and so what he says is that my great grandfather, that phillip white's father was named thomas white, that he was a white man from northern england. he says absolutely nothing about phillip's mother, but from looking at the, at phillip's death certificate, it says that she comes from jamaica. her name was elizabeth steele. she was undoubtedly black. she's the one who because of her my great grandfather is labeled, was labeled colored or mulatto. i don't know where they met, i don't know whether she was slave or free. i don't know whether they actually married. i don't know how they ended up in the united states. but thomas dies in 1835, and then it's up to elizabeth steele white to give her children an education. and she gets -- phillip goes to the lawrence street school. >> so you see, in what hard times they were and how they had to scramble. so, philip went to the school and the boys principle was charles reason and he was the one who i've gone to school with my great-grandfather in, at the mulberry street school in the 1820s. so what i think is so significant here is that at the m

security correspondent jim sciutto, senior political report irand nia mallika henderson, abby phillip white house reporter for the washington post. the second meeting we're learning about between put and i tin and president trump at the g-20 what happened? >> you often have pull asides and casual conversations. in addition to formal within on ones. so in andation to the putin trump formal one-on-one, the sit down we knew about, at this dinner, there was another conversation previously undisclosed between trump and putin. it was not five or ten minutes. it was an hour long. what's interesting about this is that the other people present at the g-209 din ker, u.s. allies, leaders of u.s. allies in europe, they're the one who's found it unusual, strange at this dinner for the president, stand up, go sit down next to the russian president and speak that length of time, unusual to them. american allies. and then not disclose it until and this is the latest in a series of meetings between people in trump world and russians, not disclose it till challenged by members of the media and others. and on

announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the best-selling author of "brown is the new white," steve phillips. [applause] steve: good morning. audience: good morning. steve: i'm delighted to be here. this is my first bioneers conference, so i'm honored to be with youou here. [cheering and applause] and i'm particularly delighted to be able to introduce the keynote speaker vien truong. her bio and all of her accomplishments are online, and you can read that, and they're part of the program, so i won't

that was indeed phillip rucker white house bureau chief for the "washington post".erly welcome back. let's talk about this. when john mccain says over the weekend a deal is dead. when all the networks run the graphic of the enknown republican senators known to be opposed. when there is this much of a problem with a piece of legislation, maybe you're not a betting woman. but what are the odds we see something here. >> it's a possibility. remember the house bill, the house health care bill was dead until it wasn't and they ended up passing it. the same thing can happen here. it's two different desires that lawmakers are trying to fulfill here on the one side they do want to fulfill this promise of repealing and replacing obamacare. they feel like they've a mandate to do that from the voter. but on the other hand they don't want to replace it with something that's far less popular than obamacare. and so that's sort of the push and pull right now. i think they're waiting for another cbo score, congressional budget office score on the recent draft that would allow lower

announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the best-selling author of "brown is the new white," steve phillips. [applause] steve: good morning. audience: good morning. steve: i'm delighted to be here. this is my first bioneers conference, so i'm honored to be with youou here. [cheering and applause] and i'm particularly delighted to be able to introduce the keynote speaker vien truong. her bio and all of her accomplishments are online, and you can read that, and they're part of the program, so i won't

first place home on the story we can go across to washington and join correspondent phillip crowther. fit has the white house reacted. yeah well first of all there's a a statement from a doll trump's personal lawyer that was already released yesterday that of course is the most important part of the story. did the candidates at the time now the president of the united states know about a meeting between. campaign officials high ranking campaign officials and somebody a lawyer in this case who had links to the kremlin though she at this point. denies it now according to doll trump's personal lawyer he did not know about this meeting. and and did not attend it a few minutes ago we got a little bit more from the white house said this is from spokesperson sarah huckabee sound as she says this that all trump. found out over the last few days that this meeting even took place that it was a very short meeting. and that there was no follow up that by reflecting essentially what we have from donald trump junior in his statement on the white house also saying that. it will not not add anything to tha. don't from

nbc chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson. kasie hunt on capitol hill and phillip rutger and jonathan lamere, white house reporter with the "associated press." hallie, what we just witnessed in the rose garden is not surprising on the heels of the sharp barbs aimed at jeff sessions. but it's always startling to hear a sitting president attack a sitting member of his own cabinet. >> here is the thing. if jeff sessions was as one reporter put it in her question, twisting in the wind before this news conference, he is still there. the president did nothing to put to rest any of the questions about his confidence in the attorney general or his confidence in jeff sessions abilities. you played the crucial sound bite. time will tell. how long? how much time? is the president going to fire him? or is he putting pressure on sessions to resign. he clearly is doing the latter, it seems. the underlining point is why the president is doing this. you mentioned the tweets that he believes jeff sessions is weak, especially when it comes to looking into his former political rivals

