tech giants have filed patents in hopes of using its devices including smart home products to pick uchverything you say. amazon and google say right now you have to push a button or say, hey, alexa. >>> we have some new details on an ikea store coming to dublin, releasing new renderings of the shopping center planned for the site. you're looking at the glenn, a shopping center that has room for 92,000 retail in addition to the ikea itself. major design changes announced last year after community protest. it should be open some time in 2020. ikea plans to garner community reaction to the updated plan at a meeting on april 7th. >>> easter may technically be over but the party continued this morning at the white house. the way hundreds of children helped the first family celebrate the holiday. >>> he's feeding the pigeons. >> one is on his hand. >> next "right this minute." >>> some holiday fun at the white house. hundreds of kids took part in the annual easter egg roll presided over by president trump and the first lady. the kids did their best to push the eggs across a damp lawn using w

french nation and to tell you that our people cherish the friendship of the american people with as uch intensity as ever. the united states and the american people are an essential part of our future in democracy, in what women and men can accomplish in this world when we are driven by high ideals and an unbreakable trust in humanity and progress. the the call we hear is call of history. this is a time of determination and courage. what we cherish is at stake. what we love is in danger. have no choice but to prevail, and together we shall prevail. long live the friendship between france and the united tates. [speaking french] thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. the speaker: the purpose of the joint meeting having been completed, the chair declares the joint meeting of the two houses resolved. the house will continue in recess subject to the call of the chair. joint meeting finishing up after hearing from french president macron. the address available on c-span. we will reair it later on the c-

french nation and to tell you that our people cherish the friendship of the american people with as uch intensity as ever. the united states and the american people are an essential part of our future in democracy, in what women and men can accomplish in this world when we are driven by high ideals and an unbreakable trust in humanity and progress. the the call we hear is call of history. this is a time of determination and courage. what we cherish is at stake. what we love is in danger. have no choice but to prevail, and together we shall prevail. long live the friendship between france and the united tates. [speaking french] thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much.

we know many americans still get and uch salt in their diet we know it is associated with cardiovascul disease and hard disease. to promulgate try policies to help people improve nutrition. of the public health basics and where you will have the most impact on public reducing smoking rates, helping people get better diets, reducing chronic disease diet, increasing vaccination rates. those are the basics. big progress this we will have a big impact. >> that is it for our time. commissioner gottlieb thank you. conversation we are ack with our reporters who cover public health issues for their organizations. by his own is admission a conservative epublican and he was at american enterprise institute yet his f.d.a. has been a pretty year. one the first what is the consensus view among manufacturers about the approach he's taken to the marketplace? been fairly has positive. i haven't talked to a ton of last month s since but initially they were excited bout him being on board and they work well with him because he speaks their language. what kind of influence does have in the area of drug p

military strike may be on minds here, but it's not showing .uch. have you prepared? ouve you done anything differently, thinking about the u.s. strike? >> no. i'm still having ordinary life. >> reporter: it was a typical thursday in this working-class, residential neighborhood of damascus, where people have heard about the alleged chemical attack and simply do not believe their government was behind it. >> so how could trump know if the terrorists used this or the syrian government did this? >> reporter: syrian president bashar al-assad has been seen at nfse and unfazed a number of times this week, and said that western threats of military action are based on lies. ali jallal told us he was not scared about the prospect of a eds. strike. otw can it not be scary? >> we have a war for seven years. >> reporter: they're numb after so much war. in fact, he questions whether the u.s. will really take action. >> and we have russia. >> reporter: you have russia on your side, so you're not worried? >> yeah. r: reporter: syria's strongest battlefield ally, russia, claimed vict

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president trump: thank you very uch, shinzo. >> anything sanctions on russia, sir? why no sanctions on russia, sir? mr. president, why did you delay the sanctions on russia? president trump: yeah, we'll do sanctions. as soon as they very much deserve it, we will have -- that is a question. there has been nobody tougher on russia than president donald trump. between building up the military, between creating tremendous vast amounts of oil. we raised billions and billions of dollars extra in nato. we had a very, very severe -- we were talking about it a little while -- fight in syria recently, a month ago, between our troops and russian troops, and that's very sad. but many people died in that fight. there has been nobody tougher than me. with the media, no matter what i did, it's never tough enough because that's their narrative. but russia will tell you, there has been nobody tougher than donald trump. and then, the other night, we had a strike in syria, which was absolute precision. i leave it with this, with all of that said: if we can get long with china, and if

