carol: i'm carol massar. listen to us on radio on sirius xm channel 119, and in new york, boston, washington, d.c., and in the bay area. jason: and in london on dab mux three and in asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. this week, the entire economic section is devoted to three places in the u.s. where the economy is humming. carol: we talked to gina about these three cities. gina: what we wanted to do is take a look at three places where we have reached full employment. where anyone who could potentially want a job has one. look at what happens when you run a labor market hot like that. the rationale behind it is the federal reserve is staring down a situation where in the next year, they expect to be under 4% unemployment. we wanted to know what happens, what does that look like in america. that was the goal. how did you pick the places where you ended up going? gina: ames, iowa has the lowest unemployment in the country, so it was obvious. portland, maine had low unemployment and is an interesting story be

carol: such as?uch as the appropriating of other companies content so you see content right overstock.com founder patrick byrne is a vocal supporter of technology. jason: he has his own platform called tzero. zeke: he's the head of overstock.com, an online store where you might go to buy lamps or furniture and it has been around, it is fairly successful. he is -- about a decade ago, became obsessed with naked shortselling and became a household name on wall street for that. jason: to be clear, it is not from "wolf of wall street." this is a term of art and finance. zeke: when you sell a stock short, you are betting it will go down. you are supposed to go out and find someone else who will lend you the stock so you can sell it and you will buy a mac later and returned the stock. naked shortselling is when you do not borrow the stock. you are selling phantom stock you don't have. he became convinced hedge funds and banks were in a conspiracy to drive down his stock price using this tactic. in 2005, he

carol: i'm carol massar.isten to us on sirius xm 119, in new york, boston, washington, d.c. and in the bay area. jason: and in london on dab and in asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. in the technology section, missouri's attorney general stakes a senate bid on an antitrust case against google. carol: it is in investigation into alphabet's data collection practices. jason: joshua burstein says whether or not the company should be worried. joshua: he is into the question of whether google has abused market power in the united states. carol: talk about their market power and size when it comes to search. joshua: google has about 90% of the search engine market. it is about 80% of the ad market in the united states, which mostly comes from the dominance in search. there has been a long-running suspicion that it will throw that power around to gain advantages elsewhere. carol: think about the climate for these companies, google's and others. we talk about the role of social media in the elections and so on and

carol: i am carol massar. the deepening cult of xi in china.eck your labels for "made in ethiopia." carol: dubai is headed to mars. julia: all of that on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ him him julia: we are back with "bloomberg businessweek" editor joel webber. plenty of must reads, but i want to hop in on the remarks section, and some moves we saw from the chinese president in his ongoing consolidation of power. joel: what has happened is china has removed term limits for its president. basically, we have a president who is extremely powerful, has done some amazing things from a reform standpoint, and you will see him as the face of the country for potentially years. julia: xi jinping could be president for many years if this goes through. joel: a lifetime. julia: in terms of democracy and economic reforms, he has been trying to make changes. joel: it does not feel like democracy, but it does speak to a lot of the reform he has been able to pull off, and his consolidation of power will probably help him continue to do that. it provides stability.

carol: and i'm carol massar.on: and the technology section, the attorney general presented an antitrust case into google. joshua bruce gain tells us if the company should be worried. is on a mission to reopen the question of whether google has abused its market power in the united states. carol: talk about the market side when it comes to search. >> google has about 90% of the search engine market. marketbout 80% of the ad and a united states which mostly comes from the dominance in search. there has been a long-running suspicion that it will throw that power around to gain advantages elsewhere. carol: it is an interesting time, right. think about the climate for these companies, google's and others. we talk about the role of social media in the elections and so on and so forth. we are realizing how much power they have, and how much oversight that they are doing, policing their social media platforms. there is a lot of criticism against tech names like google right now. joshua: right now, there is a freewheeling

carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i am carol massar. julia: we are inside the magazine headquarters in new york. carol: wells fargo's ceo is done apologizing. julia: in the u.k., the serious fraud office is getting a little too serious for some. carol: how defective guns became the one product that cannot be recalled in the united states. julia: all of that to come on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ julia: i am here with joel webber, "bloomberg businessweek" editor in chief. great to have you with us. the u.s. cover story this week is wells fargo, one of the biggest banks in the united states, the biggest home lender. had a pretty challenging year. a scandal that dates back a decade, concerns over incentive structures, fake accounts being created. they have had a tough time. joel: this all came to a head about 16 months ago with a sham account story. they were cross-selling and basically driving up the number of products that people had, and in many cases, people did not know that they had these accounts. two years ago, if you would have as

carol: yes, we are. jason that is ahead on : "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ we are here with the editor-in-chief of bloomberg businessweek. we have to start with remarks this week. it is my favorite story. i feel like must read here. it is a history lesson about the relationship between u.s. and china and the role the u.s. has played in developing the china we know today. >> as with any good history story, we must try and look forward a bit. i think it helps connect dots. this is why it is a must-read. this is a skirmish right now that could very well escalate into a trade war. but there is a bigger conversation about what is our relationship with china supposed to be and how has that changed. jason: and how has it changed. you go through the history, but it informs where we are at this moment and what is at stake. joel yes. : that gets to where we might go. keep in mind, china was viewed as a backwater not that long ago, and the west basically brought it online. as a result, it has made china actually pret

carol: i am carol massar.an also join us on radio. boston, 99.1 in washington, d.c. julia: and in london and asia. game changer is ajit pai. carol: he is the anti-regulation regulator at the federal communications commission. >> he would not say he is against net neutrality. he is against rules placed during the democratic administration that will diminish company's role and put government on top of them. that consumers will have a better internet experience and competition will and sure the precept of net neutrality, no blocking, no -- clean flowing traffic. julia: the democrats will fight. he has a core base to battle on that front. he is systematically reversing president obama's decisions. what is the endgame? what is he trying to achieve? from what i can see in his biography, and i've had the chance to interview him and watch him, he sincerely believes , so far as we can tell, that a problem with the communication sector is government intrusion. old ruse in place -- rules in place for decade need to be lo

carol: i am carol massar.an also join us on radio on sirius xm channel 119. 113.0 in new york, 106.1 in boston, 99.1 in washington, d.c. and 960 in the bay area. julia: and in london and asia. this week's game changer is ajit pai. carol: he is the anti-regulation regulator at the federal communications commission. here is our report. todd: he would not say he is against net neutrality. he would say he is against rules put in place during the democratic administration that he says will diminish company's role and put government roll over top of companies. he ensures that consumers will have a better internet experience and that competition among companies will ensure the precept of net neutrality, which is no blocking, no throttling, clean flowing traffic. this is contested here at washington. julia: of course the democrats , will fight. he has a core base to battle on that front. as you eluded to, he has systematically reversing president obama's decisions. what is the endgame? what is the past? what is he try

carol: what the u.s.oes in terms of its actions, how president trump treats china going forward, this could be potentially lead to another cold war. >> it could and it could happen quickly because of mistakes. -- the stakes. the skirmish right now involves a tit-for-tat. sort of if you put a tariff on , that, we will do a tariff. as we see these things evolve, it becomes a matter of, is that going to ratchet up? think --rk just a cute pork just a cute thing that we will put out there and here is some bacon, we will distract you? or is it going to become a fullk on cold war? jason: the other interesting element is that we talk a lot about economics, but politics as well. while you are having these discussions around trade, you also have this geopolitical element, not the least of which is north korea where president xi welcomed the leader last week. >> correct. this is how when we look at business and what we try to do with businessweek is the intersection of all of this. you can't look at these in isolati

carol: i'm carol massar. what new and let's not about the fresh crop of leaders on wall street. jason: we are going to the hottest local can -- all ahead on bloomberg businessweek. carol: with your with the editor in chief of bloomberg businessweek. eight very timely story and it takes a look at succession planning that we are seeing as a really well-known big bank and financial firm. it starts with jason kelly, which looks at blackstone. >> we try to make this be a package. this is a wider moment of succession on wall street. blackstone is gigantic. jason's story is basically a look at gray, who has been this real estate guru. when you look at blackstone in the portfolio they are more a real estate company than a private equity. >> this is a fascinating story to work on, because this has been a career success. wasonly job he has ever had straight out of the university of pennsylvania, and he did these signature deals on the way. himself in thes number two job at a firm that controls $434 billion in assets. >> this is a firm that is so identified with schwartzman. important thin

