now, "the wall street journal" has put a finer point on this than anybody else tonight in their new reporting. and the new reporting in "the wall street journal" tonight says that tomorrow michael cohen is going to give congress a check, a check made out to mr. cohen for the purpose of reimbursing him for the illegal hush money payments that cohen made to benefit the trump campaign. the illegal hush money payments related to stormy daniels, who had said that she had had a sexual encounter with president trump. that hush money payment was apparently made to stop her from talking about that publicly before the election. again, that is a campaign finance felony to which michael cohen has pled guilty and for which he is going to prison. citing a person familiar with cohen's planned testimony, "the wall street journal" reports tonight that, quote, in his testimony wednesday, cohen will provide documentation of his reimbursement for the $130,000 payment he made to stormy daniels to keep her quiet about her alleged affair with the president ahead of the election. "the journal" reports that cohen wil

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facebook and the software company that actually did this research with the wall street journal they say there are you know it serves no useful purpose for this. shit ok facebook seeing a lot more about us than we knew what is the company saying well they have released a statement they say we were quiet after vela has to be clear with the uses about the information they are sharing with us and we prohibit prohibit app developers from sending us sensitive data we also take steps to detect and remove data that should not be shared with us so that's basically the opposite of what the wall street journal has found that there is reason to believe that this practice violates european union. privacy laws. but we don't know what the fallout will be there is an investigation underway in new york but in the meantime . delete those apps of your phone if you can just we will thank you much for that you're watching the news live from berlin. we make we watch as a whole after. twenty five we are this image surfacing. the want to keep the continent's future. reporting in britain youngsters can actually

health information to facebook now there is a software company that conducted this test with the wall street journal called disconnect their chief technology officer says that the way this information is being shared is he calls it a big mess and he continues saying that sharing this very personal health and financial data with facebook serves no use a purpose well that's reassuring what has facebook said about this if anything well facebook have responded and they are saying that we require after developers to be clear with the use to be clear with the users about the information they are sharing with us. and we prohibit after developers from sending us sensitive dogs so we also take steps to detect and remove that should not be shared with us so that is basically the opposite of what this investigation has found now there is there is reason to believe that the practice violates european previously law there is an investigation going on already in new york looking into this and i guess in the meantime if you're worried about your privacy should maybe to be some of those if you fire or not use faceb

. >>> go to the website of "the wall street journal," the headline, trump's north korea ends nuclear summit without agreement. the lead author is jonathan chang who joins us on the phone from seoul. he's the bureau chief and works for "the wall street journal" jonathan cheng, good morning. >> hi. >> thank you for joining us. can you describe the relations between the two countries. is there any animosity between these events or do you think this will lead to more conversations of the peaceful nature in the future? >> it's really hard to say because we only have one side of the story so far and that's president trump's. we haven't heard from north korea yet and the north korean state media. they haven't weighed in yet and they haven't given us an interview or anything, so we really don't know, but if you take it from president trump's mouth things ended with a disagreement, but the way he portrayed it it was like a disagreement between friends. they couldn't quite get their interest on the same page, but they ended with a handshake and a smile and sarah sanders posted the final handsha

it has to be more technical to understand. >> the "wall street journal" tested more than 70 popular apps on the ios store. it found at least 11 sent exact data or potentially sensitive information. height, weight, pregnancy, problems and other notes not men for facebook's keeping. >> it is all private information. it makes me a little wary. >> the information isn't meant for the masses and you don't have to be a facebook user to be impacted. the app flow period and ovulation tracker records and reports the last logged period a custom app event was created. >> it is inappropriate that all this stuff is happening. >> reporter: cyber security experts say in the app world, data collection is more valuable than cash. the "wall street journal" says facebook is telling flagged apps to stop sending useruseruser >> we just sent it. we don't know anything about it. >> facebook hasn't responded to our request for comment. abc7 news. >> we are less than two days away from hollywood's biggest night. i'm down in hollywood with the bay area's ties to the black buster black panther. >> take advantage o

