clair to sinclair. washington wrote, "as one of whose early life was particularly engaged in indian feel myself competent to counsel st. clair. beware of surprise. again, and again, general, beware of surprise." george washington was a great general. st. clair, not so much. in 1777 st. clair had been the commander at fort ticonderoga and he allowed the fort to be captured virtually without a shot because he had neglected the high ground around the fort. sinclair -- st. clair was no less negligent. st. clair posted just a few centuries overnight. and confederation forces, mostly shawnee's, swept into the camp, surprised the forces virtually unopposed. most broke and ran and allowed the regulars to be killed. on the united states side 631 men were killed and 286 wounded. more than half of the men were casualties, and most of the 200 women were killed or captured. it was an overwhelming defeat for the united states. as overwhelming as radek's 'sfeat had been -- braddock defeat had been at the beginning of

claire as st. clair was leaving to warn st. clair. one whose early life was particularly engaged in indian warfare, i follow myself competent to counsel general st. clair in three words, beware of subsees. again, and again, general, be wear of surprise. recall george washington was a great general. st. clair not so much. during 1775 st. clair was the commander at fortt ticonderoga and he allowed it to be captured without a shot because he failed to fortify a high ground around the fort. st. clair was more negligent in 1791. posted just a few sent rids overnight and confederate forces, mostly shawnees, swept into the camp virtually unopposed. the militia broke and ran and left the regulars to be killed. the united states side 630 men were killed and 286 wounded so more than half the men were casualties, and most of the 200 women were either killed or captured. it was an overwhemg defeat for the united states, as devastating as braddock defeat has been at the gunning of the seven-years war. harmer's defeat and st. clair recall's defeat

claire: it is on a case-by-case basis.er has not had -- blue sphere has not had disclosure in a couple years and that raises questions about what it is and what it is doing. that is something regulators could crack down on. vonnie: volume is a large. we are talking about 2 billion shares for blue sphere. is that a lot of traders? claire: some are deep dives into it and it appears to be a bunch of smaller traders that are buying up smaller shares, especially with the penny stocks , an area ripe for retail investors to think they can buy more of or it looks cheaper. it seems to be not just one big player moving these, but a confluence of all of these chat room users piling in at once. vonnie: thank you. we will keep our eye on that. claire valentine ballentine. optimism low. virus cases surging. we will discuss small business and new ppp. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: this is "bloomberg markets." i'm vonnie quinn. small bars is starting near -- small businesses started the year with restrictions. congress reache

claire: it's very likely that donald trump will be impeached in the house. they have the votes to do it. they've done it before. the upset with donald trump is much higher than it was over the ukraine matter. what happens after the house impeaches him and what strategy the house should use with regards to impeachment, it will of course go to the senate for a trial, but mitch mcconnell has indicated he will not invoke a provision that would allow the senate to be convened earlier than it would normally convene. it means the senate would only convene after the inauguration, so donald trump would be the first president to be tried on impeachment charges after he has left office. it's not an irrelevant thing to do because number one, it would prevent donald trump from running for office ever again, and number two, it would give us more information about exactly what the president knew, how the events of last wednesday, the assault on the capitol took place, and who was involved in organizing those events. it's critical that the process not be rushed so we can he

clair to warn sinclair. wrote as one of whose early life was particularly engaged in indian warfare i feel myself competent counsel. beware of surprise. again, and again, general, beware of surprise. george washington was a great general. st. clair, not so much. in 1777 during a campaign st. clair had been the commander at fort ticonderoga and he allowed the fort to be captured virtually without a shot because he had neglected to support a -- fortify the high ground around the fort. negligent.s no less sinclair posted just a few centuries overnight and confederation forces, mostly my wneesstly enemies and sha swept into the camp surprised , the forces virtually unopposed. most broke and ran and allowed the regulars to be killed. the united states side, 631 men were killed and 286 wounded. most of the women were either killed or captured. as devastating as the defeat had been, washington's defeat in the seven years war. they were greatly embarrassing to the new american national government. the victory on the

claire celeste is still working on this hanging installation which she plans to illuminate with a lamp. her original plan was to burn the work after its completion as a protest against the extinction of species. i think it's important to have a message of hope as well we have the tools to make the changes that we need to to save ourselves and i i want that to be part of the message as well so perhaps i won't set this on fire. instead the flames are made of paper and can be attached or removed depending on the message claire celeste hopes that her beautiful artworks will raise awareness of how endangered that. finally tributes have been pouring in for the pioneering american i. trist cicely tyson has died at age 96 she turned stereotypical roles for black women agreeing only to play characters that was strong positive and realistic long before it was popular to do so here she is in the autobiography of miss jane pittman. you think i'm crazy she. just did is change oh oh oh oh ok. oh. you can make go. after. the snow now and that's winter fun. located over there it's the winter sports ce

