not to catch you off guard, i think that when i look at mission bay, for example, i think every time i ride through there, i think maybe we didn't do enough in terms of the level of affordability, in terms of the design. like, i just -- i have -- i actually have a very visceral reaction when i look at some of the design in those buildings. i think d-- i understand the design and the location, and the research. i think that was very thoughtful, but when it came to the amount of housing, and the amount of housing we could have, and the height and the density and the mix of incomes, i see that as a really big missed opportunity, particularly because it was redevelopment land. it wasn't just private land, it was redevelopment land, so that's what i mean. >> commissioner moore: i appreciate your explaining yourself and giving more subtlety to the question. let me say that we are blessed with a number of very, very good plans in the city. most and foremost, i think our urban design planners are strong and exemplary for the rest of the country. since that i am too, we have served many good p

>> so, i think inflation is firming. but i don't think it's running away and i think the entire inflation we had this year, month after month after month, wage growth is yet to show signs of strength been talking about this for three, four years in a row it's still up 4% so i think certain pocket of the labor market are eating up, but the broader picture is not really showing much strength just yet and so keep in mind that in a logical disruption, automation, that's a big topic that is in the way acting as a deflation nair force so again, there's some positives and negatives and the picture thus far has been neutral. >> and mel, the truckers or delivery, their costs have been coming in as we've seen. >> field prices >> and diesel is going to be coming down when the retailers need it because this is when the stuff is coming off the docks. >> there was discussion within health care, a high skilled area, right, so wages there have been growing quite strongly. even there, technology, ai, ml, is entering and replacing jobs >>

i think this is an extraordinary moment. i hope that the country rises up, particularly in the hearings. there has been more activity among progressive groups, particularly in the last couple of days. we have seen democratic senators say "hold on. this is outrageous and out of the norm. in some ways anti-democratic, so we are going to take the step of canceling meetings with judge kavanaugh." they do not have a lot of rules on their side on this, they don't have a lot of procedure they can use, but i do think judge kavanaugh is an extraordinarily unpopular nominee. i think democrats, this is the moment where people are going to remember where they stood on these kind of constitutional questions. jerry: you don't have to be too old to remember the days when supreme court nominees were confirmed with 90 plus votes in the senate. are we beyond that? is that never going to happen again in this country? because it seems to be the ultimate polarizing topic. the supreme court nomination. neera: i think this is a great issue, and we

i don't think it is aging. and other work i'm doing where i actually do go back to the older surveys and look at the 1940's and 1950's, where we had the lost generation and the greatest seeration, what we actually is a rising and then falling support for engagement in international affairs. by actual theory about what is really going on underneath is that as america's position and to itsc dominance rose peak in 1950, you had a rising confidence among americans that we should be going out and kicking butt and taking names. by the way, we just won world war ii and beat the nazis. but what happened over the next 70 years? we slowly slid back down, and our economic might eroded and had unsuccessful foreign policy to go with it. depending on when you are born, you sort of come of age during a time when american foreign-policy either seems like it is going really well or maybe like it is not going so well, and that kind of imprints on you. that dissent is something you -- that effect is something you carry with you th

think. their world community at large is well aware of what's going on i don't think why not i don't know i think there is attention to it but i think things like senate a should it's a topic that a government official wants to discuss it's something that. you don't get a lot of ribbon cuttings for opening up a new sewer system you know that you would with redesigning the bolshoi or something like that. that's one conjecture about why that's the case but frankly i don't know but there is don't let me overstate it there is attention to it but i don't think the resources correspond to the need the argument that is often used to persuade donor countries to. provide resources for that kind of effort is the theory for migration if you don't want people coming into your cities you need to spend some money on making bad lives more livable do you think that is a persuasive argument. and it's one that as you say it's i think. a myth that's been held by many officials in. public officials and indeed international agencies that the sense that you can prevent people from coming to the cities i know in s

>> well i don't think there's any reassessment, david. i've been committed since i first announced to run in the primaries, to which i had responded and i've made no changes in my plans to either because it's new hampshire. or in consequence of the announcement of senator kennedy. >> i keep hearing a sort of rumbling indications of a deal at some point in the future. are you prepared to deal with bobby kennedy? >> i'm not prepared to deal with anybody. so far as my candidacy is concerned. i committed myself to a group of young people and i thought rather idealistic adults in american society. i said i would be their candidate and i intend to run as i committed myself to run. if a situation develops at a convention, of course, where i can't win, i will release my deg gts. i don't have any other power over them anyway. i don't have a block of delegates who i trade with. if i did have, i wouldn't trade with them. so far as i'm concerned, it will be an open and free convention. i'll run as hard as i can and stand as firm as i can in the conven

