but karl icon did. why did he do that? out that karl icahn was going to be named donald trump's special adviser on regulatory reform. and after he got that adviser gig, he set about advising the president to do things that would drop the price of those credits. so then he could collect on that otherwise mysterious a typical bet that he made that those credit would get cheaper. it sounds complicate fd you don't follow short selling and market stuff like this all of the time. but it's a simple and jaw dropping thing. billionaire bets on the market that a thing will happen, billionaire then joins trump administration to ensure that that thing will in fact happen. billionaire collects. that's it. congratulations. your country is now a former soviet corruptstan and the ruling family would like to see you right now. this is textbook banana republic corruption. people taking government jobs that then they use to make themselves rich in the private sector. the thank's actually most unnerving about the karl icahn story is how in th

karl: very much so. i come across people that i meet that are vietnamese, asian, people from india, and i tell them that you weren't always able to pick up a phone and punch two to speak in mandarin, or to go into a health clinic and speak your native language. and due to the sacrifices and the hard work of chicanos and mexican-americans in the 40s and 50s with the cso, that's where you got the drive behind creating forms in your native language, having the health clinic that's specific to your culture. and that was the foundation that helped people that come from all over the world feel welcome, to a great degree due to the efforts of mexican-americans and chicanos during that time. for example, the cso chapter, they were very instrumental, much more than just caesar. not to say he wasn't important, but many people that were part of that organization became part of future organizations. so, that was, once again, the real foundation of how we made silicon valley what it become. damian: real trailblazers.

karl rove joins us on this and much more coming up. david: plus the president slamming a bill he just signed into law today imposing sanctions on russia, iran, north korea. why he is calling parts of it unconstitutional and signed the bill nonetheless? melissa: president trump also throwing his support behind a bill that could cut legal immigration levels in half. we're going to explain that one coming up. >> as a candidate i campaigned on creating a merit-based immigration system that protects u.s. workers and taxpayers, and that is why we are here today. poor mouth breather. allergies? stuffy nose? can't sleep? take that. a breathe right nasal strip instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicine alone. shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. breathe right. ♪ the great beauty of owning a property is that you can create wealth through capital appreciation, and this has been denied to many south africans for generations. this is an opportunity to right that wrong. the idea was to bring capital into the afforda

karl rove. karl, your reaction. he is now losing the business community, one after another, yo after ceo be is getting out. they don't want to be associated with this. can you blame them? >> no, i can't. i'm with you. he had a good statement on monday. but then on tuesday he stepped right back into it by morally equating the two groups. one group consists of a small cadre of white supremacists, neo-nazis and kkk members who paraded through the city of charlottesville, waving nazi flags, wearing gnaw sy quotes by adolf hitler on t-shirts and saying anti-black sentiments and other side consisted mostly of university of virginia students and residents and out of town troublemakers. there is no moral equivalency. one was almost exclusively white supremacists and other was not. to suggest the two are equivalent was wrong on his part. trish: why did he do it? >> i don't know. trish: feeding the media, feeding this narrative of him. he should have shut it down and move on. he was there to talk about infrastructure, why wou

karl was gambling on a better life for himself. what he got was extra hours of back breaking work, as much as 100 hour weeks, he was told to stay on his land and produce what he was told to produce. for heinrich, the bet didn't pay off either. 104,000 small businesses were closed in two years. and for hans, he had a job now in the munitions factory but he worked long hours for little pay. the working conditions grew increasingly bad. and even though he didn't like the job, he wasn't permit today leave it. and when hit lerdeciler decidede was right germany went to war, not by declaring war but by a carefully prepared sneak attack. once again hitler needed hans to do his dirty work. he was an expert by and hitler had decided to use his brutality against other people. but in the crucial test of war, hitler's race theory didn't pay off. his pure blooded supermen were defeated by the mongrel parties, by the british, by the russians , then on d day by american solders of every color and religi religion. who drove through to the heart of

