new jersey's criminal defense attorney mario blanch filed this on monday, telling me at his office inn sense. >> you know, he didn't get any sun because he was wearing a baseball cap. so i really thought it was just ridiculous. it's just arrogant and outrageous behavior, and someone has to hold his feet to fire. >> governor christie closed island beach state park along with all other non-essential government services during the budget showdown july 4th weekend. new jersey advance media got this photo on sunday showing christie lounging in the sun on a beach closed to the public. the next day christie dismissed all criticism on fox 5 new york. >> it's probably one of most arrogant statements i've ever heard in my life. nobody's above the law. i found out afterwards there are actually residences on the same beach, and he had those residents vacate their homes. so why shouldn't he have to vacate his home if he's making the neighbors vacate? it's really unfair, and it's an abuse of power. >> now, blanch says the ethics commission will investigate the complaint and determine whether to fin

we blanche the string beans first and then put in shallot, garlic and lemon zest. >> always wash theemon before you zest it because there's wax on the lemon. so watch it or you'll guess wax. that doesn't taste any good. >> you can squeeze a little lemon in there, too, in the string beans. this will freshen them up because they have been cooked a lot, blanched and sauted. >> i love when you put the thyme in the salmon like that. on the top or the side? >> on the side. >> put this on the side. all right. then the salmon. >> great way dish. >> plate it and then sometimes i have -- look how beautiful that is! >>> there's it for kpix 5 news at noon. enjoy the nice. >> have a great afternoon. bye! ♪[ music ] >>> linda macdonald, captioner vitac corporation ♪ >> steffy: are you the reason granddad left? did something happen between you and quinn? >> ridge: yes. >> steffy: yes? >> ridge: i shouldn't have lied to your grandfather, and i'm not gonna lie to you. >> quinn: steffy. i didn't hear you come in. >> steffy: how could you? >> patrice: arrangements in monaco have been set. of course, sp

blanch, global head of commodities research at merrill lynch.e details to be significant? francisco: maybe. it is hard to say. opec does not have good options here. and nigeria will give a little bit of comfort, but certainly in the fact that ecuador has pulled out of the deal already, the fact that iraq is planning to increase production, all of these issues will weigh heavily on members. alix: the rumor was perhaps the barrels told cut offset what they are getting from libya. are they ready to sacrifice that kind of market share in order to beef up revenue? francisco: here is opec's biggest challenge. for the cartel to impact prices, it takes them three to five quarters. meanwhile, for sale supply to respond to prices, it is about three to five quarters. so to your point, if you cap reallyion here, you are affecting market shares and about six months. you can try it, but what will happen to your supplies? going toeeper is only be sending money from the middle east out to texas, to west texas. jonathan: that is the fundamentals. talk to me abou

bob's mother's blanche lives in a suburb of toledo. my mother and daughter worked all their lives to my mother is 95 and she receives a pension om $1500 a month. medicaid keeps her alive so she's able to spend time with their kids and grandkids. i remember margaret mead said wisdom and knowledge of pastor mark grandparents. as my daughters got to spend time with their grandparents especially my grandmother and her last years.o it didn't just bring great choice to grandparents, it imparts wisdom and understanding and education to those grandchildren. medicaid does that to when people have insurance and people are taking care of in nursing homes and assisted living. we talk about people like p blanche who worked hard to build a good life for their family. they paid their taxes and pay their insurance premiums and paid into medicare and social security so we are going to cutt their medicaid? they have to lose everything because they need more intensive care later years of their life., people in their early 60s worried about their children

, is if wall street is just deregulated, it donald trump and randy quarles give wall street carte blancheare a lot of things that are probably wrong with the regulations that have been in place for the last seven or eight years, but to just give them carte blanche and to parrot all back without asking for anything in return, i think is a big mistake. that something in return is changing the compensation system on wall street which were too long, since 1970, when doj went public, the wall street compensation system has been very good at rewarding people for taking big risks with other people's money and not holding them accountable when things go wrong. we are at a very interesting moment, a crucial juncture where donald trump, the great dealmaker, could extract from wall street something that is really important. we will give me the deregulation you want, make it easier to do business. in return, you should change your compensation system to make people more accountable for their behavior. that is something no one is talking about but is what ultimately sure we don't have another financia

