david: thank you tidjane thiam for being with us.k at the latest case before the supreme court on bloomberg go. ♪ david: the supreme court is hearing a case today that could affect class actions it's particularly making them harder to bring. hasmeat processing company been sued by its employees for unfair workers compensation. greg stohr is in from our washington, d.c. bureau. explain the divisions of this class action. it's a lawsuit by workers at an iowa processing plant who say they were underpaid for the time they spent putting on safety equipment and walking two there their workstations are about 3000 employees in this class and a jury awarded them almost $6 million. david: so this is one of three or four cases that the court has taken on class actions this term. has a number of cases all getting a different aspects of it. some have to do with whether authorize people to sue even though they haven't actually been harmed by something and on that question is whether that can become a class-action as well. david: you reported that

david: we welcome you to bloomberg to interview tidjane thiam, the ceo of credit suisse. the head of the sec. we have christine todd whitman, the former governor of new jersey and the spokesperson for the nuclear industry. if that is not enough we will talk about president obama's essay on tpp, was just came out short time ago. please say hello to our friend, richard haass. ambassador haass: good morning. tom: david westin, thank you so much. bloomberg coming up in the hour. we had a number -- of comments which is please talk to anotheror haass about visit to the white house. this is the president and benjamin netanyahu. this moment with the president and the prime minister yesterday in the oval office. the two leaders a little less frosty. this is their first encounter -- this surprised me, october 2014. u.s.e agenda, the 10-year defense pact with israel. the middle east crisis and is always the israeli-palestinian peace process. richard haass, translate what is going on. ambassador haass: the israeli prime minister realized it was time to turn the corner somewhat i