then, democratic congressman steve cohen from tennessee will discuss his proposed legislation to overturn trumps executive order which restricts travel by immigrants from seven muslim majority countries. he will also talk about the legality of the president's order. host: good morning, everyone, on this thursday, february 2. senate democrats are ratcheting up opposition to president trump and republicans, from his cabinet picks to the supreme court nominee. on capitol hill yesterday, democrats boycotted for a second day a committee vote on the president's choice for the top post at treasury and health and human services. republicans respond by pushing through those nominations, as well as senator jeff sessions to become the attorney general. democrats are now deciding how far they'd go with their opposition, led by senate minority chuck schumer from new york. do thebl

host: we are back this morning with commerce and steve -- congressman steve cohen. let's begin with what is called , the president did by executive order. tell us your position on it. rep. cohen: it is unnecessary and political. want to become president, you need to govern, you do not need to continue to campaign and this is not making america safer. he picked out seven countries, none of which have had any terrorist -- i think there were , but ane or two somalis minimal number from those countries. the major countries were saudi arabia with 9/11, which he mentioned, egypt and the uae, and he did not ban them. he did not ban chechnya and that is where the tsarnaev brothers came from. two years to come in if you want to come to this country. there is extreme vetting, huge vetting so to speak and it is not necessary. it jeopardizes soldier's lives in iraq and it gives the isil group a campaign to get more jihadis. host: you say it is already extreme vetting, but what does that mean? rep. cohen: it means the fbi and all the different security groups, homeland security

steve cohen does come across as one of the most brilliant traders.miring that. he did build one of the great american fortunes essentially as a trader. it is quite remarkable. irrespective of whatever happen at his firm. he had incredible talent as a short-term investor. >> good luck with the book. >> thank you. >> our audience loves to talk about these issues so -- >> good yarn. >> lots of buyers. "black edge." >>> chemicals, health care and handbags. one sector taking a major hit following sean spicer's white house press briefing. we're all over that. >>> welcome back to "power lunch." we want to take a look at shares of the nasdaq bio techs index etf. ibb. we are seeing the lows of the session for this particular etf. and this on the heels of white house press secretary sean spicer making some comments saying that president trump is in favor of negotiating for drug prices. that comment and some others made in the press conference sending the shares down to the session lows and again, michelle, watching what's happening now. we'll keep an eye on th

to thank would like you for having steve cohen on this morning. i thought he did a great job trying to explain for those who have an objective view of how some democrats think. one of my greatest things i wish could be done the way i look at , i do not see president trump trying to unite the country. it would be nice if he tried to and he andgress congress stand up and give the country an apology from both of them for not allowing the supreme court justice that obama tried to push through and then for him to apologize once again would be truthfully and wholeheartedly about the way he has spoke to the other percentage of people of the united states. then again, as far as for mr. bannon, i tell you what, if president obama had taken some of the people that they opposed so much when he was -- when he came into office and appointed them into a position, the country would have been still in an uproar. freddie in maryland, republican. we have a few minutes left before the house dabbles in. -- gavels in. you are on the air. will fixonald trump it. he alw

do you havevidence that steve bannon is pulling the strings? rep. cohen: everything he has talked about. there was a story that was out, a group went back three years to and talks and everything he has talked about was the trump agenda. about america first and pulling out in trade organizations and not being concerned about other countries and trying to spread democracy and human rights. everything he has talked about andconcern about islam everything the president is doing are things that have been written by or spoken by then -- spoken by steve bannon. the idea of not mentioning jews in a holocaust remembrance session, shame. for your daughter is and what religion she converted to. shame. not to mention that in the holocaust is holocaust denier talk and that is breitbart steve bannon. host: rose in tennessee. upset, mr.m really cohen. glad you are not my congressperson. rep. cohen: you have tim cooper, are you glad about that? glad.: no, i am not i have a comment and a question. my comment is you said you are barackthat michelle and were no longer there