yet they're sitting there as part of the juror, people who as claire mccaskill said were part of it, are part of the jury. that is a very unusual case to be trying. your thoughts, paul? >> it's extraordinary, joy. so we have something different here than in the first impeachment. what is unique here is that the senators are not just jurors but they're witnesses and victims and survivors of the crimes that led to the impeachment. so unlike trump's first impeachment, the evidence isn't overheard phone calls or emails between government bureaucrats. this impeachment is more like you're the victim of a violent home invasion by some gang bangers and now you get to decide whether the leader of the gang is guilty. it should be an open-and-shut case. if it's not that's also going to be a sad story about our democracy. >> and i'll go back to you then, claire. there have been some senators that tried to mount the ludicrous argument you can't impeach trump because he's no longer in office. mitt romney already batted that down and said that's ridiculous. it's happened before. people left office,

we are joined by our friend claire mccaskill. claire? >> good afternoon. i miss you, nicolle. the last impeachment, we had snacks. i'm on my own this time. i'll tell you what irritated me about the debate, nicolle. i am really tired of people who embraced the lie of election fraud lecturing people about unity. what they did was incredibly corrosive to our democracy. they have helped the president convince millions of people that our elections aren't fair or free, and most of them know it's a bold-faced lie. they really do not come to this argument about unity with clean hands. it's like fingernails on a blackboard. . >> i keep thinking these are the same figures who have menacing words for people who carry out acts in the name of international terrorism, but when they're domestic terrorists who happen to be supported by some members of their own base, they're very, very, very afraid of speaking the truth and being brave, to put it bluntly. also along watching with is is dan goldman, who was instrumental in the first impeachment effort. i think it was exactly a year ago. dan go

claire and donna, i'm thinking of both of you. claire, your time on the homeland security committee, donna, your time and your service. is there an appropriate historical parallel for a crisis like this one? >> there isn't a historic -- there is no parallel. this is completely and totally different. now, i will say that over the years, beginning with oklahoma city bombing, and once again ramped up after some of the massive shootings, especially of the people at the church, we have talked about homeland security in the context of domestic terrorists, but over the last four years, the chairman of the homeland security committee in the senate, every time i would push to talk about that more, to do a series of hearings, to talk about the real threats, because we knew more people were dying at the hands of these right-wing extremists than of any foreign terrorists that were out and about. the chairman of that committee, all he wanted to talk about was hillary's emails. now we have a new chairman. now, the danger signal we're already se

i want to bring in clair mccaskill and joy reid.g back to work seems in contrast to a president who was in hiding for two months. once he was off twitter, it's not clear what he did because that was really our only window into any thoughts or action on his part, joy. it's been a while since we've seen a president working in the oval office. >> it's been, for the last month, i think, the daily memo that would come from the white house would say as to the former president's schedule that he will make many calls and work very hard. these were in the critical days when the vaccine rollout was failing and when, i remember, i do watch your show every night and you would ask, who's in charge? and it was an amazing question. who's actually rubbing the government? we weren't clear on it. when we would come on a few hours later, we still weren't clear on it. who had been in charge all day so it is amazing to watch, you know, this new president and vice president go right to work. they didn't go and party. obviously, covid, you can't do very m

yeah i think silky i appreciate that and claire in washington d.c. hi i'm claire garvey i'm a senior associate with the center on privacy and technology based at georgetown law we focus on the relationship between privacy and new technologies particularly has the impact historically vulnerable communities in a course in the open i focused on port link that's getting a lot of big news where i live here in the states but this is an issue all over the world from portland to d.c. to london to where my next guest is sitting in hong kong mary communities yourself sure hi everyone i mean it's very her home base a home call among course of course. most of us here since last june to clearly. what's known as the. sea and how it is that it's. summers and you are there on the front lines of what a massive protest now for what a couple couple years that can be going on that long in hong kong can you tell us what it were some of the surveillance techniques that police had been using and how people have been trying to protect themselves from the. yeah we see the su

