we caught up with stephan to talk about the idea. excitement of the freelance economy we serve, people tend to be highly skilled. they usually have a college degree so these are people that are truly doing this by choice. if they want the transitional job, they can easily get one. with up work, they can have more flexibility and they can work on the schedule they choose. they choose their clients. on top of that, you make more money they make through the local job market. from what we hear from freelancers, they would rather take a higher pay and choose their own benefits then what would happen through a transitional employer. 60% of the freelancers, we asked money wouldhow much a transitional employer have to pay you to convince you to take a full-time job with them? 50% of the respondents said no amount of money. this is something people do by choice as opposed to necessity. emily: where does the growth come from? -- >> where does this growth come from and where would you put your money to work? stephane: we will continue to do wha

let's go over to dublin correspondent stuff inside wins in washington welcome stephan what sort of a fad to these remarks that likely to have on senators who are getting ready to vote brett kavanaugh this nomination well first up let me say that political washington was caught of guard by the president making those remarks and mocking miss christine lacy for it that way because everybody in the republican. senate and house as well as in the white house was fairly proud of the president to show some restraint and to not to do exactly what he did on tuesday night now you mentioned three senators jeff flake susan collins and lisa murkowski those are the three pins in the republican senate if they say that the republicans lose two votes two of those senators in their effort to confirm mr cavanaugh from the supreme court then the democrats given that the democrats are unified vote against him then his candidacy for the supreme court is off and that's the danger here and this is what the white house as well as the president now need to be concerned about. so meanwhile a senate is awaiting

this is an ongoing unfolding situation which our correspondent in washington is stephan is tracking foryou seven please give us an update if you will what's the latest. just mentioned the latest that according to media reports an agency reports thirty's now think that the devices the device found at the compound often liberal billionaire george soros and the device intercepted by the secret service which was sent to the clinton residence in new york that they are connected that they are linked and that is of course the first result if you will of a really really fresh and growing investigation it's not just the secret service who intercepted those those packages which is now it's investigating this it's also the f.b.i. a.t.f. and other agencies we can be sure of that there was another package sent to the obama residence in washington that's pickett's number three this was also in just have today in the secret service was quick to add that none of those packages the one to sent to the clinton residence as well as to the obama's. ever reached. the clintons or the obama's they were interce

for more we now cross to washington to find simone's is standing by on capitol hill so stephan we've just reported that people have been protesting on capitol hill what's the situation at the moment. well things calm down a little bit and of course they have because the protesters which we have seen last time around in our own occupying the stairs of the rich on the building are all arrested or were all arrested now and they are maybe you can see i'm still in the background here they are going to be. put into those buses or or trucks and. brought to a process center and then there will be there will be fined and there will be bail posted and then they go home or come back and do it all over again the plows are you in front of the rotunda still packed with people and let me step back in the picture and of course they're not happy because it's going to be it's going to be in it's going to be in one and a half hours now at three thirty pm local that they all the senators are asked to be in their seats and what then what's going to happen then is that there will be a roll call and meanin

police arrested the driver 48- year-old stephan chiari who is accused of being under the influence of alcohol. >>> the deadly synagogue shooting in pennsylvania, the suspected gunman just appeared in court. >> hilary lane has the latest. >> the county -- suspect is facing 29 crimes including 11 counts of homicide. he ran into the synagogue behind me yelling and firing a gun over the weekend. suspected shooter robert bowers was in a wheelchair making his first appearance in a federal court in pittsburgh on monday. >> the judge advised him of the charges. he is detained in jail without bond. >> police say robert bowers open fire in the tree of life synagogue on saturday killing 11 people and wounding six others. >> the suspect was talking. >> on a website popular with the alt-right he posted a photo of three handguns and wrote jews are the children of satan and he fixated on a group called the hebrew immigrate society which helps refugees from all backgrounds in the u.s. in his last post before the shooting he wrote bringing in invaders that kill our people i cannot sit by and watch, sc

let's go now to dw correspondent stephan in washington, d.c. for an overview of where things stand on a national level. first, a search is underway for the person or people believed to be behind this. what are some of the leads that federal investigators are chasing? stefan: there is one specific lead that makes investigators look to florida, but i can't give you any more details. i can tell you that this is a domestic terrorism investigation and it is significant, because it determines that the fbi antiterrorism unit is leading the investigation. as the president said yesterday, the entire government and all the agencies could be possibly involved are involved. there is significant manpower and money in finding out who are those people or who is the person sending this packages. laila: with a bomb device being mailed to critics of president trump, as well as news outlets, how is the white house reacting? stefan: the white house has not reacted at all. i think the verdict is out that everybody is disappointed by president trump. he said yesterd

