. >>> the president is faces criticism after iraqi sheik who urged the tougher stance toward iran spent thousands of dollars for a 26-night stay at the trump hotel in washington, d.c. in 2019. he was considered a vip arrival. joining me now is danny cevallos. danny, good morning. in april, we all recall the president trying to throw out a lawsuit alleging he violated the emoluments clause. how does this fit? >> the emoluments clause is whether or not the president receives any benefit or profit from a foreign government and the key is how we define emoluments. the founders had a couple of definitions. one dictionary defined it as any profit. very broadly. on the other hand, another dictionary took a narrow view.

. >>> the iraqi sheik that spent 21 nights at the d.c. hotel. >>> and plus, grocery wars. the strategy in the fight for your money. >>> new this morning, a tariffs deal with the u.s. and mexico late yesterday averting an economic standoff with the allies. donald trump announced the tariffs late e slated to start are suspended. part of the deal includes a deal with mexico. mexico will deploy up to 6,000 national guard troops to the border with guatemala to reduce the central americans heading north. mexico agreed to expand the trump administration program allowing the u.s. to return immigrants to mexico while awaiting for asylum claims to be decided. that has been challenged in courts as civil rights groups say it violates rights. mexico said it did not accept the provision furnipushed by th trump administration to apply for refugee status in mexico before reaching the united states. we have mike viqueira with more from the white house. good saturday morning, my friend. how and why? >> reporter: president trump and good morning to you, alex, has been frustrated over the sit

now the sheik wrote letters to both national security adviser john bolton and secretary of state mikeuly urging both of them to forge ties with those wanting to overthrow the iranian government. now four months later he ended up spending an unusually long stay at the expensive hotel. it's estimated he spent 26 nights in a suite on the eighth floor which is estimated to cost tens of thousands of dollars and according to the hotel's vip arrival list, the sheik's visit was the longest listed. he defended his stay in an interview saying it was not part of a lobbying push and he just heard about the new hotel and thought it would be a good place to stay. he added he came to washington for medical treatment at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. the hotel declined to answer questions about how much he paid for his stay or whether it had informed anyone at the white house about his long visit. now "the washington post" reporter who broke that story is going to join "morning joe" coming up littler with more details. >>> the house will likely vote to hold attorney general bill barr and commer

what else do you know about the sheik a what he wanted from trump. >> the sheik has an interesting anding with american officials. he is from northern iraq, kurdistan, a cia paid informant in the run up to the 2003 invasion of iraq. he started private security companies. he now lives in exile in jordan. and he showed up at the trump hotel in late november of last year. and he does have a long, long agenda that he openly talks about. he -- the main issue for him right now is iran. he wants -- he is angry about iranian influence in iraq. he wants the iranian government overthrown. he has written letters to like you mentioned to the top officials expressing that. he also wants himself to be a more prominent or a prominent political figure in iraq. he said he thinks he should be president of iraq. and he is also recently opened several companies registered several companies in the united states and is looking for contracts with the trump administration. he's got a -- apparently has a full plate of demands >> it's incredible. and when you look at what the administration is now saying about

so we got no eye contact in the sheik. he was looking at her and smiling.side, and ignore, a lwa ys looked down to one side, and ignore, always make the other person look smaller. she grabbed his hand and held it closer to her torso, so he was stretched out slightly, as she kind of tossed her head at the end of it, it is like a boxer yelling out, "brate, that's it" they have got through the niceties. in looking very strong, i think, because of that. by what if there is a comparison with some of the other interactions we have seen. what once have struck you? well, i'd love to comparative vladimir putin and donald trump. this was hilarious. donald trump. this was hilarious. donald trump. this was hilarious. donald trump cracked open one of his favourite handshakes, the sheik and yanked, they have not seen him do this to vladimir putin before. he tends to take on the man rather than the policies, so it is all alpha posturing with him. so what we have got as it looks very friendly. let's watch. he takes the hand like that, suddenly yanks it... puts you off your

from art fair to art fair art basel is where they come to target the chinese billionaires the oil sheiks the american tycoons and they bring their most valuable works with them and they choreograph this sort of feeding frenzy where the super rich buyers are bracing to get the very best goods ok so let's talk about that because the art market's obviously getting very very expensive is an understatement it's incredibly exclusive very top heavy at the moment doesn't that mean huge pressure for new talent for instance it does well what's happening is actually the parts of the art market that foster new upcoming talent are being hollowed out because buyers now are only interested in the works that are worth millions they want to buy a picasso they don't want to buy the future because the. the next big stars so the art market is huge right now but it's actually not very healthy it's just really about the rich getting richer yes so that is obviously really worrying the art basel is nevertheless the template for all the other fairs out there and this is actually the 50th edition and they have sa

sheik was the 1st man to walk on the moon. there's a small boy she dreamed of the stars. as a pilot she flew anything no matter how to introduce. the church or go to the pole . as an astronaut she took part in the greatest adventure in history. the point to. the room the legend was simply a should be. was neil armstrong. was his destiny starts july 20th on t.w. . hello there and welcome to our arts and culture news i'm karen homestead and here is what we can expect in the next quarter of an hour. lens humbled for what was the welcomes its 1st artifact a giant vault door that some see as a symbol of the city's rebirth after its called for division and of the city's techno music revolution. fail and in our series you need the germans rachel stewart talks us through a raft of english words that get lost in translation somewhat in german new switch up. but 1st we start on a far away stage in the world's 2nd largest film market the 22nd shanghai international film festival is currently on until june 24th that's one of the biggest film festivals in asia. and although its main p

