and ben tillerson and dr. carson. -- em power our struggling communities. looking ahead to the weekend, the president will spend the weekend here at the white house in a series of meetings with his team. the vice president's office has already announced the details of his trip to louisville kentucky participating in listening sessions and job craters throughout the community, and hear from local small businesses. the vice president will discuss the president's economic agenda especially the repeal and replace aspects of obamacare, then conclude with formal remarks at the distribution center and judge gorsuch hearings will begin march 20th. the committee determined by unanimous vote he was given a quote well qualified mark for the supreme court. looking forward to seeing a speedy and fair hearing and up an down vote on the senate floor. the president's weekly address is out. discusses women's history month and plan to repeal and replace obamacare, aired facebook life and now available to watch on white house d.gov. with that i'd be glad to take your question

the president had lunch with secretary of state tillerson and this afternoon he'll meet with dr. benn. he looks forward to discussing hud's mission to make strong, inclues sif communities with equality and affordable housing, especially how we can partner with private sector to turn our public housing system around and empower our struggling communities. looking ahead to the weekend, the president will spend the weekend here at the white house in a series of meetings with his team. vice president's office will go to louisville, kentucky, and engage in listening sessions and will join governor beavan. the vice president will discuss the president's economic agenda, especially the repeal and replacement aspects of obamacare and how it will reduce the burden on small businesses. he will then conclude with formal remarks at the train parts and distribution center. also coming up, judge gorsuch's confirmation hearings will begin on march 20th. yesterday the american bar association reported their committee was -- a determined by unanimous vote judge gorsuch was given a well qualified mark

ben wedeman is joining us from irbil in northern iraq. listen to the secretary of state, rex tillerson he said just a little while ago. >> iraq is an important ally in the fight to defeat isis. i want to express my appreciation to appreciate to prime minister abadi of iraq for his positive engamement and support for implementing these restrictions. >> ben, you are there, tell us why they pushed so hard to get off the list. >> reporter: when the order came out on the 27th of the january the raebs were enraged they were loan in with countries that are enemies of the united states. keeping in mine of course there are more than 5,000 u.s. military personnel here in fact, when the day -- the iraqi government -- rather, the parliament voted to implement reciprocal measures against u.s. citizens. in fact, i was lined up to pick up my visa at baghdad airport when that vote passed. it was not binding, but it really sent a clear message from iraq that the people here were very upset. so after it came out, it was really the sole subject of conversation in the iraqi media, in the social media, and

the president had lunch with secretary of state tillerson and this afternoon the president will meet with secretary of housing and urban development dr. ben carson. he looks forward to discussing the president had lunch withhu'e communities with quality affordable housing. especially the ways in which we can partner with the private sector to come up with innovative solutions to turn our public housing system around and empower community. looking ahead to the weekend, the president will spend the weekend here at the white house in a series of meetings with his team. the vice president's office announced details of his trip to louisville, kentucky where he will participate in listening sessions with small businesses and job creators throughout the community and joined by governor bevin and hear from local small businesses. the vice president will discuss the president's economic agenda, especially the repeal and replacement aspects of obamacare and how it'll reduce the burden on small businesses. he will then conclude with formal remarks at the train parts and distribution center. also coming up, judge gorsuch's confirmation hearings begin

the president had lunch with secretary of state rex tillerson and this afternoon, he will meet with the secretary of housing and urban development dr. bene looks forward to discussing the hud mission to create strong, sustainable and inclusive communities with quality affordable housing, especially the ways in which we can partner with the private sector to come up with innovative solutions to turn our around and empower our struggling communities. looking ahead to the weekend, the president will spend his weekend here at the white house in a series of meetings with his team. the vice president's office has already announced the details of his trip to louisville, kentucky, where he will participate in listening sessions with small businesses and job creators throughout the community and then joined by governor bevan will hear from local small businesses. the vice president will discuss the president's economic agenda, especially the repeal and replacement aspects of obamacare and how it will reduce the burden on small businesses. he will then conclude with formal remarks at the train parts and its relation center. also coming up, judge

ben brody. and we saw the vice president speak at the munich security conference and rex tillerson. we heard about nato funding. reporter: presidentumsaid themoney is pouring in. is the money pouring in? reporter: this was actually one of the rare moments where he had lived from the speech, so the pouring in was not in his prepared remarks. it is a bit of a sort of, i don't know if it is a misunderstanding or misconstruction. when countries increase their defense spending, the money doesn't really poor in anywhere. i think the larger point is that he is claiming victory for what he sees as acknowledgment from other countries, which they have done to say, yes, we agree. we do need to spend more on defense, meet the 2% defense spending target laid out by nato commitments. there is a broad agreement in europe that that needs to be done. there is a lot of questions of how long this will take and whether countries and truly deliver. they need to have things to spend that money on. taking credit a bit leveraging other countries to make those commitments anew. david: we heard the phrase th

