carol: and i'm carol massar.an listen to us on the radio, sirius xm channel 119 and a.m. 1130 in new york, 1061 in boston, washington, d.c. jason: and in london, on dab digital, and the bloomberg business app. let's turn to the finance section. a big shakeup in the world of online stock trading. commissions at the lo largest brokerage houses are going to zero. carol: that is a big hit to revenue, but these companies have other ways to make money. here's mike regan. mike: it has been trending towards zero. when you think back to the 70's , it cost $200 to trade a stock. it is mind-boggling today. schwab came in -- there was regulation change in the 1970's which ended this fixed price commissions and allowed brokerages to set their own commissions. schwab said i am going to cut mine. he said i will cut mine to $70, and the discount brokerage era was born. when computers took over in the 90's, it chiseled away at the fees. it was like $13 to trade on schwab in 2005. less than $5 recently. new startups were coming in

♪ carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i am carol massar. >> i am kailey leinz.e are inside bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: this week, a special look at the year ahead. this is the issue with everything you need to know for 2020. from politics, power, to the global economy to technology and trends in the luxury space. kaylee coming up, we hear that : the real threat to trump is not joe biden, elizabeth warren, or even impeachment, it's recession. carol: and 2020 is sure to bring about the great antitrust awakening. the question is not just whether to break up companies like facebook, google and amazon but how the laws are enforced. kailey: much more ahead. we begin with joel weber. 2020 start of a new decade, what , are the big things we needed -- we need to be watching? recession? >> you hit a couple. recession is one thing everyone is really wary of. it has huge implications for the trump presidency and the u.s. economy and the global economy as a whole. so our interest to gives a survey of the world outlook as a whole. 2% growth is what has been a p

carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i carol massar. am jason: i'm jason kelly. we're inside bloomberg's headquarters in new york. carol: we look at president trump and what it may mean for the 2020 election. jason: how the company's culture caused it to stumble. carol: keeps climbing. jason: first up, a private equity takeover of the finance section. carol: i enjoyed it and learned a lot. it is this week's cover story. bloomberg businessweek editor joel weber joint is now. -- joins us now. private equity touches us in so many ways. joel: we couldn't keep listening to jason go on and on. when we got together about the different ways private equity touches us, we realize there was a bigger story here, which was in the last decade, since the financial crisis, nobody won this decade as much as private equity. jason: now we've got questions and that's how this story shaped up. you posed them to a lot of us in the newsroom. joel we realized there was a lot of different places we want to go. the fact d.c. has carried interest. so far, that's bit untouchable. if things

carol: i'm carol massar. can listen to us on the radio in new york, one of 6.1 in boston, 91 fm and washington, d.c. jason: a.m. 960 in the bay area, on london in dab digital radio, and on the bloomberg radio app. carol: we caught up with delta, and it's been outperforming its peers and doing deals. we'll hear from him in a moment. jason: let's hear from someone who will talk to us about one region were delta was doing great, and now may need to make moves. kailey: and delta is making moves, $2.25 billion investment, the biggest carrier in latin america. take a look at how delta has performed. it is a higher growth area and at one point earlier, it's all double-digit sales growth. but the pace has slowed to one 1.5% year on year in 2018. now the deal may make delta the largest carrier in south america, replacing them to capitalize on higher growth and see sales growth start to improve. carol: and expand their growth. thank you. delta is among the world's biggest airlines and has invested to strengthen those t

carol: and i'm carol massar.n us for "bloomberg businessweek" every day on the radio starting at 2:00 p.m. wall street time. you can also catch up on our daily show by listening to our podcast on apple podcast, soundcloud, and bloomberg.com. jason: and find us online at businessweek.com and through our mobile app. carol: turning now to teen vaping. this week, school districts across the u.s. sued juul in federal courts. jason: and walgreens and kroger also announced they will stop selling e-cigarettes, making them the latest retailers to take action in the outbreak of vaping-related injuries. carol: and jason, those injuries have not been directly linked to juul, but the company is caught in the middle. here is this week's businessweek explainer on how juul took on big tobacco. juul hit the market with its fruit-flavored nicotine in 2015. not long afterward, it was being called the iphone of e-cigarettes, the keurig of vaping. the company had a valuation of $38 billion, and cofounders, adam bowen and james monsee

