after the break, manus on oil. he is going to go live. >> we will take a break. >> welcome back to countdown. taking a stance. prices and said prices lower. let's take a look. thank you for joining us. how significant is it when we see iraq and saudi arabia cutting prices for customers in asia. this is all going to market share. >> exactly. it is not surprising. they are talking about cutting production and upholding the target level in asia. and the only growing market. theire them pursuing discounts to levels we have not seen in the past nine years. >> 11 year lows and pricing for some of these countries. howre looking at prices and hedge funds are positioned for oil prices. what does it tell us about what you think of oil prices. rising and longs that was the most in 20 months. --seems that there were there was more money. was that your view? or, was that to come? with average the bottom or close to the bottom of the hedge fund. i think that, if you look a little bit longer term, it sends it -- it sounds reasona

i manus cranny. >> and i am mark barton.oday,up on "countdown" these days vital records are big is this in vintage chic. 2014 has been a year of sales for vinyl albums selling across the one million mark for the first time in two decades. find out which driving the revival will little bit later. >> russian president vladimir putin reassuring his nation's economic relief will come in two years and one western leader is helping his case. >> german chancellor angela merkel and david cameron complies,russia french president francois hollande broke ranks from his eu counterparts saying in use in sanctions is possible. i consider that if the gestures rusher is making what we are waiting for, there is no reason to enact any new sanctions. on the contrary, they will allow us to start the escalating the situation. >> barack obama signing legislation that gives him the power to impose more sanctions. the u.s. president said he would only act in line with european allies. joining us now to discuss all of this is our russian expert, rya

cranny, more from manus looking forward to that., greekthe stocks taking a beating and tesco is also down. that is the big corporate story of the day. >> welcome back to on the move. another day and another profit warning from tesco. here with more is charles allen. what are they blaming it on now? >> the underlying reason is slow sales and they have 6000 extra people in store but the biggest story is they are changing their commercial policy and that means how they i their goods from -- buy their goods from suppliers. technically it means they're losing -- moving from back margin to front margin. they're going to try to build up the volumes on products that consumers want. down 12%, not as bad as the start of trading but on the year 50% so when does the margin story recover? >> there is still a little bit of the unknown because we have a ,umber day -- another day january 8, but i think the message between the lines today the policychanging and this is a rebuilding of the margin from the beginning of next year and that seems to be t

let's stick with that story because manus cranny is at the manus, wegland -- have the report and youooking at the details -- walk us through how they have fared. ways it defines really -- the bank of england report, no additional capital or macro prudential moves are 30%ed here, anything from a drop in sterling to a 35% drop in house prices. eight banks were stress tested and one had a negative offer of capital -- the cooperative. the others came through by the n,in of their chinny chin chi rbs and lloyds. they have the most exposure to the u.k. housing market and are therefore the most at risk. is like aor saying it doomsday scenario with interest christmas,.2% next that housing prices would drop 35% and equity markets would've dropped aggressively. if they took a little bit of action to help themselves at all, they needed 4.5% of the offer capital and lloyds as they have 5.3% and rbs at 5.2% but the banner headline is that rbs and lloyds have already added to their capital banks -- rbs is lloyds, ae -- rbs and very clear line in the reports. --the heart of it it is this whether you

warm welcome. >> i am manus cranny.ton here outside the houses of parliament in westminster in london. just a few hours time, six and a half, to be exact. george osborne, the chancellor of the exec -- exchequer will deliver his final autumn statement. expect no major pre-election giveaways. he is constrained i deteriorating public finances. he will unlock one billion small of support for business. possibly we will see an overhaul of the stamp duty system here in the u.k. we are to had pronouncements at the nhs and building roads and extending the funding for lending scheme as well. big day for the chancellor, big day for mark orton. 7 a.m. here at westminster. back to the studio. >> can't wait for the days coverage. stay warm, keep the gloves on. anna and i i i i have an exclusive interview with the chief executive of club med. they raised its takeover bid for club med. it is an interview he will not want to miss. -it is two minutes past seven. getting the last click chance to shape the economic agenda before the next g

