he has been with me for a long time. he has been a supporter for a long time. a supporter, even in a financial sense. even before i ran, he liked the job i did. he is a highly respected man, a brilliant man, and he will do very well. we will be very proud of him. i want to just introduce to the media, say a few words, david malpass. [applause] mr. malpass: thank you so very much, president trump, for your confidence in selecting me to lead the world bank. the world's premier development institution. it's an incredible honor. i would like to thank my family that is here today, adele and my terrific children. i would like to knowledge all my friends and colleagues here, everyone, and especially secretary mnuchin, larry kudlow, and ivanka trump. chin,ng with secretary mnu i am proud to say that under your administration, mr. president, we negotiated a major capital increase and reform package for the world bank. with shareholders and dedicated staff, there's a great opportunity now to implement these constructive reforms that will lead to faster growth and greater

he is a long time skeptic about china but he is realistic. it is not inappropriate to lower the expectations. this is a long game and we are talking about structural changes necessary in the chinese economy but these are changes we've been waiting for since 1999.

you have not heard that in a long time. now, we are in a positive feedback loop for credit, taking cues from the market. from that standpoint, credit risk will probably be fading into the mind of the typical investor. jonathan: we will be talking about that next on the program. everyone is staying with me. coming up, it is the auction block, including italy returning to the bond market after attracting record bids for its debt offering last week. this is bloomberg "real yield." ♪ jonathan: i'm jonathan ferro. this is bloomberg "real yield." we go to the auction block where we begin with even more european sovereign debt issuance. demand for italian debt rising for three your notes. -- three ayrton notes. -- three year notes .for this s. this comes a week after record bids for italy's 30-your bonds. -- 30-year bonds. elsewhere in the u.s., investors jumped into the cash. indirect bidders to the largest portion of the $50 billion sale since july 2011. finally incorporates, at&t sold $5 billion of triple b bonds to help to refi

robinson, who lost a long batle who lost a cancer... battle with had a long robinson...who studio.joins us in the carpenter mark (pam) too.for next week too. (ken) lots to talk about in the sports world tonight... (pam) mark carpenter joins us in the studio. major league hall of famer... race pioneer... and bafrk robinson is dead at the age of 85... robinson...who had a long battle with cancer... as reported earlier in the show... major league hall of famer,trailblazer, and bay area icon frank robinson died today at the age of 83.. robinson, who lost a long batle with cancer, grew up in oakland... and broke into the major leagues with the cncinnati reds... with whom he played for 10 seasons... winning the national league mvp in 1961 he was traded to the baltimore orioles... where he won the american league mvp his first season there in 1966... becoming the first and still only player to achieve that honor in both leagues. he also took the triple crown and led the o's to their first world series title that season in 1975, robinson became

a good thing. the korean war has been over for very long time. the lack of a treaty or the presence of a peace e treaty did not stop the united stateses and the soviet union threatening each other with thousands of nuclear weapons, even though they never went to war and there was no question of peace treaties or anything like that. similarly in the case of pakistan and india, it is that the absence of a peace treaty that stops the from talking about nuclear weapons or enabling them to talk about nuclear weapons. i think you have to ask the question, are we going to focus on the issue at hand -- which is how do we deal with the nine states with nuclear weapons in the world -- or do we get into this endless process of trading diplomacy or sanctions and this and that depending on whoever happens to be in charge at any particular time? because what we have seen the last 70 0 years is we still have thousands of nuclear weapons in the world, despite some a efforts of this k kind of diplomacy.y. so we need a much more determined and different approach to

