but when i met david donald at gettysburg for the richard nelson award of achievement, he wanted to hear it. and i thought what do you say to the author of a lincoln biography that was just awarded the pulitzer? i thought about that a while but i gave him the voice and he smiled that smile that is ever so david donald and he said it's as i expected. don't ever change it. >> so can you give us a full line right here in abraham li lincoln's voice as you interpret it? >> if we could first know where we are and whether we're attending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. >> that's very nasal. and how -- the descriptions at the time described it as being high and very nasal? >> high pitched and a nasal, ready twang. i've got to go back and find where i read that but one of the other writers in the letters in those days, they would say dear cousin. heard lincoln today, most god awful voice i ever heard, but his message was pretty good. and they said it was that falsetto voice, but when you do it in quincy, illinois, for example, on the block of washington square, you remember th

david: donald trump took 10 minutes out of our show.ontroversial tmobile, sprint merger winning approval, but ushering in a balance of power, in u.s. wireless market, will consumers really be the ones to benefit? more on that to come. david: shares of if i t-mobile d spensprint soaring today after a merger was cleared. let me read to you what attorney general of new york said, there is no doubt that reducing mobile market from 4 to 3 will be bad for consumers, bad for workers, bad for innovation. what do you think? >> he is wrong in every fastet. david: she. >> history proves her wrong, they are good for companies, yes some employees might lose their jobs, it is good for economy, the company and consumers, big companies nidekics of stale -- need the economies of scale. the cast of wireless service has gone down 53% since 1997, services have only gotten better and cheaper, we might just need two or three big wireless producers worldwide. these attorney generals don't know what they are talking about. >> there is a decent argument too be

david: and donald trump, he did not go out there and put riff on the about -- riff on rivets in e put on a har hardhat. >> part of his allure, he was able to in his way, speaks and writes on twitter, he was able to communicate and connection. david: number of coronavirus cases continuing to rise, one member of president a task force, now saying we're on the verge of a pandemic. dr. an thon anthony fauci joinis next. fun fact: 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. and most of that debt is actually from credit cards. it's just not right. but with sofi, you can get your credit cards right by consolidating your credit card debt into one monthly payment. including your interest rate right by locking in a fixed low rate today. and you can get your money right with sofi. check your rate in two minutes or less. get a no-fee personal loan up to $100k. get a no-fee personal loan hi with the world'se first invisible trailer. invisible trailer? and it's not the trailer right next to us? this guy? you don't believe me? hop in. good lookin' pickup, i will say that. oh wow. silverado

as lincoln biographer david donald put it, lincoln's own associates saw him as simple susan, baboon,aimless monster, a smutty joker. abolitionist wendell phillips called him a huckster in politics a first rate second rate man. george nicole and his opponent in the 1864 election openly disdained him as a well-meaning baboon. [laughter] our rhetoric today can't hold a candle to that. for much of the election year lincoln was convinced it was good reason that he was doomed to lose that election with incalculable consequences for the war efforts the future of the nation and all that he had done, all that he had sacrificed to that end. so the quote from the book again, we need to remember that this is generally how history happens, this is very much directed toward the young people but i think all of us can benefit from this. we need to remember this is generally how history happens. it is not like a hollywood movie in which the background music swells in the crowd in the room applause and leaps to its feet as the order dispenses timeless words and the camera pans the room full of smiling

with donald trump very quick if they do not winnow the field fast and look at donald trump and start to take him on. daviddid donald trump when the debate last night? lanhee: any time democrats are focusing their fire on one another and not him i think it is a benefit. the reason why the trump team has to be feeling good about where they are positioned is because of bernie sanders's continued success. you have the leading candidate for the democratic party who has repressiveba at the history of the cuban regime. that does not even seem to trigger a response amongst the electric. i guess we will -- amongst the electorate. it has not seemingly been a factor. i think for the trump team they are looking at this gleefully. they liked the fact candidates are attacking one another. having been involved in a number of these competitive primaries, i can say it is not necessarily a bad thing when candidates are trying to make each other better. there is not a bad thing in candidates attacking each other. you see what happens in uncompetitive situations, people come out unprepared. there is a silver lining to the ye

