mark: i am mark halperin. with all due respect to the biblical slaves of egypt, you didn't tell that -- buiild that. ♪ ♪ on the show tonight, jeb on the family and ben carson's fresh beat. seadoctor is in the hot t. two stories in the last 24 hours have put john carson in the proverbial barrel. the first is from cnn, looking into his claims of having had a

set of violent outbursts as a kid. cnn interviewed his childhood friends, and they say they do not remember him being a violent type. today, carson stood his ground. mr. carson: one of the ones where i threw a rock and broke someone's glasses, that occurred when i was seven or eight. the stabbing, attempted stabbing incident -- incident happened when i was 13 or 14. what is another incident? give me another one. >> the punching. dr-- mr. carson: trying to hit my mother with a hammer was around the same time. >> the incidence before your mother, were they classmates, friends, neighbors? our investigation could not find them. mr. carson: what makes you think you would be able to find them, unless i tell you who they are? if they come forward on their

own because of your story, that is fine, but i will not expose them. mark: lots of questions on the campaign trail for carson. the other relevant news is from buzzfeed, locating a video from 1998 in which carson described his unconventional theory of why the pyramids in egypt were built. mr. carson: my own personal theory is joseph built the pyramid in order to store grain. the archaeologists think they s, butade for the pharaoh it would have to be something awfully big, and i don't think it would disappear over the course of time. mark: here is how carson responded to this controversy could mr -- this controvers. mr. carson: some people believe in the bible and don't find that

silly at all, and believe god created the earth and don't find that silly. mark: how damaging of the likely to be too carson? john: as predicted on this show, etting will now begin of ben carson now that he is by many metrics the front runner. co-front runner. the egypt story is not nearly as damaging as the biography story. you can survive being a bible literalist in the republican party. you cannot survive being a fabricator. io, up fromon's b nothing, turns out to be fraudulent, he's in big trouble. mark: if he exaggerated his violent tendencies, i understand credibly matters, but i don't understand what people think that if he exaggerated how violent he was, that's a problem. john: there's a weird element, to be sure.

you say credibility matters. it really matters. part of the drama, he was born poor in detroit, no one doubts that, but that he transformed himself from a violent youth to a respected nurse surgeon. if that is fake, that is bad. mark: a lot of people have looked into his background and believe he exaggerated and made stuff up about lots of his background. he handled things find today. i don't think to his core supporters that will matter, but if ben carson is the nominee, he needs more credibility. there are doubts in the republican community and the media about who this guy is, because most people still don't know him. john: the story written by cnn exploring the issue, the campaign's response was troubling. they said, this is a witchhunt. they can't respond that way anymore. the man is on the radio. take a listen to the spot they

are running in urban markets like detroit, memphis, and burning him. ' inspire, vote, revive. ♪ ben carson 2015 support ben carson for our next president ♪ 'america became a great nation not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people. john: ben carson is not the only one on the radio. i am getting into that. donald trump also releasing the first ad of his campaign. >> donald trump learned the values of hard work, determination and faith at an early age,. he built one of the world's most iconic brands that employs thousands of people. donald trump is running for president because politicians are all talk and no action. they will never make our country

great again. mr. trump: if the people of iowa vote for me, they will never be disappointed. i don't disappoint people. i produce. together, we are going to make america great again. i am donald trump, and i approve this message. mark, we have two ads on the radio. what is the strategy on each? mark: the carson ad will get mocked by a lot of people, but he is quite at really -- admirably trying to show he will expand the tent of the republican party to reach younger and african-american voters. trump is trying to convince people he's a candidate who can inspire and hold supporters. john: the carson ads, forget about yo what you think about te quality of them. if an african-american democrat did ads of this kind on urban

radio, no one would think anything of it. the fact carson is doing it should be unremarkable. mark: and admirable. john: sure. i just think unremarkable, mostly. the trump ad surprises me, considering how conventional it seems. we have waited for donald trump to go on the air. that does not capture the renegade spirit of donald trump. seems like a cookie-cutter ad. mark: carson and trump are both playing against type. carson is usually seen as not a lot of showmanship, doing an ad which am in ship, and trump is more conventional. he's using a woman narrator, because he does much better with men than women and wants to try to female voters. the message is his message, but not as bombastic. john: fair enough. the interesting question continues to be, when trump finally engages in the electronic media, radio or tv,

