let's hear first from mark urban.once an apparently irresistible combination for those marketing a vodka. this is their advertisement. but now, the connection is a cocktail of political difficulties and a tonic to his foes. today's target, trump's chief law officer, who, after a stormy day, stepped back, from all investigations of links between the campaign and washer. my staff recommended recusal. they said that since i had involvement with the campaign, i should not be involved with any campaign investigation. i have studied the rules and considered their comments and evaluation. i believe those recommendations are right and just. that won't satisfy senate democrats, who earlier today called for his resignation. attorney general sessions cannot possibly lead an investigation into russian interference in our elections, or come anywhere near it. with these revelations, he may very well become the subject of it. it would be of alice in wonderland quality of this administration were to sanction him to investigate himsel

we'll hear his interview with our diplomatic editor mark urban in full in a moment, but first, to ourditor nick watt. what are you hearing tonight? snp sources said that theresa may told nicola sturgeon that the uk government is confident they can do an overall deal within 18 months. so it means the future trading relationship. number ten doesn't believe the future trading relationship can be done and dusted them, it will need what it described as an implementation phase. but it shows that the uk is accepting the timetable by the eu, which is a greek it by the autumn of 2018 so it can be fully ratified. but the eu chief negotiator is saying, if you want to have that trade deal done at the same time, even in that sort of a transitional outline, you have got to get over two big hurdles, a greedy exit payment and secondly, agree the status of eu nationals. what a word is there on those eu payments? david davis on question time said the uk will not pay anything like the 60 billion euros that is mentioned in brussels, but he did say that the uk will meet its international obligations. that

mark urban talking to ursula von der leyen, the german defence minister.detail on the gargantuan task of turning eu law into uk law today. there are thousands of pieces of european legislation, the idea is that one new act of parliament transposes them all in one go. the great repeal bill, as it is referred to now, and it cuts through the impossible task of taking the laws and examining them one by one. it's not simple, though. some of the laws need cleaning up, so the government wants ministers to have the power to re—write bits of them. these are called henry viii powers as the egoistical king gave himself exactly that law—making authority. everybody recognises that some delegated authority will be needed for the tinkering to all these laws, but you can't give completely free reign to ministers. 0ur political editor nick watt is with me. what do you take from today? over the last 48 hours we have seen the fruits of some careful planning meant to tell the public that we are leading the european union and that the government has a credible plan to do it. y

mark urban there with that report. support for britain has come across the globe.ituation soon. we obviously condemn today's attack in westminster which the united kingdom is treating as an act of terrorism and we applaud the quick response that the british police and the first responders made to the situation, the victims in this, our ports and our prayers are with them, the city of london at her majesty's government have the full support of the us government in responding to the attack and bringing those to justice who are responsible. sean spicer speaking therefore president trump. the french president has seen his country come under attack in recent times, he backed theresa may and the british people. we are fully aware that terrorism concerns all of us and france, which has been hit recently, understands the suffering the british people are going through today. at the same time, we must put in place every possible measure to respond to these attacks. that is what we have done for a number of months here in france and that is what i have called for at the europ

mark urban reports.he conviction that whoever inspired today‘s attacker, the islamic state group, had promised to strike britain. i think it was only a matter of time before an attack like this happened because is had rallied its supporters around the world by saying, "attack wherever and whenever "you can," and what we saw today was a very low—cost attack. it was a vehicle attacking people on the street and this is not something that, no matter how many security measures a country can take, could have been fully prevented. after the nice attacks in which an assailant used a truck to mow people down, islamic state promised again to hit the british. in the past two years, counterterrorist chiefs say that 13 plots have been foiled in britain. today, though, the met‘s assistant commissioner for special operations had to count the cost of one that had got through. my thoughts are with all those who have been affected by today‘s attack and, as a service, we have lost one of our own as he acted to protect the

well, our diplomatic editor, mark urban, is with me. this leaking is a big issue, mark. why — and how many people have access to all of this staff? well, the agencies are caught in this terrible place where they've had to create huge surveillance programmes, let's face it, that's what we're talking about, in power in awful lot of people to share that information because of the lessons of 9/11 and other systemic failures, stove—piping, they want to get across all of that. 800,000 plus people are cleared to top—secret and higher level—code the us. if even a tiny proportion of those or ideological or opposed, greedy, they want to sell the stuff, all working for another power, damage can be done. it is getting harder for intelligence agencies generally to a tribute or track where different malware and tools are coming from. why take away from my initial read of this, the most interesting stuff was this tom burridge group, a group in the cia that harvest other states‘s cyber tactics to use by the cia in deniable attacks. add to that that we now know that many of these cyber a

