marcia: how are the achievable? majority,uomo: a full marcia. there has been a republican senate in this day almost for only twoe history -- years, 1955 and 2009. asked nothing. no campaign new marriage equality, nothing. -- they passed nothing. you have to elect democrats, and then you have to get the job done. that is the art of governing. marcia: thank you, governor, very much. ms. nixon, your response. ms. nixon: campaign-finance reform is something governor cuomo has been saying since 2010. it is not hard. loophole, byhe llc which corporations can donate an unlimited amount of money to a campaign, but governor cuomo has received $16 million through the llc loophole, more than any legislature combined. he said he would close this would not begin to describe it strongly enough. -- hend the commission shutdown the commission. when it came too close to him. trustedhis most advisor, and he is going to jail, to prison. either joe was doing something that the governor expected him to do and advised him to do, or his right-hand man was doing someth

marcia coyle, jamil jaffer, neal katyal, we thank you.s it give you comhafort tt your critics are coming from both sides? >> no, because i could still be wrong. >> this may be her best chance to get past these guards ght now. >> mr. trump won the congressional district overwhelmingly by about 20 points. now the question is whether the enthusiasm for trump will convert into enthusiasm for a different republican. >> does the presidency thate interfered in 016 election and possibly midterms as an attack ondemocracy -- >> woodruff: and we return to our second lead >> woodruff: we return now to our second lead story.or the "newtimes" today took the extraordinary step of publishing an opinion by someone they identify as a male anonymous senior official in the trump administration. he claims that: "many of theic senior ols in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. i would know. am one of them." angoes on to say: "the president continues to act in a manner that is det

marcia: it is not helping.s goes back to the goods versus service thing, where most of the tariffs are on goods, so for example, the agricultural tariffs impact commodity prices for agriculture . those prices had already been falling, so that will be tough for the agricultural sector. , which areariffs designed to try to boost employment and steel, there is a lot more employment in manufacturing firms that use it rather than produce it. taylor: thank you, that was marcia van wagner, senior credit officer at moody's investors service. vonnie: and nafta is just ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ xfinity mobile is a new wireless network designed to save you money. even when you've got serious binging to do. wherever your phone takes you, your wireless bill is about to cost a whole lot less. use less data with a network that has the most wifi hotspots where you need them and the best 4g lte everywhere else. saving you hundreds of dollars a year. and ask how you get xfinity mobile included with your internet. plus, get $30

marcia coyle. li desjardins, we will certainly continue to watch this. thank you both. >> pleasure, judy. >>hoodruff: the trade war w china is escalating, with no end in sight soon. as the number of imported goods subject to u.s. tariffs keeps growing, john yang looks at the impact and where it's hitting. >> yang: judy, china saidoday it would levy tariffs on $60 billion worth of u.s. goods ranging from agricultural products and machinery to chemicals. it's retaliation against new u.s. import taxes on $200 billion dollars of chinese good that are setke effect next week. to explain this escalating trade tit-for-tat, we're joined by david wessel, director of the hutchins center on fiscal and monetary policy at the brookings institution. david, thanks so much for being with us. are we headed to a war of attrition here, a trade war of attrition? >> it sure looks that way. i mean, president ump put this new 10% tariff on chinese imports, and he said,hey retaliate, i'm taking it up towe 25%. , they retaliated almost instantly. therdoesn't seem to be an quick r

marcia said it concerned her because she didn't know what they were. asked should the oven be replaced under her one-year manufacturer's warranty. the company declined because it was beyond the 30-day period. >> that's the point in time i said, michael finney on your side because i know i'm getting nowhere. >> we contacted whirlpool and marcia says it sent out a service technician that came to look for chipped paint in the oven. eventually the company agreed to replace the oven all together. whirlpool told us, although we cannot speculate about what happened with this particular product, whirlpool is committed to delivering safe products for consumers. >> thank god for michael finney because i would have sat with that oven and it would have been a boat anchor. >> we will update the story if we learn what that substance might have been. >> any guess? >> paint chips? >> that's what i was going to guess. i don't know. >> right, don't know. >> at least it is resolved. thank you, michael. >>> hard to believe but we're bringing back the storm impact scale. s

