situation where he sort of happened into wealth. this is a man who really did figure out a science for how to improve business. the sec thing to understand, though, is that he played a kind of pivotal role in shifting in helping to shift the american economy from something that was more stable and more equal into something that was not. ben, let s get into quotes from your piece. this one you say in 1999, american ceos looked very different from the predecessors he met in the 70s, the genial paternalists spending their careers at a single company. they were pure meritocrats, well educated, well compensated move frequently between jobs and industries, trained to look ruthlessly for efficiency everywhere. they look a great deal more, in other words, like mitt romney. the you look at every one of his public endeavors since he left the public sector, he
saying he gives his backing to donald trump on trade? yes. that donald trump s basic framing relative to how china is extracting money from our country by bribing american ceos who are long china, like the caterpillar ceo, i don t mean to pick on him, but there are a lot of people in that class who are lobbying our government to maintain these flawed relationships and donald trump will acknowledge those. with that said, do i think there would be much better qualified people to deal with dignity and integrity on behalf of our country at a time when we re desperate for either? yeah, i do. but i don t know if that s a referendum on donald trump or our political process at this time or both. thank you for your insights. we ll join you again at the top of the hour. when we come back, tornadoes create a path of destruction and a casualty list unlike any in memory.
we have exclusive new sound to share with you of president obama. chuck todd, nbc s chief washington correspondent and host of msnbc s the daily rundown has just finished a one-on-one interview with the president. chuck asked him about his meeting with major american ceos like warren buffett and why companies are not hiring more workers. i ll tell you exactly what warren buffett said. he said we went through a wrenching recession. and so, we have not fully recovered. we re about 40%, 50% back, but we ve still got a long way to go, and the reason people haven t fully invested yet and started creating as many jobs as we would like is because it takes some time to come back. you can see much more of that interview tonight on nbc nightly news and tomorrow on msnbc s daily rundown hosted by chuck and savannah guthrie. president obama sat down for that interview during his trip to michigan for a ground-breaking ceremony at a