>> i think they bring a sensitivity. think that sensitivity not only comes from just being a woman but also from being a mother and a sister. we bring a caring attitude. we also i will say on my own women are determined and confident they can handle things. i think we bring a sense of i can fix it. that may be a little misplaced around this institute but i think having that attitude is still better than i can't fix it. you bring a willingness or openness that is not impossible. you bring a sense of the possibilities. you bring a sense of hope. we bring a sense of you can't tell me what to do and i am here and i got as much right as you did. i think the larger number of women who come, men are accepting it. i think -- sometimes men accept different -- they may act differently. men in their homes know how they -- they come here and act different. even them on who come come from corporate america where women executives. the more that we are here, men will act in the same they -- way they do in the private sector and in their

>> yeah, i mean, he may be thinking about impeachment. i mean, the question is whether or not you can indict a sitting president. there's a lot of legal debate on that. but, i minean, any time a lawye tells you you've got no legal jeopardy, especially in a case like this, i might look for another lawyer at least for second opinion. >> glenn, let's talk about the trial of trump's ex-campaign chairman paul man toafort. a parade of witnesses today. including home improvements costing $1.13 million in 2013. men's clothing costing over $400,000 from one boutique that same year. the manager testified that manafort was the only client to pay by international wire transfer and buying a mercedes-benz for $123,000. partly in cash. wired from cyprus. it's not illegal to spend your money frivolously. a lot of people do and a lot of people lose it. how is that important here, are they trying to show a pattern that he's using money, that he somehow, you know, had illegally from somewhere else, to do business? what's going on? >> don, i agree that the wa

and i think that matters.lso i think omarosa missed a great opportunity to take credit for all of the wonderful gains the president has made for people of color. whether it's the hbc's, the historically low unemployment numbers, the accessibility of more jobs, the drug reform that i worked on firsthand on behalf of the president, she said have said i'm very glad that all of our labors are bearing fruit, but instead she is trying to sell books and settle scores and you've got to be anti-drum for those to be successful. it's very disappointing. >> martha: let me ask you one more question before i let you go on a new topic. august 15th "the boston globe" possessed newspapers across the country to put out editorials essentially attacking the president for his dirty work, this is their quote, against the freak press, how do you respond to that? >> that's what they do every single day. every single day the mainstream media, which now has anywhere from 17 to 20% approval rating that i have seen his anti-comp and they

i think now he is winning. i do not think other presidents tweak the way he does. other country i that iso, i think probably unique to him, but i do there are a lot of people who can push the bounds of what is acceptable in terms of telling the truth, in terms of the edits in your numbers, in terms of just the volumes of either misinformation, false information, or lies, and see will have -- it is not that he is not being held accountable by the rest. -- the press. we are not congress. we cannot hold hearings. we are covering him. and i think we have covered him pretty thoroughly. but i do think that his election taught us how much of our system day, andthe end of the whether that changes. >> thank you, maggie. one more question, and then we will let you get from your. here. ok. [laughter] >> you have covered him for years. in covered him in new york, terms of saying that he was somebody who was on the outside who was trying to get the evidence of those in -- acceptance of those inside. who is he looking for acceptance from?what is driving this now ? is that adorati

i think we are close to the end. we will take one more question, but we will keep it quick and i will get them out of here. sir. >> i just had a simple question. particularly the older japanese are extremely concerned that the end of the day, this is nothing more than it will organize returned to the prewar situation. it all sounds very technical, but those in japan, especially those who were born and raised there and grew up hearing all the stories, there is a deep underlying fear that at the end of the day, it is simply a gradual return to that and that one day they will wake up and there will be an announcement the forces have been leaving, congratulations to the independence of the country and we're back to what we were before. the general feeling of the japanese people is strongly to defend the constitution protect , the constitution. at the end of the day, everybody knows the day after the last american troops leave, japan is back to where it was before, sadly. the democratic situation is not it'soped to a point