marcia coyle, i could like to start with you. watcd a lot of confirmation processes, tracked them over the years, a lot has been said about the demeanor of judge kavanaugh yesterday. have you eve seen someone deliver a speech, remarks, a response in a similar demeanor in past years? >> amna, i think the closest that i've seen come to judge kavanaugh was justice clarence thomas, when he went before the senate judiciary committee in 1991. i was thinking last night, as i was watching judge kavanaugh, of the old cliche that the best offense -- the best defense is a good offense, and just as clarence tmas in '91, he spoke first before anita hill, and then he was given rebuttal time, and on his rebuttal time, he came out with e now phrase that hasslingerred in so many memories of that period in wi he called the confirmation process a national disgrace but a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks and, that ment, you could tell that the atmosphere in the room and on the committee had changed. last night with judge kavanaugh, he didn't have

newshour regular marcia coyle cors the court for the "national law journal." paul clement served as u.s. solicitor general under president george w. bush. and neal katyal. he was acting solicitor general in the obama administrn, and he joins us from new york. welcome to all of you. and lisa, i'm going to come to lou firstment because just fill us in, if you l, briefly on what was going on overnight that lead to the release of some of these documents that this argument started about earlier. >> simply, judy, democrats tcluding senator booker actually requestat the documents which had previsly been confidential be allowed to be made public that is something they had not requested until last night. they did. they did it late and through the night committees, doctors along with doctors for george staffers for gorge w bush andnthe departf justice worked through those and they cleared them for public release t by te the committee met this morning and had that holdback and foth and kerfuffle, the documents that cory booker was talking about were in fac longer committ

newshour regular marcia coyle for the "national law journal." ul clement was th >> woodruff: also here to consider this dramatic day one in the hearing room, are three people who have foprowed the e court and appellate judges like kavanaugh for years: "newshour" regular marcia coyle covers the high court for the "national law journal." paul clement was the u.s. and neal katyal. he served as the acting solicitor general under president obama. he joins us from new york. all three of you, we say welcome. and as we've been saying, marcia, becase you joined u for our live coverage during the day, the day got off wto ald start. it did eventually settle down, but what did that wild start tell us about the atmosphere as brett kavanaugh begins this confirmation process? >> ll, it's a very highly charged, partisan divide right now.ts and the demochave seized on documents th they feel would be relevant from the judge's time when he served as staff secretary to president george w. bush that's what they want. they want to see them. they're, apparently, not g

marcia, marcia, marcia. come on, jan. obama, obama, obama. as always, he worked in the reference to the presidential election. >> you know, i got 52% with women. everyone said this couldn't happen. 52%. women are so angry, and i frankly think that -- i think they like what the republicans are doing. >> so donald trump did not get 52% of the women's vote. he didn't. he got 41%. interestingly, that 52% figure, though, that's just white women. he gets that wrong a lot, and you start to wonder why exactly. so remember yesterday when the united nations laughed at the president of the united states? and we all saw it. >> today i stand before the united nations general assembly to share the extraordinary progress we've made. in less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. america is -- so true. i didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay. [ applause ] >> this is what he said when he was asked about that today. >> i heard a little rustle as i said, our country is stronge

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congress again and again and geng harped say -- and again harped on taken that youtube had down marcia's account. happened is, when she announced her senate bid, she ran a video in which she said she had stopped planned parenthood from selling body parts. pure fabrication. that never happened. the senate, the house did hold an investigation into this theory.cy but they didn't do anything to stop this thing that never happened. up,so when she put this users complained. take downe did not her account, did not take down that video. what they did was to simply say she could not spend ad dollars to promote that video. that is well within their rights. kind of thing we're talking about, not censorship. back in the president august sent out this tweet. social media is totally demonstrating against republican and conservative voices. let that happen. they are closing down the opinions of many on the right while at the same time doing others.to are conservatives being systematically demonstrated against? >> no. they have provided a series of examples. if you look in any detail, you fall apart.ori

many brave americans who came out and spoke up from the earliest activities of trailblazers like marcia johnson listed stood in the front lines of liberation. those loving couples who fought for the freedom to marry. ,t's all of you coming out living with pride, telling your stories. last week, in india, the country of india, it wasn't just what they did. it's how they did it. the supreme court unanimously decided to jerk human allies homosexuality. -- decriminalize homosexuality. landmark u.s. supreme court decisions giving people equality. [applause] folks, the rest of the world follows a -- us because of the power of our example. that is what allows us to lead the world. it resonates around the world. all of your tonight. those were no longer with us. your courage, i think you underestimate it. it gives millions of people hope. who might see part of what you are doing tonight. knowing that there are thousands and thousands of people coming forward, just may have a little more help. a little more help. -- hope. a little more hope. faith sees best in the dark. it is so dark for so many

