i had some guys who had deployed once. i had some guys who had deployed twice. i had some guys who had just come out of basic, so everybody's experience level was a little bit different, but everybody was pretty much ready to just get over there and get right into it. and i was in kuwait about three days. myself and a few other leaders, we actually didn't get the chance to climatize, so once again, i had to leave my younger sergeants in charge so i could go over to iraq and there was the phoenix academy there. we knew we would be working a lot with the iraqi army. they have this academy set up to where they teach you a little bit more athe culture. -- about the culture. you eat their food, learn about their equipment. it is just ten days usually for squad leaders and above, so, you know, they don't take all the squad leaders. they hand pick which squad leaders they want to take, which platoon sergeants, platoon leaders, our first sergeant came along with us. while i was doing that, the unit was preparing in kuwait and actually had crossed the border into iraq in

three guys. those -- i lost those three guys. when i got to see iraq like that aside, well, they fought for this. day's is what they fought for. whether or not we talk about the current state of affairs going on in iraq right now with isis and all that, it makes no difference. we all foresaw this was going to happen. we all knew this was going to happen. but from the guys that we lost in from the standpoint that iraq was when we were leaving it was exactly, that is what we considered it to be, a win. host: that had to give you a sense of pride. michael: absolutely. and it also gave me -- i got the chance to do some more public speaking over there to the current service members who were deployed. when i came back i went full into motivational speaking and leadership speaking, companies, units, nonprofit events, charity events. so that is what i do know. i average about 85 days at home per year. last time i did 105 days at home was 2009. i just got back the other day from fort polk, i spoke at senior leadership thinks down there. i

. ♪ guy: 30 minutes to the european close.hat you need to know -- stock surging as the eu launches its vaccine passports. london is looking at quarantine free travel for the fully vaccinated. he sees capacity nearly doubling over the rest of the summer. rishi sunak is vowing -- the chance is we will see significant divergence from eu rules. we will hear from the chancellor this hour. crude continues to climb. topping $75 a barrel for the first time since 2019. we are seeing back into equities, but back into crude, up by 1.5%. alix: unbelievable -- back above that $75 a barrel, the highest we have seen in three years or so. this brings up those inflationary trends we keep talking about. underneath the hood, it was big tech end to that outperformed that for the first half of the year as we see more record highs. that continues. it hits the five year yield. the highest prices paid since 1979. the highest we have been at all week. this has been a very busy week for ipo's. didi was the second largest u.s. listing after alibaba. you

thank you, guys.hank you. i make this stuff up as i go and we have some fun. thank you, guys. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] >> watch live at 4:45 p.m. eastern online at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app .announcer: now president . >> sunday night on q&a, we learn about don pearson who attracted the attention and anger of every president from fdr to nixon. >> he had the washington merry-go-round that appeared in over 600 newspapers every single day. he did that from 1932 until he died in 1969. the column continued under jack anderson. he also had a radio show on sunday nights, a very popular radio show on the news. he tried to make it into television in the early 50's. he was the best selling author for his books. he was a man who told the truth and said when you hit the truth, it hurts the most. he told what politicians real

guy: that is a distinction here.people make big donations to the organization that should be held to account for what that organization says including this absolutely heinous statement on cuba. tomo given the last word. >> i think the problem with this is, it's not astonishing as clarifying present that's one of the reasons you've seen as this has gone on as a black lives matter has been revealed the support among republicans has dissipated to very low levels now printing the problem, richard, if black lives truly matter, if that is a rallying cry we don't set uniform across the country. i'm here in chicago there black lives dying every single day. tens of them every single weekend. those lies don't seem to mentally search and lives in the ones used for political purposes that's for the discrepancy is. >> i you can't go to the streets of chicago -- viewer go the streets of chicago walked down the chatham neighborhood or southside or high park or brownsville you're talking to black people in the neighborhood they will

