weinberger.the hostess and she's the mostest. >> turning each unreliable fragment in her mind as if seeing scenes from her life for the first time. >> i have marky all to myself. >> none of it made sense to michelle. hadn't they had it all? money, youth, happiness. what on earth caused him to chuck it all without as much as a note of explanation. >> november 1st was our three-year anniversary and a bit of a turning point for me. but prior to that i still believed wholeheartedly that he was going to send for me. and if he sent for me, i would have went with him. >> really? >> i would have, yes. and that day came and went with no phone call, no letter, nothing. and that made me realize that i needed to take care of myself and try to get back on my own two feet. >> mark was still alive. she knew that because, even though she hadn't heard from him since that brief phone call in greece, credit card statements were still coming in to their home in chicago. >> he's going to the biggest fashion houses ac

let's get back to carl weinberg.t prize economist said is that they're not worried about italy. do you share his concern? carl: we have to worry about italy at this juncture. we have a government coming in with radical ideas to stimulate the economy. the debt was already the highest in europe. the question of finance ability and sustainability -- finance eability and stand ability could harm more pocketbooks. we have to keep on fiscal situation and sustainable -- sustainability. tom: will talk about the political front coming up. whatever you are with your bloomberg terminal, it is a way to get smart and see a snapshot of the economic financial investment at the moment. dtv go. -- g tv , i cannot say enough about it. you can put on your bloomberg terminal and move on smarter in your number day. stay with us worldwide. this is bloomberg. ♪ mom, dad, can we talk? sure. what's up, son? i can't be your it guy anymore. what? you guys have xfinity. you can do this. what's a good wifi password, mom? you still have to vi

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mark weinberg was part of all of it. that's not to say the week of the present stopped, and never did. houston briefed every day. the paperwork, meetings and speeches. he delivered a weekly radio address and stayed on top of what was going on. a lot of that briefing responsibility fell on mark. remember there is no fox news network back then. saturday nights were reserved as movie nights. the current hits and golden oldies. once in a while they would watch movie that one of them started. once they viewed a movie they started together. it was taboo to bring up work in the evening had a traditional schedule as to when invited guests were expected, what time the movie would play, where he said how long you stayed afterwards for commentary. there are few who can say they're part of this movie club. mark is one of those few. the pages of his book are filled with wonderful history and remembrances of unscripted moments. i have to admit that when i went to write intro remarks i put my feelers out to a large group of friends to

when the special prosecutor said that part tore cass before weinberg weinberger and others was motivatedution and continue the cover-up. everybody agreed to that, but everybody also agreed you can't ask the president that question. the president, if he has the authority to do something, has the authority to do it for any reason. he can pardon, he can fire, he can do all these things. it's not that it's not relevant, it's that privilege trumps relevance. >> well, except that privilege really applies here to a very narrow set of questions that we see in the -- among the 49. as you say, professor dershowitz, anything that predates the president's inauguration is not covered by privilege. >> right. >> anything that is not advice that he receives from his advisers, his senior advisers, is not executive privilege protected. with respect to the question of whether or not he can be asked about his motives in firing people that he has a constitutional right to do, that may be one small area that the courts can, you know, battle over. >> i agree. >> but everything else is really not covered by thi

. -- tharlz nthere's now george bush pardoning casper weinberger as he was leaving the presidency. i don't know if that was previewed, but certainly that had a political flavor to it as well. >> we knew people were pushing the president to do that. i don't remember george herbert walker bush ever saying twitter didn't exist in those days, but he did sometimes have conversations with reporters as he traveled the country. i don't remember him saying, i'm considering these things. we do know there was a public campaign to get the former president to do that. i want to set the record straight. martha stewart was found of charges that were different, not a full set of charges. this president is different in so many ways. what does this tell us about how he thinks, how he communicates, and again, this will be a debate. there will be trump loyalists who will say, how dare you? these are individual cases. and there are others saying this is a wink-nod to other people. >> are you sure this isn't the traditional process, but this shows us the trump process. relationships matter, celebrity re

