. >> and look to elections for mark halperin and john heilemann. >> can the democrats do enough targeted messages from the president, vice president, clintons and others to remake the electorate in some of the rails where voters don't usually vote -- younger, african-american, asias, hispanics, women -- turn out to vote in a mid-term, that's hard to do. on the republican side, the strategists will tell you they don't think they can live up to running against the other party unless they can appeal to social issues. social issues not in their favor in most cases. foreign policy, a lot is going on, but a lot of republican strategists aren't saying we'll win it on foreign policy. >> six months ago, no doubt people thought republicans were in place to reclaim the senate. the story has changed in these sick months. we do not have a mid-term election that's looks like the previous two. in 2010, we had a big wave election, a big republican year. in 2006, we had a big wave election, a very big democratic year. that's not what the data shows about this election. >> charlie: richard haass, steve co

you look fantastic mark halperin. >> you look very nice. >> very healthy. >> can we get to the news.majored in grooming in college. >> you look well groomed. >> in just a few hours the direct majority of the secret service is scheduled to testify at a congressional hearing. that's going to be something. >> it comes one day after "the washington post" first reported that the suspect in the white house security breach this month made it farther inside the house than previously reported. officials now say omar gonzalez, an iraq war veteran armed with a knife overpowered a female secret service officer who was manning the north doors. she did not know there was a breach because the white house ushers office asked for the alarm box to be silenced. >> unbelievable. >> gonzalez allegedly ran past the guard and headed into the east room of the white house. officials say he was able to run all the way to the other end of the 80-foot room before a counter assault agent tackled him. >> past the stairs. >> by the doorway of the green room. >> the guy would have covered less space if he had gone

. >> tonight on bloomberg television, mark halperin will be covering the address starting at 9:00 p.m. with the speech and analysis. >> new show the first week of respect,ith all due looking for. show.e of the >> this was on twitter 12 hours ago. dollar general shifts gears. they will make a hostile bid and go directly to shareholders of family dollar on their $9 billion -- >> family dollar chose to go with the lower bid from dollar tree. saying they saw regulatory issues with the dollar general bid. dollar general is now going straight to the shareholders. >> in order to try to assuage regulators, dollar general offered when it updates bit for the second time to divest 1700 stores, that's a big deal. >> to go to our next frontpage and fold in dollar general, this is the m&a activity and the effervescent confidence of what is out there. >> certainly in equities. on the other hand, you have a lot of consternation and handwringing in the currency market because of the concern over the scotland independence vote. thursday. a second poll shows the vote as net in neck. big deal, derek halp

basically, because of the complexity of the issue as mark halperin indicated.rt guy given complexity of the issue, that region, sunni vs. sunni, shia vs. sheia, all of the tern internal issues in that area of the world and the fact that the president clearly is not going to weigh out the logistics of when he will start or whether it will be tactical or strategic, what do you look from the president in terms of telling the american public about if length of this operation, it could be three years, it could be a decade. what's he going to do? >> i think that's one of the great unanswered questions about the speech tonight. i think you saw him hint when he did the interview with conduct todd over the weekend for "meet the press," when he talked about the fact it's time for the united states to go back on offense. i think that meant for him politically and leadership and also the american militarys it increases tempo for airstrikes in the region. i think one of the things that will also be interesting to see. we mentioned these arab coalitions. i think there are mr

mark halperin will be here to talk politics on the agenda comparing and contrasting. president obama and president george w. bush. that and more when "bottom line" continues in just a moment. ♪ >> welcome back to "bottom line." we are approaching 26 past the hour. my colleague olivia sterns a standing by with the details. markets showing some strength. >> stocks are rising after falling for three straight days and they are trading pretty close to session highs. the dow is up 122 points and the nasdaq is up by about 37 points. we did get some better than expected economic eta showing that new home sales rose at the fastest pace in six years. that perhaps boosting sentiment. we are watching a couple of individual stocks that are moving today starting with citizens financials. the u.s. subsidiary of the royal bank of scotland, those shares are up i about 6% after they started trading at their ipo price range of $21 and $.50 per share. this is the second-biggest ipo of the year. of course, after alibaba. also shares of bed bath and beyond. they posted an earnings beat at

mark halperin and john heilman will anchor the coverage from washington. that is not :00 p.m. washington time. word from capitol hill that john boehner has in headed the ukrainian president to address congress on september 18. president poroshenko will be the second sitting ukrainian president to address a joint meeting of the u.s. congress. investing in global equities. a look at the geopolitical risk on global equity markets with a deputy chief investment officer with pimco. ♪ to bebal stocks appeared mixed as concern bills about the unrest in the middle east, the impending referendum on scottish independence, and the timing of the u.s. rate hike. a deputymaisonneuve is chief investment officer and global head of equities at him so's london office -- pimco's london office. she is with me right now from newport beach, california. thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> are the global markets undervaluing geopolitical risk? why hasn't that risk led to what the imf called global macro economic repercussions? >> that's an interesting point because on the one and you ha

