the major cities in south africa so it's the opposition party the main opposition party the democratic alliance running the major cities now so obviously the hopes are now on the two main candidates. and cyril ramaphosa do they have a chance to actually change the party. well the party is deeply divided and one has to also see that both candidates are former freedom fighters the part of the a.n.c. establishment so one cannot expect a mess of dress tick change or turn around but they're very different so. she was the chair of the african union commission she was also a minister in south africa for many years so she's got political experience she is a leftist for instance she wants land reforms without compensations taking land from white farmers and she's also. ex-wives she's got his support. because he expects her to grant him immunity if she becomes his successor and then there's a posse he's an economist either mining magnate he's one of the richest men in the country he's the economist hope at the moment and he was also the one that mandela want to succeed him didn't work at the time maybe i

run by the democratic alliance calls by the mayor's office to the city's more than four million residents to cut water use to less than eighty seven leaders per person have gone unheeded and fines have been flouted water has already been shut down for several hours a day in areas outside the city center but what is eighty seven leaders of water usage actually look like. joining us now on the phone we have a deputy director general all strategic of mergers and projects at the department of water sanitation. of the federation for a sustainable environment so our nicholson is a spokeswoman at the office of cape town's mad patricia to lowell and. is research at the environmental monitoring group good to have you with us everybody so let's start with our community who are experiencing this firsthand many of them this is the personal story of mary saul she says we shower with buckets and use the water to flush the toilet we wash last our cars clothes ourselves she goes out to say you brush your teeth with a glass no running water at all and she's not the only one we also got a comment in the fo

alliance is a former rebels with about communist party unified marxist leninist the other is the democratic alliance of the party congress and the right of center parties sixty percent of candidates are being elected for a spouse the post proportional representation decides the remaining forty percent the system was introduced into the minorities and the martian allies but critics complain not enough women or minority candidates have been fielded by political parties that mark this is all about call opportunity level playing field for candidates if elections become expensive political party it is money and they are not transparent. most a lot of people will be excluded people who don't have money. mainly women don't have money marginalized people do not have money so they are going to be ex excluded from the democratic process so they would end up just being voters so this is one major area for the fall fifteen million eligible voters will have to wait to find out which party's move in amended to form the next government the election commission says it will take around a week for the result to be an

eighty three corruption charges have been coming back to haunt him the main opposition the democratic alliance has won a court ruling that says those charges should be reinstated the president has fought it vehemently ended nice those allegations in the courts but potentially if someone is elected as n.c. president who is not going to try and protect him from those charges we could see jacob zuma former president in court at some point in the future so an enormous amount at stake for him which is why he's been trying to influence this process. thank you for that let's take a closer look at the two main contenders and causes on a zoom is an a.n.c. veteran belongs to the dominant zulu tribe and is one of the president's ex-wives she's served as a minister and every leader since the end of apartheid greeny zuma is pledging what she calls a radical economic transfer mation to redistribute wealth to the black majority her rival sixty five year old cyril ramaphosa was seen as a potential successor to nelson mandela in the late one nine hundred ninety s. but he was overlooked and quit politics to bec

hanging over him which could be reinstated if legal action launched by the main opposition the democratic alliance is successful and that is why many people believe he's trying to influence the outcome of the elective conference because if he manages to get an ally into power they may be able to protect him from any post-presidential legal action but if a rival comes in they may be less inclined to help. to mass graves containing the remains of dozens of iraq's the minority have been found near the northwestern town of sin jaw ninety bodies have reportedly been found including women and children are still to coerce in georgetown and twenty fourteen killing and in slaving thousands of members of the religious minority group syndrome has retaken a year later by u.s. backed kurdish fighters the un has declared the massacre of the years edis a genocide. heroes have been held for four palestinians killed by israeli forces during protests in gaza and the occupied west bank on friday they were running against the u.s. decision to recognize jewish land as israel's capital one was an activist who lost both

fighters and the communist party unified marxist leninist is competing against the so-called democratic alliance of nepali congress together with former royalist and other small parties new political parties have gained attention they claim to champion a new ethical style of politics in a country which has grown sick of endemic corruption however the new constitution sets the bar high for newcomers parties have to win at least three percent votes in the proportional system and one candidate has to win by the first past the post says tim. why should we look at the same old faces we need to give new people a chance. collecting the votes from all over the country and counting them is expected to take several days as well as elected members of parliament for the first time voters are chosing state assembly members however a federal system of government remains controversial federalism received little attention during political campaigning and how the newly elected state governments will function it's one of the big questions going forward several devices were diffused around the country and an explo

