cherokee leader john ross in the lead-up to president jackson's signing of the indian removal act of 1830. >> our featured attraction, of course, this evening is the great steve inskeep who i'm sure is already familiar to many of you. certainly, those of you who listen to national public radio. he's been an on-air presence there for 19 years, and for over a decade now he's been one to have hosts of "morning edition," the most widely-heard radio news program in the united states. i take your guys' word for it right? and steve appeared here at p and p three and a half years ago when his first book was published, "instant city," which chronicled a day in the life of karachi, pakistan. and he's back now to talk about his second book, "jackson land." in it steve goes not abroad, but back in time in the united states to the era of andrew jackson. he tells the story not only of jackson, but of john ross, the tribal chief of the cherokee. once military comrades, these two men ended up on posing sides of an epic struggle over land seize sur and resettlement of native american tribes that severely

week. so the idea to me that these public shamings -- >> john ross wrote a book about that. >> and john ronson's book, so what, you have some reputational annihilation. people's lives are shattered, you know, their relationshipses their careers. >> let me argue the other side. you've got this sigh, one who sent a dumb tweet, a stupid tweet about going to africa, and her life was, you know, she was blown up on twitter, fired, but then you also have bill cosby. this seems like on the same -- that he escaped liability for years, and when you talk to his alleged victims, they say it was social media, it was essentially this public shaming function that for the first time is brings accountability. it's like ferguson, right? so it's possible that the price we have to pay for the justice, the social media has brought to black lives matter, to sandra bland, all of these different cases that might have before gone under the radar. maybe the price is we're going to live in this crowdsource pen-opt i con, is sort of seeing this frosting vengeance is disturbing. >> there is something unnerving

republicans a lesson. john: for those of you who would never -- who would not support truckmp as an independent? >> ross perot. i don't think we are ready as a country for the three party thing. i think it would screw everything up. john: you think it would help elect a democrat? >> absolutely. >> it would fragment -- >> we don't get these third-party candidates and i think it would be good for the country. >> in new hampshire, we have the libertarian party and they have a few good candidates. the whole system is not big enough to allow them to get any traction. >> if we get 5% of the popular vote for a third party, they become federally recognized and they have to be on the ballot in the state. >> too scary for next year though. >> we are hoping for the future. >> it would be awesome one day, but we cannot. we just can't. john: this next clip is about why new hampshire voters think donald trump seems like the man of the people. how is it a guy who is so much more financially successful than anybody in this room, how is it that guy could also feel to a lot of you like he is an avera

independent, then we can vote for him. john: for those of you who wouldn't support trump if he ran as an independent, why would you not support him? >> ross perot. the math doesn't lie. mark: all very interesting. we will be right back. ♪ mark: more from the trump focus group on tomorrow's show. until then, we are live all the time on bloomberg.com. john: until tomorrow, we say to you sayonara. ♪ emily: linkedin shares climbing higher in extended trading. we will look at the media giant optimistic forecasts and claims that it cracked china. ♪ i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg west. electronic arts gets the boot, but wall street is not impressed. t-mobile path plan to overtake sprint. i sit down with the company's ceo, braxton carter. why combination are and -- why

, even if we have an other democrat. john: for those of you who wouldn't support trump if he ran as an independent, why would you not support him? >> ross perot. the math doesn't lie. mark: all very interesting. more tomorrow, and we will be right back. ♪ mark: more tomorrow from the focus groups. until then, we are live all the time on bloomberg.com. john: remember, we are on twice a day -- 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.. until tomorrow, we say to you, sayonara. ♪ emily: linkedin shares climbing higher in extended trading. way higher. we will look at the media giant optimistic forecasts and claims that it cracked china. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg west." coming up, electronic arts gets a boost for online players, but wall street is not impressed. plus, t-mobile's plan to overtake sprint. i sit down with the company's ceo, braxton carter. and why, nader and indiegogo are here.

independent, then we can vote for him. john: for those of you who wouldn't support trump if he ran as an independent, why would you not support him? >> ross perot. the method doesn't line. -- math doesn't line. mark: all very interesting. we will be right back. ♪ mark: more from the trump focus groups on tamara's show. until then, we are live all the time on bloomberg.com. john: until tomorrow, we say to you sayonara. ♪ anchor: we are moments away from the closing bell. i'm alix steel. >> and i am joe weisenthal. ♪ alix: u.s. stocks fluctuating throughout the day with the s&p closing slightly higher and the dollar rose. joe: the question is, what did you miss? the u.s. economy expands gently. what does it mean for the markets? such a gap why between the performance of the stock market and americans' social mood?

