ben stein. ben, pompeo singling out verification. is that doable? ben: i don't know if it's doable i don't know if any of this is doable. the whole thing is like something from a fantasy novel. what it reminds me of most of all is nixon going to china. they used to say only nixon was great anti-communist credentials could go to communist china and settle things down with him. i think possibly only trump with his irrational nature and threatening nature and strong anti-communist nature can go to singapore and possibly make peace with north korea but it is a long long road ahead, north korea is a violently brutal dictatorship. can we count on them to change that? we don't know but we do know something mr. trump has says over and over again. the koreans are among the most capable people on the planet and if we can possibly integrate them into the family of free nations we'll have dug a whole world a huge favor. liz: that could be the outcome to your point we may also see an official end to the korean war maybe even an embassy in north korea. we don't have

ben simmons of the philadelphia 76ers is with us for what i believe -- [ cheers and applause ] could be the next great american sport. now, ben is going to -- there's ben. ben is going to try -- hi, ben -- to shoot -- his mission is to shoot that giant ball into that giant hoop in a game called big skip ball, and if he makes it, everyone in this audience will go home with a valuable prize, all right? all right. although i do want to say, the real prize are the friendships you make along the way, right? here's something else you'll like. i invited my dear friend, tracy morgan, to try some new things, to open himself up to experiences he's never had before. tracy is very set in his ways, but he agreed to loosen up and experiment and these are the results of what we call simply "tracy tries it." ♪ >> hi, i'm jimmy and welcome to "tracy tries it." in this segment, tracy morgan tries things that he's never tried before. i think this is very open-minded of you. >> yeah, i'm not scared. >> are you ready? >> yeah. bring it on. >> here we go. what will tracy try? tracy, have you ever broken a board karate-style, with your fist? >> let me see something. well, th

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ben. ben ended up crowd funding for his top surgery for his chest masculinization surgery. and i found him online. you know, he posted on a website, you know, i'm ben. i'm a very big chested transgender man. i'm fundraising for surgery. i'm going to be going down to florida on such and such a day. please help me out. and i learned that this was a very popular way that transgender men raised money for this surgery. the surgery is about $7,000. and a lot of them are -- at least among the folks that i focused on are pretty young. they didn't have the money. and so they crowd funded it. once i found ben, i decided to interview everyone else who was having top surgery the same day in the same doctor's office. and five out of those four were willing to talk with me. and the book focuses on those four individuals as they go through that process. >> host: just some historical background here. i think, you know, you point out that historically it's true that far more people who were assigned male genders at birth have transitioned to female than the other way around. and i think in the cultural imagination, we tend to think that way. but it seems that those

ben. ben ended up crowdfunding for his top surgery for his chest masculinization surgery and i found him online. he posted on a website, i am ben , i'm a bit-- big chested transgender man. i'm a fund-raising for surgery. i'm going be going to florida on such and such a day, please, help me out. i learned this was a very popular way that transgender men raise money for their surgery. of the surgery is about $7000 and a lot of them out least among the folks i focused on are pretty young and didn't have the money. so, they crowd fund it. once i found ben, i decided to interview everyone else having the surgery the same day in the same doctor's office and five out of the four were willing to talk with me and the book focuses on those for individuals as they go through the process. just historical background here i think you point out that historically it's true that far more people who were assigned male genders at birth have transitioned into female ban the other way around and i can get a cultural imagination we tend to think that way. but, it seems the proportions are shifting and i'm wondering if you can talk about why things s

ben tracy is in singapore with more. ben, good morning. and, ben, what is expecting for this face-to-face between two unpredictable leaders? >> reporter: well, you used the right word, "unpredictable." it really is hard to tell. i think a lot of people are watching this very closely to watch out is this going to be some sort of meet-and-greet photo op relationship-building kind of summit, or will there be nuts and bolts that come out of it. the north korean staid media say they're going to talk about serious things including what they call a peace-keeping m mechanism for the korean peninsula as well as denuclearization. it remains to be seen. president trump said he'll know in the very first moment if kim jong-un is serious about reaching a deal. >> and, ben, you mention president trump, but how significant of a trip is this for kim jong-un? >> reporter: it's a big deal. keep in mind kim jong-un has only left north korea four times. this is the fourth. two times to go to north korea's neighbor, a train ride, a short flight, and he took that histori

ben. ben, what would be the general fund cost if we were to kick in to absorb the operational costs of m.t.a.? if m.t.a., their budget was not funded. i'm hesitant to go down this line of questioning, but on the record, a considerable chunk of money coming from the general fund. if we do not approve m.t.a. budget, that means the general fund would have to kick in. because life does need to keep wheels need to keep going on the bus, so how much would that actually cost us? >> it's a good question, supervisor, and i don't have the answer to it. >> supervisor cohen: must cost a lot if you don't have the answer. at your fingertips right here, right now. >> i don't know if that's the case. but the way the charter provisions work, if the board of supervisors reject the m.t.a. budget, charter provides the controllers office is to make continuing provisions from the general fund for services. >> thank you very much. i want to be clear and on the record, not onlyor you, director, but also to the commissioners and the folks listening and watching. i am not interested in moving in that direction. i am interested in making sure that we are asking thoughtful questions as it relates to the m.t.a. budget. particularly paying close and careful attention to particularly the revenue arm of the m.s.a. and the contributions that it makes to the city. so, i want to talk a little about item six now. item 6 authorizes five-year, $100 million a year credit for capital financing. b.l.a. report, 12% increase, 12% interest rate on this commercial paper. is that -- is that standard, or is that high? oh, hello, is that standard, or high, and what's driving this interest rate? >> good morning, supervisors, thank you for asking the question. 12% is the standard rate in all the city and all the commercial payment programs, p.u.c., a max rate that all the agreements use as a standard max rate. we have never been close to that, but we, all city departments include that. >> who sets that standard max rate? >> the office of public finance is the one that helped us determine that rate, and i think it's based on, and maybe ben can answer that question. >> we'll defer to the controller. who sets that rate? >> just to be clear, this rate, memory serves correctly, actual borrowing rate on the actual commercial program paper we have in place for the city and the m.t.a. is , lower than that. hovering at or below 1% interest in recent years. >> considerably lower. >> creating a legal ceiling. >> i understand. >> i think it's a state, t state legislation t it's a 12% rate that's the maximum rate that local governments can charge, and the city basically used that for all the commercial programs. >> all right. thank you. next question is actually related to item five. what kind of outreach for people who have overpaid parking tickets? kind of a simple question but one that my office gets all the time. ou haaider pleasee overpaid, weg let us know you want the money back, so we send you initial notice, 60 days after you have overpaid. if we don't hear back from you, we try to contact you one more time. of that, two ye

