when the finance committee read about this game it was clear we needed more information. we sent the transition letters with a few key questions. again, no response. i asked about it in our one-on-one meeting. he confirmed that mr. epstein spoke with him about payments for public relations. a sleazy way for someone in the inner circle trump administration to pitch an obvious quid pro quo. a major donor following this issue quickly and actively because the story changed in response to a written question. his new answer was nobody ever asked him about payments in exchange for an appointment. there was an internal investigation and epstein's conduct, still will not reveal who else in trump's orbit he talks about it. my point in bringing up this issue, we have now heard three different ways. it has never been more important for them to stand up and fight for congressional oversight. late on friday night, donald trump fired 17 inspectors general, independent watchdogs that we rely on, that every senator relies on. every democrat, every republican the independent watchdogs were

germany's finance minister speaks to us at 6:30 u.k.ime to discuss the state of europe's largest economy. a crucial conversation as we build up to the elections in germany that could have consequences will be the borders of that country. 6:40, i speak with the ceo of barclays about the banks turnaround plans. do not miss those conversations. coming up, the ecb governing council member says there's a certain probability of a rate cut next week. we bring you more from her interview with the bundesbank had. that's coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> there are concerns. we have some structural issues. our election is coming in four weeks. this is a very important election. the new government, i think they have to overcome the structural issues. but i said it many times. i don't think germany is the sick man of europe. we have very good potential. good structure of our economy. good strong smes. i'm positive but we have to do our homework. >> what does germany need right now? more investment from the outside? >> we need a capital markets

they finance visit money. they give the money they pay, and this was not the pay to action with the mazda trucks, the loan. so talking about politics and a lot of points mosque has of same window view as a empty party. and it's not only a mosque, it's also a lot of people in germany. it has the same point of view if they have to, because they see what the adults have done in the past. all right, what are you a precedent? let's think about those concerns by the e. u. a forward to use about mazda supposedly manipulating democratic process, is there really is suppose a danger in even sharing his opinion online. you know, is no danger. is that the problem is the you won't be in the, i'll try to use the way to lose that power because it is a, there is a public opinion a and everybody can give his opinion on social media, ons of platforms, to introduce costs, resolve the people about the opinions they have, they have great because they only want to so your opinion of that will be in the community and so period of th

a lot of different things and finance defense and help finance the wall and help finance more ice agents deportation and what do you think of that? >> there's a strong case president trump is making and they can do this well. he did it well the first term. he had serious successes in his tariffs on china and on france and on canada that have positive results in our trade relations with them that were beneficial overall and you see that kind of result of tariff policy and you're right, done well it can help our economy and grow our economy just as these tax cuts will. larry: that's exactly right. senator mike crapo, thank you. i think you're the smartest guy in the senate. that's all. we appreciate you coming on. next up on kudlow, joe biden is doing everything he can to spite trump on his way out and the whole democratic party is so knee jerk negative on everything in this country right now. you know what, they're burying themselves and you know what, if that's the case, they're going to deserve it. that's all i can say. anyway, we've got joe concha and rich lowry to weigh in here onset

this is my first appearance in the finance committee and probably last. y'all work on complicated stuff. i'm glad you like this stuff. it seems kind of boring to me, but it is important what you do. i respect the intellect of the people on the committee because our economy needs the best minds we can find on the finance committee. and we need a secretary of the treasury that knows what he is doing, has the trust of the president, and has the trust of the president. your ship came in with this guy. he is academically gifted and real tested. he went to yale, so nobody is perfect. when he told me that i said i don't know about that. but anyway, he is really really smart and this is a compensated area. why am i here? because trump won. i would not be here if trump had not won. trump won because more people voted for him. and he had to take people to form his cabinet. when he talked about the secretary of the treasury, i am not the normal person you would go to ask about. because, this is not so much my portfolio. but, when he mentions god, i said o my god, ho

