back with me maya wildly, david brock, liz copeland and chris lu. let me go to you first, david.of the president announcing he's finished the written questions and he wrote them himself, not the lawyers and saying they haven't even talked about an in-person event while he continues at the same time to attack the mueller investigation in total? >> i think the attacks as we've seen for the last week and the fact that president trump seems to be coming unglued over what the progress over the process the mueller investigation is making. i think that he knows and the reason he's lashing out now is that he knows he blew it. the time to really obstruct this investigation was long ago. he's been complaining about jeff sessions and his lack of recusal for a year and a half and the backlash the whittaker appointment has seen not only among democrats, but among republicans, i think shows him the train has left the station and it's really closing in on him and it's too late for him to really do what he wants to do, which is shut this thing down. >> let me ask you as the republican on the pan

and despite intense public interest in "apprentice" outtakes, when clinton supporter david brock promised5 million to cover the legal costs of anyone who would leak the tapes, he found no takers. while not answering the question directly white house counsel kellyanne conway seemed to acknowledge discussing the rumors with trump during the campaign. >> i talked to him about it in the campaign. it was my job to tell the president every rumor, innuendo, fact, fiction. >> reporter: in her new book manigault newman writes about an october 2016 conversation she had with'll former campaign staffers lynn patton, jason miller and katrina pearson about how to handle the fallout should such a tape be released. though no one on the call had heard the alleged tape at the time. pearson said on fox that call never happened. >> katrina cursed and said "he said it." did it happen? >> no, ed, that did not happen. sounds like she's writing a script for a movie. >> reporter: manigault newman sharing with cbs what she says is a recording of the conversation. >> i'm trying to find out at least the context it w

david: such as? brock any established hardware sales equity out there would have been cheaper. this was priced with a multiple for rival tech companies rather than hardware manufacturers. yvonne: we got to leave it there, brock silvers, joining us from shanghai this morning. government agrees the truth of the r.b.i. after a mammoth board meeting. david: what will ask what happened and what comes next. this is bloomberg. ♪ mberg. ♪ yvonne: the indian government has reached a truce with the r.b.i. over access to surplus funds after a mammoth nine-hour board meeting, the increased their study of demand for sharing. david: at least they got something. let's get to the senior asia economics reporter. truce, maybe? if you were in the meeting, with who went first? -- what do you think went first? reporter: looks like a truce, compromise, but the r.b.i. and the independent reserve bank is .robably much at stake what the government has managed to get out is a committee that will be set up to look into the r.b.i. ca

december hike but he favors more prudence does the fed need to pause and when let's bring in david westle from the brockingsoe. good afternoon you a both. joe, if i start with you, do you think the fed has been refresh are rash or would be rash if they did three. >> i argued they should stop at two. they've gone beyond that and let the balance sheet do the heavy lefting and let the yield curve steepen a bit. they've let the balance sheet unwind and they've been hiking three or four hikes next year, that would be really imprudent. >> david, do you agree. >> i have a view on this but after hearing cramer i "a" worried i might agree with him so i'm rethinking. i think raising rates in december makes sense for two reasons. the reason is unemployment is headed to 3.4, 3.3%. fed funds rate is at nourlt. barely above inflation makes sense to raise one more time there is a political reason, to show the president he can't muscle the fed into foolish monetary policy decisions. but i think the fed needs to be careful about moving further in 2019 the economy is slowing inflation seems to be very slow to pick up and i t