i think this has caused a lot of frustration for the american public -- amy: clearly, steve cohen's lawyersere very good. kevin o'connor, it was reported by bloomberg in november, the general counsel for stephen cohen's investment firm, oversaw the staff picks for the justice department is a member of president donald trumps transition team, according to h chart named by bloomberg. >> i thought that was just about perfect based on the way things are going. isn't it beorted -- for only a brief time but yes, it does appear that people from cohen' worlds and his industry have moved into washington and they are directing economic policy and regulatory policy. this is something we all need to be concerned about. i don't think it is going to resolve the frustrations of the voters who put trump in that position. amy: do you think donald trump will ever release his tax returns? >> it doesn't look like it. i think it is a scandal. toan't believe he hasn't had do it. but look at where he has gotten without releasing them. i don't see any incentive for them to do so now, frankly. juan: and his claim t

i thank the original co-sponsors and i thank steve cohen. these are kind of things that we find agreement and transparency is one of those and i thank him for his support and the gentleman from maryland for his support of this. as one former member, mr. speaker, i know that is fond of cynthia loom is on an earlier version of this legislation and looking forward to bringing this to fruition. current and past bipartisan demonstrate the consensus that we need to know how taxpayer funds are being spent. identical legislation passed on a voice vote in the 114th congress. this bill reinstates the need for transparency and accountability measures to ensure the act is helping individuals, retirees, veterans and small businesses as originally intended. congress passed this in 1980 to remove the barrier with those with limited access with resources it takes to sue the federal government and recover attorneys fees and costs. it has the opportunity to challenge and defend unreasonable government actions where they might be deterred by large legal expens

host: we are back this morning with commerce and steve -- congressman steve cohen.et's begin with what is called , the president did by executive order. tell us your position on it. rep. cohen: it is unnecessary

host: we are back this morning with commerce and steve -- congressman steve cohen. let's begin with what is called , the president did by executive order. tell us your position on it. rep. cohen: it is unnecessary and political. want to become president, you need to govern, you do not need to continue to campaign and this is not making

we talk about the becket fund for religious liberty and later on, steve cohen, a key member of the house judiciary committee will talk about legislation to overturn his recent travel ban. during yesterday's white house briefing, michael flynn made a surprise visit and took to the podium to condemn iran's recent illicit missile launch. here is what he had to say. involving theons attack against a saudi naval vessel underscore what should have been clear to the community all along about iran's the stabilizing behavior across the middle east. the recent launch is also in defiance of un security council resolution 2231, which calls not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be cable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such technology. these are the latest of a series of incidents in the past six forces that iran has trained and armed have and alliedi vessels vessels transiting the red sea. in these activities, iran continues to threaten allies in the region. the obama administration failed to respond adequately to iran's weaponsincluding trans

then democratic congressman steve cohen from tennessee will discuss his proposed legislation to overturn president trump's executive order which restricts travel by immigrants from seven muslim majority countries. representative cohen will also talk about the legality of the president's order. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> this weekend on "american history tv" on c-span3, saturday evening at 6:00 eastern on "the civil war" author and historian harold holzer on abraham lincoln's views on immigration andest esfforts to court the g americans early in his career. >> one in ten joined the military as soon as they arrived. by lincoln's optimistic calculation, the result with black enlistment factored in and even with the dead wounded captured and missing, subtracted, was a net gain for the military and for the country at large. >> then at 8:00 in "lectures in histo history" charles mckinney describes efforts to end segregation during world war ii. >> the new deal also creates spaces for african-americans and

paul: when he has enough advisors, wilbur ross, steve cohen,, schwartzman, over the last few years, thehas lost jobs and when we were running sunday, i spoke to trent lott and said the chinese were dumping, they were building aluminum facilities for our furniture business and they were selling at a fraction of the price. hundreds of thousands of jobs and did that movie because the government had not moved properly. i do not know if it is a trade war or a recognition that one party is substantially subsidizing their manufacturing because they want the jobs. francine: the inauguration was generally 20, a correction, i apologize. -- january 20, a correction, i apologize. paul: everybody cannot be a anyer, everybody cannot be investment banker, you want manufacturing -- manufacturing, they are jobs come support jobs, electrical jobs, those are not the jobs to have good. francine: paul: in the interest -- francine: realistically, donald trump is a fighting new york real estate competitor. that is in his persona and you can see it and everything -- much like an entrepreneur, he likes absolute

