is a u.s. president above the law? the lead starts right now. donald trump s day in court, as his legal team argues by the former president cannot be prosecuted, even if his actions were criminal. site i have skepticism from the judges will not decide how this case proceeds. six days before the crucial contest in iowa. a new cnn poll from another key primary state, chose a candidate gaining ground on the gop front runner. the defense secretary, treated for prostate cancer. the pentagon has been pressed on his hospital status. or the president didn t know one of his top cabinet members was in the hospital, and couldn t do his job. welcome to the lead. on pamela brown, in for jake tapper. getting ready for tomorrow s cnn republican presidential debate. we start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump, in a federal courtroom. lawyers say that he should be immune from facing charges for any alleged crimes that he committed while in office. the three appeals court
right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area , you are taking a live look at the golden gate bridge this morning and it is friday. we made it through the week. it is february 7th. i m michelle griego. and i m kenny choi. happy friday, indeed. let s get a check of that forecast, another chilly one. that s right, we made it to the end of the workweek. happy friday to you. it is a chilly start to the day. also tracking areas of fog. here s a love look with our roof cam tower camera, lit up this morning. oakland, 48. 38 in livermore. 48 san francisco. 44 in san jose. foggy in santa rosa at 38. currently. as we head through the afternoon, we are looking at upper 50s for the coast. low 60s for the bay, and mid to upper 60s inland with plenty of sunshine. but it changes ahead for the weekend. and it is a fairly decent start to your commute this morning. if you are out early, good news to report back no major delays. here s a look at the big map and overview. most of our
Some of the most expensive neighborhoods on the homes on the outskirts of los angeles. It has jumped forward to give us the firsthand do. Specifically palestinians in the egyptians and that jordanians now speaking out against President Trumps decision to move it. An important step. Not every israeli likes the idea. He is for it. He will tell us why others are against it. The tax reform effort. Running to the tax reform. When the house and the senate merge. We have no other choice but to begin with the wildfires. To take full of the wildfire. It is a live picture in daily. It is now burning. Some have already burned down. We are hearing from Beverly Hills police department. While the fire is not yet threatening what is going on is on alert. The city which of course is east of santa monica and in between sunset boulevard and well sure that is the area and i will show you a picture. Anybody who lives on the west side is very close right now. Its a different kind of fire there. Israel reac
Control these assets. We will dig into the implications for netflix because they potentially stand to lose possibly the most if fox and disney pull together and emphasize hulu, their direct competitor to netflix. Alix Lisa Abramowicz is joining me, by the way. Fox. Y will be buying the deal looks to be about 52. 4 billion. Disney will assume 13. 7 a foxs debt. This also means that disney will by foxs 39 ownership of sky and bob iger will remain ceo through 2021. A look at whats happening to the stoxx premarket. Disney up 4 10 of 1 . The news was widely expected. Take a look at fox to see what shares are doing. By about a few percentage points. Fromt to get more reaction gita. What is your initial reaction to the deal . This has been in the works for about a month or so. All of these rumors and news reports. Disney instrumental for for its streaming strategy. Gives them a lot of heft in the marketplace. A lot of ammunition in terms of a deep library of content. Increases negotiating lev
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Festival of Central Banks, we have the ecb to come, the bank of england, the fed here. Down 1 5 of 1 . Uro, little change unchanged since the last ecb season, october 26. Hasnt fallen to one dollar 1587 on November November 7. Sterling up by 1 10 of 1 today. Today, but its politics thats affecting sterling today, having risen since fps last night. Theyre changing their governments planned legislation, so they guarantee they will get a meaningful vote on the final deal to leave the eu in negotiations for 2019. Coming up today on bloomberg surveillance, we will discuss markets with paul donovan, hear from the s p governor thomas jordan. But get to bloomberg first word news with Sebastian Salek sebastian the fed has raised rates by 25 basis points as widely expected. We also have a growth forecast next year, but maintaining projection of hikes 3 hikes in 2018. Saiding chair janet yellen this underlines tha