mattel and something happened. the interview didn't go off right and i failed there. close yet so far from that experience. so i always had in the back of my mind i have got to cou i went into business for myself. >> armstrong: at what age? >> joe: i had left government, got fed up with it and i think i was 32. and i started a management consulting and real estate business. >> armstrong: we want to get a little about the real estate business and talk to jj about buying his first franchise what was that like. >> jj: it was frightening. >> armstrong: we will be back. the thank you so much for joining us. why were you so frightened becoming an owner of your own franchise? >> joe: i have been working for it for a long time i have put a lot of effort and a lot of dedication. i had never been in this kind of physician before and it was big, i put a lot of time and i wanted it badly. so signing on the dotted line is one heckuva commitment. >> armstrong: it seems like you on it. >> well. >> joe: i love it. >> armstrong: i feel you, brother. talk about your real estate and get

the baby monitor by mattel will stream hd video to your tablet or phone. it also has a light, a speaker and sound machine. the device can act like a parent turning on soft music if the baby starts crying. child advocates worry it will replace bonding with a parent. privacy experts worry it will be used to collect deeply personal family information. mattel says the device has strong encryption features and it complies with laws protecting children's online privacy. >>> recycling centers in california are closing by the hundreds. now lawmakers want to do something about it. nearly 600 recycle centers have closed in the past year and about 300 the year before. lawmakers worry that could lead to more dumping in landfills. they say the centers are struggling because of a sharp decline in prices for scrap materials. the state subsidizes the centers, but not enough to make up for all of these losses. now, lawmakers are looking to update our 30-year-old recycle program. the goal is to recycle 75% of waste by 2020. >>> it's nice to get something for free, but not i

intuit, mattel and nrg energy better than expected earnings. dupont is leading the dow on news there are changes to the dow/dupont post merger plan. and ge around session lows following the presentation by the ceo jeff immelt, worried about the neglect it tiative im an accounting change. >>> here is what else is happening this hour. five house democrats are asking deutsche bank for information on president trump's alleged russian tries. maxine waters and four others on the house financial services committee want to see any information the german bank may have on dealings the trump administration had with it. the nba says it will play the 2019 all-star game in charlotte, north carolina. this comes after the league moved this year's game away to protest. and tensions remain high, the uk raising its it terror level to critical, the highest level. >> we begin with another retail wreck. tiffany's, lowe's and chico's moving lower. >> what do you think retail investors think when they see me? it's always bad news. >> starting to feel bad about this. >

mattel is up. ower, afters l deutsche bank cut it from buy. upid: abercrombie is trading 9.3%.he u.k. investigating a network of alleged manchester attackers. we will have that and president trump's summit as well. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is bloomberg markets: the trump economy. let's check on first word news and mark crumpton has a much more. mark: police have arrested a fifth a suspect in connection with this week's deadly terror attack in manchester. the suspect was reportedly arrested near the city and the ap said authorities are examining something the suspect was carrying. a day after britain race is terror level, the army is providing additional security at parliament and down it. and security will be stepped up at the soft targets like airports. prime minister theresa may ordered the military to guard landmarks and sporting events. house republicans are bracing for a new financial estimate under obamacare bill. if the budget office said the bill passes require bill targets, republicans could be forced into an a balancing do over on the measure is passed last mo

i was commissioned by the toy company mattel. they gave me 500 cars. you can play with it, too. >> but as fate would have it, hoop's wild ride is coming to an end as well. >> tell me what happened. >> he had a rash. he just thought it was psoriasis. and then he got this one rash that didn't disappear, and it continued to get worse. >> the diagnosis -- cancer. >> my artwork gives me inspiration to keep going. i get up, and i look out the window, and i said, "i got to do a little more to that car today." [ barking ] >> hoop keeps up his life as an artist and new york character with help from his older brother. >> i gave him all kinds of nutritional stuff. he had no side effects from the chemo at all right until the very end. >> in september 2011, hoop dies at the age of 64. >> it's a hole in your life when you lose part of your family. nothing can fill it. >> hoop leaves everything to his big brother, hugh. >> we were opposites but totally bonded. what was mine was his, and what was his was mine. >> and now, what's hugh's are two strange inheritances in

we want to get some insoogts from americanle in sights now from mattel. good week for the white. that's an under statement. it striet strikes me all of these leaks, 9 conversations the pret prettiet president are. . le ofs of whaf is heel you've of ofp it has all this reading all of the coverage because you really feel what's happening. at the timame-sex time you have inside the white you don't leak like this when you have a happy healthy team. >> strup came to think about all the insults. he came to washington taking washington on and he has a team of outstanding outsiders what don't have a ton of experience. not all of them at this game and everybody is taking trump on and everybody is pushing back on that war and it's in credibly stressable for that team. i think many trump is do trying to upset things in washington. if he is to with stand the fighting back he has to have his a team and thcan't they can't me errors. >> up next anderson amari cooper jon cooper will will will will will t cathis salad? . at panera, a good salad is so much more than a bowl

