. >>> you probably know rick steves as a travel writer. you may not know he's an advocate for the legalization of medical marijuana. why did you get involved in this work? >> i've spent time traveling in europe and i've seen how europe has dealt with its drug problems and ever since the 1990s, i thought it just doesn't make sense that we're locking up people for recreational use of marijuana. i've been outspoken on that. i'm certainly not pro marijuana. i'm pro civil liberties and pro smart policy. and we've got a policy now which is as wrong-minded about marijuana as our prohibition against alcohol was back in the 1930s. and i'm just working as we are doing all across the united states to take apart the prohibition against marijuana, one state at a time. and in 2012, i was a co sponsor and lead spokesperson for the law that legalized tax-regulated recreational use of marijuana in washington state. and along with colorado, we were the first states to actually legalize marijuana for recreational use. and because of that, i've got a personal

and rick steve's talks about candidates -- rick steves talks about cannabis policy.e sure to watch "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. debates ase resolution today giving the judiciary committee approval sue attorney general william barr, and don mcgann in federal court to compel them to provide congress with information related to the molar report investigation -- mueller report. it also allows other subcommittees to sue trump officials for documents as long as they get approval from a bipartisan house committee. watch live coverage starting at noon on c-span. andh any time on c-span.org for free on the app. >> the house rules committee met monday to consider the rules for debate on the resolution authorizing the house judiciary committee chair to take legal action against attorney general mcgahn. don they offered an amendment to postpone consideration, but the amendment failed. rules committee voted along party lines to send the measure to the house floor for debate. this is over an hour. >> are we ready? [chatter] >> all r

we will let rick steve's focus on that. is the nature of the beast with coalition. -- prohibition. the hard part is someone can be arrested in your state and do a hard time and in my state somebody can invite their friends over and have a party and smoke a little marijuana. for 60's in washington state, it has been taxed, regulated and legalized. it is a cross between an apple store and a pharmacy. very strict. it is so ship shaped. people need to have defense against all really -- against all the regulations to be in good with the bank. it is a tightly organized situation in a bit that is legalized properly and i look out my window every morning and -- here isijuana is a state where marijuana is not a miss you. grandma is rubbing it on her shoulder. use is going down in my state. it is not an issue. another states people are up in arms. people's lives are being relevant. people are angry at this, angry at that. there are two ways to approach this. it was an issue for jeff sessions? aboutid he change guidelines for enforcem

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. >> about ten minutes before the house comes in for the day taking your phone calls with rick steves as we discuss marijuana legalization. siel as on the line for those opposing marijuana out of rutland, vermont. good morning. >> good morning. thank you for taking my call. in vermont i went to several sessions and testified both in front of a house committee early on with this and also at the governor's commissions held around the state to various meetings. and the -- there are some issues where marijuana hasn't really been studied that much because of the illegality of it which is an issue. and what i advocated for is because of the smoking, even the california proposition 65 has -- you can go online and find this -- where it shows that marijuana smoke is a cause of cancer. well, the smoke contains methen ol formed hide pan 33 other carson jenns. known. it's not filtered typically when someone moeks it. there is a health consequence. but then the black market exists which is what a lot of the -- dsh a lot of the elected people -- which rick is staying you still have the big black ma

host: rick steve's advisory board member, appreciate your time. guest: nice to be here. the day --ouse for we will take you there for live coverage. marc a. veasey to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate ecognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, r. thompson, for five minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor the life and service of alan "al" pingy. he passed away tuesday, april 23, at home. he was mcking county commissioner and i flew a flag over the capitol to be presented to his famil

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rick back to you. reporter: steve herrigan, keep us posted thank you very much. hong kong's leader indefinitely suspends that controversial bill for gains of massive protests and while government hopes this would stop the demonstrations, local activists say it's not enough. >> it was so many times that we have learned that the government cannot be trusted so we believe that calls on people do not, will not effect that and hong kong people do understand that we have to take to the streets. reporter: we have more on this story. reporter: rick this is a major climb down from the government in hong kong postponing this bill that would have allowed people in hong kong which is part of china but has its own political system to be extradited to mainland china. now over the last week, people in hong kong have made it abundantly clear they don't like this bill. on wednesday you had the police clashing with young protesters at one point, those young protesters blockading the entrance to the parliament so that the politicians there simply couldn't even debate this bill. rew

