tom ricks is with us now. thanks nr being with us.i've been a fan and reader of your work for a very long time and i have to say, this was disturbing. i guess that's the best word. i want to read you the part that bravemy chills, i keep reading it to everyone that walks in. "i don't see mcmaster improving trump. what i've seen so far is trump degrading mcmaster. in fact, nothing seems to change trump. he continues to stumble through his foreign policy embracing autocrats, alienating allies and embarrassing americans who understand that nato has helped keep peace in europe for more than 65 years." have you talked to your friend, h.r. mcmaster, about the piece? >> i have not, no. >> do you think you'll hear from him him? >> i wovuldn't call h.r. a friend. i've known him 20 years or more. i knew him since he was a major. someone i covered, someone i respected and even admired. i interviewed him in washington. embedded with his regiment in iraq. he's really an unusual officer. well respected, as you said. a smart general. not all the gene

joining me now a former deputy assistant secretary of defense msnbc national security analyst and tom rickses the best defense and a new book called "churchill and orwell -- the fight for freedom." you said you had some thoughts. >> watching this, listening to the tape, brings me back to the 1930s, the use of political violence to subdue people and the vocabulary word today is un-american. it is un-american for a political candidate to knock down a reporter asking an uncomfortable question. it's also un-american for a president to go overseas and cozy up to autocrats. what being s american is, what is american activity and what's un-american. it's un-american, also, to take money from foreign governments. >> evelyn, to tom's point about going overseas there were reporters kept out of some of the saudi events, there was frustration with that. this is a president who has repeatedly praised people like erdogan who has some of the most hard crackdowns on the press anywhere in the world at the moment. >> it's disturbing to see this happen in america. i want to add something about gianforte. he h

tom: rick perry, carly fiorina, ted cruz, several of the republicans ran on flat tax.ald trump said that it would not work. he said it was a giveaway to the rich. brian: what do you think? tom: the point of my book is, let us look at other countries and see people who have tried these ideas, and i do not know where steve got 40, but 12 or 13 countries have tried the flat rate tax, where everybody pays 18%. it works if you are a former soviet republic with no capital investment and very low labor rates, and everybody has about the same income, so you do not need to gradually tax rates. it works for seven or eight years until there is an economic downturn, so 12 countries in eastern europe tried it, and most of them had to give it up because here is what they found out. that 18% rate, 19% rate, you cannot set it high enough to bring in the rev you need but still low enough for average working families to pay. you have to raise rates higher on rich people to bring in the revenue. and some of the countries, most of them got rid of it. some of them have kept it at great exp

i just started running. >> still perfectly good. >> tom ricks is right.state and all that, blah, blah, blah, nonsense. this really is -- what corporations are able to get and i'll never be able to explain this, but i started talking to friends and now they're giving me examples of how when they just talked on the phone or talked around the phone, suddenly these ads started popping up. >> this is the best spying device ever invented in the history of man, your own phone. >> lawmakers make you turn it off if you come in the room. >> by the way, when i go and talk to members on capitol hill, they look at my phone. turn it off. the russians are listening. we don't know who else is listening. >> that's what my dad would say. >> your dad said it for quite a while. >> he did. >> the question is, first of all, how are advertising agencies getting this without our knowledge, without our consent, without me -- forget about browse history. secondly, why in the world would republicans pass any legislation that would allow us to be spied on even more? >> i'll tell you

the subject of our next guest's new book "churchill and orwell the fight for freedom" its author tom ricks policy magazine. great to see you. talk about the link churchill and or well, why no one has written a book that links them together. what's the connection between the two men. >> 1930s, the time not unlike now of great political turmoil, these two guys stood out, churchill on the right, orwell on the left, for two things, first they said no, facts count more than opinions, don't subdue the truth because it conflicts with your political views, and the second thing, this is really important, they were willing to criticize their own side. churchhill, a conservative, splits with the conservative party over the rearm morement of nazi germany and stands up in the house of commons and say the fact of the matter is germany is rearming. official policy was appeasement and we don't want to talk about that. he was put in the political wilderness, exiled in his party. orwell is equally critical of communists who want to suppress the truth and believe the important thing is to support the party l