"washington post" white house entrepreneur chief, phillip rucker. josh gerstein, ditto. and with us in the studio, jonathan lamere, white house reporter for the associated press. great to have you all. josh i'll begin with you because of your placements today. you were a pool reporter for the arrival at the place i will always call andrews air force base. it was the smaller version of the plane today, a 757. and you reported what you saw contemporaneously it speaks to the ongoing diminishment of reince priebus. but tell us what you saw when they landed. >> they were quite delayed in landing, about an extra half hour in the air coming down from new york. i think they were circling for some time due to bad weather. when they finally did land and pull up at the parking place we saw a bunch of staffers come out of the back of the plane. and then we saw the senior staffers reince priebus and then steven miller and dan scavino the social media director there at the white house all go and get into a vehicle together. this was just at the time that the tweet was coming out from t

bi line with maggie haber man many rang or as white house as russia story rfss to let the page turn ashley parker for the "washington post" latest with phillip rucker. category 5 hurricane white house under siege by trump junior's refrlgss. a vivian, white house reporter for the associated press. per headline is about the president's next overseas trip which we should remember begins tomorrow. trump storms paris for bastille day. peter baker, this was a story your paper broke. so i'll ask you first. how big a story was this today? the whole scope of the russia collusion story we've been covering? >> well i think it is a big story because it does undercut the defense there was no collusion. not only -- at a very minimum we learn from the emails that there was a willingness if not even eagerness on the part of the president's son to receive information that he was told. anyway it would be incriminating and directly from a russian lawyer on behalf of the russian government supporting his father. one of the things interesting about the mefrls as you read them is that they leave very little ambiguity. there is not a lot of room for misconstruing

let's bring in the starting panel tontden friday night white house reporter for the "washington post" ashley parker here bi line with phillip rucker tonight. why some inside the white house see trump's media feud as winning. more on that in a bit but we're happy to note ash sli also an msnbc contributor. boston globe columnist and the chair of journalism ethics in enenen dira is with we welcome james pendle to the broadcaster. well to you all. ashley i'll begin with you by embarrassing you and quoting you back to you but you and rucker know your way around a sentence. this is from your piece tonight. the -- this week had it all vicious tweets, nasty nicknames and entrenched foe in the main stream media and the reprice alby trump of one his favorite roles the victim but to many inside the white house as well as outside allies what looked like a public recommendations did he backle amounted to an abundance of winning a trump yan catch phrase playfully repeated by west wing officials even as they are discomforted by the brzezinski broad side. ashley what's going on in there? >> well, it's an interesting question, because what

phillips, thank you for being with us, author of the new york times best selling book "brown is the new whitehow the demographic revolution has created a new american majority ." will also link to your op-ed piece in the new york times. coming up, trita parsi, on his new piece "the mask is off: trump is seeking war with iran." ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. with one gonzales. is president donald trump trying to sabotage the obama brokered nuclear agreement with iran? trump has instructed his national security aides to find a rationale for declaring that iran is violating the terms of the accord. the order came despite the fact that the trump administration begrudgingly certified that iran has complied with its obligations under the agreement earlier this month. last week, trump intensified his threats against iran during a speech in youngstown, ohio. be the single worst deal i have ever seen drawn by anybody. conform tol doesn't what it is supposed to conform big,here is going to be big problems for them. that i can te

joining me now is the nbc news white house kristen welker, and also washington post white house bureau chief phillip rucker. kristen, let's start with kushner. what was the most important things he had to say today? >> there was a couple of take aways. you heard him say i did not collude with russians and he is not aware of collusion by any other trump campaign officials. as you pointed out at the top of the show, this is someone that we have not seen or heard from a lot. it was remarkable to hear him making those comments. not the 11 page statement he offered behind closed doors to members of the senate intelligence committee. the staff members that posed tough questions to him today. i think his written take aways -- he talked about four meetings he had with russians including two that have gotten a lot of attention. he said this was such a short meeting, he didn't even remember the name of the ambassador after the fact, then of course that meeting that we spent so much time talking about with donald trump junior and the russian attorney, there were other russian officials there. he cams he didn't