she is the finance minister of sweden. ma'am, wac to the program. great to see you. >> thank you so much. great to be here. >> what's happening right now in the united states? let's begin. how should europe respond to the threat of the trump tariffs in your view? >> first of all, i mean we have to respond together. but i think it has been a lot of focus on the tariffs is bad if they get higher. but i think europe has their own problems that we have to solve. i mean, we can take our destiny in our own hands. so tariffs bad. what we do, we have to do together. but honestly, europe must be better. >> so tell me exactly what you mean when you say europe must be better. what concerns you the most right now? >> i mean europe is a rich continent. but we are getting behind u.s. i mean, this is just -- latest years, been so for quite long. we have too low roads and too low productivity and that's our problem. we have big needs and we can be richer. but we have -- we don't focus enough on the things that can make our economy grow. >> yeah, i think the long-te

we can advise, we can finance. if it is a public market solution we can do that. a private credit solution, we can do that. >> one thing i'm very curious about outside of private equity, there is now a tremendous amount of strategic activity also going on this morning. a few days ago, goldman was one of the advisors on the cancellation deal as well. where do you think the hottest deal activity is going to be? >> is no question that tech might have short periods of less activity but will be pervasive. it might not be the largest companies but there's obviously a very long list. nearly half of the large-cap private equity portfolios sit inside the broader technology media telecom. industrials has remained very active. the national resources, there's been a lot of transactions which by the way, require commodity financing, hedging and potentially private credit activity. that is power as you just articulated, it is metals and mining, chemicals. >> health care had a relatively quiet 2024. obviously it started the year with a relatively -- relatively significant jump i

yeah, we worked on campaign finance. we worked on and, you know, part of what i'm very proud of in the last chapter deals with is that i learned lessons working with senator murkowski that allowed us in the finance to break 50 years worth of gridlock on climate change. you know, that's what our energy tax credits did. and it seems like it's through a partizan lens because you say there's anti-hero those who may look as though they're exhibiting chutzpah like donald trump. well, the trump. what's but let's be clear on yeah i believe puts but is inherently good. mm hmm. trump basically uses it for essentially malicious objectives, you know, telling people can shoot his supporters on new york streets and they're all going to be for it. making fun of people if you use malicious intent to put people down to bait them to be ugly and bully them, that's using malicious whisper, using the intent in a way is not good. mm hmm. so it's not necessarily in all, always progress of concept, but it's a concept that you see is is furtheri

i'm sorry if i'm outraged this is really finance minister smo church and. and the former national security minister venue, the or who believe that israel has a biblical right to the entire west bank back. she's one of the top 3 donors that helped to get donald trump, to the white house. and she is still actually pro israel. and so what you'll hear are these positions she is expecting to get that for her money. and so repeatedly, you will hear cuz comments like this coming from, not only at least authentic but the secretary of state and others who argue that many of the positions that uh the uh, but uh the questions that they face, they will say are anti semitic or otherwise, everything that they argue will they will defend as a, in the context of being pro israel. and this is what to miriam. it will soon is expecting for her money. so that is why you're getting those kind of answers and expect more of it. that's why those corresponding kimberly hall could kemp of thank you very much indeed. got it. sorry for the weather. here's everton to sorry. we have som

we've also been seeing over the last few days that his final mentioned y'all was finance. when is the best allow smotts rich who needs a different policy. he came out also warning, but he would leave the coalition government. however, he also came out earlier today saying that you have managed to secure certain guarantees part of the prime minister. and that's it. wouldn't that as well wouldn't get as far as to the 2nd phase of the steel service in, in a way. it also reflects the source of internal squabbles within these rarely government. and you have to keep in mind that even within these, where the public, this deal is not particularly popular. however, in the polls, what has become very clear over the over the past few months is that the is really public. overwhelmingly wants to see the hostages back. they want to get a rest. they want to get a pulls from this fight thing. and that's why we're seeing the deal, but it's now being put forth as it is. now, israel has also said that it's still not received the list of hostages due to be released tomorrow. do you think this

that in his decades long career in finance. they make him uniquely qualified to be our next secretary of the treasury. he is acutely aware of the risk posed for national economy, are 36 trillion-dollar nationalna debt. he understands and digging ourselves out of a fiscal whole will require spending restraint couples with great economic growth. as t he discussed in testimony before the senate committee, avoiding the largest tax hike in the history of the country by extendingta the 2717 tax law is crucial to the health of the american economy. we all know in this body, the biggest tax increase in history of the country and happened to that middle class even without a vote of congress because the 2017 tax bill sunset at the end of this year. mr. bessent also understands international trade and access to foreign markets are vital to the economic success of the american farmer. wheny i spoke with his nominee n my office i was pleasantly surprised by his knowledge ofgr agriculture standing from his ownership of farmland and north dak

