julia michaels with trippy red from the mercedes-benz stage.noxville, shailene woodley, julian dennison, jenna dewan, dylan klepper, oh boy. with music from james bay, franz ferdinand -- i think that seems like too many guests. we're going to cut it. america is going to vote, we'll eliminate a few of them before next week. our first guest has been hosting "american idol" since music came on shiny little circles and men frosted their tips. their 16th season and first on abc wraps up with a two-part finale starting sunday night. please welcome ryan seacrest! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how's it going? >> it's going, man, thank you. >> jimmy: i hear you're wearing christmas socks? what that is? >> so the curse of living in los angeles and new york, going back and forth every five days, is that my clothes are in new york. and i have some leftovers here in l.a. in my drawers i only have christmas socks and christmas underwear left in los angeles. >> jimmy: you're down to christmas stuff. >> because my mother every year gives me christmas soc

tomorrow night, will arnett, mgm-tv, ryan seacrest, gilian jacobs, julia michaels featuring trippy redst from three "godfathers," two "fathers of the bride" and one "annie hall". next you can see her alongside a fonda, a bergen and even a steenburgen in the new comedy "book club." it opens in theaters friday, please say hello to diane keaton. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> i mean, it's really unbelievable, how do you get them to make that much noise? >> jimmy: they did it for you, they saw you. >> they didn't do it for me. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: there you go. >> should i sit down? >> jimmy: yeah, sit. i feel like you stopped by and you're leaving. >> whoo, look at me, whoo! >> jimmy: that's another great outfit. you really know -- >> you think so? you're just saying that? >> jimmy: you have these hand warmer things on. >> they're nice. >> jimmy: yeah. >> can i do one thing? >> jimmy: do whatever you want, yeah. >> can you come a little closer here? can i do one thing? >> jimmy: yeah, what? >> just get a little closer. can i touch your beard? >> jimmy: yeah, go ahead. >> do you

tomorrow night ryan seacrest will be here, gillian jacobs will join us, and we'll have music from julia michaels he really does it all. his new movie "show dogs" opens tomorrow and a new season of "arrested development" comes to netflix may 29th. please welcome former batman will arnett! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: hey, will, how are you doing? >> good, man. >> jimmy: are you vaping? >> no, i'm not. oh, man. >> jimmy: well -- >> um -- >> jimmy: what's -- what's with the security? >> oh, yeah. these are crazy times we're living in, jimmy. it's just a lot of people -- yeah just i've been -- a lot of people have been super threatened by my talent. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: really. >> yeah. i've become a real target. >> jimmy: is that right. is this a flack jacket that you're wearing? >> yeah, this is just -- i mean, i don't want to do it but the people, and they're like will, come on, you can't be too careful. >> jimmy: who's saying this? >> my people and stuff. good to see you, dude. >> jimmy: good to see you too. >> so great being here. >> jimmy: which people? >> sorry, obviously i trust you

jim acosta from cnn, lilly singh, gillian jacobs and will arnett with music from beach house, julia michaelsour first guest is a multi-talented actor, writer, director and musician who has a grammy, emmys, golden globes and some pretty great music videos, too. on may 25th, he takes the cape of a young lando calrissian in "solo: a star wars story." please say hello to donald glover. [ cheers and applause ] wow, you really -- >> how's it going? >> jimmy: i mean, you are something right now. aren't you? >> on fire. >> jimmy: yeah, you're on fire. it's crazy. i almost even forgot that the season finale of "atlanta" was tonight. >> yeah, tonight. >> jimmy: also with all this stuff -- >> there's a lot of stuff going on. >> jimmy: solo going on. hosted "saturday night live." your video has got like more views than the keyboard cat now. [ laughter ] it's really like unbelievable. >> that was my main thing. i was trying to beat the keyboard cat. >> jimmy: you crushed the keyboard cat. >> yeah. hopefully. >> jimmy: i wonder if you are interested in all the analysis that goes on of that video, of all t

julia: michael cohen may have offered more than legal advice to his market client, president major companies oligarchs tighten vladimir putin papers from special amounts of money for insight into the trump administration. editor joins us now. you on the show, let's set the scene and understand what information we have to stage and we should make a point this information comes by the legal counsel to stormy daniels, with the alleged affair with donald trump. withere was a twitter post no advance warning of a link that the best a dropbox sites aat contain what we call suspicious activities report produced by a bank about transactions that were moving an account set up by michael cohen, and that account not only had money leads to a port start, but we know it included amounts that moved from big corporations and a russian oligarchs and there has been little expedition of what the money was intended for and where they went and how this all came together. to hundred know thousand dollars from at&t and it might be more than that, when her $50,000 from korean air space, and also a link to a russian