donald j. trump. davidia is attempting to interfere with 2020 elections and they have offeredh to help one candidate, but it's bernie sanders. >> i haven't seen any intelligence that russia is doing anything to attempt to get president trump re-elected. >> what i heard is russia would like bernie sanders to win the democratic nomination. they would like him to be president because he wants to spend money on social programs and probably would have to take it out of the military. david: joining me, david bossie. it looks like this is blowing up even before it gets started. >> the democrats know no bounds, they know no decency. this an intelligence briefing that's classified. whether it's adam schiff or somebody on his staff. those people who leak need to be held accountable. these democrats are playing politics with it just like they have done since 2016. this president did nothing with the russians. the russians didn't help donald trump win. and these democrats can't get over this fact. they hate him more th

david: we have in listening to donald trump speaking from the east room.peaking after his acquittal in the senate yesterday. it is a wide-ranging speech, starting back to when he came down from the escalator with melania trump first announcing for president, said people were after him from the beginning. he described it as corrupt what alsoone to him, evil, and described it as dirty cops. he also said if mr. comey was not fired, i would not be standing here any longer. he also talked about bob mueller in a disparaging way. he said we have bee vindicated. as i say, a wide-ranging speech, unlike the state of the union. it doesn't seem like he is on the teleprompter, this is unplugged. stream of consciousness, thanking people in the audience, taking shots at his foes. now he is going into congressional races that he weighed into in 2018. isis not clear what he trying to accomplish other than taking a victory lap on his impeachment. david: we will continue to monitor and bring you news if any is made. meantime, tom perez, the head of the democratic national co

i can take donald trump down on the debate stage because he is a fake. davidnt to come back to what president trump said about the economy. order to beat donald trump yet to get people to vote. are you concerned the voter turnout in iowa was lower than what you thought it would be? it was lower than in 2008. does it bother you that you don't have the passion from voters? tom: there is no question in my mind whoever the democratic candidate will be, if he or she intends to beat donald trump, it is dependent on a good turnout from the diverse democratic party. if we don't have that, we cannot beat him. whoever is the candidate has to attract that diverse turnout because we are a diverse party, thank god. we have to have the black community supporting us, the latino community supporting us, the asian-american community. we need turnout. whoever will be the candidate has got to appeal across the spectrum. if you look at south carolina, i'm doing it with the black community there. i was at 25% in a poll yesterday. i'm doingk at nevada, it with the latino community.

david: adam. >> if we become -- come back it china and exeub cuba stuff. for sanders supporters, it does not matter more than nonsense donaldrump has been speaking. >> >> the nonsupporters that we're concerned about. >> agreed. >> i agree. david: it would not matter what he said, his supporters are with him no matter what. morgan stanley dean witter chase going green. jpmorgan chase going green, will their critics be satisfied. >> a look at shares of disney down 2% after hours on news long time ceo bob iger, one of caroll a favorite person in universe is stepping down from ceo position, more to come. ♪ ♪ everything your trip needs, for everyone you love. expedia. for everyone you love. tto examine investmentgo opportunities firsthand, like innovations in agricultural research. because your investments deserve the full story. t. rowe price invest with confidence. you wouldn't accept from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase. their medica

and we also have to say, this is a wonderful story, the way that david herbert donald, great lincoln scholar, told the story about when he went to the kennedy white house and jfk was obviously not happy of the day's news coverage. and he said nobody, nobody, should pass judgment on a president, not even poor old james buchanan, who has not sat at this desk and looked at the papers that came across it. and i think it was a little bit of special pleading there. and there is only so much that you can do for james buchanan. but it is through the study of every single president is useful and i think will deepen your understanding and appreciation of american history. and of this broad but immenselied a miles per hour only experiment on which we're all embarked. >> and we can't leave you without you telling the story of the trips you used to take with your parents. >> well, the station wagon from hell -- you know, people don't do this anymore. there aren't station wagons. but i guess i must have been about eight. i told you, i was -- the polite. but i had four long suffering sin linky sin

again, this is from david enrich's new book, "dark towers, deutsche bank, donald trump and an epic talethis out. what jumped out at the auditor as he scrolled through this spread sheet was just how much business deutsche had been doing with russian banks. there were tens of millions of dollars outstanding with vtb alone. the spread sheet showed that a network of more obscure companies like russian international bank and russian mortgage bank and russian commercial bank cyprus limited to name a few also were doing tens of millions of dollars of business with deutsche, and that was just on this one particular day that this one spread sheet captured in the fall of 2013. it was a tantalizing clue as to just how deeply entangled deutsche was with russia. and despite everything that was already public, thanks to deutsche's repeated scrapes with regulatory agencies just how little was really known about what the bank was up to. those answers lay hidden inside deutsche. short of theft or a very lucky break with a very disgruntled employee, the only way to crowbar open those electronic vaults wa

