treasuries for example so let's get the thoughts now of businessmen and financial commentator to jim rogers good to have you on again jim good afternoon she what do you make of this comment then by forbes that russia's economy is bullet proof. well andrew i'm delighted to hear this for 3 or 4 years now and i've been investing in russian bonds and russian shares exactly for those reasons russia's got very little debt russia has bass resources i'm delighted to hear people up on the catching up why is it so important that the recent little debt because when you look around the world many major economies have a lot of debt some people might just a shilling well that's like a then if you look at american you know supposedly that's growing well but that has a lot of debt so why is it so important that russia has got so little america's the largest debtor nation in the history of the world andrew it's important for russia booker's many investors are suspicious of russia they don't know much about russia russia gets bad press from the american government as you know and some other governments so al

pretty well with with a lot of people here i sat down for just a minute or 2 with global investor jim rogers and he said this new southern policy 2.0 they call it makes kind of sense because president plan b. and c. or having trouble that's with china the u.s. and japan so it only makes sense for so 3 it to try to diversify its market toward . all right frank smith reporting from the ask in summit in busan thank you and now to some of the other global business stories making news. tesla has received nearly 150000 orders for its new electric pickup truck despite an embarrassing launch last week the much hyped unveiling went off script when the cyber trucks windows splintered twice just. bragging about the strength of the vehicle class as the share price fell 6 percent after the launch. while disney's frozen 2 opened this weekend with the highest grossing debut for an animated film bringing in over $350000000.00 worldwide according to studio estimates critical reception to the continue to ventures of sisters elson anna has been very good but not as good as the original which won 2 academy awar

rogers -- ♪ it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ >> i've played real guys before. jimlson. the added burden of mr. rogers is because it's not just the expectations of the man himself, but the expectations of everybody else about mr. rogers. ♪ please won't you be my neighbor ♪ >> are you y'all trying to make me cry on "entertainment to? >>> well get ready for the new era of "charlie's angels" and only we have the trio facing their toughest interview yet. >> hi, i'm elizabeth banks and i'll be playing the role of "e.t." interviewer of "charlie's angels." hi, guys. >> angels, time to go to work. >> what was the best part about having me as your director? >> oh, my gosh. she starts with that. >> yeah, cut. that's gonna look great. >> you knew exactly what you want and what you wanted and you were gonna get it. >> in true "charlie's angels" fashion there's a lot of disguises. what was your favorite one? >> this girl. >> the very first scene she was in like this very ninja-esque -- >> you're very sexy. >> very sexy. >> it was really comfortable. it was like a scuba suit. >>

donald trump wanted jim sessions, jim comey, dni dan coats, rogers and mike pompeo to all proclaim hisnnocence. if you're not worried about some sort of exposure, why do you want all of your officials announcing publicly that you're innocent, matt? >> right. i think president trump too is very concerned about public perception. that's why sort of a written statement isn't enough. he wants a bit of a show. he is a showman. so he wants bill barr to get out there in front of cameras. and he liked how well that went for him when bill barr did that at the end of the mueller investigation. he liked bill barr out there saying, i think his direct quote was as the president has said there was no collusion. so the president likes when bill barr gets up and does that. but in this instance, bill barr has sought some distance. and it's not just refusing to do the press conference. but all throughout the ukraine scandal, you have seen some moments where the justice has sought some distance from the white house. >> one of them is we sort of mentioned them brief. i want to ask you if you think that th

rogers. it's the se smile. >> hey, mr. roge. ♪ it's a beautiful day in the >> i have played real guys before. jimt the expectations of the man himself but the expectations of everything else about mr. rogers. ♪ plse won't you be my neighbor ♪ >> now to this movie sequel, frozen 2. >> kristen bell and idina mendel are ba. >> in this movie, kristoff i trying to profes his love for anna. what is the way that you lik your significant others or people in your life to show you love? >> acts of service. acts of service are huge for me, and my husband literally said to me this morning, he wok up ten minutes after i did, and i was scrambling to get out of the. he wasising out of bed, and h said, is there anything i can do to help you get out othe house on time? i was like, are you trying to make me hornyight now? if you pour your coffee and ha me a mug as well, i'm there. i don't care how much money you have. >> what would i do without you? >> idina's favorite thing about husband of two years, family counser aaron lore. >> one, he really looks me straight in the eyes, and i find that extremely sexy and di

jim, one of the things that has been remarkable about the roger stone trial is it hasn't just been about. the prosecutors really have brought president trump and then-candidate donald trump right into the middle of it. this is what the president said. i recall in the months leading up to the election there was considerable media reporting about the possible hacking and release of campaign-related information. more than two years later i have no recollection of any particular conversation when it occurred or who the participants were. i can't recall. yet talked about vivid detail between roger stone and then-candidate donald trump that appeared to be about the release of these russian emails. what does that tell you? >> well, i'm thinking about it in two ways. one, what are the implications for mr. stone who's alleged to have engaged in a variety of criminal activity. and then what's the implication for donald trump? for mr. stone, it's very bad. it's very bad. because he -- his statements included flat out statements to congress that he did not know things, that he did not recall them --

rogers had one of the worst nights of his career. jim niner offense took control from there. he was nearly perfect, hitting a wide-open george kittle for the touchdown. san francisco rolls. a huge win as they travel to baltimore and new orleans in the next two weeks. >>> meanwhile, a rainy, nasty, windy foxborough, proving to be too much for the cowboys. special team star matthew slater with a big blocked punt late in the first quarter. that would give tom brady and company good field position. the pats' defense continuing to shine, as well, holding the cowboys without a touchdown for the first time this year. 13-9, the final. >>> washington rookie, blaine haskins, picked up his first win with the redskins. he left with 16 seconds left. his defense intercepted the ball late in the games' final seconds. the quarterback, so hyped up about this, everyone was going nuts, he decided to take a selfie with a fan in the front row. he missed the final snap of the game. backup, case keen m, took a knee to run out the clock. they couldn't find him.

