secretary of state john foster dulles reiterated to the chancellor the u.s.eview its policies with an attitude towards "a more liberal treatment of war criminals." after the meetings in washington, chancellor adenauer announced he was "extraordinarily satisfied with the progress made at the talks." above all the german chancellor wanted a parole board established before the elections in germany. the state department noted the president was aware of the problem and they needed a solution. they believed there was advantages to the parole program and that they would hand the matter up to the president for decision. less than a week before the election, the first mixed a la clemency board was established. the interim mixed board impact consisted of two germans in three americans. it functioned like a traditional parole board. prisoners could their cases twice a year, and a new nonjudicial mechanism helped ease parole standards. credit for time served was increased and parameters for medical paroles were broadened with new provisions for physical health, mental he

the gentlemen in the dark suit is his older brother, john foster dulles, who was secretary of state. when i found these guys i thought there has to be an interesting story. two brothers and i thought there has to be a good relationship and some good way of telling the story. i really dove in and discovered quickly, allen, the guy in the light colored jacket had been in switzerland during world war ii where he was a station chief for the office of strategic services and given code number 110. my interest immediately perked up. i have always been a bit of a world war ii geek and more importantly a frustrated ski bum. we lived in germany where i was newspaper correspondent and every weekend we could we would head down to switzerland and hit the slopes so the thought of doing a book that took place in switzerland captured by imagination. allen had two relatives who were secretary of state, he served in the state department early in his career. he quit that job to make more money and went to wall street. he got a law degree and worked at the law firm sullivan and chr cron well. he had lit

a big merger deal between the john wood group and foster and the u.k.. ending up over 3/10. just over 1/10 and the frankfurt dax, 2/10. similar to today's business headlines, yahoo! ceo marissa mayer could receive $23 million in severance pay if let go. the golden parachute -- the former titan of the internet is in the midst of being acquired by aol for a fraction of its former value after massive security breaches which occurred under mayor's leadership. is planningompany's to introduce luxury at cvs -- luxury suvs for chinese customers. the company hopes to be building using anal model, existing factor it operates in partnership with a chinese firm. lincoln's are currently imported into china where the brand nearly soared. no happy endings for china's richest man. after offering to buy the entertainment firm, which produces award shows like the golden globes and the american music awards, chinese billionaire has been rejected. afteral was killed failing to honor its current -- failing to honor its contractual obligations. it doesn't take long for tourists to discover just

some one with another attorney foster john. berber triggerman standard operating procedures. bharara had to be fired to matter more complex was to be viewed at trump tower in late november after the election when mr. trump asked them to stay out under his administration. preet bharara has been successful in other parts of the southern district of new york. taken on corruption cases against politicians who said they were attachable. democrats alleging mortgages removal of their just entered politics. three watchdog groups asked subtwo to investigate possible conflicts of interest in this new role as president. this word a comic and leisure companies, ranking member of the house oversight committee tried to insinuate a connection between that and the trump team later that week asking for resignation. >> i'm curious as to why that is and certainly a lot of questions coming up as to whether mr. trump is concert about the jurisdiction of the u.s. attorney and whether that might affect his future. >> the jurisdiction also a trump tower is located. massachusetts senator elizabeth wa

poe's foster father, john allan, was a wealthy tobacco exporter. when he died he was worth about three quarters of a million dollars. fabulously wealthy. had a huge mansion in downtown richmond. a plantation in another county, property in rockwood county. he could afford the finest things in life. he had an extensive library, that was a great advantage for poe. he was table read from the allan library. but allan never quite warmed up to him. seems to have been the foster mother's idea to take in edgar. frances hal lan was from the wealthy planter class of are itch monday society. she'd been orphaned herself as a child. when she heard poe's mother was dying an needed help caring for her and her children. frances allan jumped at the chance to take in eddie. she couldn't have children. she lavished him with attention. unfortunately, john allan could have children, he already had children with other women, paying for them to go through school, trying to keep them secret from his wife. he mentioned two children in his wiff he had never seen before, omeb

