from the scrubbers she mentions, to the reference to michael bloomberg. bloomberg was often bandied about by the right, but also occasionally by democrats running in red states. michael bloomberg comes off as a liberal new yorker, although he is an independent. he has funded groups that promote restrictions on gun rights, as well as groups that want to clean up the environment. so that is why he is an easy target in conservative parts of the country. what i thought was particularly appalling about this ad, is that i had already rated the claim that he had taken $600,000 from anti-coal groups, as a four pinocchio whopper. that was based largely on money that his wife had gotten from being on the board of wells fargo, which finances coal companies. they are not an anti-coal group. then she kind of lumps in bloomberg, because mcconnell's wife, the former labor secretary, was on a board affiliated with bloomberg. again, that had nothing to do with the environment or coal. because she had some connection with bloomberg, she was able to say bloomberg and anti-co

go after mayor michael bloomberg whose given hundreds of millions of dollars to new york. or the rich 1%ers who give hundreds of millions of dollars. they are wanting to cause trouble. they should be arrested. >> chuck, i know you are outraged by what happened in ferguson and here in new york. what does macy's and apple have to do with this? >> i have been going to protests far long time. i am a fan of protests. the american people should rise up and let the government know that. that's what the forefathers said, like john said. going after private businesses is not the way to do that. going back to civil rights and union days, you did not go after people because they were economically wealthy. we all aspire to be wealthy and to have justice in the country. there's a right and wrong way to do it. >> gary, b., what do you think? >> it's a head scratcher. i don't understand the effect. they go and close down apple and macy's. what effect is that going to have on the police force of new york city? i scratch my head. and what end do they want? do they want to get rid of capita

he collected a lot of new york politicians, including rudolph giuliani and michael bloomberg.was a genius political consultant. >> and a giant of the modern political era. you had people sing his praises, saying that he change the gain in terms of how politics are practiced in america. he will be missed. >> he elected a very high percentage of new york mayors of different parties and i never met one of his clients who did not worship him. incredible guy. >> coming up, is jed bush really going to the plate? ♪ >> our guest tonight has advised george w. bush and mitt romney. his name offers name play when discussing immigration. dan senor, thank you for coming on the show. we talked about the decision to release the e-mails. you know the former governor really well. give us a sense of where he is now. >> i don't want to get into specifics, but my impression is he is testing the water. i think the e-mail, the commitment to dump the e-mail is fantastic for him. it has created a lot of buzz in the donor community because it speaks to his authenticity. one of the things that he has g

are in paris and over the next half hour, i talk to angel gurria, oecd secretary general, and michael bloomberg special envoy for cities and climate change and founder of bloomberg lp. the titans go head-to-head on how best to tackle one of the biggest issues facing our generation. climate change is one of the topics we have been talking

he had on his side outgoing mayor michael bloomberg, himself a billionaire 34 times over. bloomberg had spent three terms rolling out the red carpet for the richest of the rich. >> that's our tax base. if we can find a bunch of billionaires around the world to move here, that would be a godsend because that's where the revenue comes to take care of everybody else. >> but the mayor left something out. the super rich who buy those opulent apartments and live in new york city less than half the year will pay no city income tax at all. >> and while those people still contribute in other ways to the city's economy, i'm sure they go out to expensive restaurants and buy theatre tickets and shop in fancy stores and do all those things, you only pay income tax if you're a resident. and they're not. >> which means the fabulously rich, high above the city, will be contributing no income taxes to support the public servants who make it work far below, transit workers and teachers or the firemen and police who rushed to one57 when hurricane sandy tipped its construction crane and set i

joining us now is doug schoen a former pollster to michael bloomberg, fox news political analyst as well. doug, good to have you here. >> thanks, lou. lou: this is about as nasty a turn of events as we could have imagined in the relationship of a mayor and his police department. this is not a mayor who seems committed to making things better. >> well, i think that he is actually. i'm not a fan of de blasio. i would call myself an opponent. his speech to the police academy a day or so ago when he spoke about the quality of the new york city police department meeting with five unions and pbc head lynch is a step in the right direction. i'd be the first to criticize him. we're better seek reconciliation than pointing fingers. lou: that's a fine expression but i think we do little by pack is ling over what is absolutely empirically a division and divide between the mayor and police department and one of his making words without reference to recanting his previous angry hostile, anti-police rhetoric is meaningless, and certainly even that would be meaningless without actions. what can this ma