connection zuma has been linked to that scandal and the opposition the main opposition the democratic alliance are not too long ago won the right to have those charges reinstated because they argued successfully that they were wrongfully dismissed by national prosecutor at the time so president zuma has been fighting that reinstitution and he's won the right to make arguments to the national prosecutor but potentially it's been argued that whoever were to take over from him might not be so inclined to use the state resources and machinery to try and protect him we recently just last week in fact really a damning judgement by another court on another charge all case that the president isn't boiled and which relates to what's known here in south africa as state capture which is basically the allegation that the president has been too closely influenced by a prominent business family called the gupta's he wants to block the findings of a they report into state kept by a public watchdog from being implemented the public predictors say that he needs to establish a commission of inquiry but he shoul

hanging over him which could be reinstated if legal action launched by the main opposition the democratic alliance is successful and that is why many people believe he's trying to influence the outcome of this elective conference because if he manages to get an ally into power they may be able to protect him from any post-presidential legal action but if a rival comes in they may be less inclined to help or you should count is an independent political analyst activist and writer she says the a.n.c. is leadership decision is make or break the party and could impact heavily on south africa's economy. if the a.n.c. doesn't vote what the country sees as the right way of what the electorate sees as the right way there's a very real possibility that come twenty nineteen the a.n.c. may well find itself not in power anymore or at the very least with a hung parliament that is becoming an increasingly real possibility we've got growth of less than one percent at present loads of unemployment many sectors currently shedding jobs so you have a situation where the economy is nosediving where there is the possi

hanging over him which could be reinstated if legal action launched by the main opposition the democratic alliance is successful and that is why many people believe he's trying to influence the outcome of this elective conference because of he manages to get an ally into power they may be able to protect him from any post-presidential legal action but if a rival comes in they may be less inclined to help. austria's president says his country won't lurch to the right despite the announcement of a new government featuring the far right freedom party so if you want your old sebastian kurtz who leads the more moderate people's party is set to be the new chancellor but the freedom party will control several important ministries both parties campaigned against immigration. a torch lit march has been held in barcelona by demonstrators calling for the release of politicians and activists jailed by the central government in madrid spain imposed direct rule after october's a special referendum and jailed some pro independence politicians. funerals have been held for the four palestinians killed by israeli f

we need democratic alliances. we need trade agreements. we need mutual defense agreements.e need open and fair trade. and we need to stand for that as progressive screen to display the courage of conviction for the right wing is very good at demonizing liberals. and we need to fight back and we have data stored itself and we need to tell it. in 1983 francesca and i were on a private of israel. and the group taking us, took us out to the settlements around jerusalem. where very brave israelis were choosing to live on the heights in order to deny them from palestinian terrorists. so we met with these folks and chatted with them and one woman, a very young woman had three or four children already. she was describing her she was putting her family on the hilltop for the political purpose of protecting our country. and seven and a good asta, by the way how many children do you intend to have? she said as many as it takes. that was a woman of conviction. no doubt about it. putting her family's security on the line. when i was in congress one day, i saw charlie wrangle got arreste

what is the democratic alliance's response to this reckoning?e to make any gains as a result of all of this? his role has been plagued by scandal. i think they've been having a and he lostf late, ground in the visible elections. determinesship race how they do the 2019 national election. kevin: to the results -- shery: to the results be disputed with a legal challenge? michael: you mentioned the three court cases today. i think it will be some wrangling about it the delegates will go to the conference are not. they expected to go ahead and proceed smoothly. even today they were not sure about who could vote in this competition. kevin: assuming things proceed smoothly after all of this happening, if you're an outside investor, what is the main thing in particular you should be watching for on sunday? michael: everything goes smoothly when you have a contest, that's one of the key issues we've been watching. the way it could work as you can see them splitting over this and dividing the party sharply. it's like you have two parties within one. you

