that our record and audio records were missing from theet, commission. we have six people that did intake interview on different days. many siu were from different employees from different departments and spoke in front of the services commission and testified december 2015, august 15th, 2016, september 9, 2016, september 18, 2017. january 22nd. 2017. i myself also came here to speak to you. the ethic commissions october 23rd, 2017. november 27, 2017. january 19, 2019. february 16, 2018. and today, i am here again to follow up with you about extortion, bribery, retaliation, discrimination and ongoing harassment for people who stood up for their rights, workers rights and equal rights opportunities. the last crack i have with the ethic commission employees, who are no long we are the ethic commission, i was informed the eeo department, the whistle blower department and the dhr department, they refused. they give up our record to give it to the ethics commission to continue bribery, extortion, retaliation, to protect our workers rights. i am here to follow

they tracked theet emails to a franklin township home and referenced two shootings at franklin township schools. he admitted sending messages and did not have access toss guns. classes at franklin, elk and delsy will resume tomorrow. >> a former philadelphia police officer allegedly caught on video slamming a handcuffed manen to the ground last summer was charged with assault. and james yeager was fired from the department last august after video was released and in this video, yeager is allegedly seen grabbing a handcuffed man and slamming him to the ground and into above-ground pool. fraternal order of police says that video does not tell the whole story. >> mayor kenney makes annual budget address to city council asking it. pairs to shell out for public schools. in the budget the mayor wanted city council to increase property taxes 6% and he also wants to slow the rate of the plan tax reduction and increase the real estate transfer tax. we're told the changes could bring estimated 980 million for the school district over the next five years. philadelphia school district faces nearly

they tracked theet emails to a franklin township home and referenced two shootings at franklin township schools. he admitted sending messages and did not have access toss guns. classes at franklin, elk and delsy will resume tomorrow. >> a former philadelphia police officer allegedly caught on video slamming a handcuffed manen to the ground last summer was charged with assault. and james yeager was fired from the department last august after video was released and in this video, yeager is allegedly seen grabbing a handcuffed man and slamming him to the ground and into above-ground pool. fraternal order of police says that video does not tell the whole story. >> mayor kenney makes annual budget address to city council asking it. pairs to shell out for public schools. in the budget the mayor wanted city council to increase property taxes 6% and he also wants to slow the rate of the plan tax reduction and increase the real estate transfer tax. we're told the changes could bring estimated 980 million for the school district over the next five years. philadelphia school district faces nearly

imports of steel wheel increa increa automakers access to theet korean ma >>> time to look at some of today'sespgrades and downgr we begin with facebook. bankamerica cutting its price target on that stock f the second time in five days. now downo $210 dla. the firm says the ftc probe raises the c risk ofil penalties and it could take years to resolve. however, the analyst did on tain his buy rating facebook testimony stock lost nearly 5% in the selloff today to close at $152.22 we will have more on facebook later i our program tonight. meantime, suntrust is lowering ritsing on newell brands from hold to buy. the analyst therere sites the nt agreement of with an activist investor and the billion to sell $10 worth of company assets. the price target now, $30. the stock was down 3%o 25.19. >>> citi is no longer telling clients to sell roku. today it upgraded the stock to neutral. the analyst sites the rollout of the roku channel app on samsung's smart tvs. the price pargtd $36 a share. ubspgraded kb home. the analyst sites strongerg hous fundamentals and the stock's current valuation. th

so i learned how to push back against the immediate feeling that historians have as citizens see theet them to presidency in relationship to the work they do on american history. .nd that was difficult although i think we were able to do it. and it was very helpful. this one was a little different. there was a certain amount of shock and all at the outcome of the election. most people were not predicting that trump would be the victor. even amongst trump supporters. this was important. the ending really changed dramatically and forced authors to rethink some of the storylines. host: we are joined by julian zelizer, a history professor at the editor in "the historical assessment of barack obama." ." join the conversation. (202) 748-8000, democrats. republicans, (202) 748-8001. .ll others, (202) 748-8002 send us a tweet if you would like to. pullingyou end up together the writers for this and avoid the pitfalls of talking about the obama administration legacy? or getting into analyzing what the quote "legacy" may be? it has partially how i picked people. when i pick authors i picked the

