and gerry ford, navy ensign, went off to war.t two years, the aircraft carrier monterey would take him across 40,000 miles of the pacific. his experience in 10 major battles would change his perception of the world and his nation's place it in. he had seen too much of the world to believe that it would go away or that america could bury her head in the sand. pres. ford: i always felt that i was a moderate to conservative republican. i felt very strongly that the united states had to have an internationalist foreign policy. >> ford, the internationalist, chose a -- for his headquarters in his uphill challenge of isolationist incumbent bartel jonkman. at stake was michigan's fifth district and the future of his party and his country. the red, white, and blue -- caught people's attention, and they listened to the energetic young lawyer and war veteran as he stumped the whole district, taking on the republican establishment. when the votes were counted in november 1948, ford had won the first of 13 terms in congress. and that's not a

ford, there was no transition period. no time to settle into the demanding job. >> when i took the oath of back to the ent oval office, my desk was piled with problems. we had an economic crisis. with our ertainty allies and our adversaries. public trust in the government. i finally came to the conclusion rid of mr. o get ixon's past problems and spend a hundred percent of my time on americanems facing the people as a whole. do that was way to to pardon mr. nixon, get all his of the white house, concentration could be on the economy, diplomatic military problems, including how we could end the vietnam. in there were some in the congress a deal that i had made with mr. nixon in order to become president, and in return, would grant him a pardon. hat was a total inaccurate fabrication. i could put itat on the record under oath was to a request by the house committee on the to go up to capitol hill and lay out the facts. of the e request chairman of that committee, and the chairman of the subcommittee subcommittee, i went up

for gerald ford, there was no transition period.time to settle into the world's most demanding job. >> when i took the oath of office, and went back to the oval office, my desk was piled high with problems. we had an economic crisis. we had uncertainty with our allies and our adversaries. we had a lack of public trust in the government. i finally came to the conclusion that i had to get rid of mr. nixon's past problems and spend a hundred percent of my time on the problems facing the american people as a whole. and the only way to do that was to pardon mr. nixon, get all his problems out of the white house, so that my concentration could be on the economy, diplomatic problems, military problems, including how we could end the conflict in vietnam. there were some in the congress who said that i had made a deal with mr. nixon in order to become president, and in return, i would grant him a pardon. that was a total inaccurate fabrication. the only way that i could put it on the record under oath was to respond to a request by the house

and gerald ford went off to war. for am for two years it took them across the monterey. had seen too much of the world to believe that it would go away or that american could bury her head in the sand. >> i always felt that i was a moderate to conservative republican. i felt very strongly that the united states had to have an internationalist foreign policy. >> he choose a headquarters, at stake was michigan's fifth district and the future of his party and his country. the red, white, and blue office caught people's attention. he took on the republican establishment. when the votes were counted in november 1948, ford won the first of 13 terms in congress. and that's not all he won that year. betty bloomer warren would bring a grace and spirit to the life they would share through the long years of politics. >> from his first day on capitol hill, congressman represented the people's house, he would earn the confidence of five presidents. always his easy and persuasive manner made him a valuable member of the republican team. in 1965 he again took on the establishment. this

i had president ford and mrs. ford seven months in vail -- five months in vail, seven months in palm springs. it was very, very stressful. >> much different with the former president of course. you want to make sure that you no longer have a plane from air force one, so you want to make sure that you have your american airlines mile it card because you're going to spend a lot of time troubling with the former president and mrs. ford, it's a little different, because you are on a public plane. president forward had a great system. he would get on the plane. flying in first class, i had to fly first as well. so he would go on the inside seat. i'd be in the aisle. he'd immediately go to sleep so to speak. people would come by and go you know, they would go by. both he and mrs. ford were just spectacular to work for. and you know, he was great on the golf course. bob hope made jokes about. him bob hope said he was the only president that could play to golf courses simultaneously. [laughs] and the jokes kept going on a

matt: when i was covering ford more closely, i know that bill ford and mark fields at the time had investedf money i think in r&d in silicon valley. i went out there and toured it. it was pretty amazing. i also saw when he of the original gt 40's in the gulf livery. i should have prepared a picture of that because it was amazing. [laughter] they have been doing so much at ford. bill ford was convinced by the sierra club, i think the legend goes, to start doing better for the environment. that is when he got rid of the big excursions that i loved and started getting more into the kind of vika boost engines, and now they are going of course for the full. . ev's mark kaufman -- the full ev's. mark kaufman is still with us, forwards -- still with us, ford's global communication director. i've been very close to the ford family. i wonder what is next. you've got the mock e and this partnership with volkswagen. what else are you going to come out with that is going to blow our minds? mark: first, coming late summer in 2021, we've got the mustang areormance version, so we super enthusiastic about

