rob he is a political pundit in journalist contributing to the huffington post and in seattle we have callers he is a writer activist and progressive you tube or all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it zach i always go to the person that gets up early is for this program and you get up really early probably not too much traffic that's the that's the upside here is that what is the state of trump world six months into this presidency go ahead oh the state of trump world is we are kind of surprised to be uniting against him as he takes on the challenge that is the alliance between the democrats the clintons the obama's and the mainstream media and never expected to be behind him with so much solidarity but he is facing an uphill battle and we are seeing that loud and clear ok so here in washington how do you assess it said six months because i and my introduction kind of echoed from what we just heard from zach go ahead. well i don't agree with the liberal portrayal of trump as uniquely nefarious i think it's wholly inac

. >>> you write for huffington post, a lot of consent for your own site and huffington post and linkedin>> you are very prolific on forbes, i think you are one of their top online columnists, right? >> yes. >> is this worth your time? i want to know. >> yeah. i think it is. when i started writing for forbes it was more about kind of self-help honestly than anything. >> for you? >> for me. >> it was your confessional. >> absolutely. everybody has their own communication style and for me i like the style of writing. i like to be able to think things out and actually articulate it. i have plenty of mistakes i have made, plenty of scars i have earned. >> sure, but does it help your company? this is valuable time you are taking away from running why your company. >> well, it's really interesting because i think for our company we've got two audiences, so we've got our business audience, so the vcs and the business community who want to maybe partner with and get funding from, and then we have the consumers. so i do both. i wear both hats. i will write for huff post about being a business owne

according to the huffington accusedince priebus democratic operatives of setting up the meet with thesian lawyer. -- >> the battle for a critically ill baby has reached the white house. >> it is a sad story. he is an 11-month-old british debilitating disease. his parents want to take him to the u.s. for what they hope would be -- they called for his artificial ventilation to be withdrawn. court will beh deciding on the fate of the little boy amid protests led by parents the manning for the right to decide on the fate of their child. the guardian says this has been damaged by the right to life campaign. -- we do see how this story has been reappropriated by right to life campaign. >> and finally a story from the a more serious reality for japanese people. you can see the headline, young japanese people are just not having sex. between 18 years 34 have not had sex. it is effecting jobs, consumer spending, business investments. all facets of society, but it seems like the reason is a little bit more personal. one man says he finds women scary while a woman says she think men can't be bot

he wrote a piece for "huffington post." "why tucker should debate man immigration."nt to forfeit our honor by turning down such a gentlemanly challenge from such a gentleman. so we have picked up the gauntlet pablo threw down. the distance will be the width of the table. pablo manriquez joins us. thanks regina spit >> and honor to be here. >> tucker: i'm glad to have you. i stipulate it by saying that i'm totally for immigration and for immigrants. but i want to know what the parameters are. you may ask you a simple question. we've got 330 million people in the country. if immigration rates stay at the current level, 1.2 per year, were going to have about half a billion people by the end of the century. if we follow the u.n.'s lead we would have 1.5 billion people in america by the end of this century. those are estimates. what do you think the right level of immigration is? >> i think that the right level immigration has always been in this country, the level it is going to build the country and not detract from it. i think obviously, the immigration of the last sev

they want to read about and that's what they go look at and that's what "the new york times" and "huffington all focus on these negative stories because that's what their audience likes and they're all businesses so that makes sense. everyone focuses on the conversation, what do you think of that theory? >> it was the president and his people who decided to sit him down with "the new york times." i'm sure "the new york times" loved it, but if they had a purpose, he had a purpose to sit down with them. when you talk about he is out there, open, and what's on his mind, what was on his mind wasn't health care, it was russia and mueller and sessions. the sessions was his only supporter in the u.s. who was with him every step of the way until he started to get traction, it was sessions to help him get there and he's no longer senator because he's the attorney general and when you're trying to get 52 senators in the republican party to agree on something, they have to look at this and say, can we count on him to stand with us if he won't stand with jeff sessions? >> melissa: i'm really going to th

