i'm christine romans. there is a lot going on this morning. >> you always surprise me with what day it is. >> it is tuesday. >> because it feels like thursday. >> it is only tuesday, but it is a thursday full of news. fierce push being by the president to the testimony from former acting attorney general sally yates. testifying to a senate committee, she made it clear the justice department was seriously concerned about then national security adviser michael flynn. yates says she told the white house that flynn's talks with the russian ambassador and his lies to the vice president about those conversations made flynn vulnerable to blackmail. >> yates says she gave those warnings in meetings with the president's lawyer, expecting some action. nothing happened. >> we felt like it was critical that we get this information to the white house, because, in part because the vice president was unknowingly making false statements to the public, and because we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect

christine, dave?> sure is. athena jones, thank you. >>> meanwhile, president trump still trying to defend his decision to fire director comey. he's calling democrats hypocritical for criticizing the move. in an interview with fox news, the president insists he believed democrats would actually be pleased by comey's dismissal. >> i guess i was a little bit surprised, because all of the democrats, i mean, they hated jim comey. they didn't like him. they wanted him fired or whatever. and then all of a sudden, they come out with these glowing reports. look, i thought that this would be a very popular thing that i did when i terminated comey, because all of the democrats couldn't stand him. but because i terminated him, they said, ah, we get some political points, we'll go against trump. >> it was, of course, the timing that was the problem. the president also denied any collusion between his campaign and the kremlin and claimed it's very important for him to resolve the issue of russia's meddling in the u

. >> i'm christine romans. you had the biggest decline in the markets in year because the president was knocked off the policy issues. now the temperature has gone down a little bit. >> i feel like washington, d.c. ex exhaled. the entire town. congress, the white house. >> now there's a process. the investigation into russia's meddling now in the hands of the former director of the fbi. robert mueller appointed special counsel. he has the power to investigate, to question, to issue subpoenas and prosecute federal crimes if any discovered. mueller appointed by deputy rod rosenstein. >> rosenstein said the move was not a finding crimes had been committed, but quote based on the circumstances the public interest requires me to place this investigation under authority of the person who exercising the degree of independence from the normal chain of command. >> the appointment following a series of damaging headlines from the firing of the fbi director james comey to the president divulging sensitive information to c

christine. dave. >> we will. athena, thank you. details emerging from the private dinner with president trump and the former fbi director. comey is telling friends mr. trump demanded a pledge of loyalty twice during the meal. comey says he declined, but assured the president he would be honest with him. that reaffirms supporting from jake tapper that the president fired comey over that lack of loyalty. the dinner took place on april 27th. >> that is one day after sally yates diffelivered a strong warg to the white house. let's listen. >> my white house counsel came back to me and did not sound like an emergency of any kind. didn't sound like he was. she did not make it sound that way either in the hearings the other day like it had to be done immediately. this man served for many years. he is a general. he's a -- in my opinion, a very good person. i believe that it would be very unfair to hear from somebody who we don't know and immediately run out and fire a general. we ultimately fire, but fired for a different reason. >> you tal

christine and dave? >> sure is. jeff zeleny, thanks. part of the president's plan to push back against all the russia suspicions and allegations could involve two former members of his campaign staff, ex-campaign manager corey lewandowski and former deputy campaign manager david bossie, both spotted at the white house last night, mentioned as possible players in an outside rapid response team working closely with the white house war room. bossie may also be in line for a position within the trump administration. >> investigators are trying to figure out exactly why jared kushner met in december with a russian banker with links to vladimir putin, what the point of that meeting was. that's according to "the new york times." cnn has already reported kushner met with russian ambassador sergey kislyak, seeking to engage further with russia. kushner was then told to meetgo of a russian bank under sanction by the u.s. >> and the white house pushing back on reporting kushner tried to set up a secret back channel with the russians by blaming the

dave and christine? >> sunlen serfaty. this was passed without a congressional budget office score. they have not evaluated the bill. that didn't stop house speaker paul ryan from hastily calling a vote and shepherding this bill through, not a tactic he endorsed eight years ago when he was trying to stop obamacare from passing. let's listen. >> i don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read, that we don't know what they cost. and if you rush this thing through before anybody even knows what it is, that's not good democracy, that's not doing our work for our constituents. we shouldn't rush this thing through just to rush it through for some artificial deadline. let's get this thing done right. >> it took 17 months, by the way, for the obamacare bill to finally get through, 17 months of work. on june 23rd, 2009, ryan signed a letter to the director of the cbo, demanding a wide-ranging analysis of the affordable care act, which then speaker nancy pelosi was trying to pass. my, how times have change

