for perspective, let's bring in john allen. john joining us this hour in rome. john, the pope has not yet spoken about what happened in sri lanka, but you say that he will likely make remarks in his noon homily? >> reporter: yeah. so right now the pope is leading the easter sunday mass.. easter is of course the most sacred day on the catholic christian calendar. it's the day the christians celebrate the resurrection of jesus from the dead. he did not mention this and he will keep the focus on the ritual itself. at noon, rome, in about an hour he is going to be delivering what's known as an address to the city that is rome and to the world, which is always a sort of 360 degree review of the global situation, george. we are fully expecting that he will have something to say about sri lanka then. >> keeping in mind the pope was in sri lanka just a few years ago speaking on the issue of reconciliation. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, sri lanka is of course a country that was torn by a very bloody 30 year civil war that ended only in 2009 fueled largely by separatis

welcome to the business i'm john allen while out in berlin thanks for joining us we begin here in germany where merger talks between the country's number one and two banks thought to bank and convert spike have collapsed what have created germany's biggest financial institution but it seems the operation would have been too costly and complex. beilin wanted it to happen but that wasn't enough to unite the two german giants but yes torture banks said right from the beginning we would only go into these this weren't sure if it makes economic sense if it is beneficial for shareholders for the stake when. this was not given here off to a very deep.

business i'm john allen milan in berlin thanks for joining us a mixed finish to wall street as investors wait on hundreds of corporate earnings reports a jew later this week but one of the day's big losers was boeing its stock dropped by more than four percent over friday's announcement that it would cut production of its seven three seven max aircraft several analysts are predicting lower profits amid continued fallout from the two recent fatal plane crashes they're saying reputational damage as well as the max's ability to sell it could eat into market share in the long term. joining us now is our financial correspondent yan's quarter and wall street hello good to see you so we have an unfortunate mix here of a downgrade production cuts of the prospect of financial liability for those two fatal crashes isn't there a way out for boeing. at the moment there are not really that many good news surrounding boeing and looks like it will take much longer to actually deal with the issues was the seven three seven eight planes and that is not just true for boeing which lost by the way about fou

welcome to business i'm john allen lautenberg lent thanks for joining us we begin here in germany where merger talks between the country's number one and two banks thought to bank and comet's bank have collapsed what are created germany's biggest financial institution but it seems the operation would have been too costly and complex. berlin wanted it to happen but that wasn't enough to unite the two german giants but we have storage banks said right from the beginning we would only go into these this merger if it makes economic sense if it is beneficial for shareholders and for the stakeholders this was not given here after very deep conversations and talks with comments but we came to the conclusion if we put chances and rist against each other that we should stop the talks about this merger know the government's hopes of the two banks combining to raise a powerful national champion for germany's finance sector the proven out of reach bank and comet's bank have concluded the benefits would be outweighed by the risks the restructuring costs and the capital requirements they both struggl

business i'm john allen malone in berlin good to have you with us president donald trump. hasn't lashed out at europe for subsidizing plane maker airbus saying that's made for unfair competition with the u.s. is boeing now trump wants to settle the score by launching a new round of tariffs on european products bringing together a decades long dispute and much more recent trade tensions. airbus isn't just an aerospace giant it's a pan-european collaboration supported in part by government subsidies a fact the united states says gives airbus in unfair advantage one that president trump wants to take action on via tweet he announced eleven billion dollars in new punitive tariffs on european products it's a conflict that has been brewing for fourteen years for their part their bosses european investors accuse the u.s. of propping boeing up with of mentions of its own both sides filed suit with the world trade organization and the w t o's says both sides subsidies are on lawful. france's finance minister is calling on both parties to find common ground. to go to war the situati