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police and operation gsz of the police in new york are pretty much the same as they were under michael bloomberg it seems nationwide wants change procedurally when it comes to racial profiling. maybe the mayor hasn't done enough and talked too much. but for the police union to hit and run, make a comment and then say we're not going to talk about it any more until after the funeral the damage has already been done. i believe mr. lynch has an obligation to communicate what his problem is with the mayor of new york city. he is the elect the mayor. the police department is supposed to protect and serve. that was an unusual platform to show political discontent with the mayor who is elected by the people. i don't see any ground swell effort to get rid of the mayor of the city bill de blasio, but i do sense a lot of discontent amongst those who live in the city that maybe they should change their procedures. you know we all want the same things, a safe city, we all want to be respectful. i think for what the police officers did at that funeral was a sign of disrespect at the wrong tile. get your cell

. >> under michael bloomberg as mayor, these people have the rights to freedom of speech.e right to protest. but disturbing the peace that's a much different scenario than speaking freely, and i talk about these protests but shutting down entire cities including bridges and highways is not only disturbing the peace, but it's putting all new yorkers at risk, god forbid, if something were to happen here and people needed to get in and out of the city, they would be responsible for killing a lot of people. >> let's go back 13 years ago to 9/11 and how we, all of us looked to men and women in uniform. >> these men and women were heroes, how quickly we forget that the nypd and the nyfd risked they lives helping people on 9/11. taking all this anger and violence on cops on plifs who risk their lives on a daily basis. >> if i had taken you on 9/12 and said the next mayor of fwloirk is going to run against the police you would have said that's impossible. >> we're going to take a quick break and then be right back. jeb bush seems to be clearing the way for a possible run in 2016.

. >> reporter: michael bloomberg and barack obama have something in common. their tailor.artin greenfield whose suits are a cut above the rest. >> this is president obama's jacket? >> only for the president. >> reporter: he dresses hollywood, too. he made leo dicaprio's wardrobe for "the wolf of wall street." greenfield sewed his first stitch not on seventh avenue or savile row but in auschwitz where his job in the camp laundry kept him alive. >> you'd never sewn before? >> i had never sewn, never washed. so the tailor says, you're a tailor. 15 years old. >> reporter: when the allies finally liberated the camps, he lost his whole family. he had little idea the dashing american general who freed him -- >> eisenhower. >> reporter: would one day become a customer of the brooklyn tailor who taught him his craft. >> for the first time, i could touch something for the man that liberated me. do you know the feeling? amazing. >> reporter: he couldn't resist slipping notes into eisenhower's jackets, offering advice on the suez crisis. he told a reporter about it. >> reporter: later

and michael bloomberg to his credit started calling the police. they are not first responders, they are first preventers. he saw their job to prevent crime and it worked. lou: your thoughts, karen, on the discussion? >> yeah, i think, every time i hear someone from the african-american community or a white activist say well, the country needs to come together, i don't know what that means. this country has been talking about race relation for decades, and i think come together means one side needs to dig a giant leap in one direction and i think do what we're seeing happen with sharpton, which is really blame police officers, de blasio blames the police officers and i have a lot of mixed feelings about what happened with eric garner, i don't think it's that cut and dry. i just don't know what it means we're all supposed to come together and have a big group hug. have a summit at the white house, those conversations never yield anything meaningful. >> it's all nonsense as you point out. i tell you what i think quickly. i think that the elites invol

my thought policy saved thousands of lives and so did michael bloomberg where lead to all kinds of chaosse they have already demoralized policies the whole police department. what do you say that to that. >> that's not what offended me the most. no say anything to that. what did i was that maybe there was saysive use of force. for crying out loud there is a man dead today so, yes, of course, this is beyond maybe. it's clear we have the evidence, we have the video. so for anybody don't want to talk about the big picture, you just want to stay with garner. because the big picture is that rudy giuliani did save thousands of black lives but branded a racist. >> you are saying other mayor's didn't. >> dickins didn't for sure. >> i don't think any one mayor can claim that credit fully. we are a city that needs to work together with the police department. >> i am. mayor david dinkis a black man a disaster for the black community. crime so out of control. i was a local reporter for channel 2 on the streets. you couldn't even walk in the streets. rudy giuliani took over and cleaned it up. because