carol: and i'm carol massar.bloomberg businessweek" every day on the radio starting at 2:00 p.m. wall street time. you can catch up on our daily show by listening to our podcast on apple podcast, soundcloud, and at bloomberg.com. jason: and you can also find us online at businessweek.com, as well as through our mobile app. carol: we turn to a businessweek debrief. andrea illy is leading the s grandfather 86 years ago in italy. jason: what a history. well, he wants to double illycaffe's revenue in 10 years, but do it sustainably. he sat down with "bloomberg" editor joel weber in london. >> all business more or less starts with family. it depends on if you stay family or you go public. you typically go public one day, either because the family wants to withdraw or because you need to raise liquidity, or something went wrong in the company has been sold. so, i think that the family is good at managing the business. we can preserve control of the company forever, possibly. with 10e businesses different generations st

carol: it is a must-read. if you want to understand the players, issues, and the law. >> the other must-read is 50 companies to watch we start with 2000 companies that bloomberg evaluates and filter it down the companies that they are bearish on and bullish on. we are not making calls, but they are ones we feel will be interesting and everyone should keep in mind. carol: what i love is if you go online. get the magazine, and read all about the companies, but if you can go online you can play with the list. >> the sorting ability is neat. you can find out companies that excel at women being on board. carol: for a look at the year ahead in politics, let's turn to josh green who joins us from our washington bureau. let's talk about it. what is it president trump needs to be worried about? >> he needs to worry about the fact that the economy, by most forecasts, is trending in the wrong direction. in particular, manufacturing is in a recession. that is key in the group of swing states in the upper midwest that will

carol: that's ok.en you start to synthesize this, again, going back to the trends about fitness. you think about boutique fitness , the success of like lululemon, this is women driven in a lot of ways. and this is not a criticism of its just smart business. -- criticism, it is just smart business. >> it is come and look at the running business. if you go back to 1980, something like 95% men and 5% women. now the running business has just exploded over the last 25 years. it's all women. today, more women finish marathons than men. from 5% to 55%. i believe that happen in cycling. there is a moral issue and also a business opportunity. that, in keeping with where is your biggest growth market? >> we sell around the world. for overrked at trek 35 years and i have never seen the amount of opportunities we have today. carol: everywhere? >> almost. if you go to europe, the european business is almost three times bigger than the u.s.. our market share in the u.s. for premium bikes is in the high 20's. in euro

david: carol? >> gene it's carol roth.well, when you think about a small business owner, so much of their wealth is tied up in the ownership of the business so now you could have warren or sanders come in and say well your business is worth $20 million, and guess what a small business owner won't have liquid capital to pay that. the same thing when they go to sell their business. maybe they've been taking a $70,000 salary but now their business is worth $20 million they've built up over 30 years and they have to pay something there. isn't that a tangible impact for a small business as well? >> it's possible, but i say, it would be like political suicide, carol, for sanders and warren to come after small businesses in that way mainly because as you know there's like 30 million small businesses in this country it's a big voting block and the media and general sense of it supports the average entrepreneur and the small business, so it would really be a tough decision to do that. however to your point the fact that warren part

caroll? >> no, we will not. >> we won't hear it, joe biden, he and democrats advocate for is more government what? intervention, control, subsidies, that is leads to the krupp hundred thathe corruption that both sides. david: have you a fair point. damage control basketball super star lebron james. speaking out, we play, play the comment, one critic says this is lebron james' most disgraceful moment ever. >> we all talk about this freedom of speech, we all have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications are in the neg they'vnition negative tn you are not thinking about others, and only thinking about yourself. we're built for hearing what's important to you, one to one. edward jones. it's time for investing to feel individual. 2,000 fence posts. 900 acres. 48 bales. all before lunch, which we caught last saturday. we earn our scars. we wear our work ethic. we work until the work's done. and when it is, a few hours of shuteye to rest up for tomorrow, the day we'll finally get some

