you have agencies like the usta that are well-funded and the u.s. parts of the world and not have that much funding. in the absence of that funding, can you leverage technology? to build models for india, tanzania, china? which is what we are doing. the power, it becomes highly complementary to it. what it does is it re-purposes potentially how some of these reports are generated and how some of these agencies go about generating these reports. caroline: baby in a future, -- in the -- maybe in the future, shutdowns will not hurt so much. great to get you here. a busy time for you. coming up, china's number two phone maker losing $6 billion in three days. we will hear about investor fears ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ bloomberg. ♪ for asia ahead, xiaomi had a wipeout week. second largest phone maker in china, lost $6 billion in three days. for more on the story, let's bring in shery ahn. the reason is the ipo lockup is over, and now people can start selling and they are. yeah, 3 billion shares could be sold. now the controlling shareholders like legion

. >> brangham: help usta unde what's the rationale. would coming pass a law that seemingly gives the president this kind ofo dictatorial power. >> the idea behind emergency powers is the law that might ordinarily apply might not be suffient in the case of an emergency, and if you have a true crisis unfolding so quic that congress doesn't have time to react to it, then you might need to have some stand-by authorities that give the president more flexibility. the trick is to make sure that there are enough checks and balances, that the president can't actually abuse these authorities to give himself tremendous powers in situations where there is no true emergency that sort of brings the present day. >> let's talk a little bit about that. the president has said there is an emergency on the southern rder and he said, he wants to, if congress can't do what he wants and appropriate t money that he wants, he can declare this an emergency and secure the funding. is that true? can he conjure up ll n through this act? >> so there are two questio

i started working with the usta under the obama administration and i cannot tell you how much free timeith pay we were given. the day before christmas, you got to leave for hours early with pay. fourth of july, you would get to leave work for hours early with pay. it is a very cushy job. i know it is tough, but it is an extremely low stress environment. you work monday through friday, you get the weekends off, the federal holidays off with pay. you knowral employee, this going into the job that if there is a government shutdown, you will either have to get furloughed or show up to work and not get paid. you accept that when you accept the job. host: so there is an exchange, you are saying. caller: yeah. we get back paid anyway. i call my credit card companies and tell my landlord this is happening and they are very accommodating in my case. it may take a hit to your credit score. i am not too sure, we will see what happens. if you have a good history paying your bills on time when there is a government shutdown, there usually is not a problem. i see a lot of my fellow employees complain