turns the fec intohr a partisan body. shifted from three republicans and three democrats to three democrats and two republicans. that turns into an arm of the democratic senate committee. nothing in the bill is as cynical as that provision we have close elections in this race with a 50/50 senate as a sophisticated political player asking a close election, in the weeks before the election of the senate majority leader has the ability to launch investigation fromal the fec to bring prosecution from the federal elections commission to sue the political opponent of the majority, how much would that invite abuse? i understand right now democrats are in power in the house and in congress and the white house. i do want to point out it wasn't that long ago mr. president you and i were both in this body four years ago and there was a republican president and a republican house and republican senate. you didn't see the republican majority try anything as brazen as the corrupt politicians act. republican majority try to rigged the g

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i have never seen a primal cry foreign -- for an fec commissioner to just do something. fdr. there is a primal scream, chairman, to do something. what is the do something you want to do to help with meme stocks, with specs, and other things. gary: you are being a bit immodest. i'm sure you understand them a little better than that. important thing is investors want to know there's somebody looking after them. working families, people who have 401(k)s. you mentioned spac's. it is really making sure that the sponsor who is behind that is fully disclosing their take on it. these are very expensive products. sponsors take out a chunk at the beginning. then there is more being taken out later when they merged with the private company in what is called a de-spac. it is those disclosures ensuring that the retail investors get the right disclosures and are protected. secondarily that they are put stating just like the institution -- participating just like the institutional investors. a lot of the institutions buy into these facts later. they do so at a preferred price rather th

separately there's been an fec investigation and an fec fine issued to the "national inquirer" for itsey blocked an investigation into the former president himself in your case saying, quote, the public record is complete with respect to the conduct at issue in these complaints, and mr. cohen has been punished by the government of the u.s. for the issue in these matters, thus we concluded pursuing these matters further was not the best use of agency resources. what do you think about the fact that they basically let the former president off the hook here? >> like i said before, i think that it's repulsive, and i think any citizen of the united states should be afraid. >> michael cohen, we just read the tweet there. i think some people know this, i'm not sure everyone does. michael cohen's payments to you is what started this whole big mess. cohen served time. obviously you could see how there might be friction between the two of you, but actually you appeared in his podcast and now he is someone who you talk to. i don't know if you're friends or not, but what would you say the nature o

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watching some of these, watching fec reports, watching who is giving and who is active, we will start to answer some of these questions about whether pence is feasible for 2024. that is still an open question right now. host: we have calls. let's go first to ian in cunningham, pennsylvania on the democrats line. caller: i'm calling to talk about former vice president pence. i have a feeling that if he tries a run for president in 2024 it's going to be overshadowed by president trump's shadow. host: we will hear from matthew in martinville, new york on the republican line. matthew in new york, go ahead. caller: i would like to apologize for that last collar. -- caller, a democrat, right? i have a statement and three questions. i take offense at what you call the january 6 the riot. it was basically just another day of tourists going to the capital to look at all the beautiful statuary. you are going to have to rescind that. who would possibly want to take money from the poisonous pence tree of money grovers, please explain that. -- money grubbers. tom: number one, having worked inside

the acting commissioner said it's time for the fec on - - sec to have a resiliency network. >> yes thenses highly unusual. in the case of katrina and sandy both to engage in significant on the ground activity to participate in a conference call by the chair kevin martin in the aftermath of katrina were all stakeholders were brought together so what can we do in a,this catastrophe? the fcc the chair of the relevant bureau were constantly keeping the public with stakeholders to make sure there was activity that they convened an investigation hundreds of packages testimony and many rule changes put in place to benefit the networks to this day. none of this was done in response to hurricane maria. the public inquiry the fcc conducted afterwords handle that extremely low level at the bureau. i find it unfortunate whereas after both katrina and sandy there were hearings and after maria fcu press junkets in puerto rico but frankly the sec response was inadequate and disgraceful. we need to have standardized responses to disaster in congress should include mandatory reporting requirements to b