will he do it with a show of force? how much is he willing to spend? it's interesting he decided to go to radio rather than a big statement tv campaign. to say, i am going to spend. mark: why are these guys doing radio? carson has done television already, but why is trumped starting on radio? john: targeted radio messages really work. still a lot of people listen to the radio in america, especially conservative america. we know about the conservative radio phenomenon, rush limbaugh and others. a lot of conservatives listen to the radio. mark: amongst the trump doubters, some say he would not file to be on the ballot. he is filing. the current doubt is he's not going to spend a, he's -- big, he's too cheap. starting with

radio to be able to spend less. trump is willing to spend millions on television ads, the doubters have a reason to doubt, and the radio buy only soaks the view of people who say he's not in it to win it. john: when you have gimmick bernie sanders on television, spending millions of dollars, and donald trump is still not on the air, the doubters have a reason to doubt. mark: radio for trump allows him to not be reaganesque, but allows them to taint the image he has, the tone. prove he can perform in that medium without the bombast of the trump visuals. john: when we come back, is this the best week or the worst week for chris christie? and we sit down with bush 43's

former media mastermind. we are back in exactly 60 seconds. ♪

♪ mark: if you look at it one way, this could be the best week chris christie has had in a long time, but paradoxically it could also be the worst week. this raw, emotional, moving, kind of extraordinary video of about druglking addiction has been viewed over 5 million times on facebook. many republican sources tell us they are increasingly and surprisingly bullish on ts for a's prospec comeback. at the same time, we will find out tonight if his polling

numbers have slumped to the point he gets kicked off the primetime debate stage in the walkie next week based on the fox business debate criteria. mark, if christie in terms of this debate gets the boot, will that overshadow everything else going on? mark: the biggest problem christie has now is money. he does not have a lot, and he needs to raise it. i will be curious to see if he raises money off that video, office momentum -- office momentum. maybe some small dollar contributions. being on the other debate stage could hurt him with big donors. but christie is the kind of guy who will make something of it. he said he will show up in the lucky -- milwakuee. he's the kind of guy who can turn that disappointment into something positive. john: i have always been skeptical of the argument, you can be on the b stage, it could be a good thing if you dominate it. lindsey graham dominated the last undercard, and he did not get anywhere.

it's possible that christie with fewer star rivals could have a huge night on the undercard, and if it combines with genuine stuff on the campaign trail and the video going viral and the positive media attention, this could work to his advantage. possible, but it is a narrow needle to thread. mark: of the remaining establishment candidates, bush, christie, rubio, k-6, no one is bigger -- kasich, no one is bigger than christie in confidence. it goes back to what we thought chris christie in 2013 would be a strong player for the nomination. some of it was donors, but a lot of it is the natural skill on display in that video, and in this chaotic field, that will serve him well. mark: the reason why mitt romney almost put him on the ticket despite all his problems, he was a great brawler. in 15 -- a race with 15

candidates, brawling is a good skill to climb over 14 other bodies. whether he gets into the debate or not, chris christie is smart enough to consolidate the momentum he has an focus on new hampshire, where none of the establishment candidates have caught on. if it seems you like we have not been talking about the democratic race lately, it's because it has been a relative snooze. seem at the back of hillary clinton, who is gaining traction in new hampshire and something bernieing bernie ha sanders in other states. he is doing some thing he needs -- people have said he needs to do to choose the game. after passing on the topic of her e-mails during the only debate in lost biggest, listen what the senator told the wall street journal about whether the e-mails were valid as a political issue.

mr. sanders: it is all valid questions. i will noting, useful seconds to say those things. there is a process. i did not say to end the investigation. there is an investigation going on, but i do not want this campaign to be just about hillary clinton's e-mails. let the investigation proceed unimpeded, and that's fine. a much different tone from what he gave in the debate. a clinton spokesperson said "it is disappointing senator sanders and his campaign strategists have chosen to chain's direction and engage in the personal attacks they previously said he would not do." does bernie sanders have his heart in this line of attack, and does he need to go further? john: it's funny the way the campaign responded, as if he had really attacked her.