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one of the deals i want to focus on is john b would come at the mx foster, said shares of by 11.8%.28.3%.hey were up several years of pressure on the industry hurting the profits of largee providers and projects. their the scope of business in the industry agreeing in october to merge its oilfield services. what a day today for a make foster shares. vonnie: tensions are simmering between turkey and the netherlands. diplomatic conflicts brought about over the weekend. cabinetter a turkish member was prevented from entering her consulate. yesterday, a protest in an symbol took down the dutch flag and replace it with a turkish flag. let's bring in carina from amsterdam. there are at least five countries. happening? history greatest the was a conflict over the weekend where a turkish minister wanted to protest the turkish saidlate in rotterdam and she was able to get in as the two a group of people, but she was not allowed to post a big event. the dutch government decided she was not allowed and sent out of the country. how does this influence the dutch elections? happened tof what rott

on the knowledge of political science, and more on the probing's of dh lawrence, david foster wallace, and carl johnain what that means. >> i'm about to get extremely charlie rose on us. i do think things have deteriorated in some ways. the social fabric has deteriorated. we are just less close to one another across class, within our communities, our social capital is down. inare more isolated fundamental ways. and to me, that happened for philosophical reasons. we made mistakes. here's where the charlie rose moment comes. that's because we chose the wrong philosophers. we chosewe made mistakes. here's where the charlie rose moment comes. -- when we should have chosen martin uber. buber wrote a book -- she sees us as a bunch of relationships. too idealistic when we should be more communitarian. benson, we are motivated by pleasure and pain. victor frankel felt we were motivated by a search for meaning, to want to live good lives. has become society too economic, to social sciencey and utilitarian and not enough moralistic. we chose rene to cart when we should have chosen saint augustin. rene deckard

amec foster wheeler here, shares up the most since 1995. john agreed to acquire this company in a 2.2 billion pound deal. amec shareholders will own about 44% of the combined group. the share price where it is now, that is actually higher than the bid price of about 564. does that mean the market expects a higher offer? then anglo-american. commodity producers are the best performers as an industry group on the stoxx 600. we're seeing a lot of the metals move higher. goldman sachs says be patient. the bank is sticking to its field that tightening supply will lead to higher prices. says the come or go -- or stay long rather on copper or deputy i. hsbc up 0.9% in london. the bank named mark tucker to succeed douglas flint as chairman. he will lead the search for a replacement for stuart gulliver, an outsider overseeing europe's biggest bank. mostw shares the rise the in hong kong. still up 0.9%. now let's get the bloomberg first word news with sebastian salek. sebastian: the dutch election has been upended by a diplomatic standoff with turkey. pro

and policies should be aiming to help foster the creation for future ideas. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. john and i have been a little bit on the circuit on this, because he tells you the macro evidence and my role is to tell you a little bit of the micro evidence, the firm level data. you could say i'm going to try to persuade you, i don't think i persuaded john yet to switch that probably not to maybe yes. in terms of dynamism. so what i'm particularly interested in, we have seen some dramatic changes in the pace of indicators of business dynamism. i'll explain those in just a second. these are prima fascia cases so we want to dig into this, including the skepticism about timing and how big the effects are on and so on. i should note this particular talk comes with work of lots of colleagues, but blame all me for the remarks here. so what do i mean by indicators of decline to business dynamism? so we now have in the united states, thanks to work both at the bls and census, great data sets that track every firm and establishment in the united states longitudinally and the two charts take adv

