lemonis: ben? ben: hi, marcus. lemonis: how you doing? i'm marcus. -ben: nice to meet you.: nice to meet you. and so, what's your role here? ben: i mainly help manage these guys in here, keep things moving. do a little bit of everything right now. lemonis: and where's your raw materials? ben: raw materials are in the warehouse. we run out to the warehouse, grab the raw materials, bring them in here, and we allow that to dry. and then they return to that room again. lemonis: that sounds kind of... ben: yeah, it's all over the place. that's what i want to change. lemonis: you know what i feel like when i'm in this building? like a mouse looking for his cheese. you start in one room, and you have to visit at least eight of those rooms to finish the product. this place is wildly inefficient. ben: there's not a flow. lemonis: why doesn't your dad want to get it fixed? do you ever talk to him about it? ben: he's kind of just like, you know, stuck in his old ways. it's just how we've been doing it for 20-plus years. lemonis: right. how frustrating is that? ben: it's pretty frustra

>> hello. >> hello, you must be ben. >> i'm ben. >> i'm doc. wow. how you doing?u bet it's eerie. come on in, son. come on in. welcome. welcome. >> and i was just overwhelmed. i didn't even know what to say. >> did you feel a connection? >> yeah, right away. right away. >> reporter: his biological dad richard or doc -- blanchfield recipient of the purple heart, shares keepsakes from a rich life lived. >> see the pictures on the wall? >> mm-hmm. >> vietnam vet, 82nd airborne. >> reporter: the two are startled by the similarities in their lives. >> you went in the army, you were 18? >> i was 18 years old. >> so same as i did. i went to the marine corps at 18. >> reporter: what if anything does he remember about ben's birth mom? doc recalls a night 32 years ago in anchorage, alaska, as a single dad had a chance encounter at a bar called the cabin tavern. >> there was a young lady sitting at the bar. i sent up and sat down. hello, and had my beer and we started a conversation. she was in a difficult relationship. i took a liking to her, she didn't want to go back wher

-- ben? broken windows policing, the concept that if you leave a broken window and don't fix it, more windows will be broken and people will believe nobody really cares and it is fine to do crime. that idea of roque and windows is behind the concept of community policing and the extremely aggressive policing we have experienced over the past several decades. and the idea is that you have low-level crimes, marijuana smokers, vandals, you could treat the all as criminal cases and have police arrest everybody , which is basically what we have done, or you could combat it in a way to solve those issues with the community, gain with, police working nonprofits and local groups, grassroots groups, to mend those issues together. and the collar is saying it -- the caller is saying that it is proven that it works. i cite in the book a professor from your could talks about the drop in crime from the 1990's, which sometimes people wrongly attribute to a form of aggressive policing that followed, but he c

ben, great to have you with us, the washington director of moveon.org, ben wikler. ben: thank you.bloomberg's first word news, we turn to kailey leinz. kailey: british prime ministers recent may is likely to face a leadership challenge over her soft brexit strategy. boris johnson was the face of campaign, and his accident sends a message to those who voted to leave the block. may: we do not agree to the best way to honor the referendum. it is a proposal that would take control of our borders them our money, and our laws, but do so in a way that protects jobs, allows us to find new trade deals, and keeps our people safe and our union together. kailey: johnson's resignation comes on the heel of brexit secretary david davis, who resigned last night. in turkey, the longest-serving ruler in the country's modern as sworn in today as executive president. order -- erdogan says he will' g credibility. palestinian president mahmoud to finds vowed palestinian attackers and their families. despite the israeli parliament's thesion collected on behalf. and harvey weinstein was back in new york c

ben's cell phone rings costly the woman have had a change of heart? back, telling ben to never contact them again. >> she hung up on me. she said that i need to go back to where i'm from and love my family and love the people that raised me. >> did that lead to you believe that she probably was your biological mom? or maybe not? >> her reaction led me to the conclusion that she is probably the mother. >> for the mothers, this is probably one of the most difficult things they've ever had to deal with. >> they have to face a lot of deeply varied emotions. >> and a big secret. >> and it can disrupt the lives that they've built since. >> though the search for his birth mom ended with a harsh rejection, he rejoices in the special man who gave him life. a second father who embraces him fully. >> i really feel that connection to another human being in the world. i value myself that much more after meeting him. >>> next, the little known path to the presidency of abraham lincoln. abc news "nightline" sponsored by geico. ♪ ♪ you said you're not like me, ♪ you

