robert wolf, this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am tom keene, our guest host is robert wolf.iland, two people were killed as police moved in to clear a cap of protesters in bangkok, a protester was shot as adjusters threw grenades. the protests began in october. inflation slowdown of over in the u.k., consumer prices rose 1.9% in january, down from a 2% rise, putting inflation below the bank of england target for the first time in more than four years. a slowdown. making his debut as the host of "the tonight show" on nbc. he welcomed guests like will smith and u2. the return of the show to new york after 42 years on the west coast. bring it back to new york city, movies are being made here, now we have "the tonight show." >> much better on the streets of new york then la. >> you are going to get hate mail. >> i remember johnny carson playing both cities, he would make jokes. >> who am i? [laughs] >> santa? >> ed mcmahon. ceosre's a question, are making more dumb mistakes or are there mistakes just more publicized with the internet? tim armstrong is the latest ceo after his di

one advantage for roberts, wolf only has 179,000 in the bank, compared with roberts' $2.2 million. and democrats have also not been able to recruit a serious challenger. so let's start with that kansas story, "the new york times" national political reporter jonathan martin wrote the piece. he started this latest back-and-forth. he joins me now. mr. martin. >> mr. todd. >> when it comes to the roberts story, again, they said they didn't want to be lugar, they seemed concerned -- what was interesting about the reporting, this seems to be an issue they were worried about. >> yeah, what's fascinating is they're now saying he doesn't, in fact, own a property in dodge city. but that was the property that he has, according to his senate financial forms, listed as a rental income, meaning that someone has been living there for the last ten years. >> right. >> and they recognized that would be a problem for them in this campaign with the tee party challenger, so last fall he got a new driver's license and changed his voting address to the home of ross, longtime friends, donors of his in dod

robert wolf will join us.f president obama and we will talk to him about a lack of investment in america. sure i read research saying that as soon as you retire, you age 30 years. those early morning wake ups keep you young. i will never get used to that. it is a big thing for us at surveillance over the next couple of years. research showing americans cannot retire the way that our retirement scheme organizes. not that it has been a failure, but everybody is going to have to save more. bob kerrey is front and center in this debate. >> is a fascinating debate. here in europe, we retire your -- we retire earlier. i am looking forward to surveillance. we were talking about the billionaires hanging around, let's talk about where they will be hanging around. in hotel that is pushing the limits on hospitality at high-altitude. we're going to show you around the new full time resident. that is coming up next. >> we will check into intercontinental's latest development. that is next. ♪ >> welcome back to "the pulse."

roberts still has a huge money advantage over his tea party primary challenger. what's going to be important to watch is will some of these outside groups engage with wolf, the challengerim out against pat roberts. otherwise, it will still be tough for the challenger because roberts has a ton of money on hand. >> there's no place like home. nia. >> a lot of eyes on a woman named lucy flores who is an attorney out in nevada. you heard harry reid drop her name. he's thinking perhaps he can coax her into the lieutenant governor's race. if she wins that race, then it makes it less likely for brian sandoval who is the governor of nevada to get into a race in 2016 and challenge harry reid. a lot of eyes on lucy flores -- >> harry reid playing chess. >> harry is always behind the scene. >> what a surprise. >> going back to immigration, you know, there's now this conventional wisdom that maybe it's better for republicans to punt this issue in 2014. why bring up the intraparty fight, but talking to some republicans who are engaged on this issue, want to see immigration reform pass, especially for their candidates in 2016, they say why is it going to be any easier in 2015? 2015

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wolf is running are to the republican nomination for u.s. senate courting conservatives in the hopes of unseating incumbent pat roberts. >> they call me the archnemy of obamacare. >> wolf admits he's posted many x-rays online but has never revealed the identity and this is all to educate other doctors. >> you look at textbooks that show these imaging. >> reporter: still, he said it's not like the patient was going to complain and when he wrote, what kind of gun blows somebody's head completely off? i've got to get one of those. >> this is a joke. >> no, it is not. it's no joke about taking care of patients. >> reporter: all of the comments were made some years ago and wolf subsequently took them down but the fact remains politically he shot himself in the foot. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> other stories we're following in "the situation room" right now, part of the mississippi river has reopened but more than two dozen vessels remain stranded following a weekend oil spill near new orleans. a barge leaked nearly 30,000 gallons of crude after a collision with a towboat. at one point, 65 miles of the river were closed as well as the port of

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wolf is a tea party republican. he's challenging senator pat roberts.e admitted that he made insurance sensitive comments after posting some gruesome x-ray images of gunshot victims on his facebook page, including someone decapitated by gunfire. one x-ray resembled a wounded alien in a "terminator" movie. wolf was asked about this. >> do you still post images of dead people on the internet? >> that is not an image of a dead person. >> what is it? what is this? >> these are x-rays. >> x-rays of dead people. do you still post images that reflect anything like this on the internet? >> you know, it's so easy to try to -- to try to put some kind of blame on me, on anybody and anything that you like to do. i'm telling you right now, these are real consequences that you see of real activities. >> in a statement, wolf now says, quote, several years ago i made some comments about these images that were insensitive to the seriousness of what the images revealed. i removed those images several years ago. matea, is there any right answer? i think it's fair to say t

what i think is very interesting about that, wolf, you know how two very high-profile republicans in defense, both petraeus and former defense secretary robert gates, basically coming to hillary clinton's defense on security issues and benghazi, especially when republicans say they're going to make that such a big issue if she does run. >> all right. we're going to learn more about the book's authors and the book later tonight on piers morgan. the two authors of this new book on hillary. they're going to be our special guests. so anxious to see that, 9:00 p.m. eastern, a lot more coming up later this hour, as well. erin, thanks very much. >>> gay rights are calling it a landmark announcement, the justice department expanding its recognition of same-sex marriages. that recognition will now include federal legal matters such as bankruptcies, prison visitation and survivor benefits. in a speech at the human rights campaign gala over the weekend, the attorney general, eric holder, announced the action he's taking today. >> i will issue a new policy memorandum that will for the first time in history formally instruct all justice department employ

robert baird. i want to play you a clip from representative michael mccall, a chair of the house homeland security committee. what he told wolf blitzer today about the origin of the suspected plot. >> the plot itself originated from the leader of the chechen rebel extremists umarov where this plot actually hatched out of. there had been reports he's been killed since then. but the issue is the plot has been hatched. it is out there. you have really two threats going on. one is the aviation sector and one would be the suicide bombers within russia which i think there's a high prohibbability o will probable go off again. >> bob, if you were involved in the counter terrorist operation here, what would your biggest worry be now? >> airplanes. absolutely. the chechens have attacked airplanes in the past. they're capable of doing it. it's very difficult to protect all flights going into moscow or leaving moscow. the chechens have access to very sophisticated bombs, including ones using powder or liquids. they've got the detonators. i mean, if i were the russians, and as washington is i'd be scared of airplanes. >> in terms of the d