especially for paul, said his friend. >> knowing paul the way i know paul and the way that he could bey nervous about paul taking the stand. >> risky or not, paul was determined to tell the jury his side of the story. >>> coming up. >> i thought, you know, if there was any way this jury thought this man was responsible for this, now they know for sure that he's not. >> but what did the jury think? when "burning suspicion" continues. for all the eyes that get itchy and watery near pollen. there's flonase sensimist. it relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. camping with my daughters was more than just a weekend. it was our time to unplug and be together. with my bladder leakage, i'm not doing that anymore. when i went hiking with the other product, it just didn't fit right and i was always readjusting it. so, now our camping trips are their camping trips. but with the new sizes of depend fit-flex, it feels like it was made for me. i'm ready to get back our time together. intro

>> paul: welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. president trump upending the foreign policy status quo again this week with announcing that the united states would exit the iran nuclear accord. this, as three americans detaped in north korea arrived home early thursday, ahead of a summit now set for june 12th in singapore between president trump and kim jong un. the president voicing optimism that the meeting would be a success. >> i really think he wants to do something and bring the country into the real world. i really believe that, john. i think that we're going to have a success. i think this will be a very big success. >> paul: joining the panel this week, dan henninger, bill mcgurn and in london, editorial board member mary kissel. dan, you agree first with the decision to withdraw? >> absolutely agree with that decision, paul. i think it had to be done to drive negotiations with the europeans, basically dragging their heels on it. there was a basic agreement that the deal that obama and john kerry did had imperfections. it

and paul? gone.like the romance that burned too bright before it vanished with its victim in a cloud of smoke. >> and i can still hear a voice and see her smile. i know she's -- i know she's here. that's all for this edition of "dateline." . >> this is "dateline". >> this doesn't happen in our happy little world. >> their world shatters. a young mother strangled. >> we had a homicide. we had no suspects. >> also no evidence but police found a dark side. >> she slept with the children and the door locked. >> and finally a vital clue. what happened to nancy the day she

i'll see you next week. [ woman vocalizing ] paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul gigot, senior intelligence and law enforcement officials held two-high level briefings thursday for republican and democratic lawmakers on the russia investigation amid allegation that is the fbi used a top secret informant to spy on the trump campaign. both meetings were held as the president raised new questions about the probe and called for the department of justice to look into whether his campaign was surveilled for political purposes. wall street journal columnist kim strassel has been following this story from the beginning. i spoke with her earlier. urging the justice department to cooperate with justice department committee and new cooperation but if history is a guide here we have to wait and see what happens because there's history of not cooperating. >> yeah, i would bet on not cooperation not only refusal to make documents available but serious redactions have been sent over, doj's refusal to make witnesses available for different members an committees in the house and i

paul: not really. no. lemonis: how come, paul? the tension and stress of locations and closing, and that all fell apart. lemonis: it didn't fall apart on my end. my money got spent. i haven't gotten one license fee of any kind, not a penny, not a nickel, not a dime. paul: we're trying to hold this together. lemonis: what do you want me to do? i need you to give me some direction. paul: work with craig on a temporary lease agreement. lemonis: you want me to work a deal out with the landlord so it lets parlour off the hook? yes or no? paul: yeah. lemonis: great. no. paul: what you brought up a couple of days ago was not true. i didn't have the proof. and you do this to me time and time again. mike: paul, i'm not going to go back 6 months and try to remember. i don't know. paul: that's a lie. lemonis: i'm here today i no wondering, "what if?" uncertainties of hep c. i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribe

paul: paul ryan is -- >> he is. paul: explain that.rodrÍguez, who was running the post 9/11 interrogation program and he ordered that the tapes would be -- should be destroyed because he didn't want some of the agents who were doing this to be exposed? >> he asked gina haspil to draft cable ordering destruction, rodrÍguez had not gotten authority to do what he asked gina to do. paul: and also, wasn't there not a special counsel investigation? >> exactly. no misconduct from gina haspil. paul: they never indicted rodrÍguez either. when the interrogation techniques were applied, they were legal, series of memos from the justice department saying that they were legal, correct? >> correct, the law has since changed and by all accounts gina is going to say at the committee that she has no intention of going back to the same program without the legal authority. paul: well, this leads to the question, if you are somebody at the cia who is tasked with protecting the united states and preventing another attack and you get a memo that says, you k

