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Speaker 1: Street and Michael McKee along with Tom Keene, were about
Speaker 1: two hours away from the start of trading what looks
Speaker 1: like a down open on the day. Here's some of
Speaker 1: the company stories we are watching. People with knowledge of
Speaker 1: the matter say the German chemicals maker b A s F.
Speaker 1: They're working with advisors and financing banks. They're thinking about
Speaker 1: making a counterbid for DuPont, which of course previously agreed
Speaker 1: to merge with Doubt Chemical. American Airlines pilot called the
Speaker 1: airline service outright embarrassing. They're not happy with the return
Speaker 1: of what they call toxic labor relations. They send a
Speaker 1: letter to chief executive Doug Parker. The airline says the
Speaker 1: airline group is well aware a cultural changes needed, and
Speaker 1: Oscar Mino, speaking of Airliance, poised to return to work
Speaker 1: as CEO of United Continental Holdings. Uh. He will be
Speaker 1: back on the job March fourteenth. He suffered a heart
Speaker 1: attack October fifteen. Now let's check in with Michael Marr.
Speaker 1: Got the latest world and national headlines. Mike, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. The two Democratic presidential candidates got a bit
Speaker 1: testy with each other on certain issues, but Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: and Bernie Sanders each one to run against Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in the general election. I would love to run against
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Donald Trump's bigotry, his bullying, his bluster are
Speaker 1: not gonna wear well on the American people. Sanders versus
Speaker 1: Trump does a lot better than Clinton versus Trump. There's
Speaker 1: only one candidate in either party who has more votes
Speaker 1: than him, and that's me. Both candidates oak in Flint,
Speaker 1: Michigan on CNN, where there's a lead contamination water crisis.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about your drinking water? According to
Speaker 1: a new Associated Press pole, only percent of Americans are
Speaker 1: very confident in the safety of what's flowing from mere tap.
Speaker 1: North Korea has issued this latest running of a preemptive
Speaker 1: nuclear strike of justice on Washington and Seoul. The threat
Speaker 1: from North Korea as in reaction to the start of
Speaker 1: huge US South Korean military drills. Global News twenty four
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Speaker 1: Michael bar Mike, thank you, Michael. Time now for the
Speaker 1: Bloomberg NBC Sports Update with John's tesh Hour, John Alright,
Speaker 1: Mike Wild. First period at the Guard and the Islanders
Speaker 1: led three nothing less than five minutes in there. Four
Speaker 1: to three lead went from the first period to midway
Speaker 1: through the third when the Rangers Derek Frossard tied the game,
Speaker 1: but Cal clutterbuck off a face off of the minute
Speaker 1: and have to go. Islanders won six to four, companying
Speaker 1: a six and one road chips there just three points
Speaker 1: behind the Blue Shorts. Devil's lost for the eighth time
Speaker 1: in the last ten. Pittsburgh won six one, scoring twice
Speaker 1: at each period. Biggest upset in NBA history in terms
Speaker 1: of win percentage disparity. The Lakers, with fifty one losses,
Speaker 1: beat the Warriors and their fifty five wins, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't closed. Golden State made only four of thirty three
Speaker 1: pointers and losing for just a sixth time all year
Speaker 1: one twelve to ninety five as expected it will be
Speaker 1: Monmouth against Iona tonight in Albany final of the Metro
Speaker 1: Atlantic Attorney with a trip to the n C Double
Speaker 1: as on the line. Hofstra Tonight also goes for the
Speaker 1: n C Double as taken on North Carolina Wilmington the
Speaker 1: Colonial Final in Baltimore. Army is out in the Patriot,
Speaker 1: losing sixty eight to Holy Cross in the semifinals. The
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning Pressor kicks off at one o'clock today in Denver.
Speaker 1: Not nearly the attention, but Maria Sharapova also retiring from tennis.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty eight golf in Miami. Adam Scott wins
Speaker 1: for the second straight week with the Bloomberg NBC Sports Update.
Speaker 1: I'm John Stapshett. Thank you John. The oil prices continue
Speaker 1: to rise thirty x fifty three for West Texas now
Speaker 1: one point seven percent, one point six percent rise for
Speaker 1: Brent crude thirty nine thirty two, moving towards the forty mark.
Speaker 1: Looks like city groups saying a bottom maybe in for oil.
Speaker 1: Get you more on that coming up here. On surveillance.
Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Surveillance. I'm Michael McKey along with Tom Keene.
