court has already done for want of court favor of the masterpiece cake shop owner jack phillips who refused service to a same sex couple citing his first amendment rights and he was worried the cake would come out of the oven ok but masterpiece bakery won the battle but lost the war jed at least. the bigger hitter won because a colorado official said one inappropriate word about refusing service it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use to use their religion to use despicable that's not even something you can bleep that's really disappointing but despicable showed anti-religious hostility or in other words religious animus taint it's very surprising they found the taint in an otherwise perfectly legal statement the court didn't deny that gay couples rights were violated but instead declared that the state of colorado was mean to jack phillips so the struggle for rights continues the next front i sing a south carolina supermarket refused to honor a graduating student in the last debate omitted the middle. it was replaced with hyphen experience was kind of frustr

the shop owner jack phillips has filed a $100,000 lawsuit against the colorado governor. says he broke colorado law by refusing to celebrate a gender transition cake. phillips says the state is on course to crush him. because it despises how he practices his faith. the colorado civil rights commission had shown hostility to his religious beliefs. >>> in california, all of the evacuations for the carr fire has been lifted. the fire has scorched more than 200,000 acres. the inferno left seven people dead and it is 67% contained. residents in redding are rallying around the couple whose trailer sparked the fire. when a flat tire rim showered sparks. a redding woman's facebook appeal drew in hundreds of letters from residents saying they forgive them. >>> a search team located the sunken stern of the world war ii destroyer that hit a mine off the coast of alaska. all this happened on august 18th, 1943. "the uss abner lee" was searching for mines in 1943 when a huge explosion blew the rear section off the ship. the bodies of 70 men were never found. the team from the national

and i will add, this is jack phillips, the total he straight cake baker. would think that someone who looks like the reba mcintyre version of colonel sanders would be more sympathetic to gender identity issues. today by the way, i don't know if you know this, national tell a joke day. here's one. why did donald trump cross the road? okay, first of all, he never crossed the road, that's fake news. [ laughter ] second of all, the people who were accusing him of crossing the road? they're the ones who crossed the road. third, hillary clinton crossed a bunch of roads and the media never asked. >> about that. fourth, if he did cross it, it was totally legal, the light was green. fifth, donald trump is a successful businessman who knows more about roads than any of you ever will. sixth, the stock market is at an all-time high but all you want to talk about is crossing roads. seventh, the road-crossing investigation is a politically motivated witch hunt. eighth, the real question is how do we stop illegal immigrants from crossing the roads? nine, vladimir putin i

. ♪ >> laura: remember jack phillips, the question baker face legal action for refusing to break thatsex wedding cake? he won a major case of the supreme court two months ago but get this, colorado civil rights commission has once again ruled that he violated the law when he refused to bake a cake for a transgender woman celebrating the seventh anniversary of her gender transition. in response, phillips is suing top colorado officials including governor john hickenlooper. joining joining me enough in cos jack phillips himself, as well as his lawyer, christian ragnar from phoenix. jack, let's start with you. do you feel this is now a vendetta against your bakeshop? apparently you are the only bakeshop in all of colorado because all the focus is on you. but do you feel like this is now, you're being targeted? >> it feels like being targeted. the colorado civil rights commission is coming after me again after the united states supreme court has told them that they were hostile to my faith, and that they can do that, and yet, here we are again, the same situation. >> laura: the transgende

judicial and executive branch nominees about dogma we've all seen the ordeal face so bravely by jack phillips the cake guy religious americans are no longer an after thought. interestingly sessions never mentioned or inferred a meeting about protecting the rights of say i don't know u.s. muslims from being spied on or targeted by law enforcement agencies how curious today let us navigate the divide between the church and the state as we start watching the hawks. we're going to. get the. real deal with. the plot of. the day like you know that i got. with. this. because i. welcome are going to watch the hawks i am to roll them through and i'm top of the law list so that church versus state president just sessions is separating nuns and anything that i was. just just to be clear right off the bat no nuns were made to buy contraceptives were themselves that's ludicrous but i can see how just that from what i'm quite notice that no it was about the case that he is referring to was about a nursing home a group of nuns in a convent that had that run a nursing home and they didn't want to as hobby lo

judicial and executive branch nominees about dogma we've all seen the ordeal face so bravely by jack phillips the cake guy religious americans are no longer an afterthought interestingly sessions never mention her and heard anything about protecting the rights of say i don't know us muslims from being spied on or targeted by law enforcement agencies how curious. today let us navigate the divide between the church and the state as we start watching the hawks. want to. get the. real deal with. a lot of. what they like you know that i got. there. because i. welcome are going to watch the hawks i am tyrrel them to and i'm top of the law list so that church versus state president just sessions is separating nuns and anything that i was saying just just to be clear right off the bat no none sperm made to buy contraceptives for themselves that's ludicrous but i can see how just such an i wouldn't quite notice that no it was about the case that he was referring to was about a nursing home a group of nuns in a convent that had that run a nursing home and they didn't want to as hobby lobby offer insura

jack phillips, a colorado cake shop owner is in a legal battle because he refused to bake a cake.ake is for a transgender woman. he will not make the cake because of his religious beliefs, saying god med men and women. and we don't get to choose or change. in response, colorado's civil rights commission filed a lawsuit against him. this follows his six year battle with the state after he refused to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple. in june, the u.s. supreme court ruled in his favor, saying colorado's civil rights commission was hostile towards his christian faith. in did not rule if he violated colorado's public accommodations statues. >> the court said that if is important for states to have nondiscrimination laws. and he could not deny or should not have denied a transgender woman. >> now he's seeking a permanent injunction against the state, sake that he was already vindicated by the supreme court. >>> and tesla ceo musk is saying is the most difficult and painful year of his career. he said that he was frag after his abrupt twitter announcement that he wanted to take