you look at the video and it is kind of weak beer. his heart is not in this, not in going more negative. i have written about this. he has to sharpen the contrast. i agree with him and his team, they cannot be personal, but the contrast has to be sharper and he has to be more personal. mark: the e-mail thing is a distraction. he did gum it up in how he handled it in the debate. her, itll beat will be in the contrast on issues. he has to make a character and ideological argument, which i believe he does have his heart in. john: he rolled it out emphatically on the debate stage, and heard from people that he should not do that, so he's trying to put it on the table in some mealymouthed way. do contrast on areas you are comfortable in, and do them aggressively. it should be on issues, because that's where there are genuine contrasts between the two of them. mark: the next democratic candidate will be huge.

only three people on the stage, so they will have more time to talk, and centers has to come in prepared and be ready to talk about whatever comes up. as has been the case all along, particularly in the wake of the cnbc debate, what the moderators choose to focus on will be a big deal. i don't think sanders will bring that up on his own. john: on a lot of issues, he is closer to where the democratic base is than she is. up next, we will explore jeb bush's hypothetical daddy issues. right after this. ♪

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political book released next tuesday. word is already out, and a lot of people are talking about it. president george h w bush is back in the news, with the upcoming john meacham biography of the president. in it, bush 41 takes some news were the shots at his son bush 43's advisors, including dick cheney and defense secretary saidd rumsfeld, who 41 serve his son badly. rumsfeld shot back, saying bush 41 was "getting up in years" and this judges bush 43, who he found made his own decisions. rumsfeld and bush 41 have had a rivalry for a long time. former vice president cheney defended his role in the administration in an interview

last night. cheney: i have much were said about me than anything he don't spend, and i a lot of time worrying about what he meant by those diary entries. role 9/11, i saw my being as aggressive as i needed to be to carry out the president's policy to make sure we don't get hit again. mark: jeb bush also took to the tv airwaves to defend his brother and his brother's administration. mr. bush: my brother is a big boy. his administration was shaped by quick thinking. his reaction to the attacks of 9/11, my dad, like a lot of rge and wantedgeo to create a different narrative, because that was natural to do. george would say, this was under my watch, i was commander-in-chief, i was the leader, and i accept personal

responsibility for what happened, both good and bad, and that's the right way to look at it. was: bush 41 says his son unduly influenced by cheney and rumsfeld. rumsfeld, cheney, jeb, and bush 43 disagree. what impact will this book cap campaign? john: hard to say. step back from that for a second. was getting all the attention is george herbert walker bush criticizing rumsfeld and cheney, and he also criticizes his son. it's not dick cheney's fault that he has so much influence, it is his sons fault, the president's fault. amazing to have a father criticizing his son, the way a lot of other republicans would, a lot of americans would. george walker bush has a lot of respect. -- george herbert walker bush has a lot of respect. b it's amazingu to see this

internalsh -- it's amazing to see this internal bush family drama playing out in the work of a pulitzer prize winning historian. mark: i think it's a good sign for him. this is the most comfortable i have seen him, talking about his brother and father and the bush legacy in the entire campaign. if he does have a come back, these issues will come back up, so the book might in some way be a good thing, for him to talk about a family -- his family. john: he seems more comfortable. flush someso stuff out of the system. i don't think it is ever good for jeb bush to be in a position where he's defending his brother. it is a no-win situation for jeb bush, in terms of the general election and the republican party. there is something us to talk about here. onpy bush seemed to be when some students

asked him what it was like to have a father who lived in the white house. mr. bush: my dad was such an inspiration for me. whenever i made a mistake, all he would have to say is that he was disappointed, and that would send me into a deep, spiraling depression for days because i admired and respected him so much. he did not have to lift a hand. he taught me right and wrong with how he treated others, and, what it was like to grow up like that, a total blessing. john: we talked a lot over the last months of how jeb is doing with his brother and the specter of that. here's the question, they are talking about his father. it raises a question, does jeb bush have some daddy issues? mark: your view of the bush problem is it always hurts to talk about him. both bushes are very popular in the republican party. general election, more complex.

