mr. cohen sure. thank you, steve, thank you marcelle, for asking me to be here. i think it is worth at the outset noting how important it that we have a strong and fully functioning and fully staffed state department. although this is an advertisement for the treasury department, we are all former treasury officials -- the work we have been able to do countering terrorist financing, not to mention many, many other empowered and functioning. you can applaud. so, just a couple quick thoughts picking up on what juan was saying. terrorists to combat financing, i came to the treasury in 2009. that was at a point where juan and his team had made an inrmous amount of progress combating the principal problem, which was funding coming out of saudi arabia. stewart famously said if he could snap his fingers and into the terrorist financing out of saudi arabia, that would make a big difference. that did not make him that popular with ambassador in saudi arabia at the time. by the time i got there in 2009 t

i want to thank our three guests, mr. cohen, mr. elmendorfcan, commissioner miller for your excellent testimon your objectivity of where we can do better is helpful. i started the meeting by talking about cost. cost to individuals, cost to business, cost to the public seconder, the private sector and many manifestations and what this will do in terms of cost to individuals and any other elements of this is just horrific. as i said earlier, what is it, $1400, $1700 if you're in your 60s and make $56,000 a year, you pay $11,000 more under the republican plan. this is a person making $56,000. so i think we have to focus on cost and all of the discussions we have and what it means if people's lives. some of it prevents them from even having access to care but i will say this, about this is what i was pleased to hear, we know the mandate was important, the individual mandate, but there are other ways to skin that cat and i would hope the trump administration would come in and say i'm not for a mandate but i know that we can't have free r

point here when you think that that's when then he's like one of the adults in the room mr cohen so i sort of hope you know personally which doctors best day is there that he's a god that i think the president looks to that he's thoughtful him and secretary minucci not that there's not others but mr cohen in particular he'd probably be very good but i'd like to see him do this now you'll recall that last year then candidate trump criticized janet yellen that they've sort of come back to an accommodation with her right now and so if i were a betting man i'd say she's going to stay and she get that happens early next year all right thank you so much for your insights on this pleasure as always former u.s. attorney commissioner bart chilton. it's always captured people's attention from tales of a new world flush with that stories of pots of gold at the end of rainbows well in germany two men who may be getting into a whole lot of trouble over a stolen gold coin the coin heist took place at berlin's bode museum in march not far from chancellor merkel's apartment after months of searching

and she put my number in her phone as, "mr. cohen/housewives." which was so great.a bar and i was like, "oh, man, this guy. let me get your number." i would put, like, "stephen waspy southerner." so i'm "mr. cohen/housewives" to aretha franklin. i like it, when she booty texts me later. yeah. >> stephen: and hit you up? >> yeah, right, exactly. >> stephen: you produce-- how many shows do you produce? >> a lot. a lot of "housewives." i'm an e.p. on "love connection" on fox. >> stephen: which you're the host of. not politically, but just as a producer of reality television. >> yeah. >> stephen: what do you think of the production that we're getting out of the white house? what do you think of that as a drama? >> well, i think-- well, it's some kind of a drama. and i think what's interesting about the president is that he's-- he has remained as a season one "real housewife orange county." he has never-- usually they evolve as the years ago. there's a season one version who will do anything to stay on the show. and then they evolve, and they get their makeup and hair ri

the chair now recognizes the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen, for five minutes. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. chair. i rise today in support of h.r. 1927, which is on the floor this afternoon. the african-american civil rights network act. this is to honor the sad yet heroic struggle for civil rights in america. a struggle for those who participated in the civil rights movement. a struggle for people who were in fact soldiers, soldiers in a war for justice and democracy. we appropriately and regularly honor the soldiers who wore uniforms and went to europe and asia to defend our country, and we appropriately and properly give them benefits that they deserve for what they did to protect democracy and justice. but what we forget is those citizens in america who had to fight their own government and their own country for those same rights, justice and democracy. enslaved for over 250 years and then treated in another world of segregation for 100 years and then slowly creeping in after board -- brown vs. board of education in 1954 and the voting rights acts and the civil righ