theets to decide what loyalty yes, your the fbi director, you are not j edgar hoover. agree with the president, he should have been fired, before different reasons. david: we need to keep learning that lesson again and again. lanny davis, thank you so much for being here. up, former italian prime minister is facing a challenge from the populist five-star movement is that a time elections draw near. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "balance of power". shery: italians head to the polls to vote for a new parliament, and the matter the result the party will scramble to enter a governing coalition. and murray is enrolled for more. what are the issues at play? >> good afternoon. the issue play for italians right now is whether or not we are going to have a status quo government, which is a hung parliament. the current premier of italy -- he has maintained his coalition building, or two scenarios of a coalition, one is the far right -- andon led by silvio the other coalition we can see, which is what the business community is hopeful for, is the democratic party. the risk

on theet a quick check markets, facebook continuing to add to losses as the stt does as the ftc confirmse probing the company for practices. facebook is the worst performer in the s&p 500, albeit s&p 500 which is really coming back from the previous concessions, up 1.3% so far today in the dow is off 1.5%, the nasdaq is up 1.4%. go tobout 40 minutes to the london close is down .6%. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: time for the stock of the hour. , shares arecap falling after they rejected a revised bid from international paper. abigail doolittle joins us. second time unlucky. you wonder if it will come back a third time. this possible deal has been in the rumor mill for a couple of years and there's a lot of reasons for international aper to acquire smurfit cap kappa. the stock soared and it was the last time we talked about this. the second bid they put in today revised just slightly higher than the last 1, 8 .9 billion euro or about $11 billion. that will give them a 15% stake in international paper and one of the reasons perfect cap is not liking this bid if we happen to the bloomberg and t

that's a 90% possibility and the theet as a result of that, inclusion i think we will see another yesst likely we will see another 10% increase in the local stock market with anbang -- with an inflow of money. a lot of bottom-up investors are taking advantage of what's happening and the locals are taking an opportunity to invest now. vonnie: negative gdp growth right now for this year arabia andn saudi last year as well was not to hot gdp wise. there is pressure because of the rising rates, how is the economy faring? i would agree in part that last year we had a recession. the economy grew negatively. 0.7% contraction. i think this year we will see growth at around 2%, if not more. there is no longer a recession. i think a lot of the plans of the government are being put in place and moreover there is confidence by businessman in the private sector. now there is the cycle that has to allow for the economy to grow. i'm very optimistic about 2018. vonnie: those rising u.s. rates put on -- put pressure on the saudi's. the saudi's are looking for u.s. investment in and out of the u.s.. jo

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he pounded his theet cyst on the chuffer door. and he said that the church of rome had become corrupt and asal result of that, they put a bounty on his head and had to flee for his life. but he is one of the great of all time. and one of my heroes. forss. wilbo my wife and daughters were in ondon and visited west ministers andey. and we need to bring manners brac to great britain and a new respect we learn to one another. he lost his life because of this. he wore himself completely out. my daughters, when they were in westminster andey, they took a picture of the portrait and statute that i have on my phone this very day. so, you know, when we think of the meaning of life, there are two ways, the way i think about t and those are the humanists, those are the ones who chartered the course on human reason and they wake up every day with a goal. their goal is to improve the world. their goal is to make the world a better place. humanists ecular follow that code and do great. and many of my friends are secular humanists and i respect

and those -- all of those types theets that are out of ordinary need to be approved by the gaming control board so they way up through the arercement division and approved by the chairman of the gaming control board. virtual events, or e-sports wagering were eventsred others wagering and talking about e-sports. a whole new thing in nevada. some of you might have children "calllay video games -- call of duty," john madden 2017. there's an audience that goes watches two individuals playing a sporting event and places a bet on one of the two individuals. and so in order for that -- that used to be an "other event" type wagering but now there's a statute that expressly allows wagering in nevada and believe it or not, there's a of these e-sports stars, just like there is of your lebron james or kobe bryants. of these issues, these other events and cutting-edge issues out of the gaming policy committee. that's a committee chaired by experts fromwhere industry come and bring their ideas. end up intted, and statute or regulation at some point. horizon? on the i'll briefly cut to what's on the hor