i think you know you've summarized the position in some respects but i do not think that is a kind of fundamental breach i think the europeans are clearly unhappy the one major diplomatic success if you like they can claim was the iran nuclear agreement and they're very upset at the united states withdrawal from it but on the other hand their ideas about iran and iran's regional power and it ballistic missile testing they don't differ very much so i think they they would appear to be big tactical difference here. and so i would have what i would argue is that that the at the core of transatlantic relations from the very beginning i don't think there was ever any altruism involved there was always a position of power i don't negotiation about power and power distribution so i think what the situation is now is that it's changed and to some extent there's a reason to go she ation of those relationships and i don't think it's only the united states which is acting much more towards is particular national interest european powers among themselves have always a tension between the european

i also think there is change. may be hopefulness on my part, but i do see the agriculture committee now has more women than they have ever had. both sides of the aisle, republican and democrat. so, i don't want to just say that agriculture is the worst committed by any means. i was pleased to serve on it, grateful, as i said earlier, but for me as an example, it ended if men are becoming far more open in the agriculture and rule areas. i think that women, having women as to the -- adds to the diversity of our society here and it represents america. >> we've asked you a lot about being a woman and the role of women in congress. being anabout african-american woman? what do you bring to the institution in that position? >> well, i bring diversity. of us who are of a representationa of a sector of america that was here. please note the increased number and the large number -- not large number but certainly asian americans. so i think we bring a thatsentation of diversity. that afro extent americans haven't been, or to

i think we have an ecb leadership change coming up. i don't think the ecb is seeing inflation.t is why i think bonds are cap. as much as i would like to tell points, ithe basis think it is 20, 30 basis points in bonds in treasuries, i think it could be interesting. the boj -- lisa: real yield! is actuallyoj trying to inject a little bit of volatility in the market. can it gap it at 20 basis points are can they not? if they start rising, we have a bigger global route. we're not looking for that. that is a risk factor. lisa: where is the big excitement going to be? iain: i think it could well be in the emerging markets. i think that is where we could see some volatility but also see distant -- see decent returns. onould say on the german, the court government rates, i think we could see yields push higher over the course of the back end of this year. when i look at germany, i agree. your cap at what the ecb is doing on the cash rate is not going anywhere. lisa: where will you be? michael: one trade we like is the relative yield between u.s. and germany. easier to pick relative yi

and i don't think they're going to raise any time soon, i don't think they can i think that probably is a better backdrop for overall activity and for loan growth. >> let me throw you another question a different way you think people are too optimistic, right? >> yeah. >> amy offers a point of view that says, okay, look, we've come a long way, maybe things aren't going to be as great as we think they are or as long as people are betting on. are people too optimistic? >> i think in the last 24 to 48 hours we have swung a little more optimistically as it relates to -- i think everyone now thinks that there's going to be a favorable resolution with the u.s. and the chinese i think we're now building that into the tape where a couple weeks ago i don't think we thought that >> or the fact that people are looking at kind of the trade agreement with mexico and baking in more than may come to bear at the end of the day and what the realization is as to what is actually in that agreement and the true effects that it will have. >> if they fix mexico and get canada and europe that's more importa

so i think men -- numbers don't lie, right? and so i look forward to working with the commission in helping to look at the data and see how we can better serve populations. and then, the last is something that's really dear to my heart. i am a third generation san franciscan who does not live in the city of san francisco. my grandfather was also a veteran, and he drove a city bus for the city of san francisco and could afford to buy a home with my grandmother who was a sales woman at macy's. my father now drives the trolley cars in san francisco, and i, as someone who is the beneficiary of their hard work, was able to go to georgetown using my g.i. bill but can't afford to buy a house in san francisco. so this issue of how to keep san franciscans in san francisco is something that i feel very passionate about, and i'm excited to become a part of the commission to talk about how to create a pathway to ensure that when veterans leave and go fight for their country, that they have a place to truly come home to. i hear that there's

i think you are right in one way. and i talk in my book about this, how democrats have taken too much corporate money, and some democrats at least have gotten too close to wall street, too close to some of the biggest .ompanies and money i think we need to change that. i argue in my book that is democrats, we need to be back in the party of working people and economic solutions that will help working people. i think we're moving in the right direction with that. i think the reaction to trump and his favoring the rich over everyone else will help us in this election. host: are nancy and -- nancy pelosi and chuck schumer helping in that? two and extent. democrats got used to a certain way raising money and it actually hurt us. because the more we raised money from big corporations, the more from billionaires, the more we lose touch with working people. i prefer elizabeth warren, where we raised a lot of the money onlinerking-class folks and they are more in touch with those kinds. if you look at the primaries, candidates