>> it certainly showed, paul. i kind of love that seattle is doing this because it will drive more jobs to my beautiful home state that has low taxes and is very welcoming to businesses. as we said in our editorial this week, amazon should just cross seattle off the list along with every other city like austin and denver that piped up and supported this mess. >>paul: alicia, a lot of different cities, some of them even wrote to amazon in saying, don't be the bully. don't fight this. that's not what you should do. but amazon wasn't alone.there are a lot of other businesses, even microsoft spoke up and said this is not the way to get growth in the city. >> i think that's right. over 300 businesses wrote to the city council saying, this will hurt growth. even the trade unions wrote then you will tax away our jobs. the way to create a regulatory environment with low tax that help create jobs. >>paul: what about other cities competing? do you see any favorites emerging at all from amazon? >> i think austin and denver m

>> that's exactly it, paul.t try to impose an income tax last year and that was 2.25% income tax on workers and washington does not have a state income tax and a state court t ruled that unconstitutional. >> paul: the constitution bans localities and cities from imposing them. >> they tried to do it by imposing a head tax which is a tax on jobs. >> paul: which doesn't make sense if you want jobs in the city, dan. >> yeah, it doesn't make -- it doesn't make sense but in a way it does. because i think what's going on here is that seattle, like the state of oregon, like a lot of other states, has a big problem with its public pension obligations. oregon has been described as one of the states that does have difficulty meeting public pension obligations. >> paul: washington state does too. >> a lot of states have thatpr problem. the rubber is hitting the road. cities are cutting back on public services. that's what i think has happened to seattle. >> paul: there's a competition goingg on where amazon is lookig for a

fbi raids paul manafort's house. they take the suits and ties and clocks or whatever, because they figured out where the money came from to pay for those things. and according to that indictment, that money turns up nowhere as paul manafort's taxable income from his legitimate overseas consulting company. so as moneylaundering cases go, it's not that complicated. as tax evasion cases go, it's not that complicated. and it all leads back to ukraine. and manafort's ukraine stuff is embarrassing and awkward enough for him that when it was first revealed in the american press, it got him fired off the trump campaign. but it remains of interest to prosecutors here in this country because of moneylaundering and tax evasion, and it remains of interest to prosecutors in ukraine because ukraine as a country and as a new post yanukovych government is trying to figure out what happened to all that money, what happened to their country's wealth when manafort's guy was in charge and stealing all the money. sure, a lot of it went t

quote, in the united states paul j. manafort is facing prosecution on charges of money laundering and financial fraud, stemming from his decade of work for a pro-russian political party in ukraine. but in ukraine, four cases involving mr. manafort have been effectively frozen by ukraine's chief prosecutor. quote, keenly aware of president trump's distaste for the investigation by the special counsel robert mueller into possible collusion between russia and his campaign, some ukrainian lawmakers athe manafort cases are now, quote, just too sensitive. the decision to halt the investigations by an anti-corruption prosecutor was handed down at a delicate moment for ukraine, as the trump administration was finalizing plans to sell that country sophisticated anti-tank missiles called javelins. the state department issued an export license for the javelin missiles on december 22nd. on march 2nd, the pentagon announced the final approval of the sale of the javelins and their launching units. the order to halt investigations int

paul: yeah.nt to summarize the debt, as i understand it. it's made up of bank loans, legal bills, the build-out loan for this place, taxes, and payables. you said that you -- man: ah, farrell's crowd, look this way! 'cause i got something very important to say! lemonis: so, the total amount of debt... [ drums beating ] you want to hear something funny? that's the reason people don't come back here. shauna: i know it is. lemonis: it's actually annoying. it can be done in a more elegant way. i don't want to come here and enjoy a meal if it's not my birthday, 'cause i don't want to listen to that nine times. $1,940,000 is the total debt for this entire company, and you have no cash. i mean, it's just -- it's like a train wreck. paul: yeah. lemonis: out of their five locations, three are making money, generating profits of just over $600,000 last year. but when you look at the two remaining locations, their losses take that profit down to just about $250,000. and then you factor in servicing debt of