[cheering & applause] >> manu raju, when you interviewed mitch mcconnell, what was he like? >> it was the most complex race of a 30 year career. he was attacked -- right off the bat, he had his first primary challenge. he had democrats that made him the top target. he knew that going in. mcconnell is a guy who looks around corners, and he had planned for four years this campaign. that started in 2010, right after he saw what happened at the republican primary at rand paul. rand paul beat mcconnell's handpicked guy in that primary. at that point, mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about republican primary politics in my home state. he started to make changes and hired key staff and started to build a very sophisticated infrastructure, knowing this would be the most difficult race in his campaign. he said to me, this is the most complex challenge i've ever had to deal with. and he won big. in both the primary and the general election. >> we're going to talk about mitch mcconnell for the hour and what he is like as a leader. when you see him up close, w

manus cranny joins us now. what was the key tech away? >> a very long chat. point was going to 2015, no isolated event. it is coagulation of events. a little bit of liquidity. quantitative easing disappearing along with something like hong kong's riots on the streets. like the middle east situation. something like emerging markets beginning to move. liquidity, we touched on those liquidity could be something. are going to have to actually pay more money. it is interesting we talked about his structural reform at the bank and i set what was one of the hardest decisions you have to make? you remember the headline, 10,000 jobs to change and a change in nowhere near that. he said it was probably the hardest decision he had to make. he said it was like a reallyioning -- interesting -- decommissioning a nuclear bomb. he referred to the change -- >> ubs is a nuclear bomb? >> change the direction, yeah. problems andjor they were one with big meetings a lot of unhappy shareholders and change in management. i have myh the ubs, wealth with ubs. should i fill satisfied h

i'm going to head inside now for a cup of tea. >> enjoy, manus cranny.n.se 100 is the dax is off. the ruble erases gains versus the dollar. look at the russian equity markets taking a beating. this is the chart of the day. the russian central bank puts ruble now takes at a 6.5 again percentage rate increase. look at brent trading below $60 barrel.r -- a feeding into it is a weaker ruble this morning. plenty to discuss and we are back in two minutes. ♪ an >> welcome back. you have the ftse 100 down. the losses on the eurozone are piling up. lower on my screen right now. taking a beating right now and trading belowis $60 for the first time since 2009. record lows. what does the 10 year give right now? 0.6%. plenty to discuss. let's get over to the screen with anna edwards. >> we are going to start here and there is a broader story. trading below $60 a barrel. these energy player services companies are oil companies themselves. there is more going on at repsol. they have taken the opportunity of the lower prices to do some deals and have announced one in ca

manus cranny. >> a very good day for you -- to you. the dax at record highs yesterday. by 16x has gone up percent since its october lows. is it overdone? china hits a three-year high. equity markets, we broke trend. commodity companies are on a low. the pmi will be out today. with theischer along new york fed president talking about oil prices going lower. good for the economy. stanley fischer talking about movement. we had a conversation about where we are with the euro. on thursday, december 17. it will be incredibly important. green just opening in the . those futures indicate we will get higher. three companies we are keeping an eye on have had a little bit of speculation and an upgrade. flurry. nice speculation shell might be interested in buying bp. our bloomberg television team would say anybody and their right mind -- in their right mind would want a little more information about what is before they could .ossibly think about buying bp barclays raises the stock to overweight with a 30% upside in the price target. at 439.8.ading sales are in line. they say they a

