politico this week that looked at some of the administration's efforts to counter violent extremists domesticically. one thing is to try to encourage people in any community in which there might be extremism, the muslim community in particular the one we're worried about at the moment, come forward if you see someone behaving oddly or more confrontationly but i talked to a former f.b.i. guy who said you're going to have tons of false leads and reports, every time somebody stu losing their temper or makes a phone call. it's just really hard. gwen: -- gwen: and ask how do you decide who to follow and who not to follow? how do you decide who's suspicion and not in a case like this? >> it's the hardest thing. in boston you had this sketchy lead from the russians who never fleshed it out, thought they might go rat -- radical if they went to russia. here you have a person who the french had known had gone council memberen. another whose brother had been arrested twice once for trying to go to iraq and then for going there and this prison breakout scheme. they said we did watch them. we had other prioriti

get his message out instead of the republicans in many cases, i mean he's been talking about this domesticica for two years. >> he's the president of the united states and we're going to provide great respect in hearing him out. but why the republicans ---put forth a responsible tax reform package. paul ryan, of ways and means is going to lead us in that effort. we believe tax reform is vital for to the growth of our economy. if the president decides he's just going to throw out putting -- doing these proposals that have no chance of starting then we're not -- you know we just to have to it ourselves. >> just a couple of minutes ago, i was speaking to stewart varney, we were talking about this whole fair share idea coming about. it was acceptable for the president in 2008 and 2012. it's a populist message so he's very good at messaging. how do republicans get out in front of that? how do you set the agenda now that you're in charge of the house and the senate? >> i think most people have come to figure out what president obama says andüc what he does are often two different things. that's wh

i think he is angry at the west and using it in a very constructive way, domesticically demonizing thend germany. portraying the ukraine as a neo nazi government. he is effectively riding that horse and 80% approval ratings. he has been unable and unwilling to attract significant investment. the government has been a disaster but his approval ratings are on the back of ukraine. >> politically, that downgrade then? >> i think just about anything that comes from a western rating firm is irrelevant. you have heard the russians and chinese say they are going to put together their own ratings agency because the west's agencies are all politicized. >> thank you very much. we're going to talk more after the break. we're going to talk about oil. stay with us ian. the new saudi king. what does the new leadership mean for oil prices? we'll discuss that after the break. ♪ >> welcome back to "the pulse" live from bloomberg's european headquarters here in the city of london. i'm jonathan ferro. this is what stocks are doing here in london. we are lower on the ftse. in fact, we're lower across the b