but it's hugely troubling development. >> barbara, i'm told he was briefed by tom bossert. that bossert, quote, had him in the right place on this bill. he was not in the building this morning but as soon as he caught wind of the president's tweets, in opposition to this legislation, he scrambled the jets if you will to get the president back in line. can you talk about just string together the president's world view on intelligence? he came into office. before he was inaugurated, he was in a hot war with the intelligence community. he's spent many of his days as president tweeting public smears of the justice department, of the fbi and of current and former justice department and fbi officials. what is the impact? same question i asked ken about the intel community. what's the same impact when this is what the president's public comments about their body of work, about their level of commitment to justice and to protecting this country. >> on some level, it's demoralizing the president doesn't understand what you do and number two, deliberately undermining what you do in a

and i think to tom's-- tom bossert's great credit, this administration has done that.the resiliency, the president in the last two weeks talked about infrastructure. this is about investing in the infrastructure of the country. resilience is about the strength of your infrastructure. roads, emergency services, electric power, all of it. so, i don't think we've adequately invested in our infrastructure and i think that's the key to resilience. >> host: so the other hat you wore is with a service that's extraordinary in commitment and what it does for the nation, but not often talked about, which is the coast guard. and the coast guard played a critical role in this resiliency. would you like to see a greater expansion of coast guard assets and resources or do you think we got that right? >> so, i think that the coast guard has historically been horribly underfunded and this is the part at the point in time of homeland security and you look at the dod a and the budget. that doesn't include the coast guard. when you think of them they're not included. their fleet and cutt

the reason why, national security team led by the homeland security visor tom bossert have been selling members on congress on the need to renew the 072 authority saying it's a critical tool. the heads of all of the intelligence agencies also out there to convince members of congress we need to have this thing renewed. the president sends out that tweet this morning, which contradicted a statement that sarah huckabee sanders put out last night. really seemed to criticize the fisa program all together. left a lot of people on capitol hill reeling this morning, wondering where the president really stands on this issue. and it led to some avoidable moments such as when the ranking member of the house intelligence committee adam schiff said, listen, the president saying all sorts of different things about this thing, maybe we should put off consideration of the bill. listen here. >> in light of the irresponsible and inherently contradictory messages coming out of the white house today, i would recommend that we withdraw consideration of the bill today, to give us more time to address the pr

you know, the president's staff led by homeland security advisor tom bossert has been selling for weeks now the importance of renewing this fisa or what's called 702 authority, pushing it as a critical tool in rooting out people who could do harm to our nation overseas. the reaction was immediate. adam schiff leapt to the floor to say well, because of what the president said, maybe we should put this whole discussion on hold. listen here. >> in light of the irresponsible and inherently contradictory messages coming out of the white house today, i would recommend that we withdraw consideration of the bill today to give us more time to address the privacy questions that have been raised. as well as to get a clear statement from the administration about their position on the bill. >> well, somebody clearly got in the president's ear because about two hours after he fired out the initial tweet, there was a clean-up on aisle 702 if you will. the president tweeting, quote: with that being said i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today's vote is

supports the syrian kurds, and at the davos forum today, white house homeland security adviser tom bossert urged restraint. >> i think that president erdogan will make decisions to de-escalate violence in afrin and to normalize and stabilize pre-afrin actions in that region and i think that he'll make that decision here with the full support of the united states. president erdogan, we understand your legitimate security concerns on your southern border, and we are going to work with you very closely to get through those concerns. >> woodruff: the turks shelled afrin again today, and they warned that some 2,000 u.s. troops in the region could become targets. turkey also complained that the white house gave a false account of yesterday's phone call between presidents trump and erdogan. china promised today to work with the u.s. on cutting the flow of illegal opioids to american dealers. that's after u.s. senate investigators found chinese sellers are largely able to circumvent package checks by the u.s. postal service. the influx of opioids has fueled a wave of overdose deaths in the u.s. th

tom bossert had briefed him on this.ow, he doesn't have to read to take this kind of information in. this is verbal, you know, verbal briefings that he's getting in the oval office, every single day, at 11:00 a.m. and it's just inexplicable only very day of the vote that he would do this. i can't overemphasize what this does to his reputation with the people in both parties on capitol hill. so for all the attempts to dispute the basic narrative with whatever factual errors there have been in the wolff book, he totally took down his own counternarrative today. and even his press secretary, showing in her briefing that she did not understand the difference between two aspects of the 702 law, the surveillance law. >> not only that, but what you hit on there, i think, is very important, and that is that mike pompeo is somebody he really does trust. who is probably up for a bigger job or something. it's the guy he really relies on. and if he doesn't really rely on the one person he really relies on, it's like michael wolff's

bossert that was tom speaking with julie: bloomberg.tting up to 500 jobs at its headquarters this week. the company's latest efforts to streamline amid competition with amazon. onmart reports its earnings february 20. airbnb is adding american express is -- express' can gin american express' ken chenault to its board. airbnb has struggled against accusations that it is unwelcoming to african-american travelers. the new year has seen $164 billion with of deals, the most since 2000. bank of america and deutsche bank expect the trend to continue. ipo's tok also expects increase in 2018. ♪ and that is your bloomberg business flash. its time for our stock of the hour. the biggest drag is apple, on pace for its worst day of the year and down for a second straight day. abigail doolittle has more, up by almost 2%. abigail: this is interesting, especially the leg lower over the past hour and a half. because it really has to deal with president trump's comments that it wants -- that he wants to see the dollar stronger. apple is down about one and