john chen is there now in indonesia, jakarta., great to see you all the way across the world. >> nice to see you. >> i am sure a lot of viewers have the lesson, why are you in here likew? >> i am you pointed out to make sure that the partnership we have struck a year ago on the messaging side and the hardware side is going well, and whatever i can do to help out. to see how we can expand our business and footprint here. we have a business that we are quite focused on. i'm trying to see what is the best way to enter the market in indonesia. >> what about the market itself? is the market expanding? or are parts of it shrinking? >> it is expanding. i split -- i was with one of the other major telecoms discussing the software business. institutions, the government users, hospitals. many different enterprises. talking about iot. in this particular case they are looking at growing double digits year-over-year. the business is quite robust. on mobile, like your earlier guess talked about, mobile is taking over everything. when hundred 7

blackberry'sains biggest markets where you'll find john chen this week. today.t to have you on the show. i am the only person i know that actually still likes blackberry. >> what is the strategy? >> they stopped making the blackberry smart phone. they licensed the design out, the specification to other places. indonesia happens to be a big market for black buried -- library. blackberry.ket for talking to partners with officials on how to expand blackberry. scarlet: it's curious that it is such a big hit in indonesia. they are also trying to take advantage of that partnering with local companies. cracks may want to expand that partnership with the government. they are about using their secure software. it has really been the big sell blackberry. you remember these hacking scandals, it's been pointed out the blackberry platform is one of the most secure out there. they're focused on licensing out that software. what they call sort of the enterprise of things. the internet of things. they're looking at the enterprise of things. that is really the growth market. tra

. >> that was blackberry chairman and ceo john chen speaking with bloomberg's, betty liu.tedtween states and north korea are not the only political issues on the minds of investors this week. global trade policies are a matter of concern, and so is the economic future of europe. we spoke to a top government officials who addressed these topics of -- on bloomberg television. here is an exclusive conversation with the french economic minister. taxes, theyo reduce are too high, and they are a burden on all companies, and we went to put some stabilization, and more stable rules for everybody as far as taxes are concerned. these are the two decisions that we have taken. we will lower the corporate tax 2022,3% to 25%, till then, the second step, we would like to have tax harmonization, among the members of the eurozone. in thee 19 members eurozone, one currency, the euro. and you have 19 levels of taxes. 19 different economic policies. we cannot go this way anymore. that is why we are advocating for tax harmonization. the first step of that, will be a tax harmonization between f

with us onset we have john padorits, jarod rattner, journey peters, lon hi chen, kasie hunt, and joiningerprise institute, tim kearny. >> that's a long title. >> wait, there's more, peter baker and national political reporter for nbc news, carol lee. >> there's like 900,000 stars in the morning. who's the trap paez artist. >> the white house is cutting number of legal immigrants into the united states in half and reshape how people come to live in this country. the bill introduced by republican senators tom cotton and david perdue have replaced the current lottery system for issuing green cards with a merit-based system favoring those who speak english and who have higher level job skills. the number of green cards issued every year would go from just over a million to about 500,000. the white house had senior policy advisor steven miller explain the proposal at yesterday's press briefing. and when it was time for questions, things got heated. >> but this whole notion of well, they could learn, they have to learn english before they get to the united states, are we just going to bring in