carol: in terms of investing, you make investments.us, is the endgame still taking companies public? we have seen what an interesting year with wework, ipo's. what is the ultimate endgame but does that not have to be it anymore? susan: i think that more companies end up getting sold than go public. that's always been the case. ofo think there are a number female founded companies out there that will go public during the next, let's call it, two years, three years that are on that trajectory. that are preparing themselves for it and trying not to make the same mistakes. the real issue for the companies that have gone public and that have either failed -- carol: or get there. susan: they were focused on growth over everything else. they went public still losing billions of dollars. in some cases, billions of dollars a quarter. the public markets said we don't like this. there was clearly a big disconnect between what the private markets valley right now and what public markets are looking for. i think the female founders i have seen out

carol: i love to hear you say that.you have been on corporate boards, are on corporate boards. i think it is getting better in terms of female representation. what do we need to do to get much, much better where there is really parity? when i think about it, it should be diverse at all levels. susan: absolutely, no question. carol: what does it take to get there? we have been having this conversation for a long time. susan: absolutely. in my world now, the venture-capital world, i think it takes probably five to 10 female founded companies going public and maybe five to 10 exiting as unicorns for there to be a major shift. we are already seeing a number of storied, old boys club vc's bring on their first female partner. and it is all because of fomo. it is because they fear they are going to miss the next wave of big successful companies. so, you have to have somebody on your team, on your investing team who has those networks. who knows those women and who can make sure your firm gets a chance to at least compete to in

robert costa, carol lee, thanks for working late tonight, gang. appreciate it very much. >>> and coming up, as democrats navigate the issue of impeachment, we talk to a man who knows a thing or two because he's seen a thing or two, and that would include impeachment, when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> new numbers tonight showing public opinion of the impeachment of this president is still, as we said, on the move. it's a new npr poll showing 52% approve of democrats opening an impeachment inquiry. 49% support impeaching of the president. same poll shows voters split on removal of the president. even tt is something. nanc today the white house is treating impeachment as a political argument. quote, trump allies are the first to admit it's not a strategy born out of any major legal thinking. instead, it's a bet trump can prevail through his own aggressive public messaging campaign and the help of the republican-controlled senate, which ultimately would have to vote on the president's fate following an impeachment trial. of course, syria has thrown

robert costa, carol lee, thanks for working late tonight, gang.ppreciate it very much. >>> and coming up, as democrats navigate the issue of impeachment, we talk to a man who knows a thing or two because he's seen a thing or two, and that would include impeachment, when "the 11th hour" continues. plants capture co2. what if other kinds of plants captured it too? if these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. carbon capture is important technology - and experts agree. that's why we're working on ways to improve it. so plants... can be a little more... like plants. ♪ >>> new numbers tonight showing public opinion of the impeachment of this president is still, as we said, on the move. it's a new npr poll showing 52% approve of democrats opening an impeachment inquiry. 49% support impeaching of the president. same poll shows voters split on removal of the president. 48-48. but even that is something. nancy cook of politico reports today the white house is treating impeachment as a political arg

we had trouble with carol 20 minutes ago. she wasn't being troublesome. carol is never troublesome.rful people behind us will be with their horses in green park. the streets of london will be lined with members of the armed forces, soldiers, sailors, and men and women and royal marines. a guard of honour is in place at the palace of westminster and the tower of london and a gun salute will be fired when her majesty reaches parliament at 11:15am. the queen will do her speech and then she will proceed back from westminster to buckingham palace, surrounded by her sovereign's escort. it is going to bea sovereign's escort. it is going to be a wonderful scene. if you are a member of the public and the weather is going to hold off, come and watch, you are in for a treat. and this is off the stage opening of parliament today? yes. how long does it take to organise something like this, because so many people are involved? yes, 1300 trips today. it ta kes a involved? yes, 1300 trips today. it takes a long time. friday morning, over 300 hours, last week we closed the streets of london and we p

