well let's get into some of the ramifications of this killing a very happy jonathan steele here on the program and international affairs commentary good to see does the u.s. have legal powers to assassinate a military general of a country it's not waging war against and without permission from the country it operates in. i do think it does i think it's very dubious under international law. are you not in history to warn us is not. only wrong nor understand morning. also from a legal standpoint does this create a dangerous precedent for future across border assassinations under specially if no one is going to be held responsible. but it is a president that's been should it's full in yemen and he was talking between yemeni dissidents and. it was just going to be an interim kind in many years was done on previous administrations under the obama administration. george w. bush so the. president. the reaction in washington we've seen contrasting views from the democrats and republicans does it look to you as if the the rival camps in washington are trying to use the situation to to their adv

well let's get the thoughts on the program live with jonathan steele in london jonathan's an international affairs commentator welcome does this case really have anything to do with cybercrime or is it your towards preventing greenwald from doing his job. what it does edward snowden put it it's retaliation. because. greenwald was exposing corruption in highest levels in brazilian government. and just trying to punish him telling the truth if this is a vendetta against greenwald for his anti corruption reporting as he said edward snowden is claiming who do you think is pulling the strings as in the president of brazil as well. as is just determined to get revenge and to discourage any other journalists from following up the same story so it's a combination of intimidation and other journalists intervention. other other powerful interests in brazil that would stand to gain from the. no i think it's the president i mean you need prevention learned to silva from running again. released by the supreme court from jail to here if he. contests his cases and he's still a political force or has impu

steele. e-mails obtained by judicial watch found a former aide to secretary of state john kerry, jonathan weinerparently decided to send steele's reports from his personal e-mail to an assistant who would then forward them to the state department's classified system. joining us tonight tom fitton, the president of judicial watch. tom, good to see you and happy new year. >> happy new year. lou: let's turn to this jonathan weiner and what you've discovered at judicial watch. it is extraordinary. >> he's supposed to be doing work on libya for john kerry's state department, but instead he was the handler it looks like for christopher steele who given the volume of reporting and material he was sending to the state department both before and during russia gate may as well have had a desk at the obama state department. as you point out, he was -- steele's material was concerning enough to senior officials at the state department they wanted it put on the classified system, but of course, mr. weiner who by the way had helped compose parts of the dossier used by the fbi, thought he knew better and was s

steele. e-mails obtained by judicial watch found a former aide to secretary of state john kerry, jonathan weinerports from his personal e-mail to an assistant who would then forward them to the state department's classified system. joining us tonight tom fitton, the president of judicial watch. tom, good to see you and happy new year. >> happy new year. lou: let's turn to this jonathan weiner and what you've discovered at judicial watch. it is extraordinary. >> he's supposed to be doing work on libya for john kerry's state department, but instead he was the handler it looks like for christopher steele who given the volume of reporting and material he was sending to the state department both before and during russia gate may as well have had a desk at the obama state department. as you point out, he was -- steele's material was concerning enough to senior officials at the state department they wanted it put on the classified system, but of course, mr. weiner who by the way had helped compose parts of the dossier used by the fbi, thought he knew better and was sending this supposedly classified ma

jonathan: is it just about steel ?it is made in china 2025, some people would say china came out arrogantly and said they are going to dominate. it is pretty clear what they want to achieve. sec. ross: i don't think they have changed the behavior. they changed the language because they know it hit a raw nerve in the west. jonathan: how quickly would you like to see a change in behavior? sec. ross: we are already seeing it. the fact that china acknowledged technology transfers. that is the first time i believe there has been public recognition. they not only recognized, they agreed there was a problem and agreed to prohibit. jonathan: things are going on. pressure being applied to the europeans on one hand to open things up and lower barriers for entry into the market. at the same time, we are trying to partner up with the e.u. to put pressure on the chinese. sec. ross: what we are trying to do is get china to comply with other rules. jonathan: how do you do that at the same time as pressuring them with tariffs? sec. ro