this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: from london, i'm guy johnson. -- guy: from london, i'm guy johnson.tility is catching everybody by surprise. everybody thought the bond yields would go higher, they have gone lower. hedge funds are trading the market, on average already sitting on are at record levels of leverage. but where is the advantage in this situation right now? we're looking at that. >> so there are some catalysts to look forward to, earnings, right? morgan stanley pointed out to hedge fund clients that the bears are worth listening to when it comes to realizing expectations are skyhigh. earlier this week, they told hedge fund clients that sentiment feels shaky at best, despite the second-best first half since 1998. if you look at hedge fund performance, you can see them up on the year, up about 10%, 9%, but still trailing the s&p 500. now, investors are thinking, wait a minute, are all of these leveraged returns? leverage is sitting at record highs, we have already seen some debacles earlier this year. this is not bad news across the board, it is good news for the stock picke

guy: how does it work between you guys? talked about the fact this is your first broadcast interview as business partners. i assume that is because you are super busy as well. you've got a lot of things going on. so how does it work between you two? how does the relation ship work? how often do you get together? how does the decision-making work? alex: we talk a lot. we are also social friends. we are both from new york, both have two daughters. we are both mission driven, not mercenary driven. [laughter] but really, if you get vcp right, i think two things. a lot of companies fail because they don't have the right people and they don't have enough capital early on. if you get the vcp right, it allows marc and i to elevate and really trust our partners to go out and execute. alix: how did you guys wind up meeting in the first place? being friends is different than being partners. marc: we were introduced by a mutual friend. alix: you like each other, obviously. [laughter] marc: i think from the very first, it was zoom at th

guy: that was the u.k.national trade secretary speaking to bloomberg's annmarie hordern on the sidelines of her meeting with the ustr. anne-marie joins us now. we were told that a trade deal with the united states would be fairly straightforward. it is beginning to sound like it will be anything but. the trade secretary talking about the right deal. how close are we? annmarie: the first thing is the timeline. speaking to "the telegraph," someone close to the secretary of state for trade has said they don't think anything can happen until after the u.s. midterm elections in november 2022, so nothing before 2023. she did not want to give a timeline, and what she's talking about is having a more comprehensive agreement, and she made the point that the united kingdom only did just a trade deal with australia, and that took a year. we are expecting this to take a lot more time. she kept talking about making sure they get the tax base on board. the biden administration are focused on foreign policy about china an

guy: kind of come -- a marvel person, though? guy: kind of, yeah., but i won't put down $30 to make sure i am the first one to see it. alix: oh man, it is so good. guy: no alix steele spoilers. i am just going to stay that -- no alix steel spoilers. i am just going to say that. [laughter] she's watching them in order. alix: chronologically. a commitment. guy: anyway, stephen king of hsbc is going to be joining us. the close is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ and there you have it - wireless on the fastest, most reliable network. wow! big deal! we get unlimited for just $30 bucks. i get that too and mine has 5g included. impressive. impressive is saving four hundred bucks a year. four bucks? that's tough to beat. relax people, my wireless is crushing it. okay, that's because you all have xfinity mobile. it's wireless so good, it keeps one upping itself. >> the countdown is on in europe. this is "bloomberg markets: european close," with guy johnson and alex steel -- and alix steel. ♪ guy: wednesday the 14th. 30 minutes to the close. what do you need to kno

guys, this is a movement.nd applause] i got on that stage and i was like, this is a pretty good crowd and i saw an american flag hanging from a crane 400 yards behind. why is it so far out there, it's florida, flat like south texas likes six inches of elevation over a 20 mile area, right? so i'm getting up on the stage, okay, a beautiful crowd, and looking and it's just going. these guys get it. they understand what's happening. they're sick of watching their country get taken away. they're sick of a narrative that's anti-american. they're sick after administration that seems to be working for everyone else other than the taxpayers in america, right? but they've seen it again, we've talked about it. defund the police, that was republicans, right? oh, oh, that's wonderful. oh, great. media our media, oh, that's wonderful. it was donald trump's border crisis, oh, clearly. clearly, about a week after he left office and you rolled out the welcome wagon, we're going to give you free health care, we're going to give

guy johnson. ♪ guy: tuesday the sixth of july.elcome back, america. 30 minutes into the trading day. from london, i'm guy johnson. my coast today in new york, taylor riggs -- my cohost today in new york, taylor riggs. alix steel has a well-deserved week off. these gains feel a little cautious to me. taylor: you talk about record highs with the nasdaq 100 as the s&p cools down, but you are looking at the vix now with a 16 handle. you're getting a little bit of an elevation and some of that nervousness, and take a look at the 30 year yield. you are now below 2% the first time since june 21, so you are releasing bonds catching a bid here. you want to talk about nervousness? didi off 22%. below that ipo price, really hurting today. guy: we are starting to get some data which may also have a negative effect on the wider market. the u.s. june ism services gauge falling to 60.1, down from 64. the estimate was 63.5. if you look through all of the component parts, business activity, the employment index, the orders index, the backlogs have