the last time i saw miss carol was in 2009 p befr verily hill. in his rin taj rolls royce. she was 84 years old. thanks for watching. our coverage continues. >>> the investigation deepens. the white house is now under subpoena as house democrats widen their probe in the impeachment inquiry. >>> demonstrators in hong kong rally in the street over a new rule outlining face masks. >>> and later this hour, a new joker film sparks real life violence. we look into the criticism surrounding that. >>> welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters in atlanta.

let's bring back our panel, carol, michael and adrian.cally the part of the conversation we didn't get to about pompeo and barr. who may be in more of a need of a personal lawyer today, pompeo or barr? >> i think it looks like right now mike pompeo is potentially in more -- not just in terms of what he -- any legal jeopardy, i don't know about that. but politically, and he has political ambitions, barr has never shown any desire. he's quieter. >> doesn't care. >> he's going about his job and doing -- and running an investigation that a lot of people disagree with, including the ways he's doing it, but it's not clear that he's done anything improper. pompeo, he clearly knew a lot more, now we know, than he would say. he lied by omission. and his stage apartment is far more tied up in what rudy giuliani was up to. if you look at his language, he said to my knowledge i think everyone acted appropriately and that's a qualifier. so i think for the first time since he's really tethered himself to president trump, he's in some political jeopardy

we'll go straight to what you're reporting today here, carol. i'll read the headline, "trump's calls with foreign leaders have long worried aides leave something genuinely horrified." and in this great read, you describe the discomfort of what many staffers and officials have seen when the president gets on the phone, especially relevant today when we look at what's happening with ukraine's leader. >> yeah. richard, that's right. and you know what's -- what was amazing to me in gathering there material with my good colleagues, shane harris and josh dawcy, we had been gathering string for a while, indications of calls that had gone off the rails or made national security staff very uncomfortable or had led to terrible insults and mistakes and work up ended. and with the ukraine call coming out and the news that we were chasing about that, we went back to some more people to discover that there were some calls that were even more -- as one person said -- horrifying than the others we've known about for a while. we gathered them all together here,

i'm going to go with carol's word. it's just downright silly to say the president isn't directly benefitting from having the summit held at doral. of course, he is benefitting financially. courtesy of advertisement and exposure and attracting more foot traffic. so -- but i don't think just because the house has a really strong case for impeachment on the summary of the call that we have in writing between trump and president zelensky showing i impeachable conduct. i don't think that means they should neglect other areas where the president is involved in abuses of office. i mean, you know, and then mulvaney stands up and tries to say, well, 12 properties were in the running and the other 11 properties were just not up to the standards of doral. well, you know what? can you tell us what those other 11 properties are? a little bit of transparency so the american people can feel confident in your decision-making? when then this is the same guy, mick mulvaney, who flip-flops on there was quid pro quo. there wasn't quid pro

carol: it is always the right time to rebalance.e are up 15% to 20% in many of the equity indices around the globe here today. that, in and of itself, would be the right time to rebalance, but also the right time given all the potential risks on the horizon to be looking at rebalancing a bit more conservatively. what you get at the end of the cycle is not quite there. like market participants are finding it really hard, particularly with a tweet from the president here or a late statement out somewhere else. to be pessimistic or optimistic on where we go from here. carol: that is why it makes a lot of sense to get past the feeling that you can be all or non-and it is very important to take a deep breath, take it all in with a grain of salt, if you will. the potential for for this economy and the markets to continue to crawl along. we are climbing the wall of worry. there is the status where -- the fear of making out and being all the way out. that makes it push and pull between value and growth. shery: even if we get a mini trade de

