here to crunch the numbers, cnn senior economics analyst and former trump economic adviser stephen moore and senior finance correspondent for "business insider" linette lopez. stephen, no doubt about it, the numbers are really good. what's behind the growth? >> well, i think there's a trump effect here. i'm a little biased. i was one of his advisers on the economy. but, you know, it's funny i saw the president a few weeks ago in mar-a-lago and we chatted for a few minutes. i said look, the economic performance, this tax cut is working better than we anticipated. >> you think it's the tax cut? >> i think it's the whole package. the fact we have a pro-business president. the deregulation. the tax cut on top of that has worked. you mentioned on top of the really good economic jobs numbers, we also had the forecast for the second quarter gdp. it's now 4.7% which is off the charts. the other one that came in that was really strong was the revenues. the revenues for the government in april came in 12.5% above last year. so we're getting job growth, we're getting economic growth, we're even get

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joining me is the heritage foundation twitter stephen moor how consequential will the developments at the g-7 be for the relationships with the u.s. and allies? stephen: it was certainly contentious. no question. donald trump has a very different attitude about our relationship with some of our european and canadian allies than say obama or bush before him. trump wants to get tougher with these countries in terms of -- one of the things that he said at this summit, which annoyed some of the other g-7 leaders, was that we're not going to be the world's piggy bank any longer and continue to pay for all the costs of nato, climate change deals, and so on. that didn't rub the europeans too well. i think in the end this is really the start of a long negotiating process. these countries are going to have to bring down their tariffs and engage in fairer trade with the united states. and that's something trump always said from the beginning of the time that he started running for president. there's sort of a new sheriff in town. we'll see how this relationships evolves. shary: the we question

plus, stephen welcomes mandy moore sara bareilles josh groban and musical guest meghan trainor featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody, thank you so much. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) i want you to brace yourself because here's a sentence i don't often say: donald trump did something good. today, he pardoned alice marie johnson, a great-grandmother, first-time nonviolent drug offender who received a life sentence for cocaine possession. life-- that seems pretty harsh, but if you've ever been stuck in a conversation with someone who's high on cocaine, that feels like a life sentence. ( laughter ) so, anyway, he did the right thing. he did the right thing. she didn't deserve to be in there. he let her off. but maybe he did the right thing for the wrong reason because there was no formal legal process or review. trump commuted her sentence because of a meeting with kim kardashi

joining us is stephen moore. he's a senior economic analyst for cnn, former economic adviser to donald trump. stephen, thanks for coming in. i know you don't like a trade war whether it china or mexico or canada, but that's clearly where the u.s. is heading. >> you're getting this tit for tat situation. we don't like to use the term trade war, but it certainly seems to be heading in that direction. trump ran for president saying he was going to get tough on china, so this shouldn't be a great surprise that he's fulfilling that promise. by the way, i think it was a popular issue with americans. they do worry about losing factories jobs to china. >> but they like what they pay at walmart, when they go to supermarkets, when they buy cars. this is like a hidden tax. if it's going to be $250 billion on tariffs of chinese products coming into the united states. people will be going back to supermarkets and stores over the summer to buy books for their kids, clothes for their kids. this is a hidden tax on the middle clas

thank you. >> stephen: how have you been, michael moore? >> well, what can i say? 's a great time to be an american. ( laughter ) >> stephen: it is a great time to be an american because we're the ones who are responsible for this and we've got the do something. >> and we are going to do something, and it's time we have to sort of prove our metal here. look, we're in deep, deep trouble here. >> stephen: you have a new film about the trouble that we're in. what's the name of the film? >> i'm finishing the film right now. >> stephen: okay. it will be out september 21. ( cheers and applause ) thank you. and it's called "fahrenheit 11/9", the night he was announced as president of the united states. >> stephen: are there any surprises in this? i mean, what are you covering? because "fharenheit 9/11" certainly was about what we knew in the leadup, what the bush administration's response was, the push toward war. what is this about? >> this is about how the hell we got in this situation and how we're going to get out of it. >> stephen: politically or do you deal with coll

let me go back to stephen moore. stephen, you know, we don't know why the president is not there.t's start this conversation with that. but if this is simply because the president didn't want to go or didn't see it as a priority, this does nothing to quell those concerns about g6 plus one. >> this is my whole point. let's get serious here. these are important discussions about the future of the world economy and especially the western countries and also japan. and they're having a breakfast on gender equality. come on, all the europeans and the canadians want to talk when we're in trade negotiations with them are issues like climate change and gender equality when, in fact, they have to get their economies moving. >> hold on, hold on, hold on. both of you hold on. both of you hold on. the president just walked into the room. >> okay. >> he's there. >> he's just late. >> get serious about talking about trade. and how are we going to resolve this conflict. donald trump has some legitimate gripes. i hope it turns out so every country reduces their trade barriers. every time we enter