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greens to accept the spirits of interesting and a very warm welcome to cgw cemex somebody on a call sheik. who is a political correspondent for torture and keeps a close eye on the greens? and maxi argues that the greens must choose between purity and brad. they can't please everyone she it's interesting thank you for those three statements to the top of the show. first question goes to maxi maxie how green is german. i think germany is guessing garena every election we see that's in especially the stick to lessen the last couple years we've seen that in the very last year where the greens have become the second biggest both in them ameren parliaments which was traditionally very conservative and raids by. medical sister party the bavarian conservatives we've seen that also hesse -- one of the other conservative strongholds where the green skate significantly they're casting a foothold in almost every of german states the question is. how ready either going to be governing the states how willing are they going to be governing states and is this still a debate we only see in the west's bec

responsibility but a lot of people including security experts believe that the attack was carried out by the sheik of function the long term leader of boko haram who took over when its founder mohammad yousuf was killed by the security forces in 2009 the group the function. of targeting civilians kidnapping a lot of people including schoolgirls as well as individuals in the northeast and in particular targets civilian population those it considered mostly as enemy and as an enemy in its fight against nigerian state the international the islamic state in west africa probably its ally groups actually operate in the other side of borno state out though they have been known to have made some incursions in southern parts of borno state however it has made the ice who are allied groups of are known to have targeted mainly military facilities military personnel and of course some few civilians in the region. 4 people have been shot in toronto during a rally for the raptors the sit. these n.b.a. champions police say 2 people who were carrying firearms have been arrested hundreds of people ran from the sce

. >>> the iraqi sheik that spent 21 nights at the d.c. hotel. >>> and plus, grocery wars.egy in the fight for your money. >>> new this morning, a tariffs deal with the u.s. and mexico late yesterday averting an economic standoff with the allies. donald trump announced the tariffs late e slated to start are suspended. part of the deal includes a deal with mexico. mexico will deploy up to 6,000 national guard troops to the border with guatemala to reduce the central americans heading north. mexico agreed to expand the trump administration program allowing the u.s. to return immigrants t

the founder and sheik objective -- and chief executive doesn't see what all the fuss is about.e says investors need to understand that developing new vehicles costs money and the company will be profitable within a few years. >> you can ask a four-year-old or five-year-old to make money. if you look at tesla, it has been established 16 years. established been four years. i'm sure we don't need over a decade to make profit. matt: thank you very much. minutes away now from the start of trading. next, we will take a look at your stocks to watch at the open including german telecom companies, set umpire after the -- set to bump higher after the 5g auction. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: this is "bloomberg markets: european open." i want to bring you the latest on this story about incidents taking place in the gulf of oman. the u.s. fifth fleet says two tankers were damaged in the sea of oman in an incident there. a fire reported on one vessel and a reported attack on another. let's give you stocks to watch from around the newsroom. dani burger a is looking at german telecoms. paul is c

hotel and show a sheik who advocates for military strikes against iran. hotel start at about 1,000 dollars a night. he is just one name on a list of 1200 individual vip guests. one of the "washington post" reporter who is broke the story and covers the trump family and business interests and won a pulitzer prize for the questionable history of questionable givings. what are these documents you got your hands on. >> they are called vip arrivals list. the trump hotel in washington, d.c. told the staff here are the important people coming in. keep your eye out for them because they are important or spending a lot of monor staying a long time. it's a list of faces and names and an explanation of why they are important. we are going through the list of vip arrivals for a particular day in november of last year. staying for 26 days which was of all the 1200 stays, his was the longest. that made it interesting in finding out who is this guy and what does he want? >> he is the leader of the order of muslims in iraq. he is in the world of iraqi politics, a minor p

someone like paula white, very much into the pentecostal stream of prosperity, will sheik a lot about supernatural forces always work against you and you using god's principles to counter them. brian: the next man is well known. he has a 17,000 square foot home. the home is worth about $10.5 million. he has a 17,000 square foot home. home's worth about $10.5 million. looking at the web, he sees something like 52,000 people a week. he stands in front of. here he is, joel osteen. [video clip] >> we installed large floodgates all around the building. last sunday morning during all of the rain, the waters came within a foot or two of breaching the walls and flooding the building once again. without those floodgates, we would not be in here today. the waters started receding. late sunday, maybe into monday. we felt it was safe to start taking people in on tuesday. if we had opened the building earlier and someone was injured, or perhaps it flooded and people lost their lives, it would be a whole different story. i am at peace with taking the heat for being pre-cautious but i do not want to

i'm proud to have led the successful praegs of sheik omar abdominal rak manual and 11 others for conspiring to wichmann a war of terrorism against the united states. i was privileged in the effort to wong work alongside a superb female of federal prosecutors, support staff and investigators assigned to the fbi's joint counterterrorism task force. it was in connection with that investigation that i became intimately familiar with the fbi's counterintelligence mission and the powerful tools that the constitution and federal law make available for the execution of that mission. while it escapes the attention of many americans who know the bureaus a the nation's premier law enforcement agency, the fbi is also as my colleagues at the table noted are our domestic security service. this is a purposeful arrangement of -- on our government's part to have both the national security and law enforcement mission housed in the same -- under the same bureaucratic roof. and i believe it's a prudent one and that the fbi does it generally speaking in an exceptional fashion. i look forward to engaging with th