i'm paul allen.his is daybreak australia and we are two hours away from the open. >> it is after 6 p.m. in new york. i'm betty liu. we will be looking at how all the action in wall street will play into the asia-pacific trading day. we know most of the major closed yesterday but they are waking up to good news on apple, as we as mentioned. the iphone sales really topping estimates and quelling concerns that they were going to be some pretty dismal numbers coming out for the iphone x pick up. the markets still closed kind of loosely. the dow falling 64 points. as you can see, the tech heavy nasdaq powering ahead, setting up or perhaps a mostly higher open in asia. paul: yeah, we are off to a reasonably good start in this part of the world as well. new zealand has been trading for a couple of minutes. up slightly, five points. the kiwi dollar edging closer to $.70. in australia, we are set up for some modest gains as well. futures in australia pointing slightly higher. the aussie dollar dipping below 7

this is bloomberg. ♪ paul: i am paul allen in sydney.ty: and you are watching "daybreak australia". no change ofling its path of inflation of the 2% target, and were joined from chicago by jim the uncle of beyond core research. after seeing the fed statement, what is your reaction? >> the fed is on course to raise rates and if you look at the market probabilities, they are assigning 100% chance they're going to raise rates in june, and a 77% chance of another rate hike in september. the statement is fine, they are symmetrical, but the next meeting in june, they are going to raise rates in june, and september. what is warning the market is if the fed goes too far. we have quantitative tightening, and they're raising rates and western to see markets start to have a bit of a problem by a backdrop is the economy is booming and earnings are through the roof and everything is going -- going great, except equity is not making progress because there's a fear that the fed is going to do what they are good at and go too far. betty: they have gone

>> paul: yeah, yeah. normal? >> paul: that's normal, yeah, especially for visitors. >> anthony: they're friendly here. >> paul: but it's a friendly kidnapping, you know? >> anthony: well, i actually -- i've read accounts of people who've actually were kidnapped in this country, who -- >> paul: yeah, yeah. it happened once with, uh, u.n. monitors. they disappeared. >> anthony: they came back like ten pounds heavier and hung-over? >> paul: they -- they found them in a cabin up in the mountains partying. they had bumped into a wedding party and were there for two days. >> anthony: so how long have you lived here? >> paul: oh, about 12 years, 12, 13 years. >> anthony: so you've been hung-over for 12 years? >> paul: yeah, yeah. pretty much. >> anthony: paul rimple is an american-born journalist and he's seen it all. he takes me to tbilisi's old city to eat at the gabriadze café. when you first arrived, who was -- who was running things back then? >> paul: eduard shevardnadze. >> anthony: ah, those were -- so t

paul wood's reports. paul: donald trump's run for the u.s. presidency was watched with alarm by the ukraine government, dismayed by his pro-russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russianests in the ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the top of the rainian government. , according to sources here and outside ukraine. ukrainianstrue, t badly miscalculated, backing the losing side in the u.s. election. in early 2017, president poroshenko was desperate to get talks with donald trum but he was being offered little more than a white house photo op. according to a senior official here who has direct knowledge of what happened, poroshenko t instruct close associates to open a backchannel. that backchannel, our source says, was president trump's personal lawyer and trusted fixer, michael cohen. the senior official ohen was paid $400,000. a second source says it was more. ere is no suggestion tha trump knew of this. we are told

paul: the weather's much better. lisa: thank you so much to paul mcnamara.o craver have taken over much of the globe details next. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: what'd you miss? venezuela all of our has inflated more than 16,000% in the past year. bringing in foreign hard currency is a priority. you have just come back from caracas and talking to friends and people there, you notice people are very busy, those who have the skills in terms of mining cryptocurrencies. what is going on? >> without even asking people come i had heard that bitcoins was popular there because of the economic distortions. something they were drawing doing on the side for increased revenue. machine, andy by a have the programming and it just runs 24/7 and they are anywhere from six dollars a day to a grand a month, for middle-class families is going along way. key thing to making it work for making economical massive subsidies by the government for electricity. that is a key cost for running these mining spirit for that to change, that would then become arguably potentially not as at

