questions]sking i don't thinkp: it is fair to have the american it iser -- i don't think fair to have the market taxpayers pay for people coming to the united states. so what we have done is institute what was in place many years ago, our founders. it andjust reinstituting i think it's long overdue. i'm tired of seeing our taxpayers pay for people coming into the country and immediately go on to welfare and various other things. questions]asking president trump: i think what chris cuomo did was horrible. his language was horrible. he looked like a total out-of-control animal. he lost it. and frankly i don't think anybody could defend him because he spews lies every night. i don't know how anybody could defend him. i watched and i thought it was terrible. i don't know who is defending him. maybe they did not see him. but i think anybody who would have seen chris cuomo would have thought that was a disgrace. [reporters asking questions] president trump: i think chris cuomo was so out-of-control i would not want to see a weapon in his hands. i guess his fist is not a weapon or he would h

. >> i was appalled and indeed the whole department was, and we learned ur uae isere rfmed a autopsy on jeffrey epstein's body on sunday but results have not been released. a source tells cbs news that he hanged himself. the disgraced financier died less than three weeks after sources told us he previously attempted suicide. guards at the jail were supposed to check him every 30 minutes but the procedure was not followed the night before his death, according to the new york times. >> we need to get to the bottom of what happen. >> reporter: a union representative for the metropolitan correctional center said epstein's death is not a surprise. staffing is completely inadequate with workers putting in more than 60 hours a week was said. it leaves them overwhelmed and not alert. >> i think they are in shock. >> reporter: julie brown spent more than into the epstein case cbs this morning she had spoken with his alleged victims and they feel his death robbed them of their day in court. >> it's another example to them of how our criminal justice system is not only broken but it seems to fa

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welcome back to the kaiser report i'm ask iser time to return to our conversation with craig camp of the t.f. metals report greg welcome back thanks max j.p. morgan has been caught finally they were spoofing metals markets back in 2016 just like you and i have been reporting you know we did a big campaign called crash j.p. morgan vice over a few years ago because me correctly identified that j.p. morgan had entered into massive naked short selling a futures contracts to manipulate the price and they were exposed to other balance a to a price rally of silver and we got the prize from $15.00 to $50.00 j.p. morgan's balance sheet was imperiled they were about to have a massive write down and then the regulators came in and bail them out as they usually do masters was fired but this kind of does prove our point at that time and we came close to taking down j.p. morgan didn't we correct she was a lot of fun back then max and you're right the c.m.e. group stepped in and along with the c.f. t.c. and raised margins what was it 5 times and 9 days and their body made a run for it and that kind

senator mcconnell iser majority leader of the united states and is the longest serving leader of his party in the history of the senate and longest serving senator in kentucky history and certainly one of the most consequential men of our age then cicero was in -- what you may not know what the students now know because he gave them incredible lesson, history lesson, on the election of abraham lincoln that he is a voracious reader, a student really, of american history. you will see that here today. without further ado let me introduce our two authors today to discuss their book, the united states senate in the commonwealth, roy purnell and mitch mcconnell. [applause] >> thank you all for greeting us this morning. i was fortunate enough to work with the senator mcconnell for 12 and a a half years frequently people would ask would like to work for him and i would often liken it to taking an advanced graduate seminar in history and history was very much a day-to-day operation of his office in the way he ran things. i remember he was fortunate enough to help me step him on a number of o

that iser rates, particularly helpful with individuals that are financing, whether it is credit cardebt or houses or autos. and you have an at record lows. so obviously, i understand he is trying to stimulate the economy by putting money in peoples pockets, and that obviously does work. we need to look at, in a thoughtful way, trying to effectively introduce more inflation and introduce more growth at the same time. guy: can i get your quick thoughts on what is happening in the current markets right now? money is flying, look at the positive yield. the dollar is going up. u.s. credit is having a sensational year. risk-adjusted, i cannot remember the last time we saw this kind of performance. i want to come back to the risks associated with this. how much longer can a rise like we have seen thus far this year carry on? how good a year could this be? scott: the numbers are outstanding. you have more than a 9% return in the u.s. ig space, -- in the investors looknd at this as a positive environment for fixed income. to central banks are easing stretch out the economic cycle. you have gr

