top diplomat arrives in washington for talks, the former deputy governor of the bank of england paul tucker tells me both sides are playing with fire. >>> plus -- he's the pulitzer prize winner author behind the book and hit tv serious "looming tower." lawrence wright joins me with a new book "god save texas" and why minorities in america could change its political future. >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. >>> will it happen or won't it? president trump says today that he'll know more next week about the fate of his planned singapore summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. secretary of state me pompeo says planning is going ahead, this as he meets the chinese foreign minute wang yi for talks on north korea, but also on u.s./china trade issues. the two most powerful economies in the world are playing with fire according to my first guest tonight. a fire that could spark a full-fledged trade war, even inadvertently. paul tucker helped steer the uk through the worst of the global financial crisis when he was deputy governor of the bank

david: we are going to welcome paul tucker. mr. er is a senior fellow at the harvard business school and author of "unelected power." welcome. take your book, fascinating book, about the divorce between political influence in central banks, and apply it to the decision today. was this decision from the bank of england strictly data dependent and independent of political considerations, or do politics enter into that? paul: i doubt whether politics entered into it. it looked like a regular decision. one of the striking things about it is your reporters have been emphasizing the 7-2 vote. arehe u.k., the two described as a minority vote. this is a committee that liberates and has a free vote. that is the strength of that system. these decisions of the central banks have real effects on real people in the real world. should it be entirely the board? should they take into account brexit and the effect on the u.k. economy and people? paul: they should not take account of politics in terms of favoring one side or the other. of course they

sir paul tucker has seen it all.checked power the people who controlled those financial levers the topic of his new book. welcome to power lunch >> thank you for having me >> there's a lot of critics of central banks in the world but think central bankers. do they have too much power in the world? >> some think they have. >> we need to give them clear objectives and clear strengths on their powers. that shouldn't have been a surprise they should have been -- >> you're saying you should not have been allowed to do so --? >> firms are fundamentally best. there's no repairing them. >> it was one of the rules, it was. >> central banks should not be able to direct credit over here favoring one part of the economy over another part of the economy. they need to focus on the key mission of keeping the monetary system. >> what would have happened after the financial crisis aren't they largely credited with helping save the system with an all out collapse >> that's true too the elected politicians did much more, this time they

go with that. >> tucker: i wouldn't be comfortable having dinner with paul manafort, personally. >> okay>> tucker: is this a referendum on the moral character of paul manafort? i can see pleads guilty. but no. this is a question very specifically about whether or not officials in in the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. there's no evidence of that. this whole thing is a crock designed to do what impeachment is designed to do. >> listen to the conversation you had with byron and jonathan and what's interesting to me is this. the president has not cooperated with this investigation at all. all we hear his tweet, tweet, tweet. i know you want to talk about the fact that the poll numbers are coming down on the mueller investigation. this president is running an opposition campaign against bob mueller for the last six months. if i spent six months leading you down and saying that tucker carlson -- >> tucker: pour bob mueller! >> tucker carlson likes to steal cars at night. i'm sure i could get a number of people to believe that. >> tucker: 's of the president's posture shou

think omar mateen was a muslim. >> tucker: if there was a group of people who wanted to kill you, you'd probably want to name them and oppose them. why wouldn't brandon pauloing that? >> i don't know. it's almost like because it doesn't fit into the narrative, so you kind of have to be in lockstep. >> tucker: whose behalf is he working on? >> i think he's just working on behalf of msnbc and the democratic party. i'm really not sure itsn has muh to do s with gay people. >> tucker: oh oh! is not a civil rights activist, he's a political hack who will say anything to get his candidate elected. >> i think you might be onto something. shocking i realize, incredibly shocking. that might be what's happening here. >> tucker: thank you. i knew you would explain it. i was thinking, really? concentration camps? i don't know. i don't catch all the news. i appreciated clearing that up. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: great to see you. president trump took another shot at nfl players who kneel for thee national anthem. did the nfl here it? what is their view on that these days by the way? i the latest coming out. ♪ rbor. i'm gonna regret that. with new car replaceme

