matt miller is on the ground for us there.mon coming through from the governor of the bank of japan, hirohito kuroda, speaking at the g-7 meeting. he says price rises have been slow recently, talking about being asked about a range of subjects. that is talking about what is happening in japan. on europe, he finds himself in a philly. he says it is important for italian banks to deal with high nonperforming loan ratios. interesting. we caught up with jim mccaughan. one of his concerns around the eurozone, despite things looking calmer on the political front, was the potential for banks to fail, to test the relative resolution mechanisms here or in the eurozone. let us put that to one side for moment and talk about what we expect to see at the start of the european equity trading day. we could start the last trading day of the week in a positive move, of pipe 2%. -- up like 2%. we have had some m&a news coming through from spain, coming through from france, coming through from germany. all of that could but interesting momentum

i matt miller in our berlin were -- i am matt miller in our berlin bureau. boston fed president scheduled a vote in 2019 and called for more aggressive action to prevent the economy from overheating. joining us now is mark cudmore. fed actionsting lately. why du think the -- do you think this is underappreciated here? mark: even though inflation is not exactly running away, the most recent hikes we have seen in december and march have very little impact on financial conditions and it means the economy can cope with these hikes and it means the fed can get away with a few more hikes. they want to hike just to normalize policy while they are still able to. it is important to note that monetary policy is not having as much direct impact on inflation as used to be the case a decade ago. that is because there is so much excess liquidity in the system. qe has removed the deficit key efficacy of policy. each hike does not have much of a feature on inflation which means they want to hike while they can. was saying you look at the two-year paper and that is 60 basis

i am matt miller.'s get the stocks to watch, just about six minutes to go until the cash trade opens. here and across the continent. deutsche bank in frankfurt, looks like deutsche bank is once this time itfines, is only $41 million but it is to settle allegations with the fed that it has failed to maintain adequate controls against money laundering. the interesting thing i think is that this is over billions of dollars that were laundered so it is possible deutsche bank made more money on the laundering issues that i has to pay in the fines. very interesting stuff there. also interesting to look at metro, another german stock coming out with earnings. metro and its media business, saturn has a loss before special items of 4 million euros them sales wereks like unchanged at 5.2 6 billion euros. carry.etro, cash and metro media saturn, metro stock germany, it could come down at the open. finally, watch cellnet. we germany, had headlines thatn tower is looking to explore and ask is -- and acquisition of

to -- going to be talking matt miller is in frankfurt. matt.n, i'm always in germany, but today, i am in frankfurt for the deutsche bank agm. it is john cryan's second as ceo, but a totally different strategy to the last agm he presided over. will he stick to the strategy? the shares are up 30% over the last year, so investors seem to have confidence. guy: markets opening, cash is opening. yesterday was a big day. we know that. the ftse 100 is softening up a little bit. i hasten to add it is thursday, ex-dividend day. it will be interesting to see how some of the other markets are formed. u.s. futures pointing positive at this stage. the ftse is down .2%, as predicted in the third value calculation on the bloomberg. manus cranny has got more details. manus: guy johnson, 375 points. a lovely piece on the markets this morning. does this mark the end of the trump rally rather than the type of plunge that would accompany a president advisor? the consensus is that this is a moment, a bump, a speed bump. suggested the political machinations in the un

i am matt miller in frankfurt alongside manus cranny in london.ct did negatively for french futures, we are seeing our first french equities, weridge are seeing gains. equities in europe today, indexes up but the strongest gains are the major indexes are in france after the cac fell 1% yesterday in reaction to news that had been priced in, the win from emmanuel macron. let's get to nejra cehic with individual equity movers. nejra: starting with commerzbank rising after first-quarter net income beat. we've seen the stock rise as much as 3% in the session, heading for the highest close december 2015. up 1.7%. in the first quarter, commerzbank and a fitted from a rise in trading income. this is after it announced a strategy to scale back that business. is ono said commerzbank track with that turnaround strategy. we are talking about 9600 job cuts by the end of 2020 and the sale of its equity markets and -- commodities unit. trading did well in the first quarter. eon also gaining. the first quarter earnings report without cost related to whatuniper un