with hannah smith, senior council to the beck fund of religious liberty and democratic congressman steve cohen will discuss his proposed legislation to overturns primp's executive order which restricts travel by muslims from seven countries. be sure to watch c span's washington journal live this morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend, c span city's tour will explore the literally life of fresno california on consider span 2 tv. author tim hernandez all they will call you about the 1948 plane crash in california that killed 32 people including 28 mexican migrant workers. >> when a plane crash happened in 1948 and the news report went across the country, woody guj roe was in new york at the time and one of the greatest rebellion icons that he is, he heard the news report so he wrote a report about it. good-bye to my juan, good-bye rose lita, foreign. you won't have a name when you ride that big airplane. all they will call you is deportee. >> author of harvest son planting a new soil. as he recounts his personal story about childhood, race and identity in california central value. >> hist

white house earlier today meeting with people like jared kushner and president trump and gary cohen and stevevice president mike pence as well. they are trying to figure out when president trump is able to put forth that infrastructure plan, by the likes of steve bannon, not an appetite in congress for it to look for the demonstration to utilize governors to begin to see if they are able to get a seat at the table to direct those. pimm: thank you -- lisa: thank you for the update. the chief washington correspondent. president trump will take the cpac speaks tomorrow, watches reports live on bloomberg markets at 10:00 a.m. eastern. as germany faces a windy february, how does the weather affect energy prices? we will look at the data. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ lisa: let's look into the bloomberg and you can't buy all the following chart using the function at the bottom of your --sh at all of the charts and you can look at all of the chart using the function at the bottom of your screen. the price of wind power in germany versus wind output, the wind output is the white line, wind output has been i

hannah smith, senior counsel to the beckett fund for religious liberty and democratic congressman steve cohen from tennessee will discuss his proposed legislation to overturn president trump's executive order which restricts travel by immigrants from seven muslim majority countries. representative cohen will also talk about the legality of the president's order. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> i'm a white male and i am prejudiced. and the reason it is is something i wasn't taught but it's kind of something i've learned. i don't like to be forced to like people. i like to be led to like people through example. and what can i do to change? to be a better american. >> that was a remarkable moment. i didn't really realize until i kind of stepped off the set because there were more calls after that. we just had to keep rolling. how powerful it was. there's something in his voice that touched me. i mean, you can hear it. it's so authentic. as he searches for the words to say something to a national audience that most

steve cohen as a valued investor i have been saying that for years.pened is that the nba, the sport is globalized. when people wake up in the morning they are turning in the celtics games on their own. broadcast the to nba games there. last year we played in the preseason. i was shocked when we went to the hotel, there were 15 people in celtics guard. have the stadium had celtics things on. cory: there you have it, the global game. vonnie: i was speaking with someone from britain earlier on who is a big fan of the cast you -- of the cabs. up-to-datering you on him where president trump he is touring a boeing facility. to be speaking from that podium in just a bit. we will bring it to you live. he landed a little over then -- little more than a half hour ago at charleston. meetings that may hold meetings -- he may hold meetings at mar-a-lago. that retiredng army general -- is serving as national acting's security advisor that national acting security advisor. nationalg as security adviser. you want to foster strong u.s. and china engagement and emphasi

those i spoke to say you have gary cohen, steve, jared kushner, three guy that is are social democrats, basically, then look and you have a rex tillerson, general maddox, who have has thousands of men and women report to them in their careers saying this isn't the circus i want to be part of. >> this is steve bannon. this is what donald trump's core constituency wanted. he said i'm going to build a wall, started. i'm going to keep out muslims, he's doing that. he's doing exactly what the people who voted for him wanted him to do. the problem is, it doesn't work well. he's realizing that. when you actually run the government, it's not being a king. you can't put through whatever policy you want. eventually, you have to explain what you are doing. in the national security impact, it's a problem. the issue is, i don't think they are going to learn a lesson from this. it's going to fail and they are going to try the next thing. they are going to build that ridiculous wall. the trump administration is interested in saying we did something than something we did works. >> you don't think it c