white house. we talked to editor matt phillips.n has had a front row seat to trump's evolution from reality tv start into presidential candidate, into president. he is told that there a series of interviews over the last few years with steve bannon's political strategist. what this book does is go back to the root of the bannon-trump relationship. it reminds us that even though it was not that long ago, trump was multicultural and a pop icon 10 years ago. the apprentice was getting all kinds of great ratings and he is very popular among minority voters. he burnt that to the ground and embrace this birther movement and embraced this native populism that steve bannon has pushed him towards. >> take a step back. i watched the apprentice and it was a diverse group of contestants, young, old, black and white. celebrity, noncelebrity. talk to us about that. i forgot that he did appeal to minorities. how popular was he because of the apprentice? the show was seen as this multicultural phenomenon that took everybody by surprise. nbcebuted

white house. we talked with matt phillips.osh green has had a front row seat to trump's evolution from reality tv star into presidential candidate into president. to toll that in a series of interviews with steve bannon, political strategist. it goes back to the roots of the bannon-trump relationship and reminds us even though it was not that long ago about trump was this multicultural pop icon 10-12 years ago as the apprentice was getting all kinds of great ratings. it was popular among minority voters and how he kind of burned that to the ground and embraced this birther movement, this nativist populism that bannon has pushed them towards. carol: i watched "the apprentice." it was a diverse group of contestants. young and old, black and white, celebrity and noncelebrity, "celebrity." i forgot he really did appeal to minorities. how popular was he because of "the apprentice" among minority groups? matt: the show was seen as this multicultural phenomenon that took everybody by surprise. it debuted in 2004 as nbc "friends" fran

white house bureau chief for the "washington post", phillip rucker hess latest is this. trump famously said you're fired. but he tends to demean rather than dismiss. watch in space for more. white house correspondent from our mcclachy aknit i couple ar her work tonight trump is lose on tv scaramucci plans to turn around. and white house reporter for the associated press jongtening la mere here with us in new york his latest trump cranks up heat on secessions says time will tell fate as we just heard heard. welcome to you all. mr. rucker i'll start with you because your headline got a lot of interest especially among tv folks. the first genuine tv star president, first president who a catch phrase from television but -- but executing on that catch phrase your point is is turning out to be problematic. >> that's exactly right. before you donald trump was a politician of course he had a reality tv show and we all remember he would say you're fired when he fired contestants on the apprentice but he don't seem to be able to utter the words now in the oval office he belittles a

meanwhile sarah saunders named was named as the new white house press secretary we're joined now. by washing correspondent phillip crowther. philip this announcement came quite suddenly boss it's not necessary surprises it. no i was only a matter time before sean spicer would leave israel officially as press secretary we hadn't seen him at the podium for quite a few weeks. him move to the background had been replaced at the podium by sarah huckabee sanders who has just been announced as the new press secretary. the third woman ever to hold that job that was announced by anthony scaramucci at the podium that's is relatively rare to see especially because. it is that's nomination of anthony scaramucci as the new communications director in the white house that seems to have. pushed sean spicer to the exits exactly six months and one day into his job as white house press secretary this also shows that there is upheaval that within the white house. there were different factions of fighting for control fighting to get close to the u. s. presiden. mister scaramucci is somebody who has been close to him in the past was c

phillip and hadas. are you surprised by what we're hearing coming out of the white house right now >> i'm surprised we're hearing about it but not that the president and his legal team are think about these things developing strategy, exploring options. that seems to me to be a pretty normal thing. i don't know how it leaked but i'm not surprised that it did >> let's talk a littl about, you know, i think the thing that really surprises a lot of people is someone talking about the president is even asking about pardoning himself if he could do that, your constitutional expert here, you understand how it works, it doesn't as though it's a clearwater yes or no >> i've been writing about this for the last 20 years, i've come to a conclusion what i think the answer is, if i were a judge, i would say no, the president can't self pardon wouldn't be valid but there are good arguments both sides, and until there's an actual case, there's really no way to know what a court would say >> hypothetically. if there were pardons handed out along the way, whether it be to, you know, children or other people in the admini