. ♪ ♪ gerry: hello, and welcome to ""the wall street journal" at large." , it's been a roller coaster few years for former new jersey governor chris christie. not so long ago, he was a hot pick to be the next president of the united states. a u.s. attorney with a track record of successful prosecutions of terrorists and white collar criminals among others, elected republican governor of the blue state of new jersey in 2009, he quickly earned a reputation as a straight-talking, take no prisoners chief executive, taking on public sector unions and slashing deficits. by 2012 he was being courted by top republicans to be the party's presidential candidate. but then came a series of setbacks. superstorm sandy and his unforgettable, and to some republicans, unforgivable moment of fraternity with president barack obama. the infamous traffic jam on the george washington bridge, though the governor wasn't charged with having any involvement in the scandal concerning payback against a political opponent, still, key members of his staff were implicated, and his reputa

china's dismissed claims by by the wall street journal that it's diplomats met with the venezuelan opposition expanded that report fake news the wall street journal claims that the meeting with representatives of one guy joe was held as china is seeking to protect its investments in the crisis stricken country showing it has been holding talks we venezuela's political opposition to save guard is investments into trouble latin american nation in fact the report is false it's fake news independent political analyst aleksandr brain i think china's not actually that worried about a change of government in venezuela. be surprised if the chinese had meant to be represented as a wind up. nevertheless. the implications of the articles on the wall street journal is that china is trying to protect its investments in venezuela that's where i find the issue troubling and perhaps cause for suspicion over the article because china doesn't need to worry about a different government or a right wing government coming in venezuela to protect its investment china has investments throughout south america china i

that's according to our corporate cousin the "wall street journal." it reports the crime is related to a hush money payment to a woman who claims she had sex with the president. the president denies the affair and blames cohen for any problems with the payment and cohen has admitted lying to congressional committees in the past. >> why should congress trust you now, mr. cohen? >> the white house raised similar concerns ahead of the hearings. press secretary sarah sanders said it's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like cohen at his word and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies. michael cohen is set to spend three years behind bars starting this spring after he pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and lying to congress. he said he committed those crimes out of blind loyalty to president trump. the chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge reporting live on capitol hill. >> well, thanks, trace. in the last few minutes we've had a fair amount of activity. if i'm stepping asid

i want to read something from "the wall street journal" talking about trying to gauge what's really going on in the north korean economy as we go into the summit. the headline is the new look of north korea's economy, it's all capitalism there, they are quoting someone there on the ground. they sent north korea's economy appears to be holding up well. rice prices have remained stable and gasoline prices, which rose after sections were tightened have fallen significantly from highs in the fall of 2017. north korea's currency has held steady against the u.s. dollar, construction projects continue in the capital. but general, the article also notes that it's really tough to get accurate economic information out of north korea but they don't sound like they are desperate, at least at this moment. >> absolutely. if there's a couple things that are happening here. first of all, kim jong un departed from his father and grandfather and really he underscores the black market where a person who's working in korea is assigned a job by the state, but he pays the manager of that position some money un

today the "wall street journal" made it super obvious and plain because today the "wall street journal" described efforts by the government of saudi arabia to especially buy themselves good western media coverage. to buy good western media coverage for themselves and bad western media coverage for their enemies. the "wall street journal" describes how the saudi government, in particularly, the saudi crown prince that took over the saudi government, they essentially have been lining up really lucrative well paid media partnerships with a bunch of western media outlets including bloomberg and vice and the independent and the u.k. and others. and that is really clarifying reporting today because there have previously been accounts that ami, the parent company of the supermarket tabloid that that's up in the trump campaign finance felonies now caught up in the jeff bay sezos thing, th are previous reports that company ami was working on a very similar sort of expensive deal with the saudi government, a very rich deal with the saudis, and that never really made sense. what would the saudis

liberty. ♪ lou: james freeman, assistant editor of the "wall street journal" is back with us. hrough the show. let's start with first of all, the idea that this president has been hounded, harassed, attacked, assaulted by a complicit left-wing media that continues to bray and hound him even as it's clear it was a conspiracy at the top of the department of justice and the fbi to depose this constitutionally elected president of the united states. >> sometimes we say the president is not dignified or that people think -- lou: what do you mean we? i never say that. >> i think maybe he's been too polite in his twitter comments about andrew mccabe. it should be chilling to every american that this unelected official takes it upon himself to launch an investigation based on a president exercising his constitutional authority. lou: this is a man running the organization, the top law enforcement agency in the country, the department of justice working with him. and he just creates out of whole cloth this ridiculous narrative talking about the president's integrity and colluding with ru