thank you, guys! [cheers and applause] thank you, guys. thank you.hank you for -- i make this fun. thank you, guice. -- guys. ♪ >> former president trump gives remarks at the conservative political action conference in not -- in dallas on thursday. watch on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> sunday night on "q&a," historian donald ritchie tells us about drew pearson, a man who derailed the political careers of several members of congress and attracted the attention and anger of every president from fdr to mexican. >> he had a column called "the washington merry-go-round" every single day, even holidays and weekends, and he did that from 1932 until he died in 1969. the column continued under jack anderson. he also had a very popular radio show on sunday night, and he tried to make it into television in the 1950's. he was a best-selling author. he was a man who told the truth. he told what politicians really would prefer not to see in the newspapers, and he tried to get behind the news and tell people what was real

guy: to where?emy: we've recently revised our forecast lower, and we had been previously assuming that the euro would hold up relatively well. we have now revised down our year-end forecast towards the 1.15% threshold. there is this position overhang, and if we are right that the fed are going to be moving towards a tapering bias come september, seeing the employment dropped remains constructive and all of the ecb are maintaining of the slower for longer bias, i think that will encourage euro positioning to gradually ebb away, and i think that will encourage that cheaper euro bias. lagarde is intent on keeping financial conditions loose. i think financial -- the economy is perhaps slower in the second half of the year than people head out for. alix: do you think that people had hoped for -- then people had hoped for. alix: do you think we will get some volatility in the market? jeremy: i'm always very mindful of the fx volatility as we move into the summer. i've been around long enough to rumor that

guy: is it just chips?alking to our guest from freightwaves a little earlier on, who was indicating that some of the truck oems are struggling not only with chicks, but with -- with chips, but with transmissions and other kinds of parts. we have seen supply chains breaking down around the world. the shipping industry is still continuing to struggle. to boil it down, is it just chips, or are there other factors at play here as well? david: chips are the main thing. there have been other factors. some of them have been related to the weather. we saw a polymer shortage in a while for automotive foam for seating related to storms in the midwest and the south a couple of months ago. but it is primarily semiconductors. in addition, the industry is constrained from the plant in japan that is not online yet. they are talk about getting that back online in july, so there could be some relief this month, but even general motors, which has been the most bullish about this, is saying it is a fluid situation. that is th

guy: friday the ninth. 3:00 p.m. in london, 10 a clock, new york, 30 minutes into the trading day in the united states. my cohost in new york, taylor riggs. alix steel will be back on monday. taylor, yields start to rise. small caps catch a bid. we are kind of unwinding what the rest of the week has looked like. taylor: unwinding at least a little bit of yesterday's trade. that reflationary trade for today is back in vogue. we are up about 1.5% on the russell 2000. the s&p 500 up 0.7%. trying to address yesterday's losses. in the 30 year we were heading down for 1.90%. make our way back up to 1.98%, up about five basis points on the day. we have to talk about one of the big deals, sam's dotcom getting a buyout. you are now up 64% on the day. guy: bloomberg getting hold of an eu draft suggesting that all new cars will be zero emissions from 2035. the industry is starting to get a little bit nervous about what is happening here. a suggestion may be that the leaders need to not only talk the talk, but walk the walk when

guy: the u.k.sfer secretary speaking earlier in the house of this is becoming increasingly confusing as to was alternately happening. the u.k. is in some ways try to make it easy. a lot of details around testing are difficult to determine how easy it is going to be to travel. it only applies to english residents. if you want to come see me over here, you still have to quarantine coming out with another country. we cannot come and see you. the situation in europe, really confusing. germany is looking to classify spain as a covid risk area. the case numbers of the delta variant in spain, absolutely surging. we will try to get some clarity. i am not entirely sure we are getting at. taylor: headlines out of anthony fauci as welcome us and all three of the u.s. authorized vaccines are effective against delta, at least reducing severe cases and hospitalization and death. many of the cases you hear about our asymptomatic or mild. we had that fancy dating -- fascinating conversation about the divergence we

