chin, bert hill, diane serafini, catherine orland, paul wells, and jeffrey taliaferro. >> with cuts to domestic programs i'm note this budget a blueprint and the first step and negotiations for many months been the white house and capitol hill and see the detailed he wants budget in may we eagerly look at that and the final budget will begin october 1st, the beginning of the conversation i want to point out the various impacts to ports in general and specifically to san francisco port show the framework hold $500 million reduction in the tiger program has funded 0 transportation and other port projects last year the port received 6 hundred plus million dollar in the infrastructure so for dogs, and rail and roadways for this grant program we're planning to apply for a tiger grant for the mission bay ferry and watching to see how the program a impacted on the right side the fast lane is not impacted we had planned and will pursue a grant for ambassador and cargo way and continue to watch those programs carefully the fast lane is funded at the 9 housing unit dollar annual amount through 2

paul: well, here is the other thing, we are at a stage of this expansion, a law expansion over seven hard to get a lot of growth out of the labor market because, you know, we have full employment in some parts of the country. the consumer has been doing fine but he probably can't get a lot more. you have to get it from increase investment and capital expenditure, do you agree with that and that's what you're talking about when you're talking about tax reform, kicking off that capital expenditure? >> yes, you have to get the investment in innovation, capital, in structures and with that comes greater productivity growth. that's the route to higher real wages. so everything should be focused on getting better business investment performance in the united states and tax reform is the number one thing in that list. paul: all right, 35%, we know it's the highest in the developed world. the house bill gets it down to 20, trump has talked about get to go 15. what do you think is the top rate you need to get it down to in order to really have an impact on growth? >> i think if you get it to

. >> paul: what's changed? >> nick: well, i have some serious questions about that night at the cabin, and i think dylan did, too. can you get him on the phone? >> paul: well, um... he and i were equally involved in this investigation. >> nick: all right. will you hear me out then? >> paul: of course. i just hope it's more than a gut feeling. because it's gonna need something solid to re-open this investigation. >> nick: i'd say this qualifies. >> michael: tomorrow? your wedding's tomorrow? >> kevin: yep. we decided we love each other much too much to wait. >> michael: well -- you certainly don't have any respect for your wedding guests, giving them one day's notice. >> k:

paul: well, and i don't see any sign that the chinese government is anywhere close to that kind of aognition, that they're willing to accept a unified korea.re their fear is that you'll get a unified korea through seoul with western troops at the border of china. they don't want that. even if the united states said, look, if you can unify it, we won't move our troops anywhere, they still are unwilling to take that step. so how do you get china to make that recognition? you have to have japan go nuclear first to be able to scare them enough to make a change? >> well, that would certainlyy scare them. [laughter] i think that what you've saide about the attitude of many in the top chinese leadership is unquestionably true. it's reflecting mao tse-tung's rather unappetizing metaphor that the two communist parties are as close as lips and teeth. but we've just see in the past week the leading chinese historian of the korean war basically calling for a complete transformation of china's policy.io they see -- he and many others see north korea as a pretty ugly piece of baggage. i don't unde

always earned unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. ♪ ♪ paul: time now for our hits and musses of the week. dan. >> wellf michigan's longtime consumer sentiment survey. and what they've discovered is for the first time economic expectations have become totally politically polarized in the united states. since donald trump got elected, democrats believe we're headed into a deep recession. republicans think we're heading towards an economic boom time. they can't both be right. i think the only silver lining here is at least the democratic doomsayers have the possibility of being very cheerfully disappointed. paul: i hope a lot of people aren't investing based on those -- [laughter] somebody's going to lose a lot of money. kay. >> this is a miss for the city of lansing, michigan, my home state. this week they declared themselves a sanctuary city. it was previously a welcoming city, whatever that means. and this outraged the local business community so much that the city council then reversed its decision to be a sanctuary city. and then that outraged the progressives who wanted them to be a shang chew ware

it was paul wells church and as it happened he was just starting the morrow majority. my editors would never heard of him before said yes, write a piece about him because he was starting to make news. i wrote less about him that at the time and then about his community. i felt that there were people who belonged to the church or perhaps, were far away from my own sensibilities that anyone i knew. i thought, well, to try and understand this country you have to to understand that. i did a few more pieces on evangelicals particularly recently and eventually occurred to me that it was perfectly impossible to understand the evangelical right without understanding its history. a lot of doctrines and ideologies make perfect sense in the context of the 19th century but it seems completely insane to people today. you know, like the apocalyptic prophecies and so on. i said to myself, finish this test. >> take the story of american evangelicalism to the beginning and america as you do in the book. can you just sketch how does america evangelicalism start or take off? >> the first