salary is planning to be manager at chelsea for a long time, as he says. e at stamford bridge? is he already on borrowed time? he is stubbornly sticking to his system. the fans don't like it, the players are ponderous at times, it is not producing results. he is not prepared to compromise on that, to try a different system, unless a dramatic change in fortunes happens, then i can't see any other conclusion. he came in late, don't forget. it was onlyjuly when he came in, so quite late before the change manager. he has only really had a couple of players brought in to help him out in terms of new signings to fit the system. ideally, yes, he should get more time. but you don't get more time at chelsea. we know that roman abramovich has a tendency to shake things up when results are not going josie's way. he has made 12 managerial changes in sea takeover in 2003. he is also made five midway through a season. jose mourinho was the first of all of them into us in 2007. lose philippe scolari went around this time ina philippe scolari went around this time in a 200

he has been with me for a long time. he has been a supporter for a long time. supporter in a financial sense, even before i ran. he liked the job i did. i like those people some how. he's a highly respected man, brilliant man, will he do very well. we will be very proud of him. so i want to introduce to the media, say a few words david malpass. [ applause ] >> thank you, so very much president trump for your confidence in selecting me to lead the world's bank. the world's premiere development institution. it's a incredible honor. i would like to thank my family here today, adele and my terrific children. i would like to acknowledge all of my friends and colleagues here. everyone, please. especially secretary, larry kudlow and ivanka trump. >> you just heard from president trump introducing david malpass for the position of world bank president. a position now open. he invited the gentlemen to come into the roosevelt room and give a few words. if the president takes questions we will go back to. that now to the virginia political scandal growing with top democrat

and i think you have to have a long-term perspective on this. my view on the commodity cycle is that it's been beaten down and hit a double bottom and, you know, there's a long way to go up, but you have to be patient it's not going to come quickly or routinely so that matters. it's going to take a while >> quickly on berkshire itself, what do you think after saturday's letter? after the problems with kraft heinz about the valuation there? >> as far as the valuation goes, probably fairly valued i don't think it's a stock i would consider to be undervalued. we do hold it in some of our client'sportfolios i think it's a good long-term holding but as far as buffet's letter goes, i really find some of the comments that are more politically related or criticisms of ceos and stuff like that the most interesting you can always count on him to say interesting things in that letter. >> like this year? >> i thought he took a swipe at the trump administration when he talked about how bipartisanship is so important. trump is not known for that. he talked abo

he denies all of this, as he always has and it is going to be a long court case. ooking at the background, not just at detail looking at the background, notjust at him as an artist but the music genre he works and, and some of the cultural things that apply. what did you find? it is kind of the world in general is questionable i suppose. r kelly is a man with a lot of power, he was influential at the time and it is shocking whether these allegations turn out to be true or not, whatever happens in the court case, it seems that the music industry has failed in these allegations have been going on for a long time. he is being taken to court once and i have spoken to so many people who work with him over the years and they thought something was up but did not say anything. for a long time these women were ignored and now they are being listened to. r kelly denies all of this but it seems like the music industry has a bit ofan seems like the music industry has a bit of an awakening to do in response to when people have allegations around them to adequately investigate.

for months for a long time, iwatched luciano doing this for months for a long time, i watched lucianought, in the end, you have got to stand with her. do you have got to stand with her. do you think moore will go? as well? i do not know. i haven't talked to other people about this. ian austin has decided not to join the new independent group of mps. they are bound together by opposition to brea ks bound together by opposition to breaks that while mr austin supports the prime minister ‘s deal. before entering parliament he was an adviser to gordon brown, he has never been close to thejeremy corbyn wing of the party and accused mr corbyn of creating a culture of extremism and intolerance. a labour party spokesman expressed this regret about his decision and said he should resign his seat and face a by—election in his constituency. but this resignation is further pressure onjeremy corbyn, having lost nine mps this week and facing growing calls to bag another break that referendum or risk revolt. ben, notjust problems forjeremy corbyn, but theresa may being warned she could face a mass re

