the tapes made by michael cohn could be a gold mine for prosecutors because they are from. forty's and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial now one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest liability. of the sharon grand prix is taking place this weekend for are a driver of the bus and fast on home turf is looking to stretch his mate at the top of the driver's standings. with the locals in saturday's qualifying after securing pole the german will stars alongside finnish driver about terry came second both houses fellow countryman in the right tone and will begin in paris closest rival for the championship lewis hamilton of refugees only posted the fourteen to find just time i tried tronics they are still have abandoned the section. budget any need to discuss today's chairman grand prix in hockenheim is none other than cross how many parents in from the state of the sports it's a massive file is having a great campaign so far this season tell me what are his chances of winning in the in the hockenheim stay at home. considering he's on home tur

office, a recording of donald trump and michael cohn discussing a payment to a playboy model. ru rudy giuliani confirmed he discussed it on taip. denying the payment was ever made but the recording is less than two minutes long. the "new york times" say the fbi got it when they raided michael cohn's office. >> karen mcdougal, the former playmate, these were allegedly paid to cover up an affair he had with her while married to first lady, melania trump. >> one of the writers who has broken the story from the "new york times" joins us on the phone. >> i'm going to start. what? >> right. right. lordy, there are tapes. so it was important to remember about mcdougal's case is she came forward to the "national inquirer" in the final months of the campaign, and said i had this consensual affair with donald trump, and i want to tell istory. they paid her but then never ran the story. it's what's known in the tabloid world as capture as kill. it effectively kept the story from coming out during the campaign. when "the wall street journal" broke this story days before election day, the

in the recording trump and cohn supposedly talk about a hush payment to mcdougal. the f.b.i. found the tape when it raided cohn's office in april he was known as trump's fixer for many years and it's not the only tape said to exist the tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for prosecutors because there are problems boys and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial. one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest liability. so let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world hamas says it has reached an agreement with israel to end weeks of bloodshed in the gaza strip it comes a day after clashes that killed an israeli soldier and four palestinians three of them amassed fighters israel hasn't commented on the cease fire but so far the truce appears to be holding. spain's conservative popular party has picked. as its new leader he replaces former prime minister mariano rajoy who was ousted after a no confidence vote in june because that is appointment represents a shift to the right for the party which is hoping for a comeb

barrett cohn takes us inside the secret world of preipo shares. >>> and one of tesla's earliest employees thinks he can revolutionize batteries. our reporters from barons john schwartz and david baker from the san francisco chronical this week on press: here. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. i have been covering silicon valley since the '90s, and in that time i have come up with a few rules. conclusions based on what i've seen. one of my top rules is don't build the box. you will not make money making hardware. case in point, go pro. the camera company went public to great fanfare in 2014 and since then go pro shares have fallen by 75% in the company's laid off hundreds. now there's nothing wrong with go pros except their hardware. hardware gets cheaper, copy cats spring up and that's why you don't build the box. apparently san francisco startup was not aware of my wisdom because they're building a box, a camera, a great one that has all kinds of features. it records all angles simultaneously allowing you to choose later in editing what to feature in the video, and amazing im

in the recording trump and cohn supposedly talk about a whole payment to macdougal. the f.b.i. found the tape when it raided cohn's office in april he was known as trump's fixer for many years and it's not the only tape said to exist the tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for process because there are problems. and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial now one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest liability. unless i have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world spain's conservative popular party has picked pablo casado as its new leader he replaces former prime minister mariano rajoy who was ousted after a no confidence vote in june aside his appointment represents a shift to the right for the party which is hoping for a comeback just in time for general elections in twenty twenty. sergio marchione at the head of carmaker fiat chrysler is stepping down due to ill health after fourteen years at the helm the sixty six year old will also relinquish his duties of luxury carmaker ferrari where he was chief executive

