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at 10:30, department of energy releases numbers for crude oil inventory and then more fed. later in the afternoon, minneapolis fed president will answer questions. to round up a day, the u.s. treasury will auction 10-year note and that is coming up today. jonathan: we will be keeping an eye on this as the ecb president mario draghi addressing the dutch parliament. we will bring comments. later, the headlines. david: president donald trump late yesterday shocked just about everybody went abruptly fired fbi director james comey. we want to bring in reporters stock marty schenker bring in reporters, marty schenker and kevin cirilli. kevin, tell us what happened and to anyone expected this? kevin: no one expected this. i spoke to republican political advisers to the president and senior aides and all of the pointing to the notion this decision to fire director call me will lead to some more confusion that any political capital that the administration had hoped to seize up ....
i think we having criticized for doing things too quickly in our being criticized for dealings to slowly. maybe i m right in the middle of the sweet spot, but the president hit the timing perfectly and i will tell you i. one of the block and tackle things was get the money right. he has picked a cabinet full of people that no business operations and business functions you re listening to the white house homeland security adviser while we await the question portion of the daily press briefing. how to bring and frank gordon from washington. kevin is live as well from capitol hill. greg, the president signed an executive order earlier this afternoon focusing on protecting federal agencies to develop a plan for cybersecurity. office throughout this executive order is about? of the most unprotected pieces of u.s. government infrastructure after 9/11 has an the cyber part of it. it is shocking, shocking to a lot of americans how antiquated a lot of the government equipmen ....
president delivering a speech on the economy. at 10:00, my favorite thing, universe michigan sentiment numbers, the soft data read. because it is michigan, that is why it is your favorite? [laughter] therade at the top of agenda and late yesterday, the commerce secretary announced a trade deal with china, exports of everything from beads to liquid natural gas. cirilli.s kevin we thought we were going to war with china and now we have cooperation. gashis influence is natural , which is a bit of a concession in some regard from the campaign rhetoric of president trump in that he is looking at this particular industry the coal industry may be snubbed but they feel this good help jobs. beef and poultry is where things get interesting. the iowa governor is not been confirmed iv senate as the chinese ambassador, but driving the political policy point home. secretary ross said this will be a $2.5 billion net gain for the u.s. economy as a result of that portion. the third ....
this week she warned the white house that former national security adviser michael flynn had lied about his communications with russian officials and put at risk for blackmail. miss gates served as acting attorney general in the opening days of the trump administration before she was fired to refusing the president s immigration band. at a judiciary hearing monday she testified alongside director of national intelligence james clapper. . [inaudible conversation] . [inaudible conversation] just a gal. . thank you katie. . testing here. . here we come to order, thank you all for coming, here s the order of the day, a brief opening statement along with senator white house and then we will have senator grassley and feinstein follow some questioning and the seven minute rounds initially, we will try to put a second round of five minutes, both of those witnesses, thank you for coming. will try to make this as short as possible and if you need a break, please let ....
february. minister justin trudeau said he might consider retaliating with tariffs of his own. china s president xi jinping will host 30 world leaders at the center of his country s soft power push. it is designed to solidify his image as an advocate for globalization. and he s prepared to back it up, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on infrastructure around the world. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. from washington, i m alisa parenti, and this is bloomberg. emily: this is bloomberg techlo. i am emily chang. all this week bloomberg , television and radio have been on the ground from boston showcasing diversity and power of the regional tech economy. we re joined now by caroline hyde at mass robotics live from boston. take it away. caroline: great to see you, as ever. yes, to wrap up our coverage in boston, we are focusing on the emerging robotics industry in this area. massachusetts is ....