now the american artist claire celeste started her professional life as an arts ministry to dealing with other artists but see she soon changed sides as it were a memoir now based in berlin she exhibits her work around the world raw material is simply paper but she creates extraordinary immersive collages that bring the viewer into a natural paradise and there's an environmental message in all her work to. this nature collages assembled from hundreds of paper images ringback the installation biodiversity celebrates the wide variety of species welcome to claire celeste's blooming world. use actually and then i will use collage to plan my paintings and then one day i realize that the collage that i made a plant painting was actually much better than the painting itself celeste is inspired by natural history images of flora and fauna from around the world the american born artist is based in berlin from where she creates works like biodiversity a tribute to nature but also a warning. it was originally only about nature but then when i realized just how many spaces in my artwork are vanishin

claire, to us, is our world.with his special medication... macmillan cancer care estimates that more than half a million patients in the uk have had cancer treatment or care disrupted due to coronavirus. i got a phone call to tell me that all operations were cancelled. so it was a bit of a slap in the teeth. vincent got the call on the day of his operation. in northern ireland, two health trusts have cancelled all urgent cancer surgery since christmas — 275 red—flag cases cancelled within a week. ijust am so concerned because i can see such a big, healthy manjust going downhill. across the uk, there are lots of hospitals keeping surgery going, some having set up special hubs to protect cancer care. but cancer charities have also flagged up a large decrease in the number of patients being screened and diagnosed, which later on could also lead to a significant loss of life. and there's warnings that if covid pressures continue more trusts like belfast may also have to push back urgent operations. it is a decision n

yes. >> go ahead, claire. >> claire, what are your thoughts? >> well, you know, here is the practical problem. the practical problem is that chuck schumer doesn't have 50 votes to change the rules on filibuster. he doesn't have the 50 votes. mcconnell knows it. so this is going to create an impasse until -- what i think needs to happen -- this is just my two bits. i think chuck needs to use the nuclear option to change the rules to allow the organizing motion to be privileged, therefore it doesn't need 60 votes, like reconciliation or a few other things. if mitch mcconnell is not even going to allow them to oarize the senate, then they have to wrap him on the knuckles hard. why they may not have the votes to blow up the filibuster, i think they would have the votes to have the democrats take over the chairmanships that they earned. in my opinion, the sooner they get at it, the better. >> and a woman should lead them. >>> garrett haake, let me pull you in on this. i want your thoughts on the latest reporting on this very conversation, but also t

you know, and claire is right as well. elizabeth mcdonagh, i work closely with understanding everything going on, was consulting for everything that needs to happen. that won't happen except it matters if they would make hey because people are confused that they think of a trial and a judge and a judge has a lot of authority. >> let's bring in a "new york times" politics reporter. i referenced the report with maggie haberman about what donald trump is doing at mar-a-lago and one of your other colleagues summed it up best on twitter. thinking about revenge. tell me what's going on. >> he's playing a lot of golf and thinking about which republicans he is interested in taking out in the mid terms in 2022. and at the moment he's been focused on the georgia governor and secretary of state, trying to, thinking about ways to beat them in republican primaries. and he's also really interested in the congressman in ohio and michigan who voted for impeachment. now i think we can expect that the president's attention span doesn't nece

and founder of the ad tech firm steel house so welcome to all of you claire i'm going to start with you i outlined the twit is rules its policies on violence and it goes on as i was looking in their blog they say we made it clear going back years that these accounts i.e. leadership accounts presidential accounts are not above our rules entirely and cannot use twitter to incite violence among other things so they say but we've been saying this for years i mean i can believe should this have happened a while ago. that it's very easy with 2020 hindsight to look back at individual tweet and say that showed something heat they should have acted earlier and in fact trump did tweet that the events on the 6 were going to be wild well now we look back at that and say well was that an incitement to violence but it's very difficult to talk about incitement if the violence doesn't happen a lot of this is really subjective so of course as we sit here now and we look at the whole of the way this is escalated over the last 4 years and we look at his speech we think of a ship done something what when w

kristen welker, rich lowry, editor of "national review," and former democratic senator from missouri, claire mccaskill. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history. this is "meet the press with chuck todd." >>> good sunday morning. donald trump leaves office this week with the distinction of having lost the popular vote twice and now having been impeached twice. at the same time, washington, d.c., looks like an armed camp with some 25,000 national guard troops coming to protect joe biden's inauguration and state capitols from coast to coast, they're bracing for antigovernment violence from right-wing terror groups as early as today. still, president trump, who has inspired much of this extremism, continues to hold an iron grip on his party. yes, ten house republicans voted to impeach him, but 197 voted no. and those yes votes accounted for less than 5% of the house republican caucus. and our new nbc news poll of registered voters has the president's approval rating holding steady at 43% with 55% disapprov

