manus: i am manus cranny in dubai. a quick snapshot of the markets., after its worth day since christmas on friday has a reprieve. goldman sachs was wrong. they wanted to short the dollar. they were stopped. the dow futures -- impacted. weighted on the dow. consequences of the tragedy that thea fallen -- befallen airline. nejra: dow futures taking the heat. cable futures. what is going to happen this week? volatility has been rising. euro stoxx 50 higher. had their worst week since mid-december but it looks like we could get a higher opening in europe with oil on the front foot and hedge funds betting on that oil rally. let us get the bloomberg business flash. here is annabel in hong kong. annabel: several automakers planning to create a single board to oversee their alliance. the new structure well replace two separate entities. helpskely reorganization the carmakers streamline their decision-making following the arrest of carlos ghosn. assing half of many stories previously announced according to tesla. after evaluating retail locations, it will rai

manus. manus: thank you very much. the federal reserve stuns economists and investors with an even more dovish tone than was expected, taking any chance of a rate hike off the table this year while leaving the door open to a cut. >> we don't see data coming in that suggests we should move in either direction. it suggests we should remain patient and let the situation clarify itself over time. when the time comes, we will act appropriately. the said abandoned projections for a resumption in hikes this year and signaled a swift end to the balance sheet contraction. this is what we have on the mliv. cranfield.e -- mark the tcu this morning. goodd this introduction -- to see you this morning. i read this introduction. on thee a doubling down message or was it trying to get ahead of the patience? mark: he is trying to give himself plenty of room. the data has started to look a bit poorer. there is also the possibility that the fed slightly regret sounding as hawkish as they did in december. they are doing catch up with them

this is bloomberg. ♪ manus: this is bloomberg daybreak: europe. i'm manus cranny in dubai.: i'm nejra cehic at our headquarters in london. manus: let's bring you our exclusive interview with of the ceo of standard life aberdeen. martin gilbert says the u.s. stock market and economy are doing well. he also weighed in on president trump's comments on america's currency. ourselvesot to ask why he's commenting on the dollar. he clearly once it weaker, of course, to boost exports and continued growth in the economy. i think the u.s. is doing fine. growth is good there. say in fund management, you ignore the u.s. at your peril. it continues to do the stocks that do continue to do well. >> speaking of stocks doing well, you said equities for the best investment for 2019. we are seeing a healthy correction. do you still stand by that call? >> i think so. hopefully we will go back to more normalized markets now that quantity easy is -- quantitative easing is sort of finished. i think that brings back stock pickers. business like ours, bottom-up stop picking -- stock picking style, m

manus: thank you very much. president trump the u.s. dollar is too strong and taking a swipe at the fed chair as someone who likes raising interest rates. at a rally in maryland, the u.s. presidents of the economy is doing well in spite of the actions of the central bank, saying i want a strong dollar, but i want a dollar the does great for our country, not a dollar that is so makes it prohibitive for us to do business with other nations and take their business. on the trade front, president trump says he has asked china to immediately remove all tariffs on u.s. agriculture, including beef and pork, citing progress in talks between the two nations. quite a lot to consider, to weigh risks in the market. the managing director and head of microstrategy joins us now. this is the farthest away from shore i have been. good morning. president job owning the dollar again. it is too strong. i'm just wondering is the path of least resistance for the dollar gone, trade deal pension on pause. month becausecky you cut a strong recovery and markets t

manus: goldman sachs got it wrong, as well.: we've been calling for a weaker dollar for quite a bit. it just hasn't panned out that way. that's because really, there's no currency that yields that in a g10 currency. we notice era bank is still attracted to the u.s. deal, touching closer to 3%. manus: up next, crude climbs. fresh industry data. can it keep the pressure on cuts? this is bloomberg. ♪ manus: welcome back to the best of daybreak middle east. crude regains momentum after reports showed a drop in u.s. feel supply. oil rallied more than 25% so far this year in new york as opec and allies show commitment to their deal to reduce production as output in venezuela declined. we got more with the managing director from frontier markets at merrill lynch international. guest: for the year, we are still going with $70. we expect oil will rally into the summer. we think a number of factors will see the oil market tighten in the coming months. and as a result, as we head into the summer, we should see oil prices to have a seven h