the doctor wanted to ask mr. cohen if you will provide your testimony. thank you to ourersu w gotlkel t cmittee thank you r the pouny beere today. i have had the privilege of having served as a state insurance regator under congressman garamendi and serving in the obama administration, now working at blue shield of california. eight not-for-profit health insurer that has the largest membership. -- eight not-for-profit health ot-for-profit health insurer that has the largest membership. number one, the time is now, time is to why, the lower out-of-pocket costs for americans. rates are being locked in. if the goal is to lower premiums and adaptable's, the time is to act now. i have heard it said recently that healtcare is complicated. actually, what needs to be done now is not complicated. payments established a premium stabilization fund, such as the reinsurance plan that existed in the affordable care act for the first three years and exists today. enforce the individual mandate and invest in education so people know what benefits are available to them,

i have a question for most -- for mr. cohen.you talked earlier about the bush administration looking at the muslim brotherhood through different lenses. was that -- or was there any lens among these that it is a worldwide consortium of businesses and companies and organizations channeling money everywhere including qatar and turkey, and for mr. cohen the question about you said earlier that in the last two years there has been good work done with qatar in combating financing terrorism. could you expand on this? given the fact that qatar is only arab country that never ever suffered a terrorist attack? >> it's a great question. [ inaudible ] -- you begin to see ties and networks that you wouldn't otherwise see in relationships. i think in looking at the muslim brotherhood [ inaudible ] -- with the business, financial and even political ties of the entire organization and the networks that are attached to it and key nodes and manifestations of the group as a result, so we very much were focused on that and in fact a couple of the

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mr. cohen and his neighbors are hoping alexandria police catch the vandal responsible for desecrating flags here. cohen's neighbor helped him replace the flag in front of his home. >> since we were both army veterans, i thought it was a nice touch from two different generations we were able to replace it. >> flag day was last month on june 14th. some neighbors in alexandria say they will fly flags to honor those symbols of american freedom that were trashed, burned or destroyed during the independence day celebration. reporting from alexandria, chris gordon, news 4. >>> we all know how hot our cars can get during the summer. have you ever thought about the temperature inside of a plane. a colorado mom hired an attorney after ems crews had to take her 4-month-old son off the united plane when the mom said it got too hot. they were on the tarmac. the baby was treated and released from the hospital. the mom said united was not equipped to handle the situation. >> i said, get an ambulance and get m

mr. cohenesident trump's new communications director told reporters tonight he does not plan on firing any more people until he reviews the communication department, but he added if leaks continue he is going to let everybody go. is this the kind of fighter donald trump has been looking for? >> i think so, right? i mean he said repeatedly over the last few days he wanted jeff sessions, his attorney general, to start plugging the leaks in the intelligence community. anthony scaramucci comes in on friday and is already talking about firing people who have been leaking supposedly in the communications office. it sends a very powerful signal. i'm sure there's a lot of people who are quite nervous as a result of this. and i'm sure that's exactly what donald trump -- look, i known anthony very well. he is not going to do anything that donald trump doesn't want him to do, and he will do everything donald trump wants him to do. so this is exactly coming from donald trump. the interesting thing is i'm s

we have the opportunity to able to stabilize the markets and we heard from mr. cohen today who is from your great state of california saying affordable care act does work, subsidies does work and if we go the route of the senate, americans will wind up paying more for premiums than their own income. we can fix and stabilize, fix the affordable care act, stabilize the health care system and ensure that 49 million people do not lose their insurance by 2026 or wi the senate bill, 32 million don't lose their insurance. i met with a family who has an autistic children, she can't do it. a young man by the nam of matthew who spent $700,000 over a two-year period because of a chronic illness, 73,000 on medication. the american pele need us to do for them what the government can do. and that is to ensure aealth ca system for all. that is what the affordable care act's underlying premise is, and that's what democrats have as their message and i believe in saving lives. that's what i want to do with the aordable care act. i yield back to the gentleman. mrgaramendi: i believe we

is that a fair trade-off in any way in your mind, mr. cohen?> so, i mean, look, whether it's a fair trade-off, that's a value judgment, right? some people would say it's fair, some people would say it's not. but i think that's exactly the right way to think about this. and you know, we talk about health care, there's so many moving pieces. you were just talking with your guest about the mandate and the effects of the subsidies and where it all -- and there's some dispute over where -- you know, how this piece affects that piece and how many people are voluntarily dropping coverage or whatever. but the key thing to remember to pan out just like you did to say, look, this is taking a trillion dollars away from programs that help people pay their medical bills. it's coming out of medicaid. it's coming out of subsidies to help people buy private insurance. if you take that much money out of federal health care programs, a trillion dollars over ten years, one way or another you are telling millions of people they are not going to be able to pay thei

