so those transcripts that were released today, i mine, thean t seems to be more evidence that the president direct this quid pro quo and gordon sondland, his ambassador to the eu put once more front and center, he is going to be testifying out in the open on wednesday. what does the next week, in your opinion, hold for president trump? more bad things? >> well, they're moving from bad to worse. they're not getting better. and with each passing day, the testimony seems to contribute bit by bit, drip by drip to the conclusion that the president was actively involved. it was at his direction, and he was holding funds until he got an agreement. it was without using the words "quid pro quo." that's exactly what it was. it's kind of like if you think of it as a meal. we're done with, we've had some foreign professionals, the soft line of our power. they're testifying and bringing things slightly from the outside in towards the president. next is the appetizer. that's sondland. he'll come in wednesday. and the question is, his early testimony was changed a few days later when people were testifyin

thean what happened to first one? >> s the question. who will invest in it?s unclear where investors stand in his game. also, what's going to happen to the exit for the first fund. the ipo market now is not where it was. how are they going to find a return from the first fund like they have been wanting. do you think that people are buying the defense? day, so is down on the i think the question is whether they find a bottom. remember, softbank is a mobile company, more than just division funds. it's kind of muddy to see through it there, but at least that big story for softbank is how much of it is part of that right now. -- shery: appreciate it. a reminder, you can catch all of the functions on your bloomberg through g tv . this is bloomberg. ♪ 's get the first word. a signing between the u.s. and china. the two presidents may not be able to ink the pact until december and at the signing ceremony is unlikely to take place on u.s. soil. the trade deal would entail the u.s. dropping tariffs on chinese imports in exchange for a beijing resuming purchases o

from the time he was at trump tower where everything was boiled down with him at thean t a bunch of orbits around him that only he knew what was g on. you see the same with the white house. he doesn't believe it following typical white house protocol and he has outside lines wndn he was first elected there were would t to outsource certain functions to his company or aides who worked for his we haven't seenny evidence of that but we know he has invoked ople like rudy giuliani and deployed phlegm on i mission -- them on missions to find dirt on the biden family. there are other areas he outsierceds of government whether the va involving some members of his club in florida who had managed to get their hands in there. i think we playee other instances of this as the next year or five years progress. robert: he returns r turns t rudy giuliani for help on govern policy but w does he turn to inside his cabinet as he faces impeachment? who is influential right now? maggie: so many of the people who have been influential the last year are also people who are proximate to there inquiry as subjects

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started mentioning the phrase "no quid pro quo," essentially saying that one thing was not dependent on thean othemilitary aid was not contingent on investigations being launched into his political opponents. laura: chris, is the president now backing away from his personal lawyer rudy giuliani, who was e go-between on raine? chris: yeah, rudy giuliani was always seen as the man airdropped into ukra push for these investigations. however, in an interview with former fox news anchor bill o'reilly, president trump said specifically that he did notiu direct mr.ani to go to ukraine. he also said he believed that mr. giuliani had businessn dealingsraine, but suggted he did not know anything about it. that has been interpreted by some that he is trying to distance himself from his personal lawye it must be said that mr. giuliani also made clear that as far as hwas concerned, mr. trump was not going to be in a position where he threw him under the bus, although he did suggest that he had insurance -- that is what he called it -- insurance to ensure that did not happen.he did not elaborate on t that

thean contrast that with best times the market has had over the last number of years.erence, explosion highs. the thing to remember, it was not all in once. whats lagging a little bit happens now, when we have about 8%, about 40 names on the s&p 500 within 3%. 30% of the s&p. that is pretty interesting. it will be interesting to see if that happens in a lagging form. a bullhat be a sign of market? this: you look at consolidation period, looks similar in terms of managing, volatility. it a littlee into bit more. abigail: may 2020 will be full of new highs. people have been watching small-cap more recently with the russell back above 1600. here, you are looking at it through the iw m. the top of 2011, up, but not as good compared to the s&p 500. we see the relative weakness reflected in the chart below. they lost nine months, 10 .onths, each one started about two months in, the s&p has outperformed. that will continue through the early part of 2020. abigail: it sounds as though if we do have those new highs, 2020 could be about relatively good performance for the s&p 500