and we have one appointment, mary claire to seat 2 nominated by supervisor haney. is mary here with us today? >> hi. >> hi, how are you? >> i'm good. good morning. >> good morning. is there any information that you would like to share with us about your work and why you are a playing for this position? >> i'll give a quick run down and who i am and why i want to serve on this -- >> i'm here today to ask for your support in appointing me to serve on the soma planning (inaudible). i was born and raised in the tenderloin and i moved back and fourth between here and soma. i'm in school for urban planning at san francisco state university because i want to be a education planner and i want to serve on the cac because i watched my district change, be gentrified and i walked down the street and i see some of the wealthy 69twealthiest parts of n francisco next to the poor parts. i want to serve on the cac because i believe in centers racial and social equity where community voices are leading this process. when i was 18-years-old i was hired by the community network to be

claire, to us, is our world.llan cancer care estimates that more than half a million patients in the uk have had cancer treatment or care disrupted due to coronavirus. i got a phone call to tell me that all operations were cancelled. so it was a bit of a slap in the teeth. vincent got the call on the day of his operation. in northern ireland, two health trusts have cancelled all urgent cancer surgery since christmas — 275 red—flag cases cancelled within a week. ijust am so concerned because i can see such a big, healthy manjust going downhill. across the uk, there are lots of hospitals keeping surgery going, some having set up special hubs to protect cancer care. but cancer charities have also flagged up a large decrease in the number of patients being screened and diagnosed, which later on could also lead to a significant loss of life. and there's warnings that if covid pressures continue more trusts like belfast may also have to push back urgent operations. it is a decision none of us would ever want to take, a

kristen welker, rich lowry, editor of "national review," and former democratic senator from missouri, claire mccaskill. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history.

happy new year claire well a new congress convenes now here in washington d.c. on this 117th congress of the united states the official swearing in of lawmakers is taking place a congress is also coming together for the 1st time and so they will 1st have to go through all the organization off the congress and they will be adopting i minister t. for solutions they should also a consent to a date on which bills and resolutions may begin to be introduced and they of course are going also to vote their new speaker the democrat nancy pelosi as you said she seeks reelection again but it will all depend on how many democrats are able to assist with a joint session because they all have to vote in person in washington on the floor today and this is different than the last bill so that could be a vote by proxy so that means they were allowed to vote from wherever they were allowing someone else to cast their ballot in person but this was due to the pandemic now they need a new ruling for that and because of this the gathering has to be in person so the vote as well and i

the american artist claire celeste started her professional life as an arts ministry to dealing with other artists but see she soon changed sides as it were a memoir now based in berlin she exhibits her work around the world raw material is simply paper but she creates extraordinary immersive collages that bring the viewer into a natural paradise and there's an environmental message in all her work to. this nature collages assembled from hundreds of paper images the installation biodiversity celebrates the why variety of species welcome to claire celeste's blooming world. i use actually and then i would use collage to plan my paintings and then one day i realise of a collage that i made a play or a painting was actually much better than the painting itself celeste is inspired by natural history images of flora and fauna from around the world the american born artist is based in berlin from where she creates works like biodiversity a tribute to nature but also a warning. it was originally only about nature but then when i realized just how many spaces in my artwork are vanishing or ha

>> and claire, a question as to control. is chuck schumer going to do what mitch mcconnell did, what he's criticized mitch mcconnell for doing, and not letting the republicans vote on anything unless it gets through chuck schumer? >> i think chuck schumer will be very strategic. and by the way, listen, a lot of people get credit, but i am happy for my friend today, people have no idea how hard he's worked and for how long to arrive at this day. i think he'll be very strategic. i think he will figure out where he can get the votes and where he can box republicans when it's appropriate to make them vote on things they don't want to vote on. and he's going to be looking at 2022, just like mitch mcconnell is always focused on his majority, chuck has the bare majority, so he's really got to win wisconsin and pennsylvania, those are two big states up in two years that clearly biden won and that he's going to be counting on getting across the finish line with it years from now to build that majority slightly. >> rich, really quickl