. >> supervisor cohen: so, i have a quick question, i want to direct t probably ben. ben, what would be the general fund cost if we were to kick in to absorb the operational costs of m.t.a.? if m.t.a., their budget was not funded. i'm hesitant to go down this line of questioning, but on the record, a considerable chunk of money coming from the general fund. if we do not approve m.t.a. budget, that means the general fund would have to kick in.

i'm ben brown. —— i'm ben bland.st one as angry g7 finance ministers warn the us of a trade war within days over its new tariffs. spain's new prime minister, pedro sanchez, is sworn in in madrid. his first challenge — catalonia's separatist leader calls for talks. thousands of palestinians attend the funeral of a nurse killed by israeli gunfire during protests in gaza. her mother says she was trying to help the injured —— her mother says she was trying to help the injured. translation: this is what she was resisting with. on what basis did the soldier kill her? she's been targeted since the first day of the protest. also in the programme — we travel to the russian city of kazan as it prepares to welcome world cup fans and celebrate ramadan.

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ben ben any years, decades. we had great meetingt'. >> wells just a load of crap. n't want their votesdemocrats highjacked to fix a mess cause by president trump. at the same time they b areeing offered as solution for the at wall funding. exchangeth for we are back at another stalemate. i can tell you that house bmocrats are going te holding another pressonference later this morning. to try h toighlight the problem with this issue andall on president trump to end it medley. as far as the larger immigration package, the house plans to ing it up possibly tomorrow. it doesn't have a lot of chance from what we hear of passing in the senate so the next hope would have to be this stand alone legislation to end the practice even trump says he won't supportt. live on capitol his, melanie alnwick, fox5 news. >>> let's get tour o other stop story nll. out from d.c. primary election day not all the democraticncumbents not that voter turn out wasow f vya ermayoral primary. 18%. the question is, will it costree district? >> that scenario real possibility after majority of d.c. voters approved nitiative now that's the ballot measure thatalls for tipped workers to inke mum wage. it's an immedaste ie to 12.50 an hour a then at least $15 an hour by the year 2020. supporters say it's only fair and that not all servers make a lot in tips. opponents say it will cost meal and drink priceing to up strahle to pay big wage hikes quickly anea workersr that we won't tip as much. but will initiative 7 even beco law? majority of council an mayor bowser oppose it. >> joining us on the phone right no d.c. council chair phil mendelson. councilhair mendelson, good to talk to you this morning. good morning. >> now that this is passed we know number of the members of council i believe yourself included have not been supportive ofea thissure. what's the next step from council's perspective? >> the board of elections hastso certify the r and 35-dayeview.to congress for speculation that thencil will step in c. i't say whether that wil happen. i think we need to gete littl bit of clarity of, um, what exactly happened yesterday in terms of where the votes were and there was much closer than people had thought, and the opponents are clearly gaining mow moan men tum in the final days before election. >> for you personally as couil chair will you push to havechand notustev'm going to r talk with colleagues, see what they think the nextteps are. there's a bit of an iron near here because although the rrowly, o ten members the ther council have come outst a it, and everyone of the council members who wouldn't re-election inryhe p yesterday had been opposed to theti i votniere one hand by a narrow majority said we want the initiative, at the same time, said we also want an r to office council members who areo opposed the >> councilman, do you think, though, when people went to the ballots what theyas heard servers will get this fair wage regardless of wha diners leave on the table? >>ou know, there's bee a lot of miss information about the iniative, and i've been very outspoken about that. the d initiative ascribed on the ballotaid to prode tipped workers with minimum wage. they already b l are entitled to minimum wage. thn' initiativet clear about that at all. in fact i even feel it was misleading. >> there are some though that say there are some unscrupulous owners out there tha't meet that minimum wage, and then also, this would cut down on servers having to endure a rude customer or sexual harassment and things like that when they're t aing to make day's living. there. couple of points you know, the latter point, the, um, the initiative isn't goito r the initiative has no effwht on her patrons are r or harassing serve. there's nothing thatuggest that would change. i think that's inhere in the small number o prons who just are jerks and thell continu to be jerks, and with regard to the first point, um,ortunate unfortunately there areer some ems minorityeat their eawoherk indtisativ te a will t. nenprev we see that with other changing the tip relationshipnd isn't going to change whether employs want to cheat their employees. >> sure. finally before we let you go, councilman, obviously this is not just restaurants but tip workers. a lot of attention comes from bars and restaurants which quite frankly bring in good amount of money to t city through the taxes that are gener tedre. are you concerned if this stands that people might not be dining out as much if the prices go up? >> well, therehore folks w a concernand it is that the restaurant industry which is thriving in the district will be hurty t to me is more impactful is that i didn't know of any workers who supported the initiative. i mean it's reall tquiet strihe initiative was advertised in the name of lping tipped workers in restaurants and nearly unanimo unanimously tipped workers in restaurants were opposed to the initiative. they didn't see it as benefitinr them. >> bef we let you go, go the to ask about this 18% voter >> you know, it's very mesappointing, at th time it's not a surpris. um, the top of the ticket the mayor's race was not seen as competitive. in fact, going down the ballot . there was not a lot of, um...t just wasn' a lot of, um, what i want to say, controversy about it. tand ink that's because generalidlyents of the district are satisfied with the direction that the distrt is going in. the city is thriving economi economicallynd more jobs and we do have somes chall. no question about it but overa overall, folks feel good about the way the city is going, and that m there isn't higher turnout isn't f come full circle and wrap this up as far ashe timetable back to initiative 77, then, certific 35 day review, realistically when do you think oncouncil would take actio this would be the earliest that might happen? >> well, i don't think anything would go to, g to the congress until august maybe. i haven't actually sat down and lookedt the calendar, andhe review period wouldn't be over until t fall. so i don't kw w else i can tell you oh and that. >> okay. it will be self months down the >> yes.r sure. >> councilman chair mendelson thanks for joining us. appreciate y tr time. >>nk you. >> 8:10. leocs check moreal headlines now. cvs sto worker assaulted overnight after t men came this happened jus after 3:00 in the morning at t cvs in the 5100 block oeef duke str in alexandria. police werene on the for a few hours. that workerot seriously injured. the two suspects are still on the loose. >>> university of maryland taking new action after the death otsone of football players. baltimore sun reporting the university hired a sportsci medi consulting group to conductofn external rev the football team's procol. that player 19-year-old offensive lineman jordan mcnair was hospitalized may 29th c afterlapsing during a team workout and then died two weeks later.ls university officiaay that review could take up tay90s. >>> still to come this and new alert from the fbi today on the. increase of sexual assaults on airplanes. >>> plus, important news about alcohol and cancer. who is most atig risk,ht drinkers or those who don't drink at all? 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ben's god father. i met ben in person when we were 17. when ben was at columbia. we became fast friends. unbeknownst the plan was to convince me to go do college. that plan failed miserably. thank god. >> dave made 750 bucks telling jokes in 15 minutes. i ke college is not going help you do better than this. >> dave, had you gone to college you might have become ric one day. >> yeah, that was the myth. that was the legend. i think everything worked out better than i could have ever imagined >> you vls have to understand md father was on a tear. dave was the first male in his family to not go to college since slavery. there was a battle avenrage. hi said when his son could make $750 in park telling jokes, he was like i get it. >> go ahead, i sorry. >> no, go ahead. >> i was going to say like i into politics.uck my t i don't even necessarily believe in politics but this is the first time that i believe in somebody this much for a job like this. i know him so well. we came up toer. my father said to him, he said ben i'm afraid y're getting this scholarship so you'll no longer be a threat to

