, the vice president, jd vance, will be there, not him himself. not him himself, at the munich security conference coming up this week. i like the phrase the grand reveal. they roll the pitch for ideas in advance of big set pieces. being floated, which were at the extreme deal for ukraine with russia, united states and ukraine all involved. so that's why we're going to turn to our expert witness, friend of the podcast, james waterhouse. so, james, you've been the ukraine correspondent now there for quite some time through the whole of this conflict, so you really know this in and out. what do we know about the hints and nudges how seriously are people taking it? the best barometer here is the people you is the people you speak to president zelenskyy himself. and on the latter, it's the first time we've seen him embrace the fact that american therefore western help a transactional one. where he sat there with a big map pointing out all of his country's natural resources, critical minerals and he is saying to america, to donald trump, "look, yyou can have a slice of this as long a slice of this as l

some of what he says is designed to outcome at the munich security conference. a joint conclusion from the journalistic titans of christiane amanpour of cnn and andrew neil of all over the times these days? i was trying. it was all over the place. i was going to say formerly of this parish, i would never actually, this will really chime with newscasters. confident about the facts. potentially as a cover for doing other things. and andrew neil argued that while some of what the president says is outlandish, politicians could use when he says things like like a real estate developer. that obviously isn't going to happen, but it raises is that what is to be done with gaza? it has to be rebuilt. can that be done with 2 million palestinians still there? there's nojoy in that. image of the riviera of the middle east. to simply to mouth platitudes about a two state solution it was really interesting to hear. this morning we spoke to president herzog, the president of israel, and we asked him about president trump's plan. and he's somebody who, as a politician, as an is

rubio will travel to several countries in less than a week, going to the munich security conference in germany first before heading to israel, the united arab emirates, qatar and saudi arabia. this all a happening from february 13th through the 18 isth. now, earlier this week donald trump suggested that the u.s. take control of the gaza strip in order to rehabilitate the territory to a livable location, saying palestinians would be temporarily relocated in order to successfully rebuild. but it's something rights groups have con to demed and many palestinians fear do -- condemned. >> i think president trump has offered to go in and be a part of that solution. and if some other countries willing the step forward and do it themselves, that'd be great. but no one seems to be rushing forward to do that that. there are a lot of of country in the world that like to express if concern about gaza and the palestinian people, but very few willing to do anything concrete about it. >> reporter: the president has suggested that palestinians be taken in by regionallal arab nations such is as egypt an

on the geopolitical front, friday, we had to munich for the security conference. the focus is the war in ukraine. elliott takes a significant stake in bp as it looks to shakeup the struggling oil maker. we will bring you the details next. this is bloomberg. ♪ lizzy: bloomberg has learned elliott management has built a significant stake in bp. sources say elliott once to boost value by pushing the energy giant to consider formative measures. more detail with anthony. notably over the past five years bp is down about 8%. shell is up at least 30%. is this the crunch point? >> bp has seemed to be at a crunch point for a while and harkens back to the days of deepwater horizon exploding and the gulf of mexico around 2010. at the time bp was considered a target because the market cap crashed and the unthinkable came out that somebody could buy bp so now with this lagging share price it looks like they could potentially be a target so there is speculation on that but of course elliott is looking at that weak performance, kind of a lack of vision for how the company will p

i think it's fair to say we've known that at the munich security conference this friday and saturday, the envoy for ukraine for president donald trump, keith kellogg, is likely to present to allies parts of his plan here. but then suddenly we have this flurry of activity involving trump himself, who on friday suggested that he might indeed meet ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. this week. and then zelenskyy's team appear to have moved quite fast to try and get that to happen. and instead they've got this team of, quote, serious people coming to ukraine ahead of the munich security conference. we don't know who they are. i would suggest if they were very serious, he probably would have given us the names, but a lot moving in private here at this point, conversations clearly like that trump had with putin. the kremlin simply haven't even confirmed happened. and so there's clearly a bid to try and get something moving. but the real issue here is quite where ukraine has a place in all these negotiations for the whole biden administration, for the whole three years of the war, they'

it's likely that there will be a strong flurry of diplomacy if we've got the munich security conference coming up . and obviously, kellogg and the zalinski will need trumpet said that he will meet with the landscape sometime within the next few days. so there is going to be some, the why was they, but it's on likely to succeed, because as well, you know, we've been discussing any a off up and then this is when trump is really talking about all the people around trump with, which is people. let's freeze the conflicts in place and then we can legally, uh, outstanding math is to be discuss that some lead to a peace conference with nathan membership. this is the reason for russia to accept anything like that because it would be a complete failure because we know exactly what would happen. nature would use the interim period to re um, ukraine for a renewal of a conflict in 510 years time. so this is the reason we're not to mention the fact that that would be in a massive nato build up within ukraine during this a in term si size. so there's no reason for it, but that's why i think, but once

