Brookfield owns hydroelectric plants, cell phone towers, power lines, wind farms, ports, and even city skylines. Bruce flatt has been at the helm for more than two decades, overseeing more than 900 billion of assets under management. The veteran chief executive is considered a visionary investor with a golden touch. But for him, its all about patience and finding the right investments. Bruce what you might think of as risky, to us, its not risky, because we have been in this business in these businesses for a long period of time. Francine in this episode of leaders with lacqua, i speak to bruce flatt about the secrets of his success, the outlook for commercial real estate, and his own future. Bruce flatt, thank you so much for coming on leaders. Bruce how are you . Francine im great, because im speaking to you. Brookfield has gone from, like, strength to strength. If i was a martian meeting you for the first time, how would you describe your company . Bruce we invest in, buy, and own t
From ktvu, fox two news. This is mornings on two and good morning to you. Welcome to mornings on two im claudine wong. Happy weekend one and all. Memorial day weekend at that. And a bit of a surprise a little bit of rain out there that kind of surprised me. Driving in. Yeah. Windshield wipers on. I dont like it. Wipers moving away. Lets excuse me. It was a surprise to me. It was. We were zip tripping yesterday. I was actually telling someone at the zip trip, which is cold in concord yesterday. Im like, no matter how many times i said our weather team warns us, even though you tell us that when that weather changes, as dramatically as it does, im still like, what is happening right . I was watching the two of you in concord yesterday morning, bright and early at 9 00, bundling up right down jackets. We had a temperature drop of 17 degrees in concord yesterday. That was the big falloff. As far as your temperatures are concerned. Good morning everybody. Today well just kind of ride with i
The arguments in this criminal trial of donald trump, the firstever for a first president. Michael cohen was on the stand. We saw the team both rest. And we saw the Defense Witnesses stumble. New ba grueling three days. The defense has called their first witness. After yesterdays fireworks. Tossed and his testimony was almost stricken from the record. The defense has rested its case after calling two witnesses. Donald trump did not testify in his own defense. That is how it went down. Michael cohens cross was not all smooth sailing. He was saying that he himself stole from the organization. Prosecutors got their turn with cohen on redirect where they basically said, were you too busy . And he said, he was not. The point was that it mattered and he got the confirmation and the prosecutors are going to continue to turn the jury. To look about wire we are hearing from you. Not because he is a model citizen, because he was the person that was picked to be involved in all this stuff. He is
Americans and book your first cleaning today for just 19 this Situation Room with wolf blitzer. Week nine to six point cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean and washington and we start with Breaking News. As Severe Weather threatens more than 70 Million People. This Memorial Day Weekend, intense tornadoes baseballsized hail, and hurricaneforce winds, all threatening parts of texas, oklahoma, and kansas take a look at this storm chaser video in oklahoma city. You see blue sky overhead, but they are also driving straight into that gray sky as well. Its very ominous looking cnn meteorologist elisa rafah joining us now, and at least it looks like those tornadoes are starting to spin up and it typically happens are a lot of times when the suns starts to go down yeah, the sun is what we need to fuel the atmosphere to create these intents and strong thunderstorms. And its been doing that all de the atmosphere has been cooking all day. Thats why the storms are blowing
D. C. Today the Biden Campaign lo launches the difference between communities and communities of colors. The first criminal trial of an expresident comes to a head this week. A former advisor is here. Overnight, to senators are calling for Justice Samuel alito to recuse himself from election cases. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to the weekend. New this morning, federal prosecutors are asking for help as donald trump increases his attacks on the justice system. The special Councils Office is now asking the judge in the classified documents case to block trump for Making Statements that could endanger Law Enforcement investigating and prosecuting him in that case. The request comes after trump falsely claimed the Biden Administration authorized the fbi to use deadly force against him during the 2022 maralago rate. Of course, that is not true. The Justice Department of course followed the standard policy. Just one escalation this week of trumps Outrageous Campaign rhetoric. Anot