♪ david: so you started your own company at what age? john: i was 24. david: and where did you get the money to capitalize it? john: my mom gave me everything she had that was liquid. my dad gave me what he thought he could afford to lose. david: one of the boards you are on is mcdonald's, and it is said that you eat mcdonald's every day. is that true? john: it is just about every day. david: so in chicago, did you ever play basketball with barack obama? john: yes, several times. david: and is he that good a player? john: he's a very good player. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well people would not recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. all right. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? so you have been doing value investing for 36 years. what is a value investor? john: a value investor is someone who is loo

david: so you have been in north korea, and you have met with the leader of north korea on a few occasions, and you have been there when the president has met with him. so what type of person is he? can you communicate in english with him? can you just kind of summarize what your impression is of the leader of north korea? sec. pompeo: yeah. i have spent more time with him than any american. i passed dennis rodman on the last trip. david: president trump has tweeted unfavorable things about some people working for him. he has never tweeted anything unfavorable about you. sec. pompeo: it is early. it is early. david: my experience is sometimes when people get close to the president and see the job up close, they think i could do that job, too. has that occurred to you, that you could do the job, and would you have any interest in running for president at some point in my life? sec. pompeo: i try to answer this consistently. i have never been able to predict what my next gig will be. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, b

david: so you have been to north korea and met with the leader of north korea. what kind of person is he? have you communicated in english with him? can you summarize your impression of the leader of north korea? withs, i spent more time him than any american. i passed dennis rodman on the last trip. trump never tweeted anything unfavorable about you. my experiences sometimes when people get close to a president and see the job up close they say, i can do that job. does that occur to you that maybe you could do the job? do you have any interest for running for president at some point in your life? mr. pompeo: i try to answer this consistently. i have never been able to predict what my next gig will be. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: people would not recognize me if my tie was fixed. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? y

was liquid. my dad gave what he thought he could afford to lose. david: one of the boards you are on is mcdonald's and it is said to eat mcdonald's every day. is that true? >> just about every day. david: in chicago did you ever play basketball with barack obama? john: several times. david: is he a good player? john: pretty good. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: people would not recognize me. just leave it this way? all right. i don't consider myself a journalist. would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. ? w do you define leadership what is it that makes somebody take? -- tick? so you have been doing value investing for 36 years. what is a value investor? john: somebody looking for bargains. finding stocks, serving -- selling at 40% discount, want to make sure it has a low ratio, strong balance sheet and has to really withstand the inevitable storms that happen in the stock market. david: is warren buffett a value investor? john: he is the greatest of all time. some peo

david: so you have been in north korea, and you have met with the leader of north korea on a few occasions, and you have been there when the president has met with him. so what type of person is he? do you communicate in english with him? can you just kind of summarize what your impression is of the leader of north korea? sec. pompeo: i have spent more time with him than any american. i passed dennis rodman on the last trip. david: president trump has tweeted unfavorable things about some people working for him. he has never tweeted anything unfavorable about you. sec. pompeo: it is early. david: my experience is sometimes when people get close to the president and see the job up close, they think i could do that job, too. has that occurred to you, that you could do the job, and would you have any interest in running for president at some point in your life? sec. pompeo: i try to answer this consistently. i have never been able to predict what my next gig will be. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave

america. david: let's talk about china. the trade negotiations are going on. you are not the lead. rob lighthizer is taking the lead. can you make any progress in on issues until the trade issue is resolved? mike: yeah. we have made some. other places, we have gone backwards. the chinese have been there he helpful on north korea. they have done more to enforce the un security council resolutions on north korea than any time in history. they are helpful with us today in afghanistan and projects there, too. so far, so good with respect to respecting our sanctions enforcement on the islamic republic of iran. there are places we can work with china. there are lots of diplomatic fronts where we don't share the same values, but we have overlapping interests. david: you have met with the leader of north korea. you have been there with the president. what type of person is he? does he have interesting thoughts? does he speak english? can you summarize what your impression is. mike: i've spent more time with him than any american. i passed dennis rodman on the last trip. [laughter] david: ok. m

