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michael cohen. with the judge did was amazing actually. everybody can say whatever they want. they can say whatever they want but i'm not allowed to say anything about anybody. it's a disgrace. >> neil: let's say noah kahan after the storm. michael cohen gets ready to testify and take the stand come monday. will donald trump's former fixer put the former president in the fix or the prosecution in a fixed? we are fixing to find out. the speed at which this trial is going has a lot of folks wondering what next. i am neil cavuto and this is your world. the legal world this past week. let's go to nate foy outside the courthouse were a lot went down today. setting up the fireworks no doubt for next monday. to you my friend. >> for sure. there's a lot of excitement, a lot of eyes will be on the courthouse monday morning with michael cohen testified but today and back of court lawyers for former president donald

trump asked judge marchand to impose a gag order on cohen as he continues discussing this case on social media even on tiktok and livestream as recently as wednesday night according to trump's lawyers. but the judge asked prosecutors to ask cohen to stop talking about the case. one of two witnesses left for the prosecution as they get ready to rest their case. prosecutors have to prove trump participated in a scheme to reimburse cohen for paying off adult film actress stormy daniels stormy daniels. trump maintain innocence after court today. >> somebody paid a lawyer and then paid the lawyer so it was a legal expense, that somebody happened to be me. i did not do the bookkeeping or know about it. a very good bookkeeper marked a legal expense down as legal expense. >> also the end of court today judge marchand requested an effort to compel allen weisselberg to testify.

the former cfo of trump organization is currently in jail for perjury. trump's former white house assistant madeleine wester helped finished testifying today she said trump signed checks with approved invoices at the white house and saw him do that while talking on the phone or in the middle of meetings. trump's lawyers are attempting to prove he was so busy as president that he didn't have the time to carefully review every payment he made while prosecuting have characterized trump as very detail oriented. trump denies payments to cohen were reimbursement for paying off daniel's and he denies that an affair with daniel's ever happened. so court will resume monday morning with michael cohen on the stand and the prosecution indicated they could rest their case at some point next week. >> thank you very much for that. >> neil: may be resting the case as soon as next week. what have time to make of that. former deputy assistant, as well

as criminal defence attorney. you talk about faster than we thought. of course there could be complications to that and by the prosecution done. what do you think? >> not faster than i thought because look. what has the prosecution brought to bear? let's play a quick little game and go over the jury instructions real fast. after michael cohen's testimony and he should be the last witness because the prosecution has saved the worst for last. the jury will have to decide at that point whether didn't donald trump falsify any business records? if they find the answer is no game set match. you don't go onto the next part of the analysis. if they find donald trump to falsify business record then they have to determine whether he did so to can feel tech conceal or commit another crime. i ask you what crime? prosecutors since april 22nd have presented no evidence of this underlying mystery predicate crime.

this case might not even see a jury next week because it should get a motion to dismiss by the defence team should be made and that on the third one should be granted. >> neil: it's doubtful that would happen as things stand at least with this judge. other to the point things could change pretty quickly. what do you see happen? >> they could. i think judge's instance in this case would be to send cases to a jury. i suspect that's what this particular judge would do just given his rulings today but i will say this for a case that supposedly about falsified business records i keep waiting to hear the evidence of falsified business records. over the last two weeks we've gotten everything from the national enquirer in the tabloids see in new york to this encounter in a tahoe hotel room but what we haven't heard very much about is the alleged crime that occurred here. the falsified business records and to the point about the predicate act i will falsified business records for the purposes of influencing the

election. that's what i think the prosecution is come to rely on michael ko into. so from my perspective the prosecutors have put all the chips in on what happens on monday when michael cohen takes a stand. you will connect all those dots. >> he was the fixer. that's what michael cohen was known for. but i think it was hope hicks who said last week at this time he really was trying to on fix problems that he caused. but that notwithstanding i'm wondering about these checks that were issued. if they are issued solely from the trump organization or trump business empire and not campaign checks. doesn't that remove the whole criminality issue. doesn't matter if a business is writing checks for whatever purposes? that's it's business. it's not campaign issue. >> that's a key point because you never lose the right to defend your reputation. you never lose the right to pay somebody not to defame new. you never lose the right to

