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Failure as we outline in the report, not just by those who prepared the applications, but also by the managers and supervisors in the crossfire hurricane chain of command, including fbi senior officials, who were briefed as the investigation progressed. Paul michael mulkasi served at the 81 attorney general of the United States. You supervised the fbi as ag. Is this kind of behavior tolerable, if your view . No, it is not tolerable and should not have been tolerated. The number of misdeeds here is so enormous that its hard to know where to begin. It really flooded the zone. But whats clear is that they felt people the failures were on the senior level. Usually you rely on seniors to keep rogue agents in check. Here it was the seniors that went rogue and the evidence in the report and statements in this report that the most senior, jim comey, was aware certainly at the time that these wiretaps on page were renewed that there was information that undercut the accuracy of what was in the application and he did and said nothing about it. There was evidence that before what they say is the beginning of the crossfire hurricane investigation, with po papadopos statement to an australian diplomate that he thought that there was that the russians had something on Hillary Clinton and were going to disclose it, which that diplomat didnt say anything about until after the leak of the dnc emails. Paul that happened in may. This was reported in july. Right. Right. The diplomat concluded oh, that must be what papadopoulos had in mind. Paul is that adequate preed case as mr. Horowitz said in your view to start a Counter Intelligence probe against a president ial campaign . That depends on whats in the minds of the people who have the information and what else they know and i cant tell that at this point. We do know that prior to that, in whats been characterized as early or late june, james comey briefed the National Security council, which are Senior Security people, on what he called the page information, relating to carter page. He briefed the attorney general. He briefed others. And they considered giving a warning, a warning briefing to the Trump Campaign and decided apparently decided not to. They never did it. Paul thats appalling to he m, because if you think theres somebody in the campaign who is compromised, wouldnt you want the candidate to know about that . Right. Paul unless you think the candidate is some kind of man manchurian candidate, a double agent, which is a whole bunch of worry, you would want to tell trump. Just like they told Lindsey Graham or Dianne Feinstein that, that somebody was compromised. Paul according to bill barr, he said the u. S. Went to the russians, john brennan, the cia director, went to the russians and said hey, we know youre doing this, cut it out. Cut it out, right. Paul you dont tell the candidate. So, i mean, whats what operation did the fbi have to inform other people in the justice department, because one of his findings was, the Inspector Generals findings was they didnt keep senior justice officials informed. They had an obligation to point out to everybody at a senior level, meaning the Deputy Attorney general and the attorney general what was going on with this investigation and in particular that the facts alleged to have justified a fisa wiretap and to have justified the entire investigation were very much in doubt. In fact, many of them were directly contradicted. Paul as they found out information that contradicted the steele dossier, which served as the main argument for the actual wiretap to the court, they didnt change the application with this contradictory information. That seems to be entirely dishonest. It is entirely dishonest. The claim that they disclosed that steele himself prepared this under contract with the clinton campaign, in a footnote that is as obscure as a it could possibly be, you dont drop information like that in a footnote and refer to him as having possibly been hired by somebody who was hired by somebody. I mean, the indirection there is absolutely stunning. Paul bill barr, the current attorney general, has a u. S. Attorney, john durham. Hes also investigating this. If youre sitting in that chair as ag and all of this is this history is being recorded and you now know what happened, what do you do about it . You investigate it. Which is what hes doing. Paul okay. And you put on paul you think thats the right thing to do . Absolutely. You put on the best investigator you can possibly get which is whether hes done. John durham is the Gold Standard. He is the 24carat Gold Standard in the justice department. He is the one who unearthed the Whitey Bolger irregula irregulas years and years ago. I investigated him to investigate the destruction of the cia tapes and eric holder decemberic you nateedesignate t. He spent a year andahalf or two of his life going down every rabbit hole to investigate those. He did it thoroughly, without any leaks or he hesitation. He came up with a conclusion. Hes working together with a woman named nora danahey who i asked to look into the justice department. She is out of the same district, connecticut. That team is unbeatable. Paul youre confident that they will come to a justified conclusion on whether or not to pros yoprosecute . Absolutely. Paul thank you. Appreciate it. 