communicating with the government and mr. abe? is he saying, step it up?s a good question. it is quite possible. lately, a lot of people and japan have started to say that the economic progress should not be called abenomics. it should be called kurodaomics. it relies so heavily on the boj. it could well be a message to mr.abe that we need to see more from your side for this to work. they cannot be just a one engine source of growth. we do think abe will come through with some sort of fiscal package sometime in the next month, well ahead of the g7 summit that will be hosted here at the end of may. kurodanomics does not quite have the same ring to it and it is harder to say. were you surprised? >> moderately, i suppose. given that the boj had indicated negative interest rates could be back on the agenda and then, we have nothing at all, what are they up to? guy: what are they up to? >> the thought crossed my mind which,rning as something maybe central banks are just realizing that there are limits to what they can do. we have had the fed, the boj, the ecb,

messagewhat mr. abe's was. it seems to be faltering. are you still a buyer? i think it depends on the definition for each individual. in my book, it is about sustainable growth, sustainable inflation. and while we have some success and some progress on both fronts in the first three years, and a bit on the abenomics agenda, things suggest we are presently stalling. you saw the imf projections, pretty much in line with what we are seeing. it is clear the pressure is on to come up with additional measures to stimulate and sustain the economy on its growth path. and reach higher inflation. anna: kathy, i read a story on the bloomberg terminal this morning that suggested tokyo is what fiscal study list might look like on the japanese. any suggestions as to what we might hear? kathy: correct. clearly, there is a lot of discussion right now. both on the monetary and fiscal fronts, and as you rightly point out, the government is scribbling to come up with measures that will stimulate economic growth, stimulate domestic demand in particular. there are numbers ranging

what is the urgency into the weekend for mr. abe?ocus is abe firmly on the upcoming elections, what to do about fiscal policy, not so much on monetary policy. with the yen trading at 108, this is an issue that is in front of them. but the politics of a somewhat exactly the are not same as the market implications. even the market implications are not all bad. politics are important because we have an election coming up in the summer for the upper house, maybe for the lower house, too, in which the electrical system is much more skewed toward the regions. that will mean for a stronger yen, not all bad for the administration. they have been very calm in their reaction so far. tom: dr. feldman, you have an inflammatory quote -- international coordination of policies in order to stabilize a global economy to be a theme at the g7 ise-shima summit that japan is chairing. we also see a growing likelihood of physical action for political reasons ahead of the japanese election in july." do you actually believe we can get a coordinated, fiscal

and the point is that mr. abe and mr.oda had promised their people that the economy would pick up and whatever. their program has gone nowhere. and now with the yen rallying in their face, it is feared that they will do something perhaps a bit more drastic. take negative interest rates to a very deeply negative level and that would hurt the banking system. and that's why you can see the financials today being hurt and that's all about the rally of the yen. >> do you think we'll see a turn if the yen turns? japan cannot have a strong yen, period. they have been intervening in the markets over and over again for the last 20 or 30 years. when they do that, would you expect any turn positive for the u.s. financials? >> well, it will be interesting to see if they do that. there is some feeling that at recent accords, the imf, the g-7 and g-20 all agreed not to use competitive devaluations. so might not be there. the market for the last week and a half -- the s&p found support at 2040, to 2045. the viewers should pay attention

that's going to present a real problem for tokyo than mr. abeng more desperate. >> and europe equally as well, no? >> yes, absolutely. draghi will be in portugal tomorrow making a presentation. we'll be interestied to see wha he says in that manner. it's about the whole health in europe. >> it's about four weeks. art, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> enjoy the rest of the season. >> art cashin, cnbc. >>> when we come back, opening up the team global arena in the multi-million-dollar development on the veglas vegas strip. hee going to join us on "squawk alley" in just a few moments. to spot trends and predict demand. sounds like you spend a lot of time online? i constantly absorb online content to follow shifts in pop culture. so... you're learning to think like a teenager? yes. how am i doing? well... uh... >>> can could higher taxes on soda actually help the stocks? one man has a perspective. you can get that on tradi tradingnation dayto tradingnation.cnbc.com. [vet] two yearly physicals down. martha and mildred are good to go. here's your invoice

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mr. third place. >> what's going to happen? >> abe lincoln finished second and still won. so all i can tell you is donald trump says he's going to get 4 1,400 delegates. mr. trump, you better get 1,237 because if you get 1,236 you're in trouble. >> you're in trouble. you think if he's within 20 -- >> if he's within one. >> you don't think he can get enough unbound delegates, one unbound delegate from pennsylvania, one unbound delegate from the virgin islands to support him? >> maybe so, but i'm telling you this, there will be people like me and others trying to say you fell short and let's revote on the second ballot and i'd like to help make the argument that if you make donald trump the nominee of the party, it will be the disaster of all disasters for the republican party. again, abe lincoln finished second. it worked out pretty well for him to have won. >> are you definitely going to the convention? >> i don't know. >> you don't know yet? >> i don't know how crazy it's going to be. if trump gets 1,237 then he's done his job, he won, he's the nominee. i don't know if i'd

