mark: hello, america, i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin."ave a special guest, tom cotton. we never met before. you have an impressive background. you went to harvard and harvard law school. but even more impressive you served in the 101st airborne in iraq and later in afghanistan with the provincial reconstruction team. in between tours. you served with the old guard at arlington national cemetery. you go to harvard law school, then you decide to go into the military? >> some people may say i redeemed myself by joining the army after going to harvard. i started my final year of law school in september of 2001. the second week of school i was in evidence class back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we didn't have smart phones in the classroom. it was about an hour later when everyone found out what happened. we watched as the towers fell down and flight 93 crashed inning shanksville. we had a prayer vigil. from that point forward i knew i wanted to serve in the country's military. i thought about rushing out to join right away. some friends

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hello america, i'm mark levin. this is life, liberty and levin.roberts, how are you. >> i'm well thank you. >> world-famous author, british historian, journalist, with all this turmoil going on in the world, our country, britaibritain, all throughout the world, i thought this would be a good time to talk about winston churchill. i think our audience has a general understanding about him, what a great man he is, but i'm not sure we have really a full understanding of the man's character, his history, and why he is considered such a great man. you've written a book, churchill, walking with destiny. this is, you told me the 1010th biography of churchill, yours being the 1010th. why is your book different. >> i was very fortunate that in the last six or seven years there has been an avalanche of new sources that have come out about winston churchill. [inaudible] her majesty the queen allowed me to it be the first biographer to use her father's diaries and he met with churchill every tuesday during the war and was trusted by his prime minister with all

for the remaining survivors the pain still lingers studied levine lost his entire family at the nazi death camp with anti semitism on the rise he's determined to stand as a witness to what happened. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us we begin this program with the news about the death of kobe bryant. the retired american basketball star has died in a helicopter crash the former l.a. lakers player was traveling on a private helicopter with his teenage daughter and 7 others when he went down in foggy conditions near los angeles sunday morning there were no survivors bryant won 5 n.b.a. titles to live the gold medals his death has triggered an outpouring of grief around the world. the emergency call came at 9 47 am local time a helicopter has crashed into a hillside 65 kilometers northwest of central los angeles it belonged to kobe bryant he and 8 of us were on board the helicopter no one survived. his fans are shocked and saddened within hours hundreds had gathered outside the staples center in los angeles home to the lake us basketball team. for a big fight the school thro

at home in his one bedroom apartment in berlin david levine lives here alone his wife has moved to a nursing home he's one of the last remaining auschwitz survivors his parents and siblings were murdered there over 75 years ago. that's me that's my brother and another brother and my sister. the 94 year old was born in warsaw to a jewish family during the nazis reign of terror he was sent to 4 different concentration camps. i give all the question why. i can't answer that today. i can't even think about it why. why a 9 year old girl who hadn't done anything who hadn't sinned why did they murder why. all 4 sons again she hadn't done anything in life only because she had a different tree. it was 19 when auschwitz was liberated. while there he was forced to work in the gas chambers as a slave labor of the german company that produced the deadly gas. i worked down in the gas chambers we collected the cycling gas. you just turn into stone you know what i mean. the horror is hard to comprehend for many years it has returned to auschwitz at the end of january. this day is an anniversary for

levin. we have a great guest, peter schweitzer profiles and corruption. he has a book on the bidens. five of them. we are really going to want to dig into this but before we do, i feel compelled to address what's been going on on the floor of the u.s. senate. it's supposed to be a somber occasion. there's nothing somber about it. it's a farce. it's pathetic and grotesque. the senators have a job to uphold the constitution of the united states and to protect it, not from a law-abiding president but from a lawless majority in the house of representatives. the democrats. >> you don't need three days in 24 hours if you have a true case of impeachment against the president, vice president or judge and so forth. they are all over the map. they've got their graphs and their video clips and the repetition and their emotion and their attacking the president and the senators, their undermining judicial review in the court. it is an embarrassment. the very chairman. [inaudible] they violated their comm

