>> stephen: i have quarters. okay. >> stephen: there you go.right? >> uh-huh, uh-huh. >> stephen: do you have any idea about how to do this? what's your guess about how to do this? >> i think you put it in there, in the, like, slot. >> stephen: go ahead, and give it a shot. >> okay. oh, no. >> stephen: i have more. don't worry about it. i'm rich. i'm rich. i have a tv show. don't worry about it. pick it up. >> okay. >> stephen: now, dial a phone number. do you know any phone numbers other than yourself or your parents'? you can't look at your phone. >> no, i just don't. >> stephen: you don't know any phone numbers? >> no. >> stephen: see, you actually had to know phone numbers when these were around. >> i can't do that. >> stephen: call the pizza place. i'll give you the number. 1-917-261-4204. is it ringing in there? >> thank you for calling na pollton express. this is angie. >> hi, can i get five large cheese pizzas? >> five large cheese pizzas? sure, can i have a name for that order? >> christine. all right, christine, give it about five or

>> stephen: breathe. >> breathing. >> stephen: tuberculosis.un. today that's not what anybody is worried about. we have aki over. a box that will run your life. >> stephen: i'm afraid a.i. won't take over. right now it's just us running the show, and i don't know if you've seen humans' track record, it's not that good. >> it's not that good. that's why we worry when they do take over they're done with us. >> stephen: what upset me this week, the story, since 1970, 60% of the world's wildlife-- like vertebrates, eventually, has gone and i think. >> that's correct. but by our hand. >> stephen: that's sad. >> we have entered a new era where we are the primary drivers of the world's extinction, not asteroids. it's bad. but what worries me more is 100 years from now what, would be on their list that we don't even know yet that we should be worried about? ( laughter ) >> stephen: super intelligent jellyfish. >> stephen colbert, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) ready to get your feast on? you better be 'cause it's red lobster's new create your own u

stephen. >> stephen: you seem nice.ngton. you write that when you were a child, you used books to escape sadness. >> uh-huh. >> stephen: what do you use to escape sadness as an adult? >> i love playing poker, so i play-- >> stephen: really? >> --poker with friends. >> stephen: and do you ever play for just, like, small stakes, or anything like that? just a little family-- >> pretty much almost always small stakes. >> stephen: small stakes. it's still illegal to gamble for small stakes, just-- >> no, because i provide-- >> stephen: it's not illegal in d.c.? >> i provide the food. the players around my table are just paying for their own food. >> stephen: that is legalese if i ever heard it. come on, that's never going to hold up in a court. >> why not? >> stephen: get a lawyer in here. >> why not? >> stephen: you're-- you're running-- you're running a gambling den. >> absolutely not. >> stephen: how do we know that you're in charge? i'd like to see some receipts, please. >> oh, that's easy for me to give you. >> stephen:

>> stephen: oh!( laughter ) and this is to show you that the fog eventually will go away. and when the fog goes away-- ( cheers and applause ) oh! america is beautiful again. >> stephen: oh! >> republicans and democrats together. but without the fog! >> stephen: make america drink again. i'm on board. ( cheers and applause ) all right, all right. now, i've wanted you-- i've wanted you to teach me how to make a spanish egg. >> yeah. so this is a spanish egg, and easy, stephen. >> stephen: it is not easy. >> it is not easy. it is complex. because we're about to put egg-- hold on! in this very hot oil. >> stephen: yes. >> and the hot oil is going to be amazing. it's going to be torching the beautiful egg. the egg is going to beng,"wd g baby, i'm hot." and the egg white will be covering the egg yolk, and you at the end you will have eggs spanish >> stephen: you central artery. >> now we're going to put it in! and you see the egg white. you're going to get the egg white covering the egg yolk. why? because

give me the loot. >> stephen: that's how it goes? >> jon: yeah. >> stephen: yeah! ( laughter ) one criticism trump has received-- and there's really only been one-- is that he only been one-- is that he hasn't gone to active war zones to visit the troops. on sunday, chris wallace asked him about it. >> why haven't you visited our troops serving in war zones in iraq and afghanistan in the two years you've been in office as commander in chief? >> well, i think you will see that happen. there are things that are being planned. we don't want to talk about it because of-- obviously, because of security reasons, and everything else. but there are things that are planned. >> stephen: (as trump) "there are things that are planned, but i can't talk about them, because i don't know what they are. and when they try to explain them to me i get bored. and when i'm bored, i get angry. and when i'm angry, i get hungry. and when i'm hungry, everybody i look at begins to look like a giant roast chicken, and i don't want to eat the troops." ( laughter ) and had it comes to donald tr