and child advocates believe it could replace bonding from the parent and mattel says it has strong encryptionplies with laws protecting children's online privacy. >>> more police sporting no hair at all. >> police and firefighters are cutting their hair in an act of support for officer leslie o'toole, who has been fighting breast cancer. >> officer o'toole has been with the department for 11 years. she said she never expected such an outpouring of love and support. >> feel great. chilly outside, though. >> to touch somebody, that's why i became a police officer, to make a difference in individual lives. >> officer o'toole is promoting breast cancer awareness and does deserve the round of applause. >> thoughts and prayers for officer o'toole and her family. >>> we have nice weather out there. we will see a little sunshine here and there but the weak cold front will kick up a few more clouds and keep us below average today. a chance of spray sprinkles in the north bay. and friday all the way through sunday, that's also going to spill into mother's day, at least it will be sunny and still cool.

i was commissioned by the toy company mattel. they gave me 500 cars.with it, too. >> but as fate would have it, hoop's wild ride is coming to an end as well. >> tell me what happened. >> he had a rash. he just thought it was psoriasis. and then he got this one rash that didn't disappear, and it continued to get worse. >> the diagnosis -- cancer. >> my artwork gives me inspiration to keep going. i get up, and i look out the window, and i said, "i got to do a little more to that car today." [ barking ] >> hoop keeps up his life as an artist and new york character with help from his older brother. >> i gave him all kinds of nutritional stuff. he had no side effects from the chemo at all right until the very end. >> in september 2011, hoop dies at the age of 64. >> it's a hole in your life when you lose part of your family. nothing can fill it. >> hoop leaves everything to his big brother, hugh. >> we were opposites but totally bonded. what was mine was his, and what was his was mine. >> and now, what's hugh's are two strange inheritances in one, and as yo

i was commissioned by the toy company mattel. they gave me 500 cars. you can play with it, too. >> but as fate would have it, hoop's wild ride is coming to an end as well. >> tell me what happened. >> he had a rash. he just thought it was psoriasis. and then he got this one rash that didn't disappear, and it continued to get worse. >> the diagnosis -- cancer. >> my artwork gives me inspiration to keep going. i get up, and i look out the window, and i said, "i got to do a little more to that car today." [ barking ] >> hoop keeps up his life as an artist and new york character with help from his older brother. >> i gave him all kinds of nutritional stuff. he had no side effects from the chemo at all right until the very end. >> in september 2011, hoop dies at the age of 64. >> it's a hole in your life when you lose part of your family. nothing can fill it. >> hoop leaves everything to his big brother, hugh. >> we were opposites but totally bonded. what was mine was his, and what was his was mine. >> and now, what's hugh's are two strange inheritances in

we have a patent on that, and mattel--none of those guys can do that. >> steve's behavior is totallycceptable. thank you very much, folks, for coming today. all these toys, you can take 'em home. the importance of a focus group is having people tell you if they like your product before you launch it in the marketplace. if they had done it with aero flixx, they would have saved themselves a lot of money. these are the consumers that are going down the aisles. for this company to get profitable, we got to listen. i want these guys to understand, the consumer is telling us one thing. they like our cars, but that's about it. so you have to focus on your core competency, which is cars. we can do a lot better. all right, come on. let's go. hey, guys! awesome news. i called the head guy at nascar, the chief marketing officer, and we have a meeting. and so we're gonna pitch him on licensing the nascar brand on one of our toys. >> really? >> anytime you can have a chance to take your toy car and partner with somebody like nascar, well, that's a huge opportunity. we want these big box retailer

seeing as helen retheme and all was seen as a successor, should mattel -- what do you make of commentsmy is more resilient than it was a year ago, two years ago, given the level of reserves, it's a lot stronger. we have two knowledge that there was a shock in the political system over the last two weeks. dish the veryrent engaged in steering the reform agenda, the minister in particular is committed to social security reform -- labor market reform coming potential, tax reform in the second half of this year. the question is out -- in ability. local capital, that the president and ministers have in congress. it's possible -- to reveal the broad coalition that has sustained the administration, or is that coalition fractured because of these question mark >> does it? >> time will tell. seems different. >> what we can weird from public alsoments by policymakers, from members of congress, that will be an uphill battle. there's the possibility that reforms will happen late, the possibility that if reforms to happen, there be more -- in terms of their own content and come at the extreme, we c