. >> cnn senior vatican analyst john allen is in rome. tell us what else the pope said. i mean, several of his predecessors have had to address believers there after attacks on easter. what did he say? >> reporter: hi there. despite everything, happy easter to you. yes, you're right. this is hardly the first time a pope has spoken on easter following a brutal attack against christians someplace. in 2015, there was an attack on a university in kenya targeting christian students that left more than 100 people dead, 2016 on easter sunday, bombs went off at a park in a christian neighborhood. pakistan where people were celebrating easter and last year left christians dead and injured and we see this violence this year in sri lanka. pope francis expressed his closeness to the victims in sri lanka which he described as having been struck today by sorrow and by pain. he described what happened as cruel violence. he called for prayers by christians all over the world. and indicated that he would continue to carry the nation of sri lanka in his heart as he copes with the aftermat

john allen is cnn's senior vatican analyst. and john, where did benedict's reasoning come from?bare -- bear in mind pope francis call a summit of bishops from all over the world to caulk -- to talk about the clergy sexual abuse scandal and he wasn't there but aware it was going on. i think he felt in light of that summit, he needed to share his own refleb -- reflections because he was pope for years when this was going on and he thought deeply about it. in terms of where the specific ideas in this essay come from which is basically blaming the sexual revolution of the '60s in link to that what he sees as a collapse in catholic moral teaching after the second vatican council in the mid 1960s. these are not new ideas for pope francis benedict. he's never been a fan of the sexual revolution and a lot that happened in catholic theology after vatican 2. so nothing here is particularly surprising. what interested me most about this essay actually is what he said about church law. he talked about a problem of gar anterism and for a long time church law put emphasis on the rights of acc

our senior vatican analyst john allen is following the story in rome and joins us live this hour.derstand holy mass is under way right now an the vatican. has the pope said anything yet about these blasts, these explosions in sri lanka? >> reporter: hi, george. happy easter to you. no, we don't yet have a comment from pope francis. he is moments away from delivering his homily. that's the sermon that heal deliver for easter sunday mass. the vatican sent out an advisory this morning saying he would be speaking without a prepared text. and so it is -- we would expect that he will have something to say about the bombings in sri lanka. later today, of course, at around noon rome, so any about an hour and a half, the pope will be delivering his traditional urbi etorbi address. we would also expect he will have something to say on sri lanka at that time. >> just to the point of have i lanka, it was just four years ago that the pope visited sri lanka. he prepared peace and reconciliation after the country's long civil war there. >> reporter: yeah, it is of course, deep lie ironic. but we

let's bring in our senior vatican analyst john allen and coby carp also here to join the conversation. john, i want to start with you. so often when we go to our correspondents at the vatican it's because of a conspiracy. today you have world leaders, queen elizabeth, chinese president xi jinping, a tragic event and one that's brought the world together at the same time. your thoughts today? >> well, john, you're absolutely right. i actually wrote a piece for the news site that i right "crux" this morning. the headline of which we're all parisiennes now. i have been struck, i think all of us have been, by the -- the unsolicited outpouring of first shock and horror, but then complete solidarity not only with the catholic church in france but with paris and with all of france as it struggles to come to terms with this, and what's underneath, that john, is a recognition that the cathedral of notre dame, although it is a functioning catholic church and one of the immediate questions is where the thousands of catholics who were planning to be there on holy thursday, where they are going to

occurs most in the agriculture and fishing sectors where seventy percent of workers a pool of zeroes john allen dog and meet some of those struggling to earn a living in the capital manila when war broke out in malawi in the southern philippines almost two years ago. and her children fled the violence they made their way here to downtown manila since then her eldest son up to her man has been providing for the family but life in manila is also violates often like many others they are harassed because they are homeless and they're classified as illegal venters later it is hard when you see them hauled away in tire which is even more difficult is when the children are sick but what can i do. experts say aye around half of filipino children go to bed hungry and the young are most at risk of muldaur shipment more than twenty percent of them are under weeks the philippines ranks ninth in the world among countries with the highest number of children with stunted growth. how occurs the most in agriculture and fishing sectors where more than seventy percent of workers are impoverished displacements bro

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john allen, thank you so much in rome for me this evening. appreciate it. >>> hour two, you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with the president praising his attorney general for comments that have outraged democrats. president trump saying bill barr told it like it is when he testified that, quote, spying did occur on the trump campaign. barr later clarified saying he meant that he had concerns that improper surveillance may have happened. but that did not stop the president from saying this. >> i think what he said was absolutely true. there was absolutely spying into my campaign. i'll go a step further in my opinion it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying. and something that should never be allowed to happen in our country again. and i think his answer was actually a very accurate one and a lot of people saw that -- a lot of people understand, many, many people understand the situation and want to be open to that situation. hard to believe it could have happened. but it did. there was spying in my campaign. and his answer w