they said, "stephen likes mallets. >> stephen: i've broken it off.the place we're getting the wax from, it's bees that eat a lot of blackberrys, so it has this sort of-- you get these black berry notes from the wax. >> >> stephen: this wax is-- >> don't eat the wax but -- >> stephen: i wasn't going to. it's black berry-flavored wax? >> somewhat. it could be said. you get subtle notes of black berry. >> stephen: i feel like you're punk meeg this entire time. >> for the actual dish, we have the greens from the beats that we've wilted with a little bit of cream. >> stephen: okay. same two-week-old beats? >> these are fresh beats. we're going to season these with a little bit of lemon juice and a little salt. >> stephen: that liquid nitrogen-- >> see, you can put whatever you want in that and it makes it-- it makes it fun. >> stephen: yeah, there you go. let that sit there-- >> i don't think you're allowed to do that without the goggle s. >> stephen: i'm doing it anyway. it's my (bleep) show. >> so now we get some really hot butter. >> stephen: okay, gre

>> hi, stephen. >> stephen: always lovely to see you. >> lovely it see you. >> stephen: it's been tophen: you have 11 emos, four peabodys. you're a commander of the british empire. damn! and-- this is the biggie-- you were just inducted into the broadcastinbroadcasting and cabf fame last week. >> yes, i was, thank you! >> stephen: that's wonderful. >> thank you! ( applause ). >> stephen: now, let's gets right to the story of the press being in the news itself. >> yes. >> stephen: because three or four pipe bombs went to various cnn headquarters, or were addressed to them. >> yup. >> stephen: and there's been a discussion about calls for civility, and yet the president continues to attack what he calls the "fake news media." what's your reaction to "a," the sort of frightening idea of these pipe bombs, and the president's reaction to it? >> well, you can imagine that we're all really, really upset, and there has-- you know, words have consequences, and it's had a chilling effect. and it is absolutely extraordinary for me as somebody who has been traveling the world and seeing these ki

>> you can fondle my tie, stephen. >> stephen: oh, my god. >> oh, yeah! >> stephen: oh!, yeah. >> stephen: that is like getting to second base with a llama. >> oh, yeah! which, i have done! >> stephen: oh, really? congratulations. >> listen, i don't want to talk about my past. >> stephen: of course not, of course not, but there are rumors. what i know-- i don't really know much about your past. i know you're an improvisor. >> i am. >> stephen: you're well known as an improvisor. why did you start to improvise. back in the day i improvised. >> we both came up in improv scenes. you in second city. >> stephen: before that improv olympics. >> i came up in the upright citizens brigade theater here in new york. ( applause ). >> stephen: yeah. >> and for me, i just love that kind of feeling of absolute limitless potential on stage and discovery and amassing kind of people who believe in what you do and are willing to follow you to the ends of the earth. >> stephen: well, that sounds like a cult. ( laughter ) uh-huh. >> hear me out. >> stephen: uh-huh. >> hear me out. >> stephen

>> stephen: wow! me some swimming tips. so he goes -- he goes, just get in the water and swim, so we raced. he did a lap, and i did half a lap. he turned around, came back and finished a lap. so he did two laps in the time it took me to do one. and i was just, like, what happened to my sweet little boy, you knowar w liu s, becaus the deep end of the pool, my big fear is i would get to the deep end to have the pool and start to give up and start drowning and my son would have to come and save my life, you know. >> stephen: the big fear is you're drowning at the end of the pool and he doesn't come and save you. >> that is true. ( laughter ) but at this exclusive rich people's health club -- >> stephen: i hear it's very nice. >> it's very nice. we have lifeguards. >> stephen: that's nice. yeah. >> stephen: speaking of rich and exclusive, you got season two of the cbs all access "no activity." compare it to "blue bloods." are you tom selleck in this cop trauma. >> i am sort ofike tseeck's re thetar he. >>

>> absolutely, stephen.on who he focuses. ( laughter ) maybe he should go focus himself. >> stephen: okay, okay. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) so, things-- ( laughter ) so... ngs are still good tmatour hband?"the president?u" and i looked into donald's eyes, and with all my heart i said, "yeah, fine." ( laughter ) and, stephen, from the bottom of my heart, i can honestly tell you i am as happy as the day we were wed. aaarrggh! ( laughter and applause ) >> stephen: nice recovery. now, you're also getting a lot of criticism, because during the interview, you claimed to be one of the most bullied people in the world. do you really think that? >> oh, it's true, stephen. i have been called the worst names imaginable: "cold," "heartless," "eric's stepmother." ( laughter ) now, you also made some comments about the #metoo movement, saying women need to have hard evidence when accusing men of harassment. >> absolutely. we can never believe without hard evidence. take me, for example. i say i support women, bu