secret. >> david needed to be gotten rid of. >> then we got the real story. >> a bombshell revelation. was she really a bereaved ex -- >> i always loved david. >> -- or just maybe a black widow? >> barbara britton is in the middle. >> "buried clues." hello and welcome to "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. the case sat cold for more than a decade, and then rookie detective donna velasquez got the file and turned up the heat. she'd been given the basics. 24-year-old divorced dad david jackson had vanished without a trace. digging into david's past, she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad and a chilling family secret. but to learn the full truth behind david's disappearance, the detective would have to sort the players from those getting played. here's keith morrison. >> it's a strange thing that happens among the bogs and marshes, the soft soil here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past, or both. it was july 2003, beaches quiet, snowbirds back up north. so no one noticed at first what was starting inland, a little, in a town c

david: you have been to north korea. you've met with the leader of north korea. you have been that with the president. what type of person is he? do you communicate in english with him? summarize what your impression is. mike: i've spent more time with him than any other american. i passed dennis rodman. david: president trump has tweeted things that are not favorable about people working for him. he's never tweeted anything unfavorable about you. mike: it's early. david: sometimes when people get close to a president, they see the job of close, they say, i can do it. has that occur to you? would you have any interest in running for president at some point in your life? mike: i try to answer this consistently. i have never been able to predict what my next it will be. >> would you fix your type please? david: people wouldn't recognize fixed.y tie was let's leave it this way. all right. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private

♪ david: how has humor changed? are people laughing at the same things, or are there certain things you can make fun of now and couldn't? or vice versa. lorne: there is almost nothing i did in the 1970's i could do now. david: are you ever worried there is a guest host not up to the task? lorne: yeah. david: how do you coach them to maybe do a better job, to be ready? lorne: you can get almost anyone through it. david: what does it take to be a leader? lorne: if you are in power, everyone knows you're in a power, so don't ever have to explain you're in power. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: oh, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way? all right. i don't consider myself a journalist. nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? did you think at the beginning that you were going to change television history and the history of comedy when you were start

. just go to leesa.com today. you need this bed. david: how has humor changed? are people laughing at the same things or are there certain things you can make fun of now and couldn't? lorne: there is almost nothing i did in the 1970's i could do now. david: are you ever worried there is a guest host not up to the task? lorne: yeah. david: how do you coach them to be ready? lorne: you can get almost anyone through it. david: what does it take to be a leader? lorne: if you are in power, everyone knows you're in a power, so don't ever have to explain you're in power. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: people wouldn't recognize me, but ok. just leave it this way? all right. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? did you think at the beginning that you were going to change television history and the history of comedy when you were starting that sh

day everybody. that'll do it for us. "varney" comes in right now. take it away. david: thank you very much. i'm david asman. stuart is off today. he's back tomorrow let's start with your money. looks like a very positive start to the week futures are up about 280 points this coming after three consecutive down weeks for the dow. last week it was down 400 points on the dow. we got to do at least that much to wipe outlast week's losses. lots of talk the fear of a recession may be overblown, and there's some optimism now that president trump wants to make a trade deal with china. that's why the markets are up pre-market. here is news that may be helpful to fuel the optimism. president trump says apple's chief tim cook is concerned about losing the edge to samsung , because of tariffs. here is the question. is the president getting ready to take a softer approach to tariffs? we'll be asking our china experts coming up. and more hong kong protests this weekend, organizers say 1.7 million people brave the rain to hold a very peaceful demonstration yesterday. we'll get a live report fro

substitute for the unmatched courage and character of those who proudly wear the nation's uniform. david: tonight the trump administration attempting to stem the flow of illegal migrants across our southern border by announcing it will detain undocumented children with their families while their cases are spending. the president also slamming birthright citizenship. >> we are looking at right citizenship very seriously. it's ridiculous. david: brandon judd is sheer on that. bill barr firing back at rashida tlaib after she -- bill maher calling out rashida tlaib after she called for a boycott of his show. david: it's nearly impossible to reach one of alexandria ocasio-cortez's offices. there are fears of massive crowds at the infamous area 51 site. "trish regan primetime" begins right now. hi, everybody. i'm david asman in for trish. the trump administration cracking down on wait calls loopholes in our immigration system, unveiling a new rule allowing officials to cross our border illegally indefinitely while their asylum cases proceed through the courts. the previous limit was 20 days fo

