carol: and i'm carol massar. glish-speaking russian tv network rt is a master of ideology in disguise. carol: the latest -- the shadow brokers. oliver: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ oliver: we are back with "bloomberg businessweek." editor-in-chief megan murphy talking about must-reads. i love the headline, russian news. it says at rt, newsbreaks you. it is a great internet meme poking fun at russians. megan: this is a story about the network rt that is taken up so much of a role and the american election talking about sort of disruptive, political, networks and commentary worldwide, but it is something that american intelligence officials have pointed to as a network a part of russia's effort to disrupt the democratic process in 2016. the story shows how a real fly-by-night operator, mired in the depths of your cable, --going in and say, how much was this a concerted effort by russia to infiltrate western media, and how much is you can get a lot of attention for say crazy things? it is probably

carol: and i'm carol massar. : we are back with megan murphy to talk about more must be. let's go to the economic section because you did a great profile in brazil. politicsran and the behind what is going on and the different shades of revolution. megan: we wanted to look at the recent reelection of -- who was reelected with a very large majority. towanted to take that back show the demographics have changed who supported him. order came in and there was dental change in the way of life and what you are fighting now is that decades later, arts of that revolution -- parts of that revolution are starting to fade away with public youth. there is a girl who said she can ride in a car with her boyfriend, something that would have been unheard of. but has a platform for a more western way of life and how that is starting to be pushed forward in iran. oliver: it seems there is a fulcrum point -- the iranian citizens realize how important it is to vote seeing what has happened in previous elections. you guys profiled the

i'm oliver renick. >> and i'm carol massar.lso catch us on the radio at sirius channel 119, and in new york, in boston, in washington, d.c., a m naik 60 in the bay area. >> and in london and asia on the bloomberg radio plus at the >> president trump's budget isn't expected to get passed congress. >> but that could be what it white house wants. peter coy explains. >> we got a first look at what the white house budget looks like. give us the rundown on how both sides of the aisle are reacting and what the hope is to accomplish what trumps are. >> the budget of course is very ambitious. the concept is that trump inks he can wipe out the entire federal budget deficit and produce a surplus like 2027. at the same time that he raises spending on the military and border control and protects the retirement portion of social security and medicare. >> provide some scope on that. how big of a challenge is that when you talk about wiping out the budget? dot does he have to do to that? >> it's a huge challenge because most people who have lo

>> welcome to bloomberg>> is as great, i'm carol massar. >> and i'm oliver renick of it largecandal of proportion. >> no patient is left behind because every patient is a gold mine. >> facebook's anti-fake gold mine. all that ahead on bloomberg businessweek. ♪ >> we are here with bloomberg businessweek editor-in-chief make an murky. let's start with the opening remarks. you do a great job summarizing a complex edition but it keeps on going deeper and that's the political corruption that exists in brazil. tell us how you guys took decades of corruption and synthesized it into this really good piece. show that even decades of corruption is actually sentries old in brazil and sort of deal back the layers as -- of the carwash scandal, which is this latest scandal that's been enveloping brazil. it takes us back to the president before her and its enveloping in the existing president and has the roots in the structure of brazil generally, one of the last countries in western america to have a monarchy that was departed in 1889. but if you go back that far and see the sequence of scandals the

i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. carol: in this week's issue, a question being asked from wall street to main street. oliver: if america were a company, would you keep its ceo? carol: that's next on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ oliver: we are joined by bloomberg news editor-in-chief john micklethwait. john, in your opening remarks section of this week's "is this week" you essentially hold up donald trump his own meter stick, by his own standards for what he promised. tell us about how you went about taking about this. john: i think it's probably the fairest way to judge him, and that he said it's the way he wanted to be judged. he sold himself as being a businessman who would run the government more efficiently, and he would do better negotiation. he rubbished barack obama, hillary clinton and said he was better than this. he said he could run things very efficiently. i thought it was a nice conceit to sit and look and say, he was the ceo, and if you were the board examining how he had run this company of america, how

i'm carol massar. oliver: and i'm oliver renick. e radio at sirius xm channel 119, and on am 1130 in new york, and 1200 in boston. carol: and in london on the abm ux3, and in asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. oliver: the curious case of the billion dollar cat. carol: and why a chinese peroxide company paid $1 billion for the talking tom app. >> they are computer scientists working in the local tech scene, and they decided they wanted to get into the app economy around the time steve jobs first introduced app store. they tried a bunch of different things said did not work. one was about sending virtual hugs, and another was about healing crystals. but then they hit on one that hit off in a major way, which is this talking tom. oliver: so they get the talking tom, around late 2000? tell us about what the market was looking at the time for these things that have now become ubiquitous. >> this was about 2010 when this game came out. it is a kid's game in which you can interact with and virtual cat. you can pet it and speak into the m

carol massar and i spoke to peter coy.n exposurean see of confidence among consumers and the national federation for independent business among small businesses. there was almost unprecedented, the wave of optimism about what the trump administration was going to be able to deliver. oliver: three figure out whether a not the optimism translates into real action, one question to zero out the playing field is what does that mechanism usually look like? what is the transition between or pop in nfib and spending plans for wages and actual wage growth? how long does the path usually take? peter: that is a good question. i did not analyze the typical its, but what we can see is was november, here we are in april and they have had plenty of time to hire committed they were so enthusiastic that they were sure they would be a booming economy. carol: six months, right? peter: they have been done in. i know the numbers -- they haven't done it. i know the numbers bounce around, but the first three months of the year, the average growt

i am carol massar. oliver: i am oliver renick. e, a question being asked from wall street to main street. oliver: if america were a company, would you keep its ceo? carol: that's next on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ oliver: we are joined by bloomberg news editor-in-chief john micklethwait. john, in your opening remarks section of this week's "is this week" you essentially hold up donald trump his own meter stick, by his own standards for what he promised. tell us about how you went about taking about this. john: i think it's probably the

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