foster the creation and infusion of ideas. thanks. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. john and i have been on a little bit on the circuit on this. he tells you the background evidence, and my role hopefully is to tell you a little bit of the microevidence. the firm level data. you could say i'm -- i'm going to try to persuade you. i haven't persuaded john yet to maybe yes. okay? in terms of dynamism. so what i'm particularly interested in is, we have seen dramatic changes in the pace of indicators of business dynamism. and there is at least a prim a fascia case as to why that might be important for productivity growth. and the skepticism that john has both about timing and how big the effects are and so on. i should note this particular talk comes from work with lots of colleagues. but blame all me for the remarks here. so what do we mean by the indicators of declining business dynamism? we now have in the united states, thanks to work both with the blf and consensus, that tracks every firm and establishment in the united states, and the two charts here take advantage of th

foster the creation of ideas. thanks. [applause] >> thank you very much. john and i have been on the circuit on this. hopefully is to tell you a little about micro evidence. i don't think i have persuaded you get on terms of dynamism. what i am particularly interested in, we have seen some dramatic changes in the indicators of business dynamism. there's a prima fascia case as to why that is. we want to dig into this, including the appropriate skepticism john has about timing and so forth. this particular talk comes with work of nice working with lots of colleagues, but the blame is all on me for the remarks here. what do we mean by these indicators of decline of dynamism?nimism -- here, the upper left is from business employment dynamics, tracking what is called the job reallocation rate. it is the pace of reallocation of jobs across establishments in the united states. you can see what he dramatically this has been falling over the last couple of decades. the key part of this decline in dynamism, there has also been a decline in entrepreneurship in the united states. , this isator of this from the b

policy cofounding the trilateral commission that fostered better relations between the u.s., western europe and japan. he was the grandson of oil baron johnockefeller. david rockefeller was 101 years ago. >> amazing guy. i mean wish i had time to take care of my portfolio, but... well, what are you doing tomorrow -10am? staff meeting. 3:45? tai chi. 6:30? sam's baseball practice. you are busy. wouldn't it be great if you had investments that worked as hard as you do? yeah. introducing essential portfolios the automated investing solution. [vo] quickbooks introduces and her mobile wedding business. she travels far and wide to officiate i do's. and quickbooks automatically tracks those miles. she categorizes with a swipe and is ready for tax time. find more than $4000 in tax savings. visit quickbooks-dot-com. ♪ ashley: less than ten minutes now to the closing bell and here's where things stand. as you can see the dow up three point. my producer just said flat as a pancake he shouted in my ear. the dow just down a little. as you can see the asnasdaq barely higher. 5903 or 5904. maybe we'll have a record on nasdaq. i was right. apple up nearl

foster children after giving them an unforgettable donation. >>> a high profile and powerful report when working on a book about the assassination of president john f. kennedy jr. when she was found dead. more on her story with author mark shaw. this winter you have the power to heal. because your purchase of vaseline® intensive care lotion supports the vaseline® healing project. join us to help millions in crisis heal their skin. . >>> welcome back. our question of the day regarding the affordable care act, specifically how concerned are you with the effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act? as you can see here 17% said not at all. 59% said very concerned and 14 14 percent said somewhat concerned. . >> i have a couple of questions, very concerned self- employed and expect to lose coverage or be priced out. erika simpson said "very concerned, it's a debacle". that poll will be up throughout the day. twees us with the sash hag ktvu nine. christian captain joining us live now, any sign of them yet? ? >> reporter: mike, i've been looking as hard as i can as well as i can with the heavy police presence in the area. you can see this is the

foster to relationship for president. >> the greatest rapper. kmele would be great. the presumed next guy is somebody who used to work in this building, austin peter on. john mcafee.ennedy: i think he's too busy traveling around south america building hammocks. >> this will open the door. there is something there. they are on the ballot in a bunch of states they weren't on the ballot before. talking about their point of view, the party itself -- kennedy: jill stein, i want a recount. 3,000 votes weren't counted for libertarians. it turns out i was cassandra. >> they want a hope grown. kennedy: kmele is the homest grown. you laugh at matt welch. >> if he wants aleppo. i'll take never being president for $500. kennedy: bill clinton and hillary clinton had gaffes, and with their handlers and they were never able to come forth and say i totally screwed that up. >> there are reasons people don't fess up to remind people of the mistake you made the week earlier. if ever there were an elect when you used to say anyone could grow up to be president, and there was a cautionary warning. he could have made a strong showing. we are trying not to look like a pot-smoking sneake