. >>> you probably know rick steves as a travel writer. you may not know he's an advocate for the legalization of medical marijuana. why did you get involved in this work? >> i've spent time traveling in europe and i've seen how europe has dealt with its drug problems and ever since the 1990s, i thought it just doesn't make sense that we're locking up people for recreational use of marijuana. i've been outspoken on that. i'm certainly not pro marijuana. i'm pro civil liberties and pro smart policy. and we've got a policy now which is as wrong-minded about marijuana as our prohibition against alcohol was back in the

. >> thank you rick santelli, steve liesman, stay with us we want to talk stocks now bob pisani with reaction to the fed station. utilities, which hit a 52-week high off the back of this decision, as well as health care defensive tilt >> yeah. but utilities up because yields are down, banks are down look, this was a masterful statement. the risk was tremendously to the down side. they misplaced a comma, and the markets could have gone down on this but they handled it tremendously well look, slight downgrade to the economic outlook moderate job growth instead of solid job growth the key is uncertainties about the outlook have increased that's the tip-off, what everyone likes in light of these uncertainties the community will monitor incoming information for the economic outlook and act appropriate to sustain the expansion. that's the tip-off you throw in the dot plot, talking about two quarter-point raises, a big move and you add 2916 on the s&p 500 going in year. we went into 2928. that's a big move up, considering we have 1% from historic highs and a huge move up in the last couple

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steve kornacki. kelly o'donnell is at the white house. is a rick tyler, msnbc political analyst and republican strategist. steve, we always put this big asterisk on, it's early, but how important are these polling numbers when we're going into this first big debate? >> yeah, i mean, look on the democratic side i think that race has sort of settled into a bit of a holding pattern, heading into the debate with biden ahead it's not overwhelming, it's clearly ahead of the rest and then sort of a jumble. you know, sanders has slid back a little bit. you see in this poll you have now from fox news, signs of some movement involving kamala harris and pete buttigieg. other polls show elizabeth warren may be moving a little bit in advance of this debate. it's an opportunity -- i think the race has settled a bit right now. it's an opportunity now to reset the race. biden, lots of questions about how he'll perform under the spotlight, how he'll perform if these candidates start taking shots at him, how his numbers respond to that is more significant than where

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rick and karine. thank you all for watching. mtp, steve in for chuck, starts right now. >>> if it's monday, more hm

>> rick, what's your estimate -- >> hold on, steve.t move matter you said earlier that the december rate -- the december rate hike was a disaster because the market collapsed. >> yeah, and the real economy. >> is there too much focus on the market versus on the actual economy? >> i misspoke. i'm not just looking at the market i'm looking at the real economy, too. let's face it -- >> but it hasn't collapsed like the economy, like the market did -- >> no, the market's been strong, but it has -- look, the gdp number we're looking at now for second quarter is 2% or slightly lower, so growth has fallen a bit from the 3.25% that we had, so i'm concerned about that. and i think the fed bears some of the responsibility for that. >> you guys -- rick, how can you -- i just don't see how you can say that both steves are wrong when they're complete opposites. i'm so confused. >> we're not complete opposites. >> they're so different -- >> first of all, i didn't mean to say they're wrong i disagree with their opinions nobody's wrong -- >> but they'r

. >> rick, thank you steve liesman joins us now with more on this steve, you've been digging through at you? >> yeah, a lot of interesting stuff going on here. first of all, the owners equivalent rent -- that's the housing costs in the cpi -- has been up pretty fair 0.3% the last three months. and this gets to the housing segment we did in the 7:00 hour, which is all these millennial folks are renting and the vacancy rates are plummeting, and we see rents going up. and so, that's something that's going to -- this is a nice piece by ian in pantheon thinks this is going to affect the cpi down the road, not necessarily -- so, that's one aspect the other thing, i don't know if you remember we talked about this new big data in the cpi we did a story on this -- i'm not sure you were here, so i'll give you -- >> remind me >> so, the bls -- a store did not want the bls price checkers in the store >> a major store -- >> a very large, unnamed retailer a. >> walmart >> a very large, unnamed retailer -- >> target. >> a very large, unnamed retailer we could do this for a while so, they decided to