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the huffington post doesn't seem to agree.he poster seems to believe that like a zombie, trumpcare could come back in another form. it's quite probable because senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has announced they will proceed to that repealing of obamacare but not replacing it. this is a shocker of a case. in australian woman in the united states called for help on beingt she ended up killed by the police. >> that's right. she died of a gunshot wound from the gun of one of the police officers that came to that call. it's an american nightmare, that's what the daily telegraph says on its front page. intine dimon called 911 minneapolis about what she thought was a possible assault and alleyway near her affluent home. the police turned up and she was somehow inextricably killed by one of the officers who responded. the officers body cams and dashboard cameras were not on. there is no evidence of what went down. her family is demanding answers and they want a federal investigation into her death. the editors call it a sensele

. >> do you remember when donald trump declared his presidency, "the huffington post" said they would entertainment section. that was a pattern right from the day he announced. and it was an amazing pattern where every time trump would do something, critics would jump on it. but much of the republican electorate, and overall electorate caught up with it. every now and then you see them go to the heartland and do some interviews with people they would typically not quote, trying to do a little bit more of that. but the press estate, and they really did have a hostility for donald trump at the beginning. he has returned the hostility as well. it has gotten worse. >> sean: i really think this is a witch hunt. i honestly believe that pat buchanan is right. they have the smell of blood in their nostrils, and i don't think it ever stops in between the fake news, proven falsehoods that they have pushed out with such breathlessness. judge, i've never seen it this bad. i don't think it ever stops for the entire time that he is president. >> you know, they were talking about with "the huffingto

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. >> do you remember when donald trump declared his presidency, "the huffington post" said they wouldt section. that was a pattern right from the day he announced. and it was an amazing pattern where every time trump would do something, critics would jump on it. but much of the republican electorate, and overall electorate caught up with it. every now and then you see them go to the heartland and do some interviews with people they would typically not quote, trying to do a little bit more of that. but the press estate, and they really did have a hostility for donald trump at the beginning. he has returned the hostility as well. it has gotten worse. >> sean: i really think this is a witch hunt. i honestly believe that pat buchanan is right. they have the smell of blood in their nostrils, and i don't think it ever stops in between the fake news, proven falsehoods that they have pushed out with such breathlessness. judge, i've never seen it this bad. i don't think it ever stops for the entire time that he is president. >> you know, they were talking about with "the huffington post." when

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yet it kicks off under a cloud of criticism, according to the german version of huffington post.cation says the world finds itself in an awkward position. korea,e crises -- north a territorial dispute in the south china sea, amidst accusations of russian meddling in foreign elections. large world were a family, it is high time that everyone sits down at one table, even if they don't want to. even minimal consensus would be a success at this point. >> there will be different personalities at the summit. will have to try and blend together even if they don't see i tie. -- even if they don't see eye to eye. >> we don't know if it will turn out that way. we know if -- we know angela merkel met with donald trump early. the conference began on a high note when trump and merkel met, they didn't shake hands. they both looked like they would rather be anywhere else. yesterday the chancellor extended her hand to donald trump who answered with a firm grip, proof that if merkel and trump can shake hands then maybe anything is possible that the g 20. >> donald trump will be meeting vladimir p

. >> wal-mart removed the ad, and told the huffington post that the product was sold from a third party seller posing as a company out of the uk. they are investigating how this happened. >>> brides left dressless, after alfred angelo filed for bankruptcy, and closed all of its stores. the popular chain has more than social media, women across the country have been using the hashtag alfred angelo to offer solution to distraught brides. some are offering to loan, or sell their dresses. even some stores are offering sales to alfred angelo customers. >>> patience at the plate, and gender reveals. that is not something that registered for a father to be who attended a gender reveal party over the weekend. check it out. >> i'm sorry! >> come on, dad. when your wife's throwing the ball, you can't expect a strike, you have to swing anyway. the goal is to have him hit the ball, and it would explode in a cloud of pink he blew it. who knows what happened here, but he did get some heat from fans on twitter. well deserved heat, i might ad. >> i love how creative people get with these gender reveal

you can spend a colossal amount campaign,n a senate as michael huffington famously did in california and still lose. corporations and trade associations have lobbyists in washington, but so do liberal organizations, soto labor unions.