now by the "washington post" columnist, eugene robinson, clint watts and white house bureau chief for "the washington post," phillip rucker. let me go with gene on this. maybe we, me, too, are naive in thinking that president trump, who many of us think had some role in colluding with the russians in terms of last year's election would be vigorous in interrogating the guy he was colluding with about whether he was colluding. there was a certain absurdity to i wonder about the word pressed and how hard. president trump made clear time and time again, it could have been anybody. >> some 400 pound person on the bed. >> just the other day, he said, you know, maybe it was russia. a lot of people do the same thing. so, you know, he said repeatedly that this is all just an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. he sees it to delegitimize his own presidency. i don't think he will ever get behind the assessment that russia did a bad thing and menacing thing in meddling with the electoral process of the united states. i just, you know, call me naive. i don't think he will get behind th

phillip livingston. >> when you see the new picture, new image. picture of diverse people. black, white, hispanic.e american. little built of everything. asian. that's more representation of what this country. >> andrea livingston is half filipino and learned she is a descendant of one of the signers. >> it is a point of pride. but i think we have a long way to go. the idea that they were creating the ideas that they were putting into words, we still need to -- strive to make those ideas real. >> laura murphy is new found cousin. >> anything is possible in this country. if we can -- build some connection to our history, it may give us a greater degree of compassion and empathy and humanity which is what i think the country need right now. >> but that phrase, all men are created equal, what does that mean to you? how does that resonate with you today? >> it is a powerful statement. that, i still don't think rings true to a lot of people in this country. they don't feel that. sometimes i don't feel that. certain environments. but i think it is something that we can strive for. it is something that w

. >> nothing seems to be easy for this white house lately. mark phillips in paris. thank you.he president's son-in-law jared kushner is drawing new attention for his campaign meetings with foreign officials. cbs news has confirmed a report that kushner updated the foreign contacts list of his security clearance form three times. he added more than 100 names after mentioning zero contacts on his original form. the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee is asking kushner and donald trump jr. for documents on last year's meeting with a lawyer who's said to have had ties with the kremlin. senator mark warner said he expects trump jr. and kushner to testify to congress. the president's lawyers reportedly learned of that meeting more than three weeks ago. mr. trump says he first heard of it just a few days ago. the president told reporters on his flight to paris that health care is more difficult than peace in the middle east. this morning he focused on gop lawmakers tweeting "after all these years of suffering through obamacare republican senators must come through as th

let's see if we can get that number for you -- joining us now, "the washington post" white house bureau chief phillipe fail for the health care bill? >> where we do go from here is another big fight, the house budget committee just unveiled a blueprint and republicans are now going to have to deal with how they're going to pass this bill and also some of the same problems that happened with health care, how do you appease conservatives who are concerned about spending too much money and how do you deal with moderates concerned about the cuts to social safety net issues. in terms of legislative achievements, it's hard to say what he's done because a lot of the things he's touting as successes are not things that are going to change the lives of people that put him in office. i mean changing health care, changing jobs, making something big. i think obviously he pulled out of the paris accord but that won't happen down the line, so maybe they can help us out and say what this white house is saying about specifically what they've done legislatively. >> phillip rucker, let's talk about where we're going i

joining me now to talk more about this phillip, he was counsel to the special prosecutors during the whitetergate scandal and rick is an election law and campaign finance expert and a professor at uc irvine. thank you for being here. on its face, donald junior's e-mails, he agrees in writing to this meeting for information that would incriminate hillary clinton, very high level and sensitive information, part of russia and its government's support of mr. trump, quotes from these e-mails. do you see legal trouble here? >> i think the memo is important, legally, for a couple of reasons, apart from the political consequences of showing that the trump administration's denials of contacts with the russian government were false. but from the standpoint of a prosecutor, such as special counsel mueller, this is red meat. because what we're seeing is really chapter 6 of the story of the campaign. the first part of the e-mail chain that was released, i think, conveys to a prosecutor not only willingness to meet about russian contacts and russian influence, probably obtained illegally through espiona

