, former arkansas governor mike huckabee. governor, would you, a heck of a blow against your daughter. with would your response be to cnn about this? >> i thought it was amazing cnn is talking about truth and honesty. getting advice about truth from cnn is kind of like getting recipes for the 4th of july from hannibal lecter, come on. they're the champions of fake news and fraudulent news. they're constantly reporting stuff turns out to be untrue, including jake tapper had to go back and admit the big thing he held up from, rather "the national enquirer" didn't exist t was totally fake. the attacks on my daughter point you out the hypocrisy here. what did they do? they attacked a woman, my daughter, for doing her job. now why did donald trump send the tweet out in the first place. because he was attacked by a woman, namely one of the hosts what i called bsnbc. who was calling him mentally deranged. calling him unfit for office. and her partner was saying that he was a shmuck, a goon, a thug. this is just, but, if there is any perspective in all of this, the reason i'm not all that ups

arkansas governor, mike huckabee, arizona congressman andy biggs, charlie hurt of "the washington times" and former head of the cbo, douglas holtz-eakin, we can't forget, i don't know what that means, charlie gasparino. who could forget, maybe that is what it is supposed to say. connell: he looks angry. melissa: that's normal. connell: the dow closing at record high. here we go again, second day in a row we've seen it. nicole petallides starts us off at the new york stock exchange. tell us big winners. >> big day for the bulls. another winning day on wall street. apple, microsoft leading the way. leading the day with one of our traders, stephen guilfoyle, financials moving hand in hand with the 10-year treasury bonds, 2.34%. ahead of tomorrow's numbers for a lot of those banks. we watch pnc, jpmorgan, just to name a few. the airlines very interesting, the dow jones transportation index which finished lower today hit all-time high intraday. delta pulls backs on quarterly report. jetblue a winner, seeing more traffic as well. moving on to retailers. this as target sees more store traffic.

editorial. with us former arkansas governor mike huckabee. welcome back to the program. what do you think about general kelly bringing discipline and one voice to the white house. is the president going to listen? >> i think he will because he has got someone who in essence a peer. somebody on the same level. has been ceo of something really, really big. in this case a military operation. battlefield command. all of these are great qualities. a person like general kelly is truly tested. he doesn't care whether people like him or not. he has taken people combat. he has been in the position where he knows that the decision he makes and the way he leads, in his case, had a choice of whether people lived or died. now nobody will live or die what he does as chief of staff per se, but i think it's a good choice, a solid choice, the president is wise to pick him. stuart: does he have some diplomatic skills? because he is going to have to be a bit diplomatic when it comes to dealing with members of congress. these are politicians. he is a military guy. the president is a business guy. a hug

on. let's bring in former republican presidential candidate, he is former governor mike huckabee. good to see you, governor. >> liz, great to be here. thank you. . liz: do you think the general is coming along at the right time? >> i absolutely do. there are has been some confusion as to what the chain of command was in the white house. i don't think there's any confusion anymore. and i think the general brings an extraordinary level of professional experience. he brings discipline and focus and a clear sense of mission. he understands what it's like to be under pressure because you don't get under more intense pressure than combat. so there's nothing in that white house that is going to shake him. nothing is going to cause him to get all sweaty about it. he knows how to manage people. he knows how to bring good people in. he knows how to let folks go. that's what a good chief of staff is all about. liz: now, governor, your daughter press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says that the president felt that anthony scaramucci's comments were quote inappropriate. that essentially the presi

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putin friday as the g20 summit. bring in former governor mike huckabee. good to see you, governor? >> good afternoon, how you doing, liz. liz: and happy 4th. the president's meeting with vladimir putin looks like the first formal conversation between putin and a u.s. president in nearly two years. okay, so is president trump more worried about the media attacking him over appearing cozy with putin or getting scolded things over climate change by germany's angela merkel, what do you think he's worried about? >> neither one of them. donald trump isn't a man that is easily rattled. fascinating meeting between putin and the president. i wish i could be there to watch it. though i don't expect there to be a lot of substantive conversation in that initial encounter. i think it's going to be two alpha males, sizing each other up, i think the body language is far more important to watch than anything that either of them say, but this is going to be an interesting contrast between donald trump, who's like the muhammad ali, who looks like to use a lot of hyperbole, goes into the ring with b