manus: the u.k. is staring down ,he barrel of a no deal brexit the parliament rejected theresa may's plan. there is 16 days until britain is due to leave the eu. yousef: the key measure of inflation. manus: u.s. aviation regulators down despite nations across the globe taking the opposite view. boeing stocks suffers its worst two day drop in a decade. yousef: united arabs added to a blacklist of tax havens, what are the implications? this is bloomberg "bloomberg daybreak: middle east." i am yousef gamal el-din. manus: i am manus cranny. the plan was defeated in the house of commons. the margin was not as bad as the previous one. volatility hitting levels we have not seen since november. brexit, are we facing a second referendum? can you call sterling stoicism? u.s. stocks getting out of a five day funk driven by health care. they are talking about tug-of-war between weaker cyclical indicators and much improved monetary indicators. a lot to consider for investors. tech stocks having the best two day r

manus: i am manus cranny in dubai.er grounding of the boeing max 737 after the crash in ethiopia that killed 157 people. the decision comes even as u.s. regulators deem it were the, and , and boeingrthy says it is safe. stephen engle is tracking the story. where do we stand right now? this was the pivotal moment on the faa ruling thus far. wideen: the faa ruling has implications to airlines and regulators around the world. if they did a blanking -- blanket grounding of this, it would have reverberations all around the world. some individual airlines and regulators, dominoes are falling, but not blanket grounding right now. the faa put out a global note, saying that the plane is air -worthy. there's no conclusive evidence linking the loss of the ethiopian flight with the lion air flight that crashed in indonesia. the slight and data voice recorders have been found -- flight and data voice recorders have been found. we are also having headlines right now, keep in mind that in the middle east a number of airlines fly the

manus: what about elon today? sec did is they reiterated that tesla ceo elon musk should be held in contempt for violating its earlier agreement. the sec said it has learned that elon musk's tweets have not been preapproved as he said they had. remember, the court approved that tesla would appoint an attorney to preapproved musk's tweets. the sec learned they didn't appoint the lawyer until december and the lawyers only now monitoring the tweets in real time. with greg, the producer of this show come on the way. i will leave you this from london. theresa may met her nemesis, his name mr. bercow, the speaker of the house of parliament. ♪ nejra: good morning, i am nejra cherish live with mask cranny live from dubai. these are today's top stories. isresa may plan -- plan torpedoed. renter a lengthy delay? we speak to german chancellor angela merkel. william dudley said tightening could be back in play later this year. committing to cuts, oil holds near i-19 eyes after opec and its partners pledged to continue product

manus: our top stories this morning. and a newweek, bloomberg survey says the current cycle of rate hikes ending after one more increase this year. the s&p 500 had its best week. backmps are asked to theresa may's brexit deal. a chancellor says brexiteers face a long delay unless they support the plan. saudi arabia says balancing the oil market is nowhere near complete, and urges opec and allies to do whatever is needed. we are live at the oil summit. finally throwsnk in the towel on years of turnaround efforts, and agrees to begin merger talks. the german government is said to have signaled it will accept job cuts. ♪ manus: it has just gone 9:00 a.m. across the emirates. this is "bloomberg daybreak: middle east." i'm manus cranny in abu dhabi. twop big things, deals and differences. .rent is slipping it is almost like robert frost, to ride stud -- two roads diverging. the russians want to hold their cards close to their chest. but the kingdom of saudi arabia comes out saying, nowhere near complete. oil slips as there is

manus. manus: thank you very much.sident trump is continuing to sound optimistic about trade talks, yet some officials are to be concerned that china is pushing back. still with us is our guest host steve keen joining us from our sydney studio. ,ere we are, another day another statement from president trump that things are going well your assessment of the trade talks, do you expect that they both desperately need a deal? they need a deal, and i trying to bring about a success that nobody else could. my way of thinking is that the fatal flaw is that the american dollar, of being the international reserve currency is at least 30% over the value it should be to make manufacturing viable and he's trying to compete with china. the matter what, there will be a trade deficit and the matter what, we will go back to trade talks and retaliatory tariffs. with a dollar has overvalued as that, this is not necessarily going to bring it down now is it? steve: that's right. they're trying in a one-sided way. he will just continue to

manus: we have the u.s.ose in january after a dismal drop in december. 2018 was larger than first reported, an indication consumers may still be able to help support economic growth, after a somber end to 2018. markets have rallied off positive numbers. will hobbs is on the green with nejra this morning, still with us. the s&pa dtv on the go, 500 shaking off the five-day funk. andhe back of retail sales, the apple upgrade was no mean feat from bank of america merrill lynch. with retail sales, with a that heartening to you -- were they that heartening to you? will: one of the things we have been talking about for a while, pessimistic on the outlet in december. there was a slump in that period. china growth went lower than policymakers expected. u.s. growth has been falling a bit more. generally, this was a slowdown, not a recession. what we saw since then, people readjusting their expectations a little bit. the thing for us right now, the u.s. economy looks ok, world economy looks ok, but not expecting stella