trump holding a rally in johnson city, tennessee monday, boosting republican senatorial candidate marcia's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. please join us monday. we'll be talking about among other things, the facebook cyber attack, cyber terrorism expert morgan wright joins ups as we take up the facebook cyber attack. >> they're cars you never heard of. >> he liked to buy unique cars -- kissels, grahams, overlands. he always used to say, "i don't want to meet myself on the road." >> it's a great hobby. keeps you out of the beer joints. >> do you have your foot on the brake, teacher? just in case? >> i haven't jumped out yet. >> these heirs hit a fork in the road... >> so that is a point of contention. do you donate cars here? do you have an auction? >> it's really tough to get every sibling on the same page. >> yeah, i'd say we're no different. >> ...until they hear an emotional voice from the past. >> when we go by his gravesite, he's probably on high spin mode up there. >> it's just money. can't take it with you.

trump holding a rally in johnson city, tennessee monday, boosting republican senatorial candidate marciathat's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. please join us monday. we'll be talking about among other things, the facebook cyber attack, cyber terrorism expert morgan wright joins ups as we take up the facebook cyber attack. from new york. have a great weekend. >> announcer: from the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromo's "wall street." maria: happy weekend, welcome to the program that analyze the week that was and positions you for the week ahead. my exclusive interview with treasury secretary hank paulson. but first susan li is standing by. >> the senate judiciary committee voted to recommend brett kavanaugh for the supreme

the collection features items from the late comedian and his former wife marcia. items include autographs, scripts, awards, props, artwork owned by williams and more than 40 watches. a portion of the proceeds will benefit the juilliard school. so the bees will host the auction on october 4 in new york. >>> nike sales are soaring days after the company released a new campaign ad featuring former 49er colin kaepernick. >> joining us is financial reporter jason brooks. >> reporter: good morning emily and michelle. nike continues to score over the campaign. san francisco based edison trends says that the online sales have soared 31% higher than the labor day weekend to this past tuesday compared with a 17% gain in the same period of time one year ago. the stock has rebounded after an initial drop following the launch of the just do it campaign. analyst noted earlier this week that the campaign was a genius move. nike stock is up another 1% today. >>> jobless claims have fallen. initial claims are down and that is the lowest level since december 1969. renewed hopes abo

over the past week in senate races, they are congressman kevin cramer in north dakota, congressman marciackburn in tennessee all moving into the lead. president trump endorsing 56 candidates this year. >>> violent street gang members being stopped before they enter the country. border control agents in the rio grande valley sector arrested 17 members of the central american street gangs of the past week. among those arrested, members of the notorious ms-13 and the 18 street gang. joining us now, congressman andy biggs, it's great to have you with us. and i've got to start with, again, the leadership of the house. the president has called for, has promised the wall. we've got the border patrol capturing these ms-13, the other central american gang members, and the drugs are still being just pouring over that border. it is an opiate crisis, a national crisis and republican leadership tells torch go to hell. collateral damage and the president's wall is not going to be funded and says with 55 days before the midterms. >> yep. well, lou, i've got to tell you i'm frustrated as anything. in the

many brave americans who came out and spoke up from the earliest activities of trailblazers like marcia johnson listed stood in the front lines of liberation. those loving couples who fought for the freedom to marry. ,t's all of you coming out living with pride, telling your stories. last week, in india, the country of india, it wasn't just what they did. it's how they did it. the supreme court unanimously decided to jerk human allies homosexuality. -- decriminalize homosexuality. landmark u.s. supreme court decisions giving people equality. [applause] folks, the rest of the world follows a -- us because of the power of our example. that is what allows us to lead the world. it resonates around the world. all of your tonight. those were no longer with us. your courage, i think you underestimate it. it gives millions of people hope. who might see part of what you are doing tonight. knowing that there are thousands and thousands of people coming forward, just may have a little more help. a little more help. -- hope. a little more hope. faith sees best in the dark. it is so dark for so many

marcia mckinnon has agreed to buy london-based -- thompson.pand its offering of reinsurance and consulting services. it represents a premium. the world's largest food company plans to stick to its most profitable businesses. nestle has agreed to sell gerber for one and a half billion dollars. -- trailers has made its biggest acquisition ever and its first outside north america. it has a great to buy a german motor home builder. it currently generates more than 90% of its revenue within the united states. that's your latest bloomberg business flash. still ahead, as floodwaters persist in north carolina we look at the impact on futures markets. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. julie: i'm julie hyman. this is bloomberg markets. vonnie: the floodwaters from florence remain a dangerous threat to the carolinas. joining us is vice president of xander and hedge. he say there's one market that actually has a supply concern. things, hurricane florence was way to north of for impacts on hurricanes or sugar. cotton is the