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>> he is on a bit of a world wind tour produce first stop is that munich security conference will beiscussions about ending the ukraine more than off to the united arab emirates and israel endo hawk. there is no shortage of crises in the middle east. he has got to be looking at iran, nuclear threshold state as well as the potential, as unlikely as it might appear at this time for israel and saudi arabia to establish bilateral relations in the future of gaza. the secretaries and what he needs you to getting out front leading our diplomatic efforts. rich: this comes on the heel of a trip to central america for the secretary of state. matt, when you look at some of the negotiations there for tickly on the panama canal do you think this gets resolved without the united states taking full control of the canal again? >> it could put it seems like that present a panama blinked. he said it's a pretty breathtaking idea that 2017 memorandum of understanding that granted china incorporation somehow at the panama canal into its belt and wrote initiative is now going to be nullified. i would thin

keynote speech and later this week the vice president will head east to germany for the munich security conferenceted to meet with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. he has got a big week ahead of him. it's only monday, guys. kicking it off right now. >> lawrence: pretty cool seeing a young family, too in politics right now. he always has them with him. his dog, but, getting to work saying that you can do both. can you work for the country as well as have a productive family as well. i know that was a signature issue as well talking to the voters about life and what that means. >> steve: powerful see them take the long staircase, the last president had pretty much a footstool. >> lawrence: even with a child in his door. >> lawrence: democrats laying out the plan president's agenda how he will bring the countryvo backlt together.clin that's next. target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. 7 million us businesses rely on tiktok to compete. within a week of posting, i had over $25,000 in sales. i don't have a mil

vice president vance will be taking off to europe on own trip for the munich security conference in aou back to my interview with bibi netanyahu. this is in 2023 after i went to saudi arabia. this is about iran specifically, what he was saying back then that matches kind of what he says now. >> i think iran should be prevented in every possible manner from getting nuclear weapons. i have devoted the bulk of my public service and as prime minister to prevent that from happening. we have to do everything we can and the most important thing that we can do aside from crippling sanctions against iran, snapping back the sanctions if iran violated as it has the k34eu789s credible military threat against iran. >> bret: byron, thoughts? >> absolutely. back then, during your trip to saudi arabia, there was a lot of talk about building relations between saudi arabia and israel. and it seemed as if that preoctober 7th world that there could be a chance that that actually could happen and it would be extraordinary breakthrough. now here we are after all of this war, but the goal remains the same a

allies expect the administration to unveil a plan to end the war at the munich security conference, whichay. lisa: the president's national security adviser refused to elaborate and says certainly there are a lot of sensitive conversations going on. then i take you to an individual i used to deal with as well who, if a call happened, he was certainly no. many communications happen through various channels. i may not know something that may not be aware of something. this is why i can either confirm or deny in this case. it sounds like he is unaware of this call. what is the objective? is it to believe that trump is on top of negotiating all these things quickly to get some sort of resolution with ukraine and russia? this is why the market takes a lot of his commentary in stride. it is unclear what the goal was whether it happened. it is hard to verify, so the market moves on and continues as those nothing happened. jonathan: i mentioned shein. shein is asking some of its top chinese suppliers to set up new production lines. sources tell bloomberg efforts have been in the works for several

zelenskyy is expected to meet this week with the vice president, jadee moncur vance, at the munich security conference. zelenskyy is signaling he is ready for talks if his country can get security guarantees. as ukraine approaches the three year anniversary of russia's full scale invasion. >> jia cobb human bullet. >> if i had an understanding that america and europe would not abandon us and that they would support us and provide security guarantees, i would be ready for any format of negotiations. >> joining me now to discuss jill dougherty, cnn contributor, former cnn moscow bureau chief. jill, good to have you. just quite a simple question. trump. very coy about when how many times he talked to putin. that is not normal for a president typically state to state conversations are not only confirmed, but also there are readouts of these calls. how unusual is it? and is there any reason why trump will not say if, when, why he's spoken with the russian leader? >> well, i think there are a couple of reasons. one is that, you know, he doesn't want to go there. he doesn't want to be specific. he may have h

