moment. and that s because has just done something for law fair that i think we should pay attention to. mr. baker is essentially resurfacing and sort of pointing a big red arrow at a very specific thing in american legal history, and it involves this man. his name is henry peterson. henry peterson was head of the criminal division at the justice department in the watergate era. henry peterson has been on my mind recently because peterson played a key role in supervising the fairly gonzo criminal case against nixon s vice president spiro agnew. we just roll out the first five episodes of this podcast i ve been doing about the criminal case against spiro agnew and how he ultimately got removed from the white house and how the justice department handled that. it turns out henry peterson is the head of the criminal division at the justice department at the time. he had a very important role in agnew s prosecution, and he has a sort of poignant and important part to play in the agnew story
you said on twitter that i thought was very smart. what precipitated the president s second outburst and attempt at least to sort of talking about removing mueller was what proved to be an errorious report about your subpoenas to deutsche bank. you said what about that. i want to know what he thinks deutsche bank has on him and why it freaks him out so much mueller might be looking into deutsche bank. it seemed to me like here s someone drawing a big red arrow like no crimes in here. it s like his attorney jay sekulow telling me, i don t want anyone looking at the georgia deal. that i think any prosecutor hearing a lawyer or someone under investigation saying please don t look at there one deal, you re going to look at that deal. so barbara, what do you make i m having a hard time sifting through the various reports we re getting what the feds were or were not looking for in the case of michael cohen yesterday. we ve seen a bunch of different
you said on twitter that i thought was very smart. what precipitated the president s second outburst and attempt at least to sort of talking about removing mueller was what proved to be an errorious report about your subpoenas to deutsche bank. you said what about that. i want to know what he thinks deutsche bank has on him and why it freaks him out so much mueller might be looking into deutsche bank. it seemed to me like here s someone drawing a big red arrow like no crimes in here. it s like his attorney jay sekulow telling me, i don t want anyone looking at the georgia deal. that i think any prosecutor hearing a lawyer or someone under investigation saying please don t look at there one deal, you re going to look at that deal. so barbara, what do you make i m having a hard time sifting through the various reports we re getting what the
would have been on friday is clearly bad news. nobody wants to see that. anyone who wants to see a big green arrow going up, not a big red arrow going down. on the other hand, the stock market up 40% since president trump was elected so he can and does take credit for a strong rise. the trip to ohio is clearly focused on the economy, but a slightly different aspect. we know the president is visiting the manufacturing company. the company gave 1000-dollar bonuses to employees after it was passed in december. the president is making the case that his policies are delivering her for the heartland voters who are so pivotal in electing them in the first base. a lot of companies eager to bonus around the country are doing not as well as hiring more
this, for example, is what happened to the vix on october 24th, 2008, that big red arrow there. that s when the stock market crashed in 08, one of the worst days of the great recession, record high vix. another spike happened may 20th, 2010, when there was sudden news that europe s economy was even in worse shape than we thought. it spiked at a two-year high august 8th, 2011, when the u.s. credit rating got downgraded. republicans in congress had threatened to default on our national debt, and the credit rating got downgraded. as you can see there, wall street freaked out. vix went way up. you can think of a high vix reading, a spike in the vix as a red light flashing. alert, alert. maybe your economy is tanking. maybe it isn t. but a lot of people on wall street have reason to believe that it is. panic. well, today, as he kicks off his inauguration weekend, president obama was given a great present