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Wellqualified lessees get a low mileage lease on the 2019 Alfa Romeo Stelvio for 379 a month james comey said this week that your report vindicates him. Is that a Fair Assessment of your report . You know, i think the activities we found here dont vindicate anybody who touched this. Paul that was Inspector General Michael Horowitz before the Senate Judiciary committee on wednesday, responding to claims that his 434 page report vindicates former fbi director james comey under whose leadership the investigation into the Trump Campaign was launched. Lets bring in our panel, wall street journal column fifth, Dan Henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. Kim, youve been following this from the very beginning. You had kind of reported the horowitz report before horowitz. But what was in your view, where does this leave the credibility of the steele dossier and the fusion gps attempts to start all this off . Where does it leave them in terms of credibility . Well, its in shambles. Theres two really big takeaways from this, paul. One is that that the fbi did wrong and we just heard the judge talk about the ways in which it was not truthful with the court. The other is the origins of some of this, in particular, the fisa warrants and that is this dossier. We know that christopher steele, he had terrible techniques. People who worked with him said he had poor or rash judgment and we find out that the source he got most of this from said that it was most of it was goss sip d hearsay and he never expected to be printed as facts. The whole thing was built on a pile of misinformation from the beginning. Paul jason, what about the horowitz claim that he had that the fbi had adequat add prn to start a probe in 2016. The claim is that the threshold is very low for starting a probe and paul which is shocking to me. The expectation is that the fbi will use some discretion on when and when not to proceed and it doesnt look like theyve done so here. We talked about procedural mistakes. Its not just the number of them. Its they all went in the same direction and it makes you wonder about the claim that there was no political bias here when you look at the mistakes that just happened to always paint the campaign in the worst possible light, the Trump Campaign. You know, theres so much here that has to be talked about. But i think one thing we have to do here is try see the forest through the trees because theres so many trees. Two big points, there are two the fbi is one of the major Law Enforcement institutions, the major Law Enforcement in the United States and there is obviously there obviously was something rotten at the highest levels of the federal bureau of investigation. That has to be dealt with and fixed. Paul this is the whole comey team, the team he put into the crossfire hurricane has a team of analysts and agents working for it and they were allowed to go off the rails as described in the horowitz report. Secondly, as kim subjected, the steele dossier, christopher steele, the idea that an australian diplomat talked to George Papadopoulos and they were going to talk to carter page, this was the origins of the russian collusion narrative which rolled into american politics for two years culminate in the mueller culminateing in the mueller investigation. Nothing has come come of that as well. What has come of the political system where the fbi can go off the rails and the American People can subjected to Something Like the russian collusion narrative which simply went up in smoke. Something is wrong in washington,. Paul kim, thats a very good point. I think one of the answer as to dans question is that fusion gps and the Democratic Party had a lot of reporters who were willing to take dictation from whatever they said about because they wanted to believe the worst about trump and they wanted to believe that he was actually some kind of a russian agent and then so they trotted all this out, unconfirmed and they used the fact that the fbi took that information and started an investigation as just ajustifying oh, there must be something there. Thats stunning. I think you can make the case if the press had done their job from the beginning, we would never been through this agonizing past couple of years. What would happened, if the Research Firm presented this dossier and they looked at the claims and said this smells bad and its come from a Research Firm, they would have found out who fusion gps was employed by and said okay, this is a political dirty trick, but instead they wanted it to be true so they fanned the claims and they gave credibility to these people who we now know deserved none. Its also important to note that the horowitz report is not the last word on this, paul. The attorney general, william barr and u. S. Attorney, john durham, are looking into this and the merits of what theyre doing is they have a wider scope than horowitz did which was just the justice department. Durham can look at state department, overseas, grand jury testimony, so forth. Thats one of the reasons that barr and durham came out and said what they said about the hour wits report and theyre surprised about what triggered the investigation. Paul if youre a civil libertarian and you believe the government shouldnt spy on americans without strong justification, how can you tolerate Something Like this and say never mind, because it was against trump . You cant. The American Civil Liberties union has said publicly theyre very concerned about what happened here. I think the process of fisa application and the fbis relationship to the fisa courts needs to be reexamine. Paul thank you all. When we come back, trade anxiety ease as the u. S. And china reach a phase one deal and a House Democrats announce an agreement with the president on the usmca. Do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on uh, fifteen minutes could save you 15 ain . Or more on Car Insurance. 