>> stephen: stephen!ple congratulated me and i didn't know how to deal with that and i couldn't take it. so i was very-- and it was refreshing andica thargtic to meet you because you have no idea. "are you having fun tonight. welcome to my party." >> stephen: i felt terrible. >> you shouldn't. >> stephen: you could have said, "i won." >> no, i would never do that! ( laughter ) and then i didn't know what-- ( laughter ) i didn't know what to do with the trophies because that was also, like, a big thing of, like, how do i as a swede-- i'm, obviously, very proud of them. but i'm a swede, so i can't, like, just put them up on the mantelpiece or display them so i kept them at a friend's place for a couple of months, and i brought them over my place in a hidden suitcase. and then i put them nay closet for a couple of months. then i thought this is ridiculous. >> stephen: you're ashamed. >> and i'm not. i love my little trophies. so i can't put them on the bookshelves. so i'm still struggling with it. >> stephen

>> stephen: welcome to "the late show." i'm stephen colbert. you know the holidays are coming up, and it's a time when i have trouble with impulse control because if you put gravy on it, i don't care what goes in my mouth. ( laughter ) the president's a little different. he doesn't care what comes out of his mouth. ( laughter ) case in point: yesterday, he went after admiral bill mcraven, the commander who oversaw the killing of osama bin laden and the capture of saddam hussein. that is a hell of a resume. special skills: captured more villains than the batman. ( cheers and applause ) mcraven has been critical of trump, and yesterday on fox news sunday, chris wallace asked the president about it. >> bill mcraven, retired admiral, navy seal, 37 years, former head of u.s. special operations-- >> hillary clinton fan. >> special operation-- >> excuse me, hillary clinton fan. >> --who led the operations commanded the operations that took down saddam hussein and that killed osama bin laden, sa that yo senti is the greatest threat to democracy in his

>> stephen: yes. out into the country, we don't have enough places to put them, so we do have a catch and release program, and about 10% of the people who are caught and released return for their hearings and only about 10% actually get legitimate asylum. >> stephen: i'm not going to fact check you because i don't have time but i will reject your reality and replace it with my own. when you find out whether his stats are true or not, let me know. we have a long interview, by the time this is over. >> i may be wrong -- >> stephen: i accept your apology right now. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> only 10% of the people who seek asylum are granted asylum. >> stephen: that's different than what you said. >> i said two things. i also said -- >> stephen: they don't show up for their hearing. >> a lot of them don't. >> stephen: now, if a majority show up for their hearing, how wrong will you be? >> i'll be about 40% wrong. ( laughter ) >> stephen: we'll find out. i didn't know math was going to be part of this i

>> jon: i like will. ( applause ) >> stephen: me, too! >> jon: yeah! >> stephen: i love will!> stephen: that's why we're having will on tonight. before we go any further-- and i think we've already gone too far. i want to give a shout-out to chef and philanthropist jose andres. this fella right here. chef dre, as he's asked me not to call him, was just on the sherike hurricanes maria or florence, or michael, or the wildfires in california, jose and his team at world central kitchen, they swoop in and they provide hot, nutritious meals to people who are rebuilding. in puerto rico alone, he and his team provided almost four million meals. unfortunately while he-- ( applause ) four million! that's amazing. that's beautiful. >> jon: yes! >> stephen: unfortunately, while he was there, donald trump ate two million of them. ( laughter ) okay. so that's why he needed all the paper towels. so i so was pleased to learn today that jose andres has been nominated for the 2019 nobel peace prize. ( cheers and applause ) that's pretty amazing. >> jon: that's amazing, man. >> stephen: frind of

>> stephen: very good.er is on the show tonight. >> jon: love ben stiller. >> stephen: yeah, he's directing now. you know what i'm really excited about. >> jon: what's that. >> stephen: human beings. human beings excite me. jon, i don't know if you've heard, "the late show" made a book. "whose boat is this boat? ( cheers and applause ) comments that don't help in the aftermath of a hurricane," consisting entirely of things donald trump actually said while touring hurricane damage. in north carolina. all of "the late show"'s proceeds go toward hurricane relief. and guess what: "whose boat is this boat" just hit number one on "the new york times" bestseller list! ( cheers and applause ) boom! bang! bang! boom! right there! okay! number one! suck it, dan brown! ( laughter ) and my publisher said it would be inappropriate to put in a subplot about a murder in the vatican! even better, we're number one on the "advice, how-to and miscellaneous" list. ( laughter ) i'm so humbled. it's every author's dream to one d

you want to do another. >> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen. >> stephen: what? what? thank you, ladies and gentlemen. ( cheers and applause ) please have a seat, everybody. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. it's friday. it's friday. ( cheers and applause ) we've earned it. we've earned it. and the midterm elections are just four days away. there's so much excitement, even republicans in georgia can't suppress it. and on tuesday, tuesday, this "late show" right here will be live from the ed sullivan theater. of course-- ( cheers and applause ) big night. big night. >> jon: we're going to be right up here live! >> stephen: of course, the electorate has changed some since last we voted. because in this election, millennials will pass baby boomers as the largest voter-eligible age group. yes! ( cheers and applause ) boom! >> jon: that's right. >> stephen: the torch has been passed to millennials, who immediately dropped it because it's way easier just to use the flashlight on your phone. and the younglings are paying attention to the midterms. ac

