we start tonight in slovenia. a beautiful country, lots of great skiing, amazing lakes, lots of castles everywhere. for americans, slovenia is probably best known as the homeland of the first lady, melania trump but slovenia played a pivotal role in american history once before when it hosted the first summit between george w. bush who had been president of the united states for about fiver months and vladimir putin who had been president of russia for just over a year. apparently, everyone was super excited about the summit, especially the slovenians. that first summit between bush and putin in slovenia produced one of george w. bush's most memorable quotes, not just because of the way he described the russian counterpart, but because it's not usually the way american presidents talked about other world leaders. >> i looked the man in the eye. i found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. we had a very good dialogue. i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> well, not everybody at the time got the same

we start tonight in slovenia.ry, lots of great skiing, amazing lakes, lots of castles everywhere. for americans, slovenia is probably best known as the homeland of the first lady, melania trump but slovenia played a pivotal role in american history once before when it hosted the first summit between george w. bush who had been president of the united states for about fiver months and vladimir putin who had been president of russia for just over a year. apparently, everyone was super excited about the summit,

we start tonight in slovenia.s of great skiing, amazing lakes, lots of castles everywhere. for americans, slovenia is probably best known as the homeland of the first lady, melania trump but slovenia played a pivotal role in american history once before when it hosted the first summit

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the world number one beat slovenia in straight sets.urnament. the second set went the same way. “— tournament. the second set went the same way. —— rafael nadal. alvarez has been suspended for six months following his two positive tests for a performance enhancing substances. he has been on a temporary suspensions and april three and saw his much anticipated rematch on the fifth of may cancelled. the fight could be rescheduled for mid—september. now to a cricketer whom i have stopped playing professionally but still loves to pick up about. these pictures are from mumbai and you could say that this man is a pretty big deal there. yes, that is the highest scoring test cricketer, dundalk. apparently he was just driving past and saw these guys playing —— sachin tendulkar. he is currently involved in the ipl as a tea m currently involved in the ipl as a team ambassador. looks like he can still score a few runs. you can get the latest news from our website. but from me, that is your thursday sport briefing. 10 years after making her final voy

he is talking about trade with slovenia as well even though it is a smaller country and he keeps talking about bilaterals and needs to understand the political dimensions in europee when doing this. he sort of is maybe missing that point a b. mark: those tariffs on steel and aluminum another reason we see the overtures between the european leaders in their meetings with trupp. rosrt: there was more n this week. president trump saw one cabinet member under a hot spotlight on capitol hill this week in hisea pick tothe veterans affairs administration bowed out following reports of inappropriate work behavior. white house doctor and rear admiral ronny jacks withdrew as nominee for secretary of veterans affairs after current and former colleagues accused him of protssional misconduc while serving as the president's personal physician. in a statement dr. jackson responded to those allegfions sayinghey had any merit i would not have been selected, promoted, and entrusted serve in such a sensitive and important role. on a the same day,mbtled e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt faced two congressio

rather less in the way of rain i think we'll see more rain develop this is come monday for italy in slovenia and suits and ups are austria and beyond but the wants is still with it is temporary not quite as nice it might be a pretty good spring weather otherwise now i said you know i agree if you are in the north west africa algeria in particular where they have been really suffering from a northerly wind been quite strong and it's been raining to some to a millimeter is in the capital of algeria now that is obviously easing to some degree the low is still spinning it's been a stronger wind now and the rain is edging ever slowly eastwards into northern tunisia never last sunday is not the best day have to wait for monday to things really improve me from then and still not guaranteed sunshine. the weather sponsored by qatar and he's. getting to the heart of the matter if most of the turkish cypriot people called you today and says let's have two homes would you accept facing new realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people keep the peace for unification is th

slovenia was the most improved in the concept of limited government with a big effort to get its budget deficits under control and control of government debt. tunisia had big gains in both trade freedom and investment freedom and pushed its open market score up by almost 10 points. ukraine made gains in all three of the regulatory categories, business freedom, labor freedom and monetary freedom. that, i think, shows that economic progress need not stop for countries facing internal or external political challenges. we measure these categories independently. they do interact with one another. progress in one area can enhance the benefits from policy challenges in another. the importance of a particular category may vary, depending on a country's level of development. there's one category that stands out as especially relevant to countries at all levels of development. that's the freedom to trade. the freedom to trade is highly correlated with overall economic freedom and prosperity, both for the world as a whole and within every region and at all levels of development. i want to move on