the yen. in stocks and commodities, that slow down. stabilizing the ross right there. stories crossing the bloomberg terminal at this hour. members of congress questioning secretary of state john kerry nuclear deal. he is appearing today before the house foreign affairs committee. first up, chairman ed royce. >> we're been surprised by almost every major nuclear development in nuclear history. they had treated on every test cheated on every nuclear agreement they had signed. i asked, has iran earned the right to be trusted? rry said if they cheat on the agreement, they will respond quickly. pleadingr employee guilty to escaping inmates last month. admitted tothat she giving tools to help them break out. she agreed to be the getaway driver but changed her mind. the share of americans who own their own homes is at the lowest level in most -- and almost half a century. homeownership rate in the second quarter fell to just over 63%. would-be homebuyers have been held back by tougher mortgage -- standards and wage growth has not kept up. mark: president wrapping up his five-day visit to afr

beast john avlon and also joined by cnn political commentator ross doubt, a columnist for "the new york times." john agree with trump or not on these issues he is soaking up a lot of attention from the other gop candidates. so what do you think about his strategy? >> well i think he's soaking up attention because the media keeps feeding it. let's be real here. what you have here is a reality show car crash candidacy where the one candidate says the most irresponsible things and, therefore, gets a lot of attention and anyone who is try trying totry trying to responsibly run for president can't compete with a carnival barker which donald trump is. we end up feed the best. this is far more about bluster and a guy who is marketing himself to the head of the pack because he's shameless than anyone who is seriously running for president. >> ross how do you think the other candidates are going to handle trump on the debate stage because right now he is going to be one of those ten candidates if the polls stay the same. >> i mean i think that for some of the candidates particularly jeb bus

would be the joke that jeffrey ross would write. you're only a hero because you were captured. but you don't say it because he is a hero. colonel sheaffer, obviously you're a veteran. what's your initial response? >> john mccain was actually on a fire team fighting a fire on n a forest instead of putting his life on the line, going into a zone getting shot down. when i first met him in '03 in afghanistan, we were still in an area of afghanistan drawing fire. by all measures i'm aware of, he's a hero. >> you're a helicopter pilot, you're in afghanistan and iraq, am i right? >> i was. >> how do you think the troops are going to handle this kind of meant from donald trump? by the way, on facebook, he says he's a huge supporter of veterans and, you know, he feels that mccain let veterans down with the va and he's been d disrespectful to his crowd blah, blah, blah. >> this was pure ego right here. that's all that it was. i don't c think about john mccape's political career and what he's done. he was a prisoner of war for five years in vietnam. he's an american hero. he selflessly served his

signature -- to be on the ballot in states. so being very, very rich, a la ross perot, makes it much easier. >> and john kasich visiting mitt romney, the third candidate to meet privately with him this month. what is the romney factor here? i know he took a jab at donald trump regarding the john mccain comments. but is he a player right now? >> i think there are two ways to look at mitt romney particularly after he decided not to launch a third presidential bid. and one way is the party elder. we've seen mitt romney step out whether it's on the confederate flag or donald trump trying to direct his party to the position that he wanted them to take almost kind of being a separate republican national committee in some type of way. but the other way to actually look at mitt romney is i think he totally wants some action into this presidential contest. so i wouldn't be surprised if he tries to endorse someone. even though he did not run, he's not running in 2016, he wants to be some type of player and you're a player if you are an endorser. >> or you're a playa as my executive producer sa

. smart thing for him to say. no way. had ross perot not run you would never have heard of bill espondent, john king, host of inside politics, and chief political analyst gloria borger. interesting he dent close the door on a third party run. long way out. the idea of it must concern republicans? >> yes it concerns republicans. but he understand the perot experience. hard for a third party candidate to win. however the reason trump is doing well in the republican party, second place, getting so much attention, there is a disgust with politics in america in both parties. there is this opportunity for an independent candidacy. it costs a lot. he has the money. is he the right guy? not sure. if i could turn to one thing he said. a lot of what he says that just makes you shake your head. he thinks he is elected. china will revalue the currency. donald trump says. mexico will pay for the wall. donald trump says so. he said, putin would turn over snowden. i would get along with putin. orgia and ukraine. that's a guy you want to get along with. >> can i point out to one thing he said t

