Welcome, everybody. I think we have some leadership, about the theyll be coming in. Can you see, can you hear me . Is it working . Well, the election is over. Theyre still counting the votes and making legal challenges, and once all the legal challenges are made and the votes are counted, well have that done. Weve still got two outstanding races in georgia to determine the control of the senate and the committee will keep moving forward doing its work. We have next week social media oversight. I cant wait to have the social media ceos come to the committee and explain themselves about their platform, thats the 17th. I think theres a lot of bipartisan support to take a hard look at social media platform. The act is still business pending before the committee and after the hearing well have markup. But today we have mr. Mccabe, the number two at the fbi during the hurricane. I think hes going to appear remotely, so i appreciate him coming. And what ill do is make a brief Opening Statemen
Gold was making a bid for 1300. Now coming off that potential. Over,continues to roll separate from the macro events we are seeing there. It is down 0. 6 . David dan coats will testify before the Senate Committee on intelligence. At 10 30, we get weekly crude inventory numbers for the u. S. We expect supplies to fall. President trump continues his infrastructure week, traveling to cincinnati, to talk about investments in waterways. Jonathan we begin in spain co popular has been rescued by santander in a takeover. Seeing debt surging. Joining us to discuss more on the acquisition is Bloomberg Intelligence ajit. It will not make sense to people outside the markets. Market, this makes a lot of sense. Walk me through the junior debt and the senior debt. What has happened is overnight the ecb has market, ta lot of sense. Deemed popular is likely to fail. Debt,eans the tier one the tier to get have been two debt have been written down. Two has been converted into shares and transferred to sa
Prosecutors to charge and pursue the most serious offense as i believe the law requires, plain and simple. If you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way. Why dont you want our kids to have good food at school . What is wrong with you. Mother mother the title that claims your heart and changes your heart forever. This is one of the many opportunities for us to thank the incredible military mothers who love and care for our nations heroes. Thank you for all that you do. From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam God Bless America. Abby what a powerful moment that was yesterday at the white house. That military band performing in front of all those military moms. Perfect timing for mothers day. Clayton army corps and marine band performing wonderful and honoring military moms. Jon scott is with us today. Jon is it friday today . Clayton its not friday. Jon kind enough to give up his weekend here on the curvey couch. Abby are you ready to go. Jon im wil
Biggy. He has just departed on air force one. He is going to belgium and italy and the vatican. President trump tweeted earlier today, getting ready for my big foreign trip. Will be strongly protecting american interests. Thats what i like to do. On sunday, President Trump will deliver a much anticipated speech. H. R. Mcmaster recently gave as you preview of what we can expect. He will meet and have lunch with leaders of more than 50 muslim countries where he will deliver an inspired, yet direct speech on the need confront radical ideology and his hopes, the president s hopes for a the vision of islam to dominate across the world. The speech is intended to unite the broader muslim world against common enemies of all civilization. To demonstrate americas commitment to our muslim partners. The president s speech might be a complicated pitch given his past statements about muslims. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our
imposed sanctions the obama administration put on russia because of meddling. he said he never discussed that. there was an fbi or nsa tap of that conversation and it was a lie and he got fired for it. so they want to talk about that as it relates to the possibility of collusion as well the fbi interviewed flynn about those conversations. they want to see those interview notes to see whether flynn made false statements to the fbi. flynn has got lying and collusion and then his sf 86 the background investigation report and failure to register as a foreign agent. comey, the issue as it relates to comey, really is the obstruction of justice issue as much as anything else. comey is asked to back off flynn and to essentially back down on the russia investigation. he refuses to do that. he doesn t pledge his loyalty to the president as comey testified and he gets fired. and then the president tells