i should have been in prague at atm this morning. so you have given up on your conference?due to speak tomorrow morning so i have had to cancel that but if i can rebook and go out tomorrow for the end of the conference that would be great. it only happens every two years, a disaster to miss it. what is your view of the way this has been handled by the ba? absolutely dismal. the announcement that came out telling us to go, to vacate the premises, that's the first now in three hours. the first official announcement. there is nobody coming around with water or anything. we are standing in queues, you are nervous to leave your back because you are told not to but it means you cannot go free drink on to the toilet. it's really terrible. and you have won up a bill presumably to stay in that hotel overnight?” you have won up a bill presumably to stay in that hotel overnight? i did, that was £1119 premiere in. it was £52 ina that was £1119 premiere in. it was £52 in a taxi just to take me to that local hotel. £200 already. we appreciate you coming on and bringing us up to date. sor

earlier i spoke to a passenger at heathrow who was trying to get to a conference in prague.been a disaster. there are shots behind me of people in the first 0. that goes over to a second 0 and a third, before they can even get to registration desks. i have been here since 9:30am. i am going to make my way home now. i stayed in a hotel overnight, could not get through on the app, on the phone cool or the website. nothing at all. i am not prepared to spend another night in a hotel. i should have been in prague at atm. you have given up on your conference? maybe not. iwas at atm. you have given up on your conference? maybe not. i was due to speak tomorrow morning so i have had to cancel that but if i can rebook and go out tomorrow for the end of the conference, that would be great. it only happens every two years and it isa it only happens every two years and it is a disaster to miss it. what is your view of the way all of this has been handled by ba? absolutely abysmal. the announcement thatjust came out telling us to go, telling us came out telling us to go, telling us to vac

. >> i haven't been to prague. >> prague, buda pest. >> very fancy. >> i enjoy that. >> all i need isa little drink with a umbrella in it and hammock and i'm goal glenn here-here kate. >> i yes. you and i think very much alike, rahel. let's look at storm scan3, very active pattern at the moment, you have a lot of moisture working it way in across the southeast, some lifting in already. through virginia, specially toward night fall, overnight, southeast half of the region. show you future weather, all the way to 1:00 p.m. by this point some of you we even have sunshine, truly split forecast, north and west, not bad day. but later on tonight, as early as evening, there will be some showers, start to fire up t may be a little sooner than there is but generally toward night fall then overnight how things sort of pan out here. the batch of rain really just works it way through the southeast half of the area. then lift out of here by about this same time tomorrow. so there may still be some wet weather to damage as you hit the road here tomorrow. now it, should be clearing out. we end one s

hooeg a prague notist in the other people in the republican party and basically in the mainstream if you will, you know, he's pursuing a policies on foreign policy that aren't out of step with traditional american foreign policy. the only big exception here with the white house, brian, is of course, the russia piece. with regards you saw in russia today, you saw at the nato meeting of leaders today, the president echoing themes written by vladimir putin. you know, basically saying, nato pay up, you're not paying your fair share. and then of course not saying that we would defend them if they were attacked. that is a major foreign policy error. >> peter, look back about the comey dismissal, you shared the byline with the people we know seeming know so well, glenn and maggie and michael, and you wrote, mr. trump, comma, found of vetting his decisions with a wide circle of staff members, advi advisors, and friends mike pence, the white house council don mcbegan and his son-in-law jared kushner who said they generally back dismissing mr. comey. we're looking at this rearview mirror, why

. -- has said he was not in prague, let alone at the time the dossier puts him in prague.uff like that would fit with the pattern that the russians have used in the past to try to discredit, you know, anything, but in particular an investigation like this. and it wouldn't necessarily be a russian spy who would give steele's source that but rather the russian intelligence service would find a way to plant that information somewhere, where it would eventually get to steele's source. >> what about this story i've been reading about today that the russians are planting fake news? it's getting bigger now. ken, you first. both of you. give me some examples of fake news that found its way into the bloodstream in the last ewelcome back election here, if you will? >> so clint watts, who is now an analyst for nbc news, has been writing about this for a long time. he tells a story of a fake story about a terrorist attack in incirlik air base in turkey. it was actually just a protest of a few hundred people. but some fake news started emanating from twitter and from russian state-back

we all heard the story about the prague -- so-called prague meeting that took place, which was a lot earlier. and this letter referred to a meeting that they were discussing, holding a meeting, this is a meeting taking place december 1st, december 2nd, in which they discussed wanting to have a meeting in the future before the inauguration in a third country. that's what led me to pursuing this notion that there might be a meeting that took place, and again the letter specifically says flynn was too high-profile to take this meeting so we figured it wasn't flynn but we weren't sure. anyway, that led to the print story. in fact when i read that letter as i have been over the course of recent months, i realize how prescient it was. we never figured out who wrote the letter. i'm going to withhold some details to try to protect that person. >> sure. >> but i do think that letter basically spelled all this out. and what our sources told us is that there was signals intelligence separately, which was slightly different because it included obviously kislyak being taken aback by the suggestio