. >> nice to see you, i'm glad to be back, i'm christine romans. we welcome all of our viewers here and around the world. breaking news, montana has a new congressman just hours after he was charged with assault for body slamming a reporter. he scores a decisive win over the democrat, rob quist. >> and the celebration was relatively subdued. he owned up to a mistake. joining us in bozeman, month month, good morning to you, good night, whatever it is. interesting, because it's not apparent if this assault on the reporter hurt or maybe even in some cases helped gianforte, what do you sense? >> reporter: well, good morning, dave, i can tell you sometimes it helped in this situation. we went inside where some of his reporters are just leaving as we speak, it's about 2:00 a.m. in the morning here. people were energized by this, they thought he was a good man who made a bad decision. in some cases they thought the reporter never should have gone in that room. despite all that, greg gianforte stepped to the mike and made an apology and talked about what h

christine?> and christiane, back here, this is front page, above-the-fold news on every single national paper, the "washington post," "the new york times," the "wall street journal." certainly, important globally in terms of that populist wave, but why is it so resonating, do you think, here in the united states? and you had president obama, you had hillary clinton, donald trump weighing in ahead of the election. >> reporter: well, for several reasons, because it really was a test of the entire western alliance, and it was a test of whether this nationalist-populist wave was going to continue. you know that brexit and nigel farage had thrown up a huge sort of gauntlet, if you'd like, saying this is the whole wave of what we're going to see across the west, and then it happened across the atlantic where you are, the trump win was a surprise, and it seemed to shore up this idea that nationalism, populist policies were going to win the day, that the whole western democratic world was going antiesta

>> reporter: hey there, christine. so, for the second time in just a few months, the fate of the travel ban is back up for debate in the ninth circuit. in just a few hours with the trump administration once again trying to get the president's executive order back on track. but the main question the judges have to wrestle with this time

>> reporter: hey there, christine. so, for the second time in just a few months, the fate of the travel ban is back up for debate in the ninth circuit. in just a few hours with the trump administration once again trying to get the president's executive order back on track. but the main question the judges have to wrestle with this time around is whether they can look at trump's campaign statements about muslims to find that the executive order was motivated by some sort of discriminatory intent when the face of the order doesn't say anything about religion at all, christine. >> do we know yet which judges on the ninth circuit will be hearing this appeal and how that could affect the case? >> reporter: yeah, today's panel is made up of three judges, all appointed by former president bill clinton. only adding to the drama in this case, as you can imagine, given that the president hasn't shied away from voicing his displeasure with the ninth circuit, calling last month to break up the court and other courts that have rule

. >> and i'm christine romans. we could fill the next hour on questions about health care looking like. >> because we don't know. >> it is may 5th, cinco de mayo, 5:00 a.m. in the east. nice to see you this morning. the battle to repeal and replace obamacare begins anew in the senate and republicans will try to merge a compromise to get to 51 votes, no small task given that there are only 52 republicans in the senate. the open question -- how much of the newly passed house bill, including last-minute changes to pre-existing conditions, how much will end up in the senate version? senators warn, some parts may not fit under budget reconciliation rules that allow them to pass a bill with just 51 votes, not 60. despite the obstacles ahead, president trump declaring his optimism overnight. >> i think we'll get it through. the republicans are very united, like seldom before. i mean, you see that today. the republicans came together all of a sudden, two days ago. it was like magic. they're very, very united. you saw that