claire celeste is still working on this hanging installation which she plans to eliminate with the lamp her original plan was to burn the work after its completion as a protest against the extinction of species. i think it's important to have a message of hope as well we have the tools to make the changes that we need to to save ourselves and i i want that to be part of the message as well so perhaps i won't set this on fire. instead the flames are made of paper and can be attached to removed depending on the message claire celeste hopes that her beautiful artworks will raise awareness of how endangered that beauty is. finally tributes have been pouring in for the pioneering american i. triss cicely tyson has died at age 96 she turned down stereotypical roles for black women agreeing only to play characters that was strong positive and realistic long before it was popular to do so and she is in the autobiography of miss jane pittman. you think i'm crazy. now. just did it change oh oh oh oh oh ok. oh no. oh. well i think a lot you can make oh. he's quite as simple as it seems. to underst

the american artist claire celeste started her professional life as an arts ministry to dealing with other artists but see she soon changed sides as it were a memoir now based in berlin she exhibits her work around the world raw material is simply paper but she creates extraordinary immersive collages that bring the viewer into a natural paradise and there's an environmental message in all her work to. this nature collages assembled from hundreds of people or images the installation biodiversity celebrates the wide variety of species welcome to claire celeste's blooming world. i use actually and then i would use collage to plan my paintings and then one day i realize that the collage that i made to plant the painting was actually much better than the painting itself celeste is inspired by natural history images of flora and fauna from around the world the american born artist is based in berlin from where she creates works like biodiversity a tribute to nature but also a warning. it was originally only about nature but then when i realized just how many spaces in my artwork are vanis

claire, to us, is our world.re than half a million patients in the uk have had cancer treatment or care disrupted due to coronavirus. i got a phone call to tell me that all operations were cancelled. so it was a bit of a slap in the teeth. vincent got the call on the day of his operation. in northern ireland two health trusts have cancelled all urgent cancer surgery since christmas. 275 red flag cases cancelled within a week. ijust am so concerned because i can see such a big healthy man just going downhill. across the uk, there are lots of hospitals keeping surgery going. some having set up special hubs to protect cancer care. cancer charities have also flagged up a large decrease in the number of patients being screened and diagnosed, which later on could also lead to a significant loss of life. and there is warnings that if covid pressures continue more trusts like belfast may also have to push back urgent operations. it is a decision none of us would ever want to take and we held off as long as we possibly co

rich lowry, editor of "national review" and former democratic senator from missouri, claire mccaskillant to show the stark differences we found in our poll between how republicans and democrats feel about where the country is headed. we asked them to put it in their own words. among republicans we heard things like wrong direction, concerns about personal freedoms, headed toward socialism and communism and simply liberal bankruptcy. among the phrases we heard from democrats were things like hopeful, exhilarated and repairing the massive damage. also negative phrases as well including downhill, frightened and headed for the toilet. you know, claire mccaskill, i've got to just show you how polarized we are as a country, i want to show you the ratings for jill biden among republicans and show you the comparisons of what the opposing party thought of first ladies coming into office. the republicans have this incredibly negative view of jill biden, 8-59. she's not been an overly political spouse. you go back, here is what melania trump's numbers were among democrats, they weren't that high

claire, your mom wanted you to have her old sports car. claire: oh, great.chell, you get to keep her jewelry.

intersects with claire's focus on incarceration and justice. second we will speak with professor rick. a professor of law who also has stanford racial justice center. please write your questions in the intended any time i will also see postings of full biographies of our participants today. and also survey to complete . we will have transcriptions of the event in the final recording i apologize we don't have them live today. in closing i want to thank our wonderful staff, doctor daniel and another. this final event for the year and we could not be happier to be pondering professor claire's work. so finally want to note that this is the day of trance remembrance that i'm to you from northern california. we have a short break video. so thank you so much and i'll see you at the end of the interview for questions. >> the unseeded land of the tribe. >> for the successors of the solomont of alameda county. this land was and continues to be of great importance to native people did. >> we recognize every member of the community has benefited and contin

my view, if it's just one, that's movement to claire's point that we're anticipating in the senate. i think the same is true in the house. and i think -- and i think liz will be the impetus for that. >> michael, i'm intrigued by that, and, rich, i want to get you in here on this because i think the senator described it as a rumble that she's hearing inside the republican party. at this point, though -- and michael talked about, you know, even if one more person comes out because of what liz cheney did and that's something, at this point i don't think you could fairly classify it as the floodgates opening, right? >> right. >> do you anticipate that happening or do you think that's overstating it? >> well, there's definitely the mcconnell story yesterday was a rumble, there's no doubt about it. the way i look at this is like a lot of votes on capitol hill where you could easily get to -- it's easy to come up with the five republicans who would vote to convict, the usual suspects, but once you get above that the difference between the six or seventh vote and the 17th, 18th, 20th vote i