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scott cohn reveals the top state for business >> cohn will be here unveiling the top -- the runners up. five, four, three, and two we rank all 50 states. and these states are the elite, not quite the top state, but they are among them. we will have that coming up as we begin our countdown later this hour on "squawk." >>> welcome back to "squawk box. futures right now for most of the morning have been up somewhere around 50. now we're up 71 on the dow s&p indicated up seven there was a little weakness in the pound recently, but given what's happening in europe, not too bad in terms of dollar strength but it is a little stronger there. 1.69 on the euro >>> pepsico reporting better than expected. joins us now nik modi. good to see you. why do you think the stock's up so much? >> expectations were pretty low coming into the quarter. a lot of head winds facing all the cpg companies. any company with exposure is feeling some pain. pepsi had a very good quarter, but optically, the beat was actually -- looks a bit overdone in the sense they sold a bunch of assets that effectively caused the be

steve cohn is joining us. he's a democrat and a member of the house judiciary committee. let me get your reaction to what ruth bader ginsburg said. she survived two cancers, she can survive anything. we need her for at least 2 1/2 years. i think she makes it and she serves america admirably. >> let me ask you about the president's attacks on the news media here in the united states calling the news media the enemy of the american people. as you know, the new publisher of t"the new york times" warned the president during a private off the record meeting that the president's attacks could lead to violence against members of the news media. do you believe that people could take the president ae's vitreols a call to arms? >> i definitely think they could. they believe everything he puts out. it's like james jones and they drank the kool-aid. i'm afraid he could incite them to violence. a lot of them are on edge. the free press is important to america as a bullwart of democracy. >> it was an off the record meeting and then the president tweeted about the meeting and as a resul

scott cohn has that part of the tonightr us >> alaska, the last frontier is the last place state in 2018. oil is th state's lifeblood and the price of oil has increased, but not enough to meaningfully boost production on the north slope in a sta that depends on oil for 85% of its revenue. >> the result, alaska had to do something this year that it has never done before. it dippe into its oil well, the so-called alaska permanent fund to head off the $2.5 billion budget deficit, a controversise move bect reduces the oil dividend that alaskans receive eachier. governor bill walker says it puts the state on a more sustainable path, but damage is already done. unemployment is the highest in the nation. workers are fleeing. business capital is steering heclear and for t first time since 2009, alaska is america's bottom state for business. >> for "nightly business report," i'm scott cohn. >>> he aays does such a great job. >> oil is very much a part of their economy right now, but it's all about a job growth if you're not getting that, they're at the bottom there. that will do it tonight for us

excesses on roy cohn. mccarthy was the boss and the excesses were his responsibility. he hated roy cohn, he hated j. edgar hoover. he detested jimmy hoffa. the head of the biggest, most powerful union in america, he thought was corrupt. those people you could argue was good reason to detest. the fourth person on the hate list was a great tragedy, to me, was lbj. constitutionally these guys were so different. one was a harvard educated guy who grew up rich in massachusetts. the other was a guy from east texas who grew up poor and resented anybody who was harvard educated and who talked like bobby kennedy talked. and had they ever united, in a coalition, they could have gotten more extraordinary things done. they both wanted to promote civil rights. both wanted to end poverty. the idea that they were at cross-purposes to me is a huge tragedy and i think one of the things that made lbj more determined than ever to stay in vietnam was that bobby kennedy was calling for him to come out of vietnam. and bobby wou

he talks about what he learned from roy cohn, the importance of loyalty he learned from roy cohn. i think he also learned about media, and he talked to -- learned about what the president calls in "the art of the deal" truthful hyperbole that the rest of us would call lying. [laughter] but, i mean, i think there's -- i can't think of a -- look, bill clinton told lies, richard nixon told lies, they all tell lies. nixon and clinton told bigger lies, but i can't think of an american politician that is as cavalier with the truth to this extent unless you go back to mccarthy. >> right. >> i mean, everything he said was a lie. there were communists trying to infiltrate the government, but j. edgar hoover was nabbing them, mccarthy was just smearing people in the state department. >> right. >> mccarthy smeared general marshall, a hero of world war ii and of the postwar. yeah, they have a lot in common in terms of just an utter and complete disregard for truth. and smearing. but what stand for is very different. trumpism and mccarthyism, and donald trump as a person and joe mccarthy as a