so i want to bring in julia cianne, michael zeldin and laura coates. good evening. thank you all for joining us. michael, you worked with mueller at the doj. when you hear that trump's legal team is preparing for showdown with mueller, how do you think that's going to play with mueller? >> i think mueller is ready for a showdown and has been for a long time. we talked about when mueller was putting on this team, michael dreeben was one of the most accomplished supreme court criminal advocates in the history of the office. i suspect the issue whether or not the president can be subpoenaed has been fully briefed and that if the president wants to push that route as apoesopposed to a volu interview i think he's going to win. >> do you believe that will absolutely happen if the president doesn't sit down for an interview voluntarily? >> i think so. because i think that the nature of the inquiry that mueller is under a mandate to conclude requires the president's testimony. and there's no way to obtain the sort of closure he needs on many of his issues within his mandate

thanks to julia for your great reporting. michael avenatti, before we hand off to our next hour here, have you spoke to your client, stephanie clifford, stormy daniels, about this yet? >> i haven't had an opportunity to speak with her about this but we certainly spoke earlier today about the developments over the last 12 hours. i think with each passing day or half-day she feels more vindicated in her position and more empowered to see this through to thend and ensure that the american people learn all of the facts and see all of the evidence relating to this. i just want to follow up on what you said. i think the comments that were just made -- i don't know anyone that could provide a summary better or a current state of how important this is and the fact that very stringent requirements were met in connection with the warrants. this is not politics. this is law enforcement. >> michael avenatti, thank you very much. thanks for all of the many members of our panel here today for hanging out with us for this hour and all of this break

. >> julia, you mentioned michael cohen. the "washington post" published an extensive story about michael cohen. it includes stiff royalty penalties, that includes doctors with whom he helped establish medical clinics and lawyers with which he worked, adding that he spent much of his personal and professional life with immigrants from russia and ukraine. what does that tell you? >> it tells me that the narrative of michael cohen as some innocent, sort of dufus guy who fell in love with trump is it a lie. michael cohen has an enterprise that he actually was sort of the legal brains, in quotes, behind. what we have learned about michael cohen is that he willingly engaged in the kind of contact that is absolutely illegal, so this notion of him as a dupe is just ridiculous. he's an adult male who should be judged that way. one other quick thing about michael cohen. we have been talking about michael cohen in the context of stormy daniels. i just want to remind viewers that michael cohen is mentioned four times in the steele doss

michael schmidt. julia ainsley. joining the conversation from birmingham, alabama, former u.s. attorney joyce vance. thank you all for being here this evening to try and sort through exactly what the heck happened over the course of the last week. phil rucker, can you start with an overview of where we are at the white house right now? what does the president think of the job giuliani is doing, is there solid footing or is there distance between them? >> this has been going on five or six days now. the president did say friday he thought rudy giuliani needed to get his facts straight. felt confident he would. my colleague bob costa talked to rudy giuliani this afternoon after the interviews this morning. he spent the day with the president at the golf course in virginia, the president feels good about it and they're in a comfortable place. it is totally separate from the white house. the white house senior staff have no idea what rude si doing. they're not booking his interviews. they're not strategizing over his talking basis points. this is very much a rogue operation the pre

cnn has learned, julia, more about michael cohen's potential sales pitch. re's what he told according to multiple sources. you should fire them there. i'm the guy you should hire. i'm closest to the president. i'm his personal lawyer. so julia, if cohen is being hired for his access and closeness to the president is that pay for play? >> yes, it simply is. and i think these stories sort of finally put to rest this notion that michael cohen is this sort of hanger on. he was quite strategic in who he went after, directly calling ceos. there's the at&t and nuvaris and other companies. why would a russian oligarch pay money to michael cohen into a fund that was also used to pay stormy daniels and that oligarch also benefitted from the delays of the russian sanctions implementation that had been ongoing with this trump white house? i don't think the answer to this question, but the fact i can even ask that question shows how interconnected the trump empire is and that michael cohen does not just represent the stormy daniels side of the problems for donald trump b