i'm here on behalf of the levin center.e're part of wayne state but my views are on behalf of the center itself. we've just heard from the first two witnesses about how the executive branch has expanded in numbers, in funding, in activities, at the same time congress has lost staff, lost funding, and it is struggling to keep up. the particular thing i was asked to look at was oversight because that's what senator levin championed. it's a key power of congress because if you want good government, you've simply got to have good oversight. yet when we look at the quality of oversight over time, it is really varied from committee to committee and at cross issues. and part of the reason we've just heard is a staffing problem. we have staff that is under paid, that is few in number, that doesn't have the expertise that you need. so that's a real problem. but there's a bigger problem ands that bipartisanship. i was an investigator for 30 years. if you investigated with somebody whose views matched your own it was like an echo cham

we will talk to analyst michael levine as he boosts his price target. mobility tech is all the rage and uber takes one more step to becoming a one-stop shop for all of your transportation needs. details on the uber bus. first to our top story, u.s. stocks advance. heavyweight technology companies led a rebound. 100 led by companies like salesforce in alphabet, fresh record highs. that means that the small-cap technology companies are looking relatively cheap on a valuation basis. joining us, bloomberg across asset reporter sarah ponczek. take a look at a chart i am showing on a forward basis, looking like some of these small-cap tech companies look cheap relative to some of those big things we cannot stop talking about. sarah: you are looking at the forward price to earnings ratio of the s&p 500 versus the s&p 600 for both technology sectors. the s&p 600, as you can see, trading at a discount, at the lowest level since 2001. i will say that we posed this chart to jonathan golub of credit suisse about an hour ago and he said, i would not be too quick to

levin says he's working on a legislative solution and believes solving the housing crisis for veterans is something both parties support in washington, i'm joe colyer and bad news for boeing the company now reporting it had more cancellations than new orders last year. >>company reported its final order numbers and deliveries for 2019 today. >>and they were as bad as expected boeing's total orders for commercial jets last year fell by 87 jets deliveries also tumbled 53% from 806 down to 380 much of that is due to the grounding of the 7.37 max following 2 fatal crashes. they killed over 300 people. >>and for the first time in 25 years wine consumption in the us is down. instead of wind. researchers are finding that americans are drinking more of those hard seltzers and liquor. think white cloth this follows a broader trend of people looking for perhaps healthier lower-calorie choices. tariffs also pose another big problem for wine and spirits in retaliation for subsidies euro provided to aircraft maker airbus president trump recently proposed a 100% tariff on french wine and champagne t

well they've never been an option for the survivors of auschwitz our next report introduces us to levine he survived most of his relatives did not today at the age of 94 he is still asking why them why not me why not home in his one bedroom apartment in berlin david levine lives here alone his wife has moved to a nursing home he's one of the last remaining auschwitz survive us his parents and siblings were murdered there over 75 years ago. that's me that's my brother and another brother and my sister. the 94 year old was born in warsaw to a jewish family during the nazis reign of terror he was sent to 4 different concentration camps. well i give all the question why. i can't answer that today. i can't even think about it why. why a 9 year old girl who hadn't done anything who hadn't sinned why did they murder why. she hadn't done anything in life only because she had a different tree. of it was 19 when auschwitz was liberated while there he was forced to work in the gas chambers as a slave labor of the german company that produced the deadly gas. i worked down in the gas chambers we coll

on steve levine is one of the few remaining survivors of auschwitz the holocaust and there are very real concerns that the memory of the holocaust will fade as these last survivors pass away is indeed i mean there will be no longer in the sort of the foreseeable future they will no longer be actual witnesses of that time which is why it's so important to. cut bring up an interest to kind of conjure up an interest in the history that what happened there which is what the german government has been trying to do very strongly the german foreign minister just published. an op ed piece in a german magazine on the german website where he said one of the aims is to teach this history more intensely even then it is being told today to young people because they are german right wing politicians who are saying for instance that the nazi period was insignificant compared to the period to germany's entire history it's these kind of attempts to don play german history teacher would to talk and play the holocaust that the german government wants to fight against germany has of course a long expressed