and i think that's kind of where we are and i think it's important to think about that. the second thing that i wanted to talk about is this concept of offset. who here has heard about the third offset? okay, i think that this is really important because every offset and offset is defined as a capability that gives the west a symmetric military advantage and we've been through two of those cycles. the last administration talked about the third offset. this administration says you can't talk about an offset like that, whatever, the bottom line, it happened. in the 50's was the first offset, this is where we were conventionally weak. so the offset we chose to pursue was nuclear weapons in all forms. and, of course, we did a pretty good job with that, went through the whole cold war, all that. we went through it. the next offset came in the '70s. the reason it came in the '70s was by that time the russians had pretty much achieved nuclear parity with us. and so we explored more nuclear kind of asymmetric advantage, for those of us that are old enough, we had a pretty big dis

but i don't think you're wrong to pull some off the table or protect with puts. t i did. >>> ryan in utah wants to know what's going on with royal dutch shell? stock is down 9% in a month. jim, what's the story? >> one, the price of oil is off a little bit, plus they disappointed a little on their earnings i think this is a fairly safe way to play oil. with all the geopolitical tensions going on, i do want to play oil going higher. the stock has a 5.2% defensive den -- dividend yield ike royal is going higher. >>> what do you think about glaxo, kevin >> i own it, i love it, great balance sheet, good dividend global player in a space that everybody is starting to add to for the back of the year pharma, go long. i own it. >> thanks, enjoy the weekend >>> finally a tweet about dropbox. doc, what do you do? what do you do with the stock? >> i bought stock today and wrote at the money calls against it i know the coo stemmed away and that's why the stock was under some pressure after a fabulous earnings report. i think it will go right back to work pretty soon and they'

i think this is a message in both directions. pare that it's probably not going to happen and secondly, to the president. reiterating they'll think it's a good idea. >>martha: what's the impact if he sits down or does not? >> this is a pr strategy more than a legal strategy. i feel like i have breakfast with him every morning, he's on my television so much. in the end, this may go to congress. whatever report comes out. this will be a political fight and the presidents team is setting it up that way. we know the presidents lawyers don't want him to testify or interview but they don't want to make it like he doesn't want to do the interview because it may look like he's hiding something. so this all back and forth is way to stretch out the argument, make it look that whether the president is or isn't willing to do it. make it look like he is. >>martha: wish we had a crystal ball so we can see how this story ends. his other attorney also came out this week. he said, basically, we didn't accept the offer from the special counsel that

i think it is just really this enormous paradigm shift. james: alex, there are obviously a lot of places where you cannot hit democrats. i know we keep bringing it back to trump, but in some of these red states, you have obviously, 10 democratic senators who are up for reelection in states that the president carried. when you think about how the president sucks up all the oxygen, how hard does it make it to place negative stories about a joe donnelly or a heidi heitkamp or a joe manchin, given that these stories have it comes so much more nationalized? is it harder than in 2014 or 2016? alex: i think the nationalization of the presidency and what is going on in washington, is somewhat confined to the washington bubble just because i think -- i am from pennsylvania originally, so i have a lot of family and friends back home in the county where the president was last night. some of my family and friends were two-time obama voters who ended up voting for the president. whenever i get a chance, i ask them what they think is going on, what it is

i think that ended with -- i think the watergate scandal actually ended that period of coziness and made reporters feel their obligation was something different. >> i would actually even go back a bit. i think it was because of misleading the american team about the nature of the war in vietnam. >> i totally agree. the vietnam war followed by the watergate scandal led to a collapse of that feeling of cozy trust, of trust in institutions. it made reporters feel that their obligation was not to find out -- not to be friends with the president, but to be a watchdog on things that the president was doing, whether it was -- whether it was war or something else. >> ron? >> well, i think there has been a very big change in the relationship since i was -- since i covered the white house and then -- and then i was ford's press secretary. the big change it seems to me is that in those days you had morning newspapers. >> yeah. >> which had a deadline of 6:30 in the evening, you had on television -- you didn't have any cable television and you didn't have any internet, you had, as i said, morning ne