here's karl rove and senior adviser to george w. bush.t's interesting, karl, to watch -- the democrats have a point. the republicans have some infighting and had a big legislative loss before recess. but i feel like the bigger story here, and it's masking their problems is that the democrats have not recovered in any way from the loss of last november and i think that what you argued this morning is, they're not on the road to actually repairing that at all. >> no, they aren't. they're in the weakest condition they've been in a century in terms of numbers in state legislatures. there's 15 democratic governors, 34 republicans and one independent. the republicans before last week had 33. they got the 34th when the governor of west virginia, elected last november, trump is winning the state by 42 points, jim justice, the democratic nominee wins by seven and yet less than seven months after taking office, he switches party saying the democratic legislators don't support me. i can't get anything done in washington being a democratic and he sto

>> i've made my own comments. >> karl, what do you think about that?ll, the -- he has come of the nation is divided and they are telling the military that they have to defend the country and the country will come back together. i don't put these exactly in the same category. look, secretary speed 24 was asked a question by our colleague and friend chris wallace. it was a tough question. in essence, do you agree with president trump what he said about charlottesville? a number of people found that difficult to defend publicly or privately. he did it in an artful job and trying to stay out of it. unless you come out and say, "i'm either for the president on what he charlottesville, by god, he was right what he said, it's been happening for a long time and there are bad people on both sides," or, "i disagree with that," you will be stacked. he was trying to be unstuck and artful. >> martha: some would say that maybe nikki haley is someone who might be moving into that job, that we might see tillerson step down. quick thought on that before i let you guys

don't you think that's true, karl? there are a portion of the congress whether on the senate side or even on the house side that -- especially on the senate, they are going to be there for six years, they don't care if he succeeds or not. they are going to say things out there that sound like they are democrats actually. how should he react? >> i would put it just a little bit differently. there are a lot of people who think their fate is not tied to him. what he's got to do is say we're all in this together. our success as a party and a country depend upon us delivering on our promises. mcconnell has not given up on trying to get something done on healthcare. neither should the president give up on trying to get something done with fellow republicans. strengthen them. don't weaken them. >> karl rove, always a pleasure. thank you very much. >>> next up, we're talking north korea and china. listen up, hea. you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get too comfortable. we're talking to you, cos

jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> jonathan karl there trying to stay dry. the white house in the meantime is not happy with the latest leak of phone call transcripts between president trump and world leaders. they were published by the "washington post." first up, president trump talking with the mexican president kn president. saying that mexico will pay, and the mexican president saying completely unacceptable. and trump saying i have to have mexico pay for the wall. i have to, i've been talking about it for a two-year period. he says it will work out in the formula somehow, adding it had come out in the wash, and that is okay. and then there was the call with the australian prime minister, malcolm turnbull. president trump was furious about inheriting an obama-era deal to accept refugees from australia, telling the prime minister, this is going to kill me. i am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. he says the deal will make him look terrible, like a week and infective leader and a dope. he ends the conversation a

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you mentioned karl rove.ve was as damning of the arpaio pardon today in the morning news shows as i've ever heard. when you lose karl rove, you lose a lot of people in the republican party. this president needs to change his behavior and change it quickly. >> meanwhile, there's the new forces that have been in the white house, and danielle, you've been covering it, what it means to have a steve bannon in there or a gorka or stephen miller who is still there, who is reported through "the washington post" having been an advocate to get arpaio this pardon. what type of congress and sentiment on capitol hill do you think that the president is going to face when they all come back, you know, to start the new school year? >> well, i mean, i think that after charlottesville and after the arpaio pardon, that there has been sort of a freeing of republican members of congress where they feel like they have a little more license to criticize the president and to talk specifically about what they disagree with. we saw pa

jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> jon was there for that news conference. it did produce a few laughs, thanks to the press corps from finland. >> the president thought tha question during a "q" and "a" question. >> thank you, mr. president. i have a question to president trump, if i may. >> i know there might be a couple more questions. you want to take one more? go ahead, pick. go ahead. again? you're going to give her the same one. >> she's not the same lady. >> we have a lo of blonde women in finland. there are many blonde women in finland. >> they look similar. different blazers. a moment of brevity. >>> coming up, an update from our reporter in south korea, as the north launches another missile. why this latest act is causing so much >>> and a desperate mother in texas, stranded on a rooftop. makes a play for help live on the air. how social media is helping in the rescue effort. so if you're on medicare or wbe soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. y