manus: a triple whammy. almost a full 360 on the language. 50%question is, a probability for a 50 point basis this the market almost now front running the fed again? nejra: it's funny because a couple days ago i asked a guest, why don't they just revise the dot for 2019 down? it did seem to come maybe not as a surprise, but certainly post this reaction. the question now becomes, have they taken optionality out for the future? jerome powell did say the next move could be up or down. are they actually just confirming with the markets already thought? manus: let's take the mliv question. backat is holding equities from showing the same enthusiasm as the bond marketed for no fed rate hikes for 2019? joined the team. to a certain extent, we have touched on this. you would say goldilocks might have a few things to be nervous about. a great deal of this dovishness was priced in to the u.s. equity markets. does that translate across the rest of global equity markets for you? a positive for emerging-market equities.

manus: i am manus cranny in our dubai studio. get your business flash with debra mao in hong kong. sony and nintendo shares are both falling after google outlined a major push into video games with a new service called developers tolows put games on a streaming platform for players to access online, skipping expensive consuls or computers. google will not -- would not say how much it would charge users or whether it would be funded through advertising. nissan is reportedly cutting a future target for china car sales by about 8%, signaling a downturn in the world biggest car market, maybe an extended one. passenger vehicle sales in china fell 6% last year, the first decline since the early 1990's. investors are after a piece of america's second-largest ride-hailing company. lyft's ipo next week is reportedly oversubscribed at the current price range. a list of executives and bankers see demand far exceeding the list of available shares. it could exceed the valuation it is seeking. that is your bloomberg business flash. ghana sold

manus: thank you. a provision being made will set aside 465 million pounds. 400 and 36 million pounds will be set aside. let me take you to the judgment deal itself. aty are set to appeal they were ordered to pay, and this was on friday, damages in the amount of $17 billion after losing an appeal. this is a class-action lawsuit filed by quebec smokers and it is the defining moment in the smoking industry. this is the start of the provisioning in regards to those lawsuits that were lobbied against the smokers. at the beginning of a long haul to provision of ea t, it will be in play and philip morris is -- philip morris cut their outlook after the decision. get back to our top story and stocks in asia slipping as china lowered its growth outlook area beijing has set its gdp target for the year at a range of six to 6.5%. speaking at the national people's congress the leader said the country must brace for an essay tough economic battle. great to have you with us. from what we've heard the lowering of the

manus: good morning.t a little bit of time on saying that something bad must be on the books somewhere. there must be something that is really going to come polite. he sounded quite onerous in terms of his motivation for this deal. matt: well, deutsche bank has had its issues with regulators. it has cost of billions of dollars over the past years in fines, and there are obviously ongoing investigations. just a couple months ago i was sat here looking at a number of police cars pulling up in front of the deutsche bank headquarters and going into rate and to take away a couple individuals for questioning. there are those issues. i haven't heard of anything specific. i'm not sure exactly what stephanie miller was referring to. but the bottom line is these are banks that have lost revenue generation capability. deutsche bank was posting revenue figures of 37 billion euros, 38 billion euros just four years ago. last year it was less than 25 billion euros, you know? these are banks that have had their shares fa

this is bloomberg. ♪ . ♪ manus: i am manus cranny in dubai. inra: i am nejra cehic london.ica's strong start to the year in the eurobond market shows a sign of abating. a number of countries are selling bonds to raise capital. of $10 billion, it is set for its first-ever sale of eurobonds. bena is looking to raise to in dollars to finance its budget. it is also looking to sell an additional $1 billion bonds at a lower rate than it is paying and ivory coast, plans a billion dollar bond sale as it reviews its financing needs against rising borrowing costs. what makes african nations so attractive to bond investors? kevin daly joins us. great to have you with us. a lot of supply coming to the market but if you take a look at my chart, we can see the yield have compressed so far this year. still above the 10 year average. does that make them attractive? kevin: it does. we are in a market environment where investors are looking for yields so if you look at the hasormance this year, it been very strong with the exception of mozambique which has got its own country specific risk i

nejra: -- manus: i'm manus cranny in dubai. focus on at the best, -- adidas, seeing slowing growth in the new year. bywth last year was driven categories and running. let's get straight to the ceo who joins nejra and i. great to see this morning. a bit of a warning. where are weged, going to see the biggest material slowdown in 2019? overall, we had a record year, grew the top line. hit the highest in the history of our company. growth driver in 18 was north america and china and he will continue to see those. ,nline came out with 36% growth in north america 17%. while we are seeing a slight slowdown due to supply issues, we will still see a very solid growth. but the same growth as a team, but still very solid. used -- nejra: you said the 2019 will see your return to high growth. is that part of a gloomy consumer picture at how much of it is down to your product mix? >> i think it is a be careful of blaming everybody else. there is no doubt the european market has slowed down, but there's also no doubt that we need to do a bet