and guys, i, for the finance against the mac, gabby tyler defense right off to finance in amsterdam. there was this special report by the ministry of for the, the process in combating anti semitism. in his realm. there's a ministry when it was, well, it was shared among adults politicians as well as there was the national debate about this finance and not a report of the same ministry appears in the jerusalem post. according to the report, they organized fundraising efforts across the board. cities, a must think significant sense for both of the, for humanitarian 8, but often directed towards on israel and pro, i'm us causes then to reach your own name. it's kind of a key player in pro how most link to also anti semitism it. so you have all the bizarre to be honest to god though it auto angio is bucks. recently won a case against it to state halting the supply of spare parts of f. 35. fight the jets to israel several. that's while additions have this special report. you sound that's the heart of thing. it in of a v. s a 2nd. want to go home has changed from safe and november. hope yo

and go over the details of financing.as you can see a the issuance and sale of not to exceed $40,000,000 within an pair of $38.3 million to fund the projects that william described with the costs and underwriters and oversight fees as well as a reserve in case of pricing issues. the final term we expect to be 40 years that matches the term of the loan by the fee bonds and estimating a pic taxable bonds less than 7 percent within an manual average debt of 2.7 but as referred to be william the loans are repaid and used to offset the debt service to the impact will be reduced. and again, as noted anticipated to be a split been the below-market rate and market-rate of the loans and we model the repayment as it relates to the taxable loans and mix of loans that will be funded. >> so that made the interest costs projected interest rate of 6.88 percent will be 71 percent over the life of bond that serve been under one hundred and $10 million and the property taxes we modeled unlike the offset in the loan repayment over time a sm

thank you, service a is interim financing program. good afternoon. capitol finance director. my team and i help our to deliver financing of the projects you deliver at the lowest possible cost. there are ways we do that part is tha we use low cost tax exempt financing. we use low cost federal and state loans. but an important piece is our interim funding program. and bring update slide deck, please. >> and next month the february 11th meeting we'll come back to -- for approval for 5 credit facilities totalling 550 million dollars. and we're asked to provide you with a briefing today. to help infurthermore you about this program. so have you that background and in anticipation of that meeting. >> so we will give you an over view of the program, why we are expanding the program and then be back next month. this program has been in place for a number of years. our predecessors developed it as a way of lowering the cost of finance being capitol projectses at the puc. typically municipality would approve a project, issue bonds, draw down the bronlds and we pay them over 30 years.

why can't you finance?america. >> a lot of people blame treasury secretary yellen for not doing that. >> i've seen you interview her. >> you wanted a 50-year. we talked about that many times. >> i had everybody on board. >> he said there wasn't enough command for demand for it, remember? >> i think this is going to be the easy confirmation, because he feels like he's one of us to everybody. >> he's a hedge fund manager that focuses on macro and has traded currency. >> have you ever seen him really interviewed in real life? he had this great interview in europe. >> didn't his career begin when he was short of the pound? >> he's so thoughtful. it's like neil ferguson. >> that's one that he can help ensure and maybe this idea of tariffs over sanctions. >> he's a learning experience. he's a great teacher. shockingly -- look, i don't mean shockingly, but he's so thoughtful that i don't think anybody can think let's not have this guy as treasury secretary. >> how about tonight? >> this is second day bank. no one'

i did ask you whether you subscribe to the views of finance ministers, some of which rich vote. i'm sorry if i'm outraged this is rarely finance minister smoke church and the former national security minister, ben you the or who believe that israel has a biblical right to the entire westbank.