. right now, "varney & company." david asman is in for stuart. david: thank you very much. i am david asman. stuart is off today. he will be back tomorrow. here's the big story. it's shaping up to be another wild week on wall street. stocks are going to be down when the market opens in 30 minutes. we are looking at a triple digit loss for the dow, although that's come down in futures a little bit. the s&p and nasdaq are also looking at significant losses. trade tensions, of course, once again driving the market and goldman sachs says the trade war is having a greater impact on the economy than expected. raising the risk of a recession before the 2020 election. remember, president trump says he's not ready to make a deal with china yet. also weighing on investors, continued protests in hong kong. all remaining flights today out of hong kong have been canceled, as demonstrators are occupying the airport there. it follows a violent weekend of protests, including clashes between demonstrators and police, beijing officials condemn the violence and linked violent protesters to terrorism. a

thank you for being with us on this hour. good night from new york. david: president trump holding a rally in cincinnati, ohio. and hitting the democrats right off the bat. president trump: i was watching the so-called debate last night and i also watched the night before, that was long, long television. and the democrats spent more time attacking barack obama than they did attacking me practically. david: "the next revolution" host steve hilton and britt mchenry are here tonight on that. the battle over baltimore heating up. the president calling out baltimore officials for misusing government funds to help the troubled city. video resurfacing showing elijah cummings referring to his community as quote drug infested. wait until you see what happens after this wave malfunctions and unleashed a tsunami-type swell on unsuspecting swimmers. abby hornacek is with us night. "trish regan primetime" starts right now. i'm david asman in for trish. president trump is addressing a crowd of thousands in ohio. >> i came in, we did a rally where we had people like this, it was packed, the day bef

, bob goodlatte on who should be worrying. cavuto live starts right now. ♪ >> welcome, i'm david asman for neil cavuto, john roberts, it's all going down, john. >> david, good afternoon to you, president trump just finished lunch with emmanuel macron, bit of a surprise, we weren't expecting him to have lunch with the french president, we didn't expect him to do anything until tonight. the two leaders did sit down and the president saying that despite recent tensions including france's decision to tax american tech companies which may result in president trump's slapping tariffs on french wine, the relationship continues to be strong. listen to president trump here. >> we actually have a lot in common. we get along very well. special relationship. >> bilateral meet negotiation g7 sessions, president trump will be driving progrowth message talking about what he has done in terms of cutting taxes and regulations to keep the economy humming. in lunch meeting macron said that european countries are talking about cutting taxes and the president will urge reform in world trade organization be

tomorrow. good night from new york. david: president trump predicting a trade deal with china could be in the works soon as chinese officials reportedly called washington to resume negotiations. a psychiatrist rants on cnn comparing president trump to hitler and stalin and cnn did not even challenge him. new tonight. sources confirming to fox news that disgraced former deputy direct wroor andrew mccabe could soon be facing prosecution. we'll tell you why officials say he quote has a target on his back. bill maher pathetically celebrating the death of david koch. ian his brother have done more than anybody to fund climate science deniers for decades. the amazon is burning up. i'm glad he's dead. conservative actor antonio sabato knows all too well howal and out of their -- how brutal and out of their mind elites can be and he's firing back. "trish regan primetime" begins right now. hi, i'm david asman in for trish. our top story, getting back to the negotiating table. china signaling it's seeking to calm an end to it's today lating trade war with the united states. even president trump

everybody did the same. david: i am david tweed. this is bloomberg "turnaround." to see how they put the frosted back in carlsberg. ♪ david: when he arrived in carlsberg in 2015 he found a company demoralized by bad investment in the russian market that had forced them to stand on the sideline of a wave of brewing industry consolidation. >> what is special about the carlsberg turnaround is how it triggered the turnaround by returning the company to its original service the founder set out, and engaging the workforce. >> when i think back to 2015, i suppose what was different about carlsberg, we did not have clarity on the way forward. we looked to competitors and the consolidation that was happening. and there was concern. david: i wanted to ask, how do you deal with these issues at once? and hadt them together a 70 year program, the start of a journey. we realized ourselves that we did not have the money. we said we can do two things, create the future for ourselves. askd: reluctant to shareholders for funds, they cut costs. ,he plan addressed the concerns which has controlled