enter into an nda. doesn't matter if you're running for president of united states or president for the pta. and the fact these funds on the checks were presented into evidence, the funds came from his personal account or business account and not from the campaign account is one of the many reasons why this case never should have been brought in the first place. and i highly doubt michael cohen is going to give us a smoking gun. i view him more as the clown at the end of this rodeo. >> let me ask you about the jury. it's not sequestered. it's highly recommended and the judge urges them not to follow television news or do anything that. but you still have donald trump before a mystery court session, after almost can i believe everyone he's commented on what's to stop them besides, you know, the word of honour that they are not following that or exposed to that. >> that's what you rely on and it something i can tell you from

personal experience that lawyers prosecutors, everyone they worry about. yes the jury is instructed they are not to look at press coverage cannot to consult outside sources but there's not really any policing or enforcement mechanism and i think the prosecutors the lawyers and defence team everyone is very aware this kind of chatter either from the president from people on tv wherever, somehow that seeps into the ether. you never know what happens. the jury will go to deliberate. they will start talking and maybe it's possible that we'll learn the content of deliberations and if somehow the outside information got into deliberations but the bottom line enormous all of these cases is you never truly can be sure but the jury heard and considered. >> as you said you need is one juror with his or her doubts but having said that i know and the only one intrigued by this. they have an obligation not to do that not to go listen to news events and all of that. but donald trump while he's not testified and likely i know how you guys feel will testify in

this trial but he is testifying outside that trial room. and i'm wondering if that's partly by design and whether that is a strategy that might work for him. >> it is genius because let's not forget he's no ordinary defendant. he's the republican nominee the presumptive nominee. he supposed in the campaign trail and has managed to brilliantly take the dark dingy corridor of the manhattan criminal courtroom and use it to get his message out especially remarkable since he's been gagged since day one unconstitutionally so. i'm going to be the want to say we tell jurors all the time they are not supposed to look at the news will do their own research and while you want to believe that's happening in the stand age it's not. pick up your phone for any reason you're getting some sort of message. and this case has been front and centre rightfully so. you know they've gotten some

extraneous information. you just got to hope they can be fair and impartial or in this case some of that extraneous information is stuff that they should know though they are not supposed research on their own. let's hope they can keep a fair and impartial outlook. >> i have no doubt stormy daniels got the most attention what's more so than financial types and representatives from verizon or at&t might be talk about e-mails and the like and i'm wondering how that resonates because you can time here with a lot of this jury has heard. >> that sounds absolutely right. in this jury they have a bit of whiplash because the way the prosecutors have presented their case if they have been jumping back and forth between testimony that was titillating but maybe not very relevant to any issues versus evidence that's definitely boring but arguably could be relevant to what the prosecutors actually charged here. so i think one challenge for these jurors and i agree with everyone let's hope to god they can remain neutral and impartial but i think one big challenge

their interfaces try to sift through this evidence. the prosecutors have given them try to weed out the stuff that salacious but irrelevant and focus on these boring details the financial transactions and issue to actually render honest verdict and deliver justice in this case rather than be distracted by other salacious nonsense it's also been presented. >> neil: tom final word. great having you on again as well. thank you both very much. >> thank you. want to throw your attention to wall street. worried about what's going on with the trial or with college protests are going on half a world away in israel has a funny way of showing it in case your accounting for another eighth straight advance. we've not seen that since december of last year and this is by far the best week for all the markets of the year. all of them averaging 2% or so and i should hasten to add much of that driven by optimism with weaker than expected economies and consumer confidence numbers tumbling, that the wherewithal for us to want to continue

spending is waning a little bit and if you are looking the federal reserve to sort of adjust that accordingly and lower rates to deal with that accordingly, that's exactly how investors interpreted and sold often brought on on the data so watching that very closely. we will pick apart things this week and on the weekend show. with the markets are telling us even as we are freaking out in so many other areas. in the meantime freaking out right now over the president's moved to start limiting arms shipments and certain kinds of arms to the israelis. up to now it's been really a lot of republicans saying he went to step 24 but now number of prominent democrats are saying those republicans are right. you did go too far. way too far. we talk with 1 of them after this.