i'm ben brown. —— i'm ben bland. top stories: it's six against one as angry g7 finance ministers warn the us of a trade war within days over its new tariffs. spain's new prime minister, pedro sanchez, is sworn in in madrid. his first challenge — catalonia's separatist leader calls for talks. thousands of palestinians attend the funeral of a nurse killed by israeli gunfire during protests in gaza. her mother says she was trying to help the injured —— her mother says she was trying to help the injured. translation: this is what she was resisting with. on what basis did the soldier kill her? she's been targeted since the first day of the protest. also in the programme — we travel to the russian city of kazan as it prepares to welcome world cup fans and celebrate ramadan. hello and welcome to bbc news. finance ministers from six of the g7 countries meeting in canada have expressed "unanimous concern and disappointment" at america's new tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. they've warned washington that there are only

lots to get to here so i'm joined now for an exclusive interview by ben smith. benlie worked for you at buzz feed. she was working on a number of sensitive stories. what was the story that got us to this point? >> well, that's actually one of the really remarkable and strange elements of this indictment. it's for lying to the fbi. story is a great story which nobody has challenged a word or a comma of, about contacts between carter page, the trump adviser, and a couple of those agents and russian intelligence. if you read -- i think people who are interested in this should read that story really closely. the sourcing in that story is really clear. there was an indictment filed in the southern district of new york in 2015. you could have gone down in 2015 and taken a look at it. last year and now to take a look at it. russian spies are talking about that the american oil executive and his unusual behavior. you read it and think that might be carter page in fact if you were to read it. the other source in the story is carter page saying, yes, that was me. >> you're sa

ben rose. ben was president obama's national deputy security advisor and he's written a new book, the world as it is, a memoir of the obama white house. we're also pleased to announce that bennews and msnbc as a political and national security contributor. ben, welcome to nbc and welcome back to "meet the press." this is a week where the culture wars popped up yet again between the roseanne situation, the samantha bee situation, and of course, race is intertwined in all of this. i want to pull up the first excerpt of your book i want to talk about, you write, racism was a constant presence and absence in the obama white house. we didn't need to talk about it. it was there like white noise. when was there when a reality star built the idea on the idea obama wasn't born in the united states, and is still believed by a majority of republicans. what point were you trying to make with this? >> well, people would often ask me, you know, what did president obama really think about race. and the point i was making there is that he took it as a given that some of the opposition was rooted in racism. that's what i mean by we didn't always have to talk about it. we would practice for

ben kaplan walked onto the graduation floor with his classmates. ben's thoughts were on one person, the one who couldn't be re. >> my mom. i won't lie, i probably spent a half-houcrying in the car because she's not here. >> later ben's principal recoorizing him his determination. >> your will power and resolve over the last nineav month been an inspiration for anywhe o has met you. >> when the big moment did come -- >> benjamin william kaplan -- >> there was a big smile and especially loud applause and then the pictures to mark a day some consider a but ben still thinking of his mom. >> i hope she proud of me. >> ben's summer plansan include other surgery. then he'll go to community college nearby so he can sy sisters.his dad and who are, indeed, very proud of him today. in fairf county, i'm julie carey, news 4. >> ben's got a whole community proud of him. >>> dramatic video, flames shooting from a school building, crews are on the scene at an art school in glasgow, scotland, firefighters don't believe anyone died in the fire. the b mlding ise than 100 years old. the second time in four years it's caught fire. >>> a brave grandmother in georgia saved her ownife by fighting off a vicious bobcat and strangling it. dee