month could winnow it. david: president trump maybe not having as easy of time as we thought with respect to the economy. let's go out to los angeles and sarah mcgregor. this morning, bright and early the chinese government said we would retaliate on the tariffs and then the foreign minister said not so much. it seems like they were contradicting themselves. sarah: we have heard a lot of contradictions from the trump administration but china usually has a clear message. today is different. it is no surprise that china will proceed with retaliation on these tariffs on the goods that will be hit in december, although there has been a bit of a delay. china said we are going ahead, we will retaliate, we do not know what the targets are. they have hit things like farming goods and lower-level plane models. we will see what they come up with this time. at the same time they indicated they might be able to meet the administration part of the way on a deal. i do not think that will fly with the trump administration. we heard from peter navarro that the u.s. once everything they're asking

hope we helped you tonight. lou dobbs is up next on fox business network. have a good weekend. david: good evening i'm david asman sitting in for the vacationing lou dobbs. for years american presidents have sat idly allowing the communist chinese government to steal american intellectual property and rip off the american people to the tune of trillions of dollars. well, today president donald trump said enough is enough. the president raising tariffs 5% on 550 billion dollars of chinese products, retaliating hours after china placed tariffs on 75 billion dollars of american products. now, the president today also demanding american companies start looking for alternatives to china, including the idea of bringing their companies back to the united states. and federal reserve chairman jerome powell also drawing the ire of the president today, failing to respond to china's retaliatory tariffs, leaving the president to wonder if powell or chinese president xi jinping were the big earnmy -- bigger enemy. for the latest, we turn to edward lawrence. >> federal reserve chairman powell says

dobbs. have great labor day weekend, everyone. david: brand new fallout from the inspector general's scathing report on fired former fbi director james comey, while there's no prosecution this could be just the tip of the iceberg for comey. former u.s. attorney worked alongside comey and says his actions reveal shocking levels of arrogance and hubris. he will elaborate in moments. meanwhile, 10 million people are currently in the crosshairs of a powerful category 3 hurricane called dorian. coming up, we will have a live report from the ground in florida as well as the very latest on the track of this slow-moving and possibly catastrophic storm. and remember the latest biden gaffe? >> this guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back, under fire. and the general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. i got up there, this is god's truth, he stood at attention, he said sir, i don't want it. do not put it on me, please, sir, do not do that. david: he was wrong in just about every detail in the story and yet somehow he's trying to defend it and now doubling down. we will t

tomorrow. good night from new york. [♪] david: tonight we have new evidence showing democrats had already begun impeachment proceedings before mueller gave his report. corey lewandowski says it's clear that's how judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler has been lie together american public and it's time to come clean. far left congress one and alexandria ocasio-cortez using instagram to issue dire climate warnings to anyone who will listen. >> try not decarbonizing our economy and allowing sea levels to rise. every coastal city could go under water. every midwestern city and large swaths of the country experiencing drought on a level we have not seen. that will be way more expensive. david: wait until you hear what else she is saying. "trish regan primetime" begins right now. i'm david asman in for trish. our top story, new evidence the democrats already started on the path to impeachment long before robert mueller's russia report made its way to congress. this despite repeated statements from the chair of the house judiciary committee he that impeachment would have to wait unti

right now. i'm david asman and for trish. our top story tonight a blistering report from the inspector general claiming james comey violated his own agency's policy by leaking memos that meaning is private conversations with president come to a friend with specific instructions to share them with a reporter. the ig writing in no uncertain terms quote by not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of this fbi employment and by using it to create public pressure for official action comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current fbi employees. despite this the justice department ultimately declining to prosecute and for his part comey is defiantly the import quote i don't need a public apology from those who defame me but a quick message with a sorry we like about you would be nice to joining me now is former fbi assistant director chris wegher and former federal prosecutor doug burns. chris, it's amazing what this man is now saying after the report came out but the ig report isn't a great surprise. it's the arrogance of the response of mr. comey that is s