>> paul: well, it's not too far from here. > sonny: all right, i'll grab the money, then we'll head over. >> paul: no, you stay here. i'll go get it. >> sonny: no. >> paul: sonny, isn't that why you hired me and steve in the first place? to do the leg work? what if deimos finds out you've been asking questions, bribing charter owners? you can't antagonize him any i re than you already have.

paul. >>> well paying jobs moving out of state. yet another bay area company finds it too hard to do business here. >> and i'm dennis o'donnell. what the heck am i doing on the top of hill when it's day one of the nfl draft? i'll explain and the giants go for the win in extra innings over the dodgers. highlights straight ahead. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> i'm on hill emceeing a program called guardian scholars. is it gives foster kids a chance to succeed after getting a slow start. >> tonight the nfl draft. cleveland browns had theirs and the 49ers made a trade at number 2 with the bears. they picked up a third round pick a fourth round pick. this year and a fourth round pick next year to move down to number 3. and with that pick. >> the san francisco 49ers select solomon thomas. [ applause and cheers ] >> defensive end, stanford. >> the 49ers got the man they were looking for anyway. defensive lineman in the first round for the third straight year. thomas left stanford early after leading the cardinal with 8.5 sacks last season. gentlema

paul: it didn't work well and then to treat hypertension. it was growing guys here. it's not great? the blood thinner warfarin was meant to prevent lead clots. paul: this was discovered by some farmer noticing something in the feed was causing cows to bleed to death. fungus on red clover causing cows to bleed and scientist found what the substance was and developed the obvious use of this which was rat poison. they bleed out and die away. then you give a little bit to humans and you stop blood clots including president eisenhower who was given this one he had clots. john: he had a heart attack and this didn't help him as it turned out but they gave the president brad poison to try to save him. nutrasweet, the stuff that is in my diet coke which i guzzle all day. this was also an accident. paul: this was a wonderful accident and the 60s. the chemist was trying to develop a drug for ulcers and made this compound and writing in his notebook his finger to turn the page in and he said oh my finger sweep. it wouldn't happen today. john: finally recreational drugs, ecstasy had a long weird

paul: it didn't work well and then to treat hypertension. it was growing guys here. it's not great? prevent lead clots. paul: this was discovered by some farmer noticing something in the feed was causing cows to bleed to death. fungus on red clover causing cows to bleed and scientist found what the substance was and developed the obvious use of this which was rat poison. they bleed out and die away. then you give a little bit to humans and you stop blood clots including president eisenhower who was given this one he had clots. john: he had a heart attack and this didn't help him as it turned out but they gave the president brad poison to try to save him. nutrasweet, the stuff that is in my diet coke which i guzzle all day. this was also an accident. paul: this was a wonderful accident and the 60s. the chemist was trying to develop a drug for ulcers and made this compound and writing in his notebook his finger to turn the page in and he said oh my finger sweep. it wouldn't happen today. john: finally recreational drugs, ecstasy had a long weird history. paul: it developed again. we ke

can you placate rand paul? >> well -- [laughter] rand -- what's interesting, i was going through some old material in 2013 yesterday, and rand paul really is an outlier right now in the republican party. you look at someone like paul ryan, the speaker of the house, he's saying it would be appropriate for the president to consult with us, not demanding that he consult or demanding that he seek approval, but it would be appropriate. mitch mcconnell got up yesterday and said the president was in his authority. and if he thinks he needs more authority, we'll look at what he sends over in terms of a request for authorization. eric, if you compare that to 2013, republican leaders were saying something quite different. john boehner in 2013 wrote a letter to president obama when obama was contemplating a strike on syria and laid out 14 questions that he said had to be answered before congress would authorize any kind of he insisted that the president present the legal justification for striking syria. and these 14 questions we

