david lynch, you know the great filmmaker.is is a hollywood guy. the reason i do this is, you know, you don't hear this and plenty of them voted for me. plenty of them voted for me. david lynch could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history. >> seth: i mean it's weird. but i guess it would make sense if david lynch liked donald trump. donald trump is like the president from a dream sequence in episode of "twin peaks." [ light laughter ] [ speaking in reverse ] [ laughter ] trump, of course, also uses these rallies to rail against his many perceived enemies. and one of those is south carolina congressman mark sanford, a republican who has sometimes been critical of trump. now, you might remember that back in 2009, sanford, as governor, famously told his wife he was hiking on the appalachian trail when in fact he was having an affair. and trump, who always remembers your lowest moment, brought it up last night. although he couldn't remember the correct name for the appalachian trail. >> never liked him too much. i wa

it's directed by david lynch. >> david lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the eccentric and. the idea that he would do television in the '90s was crazy. >> do you watch much of it? >> i like the idea of television, but i'm too busy to see very much of it. >> what do you think of that which you do see? >> some of it i really enjoy. >> are you being diplomatic? >> sort of. [ screaming ] >> the beautiful thing about television is you have the chance to do a continuing story. and that's the main reason for doing it. >> i think that "twin peaks" with the initial attention it got allowed all the other networks to say, let's do something different. >> no more schools, no more asin plexes. >> you can sense trying to see how they could do things different than they have done five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch. sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. ♪ let's be careful out there >> at the time, steven bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand-

my own highlights would be david lynch's blue velvet and bride of frankenstein. 0ne film that has beenis summer is the greatest showman which has proved a crowd pleasing singalong hit. it opened at christmas to negative reviews and some say as the result of those reviews a soft showing at the box office. but there's something unusual started to happen. thanks to repeat viewings and word of mouth, the huthackman starrer began to climb rather than descend the charts, reaching the number one sport in its sixth week. an unprecedented turn of events. critics were accused of misjudging the movie and failing to recognise its populist virtues. quite the opposite was true of star wars the lastjedi which saw star wars fans being accused of being bought off by disney. an organised campaign against black panther saw a group of hyperventilating boys publicly conspiring to damage the films rating on rotten tomatoes, the review site. the campaign failed, and it became a huge hit along with avengers infinity war. we are using made up name names. then i am spider—man. the end is near. which was set to

it's districted by david lynch. >> david lynch was a film maker ♪ ♪ for his tasknown for his tast memorable that he'd do television in the '90s was in credible. >> i like the idea but i don't get to see much of it. >> what do you think of that, that you do see on television? >> some of it i enjoy. >> are you being diplomatic sort of? >> a beautiful thing about television is you have a chance to do a continuing story, that's the main reason, you know for doing it. >> i think that "twin peaks" with the initial attention that it got, allowed all the other networks to say, let's do something different. >> what was interesting about the exposure, it was an odd sort of universe that this guy was dropped into. >> the day's coming and it ain't going to be long where you don't have to leave your living room. no more schools, bodegas, tabernacles and you're going to snuggle up next to your fire and blitz out. >> you -- >> it's kind of hard to pin down what exactly "the "x-files." it's a show about investigating -- >> unidentified suspecting, i think that fitting it pretty well. tell me i'm crazy. >>

it's directed by david lynch. >> david lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the eccentric ande idea that he would do television in the '90s was crazy. >> do you watch much of it? >> i like the idea of television, but i'm too busy to see very much of it. >> what do you think of that which you do see? >> some of it i really enjoy. >> are you being diplomatic? >> sort of. [ screaming ] >> the beautiful thing about television is you have the chance to do a continuing story. and that's the main reason for doing it. >> i think that "twin peaks" with the initial attention it got allowed all the other networks to say, let's do something different. >> what was interesting about "northern exposure" it was an odd sort of universe that this guy was dropped into. >> the day's coming. it ain't going to be long when you ain't going to have to leave your living room. no more schools, no more bodega or tabernacles or no more cineplexes, all right? you're going to snuggle up to your fiberoptics and bliss out. >> you also had experimentation that set the stage for a lot of what came later. >> it

you heard dana perino say it was a public lynching. davidink congressman gohmert asked the question because of the sanctimonious arrogance way peter strzok was conducting himself before the members of congress. before it got to louie gohmert's questioning there was already the back and forth. i think he was feeling the frustration of not get together bottom of it. of people allowing peter strzok to say the fbi won't allow me to answer these questions. howie: is it fair for the members of congress to say i want to answer the questions. david: when trey gowdy or jim jordan asks the question he says the fbi won't allow me to answer the question. but when a democrat asks the same question, he says the fbi will allow me to answer the question. we wouldn't have been there if it wouldn't have been for members of congress like jim jordan, mark meadows and ron desantis who have been pushing to get to the bottom of the facts. i think the mainstream media missed out this week. the conversation is all about the 12 indictments, all about peter strzok and