it is strange to me, it is tying him in so much not, when the reality is that if jeb bush gets back in he will deploy his family even more than he has so far. john: it's true they are both popular in the republican party. you and i both know because we have done focus groups around the country, and a lot of republicans say i like george herbert walker bush, i like george w. bush, but i don't want a third one. it plays into the dynastic thing, which hurts him even if they are individually popular. mark: he's not going to changing his name. john: i know. mark: embracing this and trying to use this is the only thing he can do in his comeback. there is no reason to talk about jeb bush unless in the context of, can he come back? he way he behaved this week, is performing well enough to come back now, without a doubt. john: there were various moments in the last couple days were people have noted in the press that it has been like a therapy

session. the way he's talking about his father, like from the couch, does that work? mark: it's not flawless, but it could be worse. john: fair enough. when we come back, we ask former bush adviser mark mckinnon for his thoughts on the bush 41 biography we just talked about, after these words. ♪

john: we are back, talking more about the book about the bushes

and the presidential campaign with mark mckinnon, strategist to george w. bush and many others, including some democrats once upon a time. there is no way to look at this except them in some way being put on the couch. what do you think this impact will be on the bush family? mark m.: well, the statute of limitations on discretion has run its course. i think the former president .w. is saying some things a lot of people agree with, and has probably thought for some time, but as a matter of discretion while someone is president. i think he is saying the obvious, and he does not absolve the president of responsibility, but he has said some things, he's thinking about the legacy, the family. mark: why are both george w.

bush and jeb bush saying this is just dad being dad? mark m.: this is an opinion. a former president expressing his opinion. it's not a matter of right or wrong. they have a different opinion about it. john: we talked about this earlier in the show. jeb bush has had to deal with the specter of his brother throughout the entire campaign, and now he has to deal with the specter of his father. how does that affect him as a candidate, does it matter? mark m.: i think it's helpful that his father, who is always seen as honest, you know, not somebody who dissemble's es at all, he's saying something is on his mind that i think a lot of people agree with. people love george h.w. bush across-the-board, and they will feel some degree of sympathy for

what he is saying, saying the obvious now. and it helps jeb, because it says what most people think anyway. mark: leave the book and fundraising aside. what are the positive assets that could be a treated to a jeb comeback? mark m.: part of it is the family. mark: leave the family aside. what else has he got? mark m.: a real commitment to public service and seeing this through. the last few days have actually been really good for him. i remember in new hampshire getting hammered by john mccain, 19 points down. the hardest part is admitting you are resetting, but that is what they demand. one asset is he is committed to public service. i would say most everybody in the race is. mark m.: there's a long family history of true commitment. mark: leave the family and the money aside.

all he has is his family name -- mark m.: commitment to public service, strong record, and really animated about it in this reset period, seeing the part of jeb bush, he feels strongly about these things in a way that is connected to true public service, which i think and have an impact. john: let me ask you a two-part question. do you still believe the traditional model holds, that ultimately the nominee is likely to be an establishment nominee? mark m.: absolutely not. part of our problem in politics is we are victims of confirmation bias, and we use history as a judge. absolutely anything can happen. john: so at this point, an outsider or insider campaign are just as likely? mark m.: you could have an establishment candidate, it is 5 2-card pickup. trouble,en bush's

chris christie, the moment he is having right now, who is more likely, jeb bush or chris christie? mark m.: i think christie is having a great week. this is the moment for chris christie, his chance to really, we saw the softer side of chris christie. we know he's a tough guy, but we wonder, does he have a compassionate side on a great issue for new hampshire, drug addiction. this is a big-time local issue that he is focusing on in a very compassionate way, showing there is another side to chris christie. i think people will give him another look. it gives him a boost in new hampshire, potentially. john: want to ask the question you are asked, who is more likely? mark m.: no. [laughter] john: do you believe one moment like that can -- mark m.: it was one moment like that that vaulted hillary clinton to win new hampshire in

2008. there's a moment they gives you insight into who this guy is as if human being. i saw that, i had no idea that guy was in there. mark: if you were working for the carson campaign, would you care for the fact most people did -- in the assessment did not think he could be the nominee? mark m.: no. i do not think that has anything to do with his ability to be the nominee. mark: he could raise more money. people in the establishment say, we don't need trouble, we need someone -- trump, we need some and to stop trump. if you look at the polls, you could argue the only person in position to stop trump is carson. mark m.: if it is either or, you would see an assessment shift to carson. mark: if carson could raise more money from the establishment -- mark m.: i don't think he's interested in sending the signal. john: what makes you think that? right now more

establishmentarians come to the realization donald trump could be the nominee. most will still think there's no chance for carson, so why would they rally to carson? mark m.: if they thought either one could be president, i'm not saying that's where they think carson is now, but if they had the choice between the two they would go with carson. mark: because? mark m.: i think they think he's more manageable. mark: more electable? mark m.: and more electable. mark: do you think carson is more electable in a general? mark m.: yeah. mark: we left a lot of things hanging, but made remarkable comeback. thank you, mark mckinnon. herext, mr. jay roach is to ralk about his new film. back in 60 seconds. ♪

