she would give onie judge to allies. although judge earned the top spot with her personal slaves those who have that emotional capital and then to change her mind. her fate is now in the hands of eliza. same age, to the be difficult and volatile temper. that she was a force to be reckonedne with. but her family wrote about her temper this would be something that onie judge was familiar with. and then most likely would have a life of poor treatment and uncertainty. but to give you an idea what that moment was like that judge what the future held with those free black associates. going back to virginia she would never have a chance to escape. once she learned upon the decease of her master and mistressy would be the property of a granddaughter of theirs there and she knew that she had to flee. sheeg imagined her work would begin immediately. prompting clearing about her future and her dislike for eliz eliza. in her interview at the end of her life she said quote she was determined never to be her slave. her decision was ma

and unwritten about is a ony judge here at mt. vern anyone in philadelphia and new york. believe it was the dim minimum youtive of her name, like baloney, and i choose to call her ona, which is the name she went by at the end of her life. in this newspaper, only judge, a light mew lat to girl, with very black eyes and bushy black hair, of middle stature, slenter and delicately made, about 20 years of age, and the language changes a little bit in some of the advertisements. this one offers of course a $10 reward which is the cost of a barrel of flour at that time. another sort of interesting thing to note is that this advertisement offers the reward and very clear they say, this $10 will be paid to anyone white or black. this is written in the first ads that appear. subsequently that hawk was taken out which i thought was interesting. but clearly this was a play to the free black community, who may have seen, witnessed or knew something about ona's escape. the ad in the philadelphia gazette alerted slave judgers to he possible esca

the e report was published o ony before the summit.t. purpose,,ey did it on and i think they did i it b bece they wanted to attract the chinaion and damage the image and undermine china and talks between china and africa. adopt laws nearly two years after brexit. the terms are infuriating pro brags mps in the united kingdom. brexit brag proponents in the united kingdom. they hope to get this underway by march. now in paris, the end may be insight following flooding that has for some 1500 people in the city and suburbs from their holdings. the river is six meters high but is expected to start receiving getsrow, as a major mop up underway. we have a report. >> he has been in over his these four days. starting tuesday, the statue will solely start to dry off. paris. the rest o of water levels in the french capital stabilized at a peak of 5.84 meters monday, just below the 6.1 meter high of 2016. it may not be a record, but it still provided quite a spectacle. >> it happens often. it is every time. >> i have been doing this for three days. >

oni cannot focus too much she is most likely dead out here. i just push through. michelle: a grim reality they are facing. officials say that most residents did not listen to the evacuation orders. more than 100 houses destroyed, 300 damaged, just weeks after wildfires burned vegetation that would have helped slow down the mudslide. the same storm system is moving across the u.s., causing winter weather alerts from new mexico to wisconsin. alison: in fort washington. a broken water main flooding basements with water, mud, and sewage over the weekend. crews are working to clear the debris and strip the walls. wssc said they would compensate the owners of the eight a fact at homes, but as residents get their first look at the damage, there are things like family heirlooms and photo albums that cannot be replaced. >> when you see all of these memories coming back, my husband is dead. i have to find that. i don't know where it is. alison: heartbreaking. she had her family salvaged a few items, but nearly everything else was lost. have dealt with more than 400 water ma

so it's a perfect spot for resting and breedingng, not ony for fish, but alsoso for bird.eporter: the park authority has demarcated fishing zones and makes sure the fishermen respect spawning seasons. the freshwater in the basin has helped revive the local fauna, too. lotuses have begun thriving again. local women spend two to three hours a day in the water collecting seeds from the lotus stalks. then they sort them, shell and dry them, and over a period of several weeks, turn them into couscous. mariya: after the dam was built, until last year we couldn't harvest anything. but now nature has started to recover. the lotuses have returned, and we can collect their seeds again. reporter: they harvested s soe 600 kikilos last y year -- enono feed their families for months, and sell the excess. another successful venture made possible by the park. local craft traditions have also made a comeback. these women make jewelry they're planning to sell. the raw materials come from the national park. samantha: these are tiny beads that they make from tree resin. and we help them extra

onis interesting for me, many matters and many issues u.s. states and canadian provinces and even counties eminence appellees have greater autonomy and greater variation among themselves that eu member states currently have. do we have the balance right? not always. and does everything have to be harmonized in standardized? i don't think so. mr. president, in making decisions i think it's vital our citizens are engaged. in ireland we have launched the national debate. our starting point is the focus of the hopes and dreams of our citizens. led by our minister for europe for undertaking a series of regional meetings and other initiatives across the country between now and europe day on the ninth of may. i strongly encourage other countries to do the same. it has been an honor, a great honor to be the first european head of state of governments to speak to the european parliament on this hugely important topic of the future of europe. all of you across all political groupings have enormous political experience. there is a mass of wisdom in this