policy decisions. >> ben rhodes is former national security adviser with the obama administration, speech writer, as well, for the duration of the obama administration. joining us this morning to talk about his new book "the world as it is." you write in that book that the whole reason for coming to washington in the first place and later meeting then senator barack obama was your experience in new york on september 11th. tell us about that and how that brought you to washington. >> you know, i was on a totally different course in life. i wanted to be a writer. i was working on political campaigns. and on 9/11, it was election day. i was standing at a polling site and had a clear view of the second plane hitting and the first tower falling and i knew whatever i was going to do in my life -- i was 24 years old -- was going to be about what happened next, what the response to this was. i went to an army recruiter who didn't know what to do with an english major. i worked my way into foreign policy but felt i wanted to get involved in politics and that led me to the obama campaign. >> your m

ben: well, the truth is, a lot ss than i know now.hat i knew then is that the russians were meddling in the election and were doing so to harm hillary clinton and help donald trump. they hacked into the dnc, and other organizations were releasing-mails. and had some sense that they were engaged in an information campaign, the dissemination of fake news. the fact is that just between the election and inauguration, we learned a lotore and the picture got a lot more alarming. it was a strange feeling to walk out the door of the white house just as the picture was getting more and more alarming. er since then, every piece of information that has come out seems to confirm the worst case scenarios. katty: the meddling happened under your watch, under themi obama stration's watch. shouldn't you have done more to stop it? ben: i think we could have done more. i don't think we could have stopped it. essentially, we have an open internet. inmost of what russia was was creating propaganda and shooting it into people's social media feeds, reachin

back now with me, ben shapiro, editor in chief of dailywire.com.f a weird way for someone in that position to get the news. don't you think? >> it is. but his administration does not work along normal channels. a lot of his stuff is always attempting to catch up with him. dan coats can be extremely happy with the president after the president sat in front of putin and said he takes putin at his word, being equated with vladimir putin in matters of honesty of russian election interference is probably not what dan coats had a mind with this job. >> martha: at the president talk today about what a great success of the helsinki meetings where. it of appears as though this second meeting for the fall is kind of an attempt at a redo. >> there is interest in that appeared what we saw here was president trump making statements, walking back the walk back. he wants a second shot at putin or a second bite of the apple. if there is a second meeting, i'm a little bit skeptical that the president is going to be a lot more militant with putin than he was in the

cod >>> ben rhodes is the former security adviser. speech writer for the duration of the obama administration. talking about his new book, the world as it is. your whole reason for coming to washington and later meeting then senator barack obama was your experience in new york on september 11. tell us about that and how that brought you to washington. >> i was on a totally different course in life. i wanted to be a writer. i was working on political campaigns, and on 9/11, it was election day. i was standing at a polling site. i had a clear view of the second plane hitting the first tower falling. i knew then that whatever i was going to do in my life at 24 years old was going to be about what happened next. and i went to an army recruiter who didn't know what to make. found my way down here to work for lee hamilton. i worked my way into foreign policy. but felt i wanted to get involved in politics. politics is how you made change. that led me to the obama camp. >> you are meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter. he brough

he was president obama's right-hand man serving as trusted adviser throughout his term and tonight bendes opens up about life inside the white house. the decisions that shaped syria, russia, iran and much more and how barack obama really felt about donald trump's election. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. president donald trump has a huge european trip coming up next week with what's shaping up to be a contentious nato summit, followed by a visit to britain where he's likely to be met with massive protests and a one-on-one meeting later with vladimir putin. upon that could create even more tension with america's western allies. the relationship between the united states and europe has not been this fraught since the george w. bush years and the rift over the iraq war. repairing that rift and restoring america's global reputation was a critical focus for barack obama and my guest, ben rhodes, was at the heart of all that as deputy national security adviser and as a foreign policy speechwriter, rhodes served as obama's sounding bo

ben shapiro tweeting, quote, ben shapiro is the jew that helps other jews out of the train." deleted the tweet in a follow-up, he tweeted, "i deleted it because a mob on the right -- of a the right wing babies who were flooding my mentions and it was frankly pretty annoying as were the dm death threats." joining us now to respond is the daily wire's ben shapiro. ben, we're always talking to when the left is unhinged and you have a special way of unhinging them, but this was really -- i mean, i keep saying a new low but this really is a new low. i've never heard of this person before, but i guess he's kind of big in the tech world. where are we here? >> i've been called worse by better. that's the way things go these days. he said he worked over at fox. it turns out he wasn't a co-founder of vox. if it was vox, vox isn't sending their best. >> we have an individual that works for this tech site saying something who was san observant -- who is an observant jew is putting other jews on the train meaning the trump train and can't ever look passed that. i think he's jewish as well