as much of matt miller, manus cranny, francine lacqua as you can get. olarizing politics. our next guest says the real risk to brexit is the divide it will create in a british society. our conversation with carsten nickel, next. stay to enter our conversation with senator elizabeth warren. she has talked about inequality herself at 11:00 yo u.k. time. presidentcus on trump's recent decision to fire james comey amid the investigation into russian hacking in the u.s. election. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to the european market 45 minutes into training right now. we are seeing almost no change at all in the ftse. down .1%nd the cac each. not a lot of reaction in european equity markets to the news that president donald trump has fired fbi director james comey, and frankly, we do not see a lot of reaction in u.s. futures or currencies either. maybe we are waiting for americans to wake up before we start to see real reaction in assets and risk markets to this news. let us go into -- deeper into our top european stock stories right now. for that, w

i'm matt miller in bari, italy.th the bloomberg business flash with juliette saly. u.s. has reached an agreement that china should provide greater access to american natural gas exporters as part of a broader effort to begin reshaping the trade relationship between the worlds two largest economies. the agreement covers 10 areas where trade negotiated from the u.s. and china have reached consensus, including agricultural trade and markets for initial services. you will be speaking with wilbur ross about that deal at 1:30 p.m. u.k. time. in the u.s., president trump has fired -- described james comey as a grandstander and says he would have fired him no matter the recommendation. his remarks departed from explanations given by white house officials earlier in the week. he told nbc the fbi has been in turmoil for months and that comey was not the right person to help it recovery. was, i was going to fire comey. my decision. i was going to fire comey. there is no good time to do it, by the way. juliette: global news 24

matt miller, charlie savage of "the new york times."up next after our next break, congressional investigators not slowing down as we've been saying in the wake of this bombshell news. we'll look at that ahead when we come back. >>> we know you keep secrets for a living on the intelligence committee, but now it can be told. did either or both of you know this was coming at 6:00 eastern time today? >> no clue. >> in fact, i found out just before we came on the air with you. >> in the first moments live on the air after we got the story of the mueller appointment, that reaction from two members of the house intelligence committee says just about everything you need to know about what the folks on capitol hill knew about this appointment of a special counsel before it happened. that was congressman mike quigley, democrat on the left. congressman chris stert, a republican, on the right. tonight the senate intel committee chairman has made clear this new development about robert mueller will not stop its investigation, but it will rather cont

the new special counsel to get up to speed and decide how he wants to run the investigation. >> matt miller, let me ask you about a point that steve miller brought up, which was the back door channel and the fact that there us with a lot of connectivity between the white house and the russian government. is there any reasonable explanation for why jared kushner would propose establishing a secret back door channel with the russians that would entail using russian diplomatic activity? >> complete and utter naivety by jared kushner. that is not a great explanation but it's better than the alternative ones. one of the things that are striking about it, if they wanted to have the back channel, first of all, they could have waited a couple of weeks until they took office. second, even if they wanted a back channel with the rugss during the transition, they could have easily gone to the white house, the national security establishment and said we want to have some communications channels set up to communicate with the russian government. the obama administration would have considered it and might

mark: stephen ingles speaking earlier with matt miller. matt is joining us now live from frank for. saw todayfigures we from the trading business, does it make sure to -- does it make sense to flow it or tied off -- tie it off? matt: you would think they would want to keep that trading business, because it helped them beat estimates so handily. stephan telleards me there, this really is a back to normal process for this business. it had fallen off in 2016 it, but the reason they want to sell it is not so much the weakness in the business sporadically, but the complication in it. they are really trying to simplify, and that is what this restructuring is all about. a focus on corporate and private clients and to get away from the more complicated businesses like the fc. vonnie: why are they on the lookout then for acquisition? matt: that is all about building their client base. this is where investors could have questions. he did have 151,000 new clients in the first quarter, and they want to add in more by the end of the decade. they are not necessarily making money off of those clie

matt miller is in sicily. what are we watching this morning, matt and i? wanting more. could a u.s. shale rebound put the agreement under even more strain? -- how the trail with will british businesses deal

joining us now is kevin cirilli and matt miller based in berlin. know terrorism was a big because of the manchester attack. do we see a shift in focus at the g7 summit? matt: we did see it a shift in focus to terrorism. it was definitely at the four this morning. it looks at the summit was not going to a compost much at all. seemed to change throughout the day at least as far as the relationships. european leaders were more impressed with donald trump than i thought they would be. on amade some headway couple of topics that we thought would not get touched. migration being one of them. italy has the presidency of the g7 this year and they picked sicily because it's smack dab in the middle here of the mediterranean and the italian navy often pulls refugees out of these waters here behind me. it's a very important topic to them and actually have made a are preparinghey our crafting a statement for the communique on migration that the u.s. is reportedly on board with. on the other hand, you have gender the quality that i don't think -- generate quality