we have tom armstrong, doer of carolina coil. dr. rick getties, the professor and director of the cornell program and he worked with us on our new brief. the first time in the modern era is cde -- on your table, introducing at this. >> okay, great. >> this is live, all right. >> sure. >> we'll share. great to be on this panel. we're very excited. this is a great time to be -- this is a great time to talk about infrastructure. ced take iing a leadership role. as you know, they have outlined the goal to invest $1 trillion into infrastructure. and beyond that, the details, still in the works. and i think this is a good time to ask our panelists and i'll ask rick to take this one. how do you see this big effort coming together and part two of the question is do you see a ground swell of support? >> sure, yeah. thanks. how do i see it coming together. i guess with a lot of ainge wan nashing of teeth probably to the extent they're able to bring it together chl together. i see the ground swell of support. my years of infrastructure, there's alwa

actor tom cruz said he's ready to be mavrp rick and he came out 30 years ago. crews told australian television audience rumors involved drone care. another remake, redo, reimagine reboot. >> top gun is so iconic leave it alone. >> no, no, no. you can't leave it alone. until we go back and get every single movie made and reimagine today and rebought it. >> when they are do welcome to america, boom rang. >> i may be reconsidered. >> i know right. >> after that. >> okay. >> no appointment for second place. >> thanks, wis. how many times you have seen that movie. >> a lot. a lot. don't ask me to burst into song i know the sound track too. >> commercial break coming up. >> new reports suggesting the victims of bernie madoff. >> ses spite tough times sears may be the best place to get a deal with them orial day weekend. >> 59 degrees. back after this . >> why are we not hearing top gun. >> danger zone. >> many songs we could have chosen. >> playing with the boys, volleyball scream. how you can forget that. >> back at 5:24 more than eight years after his arrest victim

rick's report. this is something you have wrote about, tom, about the device use onned in the attack being and what does it tell us? >> the first issue is because of the explosive power, because of the ability of the bomb maker to make it in a way that went undetected. it suggest skill, training and also suggest that someone really knows what they are doing and at this point probably not been captured and so there is a great concern and as rick said what happens next and in the coming days? i think that is why you see is a sense of urgency to arrest who ever is responsible. >> jenna: why manchester? why does that city matter and a place of focus and where the attack took place and also the news of another person under arrest now? >> manchester is is the third most populs city in england and a big cultural center for the british society. but i think the interesting point in terms of all of those in manchester suggest intelligence indicating connection points to other individual in manchester per se rather than people spread across the country. in some sense that might be positive because it allows y

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tom: david has a lot of enthusiasm for global stocks. is this an opportunity to buy ?ig in europe question rick > >> they are still attractive.f you look at the numbers from the s&p, 51% coming from the u.s., those earnings grew 19%. things are better in europe. they have been better year-over-year and that is imported because lester was not very good. the valuations in europe are still attractive. tom: we will continue with michael holland, and look at the french election here on this may day. coming up on bloomberg television radio, this is wednesday. the conversation with the former federal reserve assistant chairman, denve ben. inhael mckee and myself, washington. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: it is the perfect image for the discussion on the use of cash. in your city, that is what you do out there, is surely if you have -- especially if you have children out there. good morning, everyone. in new york and also in new york, michael mckee with me. with us, michael holland at this early hour. i want to talk about easy cash. we do a lot of joking here, but bring up the chart, if you would. this is apple. you need courage back her

tom, i am really sorry. i've gotta go. look, call right at home. get the right care. right at home. termites, we're on the move.24/7. roger. hey rick, all good?we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. >> shannon: an aggressive new crackdown on crime. attorney general jeff sessions says it's time to get tough on violent offenders. ordering federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against criminal suspects. not everyone is a fan of the plan. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm shannon bream. >> bill: good morning to you. i'm bill hemmer. this will be different. the war on drugs and violent crime in america will take center stage. new rules reverse policies from the obama era seen as soft on crime. suspects will once again face the longest sentence possible under mandatory guidelines. peter doocy live in washington now. when does this policy take effect, peter? >> right away, bill. the attorney general jeff sessions says that any kind of policy from the previous administration that weakened sentences for non-violent off