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i think the uncertainty is more profound from this than the theet is taking it per first headline suggestionguy: wheree does -- does that take us? john is painting a picture of slightly more indecision. maybe a slight bit of concern surrounding the italian election. >> i think there will be short-term concern. i think we have 24-70 two hours of pain and pressure on the euro. the fact is that this was a worst outcome then what was expected. see -- we could theoretically get a five-star .oalition with the lega it seems unlikely but it should not be rolled out entirely. investors know that the outcome is not going to happen and we are going to get a hung parliament. wear on this will the euro. for al not get clarity long period of time. other stories will dominate. the trade story is much bigger for markets. we also have ecb later this week which will dominate the euro. days,e next two or three the euro is under pressure but i think it could finish the week stronger. what does the italian situation mean for the ecb? i am headed into frankfurt on thursday. i am expected it to be -- trying to thi

none of theet andidents to move back up people waiting to-three years.here were people like myself them moved atget hospitals. year after year. >> thank you for that call. as he was to be one of the legacies, you don't with that. committeed as a full member of the congress. working on veterans issues, we were working pro bono my adult life did the gentleman who called, i appreciate you stopping forward and surfing. there has been a greater say in this country about how proud people who served in vietnam are. we did a survey when i was on the council, $6 billion to look at energy strategy veterans. the people whoof served with glad that they surveyed 74 presents they enjoyed their time in the military. two out of three said knowing the results of the war they would go back again. in terms of the a -- when i got to the senate in 2007 the backlog was 600,000 claims. when i left it was 900,000 claims. that, the increasing difficulty of the system with attorneys involved in a way they had not been before. just plain was leadership and said the da we worked ve

and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as theet bible says we can move mountains now before we run out of time i want to make sure we bring up two other o books. and two very famous american authors,fa my angelo, and willim faulkner i know why cage bird sings what are biblical ties to these two books? >> for my angelo i mean she was deeply steep in the bible even, you know, from her younger years. it was a -- great a great source of inspiration,n, guidance, i mean you know truly a very -- very important part of -- part of who she is. so i think what we try to do we have a large interactive feature here where we allow some, you know, some comparisons to specifically i know why the cage bird sings. we show in her writings a little connection to -- to, you know, one of her quotes where she talks about, you know, she was exploring hope many in the sen of wholeness. and you know, expressing this through the idea of -- of the, you know, the kingdom come andco this o.c. is, you kn, is a illusion to jesus', you know, prayer that he would -- that the gospel attribute to je

of my colleagues have noted, it's extremely important that any action the administration takes to theeted, specifically source of the problem. in this case, definitely china. in order to address the problem of chinese overcapacity, we need to work with allies like the e.u., japan, korea, and use multilateral frora to develop a coordinated strategy. do you agree with that? sec. ross: i believe we do have a coordinated strategy. i believe i have tried to describe it. the exclusion process is intended to do the fine tuning that is necessary to make sure we don't -- that we minimize any unintended consequences. >> you met with the commissioner -- commissioner from the e.u. recently and they feel like there's a coordinated strategy happening? sec. ross: yes. i think the actions we have taken will produce coordination with other countries. you probably saw the press release she and i put out after our meeting and one we put out the day before jointly with my counterpart from germany. and a whole e.u. variety of -- in a hole right he of different ways, is part of the problem. steel that comes in

