mr. sullivan: mr. president i rise today to support the justice for victims of trafficking act. the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. sullivan: can we advice rate the quorum call? -- can we viserate the quorum call? the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from alaska may proceed. mr. sullivan: mr. president today i rise to support the justice for victims of trafficking act and i want to commend the numerous senators, senators cornyn, klobuchar so many others who have worked so hard to move this act forward. now, i realize that there are many of us who are new to this body and i certainly am still learning my way around the procedural maze here. however, it is easy to see how frustrating this maze can be and how it keeps us from getting good things done for the people who elected us and sent us here. last year, i traveled my state alaska and one of the top concerns i heard from alaskans is that they were tired of the gridlock and they want to see a functioning governme

mr. sullivan, i think we're going to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us today. >> all right. very much. >> all right. tom sullivan, the founder and chairman of lumber liquidators. coming up, bob iger hits the decade as the head of disney. shares up 30%. is now the time to buy and will "frozen" 2 be another slam dunk? the trade on disney is coming up on the half. >>> the competition for trader of the year continues. six "halftime" traders, one epic battle. who will reign supreme in the ultimate portfolio challenge. keep up with every move on the "halftime report" and go to cnbc pro for real-time trading alerts, plus exclusive insight and analysis behind the trades. sign up now at cnbc.com/pro for your limited time free preview. the portfolio challenge on the "halftime report" noon eastern weekdays on cnbc. [ male announcer ] your love for trading never stops. so open an account with schwab. and when a market move affects, say, a cloud computing stock you're holding, we can help you decide what to do. with tools that help you see how market activity is affecting your positions.

mr. sullivan will be live first on cnbc during the halftime show following tomorrow's conference call. today on the chapman news and in an interview the stock was up 14% but since a couple of sundays ago the stock has been in a swoon. the company has been under fire and we have this new battle between chapman and tilson over where they believe the stock is going to go and glad to speak with mr. sullivan just a short time ago and looking forward to our interview tomorrow. >> how big is the portfolio? >> i don't know. it's not disclosed. it's about 15%, as you said, which he told us of his portfolio and clearly he has a lot of conviction behind that position. >> and it's a short he never thinks he's going to have to cover. >> lumber liquidator moving higher in after hours session. a conference call tomorrow and update on the business. but got a lot of analysts conducting their own third party tests. the jury seems like it's going to be out. >> been on the show a number of times but you would think, you would think that people learned their lesson after herbal life and when you're outspok

mr. sullivan or miss akita from those seats to be able to keep a district 11 resident. >> sandy sherwin did email earlier this week and i forwarded to you, she does qualify for seat 7 as well. >> that puts us in a bind, too. colleagues, i welcome your motions. >> so i am prepared to support hillen in seat no. 1, sullivan, seat no. 2, kita, seat no. 2, flannigan, seat no. 4, dr. loman, seat no. 5, hillsen, seat no. 7. >> okay, supervisor tang. >> thank you. i would say again although i am more familiar with dr. loman's work and i think she is incredible, i do understand supervisor avalos's desire to have a district 11 appointee on this, so i am willing to cede my recommendation for seat 5 to miss sherwin again with the understanding that i believe dr. loman will toipb do amazing things in the community and really around the world. even without her presence on this council. >> okay, well, i really appreciate that and given the comments from supervisor cohen right now i think we can get consensus on that as well. so if you want to make that motion, if hillen for 1, sullivan, 2, kita, 3, flanni

mr. sullivan terse office that says the laungsz is standard so i'll present that language is not our baby it's incorporated from the state code so, please don't ask me dmraltd questions about it that's the high-level of documentation so ultimately the objective to start the communication early we want to protect the venues and make sure that people are happy in their homes as the city goes about creating thousands and thousands of residential unit we have to protect the reason why people want to live here in the friend the culture and the night life that go legislation is an important stvm so i want to thank the broad coalition including the culture music and your code advisory committee and the small business commission supported it last week and supervisor wiener signed on as an early co-that signer and ben the who is affiliated and owns several bars in the city set up an online petition that shall say over 29 hundred signatures and last time the entertainment commission advocated for it we're doing a road show this week i'm grateful and on behalf of supervisor breed ask for your suppor

