u.s. college basketball players are making global headlines after they knelt during the national anthem ahead of a gang member of the. eight mississippi players made the gesture in response to a confederacy rally that was taking place near the arena for many americans the confederate flag is viewed as a representation of slavery and white supremacy this protest echoing of course the movement led by former n.f.l. quarterback calling kappa nick against racial injustice. or bring tyree was one of the players involved and he made this statement on twitter so the people that fight for this country my teammates and i meant know this respect everything that you do for us but we have to take a stand for the negative things that went on today on our campus hash tag we need change in the direct responses he received to that sweetheart just how divisive an issue this is in the states at the moment i appreciate your position but believe that you'd be better to protest at some time other than when you should be paying respects your country your flag and vose who fought so that you have that right here's a

u.s. college sports is lucrative business. nike has three of the top 10 deals.hundreds of millions of dollars. that is your bloomberg business flash. david: time for follow the lead. a deep dive into stories making headlines with the insides from industry veterans. today our focus is on innovation and what ceos think about how their companies are doing in innovating. according to an eu wide survey survey,ding to an ey 42% site a limited budget as their biggest barrier to activation. sarah -- wee in offer mike inserra. mike: it is an amazing survey. people are investing in innovation. no matter what they are investing in, it seems like there is not enough investigation. than 5%e spending more in average on their budget and feeling like they are not getting returns. we are not sure does about the level of investment. we think it is about assets getting trapped within innovation. it has an unbridled element. you have to add discipline to make sure the assets are getting put together. david: it sounds like you are saying centralization facilitates innovation. i'm: i

u.s. politics college campuses and halls of congress democratic leaders have condemned to hell more for use of anti semitic troops and prejudicial accusations about israel's supporters a couple of jewish democratic congressmen even wrote a letter to the party's leadership asking them to join in on the outreach and benjamin's were no doubt involved there one of the letter signers received over one hundred thirty thousand dollars from the israel lobby in twenty eighteen in total apac spent three and a half million lobbying politicians last year and in the end omar had to apologize . yes but she's not alone in washington pro israel democrats are having none of it some are forming a faction within the party for those with seemingly undying loyalty to israel twenty twenty is only a year away and parties are already preparing for the electoral battle there are sure to be plenty of topics to debate but like every other presidential election it's likely that the criticism of israel will be out of the question donald quarter r.t. . that danielle israeli american middle east analyst to things lashed

u.s. colleges reached a record in fundraising with almost $47 billion.g for yield, i guess. joining us is jason kelly. let's start with that story now. we have the former european credit chief for blackrock getting a ton of money from blackstone. is that surprising? >> it is surprising a little bit. we are talking about it because you know this is going to be the most consumed story on the bloomberg today because two names we know well, blackstone and blackrock. many people forget they have a long history themselves. blackrock started in blackstone's offices. larry fink working for steve schwarzman at one point. if you have a good name and can make a good pitch, you can still raise a lot of money for a new hedge fund. david: they are raising a ton of money. it is going to be one of the largest in london. it is generally thought to be hard to do right now. >> you have many more people starting in much more modest circumstances from a hedge fund perspective. $200 million from a single investor is a lot. alix: keep in mind, january was a great month for hed

u.s. colleges raised $46.7 billion in the 12 months that ended last june.vard, the country's richest school, pulled in the most money at $1.4 billion. stanford comes in second with $1.1 billion. ucf finished off fifth with 730 million. the 14% gain in the s&p 500 helped encourage donations. >>> flights to hawaii from southwest airlines could go on sale this week. and now southwest is waiting for federal approval before selling seats. and that means that the other airlines, hawaiians and alaska are expected to lower the price for their seats. southwest offers free checked bags. and you get two bags on southwest. and they usually have free cancellation, free changes. and when you book a big ticket item like to hawaii to have that insurance, it will be interesting. >> i wonder if the airlines are dropping them. >> i looked i'm always ready to go to hawaii. it didn't look like they were down. they're still looking like 700 plus round trip. >>> coming up, we'll give you a close look at a new effort to pay collegage letses colleg athletes. . >>> union leaders in