soldier, lieutenant colonel , thean and dr. fiona hill ambassadors. these people work for the trump administration. many are republicans. when they got on the stand they were under oath and told the truth. but with president trump one minute you are the best thing since sliced bread. as soon as somebody tries to, i guess, be your friend by telling the truth, he totally dis acknowledges them. far asnd point is as concentrating on the impeachment instead of health care, nobody really has brought of health care for the last four years. people are paying more for their health care insurance that does not cover anything than they are for their mortgages. brush with the health care industry for sickness or is getting to be a worse and worse experience all the time. yes, it would be nice if somebody -- that is why i like bernie sanders. he mentions health care. host: thank you. mr. goodman? guest: steve, thank you for your comments. let me address the second part of your statement, which is health care. we are going to have a healthy debate on this issue, cl

they are unanimous in recognizing the importance of securing thean meeting and president trump's support. ambassador volker told us the next five years would determine the next three months in a week or two it became aparent that the energy sector reforms, the commercial deals, and the anti-corruption efforts on which we were making progress were not making aot dent. on june 27th ambassador sondland told ambassador taylor the gist of what was shared with me at theit time that president zeleny needed to make clear that he was not standing in the way ofns investigations. i took this to mean that the biden investigations they had been speaking about in the media since march. while ambassador taylor did not brief me on every detail of communications, heil did tell m that on a june 28th call, ambassador taylor, and the three amigos that some actions were a precondition for an oval office visit. on june 28th, while he was not moving forward, he met with russian president putin at the g 20 summit in osaka japan. sending a further signal or lack of support from ukraine. i discussed with embassy

>> it's a demonstration we all know that thean is a very authoritarian state and the fact that hong kongill be -- guy: that's happening anyway. >> and i don't think it changes the dynamics of the chinese economy in the sense they're already within china there, there is a lot of maldiscussion of the hong kong dissidents and how terrible they are. so i don't think it makes a significant change. vonnie: chris, just briefly on britain, what do you make of activities in the last few days and what it might mean for the british economy? chris: in terms of the g.d.p. numbers and politics, i assume you're talking about. i think they're all important. g.d.p. grew and wasn't quite what people expected and grew a little bit less than expected. i think people are too bearish on the u.k. economy. if you look at the soft data, it looks terrible but if you look at the hard data in the u.k., it's holding up better and you get that big gap between these two in global slowdown which is is what we're seeing at the moment and of course we had the brexit announcement today we're not going to stand all these c

thean up the gangplank and plane starts rolling.ok off at a steep incline and flew up to about 48,000 feet , in a serpentine way. i witnessed a president perform the responsibilities of a president. 11, 2001 on september is when george w. bush realized what the real job of a president was. he gave his inaugural address, but the real job is living up to the oath of office. thats a remarkable leader day and i have great confidence in what he did. that story.t tell your children and grandchildren. [applause] >> you both served as chiefs of staff during times of great change. i wonder if you could tell us a little bit about your time in , something about the times changing. tooks when george bush office as president of the u.s., it was really a time of opportunity that had been established by the reagan and bush administration having we build our defense structure. eight years earlier, when ronald reagan took office, the defense structure was in shambles. they had cut the budget over and over again and ronald reagan made it a high prior