let's bring 'ing new julia kyanne, and michael zeldin. let's talk some policy now.ood evening to both of you. we got this breaking news tonight from "the washington post," and the president and rudy giuliani claiming that there was a spy in the campaign, and that want this alleged fbi source exposed. what do you think of this? >> i think it's terrible from a law enforcement perspective and giuliani should be embarrassed having said this, given he was both the mayor of new york in charge of police and also the united states attorney for the southern district of new york. there is an fbi informant, a live u.s. citizen who apparently is providing and has provided the fbi information about ongoing investigations including conversations perhaps with carter page and george papadopoulos. that's a far cry from implanting an informant within the trump organization as giuliani and others have alleged. and to out a source of vital intelligence for the fbi in ongoing investigations to me is just an unacceptable force of conduct. and think they really should be ashamed of themse

julia, shannon, and michael. president trump pardoned dinesh d'souza. he's sending a message to flynn, cohen and manafort. he's staying strong and there's a pardon for you if you stay strong. that's the message from the president with his bouquet of pardons. >> plus, john boehner says there's no republican party left anymore. only a trump party. he says the republican party is off taking a no somewhere. maybe these guys ought to stand up to trump while they're still in office. what did president obama think when donald trump won the '16 election? an insider account for the first time of obama's surprising reaction. tonight with the "hardball" roundtable. finally let me finish tonight with the trump watch. this is "hardball" where the action is. ♪ ♪ ♪ i love you baby applebee's 2 for $20, now with steak. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. >>> npr has published explosive audio recordings of president trump's long-time lawyer michael cohen threatening a reporter. the audio was taken during a 2015 interview between cohen and then "daily beast" repo

michael: everybody is watching it. it does not appear to be a major concern. julia: is that provided by china? [laughter] michael: our folks are well aware that you can trust the data. david: many thanks to bloomberg's penny -- peggy collins and mike mckee. come in the -- coming up, a sloth -- slow start to the year it will as christina cooper -- kristina hooper. that is coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg daybreak." i'm kailey leinz. get to the bloomberg business flash great the largest home improvement retailer reported first quarter revenue and sales that rose less than expected. that is adding to concerns that the u.s. market is cooling off. wall street is about to get a reprieve. according to people familiar with the matter, u.s. agencies preparing to scrap a presumption that most short-term trades violate the regulation. instead, they would conclude that trade would go with the role. a surprise change at the top of the world's second largest mobile carrier. ounce heexpectedly an is leaving after a decade in charge. he will replaced -- be replaced by the cfo. vodafon

. >> julia you're shaking your head. >> i am because michael flynn was trying to lift sanctions in the wink of an eye that he was national security adviser. he was working very hard to union laterally lift the sanctions that barack obama had imposed a month -- less than a month before leaving office in december of 2016. that did not come to pass. from what i heard, there were, you know flynn deputies working to do that a couple days after flynn was fired. it was a kind of chicken running around without its head before it fell down. i'm sorry for that image. >> that's exactly what we needed. so, listen, when we talk about the different investigation avenues for the mueller investigation. there was obstruction of justice, collusion and on and on that can be follow the money right. this is a point where i think a lot of that may intersect. the big question everyone is asking is is the president going to be questioned by mueller owner. does this affect that at all, you think? >> it has to affect that. it must ratchet up the questions mueller may feel to get some answers to these questions.

the phone lines of michael cohen, the president's longtime lawyer, weeks before last month's raid at cohelp's office, home and hotel room. we begin with nbc's tom winter, nbc's juliac legal analyst danny cevallos, michael avenatt avenatti. john was also robert mueller's chief of staff at the fbi. i want to welcome all of you. julia ainsley, tom winter, you two broke this story. as this is unfolding. tom, i want to start with you. walk us through what we know. >> okay, what we know is federal investigators pursuant to a lawful court order warrant were able to wiretap the phone lines of trump personal attorney michael cohen. that this wiretap occurred several weeks before the now public search warrant that w

julia ainsley. worked on the exclusive reporting that the president eegs longtime personal lawyer michael cohen was by federal investigators. julia, let's reset this for a bit because it's been a little while since we talked about this on msnbc. this is new news. this is very, very significant. what do you know? >> okay. so what we know, ali, is that in the weeks leading up to the raid, that was the raid on michael cohen's apartment and offices, hotel room, and early april, the weeks leading to that, there was already a wiretap of michael cohen which would have picked up on some of the conversations he had that would have been pursuant and fallen under the scope of a criminal investigation. that investigation, of course, spun off of mueller's. mueller asked the southern district of new york to look at cohen because they found evidence of criminal wrongdoing outside of mueller's scope. what we also know is that there was a phone call between one of cohen's lines and the white house. it is not at all clear that actually was a call from the president, himself, but it's obvious that they have been able

