phil mattingly in washington for us. coming up, we will hear from the cofounder of airbnb.e entrepreneurs meeting with president obama today for a summit on how entrepreneurship can install some of the world's biggest problems. ♪ it is 10:00 a.m. and san francisco and 1:00 a.m. and hong kong. mark: this is "bloomberg market to." john kerry will travel russia at meet with president putin and other officials tomorrow to discuss a full range of bilateral and regional issues including iran, syria, and ukraine. the state department released the news in an e-mail statement. european finance ministers are looking for some sign of progress from greece today. the government is running out of cash. aboutow, it has to pay $840 million to the imf. the saudi king is skipping camp david -- a number of issues will prevent the king from attending. the saudi's and other gulf countries have been concerned the united states is being too accommodating toward iran.

joining me now is phil mattingly. tional correspondent, this is the first time i have said that on air with you. phil: i am honored that you would say it. we will call it official then. alix: the president's advocacy pits him against many democrats in this field. phil: today was fascinating for a lot of reasons, republicans have had a lot of problems with their practices, where they have created their products, that the president going there is almost an effort to rile up the very people he needs to get on his side. here is the white house perspective on this. engage and sit back and let others take the lead. nike is willing to make jobs based on this deal and let's work with them and raise standards and see where we can get the vietnamese to have standards raised as they work on this. that is the white house perspective here and that is what they are trying to achieve. alix, he has a long way to go, his party is not convinced. alix: what if this deal is not fast track and we head into a presidential cycle? phil: big p

brendan: phil mattingly, thank you. have a conversation with tom keene about taking everything with you seriously. number 3, 13 years worth of satellite imagery has been compiled into one map until the dow average -- until the average cloud cover across the world -- dark blue areas remain -- mean dark clouds, -- crew mean -- dark blue areas mean no clouds white areas mean cloud coverage. jerry webman point tell you can see california, too. number two, new york. this is expected to fetch a lot of money today. that would break the record for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture at an auction. tom: i think it is such a statement to the middle 20th century. coming out of world war ii. jerry: i would rather have -- brendan: can we just keep talking art with jerry webman? number one is video. chris cryer scored two goals for the washington capitals. tom: this is the heart of the playoffs right now. the rangers/capitals at montreal, tampa bay, then go on to another round after that. game to game is totally frantic and c

brendan: phil mattingly is following the race to the white house. d take this at face value. phil: the bigger issue is less about my cut command more about the straw poll. his willingness not to invest money in this is putting the kill shot on the straw poll for what this was. there are still a chance marco rubio will play. it is a shifting in the ground on how early primary states are working, especially when i comes to iowa it costs money and it is not worth it. if he is not going to play, who wants to. what does a party have to do image wise to manage the candidates in the primaries here? >> fox news release they were going to put the top 10 candidates released on a top five polls. carly come the only woman in the republican field. do you want to cut her out? the republican party hopes this start to weed out over time. tom: florida and the republican primary will not be a proportional outcome. it is winner take all. who does that benefit? >> it is early. this has not gotten the attention you think it would. bush is blitzed behind the scene to lock

before i hand this over to fill medically -- phil mattingly, i would like to ask joe timmons to introduce our first speaker. thank you for joining us, i hope you get the chance -- i get the chance to meet many of you today. jay, it is all yours. j mattingly: thank you for that kind introduction in for bringing us together this morning to officially kick off a week where we aim to draw attention to a crisis. to motivate lawmakers to act and to galvanize supportja for infrastructure thaty manufactures and all americans need to compete in the global economy and secure our economy for the future i want to give a special shout out to secretary anthony foxx not only for being with us today but for continuing to relentlessly fight for our nations infrastructure challenges. this guy never stops and manufacturers are grateful for his leadership. it is also great to be joined by three leaders to consistently want to start making how we move commerce a priority again. governor ed rendell, my good friend eric spiegel, the president and ceo of siemens america. and paul your row seat. -- and paul yaros