i'll let you say who should make this car >> just buy ford why wouldn't you ford is a shelf its former self. they don't even make cars anymore. all they make are pickup trucks, which are a great business for them and suvs. they have a dead or dying business in europe, however you want to describe it and no mind share whatsoever as far as where autonomous is going and electric is going -- i understand they have electric cars, coming, so does everyone. apple hasn't made mass, so i don't expect it. first of all, immediately retire all of ford eaves debt, second, renegotiate with the auto union and say we're go to make a ton of money, let's make you guys not only hourly workers but shareholders in this new venture. somebody bold could come along and do that. apple has more cash than you could spend in a lifetime. you're either going to do the cars and really do them or it's going to be another apple tv where you're sort of doing it. now is the time. google and waymo is not sitting back, ub ser is playing offense. tesla will never do anything >> jim, you're the car guy what about josh's ide

quick swing to ford. ford with blockers in front, including jackson.akes it ahead for eight yards. the clock counting down. two minutes to play. undefeated cincinnati. trying to win a championship here at home on a cold, rainy night. gets it quickly out. and that will be a first down. it goes to tyler scott, the freshman receiver. the exclusive reveal of college football playoff match-ups, the new year's six games, everything you need to know, the four-hour special, noon eastern tomorrow. greg, you will be in-studio all day tomorrow. i can't wait to hear everybody's opinion. >> greg: where will cincinnati land if they can win this game? >> joe: what happens to tulsa if they get a signature win like this? so much still to be decided. ridder. first down run. he just gets to the 29 yard line, and tack a hard hit, as he reached the sideline there. zaven collins coming in with evans. it's been a good job so far. mike denbrock, cincinnati coordinator. >> greg: mixing it up. reminding them of down and distance. you're worried about the clock, you're not think

and see that signature smile myself. >> hi, ford.or christmas? >> a skateboard. >> skateboard. >> is there anything else you want, ford >> legos. >> legos. >> pretty awesome. i'm giving you a high five, my friend after such a tough year, we wanted to spread some holiday cheer to the bertram family and other kids, like ford. so, we set up a little surprise, with some help from the local fire departments and lots of holiday decorations. the bertrams, waiting just outside children's in alabama, where ford gets his treatments after hearing your story and knowing all that you've been through, we wanted to do a little something special for you and for kids like ford, who come here for treatment. >> that is for you. >> that is so cool. >> that's awesome, man. >> with the help of our sponsor, ford motor company, we set up this parade for the bertrams with a festive light display and a holiday greeting for the family there's still more. >> oh, my gosh. >> ford motor company built that truck filled with toys for your family. >> yay >> look, it

the comparison with ford that donald rumsfeld makes ita with ford that donald rumsfeld makes it a goodt a good one. what america now needs is a period of relative calm, and a president that can try and speakfor, and a president that can try and speak for, if not all americans but a large number of americans. he's going to have huge difficulties. look at what he is inheriting. packed in the most spectacular way since the cold war, this week. —— hacked. huge challenges with the virus in the us. policy has always been divided, this is not a new development, but it is particularly vicious at the moment. the marvellous thing about american politics is we have just had one electoral cycle and it all begins again. already the republicans are thinking about reorganising for the midterms, coming up, and that is the beauty of the american system. it will move on and it will make it possible to forget, sort of, donald trump. i'm not sure everybody would use the word marvellous! in terms of the challenge joe biden use the word marvellous! in terms of the challengejoe biden faces, all very well for

elizabeth: hear you, ford. thanks for joining us. ford o'connell there. >> thank you, e. mac.hopping mad. he's going to talk about what's going on in his home state, the state that is ever the trend setter, that is california, now leading the way showing how being politically correct can really literally kill you. what the new l.a. county district attorney, the democrat there, what he's now doing that as prosecutors, judges, cops and crime victims' families up in arms. they say what he's doing will create more crime victims and will really slam mainly minority communities. why? all for his own ego. that story next. ♪ ♪ t-mobile is upgrading its network at a record pace. we were the first to bring 5g nationwide. and now that sprint is a part of t-mobile we're turning up the speed. upgrading over a thousand towers a month with ultra capacity 5g. to bring speeds as fast as wifi to cities and towns across america. and we're adding more every week. coverage and speed. who says you can't have it all? help the world believe in holiday magic. and this year was harder than ever. and ye