christine, dave? >> all right, thanks. >> all right, let's bring in cnn politics reporter eugene scott. eugene, thanks for being here so early this morning. >> no policemen. >> we appreciate it, a lot of talk about, especially with this montana election. >> sure. >> greg gianforte wins, despite the assault. now, maybe this had more to do with early voting. they say some two-thirds of the vote had already been cast before this assault occurred. but what we're learning after the fact is his supporters, gianforte's supporters seem to endorse what was done to ben jacobs, this reporter from "the guardian." what is the message sent here towards the media and towards civility in our politics? >> i actually was talking yesterday toll some people about the whole incident who are in montana, and my friend said, eugene, you'd be surprised at how much support existed for his actions because of deep distrust and frustration with the media and this appointment with how so many of the issues that they believe they v

good morning. >> good morning, christine.e surface of it, you'd think these are two world leaders that would get along very well. they've got a lot in common. for example, they're both populist leaders. neither of them shy away from controversy. both of them have what you would describe as icy relations with the media in their home countries, and they enjoy giving long speeches to their supporters. you'd think it would be a partnership made in heaven, but there are a couple wedges right now in that relationship between the united states and turkey. the first, of course, is that turkey is insisting that the united states stop arming kurdish fighters on the ground in the fight to battle isis. the united states has basically thrown its hat in the ring through those kurdish fighters as their weapon of choice to dislodge isis on the ground, something turkey is opposed to because they consider those turkish groups to be terrorists. and the second big issue, of course, is the fact that turkey wants a religious cleric who is living i

christine, this is staggering.f all the president said in two interviews over the weekend that was the most revealing words about our commander in chief. >> every day is fascinating, dave. 100 days in, we've got 100 -- >> words don't matter. actions do. >> but they do. >> they should. >> you're right. republicans have their fingered cross that a health care bill will go through congress this week. still unclear whether tweaks can be made to lure moderates to vote for a latest draft of a bill, a version that the members of the hard right freedom caucus have signed off on. president trump trying to ease concerns for coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, perhaps instead muddying the water further. >> pre-existing conditions are in the bill, and i mandate it. i said it has to be. they say we don't cover pre-existing conditions. we cover it beautifully. i'll tell you who doesn't cover pre-existing conditions, obamacare. you know why? it's dead! it's not going to be here. >> in one of the fixes, it was discus

dave, christine? >> okay, on to the supreme court. laura jarrett, thanks. "early start" continues right "early start" continues right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i should not have treated that reporter that way. and for that, i'm sorry. mr. ben jacobs. >> an apology and a win for the montana republican accused of body slamming a reporter. what message does it send to elect greg gianforte hours after an alleged violent outburst? >>> and the fbi taking a closer look at jared kushner, part of its russia investigation. what led authorities to focus on the president's top adviser and son-in-law? good morning, everybody, and welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> and i'm christine romans. it is friday, may 26th. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. breaking overnight, montana has a new congressman, a new congressman with a court date. just 24 hours after he was charged with assault for apparently body slamming a reporter, the republican, greg gianforte, scores a decisive win over democrat rob quist. >> there are the final numbers. gianforte's vi

christine, dave. >> athena, thank you.tails emerging from that private dinner between president trump and the former fbi director. according to fbi, comey says the president pledged loyalty twice during his peel. comey declined but assured the president he would be honest with him. >> that confirms the president fired him, in part, over that lack of loyalty. >> that dinner took place on january 27th. >>> one day after former acting attorney general sally yates issued a strong warning about michael flynn's contact of russia. the president addressed the firing of his former adviser in his nbc interview. >> my white house counsel bound again, came back to me, did not sound like an emergency, didn't make it sound like he was, you know, she actually didn't make it sound that way either in the hearings the other day like it had to be done immediately. this man has served for many years, he's a general he's in my opinion a very good person. i believe that it would be very unfair to hear from somebody who we don't even know and wo

