also not a lot of vetting by thiste wouse. dan: no. this whole tominationned into a train wreck starting with the decision i think to nominate h without any serious vetting and nominate somebody who would not have the kind of experience you would expect to run a bureaucracy as troubled and big as the veterans administration. then itapent tool hill and, you know, it was like all of these allegations started flowing in. and, interestingly and in some wayss disturbingly, tt pushed out byenator testor without much backup information. i mean, there was one allegation in particular which the white house says tonight is not true which is that he he got vehicle after drunk at a secret service event. he denied it. the congress folks did not have any backup evidence of it. it starts with bad personneler ions at the white house and just spiraled out of control. mark: you know what was interesting to me is you had almost universal decorations and statements of support for ronny j from the obama administration officials, trump administration offici

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thist to try to say without sounding boastful, but there was a black historian who was writing in the 1950's and 1960's. he was one of the few people who delved into the relationship between lincoln and african-americans. he tried to write about it with the resources he had at the time. way gonee in my own back in a couple of issues that he wrote about to see if there was more to say. in two major areas, i found there was and i have written expand on what he was doing. because of digitized newspapers and the kind of range of questions we can ask now, i surprised at been how much scholarship there still could be about lincoln and race and lincoln and african-americans. if people could just go beyond the stories that get told over and over again. go back to primary sources and use the sources at our disposal. i think there is more to say. project?s your next kate: i am working on a book about the origins of the 14th amendment. i have written a lot about reconstruction but this book is about going much earlier and talking about the things that ended up in reconstruction policy had their

the thing i wanted -- the thing thist you to inc. about is idea of what we once called anti-federalism. it morphs into antigovernment. this idea is very much part of the whiskey rebellion. it becomes a part of the illegal whiskey distillers, moonshiners, and the whole region. the mountain south. that identity may spread to the rest of the south as time goes on. that is something i want you guys to think about. the one thing i did not ask you on monday was, why is when china -- why is moonshine illegal? does anybody know? the big issue that we did talk about on monday is tax. what else? the health issues with moonshine are totally unclear. this is not moonshine, if it would -- if it were, i would not be tricking it. if you buy something like this, would you buy something like this on the street? if there was a guy on the quad with a cardboard box selling these? you have no idea what is in it. it could be water. as this is. the major issue, from the government standpoint, is tax. health becomes much more the issue and we are talking ab

not be thist's optimistic. the challenges ahead are vast.s it we heard from the ceo today about the prospects of shaking up this board and getting some fresh eyes on it? brooke: sure. ge is significantly reducing the size of its board. all board members were elected today -- elected were there today. there were concerns whether legacy board members should be allowed to continue their term. that will continue to be an ongoing question even though they were elected because there were board members who oversaw the downturn in business. ratified to stay as the auditor for the company, but the percentage was about 65% of participating shareholders last 95%.-- that was about scarlet: a lot of anger is directed about -- toward jack walsh as well. growth was a bright spot for ge last quarter, and 20% profit growth. anythingompany say about the outlook? it will be critical if ge delivers on its 2018 forecast. has hadthe power unit all of those challenges and will be flat relative to 2017. you need a heroic performance from health care and aerospace.

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thist the people asked if started in the us, how can we's -- find safe harbor in u.s. assets?reserve currency which is an extraordinary privilege. foreignnk that economies is one of the reasons they have grown. >> thank you so much for spending the last hour with us. she will be joined by guests throughout the day including the former prime minister. lots more to come from to know be a. this is bloomberg. ♪ president trump calls into an investigation on $100 billion of chinese imports. traders await the latest data out of the world's largest economy. the atlanta fed president sees inflation reaching the 2% goal soon. >> the chairman is going in the right direction. we will hit 2% in the next quarter or two. i am comfortable going above the 2% some amount. 2.2, 2.3. that is not a crisis of overheating necessarily. morganformer jp executive is is among candidates in formally contacted by recruiters to replace ceo john cryan. ♪ anna: let's take a look at the futures and see how the european equity markets might open up in an hour time. we are seeing u.s. futures point -- pointing