here's abc's senior white house correspondent, jonathan karl. >> reporter: at the white house today, president trump offered this message to the victims of hurricane harvey -- "we are 100% with you." >> we are one american family. we hurt together, we struggle together, and believe me, we endure together. we are one family. >> reporter: the president was upbeat about recovery efforts, saying the texas governor is doing a fantastic job, calling his fema administrator "outstanding in so many ways," and predicting a swift recovery. >> texas is a unique place. it's a great, great state, great people. and i think you'll be up and running very, very quickly. really very quickly. so, yeah, i think you'll be in fantastic shape. >> reporter: trump today also defended his controversial pardon of arizona sheriff joe arpaio, who was convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling. the pardon was announced just as hurricane harvey started to hit the texas coast. >> in the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a friday would be far higher than they would be normally. the hurricane was just

karl rove. karl, you are very well acquainted with texas. you spent a lot of time there over the years. let me ask you this, what is your assessment thus far what the president has done? going there yesterday, promising to come back on saturday, is this what texans need right now. >> look. his visit here was a good tonic for people of the state. he was wise not to go to houston because his presence would interfere with inimmediate rescue efforts. i thought it was great he went to corpus which missed the bullet by inches and came to austin seeing what is going on here with our governor. people mistake, they think in an incident like this that the president of the states and washington are in charge. that is not true. under the stafford act which governs disaster emergencies, that responsibility of preparing, planning, organizing and leading those kind of efforts in the middle of a disaster are the governors, and our governor has been enormously well-prepared for this. he and his team for months running exercises with state and local officials

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here's abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. >> reporter: president trump is in a war of words with his own party, threatening a government shutdown if the leaders don't come up with the money for his biggest campaign promise, the wall on the mexican border. something he promised over and over again, that mexico, not u.s. taxpayers, would pay for the wall. >> and who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> reporter: back in january, the president softened on that, telling david u.s. taxpayers would pay it first -- >> are you going to direct u.s. funds to pay for this wall? will american taxpayers pay for the wall? >> we'll be starting those negotiation, relatively soon, and we will be in a form, reimbursed by mexico. >> they will pay us back? >> 100%. >> reporter: but this week, he threatened to shut down the government if congress doesn't pay for it. >> the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it, but believe me, if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. >> reporter: the president promised mexico would pay for the wall, and why

joining us now on his tips, karl rove, former adviser to george w. bush and a fox news contributor.ts and pessimists. optima say we need textile form, the country needs it for all kinds of reasons. and then you have pessimists who say, well, it is not been done for 30 years, going to be so hard. which are you, in an optimist or a pessimist? >> i am generally an optimist. i am one of those kids like ronald reagan who got up and saw the pile of manure and dug into it trying to find the pony that was supposed to be in there. so even after health care went down, i am hopeful. i'm actually optimistic that they are going to get tax reform measure done, a tax cut done. it's not going to be as big and as bold as we would have liked it to have been, particularly after the health care defeat, but going to be big enough and hopefully strong enough. >> dana: what do you think they should do? we heard that the president will be traveling in august, going to hit some battleground states, to sell the message. how else should they try to get this across the finish line? >> lower expectations, i not

don't you think that's true, karl? congress whether on the senate side or even on the house side that -- especially on the senate, they are going to be there for six years, they don't care if he succeeds or not. they are going to say things out there that sound like they are democrats actually. how should he react? >> i would put it just a little bit differently. there are a lot of people who think their fate is not tied to him. what he's got to do is say we're all in this together. our success as a party and a country depend upon us delivering on our promises. mcconnell has not given up on trying to get something done on healthcare. neither should the president give up on trying to get something done with fellow republicans. strengthen them. don't weaken them. >> karl rove, always a pleasure. thank you very much. constipated? trust #1 doctor recommended dulcolax. use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. suppositories for relief in minutes. and dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax. design