he is still asking why them why not me why my time in this one bedroom apartment in berlin dotted levine lives here alone his wife has moved to a nursing home he's one of the last remaining auschwitz survive us his parents and siblings were murdered there over 75 years ago. that's me that's my brother and another brother and my sister. the 94 year old was born in warsaw to a jewish family during the nazis reign of terror he was sent to 4 different concentration camps. all the question why. i can't answer that today. i can't even think about it why. why a 9 year old girl who hadn't done anything who hadn't sinned why did they murder why. she hadn't done anything in life only because she had a different tree. of it was 19 when auschwitz was. i worked down on the gas chambers. we collected the cycling gas. you just turn into stone you know what i mean. the horror is hard to comprehend for many years it has returned to auschwitz at the end of january. this day is an anniversary for me it's an anniversary of death. this year is no different krakow airport every year the custodian of auschwitz

he talks to democratic congressman andrew levin of michigan about the current challenges facing american workers. and sunday we are live with sebastian gore go on our monthly call in program in depth, the former deputy assistant to president trump will join us to talk about his books on u.s. domestic and foreign policy by the complete 48 hour schedule for this weekend on your program guide or by visiting booktv.org. >> booktv covers book fairs and festivals around the country. here's what's coming up, our 2020 festival season will kick off in january if a rancho mirage writers festival in california followed by the savanna books festival in georgia in march book tv visits arizona for the tucson festival books. later that month the virginia festival of the book will take place in charlottesville. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch our previous festival coverage click the book fairs tab on our website booktv.org. click to welcome back salena zito the book is called "the great revolt: inside the populist coalition reshaping american politics". good sun

now back to life, liberty and levin. there was michael carla on campaign violation, where is he today, in prison. then there was michael off a naughty and his client stormy daniels. and then he's in jail today. he was on tv hundreds of times. he was going to be president. so the media embraced : hoping that he was their savior. and then the stormy daniels lawyer and then another one, this ukrainian gentleman from the same district and is likely to save time. he can't cut a deal, the seventh district is a tough district so all of the sudden at the 11th hour he's got unbelievable evidence like you've never seen before. text messages, e-mail, voicemai voicemail, he's under criminal investigation and the whole issue is under criminal investigation by the department of justice. the democrats are saying we have to be able to use this information in our senate trial. what you make of all this. >> i think it's another false hope for them. again, here's the case that you made, it's not good, you held it, he couldn't get any lever

michael levine of pivotal research, thank you. theng up, we look at largest chipmakers as the u.s.hina reach a trade deal. this is bloomberg. ♪ here, it all starts with a simple... hello! hi! how can i help? a data plan for everyone. everyone? everyone. let's send to everyone! wifi up there? uhh. sure, why not? how'd he get out?! a camera might figure it out. that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. this is bloomberg technology global link where we blew -- where we joined bloomberg daybreak australia. let's take a look at the top global tech stories of the day. i japanese billionaire seeks a special woman to fly with him to the moon. the first paying passenger on voyage3 maiden tourist is looking for applicants through a documentary he commissioned called "full moon lovers." he has a net worth of $3.6 billion. the indian event in new delhi this week, but he is likely to face protests by more than half a million locals who are against amazon's practices. open anes as th

taylor: michael levine of pivotal research, thank you.ing up, we look at the largest chipmakers as the u.s. and china reach a trade deal. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: this is "bloomberg technology" global link where we join bloomberg daybreak australia. let's take a look at the top global tech stories of the day. shery: i japanese billionaire seeks a special woman to fly with him to the moon. the first paying passenger on the 2023 maiden tourist voyage is looking for applicants through a documentary he commissioned called "full moon lovers." he has a net worth of $3.6 billion. jeff bezos, the indian event in new delhi this week, but he is likely to face protests by more than half a million locals who are against amazon's practices. this comes as they open an antitrust probe into amazon and walmart. more than 560 million indian internet users will soon have unprecedented control over their footprint. the top banks are rolling out a system that gives consumers access to their data and a choice of what to share and with whom. it aims to prot