lynch. and -- david: these are all prominent african-american business leaders.obert: all prominent african-american business leaders. and all of them took the meetings. from there, they introduced me to other people to take meetings. i literally had 100 interviews in my fall of the second year of business school. i figured out mergers and acquisitions was the only business i wanted to be in in investment banking. ♪ david: you went to columbia business school and i assume you did pretty well there because you went to goldman sachs afterwards. what year did you join? robert: 1994. david: you worked there for a while, and then how did you decide you wanted to go into technology banking? robert: right. well, like all things, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. at the time, technology for us was defense contractors. we had another company we had taken public called microsoft. we had another company we called on called ibm. that was the world of technology as far as goldman was concerned. david: were there are a lot of african-americans in technology a

lynch. and -- david: these are all prominent african-american business leaders.ert: all prominent african-american business leaders. ♪ david: you went to columbia business school and i assume you did pretty well there because you went to goldman sachs afterwards. what year did you join? robert: 1994. david: you worked there for a while, and then how did you decide you wanted to go into technology banking? robert: right. well, like all things, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. at the time, technology for us was defense contractors. we had another company we had taken public called microsoft. we had another company we called on called ibm. that was the world of technology as far as goldman was concerned. david: were there are a lot of african-americans in technology at the time? robert: very few. very few. i was our first m&a banker on the ground in san francisco focused on tech and then we decided to form a tech group and that created a whole other nexus and dynamic of opportunity. david: your job is to convince clients to hire goldman and give t

lynch. and -- david: these are all prominent african-american business leaders.obert: all prominent african-american business leaders. and all of them took the meetings. from there, they introduced me to other people to take meetings. i literally had 100 interviews in my fall of the second year of business school. i figured out mergers and acquisitions was the only business i wanted to be in in investment banking. i said -- because with the exception of warfare, it is how assets get transferred on this planet. it is a ceo-level discussion, board-level discussion, a strategic discussion, and that was quite interesting to me. and i thought i could add particular value and insights to that particular business. david: the three jobs you had before you went to business school, did you feel any discrimination against you because you were african-american? robert: oh yeah. it is one of those in america, i have and still do. i remember a time when i was invited to give a talk in california, in san francisco at one of the big conventions. and this man comes over and he as

david lynch and others writing that "u.s.ustoms officials were set to begin imposing duties on $34 billion in goods as of 12:01 a.m. today. officials have said they will respond with equivalent action on u.s. goods including soybeans and corn. president trump valuing to hit additional goods if beijing did so." there were follow-up stories after that timeline takes effect. that is the washington post writeup. tammy in nebraska, democrat, hi. caller: hi. my problem with scott pruitt was, first of all, his moral ethics where the disgusting part. if we are going to be so far behind the rest of the world, can you nearly? -- can you hear me? host: go ahead. caller: if we keep going where we are at we will be so far behind the world and epa regulations are put in place for a reason. to protect us from the rich, the company's, that do not follow guidelines because they want to cut corners, and not protect the coal, people, like food, null and void sunday and we will be using wind for energy like the rest of the world. host: our last

lynch. and -- david: these are all prominent african-american business leaders.obert: all prominent african-american business leaders. and all of them took the meetings. from there, they introduced me to other people to take meetings. i literally had 100 interviews in my fall of the second year of business school. i figured out mergers and acquisitions was the only business i wanted to be in in investment banking. i said -- because with the exception of warfare, it is how assets get transferred on this planet. it is a ceo-level discussion, board-level discussion, a strategic discussion, and that was quite interesting to me. and i thought i could add particular value and insights to that particular business. david: the three jobs you had before you went to business school, did you feel any discrimination against you because you were african-american? robert: oh yeah. it is one of those in america, i have and still do. i remember a time when i was invited to give a talk in california, in san francisco at one of the big conventions. and this man comes over and he as

we will be discussing all of this and how the trade war david wuplay out with of bank of america-merrill lynch right after this. lisa: from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ >> 3:00 in new york am a 8:00 in london, i'm lisa abramowicz. scarlet: welcome to bloomberg markets. live in bloomberg world headquarters in new york over the next hour. here are the top stories we are covering. red-hot economy. consumer spending propelling growth to a four-year high. david wu weighs in as president trump takes his victory lap. it's miller time. the legendary investor joins us this hour. drama for cbs. shares are slumping after wards of allegations against les moonves. we are an hour away from the close of trading keeping track of the moves. to the downside, stocks are likely to close higher. >> the dow and s&p 500. the nasdaq is on pace to finish lower. a divergence between the s&p 500 and the dow. weighing on the nasdaq, biotech, down 2%. if we take a look at this five day chart it is been a wild week. monday was higher. a 1% gain wednesday. downthe facebook fiasco, 1.6%. overall down one quarter percent ,