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two terms in the white house when he dumped garner for henry wallace who turned out to be a communist. but that's a piece of history. davidis a charisma effect. >> who has the most of charisma of all. if you are in the white house, you know the answer. >> does pence descend directly into heaven after that? what becomes of mike pence? >> the on way it could happen is if he does a terrific job. he is a religious person and there are jobs in the international community of churches. i'm not snarky about him being religious. >> liz, once you get that sense of power that you get, do you think you would be satisfied with something like that? >> not unless he becomes pope, and the pope is not going to resign. i want to do a round robin with the exception of jonathan. steve, do you think we have bottomed out or are we close to a bottom? if not, how much furt doer we have to go here. >> trade disputes that they start to get resolved, then during to seat market pop up. otherwise the tariffs will hit more and more. david: what is the bounceback? or is there no bottom to this drop? >> you look for signs of the next recession. you look

david riley. peter dixon with commerzbank as well. stewart wallace mining the commodities watch with bloomberg. your visit today. francine, the washington post publishes, turkish president says jamal khashoggi's killing was a planned operation. i am sure we will see much more from the washington post through the day. francine: that was after the speech from president erdogan involving saudi operatives, but stopping short of putting the blame at saudi leadership, also saying he believes the king of saudi arabia. european stocks are slumping. u.s. futures are down. the global equity selloff is resuming. investors seem to be taking shelter in some of the haven assets. i am looking at gold. i am looking again. i am looking at treasuries. we have a full market round up next. we look at geopolitics and saudi arabia. this is bloomberg. ♪ as tom: this morning, the market find.les to yields lower. junk falls below 25,000 during the president erdogan speech. findthe president of turkey ane former mayor said this incident that has taken place in istanbul , yes where is the body? he states trial and justic

david gergen, take a listen to what vice president biden had to say today. >> no president has ever led by fear. not lincoln, not roosevelt, not kennedy, not reagan. this president is more like george wallace than george washington. >> more like george wallace than george washington. wallace, of course, a former governor of alabama, former democrat, he supported segregation, was a vocal opponent of the civil rights movement. is that fair? >> i frankly think it goes a little far. i don't think that donald trump is george wallace. i do think he plays upon the resentment and the anxieties of white americans and when he calls himself a nationalist, you can almost hear the preface or the prefatory word, white. because that's the message he's sending. we all know that. it is true that there are many, many americans who love this country, but the distinction that has been historically accepted about the difference -- there's a difference between patriotism and nationalism. this is something george or well wrote about in a book on nationalism, and patriotism is about love of country. patriotism is about being loyal to country. nationalism is about a search, an obsession with power, power for the c