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geoffrey, do you think biden can be another gerald ford?l charges donald trump faces, will he pardon him? particularly given how much trump has tried to rig the system in his own favour. you can argue this both ways. on one level we should move on, the government should let it go and put this to rest... inaudible. the message cannot be that trump is above the law. this is not quite nixon. nixon did his dirty tricks and covered them up. trump faces a series of potential criminal charges that really make up a very long list. more than a dozen specific issues. it is an interesting question. there is a perception that the republicans govern themselves. and on the left there was a sense of wait a minute, we are inclusive and they get in and they... they get in and theyjust do what they want. i think biden has made it clear. if you look at his cabinet picks, given the exhaustion, the seriousness of the political divide, trying to build this is by far the wisest of choices even if it does in some cases alienate and upset some of the far left of hi

ford doesn't want it to look like a pony car. ford wanted a larger vehicle so they could sell it to more people pony cars, that's a niche market and really a smaller and smaller market every year. what they're doing here, shep, they're saying, look, we can compete with tesla. >> should tesla be worried >> not immediately i think it does get their attention any time a new vehicle comes out. and this is a good first effort from ford in terms of electric vehicles i think they'll do well selling the mustang. do i think they're going to knock tesla off its perch as king of the hill when it comes to electric vehicles not immediately. most people when you ask them are you interested in an electric vehicle they say, yeah, i'd be interested in a tesla. they'd say i'm not interested in a ford on gm, it's i'm interested in a tesla. >> phil, thanks so much. >>> speaking of, after the bell on friday tesla will be added to the s&p 500 and it will be the largest company ever to join >>> a major milestone for its visionary ceo elon musk. is this

to me it's carparts.com and not ford at this point >> carrie, autos have been hot, gm and ford have been cooking as steve just said. are you in there at all and if not, why >> the only auto related stock we have which vontier which is a company that does measurements at gas stations and fueling stations we bought that from the spin out of danaher it was selling for a very cheap multiple, 12 times forward earnings we've looked at a few of the names that have had enormous runs, various auto parts, o'reilly, for example. all of them have been great. components companies to electric vehicles active, for example great, great stock but you can't -- well, we have not chased them. we bought something recently, an industrial related to the whole logistics and transportation market again, as steve said, the used car business has been great, people have been driving, they haven't been flying, sort of a hot area but we have a portfolio of 30 to 35 names, that's all it's valuable real estate and we put what is the best opportunity. >> when you talk about gm, for example, it's up 50% in just three mon

to heal and unify this country, you can't do better than ford and carter. especially given what we're dealing with next month with an inauguration with an outgoing president who as of this moment is threatening not to show up and to have a counterinaugural of his own to take a big bite out of the new president. look at 1977, jimmy carter gets up and surprises gerald ford the outgoing president by saying for myself and my nation, i would like to thank my predecessor for all he's done to heal our land. these two guys who ran against each other in 1976, carter won by the narrowest of margins, yet, later on, i heard them with my own voice in the east room in the white house in 1980 say they thought they had the closest friendship between any two ex-presidents in the united states. >> and just a lesson for politicians, that was a brutal election in 1976 and it was so heart breaking to gerald ford that he had to have betty speak for him, gene robinson, the next morning. >> yeah. absolutely. just it was devastating. i have a question for david maraniss. good to se

phil lebeau in chicago what's ford thinking on an electric mustang >> this is all about cutting throughhe noise and generating buzz ford needs to show that it can sell electric vehicles it's using the mustang name and aggressive styling they didn't go cheap on this car. it's going to generate some looks and some attention they're putting those two together in order to attract people come on in, check out what we have when it comes to electric vehicles though admittedly mustang fans are going to look at this and say, hey, it's not a mustang >> i was going to ask you about that i've got plenty of friends, one guy used to have a '64 i'm not sure he's going to go, oh, i got to have that >> a number of mustang owners said it's not a pony car ford wanted a larger vehicle so they could sell it to more people pony cars, that's a niche market, really, a smaller and smaller market every year. what they're doing here shep, they're saying we can compete with tez la. >> should tez la be worried? >> not immediately i think it does get their attention. anytime a new vehicle comes out. this is a good f