take meetings that are offered to me and after the access part comes in it helps working at the wall street journal because we regularly meet with ceos and executives and i have that attached to my name, however, the real goods, and when i do my job well it's writing about something that no one else knows. scoops are what i live and die by in many ways and that is through current and former employees, shareholders, a whole variety of them, consultants, advisors, regulators, there are so many different types of people that i need to talk to to get a clear picture of what's going on, because a company, especially on the communications team, they are trying to paint the most positive picture, rosie narrative, that's a great way to describe it, but if i'm doing my job as a journalist, i need to understand everything that's going on and there's often quite a bit that a company might not want us to know about. the other thing we need to be wary of, especially of wells fargo is when someone reaches out to me as a journalist, it's usually extreme like a bad game of telephone. they either love the company o

a reporter for the wall street journal where fargo and j.p. morgan chase. reporting has reported to the ical backlash against banks, numerous executive departures and changes in business practices. bank has launched multiple ampaigns to regain the public trust. the honorable jed rakoff has u.s.a federal judge in the district court for the southern district of new york for more 22 years. in as a federal prosecutor the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york for seven years and then 16 years as a white collar lawyer of two e large new york firms. outspoken unusually as a judge and he rejected the settlement between the s.e.c. and citigroup and when he called the settlement between the half and bank of america baked justice. following this conversation, takingontinue engagement questions from our audience. now, please join me and thanking welcoming our distinguished panelists. [applause] >> i want to start engaging with panelists and then we'll open it up. i'm going to ask them each a maybe i'll get to a second one and then maybe all of the

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in the meantime, "the wall street journal" editorial board slimming allegations that senior officials discussed trying to get rid of president trump. writing, "the 25th amendment was passed after jfk's assassination to allow for a transfer of power when the president is unable to discharge his duties. it doesn't exist to settle political differences or to let scheming bureaucrats imagine they are saving the country from someone they fear is a manchurian candidate." the constitutional process for that is impeachment." let's bring in alan dershowitz, a harvard law professor emeritus. he's also the author of the case against the democratic house impeaching trump, making the perfect to this very question two, sir. what do you think about "the wall street journal"'s assessment of what mccabe and the others in that room were ostensibly doing there with the 25th amendment? >> well, not only do i completely agree with it, i have a piece today on "the "the hilt talks about a gaping hole in the constitution. we have impeachment on the one hand, if you've committed a high crime and misdemeanor.

does it mean to be a conservative in the united states in 2019 cracks when i was writing for the wall street journal in particular one segment of reader commentary and no sooner at that time then i became a fascist pig. so somewhere in the middle of the conservative movement it is worth spending a few minutes talking about. so when mainstream conservatives believe the cold war could be one and it was a net positive and protectionist was bad the truth was not relative and moral character matters and we have a right to expect temperament and decorum with prudence and wisdom your political heroes were not just reagan and thatcher and my friend gary casper off. these were the people that were fighting against to be done - - to believe in the epistemology not alternative facts or emotions or clicks. to be a conservative that you listens to the columns from charles krauthammer and that those load stars were your own like john locke or adam smith or friedrich hayek. and the rights of mankind and the necessity of defense and that economic exchange at the end of the decade with the berlin wall down it's easy

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joiners dismissed claims made by the wall street journal that its diplomats met with the venezuelan opposition has branded that report fake news wall street journal claims that the meeting with representatives of one grade zero was held as china's seeking to protect its investments in the crisis stricken country china has been holding talks we venezuela's political opposition to save guard is investments into trouble latin american nation in fact the report is false it's fake news. i can speak live now to alexander bruno who's an independent political analyst for good evening to alison. we've heard the background to the story there the the chinese foreign ministry though has branded that report fake and said that it was published before beijing could even get the chance to reply what's your take on it . good evening well my take is that. i wouldn't be surprised if the chinese had met represent is a white dog. nevertheless. the implications of the article from the wall street journal is that china is trying to protect its investments in venezuela that's where i find the issue troubling and perh