ben's chili bowl is aandmark ind.c., located on u street, but the address could soon become ben' chili bowlway. the d.c. council is consideringa emergency legon that would change the name of a block in front of the restaurant. we're talking about the area tween 12th and 13th streets. ben's chili bowl is an iconic landmark in d.c. it stayed open and survived the 1968 riots and has been a gatheringlace for decades. and our own recently departed jim vance is on the mural on the side of the building. the restaurant is celebrating its 60th birthday in august, so the emergency decision nation ti this legis is designed to speed things along so that signs can be changed in time for the anniversary. and so, the hope here is that they could get thatdesignation, everything will be ready for the big celebration, and there is a going to public hearing on it on monday. back to you guys. >> megan mcgrath for us on u street. th07k you. right now. >>> some breaking news this morning. the death toll just rose after a boat carrying tourists overturned in thailand.e chris lawres at the live desk. >> we're

you could hear the emotion in their voice, ben.t do you make of the president's breakthroughs in trade talks? >> i think it's amazing. it's astonishing. i think a few days ago we were all wallow anything the fear of an all-out trade war that was going to bring us down into recession, and now he has lifted that fog, and he's given us a clear and hopeful vision of the future. it's astonishing to me, he said tariffs are a good thing, and that's not true, but he is able to negotiate extremely well. and by the way, he does connect incredibly well with crowds, incredibly well. but so did ronald reagan. elizabeth: saying our country is no longer going to be taken advantage of. let's watch. >> i want to personally thank european commission president jean junker for working to forge this historic agreement. he's actually a very tough, very smart, very good man. of course, if i didn't make a deal with him, i wouldn't be saying that. [laughter] elizabeth: you know, ben, the president is talking about trade in the heartland of the democrat par

: my son works with ben ben. >> jesse: i don't think ben had picked up baseball bat. >> juan: i thinkze. there were kids in the outfield, and they loved it. they got a big kick out of the secretary being there. >> greg: you interview a lot of people. it's hard to interview athletes, isn't it? >> juan: i was surprised. they are really good looking young men. >> abby: i don't disagree with you. how excited with your grandson? >> juan: he was thrilled. he had a great time. eli and rafi, they both had fun. they got to hang out with big papi and he got to meet some of the players. speak >> jesse: he's a republican, right? >> juan: i don't know why it wrong. >> kennedy: you have a beautiful family. >> abby: he watches too much jesse watters. >> jesse: that's not a problem. has he commented about my hair on social media? >> juan: i will ask him. anyway, thanks to major league baseball and the nationals. "one more thing" is so much fun and it's up next. with liberty mutual new car replacement we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty ♪ until her laptop cra

ben brown is there for us. ben.few facts at the moment about all of this? yes, neater. lots of questions, not many answers. this was the flat in this block here, number nine in muggleton road, which is where dawn stu rg ess muggleton road, which is where dawn sturgess and charlie rowley both fell ill on saturday at different times during the day. dawn sturgess first, and then her partner charlie rowley, several hours later. both were then rushed by paramedics to salisbury district hospital. at that stage, doctors and nurses caring for them did not know what was wrong with them, and suspected it might have been some sort of drug overdose. it took four days, really, for the authorities to work—out report on down, the defence research laboratory down the road from here, that it was novichok, the same russian nerve agent, it seems, that was used for months ago against surrogate and yulia, in salisbury, also in wiltshire. —— surrogate and yulia skripal. the couple are now both critically ill and fighting for their lives,

ben tracy isesm eave are nore in thealted the next threee days. this is also where they will be reunited with their families. as soon as they got out of the cave, they were first put on helicopters and air lifted from the scene. they were then transferred to ambulances and brought here to this hospital where they will be medically evaluated. now, the head of this rescue operation says that all of this went very smoothly, that it went better than they had even expected. he said that now the next part of the operation is is that they have to go back into the cave. they have to replace all of the oxygen tanks that line the evacuation route so they can do this again. keep in mind they have four boys out of the cave, but there are still eight boys left in there, plus their soccer coach. they tell us that roughly within the next ten hours we could see the next batch of young boys come out of that cave if everything goes smoothly. so, so far so good. they feel verynt tha they he go first phase of this operation, but they know there is a lot of work to do

ben: essentially no.the president has tweeted about what he thinks the uld do.shol some have suggested that jay powell will not respond to that by caving. he might be more stead fact in making sure that he raises interest rate. do you see that risk playing out? ben: the fed is going to deliver another four more hikes. gdp.e about to get 4% the economy is in very rude health. reasonable people would argue that policy needs to be tightened. that fact that policy is being tightened in the u.s. and not tightened anywhere else in the world -- or it's going to be anytime soon -- that is where the dollar frankness is coming from. julie: the question about small overweight.you are given how optimistic you sound, it is surprising to me. ben: i think small caps is good. the only surprise is it's taken so long for them to outperform. u.s. economy growing well above -- will continue to do so into next year. they are much more domestic. we don't need to worry about this nasty stuff going on in the rest of the world. s