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. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine. another day at the white house and another damaging headline. on monday evening, administration officials were sent scrambling, insisting the president did not jeopardize classified information and share it with russian officials. >> there's nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. the story that came out tonight, as reported, is false. the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. at no time, at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed, and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. i was in the room. it didn't happen. >> reporter: those comments from president trump's national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, coming after the "washington post" broke the story that president trump shared classified information with russia's foreign minister and ambassador in a meeting at the white house

kpix5's christin ayers is there tonight. >> reporter: yeah, those suspects charged into that costco andopened fire inside. law enforcement says something this violent hasn't happened in years. >> they didn't waste any time. >> reporter: danville's police chief said it happened in under a minute. two masked men stormed the costco on fostoria way just after noon. >> i was entering the store and i heard gunshots and people were racing out of the store and nobody really knew what was going on at that mount. >> reporter: the thieves took hammers to these display cases filled with high end jewelry including rolex watches. witnesses ducked for cover as one of the men fired his gun in the air. >> i was with my 86-year-old mother and we were just entering the store and she couldn't hear the gunshots. so i was screaming at her to move and she wouldn't move. so i carried her and we hit the ground. >> reporter: outside authorities say they fired in the air again and got away in a silver toyota camry with dealer plates. >> i can't believe they have the nerve to go in there with that family oriented

i'm christine romans. it is 31 minutes past the hour. meddling in the 2016 election is now in the hands of the former director of the fbi. robert mueller appointed special counsel of the probe. he has the power to investigate, question, issue subpoenas and prosecute federal crimes if any are discovered. mueller appointed to the job by the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the appointment comes following the series of headlines like the firing of james comey and the divulging sensitive information to russian officials. >> on capitol hill, the news of the special counsel is greeted with relief. especially by republicans. we begin with the justice reporter laura jarrett live in washington. laura. >> reporter: it came together quickly, christine. this is a really significant move here. i have to under score. this has only happened once before in history. this regulation has only been used once under attorney general reno. the deputy attorney general put out a press release in a one-page order that highlighted the unique circumstance

and christine lagarde has been a mentor for me. it is really important for women to support other women. and i'm really grateful to all of the women who are here today. you are all successful leaders otherwise you would not be here. and i know that you're going to go back home and support other women. and that is tremendously important. and as ivanka said it is important that mentorship not being seen as something only women can do for the woman. we had a little bit of a discussion of father's and they used to say that behind every successful man was an even more successful woman. i have a view which is, backed up by sociological research that behind every successful woman is a very supportive father. there is a very supportive correlation between supportive fathers and female professional success. so we know something about the fathers of everyone sitting here. but i wanted to make one other point about this sort of virtuous circle that we've been talking about and supporting female entrepreneurship. women talking about this stron

christine, thank you for the discussion. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, new comments this morning from president trump on north korea. >> how is north korea weighing on you now? >> well, it weighs, but we have to be prepared for the worst. we have to be prepared to do what we have to do. >> we have to be prepared to do what we have to do. this as the north issues a new threat over the nuclear wars while japan sends its bigst warship to join the u.s. warships. >>> plus, more than two dozen people were hospitalized after their flight hit violent turbulence. more on the terrifying moments in the sky when we come back. stay with us. their experience is coveted. their leadership is instinctive. they're experts in things you haven't heard of - researchers of technologies that one day, you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team. before fibromyalgia, i was a doer. i was active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving

i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. we'll discuss a new term from republicans on the health care bill. is it obamacare 2.0? that's an interesting way to describe it. how will it work in the senate? >>> fierce pushback, meanwhile, though, by the president against former acting attorney general sally yates testifying to a senate committee. yates made it clear the justice department was seriously concerned about then-national security adviser michael flynn. yates said she told the white house that flynn's talks with the russian ambassador and his lies to the vice president about those talks made flynn vulnerable to blackmail. >> she said she gave those warnings in meetings with the president's lawyer expecting some action, but nothing happened. >> we felt like it was critical that we get this information to the white house, because -- in part because the vice president was knowingly making false statements to the public and we felt general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. >> the senate hearing came momen

i'm christine romans, may 22nd, 4:00 a.m. in the east. president trump is on his way to israel after beginning his first foreign trip in saudi arabia, that stop dominated by a speech that broke sharply with his past rhetoric on islam, the president calling for cooperation from muslim nations, asking them to drive out terrorists and share the burden in the fight against terror. more on that speech in a moment. >> today, though, the president shifts focus to another key mission on this week-long trip, making progress on the israeli/palestinian conflict. president trump wants to make what he calls an ultimate deal for peace. he'll be meeting with israeli and palestinian leaders and make a historic stop at the western wall. our coverage of the president's trip begins with cnn's sara murray, who's live for us in jerusalem, just past 11:00 a.m. there. great to have you, sara. what are the expectations ahead of this momentous visit? >> reporter: well, it's certainly going to be a very closely watched trip and there are a number of bilateral meet

