still with me is priya misra, michael collins, and iain stealey.ant to turn to europe. the eyes are all on italy. iain, you are in europe, let's start with you. we are focusing on the fact that bonds have climbed to the highest since 2014, and the gap between bunds and italian yields has climbed to the highest since 2013. what is going on? what is the fear right now with italy? iain: i think there's a couple of things going on. you have this general risk off sentiment that is starting with emerging markets and it is feeding its way into asset classes. that is the first thing. second, there is a liquidity premium for italian government bonds. you can't trade the size we were looking at earlier in the year. the most important of all, people are looking into september and looking at what the announcements are going to be around the fiscal side and how much additional spending the italians want to get out there. what is interesting is we are back at levels, as you mentioned, the highest we have seen for a while. back to where we were in april, may time

with me around the council, the creator, michael collins -- rick number your thoughts? itpeople would have thought was crazy what is happening today, the growth, so i agree with a lot of what he is saying. cycle reallyapex started in 2016 so we are continuing to add a bit more stimulus. we are putting a lot of debt in the system. we see the tangible impact certainly in the next two or three years. but the economy is impressive. arguean: you cannot against the data, michael collins. >> what worries me a little bit is what happens after a boom, right tackle oftentimes you get the bus. we had eight years of secular stagnation and people were saying, oh, we need more, we need more, we need more. fastry if you get too leverage, too much you do have to pay that back in the future. jonathan: green light spur for the economy, which does not mean total green lights for the capital markets. that's why we are seeing some backup today. that number is getting stronger and interest rates and a ho-hum equity market. easy money is in the rearview mirror. we had earnings growth and mult

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uncovered some foul play from some former top associates but nothing related to russia it looks like michael collins lawyer had everyone convinced that finally there would be some real evidence surfacing but alas it looks like we got faked out again still no evidence back to square one but it looks like the investigation has no sign of stopping. r.t. new york to the latest development has been confirmed that michael cohen's lawyer was actually one of the main sources for a c.n.n. story about collusion of the sources weren't disclosed despite the law but tracking on those claims to c.n.n. host live on air the network still defended his decision to run the story former cia officer and government says that alleged russian trump ties are but none's of the western media. russia gate is the coin of the realm here if you have a story no matter how false you're out with it before anybody pays any attention to the sourcing we have a sleazy bunch of lawyers and i have to ed pundits and reporters who now are caught in this web of misinformation. speaking at all kinds of euphemisms for lying i would suggest tha

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it came as michael collins plea came through. i look at the numbers.ldn't have a career without the numbers. if you look at the abc news washington post all, they got the election wrong by 10 points or more. before the election, visit hillary clinton was going to win in a landslide. there were only three pollsters who got that election right. i look at those old and i give credence to them. the rest is a garbage in garbage out. >> as long as you are within the margin of error in cannot be wrong. silver has gone back to the drawing board. i think 538 is on top of the midterms. >> thank you. coming up, a nation divided. the outcome is far from clear and what many are calling the most divisive swedish election in decades. we will be live in stockholm coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg markets balance of power. sunday swedish voters head to the polls for a close race. welcomeome down to how immigrants should be in the country. we will put up a chart here showing the various parties. they tend to group around to call it -- coalitions. those t

. >> a correction from michael collins attorney, walking back on whether president trump had advanceledge of the 2016 campaign meeting with the russian lawyer. good evening. i am john scott and this is the fox report. >> jon: attorney, lanny davis says he himself or cnn report that michael : was willing to testify that the president knew about that infamous meeting ahead of time. davis now reveals that he was an anonymous source for that story and admitted he does not know who or when. >> it does bother me because i disclose myself as