. >>> and after 70 years, a long lost book turnsp at a local public library. we'll hear from the person who finally returned it. from canada. >> announcer: welcome to news 4 this week. >> hello, everyone. i'm leon harris. i always ask the question, have you done your taxes yet? big t, you may be in for a surprise this year thanks to changes in the tax code. we've seen complaints popping up on social media from people who normally a g fund but owe the irs. susan hogan has what you need to know about these changes. >> refunds this filing season have dropped more than 8%. r wasverage refund last y just over $2,000. this year, the average is coming in to about $1865. so we went to a tax expert to find out why. >> people are saying, well, what happened to my tax cut? i thought i was supposed to pay less in taxes. >> jay is a certified public accountant in arlington. he says there are two main reasons people may not see a big refund check this year. >> they weren't having enough tax withheld. >> if you didn't change your withholdings ago year when the ew tax law wen

the american people have been debating this in the political process or fun a long time -- for a longe, and once you go to congress and ask for the money, and the president has done that and the congress didn't give the money. i'm not a lawyer, but this doesn't strike me as an emergency. gerry: let me ask you about one other thing the president said, and there are continuing talks between the u.s. and china over trade. tariffs to be extended on march 1st unless a deal is reached. the president did speak encouragingly on friday suggesting a deal may be in the works. how important is it that a deal is done? >> i think it depends on what you mean by a deal. if it's to reduce the bilateral trade deal with china, i think that's highly likely. the real issues have to do with intellectual property theft and what the u.s. could to counter china's 2025 strategy, and there i don't think we're making much progress. i'm optimistic. i know the administration's team's working hard on this, but i think a real deal may be further off. jeffier that would really dress the fundamental -- address the fun

it's been a long day, italk. erent races,ette nisties and women winning in record numbers. both supporting acting awards went to black actors. rami malek talked in his acceptance speech of being a first generation of americans, an immigrant. the founder of oscars so white said, is this still an issue? she said as long as we are having conversations about firsts, there's an issue here. >> absolutely. of course everyone is talking about the fashion we saw last night on the red carpet. you are looking stunning and so many stunning gowns on the red carpet. who is trending? who have you seen trending on social media? >> everyone is talking about billy porter in the velvet tux-gown, whatever it was. i have never seen anything like that. lady gaga looked so stunning, so classy. you never know what you are going to get with her. so, this was a pleasant surprise. we have to talk about that necklace she was wearing, it's 128 karat diamond worth $38 million. outrageous. she looked incredible. j.lo looked gorgeous in that mir

that has to put the economy and taxpayers on a firmer footing. in the longun, these budget problems will have to be addressed. joe: let's talk about trade. the threat of an increase in tariffs on china has been delayed for a while amid progress in trade talks. assuming trade talks come to fruition and there is a deal, we know there is not going to be a tariff increase, what about the existing tariffs levied on chinese goods? with those disappear? dashwood those disappear? kevin: i can't get into the negotiations, but we made an enormous amount of progress. the ambassador testified about the progress. some of the most interesting things he talks about is the sketch of an agreement on enforcement. can't get in front of everybody to say what is going to happen with of the tariffs, that is something people are discussing. romaine: from being an economic advisor and an economist, do you see some net added benefit to the bottom line, meaning the somegdp, productivity once of these geopolitical issues are finally settled? the resolution of uncertainty is a big upsi

monitoring it is going to be a complex, years long process. ant is tough is this is apples to oranges kind of exchange. the north koreans want the united states to take demonstrable steps to ease tension, things like a piece declaration, like removing u.s. strategic assets. a fly from guam. demonstrablehave steps. host: let's hear from president trump last friday speaking from the rose garden regarding the summit and north korea. [video clip] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] -- >> no more testing of nuclear. the remains of our great heroes from the korean war. we got back our hostages. muche hope we are very equally successful. i am in no rush for speed. the sanctions remain. everything is remaining. china has been helping us. russia has been helping us. -- wekorea, you can say have been working closely with south korea, with japan but china, russia on the border have been possibly living up to what they are supposed to be doing and that is o

