more on hsbc and mr. flynn very shortly. coming up on the show, brazil takes a pivot to the right as also motto sweeps to victory. what does it mean for the markets? what does it mean for south america's largest economy? nejra: turning to africa, we will be speaking to the oil minister of nigeria. do not miss that interview and 9:30 a.m. u.k. time. this is bloomberg. ♪ nejra: let's get a check on the markets. we are seeing a little bit of a mixed session in asia, but china and a performing, posting losses. a little bit of gains and flat trading elsewhere. meanwhile, the one trading -- yuan trading. loser pboc policy driving that. we are seeing weakness in crude and also hedge funds have been getting their bets and wti. below $68 per barrel, manus. manus: the s&p 500 -- morgan stanley says the bar is high.when more wash had to come. $8 trillion has gone from global equity. yields on u.s. treasuries made it down to three points or 6%. where will we go -- 3.06%. where will we go? euro-dollar. does the market really care about a

if we can hear from mr. flynn about it? >> the reason i'm here is to demonstrate to everybody that this is an international problem. international law enforcement are collaborating on this. my remarks will be limited, because we have an ongoing criminal investigation in canada. with respect to the canadian victims, two of which you learned being hosted by canada in the world anti-doping agency, as well as the canadian center for ethics and support. those investigations are parallel investigations, however, there is a collaboration and sharing of information amongst the law enforcement community to tackle the problem as a global community, which is critical in any success we will have in dealing with this problem. we have to make the world borderless in the law enforcement context. >> in terms of how this got started in the u.s. separately from overseas? >> i am not going to go into the specifics, but in general, we have a great interest in this group of hackers who have been operating. members of this group have been indict

that yates and mccord believe this is a ver vulnerable situation for the white us as well as for mr. flynn. and they presume that the white house would fire him. >> narrator: that same day, mcgahn went to see the president. he told him that the highest levels of the justice department believed that flynn had been lying. it was a warning that one of his most trusted advisers was in the crosshairs. fe michael flynn is the former director of the e intelligence agency who effectively became donald trump's top national security adviser. >> please welcome retired unitei states armtenant general michael flynn. >> he became a very trusted andl e confidant, of not just of president trump, but president trump's family. >> we do not need a reckless president who believes she is above the law. >> narrator: flynn's har rhetoric had endeared him to trump and his supporters. >> lock her up. that's right. yeah, that's right, lock her up! >> narrator: trump and flynn bonded, and he was one of thepr ident-elect's first appointments. >> they had a very good chemistry. but what people underestimate, i sothink

smith met with flynn in 2015, according to people familiar with the matter. in an e-mail, one of mrh's former associates wrote to a friend last week, as you are aware, peter started a business relationship with general flynn in 2015. we spoke with him on the day he left for his trip to moscow. so that's what mike flynn was doing before he hopped that plane to moscow. apparently he was talking to peter smith, who was trying to reach russian hackers online to get hillary clinton's e-mails. we spoke with him on the day he left for his trip to moscow. "the wall street journal" has done incredible reporting on this story, pulling at this for more than a year. as has robert mueller, the special counsel. he has questioned witnesses connected to the late mr. smith, including at least one before the grand jury. he apparently has a trove of documents and hard drives that belong to peter smith. but, sort of bottom line here, this one american, now deceased, who cheerfully admitted to colluding with russia to get hillary clinton's e-mails, is dead now, but he does appear to have had a real work

. >> so in terms of this e-mail, which says that there was a relationship between flynn and mr.ith in 2015, a crucial time for this timeline, what can you tell us about that e-mail, circumstances of it, and whether you see it i guess as hard and fast evidence that that relationship did exist? >> the person that wrote the e-mail declined to talk to us. we've seen the e-mail and the e-mail led us to believe that yes, in fact, there was a relationship between these two men before flynn, as you said, took off to moscow and then later joined the trump campaign. we've been able to confirm that with sources. we know that they were in touch in 2015. we don't know if any business deals came of that. we don't have any reason to think they did, and we don't know what they spoke about before michael flynn left and hopped on that plane to russia. >> at the time, mike flynn had left the defense intelligence agency under difficult circumstances. he had formed a private intelligence group, and you suggest in the story that it's possible that peter smith was looking at potential investment oppor