. >> the huffington post just posted something about what a proposal is in the president's budget for the year which was to reduce the funding of $11 two million dollars. >> was it just two dollars? leave on the 15 people in the national office. the huffington post actually has a link to a letter that is being to raise thisgned is a issue. >> thank you for that. the woman right behind her. was there any, literacy test for white women after the 19th amendment? with the jim crow kind of laws with a recognized by women? were were subject to the same literacy loss. they had to face those tests. they had white registrars who were on their side. on the other side of the counter. bey were more likely to franchise than african-american women not because they had a higher literacy rate or because the interpretive the castigation better. people on the other side of the counter. and there were people in puerto rico, only literate women get the vote in 1935. >> it was the literacy test in massachusetts. >> on the more liberality of the western states i would suggest checking census records. what

helping include arianna huffington. global news, 24 hours a day. i am haslinda amin. federal reserve heads into the second day of its policy meeting with traders betting they will not hike the key rate anytime soon. there may be big news when it comes to the balance sheet. let's go over to our global economics and policy editor. what about president trump indicating he might reappoint janet yellen? trump likes to stir the pot. let me fill in our audience. the wall street journal interviewed donald trump. he said, not only gary cohn, the former president of goldman sachs, who was the front runner a couple of weeks ago, now he is saying also janet yellen is a front runner. all along, once he has done to the white house, he has said nice things about her. he seems to be indicating he wants to put his own person and maybe he is realizing a cautious, dovish fed chair who doesn't want to move quickly on rate hikes would be a good person to keep there. as for the meeting, here is what is important. balancechange, but the sheet. let's look at the bloomberg chart. yellow line,

national veteran's foundation, chad, works for the huffington post, trying to get -- his t this in the secretary told me, i told him trying to get my story out, told my story with the family and she told me, this is -- what boss does, public awareness of veteran stories. he wrote me after somebody else, he told me local news won't do current they want tragedies. i said, local news wants stories the community. host: joe, if anybody has tweet ions to help joe, it to c-span wj in an effort to help him. the line from lindale, georgia, democrat ig line. hi, carolyn. we have a minute left, what is on your mind? caller: okay. on earlier, social ecurity, medicaid, all that kind of stuff together, i worked worked , two jobs, i don't up as a nurse and i appreciate being cloned in with get -- they probably need it, too, i'm sure, but a difference, i paid my andy in for social security i deserve to get it out and the got to say is i trump more than ever.dy in the whole world thank ♪ c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by americans cable-television c

you can spend a colossal amount campaign,n a senate as michael huffington famously did in california and still lose. corporations and trade associations have lobbyists in washington, but so do liberal organizations, soto labor unions. we still have laws to reflect the influence of both sides. i think it is a far more balanced circuit -- circumstances are much more balanced than people suspect. the results are not absolute. if you spend an extra million dollars you'll get that bill through congress. that does not work at all. money is useful, sometimes important, but it is no means decisive. the voices of people as they are organized politically in the country are definitely heard in washington on all sides of the question. host: your final call this half hour is from paula from pennsylvania, republican. caller: hi. ideas have a comment because i have been listening. -- i just have a comment because i have been listening. all those people who called in before and said the president lies, he is a liar, do they really think people who voted for president trump forget the biggest lie we

so you need to watch us although we'll watch you, too about the health care thing, the huffington "post" gets very nervous if it looks like something positive for republicans is happening >> you can just admit you like it >> anyway, today, this is gross, they have like a syringe that is leaking blood and it's like -- any way, it says code red, repeal gaining steam so they may be talking about the skinny repeal. there is a skinny bundle -- >> but now i thought actual repeal is more of the repeal and then the two years to replace. >> you've heard of a skin any g margarita. so this is similar to that the mandates go and the medical device tax goes. and that might go, right >> the fear is that this skinny repeal would have a little bit of a worse hangover for lawmakers. so excuse the pun there. so they are going to vote on the standalone repeal, that will happen around noon today but the expectation is that that won't pass because it does not have the support similar to -- >> right, but getting the vote for the skinny repeal. >> and then they have to work toward something that mimics both a

