so as you can see the wall street journal says one thing russia the corp roster and the kremlin have denied any withdrawal at all we've yet to see if we're going to get another response on twitter from trump or indeed an explanation from the wall street journal. thank you for bringing us that report. newly elected ukrainian president below to meet the lenski is making his 1st foreign trip as a leader he's meeting european officials in brussels in a bid to bolster ties the former actor will also meet with nato secretary general the e.u. was initially cautious about selenski the presidential candidate fearing he may discontinue reforms but has since welcomed his election during his campaign the only european leader who met with him was the french president a manual mccrone boy to kiev has accused prefer selenski rival the previous ukrainian president petro poroshenko. and so i think there is a little bit of frustration in zelinsky teen do draw it to show you know engagement with. us did not do that. pleased with this in fact president poroshenko was complaining to us that we weren't do

. >> welcome to the "wall street journal" at large. big tech in the crosshairs. are some of the largest companies too big for our good. the "wall street journal" was the first to report the justice department was to begin investigating google or possible violations of its power as a big technology company. and the federal trade commission is looking at an investigation of facebook, amazon and apple. then monday the house of representatives judiciary committee announced a sweeping review of possible monopoly powers. ways most of striking about these actions is they demonstrate a rare thing in america today. broad partisan agreement on an issue of pressing national importance. the democrats are eager to have action, too. monday nancy pelosi, the house speaker tweeted, unwarranted concentrated economic power in the hand of a few of is dangerous to democracy, especially when digital platforms control content. the era of self-regulation is over. not since the days of the trust-busters of the early 20th century have big companies faced such scrutiny. anyone who has a sm

let's bring in wall street journal bill mcgrady he spent ten years living in hong kong, he wrote in walleet journal entitled china million deficit. >> the things you just showed unspeakably sad, i lived there ten years, i loved it. the people of hong kong are the most law-abiding people of the world. the stuff with police and bato batons, i never saw anything like it. this is china, this is what china does to the society. all they needed to do was have a light hand and they treat people like criminals and some of them will act that way. >> i want to go back to trade talks, give the united states a there may be a meeting, it doesn't seemed like that's a consensus on the other side that that is china say nothing has been formalized but maybe a dinner. maybe there could be piecemeal deals like may be looser legal. >> no meeting or nothing really major is going to come out of the. >> that's a danger of president trump, he placed the high risk again, he raises the stakes in mexico older, the question is whether china will fold and we don't know what the terms are. >> thank you for being on th

we should also say, there was a wall street journal article that president xi-jinping is going to be trade dispute between the leaders. this is an article in the wall street journal. all eyes will be on president trump and president xi. lauren: as president trump holds the umbrella with the gray, rainy clouds above, maybe that news, the presentation from president xi gives investors hope today. the dow is up 5 points in the premarket. cheryl: the wall street journal is saying chinese officials, with knowledge of this plan from china's president, talking to the wall street journal, saying that one of the things they're going to bring up, china will, is that the u.s. has to remove its ban on the sale of u.s. technology to chinese telecom giant, huawei technology. beijing also wants the u.s. to lift all punitive tariffs, drop efforts to get china to buy more u.s. exports than beijing said it would when they last met in september. this could be good news. we're not seeing a reaction in the premarket right now with the dow only up 15. but again, all eyes are going to be on this meeting ov

-china trade deal, according to the wall street journal this morning. nitive tariffs and do not insist that the chinese buy excessive number of goods from the united states. now, there are crucial meetings on trade taking center stage. iran tensions are sure to be a main topic of the summit this weeweekend yesterday i spoke wih president trump with the recent tensionses and the threat from iran. are we going to have a war with iran, mr. president? >> well, i hope we don't. but we're in a very strong position if something should happen, we're in a very strong position. it wouldn't last he very s long, i can tell you that. maria: the sanctions are enough in your view to fight back on iran's provocations. >> the sanctions are biting. when i took over, iran was a terror. we had 14 to 18 sites of conflict. iran was behind everyone of them. 24 wer24 they were going to takr the middle east and they were going to make it very bad. maria: joining us now is former national commissioner on terrorism chairman, paul bremmer. good to have you on the program this morni

