joining me now, rudy giuliani. kids can't go to the white house, but he can?completely impossible to understand. why you would have this person in the white house, talking to people on the national security council, a person of the vice president of an organization that calls for the destruction of the state of israel, an organization whose president has advocated killing israelis and killing americans, and he is the vice president of the group. so we have somebody sitting in the white house, part of an organization that has advocade the killing of americans. what is going on in the white house? what planet are they on? >> i -- i got to be honest. >> what could they learn from this man? >> nothing. this is scary this is like the most radical people at the highest levels of our government. >> could it be -- could it be incompetence? did they not check him out properly? >> there is google, wikipedia, something. >> the president found out about a couple of things from the newspaper. it could be we have a white house so darn incompetence that they haven't figured

we will have reaction from former new york mayor rudy giuliani. bridgewater all weather fund which was supposed to drive in any market conditions is underwater. what does it mean for all those pension funds? we have a special report. "countdown to the closing bell" starts right now. ♪ liz: it is 3:00 p.m. eastern time. the last hour of trading. good afternoon, everyone. what a difference 24 hours makes. in america right now, sales of new family homes rising to their highest level in nearly five years. rising 2.1%. that is according to the commerce department. the case shiller index. this shows home prices. existing home prices in 20 agile politician areas rising 12.1% in april from just one year ago. what about the names behind all of this? the stock is up nearly a full percent. let's take a look at how the other homebuilder stocks are reporting. what do you see with these sales? wanted to get you what we promised you. up about 3%. kb homes moving up about one full percentage point. we have full team coverage of today's headlines. peter barnes at

rudy giuliani joins me. how are you? >> i'm good, piers. >> i don't know what to make of all of this, i want you to clarify what i should be feeling. on my twitter feed today, i would say half the people want edward snowden brought back and slung in guantanamo for 30 years and the other half think he's some kind of hero. what is the correct view, do you think? >> i don't know. i never thought he was much of a hero. because i think you take an obligation to keep things secret, and you should live by that obligation and work through channels. at least at the beginning there was this sort of argument that he was revealing a program that a lot of people didn't know about, a lot of people in congress didn't know about, but to go to china, to go to russia, to now seem to be organizing to go to cuba and ecuador. this is a guy who's in favor of free speech? you have to be kidding me. >> this is my issue. this is my issue, rudy, you hit the nail right on the head. this is -- let's come to what he's done since he did all this, in

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former new york city mayor rudy giuliani.was an associate and u.s. attorney general. i worked in the justice department for more years in my life and this anywhere else. i'm heart broken by the way this attorney general is handling it. he is putting the entire integrity of the justice department at stake. the answer that he gave to congress if you give him ever review board benefit of the doubt was ambiguous and misleading. some people will say it was false and perjurery hous. i will say it was ambiguous and mislead. now, you owe congress an explanation. what were you -- what did you mean when you said that you hadn't instigated any kind of prosecution. >> sean: wouldn't do it. >> wouldn't do it. i could see a possible answer that he has but he has to give it. the failure to give it creates enormous problems. i attribute that to the arrogance of this administration. no different than the president appointing susan rice today. they believe because they have gotten such unbelievably favorable coverage they are immune. they can

a good question for the former mayor rudy giuliani. martha: a powerful storm system.nds, rain, possible tornadoes. we'll tell you where this is headed and who is at risk. bill: a pistol packing grandma facing an intruder. what he did after she opened fire. >> they are in our yard ... every day we're working to be an even better company - and to keep our commitments. and we've made a big commitment to america. bp supports nearly 250,000 jobs here. through all of our energy operations, we invest more in the u.s. than any other place in the world. in fact, we've invested over $55 billion here in the last five years - making bp america's largest energy investor. our commitment has never been stronger. martha: house lawmakers are launching a new push to modify the nsa surveillance program and there are questions about the effectiveness of this program. the agency has ramped up the program in the years since 9/11. former new york city their rudy giuliani has been there throughout this entire process advising on security at home and abroad. good to have you here today. >> i