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i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it's wednesday, may 24. 5:00 a.m. tiechbt. historic moment at the vatican. not so long ago president trump and pope francis face to face shaking hands, exchanging gifts. president trump preparing to meet with the president of italy. but when mr. trump sat down with the pope in private earlier the two leaders seemed to put their differences aside after disagreeing on several issues during the campaign. >> it is the latest up for this president on his foreign trip that will take him to brussels later today. cnn white house correspondent sara murray in rome. good morning, again. it's 11:00 a.m. there in the rome and the president not too long ago finished up that face to face meeting, 28, 29 minutes with the pope. >> reporter: that's right. more we're hearing about what happened in this meeting, and sort of in the expanded audience with the pope the more light hearted it sounds. remember president trump and pope francis have not always exchanged the kindest of words with one another. after they met privately president trump said

christin ayers was in the middle of a big rally in oakland where this year the message was different. >> reporter: jasmine castillo has two big reasons for marching at oakland's mayday protests. >> both my parents are undocumented. >> reporter: she said the possibility of her parents being deported when they go off to work weighs on her every day. >> just worry about them leaving and i have to stop going to school and just to take care of my sister. >> reporter: today she walked for her parents alongside 1,000 other protesters who shut down international boulevard. historically these mayday protests have largely been driven by pro workers rights groups. today the sentiment seems to be anti-trump and pro immigration. >> but what makes this so big today is because of trumpism, the issues that he is pursuing out into the community and the world that has pulled us together. >> reporter: the activist known for being the uncle of oscar grant, the man slain by b.a.r.t. police, said this is the biggest protest he's seen in years. in oakland it started early. several people chained themselves

host: got your point, christine. jim antle. guest: well, the trump administration definitely has a real problem with leaks and leaving aside the question of whatever the president said in his oval office meeting with the russians because it's really hard to know whether that was contextually justify or it wasn't. someone thought it wasn't and that's why they leaked it. but the trump administration has an issue with leaks. and part of this is because they've been so slow to fill jobs so there are a large number of obama administration holdovers in place. part of this is it's not clear who within the administration is truly loyal to the president. so you have this dynamic. you have a lot of people who an incentive to leak things that you wouldn't really see in other administrations. a lot of people believe even people loyal to the president believe the best way to influence him is to influence the press coverage rather than sitting down with him and talking to him. he's going to be influenced by what he reads in the papers. so it

matt miller, christine. help me.rump team mike flynn worked for turkey but up to this point, it had appeared they didn't know he was under investigation. how important is that distinction? i feel they were saying it was obama, obama hired him and left out he also fired him. >> it goes to one of the critical questions that we still don't have an answer to, which is, why was trump so loyal to mike flynn? now we know that they were warned, trump himself was warned personally by the president in november, found out in january he was under federal criminal investigation, then warned by the deputy attorney general sally yates that he had been untruthful, and they did nothing about it until his problems were publicly reported by "the washington post" in february. and to this day, trump continues to defend flynn and, you know, going so far as to ask the fbi director to quash the investigation into him. it's possible it's just a sign of trump being loyal to someone that he was close to, although that's not something trump's l

mark: i am going for christine because as christine said, we, the u.k., we are reasserting our dominancethe u.s. .t is appropriate that in b it is going to the gallery again. vonnie: whe we love when the brits assert their dominance, mark. mark: christine is the winner. vonnie: congratulations. long may you thrive. mark: long maybe reassert our dominance. vonnie: coming up on "market," alan dershowitz discusses the trump controversy. that is all in the next couple of hours of "bloomberg markets." ♪ in new york, noon 5:00 p.m. in london, and midnight in hong kong. i am vonnie quinn. welcome to "bloomberg markets." from bloomberg world headquarters in new york city, here are the top stories on the bloomberg and around the world that we are following. president donald trump is facing the deepest crisis of his presidency with another political bombshell. this time, a memo written by the then fbi director james comey alleging the president asked him to drop a presentation into former national security adviser michael flynn. the house of representatives now demanding all comey memos to be hand