[gunfire]g happened ony east of mobile alabama.canith the passenger in e gold toy yet a he was caught but other is still on the depute two children in there during thatotn a head on crash that happened yesterday east of phoenix, driver blue blue through several red lights and then slamming in the suv. suspect's car flipped several times, but if you can believe it, he got out, tried to runaway and told bystanders that the cops are crazy. police arrested him moments later. woman in the suv that was hit suffered none in life threatextg see efforts to save a manatee caught in an obj. >>> talk about jail bird we will tell you what one man said wasou cannot make this up, we will >>> well, a manatee is free this morning after becoming a ln florida waters. >> manatee was spotted yesterday in fort way life vest stuck on its back. with the help of the net, both bet and muscle rescue team pulled the manatee to solid ground. removed the life vest and released it back in the wild. >>> memorable moment for couple celebrating their anniversary in

onis year's parade featured 39 colorful floats covered in countless flowers along with show horses andds. new year's celebration struck the right note across the country. this was nashville and, in las vegas, fireworks weekend 2018. rere more than 300,000 revelers packed the strip and fremont street under unprecedented security. some celebrations did go wrong. in australia, a barge filled with fireworks caught fire and exploded, forcing people on shore to scatter. and in russia, an 80-foot christmas tree became a towering inferno after catching fire during an outdoor concert. no one was hurt. brave swimmers around the world welcomed the new year with a plunge. in new york more than 1,000 swimmers joined the coney island polar bear club for a dip in the atlantic ocean. ice welcomed revelers in wisconsin, and in the netherlands, hundreds put on red hats before diving into the chilly north sea. the coast guard just released video of a dramatic rescue of panama city, florida, an 89- year-old man had driven off a pier on saturday. guard members broke the car's window and pulled the driver t

.>> state of the unions ony matter-- you couldn't tell us your favorite lines from obama's state of thejokes. we don't remember. but they matter because they sit between what came before and what came after. donald trump said he wants to take on the ethiopia addiction but for the of last year, he tried to cut medicaid by $1 million. jeff sessions is the reason we don't have criminal justice reform right now. he's one of the key voices in the senate that prevented a vote on that before he became attorney general. he talks about unity, after he implied that kneeling during the anthem is unpatriotic, even though it's a protest, people demonstrating their civil rights. and, by the way, he talks about reaching out to democrats. he's never apologized for any of it. you don't get to stand up there and pretend that the last year didn't happen. you don't get to pretend it's only people that don't-- ( cheers and applause ) the only people that-- in that room, the only people in that room that don't care whether or not donald trump apologizes are people like ted cruz, who just supplicated themselv

these are people who are going to p get to go tax cuts, not ony from the federal government, but theyget a second check. that is what the mainstream medium does not talk about. >> sean: it is so corrupt. there's so line going on to the american people. happy new year to you all, when we come back, the media has been caught red-handed spreading fake news on major stories. we'll show you these major mistakes on this special edition of "hannity" continuesng so why wait for your refund? you could get up to $3200 with a no-fee refund advance. go to jackson hewitt today. >> sean: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity," 2017 was a rough year for the mainstream media in their rushea to attack president trump, many fake news mistakes were made. perhaps the worst example is from "abc news." brian ross was suspended for abc for this false report claiming during the campaign, candidate trump told lieutenant general michael flynn to reach out to russia might take a look. >> he's prepared to testify against president trump and others in the white house. he's prepared to testify that pres