mr. roldugin might abe better investor than he is a cellist. >> reporter: sergei roldugin told the guardian "before perestroika, when russia became more open to the west in the late 1980s." the accusations stretch beyond russia's borders. saudi arabia's king salman allegedly used a company in the british virgin islands to take out $34 million in mortgages for his london homes. there's nothing to suggest anything the king did was illegal. >> he may be looking to these offshore accounts as just a safer place to hold their money. >> reporter: but the perception inside his kingdom, analysts say, may hurt him. >> i can imagine that the people on the ground in these countries are likely seething as they -- as the optics are rather horrible. >> reporter: cnn tried to get response from the saudi government to the reports in riyadh and here in washington. they haven't responded. the panamanian law firm denies any wrongdoing. it's possible at least some of the alleged corrupt transactions could have used the u.s. financial system, which would have been illegal under american anti-corruption and money

is that what abe should be focused on, mr. draghi should be focused on pushing governments to do?we can see that in the united states, we have ben bernanke, janet yellen issuing strong warnings about falling off the fiscal cliff, because two persons understood that if people are not borrowing money for balance sheets reasons, then the government has to keep the economy going, and that is why the u.s. is doing better than the rest . in the case of japan, you have the fiscal stimulus, and you might have to strengthen that in the short run because private sector is still not borrowing money 25 years after reversing the level. we need to work on the trauma issues. when people go through this long period of paying down debt, they don't want to borrow money at all. americans who lived the great depression never borrow money until they die. europe isopean case, far behind everyone else in that the government is prohibited from borrowing because of the anyty, which doesn't make accommodation for this type of recession. manus: richard, thank you very much for joining us. i hope you get a l

district thank you supervisor mar supervisor kim and others for support this the ab celebrations in san francisco - >> mr. perez sxhooepz is a sponsor. >> thank you supervisor peskin as well celebrating the violent asian pacific islander community in san francisco and including did chinese and japanese and vietnam's and cambodian and samoan and others as a community organize i know this resonates throughout our community and very much appreciate it it goes a long way especially our youth a lot of inspiration and motivation to be telegraph hill involved and be productive citizens of our dime city thank you. i look forward to seeing you on may 2nd. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you for your attention supervisor and supervisor from the 5 district my name is ace on the case i'll ask for one minute being because this is a very important notice to the city and county in specifically to the western edition so let's be candid supervisor president breed this is someone from the 5 district not something else leonardo i admire and respect but let's we are in the stay of the emergency we are the dysfunctional pa

mr. plantal. >> bob plantal one of several people here to urge you to ovride it the staff recommendation on two bills, ab 1641 and abx 125. staff is recommending watch and think it is highly inappropriate >> can you repeat that? yab 1641 and abx 125 by the same author in orange county, assembly member. they would say it is open season for shuttles to operate in transit bus systems. it may sound okay, but you have to think they are small bus company whether it is santa cruz and scotts valley is a tech hub [inaudible] have special commuter runs into sacramento. smaller transit companies wouldn't have the power or ability as san francisco to negotiate. right now the pilot program san francisco had just ended. there is another program in place that may be modified. i think there ought to be learning provided to other transit agencies as well as the legislature, lessens learned, issues to be resolved would be writ nl into future legislation about shuttle squz bus stops. i think it better to say opposed now otherwise you give a rel tivly free or blank check to the shuttle companies. gone, think not just of san

district thank you supervisor mar supervisor kim and others for support this the ab celebrations in san francisco - >> mr perez sxhooepz is a sponsor. >> thank you supervisor peskin as well celebrating the violent asian pacific islander community in san francisco and including did chinese and japanese and vietnam's and cambodian and samoan and others as a community organize i know this resonates throughout our community and very much appreciate it it goes a long way especially our youth a lot of inspiration and motivation to be telegraph hill involved and be productive citizens of our dime city thank you. i look forward to seeing you on may 2nd. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you for your attention supervisor and supervisor from the 5 district my name is ace on the case i'll ask for one minute being because this is a very important notice to the city and county in specifically to the western edition so let's be candid supervisor president breed this is someone from the 5 district not something else leonardo i admire and respect but let's we are in the stay of the emergency we are the dysfunctional par

district thank you supervisor mar supervisor kim and others for support this the ab celebrations in san francisco - >> mr perez sxhooepz is a sponsor. >> thank you supervisor peskin as well celebrating the violent asian pacific islander community in san francisco and including did chinese and japanese and vietnam's and cambodian and samoan and others as a community organize i know this resonates throughout our community and very much appreciate it it goes a long way especially our youth a lot of inspiration and motivation to be telegraph hill involved and be productive citizens of our dime city thank you. i look forward to seeing you on may 2nd. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you for your attention supervisor and supervisor from the 5 district my name is ace on the case i'll ask for one minute being because this is a very important notice to the city and county in specifically to the western edition so let's be candid supervisor president breed this is someone from the 5 district not something else leonardo i admire and respect but let's we are in the stay of the emergency we are the dysfunctional par