he put steve mnuchin and gary cohen, who have a combined 42 years at goldman sachs in charge of rewriting the rules to benefit the banks. you have looked at the data for the economy and financial markets. i want to follow up on senator brown's questions and get your take on some of the administrations main reasons for calling it a disaster. he said he hoped to "cut a lot out of dodd frank" because "friends of mine with nice businesses can't borrow money." i'm aware of the small business survey you sited earlier, since dodd frank was enacted in 2010? >> well, cni lending at this point has grown and it exceeds after declining, it exceeds the 2008 peak. the same is true for total loans held by commercial banks, since the end of 2010, total cni loans outstanding have grown over 75%. in the most recent period for which we have data were the recent 12 month period, cni loans grew over 7% and small cni loans, which are usually sort of small business related, grew almost 4%. so we have seen healthy growth in actual lending in the economy. the survey that i mentioned to senator brown, i believe ov

for steve bannon, there is a gary cohen, a steven mnuchin. let's go back to the markets. i want to go -- sorry. no. >> so 1208, when it is about the border tax and speculation started coming through. i think you have a place. real details are needed. the market is maxed out. especially for the technical reasons we talked about. that you have not seen these pullbacks. our guest has to come by sitting at the end of the table, talking about how we haven't seen a correction and that's what we need to see. >> the deal stocks. >> ultimately you're at a place where some of the same traits we're working on in the first quarter are the ones kicking butts. >> i want to bring in tony who says there are signs the zpax infrastructure plans might be at rich. a chief market strategist. >> good to see you. >> great to be here. >> and you are looking at the warning signs. >> when we think about this, the last five days, a 6-point s&p move. the last five days of the move was wiped out with a 6-point drop. like you want circuit breakers. you're down double digits. that's the market that i t

he started down that road when he should -- issued a executive order and put two men, steve , who haved gary cohen 42 years at goldman sachs, in charge of rewriting the roles -- rules for helping big banks at goldman. chair yellen, i know you and the fed spent an enormous amount of , so looking at actual data i want to follow-up on senator brown's questions and get your take on some of the administration's main reasons for calling dod frank and it -- a disaster. president trump said he hoped to frank lot out of dodd because friends of mine who have nice businesses can't borrow money." now, i am aware of the small business survey you cited earlier. but i am going to look at the bigger range of data. what does that a show about business lending since dodd frank was enacted in 2010? lending at this point, it has grown and exceeds since 2008 after declining. --e on inflation ingested inflation-adjusted basis. helped by commercial banks. outstanding,ans over 75% growth. period for recent which we have data, the recent 12-month period, cni loans growth -- grew over 7%. loans, usually small business rela

>> i can tell you that jerry cohen and steve mnuchin don't want that to happen.ry mnuchin's confirmation hearing, he said he would work to do everything in his power to make sure the u.s. not only makes good on its debt, but also they not get to the break for it again, this is where the policy fighting in the republican party gets interesting. people like maldini are much more conservative from the tea party movement and have fought for years against some of the same policy initiatives that people like speaker ryan, as well as his white house has advocated for. it is worth noting that senator john mccain voted against director mulvaney for his nomination process for thus -- just those reasons. david: one thing they will have to find the budget for is 10,000 new border agents. is there any question the president will get support for that? >> i think there will be opposition from democrats, but the numbers are not there for them. we have seen that in the nomination fights that have played out. what is interesting is that privatize prison groups are actually support

he has top aides with him, jared kushner, reince priebus, steve bannon, sean spicer, steven miller and gary cohen. they're going to be joined by the newly confirmed office of management and budget director mick mulvaney and health and human services secretary tom price to talk about the next steps in repealing and replacing obamacare. and also about tax reform. that senior administration official making it clear he won't be on vacation. >> like a full house, not to mention a full plate. athena, thank you. >>> joaquin castro sits on the house intelligence committee. like his senate counterparts there are certain things he cannot talk about, but here's our conversation from earlier this evening. congressman, we saw fbi director james comey go into the senate today, apparently briefed the senate intelligence committee for nearly three hours. it was about russia, we are told. any sense of any of the details that were discussed? >> i don't, but i hope it's moving the investigation forward. i hope what was but dus cussed will be discussed with the house intelligence committee. it's important to have a