♪ mark: you may have noticed we talk a lot about donald trump on this program. now we will talk about a different d.t., dalton trumbo. the new drama starring bryan cranston opens tomorrow, about the screenwriter during the blacklist era in midcentury hollywood. roach,m's director, jay a personal favorite of ours, "game change," talks about how he sees this movie set in 1957 kind of like about 2015. jay: over and over, people try and usepolitical hay fear to get other people to conform. seems like that happens all the time. seems like an old trick all politicians use, all people who

have cause to get you scared to get you to behave. john: during this period, two things happen in america that young people would be stunned could occur in america. japanese internment camps and blacklisting of people in hollywood. explain the dynamics, and how it could be that in america such a thing could happen. jay: that's what drove me to this. i remember it vaguely, but i associate it with the mccarthy hearings. i did not realize that in my own industry, people turned on each other and tried to destroy each other's careers, using the idea that a sort of trumped up extrapolation from the fear of totalitarian communism, which was real. but in hollywood, there have been huge union battles during the war and right after the war, and people like walt disney, ayn rand, sam wood, got together and

said, these troublemakers are inspiring our workers to rise up against us. they would not if it wasn't for these few people. so they formed a group called the motion picture alliance and invited congress to come and clean up hollywood. right away, people started informing on each other, saying he was at a meeting, he knew somebody else who might be a communist, and next thing you know they were crossing people off the list that are allowed to work in hollywood. john: in every good political film, it is driven by characters. the ideas are arid and not that interesting. what makes dalton trumbo such a compelling character in this movie? jay: for me, that's the essence of it. it was not even the politics. i love stories, even with "game changing," once i latched onto the story of steve schmidt and his dilemmas and how he regretted so many choices. i understood, that is a story. the political thing is sort of

interesting, but to me only in that it puts pressure on the character you are most interested in. trumbo was such a great writer. he wrote "spartacus" and "roman holiday," winning two academy awards while he was blacklisted. one of the funniest people. the letters to his kids, to his enemies from jail, he was the opposite of the stereotype of a left-wing humorless apparatchik. a true one of a kind guy. some of his friends were much more hardline. c.k. playing the hardline guy, as funny as a person could be. mark: is there a lesson in the film? jay: to be wary of anyone trying to extrapolate from fear. ofthis world, instead communism it is terrorism. onyou can get people focused

a threat that is not real, you can get people to do anything. mark: in times of war and fear, governments get people to do bad stuff. jay: not just governments. individuals. hedda hopper was a gossip columnist with 30 million readers, and she became a fearmonger and a very hateful person. she drove charlie chaplin out of the country, and to her deathbed warned people not to let him come back. john: before i ask you, i want to play a little of the movie. let's play a little. >> how long were you in show business? [laughter] [applause] ♪ dalton trumbo? >> yes. >> see you in washington.

enjoy your picnic. let's go, boys. mark: the centerpiece of the movie is bryan cranston. everyone knows him from "breaking bad." you are working with him on another movie where he plays lbj. what is it like to work with an actor that good? jay: he just has so much range, so much ability to take these larger-than-life characters. lbj and trumbo are in very different ways big characters, and he has a kind of passion and intensity that is intimidating, daunting for people. coupled with this warmth and great wit, in both stories, especially with trumbo, these were very witty people. they could turn of phrase in a way that could expose the

ludicrousness of something as evil as the blacklist, something so serious. so he's very funny, doing very intense things. lbj, similar thing. way,as a nut in a certain so driven, so larger-than-life, but also so passionate about civil rights and poverty, trying to make america a better place. it is a mixture of this earnestness and unapologetic xed with really funny attitude and dialogue. john: our deep thanks to our good friend jay roach. "trumbo" opens tomorrow, and look for "all the way" in 2016. when we come back, dick nixon and hillary clinton. after this. ♪