scott cohn is in the lone star state for us tonight ♪ >> year after year, from the hill country to the gulf coast, no s has more of what it takes to compete than texas, america's top infrastructure. >> this is the energyit c of the world. >> ready access to capital and a culture of innovation, but this year texas has something else. >> a prop rightour here. >> yan see it at the mulberry cafe in midland, one of the fastest growing cities in america. >> j startinguary 1, the city became on fire. >> texas crude up some f60%m a year ago, helping make texas america's top economy wit more than 350,000 new jobs in the st year. >> texas is the number one state in the united states f any migration from other states. people are voting with their feet. people are comingatp to the of texas more than any other state and there's people and companies. >> but, texas does poorly in education. no state has a larger percentage of people without health insurance. crime is u d and theocratic nominee for governor warns about the message that's senty message by a state ban on es sanctuary polior immigrants a

cohn, we'll see you tomorrow get down safe. >> i think i got it. that one gave it away, but we'll see. >>> starbucks is ditching straws and flipping for lids. it says here, kate rogers is live in new york city with that very story for us, kate? >> reporter: hi, bill, that's right. starbucks announced this morning it's going to be getting rid of those single use plastic straws by 2020. instead you order a cold or ice drink you're going to get one of these, a recycle strawless plastic kid. the company designed these but it's not saying how much it cost to implement these once these plastic straws are phased out, you can actually get an alternative material straw including one that's made out of paper. a major reason for these change is the popularity of cold beverages. starbucks said here in the u.s. they now account for 50% of the mix. the phase-out will begin in seattle and vancouver this fall. these lids are already available at 8,000 of the company's locations in the u.s. and canada and they said in making this change they will be getting rid of

found the tape when it raided cohn's office in april he was known as trump's fixer for many years and it's not the only tape said to exist the tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for us because there are problems. and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial now one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest liability. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world spain's conservative popular party has picked who was its new leader he replaces former prime minister mariano rajoy who was ousted after a no confidence vote in june because of his appointment represents a shift to the right for the party which is hoping for a comeback in time for general elections in twenty twenty. the divine mercy of charge in nicaragua capital managua has reopened its doors with a mass for the church came under siege a week ago when critics of president or tega took refuge inside gunmen loyal to the president had started shooting at the opposition members and followed them into the church two people died in the siege. singapore's health system has b

found the tape when it raided cohn's office in april he was known as trump's fixer for many years and it's not the only tape said to exist. tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for prosecutors because they are problems voice and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial now one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest liability. in cycling a late sprint from sponsored omar frye last saw him win the fourteenth stage of the tour de france on a rider fi lot was spot system on stretched his first ever stage when and then there was a britain's carol and thomas who retains the yellow jersey as overall leader a change skyrider couldn't escape questions on the controversy created by doping allegations surrounding teammates chris froome. stage fourteen a one hundred and eighty eight kilometer route culminated in a difficult final climb in the town of mond and it was along that ascent of belgium's just pursue even who had led for over thirty kilometers was finally caught by spain's all modify like france's judean phillipe jumped ahead of story even into second

found the tape when it raided cohn's office in april. he was known as fixer for many years and it's not the only. tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for prosecutors because they are problems boys and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial now one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest. well the german girl is taking place this weekend for the boss in fact all is on home turf and he is looking to stretch his lead at the top of the driver standings as he delights in the locals and saturday for the final just securing pole position the german will start in on five finish dr paul terry who came second boat out this fellow countryman kimi raikkonen well began and third in closest rival for the championship knew it hamilton of receiving only posted to fourteenth fastest time across his drawn expander tell him the fountain of fashion. joining me now and she just goes today's german grand prix in hockenheim is now another thing crashed harrington from the fourth death crash why do you reckon sebastian vet

america that and what he thinks of president trump's budget policy is coming up >>> but first scott cohn unveiled the nation's best state for business this morning, but there are two sides to every coin, right scott? h that indeed is correct, wilf. weave 50 states, so if there are top states there have to be bottom states. so who's at the bottom we'll run them down coming up. ♪ a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. no matter how much you clean, does your house still smell stuffy? that's because your home is filled with soft surfaces that trap odors and release them back into the room. so, try febreze fabric refresher. febreze finds odors trapped in fabrics and cleans them away as it dries. use febreze every time you tidy up to keep your whole house smelling fresh air

