have had six years of hearings. 40 hearings have taken place in 12 i think this year focusing on the minutia in the details. simplicity of people looking for the text highly for sure we are helping small businesses. small businesses have always been left out of the equation we did tax reform stuff it so is been about big business which is important. small business has to be part of the equation when you know 95% of small businesses are filing as small entities. host: let's give our viewers to ask some questions. -- these are the numbers. janice is up first from clinton, maryland, a democrat, go ahead. caller: good morning, gentlemen. i am so disappointed. it would be wonderful to hear the truth being spoken about this particular bill. but trickle-down doesn't work. you all just keep remarketing it thinking there's a sucker born every moment and we will just buy with the latest marketing strategy is on selling this boondoggle you want to give us. my grandmother told me it did not work stop i am 67 years old and my mother told me it does not work stuff i have seen it does not work stuff if it

i know you're following the minutiae of this so i want me to tell you, butjust in case, clause 9 combineswin concerns of government is taking power away from parliament and whether parliament will get a meaningful vote before the deal was finalised. the key amendment was number seven table by the former conservative attorney—general, dominic grieve. the debate ran for eight hours, but the arguments began even before with a curtain raiser at prime minister's question. the prime minister says she wants a meaningful vote on brexit before we leave the european union event at the last moment, would she be so good as to accept the right honourable and learned gentleman's amendment seven in the spirit of unity for everybody here and in the country. hear, hear! my right honourable friend makes an important point about the concerns that people have had in this house about having a meaningful vote on this particular issue before we complete the deal. as i set out in the earlier answer i gave to my right honourable friend that is what we will have. we will ensure that there is a meaningful vote on t

nuclear program now we should point out that the treasury secretary here in the united states steve minutiae in fact has acknowledged that there has been some success in isolating north korea from the global financial system through some of the sanctions that have moved in place by the united states but at the same time we see this frustration being expressed not just by donald trump on twitter but also by south korea as a result of these satellite images and again donald trump seems to be feeling almost insulted if you will that he invested so much time in that china still seems to be moving forward according to the united states in violation of the u.n. sanctions because of course donald trump has said repeatedly he well he has used some very strong language about what he could do in response to any provocations by north korea at the same time he has and his staff have indicated that they would like to try and bring the temperature down in terms of these confrontations and to deescalate and appears there is some frustration that that is so far not working thanks very much. to d.c. . well n

taking a step back on the minutia of this resolution, doesn't sound right that 80% of the condemnationsworld where we know what is happening in syria and yemen and the iranians are steamrolling across the region, one of the things we are seeing is the trump administration broadly, the president and nikki haley refusing to play these games anymore and calling people out. >> the un under fire from the trump administration, thank you for coming on this morning. the fbi with their backs against the wall admitting they cannot verify the trump dossier, house and senate investigators told the washington times none of the russia collusion claims have been verified, this 17 months after the dnc funded dossier partially prompted this big fbi investigation into russia and the trump campaign, deputy fbi director andrew mccabe grill on capitol hill two times about 16 total hours he had to spend in the hot seat. congressman devon nunez is preparing a report on fbi corruption with other gop members for next year. the biggest challenge are vladimir putin has ever faced for reelection is banned from run

some of the targets were designed -- we do not want to get deep into the minutia but what they have done primary surplus was to agree to an economic contraction. a new government may be able to negotiate some of the primary surplus points for spending, if they are willing to adhere to a more strict framework and the rest of the economy and where they will spend the money? they will not just give it to the people in a christmas bonus which we saw happened last year with generated less than two points a favorable polling for the current government. that is just burning money as we need to structurally reform greece and a few things going on, in greece, two things they do for sport not done here, tax evasion and selectively defaulting on your loans. those things are about to change for a number of different organizational reasons. there are all kinds of behind the scenes structural changes going on that makes it interesting. >> given new democracy is falling well, a private mr. calls an election, what happens to greek financial markets? in a that were to happen surprise which we do not thin

i will leave others or the minutia of the union, i just want to make sure the people of scotland arento an impossible position. mark: thank you for joining us. the brexit minister in scotland. let's get an investors take on the brexit breakthrough. talk to me about sterling. is it a case of, buy the rumor and sell the fat? >> i have the opinion, unless you have the final deal, no rally in sterling which means you see -- sterling over the last 12 months is 128-134, could he go to 140? it should but we do not have the full detail of the final deal. there will be a transition time. many aspects to it that are still uncertainty feared mark: you are not sterling ball? many are positive on sterling because of the health that we will get the breakthrough which we did today and that could lead to better things down the road. >> not sterling bull or bear. and said itcome would go down to 1.05 and 1.10, i do not see any basis of sterling going there. bem not able or -- a bull or ar. it will be in the same range because every week we have something coming up that is good or a congregation. unti