community to address the dire situation of nearly a million writing the refugees in bangladesh plus how john allen surveille heartland of the and remember a nationalist party making spain now the ladies of the european country preacher i write the logic of it it's election day i know that i was young and this ball will have the latest from the n.b.a. playoffs where five time champion is san antonio the third round exit and force a decisive game seven. let's get going security remaining tight across sri lanka today outside mosques and churches the police say they're still searching seventy people suspected of having links with eisel following the wave of bombings on sunday the death toll from the easter sunday suicide attacks has been revised to around two hundred sixty that's about one hundred fewer than earlier before now the country is still on a state of high alert. with further bomb warnings being made mel fernandez joins us live from colombo so many people being told today to worship in private so clearly the security situation is still pretty in terms. that dr peter we're still hearing about

john allen sums it up, hope and change were luxuries of the past. joe biden is running on fear. biden received a warm welcome to the race from the incumbent president as you might have seen, quote, welcome to the race sleepy joe. i only hope you have the intelligence long in doubt to wage a successful primary campaign. it will be nasty. you will be dealing with people who truly have sick and demented ideas, but if you make it, i will see you at the starting gate. the president added this. >> i think that when you look at joe, i've known joe over the years. he's not the brightest lightbulb in the group i don't think but he has a name that they know. >> earlier in the day, biden brushed off the president's insults. >> do you have a message for president trump, he welcomed you in the race and questioned if you have the intelligence to be the president of the united states. [ laughter ] >> everybody knows donald trump. >> here for more tonight, mike nbc news national political reporter who spent the day on the road with joe biden. matthew political reporter for "the new york times"

john allen put it this way, quote, the humanitarian emergency at the border threatens to create a crisis in competence for his administration. if illegal immigration was a problem before trump took office, it has become worse, not better, since then and he is looking for scapegoats. remember those scapegoats will be members of his own administration. many of whom the president chose. remember kirstjen nielsen was not a lay over. he chose her. i'm going to go to hans at the white house. help us understand this. how are all of these firings supposed to fix the problem at the border? this is president trump's team. the ones charged with executing his vision. >> it makes it more difficult. look at the challenges to implemented his border policies. he had tactical challenges amend legal ones. we saw that last night. part of his making asylum claims is no longer going to be allowed. then you have the plolitical ones. we've seen the challenges the president has on the mechanics of running the government. on finding people to implemented policies. bureaucracy at this level can be exceedingly com

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just before we wrap around too long will join the ranks of woody allen and john noble in being awarded an owner re palin door at this year's celebration of the seventh ought. and as you would expect. as it's been for every yeaear wl bebe old across the accomplice filmfestival as it happens with extensive coverage -- throughout that's a fantastic become the french riviera. lucky cochiti. no not for the business and hugh ca roy is here for that as you crank is out for a presidential run off the sunday rushes announced you. economic sanctions against its dna a of russia has announced it will ban oil exports and limit coal exports to ukraine from june it will also expand its ban on imports from the country. the move comes just three days before you craning his head to the polls again to choose between incumbent petro poroshenko. a comedian followed him yet the landscape as that next. russian prime minister dmitry medvedev says the new messages. is in response to a recent decision by kia to ban imports of several russian made products take lessons. what it'll come with us she did the bann o

they had to tell john miller to move along with the introduction. allen was honored pregame. his family presented with first phase. >> the team standing behind them do out in the first pitch. he received another huge ovation. >> tampa bay quickly spoiled the party, they hit back-to- back homers off of derek rodriguez and the rays jumped out to a 4-0 lead. the new scoreboard, it looks pretty good. the giants finally put runs on in the seventh, finding the gap in left-center, pulling into second, it is 5-2, bases- loaded, automates, not the first impression he was looking for. the inning ending double play as the giants left runners on the base, bottom of the ninth, representing the run, facing the former team for the first time since being traded last year, he flew out to write to end the game in tampa, the final of 5-2 with a giants record following 2-6. to the clubhouse, >> a tough day as far as losing a ballgame, >> it is crazy watching him gets emotional like this, he's the leader of the team. 70 times. getting emotional. it chokes you up a little bit. >> it was a lesson h