manus cranny is here with more. an indication that are saying or we need to stay with the times stay abreast of the latest developments? >> we are a digital business. we are all digital. >> i am saying ubs is digital. >> you have the transition and wealth management, the rich are rich in the next-generation coming along are much more dexterity is with using technology. competition to extract information that is most relevant with the explosion of data so they can compete. and richom amazon people being -- direct from amazon and rich people being rich. what they have done is ran a competition. qream. 8 teams competed out of asia and this team won. i love this. they monitor patterns. since many people in singapore million about, 85 different things. food, vanity, travel. taking a data and crunching it down. that is how they personalize the information. -- taking a big data in crunching it down. personalizing it. make sure you get it the instant feed. >> it is not-- advising but crunching their purposes to provide the

manus is back. @markbartontv @annaedwardsnews. >> fed, greece, and more. soonerguest thinks the political stability is restored in greece, the better. ♪ >> janet yellen signaling she's in no hurry to raise interest rates and borrowing costs staying lower for longer. let's bring in our guest for this conversation. x strategy at bank of america merrill lynch. a couple of commentators. they called the fed statement , do you think this is a fair summary of yesterday's events? thehe message i get from fed yesterday as despite what happened in the markets in the last month, they are continuing to prepare the markets for the fed rate hike next year. many went into the meeting thinking that the fed could continue to be on the side of caution and stop sending concerned about the global of volatility, the crisis in russia. some of the emerging markets at risk but the drop in inflation expectation including in the u.s. focusing on the resilience of u.s. and preparing the market for the first rate hike. place the middle of next year, a little bit later. it will be dat

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. >> manus cranny. >> this was still the headlines. the national bank takes the deposit rates negative. could the fed go the other? it makes scholars investors, and .ournalists plenty of speculation. here is the latest. >> the committee considers that unlikely to begin the normalization process for at least the next couple of meetings. >> what does a couple mean? her response was brief. >> it means to. >> right. do you have that? we're joined by bill. overseen $2.4 trillion in assets. anything you heard that changes? >> next year is about the monetary policy and we see the ecb opening up stimulus. they are managing expectations meetingsnk a couple of means to meetings. year will end up next compared to where the fed expectations are. they expected to normalize rates, what ever that means in the abnormal world we are in. >> are they trying to be clever? it is simple. patients apparently means the same thing. yellen was more hawkish. >> i think they will keep the as much as they can. they have good growth numbers coming in. on the other

let's go to chief congressional correspondent mikey manu emmanu is live with the details. >> after approval of a mass funding bill, there won't be talk of a partial shutdown until late february. the trillion-dollar package was unconstitutional because some of the money could be used for president obama's executive action on immigration. cruz's point of order was rejected 74-22, and the senate's top democrat harry reid criticized cruz. >> the junior snenator from texs is wrong, wrong, wrong on several counts. most important for us this evening is an attack on this bill because it's not an appropriate place to beat the constitutionality of any constitution. >> they argued about two dozen of president's nominees. because of republicans in the majority next year, some likely won't get gop support. cruz received some criticism for the government funding extension stalling, but he said reid was going to do it sooner or later. >> look, one thing to keep in mind, he was going to force these nominations through either today or monday or tuesday. he was going to do it one way or the other because tha

manu for three. fouled! everybody outside the circle. gasol. for three.rtime. >> are you serious? >> tim duncan. yes! oh, my goodness! i don't believe it! >> three buzzer beater shots in one game. grizzlies edge the defending champs, 117-116. >>> the bears are benching jay cutler in favor of jimmy clausen. is that the benching there a single of cutler's end with the struggling 5-9 bears. cutler just signed a contract worth $120 million after last season. >>> the san francisco 49ers released ray mcdonald as san jose police investigate him on suspicion of sexual assault. the gm said the decision was prompted by a pattern of poor decision-making. >>> and could 49ers head coach jim harbaugh return to his alma mater michigan? there is reportedly a six-year offer worth around $48 million, that's $1.2 million more a year than alabama's nick saban. nice coin. >>> just ahead, parents have no say where kids are being forced to play soccer. >>> madonna's take on terrorism? sort of. and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a