to dusseldorf we re possibly via prague to dusseldorf were german police say he was in transit fourter from there. yesterday, salman abedi's powder, ramadan abedi was detained in libya. this man who knew the father in manchester said he definitely had extremist views. of course, no doubt. no doubt about that. there's no doubt now that detectives investigating monday's atrocity have made progress but enough to make them think they are dealing with the terrorist network but there are still important blindspots, particularly around where the bomb was made and a source said some sisters pleasures su bsta nces said some sisters pleasures substances are unaccounted for. —— some suspicious substances. in a moment we'll speak to catriona renton, who's at greater manchester police headquarters, but first let's cross to our washington correspondent nick bryant who'll give us the latest on the diplomatic fallout from the leaks about the investigation. what sense are you getting as to whether there is concern for you are or do people not consider it particularly surprising. give us your take on

we all heard the story about the prague -- so-called prague meeting that took place, which was a lotarlier. and this letter referred to a meeting that they were discussing, holding a meeting, this is a meeting taking place december 1st, december 2nd, in which they discussed wanting to have a meeting in the future before the inauguration in a third country. that's what led me to pursuing this notion that there might be a meeting that took place, and again the letter specifically says flynn was too high-profile to take this meeting so we figured it wasn't flynn, but we weren't sure. anyway, that led to the print story. in fact, when i now read that letter and as i have been over the course of recent months, i realize how prescient it was. we never figured out who wrote the letter. i'm going to withhold some details to try to protect that person. >> sure. >> but i do think that letter basically spelled all this out. and what our sources told us is that there was signals intelligence separately, which was slightly different because it included obviously kislyak being taken aback by the s

defense earlier this democratic operatives alleged with any broof that cohen met with russian spies in prague. >> it is a disgrace. i think they haute to aapproximately jazz to start with. michael cohen. >> now cohen's refusal to cooperate sets up potential showdown with congress. >> i would say to mr. cohen, we will issue a subpoena. he will be compel to come and speak. >> reporter: we also learned the expanded congressional investigation is seeking to question former trump white house and campaign aide, boris epstein. >> we love trump! his lawyer told abc news he did not anticipate epstein would be subpoenaed to provide information. of more concern to the white house was the growing interest in the president's son-in-law, kushner and his dealings with the russians. the investigators want to know why kushner met secretly in december with officials of the new york branch of a russian bank that was previously known as a u.s. base spies. one of the new york officers, was found to bea russian spy. his name can be found on the bank website. >> this was an actual trained operative spy operation in

getting cut, welshing senator said, quite frankly, that we could start to see reversal of some of the prague he is that's been made in north virginia and that these crimes, and these incidents that we've heard in the news, far too often, lately, well, cain said he's concerned only will get worse. >> is the gang problem getting better or getting worse? that's one of the reasons i'm here to learn it, but what i will say is i don't know, i don't think, we're happy with the progress we're making, you know, whether it is getting better or whether it is getting worse, i think we need to be making more progress. >> of course it should be noted last september during the president kaine said the issue every sanctuary cities coming from the trump campaign was in his words a phantomish ooh. the director of ice on thursday told fox5 that he believes communities that declare themselves sanctuary cities are menace to both the public, and police. live in alexandria tonight, jim, sean, send it back into you. >> thank you, fit. back after this. >> kicking offer the week, namely, support for police officers,

prepared by democrat operatives alleged without any proof cohen secretly met with russian spies in prague. >> it's a disgrace. i think they ought to apologize to start with, michael cohen. >> reporter: now cohen's refusal to cooperate sets up a potential showdown with congress. >> i would say to mr. cohen that we'll issue a subpoena and he'll be compelled to come and speak. >> reporter: we also learned today that the expanded congressional investigation is seeking to question former trump campaign aide epstein. his lawyer told abc news that he didn't anticipate that he would need to provide information or testimony. of more concern to the white house today was the growing interest in the president's son-in-law kushner and his dealings with the russians. investigators want to know why kushner met secretly in december with the new york branch of a russian bank. one of its new york officers was found to be a russian spy, his name can still be found on the bank website today. >> this was an actual trained operative spy operation in new york targeting human assets. >> reporter: and now investi

