Gather in the belgian capital. More than 100,000 christians flocked to berlin to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the protestant reformation and to remember martin luther, the man who started it all. Im brent goff. Its good to have you with us. The investigation into the manchester suicide bomber is moving quickly. Police say one of the suspects brothers and his father had been detained in libya, and that the brother was allegedly planning a terrorist attack in the libyan capital, tripoli. Authorities also confirmed they are investigating a network that provided Logistical Support for the attack in manchester. Officials believed 22yearold salman abedi was radicalized during the time he spent abroad. Disturbing developments tonight, as the people of manchester tried to come to terms with terror. Guest reporter a city in morning as residents pay their respects to the dead. I think its the defiance of manchester, the life very much goes on. We never forget, but its one of those things w
June 8. We are getting data one hour from now. Lets quickly get to the markets. The pound definitely, the story of the day, dropping. I would point to the latest polls by u. K. Government. We have our London Bureau chief joining us to look at what a Hung Parliament could look like, and whether we believe the p olls or not. He vix, down from 1. 8 virtually600, unchanged. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Reporter in afghanistan, as many as 80 people have been killed and 350 injured in a suicide car bombing. There was a rate on the countrys Largest Military hospital in march. The u. S. Says the first ever test of the Defense System against an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was a success. This was after a groundbased interceptor shot down a mock weapon over the pacific ocean. This comes amid mounting tensions with north korea. Reynard says soft inflation could make us rethink the path forward for Monetary Policy, should it linger. U. S. Growth looks poised to rebound
President trump, quote, he is no order con man. He is way above average in the american political system is his easiest mark ever. Guest yeah. This was that was early the campaign. I think that was in march of 2016. So it was just around the time when he was sewing up the republican nomination and the purpose of that article is this is a come. Com compilation of articles to explain the trump phenomenon for people who were having to take it serious come to grip watches the fact this was happening. So i took kind of a different approach to trump and tried to really listen to what his supporters were saying and try to focus on what he was doing, and my take on him is that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator and that he was perfectly suited to play on all the weaknesses of the american political media, ask that turned out to be truism was i had stucks to my guns on the piece. Thought he would be president and then later on i didnt believe that. Host well, the dave after the election you w
Recent book insane clown met iab in depth, your most recent book insane clown president dispatches from the 2016 circus. You write about donald trump, quote, no ordinary conman, he is way above average, the american political system is his easiest mark ever. That was early in the campaign. That was in march 2016. It was around the time he was sewing up the republican nomination and the purpose of that article, this is a compilation of articles to try to explain the trump phenomenon to people who were for the first time having to take it seriously and come to grips that this was happening. I took a different approach to trump and tried to listen to what his supporters were saying and focus on what he was doing. My take on him that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator who was perfectly suited to play on the weaknesses of the american political media and that turned out to be true. I wish i had stuck to my guns. Later on in the book i didnt believe he would be president. Host the day afte
But i do believe it is an accurate statement and really is not different markedly from what theis pas president s own attorney said on sunday that he is leaving open the option to terminate the special counsel. Youre at the white house just today . What did you c talk to the president about about . I did not meet with him i usually dont discuss conversations i do speak to the president from time to time but unless there is a goahead from him to reveal something publicly yet dont put that out there. Host did you offer any advice with the special counsel or what advice would you give when it came to firing Robert Mahler . That this is david fisa would give publicly that i thought it was a mistake to fire the special counsel. I have been saying that for the past couple of weeks that this issue has been out there for a while. The president himself treated he still has the right to terminate but he was reserving back right and i certainly think he has a legitimate case to terminate special