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all of this. >> republican congressman cory mills filed an article of impeachment against the president over this alleging abuse of power. he had 26 house democrats right to the president today expressing dismay and demanding more information. the white house though is defending the president's decision. they write our actions have been done consistent with the law. we've been clear every last cent over those funds will be spent consistent with legal obligations including with respect to the recently passed supplemental. but officials are struggling to explain how the us can have an ironclad commitment to israel and back it's intention to eliminate hamas terrorists while also drawing a redline at israel's plan in rafah. >> where does the us support israel's intention to go after hamas and how are they supposed to do that if you have 4 battalions they need to go after in rafah? >> we have never ever ever told that they can try to finish off

the hamas battalions that are in rafah. we've never told them they can't operate in here. what was told them as the way they do it matters. >> neil: kirby says the us has communicated targeted careful ways to do that including going after hamas' leaders, making sure hamas cannot smuggle weapons into gaza through the border with egypt greeting alternative spaces for palestinians to go for refuge and standing up a government in gaza that doesn't put hamas in control. but congressional democrats point to the white house's own descriptions of what israel has done in rafah so far to challenge biden's decision saying it has not crossed a redline so there shouldn't be any pause in the weapons. we are expecting a state department report later today assessing israel's use of us weapons in gaza. reportedley will be sharply critical of israel but it will not conclude that it violated any of the terms of us weapons use.

however, john kirby wouldn't say today whether that report factored at all into the president's decision here to pause the shipment of thousands of bombs. >> neil: i know in your great reporting the administration said we are not the first president to do something like this and eisenhower to the same ronald reagan barack obama. i think the difference in all those cases where they didn't make it a public event in realtime jacket was quietly done this is being exposed to the world and humiliation to israel. >> yeah, and you have heard expressions of from the biden administration for many weeks may be even months now saying they don't think israel is doing enough to get humanitarian aid in. yukon simi heer heer them telling israel to dial back what it says it's big plans are and you hear the pledge from israel we are going to go forward with or without the support of united states, and descriptions of

these big kind of ground operations a plan to do. apparently the closed-door conversations came to loggerheads in the president and part because of no headway decided to make this public. there was a report describing some of those behind-the-scenes engagements over several weeks and apparently the situation with the aid workers being killed was another factor in the president's decision reportedly but this is an unprecedented break in the us israel relationship since october 7th >> to put it mildly thank you very much for that. want to go to florida democratic congressman who also has concerns about the message the president is sending. 26 democrats including the congressman signing a letter criticizing that decision to withhold weapons from israel. i believe congress the gist of where you're coming from bad timing right. >> thanks for having me. look the objective right now is

to get the hostages out, in exchange for cease-fire. that's been the objective for the last several months. what i don't understand is why do we think providing any daylight publicly between the us and israel, what we think that that is going to get us the hostages. if you are hamas watching american television saying what's going on in college campuses and now seeing obviously the messaging and united states start to change characters not more pressure on you to release the hostages there is less. the only pressure we see is pressure on israel. we don't see anything about hamas. why are we not saying that hamas needs to release the hostages? every single solitary day. and if the united states the intelligence services in united states have concluded that more military pressure is not going to release the hostages because sin where will it every palestinian die before he releases the hostages than the american administration needs to tell us that it's willing to let

it all go, he's willing to let every palestinian get killed and he's never going to release the hostages, the maceration could tell us that if they believe that's what he's try to accomplish. the man can people understand who we are doing with in college kids understand who we are dealing with and the reason the work continues is not because of israel but hamas. >> neil: president biden as you know congressman is prepared to up the ante withholding weapons thing, warning if israel doesn't outweigh invasion he will stop supplying virtually all offensive weaponry altogether so where does the stop? >> i'm not as focused on the particular weapon is like am the message. again because the objective is to try to get the hostages out in exchange for cease-fire. so if you are providing daylight whether this missile are that nsls not the particular missile. it's overall message that hamas is receiving. where is the pressure?

hamas put out a fake cease-fire the other day. totally false. where is the pressure on hamas so the palestinian people can get to a cease-fire in these really families and american families can get the hostages back? only pressure on 1 side. we will not have a cease-fire just with israel. just with 1. it takes 2 to cease-fire. so my problem is that it appears there's no pressure on hamas or qatar publicly. forget private. i understand private but publicly we need the pressure on hamas and qatar to get us to a deal to bring home the hostages. >> neil: we are not at that point very good seeing you again. thank you. in the meantime hear the implications of all of this will be a big focus on my weekend show. we're going to have the services committee ranking member watching democrat chrisman adam smith will weigh in on all of this and the indications if this