ben and very lucky. ben ended up crowdsourcing or crowdfunding for his chest surgery. i found him online. he posted on a website. i am ben, i am a transgender man. i'm fundraising for surgery. i'm going to be going down to florida. on such and such a day. please help me out. and i learned that this was a popular way that transgender men raise money for surgery. surgery is about $7000 and a lot of them are at least among the folks that i focused on, are pretty young. they did not have the money and so they crowd funded it. once i found ben, i decided to interview everyone else that was having top surgery the same day. in the same doctor's office. five out of the four of them were willing to talk with me. and the book focuses on the four individuals as they go through the process. >> just some historical background here. i think you point out the historically, it is true that far more people who were assigned male gender of birth have transition to female. then the other way around. i think in the cultural imagination, we tend to ithink that way. but it seems that the proportions are shifting and i am wondering if you can

qui christine quinn and ben white. benthese people are breaking the law is the administration's argument but it is a misdemeanor. if i committed a misdemeanor i wouldn't be separated from my children. but does their argument hold water? >> well, i mean, it doesn't hold water from a humane sense or a decency sense or anything that appeals to, you know, our better natures and, you know, the trump administration likes to paint this as a democrat problem or an obama problem which is absurd. >> humanity and decency live far outside i'd like to think politic. >> exactly. they're in charge. this is the administration in charge of i.c.e. and how you implement these policies and can decide to do it or not and jeff sessions talked about what a good policy this is. we need this deterrent and need to say to families don't bring your kids here because you'll get separated from them not working, not particularly useful because they're still coming and is it a just -- is it a hugh pain policy? the answer is no. >> but you just hit on an

ben jealous. today, ben jealous, democratic nonee for maryland governor gave a glimpse what to expect in his campaign against larry hogan, onear of the most popul governors in maryland'sto his. >> larry hogan, you have no idea, your attacks that came out this morning are sad, dude. >> hogan h press conference and did a victory lap. >> we won in counties across the state and baltimore where my family isce rooted s 1941. >> reporter: baker his former lead competitor, baker vowed his support for jealous in his concession speech last night. >> ihi tolwe would do everything we can to make sure he is victorious in november. >> i'm counting on him. we had a wonderful conversationx emely gracious. >> reporter: for some there was some disappoinent in baker's loss. >> i thought he would be one that would win. i don't know anything about the other candidate. >> reporter: others saw a jealous win coming. >> i think probably the democratic party was pbably looking for a little change. maybe ben jealous brings that freshness. >> reporter: reflected on his emotionalcame remembering maryland is the state that once discriminated against his own mother. >> we are a state that yearns to be a place where no one is pushed dn no matter what they look like or who they love or what god they pray to. >> reporter: jealous had thers enent of bernie sanders and some feel his position may extreme his running mate is susan turnbull, who used to be the chairman of the democratic party in maryland. he's believing with her help they can help define a center in the democratic party. tracee wilkins. back to you.nk >> tou. the winner of theontgomery county executive race won't be decided untilext week. diabetic council member marc elrich and david blair are separated by fewer than 500 votes. thousands ofsi provial and absentee ballots still need to be counted and we won't get the final until july 6th. >>> in prince george's county, w alsobroo easily and would be the first woman to serve asc george

away from the negotiations, rather than accept a bad deal. 0ur political correspondent ben wright reports. this ben a mobilisation on epic scale. by people who had come to the capitalfrom scale. by people who had come to the capital from across the country. many of hoping brexit can be stopped. brexit, what is it good for. absolutely nothing. two years on from the referenda to leave the eu, the organisers said more than 100,000 people turned up to demand another vote on the final brexit deal. sam is a gardenerfrom somerset. ian runs a business in series. money two businesses the last thing i want to be doing on a saturday right now. but i am out to do it because i see it is democratic to have my voice or with people are saying that you're trying to rerun the whole argument again.|j saying that you're trying to rerun the whole argument again. i get that point, but it is an entirely different content system. it's whether we leave or stay, it is not that, it is whether we leave or stay. it's what the deal is. first—time purchases join veteran marchers fired up by reports from businesses like airbus on

ben le co machinist ptep trying to become the first swimmer across the pacific observer zploon he started in tokyo and headed for san francisco. >> there we go he is starting. ben is starting had swim. >> bene by side with his two children. speaking with us moments before taking that plunge. >> there is more than one challenge. on top of the list you have the water, the cold water zpl his journey, 5,500 miles. six months. eight hours a day at a time. the pacific rough weather are cold waters some of the top predators and giant patches of garbage much of which he will study for scientific research. >> i want to use my passion something important to me to get the attention on an issue that affects everybody. >> that was geo benitez reporting. >> le comet successfully swam the atlantic for cancer research. and now the pacific >> i can barely make it across the pool. >> with a little. >> doingy paddle. >> world news tonight with david muir is next. >> i'm kristen and he. >>> tonight, the president punts, holding his own event. after disinviting the champion philadelphia eagles, instead many in the crowd today for the president, white house staffers. calling it a celebration of america, after h

people aware of these gigantic costs which i would sort of once ben thank our panelists for coming today. >> thanks, ben. much of what ben just described is contained in a report that we released recently called "countering russian clementocracy" who ben co-authored with nate sibley who can raise his hand perhaps, and we need to give nate a big thanks for helping to organize this event and all sorts of related activities and logistics in terms of judge grinda's visits, so thank you, nate. nate deserves a big hand. [ applause ] and nate is the program manager of the kleptocracy initiative and does everything from cow authors reports and organizing event, and to also produces this daily brief which we put out wit a lot of trouble and the we wants to sort of stop doing it for months and monies and monies that it's have i so a lot of people who were the actors and on-the-clementocracy space put it more specifically than perhaps i should rode this. we keep doing it, and made it spends a couple hours a day on that, so many of you may be signed up for it and if not i hope you -- yeah. are any of our reports out there, nate? the

