more now from abc's jonathan carl. >> reporter: for president trump a flurry of white house meetings. >> perhaps we could go around the table, introduce ourselves, say, hello. i will start. i am donald trump. there we go. >> reporter: first with auto executives who the president is threatening with higher taxes for cars they build in factories outside of the u.s. >> we're bringing manufacturing back to the united states, big league. >> reporter: signing several different directives. one starting the process of a approving the keystone oil pipeline which was shut down by the obama administration. >> keystone pipeline. >> another on the highly controversial dakota access pipeline halted after massive protests last year. within hours, new protests outside the white house. and for the construction of the pipelines he ordered the use of american made steel off to the maximum extent possible. >> okay. we will build o that's what it has to do with. like we used to in the old days. >> reporter: a big personnel decision, president trump is decided to keep james comey as the fbi director. >> an

jonathan carl, abc news, the prowhite house. >>> barack obama is speaking out on the ban just a week and a half after leaving office. through his spokesman he said "citizens exercising their constitutional right to the assemble, organize and have their voices heard by elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when american values are at stake." he disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion. >>> the outrage over that ban extends to britain, as well where the prime minister is defending the decision to give president trump a state visit. a million and a half people assigned a petition to stop that trip from happen. but theresa may >>> a growing number of american veterans who served in iraq and afghanistan are expressing outrage at the ban. it blocks visas for interpreters who helped american forces on battlefield. they had feel betrayed by the executive order because they promised to help the interpreters and their families get to the u.s. priz trump signed another executive order yesterday as small business leaders gath

this video tweeted out by jonathan carl of abc news. and we should let you know that we are standing by to hear from sean spicer, he's the incoming press secretary for the trump administration. he has a briefing with reporters coming up at 9:30 this morning. it was originally set for 9:00. we'll have it for you when it starts at 9:30 here on c-span 3. >>> right now, though, former white house chief usher gary walters talks about white house preparations for the new administration. >>> gary walters, former white house chief usher. when did you begin to think about the events that were going to unfold on january 20 with the inauguration of a new president? >> well, we had to begin because of the budget issues a year and a half before that. each four-year cycle we have to prepare for the possibility of a change of administration. even with a sitting president. so our procedures began down the road in the budget cycle of putting additional money in for inaugural activities which included things like packing up one family, getting ready to r

jonathan carl. >> great to see you. >> thank you. >> just the question of your nate. is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium and will you pledge never to knowingly say something that is not factual? >> it is. it is an honor to do this. and, yes, i believe that we have to be honest with the american people. i think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. there are certain things that we may not fully understand when we come out. but our intention is never to lie to you, jonathan. our job is to make sure -- you're in the same boat. there are times when you guys tweet something out or write a story and you publish a correction. that doesn't mean that you were intentionally trying to deceive readers and the american people, does it? and i think we should be afforded the same opportunity. there are times when we believe something to be true or we get something from an agency, or we act in haste because the information available wasn't complete, but our desire to communicate with the american people and make sure that you have the most complete stor

defended his attack on the news media vowing to tell the truth during an exchange with abc news jonathan carl. >> it's an honor to do this and yes i believe we have to be honest with the american people. think sometimes we can disagree the facts. there are certain things that we may not fully understand for me, but our intention is never to divide. lou: spicer went back and forthwith carl clearly putting into context his previous remarks about the inauguration crowd size. >> do you stand by your statement that was the most-watched in our growth? >> it was the most-watched and a girl. >> more than reagan? >> i'm pretty sure that reagan didn't have youtube and facebook and the internet. let's take the nielsen ratings which are 31 million add it to 16.9 million. that's a little higher. lou: he was being very generous there. it's a lot higher in joining us now to talk about the national left-wing media as well as trump's immediate action on dismantling the president obama's devastating legacy presidential campaigns ed rollins pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "new york post" michael goodwi

other people were asking, along the lines of what jonathan carl said. i thought some of those questions were a waste of opportunity. sean answered the important questions on tpp. he nailed some of the questions that were asked on immigration. those were some big questions on what president trump is going to do about some of the immigration issues. he said we'll wait and see what is going to do but i thought he was the sean spicer we've known for a long time, as dana points out. saturday, not sure what was going on. i think that was more of a trump administration laying down the law, showing who the alpha is going to be and they wanted to make sure they were the elephant in the room. this was an information press briefing. i thought we got a lot of information. >> that we are used to. i thought he looked good. >> should have taken questions on saturday. he could have helped himself a lot. if what he said today it was what he was trying to stay on saturday night, he could've avoided 48 hours hearing about about how he wasn't telling the truth on saturday.

jonathan carl. >> thanks for being here. good to see you. >> thank you. >> before i get to a policy question, just the question about the nature of your job. >> yeah. >> is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium? and will you pledge never to knowingly say something that is not factual? >> it is. it's an honor to do this. and, yes, i believe that we have to be honest with the american people. i think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. there are certain things that we may -- we may not fully understand when we come out but our intention is never the lie to you jonathan. our job -- you are in the same boat. there are times when you tweet something out or write a story and you publish a correction. that doesn't mean that you were intentionally trying the deceive readers or the american people, does it? i think we should be afforded the same opportunity. there are times when we believe something to be true or we get something from an agency or we act in haste because the information available wasn't co