. >>> secretary of state rex tillerson rules out diplomatic talks and leaves the door open to military action which are likely to fuel fears in the region. ben. >>> min hall is in london with the latest. >> nothing has been taken off the table. >> reporter: military action by the u.s. against nuclear armed north korea is not being ruled out, the strong comments from secretary of state rex tillerson during his first visit to east asia since taking office. >> certainly we do not want to -- for things to get to a military conflict, but obviously if north korea takes actions that threatens the south, korean forces, or our own forces, then that will be met with appropriate response. >> reporter: secretary tillerson speaking in seoul as part of a tour that also includes japan and china and comes amid heightened tension on the korean peninsula. tillerson is also calling on china to put pressure on me i don't think yang -- pyongyang. >> we have every reason to play a construct sieve role to maintain peace on the peninsula. >> reporter: this is complicated by the deployment of the antimissile system to south korea. washington and seoul say it is for

le pen and her message from ben front national and seeing that that message worked for mark rutte and maybe they need to consider it. as the us secretary of state, rex tillersono biggest economies is lingering. but any move by washington to increase the tax on some imports into america, to try to protect us jobs, would almost certainly mean retaliation from beijing, and the threat of harm to plenty of us firms exporting everything 7777' from shanghai, our correspondent robin brant reports. the strawberry, fresh and sweet and maybe the next weapon in a transposition —— tra nspacific maybe the next weapon in a transposition —— transpacific trade war. china's expanding middle—class love fresh fruit and us firms have set up here to grow and sell in china. it reckons there is also a place for its california strawberries, so next month they will be flown in and they will be pricey. part of the reason for that is the import duty. china adds 14% on fresh strawberries from the us. the prospect of a hike any time soon could squash sales. we would be concerned, from the standpoint of oui’ concerned, from the standpoint of our our product could be affected by any type of

the president had lunch with secretary of state tillerson and this afternoon he will meet with the secretary of housing and urban development dr. benlooks forward to discussing hud's mission to provide affordable housing especially ways to combine with the private sector to turn the public housing situation around and empower the struggling communities. looking ahead to this weekend, the president will spend the weekend at the white house in series of meetings with the team. the vice president's office already announced the details of his trip to louisville, kentucky where we will participate in listening sessions with small businesses and job creators throughout the meeting and joined by governor bevin will hear from local small businesses. the vice president will discuss the president's economic agenda, especially the repeal and replacement aspects of obamacare and how it will reduce the burden on small businesses. he will then conclude with the formal remarks with trane parts and distribution center. judge gorsuch confirmation hearings will begin on march 20th. yesterday the american bar association reported their committee, det

secretary of state rex tillerson and ivanka trump want to reportedly stick to the agreement to avoid any diplomatic backlash. >>> the hill reports on two new cabinet members. retired sur jenn ben carson was sworn in yesterday as secretary of housing and urban development and former texas governor rick perry was sworn in at energy >>> "the chicago tribune" reports the ears of scrutiny have led to raids. warrants were executed at the company's corporate headquarters in peoria, illinois, and two other facilities. caterpillar said the search may be related to an overseas subsidiary that dodged the company for over eight years. >> "the wall street journal" reports a human error, a typo, caused an hours-long outage of amaz amazon's cloud service this week. the outage cost them $150 million in lost business. researchers say the websites of 54 of the internets top 100 retailers were slowed down by more than 20%. >> something so small can cause something so big. that's scary. >>> politico takes a closer look at the russian ambassador. sessions failed to disclose two the fbi is investigating whether the people associated with the trump campaign colluded with russian officials before the

tillerson. numerous reports not to quote everyone, the meetings did not go that well. we have a wonderful office weighed -- with bengoing to visit with steve eisen. we will talk to him about the changes on global wall street. from london and new york, it looks like london. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ bloomberg surveillance from london and new york. you're looking at live pictures from hong kong. datad this manufacturing climbed to the highest in almost five years. at threee're looking things. first of all, brexit. what a a lot of the jobs would be lost in new york and hong kong? we are concerned about being labeled a currency manipulator. idea it is pretty moldy into the second, third, and fourth quarter. someone like scree qamar suggesting no way. then there is 18 opinions in the middle. the other thing i would look at his what is really being led out is the collapse of asset management. this is huge. >> we spoke a little bit with david harris and he says he does not mind if clients want to take money out. one thing he drew attention to it as soon as their is a little bit of pickup in europe maybe they will put some of

rex tillerson and ivanka trump want to stick to the agreement to avoid any diplomatic backlash. >>> the hill reports on two new members of the trump cabinet. retired neurosurgeon benson was sworn in yesterday as the secretary of housing and urban development and former texas governor, rick perry, was sworn in as energy secretary. vice president mike pence administered the oath of office. >>> "the chicago tribune"s reports years of federal scrutiny led to raids at the heavy equipment maker caterpillar, warrants issued in the company headquarters in peoria, illinois. caterpillar says the search may be related to a tax investigation of an overseas subsidiary that dodged the company for eight years. >>> the "wall street journal" reports human error, a typo caused an hours-long outage of amazon's web services this week. those cloud services have more than a billion users. companies say the outage cost them $150 million in lost business. researchers say the websites of 54 of the internet's top 100 retailers were slowed down by more than 20%. >> something so small can cause something so big, that's very scary. politico takes a closer look at the russian ambassador. the c

guys like rex tillerson, and people like steve mnuchin and scott pruitt, right through the list. tom price, ben carson, all these cuts came as a direct result of executive order where president trump said i want you to find twice make your departments more efficient and more effective, and think about it, do you think rex tillerson, who headed up the largest oil and gas company in the world emac, just said, we'll cut 26% and worry about it later? he knows how to do it. and matter of fact, most it is going to be foreign aid. so this whole nonsensical idea that mr. trump is going to send children out on the streets and it's going to hurt the homeless and the poor people, it's rhetoric, it's demagoguery and gets us nowhere. and by the way, on this budget, we don't increase spending a penny, decrease spending a penny, we repriority size, there any outside of the beltway that believes if we get rid of big bird and news hour or the nea that the worlis