manu for three. fouled! everybody outside the circle. gasol. >> three shots, grizzlies edge the defending champs, 117-116. >>> the bears are benching jay cutler in favor of jimmy clawson. is that the benching there a single of cutler's end with the struggling 5-9 bears. cutler just signed a contract worth $120 million after last season. >>> the san francisco 49ers released ray mcdonald as san jose police investigate him on suspicion of sexual assault. the gm said the decision was prompted by a pattern of poor decision-making. >>> and could 49ers head coach jim harbaugh return to his alma mater michigan? there is reportedly a six-year offer worth around $48 million, that's $1.2 million more a year than alabama's nick saban. angie, that's sports for you this morning. >> thank you very much, frances. >>> find out what happens when a shoplifter fakes a heart attack right in the middle of a store. that story coming up next. >>> first, according to nbc on yahoo! sports, the dallas cowboys are now the most valuable u.s. sports franchise with a

. >> reporter: that was richmond police chief chris manus on the avalanche of protest to him holdingg "black lives matter" what was he thinking? >> i realized that this is innocuous. the idea that black lives matter is something we should be able to agree on. my feeling is all lives matter. i thought it was a gesture of good will. >> reporter: not every one agreed. the richmond police officers association says he broke the law against politicking in uniform. >> it was not intended to be a political statement. it was intended to be a human statement. i understand it is hard for a lot of police officers, given what has gone on with the protests and violence

. >> i am definitely manus cranny. lufthansens a -- says it expects a pilot strike.on long flights from germany and they will not be affected for the 36 hour walkout which ends today at midnight on german time. it is the latest industrial action over pilot retirement benefits. russia was asked to retract a statement about nondairy companies using nondairy fats. they said the use of plant oils instead of raw milk is hurting local russian farmers and they and the allegations that saying it is deeply insulted by the minister comments. raised its international takeover bid for club med. out're trying to edge global resorts by $.50. the offer stands it 23.5 euros per share in their -- pledging to ask banded club med to china were trouble is growing. it is a big week in fashion but also for london. the hottest ticket in town was last night at the annual victoria's secret fashion show. catwalke first time the extravaganza has come to london and bloomberg caught up with the angels and found that what it takes to walk the runway. >> we have been very lucky to have a chance an

. >> manus will never run out of things to say. >> it could happen. >> we are bringing you breaking news for spanish unemployment. fallingclaims are 15,000 for the month of november, better than expected. the survey was for a rise of jobless claims. pain. is better news ofor s let's talk the big things with a little bit of perspective on all of the top stories. the chiefned by senior equity strategist at goldman sachs. great to have you with us. i'm going to the chart of the next five minutes. it is the outlook's year and be on. beyond.ok next year and we are looking for a 12% pop next year. i dig down deeper and i see a forecast for economic stagnation in the euro zone and weakened growth. what is starting this? >> we have profit growth's year and you are right. it is better than what we have seen this year. it is a little bit better. it looks like things are improving for europe and it looks like a global growth will get better. ecb act see the decisively. you will see it be helpful. and, i think the euro will continue to come down. we have the euro falling. forecast a about the month

points. 100 up by 100 a very excited manus cranny. the last two minutes before he runs away for christmas. >> stocks perform the best in three years yesterday. that was after six days that saw the markets come lower. equity markets are opening higher. anemic we're told were yesterday. the market had rallied over 2%. were you part of this rally? wpp driving the ftse higher. 6,500. maybe next year. a couple of breaking news stories. that will help the markets. skye. keep an eye on skye and bp. saying that they are going to keep an eye, i suppose it is the sports content and its division. that is a watching brief. barclays, however, saying they reinstated overweight position on skye. with a price target of 10 pounds and 25 pence. air france, klm three strikes. down 6%. what you saw was the cost of the strikes causing the third profit morning in a row. stock down 6.5%. basf coming out with their news that the world's biggest is wheremaker, 70.70 we trade, they has signed on a deal with gas prom. to swap some of their gas trading assets. t

