. >> thank you, i'm larry bush, friend ofet i objects. wanted to bring to your attention that the information on disclosures that are posted on the ethics web page are not being kept current. and this is make it very difficult, especially in. campaign season to know, for example, which lobbyists have contributed and also what's the status of the new best payment disclosure comment that was passed a year ago. it took effect january 1st. there's no place on the web page to disclose. that you can go through right through each of the categories of permit consultant, major developers, none of those databases are being kept current. so if they cannot be kept current, you can put something on the web page that says the status of when they will be kept current and in the interim how people can access the information. thank you. thank you. any other public comment? being none, agenda item number 3 discussion and possible action to elect chair and advise chair to serve for the coming year. >> commissioner kopp: madam chairperson. >> vice chairperso

. >> larry bush for friends of ethics. this was a recommendation that came from the civil grand jury originally in a 2013-14 jury report on ethics. it was also endorsed strong lie by friends of ethics. you have only to look at the most recent example of christine johnson on the planning commission where the ethics commission raised the point about whether she faced a conflict of interest, and your attorney here, your dca here went and represented here if a rebuttal of the complaint. so there you have the same person representing the ethics commission complaint or issue and then representing the city commissioner. and as you looked at the case, you could see that the dca was unfamiliar with these conflict of interest laws and failed to notice, for example, that that particular person was not only an employee of a competing agency but also was a member of their board of directors, so all of that has now gone forward to the stpc for a deeper investigation into how it is that the dca gave incorrect advice. but you should never

larry kudlow. he is a cheerleader for bush-era economics. gary kudlow is now going to give the president advice, he recommended that americans buy stock in the fall of 2008 when everybody else saw the economy about to collapse. does anyone think that larry kudlow is going to bring a renewed focus on the middle class? forget it. he has his whole career, and that's who president trump picks, getting rid of one and putting in another like going from the frying pan into the fire. and, by the way, i think the president, he loves having big classes of working-class people, big crowds of working-class people in those tents, but who are his real friends? the very wealthy. that's who he hung out with in new york. he cares what he thinks, and that's why his policies are so aimed at them. so, my republican friends, this is, in a nutshell, the problem you face. the rhetoric is all about helping working people, but their policies are all about helping corporations and the rich. i'm not against the rich or corporations. god bless them. let's hope they do

bush. larry kudlow, conservative commentator.omb director mick mulvaney, though he's a long shot. what is clear, most investors favor a candidate who is for free trade are more favorable trade with allies, so some traders telling me the markets stopped falling when white house press secretary sarah sanders hinted that tariffs could include carve outs for mexico and canada based on national security. >> bill: coming together. thanks, deirdre bolton, nice to see you in new york. and this is a fox news alert room here in washington. and intelligence to source telling fox news that former white house communications director hope hicks told the house intelligence committee that an old email address of hers had been hacked. that source saying that she told the committee that was an old email that she had her sins used in college and not one of her trump or white house email addresses. more details on this as the story develops. a mystery in england, what kind of weapon was used after attack on a former russian spy and his daughter? det

bush and larry kudlow, who by the way is seen as a more free trade person, more similar to gary cohn. but whoever takes on the job, there's huge decisions ahead. there's an investigation into chinese i.p. theft, negotiations over nafta, north american free trade agreement, which some say that president trump behind closed doors says he wants to tear up. all of this happening before the mid-terms, a lot on the table. back to you. >> trish: indeed. interesting to see who this goes to. i know larry well, have known him for many years. i like him very much. but he's a free trade guy. i can't see him signing on to the idea of tariffs here. in fact, he was just out with an op-ed with art laffer wrote as well. art will join the program in a little bit. they're very against this idea of tariffs. we'll see where it goes. thanks, deidra. gary cohn bolting after losing the battle over tariffs. it's an issue that some red state democrats are liking a lot. does this red state democrat agree? john tester is here. good to see you, senator. what do you think? where do you come out on tariffs right no

bush, larry lindsey joins tuso talk trade tariffs and the economic agenda next on power >>> hello, everyonehere is your news update for this hour. president trump welcoming the prime minister of ireland to the white house. he said he believes russia was behind the nerve gas attack in britain against a former russian spy and his daughter. >> i spoke with the prime minister and we are in deep discussions, a very sad situation. it certainly looks like the russians were beline it. something that should never ever happen and we're taking it very seriously as i think are many othe others. >> a lawsuit filed by the muslim boy that was arrested for taking a homemade clock to school was dismissed by the judge the family claimed discrimination the judge ordered the family to cover the cost of the lawsuit. >> dairy queen suing wb mason to stop them from selling bottled spring water baring the blizzard name they are filing their own lawsuit seeking a declaration that it didn't infringe on any trademark. that's the news update this hour melissa back to you. >> this as cryto bulls gather. seema is there