let's look at yields they rose nicely yesterday so it was a proper riie risk ony the ten-year, 2.46 thisorning. >>> markets around the world asia was nicely stronger yesterday. today stronger again not quite as resoundingly. we have a holiday in japan today. european boards were down yesterday, about 0.3%, 0.5%. up today the ftse is flat germany and france are up a bit. let's look at the broader markets. oil prices gained a bit yesterday -- were flat yesterday, flat again today. still nicely above $60 for wti 60.5 the price this morning. moving on to the gold price, which was up about half a percent yesterday. flat today 1316 is the price of gold. dollar the big question mark over the last couple of weeks. it rallied for the first part of december as the tax bill got passed, slipped for the second part of december and continued that slipping early this year. lost about 0.3% yesterday. the euro and pound hit highs not seen since september euro close to 1.21 elsewhere, the slide in the dollar over the last couple of weeks seems to have stabilized bitcoin around the 14,000 level, pushing to

what its full capacity is and how it allows us to communicate oni on an ongoing basis, we have a lookng process for the next bond. and in prior bonds, obviously, we go to life safety, seismic and life safety defishes first and then look at different classes of assets and what condition they are. so at least for the bond conversation, it helps us align data to prioritization. in an ongoing effort i do see us also being able to use this to plan for, for example, a lot of the court resurfacing that you're seeing now, are really done less based on data and life expectancy than either complaint or frankly general manager's observation. and so i think this will give us a tool to engage in better planning. and also make the financial case for the resources that we need. how we -- how we use the tool to communicate city-wide prioritization of different classes of assets is a work in progress, because i don't think we fully understand how the data can be presented in realtime, et cetera. >> and also, that's a very good question. to speak to that and one of the things that we're doing different

onis nlear power, nuclear power is a technology which can produce electricity emissions but depending on the policies of governments whether they would like to see a more important role. >> i yield back. >> senator smith. >> i must say is a former resident of alaska and a person who worked on the pipeline when it was first constructed this has always been a matter of great interest to me so very pleased to be here. to have a chance to visit with you, i am struck by your conversation about the transformation we are seeing about advancing renewables and energy efficiency. in minnesota in my state this has been a focus of our energy policy, bipartisan focus and we get 21% of our energy for renewables and are on our way to hitting 25% which could be even higher and this means jobs for minnesota, 57,000 clean energy jobs in minnesota. i think a lot about the benefits of this strategy. also my business background has taught me diversification contributes to risk management and security so i'm interested to hear you talk about how more affordable renewables and energy efficiency contributes

pretty on noon asker through the front crosses through, typically again would you have very cold air onyh, it doesn't have the opportunity to bring any adon so, we just see rain, then the cold, and it dries out quickshie and breeze come wednesday. now, we take you outside to one of the views in the live bel but there isleant valley middle and high school here. ossibitygrees there. maybe low-lying cloud cover, warm air, moving in, allowing a lot of in here, so maybe cause low-lying cloud cover to hinder your not a day that warrants the umbrella tomorrow en 60 degrees, behind the front the temperatures take solid hit. degsday coldest day of the es, then there is another warm up that takes place this weekend. we're b over again, meisha. >> sounds good to me, katie, thank you so much. happy and wel deserved monday morning. avenue, soside right now, we are starting to get very busy out there. this, what time is it? 6:46. inutebo cracking into the main hour of the rush hour, and already bumper to bumper conditions here. on the schuylkill westbound. now, we look just beyond the treat, not looki

the contexext of this is not ony puputting my ice officers at rik of a finding an efficient and effective way to enforce our immigration laws. in carbondale, colorado, immigrant rights activists joining nationwide women's mamarches on saturday will rally to the defense of sandra lopez, an undocumented immigrant and mother of three who's taken sanctuary with a local church to avoid being deported to mexico. lopez is a leader with the colorado immigrant rights coalition. she has fought removal proceedings since she was arrested in 2010 after she says one of her children mistakenly dialed 911. charges in the case were dropped, but she's faced the prospect of deportatation ever since. this is sandra lopez speaking recently with democracy now! from inside the unitarian parsonage where she's taken sanctuary with her 2-year-old daughter. >> we need to be orgaganized. we need to leave behind d the fr anand the shadows and cocontinue raising our voices. there is a quote that "divided we fall" but we're going to continue defending our dignity and continue defending sanctuary. amy: the trump admdmin