. >> stephen: we could have. all so much. my god, amazing. i have to tell you something. >> stephen: yes, sir. first of all, i'm really glad to see you. >> stephen: i'm glad to see you, too. >> i made my network debut in television theater 1975, it was called sniel -- "saturday night live" with howard cosell. you never know. >> stephen: it's cbs. they know. >> they may be too young. they tried to turn him into ed sullivan, which didn't work, and it was my first network comedy, doing standup on network television. it was sitting right where you are, ma'am, and it was, like, i? the morning. the guests were ted kennedy who i shared the dressing room with. >> stephen: also hilarious. ( laughter ) >> gwen verden, roy clark, me and shamu the killer whale live from san diego. so howard is talking to the the producers, one of which is alan king, and the producer is yelling, let me get this straight, am i talking to the kid who feeds him the herring? who the hell am i you canta -- who the hell am i talking to? i can't tal

>> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen!nd applause ) what a lovely crowd of people. aat a lovely crowd of people. welcome, welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. it is-- ( cheers and applause ) urfeel exactly the same way. it's election night, and the late show is live! everything-- ( cheers and applause ) everything-- everything you see right now is happening in real time. to prove it, i sent an intern to pick up the very latest edition ck "the new york times," and e re's the headline: "it is 11:36 and 42 seconds p.m. eastern standard time." there you go. that proves it. now, we will-- we will keep you completely up to date with this live cbs news ticker at the bottom of our screen. sh, hey, look at that one. tsn't that a humdinger? i imagine. i can't read the ticker because it's facing to you. many of the races have not been called yet, right. ce have a lot still not called. but with 100% of fox news reporting, the democrats will take control of the house of representatives. ( cheers and a

i'm your host, stephen colbert.l, we are fast approaching the end of the epic saga that is the confirmation of supreme court nominee and he who dealt it-- ( booing ) --brett kavanaugh. ( laughter ) the last week has been an emotional rollercoaster. there were lots of twists and turns, and i feel like throwing up. ( laughter ) the senate's going to vote saturday? saturday. i don't know what's going to happen, but i got a strong hint that he would be confirmed when i saw this. >> i will nominate judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. ( applause ) >> stephen: it's subtle, you might miss it, but-- ( laughter ) he was nominated by a republican president with a republican senate. it's a pretty good hint. ( laughter ) now when that announcement was made, the best estimate on the vote was 51 for, 49 against. but with all the dramatic revelations, accusations, denials, heart-wrenching personal testimony, people's reputations and lives in tatters-- those numbers have shifted, okay? so let's crunch some numb

i'm your host, stephen colbert. last night was a monumental election that fundamentally shifts the bal not the top story, because this morning, trump fired his attorney general, jeff sessions, seen here on his happiest day at the job. ( cheers and applause ) "my god, what have i become?" ( laughter ) and after trump had done it, but before we knew he done did it, one our guest tonight, major garret, from cbs, asked donald trump this: >> can you give us clarity, sir, on your thinking currently, now, after the midterms, about your attorney general and your deputy attorney general? do they have long-term security? >> i'd rather answer that at... a little bit different time. >> stephen (as trump): " a little bit later, because right now, i'm having a hard time hearing any of these questions over the loud beating heart of jeff sessions hidden under my floorboards okay. a little trouble stuffing the little guy down there. get, get down! get! i can-- you've got to be able to hear it." >> jon: low key. >> stephen: now, ther

>> stephen: not at all. member. >> so your producers say do you know andy lee who is over there. andy in australia is almost as famous as you here. he and aimish -- we've got some aussies here. >> stephen: we shipped a full in. >> andy sent me an email and i hadn't replayed. he said, seriously, dude, you haven't replied? i'm going to reply in a second. >> stephen: this moment is huge in australia. >> but here -- >> stephen: we'll keep it. we'll see how the interview goes as i was saying before, a lot of people got to know you first through your work as wolverine. >> yes. >> stephen: that was created at marvel and overseen by stan lee. >> that's right. >> stephen: tell me about meeting stan. >> first of all, i love what you said, and let me just say to the family and to the legions of fan s that i remember stan as aentms glint in his eye. he's a creative genius. he thought outside the box. he created a whole universe that changed the lives of many peoplo all, if you want to getin thed,m wolverine, i'm walking