now the levin terminal which handles a quarter of u.s. exports on the west coast stores coal shipped in from utah before it is exported to japan. now they could use this excite to store other materials in the future but can't store coal. this is come as public complaint over coal dust in the air but at a meeting last month to discuss the issue, levin officials did say that dozens of jobs could be lost and if it is passed, now that it is passed, the plan is they could take legal action against the city. now the ordinance will not have any effect on transportation of coal through the city, but could no longer store coal in the city but they'll have three years to phase out coal from this facility. reporting live, pete suratos, for "today in the bay." >> thanks for the latest there, pete. >>> evicted for squatting, moms in oakland are calling this the start of a movement. this is the video shot by a filmmaker inside of the vacant home with deputies arrested the mothers. we covered the drama all morning long on "today in the bay." last night

i am yuval levin and it is my great pleasure to welcome you to a discussion of "land of hope: an invitation to the great american story" the one volume history of our country by the great american historian wilfred mcclay. it is a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as a people have unifying rather than divisive story, tell the story of our country in a way that sells short our natural greatness nor whitewash is our national sins, live questions in our politics, in may be an unusual way and this book is intended to speak to that moment. never a better time to hear from bill about his sense of how to approach these questions. wilfred mcclay is a national treasure, he is a teacher, holds the blankenship chair in oklahoma and admired and beloved by students past and present and one of the writers of american history. his book the masterless self in society in modern america was judged the best book in american intellectual history the year was published by the organization of american historians. and students guide to us history, figures in the carpet, finding the human pers

that would put a dent in china's economy as alicia levine was telling us, seems to have stabilized. 6%: we are talking about economic growth for the full year of 2019, 16.2%. we have seen surprisingly good economic data coming out of china. given the structural shift, we have had a smaller services sector saying the impact could be better. it is the difference in time between the infection and the detection of the disease. we are talking about 584 cases being reported to the who. have mentioning that we potential cases in hong kong. they. have not been confirmed the who saying there have been cases confirmed in japan, singapore, thailand, the u.s. and vietnam. at least 17 people dead. scarlet: thank you for the update. do not miss shery on daybreak australia. we want to bring in jennifer nuzzo. she is a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security. dr. nuzzo, thank you for taking the time to speak with us. the who opted against calling the virus a public health concern. it is a good or bad consent -- good or bad sign? dark i think there are still a number of important

let's now speak to the royal biographer, angela levin.ng the state m e nts how clear are you following the statements about the nature of harry and meghan's role, their life in the future? i think it is very misty and probably got a few dark clouds hovering over it. it seems to me that nothing has been worked out fully. we get this from the royal family trying to very quickly sort things out, but i imagine harry and meghan were so determined to go so quickly that they haven't actually processed what the future might hold. i think it will be fine for meghan, she has lots of friends there, lots of contacts, she might act, she has all sorts of things she could do. ifear it will act, she has all sorts of things she could do. i fear it will be very difficult for prince harry, no longer prince, harry. when he looks back he might find he has lost a great deal. he has also never really had a job, meghan has worked her way up had a job, meghan has worked her way up as an actress and done lots of things beside that to keep her money coming in. but

amber levin to rely on. you're watching the news i'll have more news here at the top of the hour up next wild stories looks at how angry east germans stormed the secret police headquarters 30 years ago stay tuned for that of course all the latest available on our web site is do you know what you don't comment on humphrey thanks for your company i'll see you soon. my 1st boss also sewing machine. where i come from women are almost by this ocean for. something as simple as learning how to write them by side those isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have them by cycle of my home and it took me as the months might. finally gave up and mentioned by me on my side and returned because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for goes than writing advice as no i was in meet those women back home who are bound by their duties and social norms and informed him of all the basic rights my name is the about of the homes and i work into. this week on world stories. families fight for their lives in ve

about how he got out of japan is so much speculation about how he got out ofjapan and ended up in levin-- lebanon. there are so many theories on how it happened. whether he owns up to that, we will wait and see. it is his moment of truth. but when it comes to him seeking justice, this is the issue for him right now, isn't it? of course, will he be able to see justice or follow—through on these criminal allegations against him, which he has flatly refused right from the beginning? yes, he was already on bail, so whether this is going to make that case worse... it is hard to say. all right. thank you for your time. needless to say, it isa you for your time. needless to say, it is a story we will be covering for you like here on bbc as that press co nfe re nce for you like here on bbc as that press conference gets under way later today. carlos ghosn's moment of truth as people are describing it. let's now brief you on other stories. borisjohnson will meet the us commission president in downing street today for the first face—to—face talk since she took office last month. the uk government