. >> thank you very much, manus cranny. a couple of minutes into the markets open, ftse 100 down about 0.1%. let's take you to one of our top stories. a landslide victory for japanese prime minister shinzo abe. abe's coalition took more than two thirds of japan's lower house. joining us now for more is james, japan economy editor at bloomberg. what can we expect from abe's government? he had the referendum on abenomics. it seems to have gotten the stamp of approval. said last night, the first priority is going to be the economy. we are seeing stimulus spending. they economy fell into recession in the second and third quarter. the government is putting together a $25 billion stimulus package. trying to stimulate spending, stimulate consumption. people have seen their income hit by not only the sales tax rise, but the inflation. next year, we will be seeing the deliberations for next year. that would have happened without the election anyway. the government was talking about a stimulus package. the deliberations for the budge

we have known for very long time that manu ginobli out to get our allies. australia is one of them. have -- i mean, they have been here, they are already here implicating and they are planning their next attack which could very well be in our own backyard. so why do this and add fuel to the fire when really what we should be doing is focusing on getting them all. >> focusing on how we behave in dealing with these guys, rather than combating these guys. >> i don't know how you feel about this in terms of the media reporting, if you like media reporting is unbalanced and out of context. the cia report when you read what the former head of the cia said it was in the context of the terrorists were getting a nuclear weapon and a second wave of attack on the west coast and it was fear of more anthrax attacks. so i am personally against torture. we get that. and it shows how backwards work. they want to dismember men and women and children and the murder of men and women and children. every week what they do to their own people, how they brutalized their own people over there should be sho

manus cranny. yen --y going into the it is performing and delivering, as it does. in moments of reflection, this is the euro down, the yen rising. we have a little bit of a move in dollar-yen. you are seeing probably one of the strongest three-day since we have seen since the middle of august 2013. the reason i'm starting with foreign exchanges because volatility is back in the markets and back in the foreign exchange markets most evidently. it is the most volatile for exchange market we have seen according to some of the agencies we have watched since august 2013. your tian -- european equity markets are tanking. we lost 2% of their value yesterday. we should keep an eye on the banks. european equity fund's have got a small bounce for them. that will give you a little bit of a flavor. the minor response quite nicely in australia. i think this is a story of do what you do best and if you on a pipeline, sell it. that is what bg are doing. they are selling their apa pipeline in australia. they provide a natural gas project there. they're going to sell it for $5 billi

the manu nighted game. canceled out by united 53 minute. 1-1 the final score there.nited stay third in the table. >> we dropped two points. they were a better team, i think. that's frustrating when you are the better team, and you don't win these kinds of games. when you want to be a part of the title race, you have to win these games. >> elsewhere, rangers completed a sensational come back. they were 2-0 down against west brom. it would end a six-game winless streak. to the ham beating burley to move arsenal into sixth: well, in the next 40 minutes or so rale madrid will sign off a memorable year. the european champions will face the champions of argentina. they're attempting to win this title for the very first time in history, they're a clear favorite at the home having one record 21 games. but san lorenzo's favorite fan, the catholic pope, has made things rather awkward for some of the real madrid players. >> well, i'm a believer in my own way. i'm a christian. but in football it is not that helpful. now i have to fight for my own and try to make the madrid fans

. >> reporter: that was richmond police chief chris manus on the avalanche of protest to him holding up a sign saying "black lives matter" what was he thinking? >> i realized that this is innocuous. the idea that black lives matter is something we should be able to agree on. my feeling is all lives matter. i thought it was a gesture of good will. >> reporter: not every one agreed. the richmond police officers association says he broke the law against politicking in uniform. >> it was not intended to be a political statement. it was intended to be a human statement. i understand it is hard for a lot of police officers, given what has gone on with the protests and violence and ugly antipolice sentiment. >> how would you feel if your officers had signs that say we support darren wilson? how would you feel about that. >> i would have been appalled. that is different. my statement is about building bridges. a statement like supporting darren wilson, especially under the circumstances is inappropriate. >> reporter: were you surprised at the reaction? this went worldwide? >> i was surprised