could be seeing another hectic day. david: we have other sense of whether we will do this all again next weekend? it seems like every weekend something happens. yvonne: we are starting to hear more reports there will be another protest happening on the 18th of this weekend, so on sunday. it seems like both sides, whether it is the police, whether it is protesters have hardened their stance after what we saw with another violent clash that erupted over the weekend. using petrolsters bombs and even disrupting police headquarters as well as subway stations. police were firing tear gas inside the subway stations. we have seen both sides escalating. beijing also ratcheting up the rhetoric, saying these are serious crimes. protesters -- serious crimes protesters are committing and even saying they are seeing signs of terrorism. hong kong backtracking that, saying they are not calling it a terrorism event. this situation is still tense at the moment and we will see how things turn out tomorrow. david: many thanks for all of your great reporting. that is the yvonne man, bloomberg markets: a

willing to move on. david: thank you so much for the reports the white house. now let's go over to london and emma chandra. you have a foreign minister attending the meetings in washington. what is he after? emma: dominique raab currently meeting with u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo. he arrived in d.c. last night. he released a statement after that, praising the warmth of the relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. and about how much he look forward to working with the u.s. on trade deal and commerce security issues. the last referred to a number of things regarding security, not least maritime security in the persian gulf. the former is a potential trade deal. thisthe u.k. leads europe, is something the u.k. once very much. david: president trump has said he wants it as well. what are the possible hurdles between here and there? emma: there are a number of hurdles. in that same statement, the foreign secretary says there'll be a lot of work to be done. there was appetite on both sides to get there. there are a number of people who have been critical of the u.k. position, sa

david: two people laugh at the same kinds of things? there is almost nothing we could do that we could not do now. david: do you have a guess host that is not top of the class? how do you coach them? what does it take to be a leader? lorne: if you are in power, everybody knows you are in power so you don't have to explain your power. >> would you fix your tie? david: people would not recognize me if my tie was fixed. i will leave it this way. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. to take on a life of being an interviewer even though i have a date job at running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes some at a tick -- somebody tick? did you think at the beginning you were going to change television history and the history of comedy in 1975? lorne: i do not think i would talk in those terms but i thought if we got on the air and did the show, that the people doing the show would stay home to watch. i thought there were enough people like us because we all pretty much come from the audience. i was the person that had the most experience

pass. david: hard to find a deficit hawk in washington. we are watching as they go through the process of enacting the legislation. let's go to emma chandra in london. we've heard from the bank of england, from the governor, he does not know what to plan for. emma: that is absolutely right. we heard the governor and his analyst deciding to send back when it comes to interest rates. what was interesting was his update of economic forecast, mark carney saying the u.k. could follow a wide range of paths in the coming years. one of the paths not included was the u.k. leaving the eu without a deal. it seems mark carney and his team at the bank of england unwilling to comment or prepare for a change in government policy until the u.k. government has made the change to that policy. mark carney quoted boris johnson saying earlier this week that he is not aiming for a no deal exit from the european union. david: the is not aiming for it, that every time i have heard him talk he said he is perfectly prepared to do it. he does not seem to be in the position to get a deal by october 31. at

lowest ever in the history of our country. david: the u.s. economy is solid that's the message from the president as new reports surface as the administration is looking to bolster growth even more, amid warning signs of a slow down or even a recession. welcome, everybody. this is bulls & bears thanks for joining us i'm david asman. joining me on the panel jonathan hoenig, christina partsinevelos, john layfield. the president confirming reports he is eying a payroll tax cut but he says it has nothing to do with any recession fears. listen. president trump: i've been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time whether or not we do it now or not is, it's not being done because of recession, because we are legitimately, if we had a cut in interest rates by the fed, if they would do their job properly, and if they would do a meaningful cut, because they raise too fast you'd see growth like you've not seen ever in this country. david: so carol we've been hearing about a payroll tax cut since the original tax cuts were mentioned, about a year and a half ago. should we move forward on a payro