manus: welcome back. the federal reserve stubbed this week with an even more dovish tone that was expected, taking any chance of rate hikes off the table this year will leaving the door open to a cut. >> we do not see data coming in that suggests we should move in either direction. they suggest we should remain patient and let the situation clarify itself. when the time comes, we will act appropriately. manus: the dollar sank along with treasury yields. and they signaled a swift end to the balance sheet contraction. i got more with our bloomberg a guest fromst and tribeca investment partners. >> there is plenty of room here. the data has started to look forward -- poorer. the chancee chance the fed regrets sounding as hawkish as they did, so they are doing catch up with themselves. but now they are saying they need more time to assess and will give ourselves the rest of the year to do that. if by the end of the year, the danger is starting to show a softer economy, inflation is already coming down, the gl

manus? manus: thank you very much.ing up on the show, theresa may heads into a potentially defining week for brexit. reports saying she has lost the backing of all but two of her cabinet. the so-called meaningful vote is tomorrow. we are discussing what the issue is. ♪ a.m. in london, four minutes away from the european open. i am manus cranny in dubai. a quick snapshot of the markets. a lot to grapple with. boeing is going to face some real tough times today. the biggest component in the dow industrial average. weighting. the dollar slightly higher. pushback from the chinese in regard to their trade deal. what is a -- what does a fair and equal trade deal mean? in ethiopiaincident is indeed the single biggest issue for boeing. nejra? what is putting pressure on dow futures. cable coming in for the longest streak in 10 months. is a may is losing support for her brexit deal but possibly her own position as well. 129 point 91 is where we are. a bad week last week for global equities. the worst since mid-december. central

. ♪ manus: good morning from dubai. i'm manus cranny.ejra: live from westminster, i am nejra cehic. off theo deal brexit is table. mp's will decide later whether to request a delay. industrial output in china has the worst start to the year in a decade. how will policymakers respond? u.s. regulators finally ground boeing's top-selling 737 max jet, a major blow to the playmaker that has lost billions -- plane-maker that has lost billions this week. and, don't miss our exclusive interview with j.p. morgan ceo , daniel pinto and former ecb president jean-claude trichet. good morning, and welcome to "daybreak europe." just breaking some lines coming through on airbus. ng willl and xi jinpi discuss a deal at the end of march, according to a french official seeing positive signals for the airbus china deal. the ethiopia prime minister will also discuss an airbus deal. i am still at westminster to carry on the brexit story. manus: quite precedent, these -- prescient, these lines from macron and airbus. no doubt, boeing, the major story in the m

cnn's manu raju is live on capitol hill with more of those details for us. manu? >> reporter: that's right. i just talked to lindsey graham who met with president trump earlier today along with doug collins a ranking republican on the house judiciary committee, graham's the chairman of the senate committee. part of their meeting was about immigration and border security, the issue about the democratic investigations into the president came up and compromised about 10% of the meeting, according to lindsey graham, and the president was concerned about the, quote, harassment stuff according to graham. graham said to me that the president was concerned because he just believes they are out to take a wrecking ball to his life. he's referring to democrats. they'll go nuts referring to the president. he challenged democrats to fix problems and he believes the president should consult with his attorneys about whether to

our senior congressional correspondent manu raju is live with this and manu we know this is a measurepassed the house unanimously today. is that correct? >> reporter: it passed 420-0 which you rarely see during this time. that resolution nonbinding passed the house calling for the public release of the mueller report. chuck schumer the senate democratic leader tried to quickly pass that same nonbinding symbolic measure in the senate just moments ago, but he needed to get support from all of his colleagues to get a unanimous support to quickly pass it and lindsey graham, the senate judiciary committee chairman, objected, blocked that from moving forward because lindsey graham wanted that measure amended so they could call for a second special counsel to investigate what he believes were fbi abuses during the clinton investigation and the russia investigation and that prompted this back and forth between schumer and graham. >> i'm deeply disappointed in my good friend from south carolina. this amendment appears to be a pretext for blocking this very serval, noncontroversial resolution.