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stephan how is trump's response going down or where you are. i think the temperatures are actually still at boiling point so beyond very high if you disregard the right wing or or right extremist as well as conservative. media and media on the fringe they are actually now saying that we should look into conspiracy to get away of the narrative of the carol who is according to the trump administration just weeks away from knocking at the u.s. border in texas the size that the. political establishment here pundits observers and of course the so-called mainstream media are pretty much only saw in all of one of pain and that is that the president squandered an opportunity to actually do what he asked for to be done yesterday to unify this country and to stop decisiveness in how people speak to each other here and how our political discourse here is happening in this town and in this country but i think the verdict is out there he failed to do so by blaming the media as being the major culprit and responsible party in this situation is we have it rig

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personal reasons and diplomatic editor james bays reports when he took the job over four years ago stephan de mistura described it as almost mission impossible now after seven years of war with over twelve million people displaced from their homes in syria and over half a million killed he told the security council he was stepping down with a peace deal far from sight let me old to give you some heads up if i may. i would myself be moving on as of the last week of november mr de mistura tried everything from local truces to meetings of key international players in twenty sixteen he managed to get syrian government representatives to geneva to meet with a delegation that for the first time represented many of the opposition elements including key fighting groups this promising opportunity stopped in its tracks by military action during the talks by syria and its russian ally therefore taken deficient to bring them bertie for them voted for did it not there and if not the fate of the haven't they basically formed your top. i am not referring to all military activities. it was russian air pow

correspondent stephens the ones has been following events for us and he now joins us from washington also stephan no surprises i guess the democrats have slammed the findings of the investigation into supreme court nominee bret. yeah right you have right no surprise it seems the republicans are safe now and the three senators we had earlier and talked about in the last few days those wiggles senators flake collins and scar ski on the republican side seem to be a safe bet now for the vote in the senate which will probably end expectedly happen on saturday and up and down vote and with that the confirmation process of read cover now will be finished and mr cavanaugh will be supreme court judge of course as you pointed out the democrats do not like any of this and they say the f.b.i. report is incomplete and hasn't talked to the f.b.i. hasn't talked to key witnesses and key people who could shed more light on the sexual assault allegations against brett kavanaugh but here's where we are republicans say this democrats say this republicans have the majority in the senate mr kevin i will be it looks li

to tweet out what he thinks or how he uses the situation that hasn't happened yet all right now is stephanthese are appear to be linked we don't have a confirmation yet but how are authorities treating these cases are they being treated as potential acts of terrorism. this is think it's a sure bet to assume that this is going to be treated as coordinated and sent to the if you consider the people who those who were supposed to be the recipients of those packages that authorities will here classify this as domestic terrorism or an attempt of terrorism and in this case it will be investigated that way that means a lot of manpower and intelligence will go into this there are several agencies involved in the inner suggestions not just the secret service which intercepted those pay could just tell the f.b.i. of course and we'll probably get support from other agencies like a.t.f. or. n.s.a. for example also right to get to the bottom of this all right now james want to go back to you in manhattan what's the situation there because i can see that the cars behind you are already starting to move

of the penalty area and pulled out a strike that you saw coming especially american keepers zach stephan colombia went on to win this one for one. belgium have just taken to the field in the u.a.e. for nations league game against switzerland but the country finds itself mired in a fraud and match fixing scandal nineteen people including a referee in the coach of champion's club have been charged belgians and national team has distanced itself from the scandal. french police are investigating claims of match fixing flagged up to them by european governing body you wait for it concerns paris and around six one victory of a red star belgrade in the champions league last week the french newspaper has reported that a member of the team's party that travel to paris is suspected to bet nearly six million dollars on red star losing by five golds red star have denied the allegation the associated press the french financial prosecutor's office confirmed on friday that an investigation had been opened twenty time grandstand tennis champion roger federer has won his way into this year's shanghai mas

and we'll pull away from stephan de mint store or at the un headquarters building in new york james bays is a diplomatic editor he's standing by for us but first we've got another significant development going on in bull we've been hearing about how this team of eleven so the investigators will be going into that building the flanked the turkish authorities hope flanked by turkish investigators we were talking to chris phillips who's. a leading commentator in the world of forensic investigations and he was saying yes in theory they can find d.n.a. evidence inside that relatively small compound building there are questions to be answered clearly over whether they get into the consulate building and also into the home of the consul general which is anticlockwise around the crescent in that part of istanbul is about two hundred meters in a straight line from the consulate building fifteen days ago jamal khashoggi walked into that building expecting confirmation paperwork saying that he was indeed free to marry his fiance to teach a she was waiting outside she waited outside for eleven hours