this is from david enrich's new book, dark towers, deutsche bank, donald trump, and an epic trail oftion. it comes out tort. we've got it tonight. quote, there was no doubt that deutsche bank had extensive business dealings with russia and those dealings included acting as a conduit for dirty money to get out of russia and into the western financial system. deutsche of course was the only reliable connection that trump, his family and his company had to the mainstream banking world. and eric trump had blurted that russians financed the family's government projects even though it was deutsche who had made the doral loans. perhaps this was more than a coincidence. maybe deutsche was what connected trump to russia. the rumor that had been ricocheting around washington, new york, and london was that the russian government supported vtb bank, had in the recent past funneled dirty money to trump via deutsche. vtb certainly seemed connected to trump. felix sater claimed that vtb was fa 1i8 sill tating in 2016 as they discussed a possible trump tower project in moscow. there was no doubt vtb

wins, this whole process, let's unify in the end and get behind that person so we can beat donald trump. david is a battleground state, iowa went for donald trump by nine points last time. why is it going to change? jean: we have to. we have competitive senate races, we have to change. i'm always optimistic at the democratic party. we don't have to stay red. we haven't always been read. i like to think of it as purple. david: thank you so much to jean hessburg. rick davis and jeanne zaino will be staying with us. in the meantime, let's get a check on the markets. i understand we have a massive rally going on with tesla. that's an accurate description. itses of tesla up 16%, on best day since 2013. the stock is trading at $750 a share. there are two parts to this. panasonic makes batteries for tesla, and they turned a profitable quarter because tesla has been ramping up production. you also had an analyst raising his price target to $808. we are not far from that right now. i want to remind you, the sorage price target is $467, the stock has run incredibly far so far just in 2020, up almost 90%

without that, donald trump could will be reelected. david: thank you for your time today, sir.rd bryan, former governor of the state of nevada. president trump was not pleased when he heard about a classified intelligence briefing to congress about reports of russia helping him to get reelected. we speak to thomas pickering. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. i'm david westin. united states relations with russia have never been simple or straightforward, but since the 16 there is a new love of complexity on reports of russian attempts to interfere in the presidential election. now intelligence officials have given a confidential briefing to members of congress that the russians are doing it again in this year's election. we welcome a true expert on u.s.-russia relations, thomas pickering, who served as from ther to russia united nations. he falls the highest position available in the u.s. foreign service. thank you for being back with us. we have this report that this conf

david: you mentioned political transformation. many would say donald j.s a form of political transformation. we have not seen his like before. do you agree? >> yes and no. trump is clearly someone in certain ways is decadent himself, obviously, but also sort of a rebel against decadence. make america great again is a slogan that basically says, the future was supposed to be better and we need to get back to the future that was promised. in that sense, he is a different and novel figure, but look at the trump era in terms of actual policymaking. it is pretty barren. he had one big tax cut that sort of -- a version of what george w. bush or ronald reagan would have done but all of the things that trump promised the massive new infrastructure program, the amazing beautiful obamacare replacement, have it happen. what trump has mostly delivered is a lot of energy and fodder for people and our line of work to argue about. i think that is sort of the dynamic easy with bernie sanders. david: subconscious desire for society, appears to be revolutionary, like a don

. >> two big inners last night were donald trump and bloomberg. >> no question. david: today, the day after primary, market soaring to new record highs, i want to know what are investors telling us about last night's results, if anything? >> you know, market want donald trump to be reelected, up 60% -- >> they think a bernie victory? >> i don't like the idea of klobuchar a moderate democrat, look at her record to the senate she is a left wing ir. davidleftwinger.david: comparede sanders, everything is relative. >> she say th shiite 0 she is 8- >> president trump is pro business. >> i disagree on this one. i believe that markets have been up since 2009, with a lot of hiccups. and corrections. the economy has been in upward projectry for last 9 years, find to give trump credit for that, find to give obama some credit for, that until market feel there is legislative stuff on the agenda that will get passed there is no -- no. david: you can't get past the policy differences of two presidents, president obama raised taxes, increased regulations, president trump did the oppo