. >> a correction from michael collins attorney, walking back on whether president trump had advance knowledge of the 2016 campaign meeting with the russian lawyer. good evening. i am john scott and this is the fox report. >> jon: attorney, lanny davis says he himself or cnn report that michael : was willing to testify that the president knew about that infamous meeting ahead of time. davis now reveals that he was an anonymous source for that story and admitted he does not know who or when. >> it does bother me because i disclose myself as a source seeking reporters to confirm something i wasn't sure about. i even wrote a book about taking responsibility. this has not been an easy week for me. i think for everyone who deals with the media, and my position this is a lesson. maybe a teaching moment. >> jon: meanwhile, the mueller investigation is moving forwar d with paul manafort heading for his second trial. this one focused on for lobbying work. molly has the latest in washington. lanny davis is a very savvy washington insider, why would he be leaking information about his own clien

you know michael collins did something so i threw that in. anyway, more importantly though, algae or phytoplankton are the things that transmit solar energy to larger animals. had to be go from the sun to a big tuna? the way we do it is through this ecological chain. phytoplankton then below that we have a zooplankton that comes from the greek word for animal. the next on the chain of these little silverfish called forage fish. which by the way is we get the omega-3 supplements from. below that of the larger creatures. and of course then on top of that all are humans eating all of it. without phytoplankton we would have no means to access all of that solar energy. the first half of the book is just like big sweeping history trying to get through hundreds of millions of history quickly. so jump from several hundred million years ago to 30,000 years ago. the human brain is actually 10 percent dha omega-3 fatty acid. there's an interesting moment in human evolutionary history. anybody read the book sapiens? a great book. you might remember in th

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alix: michael mckee and peggy collins, thank you. let's talk about sirius xm buying pandora. stocks valued at $3.5 billion, including a go shopper vision, which is interesting. the total price is $10.14 a share. mike: sirius has been very entrepreneurial. putting them together and they are bullish on their future. at the same time, they have had their own struggles, particularly pandora has been challenged. basically, it was an early adopter or creator of streaming audio services, and then spotify came along, so it became very large. alix: overall, they are looking at the biggest u.s. audio streaming platform never. the analyst call will be at 8:30, so we will follow that. coming up, trade tensions at the federal reserve policy meeting this week. we will break that down as bonnie want to cool -- with bonnie wongtrakool. check out gtb are not terminal, browse the features and save our charts. gtb -- gtv . this is bloomberg. ♪ emma: this is bloomberg daybreak with your business flash. sirius xm says the new acquisition will turn it into the world's largest audio e

protesters demonstrated outside of susan collin's office, one of the republicans not yet announced with whether she will support kavanaugh's confirmation. >>> lawyer michael avenatti that represents stormy daniels prennerkns e kavanaugh. attending a meeting of the united nations. the topic was the world drug problem. tomorrow h he will outline his foreign policy achievements. >>> dry windy weather creating ripe conditions for fire. a red flag warning is in effect for tomorrow. over the weekend, a brush fire prompted evacuation of a dozen homes. 10 acres burned before firefighters got it under control. >>> this san jose 30 acres burned near norwood, two cal firefighters were treated for minor injuries. the blaze was sparked by a downed power line. let's check in with mary lee. >>> dry air across ar with low relative humidity values. the winds, we are watching the winds out of the north and northeast, that's a dry offshore wind. northeast wind at 5 miles per hourn ra mope, north, northeast wind at 5 miles per hour. check out fairfield, north, northeast winds at 10 miles per hour. because of the dry gusty offshore winds and low relative humidity values, red

kaitlyn collins, white house correspondent for cnn. michael schmitt, "new york times" correspondent, contributor to msnbc and nbc. tommy voter, former spokesman for president obama. david korn, msnbcablist and author of the rution lieu roux let book. casey hutton, nbc news correspondent, host of msnbc show. richard painter, commentator on msnbc and cnn outspoken critic of trump. david axelrod, former chief strategist for obama's campaign, senior advisor to obama. i did not cherry pick these. here's a republican you did send me one from bill crystal founder and editor of the at-large weekly and a vocal supporter and never trumper guy. an you did send me one from fox news, i'll put that in there, brit hume, senior political analyst for fox news channel. i want to submit these for the record so you can peruse them at your leisure. that's only two i remember being republican. out of 84, hand picked tailored for me because they know what i want to read. glen thrush,, it just goes on and on. i have i guess 14 pages of them here. and they're all pret

but what susan collins is reported to have said is really a giant leap away from what she said publicly. apparently she brought the affidavit, michaelnatti's client, julie swetnick's, sworn affidavit to this committee. and this committee today had nothing to do at all with the judiciary committee investigation. so susan collins was forcing this subject on a room that didn't want to hear about it. it was more organizational for what they're doing on other legislative fronts. and apparently according to this report senator collins said that the fact that it was a sworn affidavit gave real weight to the allegations, and in her mind it now made sense subpoena brett kavanaugh's friend mark judge. now, that is a strong position that all of the democrats have been holding publicly. and the notion that susan collins has that position herself, but so far is unwilling to say it publicly, must be pretty scary for the republicans that she's possibly a breath away from saying it publicly. >> that's right. and she may not be the only one. they're much more willing to share their doubts away from the cameras, away from the reporters. and what we s

collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska. plus robert mueller announces the sentencing day of michael flynn three days after paul manafort agrees to cooperate. >>> and the president orders documents he calls classified significant they have to do with a massive investigation into russia. all of this as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a monday night. >>> as we start the week, good evening again from our headquarters again. day 606 of the trump administration and it looks as though we'll be covering another brett kavanaugh hearing on monday, but it doesn't look like it was one that his camp was looking forward to. the brett kavanaugh court just got extremely complicated. they will hold a public hearing next monday with kavanaugh and his accuser, dr. christine blasey ford, a college professor in california. nbc news reports that kavanaugh spent roughly nine hours inside the white house today and that a white house official described him as, quote, chomping at the bit to testify. in an off-record interview with the "washington post," ford alleged, quote, one summer in the early 1980s kavanaugh and a friend both stumbling drunk cor

collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska. plus robert mueller announces the sentencing day of michael flynn three days after paul manafort agreesdent orders documents he calls classified significant they have to do with a massive investigation into russia.

collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska. plus robert mueller announces a sentencing date for michael flynn, three days after paul manafort agreesresident orders

collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska. plus robert mueller announces a sentencing date for michael flynn, three days after paul manafort agrees to cooperate. >>> and the president orders a bunch of documents declassified. a rare event, especially considering they have to do with an active investigation into russia. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a monday night. >>> as we start a new week, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 606 of the trump administration. and it appears we are going to be covering yet another brett kavanaugh hearing next week, but it's not the kind of hearing the trump administration was expecting or looking forward to. brett kavanaugh's path to the supreme court just got supremely complicated. tonight the senate judiciary committee announced it will hold a public hearing next monday with kavanaugh and his accuser, dr. christine blasey ford, a college professor in california. nbc news reports that kavanaugh spent roughly nine hours inside the white house today and that a white house official described him as, quote, champing at the bit to testify. in a

collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska. plus robert mueller announces the sentencing day of michael flynn three days after paul manafort agreesnd the president orders documents he calls classified significant they have to do with a massive investigation into russia. all of this as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a monday night.

collin kaepernick overcame the except tif. not one player was seen kneeling during last night's opener. all know eagles player michael bennett sat on the bench during it nfl ratings are down 8% very vus a 2017 opener. about 20 million viewers last night. one of the lowest season openers ever. the game was played past midnight. there's an increase in streaming online as well. let's get back to the panel. are you surprised by the ratings drop? >> no. this is a league that is run by elites that have no respect for patriotic americans. they've disrespected the flag, they've disrespected the anthem. now after, i think, conservatives and patriotic americans have sent their message strongly by shutting off television and not showing up at games, they're now trying to correct things. but then they go on support nike's ad, which is, i think, frankly again another attack on conservatives and patriotic americans. it's a bizarre. who is running the show over there. they don't make sense. they've taken a brand and decimated that brand. elizabeth: what do you think, kirk? i hear what you're saying. it looks like a rerun of the arg

michael, i have a lot of cash here. kavanaugh will not get this nomination. lisa murkowski and susan collins cannot be the swing votes that puts a man on the bench that will have roe v. wade in his hands. anybody wants to take that -- >> donny, this isn't about roe v. wade. let's be clear. let's not mix the apple and orange. this is not about roe v. wade. this is about someone who's been accused of sexually assaulting someone as a young man. so that's a very different narrative and very different set of facts for those senators to consider. >> i think americans will draw a line between those two very easily. >> thank you. they're absolutely related. this is someone who's going to be in a position to make decisions about women's health. and to take away a woman's right to make that decision for herself. so most women, many women in this country, see those as intricately related. >> all right. seung, we're happy you have now officially become a regular on the 4:00. it's one good thing to come from this very disturbing story. michael steele, it's always great to see you, my friend. h thank you.