treasury secretary stephen moore nugent tried to his ways the allies president trump has been very clear in wanting to address trade issues i don't think in any way the u.s. is abandoning its leadership in the global economy quite the contrary i think we have very broad objectives that are that are across a rebalancing the trade relationship and the trade deficit but he could not offer the one thing u.s. allies want tariff relief trump briefed by minucci and is not backing down taking to twitter on saturday he wrote when you're almost eight hundred billion dollars a year down on trade you can't lose a trade war many economists disagree they say everyone loses in a trade war because a vicious cycle of tariffs makes goods more expensive all around now some u.s. companies say they fear a trade conflict could end the global economic expansion the upcoming g. seven meeting was expected to celebrate our estimates at this point and these are very rough but we would expect another ten to fifteen percent drop and we're also suffering because of the steel tariffs which was the genesis of all this

>> what about that, stephen moore?ou think these tariffs the president is going to slap on america's biggest allies are a real threat. explain. >> look, i think china's a problem. i do agree with the white house in terms of getting tough with china because they do steal a lot of our intellectual property, which is more and more what we produce in america today. they don't open up their marnkes as we have to them. it's very difficult for american business to do business in china today. if you want to focus on china, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to start going african da and germany and korea that we'll need in an alliance to go after china. the other point is i do think these tariffs will hurt american consumers. christine was just talking about reduced inflation, which means higher real wages but if we have these tariffs and they raise prices, those price gains may not arrive. >> mexico is going to put tariffs on pork, fruit and cheese, the eu on denim, bour n bourbon. this is something the consumer no question

let's bring in former trump economic adviser stephen moore.e friendly with larry cuddler, used to be a host and commentator, anchor on cnbc. he has what we're told is a mild heart attack. you've spoken to him. how's he doing? >> he's a little more than a friend of mine. he was the best friend at my wedding. i almost did have a cardiac arrest wn i heard the news last night. thankfully it sounds like it was a minor heart attack. i talked to his assistants who are with him all the time. i expect him to be back on the job in a week or so. donald trump is a hard guy to keep up with. donald trump is a freak of nature. he works 20 hours a day, is, you know, it's a grinding schedule. as you know, he's withd trump all the time, larry is. you see john bolton on one side and larry on the other. but he'll be back on the job and ready to go. >> but he's got to take it easy a bit, even a mild heart attack. that's a strenuous job. >> and he's got a big staff. the one thing that he'll have do that's going to be a hard lifestyle change for him is to stop smoki

among the people kudlow is considering, dan clifton and stephen moore, the conservative economist and kudlow's close friend clifton has been floated as potential deputy director of chief of staff and is said to be one of the handful of candidates considering over agency officials and one current nec staffer. moore's name has been mentioned for a bespoke senior advisory role according to art laugher, he's someone in step with kudlow and could fill his shoes when he's away clifton and moore declined to comment. kudlow did not respond to requests for comment roughly a quarter of the necs 24 jobs are open including senior roles of agriculture policy. one person is set to take a senior role at a financial trade association but may remain at the white house to run its legislative affairs arm. the white house for its part said it would not comment on who larry has spoken to only that he's interviewed several candidates both internally and externally for the position p. melissa. >> kayla, thank you. all of those names should be familiar to cnbc i think it's -- >> all these guys. >> probably a

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one hand dispatching wilbur ross to china on the other hand dispatching the treasury secretary stephen moore nugent to canada head of this week's g. seven summit and their people are irate you could see in the video that animated discussion of people talking about this issue and several people there have said that the dominant issue will not be the global economic expansion that it was expected to be that now it's going to be all about tariffs and u.s. protectionism justin trudeau went on american television today and this is what he had to say first of all we're putting the same kinds of tariffs exactly on on steel and aluminum coming from the united states into canada to be directly reciprocal but we are also putting a number of tariffs on consumer goods finished products for which canadians have easy alternatives one of the either made in canada or made from another partner with the tariffs one of the truths about tariffs is they drive up costs for consumers and on top of that these tariffs are going to be hurting american workers and canadian worker the idea that we are somehow a nationa