and here with us to talk about it, jonathan allen, our national reporter and lonnie chen, john, we have seen this former vice president facing the press today. we see the video and a couple of statements as this story plays out. how has this landed inside biden's world. are they nervous of the long-term impact or feeling this thing as minimal. what are they thinking inside? >> i have talked to people who have talked to the inner circle and you know i think and i have talked to some democrats who are looking at supporting biden. t it is also the handle of this by biden's campaign. does he understand how to handle personal crisis, rather than a national crisis. a lot of the response looked a bit like 1975 and not 2019. he did not come out and talk to camera immediately or reporters immediately. he put out a statement for a spokesperson, all of that was sort of handling and took a week to get this sort of behind him. today after he went out and said he was very sorry and taking it all seriously in the first video and he goes out and makes jokes and talks to reporters. i am sorry that i jok

the group called change uk, more recently known as the independent group, m p heidi allen, a former colleague of john press john absolutely no and you are absolutely right to pressjohn on that, because parliament has been clear twice, the prime minister has acknowledged, there is no way whatsoever that we will tolerate no deal, it is economically suicidal. but it would deliver on the result of the referendum. i am not sure about that, if you cast your mind back... it is always easy to be ro5e tinted but it was always clear to most of us but it was always clear to most of us that we will trade on the same trading arrangements we have always had, liam fox saying it would be the easie5t trade deal we have down in history, so to leave with nothing... people forget that if we come out with no deal, it means no transition period, so the two—year period for getting things ready wouldn't be in place, which means no negotiations for drugs, you can't get chemicals and come you can't move people, you can't move goods, tariffs are not arranged. it is literally cliff edge andi arranged. it is literally cliff edge

allen. >> the definitive biography of the general was written by john hoffman. he is now a retired marine colonel. there is still some doubts. edison died of carbon and outside poisoning in a car which was his own part in a garage. i think at his home in maryland. what is puzzling still is the fact that the engine had been turned off and there was still gasoline in the tank. the people who knew edison said he was perfectly capable of killing himself and saving gas at the same time. he was that tough. there was conspiracy theory that for some reason he was murdered. after he retired from the marine corps under mcleod because he has been a hardened advocate empowering marine corps representation, very happy about the douglas mansfield act which dictates that there always be three marine divisions and three marine aircraft planes. he supported that concept retired. he became director of public safety for the state of vermont. the theory is that somebody with gangster inclination got him and part of the vendetta had nothing to do with marine corps service. he was es

john went from today. neck of the plant. >>is one we enjoyed studying throughout this process same goes for quentin williams. josh allen. can go on and on as a very deep class that defensive line and that's exciting only for us, but i think for a lot of because that's something you just have the quarter. >>can pam you got to love this time of off and you got an f l draft drama to be a fun week thank you mark. >>coming up evidence mounting that shows sea creatures are in danger and the threat seems to be coming from one main source, we'll talk live with someone who's been investigating this issue and next children, a safe their pitch for downtown baseball stadium to the state capitol with a rally in ♪ flintstones! meet the flintstones. ♪ ♪ they're the modern stone age family. ♪ ♪ from the town of bedrock. ♪ meet george jetson. ♪ ♪ his boy elroy. with instant acceleration, electric cars are more fun to drive and more affordable than ever. electric cars are here. plug into the present. glad you're back how you feeling? ♪ ♪ (both) exhausted. but finally being able to make that volunteer trip happen was... awesome. awesome.

26th avenue in foothill boulevard police say after hitting the 3 allen kept driving, then abandon the car and hasn't been seen since john to us hoping a gate. >>get that guy song. he like oh my gosh, this is see no need to loveless of innocent people neighbors and even strangers continue to stop by the memorial that is growing near the location of the hit and run. iean odysseus stop sign. you know like i lights night because she say that is a lot of kids mothers >>call for a traffic light for at least a stop sign is not new in this neighborhood then the area city councilman says he will make sure something is done. >>definitely put one of those blinking lights it if you want to cross that the button and the lights off come a flash. know this one possibility, i'm doing it up and down through ville on 35th avenue, us though the children there's well. >>up to $25,000 in reward money is being offered by oakland police and crime stoppers for information leading to the arrest of the suspect in oakland dan kerman kron 4 news. >>and over and police are trying to crack down more on w now about the one that resulted in a 42th int