u.s. college basketball, a bad night for one of the best layers and for nike. knee after his nike sneaker blowout. williamson -- williams leaving .he game and duke losing nike says they are trying to identify the problem. ouch. that is their bloomberg business flash. i think he should probably shut it down for the rest of the season and go straight to the nba. tom: that is the first thing i thought of. collegethe star of basketball, a child of 18 ready to go. as he was falling down, you have to believe there was a whole shift of 1, 2, 3, 4 years of college ball, maybe right to the nba. a huge deal. for the mail that has come in, -- we are onsays sure -- unsure if he will be at work. let me show you a chart which nails your insight at blackhawk -- blackrock. it is brazilian riel. middle of summer 2018, stronger riel, not stronger dollar. discuss. richard: what is driving markets right now is often got the carry trade coming back. investors are choosing higher-yielding assets and fund them through lower yielding currencies such as the yen. unusualds to the circum

u.s. naval war college he says washington's withdrawal from the nuclear treaty highlights how confused the trumpet ministrations policy is the russians now have the ability to look like the gracious and magnanimous party the americans are the ones that flipped over the table and walked away and let's be clear about something well as be clear about two things first i don't represent the us government's discussion. the other thing to be clear about is that the russians were cheating i mean there's no doubt about it the russians were in breach of the i.m.f. treaty and i think it was a provocation to first to menace the europeans and to see if they could beat the americans and the simply just walking away from this whole situation now the russians can afford to look like they're being diplomatic and magnanimous and leaving the door open for further discussion so i sure think it's possible they'd be happy to talk because one of the course skill sets of russian diplomacy is long dilatory diplomatic engagements that don't go anywhere and we've just pushed that horizon further out by dumping the t

it is the second-longest at a public college in u.s. history. you talk about your concerns about the corporatization of education in this country? yes, i think the corporatization has been part of an entire neoliberal agenda that seeks to destroy public services and public goods. and higher education in particular, it is leading to privatization of public universities and colleges. what is happening is that these institutions, more and more, are being starved from public resources and have to rely more on tuition. then, when there is no tuition, they are forced to go out and look for a variety of other schemes at raising money. this is something that is really undermining public higher education. and it can lead, as we have seen in the case of wright state, to a real disaster. this has done a tremendous amount of damage to higher education and is really getting effectively,ere, we are having a university -- having universities that are essentially becoming privatized but without endowments and without the philosophical support that you -- withou

u.s. naval war college he says washington's withdrawal highlights how confused the trump administration's policy really is. well the russians now have the ability to look like the gracious and magnanimous party the americans are the ones that flipped over the table and walked away and i want to be clear about something else be clear about two things first i don't represent the us government and its discussion but the other thing to be clear about is that the russians were cheating i mean there's no doubt about it the russians were in breach of the i.n.f. treaty and i think it was a provocation to first to menace the europeans and to see if they could bait the americans in the simply just walking away from this whole situation now the russians can afford to look like they're being diplomatic and magnanimous and leaving the door open for further discussion so i'm sure that it's possible they'd be happy to talk because one of the course skill sets of russian diplomacy is long dilatory diplomatic engagements that don't go anywhere and we just push that horizon further out by dumping the treat

u.s. naval war college is that that washington's with a droll highlights how confused the trump and the distractions policy is the russians now have the ability to look like the gracious and magnanimous party the americans are the ones that flipped over the table and walked away and let's be clear about something well as be clear about two things first i don't represent the us government and it's this question but the other thing to be clear about is that the russians were cheating i mean there's no doubt about it the russians were in breach of the i.n.f. treaty and i think it was a provocation to first to menace the europeans and to see if they could bait the americans in the simply just walking away from this whole situation now the russians can afford to look like they're being diplomatic and magnanimous and leaving the door open for further discussion so i sure think it's possible they'd be happy to talk because one of the core skill sets of russian diplomacy is long dilatory diplomatic engagements that don't go anywhere and we've just pushed that horizon further out by dumping the treaty instea

u.s. naval war college in newport. during his career he flew 125 combat missions in bosnia, kosovo, kuwait, iraq and afghanistan. 2016s career he completed combat-arrested landings, the most of any naval aviator in history, active or retired. [applause] marg and i spend a lot of time at the naval academy and he has done a great job as our superintendent, and will be retiring in july of this year. it has been a great run and ted, you have done a magnificent job and we are grateful to you. junior john c harvey june was commander of the u.s. fleet forces command in norfolk, virginia, and in his 39 year navy career, admiral harvey specialized in nuclear propulsion, surface ship and carrier strike rube operations, managemente personnel policy. he was the chief of naval personnel, the senior uniformed official in the navy and a director of the navy staff immediately prior to becoming commander of the u.s. fleet forces command. since his retirement he is now on the board of the navy memorial foundation and is serving as chair