he has a long dhuchunk of that border. he is a republican who does not support the wall.or of communities in southern california, republicans who don't see that as the real solution here. why do they not see it as a national emergency? >> reasonable minds can differ. we know walls work. we know that in san diego, in el paso, i talked to these people. they have come to the white house to brief us. they have been on television shows like yours. they said walls work. when it went up in san diego and el paso, it helped to mitigate what they saw as a growing crisis. and so anybody who denies that we can't do border at the southern border is being hyperpartisan. they're not looking at it as a nonpartisan issue that can have the same kind of bipartisan solution. the president will talk about some of these issue wheres speaker pelosi indicated she would like to work together to get something done in this congress. drug pricing and drug transparency, infrastructure definitely and modern infrastructure. we talk about broadband, but also the repair of bridges and tunnels and roads.

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a niche. if twitter disappeared tomorrow, you need it, they've got it, it is valuable. as longey clean it up and make it a better experience, it can be valuable. >> the thing they tried to do through moments and changing how you see your feed, you can graze the news, learn generally what's going on opposed to what they're excellent at, when there is news, going there, seeing what people have to say they haven't been successful in building the moments and all of that -- >> especially for young people. >> for young people into the scale of what it could be. if i were jack door see, look at that as opportunity instead of going to yahoo! or another news portal to skim what's happening. >> seeing in the cloud and streaming quarter is costs, whether you look at google cost, twitter talking of increasing costs, facebook talking about costs of policing the platform how much is that theme becoming clearer. it is more expensive to continue growing some of the platforms than investors might have expected. >> definitely. it is showing you the biggest platforms have this advantage in scale.

harvard kennedy school i've been here in munich for the last several days and have come every year for a long time the differences between the united states government the trump administration and the german government and the european union are quite severe right now i thought it was a mistake frankly for vice president pence to ask the european union to give up on the nuclear deal with iran that the european union helped to negotiate and i don't think the european union is going to do that we saw obviously a profound difference over nato where the german chancellor angela merkel gave a compelling speech and electrifying speech where she defended nato and defended the u.s. the europe relationship i actually thought the speech that mirrored and and many ways was. in sync with chancellor merkel speech was a speech given by our former vice president joe biden who just spoke in the last hour here in munchen and he gave a ringing endorsement of nato and of our return of the united states to his leadership position. well meanwhile the u.s. vice president pence used his speech also to criticize ger

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he will string president trump a long. go before he has to make a hard decision, it works to his favor. caroline: a great perspective. p.j. crowley, thank you. that is all for "what'd you miss?" romaine: bloomberg technology is up next in the u.s.. joe: have a great evening. this is bloomberg. ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast. emily: i'm emily chang in san francisco and this is "bloomberg technology." up, the other tweed heard round the world. why elon musk is in hot water once again with the sec. facebook under fire. new details are emerging about the thousands of content monitors fired. apple wants to

you know this has been a long decision by the attorney general. says he intends to indict pending a hearing and it's very important this legal term a sitting prime minister mr netanyahu in three corruption cases now the cases have been investigated from this great police over the last two years to had to be commended last year to indictments in it and you know for what breach of trust and privacy now the attorney general apparently according to reports from here intends to indict mr netanyahu in case you're just known one thousand and three is. a case where he is suspected to have received gifts from business friends like some pain and cigars another case of breach of trust as in case two thousand but the most serious one here is the so-called case four thousand where mr netanyahu is a suspected. concessions to one of the shareholders of the biggest telecommunications firm in israel benteke who owns the news website and in return for positive media coverage so this has been suspected for a long time of course now it puts the country if it into poli

this will go a long way. that is why you're seeing the shares up so significantly. really sizable step. what is not clear is what they will do with the rest of the health care. they pre-have built take said they are going to ipo. this is the best part of that health care business. it is the fastest-growing, the sexiest. sort of the most appealing to investors. when you take that out and -- i'm not really sure what that means for the rest of the business. if it was me, i would keep the health care assets in the company and use the cash flow. you really need the cash flow to offset the cash burn that you are seeing in the power unit. they still have all of these funding needs going forward. while this does alleviate some of the stress on the balance sheet, you'd have -- you do have to work out the cash flow map going forward. >> what their left for is not bad, it is just not growing. the ratenot growing at of the sciences app. the sciences app. it does draw up a lot of cash, which you cannot say about the power business or aviation business going forward. you think ab