abedi, the bomber who killed 22 people at the concert on monday, travelled from libya, possibly via praguerf, where german police say he was in transit four days before the bombing. he to manchester from there. yesterday, salman abedi's father, ramadan abedi, was detained in libya. a man who knew the father in manchester said he definitely had extremist views. of course, no doubt. he was very extremist, there is no doubt about that. there is no doubt now that detectives investigating monday's atrocity have made progress. enough to make them think they are dealing with a terrorist network. but there are still important blindspots, particularly around where the bomb was made. and around where the bomb was made. and a source said some suspicious su bsta nces a source said some suspicious substances or an for. daniel sandford, bbc news, manchester —— some suspicious substances or unaccounted for. in a moment, we'll be live at the nato meeting in brussels, and we'll have more from germany on those reports that salman abedi was in dusseldorfjust four days before the attack. first, let's get the

he was arrested in prague in and 2016 has denied any wrongdoing.e said authorities urged him to falsely testified that he was part of the russian hack on the democratic national committee in exchange for money and a life in the united states. coming up, the race between amazon and alphabet to $1000 per share. amazon jumped to the bar. we will take a look that. bloomberg tech is live streaming on twitter. check us out weekdays 5:00 p.m. , in new york, 2:00 p.m. in san francisco. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: out of europe, and investment -- an activist investment firm bought a 5.6% stake in ericsson, valued over $1 billion according to regulatory filings. the move will likely push the wireless network firm to accelerate cost-cutting in its underperforming businesses. they have plans to appoint one of its managing partners to the board. meantime in the u.s., stocks returned from the holiday weekend, breaking a seven-day winning streak for the s&p 500 and nasdaq. abigail doolittle joins us now in new york with more. so, abigail, what stocks stood out to

states, so if he manufactures tension in the relationships, he's not going to -- i saw it as very praguee sudden decided that, you know, the is a.m. lake worlds has great religions, or great culture or great history, but it does mean he wants to cooperate. >> a lot every speculation gooing what again the content. speech considering steven miller the one who wrote it, also honored -- authored the original travel ban. but as we move forward, take away something from his speech, apply it to future relations, obviously signing that deal, getting zombies going between countries is major factory, what's the legacy moving forward? >> after a few difficult weeks here to say the least, he seemed, presidential so far on this trip, and it probably, none every us having been president, maybe hard for us to know how it feels. when you go over, get off air force one, and you are the president of the united states in the broader international environment, the most powerful person on earth, it feels a little different than being in a twitter war back home. and it probably elevates your sites a little bi

cohen was alleged to have attended a secret meeting last summer in prague to discuss russian hacking of democratic targets, something he strongly denies. cohen told msnbc he's declining to comply with the committee's requests. the request letters first reported by abc news were the same ones initially sent to michael flynn, paul manafort, roger stone, and carter page according to a congressional aide. all one-time trump associates whose ties to russian officials are currently under review. flynn, we found out tonight, will provide some documents under subpoena to the senate intelligence panel. another former trump aide, boris epstein has received an information request from the house committee and has yet to decide whether to comply. the fallout continues from "the washington post's" explosive report late last week that the russian ambassador told moscow that jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, wanted to open a secret communications channel with the kremlin. he reportedly made the proposal in a previously disclosed meeting with the ambassador during the transition. that follow

and a prague. -- plug. iger will be joining us.ighed in on how much we should be reading into a selloff. we have seen is a lot of financial liquidation. we have seen this in china, where they have tightened by the pboc, and i think that has forced some to liquidate. so how much more is there to go on this? let's bring in thomas fang, head of equities at ubs. are they engineering a deleveraging? i do not think the intention is really against the stock market. ,he shadow banking, if you will to really get a handle on it. it has really picked up steam over the last couple of with, xi jinping meeting officials, and the intention might not be to have an effect on the stock market, but we are nonetheless,fects, and we are seeing this on the bloomberg, and you can see this has gone down in the last couple of weeks, following the crackdown by regulators, as have estimate,hina, by one billions erased from stocks and bonds since mid-april. would a continued selloff in stocks and bonds dropped china to change its strategy in any way? -- what

abedi, the bomber who killed 22 people at the concert on monday, travelled from libya, possibly via pragueseldorf, where german police say he was in transit four days before the bombing. he flew to manchester from there. yesterday, salman abedi's father, ramadan abedi, was detained in libya. a man who knew the father in manchester said he definitely had extremist views. of course, no doubt. he was very extremist, there is no doubt about that. there is no doubt now that detectives investigating monday's atrocity have made progress. enough to make them think they are dealing with a terrorist network. but there are still important blindspots, particularly around where the bomb was made. and a source said some suspicious substances are unaccounted for. daniel sandford, bbc news, manchester. a short time ago our home affairs correspondent, who's at greater manchester police headquarters, gave us the latest. the most important thing is that sends you got from the chief co nsta ble sends you got from the chief constable before we came nearer about confidence from this investigation. for a couple