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expect to see secretary of state marco rubio making his first appearance in europe at the munich security conference as well, later this week. kate. >> all right. big week ahead. thanks so much, natasha. john. >> all right. this morning, the trump administration shutting down the country's top consumer watchdog, the consumer financial protection bureau, basically just closing it. every worker there was ordered to stay home. cnn's vanessa yurkevich is with us now with the latest. what's going on? >> so these employees, they get an email saying that they are not going to be showing up to the office, and they're also being instructed not to do any more work as it relates to the consumer finance protection bureau, which, of course, as we know, is exactly what it sounds like to protect everyday americans from financial fraud, combating some subprime mortgage crises and helping to end junk fees for everyday americans. this is an effort led by elon musk and doge at the direction of the trump administration. there was a tweet that elon musk sent out on friday that was sort of foreshadowing what was to come.

we have the munich security conference coming up.ng to meet with president zelensky. so we should hear more about this, this peace plan shortly. >> he also mentioned that he would like a deal done with iran on non-nuclear, but he was reluctant to give any details. what's the likelihood of a potential deal with iran? >> well, i think one of the things that was always a big question is, would the us support a military strike on the iranian nuclear program in conjunction with the israelis? of course, that seemed to fly in the face of trump running on this anti-war platform, and now he's talking about a deal? of course, don't forget, deals were something that the trump administration kind of was very critical of president biden. and so and how does this even kind of gel with the what the israelis want to see, which i think is a strike on the iranian nuclear program. and so ultimately, again, these are just no details. this is almost, you know, second or third grader talk. we want to do this. we want to do that. no details right now, iran

secretary of state marco rubio is going to travel to the munich security conference in germany before 13 through the 18th. earlier this week u.s. take control of the gaza strip. in order to rehabilitate the territory to livable locations and palestinians would be temporarily relocated to successfully rebuild but something groups have condemned many palestinians fear they be permanently driven from their homes for the present has suggested palestinians be taken in by regional arab nations such as egypt and jordan and i get rejected by arab states and by palestinians. >> and president trump has offered to go in to be part of that solution. if some other countries willing to step forward and do it themselves that would be great no one seems to be rushing forward to do that. it seems to me a lot of countries in the world that like to express concern about gaza and the palestinian people but very few are willing to do anything concrete about it. >> meanwhile iran supreme leader said yesterday at negotiations with america are not intelligent, wise or honorable at the present donald trump fl

trump administration to present and long-awaited plan to end russia's war in ukraine at the munich security conferenceit is set to be presented by keith kellogg and includes potentially freezing the conflict and leaving territory occupied by russian forces in limbo while providing ukraine security guarantees. meanwhile, softbank is in talks to acquire ampyra computing. talks are in advanced stages and may value the chipmaker at about 6.5 billion dollars. this is the latest deal in a wave of chip companies looking to capitalize on the ai spending boom. a transaction may be announced in the coming weeks. the bank of england cut its key interest rate to 4.5% which struck a hawkish tone. the central bank signaling that only two more reductions are needed to bring inflation to its 2% target. seven of the nine members voted for the quarter-point cut, but 21 and a half-point reduction. jonathan: thank you. up next, navigating trade uncertainty. >> the tariff environment is obviously evolving here on a daily basis. how would this work to the system that we really try to help the policymakers understand? jonat

to attend a two day summit focusing on artificial intelligence in paris and the annual munich security conferences its approach to the war in ukraine, and how to counter china's moves on the world stage. the sudanese military is pushing to regain control of the capital from rebel forces. the two sides have been fighting for nearly two years, displacing millions of people and leading to a dire humanitarian situation. the military is calling for diplomatic support from overseas as it seeks to form a new government, and hamas released three more israeli hostages over the weekend in exchange for 183 palestinian prisoners. on saturday, the terrorist group handed over three very frail looking male civilians. they were paraded through the streets of gaza and forced to speak to a crowd, sparking outrage in israel. the three men had been in captivity for 491 days. this is now the fifth hostage and palestinian prisoner exchange since the cease fire took effect last month. 21 hostages have been freed so far. now, according to local media. the three men released on saturday are now suffering from severe phys