michael howard, thank you.sery, sir bill cash. he rebelled the party whip 48 times during the period and is now chair of the european scrutiny committee. good evening. i want to start with a tweet by george osborne. why this synthetic brexiteer anger over the eu tax and irish border. number ten made key concessions in december, they made a deal in which you all cheered, in the absence of agreed solutions uk will maintain full alignment with the eu and customs union. look, basically what they said in this draft legal text, and my european scrutiny committee are looking at it right now, the bottom line is what they are trying to do is to create a constitutional crisis in the uk. this is basically the eu, which is seeking to achieve this hard border, where actually they have said they don‘t want it. we have also said we don‘t want it and the irish government has said they don‘t want it. nothing synthetic about this. they‘ve actually created, trying to create a constitutional crisis. the truth is, the question of t

michael jordan, no. howard stern, no. so it makes sense that it's george lucas.e i don't know who he is. [laughter] um, you know what? i think-- where am i on the board here? i'm at $3,000, right? >> well, we're only 3 questions in. >> still--still pretty low. >> you're--[laughs] doesn't it seem like that should be higher? >> it really does. >> you're at $2,000. >> it really does. you know what? i'm gonna go for b, george lucas. >> final? >> final answer. >> luke skywalker. it's luke skywalker. george lucas, of course, famous for "star wars." he had the skywalker ranch. >> yeah. >> you got it. >> okay. took me a while. >> but those lifelines are there. most important thing: stay in the game. stay in the game. you're at $3,000. this is a chance to get to $5,000, to get to that threshold to guarantee your charity 5 grand. so here it is. >> okay. >> with lyrics about keeping americans "flying safe across this land and around the world," which governmental agency has its very own anthem? >> well, the faa i don't know. atf i don't know. [chuckles] i--i--the obvious ch

michael steele, heidi and howard. to mueller in our big scoop here in which the president is the target. it's becoming almost a monthly ritual, heidi, the president lets cameras in, has this little theater, the show, and lawmakers leave all happy. >> occasionally we get a little taste of the president trump that a lot of us thought may very well come into office, he bucks convention, he bucks his party, he tells it like it is. there's a lot of this stuff going on. the background check, i don't know if he was aware or he was just disregarding the serious tension in this room of manchin-toomey, i want strong back ground checks, do it without delay, do it. that was one of the sorest points in this congress is what happened in 2013 when they failed to get anything done, even anything minor. >> be sure to put that age thing in there, i like that, put it in the bill, i might actually support it. >> and diane was like, put it in. >> and you had a flash back to the last time they were at that table and the democrats were like

michael. >>> b.a.r.t.'s general manager says it will not be possible to build a new station to serve a potential new oakland a's ballpark at the howard terminal. general manager says any substation at the west oakland station would reduce speeds and create "uncertainty" along the busiest stretch of track. construction would be extremely complicated and there are questions about who would pay for it. she writes, by the time we would be able to design and build such a project, i'm sure the a's would have had at least ten winning seasons and a world series win in the new stadium. >>> major league baseball announced a series of new rules designed to speed up games. there will be a limit of six visits to the mound. not including a pitching change per game. commercial breaks will be shorter. down to 2:05 for regular season games and umpires can discipline players for violating ballpark timers. the league considered the 20-second pitch clock, but elected not to use it for this season. >>> speaking of pitching, former san francisco giant's ace lincecum is reportedly taking the mound again in the major leagues but not for the g-men. he has a

i think it should be the howard stern channel. host: michaelrconish joining us from philadelphia, from your home in philadelphia, correct? guest: i do a lot of work it makes it easier to be able to appear with you. if i lose that image behind me i will have to turn around and turn it back on. host: ralph is joining us from morgantown, west virginia. good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. i was born and raised here in west virginia, both my father and grandfather were coal miners . when i was a years old for my birthday, i received a 20 gauge shotgun so that i could go squirrel hunting with my father and grandfather. think things have gone a little overboard when i literally can leave my house and in one minutes, i can be at a sporting goods store and they actually are selling a 50 caliber machine gun, military style. down in the store. i can go in there and probably within a matter of 30 minutes, walk out of that store with a 50 caliber machine gun. absurd the point that we have came to. i believe, in this country. here in west virgin

howard ward will continue with us. i will ask about apple. he has a direct channel to tim cook. michaelt the economics across all of the bloomberg platforms. technology, onn building revenues, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> this is bloomberg surveillance. i am taylor riggs. qualcomm is giving no indication of whether it is close to agreeing to the biggest deal in the history of technology. they met with broadcom executives to discuss the $121 billion hostile takeover. qualcomm says their board will meet to discuss the next step. in the u.k., shares of standard life averaging are falling with lloyds bank group have terminated an arrangement in which the firm oversaw $153 billion of assets. standard life says the move would affect less than 5% of its annual revenue. tom: thank you. there is too much to talk about about washington and how it folds into our financial world. kevin cirilli makes note of an interesting idea at the white house. after the horror of last night, no scheduled events for the president of the united states. that may be one indication of a white house in turmoil. i will no

howard is on the phone on the republican line from fort lauderdale. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span, and thank you for having michael. -- my call. i was raised in the country, ok, before the age of 13, i was taught how to shoot a gun, ok. i was taught respect of that life,respect for human not to point at at anybody else get above all things, i had god in my life. i had god in school, ok. this is what was preached to us all day long, and we grew up good people, until they took god out of school, to discipline out of homes, now you have generations of thugs and people that are lost that really do not know the difference between right and wrong because they are no longer taught that in school. they are taught hatred and stuff. that is just the second amendment. it has to do with everything, ok. second amendment right is not to protect me from you, not to if itt us from a bear were to crash into the studio that you are in right now, it is to protect us, we did people, man, woman, and child, to protect us from the a terroristic government. nobody wants to say that. that is the reason we need protection. that is the reason why the se