it onys have been running the blog, talking about the fact that maybe 2018 is the year in which we finallynflation gains in traction or my getting ahead of myself? mark: there's two different parts of this. one is the fact that energy prices are going up. shale production and come back online is quickly as it would thought. leslie of a cold spell. energy prices are a lot higher than they were a couple months ago. that drives up the cost of commodity prices. we are seeing copper breakup to multiyear highs. as confirmation that global growth is doing well in the market is doing well. we are seeing energy prices higher and that's got to help inflation tick up. doesn't mean we will get runaway inflation. hasn't pricedt any inflation. if nothing dramatic is happening -- mark: the market need since -- sustained inflations. we are seeing the fed in the middle of a hiking cycle so they believe that inflation is coming through. traders don't believe you will be sustained over the next couple years. that is the big difference. help the higher inflation chance this year. but unless that's part of a m

i believe based ony are daily, they expect us to know what's going on and do something about it.is doing something about it. >> reporter: the numbers were announced at a press conference involving the chief, the sheriff, the states's attorney and the county executives. they say working together has been key to driving down the numbers. >> providing safe communities, though, is more than just arresting suspects. >> reporter: they say violent crime has dropped every year for the last seven years in a row. >> we have never said prince george's county was perfect. just like today we don't say that we have solved the crime issue in prince george's county. it means that we have to look at our communities as a whole and make sure they're better. >> reporter: the chief says in 2018 he wants to continue that downward trend by organizing members of the community to work with police officers to prevent crime in their neighborhoods. darcy spencer, news4. >> there is a major development tonight in the russia investigation. >> that's right. president trump may be inching closer to an interview

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himself ony man for one hand, and something for nothing on the other.e need a new covenant that will challenge citizens to be a first.le, that was >> bruce, you worked with formednt clinton, and this idea of opportunity, responsibility, and community. walk us through, what was new about this? where did it come from and the challenges you saw? >> let me tell you about that speech. current students will be delighted to hear that bill clinton prepared for that georgetown speech the way he prepared for ever previous didgetown assignment, he absolutely nothing until the night before. [laughter] >> that's not a recommendation to you. [laughter] an 11:00 a.m. speech. it was slow going. let me give some of the context to the speech. students, the 90's are a distant memory. i was reminded of this when i was working in the obama white house for joe biden. a young speechwriter came to me and said you worked on the brady bill in the 90's? that's so west wing. [laughter] >> the political context is interesting. when bill clinton came to georgetown in october of 91,

that every news organization that relies on digital advertising, which iswh all of them that aren't onyy are all dependent upon two companies that are wildly political and working against free speech. that is not a concern? it seems a concern to me. >> i'm not saying it's not a concern. whatay i'm saying is not every concern rises to the level of market concentration coupled with consumer harm. i'm also saying that in this circumstance, we have options that consumers have access to. they can use other search engines, they can avoid google if they want to, and that does make a difference here. >> tucker: all right. senator, thank you for joining us. i used to be a libertarian until google. [laughs] u thank you for coming on page >> thank you. >> tucker: 95 euros comic book legend stan lee, the man who created "spider-man" is the latest victim of hollywood sexual harassment back glass. has "me too" become a war of people who don't deserve to be hurt by it? including stanley. that discussion is next. ♪ >> tucker: well, the backlash against sexual harassment is >> tucker: the backlash again

ony came off of a big win the tax bill and have made comments about starting 2018 talking about infrastructurestill have a budget to settle. now they are talking about this back and forth and a lot of things that could be potential for the white house. it is a distraction. steve bannon has also said he will run candidates against key republicans in the senate. hard to say that he is burying the hatchet with president trump, even if he says he wants to. >> thank you so much, jodi schneider,. bloomberg editor. we are getting more headlines apple coming out with a statement here on the intel chip security issue. apple saying all mac and ios devices are affected, saying the apple watch, though, is not affected by meltdown. are noting that there known exploits affecting their customers at this time. apple also saying they have released mitigations to dispense against meltdown. security uncovered new flaws in these intel microprocessors, yvonne. yvonne: just one of several companies that have responded swiftly after intel admitted to how the chips are global to hacking. let's talk about more risks a

amazon says it's onis line grocery sales have surged since it bought whole foods last year.gain, there's no stopping the amazon effect and there's no stopping it this company even though you would like to reign it in, there's no mechanism for reigning it in the moment or is there? >> whole foods to amazon will be -- amsterdam was to facebook best in the last decade for $14 billion they're able to say fastest growing offline retailer now in addition to being fastest online growing retailer so what that means it a market cap company, had is probably a 30 or 50 billion creative acquisition based on their ability to announce four consecutive quarterly press releases say we're fastest growing offline retailer so genius and when i push back a little bit we can reign them in and big believer many republican trust at some point it is healthy to reoxygen the rate. >> so or far what amazon is doing is helping customers and consumers. i mean they've lowered rate of inflation for heavens. >> it is good for consumer we keep it away from it but you need to show abuse to that power or rest