manu ginobli a rapidly growing terrorist group recruiting young people from the west. spanning two countries with ambitions and they have very expensive ambitions and we must defeat them and we cannot allow -- we cannot allow another open-ended war that will yet again strained communities across the country and put us in a situation in which we cannot pay for. since the month of july have received 1100 letters and hundreds of phone calls from my constituents who are clear and i would also like to be equally as clear that congress should rise to its constitutional oversight of the nation's war powers. this is a solemn responsibility and one that i have taken very serious we throughout my time in congress. i voted for the 2001 authorization for the war in afghanistan and i voted again with the 2002 war in iraq. i believe that the newly situation is strong, that we prohibit in limited circumstances in those circumstances such as rescuing service members or u.s. citizens are specified in the text of the resolution. it also talks about the 2002 repeal and sets a three-year

political reporters manu raju and john bresnahan. >> he had planned for four years this campaign. this started in 2010 right after he saw what happened in the republican primary for rand paul, the republican kentucky senator. he beat the hand picked guy, grayson in that primary. at that point mcconnell realized i have to recal bragsebrate everything i know about republican politics in my own state. he started to build this sophisticated infrastructure. they knew they were going to spend a lot of money on technology. they had watched the obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. they had watched harry reid's re-election in 2010. they knew they needed to go from this 2008 race where he beat bruce lunsford. it was a tough race. he was going to have the latest technology. he said he was going build the most thorough senate campaign ever. >> in american history. >> in american history. he probably got -- he probably got there. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q average and to mark 10 years, we're airing one program from each year starting december 22 t 7:00 p.m. eastern o

manu raju and john bresnahan, thank you for talking with us. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite 2014] >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. they are also available a c-span podcasts. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] "q&a" is now 10 years old. we're featuring one program on starting december 22. >> next, live, your calls and comments on "washington journal ." discussion on supreme court justice william brennan and the legacy of "the new york times versus sullivan. and the lives and work of john marshall. >> tonight, mary gray on the ethics raised by internet companies and the academic research on that information. >> it is a great question. somebody uses a computer every day and we have certain expectations when we fire up our computers about who sees what we were doing. , if theoment expectations i have are shifted because i realized it might be another party who sees what i am doing. say if a message pops up and asked if

it's like monks working on unlimited manu scripts. this new citizens united world.rd money checks together when you can go to the koch brothers. >> it's a lot more work to bundle. as long as we have limits an contributions we'll always have bundlers. you can set up shop without having to do all that hard work of calling 50 people a week to get checks. you can set up shop and be your own mini party if you want to and have the money. >> there's an important point. so many unintended consequences. think about the person that's a bundler and the person that can just write a $100 million check. it's this embedded in some sort of establishment. they have to have contacts. they are corporate lawyers, work with the elite, rich large. he's also like a really idiosyncratic guy. koch brother politics, they are genuine zealots. and it's a different kind prove file than the folks you're talking about who are trying to find the establishment candidate. >> it's party and outside that party or one foot in that party. they have their peck diadillos preferences. they can put the mone

. >> this week on "q&a," john bresnahan and manu raju share stories about mitch mcconnell, as he first won a republican primary and then won the general election. >> this experiment of government has lasted long enough. [applause]

. >> that she had been manu mated on free soil and abandoned by him.n on this basis in the missouri court as loan yet she was married to dred, a man whose claim was braced on freedom by residence and her case was subordinated into his as they were consolidated. the lawyers had reason to expect by long precedent that freedom by residence would hold up. it had held up for 30 years. but when it crumbled and brought down dred, it brought down harriott as well. her other bases had been jettisoned for convenience. the lawyers choice was in some ways predictable. the practice of subordinating the wife to the husband, drew structure and support from the covered the wife in marriage, abrogating her interest to his. it would have been surprising if the lawyers hadn't chose the husband as the legal plaintiffs. but it hit a remarkable array of complex realities and interesting dynamics with explanatory power. it hid this by nullifying the wife's legal presence in the case in which she might have had a substantial interest and even practical influence. recovering t

