and he sort of pushed it off like everything's fine, we are getting our work done. is that your understanding, ed? >> there's always political problems for the present, people around here say we are just fine, but gary cohn is a gathers been through a lot of battles on wall street. he has that calm, cool demeanor. he told me a quick anecdote that they have one country out west this come to them several times that they are trying to build a copper plant. they've been turned out twice by the federal government. i said is that for a few months? he said no, more than ten years. trying to build a copper plant, but they can't do it. it means tens of thousands of u.s. jobs. it is the kinds of deals that we are working on. sound small, but can have a major impact. >> martha: ed, thank you so much. good to see it tonight, as always, ed. straight ahead, a retracted cnn story prompted the white house to go on offense tonight against what it called a "barrage of fake news."