guy? guy: they look like they're having fun.inisters are sounding confident they can reach an agreement on a global been among corporate tax. bloomberg's maria tadeo is in venice into standing by with another great interview. maria? maria: let's go straight with our guest, the mexican finance minister arturo herrera. good morning. min. herrera: good morning in mexico, good afternoon in venice. maria: we are hoping to get this deal on the range but also being able to tax companies in places where they make their money. how confident are you we get the deal? min. herrera: very confident. last year and the previous year we also -- we almost reach an agreement. we have 19 out of the 20. the whole that was the u.s. -- the holdout was the u.s.. the u.s. has become one of the leaders. maria: you mentioned there's been a change in the u.s. administration. for mexico that is very important. min. herrera: it is actually working pretty well, both in terms of the new administration but also in a practical sense. it was in the middle of the

the third guy is this kind of radical intellectual, young guy, in his 30s. he's trying to piece together a living by writing and talking, guy named arthur west, he comes in there and he kind of gives the barn burner. he seconds that kind of radical critique that groups had been making. he's older. he's well read and he says, yes, this is another war of imperialism. he uses the "i" word. the u.s. is a new imperialist. you can imagine the students, okay, something to grapple with. that was two hours. and they had ten more hours of hanging out, talking, they broke into small groups, classrooms like this. okay, and these things spread. that's what i guess i'm trying to say. who you could bring in varied. did you have an expert? did you have someone who knew something about vietnam? often, no. there were no courses in any university in the united states on the history of vietnam. there was no university in the united states that taught the vietnamese language. you didn't have a lot of in-house experts in the united states on these issues. last, we didn't have man

for the older guys even some of the guys who were in from the vietnam experience is like you guys seem to be careful what you are wishing for here. but, as a group the one unique thing is, you develop a loyalty to that unit and a loyalty to that type of military association that you are not going to let your buddies down, you are going to go. to the point of we were finding out things ahead of friends. you can't wear braces and go over the remise will take them off. that is in a sample. guys who had jobs, guys who own their own business you had put that on hold. and don't know if the going to have that when they get back. >> what about the community? how did the community react? >> that is consistently with griffin's history of support for those. and then probably i guess since that was the first time something had happened that hit close to home since vietnam think everybody sorted and braced let's show them all the love we can. did the same thing we came back. >> host: so when you came back from fort irwin was at a busted balloon? >> it was for me. because you just felt like you got

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guy: thank you very much.nch and european business leaders meeting in person for the first time in two years at the economic conference known as the french davos. joining us now from the conference is gilles moec, axa's chief economist. the travel sector is still finding life very difficult at the moment. angela merkel, boris johnson they be not delivering the breakthrough in terms of u.k. travel that somewhere expecting today. if this continues, what impact is it going to have on your economic expectations, particularly for southern european countries this year? gilles: the problem is really the source of divergence between the north and the south of europe. if we cannot completely normalize international travel, it is definitely a big issues for countries like greece, portugal, spain, italy and france. so it is a source of divergence, but i would say there are two separate issues there because yes, we are having difficulties finding ways to travel from outside the eu into the eu, but as far as intra-eu trave

guy: they are killing people. after backlash biden is trying to walk it back. >> i was asked that question about the right things happening. facebook is not killing people these people are out there giving misinformation. anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it it's killing people. it is bad information. my hope is facebook instead of it taking it personally i'm saying facebook is killing people they would do something about the misinformation. guy: why would anyone say facebook is killing people aside from him who set it on tape, they are killing people don't take it personally. made while the surgeon general's backing up the president and the public shaming of facebook. >> we know that misinformation harms people's health. because of their lives but i've seen that as a doctor over the years, his patients have struggled with this information. here's the key thing to run, health misinformation takes away our freedom and our power to make decisions for us and for our families. that is a problem. the platforms