we need democratic alliances, we need trade agreements, we need mutual fence, defense agreements, and we need open and fair trade. and we need to stand for that as progressives. we need to display the courage of our convictions. the right wing is very good at demonizing liberals, and we need to fight back. we've got a story to tell, and we need to tell it. in 1983, francesca and i were on a private trip to israel, and the group taking us took us out to the settlements around jerusalem where very brave israelis were choosing to live on the heights in order to deny the heights to the terrorists. so we met these folks and chatted with them. one more -- one very young woman had three or four children, and someone in the group asked her, by the way, how many children do you intend to have, and she said as many as it takes. well, that was a woman of conviction, no doubt about it. putting her family's security on the line. when i was in congress one day, i saw that charlie rangel got arrested for demonstrating against the darfur genocide in front of the sudanese embassy in washington, and i

fighters and the communist party unified marxist leninist is competing against the so-called democratic alliance of nepali congress together with former royalist and other small parties new political parties have gained attention they claim to champion a new ethical style of politics in a country which has grown sick of endemic corruption however the new constitution sets the bar high for newcomers parties have to win at least three percent votes in the proportional system and one candidate has to win by the first past the post system. why should we look at the same old faces we need to give new people a chance collecting the votes from all over the country and counting them is expected to take several days as i was elected members of parliament for the first time. state assembly members however a federal system of government remains controversial federalism received little attention during political campaigning and how the newly elected state governments will function it's one of the big questions going forward several devices were diffuse around the country and an explosion in the south and in

man was former rebels with about communist party unified marxist leninist the other is the democratic alliance of the party congress and the right of center parties sixty percent of candidates are being elected for a spouse the post proportional representation decides the remaining forty percent the system was introduced into the minorities and the marginalized but critics complain not enough women or minority candidates have been fielded by political parties that mark this is all about equal opportunity level playing field for candidates if elections become expensive political party that is money and they are not transparent. a lot of people will be excluded people who don't have money. mainly women don't have money marginalized people do not have money so they would be x. excluded from the democratic process or they would end up just being voters so this is one major area of. fifteen million eligible voters will have to wait to find out which parties will win a mandate to form the next government the election commission says it will take around a week for the result to be announced. al-jazee

him and he's drawn some criticism for that as well so for example the main opposition the democratic alliance's leader has said you know you're sort of a silent critic if you like i'm sorry quite a stark contrast in the main contenders and we should know in the coming hours exactly who's come out on top all right thank you for that on your page. it is prime minister has declared victory in two state elections including a closely fought race in his home state of gujarat in a random order that found photos for the trust in the ruling be j.p. on twitter the party or summat is just snatched from the opposition congress party in him michelle pradesh devika pollen as more from iraq's largest city of mother but. the b j p may have retained power but this race was watched so closely as it's being called the political fight of the century in the state of good congress has for the first time launched a campaign that's made to be j.p. nervous and made many believe that congress could actually win over the states but alas they fell short of seats although they have taken away seats from the b j p this also

time in government which he's been linked to and the opposition party the democratic alliance is basically brought those charges back and he potentially could be facing them at some time in the future so he really wants to influence the outcome of this policy of this elective conference because if an ally comes after him and succeeds somebody might try and protect him if a rival comes they may not be so inclined to help tanya thank you very much tanya page with all the latest on the a.n.c. leadership contest in jana's but. the nigerian military says it's arrested more than four hundred people associated with the group boko haram fighters as well as women and children were found hiding on the islands of lake chad close to the cameron border military leaders said many of the fighters were killed in the offensive. two mass graves containing the remains of dozens of iraq's yazidi minority have been found near the northwestern town of sen john ninety bodies of reportedly been discovered including women and children i still took singe our town in twenty fourteen killing and slaving thousands of

charges hanging over him and these are charges that the opposition the main opposition the democratic alliance has been pushing into the courts the supreme court of appeal has found that the findings of an earlier court ruling that those seven hundred eighty three corruption charges against the president should be reinstated he's still fighting that in court so whoever takes over as a.n.c. president may either decide to try and protect him in a legal sense or perhaps leave him exposed or tell you just how it will come back to that in a second i just want to jump into the conference itself because jacob zuma has. a lot of your questions about what he's talking about. in the. intensifying over the. they have now come to a head and they are threatening this up by the a.n.c. as we intensify organization over you know what. at this conference let us be reminded of the words of. walter sisulu who said and i quote it is a law of life that problems at rise when conditions day for their solution unquote so that's jacob zuma the current president of south africa speaking at the n.c. conference let's ret