all right, here now marcia former press secretary for senator diane feinstein and a person from the judicialk and mark a scholar and fox news contributor. mark, how do you think he did? >> he did very well. we saw a man deeply pained by these horrible accusations without a thread of corobation of evidence. do we now want to live in a world where allegations with no corroboration are the new standard where we destroy people? i don't think united states senators want to live in that world. joe said there has to be more than allegations. he's right. the ford story all of the people there said not only did it not happen they don't know about the gathering. the "new yorker" hasn't confirmed with other eyewitnesses that kavanaugh is present at the party. how do you go forward with a story with zero corroboration. the "new york times" refused to publish this. she said to her classmates she was not sure kavanaugh was the person involved. how are we talking about this and the united states supreme court hangs in the balance and the man's life and reputation. >> martha: are you comfortable with how th

the body of 25-year-old marcia carter of richmond was found in the trunk of her car in west sacramentoier her children woke up to find their mother missing and a pool of blood on her bed. that homicide went unsolved for years. recently dna evidence linked her former boyfriend, terrel smothers of placer county, to her death. her sons say the verdict gives them some sense of redemption. >> the life of degradation, poverty, lack, growing up around crackheads, being homeless and walking the streets with our dad and having to lie to our friends and tell them they can't come over because i have some project to do. really, i was living in a hotel and didn't have a home. all of this happened after my mom was murdered. >> travis carter was only nine years old when his mother was killed. terrel's mother -- terrel smothers faces a possible sentence of 25 years to life in prison. >>> people who want straws with their drinks at california restaurants will have to ask for them. governor brown signed legislation making california the first state to ban full- service restaurants from automatically giv

. >> martha: marcia, are you confident that process wasn't hijacked the democratic party? no one is blaming her. and, what she's sized up as a story that would be a great thing to -- a great arrow to having river if the hearing that didn't pan out the way that democrats might hope it did, they tried to derail the hearing from the beginning. so are you confident that there hasn't been any effort to alter her message in any way? why haven't we all seen the letter in the statement she sent einstein grassley hasn't even seen it yet, why is that? >> the letter she sent in the first place which was sent as i understand it months ago was kept confidential at her request and i don't see the same thing from judge kavanaugh or the white house or anything else. let's have an investigation, let's take it slowly and see what shakes out. >> to take it slowly and, he's been under investigation. a great deal of his adult life, and that is recently for this position. this is a man who has been under extraordinary scrutiny for a public life that he has led for clearly a number of years. so

the body of 25-year-old marcia carter of richmond was found in the trunk of her car in west sacramento in 1983. a few weeks earlier her children woke up to find their mother missing and a pool of blood on her bed. that homicide went unsolved for years. recently dna evidence linked her former boyfriend, terrel smothers of placer county to her death. her sons say the verdict gives them some sense of redemption. >> the life of degradation, poverty, lack, growing up around crackheads, being homeless, walking the streets with our dad having to lie to our friends and tell them they can't come over because i have some project to do. really i was living in a hotel and didn't have a. all of this happened after my mom was murdered. >> travis carter was just nine years old when his mother was killed. smothers, who is 56, is facing a sense of 25 years to life in prison. >>> the family of celine tyndall has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the transit agency. body camera video shows officer joseph much to running towards the sound of gunfire across from the west oakland bart station. he

i think the political gravity of the state, the general leanings of it will be enough to carry marcia state to watch. ben: the impact of the 2018 elections, what do you think is the impact on 2020 if any of the 2018 election, and who would you peg as a front-runner for the democrats since we're forecasting into the future? >> since we're talking about 2020, let's be honest here. this election will set up governing issues and political conflicts, impossible impeachment hearings if the democrats within control. what's happening right now is not going to impact the 2020 elections directly. they are a midterm report on the president. what's going to matter for 2020? what always matters, the economy. if the economy is going agbusters, if it's falling into a recession, he's not going to be re-elected. >> we appreciate it. >> we appreciate it. panel takes on i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. i'm hoping these nature sounds will help me relax a bit.. at least we don't hav

i want to talk about that as well but i want to go back to marcia williams.her and like the santos family they just want answers. >> yeah, yeah, she absolutely wants answers. and i think that this person who put them in the car, deputy steve calkins, at the time he was a deputy, did not count on the resilience of this mother and her love for her child and the commitment she had to making sure he got justice. so i'm just very, very blessed and fortune to be in this situation to stand with her during it fight. >> and initially you were offering $100,000. yesterday you upped that to $200,000 for any information. and you're really hoping this and the lawsuit will bring somebody forward to get some of these answers, tyler? >> for sure, yeah, the civil suit is more about trying to find out what happened and getting information that can lead to a criminal investigation. so we're going to pursue every avenue we can to get justice for terrance and felipe santos. just because he was an undocumented immigrant or terrance was a black man with four kids, it doesn't mean t