steve balmer will be in the house. we'll talk about banking. william cohen, the former defense secretary and josh baer.e'll talk off the bat about the fed and whether or not the market has really priced out march too much, and whether or not it ought to think about coming back in with that big speech coming next week from janet yellen who will be testifying on the hill. i'm looking at a 4% chance of a hike in march. some people think maybe the market is overdone in terms of pricing out that march hike. fed could be back on the table. >> great stuff. look forward to it in 11 minutes time on "squawk box." >>> still to come on "worldwide exchange," getting ready for the day ahead. earnings the top of the agenda, and rich steinberg will have his strategy. stay tuned. you're watching "worldwide exchange." thhehetxe deces, nted woror d s vaon >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." futures are mixed. essentially flat as we were really by the close yesterday. the dow was slightly higher. all are slightly positive. sorry. the dow was slightly lower, the s&p and nasdaq were positive. let's discuss markets wit

steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0 through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing between now and 2020 we will have the neighborhoods serve transportation infrastructure guided by climate and equity goals with the upgrading of your pendi

steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0 through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing between now and 2020 we will have the neighborhoods serve transportation infrastructure guided by climate and equity goals with the upgrading of your pendi

steve bannon spent half a decade working at goldman sachs. trump's national economic director, gary cohen, spent 25 years more. he rose to be goldman's president. trump's senior council for economic initiatives was a partner since 2010 at goldman sachs. steve mnuchin, up for a vote tonight for treasury secretary, spent 17 years at goldman, dubbed the foreclosure king, mnuchin was a fast buck artist who maneuvered onewest out of indy max collapse, with shady tax ticks that kicked hundreds of thousands of families out of their homes in ohio and beyond. mnuchin is the ultimate swamp dweller. his father worked at goldman, his brother still works there. they all return for alumni engagements. while millions of americans lost their homes with millions more under water today, goldman increased its profits. it's obvious wall street's trolls have squiged their way through the white house, even before the first lady has remodeled the living quarters. when wall street rigs our economy again, does anyone seriously expect president trump to drain the swamp? he's fast in it with them. yield back my rem

steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner present

steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0 through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing between now and 2020 we will have the neighborhoods serve transportation infrastructure guided by climate and equity goals with the upgrading of your pendi

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i will add to this, i think gary cohen is going to prove to be much more of a free trader with steveho understands capital inflows. that's my hope. >> glad to have you here. >> my phone is always available for calls. >> mine is, too. mine is, too. >> coming up -- >> i would be happy to answer their questions. >> fantastic. >>> "street talk" is next. ♪ some things e simplyimposse the striking designed les nxurbond hrid. the suv that dares to go beyond utili. exri amazi. i'm connecti so wcan she our azin trading knowledg why don't you just go to thkowim's chat rooms ere you can she stragies wi thoands of othetrers? >>> we have not forgotten about you, loyal viewer. time for the analysts' recommendations on what you need to know about. michelle, you first. >> dick's sporting goods. large number of sporting goods manufacturers and retailers well shy of expectations. they are also concerned about revenue issues for the entire sector so they don't think it's possible that sporting goods will be able to escape that. >> keeping a lot of money in the stock and they are saying that the run loo

steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissionerommissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0 through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing between now and 2020 we will have the neighborhoods serve transportation infrastructure guided by climate and equity goals with the upgrading of your pending arr

steve ballmer. he's fun too, and he's doubling down on the facts. he's here at the top of the hour to explain. plus, former secretary of defense william cohenident trump's new world order. stay tuned. we'll be right back. somes they jusn. ris anpte oprtunun enable u choe >>> earnings alert. quarterly results from some household names, including coca-cola and twitter. >>> a "squawk box" news maker. former microsoft ceo steve ballmer joins us with details on his newest venture. here's a hint. it involves keeping the government accountable. >>> plus, horse heirs. we'll go inside the secret lives of the super rich, visiting a show jumping competition with the daughters of steve gates, michael bloomberg, and bruce springsteen. the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ >>> live from the most powerful city in the world, new york, this is "squawk box." >>> good morning. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. we are live from the nasdaq market site in times square. you can see all the snow behind us. i'm michelle caruso cabrera along with melissa lee and steve liesman. our guest host is ben lerer. futures are in positive territory right now.