. >> slovenia. not with my daughter. >> jimmy: sounds like a liam neeson movie. actually about. >> jimmy: romania. >> forbidden to make. sex. you don't know what they're forb forbidden. there's a lot of suspense. this is the greatest thing, the best movie title of all my movies ever in taiwan operation chicken container. [ cheers and applause ] again not necessarily that worse than [ bleep ] blockers. i have to say. we put into reason why it would be called that is it a container, no it's one who contains chickens. the container of chickens, this is the operation of those whose job it is to contain chickens. >> jimmy: it sounds like what the secret service might call getting lunch for president trump operation chicken container. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's the craziest title. but the movie is really good. please go see it. despite the crazy titles it's a sweet and hilarious movie that i recommend. and "blockers" opens in theatres tomorrow. "hilarity for charity" premieres tomorrow on netflix. we'll be right back with jaina lee ortiz. [ cheers and applause ] ♪

in 1970, melania trump was born in slovenia, and you can see there she is with her future husband. [ter ] the president celebrated this morning with a bonkers 30-minute-long phone call to "fox and friends" at the start of which they asked, what'd you get melania for her birthday? he said he's too busy to buy her a present, keeping in mind he said this during a 30-minute-long rambling call to fox and friends. told them he got her a beautiful card. a beautiful green card. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] and then during the interview, trump accidentally admitted that michael cohen did represent him in the stormy daniels please be quiet now case. [ laughter ] so happy birthday, honey! [ laughter ] i mean, if ever there was a year to get your wife a nice gift, this would be it. this would be the year. if you could spend $130,000 on a porn star, you could at least spring for a necklace. right? [ cheers and applause ] listen, thinking about this today, here's all you need to know about donald trump. bill cosby, one of the most beloved and successful tv stars of all-time, was convicted

monaco the defending champion was barely bothered by his opponent he swept aside aljaz by danny of slovenia in straight sets six one six three three that al needs to win this tournament in order to save top of the world rankings and not be replaced by roger federer face of russia's caring catching up at. this year's will be the special situation for me i have been. outside of the competition. almost for five months i play those that are there but nothing else since i didn't finish no one even now so here is a very important one for me is important to start with a big idea that helps. it wasn't so easy for former world number one no doubt shaka bench the serb dated more than two hours to see all the former quaritch it was a tight match but the two time champion came through seven six seven five to reach the third round commit she has been fighting an elbow injury will face fifty's dominates. football now and the title race in italy has been thrown wide open new ventures have lost their six point caution over now believe the leaders being held by relegation threatened her tony while napoli be

who might be thinking let's fly to venice for a romantic weekend it's aimed at people from maybe slovenia maybe from austria. maybe but various in southern germany who with a public holiday weekend coming up are thinking great let's jump in the car will find a cheap hotel and then we'll just drive into venice for the day which is going to be very very crowded and the idea is it's really just kind of we don't need you we don't want you particularly if you're a day visit or you're not pretty much to the party and so therefore we're going to make love to serve a little bit uncomfortable which i think is very sad because of course you saw that you showed that map and these tourist route you're going to be following the joy of venice is actually stepping away from the tourist trail no it sounds as though we might not be able to do that it's interesting that they that they will be prevented from doing that it's not just pedestrians that will be diverted to alternative routes it's also you know one of the main things about then this is being in the boats and that's going to be restricted as well

monte carlo mostest the wild number one pick to spot in the round of sixteen by sweeping a side of slovenia in straight sets down these to win this tournament in order to say top of the wild rankings and avoid being replaced by roger federer russia's current catchin of it his next opponent. the democratic republic of congo's football league has been suspended amid a corruption scandal the country's football association president constant omari was detained this week as part of an embezzlement investigation he's also afifa council member three off a deal with the officials being questioned over a one million dollars government payment that was intended to be used for the national team and for clubs competing in continental competitions. boxing now and the middle way fights a canelo alvarez has been bad for six months off the failing drugs test the twenty seven year old mexican tested positive to claim brutal twice in february he's blaming contaminated meat as the cause that forced him to withdraw from a wild middleweight title rematch against ghana kidd the ban has been backdated and alvarez

terms of innovation we're down somewhere around 13th to 14th according to the oecd, right around slovenia. whereas we used to be number one. and people say, well, yeah, you know, but there's been technology and globalization. yeah. well, sweden in 2016 had a gdp that grew twice as much as the u.s. did. and sweden has very strong government component. so we live in an era not only where government is weaker, but government is skewed toward the benefit of the very few. and this is our position today, and how we got there, in a sense, is the story of this book. thank you very much. [applause] >> and now for something completely different. [laughter] >> i just want to thank david for his book, and i am hoping that i'm going to be able to get down there and get one in time after this, because i think it will be the perfect tonic to my own research. and as i was reading about david's book, i realized that my husband -- who was born in 1952 -- is the last of your grouping. and he regularly talks about what it meant to him to come from a blue collar, chicago, working class family and be able to g

he made the remark as he welcomed slovenia's defense minister to the pentagon >> we're looking at how we can best provide support to the department of homeland security. we'll figure it out and it will be consistent with law and congress no problem >> the new york times reporting white house chief of staff john kelly urged president trump to fire epa chief scott pruitt last week, but the president, who is personally fond of pruitt and sees him as an ally to roll back environmental protections resisted firing him. >>> president trump is pushing for online retailerss to pay more in state and local taxes. one retailer that could be affected, the online store of the trump organization, which collects sales tax from consumers in only two states we've got 50 of them according to dow jones the website is based in trump tower. that's your cnbc news update at this hour. back over to you >> courtney, thank you courtney reagan. >>> industrials were one of the worst performing sectors today at there was a lot of pain to go around the "fast money" traders are going to tell us whether you should bu