megan murphy, this is the threat de jour. james comey today, it could be paul ryan tomorrow, the press, democrats, what do we make of this? i said earlier people have been saying listen, they may be his family members but we should be so lucky jared and ivanka are there the voice of reason. where is the reason now? >> i think to echo what clint is saying there. this is a different level of seriousness in terms of the tweet this morning. had this not happened we'd spend this morning breaking down once again the inconsistencies an shifting story of the white house and why the director was let go. instead we'll spend an entire day talking about a president who is explicitly threatened the former now director of the fbi suggesting that he actually taped a dinner with him. again, not even shades of watergate, almost, you know, a parallel with watergate in terms of a tape. there is a taping system in the white house that private dinners are being recorded? that is what we're meant to believe? what kind of sitting president does put

here is editor in chief megan murphy. ft, the billionaire best known for ownership of the patriots, one of the most successful franchise in any sport over the past two decades. we sat down with him and talked about what it takes to build a successful franchise. what it means to maintain that level of success. he is known as being a very personal owner. bill belichick and tom brady , both have been there 17 years in a business that sees incredibly high turnover. we talked about his personal relationship with president trump, who has known for a long time. he sees a different side that a lot of people see. oliver: let's talk about sports. get the fun stuff out of the way first. he talks about his first foray into sports ownership, which was in tennis. this is fascinating, i had never heard it. it is interesting how many times he went to that to draw on that. megan: his first franchise, which i loved as well, was the boston lobsters. it was professional tennis. he explained it to me that it was lobsters for new england, but a

all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ oliver: i am back with megan murphy to talk about some talk about strongmen and the change we've seen in politics. megan: this comes out of the french election what we saw with emmanuel macron taking a commanding win over le pen, but it is talking about the strong man rulers that will roll out in a way refer to as mini trumps like an indonesia and turkey and the netherlands. or could we be at the end a strong man politics? if we are at the apex of this trend. it is a fascinating look. you don't know where strongmen attempts are in place to bring back authoritarian forms of government. oliver: that is a big question after france if that is a turning point or a blip. let's talk about strong women. this is about cracking down the corporations. megan: the danish politician has carved out a reputation for herself as taking on companies, whether it is google, demanding $14 billion in back taxes from apple. otherooked at some bigwigs. getting a glimpse of someone who keeps a big outstretched finger, and i will not refer to what finger, that you w

megan murphy are talking about must-reads. i love the headline, russian news. rt, newsbreaks you. it is a great internet meme poking fun at russians. megan: this is a story about the network rt that is taken up so much of a role and the american election talking about disruptive, political, networks and commentary worldwide, but it is something that american intelligence officials has pointed to as a network a part of russia's effort to disrupt the democratic process in 2016. the story shows how a real fly-by-night, mired in the depths of your cable, stevenson golf --going in and say, how much was this a concerted effort by russia to infiltrate western media, and how much is you can get a lot of attention for say crazy things? it is probably more of the latter than the former. oliver: any very timely story. james comey bringing up the influence again. this ties into a previous story you did a while back about the reemergence of rt, and being able to rebuild the brand and expand. at the end of the day, this is a growth story. megan: absolutely. it is a story of

. >> we are here with megan murphy and i want to start by talking about the cover story. this is a sad but important story in which you guys loop in a lot of stuff. tells about what happened in kansas and why this is such an important event to put in perspective right now? >> we are proud of the story and the journalism at the heart of it and reporting. we have gone back to a community in olathe, kansas where two indian born engineers who worked garmincompany called carm we shot, one of them was killed. one was shot in the leg in february this year by men who yelled, get out of my country. >> what happened that night in the bar? >> they were just drinking at the ba le they do. we sent photographers to this bar, it is not unusual to see a mixed-race group of people having beers. sharing stories with colleagues. the only thing that is a little bit interesting about this is just how mixed this community was. the people don't know the investment these companies are making. this is a town that has a hindu temple. there were cricket leaks. there are areas where there are indian