this is after the anti-trust complaint brought on to the fec. >>> and juul is paying $40 million to settle a lawsuit to south carolina alleging it targeted teens with marketing. the payout is the end of one of the legal and regulatory challenges facing the once hot startup. >> thank you, rahel. thank you. good to see you. >>> back to the morning money and your first guest today says stock valuations overall are not cheap, it is okay as long as growth grcontinues higher linda is the portfolio manager and head of the value income team at federated hermes linda, great to have you back on okay not cheap. does that mean overpriced or on the edge of being overpriced how do you see the macro markets generally right now? >> well, we try to think the market is overly priced given the level over the next 24 months the fed will start to tighten. we have considerable amount of stimulus in the market the consumer still has considerable amount of fire power with the savings employment is picking up there are a lot of positives out there. we are about to get the second quarter earnings for companies alth

not a role for the federal government to tell states how to run their elections or to change how the fec functions or how candidates raise and spend money in their elections. it's not as though there's a middle ground here on which they could agree for a federal government role. this is something where democrats and republicans are just starkly divided. the tactical victory for democrats is when this bill comes up next week for a vote and it gets defeated, as it almost certainly will, on a 50/50 split, they will at least be able to say, it's the republicans who don't want do this. a long way from any federal election overhaul becoming law. >> garrett haake on the hill. mike memoli at 1600 pennsylvania avenue for us on this friday. gentlemen, enjoy your weekend. >>> i want to bring in senator van hollen, democrat from maryland. he sits on the senate budget and foreign relations committees. senator, good to see you again. let's start with infrastructure. you had an interesting quote about senator schumer's two-track approach to passing legislation, pass something with bipartisan votes and

the answer is the fec is incredibly slow, which is a problem.new york, and the southern district of new york lawyers charged mr. cohen, donald trump's lawyer with this. >> i have to interrupt and we have the president speaking on covid and vaccinations. >> i would like to play out our plan in june to counter -- to continue, i would say, our successful fight against the pandemic as we approach the july 4th date. we have made incredible progress in getting people vaccinated quickly, efficiently and equitably. nearly 170 million americans of every party and background and walk of life stepped up, rolled up their sleeves and have gotten the shot. 52% of adults are now fully vaccinated, including 75% of all seniors. 28 states, the district of columbia, have achieved 50% of adults being fully vaccinated in their jurisdictions. it's clearer than ever, the more people we get vaccinated the more success we are going to have in our fight against this virus. since january 20, and we're talking now about 15 months ago, the average daily cases are down from

using -- laundering the payments through a law firm in denver so it never got reported on fec reports in which he was supposed to report expenditures by your campaign. that is something that runs through right to this story. >> i write and describe in the book the relationship between private operatives and the client and it always moves through the lawyer. one for legal reasons and that is the lawyer is a lawyer and investigator who has a relationship for litigation, that material is protected under the attorney work product so they never have to disclose it in court. .. >> we really want to go to the source of it. so there's an intermediary who is telling me, i've got this person who is telling me this extraordinary stuff and i want to take it to the bank. i'm going to make it my business to find that person and to go speak to that person myself. that is something that christopher steele never did. he never went out and spoke to the people that danchenko was getting information in order to assure himself that that information was reasonable and valid. >> and i should point out one o

an fec lawyer said it appeared to be a run of the mil but very illegal corporate straw donor scheme.ther added, it's rare to see it that blatant. louis dejoy has denied doing anything improper. but fast forward today, and "the washington post" is now reporting that his political fund-raising and the remarkable number of his employees who seemed to have helped with that, that is now the subject of an fbi investigation. according to the post, quote, fbi agents in recent weeks have interviewed current and former employees of dejoy and the business, asking questions about political contributions and company activities. prosecutors also issued a subpoena to dejoy himself for information. a spokesman for louis dejoy confirmed the existence of the investigation, but insists dejoy did nothing wrong. again, he's still running the u.s. postal service right now. the reporter who broke this news joins us next. stay with us. s news joins us next. stay with us it drives you. and it guides you. to shine your brightest. ♪ as you charge ahead. illuminating the way forward. a light maker. recognizing