but we don't deal with it that way, christine. think why i am most interested in this other than that passive interest in hoping tiger woods is okay because he's such a giant in our sports culture is i have a lot of friends on the job. they see this all the time. we are the most medicated society in the world. pain care is all over the case. people are taking pills. very often it has this intoxicating effect as anything else you might drink over a holiday weekend. it will be interesting to see if woods gets in front of it. >> i think that's true and tiger has the ended to be very private over the 20-some years we have seen him in the public eye. he has not wanted to give out much information. i'm sure this is just a terrible turn of events for him personally. this is the last thing that he wants. but we'll see. there is a lot more we'll see coming out about this, i'm sure. >> thanks so much for all the information. we'll talk again. >> there is a lot of news. cnn has new reporting about the russian investigation. so news room with

christine, peel back some of the numbers. what do they show? >> well, they show confidence among employers to hire, quite frankly. let's look at the jobs added here. you can see 211,000. the president to get to his promise of 25 million jobs created over the next ten years would have to stay above 208,000 every month. so, he definitely did it this month. there's a little bit of weakness over here in march, but it looks as though employers were confident again coming up here in april. the unemployment rate. this is what's really fascinating. this is the number everyone's talking about today, 4.4%, the lowest in ten years. you've got to go back to may 2007. that was before the economy essentially crashed, before the financial crisis essentially threatened the global economy. so, this is a really significant milestone here, almost near full employment. what does full employment mean? that means that companies have to go out and search for workers because you've got an unemployment rate that's so low. hopefully, that means that people can start com

mark: christine, further to michael's point, what do you think a new dodd-frank law might look like? whatever going to hear from treasury secretary today? christine: i would start i saying most of the people we have been speaking to today in the wall street community are not expecting any budget side of changes to go forward. they're not counting on it and they are comfortable with the fact that a lot of new regulatory appointments have been made that they are hoping will be more friendly to them, that there will be a relaxation of some of the rules and the way they are interpreted. i am thinking of some of the stress test, that criteria, things around capital and how it is measured. that is given a lot of confidence to the wall street community that they will be a shift in tone from regulators and a reduction in their compliance cost and having to deal with this. we heard from the administration and they are emphasizing increasing lending to support economic growth, reducing bureaucracy and red tape for companies, so to the degree that that happens to congressional action, obviously

christin ayers, kpix5. >>> kids, you are up, don't try this at home. daredevil spotted riding around oakland. yeah, he was .. taped to the side of the car, thought it was a good idea. there he is right in front of oracle hanging on by electric tape. it wasn't too long before the police caught up to him and the driver. and cited both the driver and mr. stuntman. the district attorney is now reviews the case and deciding on charges. >>> a teenage boy convicted of a sex crime has decided not to finish out the year at palo alto high school after angry parents asked why he was allowed to remain on campus, maria medina reports from palo alto where a school board got heated. >> reporter: and it ended with a closed door session. before that, parents packed a room, the line going all the way into the hallway. the district failed to fell them a predator was among their kids until the media reported it. >> we need to know when we have an active predator. >> i don't trust you guys. there is not a sense of safety in terms of the administration making us aware becau

i'm christine romans. >> and i'm dave briggs. the president has been busy. five interviews in the last few days. >> it's been a surreal 24 hours in presidential history. >> each one has new information. each one muddy iing the waters further. >> lot to talk about. >> the behind strags going all out straining for every last vote to get a a health care bill through the house. mike pence, the tomorrformer ho leader himself, a sure sign to be work to be done. before the bill is ready for a vote. moderates do remain the focus. leaders hope they can sell the unhappy with the bill on the fact that if it passes, it could be significantly reworked by the senate. >> although the white house keeps touting progress and it's painfulfully tight with many members on the fence inclouding some on the whip team itself. the white house has its work cut out. >> good morning, there certainly was some hopeful and optimistic rhetoric out of the white house early on monday that they could get this bill through this week. but that has given way to a harsh and stark reality up here o