. >> i know paul well. because he was president of the creation of the center but in the inception he was here when the president was talking about creating the center. he was the student director and now for a number of years is our executive director. at the state department during the second administration as a senior advisor, so that's these issues, particularly human rights but you are one of the people who felt organized to russia. >> and responsible for all kinds of things together with human achievement. >> paul, recently has traveled to moscow. two interview serge larosa for a minister, the interview is available on the national interest website. it was i thought a very significant interview in many respects. love was referring to that and there was a level of how do you say, warm area and respect, familiar entity. but that was before obviously the chemical attack in syria. >> and i hope that you will explain to us the russian foreign policy but in particular, i'm mystified about this whole expecta

paul says the school told him the only prerequisite for the course was a high school diploma or a ged. welll went to high school back in the uk. is a so he asked if he could use the his bachelors dreelg from a florida college to meet the requirement the school said yes you could. so he turned over his college transcripts. well now fast forward a few months. paul was ending the emt course and said national university told him it needed his high school transcripts after all. and it barred him from completing the course without them. paul said getting the trimts would take some time. so he was stuck couldn't finish that course which had cost him $1400 in tuition. so he reached out to us for help. after we contacted national university an executive vice president there called paul and told him he could finish the course after receive his emt serlt attention. paul told us he was thrilled about the news national university had no comment for this story. if you have a consumer complaint call us the. the number is 888-996 tips log on to nbc bay area responds/responds. >>> thank you no complaints he

week for the rba, the cash rate meeting on tuesday, but other commentary to pay attention to as well. paule meeting almost a failure to complete, but there will be a speech in brisbane, expecting to have a strong focus on household debt, a major factor for the governor. it will also have house rises. -- prices. then the monetary policy from the reserve bank. as i mentioned, the cash rate expected to stay on hold one point 5%, and the government indicated it will have infrastructure spending in the budget, it is likely to reinforce the bank's position. betty: and in line with the budget tradition of avoiding nasty surprises, details are trickling out. bad news if you are a university student, the government saying university revenues are growing faster than cost. there could be a fee rise on the horizon, so expect to see hand drinking about that -- ringing about that. and one of the proposed projects, railway between belden and brisbane. that would be good. the government likely to contribute to the construction of sydney's second airport, but from the perspective of the reserve bank, it wa

people have just abandoned the norms of professionalism in order to mount public defenses of paul ryan. >> well, i'm sure they're exasperated. and wouldn't you be? i don't think they intended to be in this position where they were relying on donald trump. they thought they would have a sort of normal republican like marco rubio in the white house who would be more helpful in gathering votes in congress, more engaged in the policy process and less embarrassing in their public comments. so i think it's only human to find this situation untenable and awful. but i do find it funny, describing themselves as trying to make the ken burns documentary. >> yes. there. >> have been an audience at both ends of pennsylvania avenue. and a lot of the blame for what has gone wrong in these first 100 days does lie with republicans in congress. i don't think it lies so much with ryan personally. i think the republican party as a whole was nowhere on health care policy for seven years. all they knew is they hated obamacare and it was inevitably going to blow up in their faces when they had to make policy on it th

paul: this is being received well by and large around the world. many people are saying this is proportionate.e. it didn't go overboard it responded to that one airfield where the pentagon thinks the chemical attack came from. but what about the fact there are five other airfields that assad used that we didn't attack. mary: it was proportionate because it was where the chemical weapons were launched.. judging from the reporting we gave russia a heads up. so it's significant that russians were at that airfield. recall that russia has provided key support to the assad regimes and targeted u.s.:backed forces there. what do we do about the other airfields? we'll see. a lot depend on how the syrian regime and putin respond. but this is a warning that trump means what he says. also importantly just to add to bret's point. a sign trump can learn while he's in office.tr trump has never backed military action in syria. he was against it before he became president. now he's sitting in the oval office and it looks like's taking a more responsible approach. p

