he wanted me to get there before the special holiday foer the american people. just to make sure you knew he was thinking of you. millions of american people have you in our h eartearts i know there are many faiths represented here. i hope you find renewal and renewed strength in this season. for all of you, who like my family, in the coming days will look to a manger, and who will once again in your hearts claim the promise announced on a holy night of peace on earth and men, let mewards say from the first family and my family, and families across america, merry christmas. [applause] vice pres. pence: to all of you. may god bless you. thegod bless all who wear uniform of the united states in afghanistan and across the wider world. may god bless the good people of afghanistan and and may god continue to bless the united states of america. [applause] ♪ >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, stephen mansfield, author of "choosing donald trump," discusses his "washington times" op-ed o

so while i agree with the cops that made the arrests because you have to maintain o foer. it is a question of how you are to go about punishing the gentlemen. >> you are a professor. what do you think? professor not obeying the law. well, absot timtely. i love free speech. >> you know i am the free speech queen. queen. he didn't do anything? rofve mr. bill. well, i understanded that. but listen, listen, he broke the law for good reasokn that is because i am agreeing with that. you have to abide by the lis c, come okn our granddad. >> you think you are overplaabog here? i mean, the guy has one at heart for sure. he seems pretty aggressive to me. all the guys got arrested for crossing a foot or two off of a line. i understand reasonable minds can differ. when it is ok to break the law? the law is not great. >> prosecutors are given such wide digression and because they that n take each individual cas all the equities and balance pudidshment knwith mercy and compaslaaon. putting a guy in jail at me. an old man in jail. he knew what he was doing. >> thank you. you may remember

. >> reporter: jim locker is a foer he now represents passengers and has several cases pending against royal caribbean. >> once they take them enter a port, they take no responsibility legally. once you walk off the gangplank, you're basically entering the country at you own risk, according to the cruise lines. >> reporter: in a statement, royal caribbean said it is doing what it can to assist its guest, including helping with medical care and transportation. the two ships have now left to continue on their journeys, and they'll eventually return to florida. jeff? >> glor: manny, thank you very much. crews worked today to clear the amtrak crash site in washington state. the lead locomotive was hauled away on a giant trailer. three people were killed, about 100 hurt monday when the train ran off the tracks on the interstate 5 after taking a 30mph curve at 80. federal investigators are looking into whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in the cab. olc maroney is suing u.s.a. gymnastics. she says the organization tried to cover up her allegations of sexual abuse against f

net however both claims were completely false prior to that slate published an article by franklin foer detailing a connection between trump's businesses and a bank and russia on october twenty sixth he and hillary clinton sent out an e-mail summing up what she got from the slate article for your mention the new york times was investigating the link the times later reported the f.b.i. walked into the matter and dismissed the idea that two servers were a secret channel for communication between trump and in russia after the claims were deemed false trump's campaign fired back at for years saying quote the email server set up for marketing purposes and operated by a third party has not been used since two thousand and ten the trump organization is not sending or receiving any communications from this e-mail server the trump organization has no communication or relationship with this entity or any russian entity obsession with russia gate has negatively impacted many media outlets as they continue to spread this narrative whether these lessons will be taken into account is yet to be seen a

the president's daughter coming under fire for this foer to of her his band and son on a boat.there's a confederate dplag way in the background that appears to have nothing to do with them. ivanka trump pointed a series of pictures with her son's fish that he caught, saying to any kid this fish is a trophy. hmm. coming up, pro golfers not the only ones welcomed to president trump's gulf coast. how he thanked the coast guard. >> today we close the course, no one is using the course, you have a little tournament. >> we told you last night about how president trump has been hitting the links with golf pr i pros. not only his guest this week, the president told members of the coast guard today, the course is yours. closing down his west palm golf course, thinking that for the relief effort during hurricane arm up. really cool, great way to think the. we have a live picture right now of times square. that is where i will be on sunday night. i hope you will be there in spirit, the fox news channel. that guy, jesse watters, he will be there along with kennedy at 8:00 p.m. eastern we s

