—— david cole, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having the. it seems quite clear that your organisation, the aclu, has rebooted itself to maximise its impact is in this year of donald trump. what have you done and why? i thinki of donald trump. what have you done and why? i think i first thing that happened is that citizens throughout the united states is concerned about president trump is make election, turns to us as the oldest and largest civil liberties and civil rights organisation in the united states and join darce in untold numbers. so we had, before donald trump was elected, 400,000 members, now we are over 1.6 million members. we quadrupled our membership. and your revenues? and our revenues. people, the member so giving us support, sometimes $25 a time. sometimes much more than that. and so we sometimes much more than that. and so we have many sometimes much more than that. and so we have many more resources to so we have many more resources to deploy, but precisely because there are so many more threats to respond to and so we have

still with us, david cole. massacre.ay night as you are watching this unfold yesterday, liz, you must have -- you must have been flooded with memories. >> oh, yeah. it is not just happy memories. these are very troubling memories. in fact, you can s say that you get a tingling up and down yourr spspine from the repetition her. what triggered richard nixon's impeachment was his view that he was above the law, in particular that he could not be held accountable. he and his staff and his cocolleagues could not be held accountable under the criminal law. so in the special prosecutotor asked for his tapes --nixon had white house tapes -- and the tapes could prove whether or not he had ordered a cover-up, nixon said, no, you're not getting the tapes and you're going to be firered. and he ordered the special prosecutor fired. the attorney geral resigns, deputy aororney neraral reresign,, then theumber three fired m. the arican pele knew at thtapes could pro whher the presidt of thenited states had engaged in a cover-u

this morning my colleague david faber pull ed larry cole. he is the ceo. all i heard it's going to take a lot of time, a lot of time and then a lot of time if that's the case, why own it worse, why not sell it the bottom line, some, if not all these things had to occur, something has to occur before this market can find a sustainable bottom everything else is just a phony false floor not to be trusted. let's take a question, sir it's on you. >> ba-ba-boo-yah, dr. cramer. >> thank you >> and thank you for everything that you do for all of us sitting at home watching your show. >> well, thank you for serving >> i have a question about amd >> sure. >> with the news coming out that they're getting into business deals with amazon. >> sure. >> into the cloud sector, intel's issues with their chips, do you see them gaining significant market share in the technology sector? and if so, how -- how do you think that the stock can do? >> this is a great question, sir, because the answer is they are taking great market share. they did not have a perfect quarter last ti

let me talk about a bipartisan effort that i led with david bradley about community service grants and block the grants for community development. i advocated to bring them back and i led the nation with tom cole and others and we were able to bring resources back to help community action agencies, to help seniors with meals on wheels, to help fund childcare centers. and so there are many important issues we are working on to make sure that our children, especially our neediest parents, are getting what they deserve. charles: i am hearing some audience noise. i will remind the audience to remain quiet. so i appreciate your help on that front. good childcare is hard to find and very expensive. meanwhile, care providers are underpaid and centers struggle to pay the bills. what do you propose to do? mr. brindisi: i was part of a league of an anti-poverty initiative where we were able to secure funding for a poverty initiative and we did focus groups talking to residentss about what were the biggest needs and number one was childcare. i can tell you as a state assemblyman two of the main c