♪ mark: a widely respected journalist, a great biographer and historian and bloomberg view contributor. he has a master opus on bloomberg.com about hillary clinton's nixonian roots. sam, welcome. tell us how hillary clinton got tied up with nexen. sam: her introduction to american politics, beltway politics, not working on campaigns, her first picture of on thes was when she was judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee that drew up the articles of impeachment for richard nixon in 1974. she worked for a guy named john doerr, vanishing species of

great liberal republican, who wanted a totally on board investigation. hillary was there in spring and summer 1974, one year out of law school, helping to draw up the articles of impeachment. mark: you go further, saying this was her entry to politics, eir?she is now nixon's h strategics nixon's daughter. if i were aaron sorkin doing a hillary quentin by opec, i start with -- hillary clinton her in thatart with hotel across the congress with headphones on, one of the first people on the planet to hear nixon's tapes. the one she listens to most closely was his defense in case he actually was impeached, how he was going to make the case

that what he had done was ok. so she does that, you stop and turn, you wind the clock back to 1972 when hillary and her boyfriend, bill clinton, are in texas trying to get a great idealist, george mcgovern, elected president. they know he's not going to win, but they can't believe how he got crushed. they worked in texas. in texas, nixon got 67% of the vote. nobody does that anymore. nixon got 60% of the vote nationally, 49 out of 50 states. hillary says, bill and i had a lot to learn about how you run a campaign. if you are hillary clinton, it does not mean she wants to be nixon. she is taken inside the mind. mark: what has she said or written about nixon since then? sam: a few things. one of her most memorable

moments was hearing that one tape, what she calls the tape of tapes, in which nixon extenuate's. hillary, we learned a couple weeks ago, is a brilliant political witness. nixon was not. hillary actually believes what she says, and most of the time some of us will say, we think she is right. so one thing she learned from him, she had another job for john doerr on the watergate committee, to write up a memo that showed the blueprint of how nixon's white house worked. john: a question not about this piece. talking about this new book, the john meacham book on 41. talk about what you think is going on with that book. since we are putting everybody on the couch and the bushes do not like to be there, here is my thought. if you read w's book, which is executed good, "41," if you read

it closely, he takes his father apart as a political figure. he describes somebody who got ahead through family connections and wall street. even describing his father out in texas, whenever dad needed money, he came back to new york, went to connecticut, went to washington where the money was. he describes his father's political career as having been a series of patronage jobs, which is true. he ran the republican national committee, ambassador job in china, they gave him the cia. the job he wanted was to be vice president, and he lost out to nelson rockefeller. at the end of the book, w. says, when i was trying to put together my team, i called dad and said, what do you think about dick cheney as vice president? his father said, great choice, son, he is loyal and will never said you in the back. mark: your piece is on our website, bloombergpolitics.com,

comparing nixon and clinton. counterintuitive, but interesting. coming up next, your daily campaign traffic and weather. we will be right back. ♪

♪ ♪ looks like it's another busy day in election land tomorrow, so that's go live to the 24-hour campaign forecast center. our chief political meteorologist is standing by. when does all the action start tomorrow? alex: i would say it starts early. in the early voting states, let's move her to south carolina, where we have a powerful delta forming. three major democrats are all this first in the south democratic presidential forum at winthrop university, a standard

formation for this time of year, but keep your eye out on a moderate amount of maddow. maddow will be moderating. not surprisingly see a light rand paul presents before things get going. moving over to iowa, we are expecting heavy candidate karen to blow -- currents to blow through des moines. the iowa renewal project. jindal at the religious liberty conference. eyes have been trained on new hampshire, where it is congested. fiorina gusting through. mostly standard town hall activity. view." ionm "the ve got youe'

covered. mark: i still think that guy is a total weirdo. john: in south carolina, it does give sanders and o'malley a chance to contradict themselves themselves. also an early test of bernie sanders, how much is he willing to push? we are the tube twice a day now, and forever more, with a full and at 5:00 and 8:00 e.t., live on bloombergpolitics.com. on tomorrow's show, actor wendell pierce. until then, sayonara. ♪ ♪

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is emily chang, and this "bloomberg west." square is getting close to setting its price range, will investors pay up? facebook shares climb into the record books, following a seller -- stellar earning point. let's check in on first word news. we want to start with u.s. stocks, ending trading lower today. investors were hesitant to make a large best before the jobs report. bank rally helped erase decline marked by a selloff in valeant pharmaceuticals. commodity weakness also holding backstops for the co