a agree with what rudy giuliani said about him as a person but in terms of philadelphia, in terms oft's happened, in terms of the press here, he has not proven himself to be worthy of representing the president of the united states and you or me or the american people as attorney general. >> do you think he lacks the last judgment or he's plit politically motivated? what do you not like? >> judgment and when you look for an attorney that's going to represent you and represent your country, everything you look for is based on their judgment and ability to judge things fairly. i think he's been partisan. i don't think he's done a good job for the people or served the president well. >> what do you think is going to happen? >> i don't know. i'm not a fortune teller or mind reader but something is going to come to a head because this is very serious business. >> one of the jobs he has right now is to investigate the irs, there's a criminal investigation from the justice department. is there anyway that you could have confidence in him in light of the fact -- he disagreed with what happen

even surprising rudy giuliani. >> that's a flash, flash, flash mob?and i mean we're talking about big clients here paying big money just for a flash mob. >> reporter: jackie is a producer for flash mob ameri wat was for a corporate client and we had about 700 people. >> reporter: and it can cost anywhere from $1000 to 80 grand. flash mob america also works for individuals. this man is paying for a flash mob to surprise his sweetheart. 250 volunteers recruited online to join the mob. >> we figured if a man is going to go through this much to make it special for the person that he wants to spend the rest of his life with, we might as well help him and be part of it. >> reporter: they rehearsed for three hours and headed to central park. >> the boyfriend is clearly nervous and the girl has no idea he's about to become a bride to be. the mob grows, surprising the girlfriend and taking her breath away. >> she said yes. >> i'm overwhelmed right now. >> reporter: flash mob producers cashing in on a magical moment. gio benitez abc news new york. >> worth ever

we will have reaction from former new york mayor rudy giuliani.was supposed to drive in any market conditions is underwater. what does it mean for all those pension funds? we have a special report. "countdown to the closing bell" starts right now. ♪ liz: it is 3:00 p.m. eastern time. the last hour of trading. good afternoon, everyone. what a difference 24 hours

giuliani referred to mueller as terribly disengaged. bill: edward snowden, the nsa whistleblower, and the government of china, officials are going through his phone call record and text messages and online activity. the british government is telling officials not to allow snowden to travel to the u.k. they will likely deny him entry if he tries. martha: john mccain on the senate floor after the government said syria killed its own people using chemical weapons. >> i that president for acknowledging that the syrians are using chemical weapons and massacring their own people and i applaud his decision to provide additional weapons. i do not -- every ounce, every bone in my body knows that simply providing weapons will not change the battlefield equation and we must change the battlefield equation. martha: we are glad to be joined by senator john mccain, ranking member of the armed services committee. he traveled to syria in secret and met with the rebel fighters and knows quit a bit about what's going on on the ground. so you believe that

charlie: we should point out something that rudy giuliani said yesterday. this is the former u.s. guy that made his mark on bringing insider trading cases against the mob and the mob on wall street, so to speak. he said that they probably do not have a case. what my sources are saying is they do not believe they have a case. they are looking to bring more charges against matthew martoma. already indicted they want more charges against him. they want to build up a superseding indictment against martoma. why do they want to do that? they want to pressure him to do what he is not doing right now. that is to flip against steve cohen. here is the thing, you read a lot in the paper. we broke this story. an indictment on charges that steve cohen willfully ignored. that is one potential avenue that they have. from what i understand, that may have been. the best case they know they have is right here with matthew martoma. he has been indicted for insider trading. that trade came after a conversation he had with steve cohen. liz: is ignorance a defense? charlie: if they believed there was e

this morning we are hearing from former new york city mayor rudy giuliani.resident obama hadz created a dangerous situation in syria by not acting sooner. >> this is a situation of while obama is fiddling syria is burning for the last year and a half to two years. there's a vacuum left. the vablg couple has been filled by the al qaeda affiliate in that part of the world. now if you arm them their leader has announced their next target after syria is the united states of america. we will be putting arms in training into a group of course we should over throw assad. we have to be careful we don't over throw assad and create a bigger enemy of the united states. >> that is the question a lot of people are asking right now. we expect to hear more from the white house on this topic. >> some in washington are worried the rouge contractor could defect to china. >> the nsa surveillance programs may help protect 9-11. lids bette pran has details for us. goose morning elizabeth. >> they began to probe into edward snowden if any he has with the chinese government. house