ben in maryland. ben took on much of the democratic establishment in maryld. he ended up winning by ten points last night. also talking about exactly the same issues that alexandria talked about. bottom line is, all over this country, people are asking themselves, how does it happen? you got three people in this country that own more wealth than the bottom half of the american people. how does it happen you have a economic system dominated by big money and the middle class struggles. unemployment is low, but wages are going down for the average worker. so the american people are demanding a government that represents them and not just the wealthy and powerful. >> just curious, you agree with her that i.c.e. immigration and customs enforcement should be abolished? >> i think this disastrous immigration policy should be abolished. i happen to have voted against i.c.e., the formation of i.c.e., back in 2002. what you have right now is an immigration policy that i think most americans understand is not whis country is about. you don't rip little children away from the arms of their mother. you don't leave 1.8 million kids eligible for daca subject to deportation. so whether you abolish i.c.e. or not is not the major issue. the major issue is having an immigration system that is tive reform, protecting the daca people, it means move the citizenship for the 10 million people that are undocumented. that is not what bernie sanders believes, that's what the american people believe and want to see happen. >> she also called for president trump's impeachment. are you on the same side? >> again, there are people who feel that's -- i'm a member of the united states senate. i'm going to have to be if impeachment proceedings go forwg that. so it's premature to be calling for his impeachment. second of all, we have the mueller investigation, which is ongoing. i think it will be, from my perspective, jumping the gun. but all of those issues, whether it's i.c.e., the impeachment, that's media stuff. you have a middle class tha is struggling. candidates speaking to the needs of the working people, who are willing to run grassroots campaigns. i would hope that inside the beltway folks start paying attention to that. as i said, ben jealous did the same thing. we are seeing it all over the country and i'm excited about that type of movement. >> the house minority leader nancy pelosi seemed to shrug off the results in new york. listen to what she said. >> the democratic party is increasingly younger, more diverse, more progressive. should the democratic house leadership vote that way? [ inaudible ] >> what's your problem? [ inaud >> they made a choice in one district. let's not get yourselves carried away on demographics and the rest of that within or outside the caucus. >> she said it was only one district and let's not get carried away as an expert on demographics. is she right, senator, or do you think establishment figures like her should be worried? >> wolf, again, with all due respect, those are media type questions. the real issue is what people stand for? there are people in the establishment who fight every c day for working people. and i support them. so issue is how do we elect a government that actuall

ben butler? anna called ben butler froggy. she was a real rockstar in chicago. once again they are fascinated with her head. i find intellectual architecture. one of the finales is called the -- one ofs one of the the phrenologists call the top head is grandly developed. the -- they did a whole thing about her. independent -- there are a lot of stories that talk about her body or her head and the shape of her head. there is a question about women speaking in public. she is not a woman speaking like a man. she is a woman. she thinks and feels like a woman and she proves beyond controversy that there are elements of truth and public spheres that can be given from the other standpoint than the heart of a true woman. that is a pretty clear statement. anna dickinson is a woman speaking in public. therefore we are trying to come to terms with what she is saying, need to -- we need to understand that she is not a man wearing a dress , but rather that she really has the rhetorical style of a woman. , a youngin her career reporter in cincinnati and set running for vice p

ben tracy now. ben, you've been to north korea multiple times. you were just there a few weeks ago. what is the north looking for here? >> reporter: well, just by sitting down they get something from this summit the kim regime has long wanted, some legitimacy, to be recognized by the president of the united states and have a face to face meeting like this, but also for kim jong un this is internal politics back home. he promised his people he's going to transform the economy and get foreign dollars for investment for tourism in north korea and he really can't do that with the strict economic sanctions in place now. so he's looking for a better relationship with the united states and hoping down the road those sanctions will go away. the big question is what will he give up? >> reporter: we'll come back to you in just a moment, ben. watch and listen. this historic meeting later in our newscast. >> reporter: there's the meeting we have all been waiting for as president trump and kim jong un shake hands, once again smiles from both men as they proceed on to this meeting where they will talk one on one with translators, of course. marching -- margaret brennan is in d.c. right now. take us through what we're looking at. >> reporter: the chemistry is what we're watching for, but you just saw two men, arguably the world's most powerful one shake the hands of a 34-year- old dictator who hadn't really met anyone else running a country until just a few months ago, in part because of the arsenal that he has developed. remember president trump believes he's walking into that room with the so-called trump card of being able to control financial strangulation of north korea. kim jong un walks in with something no one in his family has ever been able to say, which is that he has a nuclear weapon that can be delivered to u.s.

ben word it. i'll go along with ben. and the statement should say no more name calling, no more insults, no more asking people to leave restaurants or theaters. in other words, return to the kind of civility that our parents taught us to practice. and that's from the president on down. that's everybody. neil: what an idiotic idea. [laughter] i'm kidding. you know, you, but you raise a good thing, you know? you hold cooler, more rational, just more decent human beings prevail, but, ben just follows an escalation, i mean, where we're accosting people outside their homes, in restaurants, you know, the president just today threatening harley davidson. and that was just on a matter of i might go after them with taxes. but it all plays this same theme. it's weird. >> people are more juvenile than ever. people are more infantile than ever. when i lived d during watergate i lived down the street from h.r. bob haldeman who was a big, big player in the scandal, and there were never protesters outside his house. there was always a news crew but never protesters. i worked for nixon, i did work on watergate, and nobody ever bothered me about it one bit. i had wonderful friends who were democrats -- neil: yeah, but now we have the internet. it's easy to find that. >> you know something? you're totally right. the internet is like a bad boy recess where everybody can go out on the yard and tease everybody else and be mean to everybody else. i myself stay away from the internet, fr

