while the law first and officers, the ones giving the duty to make sure the law is complied with, have been shut out as has been the

host: let's take a listen to david vitter's criticism. [video clip] >> we're concerned this bill is the same fundamentally flawed model from the past. it is immediate amnesty with promises of enforcement. we have tried that model before. it has failed miserably before. if we all want to solve this problem, not continue it, certainly not to grow it. so we are fundamentally concerned that an immediate amnesty with promises of enforcement grow the problem prevent what happened in 1986. that was the model in the 1986 reform. the promise and then was we will just do this once and we will solve the problem and never have to look back. of course we did not solve the problem. we did not nearly perpetuate the problem. we quadrupled the problem. what was 3 million illegal aliens than is 11 million or 12 million today. host: that was the senator from louisiana critical of the bill. let's hear from a louisiana caller. ruth from lafayette, democrat. caller: hi. theve been listening to problem in boston. chechnya person from be a prominent citizen only