. >> we have had one for years, giuliani before that.ifference with nars sim-->> isn't the big attract iw york the naked cowboy in times square, don't people flock in from all over the world to see a guy in diapers. >> but he is not running for office. >> do a good job new york city, i don't care whose pictures you send, if it is legal, and his wife does not care that is not my business. >> i am sad for this country. neil: i don't know, i don't know. this much i do know that. we will -- we'll never get a handle on his he will be elected new york's mcarea. which is why i am running for president of the united states, for the hell of it. i want to remind. speaking of president of united states, a guy who lost out on that, and might be kicking himself now, would have, show have, could have. do romney folks think it happened. we thought we would go to mitt romney, he will be my special guest friday to address this. and folks he is having in utah for a big powwow. chris christie among his guests, his running mate paul ryan. and david axelrod.

mayor rudy giuliani told me point-blank, former u.s. attorney. so he brought cases in the 1990's.f they had a case he thinks they will have brought it by now. and people are searching. this is kind of an interesting tea leaf. the big client. we should point out that sac is a client for wall street. it was the biggest client. a $15 billion hedge fund. a lot of money has been yanked out from investors following the charges or the potential charges of insider trading. his fortune, something like 9 billion. this is still a pretty big place. they trade a lot. it's known for its rapid-fire trading. they do produce a lot of money for wall street. cheryl: a key guy. >> reporter: and is not just anybody how lot of people a saying goldman sachs is making this point. no comment from goldman, no comment from morgan stanley. to be honest with you, don't read too much into this, his new -- this guy has lots of clients, not just sac. he did not deny that sac was as big client. i'll tell you, everyone thinks that is a charitable way of looking at it. they think this is somewhat of a bet. cheryl:

then rudy julian any came insuring of rudy giuliani came in, cut taxes. >> neil: thank you very much.ere the irs started targeting. my next guest says it's time to put a stop to the entire agency for good. >> americans for fair taxation, it's clear where the group stanes. what kind of reaction have you gotten? >> we have gotten a lot of pretty positive reaction. people are pretty fed up with the system. and it's not just the irs. the irs is sort of the focal point right now. but people know that the income tax system and production taxes are -- at it broken. >> neil: you know, it does come at a time when a lot of people are saying, i thought the information i gave you, irs, was sacred, you'd hang on to it and wouldn't share it with anybody and that has been proven wrong. so, you might be coming at a good time to rates the case, how -- raise the case how reliable is the agency and how much good does it do, besides getting into healthcare do you think you have any chance of abolishing the place? >> we have to start with the political question. right? we have to start with this issue, do

joining me with reaction to today's hearing is former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. how are you? >> good, sean. how are you? >> the headlines are out today, you asked to provide military support to syrian rebels, aren't these the same rebels that pledge royalty to al qaeda? >> exactly. i mean, al masra, the major group, has specifically pledged aleenlance to al qaeda. he could have maybe handled this effectively a year, year and a half ago if he wasn't leading from behind. this is a situation while obama is fiddling, syria is burning for the last 2 1/2, 2 years. so there is a vacuum left. it has been filled by the al qaeda affiliate in that part of the world. so now if you arm them, they have -- their leader has announced, their next target after syria is the united states of america. >> wow. >> so we'll be putting arm and training into a group -- of course we should overthrow assaad. we have to be careful we don't create a bigger enemy of the united states. >> look, i'm sympathetic. between 80,000 to 100,000 people die. >> i was in favor of doing this a year and a h

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>> well, you know, when she did run for president i worked for rudy giuliani and handled all the southising efforts. there's one thing that the republicans are lacking in and i can speak on that, it's the women's vote. so i'm very worried whoever we put up for 2016 has to go against hillary clinton which is obviously, she's getting a lot of women's endorsements and when we fail with the women's vote this is a scary thing. this is something the republicans have to take into consideration how we'll able to tackle that and we rain the women's vote. that's a very popular vote. i'm very concerned about that. >> i'm curious how you two feel how this fits into history much it was such a big thing obviously with barack obama. put aside an extraordinarily impressive resume that she has, winning over a tremendous number of republicans when she was in the senate, such good reviews as secretary of state. international acclaim. i think you could say. but there's also the idea of the first woman president. there's so much in society that's changing, so much feeling, is it time? >> that's what makes