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Paul a trade truce with chia this week as washington and beijing reach a phase one deal ahead of a sunday deadline for higher tariffs on chinese goods, this as the democrats announce an agreement on the usmca trade pact, bringing the president one step closer to fulfilling a Campaign Promise of remaking the north American Free trade agreement. We are back with Dan Henninger and mary ogrady. China, a good deal, do you think . Its definitely progress. Everyone has warranted something we call the trade deal. Phase one, phase two phase one is indeed about what most people understand to be trade with china, agricultural goods, intellectual property and so forth. Phase two which hair going to move into theyre going to move into, its more systemic, trying to get the chinese to change their system, less support of subsidies for state owned industries. Thats the Chinese Communist model. Yes, progress on phase one. Phase two is going to be very difficult. Leland. Paul i read this as kia truce, where trump gets calm in the markets. Chinese get goods that they wanted, pork in particular, purchases. And well see how well they honor some of these things on tech transfer and the rest. Yeah. I think both free trade rersers have been traders have been similasympathetic to president p on intellectual property. If they can make progress on that, then the arguments for free trade get stronger many china really was violating the rules it agreed to when it joined the wto. If we can get them to budge on that, i think its a huge gain. The question is, enforceability, i think. Paul with the chinese, you never know. Were going to have to watch that. So lets move to the usmca. Nafta, redone nafta. Nancy pelosi yo agreed and trump finally, i think in part because of impeachment, she wants to give her swing voters something they can say we got done. But was the price too large, do you think, the administration gave up . Do you want the half full glass or the half empty one. Paul gives us both. Start with the half full. The administration didnt give the administration actually moved from a Free Trade Agreement to a managed trade agreement and its interesting that in the name of this new agreement, the words free trade do not appear. And particularly on manufacturing, which is where both donald trump and u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer wanted to basically manage trade more with mexico and canada. They won there. The good news is, agricultural markets stay open. We get some opening of the dairy market in canada, very small but at least its there. Paul something. Yeah, we still dont have much progress on sugar. Thats i think a dream that we should just leave that one alone. But you know, most of the tarifffree status of trade between the three countries remains and that i think is a big relief to the market. Nafta has been a great success, no matter what donald trump says. Paul i think the argument, the best argument for doing this, notwithstanding the real liabilities that i think mary identifies and there are some others, is the fact that you will have this left wing president from mexico and donald trump, who is at root i think a mercantileist, theyre both committing fundamentally to the kind of nafta rules and that provides some political relief. Yeah. And this relief is important, because lets try put trade with mexico into perspective. They are our number one trading partner. We do 1 trillion a year in trade with mexico. With china we do about 460 billion. We talk about china all the time. Mexicos trade relationship is twice as big. Paul and canada. You mentioned lopez overdoor. We like the idea of economic stability, if not some growth in mexico, because if his policies destabilize mexico, that problem at our border with them will look like a kindergarten super rice. Exercise. I dont like that the manufacturing sector, particularly with autos, it becomes a customs union. Things have to be made inside north america in order to qualify for duty free trade. That means 75 of the content of the car has to be made p inside the United States now. 406 of the car 40 of the car has to be made at average wages of 16 an hour, which is forcing that production into the u. S. Paul heres what trump would say to that, mary. He would say, dont we want cars made in the United States . Your point i think is that it will be less competitive around the world. What we want is capital to be allocated to the markets that make the most sense which the free market will do that. For donald trump to say this percentage of the car has to be made in the United States, it undermines the competitiveness of the u. S. Auto market around the world because we use the advantages of each of the three countries to make the lowest price, highest quality vehicle possible. 