a person whao is doing wrong sit can i talk now can i talk talkthe driver contuines the argue the minutiastop all the while refusing to sign the ticket the conversationta kes a different directionso here's the deal if you fail to sign the citation then i have to place you under arrest that's the last thing i want to do is there a rule like that yes can you show me the rulein the end, the driver signed the ticket and a few moments later this driver ran a different stop sign everything alright? where you heading starbucksthis driver was stopped by the south san francisco police department and then how the driver pulled over so i ased the driver hwo did he end up like thishe asked me to park here ..oh, and you know the new hand free law where you phone must be on amount well it was directly in front of his face ...take the mount off and put it in the window over here here yea there thank youofficers also stopped drivers for not having their headlight on when there windshield wipers are onthe reason why i stopped you because i noticed that your headlights are not on and it raining right nowth

misconception back and we come will have fun drilling into the menu ship -- drilling into the minutiawonky but doing wonky because i have not started my christmas shopping yet. in the next hour we continue and equity look with credit suisse. and coming up, from the on thesan policy center text bill and the house and the senate and the parliament. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: this is going to be a treat. herro.e is with david bring this up. we never show this but this is why people actually buy a bloomberg terminal because you can go in and look at all this data. this is the cash flow. is. it cash flow. cash from financing. and down here is the summary page. which is the ratios and some nation. help us here with what you do for cash flow for equity and price cash flow. how do you use that tool that everybody talks about what they don't really know what they're talking about. david: this is very important. i'm glad you are bringing this up. a company's collection of assets -- it could be people -- they are managed by management. managers. our view is that we expect managers to manage asset

electrical and a lot of shop drawings that went back and forth with the fire marshal and there's a lot of minutia to tease out at the design level and the shop drawing level. and i think that we've arrived there with the fire alarm finally, but, you know, that's a known risk and a known issue that needed to be muscled through. i don't know what more to add but we are still trying very hard as a team to address these things, but clearly walking out there in tomorrows of lit up electrical rooms or low voltage, it's not near where it needs to be. >> anything i might add is that -- i mean, yes, our contract does finish on december 22nd, but what we'll try to do is to focus on the things that are needed by tjpa and, obviously, the muni bus was needed prior to that and even when we found out, you know, a couple months ago that it was needed in early december, the team rallied and they figured out what they'd do and how to corden it off and make sure that it's safe for passengers and give them time to test. so we turned over a portion of the facility in early december, because it was needed. and so we'r

a person whao is doing wrong sit can i talk now can i talk talkthe driver contuines the argue the minutia stop all the while refusing to sign the ticket the conversationta kes a different directionso here's the deal if you fail to sign the citation then i have to place you under arrest that's the last thing i want to do is there a rule like that yes can you show me the rulein the end, the driver signed the ticket and a few moments later this driver ran a different stop sign everything alright? where you heading starbucksthis driver was stopped by the south san francisco police department and then how the driver pulled over so i ased the driver hwo did he end up like thishe asked me to park here ..oh, and you know the new hand free law where you phone must be on amount well it was directly in front of his face ...take the mount off and put it in the window over here here yea there thank youofficers also stopped drivers for not having headlight on when there wipers are onthe reason why i stopped noticed that your not on and it raining right there will be more step enforcements 2017 . if you

. >> starr produces this very lengthy report with all the minutia of their sexual interaction. >> i'm under physical evidence for you. >> if we may, we want to be careful here, this is daytime television and there are children in the audience. so i do encourage you to paraphrase. >> okay. i'll do my best. >> while the president was on the telephone, according to her, he -- let me just read this to make sure we don't -- >> i remember reading it on an airplane. and it was like reading the raciest novel i'd ever read in my life. it was it was almost too hot to handle. >> miss lewinsky raised her jacket in the back and showed him the straps of her revealing underwear. >> he unzipped his pants and exposed himself and they had sex of a kind. again, he stopped her before i would say he was completed would be the way to put that. >> there was something icky about pursuing this and there was no dignity here from anybody. >> prosecutors emphasize the real issue is not sex but the president alledgedly subverting the legal system by getting others to lie and obstructing justice. >> the evidence s