that means someone decides the doctors that are in the network, has carten a veteran blanche to go to any doctor, it is a doctor within the network. i think it is very shortsighted to tell veterans they have a choice and get veterans on board to support the choice, when it isn't a choice. it is actually a community style, orhmo or ppo you go to doctors within that network. the other issue not address is the shortage of primary care positions in the private sector, people face,s those things are not being addressed by the powers that be. you mentioned competition being added. senator'se draft of a proposal for the new care package that will kind of replace choice, it will just be rebranded as care, and in that proposal, he once to remove -- he wants to remove the laws that mandate competition for federal contracts, so it is one person deciding which doctors become part of the network, not the veteran's choice. i think there needs to be an expansion the conversation and this "choice" as a term needs to be carefully looked at and monitored, and it needs -- veterans need to be aware this

they confiscicated two buildings blanching to the u.s. -- belonging to the u.s. embassy in moscow and reduced the staff in russia to that's the same number of people russia has in the united states. >>> the prince george's county state's attorney enters the [ indiscernible ] race. another round of heavy rain moves through the washington area. >>> prince george's county state's attorneyarchy running for county exec -- angela alsobrooks is running. she served as the top prosecutor since 2011. she will challenge maryland state senator that announced he's running for county executive. >>> john delanie is running for president in 2020. the three-term democrat from montgomery county made the announcement in an op-ed piece to the washington post. he's launched an official website. he will not seek reelection to congress next year. he's one of the richest members in the house of representatives with a net worth of about $90 million. he made his money financings small and mid-sized health care companies. >>> a teacher with hiv accused of sexually assaulting several male s

caller: i think to wake repeal it, is to cart blanche . gentleman mentioned canada, if canada is so great, why do the unitedns come to states for healthcare? their system, like england, is the liberals want to shove that down our throat like they did the affordable care act. is bankrupting the country. to merican people just need wake up. it is not a constitutional privilege. line, next from diane, upper dashy, pennsylvania. are you today? host: fine, thank you. caller: the person that just is totally out of line. yes. is -- we deserve healthcare give it to try, their people, canada can give to their people. keep up they have to to make sure it doesn't fail, like anything else. yes. we deserve healthcare and the emocrats are the ones who put the legislation through, not the republicans, they keep bashing fighting and bashing and fighting and now it is time for them to come up with something, best care.h i mean, seriously? turning his country into? we all have to give a little, we ll have to take a little, i'm sure if intelligent people get

that is something else in the book that is in the narrative today that you still have this carte blanche and this is a changing target so it's about the ability to be a smarte questioner. that reminds me of an old anecdote that i heard. it teaches you how to learn and then getting a postgraduate degree teaches you what to learn and it's this idea like you said othat education and data orid continually learning and i think it's interesting getting your thoughts on this, do we have these new oddly enough printer only technology related trade classes or trade schools like general assembly even inor c different degree designed to quickly and relatively easily help people that want to learn and help them learn how to learn and use specific subject matters without having to go and spend 50, 100, $200,000 for a masters class. that's become of personal interest to me. a lot of times my fear is people don't ask the hard questions because the answers are going to be ugly. i reverted to my true form to get my masters and one of the first things they taught us is policymaking is about using the leas

it isn't that a veteran has carte blanche to go to any doctor. it is a doctor within the network. shortsighted very to tell veterans that they have the choice and get veterans on board to support the choice when it isn't a choice. it is actually a community delivered hmo or ppo style, where you go to the doctors within that network. the other issue that is not being addressed is the shortage of riemer he care physicians in the private sector -- primary care physicians in the private sector. those things are not being addressed by the powers that be. you mentioned competition he added. -- competition being added. we gave you the draft of the proposal for the new care package that will replace choice. it will just be rebranded as care. in that proposal, he wants to remove the laws that mandate competition for federal contracts. if one person -- it is one person deciding which doctors become part of the network, not the veterans' choice. i think there needs to be an expansion in the conversation, and this choice as a term needs to be very closely and carefully looked at and monitored