we had stephen moore the economic adviser to talk about how good those numbers were. >> he's a smartad you had him on. you should have screaming graphics about lowest unemployment rate ever for african-americans, for hispanics for teens in the last 18 or 19 years, for women. the job seekers, the job creators and also the job holders have all benefitted from this president's leadership. we have 6.7 million available jobs right now, john. that is a historic number. it's an incredible number. >> it's a big number. "the wall street journal" is actually more than the people looking for jobs. >> that's right. >> that's -- >> which means that job security and job availability go hand in hand. >> were the jobs creation numbers at the -- you've created an average of 185,000 jobs -- $185 month. were those numbers as good in your mind? >> john, was that the lowest unemployment rate among african-american, hispanics and 19 years for women, no, of course not. it wasn't headed that way. it's the second time this hour you've mentioned president obama. president trump is in the white house now. he's

treasury secretary stephen moore nugent tried to his ways the allies president trump has been very clear in wanting to address trade issues i don't think in any way the u.s. is abandoning its leadership in the global economy quite the contrary i think we have very broad objectives that are that are across a rebalancing the trade relationship and the trade deficit but he could not offer the one thing u.s. allies want tariff relief trump briefed by minucci and is not backing down taking to twitter on saturday he wrote when you are almost eight hundred billion dollars a year down on trade you can't lose a trade war many economists disagree they say everyone loses in a trade war because a vicious cycle of tariffs makes goods more expensive all around now some u.s. companies say they fear a trade conflict could end the global economic expansion the upcoming g. seven meeting was expected to celebrate our estimates at this point and these are very rough. we would expect another ten to fifteen percent drop and we're also suffering because of the steel tariffs which was the genesis of all this ev

stephen: yeah, sure. >> about henry iix and about thomas moore, the great thomas moore, who died for his religion. re's a great scene, when henry viii, beautiful played by robert shaw, gets out of his boat, just watch how everybody behaves. >> stephen: i heard-- i actually-- i heard you liked this movie. we actually pulled this clip. show-- imagine that shaw is trump. >> ( laughter ) >> ( laughter ) >> that's them. >> stephen: yes. >> that's the republican party. >> stephen: he was a monster... >> that's them! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: robert gold describes him as a monster who none dared gainsay. >> yes, well, today, these guys are all like mike pence. they do exactly what trump does. >> stephen: this is what pence did. show the water bottle thing again, jim. look at trump. and watch pence. bottle down for no reason, and right with you, sir. ( laughter and applause ) what does it mean? what does it mean? >> it means that, we always say democrats fall in love, republicans fall in line. they're all doing this-- i get in trouble for this, but republicans are stereotypical. right? what do th

by the way, i wanted to say -- >> stephen: in case you haven't seen this -- >> i know you like the movie "man for all seasons" about henry ii and the great thomas moorer his religion and when henry viii played by robert shaw gets out of his boat, watch how everybody behaves. >> stephen: we pulled this clip. imagine shaw is trump. ( laughter ) >> that's them. >> stephen: yes. that's the republican party. >> stephen: he was a monster. that's them! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: he's described as a monster who none dared gain say. >> these are all like mike pence, that's what he does. >> stephen: trump, pence. bottle down for no reason and right with you, sir. ( laughter ) ( applause ) what does it mean? what does it mean? >> it means we always say democrats fall in love, republicans fall in line. i get in trouble for this, but republicans are stereotypical. they all play golf and they all read the "wall street journal" and they vote republican. they show up at the movies on time. republicans are a very regimented people. >> stephen: they show up to the movies on time? >> oh, you just know they do. >> stephen: democrats show up late? >> they're the

message of peace and hope stephen hawking's remains have now been interred between the graves of fellow science greats isaac newton and charles darwin and the hayward reports on the moor memorial service for britain's most renowned astrophysicist. we have entrusted brother stephen to god's mercy he was one of the world's best known scientists now laid to rest behind some of history's greatest thank those who also changed the way we understand the world. it would have britain's oldest churches thousands gathered to remember the remarkable life the professor stated whole cake the stars of screen and science coming together to celebrate his work for it is he who gave me an erring knowledge of what exists to know the structure of the world and the activity of the elements . hawking who died in march led an extraordinary life for a cambridge graduate who was just twenty one when he was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neuron disease doctors said he would only survive a few years but he lived for more than half a century when an illness will tell him of his ability to speak hawking's found another voice using a synthesizer it will become a mock. press of stephen hawking

. >> stephen: hey, that's it for "the late show," everybody. tune in tomorrow when my guests will be michael mooreaccess group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> welcome to "cbs this evening." >> james: it's the evening. it's cbs. it's "cbs this evening." ( laughter ) >> good evening, everyone. the search continues. >> james: that's right, it's been nearly five days since this story was first reported. and with every additional day that passes, this is quickly becoming one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time. >> indeed. at this point, there are only two worlds that exist: the world

. >> stephen: that's it for "the late show," everybody. tune in tomorrow when my guests will be mandy moore captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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