. >> reporter: secretary mattis has weighed in on the effect the shutdown will have oni ongoing militarytions. he had active operations, troops fighting in iraq, afghanistan, will not be affected. but he said 50% of dod civil ias would be furloughed. reserved training would be affected. there would be all kinds of training operations, especially on the reserve side, which u.s. forces so heavily rely on right now. he gave both sides of it. just one quick note on when soldiers get paid and when military personnel get paid, the general rule, if you're wearing a uniform here on overseas, the shutdown requires you to come to work. you won't be paid. however, payment comes here on the first of the month and the 15th of the month. unless you have until the beginning of next month to try to sort that out. and a lot of the credit unions, naval credit union, usaa, they're telling soldiers they'll give them a spot loan and allow them to say, basically, withdraw their salary on a zero interest loan to make sure they're not affected. it is a big topic here. we finally have the secretary of defense we

ony said they were staying tap with stimulus.n the next hour of daybreak asia, we ask president trump's protectionist -- if it will have any effect on the markets, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ 8:00 a.m. here in hong kong, live from bloomberg's asian headquarters. i am yvonne man, welcome to "daybreak asia." president trump confirms new tariffs, says that will look at and aluminum. trade partners are not impressed. political and corporate leaders offering of defense of globalization. betty: i am betty liu. it is just after 7:00 here in tuesday -- on tuesday. jay powell is confirmed at the fed as the janet yellen era comes to an end. the boj governor quashes stimulus discussions. we will be live in tokyo in just a few moments. ♪ yvonne: of course we have been talking about the trade tensions, trade numbers coming out of japan, as well. it was a disappointment when it comes to the trade balance side, shrinking in the month of december. a lot of moves have been indicated by the dollar-yen and the strength we have seen in the dollar-yen. we

ony have also been focused winning those licenses, getting the thing restarted.orward. what we understand from people familiar with the discussion, they are talking through an option that would see bhp exit the 50-50 joint venture. and vale would assume full control of that operation. it is seen as a sensible course because it is likely it would be easier potentially to restart operation under vale's full control. in the long term it will be easier for vale. owns could be used by the joint venture in the future. hasne: that samarco mine been closed two years. what progress is being made on getting the mine back into production? dan: there are signs of progress. back in december the operation won one of the first licenses it needs to restart. there are expectations that will win the remaining approvals it needs, probably by midyear. competitors, we have heard from other suppliers. part of theniche market. they expect the operation back up and running in the second half of this year. that would restore what was the world's second-largest provider. a significant chu

oni want to get your view the aussie dollar. this is the kind of turnaround we have seen. been one of the biggest benefactors of this sort. do you see that really being supported by the commodity stories as well as a patient -- chinese will remain stable? the game is on to pick the next currency and we are trying to take advantage of the dollar weakness. as you say, given the environment and strong commodity , the aussie is a move higher and we believe the aussie will play catch-up, moving above $.80. >> what about the yen? is that going to stop becoming a headache? tom --yen over the shirt short-term has been resolved. between now and april, there will be lots of speculation and uncertainty in respect to risktment, so we have a for possible yen strength. technical target is very possible over the short-term. having said that, once you move into the second half of the are, with not forget that the feds have hike once or twice, so that may save the dollar yen in the second half of the year. upside risk for the dollar? >> it has in the same since the market has swung. not as

ony do not -- u.s. jobs data friday. we do have the nikkei 225 opening 0.4% lower.essure. we did have japanese activity accelerating in december due to strong exports. a orders raised production through 2017. a mixed bag for data. so far, pressure for asian .tocks asx 200 sliding to the 6000 level. energy shares dragging the most. tracking the drop in crude prices, u.s. inventories will build after 10 straight weeks of declines. aussie dollar gaining ground, 0.2% higher. before we get fourth quarter bottomon data due at the of the hour. elsewhere, the ringgit under pressure. the kiwi dollar gaining ground so far today. let's take a look at the movers we are watching in tokyo. fuji still in focus this morning. this amid reports they could be nearing a deal that could come as soon as tomorrow, when it comes to the announcement. it lets check in on stocks we're watching. to report earnings today, nintendo and others in tokyo. in seoul, we are waiting on others.biologic and samsung under pressure, down 0.33%. tuesday, whendrop it fell. you.e: thank it let's look closer