and it has been a long time since there has been a primary challenger, particularly a republican.do you think you can displace a sitting republican president? gov. weld: in some places like new hampshire it is one of voter at a time, they like to meet the candidates. it would require a certain amount of change, but as -- with how people in the republican electorate see things right now, that is for sure given the president's numbers, but there are 20 primaries were unenrolled or independent voters can vote in the republican primary, so that is an opening. beyond that, you have to make the case for yourself and i am in this to win, and i am not apologetic about that. it would be ludicrous to run any way other than to win. and i can see what i would do if i get in there, i know what i would do the first day -- cut spending. the president has not vetoed any of the overspending going on, not a penny of it. when i was in massachusetts i did do that and i was rated the most fiscally conservative governor in the united states by the wall street journal and the cato institute. hwen iran f

o >> reporter:ver at the rockville library, imagine hri su when she found a long-lost book and a,etter sayi sorry. >> this is the strangest thing i've ever seen. you don't always get an plan of how it was lost to us from so long. >> reporter: we did the math on the fine she could be facing. for most books, montgomerie county fines 30 cents a day. 73 years, y a're looking over $9,000. luckily tou cnty caps the fine at $15 andoesn't charge a late fee for children's books. >>> were you worried at all about any possible fines? >> no. i would have talked my way out of it anyway. >> reporter: if you're looking through the shelves hoping to find the post man ok, sadly you're out of luck. the library said the book is toc fragile tck the book out. but they'll show it to anybody who wants to see it. >> weeoant pple to use our stuff. we want them out in people's hands. >> reporter: proving no matter how old something may be,nt uance' never too late for a new beginning. in rockville, ae cho, news 4. in rockville, ae cho, news 4. >> that's for news 4 this sleeping on an ikea mattress, in rockville,

is you can't relax like that so if i want to relax i usually don't listen to anything there's been a long time concert meister of the master of the western. on orchestra was co-founded by your father. do you do you. there's been a lot of controversy about him recently here in berlin in terms of his his leadership style what have you learned from him for working with him with the divine orchestra and do you how do you separate the different sort of strands of relationships that you have to drive and i've been very fortunate in the divine and i've learned a tremendous amount i've basically had most of my musical education in the west eastern divonne also from my father learning you know i mean there's not there's not a better teacher to learn how to play than to learn how to approach music than him and also why my method what was going to become my my main by didn't teacher x. a village in the west is there and yvonne who sadly passed away last march and so. with these things i was very fortunate to. learn a lot and concerning his his leadership style and i mean that in the divine there tha

this is going to be a long day, and we're going to chase a lot of rabbits. unfortunately when we get to the end of the day, this is not going to be an oversight hearing. it's going to be more of a rabbit chase down a lot of holes. with that, i yield back. >> mr. collins, if you don't -- may i answer -- >> you may. >> i think it's important as we sit here today that we understand that this is not a confirmation hearing. that i am probably going to be replaced by bill bar in the next week. this is an oversight hearing for the department of justice, and i am surprised as we've both had the chairman and the ranking member talk about what they want to talk about, that we haven't talked anything about the work regarding violent crime. we haven't talked about the opioid crisis. we haven't talked about religious liberty or free speech on our college campuses and a host of other issues that i know are very important to you. and i look forward to talking about the substance of the work at the department of justice. but if this -- i mean, it is your five minutes, and y