paul ryan step down.'s as if the republican conference is being led by a pied piper who has no hold over them. what's going happen here? >> it was untenable from the beginning. i think that it's probably very smart for republicans to bring in a new face with a new agenda and give something all republicans can run on for november. lou: gina, the last word. >> jim jordan would be great. lou: gina loudon, charlie hurt, thank you for joining us. >> i think your autoworkers and your auto companies in this country will be very happy with what is going to happen. you'll see very soon what i'm talking about. gerri: breaking news this morning, a big new twist in the trade were peered president trump wants to slap a 25% tariff on all foreign cars up from 2.5%. we'll have reaction. cheryl: big news there. investors focused on the side and on trade good to doubt turning losses and a 52-point gain at the close after the fed signaled it would hike interest

paul ryan step down.tunning. it's as if the republican conference is being led by a pied piper who has no hold over them. what's going happen here? >> it was untenable from the beginning. i think that it's probably very smart for republicans to bring in a new face with a new agenda and give something all republicans can run on for november. lou: gina, the last word. >> jim jordan would be great. lou: gina loudon, charlie hurt, thank you for joining us. here's lou dobbs. . lou: good evening, everybody. our top stories tonight, president trump taking aim at the criminal deep state as the spy gate scandal widens and bears all of the markings of an obama-led administration attack on president trump's campaign and transition. troubling details emerging about what all but certainly was a counter intelligence investigation against the trump campaign run by top officials of the intelligence community under president obama. congressman matt gates is among those now calling for a second special counsel to investiga

paul: what kind of problems?aller: for example, the other day i was at my town hall and an individual told me i was dishonorably discharged. right on my dd-214 it says honorable, but the guy gave me a hard time. i am still getting hassles at this point. i've been exposed to agent orange. i have prostate cancer. but they don't care, nobody cares. paul: the story of jeff there. we will get the story of alvin, then get back to our guests. peoria, arizona. yes, alvin? caller: first of all, i want to thank ken burns. he is doing a fantastic job, not only addressing vietnam, but i followed him with the civil war, black baseball, etc., etc. in my experience as a 21-year-old in 1964, i enlisted in the u.s. army basically believing that i would be sent to vietnam. fate intervened and i was sent to korea instead of vietnam. every other class was sent to vietnam. the class in between was sent someplace else. i served in the seventh infantry division in korea. but i did follow vietnam very closely. and i was young, naive, an

a strange new legal defense fund for donald trump for president campaign chairman paul manafort. now, i need to tell you, we don't know exactly who set this up. part of me thinks it might be a prank. "the washington post" reports tonight that it looks like it was initially registered as a web domain right after christmas and that it was updated somehow in late february, but today it went live. today unnamed and unknown self-described long-term friends of paul manafort put out a statement announcing the existence of this website and this -- what purports to be this fund. i say it seems like it could potentially be a prank or a stunt, or it's at least a little strange in part because this website that they launched today, this paul manafort defense fund, kind of feels like it was cheaply translated from some other language. quote, let's band together and allow paul's position to be fully expressed and create an even playing field. in english, playing field is two

but paul wood had it first. paul wood also reported at the time that the cia and the fbi had formed a joint working group that among other things had been looking during the campaign at the connections between the trump campaign and russia, and specifically, they had been look at the connection of whether russian money had made its way into the u.s. presidential election. well, we didn't know anything than at the time, that paul wood first reported it, a year ago january, but ultimately, that was borne out. it's one of the things i ended up asking james clapper about last night because that's in his new book too. he writes about that joint intelligence and law enforcement working group that met together in the united states during the presidential campaign just as paul wood reported last january. james clapper says in his book about that quote, we all agreed that russia was behind an unprecedented aggressive multifaceted influence campaign using cybertheft and cyberespionage, propaganda across the broadcast spec

paul ryan step down.it's stunning. it's as if the republican conference is being led by a pied piper who has no hold over them. what's going happen here? >> it was untenable from the beginning. i think that it's probably very smart for republicans to bring in a new face with a new agenda and give something all republicans can run on for november. lou: gina, the last word. >> jim jordan would be great. lou: gina loudon, charlie hurt, thank you for joining us. be sure to tune into the fox news channel and "tucker carlson." kennedy: spygate could be one of the biggest scandals in history, that according to president trump who upped the ante with the justice department. it does not appear he plans to back down anytime soon. the president has been pushing the story that the fbi had a confidential informant inside the campaign spying on him for political purposes. today on the white house lawn he put them all on notice. president trump: everybody wants this solved.