mr. sullivan maybe had to leave as well. dan kito is not going to be attending and i don't see anyone named dan kito standing up, so mr. flan nigan, you are back. welcome to the rules committee. >> thank you very much. i will keep this brief. i would like to reapply for seat no. 4. i have been chair of the council the last two years. i basically once i got to become chair i led a strategic planning process to try to identify the areas of interest and necessity for us to study to be relevant to the board of supervisors and the mayor. for the last two years we have basically followed that road map and we have made some great progress on studying issues around mount davidson, we are currently in the middle of trying to come up with best management practices in order to deal with historic tree stands in san francisco in order to review issues such as sin wrap that you coming in front of the board and we would like to come before the board for or against sin wrap that touch on urban forestry. we have looked at the nsbrt, on the n

mr. sullivan or miss akita from those seats to be able to keep a district 11 resident. >> sandy sherwin did email earlier this week and i forwarded to you, she does qualify for seat 7 as well. >> that puts us in a bind, too. colleagues, i welcome your motions.

mr. sullivan tomorrow. we'll ask about why he was not on the call. >> yep. >> and what sort of message he has for investors, and to home buyers and the public whether they have his product in the home or not. >> everybody's talking about the company and story for a couple weeks. scot we'll see it tomorrow. next hour the man who conducted one of the tests on lumber's products getting his reaction to the conference call. that is coming up. meantime dom? >> watching share inging the charter communications spiking up on a bloomberg report that the company is in talks to acquire brighthouse networks, a privately held provider of cable services for 2.5 million cable subscribers, sixth largest provider in the country commenting, quote, we have no agreement with anyone regarding any future plans. still, this operation here could be valued at as much as $12 million based on some estimates, so charter shares react to the news. back to you. >> they are. thank you very much for that. the dow is currently up by 200 poin

mr. sullivan, the company founder says or not compliant with levels five six, seven times the state standardges, right? >> i would agree with you completely. >> mr. spates, thank you very much. very fascinating story. we should point out lumber liquidators, the shares now down at session lows. mr. spates thank you very much. >>> let's go to dom chu for market flash. >> tyler, look at valeant pharmaceuticals. this is on the heels of a report that they're working with shareholders in order to possibly raise its bid to buy salix pharmaceuticals. that's according to people. it could be 1a purchase. earlier today bill ackman was on "squawk box" and said paying more than $170 a share for salix might be a mistake. back to you, sara. >> thank you, dom. we're going to head to a quick break with the dow down more than 200 points "power lunch" is back in just a minute. now with the xfinity tv go app, you can watch live tv anytime. it's never been easier with so many networks all in one place. get live tv whenever you want. the xfinity tv go app. now with live tv on the go. enjoy over wifi or on verizon

mr. sullivan to give a rebuttal. the company stood by flooring and caught.ght now the stock is down 15%. [closing bell ringing] liz: pandora, big gains. maybe they will be a target. we're watching this on friday the 13th. david: friday the 13th living up to the name and reputation until the last couple minutes of trading. we're still heading up triple digits on downside. all indices are down as you can see. a much improved market from where it was couple hours ago. we saw down over 200 on the dow. other indices were down much further. liz: the nasdaq getting hit by 21 points. that is a big clip. not as big as s&p or the dow. the dow is down nearly 1% on interesting day where there were big winners like el pollo loco, jumping after the beating the street. that is a heavily shorted stock. we also have lumber liquidators. david: "after the bell" starts right now.

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mr. sullivan proposes amendments en bloc numbered 504 505 06, 1,011. mr. enzi: mr. president, i have six unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and the minority leaders. i ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that those requests be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. enzi: i'd suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. sanders: mr. president i would ask the quorum call be ended. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont, without objection. mr. sanders: i ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside and on behalf of senator wyden call up amendment number 1012. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from vermont, mr. sanders for mr. wyden, proposes an amendment numbered 1012. on page 6 line 6, increase the amount -- mr. sanders: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding