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israel has a lot of donors who have been backing him may be holding back on him. in exploring that with charlie. were you hearing? >> i deal with democratic donor base almost as much as the republican because i cover wall street so much. that's like the sweet spot of the democratic voter base. it's the guys on wall street that reliably give to democratic candidates, both in the house the senate and the presidency. i will say this though. i'm not saying they're going to stop immediately but this latest move by joe biden in terms of israel and coming back to the aid has a lot of them scratching their heads. like what is he doing, and it's causing tremendous angst in the moderate sector of the democratic voter base. i'm sure george soros loves this. the far-left ays will of this. this hits home particularly in on wall street where people are very, with jewish americans that

work on wall street and have donated lots of money thinking twice about it. they don't understand where president biden is going with this on israel. when israel was so obviously provoked. it was a massacre. hamas literally hides in civilian populations. there's not much israel can do other than to get rid of them which they have to get rid of them. by the way 1 of the things i keep hearing is the sort of weapons he's withholding our very strategic. at a most forces israel to go in for a more brute force attempt to dislodge hamas if you don't could these type of weapons he's withholding. so it's not just republicans. it is a big chunk of the democratic voters eagerly thoughts with their tongue me. my mind is an unofficial paul,

margin of error is very large because i didn't do a huge sampling. >> neil: if you think about it, you know, we are told a lot of the traditional groups they used to be with the democratic nominee or any democratic president are splintering from this 1. but when it comes to jewish voters it is too soon to tell. i would imagine giving developments over the last couple of weeks in particular these college protests that needle will move." talking to some pollsters that hasn't moved year. what are you hearing on that? >> for some of these democrats the bitter pill to pull the lever for donald trump or throw him money right now. i don't think that will happen. but you could seize sizable voters, you know, that cherish the relationship with israel not voting. in a close election that could hurt him. a lot of these in new york state which is oddly democrat but this is an issue.

people are talking about this. this is a step into another level. when reagan did it, when obama did it, israel didn't just come off of a massacre of immense proportions. that was there 9/11. it was huge. >> neil: when there was aid withheld in the past it wasn't done so publicly and embarrassingly. that's a big difference. >> it's a whole democratic party, the allegiance to that that is sort of shaking people. chuck schumer coming out and basically trying to say that get rid of netanyahu. bernie sanders who the democrats kiss up to hack his dance on israel and netanyahu. this is bad form is what i'm hearing on top of everything else. >> neil: we will follow it closely. you are never bad form. great to see you. have a safe weekend.

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[ ♪♪ ] >> neil: we have been riveted this week with donald trump in court on the hush money trial. and of course of these college and university riots going on across the country. they bubble up and they dominate what we see on our tvs and our devices depending on your age every day, day in and out. there is another time where we were riveted by the almost the same kind of thing and that was a very controversial and

unpopular president in the middle of a war, in the middle of demonstrations and it was the images that stood out. in fact sometimes you didn't even have to mention them in campaign ads. take a look at this. [ ♪♪ ] that was 1968. we remember what happened that year. lyndon johnson decide not to run and surprise the world. the year of assassinations and hubert humphrey lost to richard nixon. it was a close contest but the backdrop was a country that seemed to be on fire with protests going on everywhere. is something like that potentially playing out right now? doug shown the former content advisor, justice mullen pollster extraordinaire. what do you think? 's history potentially repeating itself? >> imagery certainly is powerful. i don't think we have quite

gotten to the point where it's as powerful as it was in 68 where there's tremendous amounts of damage being done and violence being done. but the imagery that we see in the protests and there is violence, certainly unrest, that is uncertainty. that's what it conveys. these sorts of things are the things that really start to eat around at president biden's support and i would think is a concern because the part that translates to at least i think socal would be interested to hear what doug says is potential apathy because he and certainty around translates often into voter malaise. it looks that, doesn't look at strength for the incumbency. looks like problems. i think it contributes to long-running issue president biden is facing this year and that's a potential for people to simply not show up to the polls and vote. >> neil: 's history repeating itself? are these images that play out? if they continue playing out that's a significant distinction

to justin's point but we know democrats are gathering in chicago and we know it happened when they were doing the in 1968. again and saw what we see and what we take in. anything to justin's point is not quite the same but could it be? >> yes, it could be. i think the real issue to justin's point is how big and how bad are the demonstrations in chicago this summer? because i think it's logical to assume there will be large numbers of young people protesting in support of the palestinian cause. and i think there goal is almost certainly going to be the single of the left in 1968 which is to distract the democratic nominating convention. we are not there yet with critical mass of violence but as