u.s. naval war college and a specialist on russian affairs. hey, tom, how alarmed should people be? the difference between donald trump, civilian, and donald trump as president, of course, is he is playing with house money now, and he is playing with our national security. 17 security briefings in 85 days. should people be alarmed? >> i think it's always something to be concerned about when the president is not listening to his own intelligence experts. he has no other source of information really. he has the best sources of information in the entire world at his fingertips, and if he is not using those, you have to ask the question, where is he getting his information? when he contradicts dan coats or gina haspel how does he know what he is saying? where is he getting that information? yeah, it's very concerning. it's very worrisome. >> i also have to play for you a snippet from last night's speech. i actually thought of you and what your reaction might be to this because you and i have discussed this subject before. here is donald trump on north korea. >> if i had not been elected

u.s. could >> free college for all? >> i'm not for free four your college for all.i was a magic genie and could give that to everyone and we could afford it, i would. >> laura: well, will she feel safe? if last night's rating for her town hall on cnn were any indication, it is unlikely. there doesn't seem to be a lot of excitement for a midwest democrats whose views are closer to bill clinton than bernie sanders. but what about the so-called dream ticket of biden and abeyta abeyta. the old guard plus the new kid with a chance to pick off texas. while, if he runs, he has to make lots of promises to the aoc crowd, meaning in the end, the result end up the same. my friends, it democrats win, they are coming to take your money. the money you have made in the strong economy. the money he worked really hard for. they want to blow it on pipedream policies that may sound kind of cool at a rally, but in practice, they never wor work. they just really love spending other people's money. >> dogs, doughnuts, and money. only money is better. you know why? because it don't make y

u.s. authorities are looking into several cases where saudi students american and canadian colleges who are facing criminal charges managed to escape from the country it's alleged the government in riyadh may have helped them flee from ronald's reports. fugitives from justice believed to have been helped to escape from prosecution in the united states there are alarmed indications that thought he government has helped thought the nationals accused of serious crimes flee the country federal law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into how saudi students attending colleges in at least eight u.s. states and canada managed to get away after being charged with crimes including manslaughter rape and possession of child pornography investigative reporter shane dixon kavanaugh has found multiple cases of saudi diplomats spiriting suspects out of the u.s. in many cases the saudi government has no money and legal. defense prosecutors law enforcement some of these cases the saudi government directly escaped the united states five of the accused saudi men fled the state of oregon the

u.s. law enforcement even created a website for the college and set up a network of fake recruiters india's foreign ministry though says those students were misled students me had been into enrolling indian university we have urged u.s. side to release them from detention at the earliest and not through resorts deportation against their well it's reported that some of the indian students did think that university was genuine the indictment though says no they knew it was an illegal scheme that would allow them to stay in the u.s. they hoped each of the foreign citizens who enrolled and made payments the university knew they would not attend any actual classes in credits or make academic progress towards an actual degree in a particular field of study. jake i'm sorry of the hindu american foundation told us this type of operation shows that a major flaws in the immigration system. these hundreds of students have been arrested it seems like a fake university has been uncovered that was created by the u.s. government using u.s. taxpayer dollars so i believe the u.s. american people are going t

u.s. as his country's interim president at a rally. one college student saying, he's our barack obama. he gives us hope. tonight reports the u.s. is actively encouraging members of the military leadership here to defect to the other side. lester? >> kerry sanders in venezuela, thanks. >>> overseas, isis is making its last territorial st group into a very narrow corner tonight. our richard engel, who has reported conflict, has more.ound war ag isis is almost over tonight. the terrorist group that in 2014 ruled an area twice the size of new york state now holds a pocket in syria the size of new york city's central park. and even that is falling quickly. president trump, who's declared victory prematurely over isis several times, said earlier this week, now it's in sight. >> it should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have 100% of the caliphate. >> reporter: president obama launched the war over four years ago. since then, isis' self-declared islamic state, its caliphate, has been under ferocious and relentless assault. more than 32,000 u.s. over 70, te the cos

u.s. naval war college he says the american withdrawal highlights how confused the trumpet administration's policy is. well the russians now have the ability to look like the gracious and magnanimous party the americans are the ones that flipped over the table and walked away and i want to be clear about something let's be clear about two things first i don't represent the us government and its discussion but the other thing to be clear about is that the russians were cheating i mean there's no doubt about it the russians were in breach of the i.n.f. treaty and i think it was a provocation to first to menace the europeans and to see if they could bait the americans in this simply just walking away from this whole situation now the russians can afford to look like they're being diplomatic and magnanimous and leaving the door open for further discussion so i'm sure i think it's possible they'd be happy to talk because one of the course skill sets of russian diplomacy is long dilatory diplomatic engagements that don't go anywhere and we've just pushed that horizon further out by dumping the tr