first i'm joined by our political editor nick watt in the studio, and by our diplomatic editor mark urbanberlin. nick, what is exactly going to happen tomorrow? it will have the feel of a budget day. theresa may will brief colleagues can only meeting of the cabinet, then she will do her normal prime minister's questions and that will be followed by her statement on the article 50 letter. at around the time she stands up in the commons, the uk ambassador to the eu sir tim barrow will hand the real copy of the letter to the european council president donald tusk in brussels, and donald tusk is then expected to tweet he has received it. that will mark the formal triggering of article 50. what we really want to know is what is in the letter? i'm told the tone will be friendly, it will essentially set out the framework of her lancaster house speech injanuary. what that said is a close trading relationship, but no membership of the european single market. what i'm told is going to be really interesting is what isn't in the letter. it will not get into generalities, you will not see a sum of mon

bbc newsnight‘s diplomatic editor is mark urban.leak is dubbed the old severn bridge is a mysterious name but raises questions about the inability of the spy agencies to protect documents in the digital age. yes, it's a term wikileaks is used. not a cia term. they claim to have a trove of hacking tools which are being used by the cia, extraordinary. two warnings, the documents appear to be in an html format, easily to edit, they could put things in and distort they could put things in and distort the meaning of some of those documents. the other, of course, is the timing is rather strange because resident trumpets under such pressure on the russian problem at the moment for people are asking about the question of the timing but let's assume it's genuine. a big community of the usa have top secret clearance, more than 800,000, a consequence of 911, the need to share intelligence consequence of 911, the need to sha re intelligence after that consequence of 911, the need to share intelligence after that but the more you share it, the m

mark maizer. i'm the director of the tax policy from which is co-sponsored by the urban institute and the brookings institution. i've been at the tax policy center just over a month now and i'm excited to be part of this fantastic organization. we have a wonderful program today covering prospects for corporate or business tax reforms and featuring a number of perspectives. we have senator ron wyden, alan arback, a major step toward reform followed by a panel of experts to discuss the pros and cons of this approach. we'll finish up today with the american action forum providing his views on the need and corporate tax reform. as we go through the program, i encourage the audience live at urban when commenting on today's event and in addition to those viewing with questions of the speakers, please send those to events at urban.org. we'll have someone minnesota forrifo. someone monitoring an e-mail box. for people in the audience, there's comment cards on your chairs and all the other q and a's pass a microphone. i think that's it for the housekeeping announcements i have. so let me turn to the formal

urban-brookings tax policy center. this is about 30 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to today's event sponsored by the tax policy center. my name is mark mazur, and the director of the tax policy center which is cosponsored by the urban institute and the brookings institution. i've been at a tax policy center for just over a month and i'm excited to be part of this fantastic organization. we had a wonderful program today covering prospects for corporate or business tax reform and featuring a number of perspectives. we have senator wyden to provide alleges that perspective. where professor and touched t professor albert are back, a major step toward reform followed by a panel of experts to discuss the pros and cons of this approach. we will finish up today with doug holtz-eakin providing his views on the need and prospects for corporate tax reform. as we go to the program today encouraged the audience to use the hashtag life at urban when commenting on today's event. in addition for those viewing webcasts the want asked ask ques complacent those questions the e-mail to events at urban dot or g. we will have some modern to the mailbox so

urban. eric and mark is a wonderful crowd. thank you for the inflationary introduction. each time you you come here your introduction gets more inflationary. were now at the point where i can save my parents would have loved it and probably would've believed it. thank you for that. >> this program cannot be more timely. we have the administration saying they are going to do tax reform by august. i want to give you a sense of how i think the debate will play out and then come around full-circle to what i think is the prerequisite for doing it right and that is a bipartisan approach. everyone remembers the trump campaign slogan. make america great. it is supposed to be in coffee mugs at the west wing. when you bring up a policy issue with the administration they always say this is part of we are going to make america great. i want to start by saying when it comes to taxes, as of now the trump administration is not going to make america great again. they're going to make tax shelters a great again. i'm going to outline some specific so that we can really frame the discussio