quite a bully and at the moment because he has rejected the latest central proposal as put to him by stephan de mistura the u.n. and peace envoy to syria. yes peter a short while ago we saw the fundaments to our walk into this conference hall stuff on the mr a brief the u.n. security council just yesterday saying that in one way or the other he failed in his mission he went to damascus this week to try to convince the syrian government to accept the composition of a u.n. committee a u.n. committee that is supposed to draft a new constitution the syrian foreign minister telling him flat out this is a syrian problem and this should be discussed by syrians themselves and we do not want any foreign intervention interference the russians instead of saying that they are planning to pressure the syrian government to cooperate they say we need to be patient what europe wants is this a u.n. led political process the geneva truck to make progress to move forward and that involves creating this constitutional committee that will lead to elections and they say unless that happens we're not paying money

stephan: master to take a that? money has been absolutely pouring out of credit -- etf's.uld you say to the people selling now? where are we in what are you seeing? >> a great question and i think our view of it is most of that is in fixed rate assets. youyou are seeing longer duratin and treasury yields rising, the ecb is pulling back from qe. you want the vision efficient in the -- this economic part of the cycle in the reason rate environment and away from fixed rate assets into floating rate assets. where you capture the uptick in short-term rates. the exposure we want to have. west fixed rate, less >> can i come back to what you said a moment ago and he's it out more? what is the move in treasury yields telling you? trying to determine the signal to noise is interesting. is it telling you the economy is doing fine? what are we getting from the move and what is the signal? really is,the signal you have seen a lot of movement toward a hawkish stance from a fed perspective. you have seen that not only in removing the word accommodative in the fed minute that also from fe

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. >> and stephan halpert and lauren down i downey. their role in fraudulent dossier. list goes on. mystery -- >> and lawyers at perkins coy. lou: by the way, perkins coy. lawyers to the dnc, democratic party. to hillary clinton. is there anyway in which a law firm can be held accountable for this kind of absolutely nefarious undertaking that is of the apparent efforts to unseat's president? >> oyes, lawyers, who were involved themselves can be, that is why there is a crime fraud exception to attorney-client privilege that allows a seiche h warrant. that is how they did the. lou: why isn't the justice department utilizing those lous, and going toward the answers that reside at perkins coy? >> yes. well, i think we would need a new attorney general and new deputy attorney general for that but, probably stay tuned until after the midterms. lou: sydney, we will, you too, thank you so much. >> thank you. lou: up next, senator lindsey graham is determined to fate back against radical dems for their attempts to smear kavanaugh's name, and life, and destroy his family. >> all

and with that, i will turn this over to our new president of the board, stephan cook. over, there is one person i want to call out there are so many of you who have been incredible friends over the years. but i want to thank lee who has, for so many years, first of all, as my cosmic twin. we both born on the same day. because of that, i feel a special connection with him. we think very similarly and he is a little bit more quieter than i am. [laughter] >> but you have been just a solid rock for the district at a tremendous amount of love and respect from so many of us. but you are someone that i will really miss deeply and the relationship that we have built over the years. for that, thank you. there are so many more of you that i feel this way, but we talked sometimes first thing in the morning and sometimes he is the voice i hear before i go to bed and he has never said no to me. so for that, i am appreciative. well, except the last few times. [laughter] [laughter] >> so we have -- [laughter] >> you are on my list. >> yes. we have a vice president supposed to go get

information campaigns and voting systems being compromised they don't do so correspondent in washington stephan simons has this report. national museum of american history in washington is housing an exhibition called american democracy showcasing objects in artifacts used in u.s. elections through time it's gaining popularity with visitors these days as many americans are not so sure anymore that their vote is safe from tampering unmanipulated and to alice miller executive director of the washington d.c. board of elections ms miller is ultimately responsible for the election process in the district of columbia for miller and her team that means long days filled with plenty of overtime hours focusing on one thing and one thing only we want to make sure our systems are secure we want to make sure poll workers are trained no easy task protecting the upcoming midterm elections from any form of cyber interference has been declared a national security issue the white house and congress across party lines are on the same page no one wants a repeat of what happened in the two thousand and sixteen pres