hanging over him which could be reinstated if legal action launched by the main opposition the democratic alliance is successful and that is why many people believe he's trying to influence the outcome of this elective conference because if he manages to get an ally into power they may be able to protect him from any post-presidential legal action but if a rival comes in they may be less inclined to help discuss this further i'm joined by martin plowed who's a senior research fellow at the university of london and joins us on skype from manchester what do you make of these two candidates who do you think is likely to come out on top. that's the sixty four thousand dollar question and one that nobody that i've approached in the last days to come down on one side or the other i mean at the moment to be honest with you they were imposes slightly ahead because there were three court cases which meant that a number of branches that would have probably said supported these rumors were disenfranchised but then they've been also allegations that the actual number of delegates in particular provinces have

a maoist former rebels with about communist party unified marxist leninist the other is the democratic alliance of the party congress and the right of center parties sixty percent of candidates are being elected first past the post proportional representation decides the remaining forty percent the system was introduced into the minorities and the marginalized but critics complain not enough women or minority candidates have been fielded by political parties that mark this is all about call opportunity level playing field for candidates if elections become expensive political party it is money and they are not transparent. was a lot of people will be excluded people who don't have money. mainly women don't have money marginalized people do not have money so they would be ex excluded from the democratic process or they would end up just being borders so this is one major area of political reform fifteen million eligible voters will have to wait to find out which parties will win a mandate to form the next government the election commission says it will take around a week for the result to be ann

having said that i think that if the left alliance consolidate his power for a long period of time then it's possible that they will try to curtail some democratic freedoms such as by trying to control civil society or the media or supporters of the alliance the new political equation maybe an even greater change than the publication of the latest constitution nepalis face serious problems including corruption and the politicize ation of institutions in the months ahead we will see how the election winners use their power to be distressed or al-jazeera government. and one of the top stories on i was there united nations secretary general says it's time to reestablish immediately and strengthen communication channels with north korea and tony were terrors for speaking at the u.n. security council meeting on pyongyang's ballistic missile program last month north korea tested its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile yet in direct defiance of international pressure and u.n. sanctions suggested rex tillerson addressed the session we particularly call on russia and china to increase pressure including going beyond full implementation of th

democratic republic of congo. you have to see all of this notjust in the context of what happened last night, that is an attack by the so—called alliance group, it comes ata time forces, an islamist group, it comes at a time of deteriorating stability across the congo. you have major escalation of violence in tanganyika, cathay, you have had riots in the capital, kinshasa. all of this because he is clinging to power, parties to magra yet constitutional term. people sense, military groups, warlords, they sense that there will be a drab for power in the next year. so this violence is part of that —— drab for power. it is also into labour issues of poverty, corruption at a local level. you have to look at the issue ofa level. you have to look at the issue of a very unpopular government, corrupt, brutal in the way it treats its own people, facing challenges 110w its own people, facing challenges now across the board. so how do they ove rco m e now across the board. so how do they overcome this, is there a way to do that? it is a good question. when you have a un peacekeeping force thatis you have a un peacekeeping force that is around 19,0

having said that i think that if the left alliance consolidate his power for a long period of time then it's possible that they will try to curtail some democratic freedoms such as by trying to control civil society or the media or supporters of the alliance the new political equation maybe an even greater change than the publication of the latest constitution nepalis faced serious problems including corruption and the politicize ation of institutions in the months ahead we will see how the election winners use their power to be distressed or al-jazeera government. mexico's congress has approved a controversial security law despite objections from the un and human rights groups it allows the military to take over police functions in the long running war against critics fear it will encourage abuses reports. mexico will close down two thousand and seventeen as its most violent year on record staggering murder rate mexican lawmakers are pushing for a new and what's become a controversial national security law one that would normalize military presence across the country senator. says this action however drastic is desperately needed to curb back t

party says it wants talks with the social democrats to renew their alliance and form a stable government germany's president held talks with the chancellor and the leader of the social democrats late on thursday after initially saying they wouldn't enter a coalition government again the social democrats now say they haven't ruled out any options here as. with more. well it appears that angle america government seem to be much closer to being able to form a coalition government with the day she met with the president and the head of the s.p.d. martin overnight they were very tight lipped about those talks when they emerged but today after a german newspaper wrongly reported that the s.p.d. was ready to enter coalition talk came out with very strong language denying those reports on the other hand. you seem to be extending a hand to his party saying they are very much ready to start coalition talks so that we can prevent germany going to another election all of this of course is happening against the backdrop of the far right party the heir the which is holding its party conference this we