cohen seems to back drtrack on this morning. >> could it be reworked? it also comes 24 hours after treasury secretary steve mnuchin told our becky quick that all options are on the table still. >> the cohn-specific negative sentiments were specifically on the actual language, the actual talk that the gop has had specific language. i think it certainly could be reworked. he did not say that the concept was objectionable but the way it was worked out. >> dan, long-time finance guy, covering banking, private equity, et cetera. from your market expertise, it's brian sullivan. from your market expertise, do you think that the market is maybe overreacting to the upside, given your story? or do you think that a border tax could still live, to melissa's point, maybe just not in the house form? >> i think, to melissa's point, it certainly could. look, candidly, i think the market overreacts right now on anything that comes out of the administration in the sense that you don't seem to have huge agreement between different members of the administration, or at least not between the finance professional types, cohn, mn

cohen, president of the southern poverty law center. thank you for coming in. before we have our discussion, let's take a listen to steve bannon, senior counselor to the president of the united states. >> it's not only not going to get beshgts it's going to get worse. the internal logic makes sense. they're corporatist, globe list media that are adamantly opposed -- adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like donald trump has. >>> now here is the response from the ann frank senter from its director, steven goldstein. he said, "globalists and corporate media, these are code words of anti-semitism and when they're used by a man with an anti-semitic history such as steve bannon, you'd have to be living in the stone age not to connect the dots." this is part of the problem here is that we have someone so close to the president who holds these views and as a result of that, the president, who should step out there and condemn these things hasn't or hasn't. >> look, when the president -- his first statement to the country was he was going to heal the wounds of division. the problem is he's never taken responsibil

steve: what's the mainstream line against president trump. >> this is what birthed the national diversity coalition it was founded by michael cohen who is jewishhis father is the survivor -- a holocaust survivor. we have a lot of deep roots in the coalition that grew over 1 million plus signups past the campaign and all the way through his presidency. it's a lie that they tried to paint to make this president to be out something that he is not. we are here to defend him, steve, to the end. steve: so at every turn the playbook against donald trump is call him a racist. call him an anti-semite, right? >> that's correct. this is ongoing, ongoing. i have dealt with this thousands of times all over many, many times on every show. they never bring any good policy or dialogue. they always start off the set with some race or some garbage. steve: you look at his personal history, his daughter converted to judaism. you know. >> exactly. steve: donald trump through ivanka and jared kushner a kosher wedding. that doesn't sound like anti-semite to me. >> no. it's not. that's why it's -- like i said, it's crazy. and we will fight to the end, steve, you know

gary cohen is playing and the announcement on friday and whatever kind of power he may be able to wrestle from the rest of them. who's winning? >> whenever you have headlines calling yourself stevehat's an indication of your power and we heard riance priebus is shown as him in the pecking order. usually the chief advisor is in the top slot advising. >> is this an attempt to smooth feelings? >> i think there's a new checklist for executive orders. they have to loop in all members of the white house. not just steven miller and steve bannon. because otherwise the kais chaos is great in theory. that's how trump ran his organization but the white house has structures that have lasted multiple presidents and there's a reason. because they work. i think president trump realizes to get some of the things done that he wants to accomplish for his voters, he can't have just two aids running the show. that just does not compute. >> i wonder is anyone in charge other than trump? because i can't imagine some of his advisors would say go ahead tweet things by a so-called judge. >>> unless you're baby sitting the president all day long and monitoring what tweets he sends out, heat rr the one in

smith, senior counsel to the becket fund for religious liberty and democrat congressman steve cohen from will discuss his proposed legislation to overturn president trump's executive order which was -- restricts travel of muslim immigrants from seven countries. we should watch c-span's washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> our coverage of confirmation hearings continues as the senate environment and public works committee votes on the nomination of oklahoma attorney to becomeott pruitt the next administrator of the environmental protection agency. watch live at 10:15 a.m. eastern. senator jeff sessions' nomination to become the next attorney general has to key hurdle as the senate judiciary committee reported it favorably with an 11-9 partyline vote. the hearing runs under one hour. >> welcome, everybody back this morning. first, under