larry i'm now joined on set by robert c. o'brien former u.s. representative to the u.n. general assembly during the george w. bush administration he was also senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of mitt romney and scott walker it's always good having him with us ok first robert so many things happen with this administration this news every other minute the director of the national security agency admiral mike rogers recently told congress that the troubled ministration is not doing enough to counter russia's efforts to cyber meddle in elections that i know you know mike what do you make of that look at how the russians have been our adversaries for a long time you know i grew up in an age where you know we thought we'd go to war with russia someday that didn't happen which was great then the cold war ended but the russians have kept up their their efforts against the united states have never given up they were active during the obama years are going to be active during the trump years and we have to be vigilant we have to push back against vladimir putin and russian aggression against our allies in europe

bush administration that was presently of the a member of the mcglinchey stafford law firm thank you for coming bob thank you larry ok the attorney for stormy daniels he says to federal judge to allow him to depose the president and his attorney i think that will go through. well i mean certainly based on the clinton case that the precedent is set that the president can be deposed in a civil matter while his president ited states i think the bigger hurdle he has as to whether or not the president is a necessary witness to his case because right now is case isn't about. whether the president had an affair or not his case is about this confidentiality agreement he set up with mike cohen or the story daniel set up with michael collins and so whether or not the president whether or not that would be relevant to to the president's testimony is what a quarrel eventually have to decide i think that's a bigger hurdle than that whether the president be deposed at all because i think it's pretty clear that he could be if it were justified. it was her interview on sixty minutes significant. i don't think it really advanced t

bush, prices soared, 14%, 15%. that's low-income people. >> well, larry, here's my point.don't know how the world is going to react is china going to retaliate? probably in some way some of the other countries you mentioned. i do worry we hit canada because they're good friends the same with mexico look, we don't know what's going to happen. we don't know eventually what is going to be the final product. is it going to be 20%? is it 10%? you may be negotiating but i just think we need to send a signal to the international community that, all right, if we're all going to be free traders, we got to play for the rules. here's to other areas, larry you know, north korea, i know you're going to say, what's that got to do with it? i'll tell you what it does we've been saying to china, you've got to keep some strong sanctions on north korea and we're going to be watching you've got to enforce it or we're going to take action against you. i think the fact that the president has made this announcement and will take some action is going to get the chinese maybe a little more moving

larry, the final word word. >> don't forget how they threw the czech republic and the poles under the bus because they didn't like the deal that george w. bush not forget all of that. trump is too cozy to putin? give me a break. >> sean: while side. right on target. thank you both. when we come back, a video of the day you will love and a hannity hotline that will entertain you, straight ahead. ♪ you won't see these folks at the post office they have businesses to run they have passions to pursue how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters ship packages all the amazing services of the post office right on your computer get a 4 week trial plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again ♪ >> sean: a time >> sean: time for the video of the day. it is a site you don't see very often. t a deer running few districts in louisville, kentucky, making ain splash. watch it.. it jumps off a guard rail, falls into the ohio river. the deer was fine. and there's a happy ending, it swam away. wow. pretty amazing. time for you to hitit me with yr best shot, the hannit

larry kudlow, a free market guy, and navarro is more of a nationalist. what trump decides here will be telling. >> let's bring in tony fratto former white house deputy press secretary under george w. bushood morning to you. gary cohn, a former goldman sachs executive was seen as some what of a liaison, a bridge between wall street and the white house. the question is with gary cohn leaving the white house, does it suggest the president won't prioritize policies that are somewhat good or appealing to investors? >> you know, one thing that gary brought even more than just the relationship with wall street, gary is a well known commodity he knew lots of people in economic circles here in d.c. and policymakers around the world from his role at goldman sachs. that wasn't even the most val valuable part of it really he was able to run a policy process at the nec that was disciplined. you knew that in a policy was going to be considered, whether tax policy or financial regulations or anything else, it would go through this process. it would emerge with some options. you could count on that. it was the ballast in the policymaking process in some stormy seas in washington. if you're markets and