jack phillips has filed a lawsuit against the state of colorado...ligious discrimination. this time... it's because of his refusal to serve a transgender customer. last june... autumn scardina asked for a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside. phillips' bakery refused the order on religious grounds. a year later... the colorado civil rights commission ruled there is probable cause that refusal constitutes discrimination. a few month ago... phillips won his supreme court case after refusing to serve a gay couple. ( james ) an oklahoma school has re-opened after being shut down for two days... because of threats posted online. a 7th-grade transgender girl used the girl's restroom on the first day of school... prompting the threats. some calling for her to be beat up and others threatened her with a knife. some of the comments were made by parents in the school district.. but most made were from other areas. ( jam

lawyers for a masterpiece cake shop owner jack phillips status date is on a "crusade" to question becauseigious beliefs. the supreme court sided with phillips in june, saying comments by member of the colorado civil rights commission displayed an antireligious bias. i did not rule on whether the business owners can invoke religious objections to refuse service to lgbt people. less than a month later, the commission found probable cause that phillips discriminated against someone else by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. >> we told you at the top of the hour that several g.o.p. candidates embracing president trump came away winners last night. now one of the president's former foes in the presidential election is finding himself in a tight race for reelection. casey stegall reports he is now calling on the president for help. >> texas republican senator ted cruz knows what it's like to be underestimated. >> when i ran in 2012, nobody thought we could win. >> six years later, he's a household name though the incumbent is now involved in a political showdown to keep hi

jack phillips, who owns masterpiece cake shop, refused to bake a cake celebrating a gender transitionlorado is on what he calls a "crusade to crush him because of his religious beliefs." global news, 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. joe: "what'd you miss?" metals are taking a hit with copper and zinc plunging to their lowest levels in over a year. gold is dropping to its lower level since january 27. here with us to walk us through this is bloomberg's intelligence commodity strategist. you brought with us -- with you some charts. what is the big story of what is going on and what are people saying? >> first of all, the dollar strength and prosperity in the u.s., which is hovering in -- is pressuring gold -- and is pressuring gold. d in terms of the turkish lira is up 80%. in terms of the dollar, it is not doing well. scarlet: what is the positioning in gold? what has it been? $1200k so much about the level, how much were investors and speculators position

. >>> jack phillips, the colorado cake shop owner is in a legal battle with the state because he refusedke a dak this time is for a interesting woman. colorado's civil rights commission filed a lawsuit against him. and that follows the six year battle with the state when he refused to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple. in june, the u.s. supreme court ruled in his favor, saying colorado's civil rightses commission was hostile towards his christian faith. but it did not rule if he violated colorado's public accommodation statute. >> the court said it is important for states to have nondiscrimination laws. and that way he should november have denied a -- should not have denied a transgender woman. >> he wants a permanent injunction in the state. he said that he was already vindicated by the streak. >>> it is coming up on our 8:00 hour. and we continue to to the developing news out of pleasant ton -- pleasanto in and what the firefighters are doing to bring it under control. (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) ♪ ♪ (sound of fo

phillipe, good to have you with us. i want to bring in jack" senior editor, you heard about the musk tweets, phillipe, and the stock price, what do you think? >> i don't want to pick a trump fight, elon musk seems to go full trump, taken to twitter to do things people don't usually do on twitter, tearing down established norms. getting himself in legal hot water. his math doesn't make sense, his logic doesn't make sense, but tesla can point to the tesla stock price over the long term. look what i have done here, i can't be so -- stuart: wait a minute, is the right guy, doing the right thing, running this company at this time? >> this does not make sense whatsoever. he is complaining about short-termism on wall street. this is company, if anything these shareholders have too much long-termism. look at short term and lack of profitability here. he is comparing himself to like michael dell -- that was a company that generated tons of cash and easily undervalued. this is kind of the opposite. he better be forthcoming where this financing is or peo

jack when he did the very same thing.">(grant) many felt the issue was just a matter of religious freedom. phillipss now suing the colorado governor... the director of the colorado civil rights division... members of the colorado civil rights commission and the state's attorney general. he is asking the court for relief-- including 100- thousand dollars in punitive damages against the director of the colorado civil rights division. lawrence karnow: low clouds cleared earlier today allowing the temperatures to warm especially inland. highs jumped again in the valleys with some temperatures getting near 90 this afternoon. showers and thunderstorms are showing up again on doppler radar over the sierra and the deserts. on the satellite image you can see a weak low moving over the high pressure center. high pressure will now expand out west and crank up the temperatures. highs tomorrow will be in the low to mid 90s inland, with 70s and 80s inside the bay and 60s at the coast. it will get a sunday. temperatures should be much cooler on monday and then run about average just when you thought you were done

damage the supreme court has already done for one before favor of the masterpiece cake shop owner jack phillips who refused service to a same sex couple citing his first amendment rights and he was worried the cake would come out of the oven gay but masterpiece bakery won the battle but lost the war jeb at least. the bigger hitter won because a colorado official said one inappropriate word about refusing service is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric. people can use to use their religion to use despicable that's not even something you can bleep that's really disappointing but despicable showed anti-religious hostility or in other words religious animus taint it's very surprising they found the taint in an otherwise perfectly legal statement the court didn't deny that gay couples rights were violated but instead declared that the state of colorado was mean to jack phillips so the struggle for rights continues the next front icing a south carolina supermarket refused to honor a graduating student in the last debate omitted the middle. it was replaced with hyphen experience was kind of f