he is the top democrat on the senate finance committee.ber of the senate intelligence committee and the budget committee. and he is the author of the new book, it takes chutzpah how to fight fearlessly for progressive change, which goes on sale tomorrow, most importantly in the strand bookstore in manhattan, the oldest bookstore in new york. he will be there tomorrow. i'll be there. >> strand and powell's in portland, oregon. they're the two greats. >> yes. okay. and you can get this signed at the strand tomorrow. what is it? i mean, it takes it's the perfect title for what's going on with these nominees. i mean, what does it take to nominate someone like pete hegseth for secretary of defense? >> well, you got to really be reaching. i mean, chutzpah is not always good. it's inherently good, but it can be misappropriated to do things that are harmful to the american people. i think that's the case here. >> and you have robert kennedy coming before you in the finance committee. he'll also be in front of the senate health, education labor com

tax cuts and could help finance border money to deport criminals and so forth, could help finance af good things. wall street keeps saying it's inflationary. i just don't see why. yeah, so i agree with you on both counts. first, we don't have a revenue problem. so let's begin with that. but the budget gnomes during this tax proposal of the president's next few months will tell us that we do. i would much rather have a 10% universal tariff than, god forbid, raise corporate tax rates. if this gives us space to have further rate cuts on the corporate rate, the individual rate, that would be a very good thing. the idea that tariffs will be inflationary, i think is very bad math and bad economics for a few reasons. one, it's a one time change in prices. and for that it's not a very large one time change in prices, in part because of larry's math. the good side of the economy is less than one sixth of the economy. a 10% tariff on that will be immaterial. and while all these things are happening, there are other economic policies. the president will be pushing aa deregulatory agenda,s disi

the uk is finance minister— rates. the uk is finance minister chancellor i rates.ancellor rachel reeves is also in davos on a mission to talk up the uk for international investment and it comes amidst concerns about the weak state of the british economy and government finances that have sent uk borrowing costs soaring on bond markets. those concerns were underlined today as official figures showed a surge in uk public sector borrowing last month. the gap between revenues and spending had to be covered by borrowing of £17.8 billion in december. that is over £10 billion higher than the same month in 2023 and the highest decemberfigure forfour years. december figure for four years. speaking at decemberfigure forfour years. speaking at an event in davos this morning, the chancellor made her case to investors. i made her case to investors. i am here to sell britain, talk about— am here to sell britain, talk about the _ am here to sell britain, talk about the strength - am here to sell britain, talk about the strength and i am here to sell britain, talk| about the streng

hopefully, you need to see the ceasefire is only the 2nd pause in more than 15 months financing. but there's optimism on both sides that it could bring a 10 minute end to the war. let's go to all correspondence. tanya exam was standing by in jerusalem for us, tanya, let's start with the latest developments, the staffing until of these. what more can you tell us about that? as well as the emergency services here says that they had the one person is in order to serious conditions. he received the stubbing of wounds in his upper body in central tennessee eve. now, the alleged asylums is a policy minion, a young man, and he will show that by an armed a civilian a pasta by at the scene of this attack. no, as police was searching the area, but they have set a so far, there's no indication that there's more than one attack a on seen an alternative se is fine. it's supposed to stop tomorrow. morning stakes are high, but everybody is aware of how frank job disagreement is. do you think it will be a success split opportunity? i think everybody knows this is a very, a critical moment. it's

the third point has to do with the possibility of getting finance. why is financing important? because this brings forward the end of the currency. we will be doing away with the controls at a point when we again rebuild the stocks balance. the difference is if we secure the financing the exit will be faster. this is also very important. any kind of agreement we may enter into with the imf, with investment funds or with investment funds means funds coming into the treasury's coffers that will be used, not to finance the treasury because the treasury is in a fiscal balance position. it'll be used to repurchase debt as far as the central bank is concerned, which is the treasury's largest creditor. the total debt does not increase. it is the composition of it that changes. you rebuilt the central bank balance sheets and the more sovereign the central bank is the balance price level that if you take the current price level and the long term the slope gives you inflation. what you will do if we secure the financing it showed this is a lot faster. we will end the controls no matter w