collins, et cetera. >> well, i think that developments today have given the president a target he can shoot at. >> michael >> which is the front runner for the 2020 democratic election. his entrance into the fray gives donald trump somebody he can go after aggressively. he doesn't have to talk about the accusers. he can leave that he's now got a foil that unites republicans and i think he will do it. i think he will do it. >> but that's absolutely the problem here. we're talking about dr. ford and other women who have come forward who are voicing what happened to them, and you've got two people, the president, and avenatti, playing politics with this. that is the problem. that he has a target instead of focusing in on -- which he won't be able to do. he won't be able to stay focused. just focus in on the accusers, and let them have their say, and evaluate this through a lens of justice and fairness. but he can't do it. the politics between him and avenatti, that is part of the reason why the american people are so turned off by this. >> it's not just them. >> but i'm saying, they're the two symbols here.

collins, lisa murkowski signaled their support for kavanaugh. hopes were temporarily revived with the conviction of paul manafort and the plea deal of michael cohen. >> we should be pushing to postpone the kavanaugh hearings. this nomination is now tainted with a legality. >> hopes were revived when democrats accuse the administration withholding documents from kavanaugh's years as a lawyer in the george w. bush of administration. >> there's frustration. they look like they are going to rubber-stamp it. >> the volume of kavanaugh's paper trail, over 900,000 pages is white house associate counsel and millions of other documents from the d.c. court of appeals. a close examination of that would have delayed his nomination well past the midterms. that's a time frame senate republicans wouldn't tolerate. hearings get underway tuesday. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he fully expects kavanaugh to be seated on the high court bench when the next term begins october 1. mike. >> mike: doug mckelway, thank you. up next, high tech comes to hill took talk about election interference. here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are co

michael avenatti about his client's new memoire. our correspondents and analysts are standing by, but first to cnn's white house correspondent kaitlan collinskaitlan, the president continues to defend kavanaugh. he did it again today. >> that's right, jim. and president trump has been measured in his response that we've seen since these allegations made against judge brett kavanaugh. today we saw publicly what we know is happening privately behind closed doors and that's that president trump has doubts about the accusations. he pointed to the fact the alleged incident happened decades ago. he pointed to judge kavanaugh's record and he made clear he thinks he still will be confirmed as the next supreme court justice. >> he's an incredible individual, great intellect, great judge. >> reporter: president trump standing by his supreme court nominee day, projecting confidence. >> impeccable history in every way, in every way. >> reporter: even though for most of washington brett kavanaugh's cough fnfirmation i open question ahead of a scheduled public hearing ahead of a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers. >> i feel

michael flynn set to be sentenced on december 18th. he pled guilty over the conversations with the former ambassador. the sentencing suggests the cooperation is coming to an end. >>> chris collins has returned to campaign for re-election while under indictment on federal insider trading charges. the buffalo area republican says the stakes are too high. last month, collins suspended his campaign while the gop looked for a way to replace him. collins was one of president trump's earliest supporters in the 2016 campaign. he is calling the wire fraud charges meritless. >>> the trade war with china may have killed 1 million u.s. jobs. that is according to jack ma. ma runs the biggest chinese company alibaba. he pledged to create 1 million u.s. jobs. that followed a meeting with then president-elect president trump. now ma says his plan is off. the promise was made on the premise of friendly u.s. and china partnership and rational trade relations. that premise no longer exists today. our promise cannot be fulfilled. alibaba confirmed ma's comments. he long feared the trade war calling it a mess that could last two decades. this follows a fresh round of i tit-fo tit-fo tit-for-tat tar

get a guy like michael avenatti involved, when you get the way the democrats have handled this and the way demand justice is acted, that all goes into those camps. >> it's what susan collinshinks of all of it. whether you like it or not. >> and potentially, lisa murkowski as well. stay close, we are continuing to cover this and we've already gotten a statement directly from judge brett kavanaugh. more news as it happens. this isn't just any moving day. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. >> harris: seconds into our commercial break moments ago, the president of the united states tweeted about this third accuser of brett kavanaug kavanaugh. michael avenatti is a third-rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he