ony did not meet our votes the continued resolution. they could shut down government because they did not eat our votes. need our votes. now we go forward in negotiation . we are still not out of place that says we can honor our sponsor abilities to the american people as we address our defense needs. see thewent to ourident in september, in ,irst conversation with him mind you he was put in office in january and our first meeting with him was in september. we said to him, he called is there to talk about a debt ceiling. and we said, any conversations that we have had to be predicated on whether we had shared values. one emergency challenge that we face right now is the state of the dreamers. the president was going to be lifting the protection for the dreamers. so we need to know that we have this share value otherwise, why are we talking to each other? he supports the dream act. he likes to call it daca. in any event, he said yes he supports it and wants to do a security thing. months later, we went to the speaker and said, this is it

check them out onis line too because the guy is hilarious he's so passionate about james garfield itworth it. [laughter] yes. women in the operate oing room a link between hygiene and full -- hard questions that historian take their life to she wants in two minutes the answer to -- the appearance of women in the operating room and of course you start to see this in second painting that is such a good question on -- and one that i don't -- i have to admit i don't fully deal with because it is happening separately to lister. lister actually is very much against women entering medicine a little bit of a flaw of his. but he can't foresee the victorians were very much like that. florence revolutionizing profession before then seen as inproarpght for a woman to go into nursing because she would be pretty to the male body almost akin of prostitution in earlier periods and, in fact, when you come across the term nurse, this earlier records it usually is referring to -- a nurse nursing a baby. someone who is nursing a baby. so she certainly and there's so many books about this she make it is

based ony assessment my observations. w in the western tradition thinke that for a country to be dominant, it has to conquer y them. and occupie i think the chinese historical , while they would use , they are thinking their impact is through the magnitude of their culture, the size of their achievements, and that they will attempt to impose respect rather than do it through a series of military confrontations. but it will always be backed by canrce with which they demonstrate the penalty of opposition. so if you look at their conflicts in the communist period, with india, with vietnam, and to some extent with a, they have always been imed at some dramatic demonstration followed by some negotiation that then benefits -- so i think the chinese at proceeding bye their cultural pattern. the concept is an attempt to restructure eurasia, but not entirely largely by military conquest, but through a that will lead these asntries to look at china the central kingdom. hegemonyhe problem is by any one country over eurasia is a pote

. >> i think so as one of their top athletes advocatiing not ony for olympics.i. nobody is training yet. here's simone getting ready for 2020. tell me. i feel like you won everything. what more are you looking for in 2020. >> hopefully to redeem a beamme that was a hiccup. walked away with a bronze. can't complain. it's a metal for team usa and myself. just hopefully go out and represent again. >> you're doing so many things. i don't know how you're juggling it all. you've got this school. you've always wanted to get the degree. not only are you going to the school, your mom is going to the school. tell me about this. >> yes. i think it's special because we've always been two parkway p pod. we get to go to school together. hopefully hers will be harder than me. >> university of the people. >> it's an only school. >> yes. >> so she's going to get her mba. >> yes. >> and you're going study what. >> business. >> business. and i love that your mom is here. she's always here. every time i see simone biles, i know i can see nher close by. she's such a rock to you. she

>> reporter: we remember the ony. >> she said some guyit her. >> reporter: those cries for help, theand angry that someone would do this and i really want to skate today but the doctors all said i shouldn't. >> reporter: now nearly 25 years later, shane stant, the infamous man behind the whack is breaking his silence about the moment he clubbed america's figure skating sweetheart nancy kerrigan in the knee telling "inside edition" it could have been much worse. >> there was initial talk of like cutting her achilles hendon which obvious would cripple her. i didn't think it was necessary. ♪ >> reporter: that moment thrust back into the spotlight following the release of "i, tonya," focusing onhe kerrigan's competitor, tonya harding. >> i would like to begin by saying how sorry i am. >> reporter: harding always denied she helped plan the attack. you never said to jeff, let's do this? >> no. no. >> he never asked for your permission? >> no. >> and you were never part of the planning? >> no. >> did tonya harding know about this plot beforehand? >> i can't say that she did or she didn't. i