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Com the third time in a little over a century andahalf, the house Judiciary Committee has voted articles of impeachment against the president for abuse of po power and obstruction of congress. The house will act expeditiously. Paul House Democrats you announcing two articles of impeachment against President Trump this week, charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of power, voted out of the Judiciary Committee along party lines on friday, setting up a debate and vote of the full house of representatives next week. Were back with Dan Henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. Jason, the big news this week was they brought the articles down basically to two. What happened to bribery and extortion . What happened . They know the case is weak. They know its a partisan exercise and polls are not moving in their direction. Paul wouldnt you want to ramp it up and say yeah, brie herry bribery and extortion. I dont think they can make that case. Nancy pelosi is trying to serve two masters. First she has the progressive caucus, we heard from adam sure where he said we need to do this fast or else hell cheat again. Adam schiff doesnt think we have a legitimately elected president. She has the other people in the caucus, the people in swing districts that want to get this over and move on to talk about something else. She has to serve both of those. Paul abuse of power, how strong is the case . Well, i dont think its very strong. Abuse of power is about ukraine. Okay. Paul right. Ukrainian politics and the president s conversation with the president of ukraine and whether he was right to pull joe biden into the conversation, about which people can disagree. A crime . I dont think so. Paul they dont list a specific statute the president supposedly violated. The second article is obstruction of congress. Not obstruction of justice, but of congress. I think most people looking at this would say you mean battles between the white house and the executives and congress, doesnt this go on all the time . How is this obstruction different than politics as usual. Again, you could say the white house has been resistant and obstructive but they have an authority to do that under the constitution and again, it doesnt in the public mind rise to the level of an impeachable offense. Paul on the obstruction of congress point, kim, the house isnt even contesting in court. They withdrew their subpoena against charlie cupperman and didnt file one against other Administration Officials because they said it would take too long. It wouldnt be obstruction in congress in my view if the president played it out in court and a lost in court and then said im going to not provide witnesses. In this case, hes defending his constitutional prerogatives. Right. Thats an important thing. He has a constitutional prerogative to exert at least executive privilege and we have traditionally always thrown it to the courts to allow the courts to define where the contours and the edges of that privilege begin and end. And in this case, democrats decided it would take too long to get that answer because they want to impeach the president by christmas. So they didnt do it traditionally, creating an entirely new standard which by the way i think could have terrible precedence for the future. Paul well, on that point, abuse of power, i mean, i dont like the phrase, i mean, its not good. The president s call wasnt i think perfect, as he suggests. But the problem with abuse of power is you can define it any way you want so it becomes a very flexible standard that comes very close to mal administration which is the word the founders you threw out of the constitution for impeachment because they thought it would be too easily exploited. Thats exactly the problem. I mean, look, i could go back to when barack obama decided to unilaterally suspend the senate so he could appoint some people to the National Labor relations board. The Supreme Court ruled against him that he violated the constitution. Could republicans have impeached him for abuse of power . This is a standard were setting going forward. Paul democrats just want to get this over. Yeah. Yeah. We are lowering the bar, thats a very important point to make hearing were lowering the bar. If resisting subpoenas from congress is an impeachable offense, most modern day president s should have been impeached. Theres no underlying criminal statute here, not that the constitution calls for one but in previous impeachment efforts weve seen them. Bill clinton committed perjury. Thats something real, something the public can understand. The democrats have nothing on that order to point to. Paul how Many Democrats do you think are going to defect . Im going to guess 10. Paul really . Yes. I think its going to be high. If it is, its really going to undermine the whole project theyve undertaken to take down trump because those 10 will be in districts that were carried by republicans four years ago, split by democrats in the midterm elections. Paul and no republican defections. Zero. Paul well talk to karl rove about how the process is likely to play out in the senate and on the campaign trail as the 2020 race heed heats up. Our poll numbers have gone through the roof because of her stupid impeachment im your 70lb st. Bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. Ahh no, come on. I saw you eating poop earlier. Hey my focus is on the road, and thats saving me cash with drivewise. Whos the dummy now . Whoof whoof so get allstate where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. Sorry hes a baby thouwhich is Breast Cancer metastthat has spreadcer, to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. 