mr. brian sullivan. >> way to sell it, mandy. >> it is 2:00 on wall street.io. the dow trying to avoid five straight losing days. oil trying to finish finishing below the $50 a barrel mark. i'm brian sullivan. the cincinnati reference not random. the queen city's own miss sky line chili is in for melissa lee. you have a big exclusive with the ceo of carnival cruise lines coming up later on in the show. what are you going to ask him about? >> thank you for that wonderful introduction. the stock is up nicely. the quarter was very solid. we're going to talk to him about what was behind it. was it increased bookings or cheaper fuel costs? also, you know the dollar. >> oh how -- >> jinx. no, but seriously, this is a big deal for tourism industry. we've seeb it already impacting the leaks of tiffany's saying fewer tourists in the united states. all of the hotel chains. especially the global cruise operateors are keeping an eye on this. they did have to cut because of the strong dollar. >> big interview. we look forward to it. also be sure to ask how a boat that big

sullivan. >> thank you mr. chairman. and thank you commissioners. i know you have had a long day. and i have a bunch of basic questions. you are the experts. i'm a freshman senator here trying to figure out what's going on. obviously there is a lot of press. let me just ask a couple base questions. and to the extent you can keep them short but i want a number of different responses. fcc reauthorization. when was the last time that happened? by congress. >> i think the chairman said 25 years ago. >> so do you think that is a good idea? why? chairman wheeler why do you think that is a good idea? >> i think congress makes the rules. congress decided not to for 25 years. if congress wanted to decide to do it again congress makes the rules. >> commissioner pai. >> it allows congress to modernize our operations and make sure rules keep pace with the times and i think that is important for congress to be involved with. >> so big policy decision -- you're an independent agency. so big policy decisions, who makes those calls? congress? the president? you? who is responsible for making big

sullivan. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you commissioners. let me ask a couple basic questions. you can keep them short but i want to try to get a number of different responses. fcc reauthorization. when was the last time that happened? by congress. >> i think the chairman said 25 years ago. >> do you think that's a good idea? why? >> mr. chairman, chairman wheeler, why do you think that's a good idea? should we do that? i think the chairman -- >> congress makes the rules. congress decide not to for 25 years. if congress decides to do it again, congress makes the rules. >> commissioner pai. >> i think it's a useful exercise because it allows congress to modernize our operations and make sure our rules keep pace with the times. and i think that's important for congress to be involved with. >> let me just follow up on that. you're an independent agency. so big policy decisions. who makes those calls? congress? the president? you? who's responsible for making big policy decisions that impact telecommunications? >> i didn't know who you were -- >> i'm sorry. i'm just -- i've got so

sullivan. >> thank you mr. chairman, and senator mccaskill. i might get a highlight of your final question as actually one of my first questions. so gentlemen, i appreciate your service. and your frank testimony. general dunford, i also appreciate your highlighting the bang for the buck component of the marine corps' spending and war fighting capability. 6% of the budget, 21% of the infantry and battalions. i think that is important for the american people to understand and recognize. i do want to follow on a number of the general questions from senator wicker, hirono, mccaskill. on the redeployment, the pivot to asia in particular with regard to some of our ground forces. and ar as part of this committee's oversight responsibility i'll be heading to the region relatively soon to look at some of the issues in terms of cost, training, readiness, deployment capabilities as it relates to the guam redeployment but also other issues. i would just like general dunford, from your perspective, how -- what are the issues we should be thinking of when w

sullivan. >> thank you mr. chairman and senator mccaskill. i might get a highlight of your final question as actually one of my first questions. so gentlemen, i appreciate your service. and your frank testimony. general dunford, i also appreciate your highlighting the bang for the buck component of the marine corps' spending and war fighting capable. 6% of the budget 21% of the infantry and battalions. i think that is important for the american people to understand and recognize. i do want to follow on a number of the general questions from senator wicker hirono mccaskill. on the redeployment the pivot to asia in particular with regard to some of our ground forces. and ar as part of this committee's oversight responsibility i'll be heading to the region relatively soon to look at some of the issues in terms of cost training readiness, deployment capabilities as it relates to the guam redeployment but also other issues. i would just like general dunford, from your perspective, how -- what are the issues we should be thinking of when we're look