found the tape when it raided cohn's office in april he was known as trump's fixer for many years and it's not the only type said to exist the tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for prosecutors because they are. always and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial now one of the president's one time closest aides could be his biggest liability. on german football arm as it is al has broken his silence on his controversial meeting with the turkish president wretch of thai of our two on he was photographed there is one along with fellow germany international just weeks before the world cup and russia as well who has turkish roots the said he was basically there to want to get insisting it was not supposed to germany international said refusing an invitation to meet with any turkish president would have been disrespectful to his festers roots was heavily criticized for the meeting and both german media and by the german football association. and the golf world waits in anticipation to say tiger woods attempts to pull off a victory in the british open at would be an incredib

scott cohn of nbc's "american greed" looks at one of those scams and how you can avoid becoming a victim. >> king ping kenny chapmanliook famies at the lowest point they could imagine and made life even worse. >> the collateral damage that has been done by kenny chapman and the other facilities florida to the parents, to the siblings, is insurmountable. >> reporter: in a story told in the next "american greed," chapman's south florida chain of treatment facilities were, in fact, vehicles for him to collect reimbursements. instead of getting patients off drugs, he gave them more to keep th insurance money coming in. rehabas become big business, and where there's big money, there's big potential for wrongdoing. some unregulated treatment centers can do more harm than good. >> you know, if there's ever an area where let the buyer beware, this is one. and i can't stress that enough. >> reporter: mark neschick that's because regulations vary from state to state. se he has be ware of anything offered for free. that could be a sign of kickbacks. and be sure to visit the facility beforehand. >>

scott cohn is crunching the categories, working on this for months he joins us now with more. scott? >> reporter: hi, morgan. remember, we rate the states not just overall but ten categories of competitiveness there is a top state in each of those categories here is this year's honor roll or call it honor wall. work force, most important category is massachusetts. not only does massachusetts have one of the most educated work forces, no state with a better record on worker training programs infrastructure, almost no contest, texas is number one ships the most commodities by dollar value, and texas bridges are the best in the nation cost of doing business arkansas, wages and utility costs are low and you can get industrial space for a song. the best economy is texas with a wealth of industries, these days lots of oil wealth as well quality of life, vermont, edging o out hawaii technology and innovation, california no state earned more patents and attracting science research money. education is massachusetts business friendliness, legal and regulatory climate, new hampshire wher

so giuliani wants to plant those levers to plant in the brains of republicans that cohn can't en trusted, he's a liar. >> rudy giuliani is staying before we agree to anything, we have to know, that's the way investigations work. and trump officials are likely to write their own report, their own summary of the case. just the whole legal process seems to be turned upside down here. >> devin nunez will write his own report. giuliani is negotiating in public and in private. the terms of whatever engagement happens between robert mueller and donald trump. that is his primary job, a lot of that will happen in public, who knows exactly what's happening in private. this is all part of that dance. eventually, i think there's going to be some kind of agreement between the two, i would hope so, because otherwise we're going to be down to some kind of showdown that might require the courts to intervene. >> related to all this of course, the president again tweeting over the weekend about attacking the russia probe and saying it's a witch hunt again and basically saying that public opinion has stron

i think that clarifies his message to me, that he thinks that cohn can do a lot of damage as nixon be. >> i'm not saying who my source is, my source could be a woman. >> i understand. >> i see your point. they know the story and the parallels, if so, maybe michael cohn is more damaging to this administration and this story than could be. >> that's the way i read it, don. and trump of course, as we learned in fire and fury, is alarmed by me every time he sees me on your show. >> there are differences though between your situation and cohen's though, right? >> e many, many yes. for example, internally i tried to get others to join me in ending the cover up, including the president of the united states, and argued that we were breaking the law and i couldn't sell on it internally. and told them what i have going to do is break rank and go to the prosecutors, and was very open about it. while i was dealing with the prosecutors through my lawyer. there are dbig differences. the other thing that's interesting though, don, i had two lawyers. i had a lawyer that is in many ways like we have h