got, tax cut everybody just that is only for a few years and great damage uch to our children and our grandchildren and they are going to use social security and to bounce back or to say, well, we've overspent and overspent on themselves. his is -- look at the way walmart put rubbermade out of they demanded cheap products and their big companies p here where i live and i'm furious that man is propaganda. y husband and i were both union. we had a wonderful -- we've had a wonderful life. paid for home and pensions and retirement savings paid decent money and the government isn't always way, they're supposed to have open books and when you're a capitalist, you have to show anything to anybody. host: linda in ohio. virginia beach, virginia. line for independents, go ahead. to continue oing what the young lady before me said. that he was --us host: he was what, leon? it was so obvious he was out of touch with reality. greed and ee the the -- on that man. he was self-serving. talked that scam about trickle down. entitlements, t social security is not an entitlement, it is earned, we securit

thank you so uch. to target voters. >> the meta issue for me is how data is collected used secured and processed pi the companies with which we engage in the online world in a very comprehensive and pervasive way. announcer: this week on "q&a" author and hoover institution senior fellow niall ferguson. mr. ferguson discusses his book "the square and the tower: networks in power from the free masons to facebook." brian: niall ferguson, in your new book, you open up with this sentence, "the suspicion grows that the world is controlled by powerful and exclusive networks, the bankers, the establishment, the system, the jews, the free masons, the illuminati." "nearly all that is written in this vein is rubbish." what are you getting at here? what's the point? niall: there is all this rumor, some of it conspiracy theory. some of it is in the book shops, more of it is online. you will find it if you type in any of those names as a search item, the illuminati. if you type in illuminati, you will be taken into

in the sense that we've heard about excesses by ben carson, by men uch inwhether it is 130,000 dloorz or $130,000 lunch tables or jetting around to see an eclipse. this is one more instance of what we're seeing after donald trump promised to be different. and the republican party again and again looks the other way whether it's stormy daniels or tariffs or deficits or overspending. they look the other way. if this were a democratic administration, people would be brought in to testify. and there would be investigations. there would be much more scrutiny. the republican congress continues to give this administration a pass even though they are behaving as anything but traditional republicans. >> i want to move on. scott, i think you should have a chance to respond to this. >> yeah. let me just tell you about the politics of scott pruitt within the republican party. if you talked to any republican, small business person, farmer, anybody in the sort of the conservative pro business wing of the republican party in middle america and you say what's the one thing about the obama administrat

>> you could, again, if there was evidence that the intentionf uch a firing were to take place, was corruptether it was r the prpose of obstructing the investigation. >> yang: we don't know what's going on inside the special counsel's investigation. you have been inside a special counsel's investigation. it seems like a bigeek ths week when we had the raids on michael cohen's office and residence and the president's personal attorney. does it feel to yougiven your experience, that we're at an important point in this investigation? >> well, now we have pes, john, that are alleged to have been made by mr. cohen. we don't know what's on them, and we understand they have been seized. we have new iformation as a result of the u.s. attorney's office filing a response t mr. cohen's attorneys' atttoempt freeze the material and keep it from the hands to have the u.s. attorney's -- from the hands of the u.s. attorney's offi, and there are so many parallels to watergate now. we've had hush-money tapes, electronic interference with the opposition party, now we have russia involved, so there's so much h

many had believed that it would be too sensitive for beijing to uch. they were wrong, says economist jeremy stevens. >> this idea that you can pressure china into differentsi ons, that's proven to not be true.in and isn't afraid to do things that markets struggle to metabolize. >> reporter: but china is quick to remind the u.s. that it threw the first punches. nstarting with 30% duties rylar panels and washing machines in febrthen the 25% tariffs on imported steel, and 10% on aluminum just wks ago. the move forced huayang steel mill in china's northern hebei province to shift its strategy of focusing on the american market this year. >> ( translated ): the part of our industryhich exports to america is facing a big loss. orders have decreased by at least ha. >> reporter: the measures were washington's first strike in a battle to address a global trade imbalance. but while exemptions have since been given to u.s. allies, including canada, australia and the european union, the white house is making sure china continues to feel the pinch. america's' trade