to rights, they continue to use it as a tool against regime nations that they did not giving carte blanche to regimes such as others, who among ave blatantly violateded for deckat -- in the long run and may not be killed and to follow.or decades cliff is next, raleigh, north carolina, republican line. thank you. i just want to comment just information weis are hearing about loyalty and president stands. i spent most of my adult life military and the ore values we've learned, try to operate with loyalty and duty nd honor and service, integrity, it seems that we have thinks that is a one-way street. how are we in the military, both honor core values and same expectations specifically the of the united states, here is something we live our life on and it just seems isgusting to me that we can have a president and others that eel like it is okay to think loyalty should be directional. of xpect the same degree loyalty and duty and honor and selfless service from our leaders. we can't operate, as far as i'm concerned, i couldn't operate in military by thinking that goes ng that i feel without an

so it was sort of carte blanche. >> there he goes, he's going down.bout halfway up toward the yalu river, as i circled, i looked down and saw a truck going down a dirt road. and i thought, well, i'll just nail that truck. and on the way home i'll have a keen story to tell the other guys at the bar. so i finally got all squared away and went down to shoot that truck up and i'm low and slow. and ground fire hit me. so i ended up flying it into the ground. within maybe three or four minutes, north korean soldier and a chinese soldier had me and that was that. i was gone. >> the enemy finally got their hands on colonel walker "bud" mahurin. he spent 16 months as a prisoner of war, all of it in sill taer. >> it was what we refer to as brainwashing technique. no sleep, practically no food, constant interrogation. they wanted me to confess to having waged warfare against them. so i decided this is it, i can't take it anymore. and then i started to slash my wrists. i got it so blood was spurting out pretty far and i sat down in my chair and put my arms in my

a narrative if you're a tick techie, you still have a carte blanche -- this relevant in the future world and this is a changing target. on a monthly basis or yearly basis, the coding tools change, and it's a really about the ability to be a smart questioner, not just have the answers. >> that remains me of an old anecdote i heard, getting an -- going to undergrad, getting a bachelors degree keeps you how to learn and then getting a post graduate degree teaches you what to learn. and this idea of, like what you said about education and beta, continually learning, and i think i would be interested in getting your thoughts on this, too. oddly enough, primary technology related trade classes or trade schools, like general assembly, or code academy, or in a different category, con academy, learning them how to learn with specific judge matters without having to good and spend 50, 100, $200,000 for a masters or plasters plus level class, and i think that has become a personal interest to me, especially in international security. my fear is people don't ask the hard questions because the answer

they may not be dor think, blanch and rose, but given themselves similar names. >> they call us cha-chaay cha-cha. >> the cha-cha girls live together in sarasota, florida. they are all related. their caregivers who recollecar related, they was looking for a comfortable way to care for them at the same time. they pooled their resources and >> one has strength in one area, it makes up for a weakness in another area. they all look out for each other. >> the cha-cha girls are all in their 90s. >> what a great idea. >>> it is 5:00 a.m. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gill crest. >> it is back to work for a lot of you this morning. >>> we are here to get you out the door on time. we'll have a look out the doors with melissa. first, some may need the wipers, not where you are, though. >> i'm hiding under the tree at the moment. there are light rain drops reaching us in northwest washington. 30 minutes from now, i'm probably going to have to hold on to an umbrella. for now, the leaves are giving me enough of a cover. cloudy skies all over washington here this morning. four things you need to

they would have a hard time supporting what has come to be blanche open debt ceiling increase without policy reforms. my guess is that is where we have to be -- part of congress, we have to be spending reforms as well. james: do you have spending reform house would like to see? rep. messer: a couple $100 billion in spending reforms. clear over thery last several years passing budgets year after year after year, that would balance within at least 10 years. budget would balance far quicker than that. i was part of a state legislative effort in indiana to balance the budget in our state in one year. we makeld be done if hard choices. it is something we ultimately have to continue to work on. siobhan: will there be any consequences for paul ryan if you rings a bill to the floor and passes with mostly democrats? rep. messer: i would be surprised if that happens with the speaker but paul ryan is in a strong position and what we are focused on as a team is how do we get these they ticket items done for the american people. paul ryan is our leader and i'm proud to try to deliver and work with