supervi supervisor cohn. >> thank you everyone for agreeing to hear these items. today's meetings is a long time in the making. the original hunters point redevelopment shipyard plan was approved 21 years ago in 1997. at that time the success of negotiating the stakeholders to secure a commitment from the developer of providing 32% affordable housing was unprecedented. this development set the gold standard for what was possible in affordable housing negotiations and i applaud the forward thinking inclusionary housing numbers along with the advanced community benefits that came with them. the success is coupled with a promise of a boost to the local economy through hundreds of jobs sounded like a dream. it sounded like a dream to most hunter's point, bay view residents and others living in the southeast who looked forward to the addition of many amenities. so today i'm hopeful that my colleagues will join me in moving forward modest suggests to phase two of the hunters point shipyard redevelopment plan. these changes will allow shifts in four key areas. first land

and she's going to have a live on-stage one-hour interview by luminary, bonnie cohn. she'll be on stage with liz garbis. >> wonderful. >> but wanted to talk also about our closing night film, which is sammy davis, junior, "i've got to be me". this is a film by sam pollard, another great documentary film maker. he was the editor for many of spike lee's films. he's been nominated for an academy award and this is an overview of sammy davis, junior's life. >> wonderful. >> and it's much more complex and complicated than i ever imagined. he was t ciefl heri fghints movemorent w martin luther king, jr. when i was growing up, he was kind of known as having hugged richard nixon. but there's so much more to his life. that's the clip we're going to see. >> should we go to the clip or would you like to set it up? >> this is is a trailer of the film so we can go right to it. >> let's go. >> i'm colored, jewish and puerto rican. when i move into a neighborhood, i wipe it out. >> sammy davis, junior's life was about confronting obstacles. ♪ mr. bojangles, mr. bojangles, mr. bojan

cohen taping his own client without his client's knowledge, but i was told that's the least of michael cohn's problems right now. >> that's broke right, one of the things that first came to mind was that this potentially raises some ethics issues for michael cohen, although given the professional criminal charges he might be facing, him worrying about the new york bar right now probably isn't at the top of his list, but it's definitely an issue. >> i know you lad an opportunity to get reaction from rudy giuliani, the president's lawyer. tell us briefly what he said about this, he obviously knew that there was a recording, there was at least one recording probably a whole lot more between donald trump and michael cohen. >> to be clear on that, there is probably not a whole lot more in this cachay of what might have been seized. there's people close to the president might be assuming that our reporting and we asked a lot of people about this was that from what they have gone through from what was seized, this is it, i think people are speculating because cohen was known to tape, this is somethi

. >> yes, that's what gary cohn thought, until he realized, it's not me, it's him, i can't do anything to help him. i want to share what the president told cnbc. listen to this. >> i have been far tougher on russia than any president in many, many years. maybe ever. look at the sanctions i've put on. look at the diplomats i threw out. look at all of the things that i've done. nobody else has done what i've done. obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. getting along with vladimir putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had. the worst he's ever had. >> obama's a patsy to russia. let's remind our audience the sanctions, trump had to have his hand forced by congress and one of the reasons russia remains in a financial crisis since 2014 is because of the sanctions obama and the eu placed on russia after the annexation of crimea. i invite you, mr. president, do your homework. >> yes, homework, going beyond obama. tougher than ronald reagan. the evil empire. bring down this wall

>> federal prosecutors are investigating michael cohn for a variety of crimes related to these payments, campaign violations, and potential bank fraud. and it is never a good thing when you are talking to someone about a matter under which they are funder federal investigatio. here we have the president of the united states having conversations with michael cohen about a matter that is the subject of a federal criminal investigation. that's significant because one of the -- you don't commit crimes nearly by being associated with somebody, you need to have knowledge and be involved in the criminal activity. now this, as described in the "new york times" article, this recording doesn't suggest that the president has that level of knowledge, but it does show that he knew of the transaction, he was involved and you know the question at this point is what other recordings and what other evidence is there involving his knowledge of these kinds of payments. >> what other questions do you have for donald trump and rudy giuliani? >> well, one question would be, what specifically did the presiden