manu, stand by. i want to bring in a team of reporters that have been covering this the last two years, every angle of this story. remember on friday, attorney general william barr wrote to congress saying this. i am reviewing the report and i anticipate that i may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as early as this weekend. that may happen in the next few minutes. >> i think when we read this letter, we were surprised by those words. we're going to get a lot more information in this report than he initially thought. the fact that many, the fact he used words like principal conclusions, that means he is going to tell them the findings of this investigation. there was always some skepticism whether or not bill barr would get into the meat of this investigation, whether or not he would be able to explain findings. what did the department of justice do? what did the special counsel do? we may have that here. those words, principal conclusions, the fact he's goi

manu raju is there because manu raju is everywhere.s what you know at this point in time. >> reporter: this was an unexpected development. we were not expecting jared kushner to come back to the senate intelligence committee today, but we saw him leaving this committee room just moments ago after senators on the senate intelligence committee spent the morning interviewing him. we do know that for some time that the democrats and -- mostly the democrats but some republicans, too, wanted to reinterview kushner after he first met with committee staff back in 2017 as part of this committee's russia investigation. now, there's been a lot that has happened since then. there were a lot of developments and that members, and particularly mark warner, the top democrat on the committee, has wanted to reinterview jared kushner. he also wanted to reinterview other key players, such as donald jr., someone who just met with staff. it's not clear whether that would happen or not. richard burmester, the chairman of the committee, never said if it would

manu raju has this vote tally. the fear from at least the white house that as many as 14 republican senators could say yes to blocking the president's national emergency. what are the numbers you have right now? >> reporter: ten republicans have announced they plan to vote against the president, voting for that disapproval resolution in a matter of minutes, 47 democrats are going to vote for the resolution, that means 57 at the moment at least will rebuke the president enough to send it to his desk that at the moment is short of the 67 needed to overturn a veto. we expect more republicans potentially to vote for this measure but behind the scenes, the president and vice president have been trying to limit those deflections in the republican side. they've had some success. one senator told he spoke with the president this week and the president made it very clear he wanted his -- this emergency declaration to go for isakson said he would stand with the president. others made their position known including mitt romne

manus: theresa may plans to return her plan for brexit. party hardliners outlined their conditions for support. nejra: it is just on 7:00 a.m. in london. we are just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. the shanghai compass at closing above 3000 for the first time since june. what we are seeing is the risk-on rally given the trade headlines. the prospect of some sort of deal between the u.s. and china. let me bring you the turkey inflation data. we were expecting a slumming in inflation year on year for february. the expectation was 19.9%. what we actually get is 19.67%. a little bit slower than expectations. in terms of month on month we come in at 0.16%.

more on that from manu. >> reporter: they are moving forward with an aggressive investigation into all aspects of the president's business life, political life and even his personal life looking into whether or not the president misused his office, whether the president obstructed justice, whether the president committed any crime. these requests to 81 individuals connected to the trump or ghchlt include the president's two sons, they include people very high up in the organization, allen weisselberg who is the cf on which of t o of the trump organization and also includes the white house, just advertiice department, the asking questions about whether the president dangled any pardons to prevent cooperation with the government. two weeks is only the time that the judiciary committee is asking these people and entities to respond by. if they don't respond, expect subpoenas, public hearings. the question is whether or not the administration will comply with these requests or whether we will see a protracted fight between the white house and capitol hill. >> all right, manu, thank you. di

manu, let me start with you. other than the harsh reality that elections have consequences, what are lawmakers telling you about all of this on the hill today? >> reporter: well, they believe -- the democrats believe that these document requests should be fulfilled rather easily over the next two weeks, given that these 81 individuals have participated in some level of investigation over the last couple of years. and they say the record requests are not, at that point, in two weeks, the next steps could be subpoenas. they do expect public hearings at some point, but all of that still needs to be sorted out. that's on the house side, the democrats are ramping up their investigation. on the senate side, republicans are still in the majority and democrats here are trying to push the republicans to investigate, at least the president's role in those hush money payments, to silence those alleged affairs that occurred, those payments during the 2016 elections and the president's reimbursement of those payments in 2017.