carol: i'm carol massar.an join us on sirius radio in new york, in boston, in washington, d.c. and in the bay area. on dab andin london in asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. iss week's game changer the anti-regulation regulator at the federal communications commission. would say he is against rules put in place during the democratic administration that he says will "diminish company's role." he says by undoing those particular rules, he assures consumers will have a better experience and competition among companies will enforce the precepts of net neutrality. his view is contested in washington. he has a case to battle on that front. as you alluded to, he systematically is reversing president obama decisions. what is the end game here? what is he trying to achieve? todd: from what i can see of his biography and have had the chance to watch him in action for a while and interview him, he sincerely believes that as far as we can tell, a problem with the communications sector is government intrusion, old rule

national political reporter for nbc news carol lee joins us now with that. carol? >> good morning. well, mika, we've done a bunch of reporting ahead of the crown prince's visit and what we've learned is from more than a dozen current and former u.s. officials is about this early power move they said that u.s. intelligence shows he made by taking action against his mother. essentially blocking his mother from seeing his father, the king, without telling the father. so deceiving the king about this, creating various stories to account for her absence over the last several years, at some

. >> carol neve was pam's best friend. >> she was always happy.he had a personality that just sucked you in and kept you there. >> carol met pam 22 years ago. >> we were neighbors, and we did become best friends to the tune of every day we talked. every single day. >> that was long before jim came into the picture, of course. >> good morning, baby desiree. first christmas. >> pam was a single mom. she and carol babysat for each other's kids, walked their babies together, went shopping, shared recipes, and hung out during the holidays. >> pamela was very much of family to me. >> pam was the most caring, loving, giving person you would ever meet. life was about other people. >> tina holland is another friend. she and pam met when their youngest children started attending the same school. they planned family vacations together and trips to disneyland. one year pamela bought her daughter jeanette and tina's sons costumes just for the sake of creating happy memories. her daughter was a princess. tina's sons, a pirate and peter pan. >> she wanted to mak

we double checked the answers with carol moffat. well what do you think about that it's not a coincidence that i think it really and. we know now. and out of. there. are exchanges with muffins and various engineers heald pieces of a larger puzzle. oil rig and coke and let the appears to have been the first example of an oil company adapting to climate change the permafrost was melting engineers took this into account when building the trans alaska pipeline they carried out research into the powerful storms in the gulf of mexico to make sure any oil rigs built there would be able to withstand future threats and the sea levels rose engineers' raised the height of several refineries and rigs along the coast of canada. the norwegian oil rig troll was also built two meters higher in one thousand nine hundred nine. and a gas pipeline between germany and norway was heavily reinforced in the early one nine hundred ninety s. these facilities were expensive and the cost of upgrading them was in the billions these investments are an indication

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michael and carol, both msnbc contributors. for good measure also with us is jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and pentagon, former chief counsel to house intel, and an msnbc national security analyst. welcome to you both. michael, since you were first on the board, what was the most important part, in your view, of your own reporting, and is anyone alleging that mr. dowd was freelancing on his own without permission from his client? >> well, that's really the question at the heart of this. was dowd simply out just talking, just trying to feel out the lawyers and try and make a deal here himself? or was he doing it at the president's behest? that's the real question. what did the president know and when did he know it? people that know dowd find it hard to believe he would go out and have such discussions without talking to the president about it. if you remember this happened in july, right after dowd took over. the special counsel's investigation had been going on for just a few months. trump was beginning to understa

carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i am carol massar. jason: i am jason kelly. the battle between the u.s. and china. jason: we go inside volkswagen. scandal ridden, using flower power to fight it carol: i love . the story. we talk about the cost of becoming the first billion-dollar athlete. you know who we are talking about. jason: tiger woods. carol: yes, we are. jason that is ahead on : "bloomberg businessweek." ♪