. >>> urban outfitter missing the mark on earnings by a penny. rev flenues in line.ts hit by higher markdowns, sluggish holiday sales season. the parent company of anthropology says it plans to increase investments in online sales. shares down 1.5%. >>> geo group extending a public offering of 6 million shares of its stock. they will use the proceeds to repay outstanding amounts and for corporate purposes. >>> tesla naming gary clark the new chief information officer. he was former i.t. chief technology officer at juniper networks. >>> adarko petroleum expecting a 25% rise in oil sales volumes this year. the company is boosting its capital budget to focus on higher margin oil production. shares slipping 2% this morning. >>> the buzz surrounding a day without a woman is the strike quickly spreading. organizers behind the boycott aim to highlight the vital role women play in the economic and domestic economy by skipping work, avoiding shopping and wearing red in solidarity. this coming two months after the record breaking women's march that drew massive crowds around t

some urban centers could hit the 60-degree mark this afternoon. then overnight tonight another big change with colder air crushing back in along with strong blustery winds. all of that ahead in the exclusive accuweather 7-day and karen, you are still tracking that accident. >> we sure are because you can seal thsee the flashing lights. part of the schuylkill expressway eastbound is shut down so here they're blocking off the schuylkill at passyunk avenue. it's blocked between passyunk and broad street as you try to head towards the walt whitman bridge. here is why. the action cam is on the scene showing us that it's involving this streastroehman's box truck. the truck was facing sideways across the roadway. this accident and the schuylkill expressway eastbound, the action cam was on the scene in south philadelphia are. the accident happened at broad street but still blocking all traffic between passyunk avenue and broad street. you can see they've got a tow truck on the scene but they've got a lot to clean up with that accident scene. so, the schuy

mark maizer. i'm the director of the tax policy from which is co-sponsored by the urban

urban outfitters in particular, the ceo making some really pessimistic comments about the state of the u.s. retail industry. mark: let's get the latest on the budget and chancellor philip hammond. cehic is standing by with the very latest. an of be projection for this year. not so a beat for the following years. nejra: that is exactly it. i would call it perhaps cautiously optimistic or upbeat but with you giveaways. that growth forecast for 2017 raise to 2% in november, but in every consecutive year after that to 2021, the forecast was unchanged or downgraded because it is the prospect of brexit looming. something philip hammond had to acknowledge. he was not given much room for maneuver because in terms of the debt, he wants to keep to that target to balance the budget by the ninth parliamentary term beginning in 2020. to be reduceding by 23.5 billion pounds over the next five years. in terms of taxes, there were some concessions in terms of business rates, but there was a tax rise for the self-employed which has come under some criticism. a drop in the tax dividends. at the beginning of his speech, he summed

mark taper forum. he chose the story of pachuco culture-- mexican-american urban street life-- and a sensational murderrial from the 1940s, in which more than a dozen chicano gang youth were convicted, followed by riots. valdez used actual transcripts and news headlines from the era. the original production helped launch the career of many chicano actors, including edward james olmos. luis's brother, daniel valdez, and rose portillo were also part of the original cast, playing the young lovers at the heart of the drama. >> it was ahead of its time. very few chicanos were already in the acting business, so for us you know, so young a cast that was coming together, we were people off the street, making our first mark on the industry. but seeing the reactions of the audience and seeing what the audience responded to, because zoot suit's much more than a play, it's an event. in many ways it was a spiritual experience in that sense. >> brown: it was also putting people on the stage and a story on the stage that most audiences haven't seen. >> they hadn't seen characters like this. they'd not seen, i want to

. >> let's bring in president and ceo of the national urban league, bill rogers from rutgers university. mark, i thought the president inherited a disaster. >> that's what he said during his campaign but the truth is -- >> and in his acceptance speech. >> gary cohn put on a very good spin today. this is a job economy inherited from potus 44. what i would like to see is a focus on infrastructure. i would like to see a focus on those areas that are rural, urban, suburban, where the unemployment rate remains higher than the national average. it's a little bit quick to say our policies have increased jobs or we're responsible for this jobs report. good to trumpet job creation but not so fast. >> i'm willing to agree or believe there's been a trump bump in the stock market. but not on the jobs report. >> businesses are more confident. if businesses are feeling better about the fact that they may be getting out from some regulations, feeling better about taxes, they might hire more, right? >> they must know something more about the legislative policy or process on how long it takes these policies t