on theetting a check dow, nasdaq right now, all up quite a bit near the higher the session.%, nearly. ♪ scarlet. >> welcome to bloomberg markets. >> we live in new york over the next hour. come roaring back. tensions are starting to ease. details on why they are projecting a takeover. in theloomberg exclusive face of investors. >> let's get to the stock market. we are one hour away from the trade. reversal withy a stocks closing. at a typicalng volume. only about 40 stocks were trading lower. we are currently seeing the largest one-day gain going back to march 6 of 2016. here's another way to look at that graphically. change.ks the daily we have lines going down half a percent interval and that 2% on the upside. gain on election day and you had to go back to march 1. this is only the third time we have had a gain of at least 2%. it we will see if it holds and see if it means -- remains in effect. groups are. at quitestill gaining a bit. the two groups that were hammered last week by concerns over a trade war that are coming back today. there is a reassurance on those trade w

for theetting ready markets to open.n see, we are continuing some of those gains, up .3%. in australia, also looking like this. let's pull it up. the s&p just a touch softer. , a slight dollar softer bid, slight softness in the aussie dollar. yvonne: certainly going to be one to watch. expecting things to back track when it comes to equities. dollar-yen continues to see strength heading back into the yen. 106.28. closer to 100 as the political scandal involving the finance ministry gets further deep and further involving around shinzo abe and his life as well. plenty more to come in the next hour of "daybreak asia." theill talk on trade with silk road associates ceo. this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: we are live from bloomberg's headquarters in hong kong. welcome to "bloomberg markets: asia." shinzo abe saying that the finest chief should accept responsibility and quit. onid for qualcomm blocked national security grounds. betty: i am betty liu in new york where it is just after eight p.m. on this monday. the race to beat gold

the threat was to take a king air late at night after traveling all the way across 8:00 in theet an morning meeting with the governor of montana for the governors conference. so i resent the fact of your insults. i resent the fact they are misleading. i reason the fact of doors. i will go live by line. you know what? sally jewell, i think she was right. i think her travel patterns even though she took a private chartered airplane, was met by helicopter, did a hike, i think she did write because as the interior, she was out hiking and doing what she needed to be doing. a flight from the north slope to anchorage with the chair to allege it is a private jet, inappropriate. sen. cantwell: well, mr. secretary, i have given you ample time and i simply ask you a question about the private jet trip to vegas. i guess we will ask you in writing and maybe get an answer. the i.g. is looking at the issue, and we are looking at a larger issue of how time and money is spent. the reason why we are is because of our citizens who want to know why the park fees are going up and they are reading these stories.

theets are still climbing wall of worry.re in good shape and critically, they are improving from here. tom: alberto, i to go to your core confidences. the heat of the matter is the fear of the bond bear market. have the fearallo of a bond bear market? alberto: i think europe is still a very good place to hide for bonds. we heard from the ecb, some concern about the tariffs. they lowered the inflation forecast for next year. this means that if you have a hiccup across european spreads, then the ecb is there to help you. while in the u.s., you have sheets thatlance are over levered and the fed is hiking. europe and emerging markets you still have central banks that can keep rates low, or even cap them in some emerging markets. we think in fixed income there will be a continued slide away from the dollar assets into .uropean and em assets not because the u.s. economy is doing badly, but this is the place to hide when interest rates are still contain. look at the correlation. people are looking for places to hide and some are in

so i learned how to push back against the immediate feeling that historians have as citizens see theethem to presidency in relationship to the work they do on american history. .nd that was difficult although i think we were able to do it. and it was very helpful. this one was a little different. there was a certain amount of shock and all at the outcome of the election. most people were not predicting that trump would be the victor. even amongst trump supporters. this was important. the ending really changed dramatically and forced authors to rethink some of the storylines. host: we are joined by julian zelizer, a history professor at the editor in "the historical assessment of barack obama." ." join the conversation. (202) 748-8000, democrats. republicans, (202) 748-8001. .ll others, (202) 748-8002 send us a tweet if you would like to. pullingyou end up together the writers for this and avoid the pitfalls of talking about the obama administration legacy? or getting into analyzing what the quote "legacy" may be? it has partially how i picked people. when i pick authors i picked the br