. >> with all the n screaming and thean gunshots and the fighting- >> how could he not hear it? >> you would think so. i handcuffed him and walked him through the property. >> they walked past the bodies on the front lawn. hent didn't seem shocked? >> no. not at all. >> garretson was the first and most likely suspect. derosa took him to the station house to book him. then theus detectives arrived a cielo drive and the coroner and of course the press. >> are you all rolling? >> rolling. >> at 8:30 this morning an employee came to work at 10050 cielo and found several bodies in the house. >> the lapd didn't share right away the awful details or that the phone wires had been cut so no one could call for help or that anl american flag had bee drapedg over the couch or that someone hade written in blood the front door one word, "pig." >> do you have any kind of apbs out, any suspects at all? >> no. the only person we have at this time is mr. garretson, whom we are questioning. >> the lapd wasn't saying much. didn't know much. >> did you find a body mutilated? >> this i'd rather not d

i had grown up in the midwest, indiana and illinois, connecticut and bent at thean se company for 35 years and first in my family to graduate from college. somehow my parents were political, involved in pta, boy scouts but i always had the bug. took some time or when offhanded business came back to politics because i did politics during college and law school but one of the things is all the frustrations and politics when you absolutely get stuff done which unfortunately becomes rarer and rarer in our day job the ability to affect people's lives in an extraordinary positive way emboldens me more now and now. >> many in this room who my father and mother. they instilled in me there's a time to complain and when that is over with you sign up or shut up. i remember the day i told my wife i would run for congress and i'm still reminded of it, 25 years later. [laughter] the reality is we've all got to pick where we'd like to make an impact and mark and i serve in an incredibly close and challenging time and i think we've talked about it and one look at how we conducted the intelligence an

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here's the reality, thean democrats have a problem that their bombshells aren't exploding.ry bombshell that we thought we would have, marie yovanovitch's testimony, being a jerk is not an impeachable offense. the overheard phone call, okay let's say the overheard phonear call. there's literally nothing in the phone call that is differentor than the transcript for the president himself said that i asked the president of ukraine to do the investigation. so there is nothing new in that bombshell. this is -- the democrats have d the burden of proof. right now, polls show that most americans think donald trump is something wrong and i think they are right. they don't think trump should be removed from office.e. in blackjack, tie goes to the dealer, impeachment, tie goes to the president. >> shannon: with that, marc we'll let you wrap it up, marc jessica, thank you so much. "fox news @ night" special live extended coverage of the fifth democratic debate. we are on for another hour live next. the fifth democratic debate. fifth democratic debate. as a doctor, i agree with cdc guida

has traveled to several foreign countries to try to get totr the bottom of, and there's desire among thean president's conservative allies for a conclusion of that investigation to be reachedf sometime this fl as a way to kind of detract attention away from the impeachment awproceedings, as i that would be possible. and one thing to remember from a couple years earlier in the trump administration, this has happened before. there was that moment when the president was late to get on marine one and was in the oval office yellingth at don mcgahn, the white house counsel, reince priebus, then chief of staff, steve bannon, the chief strategist. it's all documented in the mueller report. but it wasoche one of those rag that the president had about comey, about h the russia investigation. and so, this is not the first time we've seen a moment like this. >> the l bulletproof glass is s thick, it gives everything a green cast, and yet, we can still see often, especially given the lighting, what's going ongh inside the oval office. tamara, so, we're under way. these hearings are a given, and they co

pawn on thean as a chessboard against russia without appreciating what people were thinking. --emember police, who were trained here in the united states, in the ways of torture and interrogation, it was a military dictatorship we created the iraniantand why people to this day are upset with us. i wish we had left them alone. host: you are shaking your head. it is a good point. the iranians, the last couple hundred years of history, have not been fortunate. these have not gone well. the last 100 years, there has been this ongoing struggle of iranians to establish a government that treats them with dignity, treats its own people respects the country. the prime minister tries to take control of iran's oil. .t is one main resource perhaps the revolution was seen in this way. an interesting part, the u.s. originally, in this 100 year struggle, was on the right side of things. we lost the young missionary, princeton graduate -- the class of 1907, killed in the iranian constitutional revolution in 1908, 24 years old. thatdent truman supported she did not want to do the coup, he did

pawn on thean as a chessboard against russia without appreciating what people were thinking. --emember police, who were trained here in the united states, in the ways of torture and interrogation, it was a military dictatorship we created the iraniantand why people to this day are upset with us. i wish we had left them alone. host: you are shaking your head. it is a good point. the iranians, the last couple hundred years of history, have not been fortunate. these have not gone well. the last 100 years, there has been this ongoing struggle of iranians to establish a government that treats them with dignity, treats its own people respects the country. the prime minister tries to take control of iran's oil. .t is one main resource perhaps the revolution was seen in this way. an interesting part, the u.s. originally, in this 100 year struggle, was on the right side of things. we lost the young missionary, princeton graduate -- the class of 1907, killed in the iranian constitutional revolution in 1908, 24 years old. thatdent truman supported she did not want to do the coup, he did