foster youth when they're in the system and exit out. >> okay, thank you. >> any other questions, colleagues? thank you, ms. isom, we'll call up the next speaker, mr. john roman. >> good afternoon, thanks for having me, i'm a business litigation attorney from downtown, i grew up in the mission and now i live in the marina. i've been volunteering for the homeless advocacy project for pro bone -- bono work and i find that to be beneficial to help them avoid that, but it's been frustrating to me that on this issue that i care about, i'm helping one person at a time and that's all that i can do is help one person, and i think that i can do more in order to fix this issue and i can bring my skills in negotiation and litigation and my history in san francisco and my connections within the homeless advocacy community to help solve this issue in san francisco, so i thank you for your time. >> thank you. colleagues, any questions for mr. roman? seeing none, i did want to call on ms. guzman back up, i wanted to ask her a couple of questions, thank you, mr. roman. ms. guzman, since you've served on the committee for some time, i want to ask you a few questions on

foster youth when they're in the system and exit out. >> okay, thank you. >> any other questions, colleagues? thank you, ms. isom, we'll call up the next speaker, mr. john roman. >> good afternoon, thanks for having me, i'm a business litigation attorney from downtown, i grew up in the mission and now i live in the marina. i've been volunteering for the homeless advocacy project for pro bone -- bono work and i find that to be beneficial to help them avoid that, but it's been frustrating to me that on this issue that i care about, i'm helping one person at a time and that's all that i can do is help one person, and i think that i can do more in order to fix this issue and i can bring my skills in negotiation and litigation and my history in san francisco and my connections within the homeless advocacy community to help solve this issue in san francisco, so i thank you for your time. >> thank you. colleagues, any questions for mr. roman? seeing none, i did want to call on ms. guzman back up, i wanted to ask her a couple of questions, thank you, mr. roman. ms. guzman, since you've served on the committee for some time, i want to ask you a few questions on

foster youth when they're in the system and exit out. >> okay, thank you. >> any other questions, colleagues? thank you, ms. isom, we'll call up the next speaker, mr. john roman. >> good afternoon, thanks for having me, i'm a business litigation attorney from downtown, i grew up in the mission and now i live in the marina. i've been volunteering for the homeless advocacy project for pro bone -- bono work and i find that to be beneficial to help them avoid that, but it's been frustrating to me that on this issue that i care about, i'm helping one person at a time and that's all that i can do is help one person, and i think that i can do more in order to fix this issue and i can bring my skills in negotiation and litigation and my history in san francisco and my connections within the homeless advocacy community to help solve this issue in san francisco, so i thank you for your time. >> thank you. colleagues, any questions for mr. roman? seeing none, i did want to call on ms. guzman back up, i wanted to ask her a couple of questions, thank you, mr. roman. ms. guzman, since you've served on the committee for some time, i want to ask you a few questions on

also this weekend we will be harvard where john foster will examine the costs of mass incarceration. on friday we're at literati bookstore in ann arbor journalist kevin davis will discuss the growing use of neuroscience and criminal defense cases. also that evening a stop at oblong books and music in new york where former deputy chief and staff alyssa mathematical will discuss your experience within the white house. wrapping up the week on saturday we will be live at the virginia festival of books in charlottesville, our coverage includes a panel discussion on nuclear war with authors karen stilson and dan ask any discussion on the media moderated by white house correspondent kate ryan and washington post senior editor mark fisher and bureau chief frank with no. >> to look at some of the programs tv will be covering this week. many of the events are open to the public, listen in the near future on book tv on c-span2.>> next on afterwords, council on foreign relations president bridges off examines changes this