. >> our coverage of the wall street journal cfo conference continues now on a discussion on workforce competitiveness with secretary devos. she is interviewed by the wall street journal's lauren weber. this runs a half hour. [applause] host: thank you very much. secretary, thank you for being here with us today. thanks, lauren. pleasure. host: i go to a lot of companies, heads of hr, and other executives. they all talk about the skills shortage. and, it is not only about the -- about unemployment. this was coming up six years ago when unemployment was around 9%. so, they tell us they can't find the people that they need for the work that needs to get done. clearly, there is some kind of a breakdown. sometimes it is about soft skills, sometimes it is about technical skills. can you tell us where that breakdown might be? sec. devos: lauren, i think it is actually sort of across-the board. it really starts with k-12 education. and, the fact that for too many young people, they are not beginning to think about what next until late high school. and that frankly is, i think, too late. i bel

not from the wall street journal, but the new york times. i saw this in japan recently when the president met the emperor and prime minister abbi. had a cold. so i didn't go to this formal dinner. that was duly noted in the new york times, like sort of criminology. bolton's absence at the dinner was noted. noted by the new york times and cnn. i was asleep, trying to shake my cold. they didn't bother to ask about that. host: but, the president has a different take on foreign policy. then you do at times. there are disagreements that is in public. does that shake up our allies and adversaries? or is it just part of the game? sec. bolton: here is a hidden truth. there are disagreements within allied governments on foreign policy, too. that is how it works. the president in our system makes the final decision. i like to say, and it is completely accurate on the national security advisor. i am not the national security decision-maker. and i think everybody understands how that works. so, there is no discombobulated ion at all. host: i'm going to

be taking a look at from the hatch act perspective. >> but back to one other point from the "wall street journal." going back to another point from "the wall street journal," "after president obama enforce his redline, adversaries he is volatility, calling kim jong-un crazy, calling him a swell guest: again, more editorial nonsense. donald trump is going to negotiate in a haphazard way, but i think a lot of americans , the agree with me on this donald trump foreign policy has or -- success. goes, they cannot take any credit or feel that they can take a victory dance overshooting down a drone when you look at the sort of -- i would call it the triage that's happening in their economy at this point and will continue. i think it was more of an active to gettion for them trump's attention. well, they got his attention but they may well find out that having his attention is that where you want to be. when you compare his foreign policy, and i'm not trying to play pundit, i'm just looking at this in terms of success versus questionthere is no that his foreign policy as he double with china and korea,

. ♪ ♪ gerry: hello and welcome to "wall street journal at large."s week we're at the cannes lyons festival of creativity, as they like to call it here on the french live area ya. it's an annual gathering of senior executives from advertising, television, media, digital companies around the world. they come here, a hardship journey, no doubt, to south of france to discuss trends in media, advertising and marketing. and, of course, they come to do business and make deals. the big players are all here; facebook, google, amson, snapchat -- amazon, news organizations and anyone who wants to get a message across or sell something. the media has been transformed in the last decade. the vast bulk of advertising money now corporate, nonprofit, political is spent on digital platforms. most of it goes to google and facebook. those digital providers have been able to dominate primarily because of the power of data. there's so much data that they can target advertising and messages so that they reach us most effectively. but those companies are now under fire li

gerry: hello, and welcome to the wall street journal at large. 20 candidates, five moderators, four hours, two nights. but was there one winner or one loser? other questions everyone is asking after this week's double-header of democratic presidential primary debate the first of the 2020 election campaign. there we just watched joe biden 's crown slip? and kamala harris the most dangerous challenger now? what does debate tells about the direction of the democratic party as it gears up to take on president trump next year? we'll discuss this with the finest minds in democratic party politics. but first i want to say is worth noticing there were two very different debates this week. the first and was it was a sober affair.policy heavy as candidates led by elizabeth warren, dug politely into the issues, economy, immigration and healthcare. but at the first was a little like a policy seminar in a classroom for left-wing intellectuals, the second of those was more like a brawl than a student -- the tone, noisy and combative, was set early on. it was a senator from california that immediately s

if the medical journals don't take iforget we will take it stt to the american people and wall street journaland "new york times." so, thank you for doing journalism. if we had more healthcare journalists, we could have more accountability around one fifth of the u.s. economy. there's an unlimited amount of stories just talked to the doctors and surgeons. >> thank you. i am a new reporter and i'm interested in exploring medical issues and healthcare, where would i look? with stones should i be turning over? >> of the smartest health policy minds and he will say yes. i can't speak for him but our colleagues have great ideas. they've been on the ground. they have feasible ideas not just pie in the sky. medicare just released demanding more transparency into some of the stuff that's come out of the writing we have demanded the claims data saying that taxpayers pay for it and deserve to see it. we now have data on the physician process patterns and we can tell which doctors have a practice pattern that is extremely dangerous. when i researched the data and we could see the name we think holy crap