in centerville, jackie ben ben, news 4. >>>4:25 right now. new clues in a central park explosion. virginia teen lost his leg two years ago today. now we'll show you new evidence that coup lead to the person who planted that explosive. >>> we're taking a look a temperatures out there right now. 81 degrees a 4:30. we're going to continue to warm the temperatures into the 90s today. we'll let you know how hot your fourth ofy is going to get and let you know i you can see any rain in your neighborhood fireworks. that's coming up in about five minutes. >>> you may be allowed to buy fireworks. where you set them o is a completely different story. next at 4:30, we'll break down the rules across our area ahead of your celebrations. >>> it's 4:29 on this fourth of morning. a live look over washington, d.c. there's no better place to be celebrating than our nation's capital, the united states lebrating its 242nd year of independence good morning everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >>> i'm erika gonzalez in for eun yang. we're working for you wherever you may be celebrating tonight. >> with a lo

joining us now to respond as the daily wires ben shapiro.alking to -- with the left is unhinged. you have a special way of and hinging them. but this was really -- i keep saying a new low, but this really is a new low. i have never heard of this person before, but i guess he is kind of big and the tech world. where are we here? >> i've been called worse by better people. that's the way things go these days. i guess that he works or said that he works over at vox, turns that he is not from there. that is all i can really say about it. >> laura: we have an individual who worked for this tech website, saying that someone who is unobservant jew is helping put other jews on the train, meaning, i guess, the trump train, can't ever look past that. but he's obviously -- i think he is jewish, as well. but coming from him, who i believe is jewish, is that have any special significance to you? is it kind of a self-loathing deal? what is it? >> not particularly. i think he is calling me a nazi. he wouldn't be the only one. the way the left works every d

are here to talk about what all this means is to business anchor bent ben thanks for being with us and if you're a consumer sitting at home wondering what is why do i care tell us what's going on ok there are a few strains to look at first of all whether or not your chinese or american ok there's a there's talk of a boycott going on by chinese consumers. china can feed itself you know china doesn't need the u.s. right now we see that in soybeans for example the chinese market is just very quickly and is taking up domestic produces produce from soybean make as in china the last shipments just coming over now hopefully tariff free for the chinese at least but for consumers everywhere else we may quite see price rises at some stage not right yet though a lot of companies are. trying to absorb any of those tariff costs into their profits so they're taking a profit hit a lot of companies at the moment what does that mean for producers that. well it's something that they can't continue to do long term short term measures that they can face and can deal with a lot of companies are in a very g

i'm ben bland. closing in on a trillion dollar valuation: amazon sales surge again, and so does the wealth of the boss — already far and away the richest person on the planet. plus political economy: are strong us growth figures a triumph for trump or a bubble about to burst? and on the markets asian shares struggling to gain any ground after a mixed session on wall street. that 20% slump in facebook shares weighing on the us market despite the deal to avert a trans—atlantic trade war. hello there. we start with amazon. from online bookstore to retail, media and data giant, and all—round titan of the internet — its march towards becoming a trillion dollar company continues after another huge quarter of earnings. let's show you the details. amazon made revenues of almost $53 billion in the three months to the end ofjune — up 39% on the same time last year. $2.5 billion of that was profit — the most it's ever made in a quarter — as it normally reinvests most of what it makes. shares have surged in rec

i want to bring ben into the conversation. ben, you traveled thousands of miles across the u.s. heartland talking to farmers. the interesting thing is farmers are getting hit on two sides, the product they produce, tariffs by mexico, china and the eu. it's a good microcosm for american consumers. >> when i talk to these guys, they are a great bellwether for the nation. that's why i went there, michigan, indiana, wisconsin, 1,000 miles. feels like thousands of miles when you drive out there through the beautiful country. what these guys told me, a farmer apple packer outside grand rapids, michigan, one missed season could be the death of them. >> these days, they live close to the edge. >> they have razor thin margins to begin with. now the environment is tougher for everybody. the bitter irony is they voted for trump to preserve their business and way of life. now, their policies are hurting them on both fronts and making it harder. how much time are they going to give them. that was the surprising thing. they were willing to give him time. they said in their plain-spoken way, i

they were not on trial, but we tracked ben raymond down to a bedsit in swansea. ben raymond.off irresponsibly this neo—nazi organisation. bleep. you irresponsibly set up a neo—nazi organisation. do you deny all responsibility for that? bleep. daniel sandford, bbc news. much more on our website and you can get in touch with us on social media. now on bbc news, sport today. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: the open championship tees off at carnoustie in scotland in the coming hours, and jordan spieth heads out as defending champion. britain's geraint thomas is the new overall leader at the tour de france, after an impressive victory on wednesday's11th stage. and is this the world's most expensive goalkeeper? brazil's alisson moves closer to a record—breaking transfer to liverpool. hello and welcome to the programme, where we are nowjust hours away from the year's third golf major of the year, the open championship at carnoustie in scotland. americans hold all four major titles at present, and jordan spieth is the defending

