sahil -- sahil kapur. what does infrastructure mean to you. chief strategist have suggested borrow that money. what do you think of that idea? >> well, we look at it more of investment. we think there are multiple ways to do it. one of the things chamber long champions, we haven't raise the motor vehicle fuel tax. which fund highway and bridge infrastructure since are the early 1990's. there are a number of state who including republican states who moving themselves to raise the motor fuels tax. that's one way potentially finance it. it will be a long term solution. >> are you open to that? >> we were very much open for it. we've supported raising the gas tax. there's also private investment. most of the rest of the world utilizes private sector investment for infrastructure. it bring some of the best elements of the private sector in terms of accountability creating financing mechanisms, reliability and project deadlines building infrastructure. we don't really doe that. we believe there's a huge opportunity to do what australia and so many o

questions in studio we're joined by heather long, economic reporter with "washington post" and sahil kapur a bloomberg news. sahil , you're up first. >> neil thank you so much for joining us. i want to ask you about one of the issues a top of the congressional agenda funding the government. how worried are you about a government shutdown? the president said he will insist on a border wall. the you think he was right in digging in? >> i think concern about a government shutdown is growing. i am not prepared to say it is likely at the moment. i think it is right we should be concerned and thinking about it. in terms of drawing a line here, my experience has been whoever tries to hold government funding hostage to get something, it's usually not a strategy that historically worked out very well. it seems to me there are better ways for the president to get his priority of a border wall done other than threatening of government shutdown. >> any concerns about the debt limit being raised? niel: i feel like we're in a better path to the debt limit. there seems to be agreement in white house and

sahil kapur from washington, thank you for that update.hat next google engineer fired for his memo on gender differences in the tech industry -- differences, and the tech industry made its comments. there was an interview posted online. he discussed the reasons behind the memo. >> a lot of this came from seeing problems in our culture a google, where a lot of people that were not in this groupthink felt totally isolated and alienated. there were many people that came thinking ofid, i am leaving google because it is getting so bad. really thought it was a problem that google itself had to fix. coo sherylbook's sandberg the memo on her facebook page. she said inequality in tech is not due to gender differences, that is a stereotype that persists. we all need to do more. we what they are later for her -- later from her in this hour. the culture wars brewing within the tech industry. coming up, facebook is bolstering free speech. their latest move and the impact. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: facebook is doubling down on its efforts to combat ha

joining us now is sahil kapur.s letter says just in general on principle but the fact that the democrats are engaging with this issue in particular. should we read this as a good sign that there will be a bipartisan effort to tackle tax reform? sahil: i would say it's pretty much the opposite. 45 senate democrats and all but three of them can together and wrote a letter laying out several preconditions for even agreeing to speak with republicans and work with them in support of a potential tax reform bill. one of them is they wanted to remove the process of using reconciliation or you bypass the 60 vote rush holt in the senate for tax reform. this is what republicans are considering doing. that by itself eliminates the possibility of bipartisan support unless democrats change course. another thing democrats demanded is that any tax changes in this bill do not add to the deficit. they worry that raising the deficit puts more pressure to cut programs that they support like medicare, social security, and medicaid. i a

joining me to discuss is sahil kapur in washington. let's start with north korea. there are a slew of bad options. what is the most likely way this plays out? sahil: this is a problem we know has bedeviled the clinton administration, the bush administration, the obama administration. no one has figured out how to deal with north korea because they are so isolated from the world. economic sanctions have only a limited effect. meanwhile, they have a massive military apparatus and an erratic and unpredictable leader. it is hard to know how this plays out. there are no great solutions beyond containing them and preventing them from acting in a more belligerent way, which is what secretary james mattis said today. the white house spent much of the day walking back president trump's rhetoric, the fire and fury quote, saying it was off-the-cuff. that language had not been vetted. says a spectacular thing to the word should not be taken quite so seriously. emily: when it comes to paul manafort and the fbi raid on his home a day after he spoke to members of the intelligence

sahil kapur joining us from washington. thank you. politics because former president's bill clinton and george bush appeared. it here is what both of them had to say reflecting on their time in the white house. you are in they oval office, you learn the secrets, nuclear codes, the crises we might be getting into. what is the biggest surprise you found? clinton: how easily i could be turned into a two dimensional cartoon instead of a three-dimensional human being. you have to discipline yourself about what to talk about, how to talk about it. you have to keep remembering that there are all these leaders between you and people that didn't used to be there. that surprised me. i thought i was a pretty good communicator. i fell on my face for five times until i figured out how to do it. president bush: right after the inaugural parade, i decided i would go to the oval office to see what it felt like. unbeknownst to me, and the car had called upstairs and asked dad to come in. i was sitting in the oval office just taking it all in and in wa

scarlet: some notable -- sahil kapur joining us from washington, thank you. at losses from u.s. equities, the nasdaq down, off more than 2%, the dow down more than 190 points. ♪ ♪ "what'd you miss?" ended with a on lows, with tensions over the caribbean as low knocking the market out of it still -- korean peninsula knocking the market out of its doldrums. i'm julie chatterley. scarlet: and scarlet fu. joe weisenthal has off for the week. we want to give you a look at how markets have ended the day. juliet mentioned that the geopolitical tensions are knocking the markets out of the doldrums. losses,e fairly steep and for the dow, this is a -daydata client -- 3 decline. it feels like it has been long er. the yen has been strong, rmer against all the major currencies. any temper is the asset seems to be set -- any type of risky asset. it is still at low levels. julia: what it is up some 43%. we have been watching headlines coming from president donald trump today actually continuing his fiery language as far as north korea is concerned. he says he would like to