because under michael bloomberg as mayor they have the right to the free speech but to the disturb theat's a much different scenario as speaking freely. shutting down an entire city including bridges and highways is not only disturbing the peace, but it's putting all new yorkers at risk. if god forbid something were to happen here and people needed to get in and out of the city, they would essentially be responsible for killing a lot of people. >> let's go back 13 years ago to 9/11 and how all of us looked upon men and women in uniform -- >> and our nypd were heros and how quickly people forget the nypd and the nyfd how they rushed into those buildings taking all this anger and violence on cops and police officers who risk their lives on a daily basis. >> if i had said on 9/12, the next mayor is going to run against police. >>> jeb bush appears to be clearing the way for a possible presidential run in 2016 and now a brand-new poll shows republican voters are warming up to the idea, the fox news political insiders are right back. while every business is unique everyone is looking for wa

michael bloomberg. the stop and frisk issue.e wrote this and not that long ago talking about targeting manpower in areas of high crime. he says that 90% of all people killed in our city. 90% of those who commit the murders and other violent crimes are black and hispanic. it's shameful that so many elected officials and editorial writers have been largely silent on those facts. >> that's not politically correct to i saw. that's why racial profiling again, i will be interested to see what holder does. >> numbers in ferguson interesting stuff because 86% of the stops and searches were of black people. the ferguson police department was more likely to find contraband on white people. a lot of disparity. >> that department, something wrong there. no question about it. all right. we have got to run. thank you truth serum people. when we come right back. miller time. the best stuff the d man has put forth this autumn. miller is next. i'm angela, and i quit smoking with chantix. people who know me, they say 'i never thought you would qu

but the progress let me be real clear, the republican that succeeded him, mayor michael bloomberg met with me many times. even though we disagreed i marched on him about stop and frisk. he never stopped meeting, never stopped talking, which set a different tone. and claxton, a let of us disagreed with him. but bloomberg was at our headquarters. you set it where we can talk. i think the people that are too insecure to talk to people that disagree with them are the people that we don't need to move forward. and i think we are and can move forward. >> we can disagree on one point and agree on another. like mayor bloomberg and officer claxton, correct me if i'm wrong, but under mayor bloomberg, the number of minority policemen in new york the percentage grew significantly, did it not? >> yes, it did. >> and you can disagree without being disagreeable. >> absolutely. >> and i think that adults need to help lead and i'm glad to see to a lot of mayors and the president all saying no you don't have to agree, i don't even have to like a lot of your background, but we have to solve this and the

to work very closely with ed koch and surprising with one major issue with rudy giuliani and michael bloomberg. it was not a better relationship between myself and a mayor and police commissioner. but that has deteriorated rapidly and i see it, most importantly, wolf, in the lack of spirit among the rank and file police officers. that's a crisis of leadership. >> wolf, if i could -- >> go ahead. chris smith is still with us. reverend butts, stand by, tom fuentes, chris smith has covered these stories for a long time. go ahead, chris. >> i know you know this, i know the reverend knows it. just to be explicit, we talk about the cops. the new york police department is 30,000 men and women. it's important to distinguish between the words and the rage of the head of the police benevolent association and a larger maybe majority groups of cops who have anger, not necessarily directly from these shootings -- i mean, they are certainly sad and upset about those but there is skepticism and wariness that de blasio has built up over time. it's a hangover somewhat from the coampaign last year where h was c

they've also clashed sharply over the years with mayors michael bloomberg and david dinkins.n city hall and members of new york's finest is apparently nothing new. it is, however, as bad as it's been in a very, very long time. more now from cnn's miguel marquez. >> reporter: a shocking moment. as new york mayor bill de blasio entered the hospital saturday where the mortally injured officers were taken, fellow police turn their backs on him. a powerful and divisive message to the mayor of this major city who has lost their trust. this man was a new york city cop for 20 years. >> i've never seen hostilities this heightened before my career. >> reporter: the benevolent association has been withering in its attacks on de blasio. >> there's blood on many hands tonight. that blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. >> reporter: he and his organization representing beat cops blame the mayor for the way he's handled recent protests. the lack of indictment of police in the killing of michael brown in ferguson, missouri, first set off angry protes