joining us is matt miller. charming fede been chair janet yellen. just saw janet yellen lockout, they are getting her car ready for now. we have a number of other important people walking out as well, the french finance ministers, and we have seen steve mnuchin's car. very interesting to me as a car guy, he has a toyota land cruiser and a chevy tahoe here. he rides in the toyota, not in the chevy, which i thought was very touching. there comes the treasury -- i thought that was very interesting. there comes a treasury secretary now. very interesting today. he has been meeting with the german finance minister, he has been meeting the chancellor of the us check or -- the chancellor of the exchequer. we have a bloomberg reporter down there to talk to him as well, and we have double-teamed the g7 meeting here in bari, italy. here,s a lot going on talking trade, which initially was supposed to be off the agenda, they weren't supposed to focus on that. but also talking a lot about greece and intra-european issues as well as global growth, very important a

vonnie: kevin cirilli and matt miller, thank you. let's get a check on the first word news. emma: the u.s. economy was not so bad in the first quarter after all. gdp was revised upward to an annual rate of 1.2%. consumer spending the better than expected, the biggest part of the u.s. economy. business investment was stronger than first thought. openedt, unknown gunmen fire on a bus filled with coptic christians headed to a monastery. at least 26 were killed and 20 others were wounded. witnesses said the attackers wore military uniforms and wore masks. the next up for the president trump travel ban will be the supreme court. the ruling said the executive order "drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination." montana, the republican charge with assaulting a reporter has won a special election for the state's only seat in the house. greg gene forte took about 50% of the vote, compared to 44% of the democrat. democrats had hoped to capitalize on president trump's low approval ratings. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in

matt miller is an msnbc justice and security analyst and forme justice department spokesman, david brody with us in new york city senior national correspondent for christian broadcast network and bruce, director of the national diversity coalition for trump. a trump supporter. we'll get to all of you in just a moment. let me start with you if i can, mr. ambassador, we heard from general mcmaster last hour repeatedly say what the president did was, quote, wholly appropriate. he never said that the president did not share classified information. can both of those things be true? could it have been wholly appropriate and also could he have shared this classified information? >> well, he also said it was a national security interest of the united states to reveal that information without telling us what the national security interest was for us. secondly, the president of the united states has the authority to declassify information any time he desires if it's american information. what is at -- you know, in question here, "the washington post" reporting made it very clear that it wasn't ame

matt miller is on the ground for that interview after 11:00 a.m. we will speak to him shortly and get his analysis on those numbers and look ahead to the interview. story, they have their finger in so many parts of the global economy. we will be speaking to them later on. first-quarter net income, 176 million euros. revenue, 217 million, up 5% to 6%. they said in march that the february revenue number was up, suggesting positive momentum compared to the first quarter. that's a positive sign from a deck of -- from adecco. fascinating to get the perspective of the ceo, what he thinks about emmanuel macron and the labor market in france. we saw the temporary starting agencies as well. to what extent are we seeing clients on hold, or are they starting to say we can't wait for the rules? all of that will be coming up later today. manus: and their largest market is french, 3600 pages of labor law. does that need to be rewritten? let's have a look at the chart. we have a record of the s&p 500 last night, but i thought this was interesting, this is the mon

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fundamentally, the bureau does work for the president. >> and very briefly, matt miller?al committee, they need to continue investigating the underlying russian conduct here. but i would want rod rosenstein and jeff sessions testifying how this process unfolded. >> thank you both so much. you're looking at a live picture. the white house briefing room set to start soon. stay with us. we'll be right back. do you play? ♪ ♪ use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever bere. you got next? chase. helping you master what's now and what's next. you need one of these. you wouldn't put up with an umbrella that covers you part way, so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. tell you what, i'll give it to you for half off. if you're approaching 65, now's the time to get your ducks in a row. to learn about medicare, and the options you have. you see, medicare doesn't cover everything - only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so if 65 is around the corner

it is appropriate and matt miller having word to the d.o.j. can weigh in on this. it is highly inappropriate for the president to prejudge the legitimacy of this inquiry as it goes and then to do so seeming to tell the russians who are, of course, subjects of the inquiry that it's all good. >> let's go to matt miller. what did you make of this when you read this? >> i think it is another piece of evidence that will help answer what is the most significant question in american politics today, and that is did the president of the united states commit a crime by trying to stop this investigation from going forward? and this will be another piece of evidence, his words to the russians along with his words to lester holt, along with his decision to fire jim comey, along with the fact he told jim comey -- asked him to stop the investigation of mike flynn. those are all pieces of evidence to try to establish if that's what the president of the united states was trying to do. and while d.o.j. typically -- d.o.j. has decided in the past it won't -- it cannot prosecute the p