absent any other news, i think you're okay in manu here. >> pop for burlington stores up 2%, karen. >> yeah, not just for coats anymore, but for earnings beat which was unexpected, actually, so they did nice job, same store sales, revenue, earnings. guidance was raised. however, at this price, i think it's too expensive. i wouldn't buy it. >> we've got breaking news now on uber. let's go over to julia boorstin in l.a. >> thanks, sara. the los angeles district attorney's office in the san francisco district attorney's office filed consumer protection and unlawful business practice suits against uber and announced a settlement with lift. this comes after months of investigation. the two district attorney offices conducted a joint investigation into these companies, including also side car found a number of practices that violated california law. they sent letters to uber lift and side car claiming they were operating illegally, warning they needed to make changes otherwise legal action could follow. here we see there was a settlement with lift and continued -- and more consumer protecti

when manus and i spoke yesterday to b.n.p.e saying that we were going to see full on quantitative easing, sovereign bond buying, today. will no doubt get more detail on what the thinking is around that. yesterday, don't they need the rest of the governing council? they thought that draghi might be able to carry this with other supporters. 's, wet about the ltro will have the second operation next week. is the ecb announcing purchases of sovereign bonds? is qe the only stimulus option? we spoke to pimco's andrew buzz and worth. doesn't seem like many things are off the table. that will do it for "countdown." "on the move" is up next. keep an i on sky. big interest-rate deliberations and broader monetary policy conversation. s we will bring you all of that through the morning. >> welcome to "on the move." just moments away from the start of european trading. a very busy day ahead. question, as the ecb meets, the euro drops. president mario draghi faces the same old question. will they or won't they begin to buy government debt?

manus cranny. yen --y going into the it is performing and delivering, as it does.ion, this is the euro down, the yen rising. we have a little bit of a move in dollar-yen. you are seeing probably one of the strongest three-day since we have seen since the middle of august 2013. the reason i'm starting with foreign exchanges because volatility is back in the markets and back in the foreign exchange markets most evidently. it is the most volatile

our sister network will be broadcasting the chelsea western game, manu/new castle and it's a big day for soccer. it's also a regular working day here in the u.s. sony "the interview" opened up as planned. it was released online and at 331 theaters in the u.s., mostly independent theaters. sony has said it will release ticket sales later today, but there have been no reports of problems at any of the theaters or with online distribution. north korea is accused of launching a massive hack attack against sony to stop distribution of the movie that features the killing of their leader kim jung-un. >> we thought this might not happen at all. >> welcome to our neighborhood. we live around here. >> we've been here before. >> well, the movie seemed to go off okay. no problems have popped up for sony as of yet. elsewhere, sony's online play station store and microsoft's site suffered disruptions on thursday in a possible cyber attack. both companies say they're aware some users were having trouble signing on. an obscure group called lizard square posted online that it was responsible for the

zachry he manu help a cell phone stolen and received medical attention for his injuries.rse, investigating. >>> and it's an early christmas for madonna fans. she released six new songs on itunes yesterday morning trying to regain the upper hand after early unfinished versions of her new album were leaked online. her manager is asking for help in trying to figure out how her album got out. >>> time to check in with dr. sanjay gupta for a look at what is coming up at 7:30 eastern. >>> who doesn't love a top ten countdown? even when it comes to health. you probably know that ebola was the biggest health story of the year. but see how many of the others you actually remember. we got that coming up at the bottom of the hour. >>> we're pushing forward on the big story we've been fwolg, the shooting of the two police officers in new york city. here is the latest on what we know now. the gunman who killed those two nypd officers, he is now dead. >> okay. the investigation into why he did what he did, that is just beginning. and it's focusing on threats made online. police say sus