the next person who buys that house has that tree land marked it will be very difficult for them to trim it, prune it, remove it. >> reporter: the urban forestry council is expected to decide whether or not to recommend giving the tree landmark status at its next meeting march 24th. if it votes thumbs up then it is up to the board of supervisors to give the final say. jay is a former ship designer and builder and nice team. she says she just wants people to enjoy and admire her tree for decades to come. >> this tree is alive to teach us, don't you think? >> reporter: in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> and we have temperatures outside today that got up there. we had some mid-70s. 74 in santa rosa, 7 3áeub livermore, 72 in morgan hill. these were the highs from today. highs tomorrow maybe a little warmer. we might have seen some upper 70s today had it not been for the cloud cover. it is providing sort of a hazy sunshine, a filtered sunshine look. tomorrow has this same texture. so be prepared for that. some severe weather out towards memphis and springfield. those are severe thunderstorm watches. those should die down in t

urban development department. next advances is looking to rick perry. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ is bloomberg you are watching, and i'm vonnie quinn. mark: i'm mark barton. are following. inflation rose to the highest level since generate when he 13 -- since january 2013 thanks to oil prices. maker, topweiser executive will miss out on his bonus as a missed out on their estimates. mark: modern space race, the company sending private citizens to the moon. is this the next frontier of travel, and is it worth it? vonnie: inflation in the euro area has speeded up the fastest in four years. consumer prices rose 2% last month. that gives ammunition for those calling for the central bank to end its monetary spending program. mark: theresa may will seek to overturn the house of lords vote that secures the status of europeans working in the u.k. after the u.k. leaves the e.u. even as may remains committed to brexit, secretary to the treasury says the idea remains risky. >> we have taken on risky things from an economic -- the reality is the reason why the u.k. is doing this is because of politics and the labor policy must not strong enough to oppose it. nobody re

. >>> urban farm and garden called greens grow is celebrating 20 years in the kensington neighborhood the non-profit unveiled a mural to markth kids and seniors in the communities collaborate the on the on the artwork. it's dedicated to the non-profit ceo and founder mary sutton. she passed away over the summer from cancer. >>> in your health tonight, disturbing finds in a recent study by the american cancer society. young people are developing a cancer that is typically found in people twice their age. for many, the cancer is usually in its late stages. by the time doctors detect it. one -- one young man toll us how lucky he is to be alive. >> i was so healthy, you know, i eat good. >> reporter: anthony web likes the way it makes him feel. >> i work out every day. >> he's been at it since his teen years and he's proud of the way it makes him look. >> i take care of myself. i go to work every day. >> he gets it all in. >> healthy 26-year-old. never been sick. broken bone, nothing. >> all that changed practically overnight. >> thought it was internal hemorrhoid. >> minor bleeding. no pain though but confusion and fear set in

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was booked into the solano county jail. ( mark ) the trump administration is considering more than six-billion dollars in cuts to the department of housing and urbanm funds dedicated to public housing. programs that help fund housing for homeless veterans, disabled people and the elderly would also face substantial cuts. a hud spokesman says the budget plan is still a work in progress. the trump administration is expected to announce its overall budget plan next week. ( mark ) melania trump's approval rating is going up since her husband was sworn in as president. about 52- percent of americans have a favorable opinion of the first lady. that is according to a c-n-n poll. that is up 16-points from a poll taken before the inauguration. an interesting note on melania trump's new poll numbers --- men have a more favorable view of her than women. 58-percent of men view her positively, and 46-percent of women. michelle obama's numbers in that category were dramatically flip-flopped with 78-percent women and 68-percent men. ( darya @ land ) all across the world women took to the streets to celebrate international women's day. many women walked off the j

earlier, mark solomon, to a potential conflict of interest by a member of the planning commission who was, or is now -what is it-i forgot what the acronym stands for is been so long. planning and urban renewal. director of everything which occurs in san francisco. as has been pointed out, spur is a major conduit for money from developers. which pays a salary of that planning the commissioner. that seems to me to be right and is ripe for action legislatively of primitive conflict of interest. secondly, there's been reference also the earth to former law and practice that identified in the voter handbook . candidates who are the recipients of public campaign funds. secondly, to a requirement if the candidate received applied for and received public campaign funds to engage in more than one debate. i'm going to be a little bit arbitrary and suggest an asking for consideration of three debates. i think i'm also, consideration should be given to identifying in the voter handbook candidates who did not receive public funds, do not apply for public funds so there is complete disclosure to prospective voters. thirdly, we've already discussed the product policy considerations and in-depth di