paul. eric gordon...off the bench...14-points in the first half. --pj tucker got in the mix as well... 2nd qtr, fast break, paul finds him on the baselline... shot is good. rockets went into halftime with a 14-point lead. --out of the locker room, the warriors needed something... and kd, brought the offense. kept going to the rack.. led all scorers with 38-points --but houston kept punching back... paul...with the step back. 16-pts for him. --then, in the 4th, tucker.... dagger from the baseline to go up 19. he finished with 22. warriors trailed by as many as 28...their largest deficit of the playoffs. steph curry went 1-of-8 from three. 127-105 your final...houston ties it up. game 3 sunday in oakland. (mark) and even though the warriors were on the road again tonight... fans gathered in the east bay to support the defending champs. kron 4's hermela aregawi is live in oakland tonight where there is a watch party. hermela? (grant) (grant) still ahead... an animal cruelty video is circulating on a popular social media app and tonight two teenagers have been arr

paul. eric gordon...off the bench...14-points in the first half. --pj tucker got in the mix as well... 2nd qtr, fast break, paul finds him on the baselline... shot is good. rockets went into halftime with a 14-point lead. --out of the locker room, the warriors needed something... and kd, brought the offense. kept going to the rack.. led all scorers with 38-points houston kept punching back... paul...with the step back. 16-pts for him. --then, in the 4th, tucker.... dagger from the baseline to go up 19. he finished with 22. warriors trailed by as many as 28...their largest deficit of the playoffs. steph curry went 1-of-8 from three. 127-105 your final...houston ties it up. game 3 sunday in oakland. <>"we set the tone early with our own play and allowed them to get some confidence and some easy buckets in transition, let guys get going a little bit. give them the credit, they came out and played a great game, got everybody going, so we got what they kicked out butts, no other way to say it. (mark) game 3 set for sunday evening at 5 at oracle. earlier átonight, k

they give them a letter commercial for your here gratian stomach immigration >> tucker: thankfully paul ryan did bond border security prospects aroune world. i'm sure they are grateful. mark, thank you. appreciate it. white house correspondents dinner was held saturday night. comedian michelle wolf delivered a monologue that many in the crowd, thought it was important taste. >> i actually really like sarah. i think she's really so resourceful. she burns facts and sheaves of that asked to create a perfect smoky eye. may be she's born with it. maybe it's lives. probably live. i'm not sure what to call several -- what is uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women? i know. and aunt end. >> tucker: ed henry was among many other things including our friend, president of the white house correspondents association. he's in a position of running this dinner, firing the entertainment, et cetera. he went on saturday. what was your response? >> i was appalled. among other things, we invited sarah sanders to be our guest for dinner. essentially in our home. she was insulted by th

. >> tucker: i wouldn't be comfortable having dinner with paul manafort. but it is it a question specifically about whether or not officials in the trump campaign colluded and n there is no evidence or suggestion and designed to do what impoachment is. nlisten to the conversation. what is interesting to me. the president has not cooperated. and all we have satweet, tweet, tweet. and poll numbers are coming down. the president isun aring an opposition campaign against mueller for six months. and if i spent six months beating you down. and tucker carlson likes to steal cars at night. i am sure a number of people would thanl. >> it is a democratic staff. take my campaign and show up guns drawn roust his wife out of bed and take admeral flynn on the basis of no real climb and threaten his son and be cool with the rule of law? that is not the rule of law. >> perjury traps to me like you are afraid of your client. >> tucker: he's not my client. martha stewart, a threat to no one under investigation by the same group of people roughly speaking and she went to pri

paul playing with such confidence. the crossover move on steph curry. tucker scoring 22 points. he had five three-pointers.i had confidence in his team's style of play all along. >> we are very comfortable about who we are. we can beat anybody, anywhere, any time based how we play. >> it is not about a chess match. >> making this a lot more interesting. game three sunday. it could go either way. >> there you go. lindsay, thank you very much. okay. so an american is about to become a royal. britain's u.s. ambassador is going to join us to preview the royal wedding, among other things. meghan markle just released a statement about her father. we will bring it to you next. so, dave here is taking the family up to the lake for the weekend. but without the white knuckles this time. 'cuz his new 2018 ford f-150 has blis with trailer coverage. it's brainiac smart. not only does it watch your f-150's blind spots, it's got your trailer covered too. just another reason why ford f-series is america's best-selling truck for 41 straight years. ♪ this is the new 2018 ford f-150. it doesn't just raise the bar, pal. it is