karl mercer has the details.ne, few people had even heard of g re nfell tower. ten weeks later, it stands testament to a system that failed, to fire and building regulations that didn't do theirjob and to inspection regimes that didn't pick up the risk of fire. and in the weeks since, tower blocks across the capital have had to be evacuated, deemed unsafe. at the chalcots estate in camden, hundreds had to leave their homes. at the ledbury estate in southwark, the gas was turned off over safety fears. today, the woman charged with looking at what went wrong with those regulations promised answers. i can understand that people living in those tower blocks right now are worried and rightly so. and it's important that we get some recommendations out quickly so that the right rectifications can be made and things can be progressed quickly. her inquiry will focus on fire and building regulations and how they've worked. in the wake of grenfell, the government ordered tests on hundreds of pieces of cladding from tower bl

past that or votes or elections have been act have ok in two thousand and twelve do you remember this karl rove freaked out on fox news on the night of the election when they called the election for obama he was great that it was stark and that ohio would suddenly and mysteriously swing to romney's favor at the last minute he just knew it would put as you a straight on question you went through this in two thousand you almost went through it in two thousand and four do you believe that ohio has been settled no i don't and it is look if we if we if we are calling this on the basis of seventy four percent of vote be in and when seventy seven percent is in secretary of state website i got the director of the ohio campaign for romney on the other in the line refreshing the page every few seconds and this went from being when we started this conversation three or four minutes ago one thousand nine hundred ninety five vote margin for president obama to just now nine hundred ninety nine nine hundred and you know he freaked out so much that fox news actually sent meghan kelly running through the o

karl rove. >> i want to say one thing. varney made an attempt to lay the predicate believing that if the market jumps over 22,000 it is his, that he is responsible for that, but markets are forward-looking. i think upward movement in the morning they were looking forward to your program. neil: i totally agree. >> if it crosses 22,000, it is you and varney. neil: i so had it with that guy and the fake british accent, i am up to here. >> it is not fake, it is a real british accent. neil: you are wrong. i have the birth certificate, brooklyn, new york, you would never believe it. karl, thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. neil: meanwhile the senate is still going to be at work and will still go on next two weeks. the only question i have, what will they be doing, after this. potsch: you each drive a ford pickup, right? (in unison) russ, leland, gary: yes. gary: i have a ford f-150. michael: i've always been a ford guy. potsch: then i have a real treat for you today. michael: awesome. potsch: i'm going to show you a next ge

today, "the trump base is far bigger and stronger than ever before." >> so let's bring in jonathan karl live this washington tonight, and tonight the president has said he is away at his golf club for 17 days in part, because of the renovations at the white house? >> reporter: the entire west wing has been emptied, including the oval office. contractors are repainting the walls, refinishing the floors, putting in new carpet and also replacing a 27-year-old heating and air-conditioning system. this is a $3.4 million renovation project that was approved and planned under the obama administration, and we expect it to be finished by the time the president returns later this month. >> jon karl live in washington. jon, thank you. >>> in the meantime, north korea tonight vowing revenge on the united states after new sanctions from the u.n. promising to, quote, teach the u.s. a severe lesson. i want to bring in abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz, and the u.s. supports these sanctions, but there's concern that the north koreans have made progress with their intercontinental

karl, thanks for coming on. >> you bet.nk you, sandra. >> sandra: i'm sure you've got some thoughts on this moment. >> well, look. in a normal white house if a senior white house aide gave an interview to a reporter from the office inside of the aisle, so to speak, a conservative white house staffer calls up a very liberal reporter and proceeds to diss his white house colleagues and administration colleague, contradict the president, both from a policy perspective and a priority perspective, declare that he's going to remove opponents and, quote, enemies within the administration and otherwise covers himself with glory, he'd be gone. but this is not a normal white house. steve bannon's relationship with president trump has been close and there have been questions as brett eluded to as to whether or not it was better to keep him inside the white house firing out rather than outside the white house firing in. but he's now gone. it's really a sign of maybe a little bit of normality that president trump agreed or president trum