this planned clean up iser picked to be along san leandro between 81st and 8th avenues. notices were put up to remove struck chews and the end campment, structures and the end campment. the public works will throw away billing teal siting fire code violation. the collective is a local organization demanding the city not destroy the makeshift homes. we reached out to the city the city's encampment responsed. it's unclear if they will be here. it's one of many anyboditives set up to address the homeless crisis. there is a tougher stance on cleaning up streets and call on military recruiters to volunteer for neighborhood clean up and the sleeping on the sidewalks, you cannot, it's a pedestrian walkway. you can't lay there and go to the bathroom on the sidewalk whenever you want toes that belongs to all of us. >> reporter: the east oakland collective has a news conference planned to speak out against the planned clean up. sara zendehnam, ktvu fox2 news. >>> also if oakland a group of protesters protesting plans to build a high-rise apartment building near the 19th street bar

i think, what is happening here iser what -- we're seeing reset of expectations.et's call it what it is. this is i think decoupling of the two largest economies in the world. that may be in the end better way to go. charles: is the world large enough for both countries to problem produce and decoupling scenario? >> i believe in abundance, charles and i think so. the thing questionable to me, the president run on economic health of america and by proxy really the economic health of the stock market is risking it all to play this game that has been going on since the first quarter of kicking this can down the road with respect to the trade question. and, we're seeing the results of that, with the volatility of the market. charles: right. so the, david, it is interesting, because we get up, obviously the market always gone down a lot faster than it goes up. so a lot of people are rattled. >> sure. >> in the middle of this there is a lot of fuse out there. we're in the final innings of earnings season that has not been talked about a lot. the economy has not been talk

. >> the clock iser ticking for te fbi according to the new court order, and 60 days, providing records documenting their contact and communications with dossier author christopher steele. the timeline matters. the court wants records after steele was fired by the fbi just before the presidential election. over his contacts with the media where he was spreading the dossier allegations about collusion between the trump russia. and responding to a federal lawsuit brought by the judicial watch, u.s. district court judge christopher cooper said the records could help or hurt the fbi and should be public because of the steele allegations targeting a political campaign. "those records might eitherti bolster or weaken steele's credibility as a source. that information in turn could provide a basis on which to evaluate the fbi's performance of its law enforcement duties. including its judgment in selecting and relying on confidential sources, especially in connection with such a politically sensitive subject." based on new information, the inspector general's fisa report because its team had to

i am tired of folks discrediting form of the speech that iser in on equality and freedom this is exactlyit and stop the boycott to stand pup against the after par tide in south africa it didn't work then now and this controversy is not going anywhere tay leeb and omar are holding a press conference later today to talk about about israel blocking their trip. cheryl and lauren. >> thank you so much for that report. let's pick up on this now with washington examiner political reporter joe. all right. thank you jarrett joe come on in let's talk about this because this 3 p.m. eastern conference you have to wongd wonder if squad and take the firepower away from the democratic 2020 candidate. >> sure. there's got to be frustration not only on capitol hill from people like nancy pelosi, but you're right with the 2020 field. it is unclear what sort of policy agenda the squad is advancing here. this seems to be a squabble between them and israeli government and the president of the united states. i'm not sure what kind of message this sends to the the american people what the democratic party stan

you wonder how much is ex-s iser baited it is -- es exacerbated and this is thin volume.ow does the narrative change to the market can handle this stuff in the back down and focus on things like fundamentals? >> fundamentals. the other thing interesting about 2019, i think sort of a catchup to the very strong earnings week, growth we saw last year. so basically fiscal stimulus, really strong -- charles: record earnings. market was down at the end of the year. >> sort of had to catch up with that, right? earnings got more stable. so i think whatever were projected up couple, 3% this year. we look forward to 2020. consensus forecast is 10%. we're back to more normal growth rate. that is the kind of thing the market will refocus on. digging in further to fundamentals in terms of earnings. charles: this stuff can exist, no deal, as long as there is less sabre-rattling. at some point maybe when everybody comes back from the hamptons we can get a real market? >> yes. also i think of it this way. it take as bit of confidence. downward moves in fundamentally strong market contain