allen. we go on to john. thank you for c-span.y comment is that i thought at thee jokes correspondents dinner should probably also cover the likes of msnbc, cnn, and the way that they portrayed the trump campaign and the issue of russian collusion and how they were very wrong about that. john brennan, for example, as a member of the intelligence community, kept saying that there was evidence out there of collusion. that should have been the basis of a joke. i'm calling on the independent line because i see that it is ideology that bends the reality. each one of these news organizations, media outlets, bends reality to service their particular ideology. whether you are talking fox, cnn,wall street journal," or npr. i get my news from all of those outlets. my point is that we all ought to realize the press is out there and they are going to bend the news to service their ideology. that is john in virginia. you mentioned less jokes and less stars. a list and be list stars compared to the past. "hollywood reporter" last year noting th

john pinnet. he's currently vp of marketing and communications at paul allen's volkin he also led communications forfor gates ventures and was at gates ventures for five years he was at google serving as head of asia pacific communications before that. and he held a number of jobs at microsoft. so two very experienced new executives joining the team as facebook deals with a range of different issues facebook shares up about 1.7% today. back over to you >> julia, so a new vp of global coms what happened to sir nick clegg, the former uk deputy pm? didn't he take that role >> this person john pinnet is replacing someone named karen maroony, who's a long-time facebook executive and karen works with nick clegg. this is not replacing clegg but adding to his team of executives and very interesting here, wilf, that they're not picking another executive from another silicon valley startup they're going with someone with a lot of experience. and some people a lot of experience dealing with a very big tech name bill gates, who we've discussed as being an ooild of mark zuckerberg's >> kevin, i want to get your

counselman charles allen tells cnn the video causes distrust and damage to the community's relationship with law enforcement. >>> some sad news from the sports world, boston celtics legend johnavucek has died. havucek won eight nba titles with the celtics and was part of one of the most memorable plays in history. sealing the 1975 conference finals with that steal. john havlicek was 79 years old rchlt the top pick in the nfl draft came as no surprise. >> the arizona cardinals select kyler murray, quarterback of oklahoma. >> kyler murray, number one, now the team has to decide what to do with josh rosen. their first round pick from a year ago and starting qb. ohio state nick bosa the second pick going to the san francisco 49ers. he follows his brother joey, the chargers first round pick in 2016, and thhis father john. remarkable. >> it does run in the family. >> the new york jets also took alabama tackle quinnon williams at number three. >> the new york giants select daniel jones. >> oh, no. not cool. that is how giants fans reacted when they selected eli manning's heir apparent. and miami dolphins took christian williams at 13. they won't forget it, neither will roger goodel

. >> still with us jonathan allen and lonnie chen. johnanders, i mean, this was the story in 2016. he was getting close to hillary clinton and the reason he couldn't get close enough to get the nomination overwhelming support for clinton among black voters. i think clinton beat sanders by 72% margin. the prospect of sanders reversing the voters in 2020? >> lonnie was talking about biden being a 20 th century candidate in a 21st century race. i think what's fascinating about bernie sanders is he's showing an adaptdability. he's talking about racial justice alongside economic justice. he's learned and adapted and is trying to make that bridge to african american voters. look, bernie sanders has an advantage in this race unlike anybody else. which is that he's got a national network. when they start going for delegates, this is somebody who's going to have at least 15% in almost every congressional district. he's going to be able to pull delegates. he's going to win states. that's huge as he tries to get a plurality. the other question, kamal

john hopkins university. thank you for shedding some insights on u.s. china and the tribulation. i want to point to something that investor craig allen mentioned briefly. looking to secure the trade groups towards arctic. how does this play toward u.s. interest and better opportunities for cooperation and how do you see this to what extent conflicts with u.s. interest. >> hi my name is michael i'm a junior. my question relates to the current deficit of china. china's current count has surplus has dropped to 4% of gdp and many have predicted that it will experience a current count deficit for the first time and pastor decades. so china might have to respond to any reality of facing net capital inflows from foreign countries. the question, what are the implications of the shift for china's efforts in opening up its financial markets. >> thank you so much for coming to speak to us. i came in the university of virginia. i was wondering if you could talk about any incentives that china would have for opening up its markets. these expressed pretty explicitly that they don't have any intention of removing these pressures and areas and indus