claire mccaskill, michael steele, both msnbc political analysts, chuck rosenberg, senior fbi official joins us as well. we want to start on capitol hill with leigh ann caldwell who can take us through what we are seeing. we are in the middle of a procedural vote on this motion by republicans to set up a commission effectively to look at what they describe as the failures of the election. that's expected to fail. obviously, the vote has not been gavelled. then we hit a second procedural vote. that's the one to finish up the debate about the debate and move on to sort of the meat and potatoes, the substance of impeachment. do you have that right? >> reporter: you have it absolutely right. this vote that they are taking -- that's taking place, it's going to take a while. that's because of covid safety precautions that are in place and also because members are allowed to vote been proxy. every time a member show th mem -- votes by proxy, their representative has to stand up. it could take an hour. the second vote is on what they call the rule of the debate regarding the impeachment articl

i don't know if enough time has passed, talking to claire mccaskill about the man who defeated her. blood on his hands represents extraordinary escalation and a story of a republican party so compromised that it forgot about doing the most fundamental parts of their job, protecting their constituents and protecting the country and in today's instance protecting the capitol and people there. >> let's talk about steve

and claire wardle is a leading voice on stopping misinformation. with the berkman-klein center for the internet at harvard university and co-founder of e non-profit, first draft. we welcome all three of you to the program. thank you for being here. aside from the legal process, sean wilentz, addressing the individuals who were responsible for what happened at the capitol, what do we need to do as a country, as a people to address what's going on and to move forward? >> i think the first thing we have to do, though, is to actually understand the magnitude of what happened on january 6. i mean, it's one thing to talk about prosecutions and so forth. but we have to appreciate that that was the darkest day thus far in the-of american democracy, the saddest day for american democracy, since april 12, 1861, when the confederates fired on fort sumpter. and i think that we're not going to be able to get anywhere until we understand the magnitude of that. and looking forward, particularly after january 20, president-elect biden, who will then be president b

claire, i'll start with you.nder way tomorrow to start the impeachment process of president trump. there are some who are saying, why bother doing this because conviction in the senate is not guaranteed, probably won't happen. impeaching president trump a second time, is it a worthwhile exercise, even if it doesn't go anywhere? >> i believe it is. i think it's important to act dramatically to what was and will be one of the most dramatic moments in this country's democratic history. and i think the other thing that's important is there's a two-track things that goes on here. impeachment must go forward. everyone should be forced to vote. remember the last time they all voted. they wouldn't even let witnesses come because they wanted the election to control. how did that work out? yes on impeachment. yes, on censure. yes on taking action against josh hawley and ted cruz who brazenly in a crazy way fed their own ambition instead of what is best for their country. >> i can't believe i didn't ask a question about tho

claire: the short answer is no. what happening generally in the marketplace and across private equity as a whole is you've got two sets. the businesses that were either unaffected last year or performed well and then you've got other assets in distress. where prices have really fallen is in the latter case, but actually, prices have really held up in the former case and good assets pay decent prices. still not as expensive as the quoted market. but certainly we've not seen a drop off in pricing at the quality end of the market. anna: claire madden, managing partner of connection capital. thank you for bringing us the story round financing and private equity for small and medium-sized businesses. coming up, merkel's cdu chooses its new leader. what is in store for germany's ruling party ahead of national elections? we will get that from berlin next. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to "bloomberg markets: the european open." just under 20 minutes from the cash equity trade and big news in germany over the weeke

well we are chasing our tail to a degree i will agree with claire i mean this is really impossible in scale it is impossible to do perfectly it's not impossible to try and i think we ought to make a distinction it's one thing to not be able to be 100 percent successful it's quite another to just not try it all throwing up your hands and saying sorry is too hard is clearly not an answer but i want to disagree with what marc said when he talked about you know is it ok for the chinese communist party to be on twitter but the president the united states to not be i think that's framing the issue the wrong way it's not a value judgment about the president of the united states as a position or a value judgement about the chinese communist party communist party it's a judgment about the behavior about what specifically was tweeted and when twitter finally took the step you can agree whether that should have been the last straw or not but it was based on a specific set of actions a cumulative set of thousands and thousands of tweets and behaviors and it wasn't a value judgment on the presiden