i want to bring in "bloomberg businessweek"'s editor-in-chief megan murphy. want to talk about the deep crisis, a word you do not want to throw around lately. what is your sense of the magnitude of what has happened over the last 24 hours. megan: it's amazing to think takenny of these things would be almost impossible for a white house to get traction, to get back to regroup. together, we are dealing with a deepening crisis, even republicans saying publicly and privately that the white house is in a spirathat they cannot seem to get out of, much of it of their own making, much of it also boasted by the way he has comey,, obviously, james roping in other people, really damaging the fundamental credibility of the communications coming out of their, but it is a white house that is rudderless and one that will not be able to get beyond this until more information a share, more transparency is shared, or they can have any sort of positive news event to disrupt the cycle. david: what are we hearing from the white house about reports of the memo? chris: that trump p

we are back with megan murphy here at limerick. -- at bloomberg. gan, he said that the midterms would not be based on this struggle with russia and the constant crisis at the white house. he said that in 2018, lawmakers would be just on their records that they are working on right now. are they actually getting anything done? that should make it clear in midterms, it is a referendum on the president. we do expect some pushback resistance. the resistance movement has been successful already. i want to point to some other interesting things there. he said we will be judged if we solve problems for the american people. he also said in his response -- why did the fbi director not act at the time if president trump asked him to drop the michael flynn investigation back in february? i think republicans will consolidate behind that line. why did he not raise the issue sooner? again, you are seeing republicans refusing to break ranks. paul ryan still standing behind the president and saying they will wait for the fax to come in before making their judgment.

tim o'brien is the executive editor of "bloomberg view," megan murphy is editor of ek,"omberg businesswend eli lake is with us. what about the way this unfolded, what does it tell you? he was in los angeles. what does that tell you? oflast night it was a flurry unexpected events. there were a lot of credited events that happened before that. we know that trump had spent a week pondering this. he had been tweeting quite frequently his concerns about the investigation, and then he clearly decided to take action, as trump does. he took action unilaterally and unexpectedly. most of his team was apparently not pulled in or consulted. he sent his bodyguard with a pink slip to the fbi, so comey was not -- but comey was not there, so he found out while he was in los angeles addressing staffers. i, you have written about how comey was one of the most important men in washington to what changed? we are in new territory at this point because this has only happened once before, and at he was investigating bill clinton. spend timesor would investigating, something the clinton white house would always

." ♪ >> we are here with "bloomberg businessweek" editor-in-chief megan murphy.et's start with the opening remarks. you do a great job summarizing a complex edition but it keeps on going deeper and that's the political corruption that exists in brazil. tell us how you guys sort of took decades of corruption and synthesized it into this really good piece. >> we wanted to show that even decades of corruption is actually sentries old in brazil and sort of peel back the layers of the carwash scandal, which is this latest scandal that's been enveloping brazil. it takes us back to the president before her and its enveloping in the existing president and has the roots in the structure of brazil generally, one of the last countries in western america to have a monarchy that was departed in 1889. but if you go back that far and see the sequence of scandals they have grappled with, it's a natural outgrowth of how the government was set up over not just decades, but centuries now. >> i think when he was ousted, it brought a lot of hope that the carwash scandal was behind th

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on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ oliver: we are back with bloomberg businessweek editor-in-chief megan murphye must reads in the magazine. let's start in the tech section because we are talking robots. tell us what you are looking at. megan: we are talking china. we are talking robots. this is another example of where china has lagged in terms of expansion of robots both in its workforce and use by companies, but they are making a massive push to catch up and dominate the robot sector. china actually only has about 50 robots for every 10,000 workers, compared to 176 in the u.s., 300 in germany, so they know they do not have enough to be the leader in robot innovation. but they are pouring in a ton of resources. again, whenever you are talking about china, you're talking about state resources going directly into this and they are encouraging homegrown companies to really push to develop the most sophisticated robots they can export to other countries and take a bigger share in terms of uppingly in terms their reliance on robots and making them leader of supplying robots to companies around the