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hey would have a hard time supporting any -- what's come e be known as a carte blanch open debt ceiling increase without policy reforms. my guess is that is where we have to be as a conference, you have to have spending reforms as well. james: can you detail any specific conversations of the specific spending reforms that house republicans would like to see go along with the debt raise? mr. messer: well, you've seen the debt package which includes a couple hundred billion dollars in mandatory spending reforms. we've been i think as a conference very clear over the period of the last several years in passing budgets year after year after year that would balance within at least 10 years. frankly, i voted for budgets that would balance far quicker than that. it could be done. i was part of the state legislative effort in indiana to balance the budget in our state in one year. it can be done if we make hard choices. ultimately that's something we're going to have to continue to work on and deliver on in the coming months. siobhan: will there be any consequences for house speaker paul ryan i

they would have a hard time supporting any -- what is come carte blanche a open debt ceiling increase without policy reforms. my guess is that is where we have to be as a conference, you have to have spending reforms as well. james: can you detail any specific spending reforms house republicans would like to go along with the debt raise? james: do you have spending they came out of -- a couple $100 billion in spending reforms. we have been very clear over the last several years passing budgets year after year after year, that would balance within at least 10 years. frankly i voted for budget seven balance far quicker than that. it could be done. i was part of a state legislative effort in indiana to balance the budget in our state in one year. it can be done if we make hard choices. ultimately that is something we will have to work on and deliver on in the coming months. siobhan: will there be any consequences for house speaker paul ryan if you brings a clean ill to the floor and passes with mostly democrats? rep. messer: i would be surprised if that happens with the speaker, but paul

. >> they may not be that dorothy, blanch and sofia, but they have given themselves a similar name. >-cha girls. here are cha-cha girls. let's play cha-cha. ♪ >> do it up, ladies. the cha-cha girls all live together in sarasota, florida and they are all related. gilda, cindy and yes, there is a sofia in this group. gilda's daughter lives two doors down from them. since the ladies were getting older, she was looking for a comfortable way to care for them all at the same time. they pooled their op funds and bought a house. >> help each other. if one has a strength in one area, it makes up for a weakness in another person's area. they all look out for each other. >> by the way, the cha-cha girls are in their 90s. >> they love to dance, apparently. that's where the name comes from. >>> next at 6:00, a video and details about this fire that overtook a townhouse and the grilling mistake that started it all. >>> a crash and explosion at an apartment complex. police say it was all on purpose. what a driver loaded into his car before he drove inside. >>> right now on news 4 today, back to the

for those of us that are common sense conservatives we just blanch and balk at the idea of a governmentdividual by something any product including insurance and the prom with health insurance is that there is nowhere near the competition you see for homeowners insurance or car insurance they worship process in washington. in normal people don't care. there is a lot of politics going on there. a lot of it is simply for creating 32nd campaign ads on one side or the other. you brought up whole foods earlier. they can get insurance that has a high deductible but they have their health savings account to pay for that deductible said the premiums are much less. they can keep their insurance and their accounts and take it from job to job. and you have to worry then about pre-existing conditions because you are going to a different employer. from whole foods and other health savings accounts. notwithstanding that. if this breaking news i just need to interrupt. secretary of state rex tillerson has just responded to rumors that he may be tired of the job and what he's had to deal with he was dea

trump doesn't have carte blanche in terms of what he can do. the republican congress is really tying his hands in terms of how he wants to shape u.s.-russia policy. >> jon: congress expressed their desire to get the sanctions slapped on russia. it's not something that the president can overrule, especially given the numbers who voted for it in the senate. >> certainly an overwhelming majority. bipartisan as well. i think what the republicans and also some democrats are trying to tell the president is look, why aren't we negotiating with russia from a position of strength? russia is a country in perpetual decline. the economy is the size of italy's. it depends on oil and fossil fuels to grow. so why are we speaking to russia from a position of strength? there's no need for the united states to be a supplicant to anybody. >> jon: the russian economy is the size of italy. that's astounding for us that grew up in the cold war era. >> certainly, yes, their economy is small but russia is a force. they have nuclear weapons. as vice president pence sai

we talk about people like blanch. they pay their taxes, they pay their insurance premium, they pay into social security. we're going to cut their medicaid in the last years of lives? we shouldn't take that away from them. neither should their families who are already squeezed, people in their who's, 50's, early 60's, who worry about their children's education on oned end and worry about paying for their parents' nursing home. medicaid helps ohioan whose are workers and pay taxes who have a child with a disability. 500,000 kids in ohio, 20% of ohio kids, two in ten have special health care needs. beau was born with heart defects. he wouldn't be alive without medicaid. another child with down syndrome visited my office this week. it is not -- 22% of rural hospitals will be at risk of closing. it goes on and on and on. these are all problems created by this bill behind door number three written by lobby ises, written down the -- lobbyists, written down the hall by drug companies, insurance companies, and wall street lobb