that's the problem joe klein faced in 2002 when then mayor michael bloomberg appointed him the chancellorrk city public school system. he's written an interesting book about his ten-year tenure. joe klein, thanks for joining me. >> great to be with you, fareed. >> before we get to the public schools, i have to ask you a question. before you were doing this in another life incarnation, you were one of america's great litigators and the justice department, you took bill gates and microsoft to trial and very famous antitrust case, and so you know the law, and what i'm going to ask you about is the law where its meeting higher education. asian americans are suing a group -- a group of asian americans are suing harvard university on the grounds they believe that harvard and presumably other ivy league institutions are maintaining a quota, not allowing more than about 16 or 17% of asians to apply. have you looked at that case? how strong is that case in your view? >> it depends ultimately on the facts. these are allegations but the allegations are powerful. if i think if universities put a quot

not, if youe it or think you are living in the nanny state of rudy giuliani or michael bloomberg, think back to fear relevant guardia. guardia.lo la he banned the sale of artichokes. why? terranova was the artichoke king, and controlled artichokes.f la guardia thought if you banned the sale of artichokes, it would kill organized crime. that workedyou, about as well as banning the sale of slurp these. -- slurpees. la guardia even banned ciro terranova from new york. he said he could not enter the city from pelham, and arrested him for vagrancy because he stepped into the bronx. if you think there are bullies at city hall today, think back. is even bigger. it did not work. but the artichoke as a symbol of may oral prerogative, may oral ralempts to -- mayo prerogative, mayoral attempts to be bigger, the artichoke was an attempt to control organized crime. it did not work then, and apparently would not work today either. dis to the ultimate forgotten boroughs. 1940, woody guthrie, sitting in a manhattan hotel room, is writing a song that became very famous, "this land is your land, this lan

>> michael bloomberg has done very well, right? >> when did you realize putting your name on something you would put a higher price on it. >> a lot of people think -- i had this brilliant strategy of naming. honestly, it just happened. it started with trump tower. i did the grand hyatt first. that was my first job. i did the jacob javitz convention center. nobody knew that much about me. then when i did trump tower -- i never thought at a young age, like 30, i would have the best piece of land in the world. it never changes. that piece of land was the best then and it's the best now. we signed a lease with gucci that's one of the greatest retail leases ever signed, as you understand. i never really knew. when i called it trump tower, a lot of things happened. because of the prominence of the location, i was able to get it zoned. a lot of people said, you'll never get it zoned. you will never be able to build an all glass building. the architectural critic gave it phenomenal reviews. later on, herbert vuchamp of the "new york times"

treasury secretary hank paulson teamed up with form er new york city mayor and business tycoon, michael bloomberg, and indeed, former republican senator olympia snowe and others to put together an evidence-based assessment of the risks posed by climate change to the united states economy. the report found that between $66 billion and $106 billion worth of existing american coastal property will likely be below sea level by mid century. that price tag could top $500 billion by the end of the century. $500 billion worth of property below sea level by 2100. extreme heat they also found could reduce labor productivity of outdoor workers by as much as 3% by the end of the century. they found that shifting agricultural patterns could cause states in the southeast and the lower great plains and in the midwest to see a 50% to 70% loss in average annual crop yields. it's a risk we'd be reckless to ignore. one bright light of 2014 has been the proposed limits on carbon emissions from existing coal plants announced this year by the obama administration. that new standard will not only reduce emissions, it w

know then, and on alarm from book's memoirs he also suggested hillary clinton, colin powell and michael bloomberg. >> guest: that's right. and bob gates, when he said that, we had gone to lunch for -- used to have regular lurch ford the intelligence operations cia, dni, and others within the intelligence operations. dia. to talk about intelligence issues with the secretary. and so it was after one of those lunches when he pulled me aside and said, i want you to become secretary of defense. and i said, bob, no, i am -- i really do think it's time for me to go home. we just got bin laden. i said, it's a good time to get the hell out of here and go home. you know? when you leave washington, leave on a high. and so i said, i've -- i really want to go home, and i've done this. we did well. and i think it's necessary he said no, need you to do this. i think you'd -- you understand the troops, you understand the need to really protect them, and do it. and i just -- i really resisted. i said, go and get somebody else. look at others because there are others. i said, colin powell and others. they ought to

