Mode. Well tell you why. And. Can economists be compared to Weather Forecasters when it comes to prediciting the future . Our economics editor kamal ahmed will be here with that and a look back at the rest of the business week. And following the impact of Donald Trumps toyota tweet, we want to know whats the biggest twitter storm youve ever sparked 7 just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. We start with samsung because in the last few hours the South Korean Tech Giant has said its on track for the best quarterly profits in more than three years. Its a major boost for the company after the exploding Smartphone Scandal that put a serious dent in its reputation. In the three months to the end of december, samsung is forecasting profits of 7. 8 billion. Thats up by half on the same period last year, much better than expected and the best quarter since mid 2013. That might come as a surprise, as we know samsung was forced to scrap its top of the range phone, the galaxy note 7, after a spate of exp
ukraine m.p. and some other s wo made their preferences well known and tried to get information out there to help impact our election, but there was no kind of large ukrainian campaign akin to what the russians were doing. the russians engaged in an incredibly broad campaign involved hacking emails, democratic party emails, distributing those emails, a vast large social media push to sow dissension and raise doubts among americans. no ukrainian effort of any size anywhere near that. we read your views in the times. thank you. appreciate it very much. thank you. coming up, a former fbi lawyer is under investigation for alleged wrongdoing in connection to the agency s handling of the russia
that is the situation that we are in now. it is a highly political investigation that really, the only thing that is come out of it so far, is we seem to be indicting russians over something, hacking emails, okay. we seem to be indicting people like paul manafort for something that has no connection to russia or donald trump. neil: i believe you are governor of new jersey. was he relay this frustration with this process? talking about the mueller investigation deteriorating? what did he tell you? i did not seem to be to focus on any of that. i think he was probably more focused on wanting to know how my trip to russia was. how we can have better engagement and try to get beyond into a better place in the world with people who may very well be our adversaries and times, but may be people that we have to have conversations in order to resolve things like syria and