but in no state that i'm aware of is it just carte blanche, here you go, federal government, just becauseou asked. and who is doing the asking? it's not a department or agency of the federal government, it's an advisory commission not authorized by the united states congress. it's an advisory commission that has yet to meet. they haven't even established policies for how they're going to go about their work. are they going to be behind closed doors or doing it in a transparent fashion? we don't know. what are they going to use this information for? we don't know. so i side on protecting the privacy and security of california voters and their personal information. we're not going to legitimize this commission by cooperating with this request. >> california's secretary of state alex padilla. thank you so much, sir. >> thank you, craig. >>> let's bring in white house reporter politico annie carney and congressional reporter kelsey snow. thanks to both of you. annie, do we know how folks inside the white house are reacting to these bipartisan refufr refusals to comply? >> for one thing, i don

are you saying you've been given carte blanche -- authority by the president? >> anthony: i'm focused on the communications team. as far as i'm concerned it's a new start for everybody in that team and everybody in that team can stay as long as they follow the protocol of not leaking, because at the end of the day, the president is super upset about the leaks, it's unprofessional and so you are asking what the four steps are, that will be one of my first steps. >> chris: do you believe that the mainstream media deliberately puts out fake news about this president? >> anthony: there is some fake news, unfortunately. when you see the mainstream media, i think that's a very broad statement. what i would like to say, and what i would like to believe, there still a level of objectivity in the mainstream media, but unfortunately there are specific individuals that do stretch stories or do fabricate things. i've been the victim of it myself so it's definitely there, chris. i don't think we can dial that down, but we can use the mechanisms of social media and the presi

it's anchored by a dynamic fireplace designed by blanche ostertag. she designed three fireplaces for frank lloyd wright. this is the only one still in existence. the glass mosaic sparkle all day long with the western light coming in from the windows. it's hard to ignore the views out the double doors onto the balcony. it's one of the best places on the house. now, let's walk down the losure to the master bedroom. the master bedroom anchors the far end of the house. s mitered corner windows to enhance the view from the bed. it has a real warmth. it's anchored by a fireplace. you have a heavy timbered ceiling. and you have expansive views. the swimming pool is surrounded by the san gabriel mountains, pine trees, and textile blocks. walking around the house, there's really not a bad view, both of the house and the landscape. it's a real harmony between the house and its surroundings. you really feel a real part of nature. thank you for joining me on a tour of frank lloyd wright's ennis house. i hope you've enjoyed it as much as i have. up next, we have

they'd like to link cooperation on the middle east and fighting terrorism with a carte blanche to menaceast european neighbors. i have to say when trump was on script, and i assume this was prepared by the national security team, some of the messages he had were right. he even talked about cyber terrorism. he talked about russian destabilization in ukraine and russian alliances with unworthy regimes like syria and iran. but off script, he is completely unpredictable and the weakest link in the current ann entourage of is rex tillerson. >> evelyn, are we going to have any accurate sense of what was said in that room? >> i'm afraid that we won't. i mean that's exactly the point i was trying to make earlierment i would agree with adrian that some of the things that were said in the speech in poland today were good. they were healthy. they were useful for our alliances, showing strong support for nato and for our allies who are members of the alliance. but at the same time, it became very clear to me that in the language that president trump used, he still thinks the number one threat to the

this is a president who thinks major garrett touched on it earlier that peopleñr can walk , carte blanche that discipline is what we're looking at. as you said before the biggest challenge is trump himself because he does like that, obviously trump's own, been calling around at off hours to friend outside the white house and new york and other place to get input. >> dickerson: ruth, this is not the first. we had this also deputy chief of staff has gone from the white house, communication director,Ñi press secretary, national security advisor and fbi director from this administration. this is a pattern. >> and counting. in oneñr sense that actually mit strengthen general kelly's hand becauseÑi how many more can you afford to lose. maybe inçóçó trump world you can just keep on runningñr through them. but clearly,ñr ally of the white house said yeste%! less denial. he's not in the denial phase i'i told any moreñr where he thinks this is all going great and he's signing executive orders and everything is just hunkyÑi dory but there are stages as we know. as he gotten toÑi acceptance? i thinri