the officer says he began talking to stephen about what had happened to jody when stephen interrupted at me and he goes, "you don't believe me." >> and then the officer says scharf said something that almost knocked him off his feet. >> i said, i believe an accident occurred. i said, "was it an accident?" and he put his head down and he said, "no." >> aaronburg believed that was a stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including linem, but they had just spent hours grilling the man. >> we weren't getting that feeling, that a re-interview at that point would have done anything. >> the detectives still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate stephen scharf, but they didn't. >> we took it as far as we could go. there hadn't been a cause of death, at that time was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasn't a homicide. >> in time, the detectives moved on to other cases. stephen scharf moved on, too. fourteen years after his wife's death, he remarried. tina scharf says he's been a loving, ideal husband. >> it was like we were two puzzle pieces that were

i'm stephen engle.me to a look at how the economic future of the world's oldest continuous civilization is evolving, a new dynasty being built from beijing on the foundations of a project that is china's belt and road initiative. fast trains are one of the symbols of modern china. and so too is the pace at which the networks are being built. top speed for the train? more than 300 kilometers per hour. and rightly or wrongly in the eyes of some, perhaps, a reflection of china's belt and road ambitions. >> contrary to some other people's misconceptions, it is not a program dominated by china. it is a program by which china works with other countries, working with international financial institutions, multilateral development banks. so it is a kind of cooperation. unfortunately, some people misunderstood this as kind of a china program. china wants to take advantage of this to promote its own interests. nothing could be further from the truth. >> views on china are often mixed. again, china builds up enormo

stephen: does the oil and gas industry have inordinate power in sacramento?own: no, not at all, but they do have power. not as much as the insurance companies. not as much as the labor unions. not as much as the plastic companies. stephen: pharmaceuticals are higher. governor brown: the pharmaceuticals, they've all got power. you've gotta be able to stand up and say, "no," to people. but if you think that you can run a campaign for governor and raise $100 million on chump change, you don't understand politics. stephen: governor brown's critics, like jamie court, say california has more than 1,400 offshore oil wells in state-controlled waters, even as the governor fights with the trump administration over offshore drilling in federal waters. and those same critics point out that california has issued more than 20,000 new oil-drilling permits here on land while governor brown has been in office. announcer: coming up, the father of a san francisco city worker killed in a towing aen why he says his family is taking action to protect yours. "lot she's accomplished

" lots of questions, "wer ist stephen barclay?" , "que est stephen barclay?"hel barnier has met with 27 ambassadors to update them on the talks, to the rest of the ambassadors, also what she has had to go through and how she has survived the last 48 hours, also told the collective feeling among the consensus is this message, keep calm and don't provoke, a bit like somebody who would be near an angry bear, with the unpredictability of the uk, if somebody influential speaks out publicly, it might sway the argument. couple of years ago, david cameron had negotiated with the eu the changes, the renegotiation of the deal before the referendum, when big figures like jean—claude juncker spoke out, there was a feeling that the likes of nigel farage capitalised upon that, so, staged for now, keep calm, carry on, waits to find out who is the new counterpart, stephen barclay. on, waits to find out who is the new counterpart, stephen ba rclay.m mileage for theresa may to change the draft deal, that there is still a chance of tweaks here and there are, what they say about

stephen has the story. stephen: brussels indicating it is willing to pursue disciplinary actions as long as the country visas to change its draft budget for 2019. at issue is the country's towering debt. at stake i is avoiding the next financial crisis. >> only be flags coexist peacefully here. everything else is subject to dispute. never before has a member states budget been rejected butut the commission is determined to keep italy from increasing its debt burden. >> this is a common concern. euro areas should bebe playing y the same rules. these are here to protect us, to provide stability and mutual trust. >> it is the threat of an excess deficit procedure, it missed its target in rome by a mile. the populist government remains defined. the leader from brussels has arrived. i was expecting one from santa claus as well anyway. the prime minister says there will be no backtracking on social welfare spending increases. italians are used to drama and politics. should things go all the way to a confrontation

>> stephen: cheers! the best of health, folks. >> man: all the very best.e's to health. >> a.a.: the hill is now a safer place. a safer place for ramblers. [ laughter ] >> stephen: it's a lot safer now that we're not on it. ♪ >> anthony: i came to scotland this time to shoot an animal in the heart. to take part, to be fully culpable in a practice nearly as old as these hills. you walk this country stalking an animal across the rocks and wet heather. you feel little has changed from how you're distant ancestors must have searched for their food. with a rifle, with a spear, with a club. i dragged my knuckles up a hill, and like my ape-like predecessors returned tired, happy, and covered in blood. everything changes. nothing changes at all. ♪ >> man: i feel completely destroyed. >> man 2: i didn't think we'd go through with that. >> man 3: now it's a lot of uncertainty. >> man 4: it's a shock. we're all in deep shit here. >> woman: better they did what you know than you don't. >> woman 2: it goes on. >> woman 3: it feels like the end of the world. it feels pre

