Italy france, and spain fell. European stocks hit a sevenyear high. The euro is at its weakest against the dollar. In greece, the antitrust area party shows theres a sixpoint lead over the new Democracy Party. They have vowed to abandon austerity measures. Lees hutchinson is in talks to buyo o2 from telefonica. A deal would create the largest mobilephone carrier. Turning to the nfl. Looking for the culprit in the case of the deflated footballs. It is not tom brady, that is what brady says. He professed his innocence yesterday. I feel like i always play within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I respect the league and everything they are doing. His coach says he was shocked to hear that the balls had been under inflated. Shocked. I go with troy a man. He says it is impossible for a ball to have been deflated and a quarter bar and the quarterback not know about it. You have a great lineup of guest. I will hand it back to you. We do. The irrational exuberance. Rober
Friends and family members that were there with us doing this because based on what ive read, human memory is pretty fallible. Eyewitness testimony for example, is notoriously sketchy. Rather than assuming that they have a perfect memory of the past decade, i went out and if you could of the people who were there to get their perception of what happened and check it against my own. And tried to use so the combination of my own members, things i wrote at the time, and interviews of other people to make sure i had as accurate a picture as possible. Thank you. Welcome back. I had a question to if you could maybe contrast your experience with bryant. You guys are doing it at the same time figure two different experiences, yet you are transitioning your healing to imagine there were some things that were the same in somethings different. Im curious whether those gel and michigan and whether they were different. Were you able to provide support for them what he its not provide support for yo
Welcome to countdown. Im anna edwards. Just pass 6 00. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world, ready to deliver the stories. Hans nichols is covering pfizers bid for astor zeneca. David tweed is in berlin covering airbus and earnings are breaking now for that business. Big with countdown for interviews. First, an exclusive interview live from the Goldman Sachs india idea summit. Who would hear from the head of International Asset management division, coming up later. Ceo, we will speak with the peter long, right after those earnings break at the top of the next hour. We will also get numbers from easyjet as well as insight into those numbers from the ceo of the lowcost airline. Be releaseds will in about 58 minutes. Sweetens planning to its bid for astor zeneca as the ceos of both Companies Face their first joint trial and the u. K. , testimony. Hans nichols has the details from westminster. Hans . Anna, good morning to you. We will find out after this hearing potentially
Government company was privatized in britain. The British Government did that for the same reason weve got problems with our u. S. Yes. Declining mail volume and deed for greater efficiency in the market economy. So britain has done. Iselin note i see no reason why this country cant privatized its postal system. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Arnold. Minus Brandon Arnold and the Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Taxpayers union. Thank you to the committee and the chairmen and ranking ever for having me today. Lef. By myself i would include a heck of a lot more, but you know, when you are cooperating there is a lot to talk about bipartisan cooperation. We are very pleased to work to find stuff that we both agreed upon. I dont have time to go through all 65 recommendations in this brief period but the report is included in some entire dna binder and i hope that without objection the entire binder be placed on the record. I hope he will share it with your staff an
The appendices about what, how to design and make manageable your local and state election website. These are developed by david, for those who know her. And expert who is develop these field guides, and one is state voter websites. [inaudible] mentioned two states that have gone to all mail voting. Is any discussion among the commissioners of the test and received or in the report about the virtue of each state retaining is one option among these other early voting options or things like that, but retaining as one option the voting day, you know, first tuesday after the first monday, at least for federal elections as provided in title ii. Retaining that one day for voting just because of the civic virtue value of having that opportunity to exercise that one day. I know ms. Patrick talked about not reducing the resources that are needed for that one day, and i think some of us feel its very important to have that one day, but going to all mail is a mistake. I was wondering if you discu