they were ultimately swapped and returned to prague. this is them as they are about at a suite in the check intelligence services. this young man is our fellow , who was personally involved in handling the case. lunch, and us at this was the first time he had seen it since that time. we have only recently recovered out of the check files and unknown drop site -- of the czech files an unknown drop site. espionage is of no good unless he can communicate a secret between an agent and a handler. during the cold war, the function of most of the jacket -- the gadgets that were created was to facilitate that communication. how do you communicate secretly and securely? how can you get a picture secretly recorded and then pass it? the russians and the soviets were very good at this. an example was operation high kernel atwas a senior -- a senior kernel at the senior colonel at the embassy here. money,lained of lack of and a male officer recruits in. a keynote of that year was the "star wars" mission defense system. soviets, he is being operated

he's signed off on the extraditions of his own and praguing about shooting some himself. norah?> that has created some troefrms thacontroversy. thank you. >>> the president told thousands of supporters in harrisburg, pennsylvania, that he will keep that promise and many others. major garrett is outside the west wing of the white house. major, good morning. >> good morning. whatever president sames and it varies from time to time, the last week he had his white house team frantically pushing obamacare repeal. this morning there is one of those as a new tv ad touting 100 days of accomplish mntss. >> i'll tell you who doesn't cove pre-exists conditioning. obamacare. you know why? it's dead. >> president trump announced president obama's signature law deceased but said that law would be included in his own health care overhaul. >> pre-existing conditions are in the bill and i mandated it. i said it has to be. >> the latest version of the house bill to repeal on carry does not guarantee coverage from pre-existing conditions. it specifically allows states to opt out of that mandate. h

colleges were set up around europe, from madrid, where i was yesterday, to london, paris, rome and prague and they spread irish culture to the continent. centuries later, in 1972, the people of ireland massively voted to take part in the european project. ladies and gentlemen, at that time, i was 21. last century. france had a referendum on the accession of ireland, the uk, denmark and norway, and it was my very first vote. i campaigned for a yes vote for the uk's campaigned for a yes vote for the uk's accession back then, and voting yes was not so easy for a member of the french gaullist party. but i did it, with my full heart. and i never regretted it. i regret that brexit is happening now. i would have liked to have seen the uk stay in europe with ireland, and all the 26 other member states, but we are where we are. since 1972, we have accomplished great things together. the european union has helped ireland become what it is today, and ireland become what it is today, and ireland has complemented and strengthened our union. the irish people are known as hard—working and open—minded. t

he was given a prague knognosis couple months. he lived for four years.mom, me and my two brothers. but watching my mom deal with and get me through hard times, it's been an inspiration. and two years ago, she got married. charles has three kids, as well. >> we're the akins army. and madeline is a great mother. i love her very much. >> he would do anything for me and my brothers. we're soo lucky to have her. and she deserves this recognition. >> madeline. [ applause ] >> i can't believe this. my god. i'm happy. i'm honored. i'm honored. just thrilled to be here. >> there's only one more thing we could do, since this is a mother's day segment, is bring your kids out. we have joshua, jess and jordan here. they flew out to see you. >> charles is here, too. >> hi, charles. what makes your mom so special, you guys? >> speechless. >> hi, mom. >> are you surprised? >> my god. >> what happened to studying for the boards? >> i should be studying. >> my goodness. wow. this is something that money cannot buy, your family, your friends. and i just can't believe it. t

cohen denied claims in a dossier prepared by former spy that he took part in a secret meeting in praguen staffer boris epstein to volunteer information. epstein left after two mondays in the white house. as counsel said he's following up with a committee. a source close to michael flynn says the former national security adviser will provide some personal documents subpoenaed by the senate intelligence committee in its russia probe. flynn refused to cooperate with an earlier subpoena invoking his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. all this as the white house seemed to avoid an answer on the controversy surrounding jared kushner's meeting with russian officials and a russian state banker. >> if he can tell us whether he knew at the time jared kushner was seeking to establish back channel communication to the russian embassy to the russian government. if he didn't know at the time when did he find out. >> i think that assumes a lot. mr. kushner's attorney said mr. kushner volunteered to share with congress about these meetings. he'll do the same if contacted about any other

to help people -- >> -- the point -- >> and the second is to deal with debt and deficit -- >> he's pragueer -- >> if they did -- >> but his point is that no administration has done it for that extended period of time, even reagan -- >> we can do it one year. >> yes but the -- >> one year. >> the budget assessment is built on the -- >> every year. >> let's shoot for it. >> he said yes we should shoot for that but you can't assume that that's going to happen. >> we can't assume. >> but that is what the budget is doing assuming. >> the average -- >> since world war ii. >> see you later, senator. >> we are making budget assumptions on that. >> when we return, gordon gekko's theory on the market rally. >> between four and three. we recently had a heart attack. but we are not victims. we are survivors. we are survivors. we are survivors. and now we take brilinta. for people who've been hospitalized for a heart attack. we take brilinta with a baby aspirin. no more than one hundred milligrams... ...as it affects how well brilinta works. brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and for