Totally inappropriate and unacceptable. The pentagon said the suspicious substance found in envelopes yesterday contained castor seed, the substance from which the poison ricin is derived but not ricin itself. Envelopes were isolated at a screening facility and sent to the fbi. Addressed to jim maddox, the other to the chief of the u. S. Navy. No one was injured. Nato defense ministers are in brussels for a two day meeting, focusing on strengthening the alliance and fairer burden sharing among members. The Associated Press has quoted an official as saying is asked the west will move its warfare abilities to counter russias aggressive use of cyberattacks in europe and around the world. Global news, 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists in more than 120 countries. I am mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg world headquarters, im shery ahn. Im amanda lang. Welcome to bloomberg markets. We are joined today. And hear the storie
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reports. we begin with breaking news, in the last 24 hours, donald trump suffering two major legal blows when it comes to his actions on and around january 6th. three judges, on a federal appeals court unanimously dismissed trump s claims that he has immunity from several claims connected to the capitol riot. the judge overseeing the justice department s criminal case ruled trump has no protection from prosecution as a former president. let s go right now to nbc s dasha burns joining us from cedar rapids, iowa. where donald trump is expected to speak in this next hour. welcome to you, dasha. how is trump s legal team reacting to these back-to-back losses? well, trump spokesperson is reacting to both of these lawsuits, saying in a statement, in a response to the federal appeals court ruling, this is a limited narrow and procedural ruling, the facts fully show that on january 6th, president trump was acting on behalf of the american people. carrying out duties as president of
the two things we are focused on , the middle cap middle-class give a tax cut, and it the corporate tax rate is as low as we can get it. senate finance will consider plan next week while the house bill will go to the floor for debate. consumer confidence in the u.s. stayed high. the consumer fund act stayed in afidence was range that is close to a 16 year high. talks have resumed. both sides are hoping to agreement by the end of the year. wants to get a deal quickly to move on to negotiations on trade. global news 24 hours a day powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. this is bloomberg. julia: live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, i m julia chesley. fu, i m scarlet joe: i m joe weisenthal. what d you miss? meanwhile the house ways and means committee has advanced its tax plan. paid in high-yield and spreading after disappointing earnings, aakness and telecom justify rollback. we will bring you the numbers and instant analysis. what d you m
can we do this better the biggest thing that i iran into. when i was engaging in the larger thinking community and larger academic trinity is this challenge of getting past iran. that we can ironically to go to understand as well as the idea that iran is irrational. what i consider the mad problem is that iran is too crazy and both of these ideas really handicap us. a train and been able to understand what iran is thinking about and how it looks at the us and formulates its foreign policies. that s the heart of what i am trying to do in this monogram is take the face off that confusion and say you can t understand this and it s what i m trying to do. it s not so much provide a whole bunch of policies policy prescription with this administration or for future administrations but basically, provide analytic framework and models, if you will, for understanding how iran develops its foreign policies, how iran develops its approaches in particular to security issues and how it goe