cvrkts this sayly look at the ene on the 1700 block of benning road. we're told we observed about 41 evidence park areen the cases and appear to be shell all the victims are conscious no word on sus mctoyvts. >> also developing overnight in district. car slammed into a 7:11 convenience senator northeast it happened after midnig 900 block of eastern avenue. we're told one person ha to be extricated from the car and taken to the hospital with serious injuries. no word on what caused the car >> and northwest d.c.ilding. dllice investigating a dea shooting and officers respond 400 o blocksecond street around 6:00 yesterday afternoon. >> getting the latest own capital gazette shooting in an run dell counthopolice say suspecteoter gerald ramos sent threateningetters on the day of the massacre and vowed to quote every person presen he is due in court for preliminary hearing july 24 in the meantime president trump denied request to lower flags for victims. >>> meanwhile, yesterday a celebration of life was held for capital newspaper journalist rob hy ci n at t

former reagan economist ben stein. david: bueller, bueller. susan li is on the floor of new york stock exchange. not bad for a friday the 13th, susan. >> definitely not bad. the dow closing above 25,000. the s&p also up the 28 level. we're trading at five month highs. a lot of positives, technical basis because we've broken through resistance as they call it through the market. we could bounce another leg up from here. talk about technology, you mentioned nasdaq, another record for the tech-heavy index. let's check in on some of these big tech names because it was a record day for amazon as well. we also saw facebook, microsoft booker he will about, big four tech names doing pretty good in the session. we got news in the past hour, looks like facebook, alphabet, twitter will testify at u.s. house judiciary hearing on july 17th. this has to do with social media filtering when it comes to elections that is something to watch next week. look at earnings season. it is about the banks today. we are kicking off heavier part of the earnings season. j

ben austin, a contributor for the new republic, on his recent battling innovative approaches for policing. be sure to watch "washington journal," saturday morning at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. afterwards,, on former white house secretary sean spicer discusses his book "the briefing politics, the press, and the president." he is interviewed by michael steele. >> ronald reagan and donald trump are about 180 degrees apart from each other. yet, here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? we are both reagan conservatives in that regard. was it a little bit of a dance every once in a while? how did you do it? >> with respect to the president, there is no question. he is not traditional, in terms of how he speaks. he also connects to people in a way that most politicians never have. he talks very bluntly in his own style. i don't think he would have won the nomination if it wasn't for that style. there is always this balance with elected officials, they say all of the right things, but they don't necessarily get anything done. in the case of trump, there is a lot of getting thi

right now in the data i am not seeing signs that tariffs are causing the kind of decisioisru. >> ben, let's focus on the last sense, buried in there of commentaries from districts around the country that folks are withholding investments. they are worried of the effects of these tariffs that they are not spending money on building plants or expanding plants or hiring. square that of what you heard there. >> what kevin is talking about is you did not see job losses in this particular employment report and that's not terribly surprising given that we are in the early inning of this trade war. you would not see necessarily of lower manufacturing jobs and in among the main lobster men or soybean farmers until these tariffs really bite. they are slowing down on investments. that necessarily does not mean they are cutting jobs and building new plants and doing capital investment. they are worried of the impact of the trade war. that kind of data would not show in the job report until several months down the line. it is not surprising that we have not seen big job cuts yet. >> i am going to

my name is ben bland.ur top stories: the 12 boys and their football coach rescued from a cave complex in thailand — are now being treated in hospital. officials say they're in good health — and high spirits. translation: no one thought we could make it, but we did. it was a first for the world. also ahead: president trump arrives in brussels for a key nato summit — and bashes europe again on its record of defence spending. and les bleus are through! france make it to the world cup final after beating belgium. people in thailand are relieved and celebrating as the final four members of a football team and their coach emerged from a flooded cave system. it was a perilous rescue. for three days, thai military and international divers guided the 12 boys in small groups to the surface, through narrow, flooded tunnels. they are now under constant medical observation while they recover from their ordeal. sophie long is outside the hospital in the thai city of chiang rai for us. thanks very much, ben. i'm just out

i'm ben bland in london. also coming up in the programme: just hours before zimbabweans head to the polls, the former leader, robert mugabe, breaks his silence, saying he won't vote the man who pushed him out. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday, good morning. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7am on the indonesian island of lombok, where at least 1a people have been killed in a powerful earthquake. indonesian presidentjoko widodo is due to visit later on monday. he's ordered the maximum relief effort to help survivors. officials say hundreds have been injured and the number of casualties is expected to rise. the bbc‘s pablo uchoa has more. a scenic morning trek ended in panic. a mountain guide who is leading a check on indonesia's —— and indonesian mountains popular with tourists captured the moment the earthquake struck. the group of jurors trying to get down the mountain as quickly as possible as clouds of dust rise from nearby landslides. this is