. >> you write "huffington post," do a lot of stuff for linkedin. you are very prolific on forbes,i think one of their top online columnists. >> yep. >> so is this worth your time? i want to know. >> i think it is. when i started writing for forbes, it was more about kind of self-help than anything. >> for you, your own self. it was your confessional? >> absolutely. everybody has their own communication style. for me i like the style of writing. i like to be able to think things out and articulate it. i've got men tiff of mistakes i've made, plenty of scars i've earned. >> does it help your company? this is valuable time you're taking away from running your company. >> it's interesting. for our company we have two audiences, we have our business audiences, the bcs and business community we want to maybe partner with and get funding from and we've got the consumers. i wear both hats. i'll write for huff post about being a business owner but also write about being a mom and what that means as a entrepreneur or starting a business, or writing about fit

times," "the huffington post" and "l.a. times" blasting the move. 45 billion to fight opioid abuse that's much too little experts say. huffington post senate bill would cut millions of people from healthcare and escalate opioid crisis and "l.a. times." >> former marine and jag attorney turned drug addict, and bank robber. we have had you on the show before. for people at home that aren't familiar with your story and haven't read your book, how did you go from fighting for our country, being in the military, to robbing banks? >> it's a shocker to try to explain it to people. but i hurt my back in the marine corps. i started taking prescription pain medicine when i left the marines and started with the justice department. and then the prescription pain medicine pretty much took over my life. you know, i should have asked for help. i should have availed myself of more help and i didn't. i just continued on with my career and essentially became addicted to oxycontin which is essentially heroin in a pill. and went off the deep e

currently, no c.e.o., sort of being led by arianna huffington, is that is who is sort of in charge?ally know. tons of people have left. the scandal of sexual harassment, all kinds of things still simmering. and yet, everybody is still using it and it is growing around the world. caroline: back to this particular court case. it seems as though uber has come out fighting with respect to the fact that three out of four patent infringement cases have been dropped. do they have a leg to stand on? >> they are definitely happy to see that. like i said, the judge sort of saying alphabet should pull back on them was a strong sign. i think it is going to come down mostly to these trade secrets cases. even that, alphabet has to pull down from more than 100 to less than 10. that is mostly about what he jury can reasonably focus on. focusfocus -- they will on fewer than 10 claims and dig deep on them. there are still questions about what alphabet has been able to turn up. they have not really tied uber to having these files were asking levandowski about these files. there is a lot the judge has

a new article in "the huffington post" says his colleagues are asking another question.speaking with tucker carlson a punishable offense?" for many of the answer is yes. a list four faculty have accused him of "endangering students by appearing on this show." he follows the stuff for a living, that's why his hands twitched. he joins us now. kevin, apparently voicing your opinions, any voice to know right wing opinions, he's not right wing, he's progressive, on this show is wrong outlet is now a thought crime. >> let's be honest about why they're angry. it's not because he won a tv show. it basically went on your tv show, why did he have to come on in the first place, because of the rest of the mainstream media was quiet. he realized her show was unwilling to shine a light on this. the only way he could get his voice out to a national artist was coming on the show, and now they are accusing him of endangering students. the is or is colleagues. i didn't see them concerned about safety when they were mobbed on campus with baseball bats and tasers threaten conservative stude

they're arguably more news organizations that are more strident than cnn -- msnbc, huffington post, thetng the campaign, cnn was a pretty strong effort and try to make sure they had a lot of pro-trump voices, including corey lewandowski. kevin: absolutely. donald trump feels like he is at his best when he has a foil. i can remember being in the press pit on councils campaign rallies -- countless campaign rallies and he would ask everyone to turn around and bo o. it's a very striking moment because of the rhetoric and the tone, but it was just a few weeks ago when we were all having the conversation after the congressional baseball game and even the president himself stood at the white house and called for unity and said the country would be better for it. don't know if it's a sign of the times, but again, this is what conservative populism looks like in 2017. julia: kevin cirilli, chief washington correspondent. bias is an inherent against donald trump. was arational perspective media does have the slant against him, but the question is what the appropriate way to fight back against tha

he's bringing on his father, the co-founder of the huffington poegs, whi post, the chairman of buzzfeeds on the board of blade and viacom together they both work at leer hippo ventures they have invested in over 300 companies, including plated we'll talk about all those issues and we have david zasloff, chairman of discovery. we have media, venture capital earnings a busy three hours >> we look forward to it i'll join you for bank earnings, eight minutes to go until "squawk box. if you are just waking up. senate republicans pulled their healthcare bill after two more gop lawmakers came out against it a big move in the dollar on the back of that news, but not a move in fight chorutures which at this hour >>> let's dits cuscuss what thi means for the futures. the latest news overnight perhaps more pressing. big reaction in the dollar but not in the equity markets to this washington lawmaking news judge for us those two reactions from the various markets and if they're fair >> maybe we should be talking "game of thrones." this has been a challenging xwri issue for the house and senate equi