vonnie: i think we going to go to christine. mark: we are. what have you got? soon and here is advice from a much derided millennial such as myself, think twice before you sell your handcrafted jewelry on the etsy shop. i am looking at u.s. retail sales and the non-store component, including sales from online retailers that remain strong. almost a straight diagonal yellow line, that is the positive. -- in thise is that segment are not consistent. it is not necessarily a ontainable source of living this front. maybe keep this as a second option rather than your first choice. a check out this chart. millennial,ing a should i mark you down? how does one judge this fairly? vonnie: you are just barely out of the millennial demographic, so i feel like you are close to millennial's. mark: verily is a polite way to put it. i am going to go for the big mac today. vonnie: i was just reading about etsy and as much as i love the idea of the big mac, i am going to go with christine today. which puts it to the gallery three if you are going for christine and i am going for e

good morning, coy. >> good morning, christine, dave.homas delivered the eulogy at his sister's funeral on saturday and took a redeye, arriving back in boston at 4:00 a.m. on sunday, nine hours before game one against the wizards. talk about roller coaster of emotions. his celtics off to a rough start, falling behind 16-0 in the first quarter. then thomas takes an elbow to the face and his tooth comes flying out of his mouth! thomas calmly picks up his tooth and carries on, indicative of how he's managed to pick up the pieces and keep fighting all throughout the playoffs. he drains two consecutive three-pointers and finishes with a game-high 33 points in the celtics' 123-111 win. and after the game, isaiah talked about how he's been able to carry on. >> basketball and when i'm on the court, it just keeps me going, so i do everything for my sister now, and that's all i can do. >>> other playoff action. game seven in l.a. for the clippers. jay z and beyonce with twin babies on board, sitting courtside to watch future hall of famer paul pie

christine fare is an associate professor in the school of foreign service. she confronted richard spencer a white national list at a gym in old town. she blogged about the interaction on liep and now she's getting hateful messages. fox5's anjali hemphill is live with more. >>reporter: christine fare tells me ever since the confrontation with richard spencer where she called him a nas i, her phone and social media have been going off non threats with. fair has even posted some of the messages she's received to her blog and a lot of the language had to be blurred, but often the messages she receives are inflammatory and threatening. she says the accepted ers use racia derogatory phrases and even body shame her after a fet oh of that confrontation was posted online fare says she decided to not only post these messages up for all to see she also posted e-mail addresses, phone numbers and even facebook and linkedin pictures of some of the send ers in an effort to shame them. now, fare is a professor of foreign studies here at georgetown and critics have called he

christin ayers on the threatening social media post. the parents athe school district needs to take seriously. >> reporter: at first, denise lynch thought it was nothing more than a childish prank. >> oh my god. our front yard was a sea of skittles. >> reporter: thousands of skittles gathered outside her and her husband's danville home one april morning but she quickly realized it was far more sinister. >> i was shocked. >> reporter: friends sent their daughter, a sophomore screen shots from instagram. another student posted this. don't you dare say blank about me and my friends' back again. hope you enjoy the skittles. attached. a video showing their daughter being secretly videoed as she goes to the bathroom in a stall. they were arrested at school. >> this is a crime. the video up loaded clearly shows her using a toilet at a school facility. identified at sports practice. at san ramon valley high school. >> reporter: but the lynches say they allowed the girl to come back to school the next day. she was eventually suspended for a few

thanks very christine romans. >> there are a lot of positive signs about the economy as christine justed but he has more in his conversation with cnn's fareed sa sa car ya. >> so when you look at the economy now the numbers came in very weak, under percent, .7. does that tell you the economy has been somewhat a modest economy, what's going on? >> the first numbers are probably in just admiration. in the winter the gdp numbers have been lower than they should be. generally speaking, recovery has been really good in the sense we're down to 4.5% of unemployment. 16 million jobs created since 2009. inflation is low in stable, gas prices low, stock market's up. a lot of things are positive, growth could be faster that would be great. but underlying this growth pattern is slow growth in the economic force. we are seeing improvements in wages, the latest employment cost index showed a stronger number. so in terms of the recovery from the crises things are looked pretty good generally speaking. i'd have to say that if you told me three or four years ago we'd be where we are today i would have