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Thank you. Paul when the democrats started the impeachment push, they thought they copper suede a bigger could persuade a bigger chunk of the American People for impeachment. Have they exceeded. In one poll, 45 say they support removing the president from office. In november, numbers were roughly the same, 44v51. The movement shows its not just the last couple months, october, november and december, that opinions have not changed. If you go back to the beginning of the process, in late september, it was 47 47. So the support for impeachment has dropped 2 points. P opposition has grown 4. Thats a significant move in the highly polarized electorate we have today. Paul you made an interesting point in your column, that quite from the partisans aside, you said the independents, that you have come across anecdotally, i assume youre looking at survey data, also are skeptical of impeachment. If tau a if you take a look inside the internals of the polls, you see this. In mo this monmoth is adults, quinipiak is voters. Since the controversy exploded in midseptember, the movement has been localized to independents. Democrats are in favor and remain so, republicans are against it and remain so. The movement has been independent swing voters who are looking at this and saying no. Paul the people on the hot seat now will be after the Judiciary Committee has voted to impeach, it goes to the floor, the people who have to make a tough call are the democrats who won trump majority seats in 2018. Whats your advice to them . Well, whatever you do, youre going to have to go home and explain it. It better be what you believe. The people i suspect will give people whether they vote for or against impeachment some level of forbearance if they believe they thought they were doing it out of real reasons. If it sounds like they were doing it because of polls and focus groups, i came home and voted against impeaching the president because im scared of losing the district, it will hurt them on the left of the Democratic Party which will say you broke your trust with us and independents will smell it out and say you did this because of politics and it will diminish their standing with the voters. The 31 democrats in trump districts are in a tough place. Paul whats your advice going ahead. Lets assume theres a vote to impeach which i think is a foregone conclusion in the house. Then it goes to the senate, whats your advice to Senate Republicans about the kind of trial they should hold. Should they call a bunch of witnesses or dispatch it quickly . I think they should lean toward the latter which is do this sober and respectful and do this with decorum, t get it done relatively quickly but not so fast that it looks like youre dismissing it with your hand. On the other hand, im not attracted to the idea of calling a bunch of ex strai witnesses. We dont need to hear from hunter biden. He was put on a board for one simple reason, he was the son of the Vice President of the United States. We dont need to call joe biden. We know what his problem was. He was tone deaf, ignorant and blind to the appearance of im primpropriety of his son being e board of the company. These things dont be established. Theyre out there. The republicans ought to do the right thing which is in my opinion sober, reflective, go through the issue, maybe take a week or two, maybe 10 days but we know how this dramas going of to end. Paul so lets look ahead and this is speculative, but theres some people who say, you know what, this is just going to be forgotten by november of 2018. Nobody is going to think about it with donald trump, our first who will be our first impeached president to run for reelection and its not going to matter. What do you think . I think its going to sort of reveer brat through the balance of the campaign. We dont know exactly how. I think we will see a cavanaugh effect. Remember, after the kavanaugh hearings in october voters came out and voted. We have a lot more time between this act and january and a november. I think there will be a little bit of that whats going to be interesting, are there going to be democrats who say more democrats voted to keep him as president in both the house and senate, the republicans who voted to remove him, you democrats didnt do a good job and how many are going to let a little air out of thei their sa. Maybe not a lot. We could have a nail biter like we had in michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania where less than half a percent of change in the vote made a difference. The main thing will be independents. Today theyre leaning against it. The more the democrats bring up the issue of impeachment over the course of 2020, the more the independents will say you know what, that was just the wrong streak for you pick, the wrong avenue to go down and im going to hold it against you. The democrats would be smart to let this get behind them. Paul thank you very much. Good advice for them. When we come back, a big win for conservatives in the u. K. As a Prime Minister Boris Johnson cements his torrey majority and paves the way for britains exit from the eu at long last. From the eu at long last. We go to london do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on its been reported that theres a cyberattack on business every 39 seconds. Ouch. I dont even want to think about it. Comcast business has a solution. 