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if you want to dumb down colleges, put the bureaucrats in charges of it. >>> meanwhile, u.s.g home sales hitting a three-year low but what's really to blame. we'll debate that coming next. ♪ e you look small. .. david: hope sales falling for the third straight month. some commits are putting the blame on the change in the mortgage deduction in the trump tax law. >> i don't know if there is enough decrease in new jersey, new york or california. the tax bill that was passed is done mostly on the backs of blue states like the one we are sitting in right now. >> no question about it. but there are other narratives. there is very little inventory. that raises prices, but we are hearing prices are down and purchases are down. i keep thinking this will be a sector that's strong in this year because it lagged so dramatically. everything is prime for an upturn in housing. >> this is after leveling out corporate taxes. we had a distortion in the market where you could deduct $1.1 million. pump up the prices and cause problems like bankruptcies and other factors. we only went down to 75

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u.s. immigration enforcement even created a website for the college and a network of fake recruiters india's foreign ministry says that the students with their four misled students may have been duped into enrolling in university we have urged us to release them from detention at the earliest and not to resort to deportation against their will it's reported that some of the indian students indeed thought that university was genuine the indictment though says the new it was an illegal scheme that would allow them to stay in the u.s. . each of the foreign citizens who enrolled and made payments the university knew that they would not attend any actual classes on credit or make academic progress towards an actual degree in a particular field of study. director of government relations at the hindu american foundation jake i'm sorry thinks this type of operation reveals just how the immigration system simply isn't working properly. thought. about that small little thing that you know moskos kevin i would say thanks for watching as ever all tito comes to all the latest as it happens twenty four se

that's why if we get rid of the electoral college because it's not democratic, then we have to get rid of the u.s wyoming have two senators and california has two senators? the voter in california has far fewer senators representing. there is no doubt that the left would move on after abolishing the electoral college to abolishing the u.s. senate. >> shannon: josh, what do you think? a republican senator in colorado says why do we want to cede our voting power to the national vote? the >> i think it's a reasonable argument to say every citizen should have an equal voice in who the president is. to say if you live in delaware, your vote shouldn't count more than if you live in texas and right now it does. the mechanism for making that happen, i'm not an expert on her but i think it's reasonable we should say ask every american who should be our leader and whoever gets the most votes, they win. >> shannon: dennis makes an interesting distinction, democracy versus republic. >> i think the founders got it right and that's to protect the smaller states. if we had our druthers, i don't think we would c

u.s. authorities are looking into several cases where saudi students at american and canadian colleges whok facing criminal charges managed to escape from the country. it is alleged that the government in riyadh may have helped them flee. reporter: fugitives from justice, believed to be helped to escape from prosecution in the united states. >> there are alarming indications that the saudi government has helped saudi nationals accused of serious crimes flee the country. reporter: federal law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into how saudi students attending colleges in at least eight u.s. states and canada managed to get away after being charged with crimes including manslaughter, rape, and possession of child pornography. investigative reporter shane dixon cavanaugh has found multiple cases of saudi diplomats spearing suspects out of the u.s.. >> and many of the cases, the saudi government has provided .ail money for them prosecutors and law enforcement belief, and some of those cases, the saudi government directly helped them escape the united states. reporter: five

he's a sharp 18-year-old boy now going to college in the u.s. his family which was once properrous and reduced them to abject poverty. but he linked the socialist policy to the green new deal that most of of the democratic presidential contenders have signed on to. the real purpose of the so-called green new deal is not energy, the real purpose is to give power over every aspect of our economy and every aspect of our lives to the federal government. it is, as he said, the red new deal. liz: if it's not working in venezuela, why do the democrats propose it here? >> you got me, liz. it's like the car tune see of the guy with the giant fork and sock. he says that turned out badly for everybody else who tried it. and the guy with the fork said they weren't doing it right. it's faith that somehow, some day socialism will work. it's basically historical ignorant. liz: to pay for it they would have to raise taxes on the lower brackets and middle income. >> they are talking about confiscating the wealth of the rich. is there not enough rich people. that