the dow is uch 115 points as bank earnings top wall street expectations, the time is 6:41. you're watching "today in the bay." at stanford health care, we can now simulate the exact anatomy of a patient's brain before surgery. if we can do that, imagine what we can do for seizures. and if we can fix damaged heart valves without open heart surgery, imagine what we can do for an irregular heartbeat, even high blood pressure. if we can use analyze each patient's breast cancer to personalize their treatment, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. imagine what we can do for you. >>> 6:43, happy friday, beautiful weather in the forecast today, here's a live look outside in san jose. we start out clear but also chilly as we go to los gatos, only 44 degrees through 8:00 but it does warm up nicely today. at noon we're at 60 degrees and 65 degrees at 2:00. eventually reaching into the upper 60s today and even warmer tomorrow. we'll talk about what to wear and also more on that weekend forecast coming up in less than five minutes. >> kari, look how nice 880 is p

uched uponjust to reading and math scores, closing the achievement gaps. it has done some good things but we have paid a huge price for them. i think the caller just alluded to that. the second piece on things like industrial arts or vocational education, one of the problems is that over the decades they became dumping grounds for children from -- children of poverty, black and latino children. part of the school reform push of the last 20-30 years is frowned upon things like votech because they wanted to force schools to make sure all children's are educated well -- all children are educated will. every child to be educated if they want to go to college. that doesn't actually serve the needs of all children in all communities, but we've had real trouble struggling with this because her want to be -- we don't a closed doors. how to redo that will respect the fact some kids are not going to be interested in the college track? we have not figured out how to get our hands around that. will we have seen as we start to get comfortable with this notion as we tal

preferable for society to find a way to manage that society then to invite the government to police for you .uch -- must associate with living with it is preferable to that. there is a real contradiction in this particular case because on the one hand we are told that the couple were deeply upset and i have no reason to question the cake was incredibly important to them. it was incredibly or in part of what they wanted in their ceremony and their life. on the other hand, we are told .s just a cake i think that is a really interesting contradiction because you're either saying that this cake is so improperly important that you are going to go all the way to the supreme court which suggests to me that it is more than cream and jam and butter. there's something else going on here. that is precisely why i think we have to try and have a situation where people can refuse in certain circumstances to express another person's point of view on their behalf in creating a product or something for them. i really think it is incredibly important that anyone who has takes the sideho of the bigger in this case

. >> it's been a little while since i've had the honor of addressing you, and i appreciaty uch your courtesyme today. you know, we should do this more often. (laughter, light applause) >> john want to make the case that, "here's who i on judges, here's who i am on taxes. i believe in limited government. here's why i fight earmarking. earmarking is corruption of government." >> i believe today, as i believed 25 yes ago, in small governme, fiscal discipline, low taxes, a strong defense,ho judgesnform and not make our laws... >> it's like the thinnes balancbeam that's probably existed, because on one side, he's trying to still retain the, "i'm the independent, i'm the moderate, i can appeal, i'm the maverick." s on the othe is, "you can trust me, i'm a good republican." >> i am pro-life and an ad for the rights of man everywhere in the world. i will never waver in thati convictionomise you. >> that day was a reminder that he still had a considerable amount of work to do with the conservative base of the party. >> thank you and god bless you. (cheers and applause) >> i think what mccain did, whi

spotlight,uch in the especially the taiwan semi's tepid forecast. coming to an end. from his remains far 2% target. in hong kong, i am rishaad salamat. >> and i am haidi lun here in sydney. chinaoming up, the u.s. trade that could take a turn for the worst. the trump administration considers -- this is bloomberg markets: asia. ♪ haidi: these trade tensions, never far from top of mind. the u.s. may be considering emergency measures to take against china. at the same time we are seeing this inflation story flesh out, including macro elements of the u.s. sanctions on russia, driving aluminum prices higher. oil prices pretty robust to going into that meeting of opec and related oil ministers. if this is aonder short-term bump when it comes to inflation expectations, or whether they're -- this is the start of something that picks up along the way. rishaad: absolutely, something bond dealers are looking at, getting away from the flattening of the yield curve and getting bonds down and yields to the upside. let's look at how the whole trading day is shapin