block it. david: thank you so much for reporting from london. that is emma chandra. now we go to washington and wendy benjaminson. today is the deadline for the third democratic debate? wendy: today is the deadline for the september 12 and mainly -- and may be september 13 debate in houston, texas. today the dnc announced they will not tell us who made the debate stage until tomorrow. this morning paul gives is a pretty good -- this mornings pool give us a pretty good luck and it looks like only 10 candidates have qualified. david: if you didn't qualify, are you out of it? i talked to john delaney and he said he is not going to make it but he will stay in the race. wendy: that is a decision every candidate has to make. if you have the money and you think you can convince people there is another debate in october. i think there is a growing perception that if you do not make this debate, you probably should drop out. then there are plenty of candidates who have the money to keep going and maybe they will. david: who has the most to win and lose on december 12 and the 13th? i think

fit on and the trump campaign's kayleighny. we hope you have a great weekend. good night. david: president trump taking on democrats for putting illegal aliens than our own citizens. president trump: democrats care more about illegal aliens than they do about their own citizens. they put illegal aliens before our own americans and we are not going to do that. >> would your plan cover healthcare for undocumented immigrants? david: researchers say they discovered a new blood test that could accurately predict alzheimer's 20 years before the disease sets in. what would you do if you were driving down the road and saw this. that's not a drone. it's a real plane. "trish regan primetime" begins right now. all side pointing to a bombing economy. employers adding 164,000 jobs in july. consider this. >> this has to be the party that's not afraid to say we are going to tax the hell out of the wealthy. david: joining me now, jenna ellis, along with former white house advisor under president clinton, doug schoen. happy friday. doug, even "the washington post," the liberal "washington post"

might be difficult to justify for the government. vonnie: -- david: thank you so carolynn in frankfurt. tina, the price of oil did not want to react much. tina: you think anything that happens in saudi arabia would spread terror throughout the entire market. this is a market that has been obsessed with demand. if you look at what has been able to move the oil market frequently, it is looking at the trade war and what happens there and whether or not the global economy will have the kind of demand going forward all of the supply is therefore. what we saw on saturday was there was a drone strike. this have claimed responsibility for that drone strike. it is the latest in a series of strikes as we see the proxy war playing out in yemen. they have attacked pipelines and airports and oil fields. this is one of the largest oil fields saudi arabia has. david: becoming more and more hostile in saudi arabia. now let's get a check on what is going on with the digital tax from france. tech executives are in washington testifying on possible u.s. retaliation for the new french digital tax that whe

night from new york. [♪] david: tonight, president trump following through on one of his earliest campaign promises, building the wall. thi -- this new video reveals 60 miles of new bordered wall. known while, iran's president hassan rouhani backtracking on talks with the u.s. demanding sanctions be lefted before talks begin. kt macfarland says rouhani is overplaying his hand. she'll tell us why in just moments. an iowa college professor resigning after pledging his support for antifa. he also talked about taking out revenge against evangelical christians. will the left ignore this call for violence as well? we are exposing more hypocrisy. "trish regan primetime" begins right now. hi, everybody. i'm david asman in for trish. our top story takes us to the southern border where drone footage shows 60 miles of brand-new border wall in arizona. customs and border patrol expects to complete 450 miles of this wallaby next year. but it's not just arizona. across the southwest, crews are breaking ground on new wall or beefing up already existing structures. this coming as the trump admini

toys to groceries. david: welcome to "bloomberg daybreak" on this wednesday, august 21. we will not have a state visit from our president to denmark, and why? alix: because greenland is not for sale. david: he's offended. he's supposed to go for a state visit, but he wants to buy greenland, basically. alix: this sort of took everyone by complete surprise. one of the leaders of the ivernment parties was, like, can't believe we didn't tell him it wasn't for sale. i can't believe this is even a conversation. david: when this first came out, every one thought it was a joke. he's just getting -- he's just kidding. and then maybe not so much of a joke. alix: do we know why he wants greenland? david: because the arctic, particularly because of climate change, has become much more important. there are really strategic interests in greenland. in fact, president truman tried to buy it in 1948 for similar reasons. you invited meis to my house, i'm not coming unless you sell me something. alix: in the market, we had retail earnings coming out. we get a nice rally underway here. euro-dollar is f