he had been responsible for helping with some of the fundraising, and certainly is a friend of ed rendellcertainly not someone who is not supportive, and said, you know, he was unaware of it, and he thought that the decision was made in a too small a group of people and that more people should have been brought in as a part of the decision, and if it had been up to him, he would not have made that decision. so, i do think there still is some concern about how the decision was made and whether or not it was the right decision. >> to give the bonuses. so it begs the question on a macro level -- should the state be giving funds to some of these big conventions and conferences in the first place? are we past the point where the state should help with some of that and just get private monies to do it as they did when the pope came to visit? >> no, i don't have a problem with the state chipping in for that. it's good for the region, it's good for our economy, it makes philadelphia look like an international city, so i don't have a problem with that. it was disturbing. look, it's nothing wrong w

ed rendell is a former philadelphia district attorney and governor. he said he saw potential. i thought he had a potential to be a public servant in other capaciti capacities. >> he's accused of taking money, vacations from business owners who wanted something from williams. under a tougher standard thanks to a recent supreme court case. former prosecutor linda mova set the defense will have a challenge, too. >> the defense has to show that hey, just bea they got something doesn't mean there's bribery. >> he isn't running for reelection. he says a new d.a. will have to rebuild public trust. >> nondo we need trust, but anytime an elected officials is charged with a crime is sort of affect's people beliefs. >> because -- they were there are people from chester county, montgomery and lehigh county. live in old constituent. i'm northbound 10 news. >>> that meeting started just moments ago. if love, the contract will run through all of 2020. we'll bring you a work on the vote as soon as it comes down. >>> they found the bod of a 16-year-old who disappeared. she and her friend ramon

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are you aware that the former mayor ed rendell got into a pool the first day. >> i've been told. >> ared. >> then we also have mayor nutter the last mayor. >> i believe that's the case as well. >> so we have this guy, jim kenney, mayor of the philadelphia of city philadelphia. >> long time city councilman, he knows what came before him. last year, he did not get in the pool. this year, getting in pool? >> it is a mayoral tradition. >> 3:00 today, official kick off, find out then. >> are you going to bring him shorts? >> if i need to i'll pick some up quickly. >> come on, mike jerrick. bob kelly gets in a shoe with his shoes on. >> right. >> just get in the pool, mayor kenney. get in the pool. >> wait a second. is life going by this fast in is this the second summer for mayor kenney? >> yes. >> this is an outrage. >> it does move fast. >> all right. well he watches the show. >> mike real quick mike and alex, the people that are on the parks and rec commission, not necessarily commissioner, right? >> no. >> you guys are thinking about going to each of the 70 pools this summer. >> wow. >>

now currently in pittsburgh that are headquartered there, over thanle of -- than alcoa -- >> and ed rendell said that pittsburgh has remade itself into the technology hub, so what is the president talking about? >> he has an older school view of pittsburgh. >> yeah, but that's not the pittsburgh of today. >> we have steve case on our air yesterday using its as a test case for bringing vc culture and carnegie mellon and uber driving -- >> but pittsburgh is like san francisco. >> right. >> although i think it was a metaphor. it was a metaphor. >> for what? a world that doesn't exist anymore? >> when we used to make a lot of steel there. when jones and lachlan -- oh, don't get me started. it was the dirtiest city in america. because it was a place that we made things. >> yes, it was. now it's gotten clean. >> cleaned up. >> and the tepper business school. it was a metaphor. should he have said detroit? it has no ring. >> it was alliteration. it was nice. >> don't ask what the country can do for you. it was like that. >> this is something that the corporate leaders are getting at, the world has

of this, let's bring in cnbc contributor, larry kudlow, and pennsylvania governor we governor, ed rendell. larry, we did see a little bit of urgency today from the freedom caucus, when they suggested, look, we're going to cancel the august recess, we need to get to work. >> yes, fabulous. just fabulous. >> lwill it actually happen? >> steve moore and i had lunch with mark meadows yesterday and talked about it and a couple hours later they formally voted on it. yeah, i think there's a very good chance the august recess will be canceled until and unless they get the health care bill sorted out and the tax bill. i want to come back to that, it's very important. look, this is it. you know? if not now, when? and the gop, i think, is developing a sense of urgency, which had been lacking. i saw it when we were in the west wing yesterday visiting with a lot of people. i heard it from mr. meadows and kind of felt like it was rippling through. the senate is closer to a deal on health care, all right, what i call bipartisanship with itself in the republican party. >> that's -- right. the two sides o

we had ed rendell at the dnc saying, on tv, that pennsylvania is in play and they need to focus moreamericans, and not completely ignore them. how important is that, getting the white working class voters that voted for barack obama and then vote for donald trump back in the democratic fold? >> uh-huh. i think, joe, that we as democrats think of ourselves as the big ten party. we think we're going like this and reality a lot of people around the country think we're just going like this and moving the tent around. one day they're in the tent, the other day they're out. i think we failed not just to white voters. i think we need a message that speaks to all voters. and that's what i'm about working on, an economic message, a jobs message. the need for a real infrastructure bill that has just been waiting in washington. we beg the president if there's one thing we could work on maybe it's infrastructure. apparently we had to do health care reform debacle now tax form which is much more difficult. and then maybe we'll get to infrastructure. at some point there needs to be some effort to

. >> ed rendell told us there are ways to put knit a lock box -- >> oh -- >> put it in a lock box andt it's only used for transportation -- for infrastructure needs. >> al bore. >> in washington news, president trump tweeting this morning, after yesterday's james comey hearing, the president saying, despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication, and wow, comey is a leaker. john harwood joins frus washington with his take on this. john, good morning. >> good morning, becky. but just before i get to that report, i just want to make sure we don't bury the lead. the did joe kernen just admit that he was a sociopath? >> he's done that before. >> many times. >> many times? >> aren't we all? >> no. >> really? okay. that's -- you know, the first step out of the twelve is accepting that, you know, what you are and that there's a higher power and you have no control over it. you're not a sociopath? >> well, i -- i -- i admit that there's a higher -- no, no. i admit there's a higher power. >> i'm using it as a compliment. in this case. not as a pejorative. >> i admit