but i think that the. no give them some opportunity to work with them and i hope that in a month when we have at least three other platforms in that we will see. a willingness to collaborate with us to come up with a solution bravo and it's not just facebook for doing just as great one question though since already most americans head to social media to get their news when will freedom of speech ring a bell we talked to tony brian logan a political commentator who told us that if you have known liberal views you could well end up censored. feels like the only people they have the right to speak out are those who agree with the leftist principles if you are against lefties ideology any kind of way they find a way to demonize you they call you a conspiracy theories they say it is you're promoting fake news we're coming more under the control of big corporations and a lot of these people who are in the government and corporations are kind of working together to colluding with each other any kind of extra regu

attacked our system so aggressively but i think that as a fact i don't i don't think that's deniable the question then is what did that do and what impact did that have on the results of the election and for what reason did russian intelligence conduct that activity i don't have the answers to those questions that i won't speculate because i think that would be irresponsible i think we have to determine what happened and then decide what happened on the basis of the evidence and i don't think we're there yet but that's the thing i don't know that anyone has presented the evidence and the facts have been presented to the public by intelligence agencies american public has been misled intentionally or not by its intelligence community many times like i am i'm thinking w m d's in iraq for instance since the consequences of that are still felt fifteen years or so widely wholehearted face in what the intelligence is telling them about russia now especially what you're saying it's a fact but every time russia asks to show them the facts they they they are unable to provide them. just like w

i think the brennan-trump thing has taken on its own life and in the last 48 hours that i don't think that anyone is necessarily happy with or proud of. if one has the instincts and the intent of our being concerned about national security, i wouldn't put mr. brennan and his actions the last four or five days of the top of the list. >> jason: i would. i think he uses it as a tool for his own personal political gain and financial gain. that is my own personal opinion. chris, it begs the question, why do people in perpetuity continue to get security clearances after they leave office? it's expensive to do, right? is this really justified in this day and age? >> i don't think so. i think there are far too many people post government service who retain their clearances. they are expensive, got to do re-investigations periodically, and the test is, the criteria is, is it in the best interest of the government for them to keep their clearances? i would say, the number of people that retain those clearances, the answer is no. it's a commercial gain for them, not so much benefit to the govern

>> i think it can.irst off we had a trifecta of new highs the s&p 500, nasdaq, russell 2,000, with so when you've got that kind of breath widening out of the participation in this rally that tends to be pretty good. we also recouped all that we lost in the correction from january 26th to february 11th. history bakely says we go on to advance by almost 9.5% on average. and we don't stumble again for another four months. so not to say that that's exactly how it is beginning to play out this time but usually when you hit a new all time high that tends to add to investor confidence. >> just to play devils advocate although routeing for bull market let's go back to earlier years this remind me a lot of 2,000. okay in 2,000 we -- that was last time you saying yes -- >> i was saying yikes. [laughter] >> you'll see where i'm going with it then in 2000 that was last time consumer confidence was this high okay so we have highest since 2000 announced last week. we were on -- incredible tray are trajectory and then

i think you're saving like 5%, right? start, i guess. >> well, the exciting thing is we believe -- we've actually demonstrated this we can take 5% to 10% out of the total healthcare spend so primary care in the u.s. is only about 6% of the spend by having highly accessible care that's available 24/7, we're avoiding 30, 40, 50% of the emergency room visits. our office visits are longer our providers are paid a salary. most providers are paid a fee for every service. so they see people quickly, they refer out for tests. ours have the time to spend with people so we end up reducing the more costly hospital visits, emergency visits, testing visits by having this modernized accessible primary care offering >> is this going to be the model you use, carlyle group and others what do you see there? do you see it at some point in the future someone acquiring you eventually >> well, there's certainly a lot of -- there's been a lot of chatter about ipo. for us it's about spreading this model across the country we are on track to deli

so i think we are in a new place now. i know you want to get to that question later, so i will hold off for the moment. it does seem like it bears butit does seem like it bears mentioning. but it was not always easy covering the obama white house. host: how did the relationship change? you covered the state house and then congress, but how did it change over the eight years that you were there, the relationship between the press and barack obama? christie: for me personally, it got a lot harder to get his time, so that was the problem. [laughter] host: there were more than one of you covering him. christie: exactly. he had a long time to talk in the statehouse, but after a while, it -- [laughter] but over time, he just got better at figuring out who was really paying close attention and who the most knowledgeable reporters were on the subjects he wanted to talk about. and he gave a lot of access to those reporters, and who he and whohom he trusted he thought would understand the story as he wanted to tell it, which is not