guy: how?aren: most investors hold more or less just nominal bonds and stocks to make up most of their risk, and that means you are not very hedged to inflation. if you get higher than patient outcomes, you can do things to prepare your portfolio for that. a simple example is just replacing some of your nominal bonds with inflation linked bonds that will pay you cpi. if it is cpi that comes out higher, it is currently discounted in the nominal bonds. wiley can hurt to buy negative yielding assets, you will get paid if cpi comes out higher than expected, and it is not expected to be very high. the next thing is real assets, the lots of discussion on gold, but also commodities. exposure to commodities means exposure to the literal raw materials that go into making the things that we buy in a very direct ray, a very short-term way, and something most investors don't have a lot of exposure to. alix: investors tend to have more exposure to oil. that tends to be a commodity hedge favorite. is that th

guy: they will require a degree of rotation, mask wearing, it's a little different than you guys in new i was wondering how you would put the stories together, the eiffel tower and jr. bankers. a good effort. alix: i don't think i really did it. but enough for us to be ok. it was not a good one. guy: i wonder how long it will be open for. you do have to get the lift up the elevator, that's a factor. you have to bear in mind it's a long way to walk. the other is that if you're coming to europe and you are traveling to europe, maybe you to go to paris and you go to the eiffel tower. but we want to go up the empire state building and we can't do that yet. alix: that was interesting in the meeting yesterday, a real push to open that. it's a fair point. if i can go there and come home, why can't you come here? it does make a lot of sense. particularly when some areas and southeast asia do not have those restrictions and they have higher case counts. guy: and the delta variant is more prevalent everywhere. we will see what happens. the president says he will make the announcement over the nex

guy: thank, indeed.e will be catching up with maria a little later to talk to the austrian finance minister. elon musk testifying in wilmington, delaware in the trial over tesla's $2 billion acquisition of solarcity. musk accused of overpaying to acquire the company and failing to disclose how deep the business was in terms of financial trouble. dana howell covers tesla. what else are relearning here? reporter: right now, musk is being questioned by his attorney, going through the rationale for acquiring solarcity, insisting he didn't do any arm-twisting to get the deal approved. he said his born members -- his board members made their own decisions. it is an interesting trial. reporters at the trial are not allowed to tweet, there's no live stream, so we are learning what we can as our comrade in delaware let us know what they are hearing. alix: we will look forward to more details as they come. thank you, dana hull from bloomberg. ride-hailing giant didi warns of negative impact after it complies with

guy: thank you very much, indeed.e will hear your conversation a little bit later on in the program as well. as maria says, a huge challenge for key industries. aviation is going to be one of them, making sure aircraft can make this transition. i spoke to the chief technology officer's of some of the world's leading aerospace companies as this information was coming out from brussels. let's take a listen to what they had to say about what they were hearing. >> certainly an aggressive goal, but we need aggressive goals. >> beyond the technical barriers, the key of the objectives that you just outlined his accelerating scale. >> we are in line with the engineering challenge for this horizon. we will have to clearly investigate the safety aspect of it. >> it is a partnership among many factions, and in many cases, policy and government has to move along to helpless altogether. >> i think everything -- to help pull us altogether. >> i think everything is in line. >> just how much the world has re-industrialized, it is not

it was some guys. and then you would pitch your story i mean if you wanted to go you'd have to pitch story. you just filled out the paperwork you move down. but if you said i have a reason i shouldn't serve. either present it i have a note from my doctor. i have a really bad cold. i can't take the test. but the equivalent i can't go to vietnam. oh, you know for years i've had this psychiatric condition. it's just i'm kind of crazy. sorry and i have a note to prove it all kinds of reasons and the draft board could look at the stuff and go like yeah, whatever. on the bus didn't happen that fast, but you get the point or they could say i know you're dead. he's a good guy. you don't have to go. so it was really wide open. as to who would end up going to vietnam obviously if you had more resources access to psychiatrists. access to good jobs that were necessary the money to keep staying in school. you had a real advantage if you did not want to serve. now in 65 when there weren't that many draft notices bei