pressed to make a decision but they can't wait to vote against whoever is running against donald trump. >> david, iowa was supposed to be the first place where we saw clarity between what democrats wanted, whether they wanted the moderate or progressive. we certainly don't have any clarity, at least not at 6:00 a.m. in the morning. >> it's so true and it puts more pressure on new hampshire and in the contests ahead. i think the lack of clarity is important for one of a couple reasons. the obvious one is that you have somebody who is an early indicator of who could help winnow the field and who could emerge. the other piece of it is perhaps just as important. let's say it's bernie sanders who does really well ultimately in iowa, is that a wake-up call to other democrats who might question his ultimate electability and say, hey, you know, i've got to really start paying attention, i'm worried about the course the democrats are on. the opposite could be true as well, he could be consolidating support among progressives, we might be saying maybe biden is less likely although there was built in expec

david, you going to place five bucks on the table? >> listen, election were held this week, donaldight win big. >> all right. david gergen, robert barnett, we'll bring you back and test it again and i'm going to get five bucks from you. mark my words. >>> the impeachment fight, of course, is over. now sources say a key trump aide who testified in that impeachment -- actually who didn't testify, another one as well. this key trump aide, mick mulvaney, may be on the way out. straining and bloating. my doctor said i could have a real medical condition called ibs-c. for my recurring constipation and belly pain from ibs-c... i said "yes" to linzess. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation. linzess is not a laxative. it works differently. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give to children less than six. and it should not be given to children six to less than 18. it may harm them. do not take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain. especially with bloody

in dark hours, new york times financial editor, david takes a critical look at the international banking giant in its dealing with donald trump. look for the journals this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future book tv on c-span2. starting now is the final program from this year's savanna book festival. here's michelle solomon on her experiences as the first female president of the caterpillar foundation. your watching tv, live from florida. georgia.

david willis there. the us attorney general, william barr, has criticised donald trump for tweeting about high—profile criminalent. its work has come under intense scrutiny in recent days following the announcement it would seek a shorter prison sentence for mr trump's long—time friend, roger stone — who was found guilty of lying to congress. in an interview with abc news, mr barr insisted he always acted independently and urged the president to end his social media commentaries. to have public statements and tweets made about the department, about our people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do myjob and to assure the courts and the prosecutors and the department that we're doing our work with integrity. and i'm not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody. and i said at the time, whether it's congress, newspaper, editorial boards, or the president. let's brief you on some of the other stories making the news. aid agencies in yemen say getting help to 80% of the population who are depen

juan: david frum, as a republican opponent of donald trump come your advice to the democrat party?hey are crazy? >> i donon't t use the word cray because e i u understand what ty do and where they feel. i come at this from a conservative republican point of view. i think donald trump is a tremendous danger to american institutions. and were fefeel as i do not a decisive group, we represent an important group. many of ththe people who voteded democrat i in the 2018 elections to stop donald trump to give the congress house of representatives that could check him. from our point of viview, this s a moment of tremendous danger and it cal on alall of us to mamake sacrifices of some of our prefeferences. it wasas not easy y for me to ve for hillary clinton and 2016. one of the places that i think isis to rememember if you ask americans a question, how a are you fefeeling about your r fina, your health care, you get in 202020 the most posititive resps of any yearr since 1998. while bebernie sanders speaks to the disaffected, the people were content withth the status are stroronger than an

and in dark towers, new york times financial you would to have david enrich takes a critical look at deutsche bank and its dealings with donald trump. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >> please welcome dr. lynne cheney and karl rove with your moderator, susan eisenhower. [applause] >> you don't want to fall off the steps went you enter the dais. [laughter] let's see, i -- they told me left. >> all the way over. [laughter] >> karl, you know the difference between right and left, don't you? [laughter] >> yeah, you're on their right. [laughter] >> welcome,

to see in the light of day. >> the new book is "dark towers:deutsche bank, donald trump and an epic trail of destruction." . davidhe show. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, donald trump gets triggered by barack obama's tweets about the strong economy he left behind. >>> plus, more on mike bloomberg taking the democratic debate stage for the first time tomorrow night. politico reports that his own team worries that an unsteady performance alongside the other candidates could stall his momentum. "morning joe" is back in 90 seconds. alexa, tell me about neptune's sorrow. it's a masterstroke of heartache and redemption. the lexus nx. modern utility for modern obstacles. lease the 2020 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps. it's an honor to tell you that [ applause ] thank you. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you

turned up to vote against that bill and we know who they were dying from what donald generally called them everybody else even david levy who i think is a fantastic voice against this injustice didn't vote against it when they had the opportunity and that should tell us something really clear about who's that posture who they're like the pope and who actually backs their words with action ok with joe musically let's talk about the music on the album how we reflect take all the complexity and i have to say you probably do reflect it really well try musically how did you go about reflecting such complex plexi in music i mean any pretensions accurately depicting all the forms of black music that were around a 100 years ago would have been pretentious but i was very inspired by the research that i did so want to read music that you wrote left right music like that in some instances i was reconstructing historical music write music specifically as a piece i wanted to chinle in energy a feeling of terror and excitement that black music has given us historically and still gives us today i find whether it's drill jungle ar

