tom friedman is with us.e will resume our conversation right after this. together always was, and always will be, a better way. ♪ why give it headlightsver on a like jewels? filled with them? a body that feels sculpted? why give it an interior where even the dash is cut and sewn by hand? it's simple: you can build a car. or you can build a cadillac. . >>> breaking news tonight. sources telling cnn that u.s. investigators believe russian hackers are behind a false news report that prompted nations cut ties. in a controversial tweet president trump appeared to take credit for the diplomatic crisis. we're back with tom friedman. yesterday, the president was tweeting that the justice department made a major mistake in their revised travel ban, like the original travel ban and today the white house is refusing to say whether or not the president even has confidence in the attorney general, jeff sessions. we've covered washington for a long time. you remember anything like that? >> boy, this is unprecedented obviou

we simply looked at each other in silence. >> so, tom friedman, i need loyalty, i expect loyalty.ody who is over 15 years old doesn't understand the implications of a president demanding that. >> in a one-on-one dinner. >> of the chief investigative body in america. >> joe, the lead-in from corey lewandowski saying just a hands-on president was truly hysterical. that's "saturday night live" material. he had his hands around his neck. thai that's why he was meeting him. it was basically to get him to submit to his will to end this investigation into the whole russian probe. the problem is that unless there's a tape, it's going to be a he said, he said. >> frame of mind. >> and that's a game that really -- that the president, who we now know will say absolutely anything, will play to his advantage. >> agree with that. >> david ignatius, whatever james comey says will not be as damning to what the russian foreign minut foreign minister was told by the president. that and what sarah huckabee sanders said we wanted to end the investigation by firing comey. we knew that we would achieve

syria as you look at an example, there was a great series called living dangerously and tom friedman narrated one of the segments, that talks about the impacts of serious droughts and serious famine caused by climate change. ,t causes refugees to move causes food shortages so all these things have impacts on our security. if you go on the pentagon website -- and i do not know if it is still there because they have taken down many climate change references and the science references -- but the pentagon does a regular study and they talk in detail about the national security impacts of climate change as it affects climate and other crises around the world. host: how did climate change become a part of the issue? guest: it is sad, i have been doing this work for 40 years. the clean air act passed in 1990, over 400 house members, geordie from both parties past the bill. -- majority from both parties past the bill. the vice chair of my board today is a former public in dutch republican house member who chaired the science committee and was a champion on client change -- climate change. wh

you do not want to miss betty's chat with tom friedman at 10:40 a.m. hongyou do not want to konn sydney. look at markets trading in the asia-pacific. it could be a slow start to this friday. we are flat on the index as well as the kiwi at 7267, taking a breather from the 6% climb we have seen in the last month for the currency. australia, we saw some stabilization. 282 for wti. futures heading higher for the asx 200. we did see a bump to end the day, .7% higher on that recovery in the oil price. japan, the yen could keep surprising us. the market starts to doubt how much the fed can tighten. taking a look at japan futures, it could be pretty slow here as well. it is looking to be relatively mixed. they are heading higher, pointing towards a 40 point gain for the nikkei 225. dollar-yen going nowhere. 111.29. let us take a look at how things are going in the u.s. session. pretty much sideways. stocks really paring gains. su keenan? >> it looks like the selloff has been pretty much brought to -- if you look at the close. we have positive news on the econo

there who wish to do harm to others and is the responsibility of everyone to maintain -- it was tom friedman that's a long time ago, if you see something, say something. i think you need to step it up a little bit. unfortunately, we live in a world that has taken on new security requirements. >> jon: congressman jack bergman, it's good for you to spend some time with us today. hopefully you weren't hurt and thankful you were there with the presence of mind to help out some of your colleagues. >> keep those families and those who were wounded and your prayers. >> jon: we will. thank you. >> heather: amazing to hear the stories of those folks were all out there helping each othe other. >> jon: to have the presence of mind to do what they did as shots rang out. >> heather: we are still waiting for the president to speak live. we were told that he would speak around 11:30. the meantime, chad bertram is on senior -- capitol hill. we are told that the shooter's name is james hodgkinson. he's 66 years old and he has one previous charge in april 2006 of battery and aiding damage to a motor vehicle,

. >> host: your critical of tom friedman, the new york times columnist. >> guest: i enjoyed reading tom friedman. his writing style, he is famous for mixing metaphors and some of them are so strange it is like a psychedelic experience following what he is trying to say. he compared once the iraq war to driving a car with no steering wheel. sometimes you have to throw the wheel out that you can't drive a car with no steering wheel. he will say, the rule of holes, when you are in a hole that is too deep, in three holes you can't stop digging come you can't be in three holes at once with all these bizarre images in his writing. it was very gracious -- i felt sad saying negative things about him. i find his writing really interesting. >> host: what is the origin of the name matt taibbi? >> guest: it is a sicilian name of arabic origin. i am neither of those things. my father is adopted. he is filipino and hawaiian, he was adopted by a sicilian family in new york. >> host: matt taibbi is our guest, rolling stone correspondent and author. his most recent book is "insane clown president: dispa