jonathan: carl, great to have you with us on the program. -- contingency plans that china will use to curb outflows. we catch up on an important conversation with john ryding. in new york, the stocks are rolling over in your. this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: and good morning and welcome to bloomberg daybreak. i'm jonathan ferro. the markets, for the second full day of trading here in the u.s., futures up 34 on a doubt. up about five on the s&p 500. the dollar is the story. treasuries are a bit more stable than yesterday. 2.45 on the u.s. 10-year. david: chinese wall for currency. china tries to slow down the flight of capital as the dollar continues to climb, affecting everything from the valley of debt payments, to the bitcoin. european economic data shows growth, raising questions whether hawks will push for tightening policy in 2017. trump gets his way. he tweets about gm and mexico cancels its plan to build a plant in mexico. is he on a roll? to help us understand what is going on with the yuan and how it fits with the markets, let's bring

jonathan carl has more. >> reporter: it's donald trump versus the intelligence community.ect he accused the top intelligence officers of leaking the unconfirmed reports that russia was gathering salacious information to blackmail him. >> i think it was disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any false information out. i think it's a disgrace. and i say that, and that's something that nazi germany did. i think it's a disgrace. that information that was false and fake and never happened got released. >> reporter: trump assured the american people that no amount of investigation will turn out anything. >> if they come back with any kind of conclusion, if any of it stands up or is true, will you consider your position? >> there's nothing they can come back with. >> reporter: trump accepts the intelligence agencies conclusion it was russia that hacked the democrats during the campaign. >> as far as hacking, i think it was russia. >> reporter: although later he seemed to hedge. >> it could have been others also. >> reporter: he did not dispute the intelligence communi

jonathan carl? >> thanks for being here. to see you. >> thank you. >> before i get to a policy question, just the question about the nature of your job. >> yeah. >> is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium? and will you pledge never to knowingly say something that is not factual? >> it is. it's an honor to do this. and, yes, i believe that we have to be honest with the american people. i think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. there are certain things that we may miss, may not fully understand when we come out but our intention is never to lie to you, jonathan. our job is to make sure that sometimes -- you're in the same boat. there are times when you guys tweet something out or write a story and you publish a correction. that doesn't mean that you were intentionally trying to deceive readers and the american people, does it? i think we should be afforded the same opportunity. there are times when we believe something to be true or we get something from an agency or we act in haste because the i

go ahead, jonathan. >> well, i think there are two things at work. first of all, i think carl's right that we don't know what the motivation for trump saying this unusual but in some ways reasonable thing, why can't we have better relations with russia. he has never explained the intellectual origins of his openness. it could be curiosity. it could be girls. he may just like eastern european girls and that gave him an idea. or it could be what carl taught all of us and i teach all my journalism students, follow the money. we don't know. but the other part is doubts about what trump was saying. there are doubts about the american intelligence committee not on this particular issue necessarily. but you remember the man delivering the information today, clapper, outright lied to the senate in 2013 saying there was no surveillance, no intelligence gathering on american citizens by national security means and then snowden opened up the secrets and he had to walk that back. >> let me give a scenario -- >> part of the problem -- >> pardon me. let me give a scenario -- >> part of the pr

jonathan: bloomberg intelligence carl riccadonna, great to have you with us. next -- countdown to the payroll report. 34 minutes away. ♪ ♪ a warm welcome to "bloomberg daybreak." i am jonathan ferro alongside david weston. counting down to the payroll report. yesterday, if you switch up the board, was the free payroll squeeze of some of the crowded positions. u.s. 10ed at 235 on the year. is what you need to know at this hour. jobs, jobs, jobs. the nonfarm payroll report is what donald trump says is the important goal of the administration. yuan slips. it has been a year since it felt as much in a single day. volatility came after the bank raised the fixing rate less than anticipated. tweeting for jobs. donald trump is moving forward on his -- creating those jobs by tweeting daily. turntime it is toyota's with mr. trump threatening a border tax on corollas. we want to come back to the jobs report, less than 30 minutes away from the nonfarm payroll numbers. is here in the studio and from stamford, connecticut is dean maki. thank you for joining us. mr. obama has

jonathan. >> two things at work. first of all carl is right, we don't know what the motivation for trump saying this unusual but in some ways reasonable thing, why can't we have better relations with russia, he's never explained intellectual origins of his openness. could be curiosity, could be girls, he just likes eastern european girls and give him ideas or could be what carl talked about, follow the money. we don't know. but doubts about what trump was saying, there are doubts about the american intelligence community not on this particular issue necessarily. but remember the man tlideliver the information today, clapper, outright lied to the senate in 2013, saying there was no surveillance or intelligence gathering on american citizens by national security means and snowden opened up the secrets and had to walk that back. >> scenario -- >> part of the problem -- >> donald trump was in russia, did business there and got to gnome and therefore thinks he can do business with them on good level of mutual trust and he's playing that ca

carl, back to you. >> rick, we'll check in later. >>> still to come, athena health ceo jonathan bush as congress pushesl and replace obamacare. >>> dow down 35 points, l led lower by goldman on the downgrade. back in a minute. ♪ >>> apple requested permission to conduct high-tech manufacturing of data center products of the facility in mesa, arizona, according to a filing. apple has permission to make consumer electronics components at mesa. the president-elect has been pushing apple for manufacturing in u.s. gm's president at the detroit auto show saying the industry has been unfairly singled out. why not apple? quote, i don't know. for example, how many iphones are made in the u.s. for u.s. consumption? provocative take. >> i think i always looked at apple as having -- building the largest building in the country. it is kind of a big construction project. >> true. spending a lot of money on that. >> look -- >> they do manufacture ubiquitous product somewhere else and bring it back here. >> almost all of tech has, over the years, felt compelled to build overseas. certainly, apple is one of them. i'd l