aynhe district there public hearing to discuss the part of that couldonu restet h b ben's y bone.king to rename the street. the d.c. council introduced an emergency resolution last week. itould rename the 1200 block of u street northwest as ben's chili bow way. >>> a bill that establishes clear noise level restrictions and lowers the fin for violators will voted on by d.c. couayil tuesd the original bill has ap penalty of to year in jail for violators but tomorrow's emergency msure won't include that provision lowering the fine from $1,000 to $300. >> 4:55 on this monday morning. mike tngmas talki about our work weekecast. good morning. >> yeah, good morning to youas well. getting ready fore. sun monday sunshine going to continue here with what we kind of started over the weekend although temperatures will be noticeably wmear near 9s afternoon though humidity will still be in what i would call notoar d mouc o don't expect anything onugho the crseu aircl is kind of in place thatn came dow from. every now and then canada sends us something nice in the way of some drier air but as ho

i'm ben bland in london. also in the programme: just hours before zimbabwe's historic election, former president robert mugabe says he won't back his successor and the man who ousted him. and we meet the stand in mum helping same—sex couples shunned by their parents on their wedding day. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8am on the indonesian island of lombok, where at least 1a people have been killed in a powerful earthquake. indonesian presidentjoko widodo is due to visit later on monday. he's ordered the maximum relief effort to help survivors. officials say hundreds have been injured and the number of casualties is expected to rise. the bbc‘s pablo uchoa has more. right side! a scenic morning trek ending in panic. a mountain guide who was leading a trek on an indonesian mountain a site popular with tourists, captured the moment the earthquake struck. the footage shows a group of climbers trying to get

ben, you were an early investor in that. i understand an investor in xiaomi is an investor in one of your funds. any concerns of how they will perform given now that we know some of the financials, which are not perfect. benjamin: yes, not an easy time to come out right now. as you mentioned, a number of underperformers in hong kong, new regulations around cdr's in china and the options being taken out and mainland investors certainly frustrating many appeared not an easy time to come out and it is certainly complicated by the fact that xiaomi are a new species. they are a company that does not fit any of the usual metrics and valuation methodologies and company profiles that most in the public markets understand. it is a hardware company, it is a software company, we do iot, e-commerce of services, it is difficult to put one finger on it. the net result is that a lot of people are scratching their heads today, both institutional as well as individual investors trying to figure out how it really should be valued. emily: that

ben: oh signed!' autographs from your favorite baller isnút the limit to the interaction.when steph curry put a chip shot too far, on the other side of the 17th green, a fan gave him grief... so curry called him out, called him down from the stands and gave that fan a chance to do better.sot- ben: 'steph will you tell us about the guy on 17 you called down to shoot? whatús up with that? (laughs)curry: 'as iúm hitting it the guy yelled out something about a brick three. i heard him, dropped my 6 degree wedge, asked for an extra ball, threw it back in the sand and told him to come out from the crowd and hit the shot.'the man muffed it... hitting the ball over this green, over the gallery... sending it careening off the same stadium seating he had come from.no excuses, but he was hitting with no warm-up in flip flops.sot- curry: 'i commend him for trying, because some guys would have backed down.'it is all in fun... but remember, most of these guys got where they are in life by being hyper competitive. s

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no, it's ben, flying through the sky.astest city—centre zip wire and find out why and how they built it. you're with business live from bbc news. glad i didn't get to do that one! you will see that in about five minutes, it is really worth the wait. britain has a golden opportunity to switch to renewable energy without raising prices, but only if the government acts now. that's according to a new report published today by the national infrastructure commission, tasked with making recommendations about the uk's long—term infrastructure priorities. joining us from westminster is sirjohn armitt, chairman of the national infrastructure commission. good morning. we are talking about renewable energy, it is quite a u—turn about your previous recommendations, an investment in nuclear? it was, but the evidence, which is what we focus on the national infrastructure commission, clearly shows that the cost of renewa bles clearly shows that the cost of renewables has come down significantly, the technological opportunities from smart

ben, what do you make of the timing of the indictment? this comes a day after the hearing on the hill with peter strozk and a couple of days before the president will sit down with vladimir putin. >> yeah, i think it is an enormous show of strength on the part of federal law enforcement, frankly. you know, yesterday we had -- we actually saw the real witch hunt which is a congressional witch hunt against a supposedly -- you know, evil federal law enforcement people who were trying to get the president. they actually had a federal agent in front of a congressional committee berating him for ten hours. yelling at him, badgering him. and, you know, it is -- peter strozk is probably not the ideal exemplar of the fbi at this point. he did a remarkable job standing up for the values and ideas and behavior of the bureau yesterday. all in defense of this investigation. today, we actually see what this investigation is really about which, you know, we knew except that there's been an ongoing effort to distract us from that and prevent us from talk