marcia blackburn is only getting 46%. donald trump won tennessee by 26 points back in 2016.eorgia's governor is a dead heat. a new poll from "the atlanta journal-constitution" and channel 2 action news found republican secretary of state brian kemp and ex state legislator stacey abrams at 45% each. you got about 8% of likely voters in the state remain undecided. 51% of likely georgia voters disapprove of the job president trump is doing. 42% approve. >>> the race in the big state of texas, you have texas democrat being forced to back peddle unapproved text messages sent out to voters by, quote, an imposter. o'rourke learned of the breach wednesday. a staffer claims the messages were sent by a volunteer under a fake name. that person's real identity is being investigated. one of the unsolicited text messages urged illegal voting. it reads, quote, we are in search of volunteers to transport undocumented immigrants to polling booths so that they will be able to vote. would you be able to support this grassroots effort? o'rourke's campaign believes less than 1,000 texans receive

judge kavanaugh and his wife ashley had an interview with our colleague marcia mccollum and he was firm in saying he never sexually assaulted anyone. although i am hearing from some republicans tonight saying they thought the answers were a bit robotic and they expect him when he goes to the senate judiciary panel to be much more firing his answers, and in part today kavanaugh said these are smears, pure and simple, and he said it's debasing our public discourse. and it, she wrote to the judiciary panel that she felt agony but urgency to air these allegations as a civic duty. although, three alleged witnesses have all said they have no recollection of the alleged incident in high school. the new yorker magazine has published a new accusation by deborah at el, who claims that kavanaugh exposed himself to her although the admits they were not able to confirm that kavanaugh was actually in that room. they also say the allegation was so thin that they interviewed several people in the last week and could not corroborate the story and could not convince ugly report that in fact it was true.

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and suddenly, new republican senate candidates and open seat states such as arizona, tennessee's marciace tough fights and contests they were favored to win. worse yet for republicans some of the candidates for re-election, dean heller in nevada, ted cruz in texas face tough fights so suddenly, that slim 51-49 republican majority fits in play and so many people never thought that. of all the various factors, republican management of the hearing looms critically important, which is why republican chuck grassley went over backwards working hard to ensure dr. ford's appearance in the committee. optics are huge in politics, i can kira. >> what are we looking for later this week? >> they report themselves beyond the he said/she said we need to see what arguments they make to bolster claims. how credible will they be? we need to see how each side keeps the antagonists, democrats need to avoid the gotcha questions like one by kamala harr harris and republicans accused of insensitivity need to avoid being dismissive or patronizing of dr. ford like orrin hatch when he said dr. ford was "mistaken

spoke to people like kevin mccarthy, democrats and republicans alike, as a matter of fact, including marciage from the democrats' side, but several others, and they're all out there working. they know that the wind is against them, particularly if you're the incumbent party who has the white house, but -- >> do you think this case -- i'm sorry, because we've got a limited amount of time -- do you think the president's case is effective, former president's argument will be effective? >> well, i really don't. when you look at the unemployment numbers being down at historic lows for all groups of people, when you think about the successful business expansion because of the tax cuts, when you think about our strong national defense now, the president, you might not like the way he does north korea or trade agreements -- it's unorthodox, but he does get results, so -- >> but the way he does it is actually much of the case that the former president was making there. let me turn now to this search for the anonymous senior administration official and the president's call for jeff sessions to look i

. >> reporter: the president's backing congressional marcia blackburn. is that appealing to you? work for you? >> yeah. i'm pro trump all the way. >> marsha more fits with where i am politically. >> reporter: blackburn's message is simple as she told fox news, vote for bredesen is a vote to put democrats in control. >> they will repeal the trump tax cuts, government-run single payer health care, push to abolish i.c.e. >> that may fire up her base but it could turn off moderate republicans. it's a risk. she has to tell us who she is. not who trump is. >> reporter: according to campaign officials and election finance records, bredesen is gaining support. founder of autozone. do you think there's place for a moderate like yourself in today's very polarized political environment? >> i really do. i think that people are -- that a lot of real people are just yearning for, you know, someone to find some compromises and just stop standing on opposite sides of the room and shouting at each other and throwing bricks at each other and start to move forward. >> martin savidge, belt buckle, t