for the pbs newshour, i'm julia griffin in sterling, virginia. >> sreenivasan: later this evening on pbs, "frontline" looks at one of the most divisive figures in the white house: chief strategist steve bannon. "bannon's war" explores bannon's worldview, his belief that disruption is power, and his fight to deliver on trump's campaign promises, including the travel ban. bannon had eng feared a sweeping executive order aimed at fulfilling a campaign promise to restrict muslims from entering the united states. >> that's steve bannon's idea is to throw everybody off balance and knock them back before they had a chance to resist. >> until this moment, the order's details had been a well-kept secret in washington, even among trump's own team. >> they wanted to rush this thing through and get it out there and take a shock and awe approach in changing immigration policy. >> defense secretary mattis knew late in the process this was what was going to be done during the this visit. >> bannon didn't want other agencies to see what was in this executive order and say, slow down, this might not

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griffin, funder of citadel. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is bloomberg markets. i'm david gura. julia: i'm julia chatterley.et's get a check on the bloomberg first word news with mark crumpton. mark: more now from president trump us oval office interview with bloomberg news. the president did not rule out a face to face meeting with north korean leader kim jong in. north korea has in the president's most urgent national security threat and foreign-policy challenge in his first 100 days in office. under the right circumstances, i would absolutely meet with him. people wouldl never say that, but i'm telling you, under the right circumstances, i would meet with him. mark: the last top u.s. official to meet with a north korean official was madeleine albright who met with cam's father in 2000. house and senate negotiators reached a budget deal that rejects most of the presidents wish list stop the $1.1 trillion agreement would keep the government in operation through september. republican leaders bowed to democratic command -- the man's to limit hundreds of restrictions aimed at curbing regulations. notmeasure a

julia: the ceo speaking there. warren buffett and ken griffiny companies. ash the general reassurance a stake is worth $200 million. they plan to increase the hedge funds positioned by 26% to $150 million. their bid tot extend tomorrow's deadlines for a rival. the company confirms that the financial regulator in the netherlands is taking the extension request. the bp bg decide on whether to make a hostile bid. a judge rejected a bid for a shareholder vote. that is your business flash update. scarlet: let's turn out to policy and washington, congress to get a look at the budget proposal earlier this month. the $1 trillion plan plans on using the private sector to improve the facilities of the nation and build a contentious border wall. this morning, vonnie quinn spoke to a ceo and asked him what he makes of the proposal. >> we are still very optimistic that we will see a bill later this year. we have broad bipartisan support for a infrastructure bill. we have broad support at the state and local level. i am quite confident that we will see this b

julia: that was bloomberg press erik schatzker with citadel founder and ceo ken griffin.er middling up for years, korean experts have made steep gains over the past two years. we have a chart with the details and a quick check on longer dated bonds. we cited a big jump up in yields on the 30-year, treasury after treasury secretary steven mnuchin said he was still entertaining the idea of a 50 or 100 year treasury bond. again, 30 year yields spiked higher right when he spoke. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: i'm joe weisenthal. "what'd you miss?" korean exports are on a tear great people sometimes look at korean trade data as a bellwether of the global economy because it is so sensitive to changes in world trade and all that stuff. you have got to like what you see here on this chart. the white line is the year-over-year change in korean exports of 24%, 24.2% year over year. that is a major surge. if we go back to the beginning of 2016, they were in negative territory. really exemplifies the shift in the global economy. the blue line, year-over-year change in u.s. industrial prod

griffin. with the founder and ceo of sit it out. this is bloomberg. ♪ . . grexit it is 2 p.m. in new york. david: welcome to bloomberg markets. juliare live at bloomberg world headquarters in new york. everlyg stories out of hills, washington and london. here are the top stories we are covering on bloomberg and around the world. president trump's with bloomberg, telling us he is actively considering breaking up wall street's biggest banks. then a rare and exclusive the milk, live from and political conference. asking where he would be put his money right now. in the fed's plan for rate hikes coming into question after consumer spending and gdp data.