. >> claire mccaskill, what did you think of mitch mccom's speech? >> i'm so attorney. he said all of the right things. and it felt like he was -- keep in mind, cruz could not wait to try to catch up. in this political stunt to try to put them ahead in iowa and new hampshire in four years. so when he was saying the words my heart started to beat faster and i thought where have you been? where have all of you ben? they stood by and watched this president destroy important parts of our democracy and done nothing. am i glad he said it today and should it go down in history as an important senate speech? yes. but for gosh sakes, they would not even vote to have witnesses in an impeachment trial. this is really not a moment to celebrate mitch mcconnell, but i'm glad he found it in his intestinal fortitude to state the obvious. you can't overthrow an election because you have a serial liar in the white house. you can't do it. >> does mcconnell's words keep the cruz-holly game, and 211, from growing? does he shrink the group? >> i'm not sure if it affects the final vote much,

democrats control the senate, claire. >> i know. you've got me on the roller coaster. they do control the united states senate. they control what people are going to vote on on the floor of the senate. what bills are heard. they control who gets a hearing and when. what are the subjects of the hearing. i do not want the biden administration to be consumed with the trump antics but there are some things that need to be looked at and fair and accurately one of the things that's going to be high on the agenda is the response to this riot and the security of our united states capitol. there is something terribly wrong when you have a president inciting people to a revolution and telling them to go down the street and make trouble and the police aren't even ready for it. it smells. as you keep referring to it, it's a slow-moving scandal. the right hearings will be held. we will start talking about domestic terrorism, we have had many deaths from domestic terrorism. republican chairman was more interested in hillary clinton's emails. we'll get the right legislation and overs

claire is sticking around. when we come back, officials throughout government warning this afternoon of continued threats, not just in washington, but across all 50 states at their cap tolls. how law enforcement is responding, and and so a repeat of the insurrection doesn't take play. >>> and president-elect joe biden saying he won't let rioters and criminals prevent him from taking the oath. he presses ahead with a robust planning for the nation's wreak roll-out. ro vaccine roll-out. >>> some reps refused to wear mask. now a lawmaker has tested positive. all of that and more after "deadline: white house" take a quick break. don't go anywhere. we're just getting started. brea. don't go anywhere. we're just getting started hi sabrina! >>hi jen! so this aveeno® moisturizer goes beyond just soothing sensitive skin? exactly jen! calm + restore oat gel is formulated with prebiotic oat. and strengthens skin's moisture barrier. uh! i love it! aveeno® healthy. it's our nature.™ did you know cliberty mutualir.® customiz

so we have the place all to ourselves. >> claire: yep. all to ourselves. >> charlie: so what do you

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and he's now going to be negotiating with mitch mcconnell, who as claire would know as well could go to church with you on sunday and stab you in the back politically on monday. he's that ruthless. are you that worried that we're about to see the kinds of compromises that in our history, if you go to 1877 compromise, et cetera, have come on the backs of people of color, of the poor, of those in the most need? that the compromises tend to be on the backs of people like you and me. are you worried that he will do too much of that? >> well, i think, joy, i am worried that joe biden doesn't understand compromise in the same way that republicans led by mitch mcconnell do. i mean, they tend to operate my way or the highway, and so it could force democrats to think that they have to give up way too much. and i think though that one of the things that biden recognizes is that he's going to make an attempt to be that kind of president that he was as senator, cutting those -- you know, those deals with the old-school republicans and democrats. but i think that there's a limit. and i think ther

claire mccaskill, what do you make of those arguments and do you think it's going to have enough sway to somehow keep the republican count into single ditches? >> i don't know. i believe that people who i trust are saying that they're going to have certainly more than the five or six that have spoken up so far when they actually vote today in the house, but this is really a different calculation in the senate. you know, i'm somebody who lived through a race and watched what happened when the republican party drew away from an extremist. you know, i won by a huge margin against todd aiken in '12 because the republican party decided they didn't want that extremist in their ranks. >> who led the republican party then, claire? think about it. >> that would have been mitch mcconnell. that would have been mitch mcconnell. >> and romney. no, but mitt romney made that happen. >> he was the nominee. yeah. he was the nominee. so you've got people in the senate that have just steamed for four years over the conduct of this president and especially the older members and those that aren't running

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