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Joe, really an historic result for the tories. What were was it fundamentally in your view a brexit election or what . It was absolutely a brexit election. I think the main point to emerge from this is that voters meant what they said in june of 2016, when they voted for brexit the first time. I think the Prime Minister Boris Johnsons pitch to voters this time was to get brexit done, pass his deal through parliament, give him the lawmakers he needs to do that. Theres a lot of polling that shows the slogan get brexit done resonated with a lot of voters. The conservatives picked up a lot of seats, particularly northern england, the countrys industrial heartland that voted overwhelmingly to leave the eu in 2016 and abandoned the labour party in this election because they thought they could trust Boris Johnson and the consistent conservatives more to deliver on brexit. Paul i take your point, i think thats right, get brexit done turns out to be one of the great slogans in modern politics, effective slogans. How much was it a rejection of the agenda of Jeremy Corbyn, the labour leader, and which had one of the most really the most socialist agenda for the labour party for 20, 30 years. I think its two sides of the same coin. Because any election is ultimately about the future direction the voters want for their country and certainly while you had Boris Johnson and the conservatives saying that future should be brexit, labour under Jeremy Corbyn was trying to offer an alternative to brexit that would have involved remaking the british economy in a very socialist direction, nationalizing a wide range of industries, raising taxes and Government Spending and voters decided they didnt want that agenda. They trusted brakes i brexit moe to brexit more to deliver the kind of future they wanted. If you look at the polling numbers, especially in the former labour heartland districts that never voted for conservatives, voted for the labour party for decades, they were saying this time the voters did not trust Jeremy Corbyn, they didnt trust his vision, didnt trust the that socialist agenda, as much as they trusted the brexit they were getting from the conservatives. Paul with this big new majority, Boris Johnson has to deliver brexit. Is it going to be as early as january as he promises or will the. U give him trouble . Eu give him trouble . The signals out of brussels yesterday and today, because eu leaders have been meeting for regularly scheduled summit and all indications are theyre released that this has happened because have not bench fitted from the gridlock benefited from the gridlock in britain either. They just want the british political system to be able to make a decision. Now that that has happened, theyre prepared to move forward with the Withdrawal Agreement that Boris Johnson negotiated earlier this year, wait for the British Parliament to pass that and then move forward with brexit pretty quickly. Paul dan, just one point here about the american relevance. Sure looks like the british voters sent a big message to the american democrats that if you go off in the direction of Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, restructuring everything, you run the risk of a real problem. Yeah. Its a thunder clap. I think it will take effect at the donor level, i mean, donors, the big money people have to decide where to put their money, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or, say, a moderate like joe biden and of course indirectly elevates Mike Bloomberg with all of that money who is running at a moderate. The socialist thing doesnt look like the you way to go. Paul thank you, joe. Appreciate you coming in. We have to take one more break. 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I think it continues the exploitation of this young lady to scare people into thinking some climate apocalypse is around the corner. Reportedly the protesters in hong kong were on the short list. I think that would have been a better choice. Paul mary. A sad sit today for Jersey City Police detective joseph seals, a hero cop who gave his life in the line of duty last week. He was a 15 year veteran with a stellar reputation for bravery and dedication. He was shot in the back of the head by assailants who went on a rampage in jersey city. He leaves behind a wife and five young children. Its another reminder about the sacrifices that police and families make to protect us. Paul dan . This is a hit to paul volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve bank, regular viewers of the show know we dont normally have kind words for fed chairmen but he was an exception. In the 1980s, inflation hit an incredible 14 . I was a clear danger to the u. S. Economy. He raised Interest Rates until inflation abated, took the heat for doing that. Paul volcker is one of the reasons the u. S. Economy has remained strong the past 40 years. Paul thank you. Remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us at jer on fnc. Thats it for this weeks show. Thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. I hope to see you all here next week. Everybody marias wall street begins now. Maria and happy weekend everybody welcome to the program that analyzes the week that wasnt helps position you for the week ahead. I am maria great to be with you this weekend. Coming up in just a few moments ceo of firm, maps election is our special guest. Joining to talk about how a firm is disrupting the credit card industry. Also asking about private evaluations and everything else. First big story of global headlines sending markets into record territory. Phase i deal between the u. S. And china, and election victory for Boris Johnson in the uk,