they want reassurance, this isn't just carte blanche to approve what they have on the table right now. they're not confident with what they're hearing. they're concerned that the house is going to move things along. and john mccain said it very eloquently when he spoke the other day. we need to have this conversation. he would have to have democrat buy in and have a bipartisan health care bill. and he certainly is in a position, now, to make his feelings noenl. and given that he's the holdout vote, people are going to listen. >> apparently all senators have voted. what that means and what you're looking at is stall. this is the hold button as they try to figure out if they can get anybody to change their minds. the flip side of that, the other way to vote on this, they would be voting right now. that means they don't have the votes. >> don, can i make a point? when you look at when obamacare passed, john mccain was one of the severest critics of obamacare. an amazing moment, if he switched to essentially saving that law he was a severe critic of. if this amendment fails, it's a devast

. >> you go, dorothy, rose, blanch and sofia. >> i love blanch. >> who wrote that song?er and thunderstorm. 88 degrees this afternoon. a slight chance of some fireworks from mother nature for philadelphia and new jersey. 87 degrees in interior new jersey. at the shore 82 degrees with a slight chance of a shower. delaware, a chance of showers this afternoon and it will dry out this afternoon. have a great day w7 >> thank you, smithers. >>> up next, how to rock the red, white and blue at your barbecue. fun, festive fashion. >> how come we don't have hot dogs? better. it's more than just a word. it's a promise to give our best. develop better technology. create better care. invest in better access. when you help our veterans get better, it means constantly pursuing your best. there are thousands of us giving our best every day to heal millions of veterans. because this is more than a career. this is your life's work. did any bag of dog or buy cat food at petsmart we give a meal to a pet in need? help us reach our goal of donating more than 60 million meals so hungry pets ac

. >> you go, dorothy, rose, blanch and sofia. >> i love blanch. >> who wrote that song?ening >>>. >>> good morning, everybody. i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. no rain around the city just yet, a few sprinkles in the shenandoah valley. there will be a chance of thunder showers bubbling up this afternoon. at 4:00 p.m. that's going to be the most likely time, between 4:00 and 7:00 tonight. after 8:00 things should start to dry up just in the nick of time for the fireworks. it will be a hot day to be outside, temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s, now we will be in the upper 80s ea red, white and blue at your barbecue. fun, festive fashion. >> how come we don't have hot dogs? better. it's more than just a it's a promise to give our best. develop better technology. create better care. invest in better access. when you help our veterans get better, it means constantly pursuing your best. there are thousands of us giving our best every day to heal millions of veterans. because this is more than a career. this is your life's work. pet in need? help us reach our go

. >> have you blanched those?is every day. >> he's a good sous-chef, you've the good my back. and here i have the finished yoer yogurt that we made before, drizzle a little bit over the top and some fet pay the use dull garrian fetta, i find it a little creamier. >> is it easy to find bull garrian fetta. >> if you go to a good bull garrian gourmet market you should be able to find it. but i find it a little more tasty than regular greek fetta. >> that's fan tavg and so easy to make. >> as you can see it comes together nice and easy area healthy, it's light cooking for the summer. you're not lack the flavor. head to today.com/food. >>> let's look at your week ahead and talk about the weather. sunshine in the northeast for today, wet weather through the southeast were severe storms through the great lakes were sunshine along the west coast. by the mid-week it's going to be hot and humid knit mid atlantic states western third of the country looking pretty good. as we move on toward the end of the week, scattered stor

. >> have you blanched those? >> i blanched them and then, i shocked them.ome feta. now, i use bulgarian feta. i find it creamier. >> i have never seen bulgarian feta. >> i find it more tasty than regular, greek feta. >> that's fantastic and so easy to make. >> it comes together, nice and easy. light cooking for the summer. not lacking in flavor. >> thank you so much. >> for this recipe and more head to today.com/food. >>> let's look at your week ahead, see what we've got for you weather-wise. we're looking at sunshine here in the northeast for today. wet weather down through the southeast. severe storms through the frax great lak great lakes and the western plains. it will be hot and humid in the mid-atlantic states and into new england. severe storms in the great lakes. western third of the country looking good. as we move towards the end of the week, scattered storms in the mississippi and river valleys. cooling off, and shine in the planes. >>> good morning, i'm kari hall, we're going to get a loot of sunshine throughout today. temperatures today and the