bush policy adviser, michael bond, and pablo monrickez, the k street media co-founder, "huffington postcontributor. first the late developing news here that the house wants to be able to put forward the sanctions but doesn't want president trump to get in the way of any of the sanctions that strikes me as a rather unusual move. and once again, let's not forget the majority in the house happens to be republican. are they saying they don't trust their president? >> i think they know politically that it's a lot smarter for him to keep hands off all things russia right now. i think as the investigation related to potential collusion, if the investigations continue and he's right this is just a witch-hunt, he'll be able to bask in the glory of victory. it's a major distraction and falling into the hands of the democrats by continuing to tweet and talk about the issues. trish: so you don't like any of that, but pablo, at the same time, i made this point over and over again, if you're him, it really does feel like a witch-hunt, and as an unbiased observer, when i look at the fact that robert m

this is obviously, the huffington post ran an article by, white men should be denied the vote. that is. some. -- that is pure racism. written on the bestseller list by the son of a black panther. i call them the most pampered racist. $600,000 genius award. he did not graduate college but lectureship.im a he won a national book award. the central incident of the book is the killing of his friend via policeman in montgomery county, maryland, which is a sanctuary county, i believe. very liberal. his friend was killed, a police officer said the friend tried to run him over. with his vehicle. the problem is that the police officer is black as is his friend. coates do with that? he was thinking white. this is just racism. people are saying that white supremacists need to see us a cut interest. -- a psychiatrist. that this is certifiable. get very respected liberals using that phrase, white super messy -- supremacy. they are not liberal about anything except hard drugs, sex, spending other people's money and coddling criminals. big: you say there is a difference between liberals and l

other changes since the seating chart was adjusted in 2015 include the huffington post and the spanish-language univision getting shared seats while the first row remains the same, populated by major television networks and wires, usa today has moved up to the second rope, switching spots with ap radio. we are asking you about your level of trust in the news media. democrats call 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. give us your thoughts about how much you trust the news media. beth calling from north carolina on our independent line. what is your level of trust in the media? caller: pretty low. i would like to say the man who spoke before me, i could not have possibly said it as eloquently as he did. he nailed it with the real divide in this country here we do not want to make america great again, we want to make america america again. as far as the media is concerned, when it is revealed that more than 90% of the media, you know, voted for hillary clinton, i think there is a good reason for skepticism. skepticism is a bad word. this country was founded on the r

the reporter for the "huffington post" joins me. i'm reminded the most fallow period in the health care negotiations were when people were not paying attention. that's when the deals got struck. as someone who has been following this so closely, how would you describe the state of play right now? >> well, everything old is new again. it does have the same sort of feeling to it, i guess, in the house. it seem a little bit dead. obamacare is the law of the land. the only difference between the house and the senate was you had mark meld owes and tom mcarthur, conservatives really working with, not the other side of the aisle certainly but on the other side of their own conference. they were working with each other trying to figure out how to get to yes. certainly people like mark meld owes and people in the freedom caucus didn't want to be the ones who spoiled the party. a lot of them wanted that same thing. i'm not sure it is the sail in the senate. it was of much more concern among conservatives and among the caucus and the party. i

going to do next and this revered financier david bodman making a sexist comment at area on the huffington's approach at that meeting. >> spending all this time with the company and saying there are good people there, do you imagine these recommendations will be taken seriously? >> given the scrutiny that there under it's going to be hard for them not to take them seriously so they will institute, you know, when you read through the older recommendations, there like operatingmanuals for how you are supposed to do human resources . they'll institute those changes and i don't know. >>. >> i think they have a shot taking the stick because i don't believe that every person is wrong and i'm not making. >> i get back, that's what i mean. >> i'm not making excuses for the people there are. >> you believe this culture, a lot of times you know it's in the dna of their founders or immediate creators and they don't change. >> i'll make an observation, when i said i think apple was 35 years old when i did my book on them and it was a huge education for me because i had always discounted the notion of co