cool and cloudy all day long at the coast. >> karl, get out! start but there is hope. >> yes. [ music ] captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning to you are viewers in the west. thursday august 10th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." north korea tells the world when and how it would launch missiles toward the american territory of guam. defense secretary james mattis says further north korean action could lead to the end of its regime. >>> 40 years ago today serial killer son of sam was arrested after his new york city murder rampage. in his first tv interview in a decade, david berkowitz insists a demon made him do it. >>> plus, two big names in fashion are suing over stripes. why gucci claims forever 21 stole its iconic pattern. >>> and kemp that

karl rove, senior advisor to former president george w. bush. for the white house now? you had i worked together. it was no secret. i was a spokesperson for a time. we certainly know it could be's stressful. >> sure, better to deal with that press stress in private. it dully or colleagues see you worry. don't have that worry and fear pushed off in a box. stay focused on your job. i knew i had done nothing wrong. and i had a fantastic attorney who i had every confidence in and at the end of the day, it worked out just like i expected it would. what was surprising was i didn't know who had leaked the name to a columnist and reporter robert novak until it was all over and it turned out it was nobody in the white house. it was under richard armitage but the justice department knew that. right at the beginning. and the day the special prosecutor walked in, he knew who had leaked the name and he knew there was no violation of law in the leaking of the name. >> dana: to think there is a concern for the trump white house might be going beyond his scope

here's what he said. >> martha: joining me now with the whole texas story, karl rove. fox news contributor and a proud texan himself. good evening. >> good evening. >> martha: the first thing to ask you, how you and the people that you know and love are holding up in your home state, a place that you hold dear to your heart? >> look, we lived on the far edge of the storm. we lost part of our chimney and a bunch of trees. we had no damage compared to what is inflicted on texans along the gulf coast, a former colleague of mine and their family are in a shelter. a friend of ours stayed with us monday night. their ranch was in the eye of the storm. when it came ashore at rock port, it ended up about three miles away from their house. the roof of their house has been ripped off. we'll be hearing stories for weeks to come about people desperate straits that are overcoming the -- one of the worst natural disasters in our country's history with grit and determination. >> martha: and you were in the white house during katrina. the president has been there. what do you think of

jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >> presidential adviser and son-in-law jared kushner is wrapping up his trip to the middle east where he's been trying to jump start mideast peace talks. he held separate meetings with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and palestinian president mahmoud abbas. kushner told each that president trump is committed to finding a solution that's workable for both sides. >> back here at home let's take a closer look at your friday weather. >> good morning, well, we are following a strengthening hurricane harvey moving off toward the north and the west and this will take aim on southeastern texas, very late tonight and also into early saturday, hurricane warnings in the red shaded areas including corpus christi, tropical storm warnings for houston and galveston. expected to become a major hurricane this morning, later on this morning and make impact as we move into late, late friday night. later on tonight and also into early saturday, rainfall amounts, 1 to 2 feet possible in some areas. i'm justin povick with your accuweather forecast. >>> and sti

. >> karl hoerman, a german artist. >> did he tell you what he thought that one was worth?00. >> nothing to sneeze at. then david examines the picture of the woman in the red shawl. in the lower left-hand corner, a signature -- victor higgins. >> victor higgins. how much did you know? >> i never heard of him before. >> turns out, the guy's work sells for big bucks. >> one of his paintings sold at sotheby's for over $400,000. >> he appeals to the modern aesthetics, not only back then, but specifically today. >> mark sublette, an authority on western painting, knows all about victor higgins. born on a farm in indiana in 1884, the artist leaves home as a teenager and studies painting at the art institute of chicago. in 1913, he's one of many american artists blown away by an international exhibition of modern art called the armory show. >> you had all these cubist and impressionistic paintings coming from europe. and it really shook up the entire art world. >> the staggered american artists, including higgins, resolve to develop their own modern styles. so several artists from