i am matt miller in berlin. us take a look at how the markets are trading right now 13 minutes into the session. board gains across the here, at least on the major indexes. the ftse up .3%. the dots and cac little changed. the ibex and ftse may have been strained. italian index down 1.25%. over to guy johnson at our european headquarters. doing muches not through the ftse and pound down earlier this morning. that could be a factor. the u.s. president donald trump took turns launching scathing attacks on iran over the weekend. the remark came one day after the western-friendly candidate rouhani won a second term in the elections. let us get back to iran now, continuing our coverage from there. bloomberg markets anchor yousef gamal el-din joins us now. the weekend made it very clear uphill battle that rouhani faces in bringing in bringing the positive news from a wider re-engagement with the west to the people of iran. moreuch did things get difficult with the saudi-u.s. story over the weekend? incredibly more dif

i'm not under investigation. >> matt miller still with us. former spokesman from the justice department, the obama justice department. whether or not he is under investigation, he says he's not. he was assured he was not. of course does not mean as james comey said under oath to congress on the 20th of march, there is a russian investigation and an investigation into the trump campaign. >> that's right. it's an investigation we know is expanding and there are grand jury subpoenas that went out in the last ten days involving his former national security adviser nike pl mike flynn, paul manafort continues to be under cruteny by the fbi, we know that jim comey and one of his apparent last acts went to the deputy attorney general and asked for more prosecutorial resources, asking for prosecutors we assume to expand the investigation into new areas or maybe to authorize new subpoenas or new surveillance warrants. it's an investigation that's expanding. for the president to say that he is not under investigation he may not be directly but it doesn'

matt miller is covering the challenging meetings. this is the intersection of two things you love. does this put things of the top of the agenda? matt: what president the top of the agenda is the translation by spiegel, a low respected they'de that said translated his comments say the germans were evil or naughty more than it means bad. every other paper or publication germany picked it up. it will be met with a little outrage from german citizens. tried tommissioner clarify this morning to everyone here. a what trump really said was he met bad and he was talking about german trade, not german people. it's going to be an issue here. the german chancellor is going to have to address it in some sense. ins a tempest in a teacup or -- teacup. david: there were issues we thought there would be agreement on. those are things the president wanted to focus on. there are other issues like trade and climate that could be divisive. how will they decide what to address so there can be a cohesive answer? bet: it's very interesting -- interesting. a climaterything from migration, you've got the t

we will speak with matt miller about this. a quick look at the markets today. the stoxx 600 is up by 1/5 of 1%. the german 10 year, a little changed, 40 basis points. the aussi dollar in the wake of the china rating cut by moody's, cutting the rating on china's debt for the first time in almost three decades. the aussi is chased lower. and brent crude ahead of the 0.5%,eeting is up by $54.45. let's get to the bloomberg first word news. reporter: amber rudd says thousands of troops are available for deployment to help police guard public events around the country following the manchester suicide bombing. 22 people were killed and dozens injured. authorities are now hunting for possible compasses. prime minister theresa may announced intelligence analysts raised the u.k. terrorist threat levels from severe to critical, the highest level, for the first time in a decade. >> our assessment is not only that an attack remains highly lightly, but that attack might be imminent. debt ratingina's has been cut by moody's for the first time since 1989, reduced to a-1. this

i'm matt miller in berlin today, alongside manus cranny in london. manus: matt, good morning.day. this is how your trading days shaping up. it's a vacation for london and butunited states and china, you are seeing european equity markets open lower. paris and frankfurt are both down as on the merkel tells the must gett europe ready for its own new destiny and that the gulf between europe and the united states seems to be widening. in the other, -- in v ienna, -- gn't expected growth rates to row. post crisis growth has been at its best and they have to expect to talk about policy. we will be in front of the european parliament today as the consensus seems to be going for tone.rately dovish inflation data supports the position of keeping the status quo. matt: yeah. that's the ecb , now back to the fed. the federal reserve bank of san francisco president john williams says the fed has a good strategy of monetary policy, three rate hikes this year makes sense. sticking exclusively to haslinda amin, he says the economy is growing nicely and the data on employment has been stronger