taylor: that was michael levine of pivotal research.ing up, apple reaches a new milestone in china. we will have the details next. we are livestreaming on twitter. check us out and follow our global breaking news network on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: welcome back to the "best of bloomberg: technology." i am taylor riggs. apple enjoyed a fresh price target boost this week. from 2.85 to 3.50 share. looking at the past year, shares continued to retire and this week hit a record. analyst kyle mcnealy says that foot traffic at u.s. apple stores showed apple was set for a strong finish to 2019. sales in china were also up as government data indicates it grew 18%. alistair barr filled me in thursday. >> in china, that number is a surprise. the broad push in china to focus on huawei and have consumers by huawei funds instead of iphones. huawei phones instead of iphones. that was the concern for a lot of last year. some of the trade tension has come down. i think more to the point is a device like the iphone 11 is a little bit cheaper

be keep the market should get to be tested 1st he failed to deal with the tantalizing cross robert levin dusty pursued celebrating a return to the scoring cha with his 21st goal of the season the replay was a great viewing for the 21 year old keeper who was all at sea and the great time continued to sweep forward before half time as a bottom 5 return to the scoresheet at the end of the well constructed move. the parasitic cross a gorecki assist and a thomas will of finish was poetry in motion and there was more beautiful prose to come 5 minutes into the 2nd half in the form of shaka stolidly and gorecki stepped up. to bring his old club today in the things. 3 nil lock to the trickery and the only question left was how many would have the. 8 minutes light 11 he turned provider and it was by him for. the pose footwork by the way 40 out goes a very simple finish. the final stages little more than a position has surged operate made fun of his opponent before shivered at one final sad and sour note to his music symphony brian back within a point of logic at the top and ready to make a run at

levin. mr. levin: thank you, mr. chairman. my amendment requires within five years a comprehensive report to congress by the environmental protection agency, or the e.p.a., regarding the actions the agency will take to clean up and remediate pfas contamination sites once we pass the important bill before us into law. i'd like to begin by thanking my friend, chairman pallone, and his staff, for working with me on this. as well as my fellow michiganders, congresswoman dingell, congressman upton, and congressman kildee for their bipartisan leadership on this bill. i'm proud that this bill includes my bill co-sponsored with representative cana, the pfas safe disposal act, which prohibits unsafe incineration of pfas. we need to ensure that when pfas chemicals are destroyed by incontinue racial, pfas particles are not emitted into the air. the monumental effort of pfas cleanup will be for natt if pfas is simply transmit interested water and soil into the air we breathe. we in michigan know all too well of the growing threat that pfa

now back to life liberty and levin. be nine curt schilling, rio always republican?i was i think when i registered a registered as an independent. i think to this day i am probably more of an independent republican because socially and very progressive. but fiscally i am not. mark: socially your view is? >> i don't care who you sleep with, i don't care about any of the other things -- i have a son on the spectrum. and he is one of the greatest human beings you are ever going to meet. and he formed the lgb qt club in high school. and as far as i know he straight, i don't know i don't really care. but i've had kids coming into my house for eight years that are gay, they are transgender, that are making the change from boy to girl girl the boy, i don't use pronouns around his friends because i don't want to get in trouble with them. mark: i use pronouns because i don't know what else to say. >> they are the greatest kids in the world and who are you dating, it. mark: you're not a republican because of that. you are republican why? 's speemac i really them a republican b

mark: hello, america, i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin."r met before. you have an impressive background. you went to harvard and harvard law school. but even more impressive you served in the 101st airborne in iraq and later in afghanistan with the provincial reconstruction team. in between tours. you served with