. ♪ ♪ gerry: hello, is and welcome to the wall street journal at large. is state of the union address last week, president trump uttered words very rarely heard at the top levels of american political debate. >> we renew our resolve that america will never be a socialist country. [cheers and applause] gerry: now, the very fact that he felt the need even to make that i vow says something about the state of the nation's politics today. the democratic party's agenda is increasingly being driven by some of its key figures to embrace what many describe as a form of socialism. there are ambitious plans for a green new deal, massoff government spending on -- massive government spending on projects that consciously echoes fdr's depression-era new deal. the party is increasingly behind the plan for medicare for all, a system of universal health insurance paid for at least in part by taxes. several of the party's presidential candidates for next year are calling for a big increase in taxes on more affluent americans, to what some would consider punitive levels. 70%

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, and welcome to the "wall street journal" at large. k the trump administration moved to ratchet up the pressure on venezuela's regime. on monday steven mnuchin, the treasury secretary, and john bolton, president trump's national security adviser, announced new sanctions against nicolas maduro and what's left of his government. the administration, along with many latin american government, the e.u. and canada, has already withdrawn its official recognition of ma maduro's presidency and conferred instead the title on juan guaido, the head of the national assembly. perhaps more intriguing was what was left very visibly unsaid. while mr. mnuchin announced the new economic measures, mr. bolton stood beside him ostentatiously carrying a legal note pad on which was written the words 5,000 troops to colombia. now, that country borders venezuela. the white house declined to comment but said all options are on the table. is the u.s. really going to deploy forces to help remove mr. maduro? what other channels are available to president trump? and

that's from the wall street journal being reported. what star deeper into the action with the markets reporters. abigail, what were you watching? abigail: i'm taking a look at the 200 a moving average. on the nasdaq 100. to piggyback on what our guest is talking about, there is the week bottom he was talking about. last year, lots of volatility. the worst fourth quarter since 2008. that pattern appears to be done. the comment seems to be right. we see symmetry flatlining below the 200 a moving average. a can o -- a company that is a buy signal, but is waning. this year's rally for the risk assets may just lose steam in the weeks ahead. lisa: i want to take a look at treasuries. in particular, whether some traders are positioning for a reversal in the downward yield a trade we have seen over the past 12 months. let's take a look at ief. this has about $13 billion worth of assets. the short interest spiked to a record high in recent weeks, which i find interesting given the fact you have seen a rally in this debt. something to keep an eye

that's the reporting from a new frontline "the wall street journal" investigation, it found the agencyn the department of health and human services called the indian health service repeatedly missed or ignored warning signs and tried to silence whistle-blowers ultimately allowing the doctor to continue preying on children. despite the suspicions of colleagues up and down the chain of command. that's a quote. one victim said the sexual abuse by the doctor started when he was just 11, around the time his father committed suicide. >> i went to the hospital to get my eyes checked to see if i could get some glasses, and he was just saying stuff, like trying to touch me and told me that if i feel uncomfortable with what he was doing, to let him know and he would stop. and i told him that i did. like, yeah, i feel uncomfortable. like, i don't know what this is for, why are you touching me? >> where was he touching you? >> everywhere. >> stanley patrick weber was convicted last year of sexually assaulting two boys and sentenced to 18 years in prison. he's appealing the conviction. the current

military setting an april target date for leaving syria according to a new report in the "wall street journale wall street journal" that unless the trump administration alters course the military plans to pull a significant portion of its forces out by mid-march, with a full withdrawal coming by the end of april. connell: stocks extending losses today after the white house's top economic advisor told our own stuart varney that there is still sizable distance to go before china trade deal were to happen. we're joined now by republican congressman tom reed from new york who is a member of the house ways and means and the problem solvers caucus as its known. i said before the last break you met with the treasury secretary steve mnuchin. you were in a meeting earlier today. any out look in terms of a china trade deal, what he was telling you guys? >> it was great to have the treasury secretary up with us to have a direct conversation with members and i think what he demonstrated and indicated to us the continuatino of the next with china to get them to the table to take on unfair trade practice.