rick and karine. thank you all for watching. mtp, steve kornacki, in for chuck, starts right now. >>> if it's monday, more impeachment pressures, more hearings and more contempt threats. speaker pelosi and house democrats are back on capitol hill for the first time since mueller broke his silence. >>> plus, president trump's diplomatic visit starts with a lack of diplomacy as the president insults british politicians and the royal family. >>> and 2020 democrats take aim at their newest target and, no, it's not president trump. >>> if it's monday, it's "meet the press" daily. i'm steve kornacki in for chuck todd. president trump is feuding with london's mayor, mocking new york city's mayor, antagonizing the press, and whenever you think of the president's behavior on his state's visit to america's closest ally, there is no question this is not something we've seen from any of his modern predecessors from either party. we will dive into all that have in just a moment. while the press is overseas, we begin tonight with democrats laying the gr

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steve. it's great to see you. >>> joining me now, rick tyler.ocratic strategist, and distinguished lecturer at the university of new york. let me start with you, because the debates are coming up this month, how much do you think they move the needle with so many cabdy dates on the stage. we're all waiting here with baded breath. i wonder how much it's going to shake this up fundamentally. >> i think it will shake it up. if you're talking about 1%. get a jab in here and there. it may move the needle a little bit. what a lot of people are looking for is joe biden. this is what i said, if you look at barack obama, went to the nba finals, he got the standing ovation. it add advances this nostalgia which is rubbing off on joe biden, and i want to see how long that's going to last. when he gets to a debate stage and is debating candidates that are more like younger voters? is it something that's new and has some sort of momentum behind it? so i think -- >> does he need those younger voters to win? >> he does. i mean, that's the future of the party. y

in our fed jeff herming, chief investment at double line capital michelle, and rick santelli joins us from the cme. steve liesman will join us shortly, as well as stephen moore. what's your takes in terms of the reaction >> i think the bond market has been pricing this action in all along, right as josh just mentioned, whether it's a 25-base cut, now we have effectively priced it in. >> 100% nearly, right? >> yeah. roughly. >> it's delivering expectations. whether you go and dissect the dot plots, saying that there were be a cut, most of them saying there should be at least one 50-basis point rate cut, it's delivering on market expectations that's why you're not seeing a lot of activities in terms of equities credit spreads are holding in there. that break-even spread actually went up today, so it seems to be bond market pricing a lower growth rate. >> michelle, i thought the most definitive point was when he answered a question on president trump. he said, i think the law is clear and i have a four-year term, and i fully intend to serve it does that clear anything up? >> you know, he's been making that

. >> steve, thank you. david, rickeveloping story that we are following. two oil tankers reportedly attacked. overnight the u.s. navy is assisting the ships and oil is taking a move on the news. it was closing in on a four mandal. probably ready to bounce. this is a good reason. >> this is definitely a good catalyst for this to happen. >> does it play out that actually effects supply and demand or is it all sentiment? >> it is starting to come out now though is will regular ships be able to get insurance to transit through the area. that is the fallout of this. not necessarily these two ships themselves. there is clearly some mining or smart torpedoing going on here. the damage of the ships i have been seeing has the exact same look and signature of what happened a couple weeks ago. >> so if an insurer might be in a position to pay a claim, it probably won't ensure the person. >> that's great. when do you need it? >> they are saying there are mines all over the place in their head. they are saying we are not going to e

steve kornacki, thank you so much. in a way that says hey it's not just democrats who were there, it's the broader country. >> and because i like to quote rick wilson at least once a week his argument is, if impeached trump runs as a martyr, raises $100 million off of it and walks into reelection. look at the time, john ralston, steve kornacki, gentlemen, thank you both for adding so much to our conversation on a wednesday night. >>> the road to miami goes through a state where their chief exports to the world include clam chowder and tom brady and where they take their politics very seriously. we'll have that when we come back. (danny) let me get this straight. after a long day of hard work... ...you have to do more work? (vo) automatically sort your expenses and save over 40 hours a month. (danny) every day you're nearly fried to a crisp, professionally! (vo) you earned it, we're here to make sure you get it. quickbooks. backing you. >>> there it is, three weeks from tonight, the first democratic debates on this network. it's a two-night event. it kicks off wednesday, june 26. again, there may be periodic reminders on this network that thi