. >> danny, sam makes a really good point, there and i want to get to thean republicans defens of all of this inge a moment bui want to concentrate first on this phone callwa that i just brought up that bill taylor identified just yesterday. he didn't identify in that deposition the closed door deposition that he gavede but i was just yesterdaypo that he identified this. you haveti the president denyin any knowledge of this phone call. denying any knowledge of this phone call it connects the president to how close he could have been to this scheme to ukraine. how does this further implicate the president, if in fact this phone call did take place? >> before there was evidence of this phone call, the president's defense was developing into really two major prongs. and is' very typical of this, it's very typical of this president. and to all things that happened with other people, his defense was i don't know nothing, i don't know nothing about that, i have no knowledge about that, i don't even know that guy, and then, as to the four corners of the statement, or memorandum, or tran scri

i think thas why a lot of thean amereople applaud it. >> nawaz: congressman mike johnson, republican from louisiana, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. preciate it. >> nawaz: and now we get a view from the other side of the aisle and the majority on cie juy committee. representative pramila jayapal, a democrat from the state of. washingt congresswoman, well back to the newshour. thank you for making the time today. several witness have used words "improper" or "inapproprie" with regard to the president's behavior on that july 25th call. there is a difference between those words andimpchable. have you seen anything so far that rises to the level of anof impeachablnse? >> i think what really stuns me is that my republican colleagues would ink that a president's actions bribing a foreign governnt to inerfere in our election by digging up dirt on a political rival and withholdinged they congress appropriated, that's taxpayer money, by the way, that congress appropriated to ukraine, i just can't belie that my republican colleagues are arguing that that is not a high crime and

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and the reason they followed him decided, thean who way he was going to fight the regime, was with information. making videod cassettes of environment abuses and of human rights abuses and smuggling them out to the west, to a friend in the west, who worked at a station.elevision they would then be broadcast. atned out he was really good this. he was so good at this that he actually was earned so much west as a video journalist, that he owed taxes on his footage, which became a because, of course, his friend had to pay it for him. they were intensely frustrated by this man's activities. didn't putason they him in jail is they figured he couldn't possibly be causing as much trouble by himself as he was causing. they figured he had to have helpers and they decided that they would follow him and interrogate him but not because they wanted to catch him meeting with his helpers so they could arrest him as well. the problem is that he really was doing this mostly on his own help of about two other friends. so they literally would stand -- would stand in the courtyard of his building and follow him ou

. >> has anybody read on the front pages of times -- >> i saw thean little bit. >> i did not read itrsonally either. anyone in the audience who'd disagrees with my church or his agent feel free but basically as familiar a with one or two men the profession he doesn't have direct oversight over them but he's very powerful and it could affect their career. they felt theel pressure to slep with them, yes to sleep with them and they went back to his apartment voluntarily where they felt pressured to sleep with him. me too access? me too moments? >> it's not -- it's me too access and me too. maybe we should find another category. a lot of people have felt pressured to have sex with people for any number of reasons that's not a crime and you can be traumatized by it. he can make you feel bad for the rest of your life. >> i wrote a piece for the times which i discovered it ise agait thee law to require someone to have sex with you once you have said you don't want to. even if you've gone home to their apartment had gotten really drunk. stu: require them to have sex with you you mean. >> i w