let's get up to mike cohn in san francisco for the latest. >> given today's news it's not surprising that this is one of the names that saw the most unusual options activity over 20 times the average daily call volume traded in broadcom today and where we saw most of that activity was the august 220 call it is when i was looking at this earlier and over 5,000 it traded for an average price of 365, by the end of the day, 7,000 of those had traded and these were bullish bets that it could recover above 220 and maybe not back to where it was before this deal was announced and 220 before the amount that was spent, 365 you can imagine this might be a reasonable way to spend 2% of the stock price if you are inclined to bet on a bit of a bounce here. options premiums have not risen in spite of this news which i think is very surprising and people should try to take advantage of that. >> mike, thanks for that mike cohn in s fncanraisco for more options action check out the full show at 5:30 p.m. eastern time up, in, final trade. as awful. why are you so good at this? had a coach in high scho

and scott cohn is in that mystery state right now. trying to take a look. give us a tease. >> well, a mystery it's going to remain just a little while longer the way we come up with america's top state for business is primarily data, but we also go out around the country trying to test some of that data. coming up we'll look at one of the studies for our travels. it involves thhee lp wanted signs. that's coming up on "the closing bell." originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. when it might be time to buy or sell? with fidelity's real-time analytics, you'll get clear, actionable alerts about potential investment opportunities in real time. fidelity. open an account today. >>> welcome back to "the closing bell." harvey weinstein back in court ipnew york city pleading not guilty to more sexual assault charge hey, contessa. >> hi there. so harvey weinstein is facing more charges the former studio head 66 years old walked into court. the most searerous are fe

scott cohn has an example. >> it's dinnertime at the four taarter restaurant. the most impornt meal of the day because it's the only meal when they're open. >> the only thing that's holding you back is not being able to find people? >> absolute. >> the idea of trying to open more svices here. you know, it's not even -- we can't even barely staff our dinner service. >> the four quarter is in madison,t wisconsin, could be in almost any other state. the labor department 6 reports pngt 7 million job openings nationwide. more openings than there are unemployed people to fill them. in especially short supply? skilled workers whether on computers or inhe ki. it's really bad in wisconsin, with unemployment at historic lows. that'seyond theiant fox plant that's supposed to add 13,000 jobs. i wisconsi targeting chicago millennials. an hour commute or an hour with friends. in wisconsin, the average commute is it less than 22 minutes. >> patrick cunningham and h wife made the move 3 1/2 years ago. >> beer and cheese, tt's farming, that's all people think of. >> state offic

actually think president trump owes much more to mccarthy protÉge and president trump's mentor roy cohn and that is again not invented. that's just really mean if you a pick up the art of the deal and i'm sure everyone has a copy at home, he talks about roy cohn and what he learned from him. of the importance of loyalty he learned from roy: and probably learned about media. learned about what the president calls part of the deal truthful hyperbole that the rest of us call lying, but, i mean, i can't -- look, bill clinton told lies, richard nixon told lies. richard and clint told bigger lies, but i can't think of an american politician that is as cavalier with the truth to this extent, sheila back to mccarthy, i mean, everything he said was a lie there were communists trying to infiltrate the government, but j edgar hoover was napping them. mccarthy was just smearing people in the state department. mccarthy smeared general marshall, a hero of world war ii so, yeah, they have a lot in common in terms of just an utter and complete disregard for truth also, smearing. but, what they stand fo

the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute and in los angeles we cross to ron paul cohn he is a comedian is a frequent guest on the jimmy doris show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on withdrawn all right gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i always go to the person that got up early is for the program so that means it's you ron in los angeles god bless your soul. we you know we hear a lot about the the rise of democratic socialism. that turn to the.

the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute and in los angeles we cross to ron paul cohn he is a comedian is a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron all right gentlemen crosstalk rolls in effect that means you can jump in anytime. we want and i always appreciate i always go to the person that got up early is for the program so that means it's you ron in los angeles god bless your soul. we you know we hear a lot about the the rise of democratic socialism. that turn to the left in the party though the donors don't seem to want to go there what is democratic socialism because i'd like to remind our viewers i lived in communist eastern europe and they called that democratic socialism ok and they didn't have a lot of birkenstocks and they didn't have a lot of capital i'd like to point out so ron what is that in a nutshell go ahead. well democratic socialism in the contemporary american sense i mean you know whenever people throw around these terms you need to factor in you know the snapshot