last year pulitzer prize winner "new york times" columnist tom friedman wrote about massive migration out of parts of west africa through the saharan desert to syria where people are hoping to cross the dangerous trek across the mediterranean sea to europe. he wrote and i quote him. just as seer ya's revolution was -- syria's revolution was set off by the worst four-year drought in the country's modern history and overpopulation, climate stress and the internet, the same is true of this african migration wave. former acting c.i.a. director mike morale recently called president trump's decision to pull the united states from the paris climate agreement the worst decision made by this president so far. mr. morrell pointed out that pull being out not only seeds america's leadership in the world, it also ignores the impact of climate change on frail and fragile states that are home to instability and violence. he further noted that we face three possible threats to our existence: nuclear war, a natural or man-made biological threat, or climate change. president trump's dangerous decision,

i actually kind of enjoyed ready tom friedman. what i have gotten after is his writing style. he is famous for mixing metaphors and some of them are so strange that it's almost like a psychedelic experience trying to follow what he trying to say. he'll -- he had -- like he compared once the iraq war to driving a war with no steering wheel and sometimes you just have to throw the wheel out and -- but yaw can't drive a war with no steering wheel. he has a famous thing, the rule of holes. when you're in a hole that's too deep, you should stop -- when you're in three holes, stop digging. you can't be in three holes at once. all these bizarre images that are kind of mismatched in his writing and i really enjoyed writing and it i met him once and he was very gracious and i felt bad about saying negative things if just find his writing interesting. >> host: what's the origin of the name tiabbi. >> guest: it's a sicilian name or arabic origin. it's i'm neither after those. my father is adopted. he is filipino and hawaiian and was adopted by a sicilian family in new york. >> host: matt

tom: very good. we will continue with mr. friedman this morning. us this morning with incredible news flow. our u.k. coverage at 5:00 p.m. new york time tonight. atore that, our coverage 9:40 of the testimony of the former fbi director. this is bloomberg. ♪ thisexceptional news flow thursday. francine lacqua and tom keene. a lot bloomberg special coverage through the day. this is a joy, whether cubs or white sox, carl tannenbaum is from chicago. chief economist with a wonder global -- wonderful global perspective. wonderful to have you here. you just got back from china. i showed a chart of the real u.s. two-year, which has been negative since time began. china is a different view. let's bring this up to read this is the china five-year. there is no other chart like this out there. they actually have real interest rates over on the right side. what do the higher rates of china signal? i think you have to realize that the chinese rates are carefully managed. they are managing them to do two things. they have leverage problems. i think they are being

tom: vanessa friedman in the new york times on the future of product and the rest -- prada and the rest those advertisers in your magazine. in this partally of the world you look at these massive luxury stores, 40,000, 50,000 square feet for one mono grand and that suggests there is an issue. they areat what sitting on in some of these big cities and you see the gravitation, the pull to multibrand, the small, the interesting. that is why i think tokyo is resilient. people ask me if i can go to one city to look at international city and where it is happening, it is still japan. this is the city to look at. francine: tyler, thank you so much. tyler brule there. it just can't go out of style and it smells good. we speak with the brexit secretary. oil speculation -- in the last couple of minutes, i think it picked up higher a touch. gaining 0.5%. this is bloomberg worried -- this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ francine: "bloomberg andeillance" with tom francine from london and new york. let's talk about brexit on the day formal brexit negotiations began this week and 10 days after tories suffered a defe

don't hear many policy proposals where you say tom paine and huey long and milton friedman, that is a pretty weird list of people. it is a piece by jesse walker, opens with a debate between anti-syrian, the former head of the labor union and -- andy surin and another guy. they agree. they are on stage together at the cato institute and agree to income.influence -- anytime you get them on stage to agree on something, i think you are tapping into a weirdly everful idea, even if it gets to actual policy. host: take a listen. >> i estimate the cost of $1.75 trillion. i do 18 to 64. i don't do kids, i don't do people on social security unless they make a certain amount. i don't do undocumented workers, only citizens. $500 to $600s billion in the current welfare system we should allocate. to $600 $500 billion billion of tax which should our ,ax breaks paid for incentives paying taxes. we are paying people back. orre is another $500 billion $600 billion. i am not a revenue neutral person. the financial tax for 15 years, we got rid of it. it.pe is reestablishing there is probably $200 billion

friedman's retail will pay about $2.3 billion for holland and barrett. chain is owned by the private equity firm carlyle group. and that's the bloomberg usiness flash. tomuch, emma. the u.k. prime minister is with the iscussions democratic unionists, this as she aims to nail down an greement with the northern irish party to ensure her conservative keep, her conservatives keep a grip on power. today, she's also due to give details of her strategy to 3.2 ards the rights of million e.u. nationals living in the u.k. beyond brexit. now we're with simon kennedy, also with us in new york is bill lee of the milken institute. exactly are we going to find snout they're going to page a 15-page we ent saying this is how propose we deal with e.u. nationals living here. simon: the proposal theresa may it didn't go down particularly well with her in the e.u. they suggested it fell short of what they wanted. away uggested it stripped rights that the e.u. living in britain currently enjoy. and over the weekend, it emerged, no surprise, there's going to be a big fight according to david david over, over the role they post-brexit britain. to oversee ed arguments and brita