this is not breaking news in a way, because, of course, it's completely in character for donald trump. and as davidthe last thing he wants to do is tell adam schiff, who deserves to know, who should be briefed he doesn't want schiff to weaponize this in anyway, because he believes he would. that's a whole other story, because schiff is the chairman of the committee. >> i suspect the democratic presidential candidates were going after each other, now we're going to have an opportunity to go after the president on this issue? >> yeah, i think for a long time, these democratic candidates have been saying the same thing, which is, they view donald trump as a national security threat, and this election is an existential threat to this nation. that's one of the around umtss they're taking to voters to get democrats in the right frame of mind to make the case to their own party this is an to be there for them. at the same time, i think this is all baked in the cake for a lot of democrats. they feel like they know this about the president, it's going to add to what they know. but it's not going to be a dri

david: sort of the way donald trump has, not a majority, but a very passionate minority.nie sanders attracts a passionate minority that wants fundamental change in how we run our economy. muches not seem very appreciated by those in the business world. ,he question for bernie sanders can he expand that beyond where it is? heret 40% of the voters are independent at if they break, they might break for a moderate instead of bernie sanders. paul: thanks for joining us. we will have special coverage of the new hampshire primary later on today at 7:00 p.m. in new york. with to come, lyft is out fourth-quarter results and beat expectations. this is bloomberg. ♪ islor: ride-hailing app lyft out with fourth-quarter results narrowly beating estimates. the stock falling about 4% in after-hours trading for not promising profits sooner. we are joined by eric newcomer. i think the headline here is that the profit target remains firmly in the fourth quarter of 2021. uber'syear later than target. --c: over has the advantage uber at the advantage of having earnings first. we are talking a

but david, he showed -- offered no apology for his words, and in fact, he spent most of the statement he released on this today attacking donald trump, saying to the president, quote, i will do everything i can to defeat you. david? >> jon karl with us tonight, as well. our thanks to you, jon, and our entire political team right here in new hampshire. it is going to be a very important night for the democrats, as this race moves forward. and we'll bring you the results as they come in. live coverage right here on abc and on abc news live. >>> in the meantime, to the breaking news tonight involved president trump. a stunning reversal in the sentencing recommendation for trump confidant roger stone. prosecutors recommended seven to nine years for stone's mueller investigation. but just 24 hour s later, ans after criticism from president trump, the department of justice called that sentencing request, quote, extreme and excessive. tonight, four federal prosecutors have now withdrawn from the case amid questions, who wasolnv iifint?d ves the o'sre correspondent pierre thomas now. >> reporter: tonight, at least four prosecutors ste

been reached last september just as it was about to be signed at camp david they launched attacks on nato and afghan forces forcing donald trump to call the whole thing off other question marks that hang over it of course quite when and how the withdrawal of u.s. troops might take place down from 12 or 13000 now to 8600 by the end of the year the u.s. side say regardless of whether a deal is in place well if there is a deal with that speed up and by how many and of course the other big question is when does this 7 day period actually begin the top taliban suggested it should be yesterday friday when the deal was announced u.s. officials here saying only that it will begin quote really suit all right jonah offend now thank you very much indeed and we'll take you back to munich of course as soon as some of those species get underway that rebels in northern syria have claimed responsibility for shooting down a syrian government helicopter on friday everyone on board died government forces are trying to take the last opposition held areas in an operations that displaced more than $800000.00 people since the start of december

david wright. >> reporter: today in the senate chamber, a historic moment. >> united states senate was made for moments like this. >> reporter: the final vote on donald trump's impeachment. >> i hope we will look back on this vote and say this was the day the fever began to break. >> this president is such a menace that you must ignore, indeed sacrifice the truth to maintain his favor. >> reporter: the world's greatest deliberative body. >> not guilty. >> not guilty. not guilty. >> reporter: took just over half an hour to clear president trump of both charges. final tally on article one that president trump abused his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival, joe biden, 52-48. >> donald john trump, president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the first article of impeachment. >> reporter: that vote almost along straight party lines, with one exception. >> my faith is at the heart of who i am. >> reporter: mitt romney of utah was the lone republican to defy mitch mcconnell. no senator in history has ever voted to convict a president of his own party. >> corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most ab