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. >> steve grasso from stewart frankel. meanwhile the bond market. rick santelli's got that for us. hi, rick >> hi, wilf. we had a three-year note auction. solid auction. look at a two-year chart of three-year notes you see the way it's gradually moving up? today's close the highest close since may 30th we're closing in on two weeks. that indeed pulled the entire curve yields up. flattening as you see on 10s minus 2s moved from around 25 down to 21. the euro versus the dollar we could look at the dollar index but i think the biggest factor in 50% of valuation is the euro versus dollar the last high in mid march was around 1.15 plus many traders think that's the area to pay attention to wilf, back to you. >> thank you very much for that. we have 12 minutes left of trade. are we going to get the seventh straight day of gains for the dow? not at the moment. but we're covering it. >> highs were up 185 points. lows why wr down about 64 points it's been more than 30 days since uber's ipo early investors are having a hard time selling the stock. we will tell you why next. you should be mad

rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. terminix. defenders of home. jesse: >> the habit of using stunts instead of worms to make their point. congressman steveorging on casey has calling bill barker chicken to help peta to get a protest to the ice without pants. [shouting] melissa milano went on a strike to call attention to abortion. one model took all of her clothes off to make a point. and now bike riders are exposing the impact of climate b change. by exposing a whole lot more. taking part in a world nakeds bike ride. joining me now one of the organizers and a naked bike ride in chicago, elizabeth thierry, what does it feel like to ride naked through the streets of chicago? >> it's reallyhe empowering. >> why is an empowering. >> because you get to be within a norma's massive cyclist who are like-minded and chat your message to the city into the world. >> and you completely naked on the bike seat, nothing else or? >> i wrote in my underpants. people wear what they choose. we say bear as you dare, whatever makes you feel come from, some people are fully close. but we encourage people to be as naked as they feel comfortable writing. >> wha

steve? thanks, man. there he is. get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and renters insurance. mark: rickhosting, broadcasting, some of the most memorable guest you had. >> in the sports world is unbelievable, and actually had a better bespoke player, and he came in as a rookie, and i wondered up getting to me him and went to san francisco he became a friend invited me too speak at his 70 birthday celebration which is unbelievable, i cut school to see him play and shook his hand when i was in school and headed trip and i jumped the fence and ran up before they went up the stairs and centerville. but in the clubhouse and shook his hand and i go home releases house again when i said what you talk about is at the school he said no you weren't you are thinking and he said i saw you on tv, i said what,. [laughter] the camera got a kid topping over the fence and running up to shake willie mays hands, from their i get my boyhood idol, number 24 and i got to meet him and become his friend, it is amazing, i had barry bonds come on and he did the entire show for me for three hours after he set the

rick, stick around. i don't see liesman. he was here earlier. steveere you are? >> yep up the highway, over the bridge and -- >> through the trees. >> to grandma's house. >> did you pass go, did you collect $200 >> i did not, i paid the toll, as you know. so the starts -- headline is that they're down but that a's not really the real story here the real story is that upward revision to april helps out overall. so you're down a little bit from the up wardly revised number in may. bottom line, we might possibly get a reversal in the housing effect or the residential effect on gdp it can begin in this quarter -- you can see five straight quarters of -- what is that? eight out of nine there where housing has subtracted from growth the next two we could be getting possibly in this quarter here at least to zero which would help maybe even a positive addition, depending on what's happening with residential improvement a quick look, kind of echoing what rick was saying of the fed probabilities. 30% for june that's a pretty high number but pretty high percenta