laughter] we have ended the war on american workers, stop the assault on american industry and boon thean economic likes of which we have never seen before. remember, we are actively competing with nations who openly cut interest rates so that now many are actually getting paid when they pay off their loan known as negative interest. who ever heard of such a thing? give me some of that money, i want some of that money. our federal reserve does not let us do it. [applause] thank you, thank you, the smart people are clapping. only the smart people are clapping. i don't say that is good for the world, i am not president of the world. we are competing against these other countries, nonetheless. at a competitive disadvantage to other countries. yet, in the face of this reality, our economic policies have ushered in an unprecedented tide of prosperity surging throughout the nation. we should be paying the lowest interest and yet we are doing far on earth.y so the extraordinary numbers tell the story. in 2016, the congressional budget office projected fewer than 2 million jobs would be this time

next, we will be joined thean shen to review mainland. ♪ shery: this is "daybreak asia." from the opposition party in january's presidential race is adding to the call for free elections in hong kong amid protests. spoke to han. what did he tell you? >> the hong kong protests have been closely watched. perhaps nowhere to lay hold the significance that they do for taiwan. a large portion of the public ,ere, especially young people feeling obvious connection with the protesters in hong kong. the real significance for taiwan , what is happening is a vision of a possible future for taiwan if it was to come under control from the chinese government. hong kong is obviously governed by china under the one country, two systems bubble in which hong kong has autonomy under the umbrella of chinese sovereignty. that is the framework china insists taiwan must respect if it is to one day unify with china. we spoke to one of the candidates running for president of taiwan. he is the candidate for the china-friendly opposition. despite his wish for closer ties with china and eventual unif

stanley, thean flow of paper expected to come out. credit and theat credit market.of paper? jim: i think we will. we will have to fund more going forward. that is expected. there is demand. if you asked most in markets, they say liquidity is not enough, i cannot place enough money in bonds that i want. we are in an interesting spot. rates are low. that is contradictory to having a lot of demand. because there is expectation rates will stay low for extended periods, they may wiggle but generally speaking we are not looking for significant sustainable rise in interest rates, there could be a wall of paper coming toward us. refinancings, more treasury issuance, corporate's, what have you, i think it will be met with good demand. tom: demand issue. jon ferro has been brilliant. for 20atiable demand basis points away, is it too much like 2006? jim: not to the extent of leverage. there was more leverage in the system. mostly short-term financing. this is more longer-term. not done with a lot of leverage. regulation has made that the case. case of aee this as a tinderbox o

export thean, you music of jason donovan to north korea.e an economy that has grown for the last nine years, 20% bigger than it was in 2010. last week it was announced that the rate of unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since 1974. and yet there is something very frustrating about this recitation of triumphs because it is only half the story of an economy that is still not achieving what it could. supercar ofla one the kind of which this country excels but is only firing on half of its cylinders with so much more natural energy waiting to be unleashed. the country is being held back by politics. that for thent last three and a half years has simply failed to discharge its basic promise to honor the mandate of the people and deliver brexit. that is why we must have this election now. i don't want election in december. nobody does. we have no choice. we must get brexit done. we have to clear this parliamentary blockage in this aretion because we democrats. there are millions of people who want to get brexit done because they voted le

thean reunification, and status of the captive nations, and what happens to the soviet bloc countries. so, there's a lot of future we had yet to work out with president gorbachev. all of that took place in about 30 minutes. we brought in the pool. the president said, when do you want to do this? i said anytime before 6:00, you can get on the evening news at that hour. he said, let's do it now, which is kind of typical of president bush. when he first hired me, he said, i will run a different type of press operation. i want to go into the briefing room any time of day or night and talk to the press if i think it is necessary. i said, right on, good for me. i don't want to do any of these shows. good for me, too. he said, i will do one. he did the first one, and he never did again. [laughter] this was in the mold of how he liked to pursue issues with the press. when the president came in, he made the statement where he said exactly, that this was a good development. but it was a very measured statement, and everyone could tell it was. the first question was about what the president expe

