gordon cooper's? saying it was. >> this scratch right here -- that's the smoking gun. >> houston, we have a problem. it takes precious days to solve the mystery. the key clue comes when the auction house compares rick's camera with the one wally schirra took into space the year before cooper's flight. >> our forensic expert, with photographic evidence, was able to find scuff marks that matched exactly to schirra's camera. this is schirra's camera, taken in 1962, and it matches exactly to the one that rick bought. >> so, rick thought he was buying gordon cooper's space camera, but he was really buying wally schirra's. but how could that be? >> they took home each other's things, but both astronauts sold their cameras believing that this was schirra's and this was cooper's. >> far from being a problem, it turns out to be a good thing. schirra was the first guy to take it up in space. this is the most famous hasselblad there is. >> so, wait a minute. that sounds like it's worth more. >> it is worth a lot

cooperate with each other amid tensions between them. joining us now to talk about all of this is gordo gordon chang aa analyst. ould set the record straight for us on cooperation, is china cooperating with the trump administration? >> not really. for instance, the experts at the cdc have not been allowed into china. also this is a part of broader problem, arthel, the world health organization does have delegation in china but they've been kept away from the scene of the outbreak, they are not doing much good there, this is a problem because china i think is trying to suppress information on a number of things including how this started because there's a lot of stake for the communist party. arthel: so they are blocking access and withholding information, how do you rectify the situation if these things are makes place? >> it's hard for any other state or multilateral institutions to do anything because communist party believes that it existence is at stake, a lot of rumors going on in china which are really very sort of antiparty and the party just needs to get through this if it's going to survive. so i think

if you take the watergate precedents, the most egregious and least cooperative and most belligerent figure was gordon liddy, who is someone that stone add mares gre admires greatly, he only got four years in prison, but his sentence was commuted by jimmy carter when it got to that point. the chief of staff bob haldeman, john ehrlichman, his top domestic adviser, all committed perjury in front of congress and obstructed justice. they only got 18 months so seven to nine years was a very hefty, but what i see here is the influence of bill barr's very close associate who's gone over to run on a temporary basis as acting u.s. attorney the d.c. office, and he obviously didn't get on board on the first one. they didn't get any comment from him, and now he is probably putting his foot on it. >> wow. susan, what do you think? >> i think the thing to be concerned about is the overpoliticization of law enforcement. this certainly is a highly unusual situation, and look, doj, considers ask career prosecutors have a lot of considerations whenever they decide what to put in those sentences recommendations, what th

: thank you jane foley, head of fx strategy, rabobank, laura cooper from our bloomberg team and simon french, chief economist, panmure gordon co.. as europe's fashion week of coronavirus headline, we will focus on retail and luxury, how bad will they be hit in the coming months? this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: i am francine lacqua in london. let's talk commodities. simon french, chief economist, panmure gordon & co. asking, why kept on the market was going up, especially equities, and they said the fed is here, then we see the white house asking for $2.5 billion in funding. does that make a difference in dealing with a slowdown brought on by something like a pandemic? simon: it does not make a difference the actual economic activity, but it supports sentiment. it is a support a factor in markets holding their positions last week. what is interesting, and we are about to talk about commodities is the price reaction and inflation environment central bank's will have to deal with. there is a good bit on the bloomberg terminal on the .otential deflationary impulse a stronger dollar pushing down u.s. inflation and giving the fede

gordon, do you think our knowledge would be different at this early stage if it wasn't in wuhan, china? >> yeah, i think certainly it would be -- especially in another country. there would be much more international cooperatione country, checking patients. there's a lot that we don't know about how this started. there's a main theory, but january 24, article in the lancet, the british medical journal, says no, that's probably not it. the core questions we're talking about, we don't know. >> bill: i have two more questions. they have a new app they're distributing through the smart phone in china to help people diagnose themselves and get a sense of what storms they look for. does that help? >> helps a little bit. what china is trying to use the is big data and a.i. and a lot of the high tech. really the simple thing is just allowing people to talk freely about this. because this disease spread because china in december and much of january just suppressed information, put people in jail, did all sorts of things. that's not what they should have done. they should have allowed everybody in and start talking. no last comment to you. mortality rates 2%. >> 2%. >> bill: how does that fare in your mind? >> it's a l