i'm going to do with carol's word. it is just downright silly to say the president isn't directly benefitting from having the summit held at doral. of course, he is benefitting financially. courtesy of advertisement. and exposure. and attracting more foot traffic. but i don't think just because the house has a really strong case for impeachment on the summary of the call that we have in writing between trump and president zelensky, showing impeachable conduct, i don't think that means they should neglect other areas where the president is involved in abuses of office. i mean and then mulvaney stands up and tries to say, well, 12 properties were in the running, and the other 11 properties were just not up to the standards of doral. well, you know what, can you tell us what those other 11 properties are? a little bit of transparency, so the american people can feel confident in your decision making, when then this is the same guy, mick mulvaney, who flip-flops on, there was quid pro quo, there wasn't quid pro quo, and i

to the panel gary kaltbaum, christine and caroll roth andion burnett. there was an issue of whether or not he contacted rudy guliani. he said he sought out rudy guliani on advice of the president in deals with the corruption in ukraine. could that have affected his decision t to resign. >> time will tell. follow there is any responsible he has for contacting mayor rudy guliani. he has been there are think over two years. that is the general time frame in tenure a secretary would serve. i don't think that this sun usual. looking at ha he has done under trump administration, we've seen more growth in the energy sector. we look at job creation for every energy job, at least 6 additional jobs that have been created, he has done president trump as well as overall american economy very well. >> i think that is highlighted, there is questions around timing of his stepping down, since president did say that perry urged him to take the call in july with the ukraine president. then, most recently we know that perry has been subpoenaed and asked for documents rela

would you caroll watch a movie sped up? god bless the artists they give us fantastic concept but they can't control the user experience, i might fall asleep during a move, someone might have bad speakers someone they be on cocaine and hear i it that way. i understand that maybe that not how they intend it, but. if there is a market for it, you have to let them have it. >> what a country, we hate binging on netflix now you can binge faster. this is really tremendous. i just i suggest, instead of watching longer movies, in shorter period of time just make shorter movies and play them regular speed, just throwing it out there for hollywood. >> i very much like your voice. reporter: pretty good. >> sucking helium. you could do this los angeles, people listen at two times spied speed at audio books. >> you watch moving for fun to sit back and relax, not speed up to catch up, do you? >> well, i don't know if you heard news from fox business executives your show is now a half hour, they will run twice the speed. bunch watch "bulls

. >>> legendary entertainer diane carol has died. the actress and singer got critical acclaim is the first black woman to star in her own tv series. >>> and nancarrow change the course of television history. in 1968 she became the first african-american woman to star is someone other than a domestic worker. in the groundbreaking sitcom julia. a role for which she won a golden glow. she was a native new yorker who first made it big on broadway. rigging barriers on stage is the first black woman said won a tony award for best leading actress in a musical for her role in no strings. e scen. go on to make it on the 1974 film claudine provided single mother of six who falls in love with a garbageman played by james earl jones. in the 1980s she joined the long-running primetime soap opera dynasty. as diva dominique devereaux.>>> i intend to have a memorable stay.>>> she had another of guess rolls in tv series. including bill cosby's a different world. she received an emmy nomination. carol spoke proudly about her decades long career.>> hap

elizabeth bumiller, peter baker, carol loennig and figluzzi. peter, you were stationed there. what was he up to today? >> it reminds us of when the president and president putin met in osaka, japan. sir, are you going to tell president putin not to interfere in our next election and he turned to him and sort of made a joke, don't transfer. and they both laughed about it. you're seeing president putin laugh about it here. rye not laugh? this has accomplished a lot of what you wanted. putting aside even who you wanted to be elected and the intelligence community has concluded they wanted president trump to be elected. they wanted to disrupt our democracy. they wanted to disrupt our system. they wanted us to cause doubt in our institutions and our leadership and here we are, at each other's throat as a country. and that's almost exactly what vladimir putin would have wanted. >> so, elizabeth, we're looking at two leaders, disparate, though they might be, interlocked with interest? >> that's right. how much they're sympatico with each other. putin was joking, so was donald trump,