for an overview of worse things stand right now stephan first off a manhunt is currently underway for the person or people believed to be behind this what are some of the at least that federal investigators are chasing. although there are four in new york to say they're focusing of them only little bit on florida however this is make no mistake a intensifying nationwide manhunt the f.b.i. counterterrorism department your division is in charge of this cooperating with plenty of other u.s. agencies trying to find the person or the people or the persons who are responsible for this and the reason is their authorities are really really concerned that there are more bombs out there and as reported they are so unstable and so rooted mentally. configured and built. really the chance that those things blow up anywhere on the way to the recipients so having said this there are treasure trove of people investigating this experts forensics are critical as i said and communities what that means is that investigators nowadays they look into not only what they have the d.n.a. or the things up build

nations tasked with helping bring peace to syria has announced he is leaving his post special envoy stephan m a star will step down at the end of november he says he's moving on for personal reasons or diplomatic editor james reports when he took the job over four years ago stefan de mistura described it as almost mission impossible now off to seventy years of war with over twelve million people displaced from their homes in syria and over half a million killed he told the security council he was stepping down with a peace deal far from sight let me old to give you some heads up if i may. i would myself be moving on as of the last week of november mr de mistura tried everything from local truces to meetings of key international players in twenty sixteen he managed to get syrian government representatives to geneva to meet with a delegation that for the first time represented many of the opposition elements including key fighting groups this promising opportunity stop to me its tracks by military action jury in the talks by syria and its russian ally if therefore they can deficient to bring

offices the day or whether they're going to be stuck outside or maybe just need to go home all right stephan let's go to you now in d.c. now the targets appear to be obviously top democrats but also c.n.n. where james is the media outlet that president obama has targeted over and over again calling it fake news trump in general calls the news media the enemy of the people now i'm not drawing a direct link here but it seems that the u.s. is currently at this stage reaching a boiling point. you know you bob writes is saying this there is no idea from this official to even go that far saying that. the us and politics here seem to be in a sorry state if it triggers one person or persons to send out pipe bombs to elected officials or fall molecular officials no matter if they're republicans or. democrats so there's people now in the senate senators coming out saying that this is actually an attack on the constitution of the united states but of course everybody is bemoaning that this is exemplifies where we are. and it shouldn't exemplify but it does to some degree semper fi where we are in polit

kavanaugh, axios reporter, they obviously did want this ceremonial event, stephan, they are go going the president this is going to work to our benefit, referring to republicans is that true? >> i think we have already seen republicans just seem more enthusiasm going forward from this nomination. there are republican voters who are angry at democrats for the way that brett kavanaugh was treated. and they see this as a big win for the president. i think mitch mcconnell and donald trump are very aware of the fact that this is a really big moment for republicans and comes at a very crucial time heading into the midterms. i think we are going to see the president and mitch mcconnell continue to keep kavanaugh in the news. continue to talk about how great an accomplishment this is and how long lasting of an accomplishment this is for the republican party. >> neil: how is this resonating with him. they are going to try hard. they say there is already passion among women who feel that dr. ford was treated poorly and they are going to galvanize female voters like they did in 92 the clirns th

joining us now are guardian journalist heidi stephans and showbiz reporter for the sun beril naz hassanleston as excited by seann and katya's charleston as the judges were, it looked woolly in this places but they are the experts so they obviously saw something i didn't. they kept quite a long way away from each other to make? also based what i thought they were supposed to be doing a run but this week. everyone, one looked on social media, they we re one looked on social media, they were saying happy charleston expert was almost like a little, i'm going to stay in between you girls wouldn't get to close. i thought that in between you guys, i won't get too close. i didn't feel that passion, i thought are they looking at each other in a different way, are they touching each other? it was such a shame for strictly fans. the whole thing is rather awkward. we saw the stuff in the week with seann‘s now ex—girlfriend taking to twitter. last night, her husband was standing in the background because he is one of the other dancers, the whole thing is really awkward isn't it? it's been awkward al

later second mental police have finished their investigation into the shooting death of 22-year-old stephanemother county district attorney ann marie schubert will review the case to determine if charges should be filed against the officers who sought clark. clark was killed in march and police thought he had been breaking into cars. two segment officers taste of the and the pursuit ended in the backyard of clark's grandmother's home. officers say they mistook his cell phone for a gun and opened fire shooting carcass seven times. days of protest filed. pda will determine if the shooting was justified. >>> writer driver suspected of kidnapping a sexually assaulting a woman in san mateo behind bars. brandon sherman of san jose accused of attacking a woman in august. the victim told police a man posing as a rideshare driver picture up near highway 92, drove her to a secluded area and assaulted her. investigators say sherman had been fired from uber only can play to the company received one day before the assault. yesterday during a news conference the san mateo police chief was critical of uber

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