i will pose the question to you, paul, as well.nk this has changed fundamentally this presidency? is he still -- can he still be america first and what everyone understood that to mean? and his posture throughout the campaign of staying -- in no way see a need or desire to enter into syria or into another conflict. >> this is clearly a man driven by impulse more than ideas or ideolo ideology. and in this case, i think his impulses are exactly right. frankly, we should have had this strike in 2013 when president obama said there was a red line. assad crossed that red line, used gas against his own citizens. but by the way, donald trump was opposed to it then. we saw the same images then. and yet, he was opposed to it. now he's changed. does this mean it's a strategic change, a world view change? i seriously doubt it. >> why? >> because he's a man of impulse. he saw horrific pictures and acted on it. i think that's a good thing, actually, but i can't imagine what the strategy is. do we want to remove assad? apparently, the secretary

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on the hill as well there is a lot of dissatisfaction with house speaker paul ryan as well. some talk about the fact, is he all talk and no action. there is a lot of kind of, you know, uneasiness, generally, among republicans on the hill as well, not just among the president. you know what is interesting is that, no matter how much division there is within the republican party right now, donald trump's base still loves him and supports him. if you look at the poll numbers recently. 46% of his voting base still approve and still support him. if you consider that he only got 48% of the vote innovember, that's only about two points of slippage. >> you are smiling while you say it. i can't tell if you think that's good or bad. >> as a conservative, i want republicans to succeed and to be able to find a middle ground between some of the house freedom caucus which were brought in in 2010 really on the sweep of energy much like the democrats are experiencing now and the moderates who want to work with some democrats here. >> is success just holding the line? because this is an oppo

they definitely have policy discusons as well. paulyan is from a different generation and came up through the ranks of congress when next post it was already in leadership here they do not have the same kind of camaraderie nancy pelosi had with john boehner although speaker ride or will- speaker ryan -- it be a very different environment in congress with president trump and a different feeling in the republican party from what we had seen under the obama administration. party,in the republican more mainstream, are things shaking out on those lines when it comes to the debate? handleday speaker ryan his business it has to be different. the spending bill will need democratic votes from the senate. a resolution in order to avoid and not need any democrat votes. that fact alone, you will have to reach out to some democrats in the senate. the bill will be more likely to appeal to democrats in the house dan to conservatives on the far right. david: last question just notting a bit, he does intend to seek reelection in 2018. >> it was a bit o

chin, bert hill, diane serafini, catherine orland, paul wells, and jeffrey taliaferro. >> with cuts to domestic programs i'm note this budget a blueprint and the first step and negotiations for many months been the white house and capitol hill and see the detailed he wants budget in may we eagerly look at that and the final budget will begin october 1st, the beginning of the conversation i want to point out the various impacts to ports in general and specifically to san francisco port show the framework hold $500 million reduction in the tiger program has funded 0 transportation and other port projects last year the port received 6 hundred plus million dollar in the infrastructure so for dogs, and rail and roadways for this grant program we're planning to apply for a tiger grant for the mission bay ferry and watching to see how the program a impacted on the right side the fast lane is not impacted we had planned and will pursue a grant for ambassador and cargo way and continue to watch those programs carefully the fast lane is funded at the 9 housing unit dollar annual amount through 2

paul begala as well. first daughter ivanka trump heckled in germany. we'll explain why.t led to the rocky reception. how she responded. we'll continue. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i'll take my chances. if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if other treatments haven't worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works by focusing right in the gi-tract to help control damaging inflammation and is clinically proven to begin helping many patients achieve both symptom relief as well as remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. while not reported with entyvio, pml, a rare, serious brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. tell your doctor if you have an infection, e

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>> paul: it's nothing like that. >> nikki: well, obviously something is horribly wrong for you to showke this. you are the chief of police, you know. >> paul: nikki, when are you expecting victor? >> nikki: i don't know. um, soon for dinner. will you please tell me why you're here? >> paul: i got some information tonight about adam's death, and before it goes public, i thought you would want to know. >> nikki: adam? that was months ago. >> paul: nikki... we have reason to believe that someone killed him. >> nikki: what?