. >> i'm don ford at sonoma county. the number of families needing help has doubled, and they think it is only the beginning. >> a series of coyote attacks in the east bay now comes word they all traced back to the same animal. >> and stars aligning, literally, next week. well, more like planets. the event that you won't see again for hundreds of years. >> i'm dennis o'donnell, coming up the a warrior accused steve kerr of stealing his material. >> probably heard that. >> they would give new meaning to bring your son to work day. >> it is so cool for me to see him enjoying the sport. >> drier weather quickly taking over once again. it will last for a while. into last weekend before christmas, >> as california expand shelter in place orders, in business restrictions, unemployment claims have hit their worst level in three months. last week unappointed claims in california topped 200,000 for the first time since september. that includes but 24,000 cases in the last week alone. you consider those numbers, it is no wonder f

you so much and thank you for the team at ford's.e are here today to talk about one of the most important events in american history. for we get into the details of the march on washington, i wanted to place it within the broader historical context. could you start us off by giving us a sense of what black activism look like an washington, d.c. in the 19th and 20th centuries? what sort of figure did abraham lincoln play as a symbol in american politics at that time? >> thank you for the question and for the folks at ford's for inviting me. there are two eras in african-american protest when it comes to using lincoln as a symbol to advance their request and demand for full citizenship rights. the first is the late 19th century. most people outside of washington, d.c. don't know this . there are two national 90 national monuments to lincoln in the city. the first, the oldest one is in lincoln park. it is the emancipation memorial dedicated in 1876. african-americans marched to the dedication of that memorial in a parade that was schedu

ford included. it was a list of who's who in san francisco world. it does allow you then to raise the kind of questions that you're raising about wheather or not there is people taking advantage of loopholes and enhancing their position in the world through the behested payments. question is, goes back to at the top, this is a question of legislating, ethical behavior. there's no restraint associated with these kind of regulations. >> there's nothing to prevent these people from getting money to the city. why don't you have somebody give it to the city and the city then allocates the money. they don't want to have to go through the process of seeing a budget and accountability for it? the america's cup use some city money and private money. why don't it all just go through the city? the city has -- the board of supervisors has to approve anything over $5000. it does not interfear with anybody's ability to do that. >> chair ambrose: i'm not talking about the america's cup, i'm just talking about -- >> i'm using it as an example. anyway you see my poi

ford, good to see you. >> thank you, emac. elizabeth: okay.ntelligence ranking republican devin nunes, we're staying on the breaking news about hunter biden disclosing that the u.s. attorney's office in delaware is investigating his quote, tax affairs. a grand jury is involved here. we talk a lot about how the chinese and ukraine businesses hunter dealt with used a lot of offshore, off-balance sheet shell companies. suspicious activity reports from the treasury department about what hunter was doing. it looks like it is coming to fruition into potential investigation. we've got the story next geico makes the claims process so easy... ...i can file and manage my claim, all on the geico app. it's not just easy. it's giving-your-dog -your-fitness-tracker easy. oh, good boy. yes, you got it! woo! already got my 40,000 steps today... can i get a what what! no pain, no gain! haha... it's geico easy. with fast and convenient claims service. look how fast i'm running! good boy, chester. (teen) ♪ mom... it happened again. (vo) add some thrill to your w

joining us on the show tonight, congressman jim jordan, scott walker and tom del baccaro, ford o'connell, michael pillsbury, david webb on these developing stories. deaths and infections from covid-19 on the rise as yet another democratic lawmaker gets caught breaking his own covid measures. to california's very bad year. we'll tell you why more companies are abandoning the state for greener pastures in texas. we'll dig into how joe biden will handle did increasingly authoritarian china after the director of national intelligence warned the biden team against, quote, politicizing intelligence and urged them to acknowledge that china is the greatest national security threat facing the united states. plus general michael flynn, president trump's former national security advisor, speaks with our own lou dobbs after receiving a full presidential pardon. i'm jackie deangelis. in for elizabeth macdonald tonight. "the evening edit" starts right now. jackie: president trump has yet to concede the election. appears he is setting his sights on 2024. >> four more years. otherwise i will see you. [a