ben affleck and lindsay shookus. it was a meet the parents weekend for ben. he and lindsay enjoyed a dinner date with her folks in santa monica. the group also took a hiking trip together while walking their dogs. a source tells "e.t." ben are very much in love. but that she felt villainized during his split from jen garner. the source also says ben is in no rush to get married again. and he gave no answer when a paparazzo asked him this. >> did you ask for lindsay's hand last night with her father? >>> nick jonas and priyanka chopra are heating up on a trip to her home couny india. their relationship is getting serious, according to a source, who also tells us nick is meeting her mother for the first time. ♪ there's so much to discover, please don't stop me now ♪ >> the singer posted this video of his love with the caption, "her" featuring a smiley face emoji with hearts for eyes. >>> gwyneth paltrow and fiance brad falchuck spent a romantic vaca in capri, italy. the pair partied on a yacht with designer valentino. now the two are in england the luxury hotel where meghan staid with her moment the night before the royal wedding. ♪ oh, oh, oh >>> across the pond, gwyneth's ex-husband, chris martin, was out in malibu with

ben stein. well, ben, what do you say? is the president right here with regards to -- i mean, this is kind of a global trade war that is brewing. shouldn't we maybe just gone after the chinese instead of messing with canada and mexico and the europeans? >> trade wars are a bad thing period. it's been proved over and over again that trade wars are a bad thing. but we are dealing with a unique situation, historically unique in terms of our relations with trade and involving trade with china. china is a country which can undercut us every single time. and if they keep undercutting us, they are going to hollow out many of our industries, technology, as well as basic metals and other industries. it may be that although in general we do not like trade wars, it may be that we're going to have to put up some resistance to china. i hate to say this because the chinese make a wonderful product, they make it at a great price. they took the money that they make from us, and they reinvest it in our bonds. so it's not something we take lightly. but on the other hand, trade with china is a unique situation. never been anything quite like it in human history. cheryl: there was a fox news op-ed. and according to that op-ed, china is cheating by protecting their home market with tariffs. constantly changing regulations. china cheats by subsidizing the exports of government-owned national champion to crush the free market competitors and dominate the global market. they cheat by preying on weak countries, beney're subsidizing manufacturing and cheap energy. >> they are a very, very aggressive power. but you know what? we are a very aggressive power too, and i don't think we're just letting ourselves be pushed around, and i don't think president obama and ourselves are allowing be pushed around. i don't think president bush are being pushed around. it's a myth that we're just being a big marshmallow being pushed around. for the ordinary american consumer going into walmart, going into costco or whatever stores there are and seeing chinese-named goods at incredible market prices, it's a great thing. what we do not want to have happen is have pittsburgh, detroit, and all of these other important manufacturing cities be ghost tones because china can beat us at every kind of manufacturing. we, oh, it to ourselves to keep some industrial base. and as to china's technology, that's been well documented. it's a really serious problem. i think president trump is right to stand up to them. but let's

ben lefevre, and ben, welcome to the show. first time, long time listener. first time caller i'm sure. let me play for you what zinke tried to explain about the deal and walk through whether this explanation adds up. >> we go out to dinner, we talk about the background of the park. what are the neighbors like. what was the vision of the park. where are the boundaries. where the water table is. because the water table has changed over time. what the railroad is, so they had the background. >> so explain what he's talking about and whether that explanation adds up to you. >> sure. he's talking about land that a foundation that he started about ten years ago a nonprofit owns in -- in white fish, montana. >> his hometown. >> correct. he's saying that he's no longer part of the foundation. he resigned from it when he started at interior, but his wife now runs it. so when he is saying that these developers backed by halliburton came over to talk to him about this land they wanted to develop adjacent to his park, it kind of confirms that he's involved with this deal, even though he has been saying he's not involved at all. >> now the interior department when we reached out after your reporting came out, they said listen, he removed himself when he got nominated to the cabinet. dotted all the is, crossed all the ts to unlink himself from creating a conflict of interest and secretary zinke went after some of what you had to report. >> and this nefarious reporter comes to white fish, my hometown, lies to the city. on record. lies to the developer. on record. takes pictures of an inner tube in the park and promulgates this story that it's about interior and halliburton. this is exactly what's wrong with the press. >> nefarious reporter ben we took a picture of the inner tube and as far as who we lied to, what lies are we accused of, you know, using? and they have not responded. so i don't know quite how to answer it. >> you stand by your reporting. >> completely. yeah. >> why is this such a concern if it is a concern? jump in here as well. >> well, it follows a pattern that trump's cabinet members increasingly use their position of power to benefit themselves. also the larger problem is this repeated claims of fake news. if they can't even provide lies that they're accusing you of and they're still claiming fake news in a moment like this which is what we saw yesterday, it's just terrible. >> there's a report that someone else who found themselves caught up in the questions of allegations of potential wrongdoing. scott pruitt. the daily beast doesn't expose any actual wrongdoing it seems but it does talk about pruitt in that headline. trying to go after people, former aides, that he felt were not portraying himself in t