when he filed a a brief, he said thanks toe a typo, a man alone uch right to bet in a phone both as in his own home. it was marks who came up with the core of the case, that rather than on a constitutionally protected place, but do have people have reasonable expectations of privacy. snyder remembered his law class where he studied the reasonable views of man and that ended up the case. >> that had to made you feel good, the impact of individual classes. this is one class that parked a brainstorm for this lawyer who was approaching the case. >> absolutely. this is the most exciting case to teach in criminal procedure because it does inspire people to transform the amendment and to translate it in light of new tech nol. that is what harden snyder did, that is what louis did, and that is what c-span viewers should try to do with us tonight. >> we are going to hear more about the court overall, but he is an important character in this. >> justice of the supreme court appointed by president isenhour. he served in world war ii as a member of the navy reserves. he found himself often in diss

rosenstein and mueller, were they complicit in helping ensure that russia would end up with uch a sizable 20% or so of our uranium? they had a person undercover that was given them -- giving them information showing that russians were committing crimes and as far as we can tell, they made sure nothing was done so that nothing would prevent the approval, some of the cabinet members, of approving the sale of uranium, u.s. uranium. that needs to be investigated. the leaks that we know have been committed that are crime they need to be investigated. obviously that's going to take a second counsel a special counsel. and no, even appointing a current u.s. attorney somewhere to investigate the special counsel and comey and rosenstein , it's going to have to be outside of the current justice department. outside the current u.s. attorney. and it seems clear to me, no one would need as many of the heartless prosecutors as mueller has hired. it's obvious he's on a witch hunt. seemed pretty obvious to some of us that by his outrages activity -- outrageous activity in raiding a lawyer's office, probab

tom: jane foley, thank you so m uch.e mann, citigroup, with her work over the years in trade and particularly, in dollar dynamics. one thing i find fascinating here is the idea of percolating, as we saw with mr. carney today, the dollar and currency actuations are doing the work for a given central bank. we have had a weaker u.s. dollar. is that equivalent to the rate increases, so chairman powell does not have to take them? catherine: you mean if the dollar happened to turn around. tom: ysees. a weaker dollar over the last 12 or 14 months, how does that change things were chairman powell? catherine: they are still looking for inflation in the u .s. not much more. there are certain people in the market who believe inflation is around the corner, going to be a rampage and the federal reserve will have to raise interest rates too much going forward into the second half of the year. there is certainly that crowd and a weaker dollar would only precipitate that to a greater degree. tom: we are seeing banker after banker. in t

conservative republican spoke to be canned reminders ted more about senate confirmation to up uch lastwill show in the campaign. if you go to the washington morning, another senator, sworn in yesterday, of distinction, too. cindy hyde-smith sworn in monday as junior senator from making first female member of congress from the southern state. president pence delivered oath of office to cindy hyde-smith. cochran stepped down in april because of health issues, toting a white bible for the ceremony. cindy hyde-smith was ommissioner of agriculture and commerce, accompanied by fellow wiker.r, roger quoted as saying, what a day, she told mr. pence. pages of the new york time, tammy duckworth in give ws, first senator to birth to a daughter, on monday, her first u.s. senator to give birth while in office. said she and her husband and daughter couldn't be mae er to welcome little pearl to the family. we are so grateful for the love and support of our friends and family, as well as our wonderful medical team and everything they complete to help us our family, she said, in a statement, that in th

gabbard, and she may consume as uch time as she needs. gabrielle giffords -- ms. gabbard: mr. speaker, i rise today in memory and in celebration of my friend and mentor, senator daniel akaka, who took his final breaths exactly one week ago today. i was in hawaii and woke up very early to a text message from one of his children who let me know that he had passed away around 5:00 that last morning. we all took that day to remember him and his life and to think back on the memories that we have of how he dedicated his life to serving the people of hawaii and our country. from his service in the u.s. army, back during world war ii, to his years that he spent taking care of hawaii. a public school teacher, his work in the state that end serving more than 38 years -- and then serving more than 36 years in the united states congress. he was the first member of congress to serve of native hawaiian ancestry and made history in many different ways. he's known throughout hawaii for so many reasons. but when you say the word akaka, it is synonymous with aloha. because that's what he repre

thank you so uch. to target voters. >> the meta issue for me is how data is collected used secured and processed pi the companies with which we engage in the online world in a very comprehensive and pervasive way.