. >> i'm christine romans. it's wednesday, may 24th, 2017. president trump and pope francis face to face shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries. the two leaders meeting in private seeming to put their differences aside after disagreeing on several important issues during the campaign. >> the latest stop for the president on his foreign trip that will take him to brussels later today. sara murray is live in rome with more on trump's visit and the rest of today's agenda. good morning to you, sara. >> reporter: the pope is behind me delivering his weekly address. that's after he met with president donald trump. the images were of a much warmer relationship. president trump came out of that meeting and said i won't forget what you said. the white house said that president trump offered a gift to the pope, first edition set of dr. martin luther king jr.'s writing. on the campaign trail the pope said people who talk about building barriers not bridges are not christian. at that point candidate trump called the pope's rhetoric disgraceful. obviou

i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. 31 minute past the hour. this morning was james comey fired as fbi director for the handseling of the clinton e-mail investigation or something else? the reality for the bureau and white house is this. the russia probe is alive without anyone to lead it and the president of the united states is taking serious heat from both sides of the aisle for a move that stunned the nation and among them raises serious questions about why this move came at this time. >>> democratic calls for a special prosecutor on the russia probe are growing louder this morning. house democrats now asking for the preservation of all documents related to russia and to comey's firing. the fbi director unceremonious termination of echos of watergate. >> the president acting on advice from attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who cited comey's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe not once mentioning russia. trump, on the other hand, clearly had russia on his mind when he penned an abrupt letter t

. >> christine is used to a fight. her son was diagnosed at age 5 with du shen muscular distrophy, a condition that put him in a while chair just before he turned 14. one thing she didn't have to plan to fight for is an access to an older drug her son was using. he's been taking it since 8 years old. it wasn't approved in the u.s. so she and a number of other families imported the drug from overseas. it cost about $1,200 a year out of pocket. it got a new price tag, $35,000 a year for a patient in the u.s. weighing about 55 pounds. >> $35,000 per 25 kilograms, it's pretty aggressive i would think. >> ptc therapeutics said it represents sustainable pricing providing access to eligible patients in the united states, including continued investment in du schens. the drug's cost may be more than $35,000, if patients like her son weighing more than 25 kilograms. >> my son is probably on one of the highest doses, nearly 50 kilo grams a day. >> she estimates the cost at more than $100,000 a year. she's concerned her old system

i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it's wednesday, may 17th. d.c. 4:00 in the morning out east. the clearest sign yet president trump trying to pressure the justice department over the russia investigation, sources familiar with the matter say the president asked james comey to end the fbi investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. >> the sources say comey was so concerned, so april pallappalle documented the conversation. it triggered immediate alarm on capitol hill. >> even republicans expressing extreme concern. oversight committee chairman jason chaffetz asking the fbi to hand over everything related to communications between comey and the president a week from today. white house fighting back. senior washington correspondent joe johns starts our coverage from washington. good morning to you, joe. >> reporter: good morning. sources telling cnn that president trump asked former fbi director james comey to end his investigation into the administration's first national security adviser michael flynn who was fired. here'

>> not at the moment, christine.ht now authorities say their priority is very much treating the victims that were admitted to the hospital in the wake of that horrific explosion. we know that some 59 victims in total were administered to some six hospitals throughout the manchester area. we're still waiting from authorities to hear what kinds of injuries they're currently treating. it was very much an all hands on deck situation, especially when you consider in the over night hours they closed this hospital to normal patients. they were only treating urgent cases. so that just gives you a sense of the magnitude of the emergency that authorities here were facing. i spoke to one eyewitness, 17-year-old ellie ward. she was here. she was actually inside the arena when the explosion took place. she said that ariana grande had just finished up her last song on stage when she her friend heard this explosion. they said they felt the explosion inside. her grandfather was nearby and sustained head injuries and brought to this