. ♪ ♪ gerry: hello, and welcome to "wall street journal at large." two years robert mueller has loomed over the american political landscape, silent and menacing as a darkening sky on a summer afternoon. his investigation into the 2016 election and donald trump was for a long time feveredded speculation in the press and elsewhere. yet for all the chatter, all the noise, mr. mueller maintained an almost eerie silence. it was his written words, not the his voice, that did the talking. but that changed this week. on wednesday mr. mueller announced that he was stepping down from the job and going back to private sector. and in a conspicuous verbal parting shot, he took the opportunity to offer some cryptic observations highlighting specific parts of his report and what they say about president trump. first, he suggested -- as he'd written -- that the only reason the president wasn't charged with crimes was because he can't be. >> but under longstanding department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is un

wall street journal james freeman, along with wall street journal verÓnica dagger along with dagen mcdowells morning. >> thanks. maria: what's your reaction to all of this? >> you look at oil prices heading north but still low prices historically, roughly 20% to have world's oil travels through it, thank goodness for frackers and steve was talking about that earlier, we've got the situation in the middle east, we've got venezuela with plunging production, but u.s. production is strong. maria: there's also attacks on saudi tankers a couple of weeks ago, we don't know if two things are connected and we will watch that, meanwhile in memphis angry protestors clashing with police. cheryl: good morning, at least two dozen police officers were injured in that confrontation, demonstrators smashing a police car, they threw bricks and rocks at police and the police were wearing riot gear, the suspect allegedly got out of vehicle with weapon, that's how all of this supposedly began overnight. now to hong kong, bracing for a new round of violent protests there forcing government offices to shut down at

the wall street journal had earlier reported that russian personnel had been withdrawn something also vehemently denied by moscow with the details his need to refute or. well this is gone from an accusation of article from the dismissal of that accusation all article to a little bit of confusion thrown in on sunday the wall street journal they published an article saying that russian military and technical personnel had left on my ass from venezuela reducing the numbers from a 1000 to just a few dozen and the reason they came for the gave up the exodus was that there were a lack of contracts and that moscow apparently found out that there was a lack of funds to pay a russian high tech military hardware corporation called rostik now have come out and dismissed the article completely this is what they said the figures provided in the piece by the wall street journal have been exaggerated tens of times the numbers of our staff there has remained for the same for many years now someone else's decided to join in us present on track during his state visit to the u.k. he's tweeted his favori

host: in the wall street journal this morning -- sal 15.3 million 15.3 million viewers for the first democratic debate. charged $100,000 for the ads. some are calling it the top-tier candidates that were debating last night. we are getting your thoughts on what they said and who stood out and who did not perform well. ?id you change your mind republicans, did you watch the entire debate and who poses do you think, the greatest challenge to president trump? we will get more of your thoughts coming up but first, john mcardle with more on the debate. host: you played that clip of joe biden and kamala harris and that's the most tweeted about exchange. the headlines this morning focused on the performance of the former vice president at last night's debate. this was not the way joe biden wanted the first debate to go. this is from the hill newspaper -- and this from the wall street journal -- plenty of twitter traffic focusing on the vice president's performance. this is from a former top aide to hillary clinton. this was his thoughts last night. said you have two hopes, one if the poor r

is it possible, is it possible that donald trump did not know until "the wall street journal" reported it that kim jong-un's half brother might have been a cia informer? >> well, lawrence, i guess i should stipulate by saying we're all assuming in this conversation that "the wall street journal" and other reporting about this is accurate. let's just assume that for the sake of argument. i think it is very possible if you listen to the way donald trump responded to that question this morning that he was taken by surprise. and it shouldn't come as a surprise to us if donald trump was not briefed on this. if you are the cia director, if you're the director of national intelligence and your primary customer, the president of the united states, is someone who is prone to spill secrets in the oval office, is someone who is reportedly prone to tell the leader of a foreign country the location of our nuclear sub-marines, a president who is prone to go on twitter and according to some accounts acknowledge a covert action program. if this is a president who is prone to spill other covert actions