very important, and also the amount of people who will vote for the amount of people who will vote foerutin, because the kremlin sees these elections as a vote of confidence for mr putin and his policy. that's why they do want the turn out to be very high, and also boycott alexei navalny and make it ha rd boycott alexei navalny and make it hard for him to achieve the desired goal. syria's armed forces say one of their militaryjets has been downed by insurgents in northern hama province, killing the pilot. the area has seen intense aerial strikes by the russian and syrian air forces in the country's civil war. rescue workers say dozens of civilians have been killed i recent weeks in the bombing of towns away from front lines. the royal navy says there's been an increase in the number of russian ships travelling through or near the uk's territorial waters over the christmas period. yesterday, hms st albans was sent to escort a russian warship through the north sea as it passed close to uk waters. the defence secretary gavin williamson said he will not tolerate any form of aggression, and

the president's daughter coming under fire for this foer to of her his band and son on a boat.here's a confederate dplag way in the background that appears to have nothing to do with them. ivanka trump pointed a series of pictures with her son's fish that he caught, saying to any kid this fish is a trophy. hmm. coming up, pro golfers not the only ones welcomed to president trump's gulf coast. how he thanked the coast guard. >> today we close the course, no one is using the course, you have a little tournament. you'll ask, "what pulled muscle?" "what headache?" nothing works faster to make pain a distant memory. advil liqui-gels and advil liqui-gels minis. what pain? advil liqui-gels and advil liqui-gels minis. big australia is back. our biggest sirloin. our biggest bloom. our biggest entrees ever. outback steakhouse. aussie rules. and now, get a free $10 bonus card with every $50 in gift cards. >> we told you last night about how president trump has been hitting the links with golf pr i pros. not only his guest this week, the president told members of the coast guard today, the

the digital world is still struggling to get 15 foers 20% of advertising dollars either commercially or politically. so there's questions about where it's going to go and of course all these things change. i mean, you know, there's going to be other digital breakthroughs and different ways to communicate. and i have a firm view that what we do in the communications world is we don't really get rid of any old media, we just add another form of new media on top of it. so it's like we get to be a more fragmented and more complex communications culture, particularly in the advertising side. and we're still by advertising on tv, still advertising on cable, in terms of people are still advertising on broadcast radio. and then we have all these other new mediums including online and satellite and all these other things that are coming. and i'm sure i think we can see pod casts are going to play a significant political role over time. so, you know, there's an enormous fragmentation going on in our communications universe. and people are not only self-selecting about the news, as we talked ab

together they have responsibility in their statutes and regulations to protect national security at the foernd particularly for state and commerce and licensing issues on another track are brought into cfius on that particular case. it's really important to note that cfius shouldn't substitute for work done on licensing export controls in other areas, but certainly it needs to be part of that consideration. i just would make sure cfius isn't leading in an area more properly the domain of state and commerce. >> somebody else want to comment? >> that's exactly my main point. if there is technology of concern we should be controlled by the technology of return regardless whether there's a transaction or licensing arrangement. if we will spend the time and attention of government resources with dual use of commercial technology concern i grant everything said today except for note vating anxieties and concern we should do that and the control system is specifically created regardless of the nature of the transaction to control it and without the collateral consequences of spooking or otherwise h

i think there's going to be strong underlying demand foer t hehem.ly that leads to a bond rally. it's about more than bonds. there's also jgb's out there and what the boj is doing. i prefer to look at volatility. if global volatility is staying low, i can't see 10 year yields going above 2.5%. 2.5%, and go above then you get volatility breaking out in other markets, those are the kinds of things that will happen and set off some major spikes. i don't think you can look at the 10 year in isolation or just the 10 year bund spread. david: solid stuff. thank you, garfield, for fleshing out that story for us. of course, more on this story on our markets live blog. just one click. there's commentary from garfield and all the other bloomberg expert editors. you can find out what is happening beneath the hoods and your money. the bitcoin bubble debate rages on. all things cryptocurrency later on. the markets of 2018. global investors say it is risk on. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: welcome to "bloomberg markets: asia." i'm david ingles. noble group, something