like the attorney general and i'm very happy as opposed to steve ballmer who had some really nasty things to say >> let's get factory orders with rickantelli. >> factory orders for the month of april are out it's not a good number it's less negative we were anticipating down 1% close, down 8/10 of a percent. if you take out transportation, though, this is optimistic, we all know the issues going on in the aircraft industry. up 3/10 but we also lost 5/10, from 8/10 our last goollook we take the half month and we to see it out and that half month was minus 2.1, and guess what it is, it's still minus 2 at any ti.1, that. you remove transportation, unchanged, capital goods orders, down 1%, and of course that is a disappointment and if we look at shipments versus orders, that are unchanged, and i guess on the durable goods orders, it really is depressing if you look at the entire year thus far, our best month was 1.4 right out of the gate in january. it's been soft now it's moving negative carl back to you. >> thank you very much good tuesday morning, welcome back to "squawk on the street," i'm carl cquintanilla at the new york stock exc

steve. >> i want to come back to something you said that rocked me before the base and rick wilson said the same thing. but we've been having this conversation for two days about how trump was not -- it was as though he didn't exist last night. and uscreen made this point yesterday. if the number one animating feeling and thought among democrats, all democrats, and i would argue some republicans and independents, is to get rid of donald trump, to make sure he's a one term presidency if impeachment doesn't work out, it was surprising that the strategic decision was made last night not to invoke his name. >> absolutely. >> that was not the case tonight. talk about why you think that is. tonight felt different. >> i got the sense the first night of the can bait the candidates had decided other than julian castro the goal was to introduce themselves to the country and all about kbukz and telling people who they are rather than demonstrating here is what it would look like if i took on donald trump. julian castro did have a smart strategy last night. he understood his lane. only one of those tex

prince, prince later relayed what dimitri told him for steve bannon been separately in the late november 2016, dimitri began medicating with rick gersten a friend of jared kushner. over the next few months, dimitri worked with person plan of russian affiliation between russia and the united states in which he spoke with kushner. the mueller report suggests that the memo which was essentially drafted by the russian government in which we were told this was approved by putin may have influenced the first phone call as president. can you explain this concept a little bit more of back channels? and what sorts of counterintelligence risks can arise from such back channels? the reason i ask, we are having a back-and-forth understandably about political motivation, the campaign tends to push the limit but what appears to me to be unique about this is that russians have information which becomes a tool for them to advance their policy and interests as opposed to ours. mr. anderson? >> thank you, two points, when you are absolutely right. once for them to be able to put in a position to advance whatever they are looking to gain from the

rick, stick around. let's talk more about this constance hunter is kpmg's top u.s. economist and cnbc's markets commentator mike santoli, also economics reporter stevee greatly exaggerated. this revision to april is very good news. the solid number in the control group, missing by 0.1% on the top end doesn't bug me at all. it is a little weird this data has been unusually choppy, and i don't know if it has to do with the weirdness of when easter fell or all this other stuff. been saying for a while, you have decent wage growth, widespread employment. there's no reason why the consumer shouldn't be doing well and this back revision kind of helps to square the circle on that, in that april is -- as rick said, 0.5% better than we originally thought, and may is pretty solid department stores, they were up, now they're down miscellaneous stores were up, now they're down but the strength was in health personal care, sporting goods, and hobbies. i think we're on a good track now. we may even get an upward revision to the second-quarter growth forecast as a result of this. >> so, constance, what does this do to all those who are concerned about an approachi

. >> rick steves, advisory board member with the national organization for the reform of marijuana laws. appreciate your time this morning. >> thanks, john. nice to be here. >>> and here we are live on capitol hill. we're standing by for three committee chairs from the house. congressman jerrold nadler, adam schiff and like i canelijah cum speak with reporters about some of the action on the floor of the house earlier today. that should be getting under way any minute. you can see the reporters are gathered there. as soon as it does, we'll have it live for you right here on c-span3. in the meantime, more from this morning's "washington journal." >> ali nurani, executive director of the national immigration forum, supporter of the bill that passed yesterday on the house floor by a vote of 237-187. it's the american dream and promise act of 2019. ali nurani, what would the bill do? >> well, yesterday on a bipartisan basis, seven house republicans joined every democrat in the house, the american dream and promise act was passed, in essence now heads to the senate in some version. the legis