is, thist how risky it process we see of the separation from the capsule.ry step of the launch process is a risky process. we have seen launch failures in the past of a different kind. all of these failures are unique and their sources. what is important is we reduce the risk through reuse. spacex is doing that right now. joe: tell us more about the process. you mentioned the business process and the number of companies are doing this new relationship with nasa that shifts the risk. explain to us a little bit how this contract is structured. sean: the contracts are paid on performance. previous contracts, nasa would carry the risk. so if a schedule for doubt nasa would pay more money to those companies, whereas spacex is paid for the delivery. nevada. is for sierra investors are putting money into spacex and expect a return on investment based on the performance to these nasa contracts. --ould also add that spacex and 60%% are payloads, are commercial payloads and the nasa payloads. julia: you are looking at live pictures of spacex launching out of florida.

encountered the denial of his own supporters and preachers throughout this country, because he was thisttedo borders. martin luther king, in his letter from a birmingham jail, gave perhaps his harshest criticism for the committee of faith. make theme silence co-conspirators to evil and injustice, was silence make them passive supporters of the status quo. he challenged the faith community to rise from their beds of apathy and come out of the comfortability of their padded cues and stained glass windows and recover from their spiritual laryngitis in order to reclaim their moral conscious and recommit themselves from the ministry of the valley. yes, martin luther king was not one of political correctness, nor of safety elegy. rather he believed that the church ought to be dangerous, dangerous the evil, dangerous to injustice, and be responsible to shed the darkness from light, and expose the truth. is face was a power of love itself. and because of that, 50 years ago, all standing on this balcony, evil and the forces of hate tried to stop him and shot him up, only to find out that a bullet co

. >> the big issue for the market , how long thiste expansion is going to last.y is fine. productivity is fine. are not going to be too worried about costs running away from you. it is a positive. we don't have that much supply-side data. all our data is demand side. we have to share it over a couple of months. those are not the only numbers we have. net percent will improve over the next 12 months. a net of just 20%. it seems the weather it is investor sentiment, the survey data, you see they are filtering in the headlines over trade. are we at a point where a degree of bearishness has said into play to your point and fuel a further rally? >> it is a fair degree of bearishness. there is a certain segment of the market that things the fed has been making a mistake for the last year and a half. they see this as a leading to a downturn. some of the comments played into that. tightening into a slow down. they are doing it all wrong. they are holding down the long end of the curve. that more apparent? are keying off profits. equities have been soft enough. the concer

we are working with our partners in the russian federation to and enshis partnership thists longevityary-general of opec mohammad barkindo speaking to me in new delhi. this is a global energy conference for exporters and consumers. tom: thank you. greatly appreciate it. in london, michael amey is looking at some of the turmoil we see here. we bounce back on the united kingdom. to me, it seems so quiet, the domestic politics of the united kingdom right now. andou see a new stability, can that allow you to invest in the brexit to come in the united kingdom? first, they just finished the second round of negotiations period are in a quieter because they have to continue negotiations into what future trading relationships will be like post-brexit. i think that it is reasonable we are in a quieter period. we still get these headlines roundabout what the u.k.'s trading arrangements will look like post-brexit. comment around the customs unit is where a lot of the debate will be. so much relates to northern and southern island. ireland.rn the idea of market reaction, are you focused on the ful

the happy hill community was put designedor developed, to keep black people away but, form thist, you community and people began to bond. they have shops, they have stores. the community becomes a place of home for them. so of course, as time progresses, around 1910 the railroad comes through and cats -- cuts the community off from the east side of town. also developing along this time -- happy hill is a working class community. east of happy hill would have been columbia heights, which was a community of professional african-american teachers who would be working at the university. 52, u.s. 52, the highway cut through happy hill and takes away the north end of the graveyard. the south end of the graveyard. that is another devastating blow to the community as well. all of this time, you still have these people that are making a life as a result of these changes around them. these two shotgun houses were saved. they are very symbolic. the architectural style is very important. the one behind me was moved here. now, we believe that this house has been moved three times. so we believe it