we are joined by megan murphy. this is not one that press made up in terms of how he wanted to frame himself. i think it is one of the fairest measures to look at him. he closed himself as a president/ceo. when we look back and peeled back what makes a successful ceo, leader of a company, there are several things -- forming a strong team around you. having a very disciplined munication strategy -- making sure you deliver on the things you say you are going to deliver on, and most importantly, not being caught out when you say things that are easy to disprove or are not true. if we look at political metric, the slate of competence, he has not really got the job done in that sense, even amid these scandals, many of them self-inflicted as well. julia: what has he gone right, megan? are successes in terms of the supreme court, keeping his base on board. you have to look at the seismic week we have had, and we still have it up and lawmakers that paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, still backing him. we cannot forget just how pe

i will discuss that another major stories from the week fr m with megan murphy and bloomberg executiver craig gordon. ♪ let's start in italy at the g7 summit. world leaders are scheduled to have dinner shortly with the italian president after a performance by the philharmonic. that caps off a day leaders. joining us now

carol: we are here with editor in chief megan murphy. e first story we take a look at in opening remarks, venezuela. if we look back 10 years ago, it was an emerging market that was firing on all cylinders. different story today. megan: incredibly different story. the thing i like about this piece is exactly that issue you bring up. there is a quote in that piece that says they can't picture a country that has fallen so quickly, so fast, not just economically or markets, but the actual impact on people. the statistics in that these are so alarming. the average venezuelan is losing 19 pounds, the struggle to get access to food. oliver: does this signal a change of ideology or regime shift in terms of political ideology within latin america? a lot of times these leftist governments were favored and looked up to by their regional peers. megan: absolutely. you have hugo chavez as the most prominent example of someone who swept in on this populist hide. latin america was populist long before we were populist. they were traditionally left somew

megan murphy, that quote right there, i mean that's extraordinary, how does that help people who votedor president trump who are looking for tax reform, health care reform and looking to get a job. >> the people you're talking about, who want an economy, they're not getting that. he can't get his agenda on tax reform or broader infrastructure reforms to spur job creation. pro business people who have stuck with him are starting to peel away from him as they see the agenda stalled. they're not seeing that happen right now. we will have to see how much longer that lasts. the third part, i don't think anyone who was on that foreign trip saw a lot of foreign leaders dealing with his amazing ability to make people feel comfortable. you saw what happened with merkel and macron. america is forming its own policy agenda it cannot see an agenda to. that quote seems irrelevant and divorced from the reality that the american people face. >> it's so interesting that real enemy for so many people running this country right now is the word no. because so many of them have existed in a world where yo

joining us is the editor of "bloomberg -- "bloomberg businessweek" megan murphy. y angles in this story. set the scene for us. megan: this is a story that looks at a shocking shooting at the time where a man walked into a bar in kansas and opened fire on two indian-born engineers working for the company garmin. one of those engineers died. another was seriously wounded. the rationale is unclear. what we want to do is go to this town, this town, which is one of the fastest-growing in job growth, an unemployment rate of 3.2%, a median income of ,80,000, and chart its success how that community has grown up, how it has become this cultural melting pot in a place where a lot of people would not be familiar with. to -- we wanted to show how that may be under threat by some of the nativist rhetoric we are seeing. it shows how some of these fragile committees are. scarlet: you mentioned garmin. it's like it's its own character. who founded the company, and how did its ability to adapt to a new environment symbolize what the community is like? megan: garmin essentially gre

megan murphy is here with the latest on this. ght sort of a shocker after the markets closed on comey and his dismissal. were there any rumors this was in the making? megan: there are days in the trump presidency were the mind baffles. this is another one. this came completely by surprise, although director comey, former director comey came under intense criticism after his appearance before the sayingcommittee hearing, how he was defending his role in the clinton email investigation. his very controversial decision. making very saying pointed comms about that days before the election. his sacking comes as a surprise, particularly because the fbi was leading the investigation of trump and his administration's potential ties to russia, the potential potential, not even but meddling in the 2016 election. the justification was not for it which is specifically puts it on the door of comey's allegedly mishandling of the investigation which will raise a lot of questions on both sides of the aisle. yvonne: potential, but meddling in the