it's been crazy ever since. >>> the honor was a long time coming. n worked on a number of films is a film editor and film composer. his biggest project was the before behold bohemian rhapsody includes the usual suspects and x-men. >> i am so proud of him, everything he had worked for is being recognized. he's being recognized for the talent that he is. >>> even if it's not what you intended to do, just do it so yes because you never know where one thing will lead >> >>> there were just 22 games left in the regular season for your nba champion. the warriors continue to - - last night they were in charlotte taking on the hornets. the gameplay clothes were out but - - the 121-110 win after on the road, to rebound - - and cousins at 24 points and 11 rebounds. technical file after tossing of hornets players shoe into the crowd. cousins was not happy about the call after the game he said he was just kind of getting rid of a hazard that could get someone hurt. >>> looks like the raiders will be staying in oakland for another season, they had been searching

isn't't want a book that salable for a long amount of time. ant a book that adds to the history of southern california, and if you are dealing with temporary moments, that is not our place. that is for other publishers to do. >> it is a challenge. in a way, it almost sounds self-serving, but we want to make books we would like to have on our bookshelf and not have to say, why is that on the bookshelf because that is last year's thing. we have been tempted to do things that are involved in trends, but luckily, we are so slow to react that we tend not to get involved in the trend before the trend is over. >> we did a book on a famed shopping street here in southern california. we thought, that is great. we will do a guidebook. authors who were steeped in fashion, new their topic so well, they wrote a wonderful book, but before i got back from the printer, there was the recession, and 50% of the stores had changed. we were stuck with a lot of books that were out of date. we learned a lesson the hard way. towhat you want the audience understand abo

at the low end of a long run neutral level. the fed funds rate is at the lower end of the longer run neutral level. is suggesting that gdp in the u.s. rose a little bit under 3.3%last year, but financial conditions are less supportive of growth since july. considerably larger than precrisis level. let's bring in our bloomberg aboutter who we are expecting to hear from today about the conference that is taking place in new york. is there anything in here that we are not expecting? >> i do not think so. it is always a bond market moving event. it'll be very interesting to listen to chairman powell, and next week, based on the report and the most interesting part will be the the question and which sensor -- session could provide further insight into what we already know. we already knew that the labor market is strong and the economy basically delivered the strongest growth case in 2018, so that is pretty much what the headline says. >> the fed is indicating is -- it is aiming to hit its goal on average. because inflation is seen b

that you hope number twenty five so that tells you a bit about how long i've been here if you did up on soft money how many can a regular like yourself drink just to shoot well that depends but to use enough for me our rights and then you're still up right are stumbling out of here it's a matter to go no then i'll fall over. yet though. well. as you know we love to visit you in your own town and you guide those around this time we went to the capital to meet up with friends and t.v. series out in the traveler she knew exactly where. my name is princess i am the globe princess and off welcome to my city across across the capital of ghana now today i'm taking you on a tour to various places in the city. a crime scene busy city where people kind and friendly and would help. with the place. where currently are but independence square in the now but independence square is the second largest square in the world after tiananmen square now currently this place is empty but doing independence day celebrations the place is packed there's so many people colorfully dress up to celebrate independe

a little. crashes are pretty commonplace. not so longeople on board went down on the same route we're taking today. >> most planes crash in congo crash because of the weather, right? >> yeah, most of the time, yeah. >> not us. don't worry. >> impossible. >> the weather clears up, sort of. so we decide to give it a go. >> when the weather is very bad, stay on the ground. >> what about rebels? are they shooting at the planes? >> no. normally, no. okay. we'll see you after your trip. >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. have a good one. >> lifting off from goma, we head out over the shores of lake kivu before circling back north-northeast. our destination -- what conrad referred to in "heart of darkness" as the inner station. here surrounded by dense jungle lies our rendezvous with the congo river. a waterway responsible for both building this country and helping to destroy it. hey, how ya doing? uh, phil. are you guys good with brakes? we're ok. just ok? we got a saying here. if the brakes don't stop it, something will. that's not a real saying. it is