have you ever gotten a single little tip from scott cohn the man is like a vault. >> i'm working with him trying to play along with it. is it bigger than a bread basket >> yes, it's bigger than a bread basket it's a state, joe. >> okay, you can do this is it a red state or a blue state? >> it's a state, joe >> is it, uhm, landlocked? >> is it landlocked? no, see, that, i'm not going to say that >> see, that pause -- >> i'll tell what we're going to do >> almost land locked and he had to think about it for a second >> michigan, could be on the great lakes. wisconsin? >> i'm not taking anything from the pause. >> no? >> that's probably wise, early in the morning >> does it start with an "n" there's a lot of states with the "n." >> this is monot wheel of fortue >> what do you think it is from your travels around, what do you think >> it's not new jersey i atell you that >> i'm thinking vermont. >> vermont >> they got one company i think. >> ben & jerry's it isn't based in vermont anymore. but owned by unilever. >> probably short list of an amazon headquarter of the list, one of those com

thinking about the announcement in pittsburgh, and there was an intervention and people like gary cohn. farmers that would get hurt. and what has delayed him is this conga line procession in the white house in the months since then, saying please mr. president do not terminate nafta. he still hasn't withdrawn from nafta. but look, he still went ahead and imposed the tariffs starting with the washing machines and going into steel and aluminum. the important thing that we have not talked about is now in the early stages. president xi, president for life, doesn't have a lot of stic stit stit constituencies. he has his own domestic problems. he is in a tough bind. >> michael, that dynamic, the republicans have in congress, the majority in the house and majority in the senate. how many issues were there where we said this is the one that trump has said something that is going to irk the base. and then he wins every congressional district in the state. so proving that thinking wrong over and over again, but is it different on trade? >> it is different. a couple of things, maybe three to keep

trump's campaign colluded with russia cohn statements could complicate the president's legal troubles but there are questions about the credibility of cohen's claims in two congressional interviews and subsequent reports there is no mention of cohen's allegations against the president trumps claims are also in question as e-mails between trump's son and russians went back and forth in two thousand and sixteen then candidate trump told supporters i am going to give a major speech on. probably monday of next week and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the twins i think you're going to find it very informative and very i know that major speech never materialized but it does suggest president trump may know more then he claims kimberly helped at al-jazeera washington still ahead on al-jazeera hot and dry weather and what officials call off fire tornado devastated california forests. unlocking the thirteen hundred year old mystery of mexico's red queen. and in sports christianity ronaldo avoids jail in spain but he has to pay the price for tax evasion

a amy cohn barrette is being pushed the hardest. adding barrett. quote if roe v. wade is ever overturned it would be better if it were not done by only male justices with every female justice with dissent. >> thanks to both of you for being with us. this is interesting. you are both looking at the same issue and the same potential nominee and coming to completely different conclusions. ramesh, i will start with you. here is a conservative. >> i just think in politics representational claims get made and have a certain amount of legitimacy. about a quarter of the u.s. population is pro-life women. they have never had anyone on the supreme court that represents them. >> well, ruth, let me turn that around on you then, the energy that we have seen directed towards opposing a potential barret nomination on the left, is that the reason. more palatable for a court to overturn roe with a female justice part of that. >> i don't think so. i think the most direct and real fear, and i don't think that ramesh disagree on this. this is measurably more willing to do the deed th

scott, thank you scott cohn, as we continue to guess here we're also keeping an eye on shalmese shares, this after pricing at the low end of the range, our emily tan has more on the chinese smart phone manufacturer from hong kong. >> xiaomi made its debut on the hong kong stock exchange today, and was the day's highest trading stock. it priced at 17 hong kong dollars after falling as much as 6%, but closing down 1%. the company raised a billion dollars after fees and commissions, xiaomi was one of the most anticipated ipos this year, however it comes at a time when chinese markets have fallen down, linger over the u.s. trade war. and it's also the biggest tech ipo in four years since alibaba. and it has become the first stock trading with weighted voting rights. there's a growing list of tech companies looking to raise funds in hong kong back to you. >> our thanks to emily for that. guys talk about bad timing, to go public the monday after those tariffs, back and forth between china. certainly that could be part of the disappointment here. but there are also always questions as emily s