david? caller: yes. -- donald isat going to clean house with the democrats. happyople in iowa are not about illegal immigration. they are going to stick a fork in her. elizabeth warren is not going to go on. host: let's look at some of the early results from the satellite 2%ations with pete buttigieg reporting. about 1800 votes, 27.5%. bernie sanders is a close with senator warren and former vice president joe biden holding steady at 13.8%, but these are just a few thousand votes. from satellitee locations, including across part of europe, d.c. and other states out side of iowa. let's go to tyson. tyson? caller: good evening. thank you for c-span. i just want to say that democracy in this country is a beautiful thing. i am a republican and i was raised republican, but i have an open mind. c-span for their continuous coverage of every single aspect of every candidate, and these caucuses are interesting. you have to open your years, close your mouth and listen because each individual speaking and running, you could take something from each individual, and it is

but david, there is no apology whatsoever from mayor bloomberg for his words, in fact, much of that statement on this is attacking donald trump. he gives a message to the president, saying, i will do everything i can to defeat you. david? >> all right, jon karl at pete buttigieg headquarters. a three-way race at this hour. sanders, buttigieg and klobuchar. our entire political team right here in new hampshire tonight. it's going to be a very important night for the democrats as this race moves forward. we'll bring you the results as they come in, live coverage right here on abc and abc news live, right into the night. >>> but we do move on tonight, as we're on the air in the west, breaking news involving president trump, as well. a stunning reversal in the sentencing recommendation for trump confidant roger stone. prosecutors had recommended seven to nine years for stone's seven-count conviction in the mueller investigation. but just 24 hours later, and after criticism from president trump, the department of justice called that sentencing request, quote, extreme and excessive. tonight, four federal prosecutors have now

david cay johnston? in spaceis just out year. this is like a lot of things that donald says in the 32 years almost that i have known him. he just make s stuff up. while there are little pieces of truth in there, this is just all nonsnsense. we have more than enough nuclear capacity to kill everybody in the planet r repeatedly. we have more than enough for mutually assured instruction, which goes by the acronym mad because it is meaningful, and this is trump simply not understanding the world. the man has no real capacity to understand things posted he claims to be the world's greatest expert on at least 23 subjects. but as various people in the white house have leaked out, when asked something, he turns out to know absolutely nothing. by the way, he is very well. in a new hbo show called "avenue five," a takeoff on trump's claim he could shoot somebody on fifth avenue and nothing would happen to him. amy: he has also promised, as he cuts food support children, $18 billion for a new space force. >> yeah, do we want to militarize space? this is an incredibly nutty idea. w

david: which may be where they conduct hooks back up the words. many thanks to donald ayer. to have more coming up on bloomberg radio. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is "balance of power." i am david weston. afghanistan president incoming has been declared the winner in the country's presidential election. president ghani spoke at the munich security conference and frame the election is a vital step in the peace process with the taliban. >> we must talk. we must find a political solution to stop the war. a level of complexity and uncertainty. the critical test is going to electionthey accept an referring orm of do they still have a view of congress? david: for more we welcome former assistant secretary of state, retired kadir general mark kimmitt -- brigadier general mark commit. is this declaration of reelection, is it a step forward? it is actually a step backwards. it is actually a step backwards. the taliban did not have the government in those negotiations. now that president ghani has been reelected, i suspect he will try to inject and interfere in the peace negotiations.

king david cut solomon's robe to prove he didn't have to kill him. i'm sure you have seen donald trump talk about the sound of windmills causing cancer. i think it is the sound of my voice causing cancer to his wallet. >> appreciate that. let's go to john distaso with a question directed toward mister morose. and mister sloan. >> taking out donald trump most democratic voters seem very concerned about healthcare. there is a big debate among the so-called well-known candidates, if you will, i say so-called with respect to all of you, based on whether there should be free government run healthcare, medicare for all or whether there should be a public option open to those who want it versus some sort of enhancement of the current system. as someone who is very concerned about the average middle-class worker i wonder what you feel is the most effective for the people you speak about, union members and people in that middle-class. what are your thoughts about healthcare? >> i believe in medicare for all and i would like the unions to keep their medical healthcare they fought so hard f