. >> phillip, i'm wondering if you believe that this -- in setup in the white house is ultimately designed to fail. i keep saying we've never seen a flow chart like this. and you could say that times about 5. >> that's right. it's messy mp and you know there is a reason looking back through history there are few examples of presidents who brought family members into the white house in staff government positions. this is risky, it's unusual. the dynamic is very different. and i think there is a -- it's unclear what's happening here. clearly jared kushner has a lot of exposure when it comes to the russia investigation. he and his business interests and his financial dealings in the past are said to be a subject of what robert mueller, the special counsel is looking into. jared has his own legal team advising him through all of that and helping him navigate that. but it creates complications within the house not only with the other staff but also with the president who has his own legal team guiding him on his own problems with the mueller investigation and at some point inevitably these coul

phillips refinery has grown to 100 acres. take a look at these photos here. you can see the smoke there. white smoke and black smoke there as you continue to fight this fire. it broke out about 3:30 this afternoon. this is at interstate 80 near the coming sky way. firefighters say the blames are burning down a ravine. the winds not helping out the situation. they are fuelling the fire. cal fire says it has the potential to grow quickly, so they are concerned in acting fast. firefighters say the refinery is not threatened. no evacuations have been ordered. >>> now taking you to a live picture here. this is what it looks like at the 101 southbound. this is in san jose. traffic very slow here as crews battle this brush fire. this started after 4:00. you can see that 680 interchange just over the 101 there. a lot of smoke there on both levels. and of course the back-up there on 101. here's what the fire looked like at its peak. it is unclear here what started the fire. right now we're not hearing about any kind of injuries. >>> crews are being pulled in from as far away as santa cruz to fight thre

forest ranger out of yosemite, phillip russell, he always sends me these gorgeous pictures of yosemite. so he sent me this picture yesterday, just gorgeous, black and white photographer. i wrote, how are you? how is the fire? he goes, well that's why i sent you a black and white. i didn't want you to see the haze. no, i want to see it! i want to see what's going on. but it was a gorgeous black and white photo. i'll share it with you later in the newscast. hi, everybody. good morning. let's head outside right now, where we have some overcast skies. transamerica pyramid, we can see the top of the beacon there which leads me to believe the ceiling is above 853 feet. clear in santa rosa. by our satellite and radar you can see the stratus developing hanging very tight to the san mateo coast this morning. we will see sunshine back to the beaches except for daly city and in colma. zonal flow continues for us here with the area of low pressure to the north. but high pressure this dome is expanding, getting closer to the bay area. when that happens and it strengthens, our temperatures go up. 60s in monterey bay for today this big getaway friday all the way back t

. >> mason: mark phillips not far from the eiffel tower there where the president had dinner tonight. thanks, mark. major garrett joins us now from the white house. major, the president said tut -- today most people would have taken that meeting with the russian lawyer. is that the consensus? >> reporter: anthony, consensus in our divided country is probably elusive, but the president's own nominee to lead the f.b.i., christopher wray, appears to disagree. here is wray yesterday before the senate judiciary committee. >> to the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state or any non-state actor is the kind of thing the f.b.i. would want to know. >> reporter: we've also learned the senate intelligence committee will request documents from trump, jr., and jared kushner about that meeting, and it wants the might expect, anyone in the trump campaign who had contact with russians. >> mason: major, the president talked to reporters aboard air force one last night, and did not rule out inviting vladimir putin to the white house. what exactly did he say? >> reporter: indeed. he said at some p

phillip? >> it's a bold move and strategic timing on putin's part. matt, thank you. >>> this morning one of the nation's longest serving commanders will take over the white house when retired four-star general john kelly is officially sworn into his new role as chief of staff. there's been widespread positivetivety to his new post. with white house figures like anthony scaramucci and kellyanne conway and steve bannon having their own avenue to the president, showed by "the wall street journal," when they wrote an article. >> the president airs his frustrations after republicans' failed attempt to repeal obamacare. the president calling for a complete overhaul of the senate, telling republicans if they don't go to a 51-vote majority, they'd look like fools and are just wasting time. while threatening to withhold vital insurance payments to keep insurance affordable for low-income americans. still his health and human services secretary, an obamacare fix is needed. >> well, our -- as i said, our responsibility is to follow the law and, again, we take that responsibility seriously and we will continue to do so. but remember that the current law right now is failing th