ben bernanke e. .- ben bernanke are we seeing too much stimulus at this stage of the cycle in the u.s.? mister: -- esther: the economy is running well and they seem to believe it might be better the guess if the economy is on a downturn. the fiscal debt is going to increase tremendously. there might be less opportunity. the stimulusseems might only increase inflation. the fed will have to reckon this. this would also be a positive for the u.s. dollar. nejra: given what you have said about trade driving the dollar and that more next week rather than the fed, how much more upside does the euro have in the short term? not very much. yes, it is benefiting right now little bit. the ecb will discuss in end to qe next week. rather wait until a later meeting and then they would rather say they have started discussions. they have time to wait. they were very pessimistic about the data at the last meeting. not that much has changed. are draw a an end conclusion right now? though the end qe, the data, the economy is not running that well that we will see immediate rate hikes after an end to qe. this is needed to sustainably support the euro. the upside to the euro is limited until we see further signs that we are seeing a normalization of monetary policy above and beyond an entity. when we look ahead to the ecb meeting next week, the timetable for qe is going to be important. the backdrop of italy and the political turmoil, how do you think draghi is going to navigate that difficult political subject? i know he doesn't want to get involved in the pod like -- involved in the politics. >> and that there will be a lot of questions, about the yields. hasave seen that draghi stained office target. -- has stayed off the stock it -- this topic. not comment about political turmoil's. rather the signal their starting to discuss now is a clear signal to the market that they are staying off this topic and this has not changed anything for them. nejra: let's talk about brexit. how much do the political development matter for your view on power? esther: not at all. we are pessimistic about the process in the brexit negotiations. when the conservative party lost a majority, it seems really impossible to find a way to support it at the eu. on the other hand, it is all supported by the brexiteers putting pressure on the government. notproblem right now are the negotiations between great britain and the you but rather discussions within the british government. we are the vote on the brexit bill next week. talks between barnier and davis on monday. there is a lot of interest coming up. we now believe an easy solution is anywhere near. nejra: i love what you said in your notes. the cost of the unchanged news from the island. esther, thank you. this is bloomberg. ♪ nejra: good morning. i am nejra cehic. anna: i am anna edwards. this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." trump lashes out at the glass macron and trudeau on the eve of the g7 meeting. can any think it's done before he just talked to meet kim jong un. ben says the us economy could fall off a cliff in 2020. this as the world's most powerful such a banks meet next week. nejra: deutsche bank chairman has discussed a comment by merger with top shareholders. ♪ nejra: good morning, everyone. let's have a look at how the european market might open in just under an hour's time. we could see some weakness. some significant weakness on the dax futures pointing lower by 1%. futuresure -- cac 40 off by the same. after we have seen some resilience and global equity markets, trade tensions, we are seeing some risk off coming through in the markets. that is indicated by the futures but also in terms of what we are seeing in asian equity markets. anna: i will go through that. bt group is saying that gavin patterson, he is gone to sit down. a -- in the netting kingdom that was set by scandal and italy. a number of other challenging headwinds in terms of the competitive environment. the relationship with the infrastructure provider that it has within it

ben ferguson popping up. ben, i really want to hear your voice. i want to pivot back to this whole philadelps conversation. you came on was it last week, two weeks ago, with an important other perspective on this whole national anthem debate, that the genesis of the kneeling and how you feel as a conservative commentator, you heard how sarah sanders put it today that it was this political stunt by the eagles and then essentially bail and felt they had to cancel this event, how did you seeit? >> i think it's a sad day for this country, that we could have had a great conversation about what was bothering the eagles player and those who play in the nfl. instead of having a conversation with president, who they clearly have a problem with, they decided to show up. i've heard a lot that donald trump is not listening to people, he's not talking to people. that should have been taking place at the white house. it would have taken place if the eagles would have showed up and met the president. when you don't get along with someone and don't like their viewpoint, you don't accomplish anything by not showing up and having a dialogue and discussion. to put it back on the president with these types of questions that you shaw sarah huckabee sanders have to respond to rk, the president ever thought about a dialogue, there was a moment today a dialogue could have taken place. by so many cancellations, they wanted this picture to look insignificant. they wanted to look big while making the president look small. i don't blame the president for cancelling this event when they changed it at the last moment because that's how it would have been reported. it would have been a look at the president, how weak is a these men in the nfl stood up to the president. i think the president had no other choice but to cancel this. i would say to any other nfl player, if you ever have an opportunity to meet with a person who you disagree with who has the ability to heart and minds in this country, you always show up for that and try to have a dialogue. if you really hate somebody, then look at it from the standpoint of be the bigger man and show up and explain yourself instead of trying to embarrass somebody who happens to be the president of the united states of america. >> i want to move on in just a second but kelvin, i want you to respond to that. >> ben, let's you and i have a dialogue here. you said you wanted them to be the bigger man, when the president, in fact, who was supposed to be the leader was supposed to the bigger man. >> he was ther >> you'reking atoday. i'm talking about calling them is. >> -- s.o.b.s. how is he being a leader when he's antagonizing them? >> he said they should get out of the league. >> no, he said the country. i'm taking him for his word. he said they should get out of the country. he said that a few weeks ago. we actually rolled the tape. so he's already creating an environment where it is antagonistic and it alrea's alr hostile environment and you're asking them to be the bigger men. >> quickly, ben. i got breaking news. >> a friend got asked to go to the white house with obama and he said should go? i said yes, go meet obama. he's the president the united states america. forget your politics. you got asked to show up for a michelle obama to get kid active and to lose weight and be healthy. i don't c

how will this impact business and the potential balance of wer in congress, we are joined by ben white >> benls to me like it was a good evening for the extremes in other words the gop candidates who mr. trump backed against more moderate candidates tended to do well. and the left-leaning candidates on the democratic side seemed to knock out the more moderates there. >> indeed. we do see the continued polarization of the american electorate particularly in the democratic party it's clearly on the left, for the younger candidates, me fail candidates, those how run on health care for all, and free education. this is a district in the bronx and queens that is incredibly progressive. 50% hispanic joe crowley did not match that district particularly well yes, the democratic party is moving to the left, becoming more progressive that's where the energy is. but let's noextrap lot the bronx and queens district to a countrywide move for the party. >> what does it presage foe fall >> i think it presages for the fall that if the democrats are to retake the house, there are still numbers in their favor t

ben has been reappointed as the controller of the city, and i just want to say, i was here befo when ed harrington was here, and those are big shoes to fill, and ben and his staff hasone that bettern anyone i can imagine, so congratulations onhat reappointment, ben. >> let me on behalf of the whole committee offer ben coratulations because t committee really relies heavily on the sffing of his whole dent tme carry on our work, so thank you, ben, and thank you for the staff. >> one other comment. peg, at the notes of the last ing, tre was a request for an update on unspended funds -- unpended funds at the may 21st meeting. would that come from you? >> yet. we just finished the projection report to account for all of the expenses through the third quarter, and so we can -- we can sendit out right now. >> okay. thank you. >> now i'm going to see if there are any public comments. >> my name's jerrydradler. i want to commend the committee for their discussion of the allocation of the city services auditorresources. i imagine the budget now is between 50 and $60 million a year. what i've never understood is the disparity in terms of the allocation of audit resources versus performance management. audit resources are allocated bases on a risk-based phi