i sit here, i remember 68. i was involved, and i saw the impact in the polls and in the streets. and i worry particularly with the week left-wing mayor in chicago, we could have real chaos which could be terribly terribly destructive of the biden-harris ticket. >> neil: the same moment even though we knew what would happen to richard nixon with watergate and controversies. at that moment in time he seemed to be sort of tough on crime alternative to other bedlam bedlam and mayhem in the country and americans welcomed it albeit by a very small margin. donald trump is a much more controversial figure today and maybe that could explain why polls are still relatively tight between the 2 men. what do you think? >> yeah, nexen was really the salve on troubled waters and that combined with this as you mentioned bringing back piece

through enforcing and ensuring less violence, that was a tremendous propulsion towards his eventual victory. meanwhile president trump has an interesting conundrum. well all the images are going on on campuses, we are watching images from the courtroom in new york and any other president or candidate at any other time this would be the series of images that were tank that candidacy. yet that's not what's happening here. the president seems to be or former president seems to be relatively untouched by this. largely because i think there's no surprises with the man. people are watching purely for entertainment value and i don't think you will have lasting effect. the polls don't seem to indicate it will have significant effect over time. >> neil: colour conviction change that? >> it could but as we sit here

today when you look at stormy daniels, nicky kohen, the nature of the process in new york, i believe the conviction for the vast majority of trump voters today will before president trump was right. this was basically a gang up on him, a ridiculous trial involving events that largely occurred before he was elected in 2016. his argument is this was to protect his family care, not about electoral outcomes. 11 think ultimately this will have the potential impact on the election cap particularly if there are not other trials which seems increasingly likely that the potential of more violence on campus, and more violence in the streets of chicago and beyond that for joe biden.

selecting just in his right. we haven't seen any impact. and i don't really think of those convictions country have that much impact on the polls. >> neil: we shall see. we'll talk about this a lot more tomorrow on my weekend show and what history tells us about this stuff. it does not play out exactly like you think. in the meantime there is good news going on. we don't want to lose sight of the and for moms it is their weekend and their moment. for dads who wonder why mom always gets more we think we have discovered why. they are loved more than you dad and i am a dad.

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[ ♪♪ ] >> neil: baron, barron trump has declined to be a convention delegate. this is coming from the office of melania trump. while baron is honoured to have been chosen as a delegate by the florida republican party. he regretfully declined to participate due to prior commitments so he won't be going. a lot of people looking forward to see him going. we are told he often advises and helps his dad but he will not be at the convention. we get any more details we will keep you posted. in the meantime getting more details about 48 hours away from mother's day and we are ready and willing to spend a lot a lot of money on her mom's.

33 and a half million dollars goes up double every year. it's usually double what we spend on dad's and i said that notice it with my own kids like hello. we have herzog following retail watcher a squared research kelly o'grady, fox business correspondent. madison. we begin with you. it does not surprise me we spent a lot of moms, but so much more than dads. why? >> i think because moms do more. >> neil: you actually went there. >> i bring you the truth even when it hurts. >> neil: okay kelly? >> i will piggyback off of that. my dad did not berth me and carry me. love you dad. you have something good coming. that's the birth tax. you have to pay mom little extra jewellery and spending. >> i will sing gifts for mom in general cost more which also speaks to the intelligence of women. if men had said they wanted diamonds as gifts may be that would also be the same amount.

but we get it and we know to ask for the jewellery and the flowers, for the expensive stuff >> my wife is fine with processed meats and cheeses. what do you make of this? >> i have to piggyback on everyone talking right now. to your point people are estimated to spend about $7 billion on jewellery just for mom and another 3 billion on flowers. this is a huge boon for especially local businesses. now, i also have to agree. i have mom twins. they are on their ipads as we speak in the other room as i do this news hit. just to let everyone know moms not only do it all but we are killing it for ourselves and everyone else in that family. so i think we deserve all the flowers and all the jewellery. >> neil: you all seem to be in desperate need of attention. >> we are not biased at all. >> neil: i want to switch gears on another story. taylor swift still single not a

mom herself. i was learning fans are actually flying going to europe, because the price of her tickets for the eras tour, whatever it is act are a lot cheaper than united states. why? >> it's all about the resale. tickets in the us were not that expensive. they were reasonable by us standards. the resale market drove things up. so $100 ticket was going for thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars but europe has put certain caps on what people can resell and how often they can resell. >> neil: do they have scalpers like amsterdam or london no matter what? >> i would assume so. personally i have to disagree with madison. >> you were with her a lot on mothers. >> we are providing variety. i am more likely myself to go to paris to see the olympics not taylor swift. but it is this conception of a thing called tour tourism. we saw this with beyoncé.