paul playing with confidence. look at this. the crossover on steph curry. tucker scored 22 points and 5 three-pointers.five players in double figures. mike dantonio has confidence. >>> and this is almost worth the ticket. last night, it was "game of thrones" looking. the arrows symbolizing the opponents they eliminated. struck them out one at a time. we get to the game. game three of the western conference finals. vegas made a statement early. scored in the first minute. and marc fleury. takes that goal. they are making everybody crazy. the competition puts you over the edge. and karolina pliskova was upset because she fell to her opponent and took it out on her racket. >> been there. >> temper tantrums. >> you have to contain it. >> really? >> she was hot. >> we hope she has a better day. look at that. that is aggression. that's aggression. >>> one of my favorites this morning. yanny or laurel. we were talking about this yesterday after the clip went viral. which do you hear? it depends on frequency. too technical. the nba crew had fun with it. charles barkley. >> yanny. yann yoerks. -- yanny. >> i th

tucker: [laughs] okay. >> he made the invitation in public and then you start to see during the summer of 2016 -- we have an email that is titled kremlin connection, an offer made to pauler campaign to connect donald trump and vladimir putin again. kremlin connection. >> tucker: did they connect? do we have evidence he talked to putin? >> i don't believe they connected. >> tucker: where's the evidence? >> first, don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.st evidence gives the fbi and the department of justice -- >> tucker: where's the smoking gun? i watch rachel maddow. i get it. there are a lot of russians and russian people and emails, but where is the actual proof that something happened after more than a year of this?si >> i don't have subpoena power. bob mueller does. >> tucker: you have high't security clearance and you're on the intel committee. presumably you have more than i like a clip of him at a press conference. >> i'm only giving you the evidence i've seen in an unclassified manner. i'm telling you all of that warrants looking at whether or not we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt conspiracy to defraud the united states. >> tucker: aren't we working on th

. >> in fairness, tucker, someone should define amnesty on both sides of the issue. when you look at the four bills, one of them is pauls, one of them is the democrat dreamers act. but like the senate said it, if none of them get to 18, none of them go through. >> tucker: the last election was about the border wall. you can argue about whether it works or not but voters worked for that. they are not close to getting it and they are pushing to legalize people here illegally. it seems like an inversion of the priorities of voters. >> first of all, the administration asked for a 75 miles of wall in the last alumni that ends on september 30, they got 90. the administration got a 10% increase in dhs funding, so that's not, we don't care about borders. i think we will be surprised to find out, what if we ever get a chance to vote on something, because a house, tucker, never has. i've been critical about what they don't do. if we never get a chance to vote on immigration and border security together, i think you would be surprised to know how many people support border security. >> tucker: clearly i don't believe that for a s

tucker who scored 22 points. golden state trailed bias many as 19 in the first half. kevin due rant, the conduct and -- durant, the dunk and the foul. chris paul, air gordon added 27 off the bench. houston put it on cruise control, 127-105 tieing the series at a game a piece. >> we got what we deserved so they kicked our butts. they were desperate tonight, and they played like it, and we didn't. the results showed. >> obviously the cliche' is we came here and did what we were supposed to do, but that's a good feeling. better than the alternative. former giant, adam duval goes deep. belt gets run off by the home plate umpire, cincinnati witness 6-3 -- wins 6-3. belt not happy. >> i don't think i could have touched it. you heard that guy say he's trying to get through the game fast, and then you makes calls like that. i can't imagine he thought was a strike. you have to wonder. >> woo! the catch of the night in boston, yeah, he held on. unfortunately, bogart had the hit of the night. probably broke a store front window down. boston beat the as 6-4. the big billboard on the monster to keep the home runs in the park, because the balls were breakin

paul, look at that move. unbelievable. just trying to get steph curry, then, here we go, and these guys, p.j. tucker scored 22 points, five three-pointers, the rockets had five players who finished in double figures, three had 22. mike d'antoni had confidence in his team's style of play all game long. >> we're very comfortable about who we are. and we can beat anybody, anywhere, anytime. >> we focus on what we're supposed to do. we don't worry about who we're playing against. it is about us. >> to the nhl, if you haven't seen the vegas golden knights pregame festivities, it is almost worth it. last night's show, the game of thrones type drama that you saw here and then the pyrotechnic display symbolizing the opponents they eliminated. you see the arrows shooting off the teams they knocked out. as for the actual game, vegas made a statement early, the golden knights scoring in first minute. marc-andre fleury, 33 saves. vegas, two wins away from advancing to the stanley cup final. >>> a love of sport prevailing through unbelievable circumstances. >> oh, my. >> hawaii, we have been talking about it, un