so that's a long-term goal. asia is stability, making everyone there happier, breathe a bit easier. i think that's already happened. the noter koreans have agreed not to resume testing. that's a huge step. it's a victory for the president. it makes everybody feel a lot better. lauren: we have so many ge geopolitical events taking place right now. i want to bring up pakistan and india, essentially attacking one another. how do you see that playing out? >> quite honestly, that one is very scary. these are countries that have a long history, they fought wars. pakistan is weaker. it relies on nukes as a deterrent. it hides behind that when a terrorist attack is launched. everyone is very nervous, can they get on off the off-ramp. india struck back. they lost a couple airplanes. china, america has interest there, everybody else in the subcontinent wants to see them back down. this one would be huge. it could go nuclear. i don't think it will. but this is something which the markets will be absolutely freaked about if

we thought that for a long time. ere have been periodic moves where they appeared to be moving toward a western style market economy. but they at the same time, failed to enforce the intellectual property protections. they have on crucial technologies made sure that the transfers took place. they have really announced a industrial policy of 2025 plan. they haven't backed off yet. so you know, it can be quite frustrating trying to track progress of the chinese, it often is, one step forward, two back. you don't really where you are. i think that is still true today. charles: we, perhaps, president trump will extend this, tariff hikes for another 60 days. obviously, it feels like the week was pretty good in beijing. we've got the new round of talks next week in washington, d.c. and there is a lot of scuttlebutt perhaps of president xi and trump meeting in mar-a-lago. both sides want a deal. how do you see it, ultimately being perhaps put together. with all the things you talked about, china wanting to protect the grand

because it happened a long time ago. is that -- something that should be a factor at all? o. because we're looking at an individual who has directly -- he's created this platform that's been against this kind of behavior, but he's not taking responsibility for how he's contributed to it. you understand what i'm saying? >> yes. absolutely. when you watch the, the governor's press conference yesterday what did you make of it? >> after i got done shaking my head and just looking at the tv like it was crazy i thought it was ridiculous. the fact that he talked about how he wasn't in this picture but then same time he participated in blackface and doing the michael jackson quote/unquote dance contest and things of that nature. then doing a little research and understanding the history and culture of the school i definitely think it's him and definitely think he needs to resign and step down and allow justin fairfax to step in as the second black governor in the history of the state. >> president trump weighed in. we don't have the time to play the sound of that, but what do you m

i've been saying it a long time. >> there's about 50 more where that came from. the acting attorney general, the person in charge of the mueller investigation, refused to say it isn't a witch hunt. most republicans in washington have taken a clear stand against the witch hunt attacks. >> i wouldn't use the term witch hunt. >> it's not a witch hunt. >> well, whitaker wouldn't defend mueller's investigation and wouldn't say it is a witch hunt which is even more of a concern when you consider his public comments on the investigation, made before he oversaw it. >> this is not helping the administration. >> an effort by jim comey to have somebody. i think it smells a little fishy. >> still continue to wonder if there's any there, there. i have not seen a single fact. >> laura is out front in washington. what else stood out to you in this hearing where whitaker wouldn't say whether mueller's probe is a witch hunt or not? >> really vacillating there. he really doubled down on his refusal to step down saying notwithstanding all of his past criticisms, the criticisms of th

him, have him on your payroll 12 years, and have him do so much of your dirty work -- >> because a long time ago he did me a favor. a long time ago he did me a favor. >> so what favor could cohen have possibly done to earn the president's trust for all those years? that still remains a mystery. but whatever the favor is, i'm sure those congressional committees will be interested. what we do know is this. cohen pursued a trump tower moscow deal well into the 2016 campaign season with a goal to secure land and create relationships with high-level russian government officials, including vladimir putin's press secretary. and we know that he paid karen mcdougal and stormy daniels to stay quiet about their alleged affairs with the presidential candidate just weeks before the election. those acts, cohen testified, were at the direction of individual one, donald trump. they were also felonies. but cohen is already in the hot seat on capitol hill, having lied to congress in his previous testimony, and congressional investigators will have a lot to ask about and could probe the materials that wer