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julia: we will continue this discussion, no doubt. michaelckee, thank you so much for that and bob sinche is staying with us. italian bond market calm over popular -- politics. all the details on the arrangement, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: italy inching closer to forming a unique populist government with the antiestablishment five-star movement and the far right northern league reaching a tentative governance plan. romeng us with bloomberg's bureau chief. i have been looking at the details of the spending priorities and they look pretty whopping. talk us through some of the details. right, you are absolutely right. there is so much they want to do, but how are you going to pay for it and justify it with the e.u.? there's a flat tax of course, that is what the leagues wants, sometime -- some type of help for the poor. there is the lowering of the pension age, which is extremely expensive and it would be very complicated and a hard-fought battle for past governments. they would be going back on that. just those three things would be a hu

julia: developments concerning president trump's personal lawyer, michael: in.are learning that a russian oligarch, at&t, and novartis have ties to the ongoing saga. bloomberg opinion executive editor. what a story. about at&tning conrad:, novartis, and -- because a tweet was sent out by michael at the 90 -- twitteris happening on in an era where the president makes most of his proclamations on twitter. the lawyernatti is representing stormy daniels, who alleges to have had a personal affair with the president. michael cohen made a payment to stormy daniels allegedly to cover up -- they having gauged in a lengthy legal battle with avennatti. yesterday evening, he took to uploaded documents summarizing a series of payments to michael cohen, one of his llcs, from a myriad number of players. a firm tied to a powerful russian oligarch, a korean space firm, a major u.s. communications firm. the same company that paid $130,000 to stormy daniels. when you put this in perspective for us, who is michael avenatti? does he have a political agenda? >> we know he is a master

julia ni es un miembro valioso del equipo del presidente. julianne y este fin de semana no descartÓ la posibilidad de que michael cohen le haya pagado a otrasa donde compareciÓ stormy daniels. ilia: durÓ poco la tregua entre el gobierno de nicaragua y la oposiciÓn. reportes de prensa indican que la policÍa volviÓ a reprimir a opositores, quien regresaban de una protesta pacÍfica contra el gobierno. levantaron barricadas y prendieron fogatas para contener a los agentes. andrea: este domingo, los poblado de catalina al sur de managua fueron el escenario de nuevos enfrentamientos entre manifestantes opositores al rÉgimen de daniel ortega y fuerzas de la policÍa. los enfrentamientos en esta zona se reactivaron, despuÉs de que grupos civiles pintaron de azul y blanco el monumento del hÉroe nacional, que luego fue pintado por simpatizantes del gobierno en rojo y negro, los colores de la bandera del partido. >> como nicaragüenses no representa una bandera azul y blanca, no queremos nada con sangre, rostros ni muerte. reportera: los trotes de violencia dejaron heridos y un pronunciamiento de rechazo al movimiento 19 de abril. >> los muertos no dial

michael flynn was amongst the guests of honor. nbc could not reach connor comment tonight. we have joined my julia ainsley, justice reporter for abc news, barbara mcquaid former u.s. attorney for the eastern of michigan and a staff writer and msnbc contributor. it's from avenotti, but it's a bombshell. because it connects a russian oligarch paying $500,000 into a bank account, basically, which michael cohen was using to pay off hush money to stormy daniels. this the an amazing connection. your thoughts. >> it's an amazing revelation. chris. when we first started poking around on this i can remember a year or more than a year ago, asking people in counterintelligence, what should we be looking for? they said, follow the money. that's exactly what this document does. it shows a string, that trump's personal attorney paying hush money then having those bank accounts replenished by foreign governments in is this case russia. the government at the heart of the mueller investigation. i just didn't expect it to come from the attorney for an adult film actress who had an alleged affair with the president.