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manu raju, thank you very much. president trump is on his way to a campaign rally, where he may try to fan the flames over the mueller report. he has a good start just now as he left the white house. abby philip is on the scene for us. update our viewers. >> reporter: the president just left here a few minutes ago for michigan for the first campaign rally since the mueller report was summarize ed in that barr letter. the president has been taking a victory lap over what he calls a vindication, but also going on the offense. this rally tonight could be one of those opportunities for president trump to really ramp up his supporters. and he gave us a little preview of what he might say tonight on the south lawn. >> well, look, i've been going through that for almost two years. it's really much more than that. if you look back, you could probably look at the insurance policy area in terms of timing. it's a disgrace what happened. this was a terrible thing that was put on to our country. nobody has seen anything like thi

manu raju up on capitol hill. thank you. >>> we're also learning new details of the fbi raids on michael cohen. president trump's former fixer and personal attorney who's facing three years in prison for tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and lying to congress. our crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz is working the story for us. so, shimon, what can we learn about these raids? >> right. so the big question has always been, what led the fbi to do these raids, to conduct these raids on a lawyer, on the personal lawyer of the president? a very big deal. when the fbi decided to do this, they had to get all sorts of permission. so hopefully tomorrow, we will learn what some of the information they had that caused them to feel the need to go ahead and go in the way that they went in. we already know a lot of what the fbi removed from michael cohen's office and his home. he's testified on congress about it. a lot of the information, a lot of the documents were given already back to michael cohen. so the bi

the reaction from capitol hill has been swift and manu is there. what are you hearing, manu? democrats are demanding, erin, the full report as well as the underlying evidence that underpins the decisions that bob mueller made to prosecute and not to prosecute. and that could be one area of a fight going forward between democrats and the justice department depending on how much bill barr multilat edecides to provide to congress and to public. adam shif, the chairman of the intelligence committee said the justice department set a precedent in the last congress they were investigating the fbi decisions not to prosecute hillary clinton in 2016 elections. he's saying because of that decision congress should at least see the underlying decisions for the mueller investigation. now, on top of that democrats in the house saying this is the beginning of their investigation going forward. they want to investigate those further, expect bob mueller to be called to testify at least before the house intelligence committee. bill barr before the house judigtsiary committee potential, as well

so let's begin with senior congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill, so manu, you just got the new reporting on the a. g. barr deciding not to release the report today. why? what's going on? >> they didn't explain to congress exactly the rationale for not providing the principal conclusions to the key committee, that's the house judiciary committee and the senate judiciary committee, other than saying it is not coming today. there is an expectation it could very well land tomorrow. bill barr himself said in his letter to congress, last night, that as soon as this weekend, they could get briefed, lawmakers could get briefed on the principal conclusions of the mueller report. now, there's still a lot of questions about what that means. will there be summarized anyway by the attorney general? how much detail? what do lawmakers get? but nevertheless, today, people are awaiting, in anticipation of learning what bob mueller found. it is not going to happen today, according to multiple congressional sources and a justice department official and perhaps because bill barr is still g

manu raju has more. >> reporter: michael cohen delivering a second day of testimony.g question democrats had going into the hearing was whether the president's attorneys were involved in editing that false statement that he delivered to congress back in 2017. back then in a classified setting he lied and later acknowledged lying to the committee about the pursuit of the trump tower moscow project. and he also said that trump's attorneys edited that statement. >> there were changes made, additions. jay sekulow for one. >> were there changes about the timing? >> the gentleman's time has expired. you may answer that question. >> there were several changes made including how we were going to handle that message. which was -- >> were you finished? >> the message of course being the length of time that the trump tower moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> reporter: that was a subject of discussion in the long day of testimony. cohen provided documents to that committee showing edits that were made by trump's attorneys. the question is what were those edits. we don't

and manu, this may be the end of the mueller probe.ut is this just the beginning for democrats in congress? >> absolutely. house democrats making it very clear, they plan to push to get the full release of the mueller report. they're not satisfied with the four-page summary from bill barr. they question his motivations. they have been critical of him for some time. barr himself critical of the mueller investigation. democrats say what did he mean when he said the obstruction did not exonerate the president? the president himself said he was completely exonerated, but just moments ago, jerry nadler said that's just not true. >> president trump is wrong. this report does not amount to a so-called total exoneration. special counsel mueller was clear that his report, quote, does not exonerate, close quote, the president. the special counsel spent 22 months on covering evidence of obstruction and other misconduct. attorney general barr, who auditioned for his role with an open memorandum, suggesting that the obstruction investigation was un

manu raju has the latest.se judiciary committee today announcing a sprawling investigation into the president's inner circle .. trying to uncover evidence that the president obstructed justice and abused his power. the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, sent letters to 81 individuals and entities connected to the president ... including family membersthe scope of the probe is breathtaking ... looking into everything from whether the president is benefitting financially from foreign interests .. as well as campaign contacts with the russians .. the firing of then-fbi director jim comey.and demanding documents from the head of the parent company of the national enquirer -- and hush-money payments the president made to silence stories in 2016 about his alleged affairs with a porn star and a former playboy playmate.rep. nancy pelosi/ (d) house speaker: "i think what they're doing is exercising their constitutional responsibility for oversight. to do anything less would be delinquent in our duties than to exe