three way contest between gentle on his democratic populist five star movement and alliance the former prime minister silvio berlusconi. let's go philip whelan in rome philip palm has been dissolved a new election is going to be held in march was this expected. yes this is part of an orderly transition phase the rough date of the dissolution of parliament had been and not some weeks ago the date of the fall that much was already penciled in in many calendars and in particular the desire was to avoid dragging out the legislature to the bitter end with the risk that the government could lose a confidence vote in parliament and therefore be in a weak a position for a k. take a role that particularly if there's an uneven and uncertain outcome from the election three main competing groups in roughly the same number of votes or what happens that's part of the governor. well i think we'll see a very likely election campaigns. several months or italian politicians to offer their burying formula as to the electorate and there's been really an action campaign dragging on for many months now with

the go-ahead from the wrist to begin talks with her, 10 weeks ago the social democrats vowed they would not establish an allianceith angela merkel and her christian democratic led bloc. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalist and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am courtney donohoe appeared this is bloomberg. -- i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg. mark: does the brexit deal change the outlook for banks, we hear from ross mcewan next. ♪ vonnie: live from bloomberg will take orders in new york, i am -- bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am. mark: i am mark barton. the u.k. and eu have managed to unlock the stalled talks opening the way for negotiations to move on to trade, what banks and businesses have been looking for but officials warning that the toughest challenges are ahead. rbs chief executive ross mcewan spoke to us in an exclusive interview about the latest developments. >> this is the good news to come before christmas and be real conversation about how can we trade with the eu. that is the important piece and this is really good news for all businesses. >> t

than two hours chance of machall has been trying to put together a workable alliance since september selection the social democrat leader martin schultz had earlier ruled out forming another coalition with merkel's party but pressure is building on him to reconsider that position. and joining us now for more on this is our correspondent oliver salih good morning oliver martin scholtz a meeting with other party leaders of the social democrats at this hour can we expect them to give the green light for exploratory talks well this is what the whole country is waiting for at this hour will the s.p.d. will march and schultz go ahead and say yes we are ready we are willing to go into exploratory talks in spite martine scholz had stressed several times time and time again that he his party would not be willing to do so to form another government after the election defeat in september so it's a very excited and decisive moment right now for the future of the government and and on the question how the government will actually look like last night was the events of last night the meeting there at trial suppose we with the

germany could be close to ending the miracles party says it wants talks with the social democrats to renew their alliance and form quite stable government and the president held talks with the chancellor and the leader of the social democrats late on thursday after initially saying they wouldn't enter a coalition government again the social democrats now said they haven't ruled out any options let's try to sort this out now they like alan jones live in berlin out of all of that. in short kemal it doesn't appear so far as you said the german chancellor met with president steinmeyer and. schultz martin childes the head of the s.p.d. overnight as they emerged tight lipped from those talks they didn't say what the results would be but today we've got a little bit of an indication on where each party lies after a german newspaper wrongly reported shots was ready to enter coalition talks he has just recently come out of it with rather strong language denying those reports saying that all options actually remain on the table he even pointed the finger at angola merkel c.d.u. party seemingly accusing them of lea

having said that i think that if the left alliance consolidate his power for a long period of time then it's possible that they will try to curtail some democratic freedoms such as by trying to control civil society or the media or supporters of the alliance the new political equation maybe an even greater change than the publication of the latest constitution nepalis space serious problems including corruption and the politicize ation of institutions in the months ahead we will see how the election winners use their power to be distressed or al-jazeera that meant. a low cost european airline ryanair has reversed its longstanding position not to recognize trade unions the decision was made to try to stop pilots and cabin crew from carrying out planned strikes in the lead up to christmas the airline was recently forced to cancel twenty thousand flights to just offshore to jews. a russian court has sentenced a former economy minister to eight years in prison unlike say if has been found guilty of corruption after accepting a two million dollars bribe from an oil giant he says he was framed so i'm going to go has more from moscow. but. he was once