julia. so, what does this long and drawn-out battle mean for these media giants joining us on the phone, michaeler directv chairman and ceo. thanks for being with us. >> happy to be here. >> is the danger here that in the struggle the golden goose gets killed? cbs has been doing well. its management has been stable over the period of time. i guess that's the rationale for wanting to bring viacom into it. it's getting harder and harder to see how sherry redstone and les moonves could work together after this. >> i think we'll have to see hopefully, cooler heads will prevail. i think you have two interesting altering views les is a world class ceo he has done a terrific job with cbs and then you've got a controlling shareholder, who i think sherry does have tremendous respect for les but in the heat of the battle, things go on but i still think in the end they'll find some way to work things out with les continuing to run the entity and at the right price, presumably, in a positive way for shareholders, assuming it would be supported by the independent directors, they would look to merge but there

julia: and the importance of technology she pointed out her thanks to michael moore, bloombergs u.s.coming up, sloan speaks. the company's use of digital innovation. how fitting. highlights from our exclusive interview, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> it will>> not be the first time north. has shown off the distraction of its nuclear facilities. in 2008, images of a water cooling tower being demolished were broadcasted around the globe. a few years later, it was restarted to make plutonium for north korea's nuclear weapons, according to the iaea. this time around, a small selected group representing international media will witness the dismantling of its nuclear test site. it is where all six of its nuclear tests have taken place. there are no technical experts in the grip and south korean media have been left out. the site consists of a system of tunnels beneath mount mentor. it has been suggested there was a partial collapse during its last nuclear test. kim jong-un's closing of it could be a's -- a first step toward full denuclearization. north korea has a number of facilities tha

have seen in the machinations around michael cohen, there are people around qatar trying to cut business deals. not necessarily this one, but in other places. juliathat. it looks like the kushner company finally has someone who can take the 49.5% interest in the deal. what is their ongoing involvement? it is not completely out, even if -- >> they will separately owned the retail at the base of the building. it will be interesting to see how brookfield and kushner would result the $1.2 billion mortgage on the building, and if we are trying to see -- qatari involvement are no, the question is, what does kushner company's equities stake look like. a complex story, brilliantly clear. three republicans joined all 49 democrats to pass a bill restoring net neutrality. was one ofn kennedy the gop outliers, and spoke with kevin cirilli on capitol hill. >> there were both arguments -- good arguments on both sides. , the cable017 order company or internet service provider is allowed to throttle thelock or discriminate internet service provider declares it, tells the consumer, here's what i'm about to do, you can do it. the argument was made, it's an interne

julia: how much of a pivot versus how much continuity? steven gunn dell, thank you so much. let's get more from michael moore.ell telegraphed, scarlet mentioned with mr. and an put into position new transition here. should we be so surprised if december is the date, not on point in 2019? looking i think you are at some sort of 12 month window, whether it was december or sometime in 2019. steps have started. you saw it earlier this week with the departure of two of the three trading heads. that is part of the process, were solomon starts to think about who he wants in certain positions and whether those people, whether executives who are serving under a long time -- under lloyd want to stick around for the next era. aarlet: david solomon is known quantity in goldman sachs. to get back to that idea about trading versus the investment bank business, certainly david comes from the investment banking side, having been cohead of that division, but he is not a stranger to trading as well because of his previous position that goldman and elsewhere on wall street. talk about what he has indicated his priorities would

role did michael cohen play in potential russian collusion that spanned in 2016 and into the pendency of donald trump presidency in the payment in 2017. >> can i say something really. >> quick, julia, this sounds like the thing that donald trump ran his campaign on and attacks hillary clinton on which is pay to play. this looks like pay to play: the second thing is -- we talked a lot in the first phase of the investigation about hackers and about trolls and troll factories, to me this is the part that smells and tastes -- and looks the most like russia. really weird money flows to weird places. basically corruption and dark money. and that is -- and that is where russia world meets trump world very kind of seamlessly is seems. >> good point. >> and there may be a quo to this quid pro quo. so vekselberg's company was sanctioned in april and the end of april the sanctions were relaxed and rolled back until october. so vekselberg may have gotten something in return. all of a sudden his company that he owned 26.2% of, the other big portion was owned by dara pass caw who was paul manafort's pay master and those sanctions have been delayed until october. allowing them to get the money >