their ongoing discussions among secretary mnuchin, mr. cohen, the speaker, senator mcconnell, senator hatch and chairman brady. >> no conversations with chairman brady. >> of the ways and means committee. >> you got to bring democrats into this to try to get past this kind of gridlock. people voted to disrupt the system and drain the swamp. those who voted, you know, for donald trump, clearly. and they are the base is still sticking with them. 50% of trump voters staying with them. he's got those approvals and even higher approval in the swing districts that really went big for him. >> yeah, i mean, look, trump's core voters are going to stay with him until the bitter end, whatever that is. he won the election because a bunch of voters expected him to deliver results. he was going to be the art of the deal president, going to make deals and get things done. when he won primaries, he said, i'll work with democrats, get things done. instead, we're seeing no work and no deals. the spectacle yesterday, so out of touch with what was going on capitol

mr. cohen if you would bear with us we are going to go upstairs to though. we will be right back. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> host: democrats meeting on health care, recessing momentarily for a short day. there's a series of votes on house floor. the house later today we'll be taking up a bill dealing with sanctions on russia, iran and north korea. follow the house over on c-span. on c-span2, the senate in recess. they will be back at 2:15 eastern and then will be voting on the health care law sometime midafternoon today. we are outside of the u.s. senate chamber in the ohio clock area. we expect to hear from leaders public and democratic leaders after their meeting today. they're meeting getting underway about an hour ago 40 minutes or so ago. the senate coming back in a 2:15 eastern. we'll show you that they are available and we'll take you back live once the house meaning on health care gobbles back in. a couple of a non-the house floor happening now. that is why they have recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversa

jim had made it more substantially between the academics and what mr. cohenresent if, in fact, he became the fed chair. >> my apologies. i was listening on the radio my apologieapologies. the question still out there how would a guy on wall street have operated differently? at one point he may be thing about this took them a little bit of time to begin acting, something bernanke eventually acknowledged you remember jim's famous they know nothing, they know nothing, and it took a while, and they indeed took into gear. >> what was your take on the political story regarding cohen, that it's virtually an uncertainty? >> i think it's interesting. there were problems in the white house. there was the finding of people, getting them approved, and i think you have a person who has already been approve, a person who has been inside the white house, which is very significant. if you look at the past several fed chair, they're in the white house for a period of time it's kind of a safe time the trouble comes when you have gary cohen losing him could be something they mi

he gives us a wonderful reading list which includes mr. cohen -- roy cohn of a long time ago.l be distracted abroad. this is a different trip than the last one isn't it? yes last night the president speaking to the leaders of japan and china, discussing the rising threat of a nuclear north korea. that will be one of the topics of discussion when he heads to hamburg, germany for the g-20 summit. all eyes will be on his interaction with vladimir putin. not passed a russia sanctions bill and it is unclear whether the president will in fact meet with mr. putin in hamburg. the russians playing political games. is also: donald trump meeting with his chinese counterpart. how awkward will that conversation be, given that the trump administration has sent this guided missile destroyer in the south china sea? >> let's not forget that steve mnuchin announcing last week that sanctions on the chinese financial institution, with their ties with north korea. while the administration is trying to suggest that this is not any sanctions on china, it is when you take a broader step back and look

mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday, in the judiciary ommittee, the house, motion of inquiry was introduced to seek answers concerning the firing of james comey and attorney general sessions rolled therein. respect our citizens may or may not for its government, the republicans put a substitute amendment in raising questions about hillary clinton and did everything but yell lock her up. it was a disgusting display taking advantage of the inority, taking our voice away and potential obstruction of justice that could come and there is an attempt to fire mueller. it was not a good day for democracy. we need to be aware of the fact that democracy is in jeopardy and need to be alert at every moment and find every answer. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> i rise today to pay tribute crittenden late hospital. over the past 50 years, the hospital has dedicate