roger stone strietrial. we'll talk to someone heard how bannon tied the campaign to wikileaks. and trump defender jim jordan is facing new accusations of doing nothing to stop sexual abuse when he worked in ohio university. this as republicans move to put him on the house intelligence committee so he can be part of the televised impeachment hearings. and at the end of the show, the mood inside the white house now that the first excerpts of the new anonymous book are out. >>> but we begin with the newly released transcripts from two more key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry, ended an explosive week of damning revelations for president trump. they detail the blatant and explicit push by the trump administration to pressure ukraine to investigate the president's political rivals in exchange for military aid and a coveted white house meeting. and for the first time white house officials testified the quid pro quo was orchestrated by acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. this as another potential witness, former national security advisor john bolton signals he knows key new details that hou

key point of this case is the fact that roger stone spent time in -- before members of congress, lying to them about his contacts with the then-trump campaign, jim stone sent to randy credico as a role in this. cameo appearance, you might say. in one of these messages, let's look at these messages and what they tell us. you're on top of it. >> yeah, so the importance of these messages certainly go to the fact that roger stone was trying to, prosecutes say, intimidate randy credico. randy has been on the stand there he's back today. it's been kind of a more lighthearted at times, funny moments in the courtroom but it's very serious when you see these texts in the ways in which roger stone was trying to get randy credico to take the fifth. to stonewall. not cooperate with the same congressional invest investigators and members of congress that roger stone appeared before where he'd lie. roger stone spent time texting him, emailing him, trying to get him not to cooperate with that investigation. >> those words in that second text there, anything to save the plan. seems like he's describing a plan to lie, possibly to protect the president. we'll see

roger stone trial. we'll talk to someone heard how bannon tied the campaign to wikileaks. and trump defender jim he worked in ohio university. this as republicans move to put him on the house i

jim vandehei. horn and author of "soul of america" rogers professor, the presidency of vanderbilt university jon meacham. he's an nbc news and msnbc contributor. well, the house took a significant step forward in the impeachment inquiry of president trump. lawmakers approved a resolution 232-196 largely along party lines to formalize the rules and guidelines for the public phase of the impeachment probe. the eight-page resolution lays out the format for open hearings and would allow the president or his counsel to participate in impeachment proceedings held by the house judiciary committee. two democratic congressmen, new jersey and minnesota, broke with the party to broke vote against the resolution. both represent districts that donald trump won in 2016. independent congressman justin amash also voted with the democrats. up until this point, republicans have largely complained about the impeachment process being behind closed doors, but house against committee chairman adam schiff told msnbc last night that the process of releasing transcripts can now begin as early as next week. house speaker nancy p

jim jordan, a fierce defender of the president, being temporarily added to the house intelligence committee. bret? >> bret: mike, thank you. the man who once ran the trump presenter campaign says former trump confidant rogertone talked up his connections to the founder of wikileaks and said they would be information coming from the website that would hurt the hillary clinton campaign. steve bannon, taking the stand today in stone's federal trial, correspondent david spahn is outside the u.s. district court in washington with the latest. >> steve bannon said in court that roger stone was a "axis point wikileaks" to the two men talks frequently in the campaign, he said still never brag about having access to nonpublic documents. roger stone and his entourage left the courthouse after six hours of testimony. described as "dirty tricksters on trial for lying to congress about his alleged role in the wikileaks release of hacked emails to bolster the trump campaign." vanden said on the stone would mention his relationship with julie and us on she wikileaks. said stone, implied that he could use his weekly's contacts to obtain information about hillary clinton into the campaign. spoke to cameras making it clear

jim, but jury selection begins this morning. opening statements slated to start tomorrow and then it could be quite a cast of characters who take the witness stand, including that potential of rogerg. we're not sure yet. but up to this point the bombastic former adviser to president trump has really been precluded from talking to the media or even posting online. that's because of a gag order imposed by this judge. so we'll wait to see if stone takes the stand and what is expected to be a 2 1/2-week trial. roger stone is charged with seven counts, including obstruction of justice, witness tampering and lying to congress. all of this revolving around whether he attempted to create a back channel to wikileaks, to obtain those hacked emails from the dnc server and then whether he lied to house investigators and potentially intimidated other witnesses. and, really, since this investigation was a segment of the mueller probe, we could even hear from witnesses who might reveal some of the still-secret information that the special counsel uncovered about the campaign or even the president since we know that some of what was redacted in the mueller report was actually specifically hidden

rogers, appreciate you coming in. provocative ideas on a wednesday morning. >> thank you, john. >> thank you >> out to san francisco, and the cnbc bureau at one market plaza. jiming out there >> actually, listening to your unbelievable interviews. i thought what doug said made me feel like the consumer is strong brian cornell interview says pretty much everything, you got the right technology, if you have a good online strategy, if your stores are clean, then it just brings the shoppers in. i think we have to change the story line better. it is what you talked about with those two companies, things are better than expected and the tariffs aren't really hurting. the consumer spending, that's the story. these are gigantic companies and i think they speak to what is going on in the country. your interviews made me feel terrific. >> i'm glad to hear that same thing, if a retailer has invested and done that over a number of years, big part of that is digital, got to say it is investing in the stores, investing on paying more in wages. that strategy has paid off for every one of these retailers that has taken that on there are some that are struggling i saw your com