and carol has the weather.rning from stjames‘ park in london, and the reason i'm here is because bbc get inspired is working in conjunction with public health england to relaunch couch for 5k, for those of us more familiar with the couch than running and the weather today, not bad, the couch than running and the weathertoday, not bad, cold the couch than running and the weather today, not bad, cold start, some frost around, sunshine first thing but cloud building in from the west followed by some rain. more details in 15 minutes. carol, thank you very much, see you then. jeremy corbyn has apologised for what he called pockets of anti—semitism in his party and said he would not tolerate any form of it. his apology comes asjewish leaders accused the labour leader of repeatedly siding with anti—semites. in a statement released last night, jeremy corbyn said: joining us now from westminster is our political correspondent alex forsyth. good morning, alex. this is something jeremy corbyn has obviously addressed but i

. >> thank you, carol. good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for braving this arctic weather to be with us the today. and by the way, maybe i should not say that, because the arctic is probably enjoying much milder temperatures than we have been. special thanks to the environmental and energy study institute, and to henry la port for helping us put this the together. as you is heard from carol, i'm the chief scientist at the novim group and director of research at novim. we at novim, we have been around since 2008, and as carol has told you, we are not for profit group which we try to the also not advocate, although, sometimes the passions get away from us, and we do advocate, and maybe sometimes advocacy is not a bad thing. we won duct and publish studies that are science-based, but also are important both nationally and internationally. kr created in 2008, it is based at the institute for forensics at the university of california at santa barbara. there is a slide, the one slide that we have which is an

so, carol. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thanks very much for those opening comments and explain about the wealth of information and studies that are available through novim and to the website and although the research that has been pulled together. i now want to turn to our next presenter who was made major contribution to this whole report, and he brings a wealth of experience. and mr. kei koizumi is currently senior advisor at the american association for the advancement of science, and kei to had joie office of science and technology policy, a white house agency, not in 2009 where he was the assistant director for federal research and development as part of the technology and industry council. which as an important council of the office of science and technology policy. that white house office was deeply involved in terms of working with people across all of the agencies in terms of trying to need, research and scientific needs, technology needs and to really look at things in a holi

carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm carol massar.adquarters in new york. carol: what is new about the leaders on wall street. jason: plus, the hottest local economies across the country. carol: and amazon hitting its prime. jason: all of that is ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are with the editor in chief of "bloomberg businessweek," joel webber. and a very timely story that looks at succession planning

as did germany's carol steiner and aqua which is owned by the french food giant known nestle and carol steiner have rejected the study's findings very marked loss is a research at the life and its institute of freshwater ecology he says it's not yet clear whether micro plastics of the kind found in bottled water are harmful to humans. we're just starting our research chemists biologists and toxicologists still need to conduct tests we don't even know what kind and size of micro plastics are to be found in the environment and in the food chain as long as we can to certan that we don't know what we're talking about this is the tip of the iceberg of this icebergs micro plastic contamination appears to be widespread but what effect it might have in the long term is not clear it's most likely liable to do far more harm than good. so why is this microcosmic coming from the sea get into the water from the plastic bottle or is it already in the water before it gets bottled that's something we asked song i.d.m. from environment desk and this was her explanation. well that's not clear and it can

carol lee, thank you for that. great scoop now. joining me is another reporter with the earlier scoop of the day, the dowd scoop. it is michael schmidt and a nbc news national security contributor. so michael, today you said in firing dowd the president is looking for some silver bullet that he thinks this -- what is it? what does he think that silver bullet is. >> it is not what he's done since last summer when dowd came on. dowd came on with ty cobb and they sold the president on a strategy of cooperation. the sooner we cooperate, the more documents we give, the faster this will be over. it will be over by the end of the year. the cloud will be lifted. obviously the end of the year came and went and it is still going on. >> i don't understand how the president fell for that. when we would hear that strategy, every story whether it was your reported story or what we did on air, we would say history indicates we don't know why they think that. like it is hard -- the facts didn't match it. how did they snow the president for so long

and carol has the weather.ing from the rspb headquarters in bedfordshire and i'm here because today, the results from the big garden birdwatcher out. i'll tell you which birds are on the up and which are in decline. the weather is on the decline in the south of england and the southern half of wales. rain moving across the country, in between sunshine and showers in scotland, feeling much cooler today. more details on 15 minutes. first, our main story. people in england will soon have to pay a deposit when they buy drinks in bottles and cans, the government has announced. it's in an attempt to boost recycling and cut waste. the deposit will increase prices but customers will get their money back of they return the containers. the scheme is due to be introduced later this year following a public consultation, as our environment analyst, roger harrabin reports. here is a global problem, plastic everywhere in the oceans. the amount of floating garbage could treble if we do not hold the flow. here is the uk's answe