matt miller is in berlin. what are we watching? brazil backlash. the defiant president declares he won't step down. we're going to ask the head of e.m. strategy at ubs if this is a game changer. the president heads to the middle east looking to move the agenda on from what he calls the witchhunt in washington. will it work? iran's choice. as trump touches down in saudi, iranian people voting on whether to continue international engagement or take a harder line. we are live in iran. matt: we are less than a half-hour away from the open of cash trade. let's take a look first at where futures are after the big drops we saw the last couple of days. looks like investors are getting more optimistic in europe. asian stocks turned around. we are seeing european futures rise fairly significantly. if you look at the bund trade here, we can see that investors are selling off debt. this is a pre-day chart. i will put it into a one-day chart of the german bund trade and zoom in on that for you. investors are selling off the tot, pushing the yield up 0.36% after

and matt miller joins us as well. but right now, i want to turn to john dean who obviously served as white house counsel under nixon and a witness for watergate prosecutors. dean providing that public testimony the senate watergate committee that kusd the attorney general and richard nixon of wrongdoing. >> when you look at the personality and the emotion vofdz, we'll get to the law. do you see parallels between how richard nixon acted either at the beginning, middle or end of watergate and what we know about donald trump's state of mind? >> i do see similarities in the personality. it is complex. the similarity they're both authoritarian personalities. nixon much more so in private. and trump very open and clearly ran on his autocratic instirvegts and powerful strong man stances. the differences is and what frightens me most about trumpcy was frightened about nixon. i always thought he would obey the law. i'm not so sure about trump. they don't have anywhere near the competence to be president. nixon was highly compe

let's talk with matt miller and jeremy bash. matt, i want to get your reaction to nbc's exclusive reporting, that the president of the united states warned donald trump while he was in transition less than 48 hours after the election that mike flynn was not somebody that he should be hiring. >> i think it's stunning. if you think about that meeting, this is two days after the election. donald trump comes into the oval office, gets briefed by president obama about some of the country's most important secrets, some of and president takes time to tell trump is that you should not hire mike flynn. mike flynn had worked in the obama administration. president obama presumably was speaking from experience. president trump ignored that warning. it was just one of many warnings. some public, some private from obama. and later from an acting attorney general sally yates and it raises grave questions about their judgment. >> and the white house, according to officials speaking to kristen welker, is that they said they believed this was --

matt: and i'm matt miller here in berlin. risk let's put up the radar and show everybody where we are on the overnight session, the asian trading day higher on equities. the msci asia-pacific of 5.8%. of by .8% for the price of a barrel of crude. were indiana and will get more from manus shortly on the program indiana. the russians talking about the option for a further extension. so these facts very much in focus and is the move in the dollar, a little weaker on those sentiments. concerns about inflation lead to questions about what happens thereafter. matt: that was interesting to me, we saw treasuries yesterday actually get on up, which at that was fascinating, after the notes came, the minutes came out , we saw note get off. right now are looking at 2.25% as the yields on the teen your climb back up a little bit today. fallen by 1.3% yesterday. maybe stabilizing today. then you see the renminbi right now down a little, but it had gone up yesterday as well. for is how many you can buy a dollar, more than you could buy a co

i'm guy johnson in london, matt miller is in berlin. what are we watching? the big question, were state secrets shared? reports suggest president trump released classified information to the russian foreign minister. the muted market reaction, warranted? the european court of justice will today decide if the eu national regional parliament needs to approve a trade deal with singapore. will it make brexit harder or easier?easyjet first-quarter numbers , worse than expected. is this as bad as it gets? this is the question we will put to the ceo, carolyn mccall. she joins us at 8:30. matt: less than a half hour away from the open. take a look at where futures are pointing for european equity indexes. we have a next trade, but almost no movement on futures. it almost feels like we have crested and are just hanging at the top. global stocks yesterday rose to a record high on the promise of more spending out of china to boost global infrastructure. we saw at one point s&p rising to its highest level. we saw at one point asian stocks, the nikkei touching 20,000. th