[cheering & applause] >> manu raju, when you interviewed mitch mcconnell, what was he like? >> it was the most complex race of a 30 year career. he was attacked -- right off the bat, he had his first primary challenge. he had democrats that made him the top target. he knew that going in. mcconnell is a guy who looks around corners, and he had planned for four years this campaign. that started in 2010, right after he saw what happened at the republican primary at rand paul. rand paul beat mcconnell's handpicked guy in that primary. at that point, mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about republican primary politics in my home state. he started to make changes and hired key staff and started to build a very sophisticated infrastructure, knowing this would be the most difficult race in his campaign. he said to me, this is the most complex challenge i've ever had to deal with. and he won big. in both the primary and the general election. >> we're going to talk about mitch mcconnell for the hour and what he is like as a leader. when you see him up close, w

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now with a look at what could be the final week at the 113th congress manu raju joins us a senior reporter with politico and in politico let's start with an article that talks about ironing out the money details for a deal. what is the current status of this legislation and what are the details on this bill? >> we are looking at a bill that would fund most of the government until the end of the next fiscal year which ends the end of september next year. the idea is that it would allow funding for every federal agency until then except immigration enforcement agencies. that is a concession to republicans who want to fight the issue of immigration again at the beginning of next year when they take control of the senate. that is a condition to a larger spending bill that had democrats -- democrats agree to a short-term spending bill on the immigration issue. so watch for that to be a big fight going forward but there are larger details that need to be ironed out as well. as you mentioned how much money will this spend agency by agency? those are things negotiators are going through right now.

. >> some of the programs you find on c-span networks, c-span's q and a, political reporters manu raju and john bresnahan talk about being on the campaign trail with senate mitch mcconnell. on c-span 2, saturday at 10:00, on after words, lindsay mark lewis and sunday at 10:00 pm eastern, senior correspondent for the daily beast, shane harris, on the military's use of cyber space to wage war. on american history tv c-span 3 saturday at 2:00, a panel including washington times opinion editor david keen on how ronald reagan's career as an actor and spokesperson for general electric honed his skills. and sunday at 8:00, interview with president nixon. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at commen comments @c-span.org or send us a tweet @c-span #comments. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> the supreme court recently heard oral argument in the case of elonis versus the united states, sentenced to 44 months in prison for making threats to his wife and an fbi agent on facebook. at issue is when do threats made on line void free speech protections and become criminal? john ellwood pre

sunday evening at 8:00 on c-span's q&a politico reporters manu raju and john bresnahan share stories being on the campaign trial with mitch mcconnell. saturday night at 10:00 on after words, political fund-raiser lindsay mark lewis on money and politics and how it's grown and changed. and sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern, senior correspondent for the daily beast shane harris on the military's use of cyberspace to wage war. and on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 2:00. a panel, including washington times opinion editor david keen on how ronald reagan's career as an actor and spokesman for general electric helped hone his communication skills to be a successful poll significance and president. and sunday at 8:00 on the presidency, frank gannon, former aide to president nixon shows clips of his 1983 interview with the former president about vietnam, watergate, and his resignation. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org. and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments@c-span.org or send us a tweet @c-sp

. >> this week on "q&a," manu raju bresnahan share stories about being on the trail with mitch mcconnellrs this campaign. he started in 2010 after what he saw happened for rand paul, the kentucky republican senator. rand paul beat mcconnell's handpicked guy. at that point, mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about primary politics in my home state. he started to make changes. he hired key staff. he started to build this sophisticated infrastructure knowing that this would be the most difficult race. >> they knew they were going to spend a lot of money on technology. they watch the obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. they watched harry reid's election in 2010. he was going to have the latest technology. we did an interview with him in 2013, and he said he was going to build the most thorough campaign ever. >> in american history -- >> he probably got there. at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a," and to mark 10 years of "q&a," we are erring one program from each year at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >> among the house members who are retiring at the end of this session is