Nation, insisting President Trump wants to start afresh with president putin. Joining me now from washington, julia ioffe of the atlantic and with me from new york, amy davidson of the new yorker. Welcome. Julia, everybody wants to understand what is the resistance of President Trump to criticize or separate out Vladimir Putin . Julia it is the one thing he has been remarkably consistent on. That, the wall, and who will pay for the wall. But to understand why, we have the Intelligence Communitys report on the hacking of the russian government the Intelligence Community says that they think that the russians hacked our elections to help elect trump and i think there is a fealty there. And i think he just likes the guy. I think there is this kind of affinity for this adolescent version of manliness. Charlie the thing on horseback did it for him, huh . [laughter] julia in the same way that Vladimir Putin likes Stephen Seagall and John Claude Van damme and all of these action heroes. I thi
Snap sevenday winning streaks. Allianz launches a 3 billion euro Share Buyback after posting bumper profits for the fourth quarter. The cfo outlined the Insurance Firms m a plans earlier on the show. If an acquisition fits our business and our future strategy and we ca can do it, we certain look at it. It is not a must for us. Its a further opportunistic thing. Samsung heir jay y. Lee is arrested as part of a corruption probe, sending political shockwaves through south korea and sending shares in the smartphone maker lower. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. Good morning. Traveling, that beautiful shot in switzerland yesterday. I did bring back chocolate, i think its gone now. I brought it in at 6 00 this morning, gone at 6 05. Trump getting everybody up and going. The dotcom people cant keep up. Being a journalist on trump these days, effectively youre on 24 hours. You get maybe five hours. Head online and look at the key points from this speech, if you havent already. Well talk m
Have received from people who have recognized that there is no such thing as a republican or democratic judge. We just have judges. Charlie he was pressed on a number of issues. Joining me is emily basil on from of the harvard law school. Lawyers how to write. It is something we all need across the board. Emily indeed. Charlie how did neil gorsuch do . Emily he did well. He did not botch an answer. He did not give opponents ammunition against him. He demonstrated fluency in the law without specifics that caused trouble. There is a question of whether the democrats have the kind of ammo they need to vote against the judge, as opposed to a symbol of the trump administration. He is not giving a whole lot of obvious talking points. It will be interesting to see how that plays and i assume that the republicans feel good about this. Burden ofe has the proving he is independent. He asserted this with confidence. Addressedent that he questions, i think that he did that. Charlie anyone who beli
Have received from people who have recognized that there is no such thing as a republican or democratic judge. We just have judges. Charlie he was pressed on a number of issues. Joining me is emily basil on from of the harvard law school. Lawyers how to write. It is something we all need across the board. Emily indeed. Charlie how did neil gorsuch do . Emily he did well. He did not botch an answer. He did not give opponents ammunition against him. He demonstrated fluency in the law without specifics that caused trouble. There is a question of whether the democrats have the kind of ammo they need to vote against the judge, as opposed to a symbol of the trump administration. He is not giving a whole lot of obvious talking points. It will be interesting to see how that plays and i assume that the republicans feel good about this. Burden ofe has the proving he is independent. He asserted this with confidence. Addressedent that he questions, i think that he did that. Charlie anyone who beli
Here with your weather. We saw that nassau had less than a quarter inch of rain, and the same for san jose who was close to a quarter of an inch, and then danville to morgan hill, and palo alto, andless than a inch of rain, and again, looking at the cloudy skies, we did manage a baseball game at at t, and not the case at Oakland Coliseum, and we were postpo postponed to the oracle arrer ree nashgs and not making an impact on the warriors game, but this is the sharks taking on the Edmonton Oilers and scattered showers at time, and now, in the evening, still seeing the rain here, and pushing off to the east of san jose and light of rain and this is the north edge of the coast here. This is the back edge of the system, and of night, it may bring as much as a 0. 10 of an inch, so tomorrow for the commute. Wet roadways and wet at times. And the weeks forecast could have us up in the 80s. Thank you, rob. You mentioned the oracle, and the fans packed the arena for game one of the playoff seri