i think that's difficult. as a little boy i used to watch the television show "adventures and superman" starring george reed. george reeves flew, he put his arms out in front of him with his interlocking thumb grip which i thought it was key to the whole navigational experience and he would go to the left, he would go to the right and his cape would fly behind him and he would look at the city's passing and below. when you're five years old, television does not lie. i went to the backyard and i put a towel around myself, this was Ãbi don't know if any of you saw the mr. rogers movie but they talk about this in the movie. kids actually did, what i did, although from a much smaller height and hurt themselves, but i went and tried from a very small height to fly and spoiler alert, i was unsuccessful. that didn't prove i couldn't fly. i could have done it a million times, that would only have made it all the more statistically unlikely. you can't prove that there were weapons of mass discretion in iraq, he could on

it was an unbelievable honor to serve he wanted to change, i think rightly so. i had become the story too often and admittedly was a bit of distraction from what he was trying to communicate and get through and let the focus be on his agenda and his policies so he wanted someone new, i respect that and my view was i wanted to give the president and his choice, anthony, and opportunity for a clean slate. i walked in and i detailed that the oval office is probably 25 yards in the press secretary's office is equidistant from the briefing room to the oval office and i walked through in the book that i knew thursday night if this decision came down the way i thought one , it continued to look like that was going to be the case then i needed to make that decision and i did and i walked in and i president a letter that said i respectfully submit my resignation and i want to pursue other opportunities, i'll continue to stay on to the end of next month to support our transition but i wanted the president to have a clean state slate and it still when i think about now just

i think it's a big problem. all street broker at the height of the crisis of nixon, before his resignation. i've always remembered this, as someone who has been a huge beneficiary, as i believe we all are, of american goodwill and power throughout my lifetime. he said, "america is a great enough country to be able to survive a period of bad government". laughter. now, in the 1960s, after president de gaulle of france blocked britain's attempt tojoin europe's political institutions, one cabinet minister so disdained the continent that whenever he travelled to paris, he took his own sandwiches. this week, there's been a british cabinet minister in france practically every day — the foreign secretary, the business secretary and the brexit secretary. i'd lay a pound to a euro that they've gone out of their way to praise the cuisine. theresa may, the prime minister, topped them all by securing an invitation for dinner with president emmanuel macron at his summer retreat on a small island on the cote d'azur. the presen

neil: i think we make it controversial. >> it shouldn't be. i don't think it should be. ney general and he clearly doesn't, he's free not to, many a president turned on their cabinet members -- >> i don't dislike jeff sessions. president trump doesn't like him. neil: then get rid of him. >> i agree. why not fire him. what i think he should do, you put someone like, for instance, lindsey graham up for that role, i think it's going to mitigate potential, some of the political backlash, some of the rhetoric from the media because he's been someone heralded at various times as someone who is very middle of the road, very objective. i think he could mitigate it depending on who he would nominate for that position after jeff sessions. but i don't think he should have recused himself from the beginning. you look at the security clearance forms, he was actually right for filling it out the way that he did. neil: we can go back in time. >> in terms of taking meetings with russians, so did people like senator mccaskill, who criticized jeff sessions for doing that thing. neil: the w

i think first of all, i think he shouldn't do it. he shouldn't pardon anyone as it relates to the russia investigation and the russia collusion investigation at all. in addition, i think that if he is going to bar do ing ting to should wait until after the conclusion of mueller's investigation. >> it's interesting, because you have been critical of what this week has meant for the president. largely because of what michael cohen testified to under oath, said under oath in a federal courthouse this week. you called that an earthquake for the president. did something change? >> i think it's an earthquake in that it has shaken up the republican establishment and the powers that be in washington. i think that people are afraid, like i said a minute ago, about not being able to get their message out on the economy, about jobs, about judicial confirmations. it's just a giant distraction for republicans. it feeds into the hand of democrats. >> also -- >> wanting to distract from the economy. >> you also have, as a major republican donor --