ben jeal i know you talked a little bit about ben jealous on your podcast, your sight during the pry pear campaign. there was controversy whether he was ask people to leave the race along the way. that's all overnd done with. here we are. were you surprised that he won so big against ruchern baker. >> no. i saw the momentum movingsh and ting in his direction in the finals.wo look, he brought out natiol support. i think people are set at the estaishment. rushern baker is a great guy, someone who really ran a great race but in thet end he didn' make it and i have to tell you, bringing if that outside money, all that money that helped him in the final days, has really given his campaign a boost and richaun baker baker simply just didn't have the snuff this time and i think that the democrats are g probaoing to regroup tom and say nowt wha we sdo. was endorsed by bernie sanders, he was back in 2016, picked up some of tects of his campaign, free college tuition, although how you pay for it is another issue for another day. what kind of campaign do you expect between ben jealous and larry hogan who stillte adly very popular in this states. >> what campaign? larry inhogas go to cruise to reelection this fall.you can take that to . i think the democts in annapolis including leadership, including the institution, jealous is not a n'marylander. het spent a lot of time here. to his credit, he bon t race but i don't think you're to see a lots of establishment an institutional support really behind him. he might have money. but larry hogan has $10 million in the bk. ce and he's looking good.a this and if i were larry hogan i woed doing an irish jig in that state house tonight. >> almost out of time ryan. oking at the montgomery county he numbers have been slow a lit about five hundred votes over david blaree't this point. ther all this controversy over could people vote the provisional ballot issue. this is something we may not ha settled for a little while. >> if i was an election lawyer south of t beltw would be picking up the phone and calling he wouh ric

ben's mom erin, badl injured him, his two sisters and his grandma. we first met ben in october, still confined to bed but speaking again. >> it's been tough. >> reporter: after 90 days in the hospital it was on to rehab, learning to walk again, brilding strength. through t intensity painful days ben wanted to know one fing. >> thest thing he asked is do you think i can graduate with my class this >> in late january he returned to high school, faculty and fellow students helping him reach his goal. today it all paid off. ben kapla walking onto the graduation floor with hiscl smates. >> it's still a big thing. i've been working most of my lifeor is, whether after an accident or not, it's still a big thing. >> reporter: ben's thoughts were on one person, thene who couldn't be here. >> my mom. i won't lie. i probably spent a half hour crying in the car because she's not here. > reporter: later ben's principal recognizing him for his determination. and when the big moment did come. >> benjamin william kaplan. >> reporter: there was a big smile and especially loud applause. and then the picture to mark a day some consider a miracle. in fairfax, julie carey, news >> congratulations to him and he wish him continued success. we know he' going to go on to his mom very, make proud. >>> swit

ben's mom, erin, badly injured him, l his twotle sisters, and his grandma. we met ben in october, still confined to bed, but speaking again. >> it's been tough. i have a broken heart over the loss of my mother >> reporter: after 90 days in the hospital, it was onto rehab, learning to walk again, building strength. through the intensely painfulys benwanted to know just one thing. >> the first thing he asked me, can iyraduate with m class this year? >> repy,ter: in late janu ben returned to his high school. faculty and fellow students helping him to reach his goal. >> what is he telling the daader? >> reporter: toy, it all paid off. he kaplan walking onto graduation floor with his assmates. but ben's thoughts were on one person. the one who couldn't be here. >> my mom. i won't lie, i probably spent a half hour crying in the car because she's not here. >> reporter: la ben's principal recognizing him for his >>termination. our willpower and resolve over the last nine months is inspiration toone who has met you. >> reporter: when the big momt did come --en >>min william kaplan. >> congratulations. >> reporter: -- there was a big smile and an especially loud applause. then the picture to mark a day some consider a miracle. ben, still thinking of his mom. >>'s i hope she proudme of >> reporter: ben's summer plans include another surgery

ben. time for the weather with ben roach. hello, jane. thank you. of cloud floating around so yesterday the isle of wight looked like that, and today it has clouded over. much greyer conditions in southern and south—western areas to take us through the rest of the afternoon. the satellite shows where we have had a lot of cloud but it has been breaking up from the north, so a good part of scotland, northern england, already seeing spells of sunshine, and sunnier skies will edge further south going through what is left of the afternoon. for northern ireland, small chance of catching a shower, and still one or two showers drifting perilously close to the channel islands. temperatures will depend upon how much sunshine you see. what's the south—west yesterday we were well up into the 20s, today maybe 19 degrees. in plymouth, even elsewhere with the sunshine, temperatures not skyrocketing particularly. pollen levels remain high particularly across southern levels remain high particularly across southern areas levels remain high particularly across southe

ben rosenfield's going to be presenting on this. with you heard this two weeks ago at the may 30, presentation. all right, ben, you're up. next after ben, we'll hear from the civil service commission, michael brown. >> you are correct, madam chair, the -- what the appropriation that's noticed here today is a small appropriation that's required under state law to fund the county office of education, which is a small piece of the school district. it's just a small statutory allocation. the majority of the funding that we allocate to the school district flows through dcyf on the way to the school district. i think they'll be presenting later this week, and if you have questions regarding school district funding, that's probably the best place to speak to it. >> supervisor cohen: all right. thank you. does that conclude your presentation? all right. appreciate it. colleagues, are there any questions for mr. rosenfield? if not, we'll keep moving on. ben, i just wanted you to know that presentation was about 30 seconds. yo going to get a gold star for that. next we a're going to hear fro the civil service commission, mr. michael brown. they