. >> and the irony is >> and michael cohn was the guy who went around and threatened everybody. this is the m.o., constantly distract but also threaten. it's also extremely destructive. the whole idea is to get everybody confused so there's no reality, no truth and we question everything. >> remember this was the president who said he kind of envied the north korean leader because his people kind of stood at attention. well, this is piece of that as well. >> you know, he tweets about the, you know, the whole russia investigation, and he seems to contradict what his intelligence people are telling him. he's calling it a hoax, and he claims that -- but he says he believes u.s. intelligence, but yet this is hoax. so then what is what? and sarah sanders tried to explain it today saying, well, he believe this part is a hoax but this part is real. what? >> he doesn't want us talking about what happened in helsinki. this is all of a piece with him constantly throwing out a million notions. another thing to remember is this is actually a soviet technique. the soviets did it, and then pu

. >> >> why does this make sense for the president, the economy is so strong now like gary cohn has said. >> this isn't politics for the president. he believes it. >> it's checking off a campaign policy. >> >> does he believe it enough to risk losing seat? >> he doesn't think he will. >> soybean prices are at a ten year low, the president is saying it's not his fault, it started 15 years ago but this is iowa and wisconsin. >> minnesota. >> these are states that are important to him. how many leverage will they give him? they are the ones who will be sacrificed for steel workers. >> and he's speaking to them directly on twitter thank you both. >>> coming up, a first look at a remarkable new image of the rescue operation that saved those 12 young lives and their soccer coach. wait until you see this. >>> new this morning, look at this. this is the first image we are seeing of these 12 boys on that thai soccer team and their coach miraculously rescued from that cave. let's go to matt rivers outside of the hospital. matt, we have been talking to you every morning and i'm so glad this morning

leaks and gucifer 2.0, and funding their scheme through crypto currencies like bit cohn. >> defendants falsely claimed d.c. leaks was a group of american hackers and gucifer 2.0 was a lone romanian hacker. >> reporter: he stressed none of the americans targeted knew they were talking with russians. >> the conspirators corresponded with several americans through the internet. there is no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intelligence officers. >> reporter: but the indictment does detail the russian's contact with several emergency including a request for stolen documents from a candidate of u.s. congress whose identity has not been disclosed. it explains the officers posing at gucifer 2.0 and a person close to the trump campaign the language of the messages revealed in the indictment matches the twitter messages previously released by roger stone. stone has admitted he communicated with gucifer 2.0 but denies he knew about the hack. >> i am not involved with a conspiracy with the russians or no one else. will is no evidence to the

and sasha cohn hacks sarah palin and joe arpaio to dig cheney. did he go too far? i'll talk to one of the victims. >> that's a first, the first time i've ever signed a water -- >> first with regard to the 12 russian officers indicted for interfering in the 2016 election. i want to challenge one part of the wisdom, namely the timing poses an awkward diplomatic effort for the president. it may have done him a favor, if he is willing to seize it. think this through with me the announcement comes three days before he sits down in helsinki, to be sure, the anticipation of the mid-day press conference with j.g. rod rosenstein presents a juxtaposition. they were about to compete for attention with the president's formal arrival with queen elizabeth. tv's technical directors were spared. rosenstein was 30 minutes late to the start time of his announcement. given the president, they needed to do his review at queen's castle. rosenstein then revealed he briefed the president on the indictments in the days prior. >> i briefed president trump about these allegations earlier th

thank you, cindy cohn and alex feerst. thank you both very much. >> for america the exceptional, please spoke on david frum, senior editor at the romantic. the corruption of the america public. actor and writer, and director. but in the conversation, allison stewart. [applause] >> in the past month or so, american exceptionalism has been written about by different folks. the atlantic had a piece that said the iran deal on exceptionalism in "the boston globe" in an opinion piece. another strain and "politico," how trump is making us rethink american exceptionalism. i want to read this one graph here. a shorthand for raw national chauvinism commit the united states is not just different but better. trump has replaced it at least temporarily with the negra tagline that conveys the same sense of national power and entitlement, america first. would he think about the concept of american exceptionalism right one a 31st, 2018. >> the great irony is that it did not originate. the phrase originated with writers on the loved, specia