sullivan. >> thank you mr. chairman. and thank you commissioners. i know you have had a long day. and i have a bunch of basic questions. you are the experts. i'm a freshman senator here trying to figure out what's going on. obviously there is a lot of press. let me just ask a couple base questions. and to the extent you can keep them short but i want a number of different responses. fcc reauthorization. when was the last time that happened? by congress. >> i think the chairman said 25 years ago. >> so do you think that is a good idea? why why? chairman wheeler why do you think that is a good idea. >> i think congress makes the rules. congress decided not to for 25 years. if congress wanted to decide to do it again congress makes the rules. >> commissioner pai. >> it allows congress to modernize our operations and make sure rules keep pace with the times and i think that is important for congress to be involved with. >> so big policy decision -- you aren independent agency. so big policy decisions who makes those calls? congress? the president? you? who is responsible for making bi

katherine sullivan of new york, new york. mr. ralph a. wolf of oakland, california. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. kelly: i move that the we adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until

senator sullivan: i want to switch to the strategic posture we have. mr. secretary, you did mention and agreed alaska occupied the most strategic place in the world. i want to straighten the record with the chairman and the ranking member, billy mitchell was court-martialed, but for " insubordination after accusing army and navy leaders of almost treasonable investments in battleships as opposed to aircraft carriers." he was later given a congressional medal of honor. i think he has been vindicated. you put out a strategy on the arctic and yet the russians are making huge moves with regard to new bases, new airfields new arctic command, claiming territory. we had a big support in alaska the last week on the army task force looking at potential force reductions. two combat teams being moved out of alaska. if the army eliminated one team in alaska, how do you think kim jong-il or vladimir putin or our allies in japan, korea singapore, would react given how important the arctic is? given how important this new part of the country is? we have a paper, the russ

sullivan, there's a couple of other cases that you'll see rapid legal action on shortly. and on all these fronts we're going to move very aggressively, because it's clear that with foreknowledge and forethought, mrset up this e-mail routine, these records have been kept from the american public, that senior department officials knew it for years and did nothing. >> judicial watch in the past has received more information than even to the public. >>> most of us are familiar with the popular netflix series house of cards. the show is about politics at every level. kevin spacey plays the president. of course the show is fictitious, but it attempts to showcase reel life policies and preliminary events happening today. so it made me think the other night watching, could some of president underwood's ideas ever happen in real life? should they? he takes on entitlements,al telling the people again, entitlements are killing the nation, you are entitled to nothing, no handouts. so i know you guys both watch the show as well. should the fictitious things that are happening this season, like getting rid of entitlements and telling the american people the truth should that be happening in real life s? >> sec

senator sullivan: i want to switch to the strategic posture we have. mr. secretary, you did mention and agreed alaska occupied the most strategic place in the world. i want to straighten the record with the chairman and the ranking member, billy mitchell was court-martialed, but for "insubordination after accusing army and navy leaders of almost treasonable investments in battleships as opposed to aircraft carriers." he was later given a congressional medal of honor. i think he has been vindicated. you put out a strategy on the arctic and yet the russians are making huge moves with regard to new bases, new airfields, new arctic command, claiming territory. we had a big support in alaska the last week on the army task force looking at potential force reductions. two combat teams being moved out of alaska. if the army eliminated one team in alaska, how do you think kim jong-il or vladimir putin or our allies in japan, korea singapore, would react given how important the arctic is? given how important this new part of the country is? we have a paper, the russ

mr. romney taken part in this before the taken of the ritual. quote, that sounds masonic. and right on cue, and in the appropriate media format, days before the election blogger andrew sullivan posted footage of the entire lds ceremony secretly filmed by a former mormon and kept to the worst kept secret of the 1840s, never before seen videos of secret mormon temple rituals. so in conclusion secrets sacred ritual, ex pose i offer these words as a storey line for a minority faith in america. years ago this was crafted as pluralism and democracy and market place making spiritual choices, but the history recounted here added to a course of dissent from those depictions. on one hand this is a story of the americanize is of mormonisms how morals have chipped away at the secrets. on the other hand it is a reminder that the keeping and telling of secrets pushes scholars on to unstable ground. how should one study or narrate what partisans either want to keep hidden as a article of faith or expose as an act of democratic righteousness. scholars of religion, journalists and political commenters it seems to me might see the space between taboo and fetish with regard to the secrets. ide