really focusing on the minutia and the detail of reform. whether it's international reform or individual simplicity people are looking for in their tax filing or making sure, again, that we are helping small businesses. small businesses have always been left out of the equation whenever we have done tax reform. it's always about big business or corporate relief. it's important to keep headquarters here. but small business has to be part of the equation when you know that 95% of them are filing as small pass-through entities not big employers. >> let's go to the phone lines to give our viewers an opportunity to ask questions. janice is up first, clinton, maryland, a democrat, janice, go ahead. >> caller: good morning, gentlemen. mr. paulson i'm so disappointed. it would be wonderful to hear the truth being spoken about this particular bill. but trickle down doesn't work. it's not iz supposed to work. you all just keep remarketing it and thinking that there is a sucker born every moment and that we are going to just buy what the latest market

he thought he learned a lesson that he stayed out of the minutia. they sent things off the rails by getting involved when the leaders didn't want to get involved or in a way they didn't want to get involved? how to be a better deal maker and legislator and all these accounts today about this contentious meeting with the political team about how to handle it going into 2018. what should the strategy be and how much should the president travel and they are having a lot of back stabbing and infighting. >> from the hill standpoint, i heard republicans give him compliments in lessons learned on the tax bill in particular. he tried to take a more aggressive approach in terms of campaigning and talking about the tax bill around the country and didn't do a lot of attacking when he heard people were not going to vote for the bill. he tried to get them to come around. senator torquer came around and the way he worked with susan collins was interesting. a moderate who had problems with the repeal bill. he was not attacks her, but instead the white house said i

a person whao is doing wrong sit can i talk now can i talk talkthe driver contuines the argue the minutiae refusing to sign the ticket the conversationta kes a different directionso here's the deal if you fail to sign the citation then i have to place you under arrest that's the last thing i want to do is there a rule like that yes can you show me the rulein the end, the driver signed the ticket and a few moments later this driver ran a different stop sign everything alright? where you heading starbucksthis driver was stopped by the south san francisco police department and then how the driver pulled over so i ased the driver hwo did he end up like thishe asked me to park here ..oh, and you know the new hand free law where you phone must be on amount well it was directly in front of his face ...take the mount off and put it in the window over here here yea there thank youofficers also stopped drivers for not having their headlight on when there windshield wipers are onthe reason why i stopped you because i noticed that your headlights are not on and it raining right nowthere will be more

i think every day in covering what we cover and the minutia of every moment, every donald trump tweetwith even the mueller investigation, we are quickly losing the forest for the trees. right now we have a president who's got an all-out war against the facts, against the truth, against the news media. we'll be feeling those repercussions for decades to come. >> we'll leave it there. to be continued. come visit again. thank you. come visit. >> come more often. >> thank you, guys. >>> and more ahead. we'll be right back. so that's the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocate but... i kind of feel like it's a game changer. i wouldn't go that far. are you there? he's probably on mute. yeah... gary won't like it. why? because he's gary. (phone ringing) what? keep going! yeah... (laughs) (voice on phone) it's not millennial enough. there are a lot of ways to say no. thank you so much. thank you! so we're doing it. yes! "we got a yes!" start saying yes to your company's best ideas. let us help with money and know-how, so you can get business done. american express open. people

president is kind of pointing the finger at china but we have heard by the treasury secretary steve minutia in fact that there have been very successful efforts by china to rein in north korea's nuclear program by isolating north korea from the global financial system this is something that did not occur prior to the top administration head of putting the pressure on chinese president xi and in fact you remember those early in the president's trumps term the meetings that mar-a lago there was this acknowledgement that in fact some of those efforts at per their discussions was working but again the president being donald trump often will kind of depart from the official strategy official language this is a frustration that often rex tillerson the secretary of state experiences with regard to north korea where you see the president going rogue if you will on twitter and this may be another example of that where he's seen something on television he's reacted to it angrily but at the same time there has been at least some acknowledgement by other members of the administration that the efforts a

so much hundred unusual that whether it would get done -- minutia. they want this thing finalized by today. you start debates next week. midweek the plan still is to have the president signing into law which is interesting because once you get to the end of next week, it is not talked about as much today, again we're talking about all the details of getting this particular bill passed, you run up against the other deadline, making sure the government is funded, not shutting down next friday. still trying to get you will of that done before then seems to be the rule. neil: i hear you. glen, one thing you immediately hear of, as soon as one concession to made to senator to keep him in line you tick others off, right. >> you will hear others how we pay for it. neil: corker, why he was a no vote going in. might remain a no vote. >> that is the challenge. they have to keep it under the $1.5 trillion cap. that is the budget bill. those are restrictions that are real. that said, this new move up to 1400 per child from 1100, crosses that 55% threshold that m