shaheen: i agree, i think that's positive. as we have discussed before, i had the opportunity to visit syria and see the stabilization efforts that have taken place in northeast syria along the turkish border, and how much the syrian people have benefited from that, from throwing isis out of that, and continue to be very troubled by the fact that the administration has withheld stabilization funds for that part of syria. how does continuing to deny efforts to support stabilization in that area fit with our russia policy? because doesn't that give russia and assad and iran and turkey, for that matter, all the opportunity to go into that part of syria who has a chance now to with continued stabilization and continued support to continue to be a place where the syrians can enjoy some level of freedom from violence and from assad and his regime, and from all of the other actors in the region? so, how does that make sense in terms of a policy for russia? sec. mitchell: thank you for the question. no, i appreciate the question. i wou

so i do think that they are very important. e thing that has changed quite a lot, however, are the means of communication. and i do think that obviously information travels much faster, because sometimes you all have the news out there before the diplomats are able to send back information. so i do think that technology and information has changed a lot about diplomacy. but not the role of the diplomats in terms of carrying on relationships with the country where they are stationed or multilaterally in organizations explaining and working out solutions. >> can we just focus on syria for a moment. for the last seven years, now going into its eighth year of war, it has really sort of been shocking. and now we see yet another shocking use of chemical -- use of chemical gas or whatever it might be, chlorine, barrel bombs, chemical weapons. the president has said there will be a big price to pay. you've been there before as secretary of state in some of these terrible situations where the u.s. has to respond. what do you think is goi

i don't even think it's legal: it shouldn't be legal. it's none of my business. andrew, i've seen a lot of his work so i know he's a very great actor and i don't have to ask him to audition. although i don't know his great work that well, i'll ask him to integrate, their political preference, none of that is any of my business. this is a profession and i work with actors. i need work with the best actors i can get. so he's one of the best actors alive. this is a very billing difficult part. and as a gay man -- don't listen to this, but i'm enormously moved by how -- i've never seen any straight man perform a gay character with more intimate knowledge and getting -- things in andrew's performance you can only see. that's the miracle of imagination. that's what actors do. i can learn from having the story of my tribe, gay people are americans, told by people who are not that. i'm very curious to see a british writer or french writer or an afghan writer write about us. this crossing of boundaries. i mean, do we want to build trumpian walls around human experience? >>

>> i think it's still up 100%. >> i know, but is it the summer? >> subscribers are up 12%. >> but not the same growth what do we think -- are they going elsewhere? >> i was going to say, there's got to be seasonality to this. >> i would think q2 would be the best quarter, getting ready for the summer >> first quarter, january. >> no one goes to the beach then >> but that requires real willpower. in the beginning they pay, then they do it, then they don't do it, then they think about it during the second quarter. you think about it during the second quarter >> yeah. we'll ask the ceo. mindy grossman will be joining us at 6:50 a.m. eastern. >>> also keep an areas on shares of zillow today. that stock tanking today zillow was disappointed that the new homes business had no revenue in the quarter on the conference call analysts asked several questions about the business like why it's taking longer than expected to generate revenue when the u.s. real estate market is so hot listings showed a slowdown in user growth to 4% versus the high teens a year ago

and i don't think mr. nixon gets the credit he deserves, even though i voted most of the time with democrats, i think nixon was a very good president. but what overshadowed his goodness as a president was the vietnam war, watergate, and his personality complexes. but some of the decisions he made with civil rights and other issues, epa, nixon was a very good president. just those three things overshadow his presidency. >> thank you for the call. barbara perry? >> well, we now look back at nixon, and nixon i think thought of himself in many ways as sort of a moderate republican. and he was viewed in those days, in 1968, as a moderate republican. he could be viewed in the center between someone like reagan, we haven't talked about his entrance into the mix, but i'm sure we will, and rockefeller on the left side of the party. so when we look back at richard nixon's almost 2 1/2 term -- 1 1/2 terms in office, we can see the things he did that people now on the liberal side say good for him. >> i would call nixo

i think the fed is whistling past the graveyard. i think it is a big deal.hink the curve continues to flatten off. i think this time is different. lisa: my thanks to priya misra, michael collins, and iain stealey. from new york, that does it for us. we will see you next friday at 1:00 p.m. new york time. this is "bloomberg real yield." ♪ manus: you are watching the "best of bloomberg daybreak: middle east." i'm manus crowley. aramco's ipo is a no go for the time being. the giant is preparing to head -- hit the debt market with its first international bond offer. moody's downgrades 20 turkish banks and warns the worst is yet to come for the economy. rouhani suffered another setback, this time losing his finance minister. the exit from iran may have given china's opportunity to swoop in on some of the most coveted energy assets in the world. ♪