came close to this sort of agreement back in september or and donald trump was about to sign the deal in fact he invited the taliban to camp david which is the presidential retreat in maryland but that was over the weekend of the 911 anniversary and that grew a lot of criticism for donald trump there was then an incident in kabul where a u.s. soldier was killed and donald trump immediately work through the invitation he believes that this is putting the united states on to quote him a powerful path towards withdrawing troops but there's already some criticism there is concern not just on the democratic side but also among republicans who are saying look hold on a 2nd the taliban have made promises before we've been suckered into this we perhaps don't want to start the drawdown of troops but that is going to happen because donald trump wants to be able to talk about it on the campaign trail one other thing to mention here donald trump is obsessed with the peace prize the rebel peace prize he knows that barack obama won it he was very keen to pressure the japanese according to many reports and to nominate him because of his work w

donald trump. >> reporter: one down, 55 primaries and caucuses still to go. i'm david wright for "nightline" in manchester. >> other thanks to david. >>> up next, what cameras captured one mom doing a month after her children were reported missing. break out the butter lobsterfest is on at red lobster if you've been dreaming about tender wild-caught lobster, dig in to butter-poached, fire-roasted and shrimp & lobster linguini. see? dreams do come true. or if you like a taste of new england without leaving home, try lobster, sautéed with crab, jumbo shrimp and more, or maybe you'd like to experience the ultimate surf and the ultimate turf... with so many lobster dishes, there's something for every lobster fan so hurry in and let's lobsterfest. not drinking water?ties? we've all committed skin sins! new neutrogena® bright boost... kick-starts dull, tired skin with neoglucosamine... a gentle, non-acid amino sugar exfoliant that works within the surface and boosts cell turnover by 10x. for brighter, wide-awake skin. bright boost. pair with illuminating serum for 3x the bri

david, first, middleton ohio, republican. >> caller: hello greta. >> good morning. >> caller: warren davidson is my congressman, and i appreciate everything he's doing. i appreciate donald trump taking on the coronavirus. he gets so much -- >> criticism. >> it's great to talk with you, david, how are you today? >> i'm better than i deserve. >> amen. >> all right. well, do you share his concern that the president is getting criticized for this unfairly? >> well, i mean there's nothing new under the sun, right? you look at the president, who has been criticized, you go back under george w. bush, he was criticized by the media, you go back to, you know, the history of it, it is, president trump was loved by everyone and then he became president, and we will see where it goes afterwards, but in the meantime, that's what they do, they criticize the president, and first, it was, he was overreacting, and being zene foep phobic by blocking people at the airports coming directly from china who weren't american citizens and then it's not you're not doing enough, too much, too hot, too cold. every day is a day to criticize the president for some people. >> joe in maine, independen

donald trump. judy: we hear you. mark shields, david brooks, thank you.continue now with our series inside venezuela. the onceriealthy south an country is now in economic freefall. tonight we h explore that crisis affects millions of children facing hger, disease, and violence. special correspondent marsha bigs reports on what it means to be a child today in venezuela. >> six-year-old winston should be in school. instead he and his older brother are helping their father with what isowaily work. sifting through the trash at this garba dump. a major city in western venezuela. jose h saysused to sell coffee and cigarettesn the street, but because of hyperinflation projected thisear to be as high as 500,000%, he kept losing money. now he spends his days searching for plastic to sell so he can buy food for his family. >> befor people could work. there was cash in the street. sthere oney to be made. now it is the opposite. >> many neighbors in venezuela have always been poor, but people say they got by with help from the government. they say things have changed

in a citizen's guide to beating donald trump former obama campaign manager david fluff offers his strategiest president trump from being reelected and in john adams under fire abc chief legal affairs anchor dan abrams looks back to win the future founding father represented british soldiers after the boston massacre in 1770. also being published this week, political activist and co-organizer of the woman's march linda sartor reflects on her views in "we are not here to be bystanders" all this marvelous potential historian matthew Ãchronicles robert kennedy's visit to appalachia in the winter of 1967¤8 and fueled his interest to run for president. john lowry and randolph given examination of life of journalists activist and catholic worker movement cofounder dorothy day and in "somebody's gotta do it" journalist Ãadrian martini discusses how running for office made her realize the importance of local politicians to their communities. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and walks for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> welcome to you all, i'm scott

donald trump. no matter who you nominate, they ain't him. blair kelly, david jolly, thank you both very much.the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight on this presidents' day holiday, the current president takes his post-impeachment powers out for a spin even as a court prepares the next phase in the case of his old friend and convicted felon roger stone. >>> and just tonight, john bolton has broken his silence on at least more stories from the inside. >>> plus the transformation of the modern justice department and the colossal number of former feds, now over 2,000 of them, who are calling on this attorney general to resign. >>> and as for the democrats, as they race to make sure the nevada caucuses look nothing like iowa, they debate in vegas two nights from now, and that means bloomberg might finally take the stage, and things are heating up between him and bernie and biden.