. >> joining us now on the phone, matt miller who is spokesman for the justice department under attorneyral holder, matt, what's your thought here? >> you know, this is obviously very damaging for the white house. it brings this investigation not just into the white house, but into the president's own family. and it makes you ask questions about -- go back and look. the president's actions since this investigation began has been so unusual, trying to get the fbi director to quash the investigation, and then actually firing him when he didn't get the answer he wanted. and now you wonder if this is one of the reasons why he was doing this. the me flynn explanation has always seemed odd. his loyalty to him seemed an odd reason to take extraordinary action. now you wonder if he was doing this all along because he was worried about a member of his own family. >> put into perspective for me if i'm playing devil's advocate, matt, it's just more questions. jared kushner under fbi scrutiny. could one say that's just more questions? and we know that they're searching? >> yes, absolutely. there are

matt miller is there. what are they talking about? are they seeing eye to eye? commonality do exist? matt: one of the discussions has been about using esm debt, european debt, which costs less, lower interest rates, and swapping that out for imf debt, which is already outstanding. that could be one of the ways they get christine lagarde and the imf to go along with this. i spoke with pierre moscovici last night. he said he's optimistic they will have an agreement by may 22 in brussels. tom: when you look at financial minister meetings, i would assume it is a photo op and maybe an effort to get on from here. what is the backstory they are talking about? is it about southern tier finance, greece, portugal, italian challenges? matt: actually it's interesting, tom. i heard your discussion about trades and investment and globalization. even though that is not the track of the finance ministers meetings, it seems like that's what everybody really is discussing, this issue of globalization and inequality and how it relates to trade. even though they need to stay away f

matt miller is in frankfurt. what are we watching question mark the china crunch. cuts beijing's rating for the first time since 1989. the markets have ignored the move. is chinese debt the elephant in the room or is the rating agency overreacting question mark threat level critical. theresa may warns of -- that further attacks could be imminent following the suicide bomber in register. what will this mean for u.s. shale question mark we will speak to former bush energy .nergy -- official the ecbam here for review. we will not expect much about monetary policy. that is on everyone's mind as lieutenanti's to top seem to disagree on how the ecb or when the ecb should start to normalize its policy. we will hear about the ecb's outlook for the eurozone growth and inflation and maybe get an update on the target and how the ecb thinks it's monetary policy is holding up. guy: mario draghi speaking in spain later. that could be a key discussion point. let's talk about where we sit with the markets. no clear sense of direction at the moment. the markets are looking for the

vonnie: that is the vice president of the european central bank speaking with bloomberg's matt millersident trump has arrived in brussels and has deported the plane -- de-boarded the plane. that is charles michel, the prime minister, beside him. the first lady has also arrived. they will head to the palace to meet with belgian royals king felix and -- king philippe and queen mathilde. mark: a transaction social is a minimum of 75% of linda shares. linda says after a possible signing, no assurance of a deal. packed in confirmed a principle with praxair. this has been an ongoing negotiation between the two companies in a deal that would combine 2 big industrial gas supplies. that is just crossing the bloomberg terminal a few moments ago. this is bloomberg. ♪ live from bloomberg world headquarters in london and new york, i am mark barton. vonnie: and i'm vonnie quinn hit this is bloomberg markets. we are waiting for weekly oil inventories in the u.s. especially in focus this week was the opec meeting. just getting underway tomorrow, two-day meeting. there will be a communiquÉ. we think w

joining us from the sicilian town, matt miller who has been covering the summit. fore you destroy my pronunciation of where you are, matt, the words coming out of here, redoubling the efforts against terror. there was some agreement today. matt: there was. i think a little bit of unexpected agreement. when we came here yesterday, there was an expectation nothing would be accomplished because the italians wanted to move on climate change. they wanted to move on global trade and immigration. three things everyone expected donald trump to disagree with or not even want to talk about. but obviously, terrorism came to the fore because of the manchester attacks. theresa may came here with an agenda. she wants internet and social media companies like google and facebook to start using an algorithm that could block certain content from people or certain messages. and also figure out who is sending extremist content, stop them from putting it on the internet and maybe flag them so the police would be more easily able to find or follow them. she came away from here with an a

our very own matt miller joins us from berlin. well done, great reporting.ome pretty strong words from chancellor angela merkel after what some would say is a challenging g-7. it must have been some very vexed and anxious moments behind closed doors. i think the animosity started even before the g-7 leaders rather in sicily. angela merkel met up with president obama on the day before he was to meet donald trump on his first foreign visit. president obama had some harsh words for the trump policy. also on the day before the g-7, donald trump said, in a closed meeting, that germany has been very bad on exports and complained the german auto imports to the u.s.. that was picked up by spiegel, which was picked up by every paper in germany and really aggressively. the meeting got off to a rough start to begin with and then adding to that the disagreement, strong disagreement on climate change, between donald trump, the u.s., and not only germany, but all six other g-7 members as merkel put it, seven if you include the eu because the eu has representation there as