ford had been out of office for two decades.erview him at his home in rancho mirage, california, and asked, why didn't you get an admission from president -- former president nixon that he had committed crimes? so ford opens his wallet and pulls out a little newspaper clipping, and it's a clipping from a supreme court decision, 1915, the burdick decision, in which it said that the acceptance of a pardon is a confession of it. >> hmm. >> and ford held that out and said, so i got him to say uncle. i got him to say at least legally that he had confessed to the crimes of watergate. >> that's really interesting. do you think he carried that -- put it in his wallet to show you, or do you think he carried that with him like all the time? >> no, no. it was yellowed and folded. >> wow. >> i suspect he showed it to lots of people. >> that's really interesting. wow. >> he wanted to -- go ahead, bob. >> no. he wanted to make it clear, and of course the most important thing that ford did here, he really took the road -- took the nation on th

president nixon of course was pardoned by president ford. way i assume president trump would likely be pardoned is if he did it himself, which i'm not even sure -- i've talked to some legal analysts and it's not clear exactly who would have to determine that that's even constitutionally allowed. but ford wrote in his autobiography that nixon's pardon wasn't motivated primarily by sympathy for his plight or by concern over the state of his health. it was the state of the country's health at home and around the world that worried me. it was criticized a lot at the ti time. i'm wondering how history views that now. >> well, in a very interesting way, i think it was 1998, well 25 years after watergate, ford had been out of office for two decades. i went to interview him at his home in rancho mirage, california and asked, why didn't you get an admission from president -- former president nixon that he had committed crimes? so ford opens his wallet and pulls out a little newspaper clipping, and it's a clipping from a supreme court decision 1915, t

i am the director of ford's theater. if you are joining us for the first time this is our life series exploring creativity, history, and leadership. you can learn more and explore past programs by visiting our fortes.org.ww. during the four years of his presidency abraham lincoln turned to humor to help them cope with the stresses of managing a country through the civil war. lincoln expressed his humanity, understanding, and human foibles through humor. he used it for personal and political benefits. he also frequently attended comedies at ford's theater and he was known for telling jokes, for his witty stories and self-deprecation. the ability for a leader or politician to laugh at oneself and at politics more broadly is a hallmark of our democracy. in humor we not only have a to callvalve but a way attention to ideological differences while still maintaining the balance of democratic discourse. today in these polarized times and as we head toward a presidential election we bring together a panel known for their ability

just after the civil war, captain jefferson kyle kidd now travels from small town to small town and ford i'm will read newspapers for people who have no access or simply cannot read along the trail discovers and demand an orphan girl whose parents were murdered says mission becomes delivery or to surviving relatives 400 miles away. beautifully shot in new mexico in real life the bigness and beauty of news of the world is counterbalanced by the white knuckling moments of this dangerous journey and also by the intimate performances. thanks. >>a young german actress selena single to strangers from different worlds unsure of what the unexpected detour will hold for them. it's also interesting to see how much things haven't changed. >>this what sort of the old west reads news to small-town folks along the way we don't like hearing some of the headlines and react the same

in san francisco, don ford, kpix 5. >> restaurants aren't the only ones strucktology stay afloat. music venues across the bay area are having to close their doors permanently. now yoshi's in oakland might be forced to do the same. without any revenue, the managers have been forced to cut staff and can't even keep up with the bills. they started a go fund me page asking anyone who can help to donate. their goal is $200,000. >>> now at 6, the first californians getting vaccinated for covid-19. how bay area hospitals are ramping up to protect frontline workers. >> i'm confident for myself and my colleagues that this vaccine will be a big step forward. >> plus, getting swabbed on your front steps? who is being targeted in a door to door testing program. >> and suing to stay open. bay area restaurant owners' last-ditch effort to fight for their survival. >> i made $25 last monday. how am i supposed to pay an employee? >> good evening. i'm elizabeth cook. >>> a historic day in the battle against the coronavirus. >> the first people in california now getting the long- awaited vaccine. >>

ford, good to see you. >> thank you, emac. elizabeth: okay.lligence ranking republican devin nunes, we're staying on the breaking news about hunter biden disclosing that the u.s. attorney's office in delaware is investigating his quote, tax affairs. a grand jury is involved here. we talk a lot about how the chinese and ukraine businesses hunter dealt with used a lot of offshore, off-balance sheet shell companies. suspicious activity reports from the treasury department about what hunter was doing. it looks like it is coming to fruition into potential investigation. we've got the story next ♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. tired of daily insulin injections? omnipod delivers insulin through a discreet waterproof pod to help simplify life. just one small pod replaces up to 14 injections. it's game-changing. and the wireless controller helps deliver the right amount of insulin. get started wit

