that's especially true for aaron brown. tomorrow, he's due to become a father, of sorts. >> i am getting a cat. the prison has a program set up with a no-kill shelter and we're allowed to adopt cats. i've been waiting for about a month since i was told that i'm getting a cat. and i've actually wanted one since i got here in 2002. >> why? >> i've always liked cats. i think sometimes i like cats better than i like people. >> while a kitten might provide a sense of family, brown knows he will never see his own parents again. >> on the night of february 5th, 1994, i waited for my mom and my stepdad to get home. and just after midnight, i -- when they arrived, i killed them both. >> how? >> i shot them with a 12-gauge. i wish i had a good reason why i did what i did. because at least then there might be some way of justifying it. but there's not. there's no way of justifying what i did. >> what was so wrong that they had to be murdered? what was so wrong in your family? >> i have no idea. >> the night weighs heavily on billy gro

bloomberg columnist aaron brown considered that in our latest piece. he joins us by phone. of financial research at aqr capital management and the author of a great book, "the poker face of wall street." poker are an avid player with experience in hedge fund management. what does the paper say and why would there be a connection between poker playing and generating alpha? aaron: that's a great question. when i talk to people about the paper, you get two diametrically opposed views. people who say that poker is exactly like hedge fund management. you have calculation under pressure, you have money management, you have psychological insight. and then people say it is totally the opposite. a hedge fund manager is very careful, risk-reducing numbers person, and poker is a risk-seeking activity, it is gambling, exactly the opposite of what you should do. well, three academics decided to try and find out. they did a very good, solid piece of research that shows indeed that hedge fund managers who are good poker players get more alpha, produce better returns for investors, better

there but also makes the expectation of the international community well aaron brown's live for us in beijing adrian if i understand it correctly there's still some dispute over whether or not vice premier premier league will heed the china's lead negotiating official for this is actually going to be going do we know further or not the team that's going to be going from china is actually going to be prepared to make any trade deals. well you're right it's not clear clear the moment whether lou her will actually lead this delegation in washington it's too i think to leave either later today or early tomorrow and we don't know at this stage if he will be leading the delegation there has been some suggestion that he might well turn up in washington once it's clear that a deal is going to be signed between the two sides now lou her actually was in washington you know early last year and it was always to visit and he returned to beijing not getting what he thought he was going to get and i don't think he wants to be in a situation where you know he loses face once more but it's astonishing

aaron brown, pimco's performing manager and managing director. bob, first to you here on the floor. >> sara, you made a very good point. the whole market is down even companies or sectors that don't really have any direct revenue exposure or buy from china. they're all down the reason everything is down is because the prospects of tariffs, new tariffs for months on end, lowers global growth prospects in general it doesn't matter whether you're getting revenue out of china or not. take a look at some of the commodity stocks, for example. oil is down to $60 that was the lowest level since at one point march bounced a little bit companies like ensco, chesapeake, down 4%, 5% or more. they don't have direct exposure to china but it's global growth that matters right here on my right side lower. you see some of the companies that are out there that have some exposure like las vegas sands. retailers that are buying things from china and importing them, pier one is the classic example we all use also to the down side overall as well as some of the other

--are speaking with pimco's allocation, will be speaking to aaron brown, and on global credit.e catching up with pimco's cio, dan iversen, and ceo manny roman. so much look forward to over the next couple of hours. 30 minutes away from the opening bell in new york. good morning. let's get you price action. futures -.6% on the s&p 500. dollar strength in the fx market.

i'm gordon mar, the chair of the committee and i'm joined by vallie brown and aaron peskin. i'd

i'm gordon mar, the chair of the committee and i'm joined by vallie brown and aaron peskin. i'd like to thank corwin sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? >> clerk: please ensure u

i'm gordon mar, the chair of the committee and i'm joined by vallie brown and aaron peskin. i'd like to thank corwin sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? >> clerk: please ensure you silenced your cell phones and other devices. speaker cards should be submit issed to the clerk. items acted upon will be on the may 14th board of supervisors agenda. >> supervisor mar: number one? >> clerk: resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to establish a property-based business improvement district known as the downtown community. ordering and setting a time and place for public hearing of the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of whole on july 16, at 3:00 p.m. approving the form of the notice of public hearing and assessment ballot proceeding. directing environmental findings and directing the board to give notice as required. >> supervisor mar: i'd like to recognize helen mar and andrew from the office of economic development for a brief presentation. >> thank you, good morning. helen mar, project manager with workforce developme

aaron garcetti mayor with us. he's done fantastic work. jerry brown said nice things about my plan. i appreciate it. there the a couple uniqueness about my position. one, i'm really the only candidate that on day one said i'm going to make this the number one job of my administration. look, this is not job one, it will not get done. you have been around the bush, chuck. you know this takes enormous political capital. i'm willing to do that. number two, i got to literally do a multi-kettle effort, formed a u.s. climate allowance. i'm the only candidate to date to make a clear commitment of getting off coal as one of our principles, one is i don't know if we can get something done, signing the best 100% clean energy grid and the strongest energy poll season in buildings in the country. so i think it's a trifecta. i feel good about that. there is a lot of talent in the field, i'm unique in this regard. >> tell me this, you will go to west virginia and campaign on shutting down coal plants in ten years? are you going to southwest virginia and do this? are you going to parts of kentucky? i'm sure you wil

>> brown: it's a new take on one of the most beloved and well-known stories in american literature: "to kill a mockingbird," in aaron sorkin's broadway adaptation of the harper lee classic. sorkin is creator of the hit tv show "the west wing," and writer of films including "a few good men" and "the social network," which won him an oscar. when we met recently at the famed sards restaurant, he id he'd had two distinct reactions when the opportunityca to bring "mockingbird" to broadway. >> my heart sank, t,cause i thouthis is a suicide mission-- i'm never going to get out of this alive." and i was thrilled, because of the opportunity to be doing a play, to be back in thter, my first draft of the play reflected the heart-sinking part. i simply was trying to swaddle the ok in bubble wrap, and gently transfer it to a stage. the result was, that first draft was tepid. >> brown: the play he nally did write, starring jeff daniels, still focus atticus finch, the small-town lawyer in maycomb, alabama tasked with defending tom robinson, an african american man wrongly accused of assaulting a white woman. the story, set in the