is that a fair trade-off in any way in your mind, mr. cohen?hether it's a fair trade-off, that's a value judgment, right? some people would say it's fair, some people would say it's not. but i think that's exactly the right way to think about this. and, you know, we talk about health care, there's so many moving pieces. you were just talking with your guests about the mandate and the effects of the subsidies and there's some dispute over where, you know, how this piece affects that piece and how many people are voluntarily dropping coverage or whatever. but the key thing to remember to pan out just like you did to say, look, this is taking $1 trillion away from programs that help people pay their medical bills. it's coming out of medicaid. it's coming out of subsidies to help people buy private insurance. if you take that much money out of federal health care programs, $1 trillion over ten years, one way or another you are telling millions of people they are not going to be able to pay their medical bills. it's just a reality. that is what we a

war's, randy quarrels, mr. cohen, and others. are they on board with that?ndidates would have no problem getting senate confirmation. tom: but where is the phd kennedy? -- where's the phd going to be? libby cantrill: monetary policy matters a lot but the fed chair also oversees the regulatory regime of the banking system. what a lot of republicans on the hill want to see is a rollback. when league 04 standard deviations, who is going to be there? libby cantrill: i think people have a lot of confidence in gary cohn on the hill. he has proven himself. tom: when we go for standard deviation, libya's rights, i think you are right, but when we go three for standard deviation, what if it blows up on something we can't predict? they don't have the isl in curve. bruce kasman: i would emphasize, it is not just about having trending, which is important, and certainly i am a little bit disappointed that phd's and experience in economics is not being really given any confidence. tom: libby doesn't care. >> [laughter] bruce kasman: it is also that experience. if you go b

mr. cohen and mr.senator leaders and house and ranking file members to put more meat on that bone. you will see a proposal very early in the fall. ainsley: all right, mic mick mulvaney. thank you for joining us. >> could you stick your fingers in your ears like that so i don't feel bad? steve: what did you say again? brian: we can't leave without saying happy birthday to you. steve: tomorrow. brian: is it today or tomorrow? >> it's tomorrow. ainsley: happy birthday. that's a big one. how are you going to celebrate? >> going home to spend time with my much younger wife and 17-year-old daughter. ainsley: i guess you are during this because the ifb is not staying in your ear? >> i'm sorry, i couldn't hear any of that. brian: mic, thanks so much. ainsley: happy birthday. we are glad you were born. steve: later today, john roberts is going to go to the white house and go who has been using my ear piece? it's a little out of shape. brian: they are from the same location. steve: nine minutes after the top of

speaker -- mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday i left an event and went straight to my cell phone and the first thing on it was a notice that john mccain had brain cancer. i literally stopped in my steps. and thought about john mccain and was saddened. senator john mccain is a true american hero who served our country in vietnam and has served our country in this house of representatives in the united states senate. when he ran for president, he had a bus called the straight talk. that wasn't just the name on the bus. he's a straight shooter. he's been a voice of reason and honesty, standing up and speaking truth to power during these last six months of this current presidency. and somebody who we need as a voice. it seems that arizona produces those voices. they produced it with barry gold the gentlemanwater and they produced it with -- barry goldwater and they produced it with john mccain. he's a nice guy, too. the few opportunities i had to interchange with john mccain or go up to him and say something to him about an

kim jong-un's father, william cohen, former republican senator, currently ceo of the firm the cohen group. mr. secretary, thank you for being with us. when you hear the commander of u.s. forces in the korean peninsula say that self-restraint is all that is preventing war, that sounds pretty terrifying to a lot of people. how long do you believe this self-restraint can or should last? >> it's been lasting for some time now. the north has been engaged in provocative action for years, building its nuclear capability and missile technology, engaged in attacking south korean boats, killing a number of sailors, et cetera. this has been going on a long time. and the south has exercised, as has the united states, great restraint, because there are some 800,000 troops on the border of south korea, from the dmz, that could rain havoc on seoul. nothing has changed except it's gotten worse. the north korean allies, china and russia, have been helping his economy grow. we used to say you can't have guns and butter. well, he's had guns, but he's also had butter. furnished by the russians and the chinese an