stephen: thank you for joining us from london.et's check in on those numbers craig was just talking about, sterling rallying strongly against the dollar despite the mixed signals on the prospect of a financial services deal. sterling up over 1% on the dollar. also stronger against the euros, a you're aware of $.88. -- bureau worth -- euro worth $.88. business with the update, thank you very much. time now for the press review. dt joins me on the set. you are starting with a gruesome story, the mysterious deaths of two saudi sisters in new york. >> a mystery that has left investigators puzzled. dead floating in the hudson river last week. a were fully closed, facing it -- they were fully closed, ,acing each other -- clothed facing each other and duct taped. they were alive when they hit the water. their mother told investigators the day before their deaths, she received a phone call from the saudi embassy that their application for u.s. residents was under threat because they applied for immigration asylum. the saudi paper also hea

hammond, who replaces stephen hammond, who replaces stephen barclay in health, he is someone stephenay in health, he is someone who is prepared to rebel against the prime minister on brexit, campaigns to remain during the referendum, essentially, if you like, making sure that he is very much in her column and her camp, by making him a minister, that gets rid of another potential revel in what might be very tight votes with parliament next month, votes on this deal. in addition to that, also getting bolstered by some of the people amber rudd predominantly, some of the people who have been loyal to her over the years and who are willing to back this deal rather than are willing to back this deal rather tha n vote are willing to back this deal rather than vote it down in order to get another referendum. some may say the balance has tipped towards remain, in an ministerial posts, getting the 48 letters in, business as usual, making her appointments, kind to bolster her position, and over the weekend, the hope is that rank and file members will ask their mps to give her some space, cool i

shery: stephen engle in tokyo.eeping a close eye on nissan, which fell the most since 2016 in the last session. plenty more to come on "daybreak asia." this is bloomberg. ♪ >> haidi stroud-watts in sydney. shery: i am shery in new york. the u.s. is accusing china of theft. it comes 10 days before the leaders of the two nations meet at the g20 summit in argentina. the professor of global affairs at the johns hopkins university school of international studies joins us now from washington. welcome to the show. it is great to have you with us. there seems to be more consensus within the united states and u.s. allies that the trump administration is not wrong in addressing these concerns over china, especially when it comes to ip theft, but are they right on addressing these grievances now? there is a pretty broad consensus internationally and in the united states that chinese trade practices have been a problem for quite a long time and there are concerns around other unfair practices. critiques that have been raised o

stephen: u.s.s is dominated by one man and we know who that is. , a littlepence does choreography around the meeting has altered the deal, keeps some pressure on. it's all down to the g20 and all down to trump. whether or not he wants to sue for peace or do what he did with nafta, which is to be surprisingly practical and come up with some reasonable changes where, at the end of the day, ended the war. that's the question. to me, it's about politics. trump has got a dilemma two years into the presidency, focusing on reelection. what he will be considering is the economy. has been ripping party through some of the tax changes because it was in an upswing anyway. will there be a question mark at the back of his mind, i have to be careful with my trade war if i see the economy roll over into 1920? that takes away at my most important trump card, if you excuse the pun, i think he will start to be thinking that way and i think there are early thatents on choreography some sort of trade compact, maybe de

stephen carroll joins me.ou are starting with the scandal surrounding -- as the: this prosecution questions him over financial misconduct at nissan. -- has been made deputy chief executive with the same powers. they met the french finance minister earlier. the minister saying there is a solid leadership in place to ensure renault continues to be well-run. the french government has no evidence to confirmed the allegations. to the latesting forecast the organization for economic cooperation and development. economics global growth to slow to 3.5% in 2019 and 2020. we can speak to the chief economist. thank you for speaking with us. you were saying the policymakers need to work on a soft landing as growth slows down. is that possible? seeing wevely we are are heading for a soft landing. we are entering an era of slow growth. a soft landing has always been challenging for policymakers, that in the current environment with all the trade tensions is even more so. if we make a couple of policy recommendations, we bel

>> stephen: nope. >> jon: oh, then no. >> stephen: jon... we're cartoons! >> jon: yeah! that explains why i can do this. (air blowing) (pop) >> stephen: and why i can do this... (chugging) >> jon: you can do that while human. >> stephen: yes, but, as a cartoon, i don't have a problem. boy, what a great thanksgiving weekend. i have so much left over turkey. >> me, too ( gobble gobble ) i didn't have the heart to eat my

stephen: the fed has been created.t had to use its saynce sheet and stretch to the balance sheet expansion was equivalent to reducing the policy rate below zero. bernanke made this point repeatedly. with the economy on a recovery trajectory, 10 years after the crisis was over, there is a hasef that this policy worked. it is a vague construct of the ideal level of interest rates. tom: be plug-ins are a mystery, correct? -- the plug-ins are a mystery, correct? where theng to become culture is that we are after the fact and completely data dependent? stephen: that is a reasonable way to put it. what central bankers are telling you is their policy stance is conditional on what happens. by definition, it is a backward looking policy for a central bank who has a forward-looking impact in terms of setting policy today in terms of what it means for the future. there is a disconnect between the information they used to set policy and the impacts that will come in the future, which are different from what the past has look like.

