clemens, great to have you on the show. first and foremost, i just would like you to give us the key takeaway from these figures. the business climate figure coming in slightly above what economists had expected. tell us what's driving this. >> yeah. >> so we have an improvement. it's a. small one. >> but still an improvement. >> it comes from improved assessments. >> of the current. >> business situation. and it comes in particularly from the service sector sectors like it. >> and others. >> have improved real estate administration. >> things. like that. >> unfortunately. >> manufacturing has declined. >> again. >> this is. >> the sort of. >> critical area and has. been critical. >> for some time. >> what's a little worrying. >> is that expectations have gone down. so this pessimism, which does have an impact. >> on all sorts of. >> things, in particular capex spending, this pessimism doesn't go away. it's probably related. >> to. >> the uncertainty regarding the. political situation in germany. and of course, donald trump

okay, so they've got to talk to steve clemens, janice and host of options. there is we can show the bus in line to check it out. thank so much. connecting me to justin fredo is announced. he's stepping down as potty, nita, i'm prime minister. he says he will stay in office until the governing liberal policy picks his replacement. today is also suspending parliament until march the 24th. i intend to resign as party leader as prime minister after the party selects it's next leader to a robust nationwide competitive process. last night i asked the president of the liberal party to begin that process. this country deserves a real choice in the next election. and it is become clear to me that if i'm having to fight internal baffles, it cannot be the best option in that election. rob reynolds takes a look back at 3 days political career. justin to those liberal party decisively defeated, conservative incumbent stephen harper in 2015 tonight, canadians rejected division negativity, the son of the late prime minister, pierre, to go. he was 43 years old when he took

but anyway, we spoke to steve clemens, editor at large of the hill. he also hosts of these areas which he showed the bottom line, and he says the controversial nature of the trump nominates, has highlighted the hearing's crucial role as a check and balance. the senate provides what's called advice and consent. and so for a nominee made by the president, most time the president gets the people he wants to serve, but the senate gets to wait and gets the question them gets to kick the tires of these nominees, qualifications. and on a rare occasion, some people don't make it through, but in this case you've got to be very controversial. nominees, controversial for opinions they, they hold or may hold and also because of the things that they've said. and right now they're being grilled by senators in front of you know, tv cameras and, and, and we need the spotlight to see whether they're worthy the cash battelle had a very, very tough job. because amy club, a charter was the ranking member on that committee had gone through the quotes that he had made in t

all right, we are joined by steve clemens as us presenter of the bottom line. and we've got james based with this house. is there a senior diplomatic editor? i can't think of 2 better people to talk about the 1st steps of this thing coming. trump administration, both domestically and internationally. as i, there's one question i had been meaning to ask your cutting upset when you saw donald trump leave the white house 4 years ago in the shadow of the january 6 lions, his party had turned on him. even those who had been most loyal, had turned on him. was there any part of you but thought he might be back? i did. i've spent a little time with president trump in the past that his team and there is a burning volcano in him who resented what happened, who felt that he had been dislodged. and you could just tell at that moment he did not give up. now, i did not expect the democrats to fair as badly as they did over the next few years in capturing the enthusiasm of the american public. but he came back and when you looked at the numbers before, he ran 75 percent of am

so i want to acknowledge that with steve clemens, who is the host of the houses here is bottom line. and with james base who is our diplomatic editor. i also want to acknowledge the footage that we're seeing. we have eyes on multiple screens around his life footage of over prison in the occupied westbank were gentlemen, as you know, the palestinian prisoners, 90 palestinian prisoners are going to be released possibly moments from now if that happens, we'll jump on those pictures. we have the pictures of sariah square, one more thing i want to tell our viewers is we are currently expecting. busy button to speak on this on the hostage release deal, the guys a ceasefire deal that he so desperately tried to get. busy or a year uh or did he desperately try to get it? maybe that's something we can get into. so as soon as that happens, we will get into that a joe biden last full day of his presidency. he's in south carolina. we're expecting him to speak. she has been one thing this moment he did not want to leave office without saying, i've done it. i have a deal. look, the calendar is goin

using his clemen a powers on the federal reserve day of office to undo the massive prosecution of the unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. he spent about 45 minutes talking to reporters and signing executive orders yesterday in the oval office. you can find that on our various platforms as well. when it comes to specifically him referencing the january 6 and those involved, here's some of that exchange from yesterday. >> yes, sir, first we have a list of pardons and commutations relating to events that occurred on january 6, 2021. president trump: and how many people is this? >> i think this orders applies to approximately 1,500 people, sir. president trump: this is january 6 and these are the hostages. approximately 1,500 for a pardon. full pardon. full pardon. we have about six commutations in there, where we're doing further research. nice to see you again. this is a big one. anything up to the explain about this? we hope they come out tonight, frankly. year expecting it, six commutations. we're looking at different things. but the commutations would be the once