ever since that day, with john , thean, clapper, comey oars, mccabe. they have been trying to hang president donald trump before he got off the escalator. . would say one thing for his wife, mrs. president trump, she has been so ignored darne whole media, every one of the media outlets. the world went crazy over michelle obama. wife.l barack obama's themrs. trump doesn't get respect that she deserves of being a first lady of america. ,nd i want this whistle so-called whistleblower, he can say what he wants to say, but i do believe that he was a plant and it's all a show. six ways to sunday he should be investigated. patrick, are you going to watch the public hearings this week? caller: excuse me, ma'am? host: are you going to watch the public hearings question mark caller: [laughter] i doubt it. -- hearings? caller: [laughter] i doubt it. going to watch "the price is right." host: bobby, good morning. caller: i been listening to all of your callers, including the republican supporters of trump. it's sad to say but they are idiotic. remember frank wheel

pawn on thean as a chessboard against russia without appreciating what people were thinking.member police, who were trained here in the united states, in the ways of torture and interrogation, it was a military dictatorship we created the iraniantand why people to this day are upset with us. i wish we had left them alone. host: you are shaking your head. it is a good point. the iranians, the last couple hundred years of history, have not been fortunate. these have not gone well. the last 100 years, there has been this ongoing struggle of iranians to establish a government that treats them with dignity, treats its own people respects the country. the prime minister tries to take control of iran's oil. .t is one main resource perhaps the revolution was seen in this way. an interesting part, the u.s. originally, in this 100 year struggle, was on the right side of things. we lost the young missionary, princeton graduate -- the class of 1907, killed in the iranian constitutional revolution in 1908, 24 years old. thatdent truman supported she did not want to do the coup, he did not

soldier, lieutenant colonel , thean and dr. fiona hill ambassadors. people work for the trump administration. many are republicans. when they got on the stand they were under oath and told the truth. but with president trump one minute you are the best thing since sliced bread. as soon as somebody tries to, i guess, be your friend by telling the truth, he totally dis acknowledges them. far asnd point is as concentrating on the impeachment instead of health care, nobody really has brought of health care for the last four years. people are paying more for their health care insurance that does not cover anything than they are for their mortgages. brush with the health care industry for sickness or is getting to be a worse and worse experience all the time. yes, it would be nice if somebody -- that is why i like bernie sanders. he mentions health care. host: thank you. mr. goodman? guest: steve, thank you for your comments. let me address the second part of your statement, which is health care. we are going to have a healthy debate on this issue, clearly.

would prefer rather than your single decision that the committee speak to the issue rather than just thean chairman. >> it won't be my single decision. we will entertain a motion to subpoena any witness but after the witnesses us have had an opportunity to testify. >> the motion will be in order and will be suspended until after the witnesses -- anticipate when we will vote on that. >> just to ask a cliff in question, do anticipate when we might vote on the ability to have the whistleblower in front something you, the 435 members of congress, you are the only member who knows who the individual is in your staff is only staff of any member of congress they've had a chance to talk to the individual and would like the opportunity, when might that happen in this proceeding today. >> that's a false statement, i did not know the identity of the whistleblower and i want to make sure that identity is protected. as i said to mr. conaway, you will have an opportunity after the witnesses testify to make a motion to subpoena any witness and compel a vote. with that, ie now recognize the witnesses and

thean you help walk american people through what happens next? we have another week of hearings. and then what? does the president get, as he says, to confront his accuser? speaker pelosi: confront the whistleblower? i will make sure he does not intimidate the whistleblower. could come before the committee and speak all the truth he wants. if he wants to take the oath of office, or he can do it in writing. he has every opportunity to present his case. >> that is the funny thing about facts. they do not change. we have the transcript. we have the two guys on the call. said, no linsky pressure. -- president zelensky said, no pressure. >> i understand you are saying the aid was released. are you comfortable with the investigation that was requested? >> the that was requested -- -- the investigation that was requested. >> are you comfortable with that? foreign countries involved in the election -- i am comfortable with it. >> does that make you comfortable? >> i do not think that is what took place because there was never an investigation. >> at the request for one that was testified