. >> reporter: this is the magic of christmas to amy ford.es when they find what's under the tree, especially the youngest. >> just to see her eyes lighting up where she's got that little twinkle in her eye, i want to be able to see that this year. >> reporter: but the pandemic economic devastation threatens their christmas. >> i want new shoes. >> reporter: ford lost her full-time job as a car sales person this summer. she now works part-time at an assisted living facility. how are you going to help santa claus this year? >> we have reached out to a toy drive here in town. we actually for the last seven years have donated toys and taken our time to go help with passing out toys at the same toy drive that applied for. >> reporter: never have toy drives been so important. >> i got a bike! >> reporter: yet, even the biggest has had to adapt. marine toys for tots doing drive-through collections as well as online. >> a $10 donation will literally solve a problem and allow us to deliver a package of toys to a child in need. >> reporter: this year,

matt: it is very difficult, very expensive, to the point where globally dominant companies like fordn are getting together, pooling resources. can you tell us a little bit about your work with the german carmakers over here? mark: sure. scale is so important, especially in the auto business. so in the case when we have a platform, and those platforms have a range of products that can be suited off of, and in the case of our partnership with vw, we had the european market skews a little bit smaller than the u.s. market, so we found there was equal opportunity for both of us, vw to get a bit more scale off their platform, and for ford, it gave us an opportunity to have a product that is going to be slightly smaller than the product off of our dedicate a platform that we have within our company. matt: i know one of the big problems here is there just aren't enough charging stations. although we hear from partnerships that they are building them as quick as they can, they are certainly not building them quick enough to be ready for the demand coming in the next few years. how do you thin

ford, critics are asking, including "the washington post" and "l.a. this, why are politicians cutting in line to get the vaccine ahead of senior citizens and first-responders who are working 20 hour shifts? >> well they shouldn't be. this is a case of elites exercising their privilege solely to benefit themselves. this needs to be first administered to front line workers, the elderly and those with the most serious preexisting conditions. we all need eventually to take the vaccine but it has to go to those who are most vulnerable. that is the only way to play offense against covid. elizabeth: alexandria ocasio-cortez is 30 years old. kristin cinema is in her 40s. marco rubio is in his 40s. are politicians more essential than first-responders than senior citizens? >> absolutely not. it is absolutely ludicrous if they make the case somehow they're setting a national example by taking the vaccine. remember, folks in congress have health care better than 99% of americans. i can tell you as someone who was laid up in the hospital for a week with covid, the

because tesla has nothing working against it because it's not producing anything like a toyota or a ford or some other company where you could look at the actual products in a meaningful context of the global economy and ascribe a value to it you can simply say that well we think that tesla has a meaning which is mostly a mame and in money is a mean so we're going to make it worth $600000000000.00 today and it could be worth it could drop 90 percent tomorrow and there's really there's nothing there it's just they captured the imagination now full disclosure you know i bought some tesla . last year and you know i'm up 800 percent and i still hold onto it because i don't have any i don't have any reason to think that the mania driving tousle is it going to end anytime soon. because this is the economy that we're in but his comment is kind of ironic because he says if you want stuff you need to make stuff but if he was actually making stuff the stock would be 90 percent cheaper right there's tesla but this also space x. and starlink so he is has spent during the scope of lockdown you see al

honda and ford which is an amazing sight and they know that he's raised about close to $15000000000.00 just the fast few months so he's he's quitting and that does protect him from the short sellers because at that time last year when he was confronting the short sellers like they were short of cash they were running out of cash in terms of keeping their enterprise going but now they have they have enough for for quite a while they've got cash plus the thing that really hurts short sellers would be to introduce a dividend thank you my introduce a dividend that's a way to fight the short sellers because the short sellers have to pay the difference so that's one way to fight shorts on so he's got a lot of cash he could pay dividends now i want to quickly move at the end here to this other story because you mentioned joe rogan podcast and this is something for everybody in the audience to watch because you know you've been able to watch guys report for 12 years now and the likes of joe rogan joe rogan has been amazing at covering the evil story he's covered coronavirus and this article po

