Protests continue across the country. First, the president of the United States has been explaining why he fired the head of the fbi. Will simply not do any good job, according to donald trump, but democrats are questioning his motives. He was in charge of an investigation into russias alleged meddling into the u. S. Election in a few days ago, co mey asked for Additional Resources to assist in the investigation. He simply was not doing a good job. Insists he fired james comey for badly managing the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server. The democrats say it was for his successful handling of another investigation, the fbi probe into russian meddling in the 2016 election. Just days before his dismissal, come had asked for more fundingy in the inquiry. The dismissal of director establishes aey very troubling pattern. James comey is the third highprofile official to be fired by President Trump while involved in an investigation linked to his administration. Democrats r
Protests continue across the country. First, the president of the United States has been explaining why he fired the head of the fbi. Will simply not do any good job, according to donald trump, but democrats are questioning his motives. He was in charge of an investigation into russias alleged meddling into the u. S. Election in a few days ago, co mey asked for Additional Resources to assist in the investigation. He simply was not doing a good job. Insists he fired james comey for badly managing the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server. The democrats say it was for his successful handling of another investigation, the fbi probe into russian meddling in the 2016 election. Just days before his dismissal, come had asked for more fundingy in the inquiry. The dismissal of director establishes aey very troubling pattern. James comey is the third highprofile official to be fired by President Trump while involved in an investigation linked to his administration. Democrats r
Secretary Steve Mnuchin arrives for another round of talks in italy. I understand theres an ambitious Tax Reform Program in the United States, were watching closely on what is good for the United States and what would be learned by other countries about tax reform. Donald trump calls fired fbi director james comey a grandstanding showboat as he tells nbc exclusively his rational for sacking him earlier this week. You said i accepted their recommendations. You had already made the decision. I was going to fire regardless. Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Glad youre with us once again. We have another packed show for you. Lets kick things off with our top story. Vivendi announced plans to buy a 60 stake in Advertising Group halves have ff s ha havas for 2. 4 billion euros. The step marks another milestone in vivendi chairman Vincent Bollores plans to build another media powerhouse. Shares of vivendi are up 5. 71 . Karen has been following the story all morning long. I wonder what the
Secretary wilber ross are scheduled to meet in washington. Topic is trade. Cyberattacks. The countries, 200,000 the weekend. Other about who he was hit . We had people from Healthcare Telecom and Car Manufacturers manufacturers. In terms of france we had car to shut downad production at a number of plants this. To mitigate theres a disruption in germany on the trains and Telecom Companies reported some disruption in their services. Whenever a hospital gets thats a serious business. How sophisticated was this . Take patch out in march and put it on your microsoft, it fine. Be i think it wasnt too hard these people to mitigate once they were affected. Pretty easy to have taken some precautions that meant you were not going to be affected by this. Saw a number of companies that had not taken those precautions. Surprising. In term of sophistication of most people think it was not too sophisticated. We know thatlf, as the u. S. Oped by National Security agency. Anybody could use that tool t
Former governor jeb bush is no longer interested in buying the Miami Marlins and has ended his pursuit of the team. By more than 2700 journalists in more than 120 countries. I am a lissa parenti. This is bloomberg. Emily i am emily chang. This is bloomberg technology. Fires an, uber engineer, in its dispute with waymo, and the road ahead for cars. Riverless and getting crushed by walmart in sales come why investors on thee to double down growth trajectory of the ecommerce giant, amazon, and biggest rivals, how the chevy volt stacks up against the competition, and what mechanics found after stripping down a car, but first, to our lead. Uber, announcingof it has fired the former head of its self driving car unit, anthony live in dell ski ski, who wasndow recruited by uber in 2016 after a long stint. It was alleged to be stole trade secrets and patents for the development of self driving technology. Invoked his fifth amendment rights, which has made it more difficult for uber to defend it