carol died today at age 84 after cancer. in the 1968 sitcom julia she became the first african- american woman on tv to star in a role other than that of a servant. for which she won a golden glow. the native new yorker was the first black actress to take home a tony award and was known for rolls and films like claudine and the primetime soap opera dynasty. >>> senator kamala harris tweeted diane carol was more than actions. but an icon who asked who inspired generations. she broke varies and change our lives. and the industry for the better. >>> new technology coming to city hall. holly tool designed to help businesses micro market their products could help deliver services in san jose. >>> we have to get down to the granular level. >>> why the fifth richest person in the world said billionaires like himself don't deserve to have that much money.>>> it is tarantula mating season.>>> >>> san jose is growing rolling out a digital tool to micromanage the city. >>> it crunches large amounts of data to figure out which neighborh

david: carol? how i feel about harvard, the hedge fund with an education institution attached to it. with that being said you either stand for the principle of it and not discriminating based on race or you don't. i am afraid i think it is reprehensible to judge people based on her fear is. i kinda feel that is where we are as a nation, but you have to make a choice. either we are allowed to discriminate against people for random things or you are not. but you don't get to pick and choose if it fits your narrative. i think it's horrible. david: very quickly. we only have 15 seconds. >> i don't understand how the plaintiff says, you are picking based on race. they agree on it but they say you lose the case. there is something very, very weird with this whole thing. david: the last word on the subject. meanwhile, president trump calling out nancy flows and other democrats were focusing on an impeachment inquiry while ignoring their devastated homeless crisis. the mayor of laguna hills say they need t

carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm carol massar. jason: and i'm jason kelly.here inside bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: this week, turkey launches a major offensive in syria, and president trump says the united states will not stand in the way. the surprise announcement heard around the world, and the not so surprising winner in all of this. jason: plus, vaping closer to home. how juul took on big tobacco and is caught in the middle of a

carol, i'd like to begin with you. are we being led to believe that the lack of a strategy is the strategy, that ad-libbing is going to be the way this goes? >> i'm a little concerned about the lack of a strategy, how little time it takes to figure out what it is. what i learned in the last couple of days with my great colleague josh dawsey, is that the white house strategy does boil down to the president's viewpoint. he helped dictate a letter from the white house counsel's office arguing why a probe of his interactions with the ukraine president was unnecessary, and the administration wouldn't cooperate with it. he has been reluctant to believe that this impeachment inquiry would proceed and gather evidence, and it is gathering evidence and steam and snowballing. he was also arguing that there was no way they needed anybody to really help him because he was the best arbiter of whether or not this was serious, and he decided that it was not serious. but that is changing the last few days, and the president has agreed

carol, thank you as well. >>> president trump gets personal attacking joe biden and his son. what's the game plan for biden and other democratic opponents to counter these attacks? why another prominent republican, this time the governor of maryland says he backs the impeachment inquiry into president trump. performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪ that could allow hackers devices into your home.ys and like all doors, they're safer when locked. that's why you need xfinity xfi. with the xfi gateway, devices connected to your homes wifi are protected. which helps keep people outside from accessing your passwords, credit cards and cameras. and people inside from accidentally visiting sites that aren't secure. and if someone trys we'll let you know. xfi advanced security. if it's connected, it's protected. call, click, or visit a store today. >>> tonight president trump is hopping from the midwest to th

carol: do you feel like it was too late in the process? a company that was around for a while. imran: i think it couldn't have disclosed it couldn't have disclosed before the filing anyway. jason: when you think about it through your banker lens, your research analyst lens, exploration of private markets versus public markets when it comes to valuations, when it comes to when money gets put in, who makes the money in a lot of ways, you saw this in some ways at your job at snap. what do you make of where we are at this moment, and what is it going to take two maybe fix this between private valuations and public valuations, or is it working the way it is supposed to? imran: i think the private valuation, know, the you can argue that in many cases, not always, but i think i can see why investors like it. you don't have to worry about day-to-day volatility. the challenge with the public market, the market is so volatile. investors are so short-term oriented. the people giving allocation to those investors are so short-term oriented that every