trump, those things i think do have national significance and i think republicans see that, as well. >> paulwhat we learn about the kansas race there, the seat to fill, the margin by which the republican won not anywhere near where they won in the past. >> you do see this energy. we had a story a couple of days ago where i don't remember the exact numbers, but the gist was at this time in the 2016 election cycle there was, like, 900 women who had registered to run for various local seats and house races and this year they think there may be as many as 11,000 women, almost all democrats, so you're seeing this tremendous energy amongst democrats, motivated and mobilized by mr. trump's presidency. the question we don't know, a, is there an offsetting republican energy, as well, because he'such a transformative figure, and, b, does it last till 2018? >> that's the question, will this last? long way to go to keep up this kind of energy. good to see you both. thank you so much for coming in on a holiday. >>> apologizing for mistakes and getting lampooned on "saturday night live." i'll ask a former

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you mentioned reince priebus in that area as well. paul ryan, house speaker from a different area of wisconsin. but it's an important state and it's an important constituency for the president to keep in mind as some of those numbers and the trust in him erode. he needs to keep these kind of people that are going to be there with him today. >> what about taxes, matt visor? what about how this call for the president to release his tax returns, you heard the question from john carl at the briefing and will the president ever release his tax returns and you have democrats jumping on it as it's tax day and republicans saying you should release your taxes. this is putting these two issues together with tax reform and saying we can tackle tax reform unless you release your taxes when these are very different issues and this is all about posturing. right? >> yeah. and i mean -- but i think, though, that as tax reform is sort of the next big thing that they want to tackle. >> yeah. >> it will bring about questions over president trump's own tax re

paul ryan had a tax plan as well and was at a 20% corporate tax rate. >> i think it's a trial balloon. what is going to be important to watch, what will the bean counters when they do the official revenue estimate before it really plays a key role in what can move forward, a lot of republicans even though they theoretically exist to cut tax, when they see a multi trillion dollar number associated with this tax cut, they are going to say we are not doing much to control government spend. can we just do a big tax cut? that's why it will take a lot of skill on the part of the trump people, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell. it won't be easy. bar very -- maria: "wall street w w w w w whoa, this thing is crazy. i just had to push one button to join. it's like i'm in the office with you, even though i'm here. it's almost like the virtual reality of business communications. no, it's reality. intuitive one touch video conferencing is a reality. and now it's included at no additional cost with vonage business. see why 3,000 companies a month are switching to vonage. business grade. people friendly. ♪

paul? >> nick: nothing new. >> sharon: did you tell him about your suspicions? >> nick: well, i kept chloe's name out of it. i asked paul what it would take to reopen the case. he said it would have to be something concrete. >> sharon: and now you're throwing her a bachelorette party? i don't get it. what are you hoping to accomplish? >> nick: at some point tonight, i'm gonna get chloe to confess. i need your help to do it. >> chloe: so, uh m

leadership stop sides with the dems and fund the president's border wall, which speaker paul ryan said ter, welld like to hear from you, follow me on twitter, like me on facebook and follow me on instagram, on woot stocks sold -- wall street stocks sold off after united states dropped that mother of all bombs in eastern afghanist. volume, 3.1 billion shares. a day of light trading, markets are closed tomorrow, for good friday holiday, dow, s&p and nasdaq rounding out this shortened trading week, a loss of all 3 indexes of about 1%. banks kicking off earnings season, citigroup, jpmorgan chase beating managery on the -- targe targets. a reminder to listen to my report 3 times a day, coast-to-coast on salem radio network, up next, family of man dragged off a united airline flight, to today taking the airline to task. >> what happened to my dad, should not never happened to any human being, regardless of the circumstance. lou: we know that the full extent of his injuries, we will have those for you here next. and justice for slain borter patrol agent brian terry, the cartel member suspected of killi