stephen: thank you so much for joining us. stephen engle there with liam fox.ll talk about stocks on the move. alex friedman steps down. pandora, another warning about the revenue prospects from the copenhagen business. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: welcome back to the european open. we are 20 minutes into the trading day. european equity markets barely flat, losing the gains. the most closely watched expensive congressional elections in memory. democrats are expected to take the house. polls.ng to the latest let's speak to stephanie kelly. paribas isg from still with us. talk about your base case, if the divided congress, if the democrats take the house and the republicans take the senate, and if so what difference will that make in the second half of the trump residency? stephanie: i think there are good reasons to believe it is likely the democrats take the house. turnout among voters has been strong. early indicators are positive. that said, it is fair to say there are higher polling errors than you would normally expect with polls and other countries. that ba

stephen, thank you stephen.

stephen: digitization is a big thing.e pioneers of the internet economy, along with jack and tony ma and others. you have seen this go from low regulation and explosive growth to the point bridge you have market share and scale -- where you have market share and scale. jack ma said, the higher you go, the less oxygen. see this regulation in china and elsewhere possibly limiting the growth? is that a struggle? in china, behind sme's, support strong policy for them to go global using digital platforms. i saw recently a newly released apec report on how to realize the untapped potential s of apec sme's. the report talks about streamlining sme's and helping 82% anduce costs up to increasing the number of economies reached. this would also encourage women-led sme participation. stephen: supposedly, some say we are in the early days of this trade friction. do you see buyers and sellers in china changing their markets? do you see them relying so much on the united states? diane: what is going on between the manufacturers and the

i'm stephen beardsley thanks for joining us. german carmakers have agreed to spend up to three thousand euros on measures of their own choosing to get older dirtier diesel cars off the road and that's according to the german transport minister under. the three thousand figure is expected to cover hardware retrofits which volkswagen and di miller say they're willing to perform rival b.m.w. says it won't do retrofits but it will offer up to three thousand euros on trade in incentives the news comes a week after v.w. owners fought a class action lawsuit seeking full value for their diesels now here to offer us more insight on this news is simon young a political correspondent for g.w. here in berlin simon what he tell us so far about this deal what do we know what stephen as you say of the three big call make is it seems that folks vagana and diamond have said they are willing to cover most of the estimated three thousand euro costs that it would be to retrofit these older days of vehicle diesel vehicles we would cleaner emissions

stephen colbert's interview of chris wallace's interview of president trumpch. >> stephen: mr.thank you for sitting down with me. >> i think i'm doing a great job. >> stephen: well you are sitting down, so, yes, in that respect, you nailed it. now, you just appointed matthew whitaker as your acting attorney general. >> he's a very smart person. >> stephen: that is debatable because he was on the board of a company that believes sasquatch is real. do you believe sasquatch exists. >> 100%. >> stephen: so would you appoint big foot to your cabinet, maybe have him replace john kelly as your commander-in-chief of staff? >> probably. >> stephen: you know he's a mythical april creature, right?

great to be here, stephen.s been quite a week, how would you characterise your relationship with prime minister netanyahu today? well, we're political adversaries, but i'm part of his government and i support prime minister netanyahu as the prime minister of israel. so, you know, it's not unlike the uk, where things are also quite tumultuous. we're going to continue in order to strengthen israel's security. let's un—pick this notion that you're sitting there in a cabinet led by a guy who you now describe as an adversary. lieberman, who was defence minister until very recently, he described mr in yards four neta nyahu's recently, he described mr in yards four netanyahu's decision to undertake a ceasefire with the mass after that flareup in gaza, lieberman described that decision as,", a capitulation. did you see it as,", a capitulation. did you see it asa as,", a capitulation. did you see it as a capitulation to terror?” thought it was a profound mistake andi thought it was a profound mistake and i tried to figh

stephen hawking has passed away, so stephen hawking.o perhaps the computer pioneer alan turing, the wartime code breaker. and how about mathematician ada lovelace who worked on an early form of computing? or rosalind franklin who played a key part in finding the structure of dna. there are two men on the current £50 note, the engineers bolton and watt, and there will be plenty of people arguing that the men have had their turn, it's time to see a female scientist on the new 50. that could weigh on the mind of this tv science star who will help draw up a shortlist. it would be a very powerful thing and if that is the way the public vote, that will be wonderful. but it doesn't matter which way they vote. we are throwing it open to the public, we want them to nominate the great and the good and the unsung heroes. the signature on the new plastic 50 is likely to be from the bank of england's sarah john. i am only the 33rd chief cashier so there are only 33 people who have had their signature on the back of england banknotes and it is a grea