let's head to italy where matt miller has the latest.t's where the hopes of going into this particular g7 meeting? >> it is very interesting because the message was the trade is off of the agenda officially, but this morning, when steve mnuchin arrived, the treasury secretary said he was excited about the u.s.'s trade policies and mentioned a trade agreement with china. after that, all the talk was about to trade today. they are now struggling to cobble together their communique, their message to the world as to what they have discussed and what they will discuss tomorrow. the problems they face of the same that they have faced at the .-20 meeting as whether or not to call for free trade and a stop to protectionism, and use the u.s. language, more of a fair trade or reciprocal trade and leave out to the protectionism and mention of it. that seems to be the focus as the ministers just retired about an hour and a half ago and are going out to dinner and a nearby town. vonnie: steve mnuchin is not concerned with optics today. he didn't atte

from simply -- from sicily is matt miller. they had 32 pages last year. there will be a fair amount of tabbing to get up to 32 this year. what is your view? matt: what we are hearing as it will be one third of that. one source told us it would be six pages. because they cannot agree on a lot of things with donald trump and he does not want to go into detail but what they are saying is the spin is that they want to have a much more brief statement so they can focus in on the issues. the length of the communique does not make it better. the longest one we have seen in recent history is 38,000 words in 2004 under president george w. bush and there were a lot of issues during that time in history. we saw short communiques during president carter and president reagan's g7's and that was when america got back on the upswing at least economically. there were a lot of good things happening. the length of the communique does not necessarily mean it is a bad thing. it could help leaders focus more. >> there were some negative headlines coming into the meeting. presi

a new phrase that will undoubtedly be used a lot here over the next 24 hours, matt miller. what did we learn about the fbi's investigation into wikileaks, if anything? >> i think we learned it's ongoing, as it has been for some time. i think we learned that they are very seriously considering charging, along with the justice department, considering charging wikileaks with a crime. and i'm sympathetic to what they're trying to do. but you have to look at the precedent that sets here. if they can find that wikileaks conspired with a foreign intelligence service, conspired with someone who is hacking into our systems, that would be one thing. if they're just going to charge wikileaks with publishing classified information, however, it's difficult to see how you do that without subsequently setting the stage for charging -- let's not say "the new york times," but someone who is in the gray area between "the new york times" and the wikileaks. a blog, trade association that publishes information. it's a very difficult line to draw. >> josh, where do you come down on wikileaks? >>

. >> joining us matt miller an msnbc contributor. joining us paul butler, a law professor at georgetown university and a former federal prosecutor. matt, you know how these meetings get scheduled. i have to say, i was quite struck to see this kind of meeting occurring in the middle of a hearing in which both of the leaders of that committee had to get up and leave this very important hearing. it seems to put it mildly, peculiar. >> yeah. it's very peculiar, especially because i think they said this meeting had been set up for some time. the deputy attorney general is a busy guy, obviously. he is not so busy that he can't find time to meet with these two senators outside of a meeting. you suspect a couple things. one, the senate intelligence committee really does seem to be trying to step up its investigation. richard burr a couple of times, including a few weeks ago has been criticized publicly for slow walking it. and every time he is criticized publicly, he responds by speeding up. i think that's what is going on. but they also hav

evan siegfried and matt miller. hot off the presses, matt.lked to utah republican senator mike lee staff, they say this tweet is not a joke. donald trump should nominate merrick garland to replace james comey. what do you think of that? >> i think garland would be an outstanding choice. and i don't think he was interested at the time, but who kn knows now. the fbi is the investigating side of the house. the problem is when you have the prosecuting side of the house led by rod rosenstein, a political appointee of the president and who once had a stellar reputation and by giving trump cover and just having an independent fbi director does not solve the problem. you still need an independent prosecutor, someone who is out of the regular doj chain of command and have confidence in and lead it fairly and without political interference. >> as we say, that doesn't negate the need to find someone who is acceptable to both sides. do you think, evan, that this merrick garland tweet is pretty straight forward? >> while he would probably pass the senate

i'm joined by ned price, matt miller, former chief spokesperson for the justice department, and naveed jamali, a former fbi double agent, author of "how to catch a russian spy." matt, maybe i'll start with you. i mean one thing that's striking here, and just, you know, to be fair, right, one of the complaints you had and a lot of people had during the investigation of hillary clinton during the campaign were leaks coming from the fbi. is this essentially, you know, unacceptable that they're leaking about this? >> if it is the fbi leaking about this, yeah, of course it is unacceptable. but you should never assume where a leak is coming from when you read a story. oftentimes when investigators go out and start talking to people over the course of their investigation, that's how an investigation makes its way to the public. so i don't think we know enough yet. it's likely it's the fbi, but i don't think we know that for sure. >> ned, what does this mean for the functioning of the white house? >> well, it's tough to say. look, chris, i mean up until now, the white house has had a 3-d strat