jon karl with the one-on-one exclusive. >>> and the day of giving, as the hard hit gulf coast begins its long recovery, americans across the country opening their hearts and wallets to help their neighbors in need. >>> and good evening. thanks for joining us on this thursday night. i'm tom llamas in for david, and tonight, houston is turning the corner, but as you can see just behind me, there are still so many rain-soaked neighborhoods, and now new dangers are emerging. take a look at this. extreme flooding and dramatic new rescues east of here. the sky filled with helicopters. an explosion and fire in a flooded chemical plant. the company expecting more to come. a hospital with no water and running out of supplies, all the patients there evacuated. and as the flood waters recede in some neighborhoods and families are coming back, a new assessment tonight. as many as 100,000 homes damaged by the storm. and tonight, clearly harvey isn't done yet. abc's matt gutman with some of the storms latest victims in beaumont tonight. >> reporter: tonight, from the air -- beaumont and port arthu

questioning karl green played by anthony mackey. this is you questioning, anthony mackey. >> says there, paratrooper eight years, two deployments. honorable discharge. >> this is a fake. no, sir. the this your girl? i just met her. what's his name? i don't know. his name is karl green. i wasn't asking you. i was asking her. what's his name? >> i just said his name. you're lucky i haven't broken your (bleep) neck yet. >> i see what you're trying to do. i'm not going to cause trouble, but i'm not going to lie down for you either. >> rose: what are you thinking? >> i really enjoy working with anthony mackey and will poulter. i like being in that room and around this incredible talent. >> rose: there's a moment in the director's life where the actors take it even beyond what you would have ever thought? >> absolutely. it's magic when that happens and that happened, i think, every day on the set. >> rose: how does the director get that? there is moments in which you guys take it beyond. what's her role, then? >> i think, for me, the best

we'll talk to karl rove when we come back.sed car without getting ripped off. start at the new carfax.com show me used trucks with one owner. pretty cool. [laughs] ah... ahem... show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com. >> molly: it is official. history has been made. it rained southeast houston has exceeded the record set in 1978, exceeding 49.32 inches of rain. there is also somewhat unofficially that it may be over 52 inches. what's incredible is the rain is still coming down. there are a number of dams and levees being damaged. one levy may have been breached, there are other homes that remain in danger and still could flood yet. >> leland: we said before, we'll sit again. this is going to get much worse before gets better. president trump is adding to texas right now to get a firsthand look at the damage from tropical storm harvey. the president's visit to corpus christi comes after he promises swift action. you can see him leaving the white house earlier. peter doocy 11 corpus christi wher

. >> sean: karl rove, he's never like the president but karl rove is a pretty smart guy.president cannot win by going after members of his own party. apparently it's wave off limits to ever talk bad about a fellow senator. but when mitch mcconnell said these are expected expectations? that's such a swamp, sewer, d.c. culture, so out of touch with how most americans live their lives. is donald trump wrong to go after them or should he sit back and wait for them to do their jobs. >> you are exactly right. mitch mcconnell statement -- excessive expectations, he should have been cracked for that but he's a grown man. he's a big politician. the president has a right to hit him publicly. if he thinks it will work. i do tend to agree with karl rove on this. i don't think it's going to work or it's going to help. i don't know what's necessary to do it. it might be better to get angry and get inside a room, get it all out of your system and let them know what you think and come out strong. >> sean: i like that idea. good advice. when we come back, hillary clinton called out presid

strategist karl rove. columnist for the hill juan williams.covers the white house for the associated press, and josh holmes, mitch mcconnell's former chief of staff and the g.o.p. strategist. sheriff arpaio was convicted last month of criminal contempt for defying a court order to stop detaining latinos on suspicions that they might be illegal. his opponents called it racial profiling. we asked if her questions about the parts of his parking and maria swanson tweeted this. if the law doesn't apply to arpaio, should it apply to anyone else? how do you answer mar, you think of the pardoning as a legal proposition and also if the politics of a? >> the president is entitled under the constitution to have an unlimited power of pardon. i think he exercised it in this instance. sheriff arpaio was found guilty of violating a federal order for over a year that's a to stop racially profiling people, but for driving with teen or walking with tina when he openly defied it. this did not go through the normal routine of pardon applications, because the depa