yohai as part of their case against paul manafort or part of any future case against paul manafort that's yet to be brought? >> that's unclear. but it would seem to me that that would be the logical assumption you could make here. it's worth pointing out that they've already used yohai in a sense. if you look at the first indictment in october in washington, d.c. and you look at the second indictment in virginia, especially the one in virginia, a lot of that information about the bank loans and the bank fraud has to do with loans that were taken out in conjunction with jeffrey yohai. >> and so that implied that at least in the case of mr. yohai if not testimony and information from him may have already been used to in part build the case against manafort. >> right. i've spoken to legal experts who have speculated -- yohai as a witness might be slightly problematic. he's pled guilty. you're going to have a credibility issue there. but if you're going to trial, and as we know mr. manafort wants to go to trial, if you need someone to help round out the narrative, so to speak, or you need som

this is bloomberg. ♪ paul: i am paul allen in sydney.u are watching "daybreak: australia." be the largest initial public offering since 2014. let's get more from the managing director from the hive who has been talking about tech topics, including ai. i want to get your thoughts on xiaomi. there's a lot of talks about how they are going to be launching a , even here in the u.s., india. what are your thoughts on their filing? >> it remains to be seen how the filing does and what comes out of it. there is no doubt in my mind that for the next foreseeable decade, markets like india are important for people trying to sell these smart devices. phones are one part of the equation. smart devices in various elements are going to be important and at the end of the day all of these companies want a relationship with the customer and use that data to sell them something on top of this phone, the gillettee strategy of selling you the razor and then you have to keep buying the blades. betty: that's right. certainly a smart strategy, sumant. smart pho

that was all paul's doing. the election was later won by another team.ou have the one team that brought him in position for the con veng. >> nomination. >> paul brought him through the convention. >> for the nomination. >> at the convention? >> yep. >> paul took him through the convention then kellyanne, david and that team, steve bannon brought him to victory in november. whatever it takes. i don't think was a pro in this. >> all right. that's an interest iing take. thank you very much, michael. appreciate your time. >> thank you very much for invite iing me. >> and next, president trump says he's love to sit down with the man leading this. >> everybody sees it now as it is a pure witch hunt. >> up to what, 52 or 53 times? is he serious? and another white house resignation tonight. why did the vice president's doctor leave today? metastatic breast cancer is relentless, but i'm relentless too. mbc doesn't take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with new everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind that can be taken every day. in fact, verze

this report from our producer in new york suzanne kianpour and correspondent paul wood in kiev.onald trump's run for the us presidency was watched with alarm by ukraine's government, dismayed by his apparently pro—russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russian interests in ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the very top of the ukrainian government, according to sources

haidi: paul allen is standing by for us. paul? paul: a very warm and sunny here.the svevnthenth and this is the warmest received i have remembered. the budgeted forecast for 2019. the return to surplus a year later of $2.2 billion in tax cuts coming as well. mediumr year for low and income earners at the maximum level. as with every budget, there are assumptions involved, particularly in this case about gdp projections and wages growth. earlier, we were speaking to the opposition finance person. here is what he had to say. 2019,have seen surplus in is it based on optimistic of substance about -- assumptions on wages, based on parliament. on what may or may not be a temporary spark in revenue coming from very positive global conditions. the first surplus is based exclusively on one change which is bringing the tobacco tax collection forward a year. the budget is built on very shaky foundation. paul: i'm joined with one of the people who well at all the answers to the questions, the finance minister, mattias korman joining us. thank you for joining us today. let's s