jesse: ben shapiro in the lion's den with bill maher.esse: you probably stumped him because he was high and smoked before the show. but i want to talk to you about the top three scotus picks. tell me what your assessment is of brett kavanaugh who seems to be the early establishment insider frontrunner. >> i'm dicey on brett kavanaugh. he was one of the forces behind the selection of john roberts. but there are two situations where he has done less than originalists would like. he denied jurisdiction on obamacare because he said it was a tax. it's the first time anybody made the argument obamacare was a tax rather than a fine. and that's the logic that ended up being used by chief justice roberts. that came from a cavanaugh dissent. there is another case in which kavanaugh suggests the government had a compelling interest in providing contraceptive care. that case is a little bit of evidence that he takes seriously the government's stated interest in leftive issues. jesse: the wall street editorial page endorsed him. matt schlapp also end

>> ben: in theory.just pure experimentation for experimentation's sake. >> rene: and it's pretty damn delicious. >> anthony: i like that. >> rene: it's another food item on your shelf. and me, as a cook, that's what i want. >> rene: these are two year old cherries with the cherry pits and wild roses -- five years old wild roses now, very deep, intense. >> alessandro: this is amazing. amazing. >> anthony: they're not just thinking about what tastes good now, they're talking about, "will this taste good in 2 years if we ferment it, or age it, or dry it?" >> rene: we like to ferment it. we add bacteria to it. so that it needs 3 years of time, and then it becomes utter delicious. >> ben: the diversity available to us through looking at fermentations, and looking at different bacteria, and looking at different molds, yeast, all sorts, is absolutely enormous. >> anthony: there's stuff rotting in jars and vases that these experiments of fermentation and flavor. you're all doing some sinister -- down there, i k

ben tracy is outside the cave tonight. ben? >> reporter: jeff, an international team of 18 elite divers is pulling off these daring rescue missions. they're supported by another 100 people inside the cave. and so far they are beating the odds, bringing all eight of these boys out alive. one by one they came out of the cave on stretchers, were loaded into waiting ambulances and helicopters. ( sirens ) and rushed to the hospital 60 miles away. four more boys finally freed monday night from the dark and flooded cave they had been stranded in for 17 days. thai officials say the elaborate operation is going better and faster than expected. divers have shaved two hours off the time it takes to complete each rescue. that's due, in part, to the massive amounts of water they have drained from the cave, reducing the currents inside and allowing the divers to move the children more quickly. thai officials say the boys rescued monday were in even better condition than the four rescued on sunday. here's how this dangerous rescue mission wor

ben rhodes, thank you for coming on hardtalk. thanks a lot, i enjoyed it. hello there.res over the last five days somewhere in the uk have pushed over the 30 degrees celsius mark, and yesterday it was the turn of kew in west london to push above the 30—degree mark. 31 degrees celsius the top temperature yesterday. many areas did see some decent spells of sunshine. this was the scene in norfolk during monday, but further north—eastwards, in whitby, in that area, we had some thicker cloud and gary spotted a few spots of rain falling from the cloud. this, a cold front pushing through, and later in the day, the same weather watcher, gary, spotted some brighter weather following the cold front through. now, the satellite picture shows extensive cloud over northern and eastern parts of the country. that cold front continues to work its way southwards and significantly, it's going to be bringing fresher air. so the humidity will be dropping and as that happens, the temperatures will drop further as well. so it's going to be fresher, more comfortable night's sleep ahead. temper

ben rhodes, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. do ycvu'explainyczur'ccnnnecticrn'e well, it's one of the reasons why i wrote the book, to try to explore that, but i think fundamentally, he was running for president in 2008 as an outsider and he hadn't built up the network of people around him that most people running for president do. hillary clinton had kind of sucked up the democratic machine. i was coming in as a relative outsider, newcomer at 29 years old. we shared a frustration. i got into politics for the some of the same reasons he was running for president. after september 11, the attackes, our government had gotten it wrong in the iraq war and with a number of other decisions so we entered into this process with the same shared sense of trying to make change. the other reason that's important is when you're a speechwriter, you have to get inside someone‘s head because you have to learn how to write in their voice, how they think and talk, so it was myjob, frankly, to be able to anticipate what he wanted to say and what h

ben rhodes, thank you for coming on hardtalk. thanks a lot, i enjoyed it. hello again.le heat really. somewhere in the uk over the last six days we've seen temperatures into the low 30s, with the exception of yesterday's maximum temperature, which was at chivenor, in devon. we only got up to 26 degrees celsius. for most of us, yes, there was much less humidity around, it did feel a good deal fresher than recent days. and it was a beautiful end to the day. this was the scene of the setting sun in lincolnshire. now, looking at the weather picture for the early risers today, we do have a weather front across western scotland that will threaten to bring some rain into northern ireland as well. otherwise, it's a dry start to the day, and a fresher feel to the weather, as well. now, this rain early wednesday morning is actually going to get a little bit heavier, particularly across south—west scotland. it might well just about scrape into antrim and down in northern ireland as well. but, although it turns heavier for a time during wednesday morning, it will then begin to ease

