President trump, and you know, under the Obama Administration this was very much carried by his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in kiev in working with politicians there to try and convey the message of, look, you need to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . So joe biden was obamas point person in ukraine, and he really carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. Response perhaps not the u. S. Response but the u. S. Messaging when it came to conflict in ukraine, the russian annexation of crimea, it was 2014 where you had russia lops off a chunk of ukraine, annexes crimea and then the war begins in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. It was the first hot war in the region in an extremely long time, and you know, biden really carried obamas messaging on that in the region. Was it only the United States that was worried about corruption in ukraine at this point . No, absolutely not. I mean, this has bee
Job. Will the u. S. Be a reliable ally, despite trumps America First strategy . This is bloomberg surveillance. I am mark barton in london. Equities are on track for a third weekly game. On wednesday, the stoxx 600 reached its highest level since december. Down for a second day since then as investors question this reflation trade. The bloomberg dollar spot index is rising today. On a weekly basis, it is falling for the seventh week in eight. A sixweek run ended last week, the worst losing run since 2010. The u. S. 10 year yield a second or two ago was rising for the sixth day in seven. It is unchanged now. Fudgedld has barely since the Federal Reserve interestrate hike in december. Testifying before congress, something we will talk about today. Nymex crude is lower, 53. 28, significantly headed for the first weekly decline, u. S. Stockpiles capturing output cuts from opec. Thats get the bloomberg first word news with Sebastian Salek. Former Prime Minister tony blair will urge opponent
Set the stage for what could be the first big fight between the Trump White House and his own party. Sources telling us tillerson does come highly recommended to trump. Those endorsements, former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and james baker and bob gates. Were covering it all for you. Jason carroll is live outside of trump tower. Cnn political reporter manu raju live in washington. Jason, lets start with you. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carol. A number of gop leaders are weighing in. People like paul ryan and newt gingrich. Trump tweeting this morning saying, quote, i have chosen one of the truly great Business Leaders of the world. Though you also have senators like marco rubio weighing in saying, he has serious concerns. This morning president elect donald trump picking exxonmobile Ceo Rex Tillerson for secretary of state. Sources say tillerson was recommended by former republican secretaries of state including james baker and Condoleezza Rice. Tillerson chosen afte
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More fire power into that investigation. Thereafter the wall street journal reported james comey accelerated his own personal pace of work on the investigation. He previously been briefed weekly on the progress of the trump russia investigations in the couple weeks before he was fired though, according to the wall street journal, james comey started taking daily briefings on that investigation. But then he was fired. With the president now admitting what he was thinking about when he fired james comey was that darn russia investigation, that fake russia investigation and how much he wants it to go away. Now that the fbi director has been fired, now that we have crossed this rube con as country where the president is under active fbi investigation on incredibly serious counterintelligence charges, and he has fired the head of the fbi in the middle of that fbi investigation, specifically because he said he was unhappy with that investigation, now that we have crossed that previously unth