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live from london, i'm guy johnson.e've got a lot to talk about over the next 30 minutes, over the next hour. alix steel has a well-deserved day off today after the fourth of july yesterday. the boston pops celebration. let's talk about where we are with the markets now. the ftse, the dax, and the cac not going anywhere in a hurry today. a little bit of outperformance coming through from the london market. our clays doing relatively well. some of the mine -- barclays doing relatively well. some of the mining stocks on the front foot. the cac up by about 0.3%. the smi in zurich going nowhere. the dax down around 45% in terms of the regular 100 day average volume. so we are getting an effect from the closure we are seeing in the united states as a result of the fourth of july, fifth of july holiday. but there's plenty to talk about. opec+, we still don't have a resumption of talks. we were expecting a meeting. it feels like we are about two hours now behind schedule. no sign of a healing of this group. we still have not r

like a careful bad guy. the vigilante spirit has an inextricable link to the american spirit rebels from the get-go i guess. that you don't want to write a car and you don't want to read it but she don't want to live in an apartment. we don't want to get on the train want to take the car. >> we want our doctor. we don't want their doctor grade >> he's you that playing out in the struggle to get the vaccine and that bootstrap mentality but i want to get back to the book for second which is i loved the parts about you fred so many oaks and the first question i would ask is why did it take so long to write this book blacks. >> at the end of the line i'm 75. these incredible episodes like berlin when the wall is coming down or with bishop tutu in a backroom for a half-dozen years with tip o'neill. again just me and two other guys and being on the air force one armory and when one with jimmy carter. i didn't think i'd get to do this magical mystery tour of life and yet i did and i always want to do it but i signe

guy: i'm just notú! you can blame me for this, but i guess i will take whatever i can get at this point in time, one way or the other. taylor: stay with us. coming up, signs of that reflation trade are running out of steam. the russell 2000 off 0.9%. lori calvasina of rbc capital markets saying that the market mood is of fading optimism. she will join us next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: let's check in on the bloomberg first renews -- first word news. the president of haiti has been assassinated. he was killed at has private what evidence -- private residence. he had governed by decree since january 2020, when parliament returns expired, without elections being held. repairing to declare a new state of emergency in tokyo. that would mean the summer olympics would be held without spectators. tokyo reported the most new coronavirus cases since may 13. president biden will take on the rapidly growing threat of ransomware against companies and local institutions. over the weekend, there was a ransomware att

did you guys see this? this is interesting. you guys -- this is interesting, you guys see this? laughter ] florida congressman and piece of human [ bleep ], i'm sorry, alleged piece of human [ bleep ], matt gaetz, was in town this week, to raise money in the fight against homelessness. just kidding, he went to a free britney rally. >> britney's been abused by the media, she's been abused by a grifter father, she's been abused by the american justice system. we need to come together and create a federal cause of action, a federal change in law that will free britney and the millions of americans impacted by a corrupt guardianship system that empowers people to take advantage of the weak. >> nick: at first i was impressed that matt gaetz was on the right side of an issue, but then i was bummed out we were wearing almost the same exact suit. [ laughter ] now i realize he was only there because he thought he was gonna get a "free britney." [ laughter and applause ] i just love that the guy who's been accused of sex trafficking a minor is suddenly an advocate for troubled children ge

>> thank you >> thank you guys so much. >> congrats, guys. >> thanks. >> you did it.g up next, one thing that japan is wild for, mascots. from the olympics to food and even the police. we are about to reveal our very own mascot, but we need your help, okay we need you to help choose the name but first, this is "today" on >>> we're back and still enjoying our visit from the tokyo olympic mascots.lympic ma. >> they're >> they're so cute >> adorable. >> we've been talking during the breaks here in japan, these mascots are just the tip of the iceberg. mascots can be found everywhere for just about anything. and we decided, here we are, maybe "today," maybe "today" show needs its own mascot. >> we tracked down one of japan's top mascot designers who is making her mark as a rare female ceo overseeing an all female workforce and we asked her to make a special mascot for our show take a look. japan is mad for mascots for mascots for fermented soybeans to a mascot for the tokyo police department there's even an anti-coronavirus cat. and, of course, we have the tokyo olympic ma

thank you, guys! [cheers and applause] thank you, guys. thank you.nk you for -- i make this fun. thank you, guice. -- guys. ♪ announcer: former president trump gives remarks at the con serb active split action in dallas, watch live at 4:45 eastern on c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government funded by these television companies and more including broadband. ♪ >> buckeye broadband supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> next, a recount of the u.s. supreme court term with former solicitor general paul cle meant who worked in the george w. bush administration and other legal officials. the panel discusss the con serb active majority in the court and what it could mean for future rulings.