paul ryan had a tax plan as well and was at a 20% corporate tax rate. >> i think it's a trial balloonwhat is going to be important to watch, what will the bean counters when they do the official revenue estimate before it really plays a key role in what can move forward, a lot of republicans even though they theoretically exist to cut tax, when they see a multi trillion dollar number associated with this tax cut, they are going to say we are not doing much to control government spend. can we just do a big tax cut? that's why it will take a lot of skill on the part of the trump people, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell. it won't be easy. bar very -- maria: "wall street w w w w w maria: here is a look at some of the big >> here's a look at market events at the week ahead. construction spending, automaking sales and then the federal reserve decision on wednesday followed by jobs report on friday. that will be closely watched. winning season in full swing. the companies have been reported have shown growth of about 10% in earnings, revenue of about 6% the 21st century fox, cbs is all on the jedi

paul ryan had a tax plan as well and was at a 20% corporate tax rate. >> i think it's a trial balloonis going to be important to watch, what will the bean counters when they do the official revenue estimate before it really plays a key role in what can move forward, a lot of republicans even though they theoretically exist to cut tax, when they see a multi trillion dollar number associated with this tax cut, they are going to say we are not doing much to control government spend. can we just do a big tax cut? that's why it will take a lot of skill on the part of the trump people, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell. it won't be easy. bar very -- maria: "wall street week" will be right back. why do some cash back cards make earning bonus cash back so complicated? they limit where you can earn bonus cash back to a few places... ...and those places keep changing every few months. the quicksilver card from capital one doesn't do any of that. with quicksilver you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. leave complicated behind. what's in your wallet? ...as a combination of see

i agree with you on failure of paul ryan's leadership. does not bode well for anything that president is pushing. >> if they don't replace this speaker. for one of a better word, they will be in real trouble. they have enough without having to put up with a speaker who is -- has gone rogue. and suffering from delusions of grandure. >> he is also mia where has he been. lou: he has been pursuing his foreign policy, in europe straightening things out. whatever his aspirations are or realized will be set in place, the man has lost it, no question. mollie, something not discussed in terms of corporate tax rate often is the effective tax rate, it is about 17%. i think that administration is running a huge risk of over selling the impact of a cut even to 15% i in tact cut and has -- tax cut and has to be i would hope they be careful here, they are not going to be able to make much headway for reasons and you and michael have outlined. i see all sorts of trouble created in the house where they are not ready to lineup. >> i do think that we'll see news on healthcare

out t those at nbc, she says what struck her is, again, that timing that in late 2015 that's well before paulort, carter page joined the campaign. and does it raise the question about then does this go beyond, far beyond the people that we thought might be a part of this investigation or knew, suspicions about them, to other people we haven't even thought of? >> yeah, absolutely. one other name that has come up, his name was in the dossier, he's denied part, michael cohen, donald trump's long-time attorney. someone we know has come up at different times, has had ties to different russian officials. it's, you know, we now know page, man afford are drawing all the headlines, but there are ties beyond that. and all of the outlets that have looked at this have consistently reported extensive ties, extensive conversations. i think just how many and just what they were talking about is what the fbi is really trying to find out now. >> even though the fbi, again, as your reporting shows, may have been a little slow, american agencies slow to pickup on this, was it clear to british spies right away t

paul christopher wells fargo institute have. note the markets are waiting on tax reform and we know where we stand the president said he has to do healthcare first and then move onto tax reform. do you think there is a threat that these markets that nothing gets done. and what will this mean for the market. i think the markets are already starting to discount the probability. if they begin to see the forms in the contours markets could begin discounting in the second half of this year. you think that the markets well have this. we still have to see what those details are going to look like and we have to see what the complications will be with healthcare reform coming first. and that's where the markets are right now. struggling to stay at the level they won't be at. we are in that neighborhood right now it's a great opportunity for investors to start rebalancing and taking some profits here. but where the were looking for some future discounting again and if those plans for corporate taxes fall into place later in the year. i t