it is sending a list to michael bloomberg. >> you are going to like this one.inister writes an op-ed in the wall street journal. physical0, our consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in business in investment. i was over there and our member talking to him. he is due to speak at the new york economics club. >> he appears to be on a victory lap. i don't know if i would subscribe the same solution to a lot of economies. austerity in the early stages of an economic recovery. men the economy and then further down the road you with the austerity. >> that is what they did in britain and it worked. rarelyid it here and we squeaked through. we did qe as well. it is a bad way to slow the economy down or hit the brakes as you are trying to accelerate out of a recession. >> the standard paul krugman how much pain to cause in the meantime? a lot of unnecessary pain by weakening the recovery. distant wishing between the economies that it will work for and the kind it won't. board, i think very recklessly. quickly, california. california was in terrible shape and

i will bring that up with a surgeon michael here at bloomberg. -- certain michael here at bloomberg.d hold them in -- thin mints in reserve. >> you are getting up before the commercial? [laughter] >> not allowed to do that. we have much more coming up on "bloomberg surveillance." we have a market check with portfolio manager and what does that mean for stocks and bonds in the rest of commodities? >> good morning, everyone. i am tom keene. with me, scarlet fu and brendan greeley. >> i didn't want to go out because i thought it would be crowded. >> you went to the cornell hockey game. >> and we saw richter -- >> almost as good as steve's it off. >> you are chairman of the national retail federation. nrs came out with numbers that say that sales dropped 11% from the same time year ago. there is controversy over the nrs methodology. barry riddles, a bloomberg view contributor, says the methodology is flawed. >> i don't believe the -11%. the survey says it was -11%. i have talked to retailers over the weekend and i don't see -11%. >> what do you see? >> we are in a marathon. you have to g

rudy giuliani, michael bloomberg who truly had the love of the nypd.w giuliani after 9/11 and you saw of think about the fact that you had somebody who has lost the trust of those who are in charge of keeping us all safe here. and that is a dangerous situation for public safety in the event something else really much bigger happens. >> bill de blasio has been a huge champion of having all the presses going on in new york city but even on christmas eve when he asked the protesters to press pause they defied him. so even they appeared, some of his base appeared to turning on him. >> his constituents in this case. >> we would like to you weigh in on this and what you think about the mayor's appearance today. facebook question whether mayor de blasio should be attending the funeral of ramos today. go to our facebook page and weigh in on that. whether he should be attend something one question. the other side of it if he didn't attend he would be hammered whether f. he didn't attend. whether he should be speaking. differing opinions. this is our moment mome

and shortly thereafter former new york mayor michael bloomberg got on a commercial a commercial airlinerand flew to tel aviv flying through europe which was very beneficial, and the combination of the light and attention made the flight been indefensible. within 36 hours the administration, you know, listen, we saw just a few weeks ago jeffrey goldberg wrote a piece with some rather stunning revelations from the administration where you we will recall the most titillating was an unnamed senior white house adviser referring to prime minister netanyahu with an epithet. now, that's got a lot of noise. you know, in many ways i actually found that particular news unsurprising because the treatment of the israeli government had long demonstrated that that was the view of the administration to the israeli government. they simply said it out loud the most damning part of that article was not the profane insults. the most damning part of that article was another quote by that same senior advisor saying that they considered it a a great victory that they had delayed israel from acting vis-À-vis ir

know then, and on alarm from book's memoirs he also suggested hillary clinton, colin powell and michael bloomberg. >> guest: that's right. and bob gates, when he said that, we had gone to lunch for -- used to have regular lurch ford the intelligence operations cia, dni, and others within the intelligence operations. dia. to talk about intelligence issues with the secretary. and so it was after one of those lunches when he pulled me aside and said, i want you to become secretary of defense. and i said, bob, no, i am -- i really do think it's time for me to go home. we just got bin laden. i said, it's a good time to get the hell out of here and go home. you know? when you leave washington, leave on a high. and so i said, i've -- i really want to go home, and i've done this. we did well. and i think it's necessary he said no, need you to do this. i think you'd -- you understand the troops, you understand the need to really protect them, and do it. and i just -- i really resisted. i said, go and get somebody else. look at others because there are others. i said, colin powell and others. they ought to