if you don't believe me, ask rudy giuliani and his current wife. ask newt gingrich and his current wife. ask bob and elizabeth dole. ask pat and shelley buchanan. go back and ask george and martha washington. all these people were married, married under the law, entitled to respect for their marriage is, no laughing matter, precisely because we know that in the law many people do want to raise their children within marriage, and also many people marry without regard to whether or not they have children or any attempt or ability to do so. but the procreation requirement is somehow only invoked when it comes to excluding gay couples from marriage. and as if that were not unfair enough, what makes it even worse is that many of those a couples, the same-sex couples, throughout unit states including new york are raising children. and they want into this legal institution of marriage for precisely the reason that many other non-gay people want to get married, too. which is not only with regard to their emotional well being and reinforcing their private c

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by then, the giuliani administration was not in charge. it was the bloomberg administration. he brought back john doherty, who had been the commissioner for several years, have retired, and bloomberg invited him back for his old job. the only commissioner to serve twice and the only commissioner to come up the ranks from the truck to serve twice. the longest-serving commissioner and department history. and john doherty brought back vito turso, and i think of them as a team. vito promoted people that i knew then. they were my hooks. if you have a hook, that is some one who can speak on your behalf and help you solve a problem. my hooks, the artist in residence and a former policy analyst with sanitation, and they talked to him on my behalf. that was the wedge. that was the foot in the door. i think that vito recognized that was not crazy. and certainly i proved my stubbornness because it had been two years. he helped the artist in residence with some of her projects. from a bureaucratic perspective, you would never approve them. but he has a much deeper understanding of the po

. >> my sources in the giuliani white house say the same thing.hree years before election day. and while there is some valid attention being paid, for instance, not going to the faith and freedom conference and going to the clinton global initiative, a lot of this will dry up like -- like morning dew once we get to late 2015. >> but we'll have the pictures. >> that's the problem with this, it's not so much that he said something that's so outrageous that the republicans will dislike him, it's just that you just see these pictures -- >> are you going to blow it off in 2015 and 2016? no. he's going to figure out what he's going to say and he'll go to it when he has to rather than go there and be panned by some of the more hard core elements of that. >> and this year was a good time for him. we've got less than a minute left and i have to bring up the topic of the democratic ticket. hillary clinton, at least if you read the column today -- she's on twitter now and she's out full force with programs from the clinton initiative. do we know anything mor

rudy giuliani joins us. >> nice to see you. >> what's your position, democrats and republicans are seeking to declassify this? >> well, greta, i was there at the creation of the fisa court at the end of the carter administration. watched it for many years when i was associate attorney. the court functions in a responsible way. the reality is, keeping these documents secret is enormously important to protecting the methods by which we find these people who are coming here to try to kill us. it's enormously important to protect the identity of the people who are given the information to us. i've written i don't know, 100 of these things and it's very hard to write them and be completely careful about preserving identity. have you to give information. very intelligent, very smart, counter intelligent people can figure out who and what you're talking about. i wish the senators would step back a little and not overreact. i mean, we could be doing something very, very dangerous here if we start revealing all of these affidavits. >> well, i think that the whole idea would be that it would not be

and scott segal is a lobbyist and partner with firm of bracewell & giuliani.irm represents a number of big utilities that have coal- fired power plants as well as companies pushing for the keystone extension. frances beinecke, the president said that he was going direct e.p.a. to work with the states to establish pollution standards for new and existing plants. at first blush it doesn't sound like a lot. >> well, actually our power plants are 40% of our carbon emissions so if we want to get on the president's plan to reduce our carbon emissions by 17% we have to take the carbon pollution coming from our power plants head on and by directing e.p.a. under the clean air act the president can put in standards to reduce those significantly. n.r.d.c. says we can reduce the emissions by 26%, 10% of our carbon footprint right now. so it's the single most important thing the president can do to get us on a trajectory towards a safer climate future. >> ifill: is a that a reasonable or laudable goal? >> well, the president raised the profile of the issue which is laudabl