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the idea being that when you are covering war zones or conflict zones or places where there iser conflictof some kind, when you start touching on things that are under the label ofn's issues" they're seen as illegitimate in some way or not worthy of our attention.ou tell me that. >> that's right. i think that, you know, if the day, and you kou'rettle of not on the front lt es or you're vering what's sometimes called the "bang bang" of war correspondents, of war journali, then you know, you're somehow, you're soft. it'somot, you know, the meat of the war. and i think that's completely inaccurate. and in order to fully and thoroughly and accurately cover a conflict like iraq for example, you cannot leave outio half the popul and in fact more than ha a, in the case of iraq. and, and even if-- it's just all these assumptions that come inta that question:s it like to be a woman there? i mean the assumption is you can't do anything, it's verys restrictive, iry oppressive. and there is some truth to that depending on where you are in the region. but it's also true that power oks different. there

issue that iser frustrating for ceos, there is a bit of a blame the victim mentality sometimes.nomics is something we talk about here a lot. how do you ensure for geoeconomics? dan: you really don't, but you ensure the trends. ultimately it is a risk factor. it is not about insurance for most of our clients. it is about risk. we talk to them about risk, and what they are saying now is clearly there is left -- there's less optimism than there was in 2018, with either the ,hina and u.s. rivalry slowdowns around the world, brexit all have some areas of concern. what we are actually seeing on the ground, we are still seeing growth in most regions in exposure units. exposure units being property values, payrolls, shipments, still going up mildly. alix: thank you for the perspective. dan glaser, marsh & mclennan ceo. still with us, evan brown of ubs asset management. we made the connection of if you are going to protect yourself as an investor, utilities are supposed to be safe, right? but then you wind up having risks pg&e, for example. they are expensive now. how do you view somethi

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iser: the risk intact regression. techtively, we have seen be the leader of the last decade.re are good reasons behind that. if we see a blanket market selloff, we are fearful in terms of what that could mean for tech but that could be a buying opportunity for the sector overall. francine: what would you bite into? chipmakers? we talk about tech but there is a multitude of companies very different within that. roger: chipmakers, we tend not to invest in given the short cycle visibility and in terms of volatility, it is far too high for what we are trying to do in terms of investment philosophy. faangs have different characteristics to them in terms of businesses. in terms of next-generation tech, that is interesting for us. a lot of the cloud applications, whether that be hardware or software, are interesting as well. it is specific to what we see as where the future structural growth can come from. it is an area clearly for the future. francine: anything you like in southeast asia? chipmakers? roger: in terms of those markets, we are getting to the stage where they are prett

and then watch out for robert m -- robert kaplan and patrick harker. , that iser it takes what new zealand's central bank governors says he will do to support the economy. thef says he will evaluate impacts of this month on expensively large rate cuts before considering further easing. forward, we were saying everyone is telling us we needed to be lower. everyone is telling us global growth is slowing, so let's get ahead of this. let's move and reduce the probability of having to do a lot more later. so we are pleased with where we are. japan's prime minister accused to south korean counterpart of damaging the relationship between the two uluntries after soul -- seo pulled out of an intelligence-sharing pact. said he wills now work with the u.s. to maintain security. >> there is no doubt that the shared interests are important to the let states of america. we hope -- to the united states of america. we hope they can put the relationship back. >> emmanuel macron is calling on g7 to discuss what he describes as an emergency. in the last few days, brazil's policy towards the rain forest is unde

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