we're always grateful for some of your time.fá fec walklp while punishing "the national enquirer"?ty. ♪ ♪ it's grilled cheese time. ♪ ♪ yeah, it's time for grilled cheese. ♪ ♪ after we make grilled cheese, ♪ ♪ then we're eating grilled cheese. ♪ ♪ because it's time. ♪ ♪ yeah. ♪ ♪ time for grilled cheese. ♪ this is wealth. ♪ ♪ ♪h. ♪ this is worth. that takes wealth. but this is worth. and that - that's actually worth more than you think. don't open that. wealth is important, and we can help you build it. but it's what you do with it, that makes life worth living. principal. for all it's worth. >>> one of the main tabloid publishers that has consistently supported and protected the disgraced ex-president is now being forced to pay up. american media inc which publishings the inquirer will pay $187,500 to the f.e.c. for its trump hush money payment. the story came to light during michael cohen's federal trial in 2018. while the inquirer is being penalized, the same can't be said for the president. trump faces no further investigation after the f.e.c. did not have enough votes to inves

announced a new ceo and cfo, both coming over from amazon gamestop also received a request from the fec for information surrounding the recent trading frenzy the stock's steady slide through the session, down 27%. >>> time for a cnbc news update. tyler mathisen has it for us. >> let's tell you what's happening at this hour get ready for more college football playoff games a plan is being considered to triple, yes, triple the number of teams in the playoffs from four to 12 commissioners are expected to discuss the possible change next week lots of people have been calling for that. >>> california's attorney general filing an appeal to keep the state's ban on assault weapons. a federal judge overturned the 32-year-old bak but gave the state 30 days to appeal. >>> near philadelphia, at least three homes going up in flames today. at least one explosion also reported smoke from the fires visible now from miles away. two nearby schools have been locked down. >>> and in india, thousands of unreported covid deaths have been discovered in that country. one state has raced its pandemic death toll

privacy is being violated, their data is being stolen, and so you're going to see people, both ftc, fec is potential regulation, you're going to see them play into that theme. >> bradley, i wanted to ask you about bitcoin because i know that you are an early investor in coinbase, right, and still continue to hold the stock. >> yeah. >> you need to school your candidate, andrew yang, on bitcoin a little bit because he was on this show and we asked him about his plans to make new york city a bitcoin hub and asked about some of the environmental concerns that go around that and he said we weren't going to mine it in new york, which i don't know how you create a bitcoin hub in new york city without having it mined in new york city. what's the story there >> yeah, it's a good point look, to me generally speaking, the solution for the environmental problems with bitcoin is renewable and especially hydropower. it happens to be that upstate new york has a tremendous amount of hydropower capacity so i do think that we could mine bitcoin in new york. i don't think the physical mining is likely to

watching some of these, watching fec reports, watching who is giving and who is active, we will startswer some of these questions about whether pence is feasible for 2024. that is still an open question right now. host: we have calls. let's go first to ian in cunningham, pennsylvania on the democrats line. caller: i'm calling to talk about former vice president pence. i have a feeling that if he tries a run for president in 2024 it's going to be overshadowed by president trump's shadow. host: we will hear from matthew in martinville, new york on the republican line. matthew in new york, go ahead. caller: i would like to apologize for that last collar. -- caller, a democrat, right? i have a statement and three questions. i take offense at what you call the january 6 the riot. it was basically just another day of tourists going to the capital to look at all the beautiful statuary. you are going to have to rescind that. who would possibly want to take money from the poisonous pence tree of money grovers, please explain that. -- money grubbers. tom: number one, having worked inside the ca