elected. they convinced that bill clinton needed ross perot and there is this fear around a donald trump presidency. the question i have specifically about i guess the historical context and what we saw around the john mccain thing. the reason i believe donald trump isn't going to go away not a flash in the pan like the beltway says and the republican insiders say is because i feel he is gaffe proof. that i would have thought that saying something like that about john mccain, about a legitimate war hero and a revered senator and the previous nominee that was grabbing the third rail you're dead. it's over. if you can increase your chances after something like that, it seems to me there is no way he can damage himself by sticking his foot in his mouth. there is nothing he can say that will offend anybody. if the republican electorate, a big chunk, is unoffendable i don't see why he is going to -- >> one of the reasons i don't see imminent collapse is listen in television there's a lack of dignity. you can't be in television and have your dignity stay intact. trump understands that. r

won't back down and that's why we watch the apprentice by the way. stuart: is he going to do a ross perot and bill clinton-- >> if he thinks he can make money. stuart: he's still leading in "the washington post" poll 24%. when it was taken, they started on thursday before his comments about john mccain. at the end of the polling period they were seeing a marked decline in support for donald trump. that's why i say he peaked on friday and decline started on saturday and i think he's in decline as we speak. >> he'll continue to get, as i pointed out yesterday, between 10 and 15% of the vote. stuart: okay. >> that will get him on the stage. stuart: i think that's enough with presidential politics for now. >> that's enough for president trump. stuart: we've gone uber. they want to debate new york city mayor bill deblasio, but deblasio says he will not do it. liz. >> deblasio wants to cap the number of uber cars in the city. it's a funky formula, something like 20,000 uber drivers, 13,000 or so yellow cabs. the yellow cab industry gives money to deblasio. and uber is fighting back. debla

president reagan's 1984 re-election campaign advised ross perot in 1992 and more recently mike huckabee and michelle bachmann. atop nearly every recent poll donald is a lock on the debate stage. john weaver an adviser to the ohio governor says the campaign believes he will be in the debate even if he's currently missing the cutoff. weaver recently tweeted, imagine a nascar driver mentally preparing for a race knowing one of the drivers will be drunk. that's what is happening for this debate. >> jonathan capehart that would be a nervous night in nascar race. >> and it's a great description. mark has -- in his comments has been dropping his little things that trump has done. it would have blown up anyone else's campaign. granted, i was one of those people who said that when he -- when trump said what he said about senator mccain that his campaign was done. because who ever heard of a presidential candidate denigrating the service of a war hero a former prison of war who is still in the race? and so -- >> jonathan. it wasn't just you, jonathan. i mean it was a guy like pete wayner

a third-party run. if he does that, john, does that help or hurt the eventual republican candidate? >> it will be devastating. it will have the same impact as ross perot had against george h.w. bush. and the '92 election. so i think the republicans do have a kind of tread lightly on trump. you know, i think in his own way trump is going to collapse. i don't think republicans should panic over this because trump is so all over the place on so many different things he's not -- at the end of the day the american people are not going to want him to be their president. i don't think republican primary voters will either. >> i'm curious though. whose candidacies do you think trump has hurt the most? talk about the vitriol back and forth. rec pirry will probably be on the fox news stage. lindsey graham at this point would not make the cut. >> i think he actually helps jeb bush. bush is already the front-runner. and he's going to keep doing his thing. i think if you're someone who like a rick perry or a lindsey graham or john kasich, trump hurts because he makes it harder for other candida

earth by allah if he carried out jihad against u.s. military targets. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> well are you keeping count? another republican has now joined the race for president, but john kasich's announcement was largely eclipsed by donald trump and his attack on another candidate. here now, abc's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: donald trump isn't done making bold statements just yet. already under fire for his comments on arizona senator john mccain and soldiers captured in war, tuesday trump moved on to mccain's good friend and presidential candidate lindsey graham. >> then i watched this idiot lindsey graham on television today and he calls me a [ bleep ] >> reporter: and then he decided to share graham's private cell number. >> i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. 202 -- >> reporter: it all started with trump blasting mccain at a republican candidate forum in iowa last week. his comments on mccain's military service still stinging. >> he's not a war hero. >> he's a war hero. 5 1/2 years. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that we