one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28

ben katz. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: from london, i'm guy johnson. vonnie: in new york, i'm vonnie quinn.s is the european close on bloomberg markets. guy: let's turn attention to the telco sector. has deniednologies u.s. allegations that it could be helping beijing spy through the telecom network that it built in the west. we have interesting reporting from bloomberg on this front. we are joined live from our milan bureau. you have uncovered possible backdoors that voter phone found in existing technology long way has installed -- huawei has installed. is this a smoking gun everybody has been looking for? >> yes. good afternoon. it has been a long journey. we spent months investigating into this. we got some documents by vodafon e that show huawei built cyber security vulnerabilities or backdoors in the equipment provided to vodafone. it happened about a decade ago and started in 2009 when vodafone in italy started an investigation, then again 2011. vodafone after our investigation admitted backdoors in italy in 2012. we have sources saying these issues persisted after 2012. -- not just

ben katz joining us from bloomberg's aviation team. vonnie: coming up later today, westin's interview with starbucks ceo kevin johnson.omberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: time now for futures and focus. oil slightly lower after inventory data showed a build of more than 7 million -- actually, let's have a quick look at that. a big bill nonetheless. alan, doesfrom cme, this relieve markets just a little bit? we were just above the 200 a moving average yesterday. guest: i don't think it changes much. it is showing resiliency. we are showing a macro market march, and oil is benefiting from that. point above the halfway of the high to low back in mid-january. crude oil has finally done that. it took some time, but it is also the midpoint of that drop from the top, so we've been able to track was the same path as we have seen in stocks, and today is a good example, even with some bearish news. the market is still holding ground. it was a build of more than 7 million barrels. what is going on with the data? how is the market getting it so wrong every week? alan: well, those are expectations. it is just a matter of our viewpoint. but overal

ben bradley. later of "the washington post" and also sicking the irs on his political opponents. and those that he was concerned about like mlk. johnsonennedy left off and took it further. he use the irs against his political opponents and used the fbi. that johnson actually had hubert humphrey's phone tapped running for president of the united states because he was concerned what hubert humphrey would say about the vietnam war. johnson had the goldwater campaign tapped. the fbi an atlantic city convention monitoring his opponents. getting regular feedback from j edgar hoover. although i'm disgusted i'm not surprised that the democrats in the house have learned a lot from fdr, john kennedy, it and johnson because they want to see trumps tax returns. they don't control the executive branch but they control the house. we have a chairman of the committee elijah cummings. he has sent a letter to the chairman and ceo of the accounting firm of the president. who handled his businesses among everything - - other things so to assist our review by the way we have the irs that is not the job of the democrats of the house. with respect to donald

ben joins us right now. thank for joining us. >> thanks for having me, neil. >> neil: so let me just get to the point here. the president says there's a crisis. jeh johnsonthe shear numbers, trying to get in, it's an emergency at the border. it's a crisis. do you see it that way? >> look, neil, i have said consistently that i believe there's a humanitarian crisis at the border but one caused by president trump and his administration with their failed policy. rather than reaching out to work in a bipartisan basis with congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, the president continues to threaten to shut down the border with mexico or to cut off funding to the northern triangle, to three countries or even shutting down the government over the wall. now threatening to militarize the border. we can find a bipartisan solution to this. the senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform agreement and speaker boehner and ryan wouldn't let us vote on it. i hope to bring order to the border and work together. >> neil: representative, it's fair to say these problems were there long before president trump took office. right? >> well, look, these are challe

ben he praised you did that make it easy to get interviews? >> is asking after the early books came out, you took a lot of heat from johnson's friend especiallyjack. then he said he turned around and started to praise you, and i think the question was did that mean a lot to you? 's >> a lot of the people that attacked me and wouldn't talkhoo me at the beginning they almost all came around and that was very helpful. i was in austin last night [inaudible] [laughter] to jump in quickly i always heard your books are not sold at the johnson library if you go to the gift shop they are not sold is that true? >> they were not sold for a number of years the now they do sellow them and the fact there'a wonderful dinner that the library had last night actually the president of the lyndon johnson foundation said that they regretted the hostility towards me. >> that's fantastic. that's amazing. [applause] >> is there any chance a new edition of power broker could be restored but as the 300,000 words that your publisher forced you to cut? >> you live in hope. my publisher would like to publish and i would like to publish but it's not so easy to do that you