These are your markets, the stocks europe 600 is down 0. 3 . Of course, what that means for easing against the backdrop of threats to Global Growth. Ignore this, it is the wrong number. If you look at oil, its up a touch, but definitely not at 9. 74. Will get an update shortly. There you go, american crude at 58 and . 85. Coming up that we speak to the Democratic National Committee Chair howard dean as the democratic debate takes place tonight in miami. Ahead of that government lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Special Counsel Robert Mueller agreed to testify on capitol hill, setting up a dramatic confrontation over the trump presidency. In his report, he said he could not conclude whether Donald Trumps campaign conspired with russia the also said he could not exonerate the president from obstruction of justice. , that is whatorce President Trump threatened iran with if they attack the u. S. Tensions continue to flare with the president warning republic of quote obliterat
We have the brexit show coming up, brexit negotiations over last week. Beopean stocks seem to pretty steady. There hasnt been that much move over the last five days. Study after yesterday. Concern that of the u. S. Tax reform plan is encountering stumbling blocks. Gains, asng back some theres not so much of a risk. You can see the vix index up 5 . Heres nejra cehic with first word news. Nejra President Trump has arrived in vietnam and delivered a speech. He said that washington will only make trade deals with countries that play by the rules. Not formally will meet with Vladimir Putin. There has been speculation that the president and his russian counterpart what cost talks today. Letident trump will not the United States be taken advantage of anymore. Put americagoing to first, the same way i expect all of you to put your countries first. The u. S. House ways and Means Committee has approved intervention of tax cut plans. Bill costs have been trimmed, while adding limited Liability Co
I am not a physicist. My background is in philosophy. I wrote biographies, maybe i should start by saying how did i get to write a biography of oppenheimer, why did it occur to me to do that . It began 12 years ago when the newspaper asked me to review a collection of his correspondence and up until that point on a new about oppenheimer only what Everybody Knows about oppenheimer, that he directed the las alamos laboratory, he had security clearance taken away from him, he was director of the institute of princeton, that is all of a new. I didnt know that he wrote poetry. I didnt know that he wrote short stories. That he was an expert in French Literature, that he was, taught himself sanskrit, that he was deeply interested in hinduism, that he taught himself sanskrit in order to read the hindu classics in their original language. Neither did i know about his Political Activities in any detail in the 1930s or his relations with his friends and students and family members. All of which i
Stay i in the fight. Harris she is the latest of five candidates to drop out since saturday, as her more moderate rivals coalesced around joe biden. President trump wing on twitter, seeing her decision to stay in the race through super tuesday may have cost sanders nomination. Join me now is nomiki konst, the former national surrogate for Bernie Sanders and a former candidate for new york city public advocate. Nomiki, good to see you today. Was it surprising, was a disappointing . Elizabeth warren said that there are two lanes. The brainy lane of progressives and the biden lane of moderates. She said she wanted to be something different, and she did not pick your candidate to get behind. At least not yet. She we would have loved to have her interest Bernie Sanders today. I think that is something that is her movement, too. You see so many of prominent surrogates come out today saying they are supporting Bernie Sanders because they cannot see themselves supporting joe biden, who has tak
Tournament time. Andrea all the men in the audience are not focused on the show. I dont know if we get the show off the frowned harris some of the women too. I love the jayhawks. Well move on. Lets get to it. Republican frontrunner donald trump facing more criticism from within his own Political Party saying riots could break out if he is denied the nomination of his party. From gop top leaders House Speaker paul ryan who had the sharp rebuke for the donalds remarks. Nobody should say such things in my opinion because to even address or, or hint to violence is unacceptable. Harris all this as speaker ryan at the same press conference saying a contested convention is looking more like a sure thing. Nothings changed other than the perception that this is more likely to become a more open convention than we thought before. So, were getting our mind around the idea this could very well become a reality. Therefore those of us who are involved in the convention need to respect that harris di