Say the darndest things. Hillary clintons once massively in the first caucus state is collapsing. She has lost one third of first origins me down to 37 . She hasthe first time been under 50 in one of our iowa polls this year. Bernie sanders is on the rise. Hawkeye state trouble is hillary in and why . I would think not as much as you think she is in. I do not think the lead is collapsing so much as it is dwindling. It is like the third week in spring Training Area do if you are living in iowa your thinking about sweetcorn and there is all that going on. She is very strong candidate. It is not good. Mike that is not good. Puttingact that he is together this coalition that looks like the obama coalition, college kids, first time caucusgoers, liberals, some pendents,nce inde the people who got pastor the last time. Mike i would be less worried about that than the fact that when she comes on stage, she comes with this huge piece of luggage called the past. Clintons past. Elections are about the future. The email stuff resurrect a past that people are somewhat uncomfortable with. That is what i would be worried about. A bipartisans desire, they want something that feels real and authentic and she does not will find any of those scores right now. Mike i dont blame people for thinking like that. The at what people have endured in terms of politicians over the last 15 years with the possible exception who of one young man who ran, his name was barack obama. Donald trump leads the field. There is an even bigger headline here. In trump vernacular, it is huge. Jeb bush and scott walker lag. In the past two months trump has shown up from 4 to 23 but so has carson. He is not far behind, increasing to 18 . What is the deal with in carthage ben carson . This. I will sa have carson at 18. And cruise it 8 and walker it 8. Fiorina. Son, all of them cover 50 . The top four establishment in. Idates will some are mike could you give me those names and numbers area down the. Up to. What they add john fiorina up to about 54 . Mike i would want to know where each of the numbers of the 53 were. I want to the best far away from them as possible because there is some seriously wrong with Republican Party if those people combined have a majority of the voters. Man. He is a nice he is a brilliant, talented neurosurgeon. He does not have standard both locations for office. He is leading trump in the votes of evangelical voters. That is a huge chunk of the iowa electorate. He is the guy that stands the best chance of being the evangelical candidate and he has a huge following. No doubt about that. Unless one thing come a given what you said, given the numbers, given the field. Orthodontist went to iowa, he is a nice man, very religious and he might give ben carson a run for his money. These people are odd. This is a closer race then trump has seen. Those are compelling. Favorable turned upside down as favorable. The number of those people who said they would never vote for him in may which was huge, it has turned around. His internal numbers in the poll very good for him. Mike why do you think that is good . John he is everywhere, dominating everything. Over the weekend to candidates that did not do well, scott walker and Chris Christie had a couple of curious or odd ideas about how to handle immigration. How take a listen. We let people come to this country with visas and the minute they come in we lose track of them. So here is what i am going to do. , we needk fred smith to have a system that tracks you from the moment you commend come in and when your time is up whether it is three months or six, how long however long it is. We tap you on the shoulder. Thanks for coming. Time to go. Dont evil talk about the northern border. That is a legitimate issue. John one of them is to make immigrants into fedex packages. The other wants to build a wall between canada and the United States. Which of these ideas is crazier and why are we hearing this kind of talk . Mike in Chris Christies case with his proposal he watched Casino Royale and saw the injection of the tracker in s arm. Ond scott walker is angling for the Bricklayers Union endorsement to bring build this 7000 mile wall across no wonder people inc. Politics is increasingly absurd. Both ideas are absurd. Me that is the most obviously i could say. This is all the trump factor. Two relatively mainstream normal politicians who are trying to figure out how do i get some of that trump energy, how do i get in the game. Trump will build the wall in mexico. I will build the wall in canada. The canadians are nice people. Mike president obama is arriving in alaska today. He is giving a speech about global warning warming and see some of those melting glaciers. He is changing the name of mount mckinley. The tallest peak in the u. S. To mount denali. Well this trip he remembered for his message on Climate Change or the fact he changed the name of a mountain . John john boehner disapproves and he says dont change mckinley. Mckinley was a great man. Has a book on mckinley. Karl rove is a upset about it. Its apparently going to be very strong. Olore is a little bit of a y quality. Im only going to be president for a few months. I will start changing the names of stuff. One point, the president of the United States told mark, i am careless. He has nothing to fear because he will not be on the ballot. Ill soon name a car after you. John i am looking forward to seeing that. Next, with the u. S. Open getting underway, my interview with tennis legend elite jean king. And billie jean king. We will go inside the mind of joe biden when we come back. John the u. S. Open kicks off today. Serena williams goes for that coveted grand slam. I sat down with multiple grand slammer billie jean king. We began by talking about what she thought was the state of womens tennis today. It is in i would say fantastic shape. We are playing for 130 million of wide. When nine of us signed a 1 Million Contract in 1970, we were living our dream. Girl to make a living we used to make 14 a day in the old days. We could not make a living. It has happened. It is international, it is totally global. John it is the case that womens tennis players get paid less. Ms. King we get paid the same. Era you hear the word open that means 1968. We all have fought behind the scenes. Withwilliams is on a team the current later to make that happen and we have [inaudible] the u. S. Open was the first one to do it the prize money in 1973. John do you think we have equity . Ms. King no. It is easier for mens sports in general to get people to invest and invest over a long time. Major League Soccer is one of those examples. John and endorsement dollars are bigger than that. Ms. King correct. Was a story that ran in the New York Times just