manu raju reporting for us from capitol hill. thank you. >>> let's talk more about the breaking news on michael cohen's testimony today. our crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz is in the studio. there's a problem about his credibility, his honesty. >> it's a big problem for michael cohen. what we have seen is, he has receipts. what we have learned is that he keeps records. he has documents. that's what he is using now to corroborate some of the information that he is provided to the special counsel's office, which they have come out and said the mueller team, they have found him credible with respect to parts of their investigation that they needed him for. he is appearing before members of congress. he is bringing documents. we know he is a record keeper. he has tapes. he has documents. we saw him wheeling stuff in today. we don't know everything yet. he is going to be able to probably corroborate everything he is telling them through documents. >> what kind of trouble could the president's lawyers be in if they helped m

senior congressional correspondent manu raju is up on capitol hill for us. the obvious question is why? >> reporter: they're saying that the white house and the president should have latitude to conduct foreign policy without as the white house points it, interference from congress and pat sip loanny sent this letter today who had been investigating exactly what happened between the president trump and vladimir putin. democrats are concerned that the president took steps they believe to conceal the nature of what exactly occurred. they want to know they talked about, any assurances he gave the president gave the russian president and this is what pat cipollone the white house counsel says in this letter, the president must be free to engage in discussions with foreign leaders without fear that those communications will be disclosed and used as fodder for partisan, political purposes. he goes on to say, foreign leaders must be assured of this as well, in addition the argument from the white house is that, courts have recognized that executive branch has the a

manu raju, thank you.s jared kushner was not the only top white house adviser to get a security clearance only after personal intervention from the president. cnn has learned the president overwrote the objects of the office and his chief of taf and white house counsel to grant a clearance to his daughter ivanka. let's get to kaitlan collins. tell us more about this, kaitlan. >> the president pressured not only john kelly, but also don mcgahn to grant ivanka trump a security clearance after he referenced the white house personnel security office made some objections about giving her a security clearance, so the president lobbied john kelly and don mcdann because he wanted them to grant her a clearance because he didn't want it to look as if he was tainting the process if he made the final decision. >> they had objections to granting her a security clearance, so in the end it was the president who granted ivanka trump a security clearance. >> this reporting would seem to contradict what ivanka trump told ab

senior congressional correspondent manu raju is on the hill. manu, what can you tell us about this? >> elijah cummings sent a new letter to the white house moments ago saying they have obtained new information saying several white house officials have been using e-mail personal messaging applications to conduct official government business. now, in this letter, cummings does single out individuals and say that they have had meetings to essentially confirm their suspicions and public reporting saying there has been use of public, personal e-mails and personal devices to conduct this official business. one of the questions that's being raised by elijah cummings is whether or not the white house officials are violating the presidential records acts by not conducting their official business through official counts and also by not forwarding some of these messages that were being done, some of these personal messages that came to their personal accounts to their official accounts. cummings raises the position that this is a violation of federal law. in 2015, hillary clinton faced signifi

manu raju, thank you for both of those stories. now to this as former vice president joe biden is preparing for what would be his third presidential run, he also may make an unprecedented announcement. his choice for vice president. sources are telling cnn that aids are discussing the possibility of unveiling a joint ticket from day one, a strategy no major candidate has tried in modern times. who biden would select has everything to do with this and we know biden has met privately with stacey abrams who's political star has been on the rise ever since she narrowly loss her race last fall. van jones is host of the van jones show and let's start on -- good to see you, my friend. >> good to see you too. >> on this potential biden/abrams ticket. let's look at it first biden's report. >> he's trying to accommodate the fact that people may be -- do we really want to have another straight white guy, can't we have more diversity so maybe he's trying to put on a diversity jacket. you have a diversity beard for himself. i think, though the

manu raju up on capitol hill. thanks very much. let's bring in our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the white house press secretary sarah sanders was pressed on the president's latest line of attack on democrats. update our viewers on that. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. for the first time in more than 40 days the white house finally held a press briefing. it was supposed to be about the president's budget for the upcoming year but the briefing went off the rails at times when the white house was asked about the president's comments that democrats hate jewish people. it was another example of the administration seeming incapable of defending the president's questionable rhetoric and a preview of the ugly campaign to come. asked about one of president trump's latest line of attacks accusing democrats of hating jewish people, the white house doubled down. standing behind the incendiary comments. >> i think that's a question you ought to ask the democrats. >> reporter: over the weekend, axios reported the president made t