. >> just before we flew out and met you here we talked to ben ben sasse of nebraska.ministration understand? this is what he told us. do you feel like -- or where's the disconnect? do you feel like the white house understands the concerns of soybean farmers and others in nebraska who have shared their concerns with you? >> no, i'm here with a bunch of farmers and ranchers right out in. these folks -- i'm an historian by training so i'm spectacle of hyperbole but literally they live on the most productive land in all of human history and in nebraska we grow more food than we can ever possibly consume. if we don't have export markets to sell that food into, you got bankruptcies coming all across my state and no, the administration does not understand it. >> doug, what the senator just said was essentially saying the administration does not understand what your plight is. at the same time, the senator also told us there is frustration. china, for instance, in intellectual property, has essentially stolen hundreds of billions of dollars every year. you are somebody who ha

host: ben austen?: one thing that is fascinating about this issue is that broken windows policing, this concept that if you leave a broken window and do not fix it, more windows will be broken. people will believe nobody really cares and it is fine to do crying. that idea of broken windows is behind the concept of community policing and extremely aggressive policing that we have experienced for the last several decades. the idea is that if you have low-level crimes, marijuana smokers, vandals, you could treat them all as criminal cases and police arrest everybody, which is basically what we have done. or you could come out it in a way and try to solve those issues with the community, gain trust. police working with nonprofits, local groups, grassroots groups, to mend those issues together. what this caller is saying, it is proven that it works. it works in medicine. it is proven that it works with crime. there is a book eyesight in this article by a professor -- a book ite by a professor when he talks

you're right, ben, not a surprise at all but we're grateful. thanks very much.thing i love about mit in boston is that whenever you open a door in a basement you could run into anything. unless it runs into you first. which might be why, for the seventh straight year, mit has been named the world's number one university. and, i'm going to say it, this is one of my favourite places in the world. the thing i love about mit is that it is all over the place. it really is. the buildings have this brilliant higgledy—piggledy nature and inside its the same. here at csail, for example, there's stuff all over the place. it's wonderful. the computer science and artificial intelligence lab, csail, is mit's ai powerhouse, with some of the world's foremost researchers in the field. here, a! has taught itself to see through walls while robots are being built to swim through our bodies. but it's obvious that we are still only starting to explore how to use artificial intelligence and robotics. 20 years ago, computation was a task reserved for experts because computers were lar

also, ben stein, who worked for richard nixon and gerald ford.ee you both. >> thank you, fred. >> art, you first. the president argues these tariffs are a short-term pain for a long-term gain and that tariffs are the greatest. do you agree? >> no, i don't think tariffs are the greatest, but they may be a good strategic plan for getting china to come to the negotiation table. to renegotiate, china has been recalcitrant on this issue. it should be lowering its tariffs. they should be more free trade than they are. they shouldn't steal intellectual property. larry kudlow knows this very, very well. he's one of my best friends. believe me when i tell you, he's arguing the good cause internally. he's just phenomenal. >> ben? >> tariffs are such a complicated issue. it's almost unbelievable. ben smith, the father of economics, said tariffs are a bad thing. but just in recent years, a great, great genius before his death, paul samuelson, said sometimes we do need tariffs. there are countries like china that do require tariffs. if targeted properly again

ben stein is shaking his head yes. what do you think about this ben?>> i think it's incredibly important that i have to respectfully do something that i should not be brought and probably one of the oldest people you you'll have on tv today and i remember the mccarthy hearings and i remember mccarthy constantly saying point of order, point of order, point of order to disrupt the hearings. this is exactly what the democrats are doing today. i beg your pardon for interrupting your stream of thought here but with the greatest possible respect have never seen a more disgraceful performance in what the democrats are doing today. it's absolutely disgraceful, rages beyond belief, insulting. it insulting the democratic process and just disgraceful. to get to your main subject in fact it's hard data that the nato allies are spending more that's president trump has been nagging him about. it is extremely high time for the nato allies to our rich countries to be spending more specially germany which is a disgrace. liz: nato defense spending is a trillion dollars