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hello america, i'm mark levin. this is life, liberty and levin.ll thank you. >> world-famous author, british historian, journalist, with all this turmoil going on in the world, our country, britaibritain, all throughout the world, i thought this would be a good time to talk about winston churchill. i think our

levin men amy, ktvu to fox news. >> it may be time to take a vacation. thank you. be sure to catch more reports all this week. the big game itself is right here on ktvu fox 2 the sunday. >>> still to come at noontime, new information in the kidnapping and killing of a tech executive. how law enforcement hopes new video will lead to arrests in this case. >>> we continue to follow the latest in the investigation of the deadly helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant, his daughter, and seven people. what officials are saying about a safety feature that was missing. >>> a few high clouds but temperatures are trending way up. we'll have more on the forecast, coming up. >>> a man accused of assaulting another man and causing him to fall out of his wheelchair facing criminal charges. this was caught on video on january 11th. this happened at the pleasant hill target store. investigator show it shows tim mctaggart assaulting a man. tygart is charged with attempting kidnapping and assault. he has pled not guilty. he is set to return to court tomorrow for hearing. >>> the sh

. [♪] [♪] mark: hello, america, i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin."efore. it's a pleasure. you have an impressive background, harvard, harvard law school. but even more impressive, you served in the 101st airborne in iraq and later in afghanistan with the provincial reconstruction team in between tours you served with

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it's why last saturday, one week before his biggest game of the year, tight end levine toylolo took timeom practice room and weight room reps to come here, ucf benioff children's hospital and to the bedside of zavion hamilton. >> we wanted to go and encourage them, and take a few gifts to cheer them up and try to get their minds off of it. >> reporter: levine and his wife stephanie learned of zavion's trouble when they helped find a bone marrow donor to help him fight cancer. >> his mom jasmine, not a perfect match, ended up being the donor. >> we went for it. we needed to. he had an extremely aggressive cancer. >> zavion is struggling with complications with the transplant. >> it was a raw and real situation in the hospital that day. we were prepared mentally for that. but we weren't prepared to see that beautiful 5-year-old boy feeling so sick. >> but while zavion was not able in the moment to appreciate the visit, the rest of his family was. >> they, you know, have just been angels. >> amazing. >> they have been angels, and it restores your faith in humanity a little bit. they have be

taylor: that was michael levine of pivotal research.ming up, apple keeps getting records and reaches a new milestone in china. we will have the details next. "bloomberg technology" are livestreaming on twitter. be sure to check us out at @technology, and follow our global breaking news network on twitter. this is bloomberg. taylor: welcome back to the "best of bloomberg technology." i'm taylor riggs. apple enjoyed a fresh price target boost from jefferies this $285 to $350 a share. looking at the past year, shares continued to retire, and this week hit an intraday record. analyst kyle mcnealy said look at foot traffic at u.s. apple stores as well as globally -- global web traffic showed apple was set for a strong finish to 2019 when a report earnings. sales in china were also up as government data indicates it grew 18% year-over-year. alistair barr filled me in thursday. alistair: certainly, in china, that number is a surprise. there is a broad push in china to focus on huawei and have consumers buh huawei -- buy huawei phones instead o

for more let's bring in brian levin. the director at the center for study of hate and extremism. you. i know we talked about virginia before, and here we are again. this crowd expected to be larger than usual because democrats took control of the legislature. they are proposing several gun control bills that would limit hand gun purchases that require background checks. why are these steps rallying extremist groups now? >> great, great question. and as long, as long back as white supremacists have kind of a folkloric history, starting with the turner diaries, guns was an important issue. the turner diaries was this racist novel that timothy mcveigh uses a blueprint for the oklahoma city bombings. but key to this in this fictional book was something called a gun restriction bill. so not only people of good will want to debate the second amendment, but on the extreme radical side, the gun issue has been intertwined with bigotry to become a wedge issue, similar to what we saw with charlottesville where the confederate monuments were. now we have a whole bunch of different books. but

levin didn't have a tie on then. and case did i actually made -- i remember making note of that.was like, silicon valley guy got the tie on >> buyer monsanto -- >> one of the worst of all time. this has still got to go at the top. in terms of the destruction of older value. nextel and -- oh >> sprint? >> yeah. sprint and nextel. it was a horrible deal horrible >> you could do a book or special on that. on all the bad deals i mean, people would love it >> i know. but you're right the latest entrant is definitely buyer monsanto terrible, terrible deal in terms of destruction of value. but this one was -- this one stands alone because it was the largest and it was a shock >> but you don't see that level of hubris anymore. there just isn't people don't do like i think this is unblooebl. >> they don't take the kind of risks that jerry levin took here maybe in part because of what happened >> because of youtube. we can play it and say, look what a chump, what a monkey that clown is >> he actually -- he justified that market value that we all know now was one that should not have been.