i myself have gone to vegas to see michael bublé. it all came after the pandemic. people are like okay i want to go to these experiences and be around people. i'm willing to spend the money if i get to do it in a cool place. >> neil: i would spend that in a mortgage on adele but that's why i draw the line. what do we make of this? it makes you think when young people, notches young people but when they can crunch numbers and say it's cheaper to get a ticket for me for a date and friend and go halfway around the world than it is to get the same ticket to see taylor here? >> i think at that point is probably going to signal to some policymakers to start really examining how much they are allowing to have tickets resold and also the price increase on those tickets. we saw a lot of artists last summer speak out about this. i have been to bf and over the cure so i know that goth band

really spoke out about that last year when they were playing madison square garden. i think we'll probably see a lot more policy driven decisions based on that because no 1 wants to see a bunch of fans attrition into europe to see their favourite band. but i have to say i happen to live in the upper west side and i know a lot of moms are taking their daughters to see the eras tour this weekend is a mother's day gift. that's not going to be me but i know women are out there doing that. >> neil: is she going to be touring forever by the way? this has been going on a long time. >> now she's doing europe. she just released a new album and it was in paris last night. they revealed the new album is part of the set. people like me who have gone twice could make the argument to go again maybe with my mom this weekend to see the new pieces of the show. >> neil: or dad. [ laughter ] >> honestly my papa has a better

dance moves that my mom so the person to bring to a concert would be my dad. >> neil: whatever. you are young and restless. i don't get it. okay i have to run out. i'm not going to forget to get the processed meats and cheeses for my special mom. in the meantime want to bring you up-to-date on something happening in this country, something you could see in this country that i think is bigger than the eclipse. as far south as alabama over the next couple nights you can see the aurora borealis, the northern lights. sometimes reserved for much colder more remote climates. virtually every state in this country possibly has a crack at seeing that. after this. [ ♪♪ ] ♪ northern lights confuse our skies, empty lights ♪ you're great too, ryan. not as great as the soil, though. okay... you said it.

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learn more at tempurpedic.com >> neil: it has been incredible weather in this country, incredible rip-roaring tornadoes and then severe storms and flooding throughout much of the country. following all of that. rick, what are we in for this week? how do things look? >> we are almost done with his incredibly active pattern. over the last few days we have had 124 tornadoes. we have also had a lot of wind and hail in texas that was the size of a cantaloupe, or 6 inches in diameter, almost breaking a record of the state of texas. this morning we had tornado warnings and a lot of

damage in the tallahassee area. that batch of storms is gone. one last little gasp of all of this severe weather right here across parts of south carolina and north carolina, and a lot of warnings in effect, some hail and some wind beer none of these are traumatic but it is gettingr overall this weekend looking much improved for pretth everybody, at least severe weather. mother's day forecast, sunday, rain across parts of the central plains. not as much severe weather with that. georgia looking at rain, could be flooding in texas and parts of the northeast, it is going t, still, and temperatures in the 50s. one other story, neil, we are watching is a major solar storm that is just beginning right now, getting up to severe strength, and that is already starting. this is what we have seen at the last few hours. may be some salad light interruptions, maybe some power issues, those are the bad parts.

the good parts is may be potential for seeing the northern lights, this massive solar storm is going to bring a really good aurora viewing tonight. a little bit of cloud cover across parts of the northeast, that's going to be a problem so you have to get a combination of the northern lights and no clouds out there appear to have you ever seen the northern lights, neil? >> neil: i have. stunning. absently stunning. >> it is a lifetime experience. this is one of the nights, going to be one of the best in years across the northern tier, so if you are a clear sky clear sky's guys, take mom outside at 2:00 in the morning and get a really amazing >> neil: take a look ate northern lights. there you go, got that. >> got your day planned. >> neil: rick reichmuth, thank you. alabama, mississippi, georgia, that is incredible. there is that. celebrate that. meanwhile, "the five" right now. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. i'