carol, what will you be watching for and listening for as they go forward? it seems like every day we've had a major witness and, again, we have one tomorrow. key parts of that testimony get out. what are you going to be watching for that will help you to determine how you think this case is going to come together? >> yeah. i think one of the reasons why they want to move quickly is because they don't want so much to leak out that the -- the public and the senators become sort of immune to the -- to the shocking nature of what's transpired. i think that with respect to the obstruction of justice charges, which they are apparently considering whether to include in the articles of impeachment, they are probably thinking that if they actually include them, then there's no question that a lot of evidence should be presented on them. if they don't include them, then people might say, well, why are you bringing that up again? because you know, we've already heard about that. you know, we decided that or bill barr decided that no action should be taken on it and th

i'm going to boil it down to two more, carol.mber during the mueller investigation, there was a real effort among sort of pence-aligned republicans that i came into contact with just sort of wall him off to preserve him for whatever reason, should he end up, i don't know, maybe they -- maybe they knew donald trump would withhold military aid for dirt on burisma, hunter biden, could be convicted and needed someone to move into the office with no corners. is it the same sort of effort, same sort of inside and outside sort of political and legal operation around vice president pence right now? >> yeah. that's a good point. there's this idea that -- part of it is -- we've seen this from the earliest days of the presidency, is they've -- they're really fine with this narrative out there that, you know, shucks, the vice president didn't really know what was going on, he was just out of the loop. they don't seem to mind that being out there because it inoculates him while making him look, perhaps, you know, not super powerful and inocul

. >> joining us now, nbc news contributor carol lenick. carol, tim morrison. could his testimony today be a turning point? is it important? i'm wondering what he can say that others haven't said. because everything that everybody thought donald trump did on that phone call with volodymyr zelensky has been corroborated. >> absolutely, ali. i think there are two ways to look at tim morrison's testimony. the first one is that it corroborates the accounts. in other words, it's another brick in the wall of national security experts who say this call was worrisome, the events before it were worry soisome. the events before it where trump was really interested in getting an investigation announced in exchange for releasing federal funds, military aid, and agreeing to a meeting with zelensky. the second way that tim morrison's testimony is really important is, it's not like he can be disregarded by republicans on the hill as a deep state obama holdover or whatever new catchphrase there is for people who are civil servants. remember, republicans said bill taylor was pa

0bviously carol. it's true, isn't it? weather as well if it is cold, damp and wet. it certainly changes my breathing but interestingly the cloudy s, wettest and highest humidity generally you find in the north and west of the uk, it's also generally where we have low pressures coming into places like the west highlands and also snowdonia, lake district, those kind of areas are where, if you suffer from something like arthritis, you may find that is genuinely the case that you coming in like my own but, hey, i'm no doctor so i'm not sure but places in the south and east of the uk, this is where you have the driest and warmest weather as well and as we know in the summer, it can be fairly humid here but it's really interesting to try and get that correlation. today, if you do suffer from any of these ailments, you may not be pleased to hear that for the next few days there is rain in the forecast. especially so tomorrow and into saturday with some of that rain being heavy. tomorrow what we've got is some for good, dense fog

nona's mother carol knew it was bad. the moment she arrived that night to see police at nona's apartment. >> i told them i wanted to see my baby. they told me, of course, you can't. they had the crime scene tape up and everything. >> the police told carol it was horribly obvious nona had been murdered. but they were on the case, they told her. in fact, they were already trying to break down nona's last moments on earth. >> when had you last spoke with her? >> 1:00 last night i called her from my house phone. >> questioning the man who may have known her best. >> were you in a fight recently? >> we didn't fight. >> kevin jones seemed eager to help the police figure out who killed his girlfriend. he went to the police station to answer a few routine questions. >> what happened? >> i called and she didn't answer. i thought maybe her phone was dead. >> kevin careened from what looked like disbelief to grief. anger. and back again. >> a couple questions. a >> a few questions turned into many. >> did you have a key to the apar