then i saw you guys on the news. i was like, oh yeah, these guys don't seem to be lying.> yeah, that's one of the cool things about the story is that, you know, it happened to someone like michael with his reputation. if it was some yahoo, all we'd be doing is arguing whether it happened or not. and because it's michael with his reputation as a high line fisherman, guys who don't exaggerate about stuff ever. >> jimmy: that's a great lesson for humpback whales. if you are to swallow someone, find a credible individual, someone who's respected in the local community. [ applause ] we have a few gifts for you, michael. i don't know if you have "free willy" on dvd, but that's something for you. we got you, this is going to come in handy, this is "mo-be-gone" whale repellent. this shirt, one of a kind, nobody else has this, "kiss me, i got swallowed by a whale." i don't think we could really ever do this without a nod to tom carvelle, and we made you a special fudgy the whale cake with a guy inside him. >> i just want to say something. >> jimmy: yes, go ahead. >> i want to apol

this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: from london, i'm guy johnson.lor riggs is over in new york, in for alix steel. taylor, market are setting a high bar for the first half. stocks in europe are doing well. stocks in the united states, doing pretty well. europe, the second-best half since 1998. could we top that in the second half? let's talk about the second half of the game. abigail doolittle is looking ahead. abigail: similar to what you were just talking about with stoxx 600 having its best first half since 1998. if you take a look at the energy sector here, up 46%, on pace for the best year ever six months in. clearly, the reflationary trade is happening in a big way. banks, about 25% up. one part that is not playing in this risk on trade, the credit part of the risk asset. the bloomberg aggregate credit index down just a little bit this year. it's interesting it, whether or not that is a sign of some storm clouds or on the other hand, you have trades so tight that perhaps all is well. we do know when we have a banner first half, going back all

guy: thank you very much, indeed.r president donald trump speaking now in bedminster, new jersey. the headlines coming from that event, unsurprising. we were expecting this. the former president says he's filing a suit against facebook, google, and twitter. he's basically suing, he says, to halt the censorship of his accounts, accounts he used so prolifically. we will continue to keep you updated with what we get from that event. the former president continues to speak. anymore headlines, we will bring them to you as quickly as possible. in the meantime, let's discuss what is happening in europe. a significant event can place at the ecb. policymakers locked in talks, looking to finalize the central bank's strategic overhaul. this is a hugely important event , and will define european monetary policy going forward. peter praet is the former chief economist. what do you think would emerge? peter: it has taken a lot of time, but the pandemic has slowed down the process. it is quite important that before the exit from the

how about you guys, hey? how about you guys, hey? you might know each other what are your names? >> this is my first husband. my name emmy sedona. his name is -- >> allen ballman >> yeah. >> jimmy: okay, allen ballman. >> yes >> jimmy: emmy, emmy sedona. >> emmy, emmy. >> jimmy: yeah, of course. emmy, summer is in full swing. >> it is whoo [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what's your favorite thing to do at the pool? >> well, i like to put on my pool floaties, and then, i watch "the boss baby: family business." [ laughter ] right, it's fun. [ laughter ] it's fun >> jimmy: it's your favorite thing to do in the pool. >> favorite. >> jimmy: okay, and when you're at the pool, what's your favorite thing to eat? >> oh, gosh. >> well, i really like to eat "boss baby: family business. [ laughter ] >> yeah, he does eat that, he eats a little bit too much if you don't already know >> jimmy: okay, i understand okay >> i'm allergic to lobster tail, so it's always a safe bet to eat "the boss baby: family business." >> jimmy: of course, yes of course. but i

so 3 children, black guy, 3, nothing more. the 1st black kid, he was an old boy and had to go to the cemetery and then looked on the way back from the funeral, a truck around him. he was dead. so when the phone had left him a phone code, that was the 1st one. second, i was the 3rd, the 2nd he drowned and unlike me during his childhood costs and it was on the receiving in the racist insults on a daily basis. and the father on the open streets when i was about 12 my look at the and that was here in months. i didn't look at my look how dirty years and then i thought and how they got it can't be they can't be that you allow this kind of told us to let me cost it the son of a german mother and an african american father. he never me, wasn't the only target back in those post world war 2 days. race makes. it wasn't welcome or was also important. why does my mother have to suffer so much? because she got the most racist. yes she did. from the i don't want to repeat here what i've heard of that here. all the things that i've said to m