before wimbledon. It focused on serena williams. Ms. King did they talk about male body types . John no. Ms. King of course. Of women on the tour do not want to look at like serena williams, they said. Ms. King Everyone Wants to be a strong and flexible as she can. Her job is to be fit in every way and also to be dynamic. Be have to be ballistic and able to sprint. Every woman in tennis that is going to be any good, the ones want to be great, they make their bodies as strong and flexible as possible. Whatever comes out of that healthwise and how they look is who they are. John she has been criticized at various times for her physique. Ms. King she is africanamerican. They have different his aches and you have to understand each culture and different physiques. An africanamerican, maybe she has the perfect body to someone who is white who is skinny and more it depends on everyone. Criticizing and i am not endorsing the criticism. Just to be clear. Over the years she has been criticized for her body to for trying to look like a man, etc. Ms. King that is not true. That was happening to Martina Navratilova when she came over. It hurts women overall and it does not help society when people are negative about womens bodies. John did you Pay Attention to the womens world cup . Watching. I was john you were excited about the success of the team. His king they sent me a jersey. The captain they were the captain of that theme. I have stayed connected to womens soccer. Hold it up and tweet it. England came in for the third time. And i watched us win. The boxwo goals out of in minutes. It was great. Any did you feel gratification that the lesbian members of the team were welcomed and honored in a way that i have not noticed before and professional sports. The thing is to be your most authentic self. Just be yourself and be good to each other. It is a heck of a lot that are to kiss someone than to hit them. I think we have to be happy for others and want people to be there authentic self. John i want to ask you about caitlyn jenner. When you came out after having been out, you managed to take that and move the conversation forward when that happened for you. Caitlyn jenner has moved the conversation forward in another way. Ms. King everyone keeps moving. Who was myrichards, ophthalmologist. She played World Team Tennis in the 1970s. We are very inclusive. We do not care what gender you are. We want people to be whoever they are. I knew katelyn when she was bruce. Knowing renee was very helpful to me to understand what they have been through. Firstsime it was interview and now she is katelyn. She will be comfortable and because she gets so much exposure through reality shows, if people are talking about it, that is important to have dialogue. I think in sports in general but in tennis there are relatively few out athletes. Even though the culture has shifted a lot. Is that mostly because of endorsement . Tennis has more outs. Difficult formore the guys. What we need is people to support each other. We need straight quarterbacks that stand up and say i dont who is on our team as long as they do their job. I dont care a are gay or straight. We need straight quarterbacks, i am just giving you example. That would be perfect. If a straight quarterbacks came , really before each team player and a matter who they are, what they are. As long as they do their job. You have to do your job to be a pro athlete. Is aere are conventional wisdom that one of the pressures against coming out is that you lose endorsement dollars. Do you think that is true or is it changing . Ms. King when women come out in tennis they have not lost their endorsement. I got the lead because i am older than Martina Navratilova. She was able to continue to play when the prize money kept coming up. When youre playing to compete you make money. She did not get as many endorsements as some of the other straight players. John a couple years ago there were news reports that the match, your match with bobby riggs was fixed. How frustrating is that for you . First of all, not true, right . Ms. King not true. Bobby riggs really well. If you are going to wait 40 years to talk about it you know that is not right. Why did they not do that a year later . That does not bother me. John that was not aggravating . Were true. F it it. Is you would kick his ass for real. Thanks. John lets talk widen. Joe biden was in the whole at the fold. He takes reallocated votes. Clinton and Bernie Sanders gained equally. My question for you is if you are joe biden sitting at home 13 ing that whole, you have , what do you think about iowa, is there an opening for you there and how do you think joe is thinking about this right now . He is someone you know pretty well. President. E the vice for many reasons. One of the principal reasons is he is real. He is genuine. He is a human unlike a lot of other people in politics. What you see is what you get. To your question, if he is looking at those numbers which i sent you must be i assume he must eat, if he is the about his future in terms of electoral politics which he might be. Here is his problem. Nobodyngs to a club that wants to join. He has married one of his children he has married one of his children. He has buried one of his children. Wherein a frame of mind something he sees in the car driving past a field is going to remind him of the oil you lost boy he lost and i dont know given the cargo his family carries that he would have the mental or is equal energy to conduct a president ial campaign. Is pretty good if you are not announced but on the other hand it is not overwhelming. Some people around him say there is an opening for you. I like the Vice President a lot but i do not see a drumbeat within the Party Regulars nor among voters for biden to get in. That is not to say he could not run but there is not a drumbeat for him. If you way that out, there is no doubt Hillary Clinton is weak and startling around but there is no drumbeat. Then you have the emotional fuel, whether it is in the tank. Mike you have far more expertise that if Hillary Linton lost iowa, there is the opening for the Vice President. He might be one of them. More donald trump in china. China. Lets say china. China. That is more of that incredible Huffington Post mashup. We are live 20 47 on the part politics bloomberg politics. Com. Mike will be here again tomorrow. Until then, sayonara. We are moments away from the closing bell. Im alix steel. Im scarlet fu. X u. S. Stocks, closing down. The s p adding to its august decline. European equities boosting their worst month in nine years, capping off the biggest selloff since 2008. Scarlett the question is, whatd you miss . Alix what a miserable month, the worst for global stocks in more than three years