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bessent rose from challenging economic circumstances to a career in the world of finance.nd he brings a wealth of private-sector experience in the economy and markets to his new role as well as a concern for the needs of working americans. during president trump's first administration, we passed major tax relief legislation. the tax cuts and jobs ab reformed our nation's tax code, nearly doubled the standard deduction, doubled the child tax credit, and enacted pro-growth policies for american businesses of all sizes. as a result, the economy took off and our nation became more competitive. household incomes increased and the employment rate hit its lowest level in 50 years. now, however, a lot of that tax relief is close to expiring. without action, american families and businesses will face a staggering $4 trillion tax hike next year, and at the top of the republican indies is extending that -- agenda is extending that tax relief. i deeply appreciate the fact that mr. bessent shares that commitment, and i'm looking forward to working with him on extending the tax cuts and

bond markets could impact personal finances on bloomberg.com, today 12:00 p.m.ondon time, bloomberg orders breakdown implications for u.k. mortgage rates and savings, the stock market and more. terminal clients and digital subscribers can login it direction -- direct questions to the team. coming up, california's governor wants an additional 2.5 billion dollars of state spending to a emergency response in los angeles. the latest on the wildfires, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: welcome back. it is tuesday. the other stories making news today, southern california faces another round of dangerous fire whether as crews struggled to contain wind driven blazes that have paralyzed los angeles for nearly a week and killed at least 20 four people. the disaster is suspected to be among the costliest in u.s. history with estimated damages estimated between 250-2 hundred $75 billion. length lifts and new or are looking at a joint offer for u.s. steel. cleveland cliffs expressed interest saying they would fund the deal in -- using debts. nucor would use assets. goldman sach

following december surprised resignation office finance minister, a chris to freeland. she accused him of using cost me gimmicks to a piece versus justin trade and it has been almost a decade and is the sort of a former canadian prime minister. yeah. showed you guys a pallet in 2015 in a way that often obviously it used to be useful energy of these policies on combining climate change. all is sort of the openness of the values that i have. let's get more from jen this. that loosely, if i'm alden, bonnet, friend, who joins us from the canadian capital optima a welcome to d w, and they say, last month's very public folding on with the finance minister mocked at a low point of to those to me. but he's popular as we have been folding before that different by want as well. and that doesn't, doesn't probably a really great place to start because as you say 2015, he could not have been more popular. he was popular, not only in canada, but around the world. he was a bit of a celebrity prime minister. but since the pandemic economic issues have really been wreaking havoc on thro

racially abused by the israeli hooligans have filed complaints with police a few hours after the finance. i asked one, my god, the support about their role having to fight with the taxi driver. so it seemed that there was also some kind or some bullshit simplification. yeah. oh, so let me pull this fence. if you put there's a single unit on the stands, the conflict between is what you know about the conflict. it's all a complicated conflict. i mean, i know you're and answer them. you're coming for a football match and then you're taking down to publish the intellect posted. i didn't do it. but i'm maybe this, it was, they shouldn't do it to us but say, but still, i mean is anybody in fact and i use that. they think that was just a coincidence, and they were just standing there. they were looking for a reaction. several people suspected of attacking is what andy supports us and randomly asking tourists for their passports, have been given jail sentences, attempted manslaughter, and inciting violence on social media, a photo of highly alias i appeared, accusing him of participating in the

there's also the, the finance minister who replaced christoph freeland. that's dominic leblanc and more carney of the central bank are famous for helping both the bank of canada and bank of england. but in terms of who will be dealing with trump, at least in the 1st few weeks of the trump administration, that will continue to be throw himself at least until parliament resumes on march 24th. okay, so it's about to janelle, i dw cusp on the janell team alone in washington dc. take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world was talking south korea where unto corruption, investigate just a 2nd to extend an arrest, one for impeached presence or you. and so if you all still have expired. on monday, the investigator has failed to take him into custody from the we have stand off with the president security service a whole month french president nicholas suck. jose has gone on trial in paris of alleged abrupt deal with the full but libyan leader, mobile good. that fee charges include passive corruption, illegal campaign financing, concealment

re deal government who consistently opposed any finance minister what was the finance minister who caughtwill of course be against the deal. but it has taken about. yeah. sorry, i was i was going to say it has taken 15 months to get to this point. this is the deal that is on the table. you have got all the, the, the concessions that you are likely to get from the from hamas. you have got an incoming trump administration who says a deal. it is time for a deal. the hostage families are saying to you, enough is enough, bring them home. why aren't you going to vote for it? i think ijust explained, you know, there are 33 families of hostages who are very happy today, but there's 65 families of hostages who are not going to get their loved ones. does that make any sense? not only that, they're not going to get their loved ones. we are giving away every leverage that we have over hamas that will allow us to bring these 65 hostages. they could vote against the steel and indeed withdrawal from the government altogether. the israeli media is now reporting that the final hurdles of been overcome in