us is the president of the american center for progress and former aide to hillary clinton and matt miller a former doj official. matt, when you worked at doj, i think jim comey had what in the biz we call a lower name id. i think phi years ago, fewer people knew who he was, and we didn't have approval ratings on him. i can't compare to so many years ago. but your view of this polling, even the fox news polling that just shows like the american public looks at this and thinks donald trump did it for russia. >> yeah. i think they believe donald trump when he told lester holt he did it because of russia. it's not that complicated anymore. when you look at the things donald trump said to lester holt, look at the things he said to the russians, look at his action before he fired comey in calling him and urging him to shut down the flynn investigation. i mean, it's not that comp indicated. i think it gets more indicated when you ask is it actually a criminal act or obstruction of justice? it is something you can prove to a jury or prove in this case a congressional impeachment hearing. why he f

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it's hard to believe that it was merely an oversight. >> matt miller, jeremy bash, thanks to both of you for your insight and perspective on this breaking news this afternoon. >> thank you. >> live pictures from the white house briefing room. sean spicer set to give his first press briefing since the week of the president's overseas trip. we're going to bring that to you live and hear what he has to say about the investigation into michael cohen now. also, staff shakeup. reports of some major changes coming to the west wing. who's in and who's out and what that could mean for the direction of the white house. tiger's troubles, tiger woods says it was prescription drugs, not booze, that led to that dui arrest monday morning. what does the police report say? we'll go live to florida. (vo) pro plan bright mind adult 7+ promotes alertness and mental sharpness in dogs 7 and older. (ray) the difference has been incredible. she is much more aware. she wants to learn things. (vo) purina pro plan bright mind. nutrition that performs. ♪ everything your family touches sticks with them. make sur

and matt miller, former justice department chief spokesman and an nbc news justice security analyst. gentlemen, thank you very much for joining me. let's talk about this lawyer that president trump has hired, mark casowitz. do you think it's prudent for somebody to hire someone with his own ties to russia, for one, and someone who is not a traditional washington lawyer who understands the intricacies of what this will look like in washington. >> it's definitely a problem. not only is he not a washington lawyer, he's not a criminlawyer this, he is a criminal lawyer. he just seems someone you would not go for with someone in these circumstances. donald trump has a reputation in this town, including stiffing contractors. he has stiffed lawyers in new york city. if i was representing donald trump, which i have no intention of doing, i would want to have all my fee up front so as not to be the last victim in the crime wave. i think it will be very difficult for him to find the right person. >> matt, how much is flynn factoring into all of this, and is he going to find himself needing to c

i am matt miller in london.shaping up after a bank holiday yesterday and no trading in the u.s.. some asian markets still closed as well. european stocks across the board, even as the pound and euro fall against the dollar. stoxx 600, down .5%, being led down by bank stocks. that is why you see the cac down, because it has those big heavy bank on a proportion bigger than anyone else. the dax fell as well as the ftse. john mccain is speaking at an event in sydney, australia at the u.s. studies center. he is making some comments about, well, almost a direct response to angela merkel's comments on sunday, saying allies can rely on the u.s.. they can count on america has a partner and he is saying that america is "far bigger than the white house." john mccain making comments and we will continue to follow with the senator says, often making use as a mac or -- maverick senator. the leaders of the two main political parties faced questions in a televised event. prime minister theresa may explained why she had initiall

our analyst matt miller is a chief spokesman for the justice department and an nbc justice and security analyst, and malcolm mans, the plot to hack america and the terror asymmetrics. you've been talking to comey and know him well. benjamin wittes spoke with you and then spoke to pbs this morning about an uncomfortable moment james comey had with president trump early on after he was inaugerated. take a listen. >> if you watch the video of it, he's wearing a blue blazer, and he stands in the part of the room that is as far from trump as is physically possible to be and also against blue drapes that are the same color as his -- >> he chose that spot? >> he chose that spot because it was, you know, almost like a chameleon. trump had not singled him out. and then at the end, right at the end, trump singles him out, extends his hand kind of preemptively, and trump grabs the hand and kind of pulls him into a hug. but the hug is entirely one-sided. >> that's benjamin wittes. michael, comey's 6'8", it's kind of hard for him to blend in, tell me why he was so uncomfortable about being there? >>