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jonathan ferro. that does it for me. alix steel will be back on monday. m new york city for our audience worldwide. i'm jonathan ferro. "the countdown to the open" starts right now. ♪ jonathan: coming up, u.s. airstrikes in iran killing one of iran's most powerful generals , sending oil markets rally as iran's supreme leader threatens retaliation sending stock markets lower. with 30 minutes until the opening bell this morning, good morning. here is your friday morning price action. equity futures lower, much lower. down 1% on the s&p 500. in the bond market, crude higher 3.64%. at $63.44. tensions escalating in the middle east after donald trump ordered an airstrike in iraq, killing one of iran's most powerful generals. the u.s. defense department writing "at the direction of the president, the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to -- by killing qasem soleimani.

analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele, white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire and nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla. mika will be back with us tomorrow. you know, before we start into all of this, jonathan lemire, i want to go to you first. you were hanging out by the jersey shore. >> yes. >> and a trump rally broke out and you have a t-shirt to prove it. getting wild in wildwood. you were seen walking into 30 rock with that t-shirt this morning. what happened last night at the jersey shore? >> you can see that i've really done a lot of work on my tan. >> yes. >> and i will say in the wildwood crowd there there was a lot of discussion about the time share that barnicle was eyeing for this summer. people are ready for you there. i know there were a couple establishments on the water that he is no longer allowed to enter. >> true. >> but last night the president did have a rally in a sort of unlikely location. we were in deep blue new jersey. it was a thank you, if you will, for representative jeff drew who is the democratic congressman you recall who

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jonathan ferro is in new york. i will be joining him in london. looking forward to that show. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: live from new york, i mavs steelix steel. guy: and from london, i'm guy johnson. shares of international paper lower today. the world's largest paper company topping wall street's estimates of more earnings in the fourth quarter, but revenue missed estimates. currently the stock is down 3.5%. , theng us is mark sutton ceo of international paper. talk me through the year ahead. the challenges seem to be mounting on the global space. you just published in numbers. it was guidance on where things go from here. mark: we closed out the year strongly in 2019. we had a strong fourth quarter and record levels of free cash flow. we did close the year strong. guidanceare our 2020 and we had a number that was down from our 2019 performance, primarily based on price decreases that occurred 32019 that will flow through 2020. then with some of the demand environment, we are directly connected to the chinese economy with some of our products. that has been a challenge and has been made even more difficult with the coronavirus. we d

jonathan head, bbc news. a man has been rescued after spending more than three weeks in the alaskan wilderness with nothing more than a temporary shelter to protect him. tyson steeln in the snow. the thirty year old had managed to salvage a few tins of food and a sleeping bag to help him survive the minus 26 degrees celsius nights. his parents had raised the alarm when they hadn't heard from him for three weeks. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren it's been a stormy start and there's a lot more wind and rain on the way for tomorrow. go all the way to the other side of the atlantic and that area of cloud is developing for tomorrow. this area of cloud quite clearly is storm brendan. that has brought some damage and disruption and is still very windy outside at the moment. these are the gust we are looking at for the next few hours to the evening. strong winds around the coast, coinciding with some high spring tides as well so it's been very windy in the western isles of scotland, saying that way for a little bit longer, but we will see the winds easing down a bit overnight. that band of rain should clear away from the southeast of england, clear ski

jonathan lemire. columnist and associate editor for the "washington post" david ignatius. former chair of the republican national committee michael steeleining the conversation, "new york times" reporter jeremy peters and legal analyst for nbc news and msnbc mya wiley, also with us, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio is with us and senior writer at politico and co-author of the playbook, jake sherman. an msnbc political contributor and just one more, professor at history at tulane university walter isaac. are we going to have a 12 box today? >> let's do it! >> very exciting. you know, walter, in these tribal political times that we live in, you often know what's going to happen in congress well before the vote's taken. this, though is a time -- we find ourselves in this very interesting time where there are a lot of pieces that are moving around. the board has been sort of thrown up in the air. you have 70, 75% of americans who want to hear from witnesses. want a fair, open trial. the opposite of what the senate majority leader and the head of the judiciary committee are asking for. you have this extraord