. -- megan murphy is the editor-in-chief of bloomberg. marty, let's start with you. spending two days on capitol hill. what did we learn from them here in the last one to four hours? >> we learned a number of things, among them that he knew fbi director comey would be fired before he wrote his infamous memo on his performance during the election. that he has given his special counsel a wide berth to go wherever his investigation is going to go. me ask you how this esteem, regard has shifted over the last week or so. he was a darling of the white house last week, that has changed. >> it's interesting for him as well. he released this memo -- we have to put this into context. when it was released in the white house used that as their entire reason for firing -- that story felt art, shifted, over the ensuing week. charge ofg molar in the special counsel looking at this investigation, you certainly here -- that this is a smart move, a move to bring grown-ups back into the room to see his back control of discipline, proper washington is bloomberg -- that the strikes back

i will discuss that another major stories from the week fr m with megan murphy and bloomberg executive editor craig gordon. ♪ let's start in italy at the g7 summit. world leaders are scheduled to have dinner shortly with the italian president after a performance by the philharmonic. that caps off a day leaders. joining us now is kevin cirilli and matt miller based in berlin. i 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 h

megan murphy joins us now as well as kevin cerilli. us parliamentary procedure.e watching speeches waiting for the vote to happen. a vote in the house can last a long time or a short time. what can we expect this afternoon? inbehind me in the majority statuary hall, i can tell you the top political lieutenants from the white house including chief of staff reince previous have joined the republican whip operation and they are going over a final tally of the vote count. my sources within the republican conference on the house of representatives side are telling me they feel they have enough votes. they say they can afford to lose 22 members of congress. if more than that vote against it, the vote will fail. house speaker paul ryan has been adamant that he will bring no such vote to the floor unless he has the votes. a senior aide says they are focusing 12 -- they expect 12 republicans to defect which allows them to pave the way to get this to the senate. it's do or die in the house but once this thing gets to the senate, i spoke with two senators including tim who

. ♪ >> i am back with editor-in-chief megan murphy to talk about more must reads in this addition.ut strong first and the change we've seen in politics around the world. >> this opens the book this week and it is a strong read peered it comes out of what we have seen with emmanuel macron taking a commanding when, but it is talking about how the trend of going to roll out way.many way -- mini we've seen it in turkey in the phipnes. or could we be at the end of strongmen politics given trump and everything that continues to go on around him, we're already at the apex of this trend? it is a fascinating look at places run the world where you don't know strongmen attempts bring backe to authoritarian forms a government. >> is france a turning point or a plant -- a blip. this is about cracking down on corporations and someone leading the charge. >> she is a danish politician who is cveout a reputation of taking on companies, for misleading -- famously demanding back tas om google. the reason why i love it is you get a glimpse of someone who keeps a big sculpture of an outstretched finger

i want to bring in megan murphy of "bloomberg businessweek," laura davison, and an adjutant of "-- annat of "the hill." we had the promise to via twitter press conference following this vote on capitol hill. for thertant was that president to be standing there on a friday when a lot of lawmakers would rather get to the airport and to their districts for recess to commemorate this passage in the house? >> it will be the cinco de mayo hangover and iphoto will be more beneficial to the democrats in the 2018 cycle and the vulnerable republicans, going out and defend it in the districts, particularly district that hillary clinton carried, it will be a tough fight. the images of trump surrounded by people somebody -- david: a lot of men. megan: a lot of white men, not a lot of diversity. it was a big moment for the president and paul ryan and mike pence, another tough work begins, moving this to the senate, already saying they will rewrite the bill put much from scratch. got learned lessons and this through and get a lot more out of reach. they got special interest groups on board. we cannot

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megan murphy, editor of "businessweek," was asking me, and as if facebook is for pictures of your familyr family, and instagram is for pictures of your food, and snapchat is for pictures of declining user growth. [laughter] oliver: i do feel after that earnings report, everything is kind of blown out of the water. it is all on the table. how much time do they had to convince investors that facebook is not going to you their lunch? -- facebook is not going to eat their lunch? carol: when facebook came out after its first public earnings, it was disappointing. reporter: they lost half their value. but snap, they are in a position where they have to make sure that people don't have the same refrain after every quarter -- user growth, user growth, user growth -- which happened to twitter. snap, what they have to do is come out and solve the user growth issue, but especially, prove to people that every time they do something really creative with their platform, that they can keep that is a unique feature that draws people to their app as opposed to something facebook could quickly iterate and