guy adami, karen finerman, and intel, snap, and twitter intel and snap just kicking off and we are dialled in and ready to break down the big headlines. didi falling another 10% and the leading headline out of china that had investors slamming the brakes and later, gushing with opportunity. one top technician says it is time to hit the buy button on big oil and the two names he is hitting. we start with a pair of social climbers snap's call just getting under way and let's go straight to julia boorstin who has all of the details. julia? >> melissa, let's stat out with twitter with 74% growth and revenue and earnings per share more than double what analysts estimated and the user growth of 7 million was right in line with those expectations, but the company guided to higher revenue than projected and our range between 1.2 billion and 1.3 billion also saying that it expects head count along with total costs and expenses to grow 30% or more and that revenue will grow faster than those expenses >> i spoke to ned segal and he told me that twitter grew and in the coming quarter, he will have mor

>> guy: that's what i was trying to figure out. can't imagine the pandemic is irrelevant here. i feel like there's a lot of people cooped up in their homes, not really traveling as much. now they're coming back into airports and airplanes and being asked to wear masks at all times p and there on a hair trigger. maybe people have forgotten how to comport themselves in public a little bit. that has to be at least an ingredient, i would imagine. >> julie: it is so sad, there's a kid in that video. it's really horrifying, carley. i mean, watching these videos, i don't know if this is necessarily sending a message that this is unacceptable, because the more and more we see it, it almost feels like passengers just become unrulier. >> carley: my mom was a flight attendant, my aunt worked for an airline. my cousin is a flight attendant. so i sympathize with flight attendants. they are now getting treated really poorly because people are miserable on planes. ultimately it's the misbehaving passengers' fault, but i also placed blame on airli

thank you, guys.are going to look ahead to the weekend. friday, i should say. less humid around the great lakes, but hot and humid down through the south. pop-up storms out west continuing that monsoonal moisture through the southwest on saturday. nice day in the northeast and the mid-atlantic. heat continues down south. sunday -- sunday! scattered showers and storms down through the southeast. localized flooding, unfortunately. rockies into the southwest. and some showers in northern new england. that's what's going on around the -- oh, well, we're going to -- that's what's going on. i was going to do the -- >> whatever. >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. taking a look at our inland temperatures it's going to be hot today. our highs reach into the mid-90s, some spots close to 100 degrees. as we go toward the weekend, slightly cooler and not really a change in san francisco. we may see a little bit more sunshine starting tomorrow, but we are still with low clouds and fog each morning. afte

the guy says that.like, 15 minutes they were preparing jokes for mtv video music awards >> jimmy: you can't follow chris rock >> "oh, but you had to, jason. [ light laughter ] no, "i know, you can't." and so, he comes down and then he walks by me and he goes, "hey, man. good luck. i go, "thank you, i appreciate it." he goes, "they love original thought. that was his one little sentence of advice they love original thought >> jimmy: chris said that to you after he just destroyed -- >> after he just destroyed for 20 minutes >> jimmy: yeah, he's like -- yeah the microphone's melted. [ light laughter ] the original -- yeah >> yeah, the original thought is, like, " i have none. i have no thoughts right now." [ light laughter ] and then the guy is like, "ladies and gentlemen, jason sudekeis." and you know, said my name wrong. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: perfect. >> but you know what it felt like it was, kind of, like, a flag on the play. it was like, "okay if i bomb, if i fail right now, i'll all ways be able to s

this guy here is busy working on our state's recovery.eep your vacation here and help our state get back to work. and please travel responsibly. ♪ [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: performing his new song "go away," here's omar apollo. [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ ♪ you can take the throne body glows like gold beating hearts lie close without you ♪ ♪ time moves slow ♪ do you think that i could stay cause if i leave then i complain ♪ ♪ i know this feeling's not a crim you said you feel it all the time ♪ ♪ but if you had to go away agai i just don't see you enoug i wish i saw you enough ♪ ♪ it's something in the way i feel your skin i just don't see you enoug i wish i saw you enough ♪ ♪ if you saw me every mornin would you feel less important ♪ ♪ is that too muc i'm forcin cause i don' wanna be much ♪ ♪ i love the wa that we touc do you like al of my friends and ♪ ♪ i want your attention before you'd never mention that you got tim here to stay ♪ ♪ is that too muc for your brain but if you had t go away again ♪ ♪ i just don' see you enough i wish