this is according to "the washington post," lenore.his is exactly the opposite what we had been hearing up until now. that business had been taking risks because they felt like those tax cuts were on the way. they felt like this administration would allow them to get their business done. are we now seeing the inverse because congress has proved itself once again to be wildly inept? what do you think? >> well, when we came in we got the trump bump. everybody was excited. we'll see deregulation, tax cuts. it would be great for the economy. we'll see inflation return and economic growth come back. that was putting awful lot on administration dealing with a congress that is dysfunctional. melissa: i have to put you on hold just a second. we have breaking news. disney reporting third quarter results. we want to go back to nichol for the numbers. what do you see? >> earnings per share, by the way they're making an acquisition. that is big news. ending streaming deal with netflix. that is the top number one news. shares are down 2.3%. , per s

melissa: steve and lenore are with us. when we talk about china, trade policy or intellectual property i think this is tied to north korea. that is what it was in the beginning. another way of putting pressure on china where they care about it, so they are more helpful than they have been with the situation in north korea. am i reading that correctly, or do you think i'm nuts? >> i think that is part of it, melissa of course. but it is bigger than that even. we have near term problems with north korea but we have long-term problems with china. forever, we have treated china, certainly sips the year 2000, by the way as republican i will put as much blame on the bush administration as i would on the obama administration. we have treated china as though we are equal trading partners, when it is nothing of the sort. we have given them the benefit of the doubt on every trading aspect while they have willfully, knowingly on wholesale basis utterly stolen our intellectual property. so i'm so proud of president trump to say enough

david: lenore, i go after bigger fish. i go after al gore, if i was a coal company, damage he cost, billions and billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, his rhetoric most of which has turned out to be dead wrong, most of his predictions led to disaster for coal. >> i think what we're really seeing here is manifest station started with we have to pass it before we find out what is it in. truth doesn't matter. all that matters if you think you're right. david: good point. >> if you think you're right, the means justifies end, because you have angelic ends, lie steal and cheat because the ends matter. david: lenore, you make a great point. melissa: oil up more than 1% after u.s. crude inventories fell three million barrels last week. for the month oil is still down more than three half%. david: a long chain of broken american heroes. president trump speaking before the american legion this afternoon. how the commander-in-chief is promising to help our nation's veterans. melissa: plus the grand old divide. growing concern that

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stuart: lenore hawkins is with us. lenore, you spent a lot of time in europe., i think. i want you to tell us how close is europe -- and this is a serious question now, you may or may not be able to answer it -- how close is europe to civil strife? communities going at each other? is it close? >> no, not at all. for example, in sicily which is the closest, that's the furthest south in italy, that gets the most of these illegal immigrants coming in. the tourism there is up 20% over last year. so they're actually feeling pretty good. now, there is a lot of tension, for example, between italy and france because of the immigration issue. italy does get the vast majority of these illegal immigrants streaming in just because of its geography, and the rest of europe is not real excited about getting them as well, so they get kind of stuck at the italian border which causes a lot of tension. but overall, europe's actually doing pretty well. the second quarter gdp for france was the best in two years. for spain it was the best in six years, for italy the best in 17 year

lenore, what's at stake for the president tonight?d after it's -- eclipse. >> well, i think he really needs to regain some trust. what happened with jeff sessions has a lot of his allies a little bit nervous. if he's going to have their back, if they have his back. and he almost needs to gain some ground with losing a lot of these business leaders who made it very public that they believed that having that kind of association with president trump was more costly than the men pits derived from being on these different councils. neil: you know, we talk about how this is much more than an address that would focus not on e clips, but on -- eclipses, but on the president getting his momentum back. that was disrupted after the charlottesville events. what do you think? >> yeah, i think that a change in middle east policy's about as rare as a sew already lahr eclipse -- solar eclipse for the united states. and i think americans are, frankly, kind of annoyed by what's been happening in the middle east in the past years, we haven't made progre

stuart: thanks, lenor, we will see you very soon. >> thank you, stuart. president trump is not backing down. john is with us, national review columnist, the president has taken on mitch mcconnell, he's standing firm against the north koreans, is he holding onto his base? >> yes, the base is about 40% or so, he is holding onto it. they wanted dramatic change in washington. they knew they were going a bowl in a china shop. over time the president has to expand the base a little bit, i think he's holding the base in part because 52% of voters say the only thing they know about the democratic party is complete resistance of donald trump, they can't cite anything the democratic party is for. so it's a completely negative attack on trump. i don't think a party does well doing that. stuart: surprises me that it's holding onto base, i have seen the polls, 85% of the people who voted for him, would vote for him again despite -- >> he would beat hillary clinton still. stuart: doesn't that surprise? >> no, she was a bad candidate. always compare today -- compared to

lenor, thank you very much. [laughter] >> have a great day.. i want to question you heavily. president trump in coal country. our next guest, you know him, robert murray, murray energy ceo has got strong opinions about what to do next. you want to end the special tax credits for wind and solar companies as i recall, make your case, why? >> absolutely. we want to eliminate those tax credits for windmills and solar panels that are benefiting billionaires in the united states who are having them built in china. electricity from a windmill and solar panels cost 26 cents a kilowatt hour. electricity costs 4 cents with natural gas in between. we need a level playing field. we need to get the government, stuart, out of the energy business and the united states. we need to let the free markets decide how we will make our low cost electricity. it is a staple of life. it is needed for every manufacturer in the country and for every person on a fixed income. stuart: robert, are you talking to the president in this kind of thing, he was in coal country, w