Welcome to the pulse live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. I am Francine Lacqua. Guy johnson is off today. Thats get straight to my big interview with philip green, the owner of top shop which has hundreds of stores around the world. Now he wants to expand the brand even further. The Biggest International Flagship Store in new york city. When we put our flag down in the middle of 5th avenue, there is no leaving. It is a commitment. We have to get it right. Our flag store bills Flagship Stores, we try to do something unique. It will probably be slightly more difficult. There are certain things we are not allowed to do. You move a light bulb and they want to come and see you. And we have more and more i am on shoppers. And yet the brickandmortar flagship is where you wanted the. I believe you need flagships. It will build our Online Business as well. Here, look at this store probably half our business is tourists, half local. Fifth avenue i assume will be pretty similar i
Overnight ising obviously the snow and how it has impacted the morning commute. Thousands of flights were canceled, tom. The li ee, a road i spend multiple hours on, east of new york city to get to long island, was shut down, so a treacherous morning commute. Most people look like they are staying home. The roads were pretty quiet. Data, 9 45 a. M. Not that exciting. Auto sales are a big deal. We get throughout the morning, released from the individual carmakers, and then at 5 00 today, we get an aggregate number from the government. At 2 30 p. M. , Rockstar Bernanke takes to the night takes to the microphone. Bernanke with clearly the most important speech, but we philadelphia. Jeff lacher speaks out of richmond. And jeremy sky is speaking as well. Pour the tea and open the bars in philadelphia. Rockstar ben bernanke . It is his final speech, and it is a big deal. You wonder if he will go back to princeton after his tenure of duty. Difficulties yesterday to begin the year. Stasis righ
Kaine will be at a labor day festival in cleveland in just under an hour. Kaine was with joe biden in pittsburgh earlier this morning. Theres so many people like trump who look at us, like were not their equal. Im sick of it. I have had it up to here. Donald trump and the rock and roll capital as well, his schedule with a little more under wraps before a stop at a local restaurant for lunch, he spoke with labor leaders, the focus, jobs. And right now as we speak, theyre negotiating deals to move out of ohio and go down to mexico. So its going to be a twoway street. And with me, its got to be a oneway street for a while to be honest with you. Were going to get some jobs back. Also today, the Washington Post reporting that u. S. Intelligence agencies are investigating how and whether russia might be meddling in the u. S. President ial election. The post sources say they dont have definitive proof that the russians are trying to swing the election, just a concern they may be trying to mak
There a lot of people there, thats for sure. Reporter its not a great day here, especially along the coast. We started showing you pictures at 6 00 this morning. My crew tells me they were actually coming starting at 4 a. M. For an event that hasnt even started yet here. Hes been drawing thousands of people. That was a big question, right, once Hillary Clinton got so close within less than a hundred delegates of winning the nomination, would people sort of feel like, well, you know, its over. Well, these folks dont feel its over. This is his 13th event this week alone. He has been crisscrossing the stay by the end of the day. Interesting to know that Hillary Clinton not only added stops here, he was at least in a five, six, seven places here in california since tuesday. Shes also adding stops in new jersey. Thats where on the 7th she would like to close all of this out. The last 24 hours have been dominated of course by this will they or wont they back and forth between Bernie Sanders
Quarters from msnbc in new york. Thanks for stopping by. Well stop in new york for you where bill clinton and Hillary Clinton is spending their afternoon. Kristin welker is joining us now with the latest, hey, kristin. Reporter hey there richard, thats right, secretary clinton and bill clinton is attending that Memorial Day Service right now. This comes as shes still fighting on two fronts trying to clinch her on partys nomination and taking on donald trump and of course, we are seeing the fight unfolding in california, senator calling that state the big encihilada. Hes going to be there today and hes not leaving the state. Secretary clinton is making an aggressive push for california. She spent the better part of last week there and shes up in ads. It is a tight race, shes up by twopoints but independence can vote in the california. Take a listen of what senator had to say over the weekend. We win big in california and win in the other states that are in june 7th. Well go in the Democ