Speaker 1: Oil maybe higher, but right now futures are lower. SMP
Speaker 1: features off by eight points, four tenths of eight percent,
Speaker 1: down features down forty three, about three tenths, and it's
Speaker 1: a half percent decline. For dance DECKNI features they are
Speaker 1: down nineteen points right now. Europe lower as well, three
Speaker 1: points for the stock six hundred down eight tenths of
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Speaker 1: Here is Bob Moon. Thanks, good morning, Mike. Coming up
Speaker 1: on seven thirty five on Wall Street, and here's what's
Speaker 1: making news in science, Technology, engineering, and math. Why did
Speaker 1: the tortoise cross the road? That's the problem, at least
Speaker 1: in California's Mojave Desert, where the endangered desert tortoise doesn't
Speaker 1: move fast enough as you might expect to get out
Speaker 1: of the way. The Marine Corps has plans to expand
Speaker 1: its Air Ground Combat Training Center by about a hundred
Speaker 1: sixty five square miles and much of that land happens
Speaker 1: to be primed tortoise habitat, so The Los Angeles Times
Speaker 1: reports the Marines are preparing a fifty million dollar operation
Speaker 1: to airlift one thousand one five tortoises to keep them
Speaker 1: from getting smashed by military equipment. Some scientists are dubious
Speaker 1: of the plan, pointing out a poor record of relocation success,
Speaker 1: leaving the animals vulnerable to predators and disrupting social and
Speaker 1: genetic lines dating back thousands of years. Apple is pressing
Speaker 1: its case against cooperating with the FBI in the Court
Speaker 1: of Public Opinion. The company's software chief and an opinion
Speaker 1: piece written for The Washington Post argues that creating software
Speaker 1: to break into its iPhones could endanger millions by giving
Speaker 1: criminals an entryway into all kinds of sensitive networks, such
Speaker 1: as power grids and transportation hubs. And all they need,
Speaker 1: he contends, is one unsecure device to exploit, and low
Speaker 1: power TV providers that want to say in an FCC
Speaker 1: spectrum auction on March twenty nine are launching a lastis
Speaker 1: bid to delay the sale. Lawsuits could limit the spectrum
Speaker 1: available if the court rules the licensed low power TV
Speaker 1: providers must be protected and that's this morning's Bloomberg and
Speaker 1: j I T Stem Report. Thank you. Robert James Startus
Speaker 1: is the dean of the Fletchers School at Tufts University
Speaker 1: after a long career in the U. S. Navy that
Speaker 1: led him to become Supreme Allied Commander for our Forces
Speaker 1: in Europe and the Commander of the United States European Command.
Speaker 1: With all that is going on in the presidential race,
Speaker 1: foreign policy took a back seat for quite some time.
Speaker 1: But it did come front and center in the Fox
Speaker 1: Debate the other night with the Republicans, and we wanted
Speaker 1: to get the avrollon to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: what we know and what we don't know to help
Speaker 1: make us a little bit smarter here, uh, Admiral Um.
Speaker 1: One of the questions put to Donald Trump was would
Speaker 1: the military obey your orders? And then there was a
Speaker 1: question about whether his orders might be illegal or not.
Speaker 1: Tell us from a military person's perspective, what the chain
Speaker 1: of command is and how it could be that a
Speaker 1: military person would disobey a commander in chief. I'll be
Speaker 1: glad to Michael. Great to be talking with both you
Speaker 1: and Tom this morning. First of all, we have a
Speaker 1: long tradition of civilian control of the military. That's bed rock.
Speaker 1: And so if the civilian chain of command, which goes
Speaker 1: from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the
Speaker 1: combatant commanders like I was as Supreme Allied Commander NATO,
Speaker 1: those orders will be obeyed with one exception, and that
Speaker 1: exception is if a civilian to give an illegal order.
Speaker 1: So what's an illegal order? I'll give you two examples,
Speaker 1: both which came from Mr Trump. One would be deliberately
Speaker 1: targeting to kill civilians, particularly family members of alleged terrorists.
Speaker 1: Second would be uh simply using torture, as in water boarding,
Speaker 1: which is illegal against the laws of the United States.
Speaker 1: So the military will unequivocally obey the orders of the
Speaker 1: civilian leadership unless they are patently illegal. Well, has this
Speaker 1: happened before that orders were refused? I don't think at
Speaker 1: a strategic level, as in ordering the entire force to
Speaker 1: conduct water boarding, for example, or ordering targeting of individual
Speaker 1: family members. But I think there have been tactical examples
Speaker 1: of this at lower levels in the change of command,
Speaker 1: where individual soldiers have have felt as though this was illegal.
Speaker 1: That happened in Vietnam a couple of times well, now,
Speaker 1: who makes the laws that are are a question? Here
Speaker 1: are these military laws, of these civilian laws made by Congress?
Speaker 1: Is at the Geneva Convention. What are we talking about.
Speaker 1: It's all the above. So it would be the statutory
Speaker 1: law of the United States under which any US soldier,
Speaker 1: sailor airmen, or marine would fall. It would be the
Speaker 1: laws of war, which are well known and taught to
Speaker 1: our active duty military. And it could be international law,
Speaker 1: specifically the Geneva Conventions, as you mentioned, when the United
Speaker 1: States is a signatory to a treaty that has the
Speaker 1: force law for the United States. One of the things
Speaker 1: that Trump suggested is that we are at a disadvantage
Speaker 1: because we follow these laws as a military person, are
Speaker 1: we I don't think so. I think our greatest advantages
Speaker 1: are values, and we violate those at extreme peril. And
Speaker 1: so all of our values, our freedom of speech, freedom
Speaker 1: of religion, our obedience to the law of the land.
Speaker 1: That's our greatest strength. To violate those doesn't put us
Speaker 1: at a any kind of advantage. Let's come back with
Speaker 1: Admiral James Travinus. He's the dean of the Fletcher School.
Speaker 1: Along career in the Navy was the commander of US
Speaker 1: forces in Europe, will continue our conversation about foreign policy
Speaker 1: and the political world when we come back here on surveillance.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're looking at bonds falling on the day,
Speaker 1: yields are higher. The tenure testing resistance levels now at
Speaker 1: one point nine oh four oh rising since our show began.
Speaker 1: The five years at one point four oh to one,
Speaker 1: and we're at eighty nine basis points for the two
Speaker 1: year note. I'm Michael McKee along with Tom Keene. You're
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