u.s. immigration enforcement even created a website for said college on a network of fake recruiters india's foreign ministry says the students were misled students may have been duped into enrolling in university we have urged us to release them from detention at the earliest and not to resort to deportation against their will it's reported some of those indian students did think that the university was genuine in dealing with those says they knew it was an illegal scheme that would allow them to stay in the us. each of the foreign citizens who enrolled and made payments the university knew they would not attend any actual classes in credit or make academic progress towards an actual degree in a particular field of study director of government relations at the hindu american foundation shaken cyrus thinks this type of operation reveals just how the immigration system simply isn't working properly these hundreds of students have been arrested it seems like a fake university has been uncovered that was created by the u.s. government using u.s. taxpayer dollars so i believe the u.s. american p

u.s. military in part to pay for a college education through the g.i. bill was a very political i read the new but i didn't really question things i had been in the military almost a year i was about to graduate from college i didn't want to put anything in jeopardy. so i said to myself i'll just go to this war. because maybe we will test scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school and everything will be fine. my units first mission was to run a prisoner of war camp in outside air base and there we used fear tactics that amounted to torture in order to keep prisoners to get the right. to be interrogated. in city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping the iraqi people. they were not interested in the well being of their own soldiers either. we started engaging their persistence in combat. which was basically hit and run operation for them. in order to retaliate since we were dealing with a ghost enemy we're going after the people who are killing to. the situation was

u.s. authorities are looking into several cases where saudi students at american and canadian colleges who are facing criminal charges managed to escape from the country so alleged the government in riyadh may have helped them flee from ronald's reports. fugitives from justice believed to have been helped to escape from prosecution in the united states there are alarmed indications that thought the government has help thought the nationals accused of serious crimes flee the country federal law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into how saudi students attending colleges in at least eight u.s. states and canada managed to get away after being charged with crimes including manslaughter rape and possession of child pornography investigative reporter shane dixon kavanagh has found multiple cases of saudi diplomats spiriting suspects out of the u.s. in many cases the saudi government has provided money and legal. defense prosecutors law for some of these cases the saudi government directly escaped the united states five of the accused saudi men fled the state of oregon the s

enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into how saudi students attending colleges in at least eight u.s. states and canada managed to get away after being charged with crimes including manslaughter rape and possession of child pornography investigative reporter shane dixon kavanaugh has found multiple cases of saudi diplomats spiriting suspects out of the u.s. in many cases the saudi government has no money and legal. defense prosecutors law enforcement some of these cases the saudi government directly escaped the united states five of the accused saudi men fled the state of oregon the state's senior senator wants answers from the state and justice departments the notion that thought eurabia can basically think it is above the law and that's what it looks like to the people of my home state is just unacceptable in two thousand and sixteen up to rahm on neural was charged with the hit and run killing of fifteen year old fallon smart she was imaginative and pathetic. his intelligence two weeks after numerous trial he broke off his ankle monitoring device was driven to the portland airport

i think it is imperative that college sets the tone for how you manage your life and responsibility and when you compare how u.s. students compare with students in china and other countries we fall significantly behind. i have two kids that went to college and i will tell you the price is astronomical. what gets me is that although the institution hasn't changed the courses haven't changed, the food and housing hasn't changed so i don't understand why the price of college went up 200%. i was appalled the amount i was paying in books and it was probably the same book a student used 15 years ago. my question is why this industry cannot be regulated? i understand inflation and i understand teachers salaries but what i don't understand is why does a semester in college have to cost you the cost of a car note? that is unrealistic to me. >> thank you for the call. let's show that chart one more time. the cost of college textbooks over the past 20 years has risen higher than the cost of college tuition by nearly 200%. you can see it there on the chart with tuition just below it. some of the other issues new cars not r

u.s. in 1968 to attend college and explore the civil rights movements.85 through 2011 he hosted evening exchange a public affairs television program broadcast at howard university. from 1973 through 1985 he served as news editor and then a news director producing award winning local news programs and daily. we could go on and on. in 2005 he was named washingtonian of the year. i am very happy to have all of us here to talk about this theme of black migration and i am going to start with a straightforward question which is in what way is migration central to the black experience? >> [ inaudible ] >> before we get started, you all are not going to hang me out to dry like this. our agreement was we would get timely answers that were profound in their implications. we can start at this far end. >> i think after every major migration that african- americans end up experiencing there is a significant effort to re-create ourselves in a new space so what it means to be black typically means to sort of act on the back end of a migration. after the trans-atlantic