paul manafort says no such thing. part of the -- that peculiar odor emanating from richard sea cord's legal defense fund in the contra days was the lack of any identifying information that accompanied those gigantic donations to sea cord from swiss bank accounts where he and his coconspirators in that international scheme had stashed some of their ill gotten gains. i don't know who set up the do not say paul manafort legal defense fund irrevocable trust and started soliciting donations for it today with this my space website. but it really does appear to be a pretty slop dash effort. a lot of the i had i don't me a lot of the idiom is super weird. there is no reason to think we would have any disclosure as to who set up this anonymous legal defense fund and who fills it up with money for paul manafort's use. they do take credit cards, they take checks, they take money orders. presumably you can drop off some jewelry you want to pawn. >>> and the new mysterious manafort legal defense fund has opened up today on a day w

paul was convicted of cocaine trafficking and sentenced to two life terms in levinworth but paul's dad was shot dead by a troubled young man he knew and paul decided to change his own life. >> i had a goal and a plan when i came out that i was going to help as many at risk youth as possible. >> reporter: and he did. after 23 years, he was released on good behavior. by chance, the old friends ran into each other at a charity event. >> i said, paul weinstock, i went to school with him. >> reporter: they quickly found common ground again. >> change is not what you say but what you what? >> do. >> reporter: keeping teens out of jail through a mentoring program for kids charged with a crime. your styles are different? >> yes. >> reporter: you're a little more in their face? >> yeah, i'm a little hard with them at times because sometimes they can understand it better from a person that experienced it. >> reporter: the good cop and ex-criminal combo is working. >> well, i think they are two good people. >> it's a blessing because i ain't really had that positive role model growing up. >> repo

paul: morning, erik. how focused are your clients on what others say it is the key threshold of 3% yields? paul: very focused. rates are part of our fixed-income business. it is a very important psychological number. most of what usually is what it -- most important is what it reflects. continued momentum, continued confidence in this momentum story. but the thing to watch is how gradual inflation will come through. we have seen some recent numbers that suggest it is very gradual, a smooth entry point. of course, the 2% number has been out there for a while. people are calling for the $2.75 to $2.85 ratio. this change at all as the 10-year purchased the 3% marker -- approaches the 3% marker? paul: we have seen a pickup in volume in the first quarter of this year. rates investors get excited when there is a dispersed set of views on where we go. no one thinks we will stay necessarily at this rate. looking for us to go higher, some looking for us to go lower. we've seen very active trading. for the market u

paul ryan, some are saying he needs to go now.y cannot withstand several more months of him making misdirected calls like what we saw with the farm bill today. what do you say? >> i agree. when i heard you say he's on his way out, it was music to my ears. the interesting thing is, we -- congress doesn't necessarily have to pick from congressional members. this could be literally anyone in the world. lou dobbs, cheryl casone. they don't have to pick someone from within their ranks. with the current ratings of congress, maybe they should pick an outsider. cheryl: you have 40 conservatives signing this letter for jim jordan to take over. we had a couple guests on the air saying jim jordan would be a great pick. and he wants to fight for the true conservative beliefs of the party. >> i'll speak for talk radio. most of of my colleagues say jim jordan. and he's good on tv. he's combative when necessary. and he'll go on these other networks and be combative but it's in a friendly way. he's articulate. he's have much involved in all this

so to speak. >> 2:00 for dustin paul. >> the person who visits paul the most is the woman who helpedom every grandmother, but he is a real good-hearted kind person and never was in trouble his whole life. never even got in a fight in school. but i think basically there was a substance abuse periodically through the years. that's what caused this behavior. >> me and my grandmother are really close. she's like a second mom to me, basically. my grandmother. >> we've always been very close. very close. >> though his grandmother has arrived in person to visit -- >> there he is. hey, dusty. >> even at the jail visitation is conducted through a video link between the housing unit and a visitor center. >> so here's the news of the week. right after i left for a few hours i started choking really hard, like i couldn't breathe. so i went to emergency, and i was there for four days. >> hmm. >> so they diagnosed me with pneumonia, copd, congestive heart failure. >> really? >> yeah. they're going to monitor me real closely. >> that is not good. >> no, it's not good. it sounds horrible. >> i'll sa