julia boorstin, of course, has been giving us great coverage from the recode conference >> he was also asked about at&t hiring michael cohen, president trump's lawyer, and said cohen approached us. we made a bad mistake and clearly didn't want to talk more about it here's where we stand on the markets. we closed down about 375 yesterday. we're making up a good bit of that today but the dow today interestingly enough is not leading the rebound. it's about even with the s&p up 1.2% and the small cap russell coming up 1.5% higher >> and a reversal of many of the sectors yesterday. let's get right to our reporters following the market moves steve leisman has comments on the fed with rates but let's begin with seema mody here >> a big comeback on wall street a 5-1 advance decline ratio. something we haven't seen in quite some time. you're exactly right energy a big part of the story look at exxonmobil lifting the dow nearly 4%. the oil giant is investing in projects at the bottom of the cycle. they hope that will lead to higher return and more money coming back to shareholders in the form of a dividend walk with me you'll

earnings headed our way today julia boorstin is standing by to cover results for us seema mody will bring us results for roku and courtney reagan from elf beauty joining me now michaelrwise known as, yes >> we'll show you the graphic. it's got a basketball. it's cool. >> i need to see it. >> you do. paul hickey is an investor leading the dow, today was dow dupont walmart down after announcing its flipkart deal in india on the s&p, tripadvisor. there were a lot of big moves. the 10-year went over 3% today now wti over $71 a barrel. if that was such a concern, why is everything being staken in stride >> i think the market -- the stock market had done all this kind of testing just to see if any incremental news was going to break it below this recent range. it didn't happen this morning or really early afternoon when the market did take off and really start to rally, it wasn't any headlines it was just about, you know what this is going to hold. the volatility index went below 14 that says we have some stability here as bob was saying, we have a chance to make a run and maybe get rid of this down trend that's been in place for a couple of months now so i think it was a

julia has disney results for us, and electronic arts, trip adviser, match group, and kate with earnings from wendy's see you in a couple minutes as those start to cross joining me now, michaeld bill smead, and john blank welcome to all of you. by the way, jpmorgan, gainer in the dow today, verizon the biggest decliner of the 30, and s&p, jacobs engineering group, and dish network had a 12% drop. we talked about the challenges in the media space >> yes >> putting that aside, what is your read on how the market is taking and just the first two hours of reaction time the president's decision >> essentially absorbed the news, taking it as expected, and essentially almost exactly stalemated and flat. half the stocks up, half down, index is flat. i don't think that the implications whether they are going to be positive or otherwise in this decision today are on a time horizon where the market today prices it in one way or another it was about what the market is going to do in the absence of this announcement, and that's what we got, which is a flat market, but yet with the sector leadership looking okay, financials and industrials, tech, transports, so, essentially, a decent stor

julia boorstin deidra bosa. eric chemi bertha coombs. and aditi roy will have fitbit results. we'll see you all in just a bit as those earnings start to cross. joining me now is senior markets commentator michaelome, everybody leading the dow today was apple with about a 5% gain after earnings yesterday i'd call it 4.5% verizon down 2%. aptive was the big gainer. and unum group lagged. we talked about earnings season how there was so much anticipation of strong profits and the market had kind of started to find its footing. and then now lately, even today it was really just the last hour that things fell apart >> taking aggregate good numbers for granted. it's not an encouraging pattern. you have this heaviness later in the day. but i also think it's mostly sideways it says to me it's more of a confused churning market more than one that is particularly fearful you know, even with the selloff in the afternoon, it wasn't like there was an urgency to the selling. it was very kind of measured i don't say that to say it doesn't mean anything, but it doesn't change the pattern very much we're kind of in the middle of this lower zone. >> the volatility vix didn't moou much this was unchanged the mar

julia? >> the trump administration has imposed sanctions targeting iran ian currency exchange network. 90 iranian citizens and companies were penalized. joining me now is bloomberg news state department reporter and steven cook. still with us is michaelting u.s. dollar use. do you think this is the beginning of a further ratcheting up of sanctions and the tensions with iran? >> it is certainly no surprise that the president said he would and there would be more sanctions to come. it is a testament to the seriousness of that intent. there have been a lot of speculation that suggested the president would go easy in reinstituting sanctions. maybe there would be an interim period. he is coming right out of the gate just a couple of days after he made that announcement with a very strong signal that the u.s. is not going to go easy. it is certainly going to pose a lot of problems are companies that would do business with iran. this is going to cause european countries to set up a bit straighter in their chairs. >> these guys, particularly the european companies. help me understand the strategy here. is it that the united states wretches it -- wretches up tensions so much that whatever the eu does, it does not help iran, and they have no c