ab simian baptist church. as for bernie sanders, he'll hold a rally this afternoon on the boardwalk in coney island. harlem last night, also in the bronx and queens. mrs. clinton spent time in brooklyn. both candidates zeroing in on the 291 delegates here in new york. we're in harlem, greg cergol, "today in new york." >>> gop candidate, john kasich will be in upstate new york tomorrow, ted cruz will be in las vegas today. >>> checking the weather. today will be mostly sunny, u.n. seasonably chilly with a high of 45. more cool weather tonight with lows near 40 degrees in midtown and some suburbs will see the 30s tonight. temperatures stay under normal all week long. stay tuned for more of "weekend today" coming up and pat and i and chris will be back at 10:00. thank you so much. did you say honey? hey, try some? mmm that is tasty. is it real? of course... are you? nope animated you know i'm always looking for real honey for honey nut cheerios well you've come to the right place. great, mind if i have another taste? not at all mmm you're all right bud? never better i don't know if he likes that. yeah >>> >>> we are back on this sunday morning, april 10t

mr. trump? >> i like jillian's pass. i suppose if i had to stay within the traditional ab, c, d a b minus.strong step up from where he has been in the past. he has really been very peremptory and insulting and so forth after his fashion up until this speech. and his speech although there were cause caustic parts were substantive. he gives reasons for things. he gives historical background and that's new for him. >> is there anything you heard in the speech that you disagreed with? >> oh, yes. i don't like his propensity for protectionism and basically defining our problem as not spending enough on the u.s. and needing to spend less on things like foreign aid and the rest. i think he is really too hard over on that. >> why? the main point he made, mr. woolsey, is that other countries should pay their fair share? why are we protecting japan? japan doesn't do anything for us. we trade with them. they have a huge deficit. i thought that was a strong point. if japan is is not going to pony up the money why do we pony up up it all. if not you are out that's a strong point. >> nothing wrong with

you're not relieved or ab sovld of responsibility under the law currently as i understand it. >> thank you. and mr. shindell. >> there's a need for both short-term solutions and long-term solutions and many of the great ones that have been suggested are short-term focused, as they should be. the long-term issue goes back to what we keep saying, transparency and accurate information. patty's example, how do we know when the artifact, the bottle of water's coming through customs, is real, fake, the object, somebody says what they're referring to, and the information associated with the object is accurate. a clear way to intervene today is through the financial industry and sector because of the intersection of these objects. vin numbers. it's a very complex issue for sensitive objects where the integrity must be in place for decades if not centuries but technology can do that today. and all of that then adds to the transparency that can make the specific intervention tactics meaningful. otherwise, we aren't achieving enough scale to solve the problem holistically. >> thank you. extremely helpful. we

mr. chair. >> thank you. this has been an excellent panel. just to summarize, one in four military members are affected by what we have've been talking ab today -- trauma, ptsd, drug abuse, alcohol abuse problems. they've been treated for these problems is that correct? >> yes, sir. we do a dmdc data run. so a defense management data run for everyone that's getting out and say have you been treated. one thing i can say is we do a really good job with screening and certainly we've evolved to identify more of the illness that's out there. i think we now have probably the most treated cohort in human history so i think we're doing a good job in that regard. >> that's the whole point. somebody asked this but as i wrap up here and let other people ask additional questions, please tell us what we can do because we're trusting y'all guys. everybody seems to be very focused that the veterans and those serving deserve this. about 80% of the cases are unrelated to being in combat. one thing about the movie, i haven't seen it but the senator was telling me you can't look at a tbi injury on an mri. it's not like looking at a broken bone, right? >> no, si

mr. trump? >> i like jillian's pass. i suppose if i had to stay within the traditional ab, c, d a b minus. has been in the past. he has really been very peremptory and insulting and so forth after his fashion up until this speech. and his speech although there were cause caustic parts were substantive. he gives reasons for things. he gives historical background and that's new for him. >> is there anything you heard in the speech that you disagreed with? >> oh, yes. i don't like his propensity for protectionism and basically defining our problem as not spending enough on the u.s. and needing to spend less on things like foreign aid and the rest. i think he is really too hard over on that. >> why? the main point he made, mr. woolsey, is that other countries should pay their fair share? why are we protecting japan? japan doesn't do anything for us. we trade with them. they have a huge deficit. i thought that was a strong point. if japan is is not going to pony up the money why do we pony up up it all. if not you are out that's a strong point. >> nothing wrong with leaning on nato allies and o

mr. brooks. >> yes, sir. good afternoon once again commissioners eric brooks san francisco clean energy advocates and representing the california for choice one of the categories that fought against prop 16 and successfully defeuded ab 214 in 2015 and figure out to postpone the ab 10 last year until this year it is good that the city is taking an opposed less position, however, it is a little bit narrow for us we need to san francisco public works and the city of san francisco to take the lead to help protect community choice for all communities in 70 southern california by doing much stronger things the process the reality i'll be blunt about this assembly phil thanking as has worked with the ab 25 and the utility or more which it is supposed to be a watchdog of pg&e co-ludicrous with pg&e to attack clean power and they've done that with ab 1110 and doing it now with the net metering standards that the cpuc california public utilities commission we got them to institute good metering and now the loyalists are attacking this is what this legislation represents beyond having the issues that were laid out we need you all to help to push for community choices programs for a certain number of years to adjust to the stan