i say on the show, don't get worked up in the minutia in the second of the dow. follow it, step back, it's a snapshot. once snapped it is gone, the image is gone but longer term view. the dow is up 182 points! buy, buy! that is another network. >> that says stupid things. neil: networks, final season of "house of cards," they will have one. it will have eight episodes. it will not star kevinç kevin spacey in the final season. it will start production in 2018. >> who would watch it? it is good but. neil: we show the back of your head. >> he is a bad guy, allegedly a bad guy. neil: more people than you think. president underwood might not be there. i guess former president underwood. his wife leads country. if you haven't seen the season, i'm told it's a spoiler. he is no longer president. bottom line. more after this. neil: out of the blue, even though well-telegraphed, rumored for a while, cvs wants to buy aetna for $69 billion. would any of this be happening if we didn't have the prospect of tax cuts coming? let's go to barrons.com editor-at-large, jack otter t

the minutia on your fiscal policy, global and washington budget.led to bring you an extensive conversation with stanley colander. i will be can't miss television. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." funding values china's largest raid -- largest at $56 billion. the company has come to dominate ride hailing in china and drove boomer out of the market. reynolds is looking for a new ceo. that is according to a french newspaper. alliance and he is still the chairman of two japanese automakers. in saudi arabia, the energy minister says levels would be anywhere close to what is needed by the time opec meets in june. to reduceroduction stockpiles. >> i am looking for the long-term. the second half of 2018 to see where we are. have no intent to revisit what we have agreed on. >> the saudi minister spoke to bloomberg in riyadh. guy: thank you, very much. vix week selloff in treasuries continues. mohamed el-erian says this is a historical indicator. should we be concerned about a flat yield curve? what does 2018 have in store for treasu

a person whao is doing wrong sit can i talk now can i talk talkthe driver contuines the argue the minutiafic stop all the while refusing to sign the ticket the conversationta kes a different directionso here's the deal if you fail to sign the citation then i have to place you under arrest that's the last thing i want to do is there a rule like that yes can you show me the rulein the end, the driver signed the ticket and a few moments later this driver ran a different stop sign everything alright? where you heading starbucksthis driver was stopped by the south san francisco police department and then how the driver pulled over so i ased the driver hwo did he end up like thishe asked me to park here ..oh, and you know the new hand free law where you phone must be on amount well it was directly in front of his face ...take the mount off and put it in the window over here here yea there thank youofficers also stopped drivers for not having their headlight on when there windshield wipers are onthe reason why i stopped you because i noticed that your headlights are not on and it raining right n

and the more that the media goes after this minutiae of the trump administration rather than stepping that they should be caring about, well, you know what? they're going to lose credibility, their brands are going to be diminished, people are going to look elsewhere for news and information. that's just the heart of it. whether it's in print media, they'll go to places like "the wall street journal" or they'll go to podcasts where they can get longer form journalism from people who they trust who are branded. that's what's going to happen. i think there's a big opportunity here on the media market. david: ladies, thank you very much. well, coming up, new year's eve security prep is underway. how do you protect over a million people who are going out in the streets despite the cold to see the festivities? >>> also, house intel chief devin nuÑes blasting the justice department for stonewalling congress. this feud is heating up. we're going to give you an update right after this. ♪ from the very beginning ... it was always our singular focus. to do whatever it takes, use every possible

you look at the minutia of the politics to figure out what it means for julius baer.: we look at the politics. the political landscape determines how the economic landscape will ultimately play. brexit is not an issue for us. in an age where banks are talking about restructuring or, we are talking about investment in the u.k.. from thenefiting strength of the irish economy in seeing our commitments to dublin and opportunity to go forward. francine: you have done quite a lot of what you are hiring it as well in the u.k. -- but what if it all goes wrong daca does it matter to you -- all goes wrong? does it matter to you? david: we are not hiring here because it is cheaper. a good headcount around the world provides better value. what we can say is the domestic opportunity in the u.k. is robust. that robust opportunity last through the brexit process. we have seen in the north more millionaires being created than anywhere else within the u.k. that 10% increase is something that we have to note and say that we should long-term invest in. francine: does the prime minister

have had six years of hearings. 40 hearings have taken place in 12 i think this year focusing on the minutiae details. simplicity of people looking for the text highly for sure we are helping small businesses. small businesses have always been left out of the equation we did tax reform stuff it so is been about big business which is important. small business has to be part of the equation when you know 95% of small businesses are filing as small entities. host: let's give our viewers to ask some questions. -- these are the numbers. janice is up first from clinton, maryland, a democrat, go ahead. caller: good morning, gentlemen. i am so disappointed. it would be wonderful to hear the truth being spoken about this particular bill. but trickle-down doesn't work. you all just keep remarketing it thinking there's a sucker born every moment and we will just buy with the latest marketing strategy is on selling this boondoggle you want to give us. my grandmother told me it did not work stop i am 67 years old and my mother told me it does not work stuff i have seen it does not work stuff if it did wo