urban nashville, memphis and one county out in nashville. this is as trumpian as it gets here. i think that people really do, i think markim to -- and the republicans to follow through with the spirit of the rhetoric on the campaign trail and that is something that is a conversation that, you know, one of the reasons we are so divided, i think, i think a lot of other people in the country take him, what, seriously, but not literally. a lot of folks really do want to take him literally on this. >> i think many do. they believe everything he says. >> sure. >> yeah. >> do they not -- i presume people in tennessee amongst those millions who might lose health insurance? that is interesting. >> if that were to happen, that will be -- this is why i think the pressure is on even about the wiretapping claims which you see the president already trying to sort of side-step and riff around and refusing to walk them back. in an interview yesterday with fox news host tucker carlson, the president explained why he leveled the allegation on a saturday morning from his florida estate on twitter and broaden the definition of what would be

but mark wayne mull been talked about rural hospitals in his state and we have the same thing in vermont, mr. engel has the same thing even in an urban district. the hospital ceos that i spoke to said that if we basically change the health care bill as it's being proposed now, there would be a big spike in uncompensated care. one of the big benefits to our rural hospitals has been that the free care that they were given, they now get medicaid reimbursement. it's low reimbursement but it's better than zero. it has made the difference between black ink and red ink for our hospitals. now, with mr. mullins' situation, what it suggests is it's not working for them. and this is the stranglehold we've put ourselves in by not taking time to try to figure out how to have a bill that's going to work for the small hospitals in his community in mr. engel's community and mine. i yield back. >> thank the vamt. gentleman yields back. the question now arises on approval of the amendment. the clerk, those in favor will vote aye. those opposed nay. the clerk will call the roll. >> mr. barton, mr. barton votes no. mr. upton. mr. shim kiss. mr. shim kis

earlier, mark solomon, to a potential conflict of interest by a member of the planning commission who was, or is now -what is it-i forgot what the acronym stands for is been so long. planning and urban renewal. director of everything which occurs in san francisco. as has been pointed out, spur is a major conduit for money from developers. which pays a salary of that planning the commissioner. that seems to me to be right and is ripe for action legislatively of primitive conflict of interest. secondly, there's been reference also the earth to former law and practice that identified in the voter handbook . candidates who are the recipients of public campaign funds. secondly, to a requirement if the candidate received applied for and received public campaign funds to engage in more than one debate. i'm going to be a little bit arbitrary and suggest an asking for consideration of three debates. i think i'm also, consideration should be given to identifying in the voter handbook candidates who did not receive public funds, do not apply for public funds so there is complete disclosure to prospective voters. thirdly, we've already discussed the product policy considerations and in-depth di

earlier, mark solomon, to a potential conflict of interest by a member of the planning commission who was, or is now -what is it-i forgot what the acronym stands for is been so long. planning and urban renewal. director of everything which occurs in san francisco. as has been pointed out, spur is a major conduit for money from developers. which pays a salary of that planning the commissioner. that seems to me to be right and is ripe for action legislatively of primitive conflict of interest. secondly, there's been reference also the earth to former law and practice that identified in the voter handbook . candidates who are the recipients of public campaign funds. secondly, to a requirement if the candidate received applied for and received public campaign funds to engage in more than one debate. i'm going to be a little bit arbitrary and suggest an asking for consideration of three debates. i think i'm also, consideration should be given to identifying in the voter handbook candidates who did not receive public funds, do not apply for public funds so there is complete disclosure to prospective voters. thirdly, we've already discussed the product policy considerations and in-depth di

here's newsnight‘s own intelligence expert, mark urban. it was bound to be dramatic.mined publicly for the first time on an emerging investigation into the kremlin‘s role in the us election. the fbi, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian governgggt= co—ordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. time and again, committee members asked what russian president putin aimed to gain from hacking and lea ks. against secretary clinton, they also had a positive preference for donald trump ! correct. and on putin's aim to weaken the west, there was this extraordinary exchange also. would they have a preference for a candidate who encouraged would they like to see more brexits? yes. many times, the witnesses were asked about president trump's statements on twitter, including the allegation that trump tower was bugged by president obama. with