stephen: slim.tin griffiths is doing an excellent job of working quietly and getting paies to listen to him and hopefully to agree to see some roadmap they can follow. that is what the u.s. can do most usefully now, go to the saudis and allies and say what are the compromises you neednd what can we do to make this more comfortable and make it moreti po in terms of how you make the decisions that are hard for you?th janeks for joining me. stephen: my greatk pleasure, thu. ofne: quick look at the day the news. there have been protests in pakistan after the supreme court overturned a christian woman's conviction for blasphemy. asia bibi had be sentenced to death and spent almost a decade in prison. indonesia belie they have picked up underwater sounds from the blackbox data recorder from the lion air airplane that ashed on monday with 189 people on board. the boeing 737 went down shortly after it took off from jakarta, and no survivors have been found. lion air's technical director has been sacked. the

stephen is the tall one. he's on the bench. these writers came in age and time of an increasingly assertive working class. in our times, a debate inequality and white privilege. they were raised in the shadow of a war their fathers fought. we live in the shadow of 9/11 and the war on terror. many of the justifications for the great war and how it was conducted by the park. we learned there was never any loop between al qaeda and saddam hussein. nor any weapons of mass destruction in iraq. all of them witnessed the rise isof hitler in germany and euro. we are seeing similarly ominous developments. in 1937, a writer duty is to make action urgent and its need clear. what duty or urgent action did they take? what action do we as writers and -? stephen spender became a commonest and went to madrid to broadcast propaganda on behalf of the anti- assist republicansp fighting a proxy war against hitlerer. before madrid, he wrote the poem, spain. identifying the critical construction of his generation. they stayed didid not stay long. he

stephen: many thanks to stephen gallagher. now we want to find out what is happening on the markets and for that we turn to emma chandra. emma: tech stops slumping after alsoard apple will not -- the heavily tech weighted s&p 500 struggling because so many of its biggest names are tech stocks. when most sectors for the s&p 500 are in the green, the s&p 500 is in a green by .2% and much less than we are seeing in the dow. it is being buttressed by a 4% gain at chevron. analysts at credit suisse upgrading the company based on his superior growth outlook. i mentioned apple was sliding, which is bad for a number of other tech stocks that names begin with the first letter of the alphabet. alphabet shares down 3.2%. news of a prospect of a tech tax in europe. legislators are supposed to be discussing that tomorrow. that is pulling amazon down. almost 3.5%. the proposal is a 3% levy on european sales or companies with the global annual revenue of more than 650 million euros. it is certainly having an impact on stocks this morning. le

for years, stephen ignored advice on diet and exercise.statistic, one of 170 people a week who end up having an amputation linked to diabetes. this is nobody‘s fault but mine. i don't blame doctors, i don't blame surgeons, i don't blame anybody but myself. if i'd done what i was told, i wouldn't have been in this situation. the tragedy for stephen is it didn't need to come to this. lifestyle factors, obesity, a poor diet, and lack of exercise are strongly linked to type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90% of all cases in the uk. two thirds of adults and more than a third of children in the final year of primary school are overweight or obese. and yet many simply don't realise how serious a condition it can be. the number of people who die as a direct consequence of type 2 diabetes is high. 30% of people with diabetes will have heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. the complications of diabetes are devastating as far as trying to continue with the life you have had before, and i think that's what people do not necessarily realise when th

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur.ael's seemingly indestructible prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has dodged another political bullet. after the recent flare—up of violence in gaza, his defence minister quit and another key cabinet hawk, naftali bennett, said he would go too if he wasn't given the defence portfolio. the pm called his bluff, and mr bennett, who is my guest today, decided to stay after all. what's behind the chaos in israeli politics? are the right—wing factions putting their own interests before those of the nation? naftali bennett, in jerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. great to be here, stephen. it's been quite a week. how would you characterise your relationship with prime minister netanyahu today? well, we're political adversaries, but i'm part of his government and i support prime minister netanyahu as the prime minister of israel. so, you know, it's not unlike the uk, where things are also quite tumultuous. we're going to continue in order to strengthen israel's security. let's un—pick this notion

stephen mill the cough -- stephen, thank you stephen. and thank you, j.ou look like you are in good shape, all of you. [applause] i hope i look like that sunday. americans are forever in debt. we appreciate you being here. we are also joined by another special guest. a 13-year-old boy from the united states named matthew has to. matthew is in the eighth grade and saved all of his money for two years to make this trip to france. he wanted to be here in person to honor the american heroes of world war i. you make usnk you, very proud. where is matthew? matthew? matthew? thank you very much. you are way ahead of your time, matthew. thank you. 1918,s day in the year church bells rang, families embraced and celebrations filled the streets like never before. in town and throughout europe. and the united states. victory had come at a terrible cost. among the allied forces, more than one million french souls and one hundred 16,000 american service members have been killed. millions more were wounded. homeless would come bearing the lasting scars of trench warfare