he believes that the president has basically given him carte blanche to go in there and get rid of anyone that is not serving the president's interests. and frankly, from what i can tell, the president still has his back. he was at dinner last night with, you know, with trump, and they talked about some of these issues. so, if you were trying to read the tea leaves and see where trump is right now, despite the chaos of last night and this morning and this tweet and deleting this tweet, trump appears to be -- have a thumb on the scales for scaramucci, not reince. >> but just again, all the details matter, and when you, you know, read the tweets from the politico reporter, and general, i promise we're going to get to you in just a second, but to follow up with you, ryan, the reporter says she got this financial information that he will continue to make the millions of dollars from sky bridge but the form is publicly available from the bank. this would not be from a leak. >> so it doesn't seem like he had a very strong case of taking this to the fbi. right? >> yeah. >> i think this frankly i

. >> right >> and i would think it's carte blanche. >> i think so. >> carte blanche to fail i mean theat he succeeded is not simply just because he's a genius. he's bought stuff. he's tried stuff >> -- failure is an option -- >> but his policy has always been, if someone comes to me with an idea and i think 70% of it is right, i'm just going to go for it. whereas most managers would say 70% was right, come to me with a business plan, i need to know the exact business he's saying go for it and hopefully it works >> he's able to do it -- >> and that's why he's in this place -- >> he hasn't been on, really shall we drag out that laugh we stopped using the laugh that bezos -- >> youknow what? because he's the one who can laugh. >> but i'm saying is -- >> but that doesn't bother him if we use that why did we stop using? it's a great laugh >> i don't know. >> pretty old. >> thank you >> don't we have it -- >> coming up, we're minutes away from the first read on second quarter gdp. we will bring you those numbers and reaction in just a moment. also take a quick look at u.s. equity futures dow

we talk about people like blanch. they pay their taxes, they pay their insurance premium, they pay into social security. we're going to cut their medicaid in the last years of lives? we shouldn't take that away from them. neither should their families who are already squeezed, people in their who's, 50's, early 60's, who worry about their children's education on oned end and worry about paying for their parents' nursing home. medicaid helps ohioan whose are workers and pay taxes who have a child with a disability. 500,000 kids in ohio, 20% of ohio kids, two in ten have special health care needs. beau was born with heart defects. he wouldn't be alive without medicaid. another child with down syndrome visited my office this week. it is not -- 22% of rural hospitals will be at risk of closing. it goes on and on and on. these are all problems created by this bill behind door number three written by lobby ises, written down the -- lobbyists, written down the hall by drug companies, insurance companies, and wall street lobb

francisco blanch is still with us. we're talking about bitcoin. surge above $1 billion. take a look at the wild ride we have seen in that currency. advising investors to because this against a surge in optimism. from the latest memo to investors that speaks to what you mentioned in your report. i want to bring up this quote. my view, digital currencies are nothing more than an unfounded bad, and maybe a pyramid scheme." what do you make of that view? is that what concerns you the most about bitcoin, that it does not have much value for investors, for the lack of regulation? francisco: we recently released a report analyzing bitcoin from a market perspective, and we look at what makes it a cur rency. is --ency or store value maybe reciprocation. bitcoin scores great on diversification. it happens in the virtual space, and is literally offering zero correlation to every other asset out there. but the one issue of concern is returns. far, butven great so because of that, extreme diversification's -- you cannot really correlate that going to anything,

. >> the ceo has got cart blanche from the previous ceo. i do suggest that -- here is what i say about it. >> about honeywell >> if that stocks go to 180 on that, he will do t it's literally how the chips may fall he is not wedded to that model a bit. i liked the conference call very much for honeywell i liked it caterpillar is just a gem. he's so damn good i'm sick of it. >> let's talk some food. mcdonald's is going to surge to open in record territory this morning, thanks to a better than expected second quarter beat on the top of the bottom line, calling out a boost from upscale burgers, chicken sandwiches, discounts in beverages global comps, 6.6. >> what is he, a small cap do you know how big mcdonald's is people must be going there over michelin three star. >> 3.9, 3.2. we haven't seen numbers like this out of mcdonald's for a while. >> what are they giving away over there >> must be euros in the burgers. >> a lot of people doubt aid year, year and a half ago, that we would ever see that kind of growth, right? the best you could hope