collins and lisa murkowski. they're going to wait to see what the fbi says and see how this investigation is handled before they make their decision. david? >> michael schmidt, you have a big piece in the "new york times," lee ann talking about how senator flake met with those at the center of all of this. how did we go from that meeting in one senator's office to the uncertain situation we had in the dirksen senate confirmation room yesterday? >> there was that dramatic scene in the elevator where flake was confronted by these women and standing there be stuck and i think it had a real impact on him. it was only a few hours later that flake was then standing outside the hearing room flanked by democrats and republicans on both sides, senior senators, arguing to him about why they should or should not ask for this fbi investigation for another week. the republicans saying this would just give more time to what they said were false accusations to come forward about kavanaugh and that this would be just more taxing on his family and it wasn't going to change any votes. the democrats saying, look, thi it. in order to take that cloud away and have some

collins was indicted in august after getting rid of a stock in a company after raelearning a k drug trial had failed. >>> former new york city mayor michaelonsidering a campaign for republican not as a republican but as a democrat. despite being openly critical of several progressive stances the 76-year-old bloomberg told the "new york times" switching parties would be his only path to the white house. it's impossible to conceive i could run as a republican. things like choice, so many of the issues, i'm way away from the party today. i don't see how you could possibly run as a republican. if you ran, yeah, you'd have to run as a democrat. the billionaire mogul has already thrown his support behind democrats during the midterms pledging $80 million to flip control of the house of representativ representatives. he tells the paper he has no specific timeline to make his decision. >>> joining us once again from washington, d.c., senior writer at roll call. could the victims of hurricane florence's destruction be further displaced by the investigation of brock long now that he is in the prosecutorial target? >> the question is really going to

michael avenatti says the next victim is going to come forward on wednesday. but it is also not clear -- ultimately, if the kavanaugh thing comes down to senator collins and senatorurkowski. collins has come close to saying, i'm close to making a decision. and if it even jeff flake, and he is on the committee. >> and i've heard of at least one other republican who is that necessarily a solid vote for entirely different reasons. amy: was that? >> i'm not what is that because the republicans will go after him. it is a male senator who no one is talking about. we will see whether thursday really matters anymore. if more victims come forward, if more republicans come out and say, we have heard too much ababout this candidate and we nd some who can be trusted by the american people. who knows? it is a holding away. given the news cycles these days, that seems like an eternity. amy: we will leave it there. thank you for being with us, marcy. marcy wheeler is an independent journalist who covers national security and civil liberties. she runs the website emptywheel.net. this is democracy now! when we come back, we will talk about puerto rico on this first anniversary of

michael, the challenge now, though, is that the president must convince a group of senators of which he doesn't have much sway, people like jeff flake, lisa collins -- i mean susan collins, lisa murkowski. these are not senators he is particularly close with to say the least. >> all right, jon, i'm sure we'll know very soon if he's able to do that. thank you very much. george. >> okay, thanks. let's bring in white house press secretary sarah sanders this morning. sarah, thanks for joining us and saw that tweet about judge kavanaugh's condition. we saw that tweet about judge kavanaugh's testimony. what did you think of dr. ford's testimony? >> look, i think dr. ford's testimony like most americans knelt it was very compelling. but it also lacked any evidence. it didn't have any corroboration and i think that's one of the big differences that you saw between dr. ford's testimony and dr. -- and judge kavanaugh. while i believe something bad happened to this woman and i think it is absolutely awful and horrific, not what she went through just 36 years ago but also what she had to go through yesterday, and i think that it is absolutely disgraceful the

collins, flake, corker, cassidy, whoever feels they have the answers, one thing is clear, ramirez, the yale freshman is not coming, the second accuser, the third accuser has not materialized but michael if this were true, 36 years ago the accusations would be taken seriously. >> the prosecutor has a lot of experience in sex crimes. chuck grassley said he would avoid the circus-like thing we saw a few weeks ago, people coming out of the woodwork getting questions and interrupting everyone because they want to run for president one day. instead of grandstanding these are my goals, to depoliticize the process and get to the truth. he went on to say he wants a safe, comfortable, dignified environment. >> they talk about how brett kavanaugh tactics are dividing the democrats. some progressives saying he needs to pool his nomination, has withdraw but then you have the leaders who need an investigation, two tracks, democrat saying you got to withdraw, other saying let's have an investigation. dick durbin was asked about it, let's give him his day, and senate minority leader chuck schumer has an interesting observation. congress is not a court of law, presumption of innocence not necessarily