senator levin was famous for his long hearings. his record was 11 hours. we finished at 11:00 at night because he wanted to give every member is much time as they wanted to ask whatever questions they wanted. that's not easy. it can be very difficult with your schedules and the demands on you. that is one answer. seen that long before. i've seen 15 minutes per side. >> stronger committee chairs equals an stronger article one? >> the pit committees have lost a lot of power. >> can the of you say that with clarity? >> certainly. the model we have evolved toward which is a leadership driven model has become a trap. your job is to line up behind the leadership or stand in opposition. putnotion the keeps getting out there is why don't we just do this and retain the majority forever? it's gone back and forth. that's not a long-term governing strategy. you keep turning seats over and moving people around, the executive branch just keeps on chugging. >> all of these suggestions we have for better oversight, none of them require statutes. none of them require the p

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joining us to break it down is brian levine and mike wilson, morgan stanley chief u.s.gist. i feel at this is a begrudging non-upgrade. mike: it is, mainly because of this issue. we are creating excess reserves in the system. the big debate we have with equity investors is they say, how does this translate into the equity market? the way we quantify that is hard, but we have said pretty specifically, basically they have suppressed volatility in everything. in the treasury market has suppressed volatility in rates, which is the pricing mechanism for every other asset in the world. so they have removed two-way risk, and when that happens, it attracts flows into the equity market. we quantify that is about $200 billion since september, when they announced the repo operations in the first place, just from the vol targeting funds and cta's. i'm sure it has attracted other players because price momentum attracts new players. look, this is don't fight the fed on asset prices. the one thing the fed is really good at is asset price inflation. i'm not sure that is what they are t

mark: hello, america, i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin."special guest, tom cotton. we never met before. you have an impressive background. you went to harvard and harvard law school. but even more impressive you served in the 101st airborne in iraq and later in afghanistan with the provincial reconstruction team. in between tours. you served with the old guard at

well if you want to river valley, congreman mike levin says over the last few years millions of gallons of sewage flowed from that you want to river valley in mexico to the san diego area fatal mistake. we are going to need the mexican government. >>to sp up and acknowledge the seousness of this issue congressmascott peters says environmental stdards in mexico haven't been a strict and previs attempts to address the problem dn't work t he says thus mca fers a new opportunity we leverage our trade relationships to affect things like the environment an well congressman peter says $300 million will ver the entire cost to fix the problem, it is a strong art for mexico to fix its infrastructure. this is a meaningful amount money that can really help us a a scessful that was our goal in san dio which not a half-measure not something that's going help a little bit but let's all that republan san diego mayor kevin faulconer ys he's confident this deal provides a solution this is an incredibly important reement for ur economy and san o, the dollars for the environmental issues that he won a rir

levine wants to get the new design plan in the pipeline while caltrans determines if it is indeed time for a new structure. >>> it is always disturbing when i have to report that part of a bridge falling down so i'm glad they're concerned about that. whatever the case. over here we're looking at 3-d model showing the hilly area jammed up approaching the mission scales because the commute is build out of pleasanton and through sunol. chp said it will be a few more minutes until they remove the big rig and oil spilled. looks like it is cleaned up to improve things for the tri-valley. everything else on schedule like the bay bridge toll plaza. and another spot in san jose northbound, 101 to 680. a live look. no injuries but this is a critical section at a critical time where the commute builds right there by the camera. >> thank you, mike. >>> take a look at video out of southern california. before we go to weekend weather. two san diego locals captured a gray whale swimming near the shoreline and in front of half a dozen surfers. look at how close. they were waiting to catch a wave at bl