♪ ♪ paul: time now for our hits and misses of the week. dan, start us off. >> wellhe guy in new york who's on trial for planting bombs last year in lower manhattan and new jersey. he now says he can't get a fair trial in manhattan, so he would like the trial transferred to burlington, vermont, which i would find very embarrassing. if i'm a terrorist, send me to burlington for trial? doesn't work. paul: all right, colin. >> a hit to doug doocy who signed a bill this week expanding the state's school program, letting parents apply to get their public school money sent to the schools of their choice. these sorts of things annoy the teachers' unions, but they're great for kids, so let's hope it's a trend. paul: all right, cool. kim? >> wednesday morning a fighter pilot with the d.c. air national guard gets in his f-16 for a routine training mission and within moments has total mechanical failure. he could have just ejected, but he was over acres of maryland's suburban houses. he manages to jettison his jet tanks, land the plane in a wooded area, only ejected at the very

well, it's paul ryan's fault or the media's fault or whoever. >> the democrats this morning. >> exactlybut, they love him. they think he is doing what he says. they think the media is lying. it was a win/win for him. >> the president doing that "washington post" op-ed and he really puts out this populous theme, continuing it, saying no longer will we listen to the voice that brought us nothing, but more in the wealth of countries that took advantage of the united states. when we think about those are themes that got him into office, but he has bombed syria. you know, we are engaged overseas. we are talking escalation of threats with north korea. we are still adding issues with the tax cut plan he wants to kick back to the big guys, not so much thinking about the little guys. that would only help keep poverty where it is. >> the interesting thing, also, he recently would not call china a currency manipulator, which is something he had been going after during his whole campaign lead up to, obviously, the election, china. now he's good friends with president xi, who is a good guy, doing wh

paul: my cat would disagree. more is better as far as the cat is concerned. this is the only kind of sandwich the dog will eat as wellhaidi: very patriotic, paul. julie: you cannot argue with his cap. plenty to talk about on bloomberg television. we will look ahead to what is happening, including what to expect from the annual letter with the corporate m&a, and financial author bill:, joining us at 7:10 a.m. hong kong time - this personve joining us at 40 past 7:00 hong kong time to get his insights on business sentiments and whether that will lead to more investment in japan. we have a controversial economist who is uncomfortably -- uncovering uncomfortable truths about china. betty: president trump and his counterpart get ready for their first of face-to-face meeting. we will talk about what is at stake. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ haidi: we are counting down to the sydney open in just under two minutes, futures pointing to a positive open with a weaker lead from wall street on friday. i'm haidi lun in sydney. betty: i am betty liu in new york, you are watching daybreak australia. a quick check of the business flash hea

remember, he didn't tell paul ryan the information he received came from the white house. he said it came from a whistleblower type person. so he very well may have misled paul ryan, the speaker of the house, the one guy who could push him off as chairman of the intel committee. >> and who didn't answthe quest did you do it. did you have the power. >> or he'll have to give the reporter the silent treatment like the president does sometimes. paul, your thoughts on this, and, you know, the fact that he's pinning this on the ethics complaints. >> i think nunes has been tripped up by he's the ethics complaints because there's an ar caying rule in the house of representatives that if a member of the intelligence leaks classified information, that triggers an automatic investigation by the house ethics committee. they must investigate. now, what classified information would nunes have possibly released. the existence of a warrant, the foreign intelligence service warrant, which he kind of referred to obscurely in many press conferences. >> hold on. >>> i just want to express my appreciation for what the chairman decided to do. >> i'm sure it w

because rand paul suggests there was. >> well, rand paul, this is very much a straight shooter. course is the role the private sector will play. the free market will play in health care. and i think there's some sort of balance that could be struck between the view of what i would call the conservative conservatives and the libertarians. there's no doubt that some understanding or compromise can be achieved. stuart: who are you for? >> i like the idea one of competition, two of the role of the free market, and three of introducing states that have a variety of insurers. so that you don't have to buy insurance from one insurers. stuart: and if all of that were in this bill, whatever nebill comng, you would vote for -- they would vote for it. it would go through. >> that's correct. i think these are principles that serve as a foundation for what would happen in health care. stuart: see, the market wants to know is this close? or is it still months and months and months aaway? and now we're down 70 points on the dow. >> well, i think the public is interested in getting some alterna

paul ryan inc. -- rallying today as well. 1.2 percent up today.he fair was if le pen still wins, she takes france out of europe. today.re rallying periphery yields are falling and core yields are rising today. -- not a haven and not necessary. of one million related to the french election. line -- thethe blue white line versus the blue line, the euro-dollar, one month implied volatility. the white line is falling more than the blue line. that is a sign that risk sentiment has improved markedly following volatility in the euro , a percentage points, five percentage points against the dollar. an investor -- an example of -- stors not just about france today. resilient performance in markets like china and india would allow the dutch health care provider to meet its sales target even with uncertainty surrounding you to delay's ending. a sharp focus on growing health care company. confidence rose to its highest sentiment at almost 50 years less might -- last month. the economy is expanding at its fastest pace in five years. that was last year and sinc