. >> harris: and "the huffington post" reporter even question the president's faith and why christiansim. trump who identifies as a presbyterian has demonstrated a basic lack of understanding about the christian faith, including what constitutes evangelical, but as christian supporters are unfazed. exit polling from the presidential race showed 81% of self identified evangelicals voted for president trump. let me start with this. there are black terraces across america. i don't get it, who thinks that it's not a good idea? armani says in god we trust, why wouldn't we pray for our leader? >> mark: on the left particularly, there are secular elites -- it's creeped out by ostentatious displays of faith, so a little residual episcopalian is him is okay, but when you've got laying on hands, that's way too much. >> harris: i like that southern turn coming out of your british mouth. >> mark: that's what it is here. they find that strange, it's not strange to millions. and trump has an odd way of talking. when he addresses religious meetings and he goes, i love evangelicals, their fabulous, di

i look at a huffington post headline, how slavery led to modern capitalism.ery gave capitalism its start. >> the best i can figure, john, is people want -- a lot of people don't like capitalism, so if you can tarnish it by claiming it somehow was connected with slavery, it makes it look bad. in history where slavery exists, capitalism doesn't exist. it's no coincidence that great written, the home of the -- great britain, the home of the industrial revolution, was one of the first countries to get rid of slavery. brazil, on the other hand, didn't get rid of slavery until 1888, and it's still a lot poorer than, certainly, most people in the united states and western europe. john: and america didn't really prosper until after the civil war when slavery was ended. >> decades after slavery was ended, yes. john: one of your points is slavery is not as efficient as people would think it would be. >> that's right. slavery is efficient for very, very mechanical tasks; growing tobacco and growing cotton. if you're a plantation owner, you might do well by having slaves

i want to point to you to a piece in the huffington post that reports that $50,000 was paid to donald trump jr.'s criminal defense lawyer 11 days before that "new york times" story broke. are you troubled by the way these events are heading? it certainly looks like the trump campaign was concerned that there was legal jeopardy for trump jr. >> i don't believe for a moment there is a criminal case here. i do believe that there is a lot of razzle-dazzle as you pointed out. i'm not happy about the fact that russians are involved in anything -- in any way what happens with an american election. i think the high dungeon that you expressed and making this into a major case is a distraction from the policy agenda of the trump administration. and i'm not necessarily defenderst trump team. my feeling is that what you overlooked is the fact that we've made significant strides since donald trump has been president. and that has been overlooked largely because this is a distraction notwithstanding your claim to the contrary. it is a distraction from the kind of policy agenda that i think we shoul

joining me now, senior political reporter for the huffington post.nd the white house columnist at the hill. good to see you both. we'll go ladies first. as the president's personal attorney, he's been saying the president had no knowledge at all of his son's meeting until he saw the news reports. do you think the president has plausible deniability here? >> not really. what are the chances that the president didn't know his own campaign manager, his son and son-in-law were going to meet with a lawyer connected to the russian government with potential dirt on hillary clinton. it was obviously a badly run campaign. if things were happening right under his nose and he had no idea. either way, it looks bad for him. >> i'm curious what you think the strategy is behind sekulow. he's talking about this repeatedly on the talk shows. is that wise? >> i think it's pretty clear what's going on here, a lex, and that jay sekulow and the president himself and his allies are sort of furiously pumping up the smoke machine to obscure the central truth of what happene

properties are doing now post election because everybody was piling on, whether it was breitbart or huffington washington post, et cetera. who's up, who's down since the election? >> well, if you look at some of the sites, breitbart, some of the upstarts. breitbart is down about 13%. newsmax is down about 10%. and yet, if you look at some of the other sites, politico is up about 25% year over year. the new york times is up about 30%. and the washington post is up about 22%. a lot of this reflects the changes in what people are interested in. all of those sites are way down past the election. so after the election, people just got bored. but a lot of this reflects the news cycle and what people are looking for in news. liz: great to have you, michael. >> great to be here. liz: thank you very much. crunching the data and crunching the scoop between media and all things digital. thank you so much. >> exciting times. liz: michael wolf, activate partner. just about 26 minutes to go before the closing bell rings. we've got so much more. stay tuned. look at this. dow 21,411 right now. >> i'm nicole p