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carol roth, and jack hough from "barron's." steve forbes start with you. i liked it better when the market was barometer of the performance because lately it is not giving him a good report card. >> it is about uncertainty, melissa, threat after trade war, how the chinese will react. yesterday he gave exemptions on the steel tariffs to eu, south korea, australia, me, jack, and everybody else but the china one has the markets worried because these things can spin out of control and the uncertainty means people will hold back on investment. that is what we don't want. melissa: carol, i mean you add to that, you have his legal situation, the turnover in the white house just the massive spending bill, the idea washington is spending your tax dollars out of control? >> it is very frustrating. seems like congress and the president threw us all over the proverbial omnibus. melissa: that was good, well-played, melissa. >> it is good as a joke but not good as reality. something that those supporting the president certainly don't want to see. you couple that with th

carol has the weather for us this morning.l in a critical condition after being found unconscious on sunday in salisbury. counter—terrorism police have now ta ken over the investigation. russia has denied any involvement. in a moment we'll get the latest from moscow with our correspondent sarah rainsford, but first let's go live to salisbury and laila nathoo — we're still waiting for toxicology reports? what more can you tell us? well, so far the unknown as yet unidentified unknown substance that the two were exposed to is being analysed in the military research facility by scientist. we are expecting it could ta ke scientist. we are expecting it could take a few days for the results to come in. the police investigation here, this is the scene, where the two were found, there is a police cordon still in place. there are a couple of other locations that are cordened off. last night the cordens we re cordened off. last night the cordens were widened, but now they seem to have slimmed back down. we know counter terrorism police a

back with me, nbc's carol lee, national political reporter. chief legal correspondent and host of "the beat," ari melber. phil rucker with "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst, and miriam mimi rocah is now a distinguished fellow in criminal justice at pace university's law school. phil, i do want to start with you. it's hard to understand why this white house won't acknowledge that the russian election was not free or fair. correct me if i'm wrong, but other administrations have not had a hard time doing this. >> that's exactly right, katy. and the way president trump handled his call with putin today is hardly surprising, was it's remarkable, nonetheless. this is someone who campaigned, donald trump did, as doing away with diplomatic niceties and speaking the hard truths, the difficult truths, confronting our enemies. and here he is on the phone with vladimir putin. he offers words of congratulations for an election that is not free and is not fair. and then doesn't confront him about his own country's meddling in our election

my name is carol werner i'm the executive director of the environmental and energy institute. this afternoon's briefing is entitled warning signs, a new report outlines the impacts of proposed budget cuts to climate and environmental research. the question is what is the significance of this? the report done by the mouth and group helps bring to all of us extremely important information about proposed budget cuts that were proposed last year with regards to physical 118, the same budget cuts many of which are proposed for this year's budget for fiscal 2019 are continuing. there is significant large discussion among policymakers about what should the budget look like, why and what's important and i think that it is very incumbent upon all of us to really look carefully at this important report so that we can better fully understand what really is at stake. why do we hear about environmental climate science? why do we care about getting the facts straight? what are the facts and what kind of impact does this have upon all of us upon the agencies that it impacts, upon all of thei

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david: carol, jack, steve, good to see you all. thank you very much. >> the president has accepted that invitation on the basis that we have concrete and verifiable steps. nothing is changing from the united states' position. we'll continue maximum pressure campaign. we'll continue working with our allies and partners to do that and we'll continue to ask them to step up and do more. david: concrete and verifiable steps. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders saying a landmark meeting between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un will not happen until the rogue regime's actions match its words. here to comment on this potentially historic meeting is the director of defense studies at the center for national interest. harry, thank you for coming in. what brought north korea to the table? >> two words, maximum pressure. there is a little bit of context i want to throw in we're all missing here. there were reports in south korean media that suggested by october the north koreans would essentially be bankrupt.