cohen in changes. mr. president, when i going to vote on this provision today.his was embedded in the bcra. that is behind us this week, but it is my hope that we will pass a version of obamacare repeal that will enable us to go to conference, that will be able to begin to repair the enormous damage to the individual market that obamacare has done, that will be able to move in the direction of consumers actually having control of their own health care, once again and that will put medicaid on a sustainable path because the time is overdue. i yielded the floor.n: how >> the senator from oregon. >> how much time remains on oure side? >> three minutes remain. >> i'm going to be very brief. just to respond to my friend from pennsylvania. number one, none of what he has discussed has come up in the senate finance committee. what i can tell you about past debates is our side was always interested in reform minded ideas.y for example, bring the private sector into the delivery systemt of medicaid. that's number one. number two, we still have not seen the skinny bill.ha

mr. tillerson was briefed after the putin press conference. he had gary cohen and steve mnuchin.this is how the president deals with stuff, we wait to get the tweets to see what he thinks happened, or what he wants us to think he thinks happened. >> how much of an impact will the tweets have as opposed to if he got on the stage and gave a press briefing or spoke with reporters on air force one coming home. >> it would have been more impactful if he came out and took questions, but you know this is kind of the new normal. he communicates through tweets and you wait for the tweets to see exactly where he stands at the moment. i think this is what is to be expected. >> to that end, the president tweeted that the g 20 summit was a great success for the u.s., and plaining that we must fix many of the bad trade deals and it will get done. now i want to listen to what they said about the meetings at the g 20, here it is. >> i think a major focus was not just participating in the g 20, there was very, very substantive conversations. economic issues, trade issues, security issues, north k

cohen's "then and now." take a look at this. >> you were a big wrestle mania fan. >> i was at the first wrestle mania. i was there. liberace was there. >> excuse me? >> mr.ying to bring star power. >> that's a show. >> big. it was big. the guy sitting next to my mom, his jeans came up and there was a knife in his boot. and my mom said, what's the knife for? and he said, knife's for if anybody who messes with the hulkster. he was there to defend hulk hogan at wrestle mania with his knife. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: "then and now." "then and now." tomorrow night, wednesday night, 10:00 p.m. >> yes. >> jimmy: you know i'm a big fan of the show. "watch what happens live." i watch you all the time. >> thanks, jimmy. you gave up our shotsky. you gave me the muff of truth. >> jimmy: the muff of truth. have you ever used that or not yet? >> haven't again. i will though. >> jimmy: we like giving you -- i like thinking of new ideas just that you could do on your show because it's so different. you never know what's going to happen on your show. and that's why you have to watch what happens live. so i wanted to up the shotsky game. >> okay. >> jimmy: but i d

their op-ed -- cohen said in their op-ed, it is a competition and we have enemies and we have allies. the chump administration has that correct -- trump administers and has that correct. mrcson: quickly. ambassador sherman: do have objectives? do you have policies? mr. doran: absolutely. ambassador sherman: do you have a strategy? a go to nato, to unveil and tol to 9/11 at nato, have had in your speech as we are told by reporters, a recommitment to article 5, and then pull it at the last minute. when in fact the only time article5, which is an attack on one is an attack on all, the only time it has ever been invoked ever by nato was for america after 9/11. so that nato troops went to and is still are in afghanistan for us. so yes, i want everybody to get to 2%. everybody pays their dues the nato, the 2% is a deepening of defense give abilities a want everyone to go to 2%. you are right, every administration has pressed every way they can to make it happen. the question is, do you begin your relationship by hectoring your friends? is that the best way to move forward? the strongest economic relationship we have is the transatlantic relationship, so how this in fact helps

. >> i have to in out of respect to bonnie cohen and john shank i would say definitely an inconvenient sequel truth to power. >> all right. >> thank you mr statement. thank you, >> come on. >> politician. >> give me something fun, man. >> caddy shack. >> by the way he was referring to president trump pulling out of the paris agreement. as we all know. that actually affected the film because when the film was done, that was before we pull out. so they actually had to go back and redo things to the film. >> sure. >> but it was interesting to hear talking with president-elect trump before he became president. >> you know what struck me the fact that he wouldn't give you a fun answer analysts now a lot of times they say that was the reason he wasn't elected because he was always the politician and never personallable on any le level. >> tipper was like the other half to him, right? >> little bit robotic. >> if he said dead pool. >> that would have been amazing last night i ran from the newseum over to the national air and space museum christopher nolan was premiering done wish at the lock hee martin i max i spoke to them about incredible spe