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. ♪ >> we are back with bloomberg businessweek, megan murphy to talk about the magazine.to the economic session in global he can't because similar to how it to you guys did at rate file in brazil, you did a historic file on a different country, iran, and the politics behind what's happening right now and the different shades of revolution, if you will. >> we wanted to look at the recent reelection, who's viewed as a liberal reformer in iran, and reelected with a large majority earlier this month. we wanted to take that back and how the demographic of supporting him have changed. as we go back to i run tonight and 79, where we had the revolution, islamic order came in. there was a substantial change in the way of life and what you are finding now is that decades later, parts of that revolution are starting to fade a little bit from public life, but you truly among youth, who have very different lifestyles. it's not as strict. as a girl who says they can write around with her boyfriend, which would have been unheard of. but it's still within the islamic order. it has a plat

. >> joining the conversation, editor for bloomberg business week, megan murphy, correspondent steve kornacki and "new york times" political reporter and msnbc political contributor megan montessori. how much of this is just chickens coming home to roost? was this something that was inevitable considering the current climate in this country? >> i don't think it was inevitable. i think when you look at this, he needs to isolate the behavior of one man, greg gianforte, and allegedly body slamming a reporter. as one montana newspaper said in pulling its endorsement of him said this isn't behavior we would accept in a bar fight, let alone when a reporter puts a microphone in your face. it's depressing this happened, but the level of discord we're in. we had a week where 22 people were killed in a suspended terrorist attack. we had the united kingdom condemning donald trump for intelligence leaks. we had a cbo score on a bill that shows 23 million more americans could be uninsured. we have the latest development on a travel ban that could affect thoands of people on visas. and a physical a

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my panel to weigh in, megan murphy editor of bloomberg business week and mike an msnbc contributor and writes for the "new york daily news." megan, do you take this as a net positive or kicking the can down the road? >> kicking the can down the road on some extent particularly with the wall which trump is so focused on. he brought it up again and again over the weekend and not getting that in this bill does look like it's going to set up some sort of fight. i think what they're hoping for on the administration side is look they made concessions particularly on planned parenthood as well keeping that going and nih funding but they are going to try to get some legislative wins under their belt, regroup and go back and press their priorities in the coming months. >> why is the wall going to continue to be a fight? if we see increased spending on border security, most rationale people, even those who might back the wall, say this is enough, this makes sense. those hard-core wall lovers, they seem to support trump with or without the wall. >> was that a rhetorical question? because this pre

it's going to be very odd to people that he went back to the .linton emails >> megan murphy, thank you very much for joining us. , g julie hyman. >> we are seeing shares take a sharp leg lower as the company is temporary solemnity -- suspending its mac aircraft saying it has an engine issue with the particular aircraft. it is unclear what to the issue involves here and the company says it will keep producing the planes and suspend flights of them. textroneing boeing and dropping to lows. david? >> julie hyman with that update. more bloomberg markets are coming up here. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: from bloomberg world headquarters and manhattan, this is bloomberg markets. i'm scarlet fu along with julia chatterley, we have been following james comey and the firing of him and we will get back to markets here for now. let's begin with oil prices. prices are rising the most since january as eia reports that crude oil held by millions of barrels. that is the fifth straight week of declines in the large drop in the year. the client was more than the 2 billion forecasted by bloomberg. you h

for more on the week that was, let's go to megan murphy, the editor of "bloomberg businessweek."hing. going to sayeally they got health care done this week? that is pretty stunning. yeah, they got the bill through the house. that is 43 days after a spectacular collapse of the signature legislative push of the company ministry can, and, yeah, they got this will through. sort of a nailbiter. they left a lot of republican congressman at risk potentially. this is an incredibly unpopular piece of legislation, far more unpopular than obamacare was at this stage. we move onto the senate, but there is a lot of work to get this over the line. we look at this beyond health care now. what did the administration learn about washington, about pulling votes together, about things -- given that they are by and large non-lawmakers in their previous lives -- what did they learn about handling this better? megan: we've got a great piece on bloomberg dealing into this. they learned their lessons from the first collapse in terms of the outreach they need to do with special interest group, members, w