phillip rucker "washington pos"" bureau chief and newly minted msnbc political analyst from his seat at the white house. welcome to you all. michael, i'll begin with you. just about every night there is a -- a print journalism development that causes us to ask a nice guest like you, usually a print journalist, how does this change everything? and i'll ask that about the reporting of your colleagues at the "new york times." how does tonight's story now change everything? >> well, this story by my colleagues really raises new questions about why is it we continue to learn about the meetings and we weren't told about them before? in march, don jr told us at "the times" that he had no meetings as part of the campaign, with the russians, that there had been nothing -- nothing there. and it had to be clear to them at the time that the russia story was going to continue to go on and on. but still his story even in the past few days changed. at first he said the meeting was about adoption, and then as things went further on the weekend, so the question here is, why hasn't the administration come out, you

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white house. suzanne malveaux in washington, thank you very much. joining me now to discuss cnn political analyst abby phillip and michael burns, and former special assistant to robert mueller now special counsel when he was at the department of justice, thank you very much for being here. michael, to you, since you have vast legal expertise in this and because of your experience working with mueller, the news out of "the washington post" that the president's attorney this morning is calling nonsense is that, look, the president was talking with aides and others within the white house and saying what are my options when it comes to pardoning aides, family members, even myself if necessary. some of the reporting we have now from our reporters is that he was just having this conversation trying to find out what his authority is. you say this is fiercely debated but this is an unresolved legal question. isn't it really? >> well, it's not unresolved whether or not he can pardon his friends and family members -- >> but himself. >> -- that he can do. as to himself, it's open constitutional question. but you can't p

phillip of the "washington post." cnn's jeff zeleny, cnn's phil mattingly and jackie call, of the "los angeles times." now, if the white house shake-up brought in anthony scaramucci as communications director was designed to take public all the messy white house in-fighting that previously played out for anonymous sources, then score a smashing success. >> as you know from the italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. i can tell you two fish that don't stink? okay? that's me and the president. i don't like the activity going on in the white house. i don't like what they're doing to my friend. i don't like what they're doing to the president of the united states. or fellow colleagues in the west wing. if you want to talk about the staff, we have had odds. we have had differences. when i said we were brothers from the, from the podium, that's because we're -- some brothers are like cain and abel. other brothers can fight with each other and get along. i don't know if this is repairable or not. in a will be up to the president. >> okay. if the goal inspire confidence in the cabinet things would start running

white house as part of the president's family. >> he also had this comment i want it play which seems very much directed as an audience for one, phillip, that russia -- any look into what happened in the elections, an insult to trump voters. take a listen. >> donald trump add better message and ran a smarter campaign, that is why he won. suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted for him. >> i would note that nixon whooped mcgovern in '72. even with the watt irrigate stuff. the two were separate concept actually. >> but chris the issue is not whether russia's hacking influenced the outcome of the election. they are investigating if this was coordinated in any way with the trump campaign or associates of donald trump. >> paul, the statements from kushner today, the few raise my eyebrows. one he had no improper contact. the other he has been transparent which seems at some level just facially untrue in the sense that he omitted four meetings of the security clearance for months, the secretary of all this reporting. >> that's right. he is doing a lot of blaming other people and excuse-making. for those financial disclosure forms, he

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whites in the eyes before they withdraw stimulus from the euro area. now if you look at the uk's experience than the eurozone is going to be waiting a long time for the phillipsrge. rates are interest likely to stay low and not be lifted probably until 2019. francine: what are you expecting from the ecb tomorrow? the euro will move depending on the hawkishness or not of mario draghi. >> imf and they are all very much looking forward to their summer holiday. i'm not expecting they are going to announce anything of any significance, particularly in the speech that mario draghi associates a market reaction, we probably don't get that volatility this summer. hem: i want to go to bob sinc in a minute, but what is the link between sterling and the policy of the united kingdom? are they linked or directly linked to brexit from last year? view on that is there is a strong link between the politics and the exchange rate over the past year or so. theicularly as we run into election. but more people are realizing now, whether theresa may had a strong hand or not, it didn't matter much. nottical situation is actually that important a more -- anymore and it is difficult t