elise: but so you recommended that president trump not bring mike flynn on as national security advisor? mr. christie: begged. begged. begged. i started working with mike flynn in july of 2016 because when donald trump became the nominee apparent the director of , national intelligence called me for the obama administration and said mr. trump is now entitled to high-level national security briefings. you are the head of the transition. you are the person to coordinate that. i said ok, how does it work? he can come with two aids. -- aides. i say, great. so i go back to donald and say this is the deal, this is how it works, and he says i want you and flynn. i said ok. i went to the first of those meetings, and let me just say, i was not impressed with general flynn and the way he handled himself in those meetings, and i made that clear to the candidate. and there were a number of times thereafter, both in intelligence briefings that i sat in with the president and general flynn, and then also in debate prep where general flynn was involved for a brief period of time until i took it over. that

flynn. >> do we have any more questions? >> what a fascinating history. it did not take place that ong ago. mr. shapiro: 76 years? >> thank you, chris kelly. thank you, isaac shapiro. please stick around to sign copies for us. mr. shapiro: i would be happy o. >> every weekend american history tv brings you 48 hours of unique programming, exploring our nation's past. to view our schedule and an archive with all of our programs visit c-span.org/history. >> in 1968 republican presidential nominee richard nixon appeared in a series of campaign-funded live tv broadcasts in key states. the programs were produced and directed by 28-year-old nixon campaign consultant roger ailes. here is a review. >> mr. nixon, because of the recent widespread demonstrations on american campuses, there seems to be quite a bit of public pressure on campuses and administrators to get tough on american ebels. >> i'm for it. i'm for dissent. as i look back over the 190-year history of this country as i am sure you have as a student at ann arbor, dissent is an instrument of change and progress. that's what we distinguish as free society from

mr. smith looks like he committed a campaign finance violation. if he was having conversations with michael flynn know has been cooperating, and has pled guilty to perjury, had been having conversations with the ambassador, then the question becomes, what has michael flynn been telling robert mueller's team, and to what extent has that been connected to what they're trailing in terms of the money, which is actually working with russian hacking. >> john, where do you come down on this? >> the thing i find interesting is the jux taposition of trump saying july 27th of 2016, russians, if you have e-mails, go get them. and then there's corroboration there were inquiries made by russian hackers. and then we have this "independent relationship" in which peter smith is tied to flynn. and he's trying to pay somebody, not for i don't think the foundation really, but to get these e-mails. and the final thing that really is of concern to me is in may of 2017, he commits suicide when the special counsel is appointed. and within ten days after talking to a reporter, i believe, with shelby, and the -- he appea

mr. smith for that story. smith implied to "the journal" that his secret endeavor was somehow tied to michael flynn, who had been an adviser in the trump campaign. then about ten days after he talked to "the wall street journal," peter smith died. he was found dead in a minnesota hotel room in an apparent suicide. before we had much time to digest that bombshell, the very next day, "the wall street journal" was back for round two. according to "the journal," it was not just mike flynn who peter smith implied was connected to his search for hillary clinton's e-mails, according to smith, it was always a handful of other top tier campaign aides like kellyanne conway and steve bannon. from the beginning, this whole story about the republican operative tries to get his hands on stolen e-mails has been kind of an outlier. it's been this obscure avenue of reporting that feels like it could be explosive but it's hard to nail down exactly what any of it means. well, today, "the wall street journal" added a little bit more to the picture. here is the headline, "gop operatives secretly raised at least $100,000 in search fo

with mike flynn, excuse me, in july of '16 because when donald trump became the nominee apart in june of '16, the director of national intelligence called me from the obama administration and said mr. trump is now entitled to high-level national security briefings. and you're head of the transition, you're the person to coordinate that. so i said, okay, how does it work? he said he can come with two aides. all right, great. so i go back to donald and say, okay, this is the deal, this is how it works, and he said, all right, i want you to flynn. i said, okay. so i went to the first of those meetings, and let me just say i was not impressed with general flynn and the way he handled himself in those meetings. and i made that clear to the candidate. and there were a number of times thereafter both in the intelligence briefings that i sat in with the president and general flynn and then also in debate prep where general flynn was involved for a brief period of time until i took it over. i just said, in fact, the last time i talked to the president about it was the day after the election. and i told him, you know, don't hire this guy. and he said you don't like him, why? and i said, i d