coalition with chancellor angela merkel in germany. 10 weeks ago, the social democrats vowed they would not theblish an alliancedemocratic lock -- bl oc. than's exports rose more expected last month, up more than 12%. the increase in imports show that the domestic economy keeps outperforming. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: thanks so much. and elsa lignos is here. we are going to dovetail in your jobs and also their expertise in targets and markets -- in markets and markets strategy. this is what you do not hear about. the job market is great in america. yet this is why we have bubbles. this huge gap. this is the employee to the working population in america. the headline here is it is not 2000. you two are living the bubbles out of this, done by central banks. howling -- how linked our labor economies to the central banks, whether france or america? how linked is the job economy into the market distortions that have led to bubbles? edmund: i would say it is huge. , what think about what these

party wants to renew its alliance with the social democrats the child says angrily denying reports that a coalition deal has already been reached. the news there is the green light for another coalition is simply false it seems to come out of the party circles i've just spoken about it with angela merkel on the phone and told her it's on acceptable i don't want to speculate about who's trying to harm me one thing is clear you have a party to use destroys trust. in bolivia violent protests have broken out after president has declared that he will run for a fourth term in office his announcement comes after a court eliminated term limits for presidents making way for morale is to run again the ruling was handed down despite a referendum which rejected the idea last year. the electoral cause in honduras says that ninety five percent of ballots have now been counted but there's still no results five days after the presidential election the army is calling for calm after twelve people were wounded in clashes with opposition opposition protesters there's anger over the delay in the announceme

party wants to renew their alliance with schultz's social democrats but schultz has so far in reluctant. the news there's the green light for another coalition is simply false he seems to come out of the party circles i've just spoken about it with angela merkel on the phone and told her it's on except i don't want to speculate about who's trying to harm for me one thing is clear to have a party on a false news destroys trust. and place in germany have defused an explosive device that was found at a christmas markets it happened in potsdam near the capital berlin evacuated the markets and cordoned it off when special forces were sent in to investigate a suspicious package delivered to a pharmacy in the area. a potential game changer in renewable energy has been turned on in south australia the state's premier unveiled a one hundred megawatt tesla battery on friday it was built on rural land where the one hundred day window promised by tesla mosque he had been approached by the south australian government to establish a more stable supply for the state at that stage we thought about be t

party wants to renew its alliance with schultz's social democrats but he's angrily denying reports a coalition deal has already been reached. the news there is the green light for another coalition is simply false seems to come out of the party circles i've just spoken about it with angela merkel on the phone i told her. i don't want to speculate about who's trying to harm me one thing is clear you have a party. trust. there's still no results in the honduran presidential election even though ninety five percent of the ballots have been counted as growing anger over the delay with violent demonstrations leaving one person dead and twenty injured about a thousand ballot boxes are set to be recounted by hand after irregularities were found that's been put on hold because the opposition is refusing to take part it says the votes been manipulated so incumbent president one orlando numbers are now a leader of the opposition's salvador. venezuela's government and opposition have begun a new round of talks in the dominican republic the top of the agenda is the country's economic and politic

years the social democrats are reluctant suitors they lost badly in the last election and they wanted to go into the opposition medical says her party is ready to explore a possible alliance last month america's bid to team up with the greens and the free democrats collapsed. our chief political correspondent linda greene she is tracking this story force here in berlin and i asked her a little while earlier if we're likely to learn anything soon about whether germany is headed for a second grand coalition no we definitely won't these are very preliminary exploratory talks the parties have not scheduled a press conference and in fact they've been very mum about the whole thing they didn't even announce where this meeting would be held the reason for that is quite simple the chancellor engaged in other preliminary round of exploratory talks with two of germany's smaller parties earlier in the fall following the election those talks failed not least because of a lot of leaks that's what the parties want to avoid this time around. so what are they going to be talking about in this first meeting. well according to the chancellor broad signposts that's was how she put it she sa

attorneys on the case, and the vast majority of them have actually fairly clear records of alliances with the democrat party, number one. number two, there are a couple of them very high profile in their aggressiveness toward republicans and conservatives. so if you wanted an investigation that was going to be accepted in a bipartisan way, then you wouldn't go out and pick people that have clear records of affiliation with one side or the other. >> nine of the attorneys why democratic donors, not vast majority. >> nine of the 15. >> and there are other people as well. 9 of 15 of the attorneys. and attorneys takes oaths as well to abide by the law and to be nonpartisan. >> i understand. but you can't separate yourself and what you believe from the investigation. very hard to do that. you come in with a certain point of view. let's just, this idea that you can compartmentalize everything, fine, then why don't you do that and have someone to have a different point of view. but when you see all one point of view, you have a legitimate reason to question if the majority of people that have been appointed a