it did happen with president ford's pardon of richard nixon.y broad pardon that extended to any federal crime that would have been committed during the five-plus years of his presidency. and -- but that is the only one until this president that was so preemptive, if you will, pardoning uncharged conduct. and the recent pardon of michael flynn was extremely broad pardon, extended not only to the charges that he had pled guilty to, but also to any conduct that he could have been charged with that took place under the jurisdiction of the special counsel. so that really makes the pardon most unusual. i think that there is some grounds to wonder whether it is too broad. i've seen people write, one person in particular wrote a very interesting piece about how there was a qualification of specificity, that you had to be specific. and leon jaworski almost challenged the nixon pardon, talked about it in his memoirs and decided not to. it remains to be seen whether the very broad preemptive pardons can be challenged. >> ford pardon of nixon is probably m

that's what happens with ford and nixon. you can do that. >> what if he says, anything that jared kushner has said or done, while he's been here with me, from this date until this date, anything to do with any of that, he's pardoned. because i'll tell you why, there are bad people who will go after him for bad reasons, and i'm going to protect him from it. >> that's his narrative. that's why i think he'll do it with respect to a lot of people, including himself. it's what president ford did for richard nixon, pardoned for all conduct during his presidency, crimes against the united states of america, based on conduct during his presidency. there's nothing preventing him from doing that. >> andrew mccabe is back. preet and i are discussing the idea of pardon as prophylaxis for his own. could be jared, ivanka, anything they've said or done from this period to this period, encompassing his presidency, they can't be charged with anything on the federal level. he could do that. >> he absolutely could. ford is obviously the exampl

. >>> back here at home, ford hitting the gas on its electric ambitions.he all-electric mustang mach-e is hitting showroom floors today. ford popping on the news, up 2.33% as the company positions the car as an ev aimed at non-ev buyers, with 65% of preorders already coming from people who had previously never owned a ford. nice move here. ford now stands still, just about $9.12. >>> from evs to an all-out laser battle. needham kick-starting autonomous driving sensor maker velodyne at a buy, the bullish call coming one week after citron research joined the ride after slamming the bumper of rival lidar maker luminar calling that company a quote, sucker's game. laser shares, luminar's ticker sim be symbol, down and falling 13% today. veloydne speeding ahead by 3.4%. >>> okay. we are just getting this breaking news, folks. we need to tell you. in just over half an hour, let's call it 31 minutes, congress's top four leaders will meet to discuss the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown but in addition, billions of dollars in coronavirus and stimulus aid

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. >>> new at six, don ford shows us why wildfire fuel is increasing at an alarming rate in one part of alameda county right now. >> this weekend's there is an increased concern of fire danger here in the east bay hills. and as if that wasn't enough, scientists are examining eucalyptus trees to find out why acres of them are dying. it started with vacation trees like the seeing time last summer. they suspect a fundal pathogen which may have originated in italy. scientists are asking, are the two events related? >> there trying to make sense of it, really trying to get information, and get a sense of distribution. the intensity of that. >> this what a healthy green eucalyptus tree looks like but these trees are dead and dying. he is in oakland a doctor spot volunteer. he says the problem is huge. >> probably 100 acres of eucalyptus. in the park, just in the park, that are, that are sick, and declining very fast. combined with an unusually dry fall and a windy weekend come the next few days has folks alert for fire danger and it is not just six trees. >> the biggest danger i think is from

ford would it knowledge that years later. next to him, chief justice warren, president johnson. next to johnson is allen douglas, the director of central intelligence for many years who would be forced out of that job by the debacle of the bay of pigs. it appears that dulles had a terrible conflict of interest by serving on the warren commission. among other things, it appears dulles knew about the cia plots to kill fidel castro. he may have ordered some of those. apparently he shared none of that information with the warren commission, even though that information might have given, suggested paths of investigation the commission should have followed. next to him is john sherman cooper, a senator tap from kentucky, republican, moderate republican. next to him is congressman hale boggs of louisiana who was prominent in the democratic leadership of the house. and was very close to john kennedy. >> we are 50 years later. how should we mark that day? they were anniversary of the release of the warrant report. >> we should mark it with mixed feelings. unhappily, this report that was

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