anthology torn, a recognized speaker on women and work, a contributor to women at "forbes," the huffington post and disney interactive. please join me in welcoming heather cabot and sam that wall raven. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. >> wow, we really appreciate you coming out on a rainy night like this x this is a super exciting moment for us because, first of all, we're in the same city, which we rarely are. i live in new york, and sam lives in san francisco. but this really is the evening before geek girl rising comes out. so it's a really special moment for us. and to kick things off, just to give you a taste of what the book is about, we're going to show you a little trailer first. so let's roll the video. [laughter] >> i think that women now understand we are not going to get ahead unless we help each other to get ahead. >> i have a female manager, and she's the one who hand picked me and advocates for me and pushes me beyond my leadership role currently. >> so many women i know might not be able to work the typical 9 to 5 job, but having this new kind of -- [inaudibl

samantha walrevens, contributor forbes, and huffington post and disney interactive. so join me in walking can -- welcoming them. >> this is a superexciting moment for us because, first of all, we're in the same city, which we rarely are because i him new york and sam lives in san francisco, but this is the evening before "geek girl rising" comes out. so it's a special moment for us and to kick things off just to give you a taste of the book we'll show you a book trailer. let's roll the video. >> i think that women now understand, we are not going to get ahead unless we help each other to get ahead. i have a female manager and she is the one who hand-picked me and advocates for me and pushed me beyond my leadership roles currently. >> so many i know might not be able to work the typical nine to five job but having this new kind of tech pack gives them the opportunity to work at home, travel, and do everything they want. >> a mother and also have a job. don't think that google would be the case -- take advantage of the amazing opportunities that technology affords us.

representation matters, too >> the search committee over at uber includes kalanick and arianna huffingtonhe immelt news raised a lot of eyebrows he is only 61. unlikely to just go off into the pasture. >> certainly, the ability to undertake some other new project like this -- i just think that the names being thrown around tells you what a tricky spot it is to be looking for a replacement for a founder of a company at this stage of its development. when it's still in kind of this hypergrowth mode, but it still has to get its arms around all of these big corporate-type issues >> and immelt had a great reputation around fellow ceos and ge has faced a number of macro conforms, but it's the worst-performing dow component so far this year, down 19% and his tenure was marked by underperformance of the shares versus the broader markets so that could raise some questions, too >> flannery, by the way, the first day on the job is the 1st, august 1st, next week. >>> meanwhile, obviously in a tight range, we're going to watch for developments out of these north korean headlines the pentagon has a sta

joining me now republican strategist christopher metzler, jonathan cone of the huffington post, and tommyinion, director of congressional relations for the heritage foundation. i'm going to start with you, tommy, and dispense with this idea of just repealing altogether obamacare because that would send the entire market into chaos, right? >> i don't think so. i think the markets would respond the way we expect a free market to respond. we know that free markets bring competition between firms when they're competing for your business, they're going to offer a better product at a lower price. part of the reasons premiums have gone up so high is because of obamacare. i expect premiums to get a lot cheaper if obamacare were to be repealed. i think what we're seeing from the president with that tweet, with his statement that if repeal and replace doesn't happen, he's still committed to keeping his campaign promise. president trump is absolutely committed to keeping that promise and all of his campaign promises. but no, i don't think that we should expect the insurance markets to collapse. >> r

with me now is howard fineman for the "huffington post," and stephanie miller, host of the stephanie miller show. howard, we last saw you on "the beat" during the breaking in us friday making sense of a major staffing change. and a man who saw himself as a shadow, chief of staff to the president. i wonder, number one, your thoughts and "the beat" viewers last saw you, and number two, your thoughts on that advice that anthony scaramucci went off? >> don't go to lunch, because something huge is going to happen is the lesson. that's number one. number two, i can assure you that every reporter in town is mourning over their drink tonight about the passing, so to eak, of anthony scaramucci. because we hadbeen, are, or were going to be doing business with anthony scaramucci, we thought. that is, if he got in there as chief of staff, unlike corey lewandowski who you're showing on the screen right there, scaramucci would have been talking copiously to everybody. he talked at great length to ryan of the "new yorker," which turned out to be his excuse for being ousted today. >> i've got to cut