i mean, i think when i spent a lot of time today thinking about her legacy, a big part of what i thinkr. and it's that ability to kind of reach down through a very authentic experience, an idea she revolutionized -- i consider her a great story teller. she opened up to the rest of the world so many great experiences and just nuances around the black woman's journey through america, how unfair it's been, how rewarding it's been, how much due diligence there was to kind of make it through each day, and just the endless amount of love that i think aretha evidenced through her music was reflective of a lot of the love and strength that was inside of the black community. >> can he with talk about, trey, her influence on the next generation of american artists? >> yeah. i think it's much the same. when you look at everyone from mary j. blige to beyonce, mariah carey, a lot of the women we think of as being not just divas. i think that's just one term that's used to talk about her. but i think again, this idea of that type of soul wrenching authentic storytelling that again is at the heart of

i think you want to look at those games. i would look at fed ex and ups if we get any resolution with the chinese based on what we heard from amazon, walmart and target fed exa -- >> one thing on trade though, and timing is very important trump may pull this off. if he does he should get some credit for it. you got this ultra left wing guy coming in starting december 1st. when they say we hope to have this in congress by the end of november it's not like a made up thing that yeah, late november they literally have to or forget it nobody wants that. canada doesn't want that either. a lot of people are saying he will come to the table or send representatives to the table once you a pact you can't sign it into law until 90 days has expired. it will pull it off with canada in the meantime. if everyone is able to say hey, look, we won the trade war, it does enable the chinese to come to the table it could work out well >> one of the best things if you're along the market and you're bullish on stocks is the list that joe went throu

but i think when you're -- charles: is that going to be the winning message for your partiesome. >> ihink one of the big problems with politicians in general is today make these huge promises, and they don't tell the american people how they're going to pay for it. and as taxpayers and -- charles: i think it was a brilliant economist on cnn, brian stelter, who said we can pay for it because we're a rich company. [laughter] >>> coming up, i'm going to tell you the best way to plan for your retirement goals because everything has changed. we'll be right back. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. so my doctor said... symbicort can help you breathe better. starting within 5 minutes. it doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. doctor: symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. it may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye problems.

i don't think i would go that far sophia i think it reflects the very sharp political dividing lines right now in our country and not just between the democrats and republicans but between within the parties themselves i think the democrats are struggling to reestablish their identity to decide what part or wing of the democratic party will move forward into the next election cycles and i think the republican party is trying to decide how much it supports the president some do some don't as you know i'm not the true betraying any secrets here so i think there is there are various conflict and tensions and instabilities within both parties again having watched this for much of my over sixty years i have seen other times in our country when we've seen just as confused and dazed and we generally emerge out of it stronger than we enter that so i'm overall confident that we'll get out of this phase that we're in stronger than we were before we entered it so one terror attack has already been prevented thanks to the cia sharing intelligence with moscow and put it has personally thanked the

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but i think right now what you see, i don't think these are lesser trumps. i think what you saw and what you see are people who signed up because they actually believed in the president's make america great again agenda. i think they actually wanted to serve and were inspired by him. i think the american people said you know what? if i can have some nontraditional people around the president who believe in trying to make america great again, i'll take him over people like the governor of new york who says america was never that great. >> do you believe omarosa was one of those people who really was inspired by donald trump and wanted to serve for those purposes? >> absolutely, absolutely. no question about it. in omarosa's first -- one of her earlier book, b-switch, she says that she wanted to be -- i think she even said in an interview, she wanted to be a billionaire. she wanted to be like him. >> right. >> donald trump is -- >> certainly serving in the white house is different than wanting to be a billionaire. >> that's true. i think she was inspired by hi

i think time went on, interest flagged. there were some parts of the country that fundamentally didn't want this amendment, and to go back to one of our earlier callers -- i would tweak his views a little bit -- the amendment even if it had passed quickly was not going to be be a magic bullet for women's ills or societal ills. so i think even some of the people who had pushed that agenda over the years were able to sort of take their activism and take their objectives and try to work through them on other channels. i think it's a very complicated political moment, but i think in the end there just wasn't enough unified support to combat a lot of very diffuse opposition. host: the civil rights movement was front and center. 1964, legislation was passed and signed by president johnson. a democrat from michigan, in 1970, she reflected on the civil rights act and women as part of the language in that legislation. >> there are those in the women's movement who would correspond very much to the naacp and civil rights movement, tha