let‘s go to carol, she has all the details.side and fife. central areas, tayside and fife. take actions, all these things rolled into one. rolled into one. lot of snow through the course of the morning. the morning. and once again there is more snowfalls. snowfalls. half of wales and south—west england for snow and ice. we take a look at the forecast. the forecast. it will bring snow steadily into southern counties. southern counties. will be swinging over towards northern ireland. northern ireland. snow appearing across the south coast through the day. coast through the day. northwards and the wind will be a significant factor. significant factor. warning across central scotland. of england in the direction of cumbria. cumbria. the south—east, london and the midlands will be patchy. midlands will be patchy. significant snowfall in the southern half of wales. half of wales. some places getting on for eight inches. on for eight inches. some parts could get double. could get double. will be blowing around and there will be blizza

carol? >> i'm sorry. i couldn't hear you. yes, that's right, katy. and i think there's no question things are the worst between the u.s. and russia. however, from our regulator we've learned that president trump still holds on to this hope of having some sort of warmer relationship with russian president vladimir putin, and he has not given up that hope and continues to be a reason, at least according to his senior aides, as to why he's so reluctant to criticize putin publicly or highlight the policies he's adopted. at the same time, they have this phone call where the president says that he was clearly unhappy about putin's saber rattling in terms of his nuclear capabilities, and he raised that and said if you want to do this, i'll win. he also congratulated him. we can't forget that and he raised the issue of the nerve agent attack. it's a very convoluted inside the white house and they've struggled with that. >> so what is next? is the relationship going to be a positive one going forward? is it going to be a negative one going forward? is the bro

and so carol even if we don't see those six party talks which don't sound entirely likely could we see there's the political will exist for the things that mr tangan is talking about to take place. is there any probably doesn't the russian charani east south korean side but the u.s. and japanese are question mark arbib. and i fill the u.s. as we as we're saying those just very high expectations and detroit nation is by people always going to be a multi the face endeavor you know but they have freeze doing you have inspection as you have dissembled them and then you have to do something for scientists that's not going to happen overnight as john bolton wants and it's hard to know where with the trump ministration where the line is between tough talk bluster and real initiative in and sort of thinking in mode today ssion and keeping all of that in mind mr feed off what do you think is the best that we can expect out of the progress that we have had the cea. i think the best that we can expect is that negotiations are going to be ongoing negotiations fail of course the ominous alternative

sorry, carol. it is a beautiful picture.ll start with this, but also frost, quite a frosty scene, where we don't have the cloud cover. in harrison in the outer hebrides, the temperature at the moment is more or less seven but in katesbridge under clear skies, it is -5. katesbridge under clear skies, it is —5. huge difference in the areas where we have cloud and where we don't. frosty for many but where we have the frost and clear skies, this is where we start with a lot of sunshine. you can see where we have the thickest cloud and that's in parts of scotland and parts of northern ireland. elsewhere we are looking at good breaks and that's where the temperature is quite low. also a weather front sinking south today, taking rain with it, albeit light and patchy and a fair bit of cloud troubling south with it too so the further south and east you are you will hang the sunshine for the longest. a start in much of england and wales. scotland and northern ireland, you have a fair bit of cloud with some light and patchy rain. a bit

thank you, carol.minate sentence. the decision outraged the public and has led to the resignation of the board's chairman. we're joined now by two people who have different experiences of the process. professor andrew sanders is a former parole board member. he's in birmingham. and marie mccourt, her daughter helen was murdered 30 years ago. good morning to you both. thank you for being with us here this morning. marie, you have been through the most terrible ordeal. but events yesterday with the overturning of the parole board, what did that mean to you, given your own experience? well, i think it is about time that the parole board were taken to task because to me, they are a law unto themselves. would i have attended pa role themselves. would i have attended parole hearings, i have gone to pa role parole hearings, i have gone to parole hearings, i have gone to parole hearings to some of the members in ourgroup parole hearings to some of the members in our group when we have lost somebody but mainly

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