bush, continuing under obama and under president trump. so the impact of those advisers is harder to see now it's just less visible >> we will definitely get a taste of how larrydles it. it will be interesting to watch. we can't ask for better insight than from you two. thanks, guys talk to you soon >>> over to dominic chu for a market flash as we watch the index, boeing going higher >> markets going higher but monsanto taking a dip on the heels of bloomberg headlines saying that baier is set to face hurdles. more "squawk alley" afr is eak.teth >>> we are live today in fort lauderdale, florida for "the halftime report" and we have a great lineup set to talk about the markets, the appointment of larry kudlow as director of the national economic council, possible trade wars, so much to discuss with the founder of virtu financial. he is live with us can't wait to catch up with him. glenn hutchins is with us as well, talking the state of the markets, why he likes bitcoin and all things technology. has tech become too powerful we will ask the co-founder of silver lake partners it starts top of the hour. we have a very special guest as well joining us later, the gen

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bush, i ran into gene mccarthy. he said when you get to new hampshire, you don't have to win, you just have to beat the point spread. >> larry from houston, texas, democrat's line, go ahead. >> caller: yeah, i'm also a veteran. the thing that i think caused nixon to win is because he had a cause that all my friends and a couple of them died in vietnam, as a result of it. and what it was is the draft just turned everybody away from the thought that we were going to have anything other than a war for the rest of our lives. >> thank you, larry. >> when i went to work with nixon, i was -- had come out and decided that we were going to have to do away with the draft, because the country was coming apart. secondarily, because we were beginning to draft people who basically, in the barracks, would have been seditious. they were so anti-war. they were so anti-military at the time, that in order to fight the war, future wars, you're probably going to have to end the draft. and nixon, i've got a memo. nixon talked to eisenhower. so i wrote nixon a memo. i said people are liable to say we're just doing this to let folks against the war

steel e that used to work in the bush administration, you know, p erella weinberg, mick mulvaney, there's others that people talk about it sounds like it's going to larryat's interesting yesterday is he didn't really offer it to him when he spoke with him the way i understood. it was more talk like, you know, where they both were trying to get comfortable with each other particularly the president with him. charles: right. charlie: so my guess is tomorrow , after the republicans lose that pennsylvania seat, and the markets get a little skid dish, they announce larry kudlow that's my guess. charles: thanks a lot charlie. charlie: on both of those. charles: by the way voting is underway in that special election in pennsylvania. why does race actually it could be an early indicator of thins to come in november midterms? charles: well, voting underway in pennsylvania district president trump won by nearly 20 points in 2016, so could this race be an early indicator of things to come in november? the national review contributor editor former clinton polster and gop fundraiser extraordinaire noelle. speaking of fundraiser the gop poured millions of dollars in

tell you one of the moments that to me gave larry even more credibility in this role i'm sure it gave him less with trump. but after the situation with billy bushif you remember that >> i do. >> he came on our air and was remarkably critical of the president. he felt he felt uncomfortable supporting him at that time. now you can say he went back on that later but i know there were a lot of other people >> arthur, that's critical question right now if you don't mind. >> that's what i was getting t >> when it comes to things like not necessarily some of these other personal issues, but things like tariffs, do you think larry will stand as a kind of pillar of free marks, anti-tariff, and be able to not just fight, arthur, but win that fight inside white house >> reporter: well, as you know, larry is very persuasive he is very evidence-based. he feels strongly about tariffs and trade wars and free trade. he does. i think he believes and i believe very strongly that the president is using tariffs as an employee to get better trade deals. nafta is an awful contract and awful, awful deal. tpp was terrible i was very involved in that. all the anti-free

bush white house adviser he's balanced, joe is. >> fair and balanced >> i'm very balanced i'm a balanced guy >> with us for the rest of the show, larrysidy, former honeywell chairman and cnbc contributor. after reading your piece, kate, it made me think that in a perfect world you have -- you go to serve in the white house and it's not about you, you present your side and you stand up as strongly as you can for your viewpoints but if you don't prevail, you're glad you were there to present your side of things and you probably think you'd like to be there the next time your side needs to be presented. i don't know if you kick your ball and go home if you don't get your way maybe that's not what happened. >> it seems to me gary cohn is trying to be all things. he's leaving on a gracious note. there were, you know, affirmative comments all around from him, from general kelly, from the president about the term he served. >> yeah. >> he comes back in the cabinet. >> exactly we even heard some talk that he'll continue to talk to the president as others have, possibly including steve bannon on this issue, and that he would consider coming b