And now my friends, that you have made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all my heart and soul. And with the your help, i have no doubt that we will win. Help me to do the job and this autumn of conflict and of campaign. Yeah and we will justify our glorious paths and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honest purpose. We will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have. That was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson accepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. We are joined by historian Richard Norton smith here in Adlai Stevensons old study in liberty bell, illinois. Richard norton smith, who was this one term governor . Two millions of americans, thats all he was, a one term governor of illinois. They knew nothing more about him. They had never heard a voice like his. They did not know that in some ways, a Political Revolution was being touched off tha
Crowded. The early presumptive choice for many, former Vice President joe biden, has seen his poll numbers slip. His campaign has been dogged by gaffes and lackluster debate performances, plus he continues to deal with questions about his involvement with you yard line. Ukraine. Senator Elizabeth Warren is facing real resistance especially from the democratic establishment over her plans more fullty trillion multitrillion dollar social programs. Senator Bernie Sanders too is plagued by worries about his europeanlike socialist proposals. And with south bend mayor Pete Buttigieg has made inroads especially in iowa, he remains in fourth place. Just last week former new york mayor Mike Bloomberg filed to be on the ballot in alabama and later addedded arkansas saying hes concerned a fading biden will mean the democrats will end up with someone far too liberal. And this week Deval Patrick announced that he was throwing his hat in the wing. He fears the current candidates wont be able to beat
Already the u. S. And france have agreed to share more intelligence. Kamran Prime Minister will begin the vote to decide whether they will bomb the islamic state. Jeremy corbyn was elected because he opposed british involvement in any conflict. But many in his Labour Party Supporter attacks on islamic state. The threat of a terror attack has not diminished, belgium says. Alert is extended into last week. But the lockdown will be eased starting tomorrow. The turkishin says stab in the back led to a shot down warplane. Turkey says they shouted down along the border with syria after the pilots ignored repeated warnings. Accused turkey of being accomplices those quote to terrorism. John kerry is meeting with benjamin netanyahu. He so he hopes to stabilize relations with palestinians after two months of violence. Incidents, three were hurt when a palestinian rammed his car in the west bank. From the you bloomberg first word desk, i am vonnie quinn. Erik thank you. Now, julie hyman has the l
Rally. Whos investigating the investigators . Bill ackman responds to the report that he and some of the people who advise him are the subject of a government probe for manipulating stock prices. Hello, its tim from cupertino on the line that surprise interview with apples tim cook and our own jim cramer last night on mad money. Well let you hear that. Producer prices fell for a fourth straight month, down un unexpectedly in february by. 5 as decline in food prices offset increase in gas prices, a daft the rally sent the dow and s p into positive territory for 2015. But well ride that back and forth. Yeah, im looking at the euro and i understand that its really difficult for the central bank to keep buying bonds. Theres not a lot of bonds out there. Their work may which came in with a lion may go out like a lamb at the end of the week and thats why if we can see any surprise strength in the euro i think that stabilizes things. If we see the euro keep rolling over, well be back in the s
Gain, that income up 13 . The company sold 39. 3 million iphones in the quarter including about a week of the new iphone 6 and 6 plus but sales are down again. Our editor at large cory johnson spoke with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst starting by asking if apple should be worried about the ipad. The ipad were meant to be weaker than expected theres a product refresh coming. Been getting sale. Stablet growth has been slowing. People are starting to figure it out. Theres a phone with larger screen, pc that can do a lot. And this stuck in between. The pad refresh. Sort of helps reinvigorate that trend. I think that there are a lot of things interesting. The quarter really strong for the Biggest Company in the world like weve never seen great Big Companies grow. Ahead of the Holiday Quarter. They would have had every excuse to say we only had the new iphone for one of the 12 weeks or for one of the 13 weeks of the quarter for products. And the old product was old because the consumers knew