would do something to step on that and to show the other side of who donald trump is and remind us of his dark side. >> well, david, you know, let me pause it and answer. because this is who he is and this is what he values. sam vin ger et, i take gurgan's point by definition. but there is a message here, sam, you worked in that part of the world in government. and the idea that, hey, i don't like that you said things about me that were true but i don't like them. and i am getting rid of everybody around you who did the same thing. and by the way, i'm getting rid of your sister, too. who works in a completely different department. is that just about, well, we all have to be on the same page? or is that a different kind of chilling effect? >> this isn't just about the president having the right to surround himself with people who are on the same page. the president is doing this solely because he can. he can't be criminally indicted. he's not going to be impeached. and he is sending a clear message to lieutenant colonel vindman and to every single other u.s. government employee about the risks associated with actua

david you have it with bernie sanders. and you have it on the trump side if you look at a mammoth university recent poll two-thirds of americans believe donald trump gets reelected if you look at the new hampshire primary david, he got almost 130,000 votes basically over double what president obama what george w. bush got in that primary during their reelection bid. money can't buy enthusiasm or can it? >> money cannot. but 300 million can buy you a place on stage tonight. bloomberg just can't contribute that paid media and john is say i agree with john. bloomberg is going to have to survive incoming and bernie sanders is going to have a very interesting debate because all of a sudden he has a foil. the truth is bloomberg is better positioned i think to beat trump as a more competent outsider versus sanders all a that progressive energy. one more quick point 12% get pulled away from sanders that's warren vote 32% pulled away hypothetically from biden klobuchar and beating trump very very -- >> who will take on trump moderate or left? >> you know i have to think had it remiekdz me a lot of 2016 in primary when they said trump had a -- had had

>> david: the confidence that sanders has an ability to beat donald trump i think it's kind of pie-in-the-skyi just don't think it's going to happen. >> harris: people above 55%. >> marie: ended the head-to-head in our poll, number ruler of democrats beat them at head-to-head when they have their names on the ballot. people are watching to see how joe biden does on saturday. i think he will in south carolina. bernie sanders, bloomberg, warren, a lot of them are focusing on super tuesday states. massachusetts is one of those, that's why bernie is up there. he's trying to take that away from elizabeth warren, interestingly. >> melissa: do you think they can beat president trump -- do you think all through those people could beat president trump? >> harris: something must have changed. remember back in the summer we were talking about how the president hit anybody six points above with a pretty healthy six-point spread that had the word "socialist" anywhere near them. while elizabeth warren hasn't necessarily called herself a democratic socialist, a lot of her policies are a lot like bernie sand

donald trump won the republican caucus already. ap has projected it. >> no surprises there. david on at the polling center right now? of things that folks are watching for as we eagerly await the results of the early precincts to come in for democrats. three things i have my eye on. bernie sanders perform? a lot of expectation on the campaign to deliver a win at iowa caucuses. secondly, can joe biden wayne, come in second? anything else would be deemed a significant political risk for the future of his campaign and raise questions about his candidacy going forward. all of those o

allegation against the crown prince, bezos' alleged extortion against american media, david pecker, the friend of donaldoing to come to a head if there is a trial. i keep emphasizes if there is a trial. michael sanchez is a public figure which means the laws involving public figures protect jeff bezos. stated differently, sanchez will have to show that bezos knew that what he said was false or was reckless in his concern for whether it was true or false. that's the threshold issue. it's a very, very high bar, intentionally a high bar, to encourage people to say critical things about public figures. maria: so just to be clear, jeff bezos sends naked pictures of himself to his girlfriend, lauren sanchez. lauren has a brother, michael sanchez, and the speculation is that michael sanchez gave those pictures to the national enquirer so lauren, the girlfriend, sent the pictures to her brother? >> that is the allegation. except that the brother says i did not expose these pictures. what jeff accused me of doing, i didn't do. i don't know how they got out there. so this is really -- they weren't given to the am

david was able. to deliver. blame. blame. blame. blame. this is d. w. news live from berlin president donald trump preparing for the state of the union address it's likely the last of his current term and he is expected to towns his franker on the economy ahead of the senate voting to decide his fate later on wednesday. i'm called aspen thanks for joining us welcome to our special cover.