i'm michael weinberg, political organizer sciu 10-1, and i'm speaking to you about the crossing guards as well. we've been to you before. we've been attempting to raise the issue with the mta and they've been unable to address any of the issues. so we're asking you to address the issues so that not only these workers can be treated appropriately, but that the service is provided in a safe and fair manner. we know that crossing guards provide a valuable service that is very popular service in the city. the way the program is management now, it's not fair to either the taxpayers or the employees who are being mistreated and given poor opportunities to provide services and the department spends an inordinant amount of money doing constant recruitments because of the low wages and compensation and hours. and those are things that need to be addressed. got copies of the m.t.a. presentation on the crossing guard program, where they identify all of these issues and challenges with the program and yet are refusing to address. so i have these issues here for you to take a look at. so we're aski

michael weinberg, president of the bay area council economic institute. doctor, tell us why this is a good idea given what we know it will cost for the state of california. >> so right now we actually pay for health care for undocumented immigrants at the federal level. but we only do it in the most expensive, inefficient way possible through emergency room care, so this just moves us into paying for primary and preventive care which is substantially more efficient. >> laura: the medi-cal problems, the overall health care in california called medi-cal, e.r. visits by medi-cal patients rose 75% over just the past five years. only 55% of physicians actually accept medi-cal, more than a third of all california residents are already on medi-cal and last year $23 billion were spent by the state on illegal immigrants. how would this not be a further magnet for illegal immigrants to come into the state. you already have 3 million unauthorized immigrants. >> you had a lot of questions there. >> laura: i do, because it's a ridiculous idea. handle it one at a time.

sharon weinberger is the executive editor of foreign policy magazine. previously national security editor of the intercept where she directed the publication's defense and intelligence coverage. she's a graduate of johns hopkins university and holds a masters degree from the university of pittsburgh school of public and international affairs and from yale and russian and east european studies she's helped numerous reporting fellowships in her writing has appeared in "the new york times" and "washington post" among many politicians debate the publications. >> i was happy about being invited on the panel because usually when i've spoken about the book i start with what i think are the more amusing stories of the defense of the research projects agency so that it was the time that they directed the vietnam war sent a psychologist to get a shock test of a vietcong fighter or the time they had a top-secret program to zap monkeys with microwaves to see if it could be a mind control weapon that illustrates the cold war and science because i talk about the book

>> it's interesting that of course president bush never faced a subpoena for pardoning casper weinbergerpecial prosecutor said it was part of a cover-up and attempt to end the investigation. nobody dreamed of subpoenaing the president for that. president clinton was subpoenaed but more for -- nixon's tapes were subpoenaed. we have some precedent but every case involving a president is different. it is hard to predict how this supreme court would come out if the president refused to answer specific questions that went to his state of mind about why he engaged in acts that are constitution nallly authorized under article 2. i think that would be a very strong, very plausible argument he could make to the supreme court. >> sandra: we value getting your perspective on this this morning. thank you for your time. >> bill: really fascinating stuff. the president tweeting on the legal matters all morning. a rigged system. they don't want to turn over documents to congress in reference to the chaffetz segment. what are they afraid of? why such unique wall justice? at some point i will have no poi

>> mark weinberg, it's just a time back to a first couple that enjoyed friendship come enjoy quiet momentsa good time. and they watch a lot of movies at how many movies? >> 300 sun. neil: we will be right back after this. . . . ♪ most people come to la with big dreams. ♪ we came with big appetites. with expedia, you could book a flight, hotel, car, and activity all in one place. ♪ >> also become clearer over last couple years we haven't done enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well. that foes for fake news foreign interference in elections and develops misusing people's information. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a mistake and i'm sorry for it. neil: facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. he is continuing what they are calling this world apology tour, this time in brussels meeting with european leaders who are not just satisfied with just mere words. they want to see facebook change its ways. maybe accept fines. no indication where that is going. a lot going on, 45 seconds away from our colleague and friend trish regan. we have congressma