mrs. o'leary's cow for the great chicago fire, or we did. now apparently we blame peg leg sullivan, a milk thief. the great fire of london in 1666 began in a bakery in pudding lane. we blame the british for burning washington, d.c. in 1814. and the earthquake for san francisco in 1906. maybe we don't know because this particular fire happened in the middle of the civil war. but we do know that the union army burned atlanta and that retreating confederates set richmond ablaze. who burned columbia? sherman and his fiendish hell hounds wrote teen-ager emma laconte in her diary. sherman and his demons, wrote poet william gilmore sims. sherman, and his army of villains low bad, counsel -- scoundrels, wrote another. what did sherman say in reply to these and similar charges? in his official report dated april 4, 1865, sherman blamed confederate general wade hampton for the conflagration. as he explained hampton ordered all cotton, public and private should be moved into the streets and fired to prevent us making use of it. but bales were cut open freed from their ropes and bagging and as

mr. chairman, which are fundamental to the spirit of this great nation. almost two centuries later justice william brennan would write the historic 1964 " new york times" vs. syllabus -- sullivan decision that debates on public issues should be on inhibited, robust, and wide open. i believe predecessor madison and justice brennan would be proud of the rigorous, robust, and unfettered debate that has led us to this historic moment and what a moment it is. i believe the framers would be pleased to see these principles embodied on a platform that has become such an important part of our lives. i also believe they never envisioned a government that would include the input and leadership of women, people of color, and immigrants or that there would be an open process where nearly 4 million citizens have had a direct conversation with their government. they would be extremely amazed i would venture to say, because we are extremely amazed. so, here we are 224 years later at a pivotal fork in the road. poised to preserve those same virtues of a democratic society -- freeze each, freedom of religion, -- free speech, freedom of assembly and a functioning free market. as we look around t

mr. romney taken part in this before the taken of the ritual. quote, that sounds masonic. and right on cue, and in the appropriate media format, days before the election blogger andrew sullivan posted

mr. chairman which are fundamental to the spirit of this great nation. almost two centuries later justice william brennan would write the historic 1964 "new york times" versus sullivan decision that quote debate on public issues should be uninhibited robust and wide-open. i believe president madison and justice brennan would be particularly proud of their rigorous robust and unfettered debate that has led us to this historic moment and what a moment it is. i believe the framers would be pleased to see these principles embodied on a platform that has become such an important part of our lives. i also believe they never envisioned a government that would include the input in leadership of women, people of color immigrants or they would be an open process where nearly 4 million citizens have had a direct conversation with their government. they would be extremely amazed i venture to say because we are extremely amazed. so here we are 224 years later at a pivotal fork in the road poised to preserve those very same virtues of a democratic society cover free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press freedom of assembly and a functioning free market. as we look aro

mr. romney have taken these vows in the past before the changes to the ritual? quote, that sounds masonic. not long after just days before the election progressive blogger andrew sullivan posted footage of the entire lds temple ceremony secretly filmed by an ex-mormon. the film's subtitle brings us full circle to that worst kept secret of the 1840s, quote never before seen videos of secret mormon temple ritual. in conclusion, secrets, sacred ritual, expose, i offer these words as a story line for minority faith in america. a generation ago narratives of u.s. religion were crafted as tails of plurism a rowdy but loveable marketplace of individuals making spiritual choices. the history recounted here adds to a generational course of dissent from those depictions. this is a story of the americanization of mormonism, of the ways modern political and social worlds have chipped away at its secrets. on the other hand, it's a reminder that the keeping and telling of secrets pushes scholars onto unstable ground. how should one study or narrate, what partisans either want to keep hidden as an article of faith or exposed as an act of democratic righteousness. scholars of religion

mr. president senator sullivan and i have come together to move forward on this amendment. it provides a spending neutral reserve fund for the sale, the transfer or exchange of federal lands to state and local governments. i want to make sure that folks understand. this is not selling any land by itself. only subsequent legislation can do that. it would require us to come back and just as we do now with exchanges, conveyances sales move legislation through. what we have done, we've made sure that all lands that included within national parks national preserves and national monuments are excluded, so there can be no effort to -- to purchase or exchange there. our amendment will allow us to craft balanced bipartisan legislation to empower states improve conservation systems and promote economic growth. and that's exactly what we did last year when we moved through the ndaa with support from 80 senators for that package. the presiding officer: time as expired. ms. murkowski: it worked. i would urge a "yes" vote. the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. a senator: mr