go onis a lot longer to this before we have a final resolution, haidi.what are the issues which are outstanding here? james: i think there is a couple of things. one is that the shareholders, founder, are going to have a significant dilution of their equities. but also importantly, the bonds, have perpetual and they are going to get just $15 million in new securities. they plunged 43% to just 7.8 cents on the dollar. this deal does require the approval of the perpetual bondholders. haidi: james, what about the founder, rick adelman? james: yes, i mean, richard -- it's been quite a turnaround, obviously, for him. he started the business. first of all, he started his career as a teenage scrap metal worker in england. he bought assets here and there and then supplied china with various metals. it grenoble into a $10 billion company. now, as of yesterday, before this restructuring deal was officially announced, the value of the company was $263 million. the latest deal puts his equity company 1.8% in the compared to 18% before the restructuring, so you can s

ony were raided and hang of sevenonal is one chinese super stocks set for a 20% rally in 2018.ke a look at what movers are leading gains. rising for all or take her gaining over 5% this morning. rishaad: thank you so much for that. getting you to singapore to get a look at the first word news headlines. >> thank you. the trump administration says it may impose new sanctions on the run as the number of people arrested in street protests nears 1000. the white house says it is heaping its options open after the president tweeted the people of iran are finally acting against a brutal and corrupt regime. u.s.ambassador rice says has no international plants. she wanted and emergency session. >> it takes great avery for the to use the power of their voice against the government especially when their government has a long history of murdering his own people who dare to speak the truth. singapore-based traffic group is denying any involvement in the illicit transfer of fuel to north korea. they owed aid cargo. the shipment had been sold to a little-known hong kong-based company. which t

onis a very emotional topic where the cryptocurrency market will go. the data that can ascribe value to bitcoin. this is what we tried to do. we took two overarching approaches. is it a currency, asset? asset.ed at it as an if it has utility or functionality similar to gold, is it an inflation hedge? looking atcy, we are whether governments would hold this as an fx reserve. and, what is it used for in the market, its current utility? withost recent example price swings in bitcoin reinforces its potential as a medium of exchange is threatened by the fact it's volatility is so extreme. you add in slow transaction times, transaction charges are it isand it for the case supposed to be a potential currency, which is where we see it falling out of favor. spoken to aen't single person who doubts the blockchain technology behind , but a lot of the divisiveness comes from these volatile market movements. are these two separate things? >> we don't doubt the blockchain technology as well, but cryptocurrency is just one application of blockchain. blockchain has ma

discussion ony, a the future of self driving cars in the u.s.. look at the legacy of former president bill clinton . after that, a profile interview with transportation secretary, evenly -- elaine chao. tonight, on the communicators, a look at the internet, broadband expansion and 5g with ceo doniphan falter -- jonathan alter. >> you mentioned that the groups you represent had a lot of work to do. can you talk about that? we hear about these five g networks and these ultra dense broadband's. can you talk about how we get to that stage? >> the ingredient to moving to ensuring our global competitiveness is this technology called broadband. our companies are committed to continuing to making the investment to provide the infrastructure and make sure we get more broadband to americans. it takes a lot of work. it takes the right business models but it also takes forward-looking policy frameworks. announcer: watch the communicators, tonight, on c-span two. the c-span bus tour continues its capitals tour in january with stops in riley, columbia, and mon

herd onying to ride this really divergent republican congress and the house. it is really hard. i think ryan is a really smart guy, serious policy guide. he signedt the cruise up for, but he cannot say he wasn't warned. host: i know you are a student of history. the last speaker of the house to voluntarily leave his position was tip o'neill. every speaker since was either forced out, lost reelection, or the party loses the majority. the job used to be a lot more fun. it used to be a lot more ,owerful than it is today, and you know, there was a great profile -- where was it, the new york times magazine maybe? john boehner, a couple months ago. anyway, it went into almost how delighted john boehner is not to be speaker anymore because his life is just so much better. i came to washington 1972, and congress was never a highly efficient solution -- institution, but it did work. now it barely works at all. this is concerning to those who have watched this for a long time. host: christine is joining us on the democrats line, virginia. good morning. caller: good morning. as far as the