the finance minister they were focused on fx moves. paring some of the heavier losses, down .1% versus the dollar. brent at $76 a barrel, bitcoin back over 100,000. let's get across now i'm once happening in the asian markets. avril hong standing by in singapore. >> the asian stock gauge running higher but it's a mixed picture if you look under the hood. the chip names are doing well thanks to jensen huang and nvidia, the likes of tokyo electron surging and helping the nikkei to these out performances as we see the bank stocks also lifting the gauge helped along by the export related counters given the week yen but on the hong kong benchmark it's the underperformance as two of the biggest stocks in the greater china region get put on a u.s. defense department blacklist and have denied any links with the chinese military but down to the lowest level since mid-september and it's a benchmark heavyweight so is dragging. the hong sing responsible for the 2% decline. the japanese yen had its weakest level against the greenback in six months,

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another is the way we finance elections. another is the fact that we have certain powers as individual powers and we don't respect the power of the institution itself, the filibuster. one of the ways is working together. when we disagree, do it in a civil way. that's what missing in our politics today. host: tell people how you made friends. how did you go about making friends in your senate career? sen. cardin: it's like getting voters to vote for me. it's part of life. almost everyone here, elected to office, want to do things that are good for their country, their state, their community. we have a common agenda. let's figure out a way in which we can achieve what we want to do. we don't have to be adversaries. we can listen and get things accomplished. when you talk that way you make friends. i made friends my first day in the house. we decided we would do something about hospice care. this predecessor was involved in hospice care. we got confidence in each other working that way on a noncontroversial issue. that led to a

he's called out the finance minister to follow his lead and honor the is riley soldiers that have died of a cool on my friend finance minister base, a little slow trades to join me in full cooperation against the terrible deal that is being formulated together, informed the prime minister clearly and family, that if the deal goes through, we will resign from the government. i emphasize even if we are in opposition, we will not bring down nothing. yahoo! but this move is our only chance to prevent its implementation. and in fact, to prevent the surrender of the state of israel to her mouth, and to ensure that the deaths of hundreds of idea of soldiers will not be in vain. ortiz middle east bureau chief maria from ocean, and joins me now to discuss this further. uh, maria, why are we hearing such heated sentiments from israel? is national security minister, a head of a possible hostage deal, a hi rachel, i have to say that there reaction to this much anticipated del one that could bring cost to his home. and also maybe even help, and the guys a conflict, devastating war there which has a

if you continue to hold the view that you just expressed on tuesday, the idea of finance the start of that so called a counter terrorism operation and jeanine the, the iron wall which could last the 7 days is really army has killed 10 palestinians, which it claims were terrace the idea of launched raids just hours after president trump rescinded biden error sanctions. curbing is rarely settlers. the local media has reported that the palestinian authorities, security services were asked to withdraw from the area earlier and movement both in and outside of the city is said to be severely restricted at the moment. so it's the start of the war on gaza and october 2023. the idea offend is really settlers have intensified attacks on the west bank according to the un and the palestinian health ministry. at least 870 people have been killed among them. 177 children are to middle east bureau chief maria for national questions. the timing of this unfolding. id f operation in the west bank. the ball just days off to the head. mazda israel seized by a, brought a brief sense of relief. the west, t

finance committee we have work through this process. begin moving forward and you will see senate finance move forward with how we would approach this. of course, the house is going to have to initiate this. we're going to do all we can to help them. to be judicious how they approach it, and to work at pegging to current policy, not to current law. which will make the process easier, marsha blackburn this morning stay with us. we'll be right back. only the servicenow platform connects every corner of your business, putting ai agents to work for people. like secret agents? no, more like autonomous minions that you control. to do what? well, jim's agents resolve simple customer issues. and patty's agents flag network problems. —proactively. —yup. i'm lovin' my agents. wait, you all have agents? oh yeah. and on the servicenow platform, everyone's agents work together so everything works better. can i have agents? maybe. ♪ do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an imme