mark halperin and john heilman will launch on october 6 at 5 p.m. new york time on them bloomberg.re approaching 26 minus is past the hour which means bloomberg television is "on the markets." here is julie hyman. >> thanks so much. we see stocks rebound today after the worst drop since july yesterday. three straight days of declines and we have not seen four straight days down for this year and we are not seeing it today as stocks are back up. energy, technology, discretionary shares are leading the gains but it's a broad-based rally, all 10 industry groups in the s&p 500 are higher at the moment. we had the gdp revision for the 4.6% asuarter to expected by economists but nonetheless better than the initial read so that is helping and we had a couple of earnings reports from the likes of nike and micron. in terms of other individual stocks, janus capital shares are soaring because of our top story. they poached bill gross from pimco to run an unconstrained bond fund. bill gross has had a tumultuous year at pimco after the former ceo mohamed el-erian announced his abrupt resignatio

mark halperin and john heilemann join me, managing editors of bloomberg politics.'m pleased to have you at the table for the umpteenth time. >> happy fall. >> summer was great. i love vacation. great to be back. big issues we have on this show, politics and foreign policy. midterm election. give me an overview. >> one thing is key for each party. can they do enough mechanically, targeting messages to remake the electorate in these targeted states in the sum of the races where younger roaders, african-americans, hispanics, single women turn out to vote in a midterm? on the republican side they need a message. strategists will tell you they don't think they could live up to the possibility of running races in the 60 year unless they stand for something that fails. the leg of the reagan stool, largely not in their favor. foreign policy, there's a lot going on in the world. you do not see a lot of strategists saying they will win on foreign policy. right now they are events -- against obama care, against raising the minimum wage. they need to be a party of ideas. >> yo

we are only a few weeks away from the debut of our new program with mark halperin and john -- and johnn. 6,starts monday, october only on bloomberg television. retail sale numbers are breaking -- they pretty much match estimates. core retail sales are in line, up 3/10 of 1%. economics editor mike mckee has the breakdown. >> you are right, we do get a six/10 -- a 6/10 gain. that is good. it has been month after month of declining increases until july when it was flat. everybody was wondering what happened to the consumer. autos solda lot of during the month of august. it looks like we are also seeing some strength at the mall with a 3/10 gain ex-autos. clothing stores are up 3/10. july has been revised for clothing stores up to a 9/10 gain. we did have a decent back-to-school season. department stores down -- interesting.ich is eating and drinking establishments. you and i have talked about this before. we watched this because it is a real sign of discretionary spending ability. --is up strongly, 6/10 of 1% that is up strongly, 6/10 of 1%. focus on what goes into gdp, up 4/10. it looks

. >> i will do a massive read this, mark halperin and john -- >> is this a shameless plug?am reading a book, it is fantastic. >> it's thick. on.hris, go >> we were talking about the midterm elections and what it might mean for treasury yields and whatnot. --re is some concern here the fed has become very political under janet yellen. there is some risk that they do not normalize policy more quickly and they are putting their independence into play here. republicans already want to, rewrite some of that legislation they did in 1977. i'm a little bit afraid that the fed is on the rock side of the fence. >> let me do a quick data check on a tuesday morning. futures improve, up 2. euro,carefully, new lows, 1.3117. politics of washington and the economics of washington. jobs they is friday. america is creating jobs. "it does not get any better than this," why are we so miserable? resolute optimist. why is so much of america miserable? >> media comes from the top. maybe it is the head of the fed. two months of 288,000 jobs in one month, 10 year treasury yields go up to 2.7% and c

. >> it's a great lesson in character, those kids and, you know, mark halperin loves this quote billlinton if you see a turtle up on the fence post it didn't get there by accident. if you see children with that much character, that didn't happen by accident. >> definitely. >> that's great parenting and that's a great lesson and what a stark contrast it is to so much -- what beautiful kids. what beautiful kids praying for this young girl and we certainly will be praying for them. and, you know, in stark contrast with all the bad news we see every day and in stark contrast, unfortunately of some parenting decisions, bad parenting decisions by very rich, powerful men who have now brought shame to a multibillion dollar league. >> yet, again. we have wes more in baltimore and john hamm monday at the table. in the nfl adrian peterson is back with the minnesota vikings this morning after being reinstated. peterson who did not play on sunday after being indicted for abusing his son will face a judge tomorrow. team said after careful deliberation they decided to let the case proceed through t

i strongly believed that if mark stroman was given the chance, the opportunity which i had in my childhood, he would have become a different person. >> reporter: rick halperindirector of the embery human rights program and worked tirelessly against the death penalty. >> when rais showed up, he was unwavering in his support to try and save mark. so i was happy to assist him. >> reporter: mark stroman was shot. he told various people that he could not believe that rey had dern this. he taped messages saying that this was the first act of kindness he'd ever known. >> it's rick hall brynn, thank you for all of have done for the cause. >> reporter: over the years halperin and stroman wrote letters back and forth and professor halperin came to believe that stroman was a changed man. >> he had at least come to a point of understanding the pain that he was responsible for in the innocent family lives of those who survived his outburst near dallas. >> reporter: tom boston, stroman's old friend, doesn't think the conversion was real. >> mark was such a con man and very intellectual that he could con a con. he could make you think that he was smelling like roses, but