our senior congressional correspondent manu raju is up on capitol hill. the battle for access to the mueller report is apparently only just beginning. >> reporter: yeah, and democrats in the house are still planning to pursue their investigations is tn the days and weeks ahead. i talked to the house committee chairman adam schiff, asked him if he accepts the finding from the special counsel, from the special counsel's view there was no -- could not establish there was conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russians. h he said, that's a criminal determination, he could not find enough proof beyond a reasonable doubt. he said his investigation is different, counterintelligence, and said it would move on. he said specifically, "our investigation has always focused on counterintelligence issues can the "and he said we need to look into whether the president was compromised in any way, need to look into, for example, the financial issues, was the president driven during the campaign about other financial issues that could help him out. the question now

let's go to manu raju on capitol hill. you had a chance just now to speak with the chairman of the house judiciary committee, jerry nadler, about his conversation today with the attorney general bill barr. tell us what he told you. >> reporter: he spoke for about ten minutes with bill barr about the mueller report and about everything that's going on behind the scenes to discuss what to release involving bob mueller's two-year investigation into russia interference and potential obstruction of justice. this is a very substantial report. that's what barr told nadler. he revealed to him how long the report is. nadler would not disclose that. nadler said that bill barr would not commit to releasing the full report and the underlying evidence to congress and nadler said, that's not acceptable. >> i asked about the length and breadth of the report. he said it was a very substantial report. so substantial that i don't see how you can summarize it in four pages fairly. he said it was a very substantial report. i asked when we wou

england centre manu tuilagi has rejected a lucrative offer from french club racing 92 and signed a newst summer and he had discussed terms with racing but has opted to styay with the tigers. he said on leicester's website "i love the club and i want to repay the loyalty they have shown me in my time here.the length of his new deal has not been revealed. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me tonight — anna isaac, economics and trade correspondent from the daily telegraph, and polly mackenzie, who's chief executive of the cross—party think tank demos. some of tomorrow's front pages are already in. most are leading on what happened in the commons earlier this evening. the guardian describes the pm's humiliation and says she's now warned tory rebels to "back me or lose brexit." the financial times also leads on the ultimatum given to tory brexiteers and describes parliament seizing control of brexit. the express urges mps to "not let the eu bullies win the day," and s

if you read down the list that manu tweeted earlier, that's the common thread here. these are things that he thinks -- "saturday night live," it's about how they targeted him even though it was months ago it actually aired. >> it was a previous christmas episode, by the way. >> he didn't see it. >> he did. he tweeted criticisms when it aired the first time. >> but the point being, when he feels targeted, whenever that might be, that's when he lashes out. i do think there is something to what jim was saying earlier, he's like spraying a hose, and it's focusing people's attention on everything else but the mueller investigation and russia. he's tweeting about that as well, but i do think there is an element here of not just that he feels targeted because i think that's the core common thread through all of these things but also that he's trying to sort of throw things up against the wall and see what will stick. >> and some of it does stick, obviously, to that point and to jim's point, but at the same time when he tweets about all these things and then he doesn't tweet

. >> manu is on capitol hill. what more do we know about what specifically the committee is seek something. >> they're asking information from 81 individuals tied to the president and entities over the next two week. they want the answers to a range of questions, from foreign contacts between the trump campaign and other and individuals as well as financing with the trump organization. that may have been done with connection to russia. as well as looking into those hush money payments that occurred back in 2016 and 2017. to silence stories involving alleged affairs of then candidate trump. all part of a broader investigation of what democrats believe is an abuse of power, is what they believe is corruption and is what they believe is obstruction of justice. they're asking for a whole host of information including whether or not the president, anybody in the white house dangled pardons on anybody who was going to flip and go against the president, including michael cohen. the question is, how much do all these peop

. >> president trump also on the attack this weekend, he was busy on twitter at manu raju notes withearly three dozen tweets hitting the late john mccain twice, g permit, the auto workers union and even fox news. we'll get to some of those in minute. >>> but first, cabinet officials in new zealand agreeing in principle to toughen gun laws. family members are bracing for the agony of claiming the remains of their loved ones, the first body now released. let's bring in ivan watson. just maertbreakinheartbreaking. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: yeah, it is after 8:00 p.m. here and at this make shift memorial site, there are still thopeople walking through many of them with tears on their faces laying flowers, putting up signs like we stand with our muslim brothers. and they are us. so a message of inclusion to this tiny minority which makes up about 1% of the population in new zealand, muslims who were so viciously attacked on friday. the prime minister of new zealand has said that there will be proposals to change the gun laws in this country within ten days of last friday's terror