. >> shepard: there's more money involving paul manafort and ukraine, right? >> well that's the thing. at this point there's still some questions that we need to have answered about this ledger. mr. manafort worked for years in the ukraine as a political consultant. as this ledger detailed millions of dollars and at this point we have not confirmed the payments. >> his family heard on wiretap talking about the money and calling it dirty money. at the same time, paul manafort was working, if i'm correct on this, help me, to help the former leader of the ukraine, who is now in exile in russia? is that right? >> that's correct. yes. he was the leader of the pro russian political party, the party of region. he is obviously -- he was ousted in 2014. this ties back to what you referenced earlier. mr. manafort worked for him for years. he directed lobbies in washington. now today we're finding out that he is -- he has been in talks with federal authorities before the election about whether or not he should register as a foreign agent for that work. >> shepard: aren't you sup

the participants in the meeting will be recon and steve mnuchin as well as speaker paul ryan, mitch mcconnell the chu -- two chairman of the tax-writing committees. we'll see where this goes. meaning will happen on capitol hill tomorrow around5:30. >> thank you so much. let's head to bloomberg's julie hyman for an update on whole foods and notable earnings movers. julie: there has been talk about whole foods potentially putting itself up towards sale. the financial times is reporting that albertsons might be in the running. albertsons is backed by cerberus capital, privately held company. had a talkslts have with salt -- folks have had talks with whole foods. they are trying to figure out -- we are trying to confirm this. you see whole foods shares are reacting. they were already trading at 52 week high today before the sidelines cropped. on the flipside, albertsons talks have not been progressing. you saw a bit of a lower -- this is down a most 3.5%. we will continue to monitor both of these, giving you any updates as we has -- have them. we are monitoring earnings season. looking at some ea

paul ryan. and gary cohn as well. what do you make of kevin hassek. proaf outswoarks no immigration.oint does the joke get a little bit irritating. steve: tax cuts, get that done and we'll discuss the rest. and get rid of that crazy border tax. who would have thought house republicans would be in favor of a 20% tax. lou: who would have thought a president who said he will build the wall will put up with speaker who says he won't appropriate the money to build the wall. and he's making it clear he wants a border tax and immigration for crying out loud. steve: 2018 could be the republican equivalent of 2010 for the democrats if they don't get their act together on taxes. warning. and paul ryan will be looking for other opportunities. maybe as a fox commentator. lou: i was citing of steve forbes. steve: you get paid by traffic so he has to earn his own way which he hasn't yet. lou: a new way to race down the slopes. this thrill seeker performing amazing tricks. look what he's riding. it's a snow scooter. the handlebar spins and flips while racial down the slopes. this all in japan on hi

well. and "fox5" paul wagner live tonight in columbia heights with the story on this one, paul. >> jim, sarah, we've been out all day and talked to a number of people. that was their bigist concern these attacks came without warning and knocking these two men unconscious. first attack taking place high at place northwest right next to a soccer stadium that belongs to bell and lincoln and just to give you perspective it's right behind the target on 14 street if you know where that s the 57-year-old manziel he was on cellphone when suddenly attacked from behind. that was saturday in the afternoon. the very next day also in the afternoon the second attack took place. rights over there where you're looking now in an alley high at place. >> anthony figueroa and hung neugen are recovering from the beatings they took saturday and sunday average. figueroa says five men beat him as he walked back to the store he runs on park road northwest. and in hung's case four men attacked him on high at place saturday afternoon. translated for uncle inside the restaurant they run on park road. >> after he saw the