person who went out to sell brand trump around the world. it wasn t places like paris or berlin, companies like the marriott go, it was places like cutter, dubai, places that aren t more conventional places that you might go invest. i think that s what you re looking at. sit likely, as we ve been speculating here that the special prosecutor could also be interested in for example where the $130,000 came from that michael cohen says he used in the stormy daniels payoff. it s conceivable somewhere in this investigation that s what he s going to be looking at. mr. cohen s finances in and of themselves are interesting. he s a self-made millionaire. he has investments, i think a lot of taxi companies, owned
person who went out to sell brand trump around the world. it wasn t places like paris or berlin, companies like the marriott go, it was places like cutter, dubai, places that aren t more conventional places that you might go invest. i think that s what you re looking at. sit likely, as we ve been speculating here that the special prosecutor could also be interested in for example where the $130,000 came from that michael cohen says he used in the stormy daniels payoff. it s conceivable somewhere in this investigation that s what he s going to be looking at. mr. cohen s finances in and of themselves are interesting. he s a self-made millionaire. he has investments, i think a lot of taxi companies, owned taxicabs in the new york area. he was part of a joint venture to do ethanol in the ukraine. so he has an interest of his own and in real estate, my colleague
republicans in control of literally everything and say, oh, yeah, the democrats did it? i m kind of with bill here. i think you re right, that there is a chance here that the president likes this kind of chaos theory of government, then he wakes up on saturday morning and the government is shut down and he has a fight. what do we know, donald trump has always said, he likes a fight. and he can dismiss all of them as part of the swamp and not being able to get things done and it protects brand trump, right? his whole message is he wanted to come in and work without politician ands do things his way. now the politicians have defied him and they will suffer for it. he will say this is democrats and republicans. they didn t get things the irony here is i think the republicans had a chance of blaming this on the democrats, but the president kind of took it away from them. eli, do you want to make a quick prediction about whether there is a shutdown or not, real quick? no, i stopped
washington. and ceos, we hear they don t want to be tarnished with brand trump. right. but they still have really profited under the trump presidency. yeah. i mean, square that for me. well, the regulatory environment clearly has been less adversarial than it was during the last eight years. so i think business leaders like that knowledge that things are a little more friendly for them. and i still think they re hoping down the road that we re going to get really significant tax reform. unfortunately, i think that tax reform could be a year away before it gets enacted. a year away. there s a lot of work to do. yeah. we hear there s a bill, but there s no bill. i mean, the president said there s a bill, but there s no bill. yeah, the process, though, is still alive. if we woke up two weeks from now and it looked as though tax reform were totally dead, that would be a bad story for business, and i think the markets. but as long as the process is alive, very glacial prog
the white house briefing room triggering ethical and legal concerns about using her position to promote a trump family business. where is the separation with brand trump and trump white house? critics quick to pounce. a bipartisan call for an investigation. the top democrat on the house oversight committee and chairman jason chaffetz sent a letter to the ethics office. calling the comments wrong and over the line. asked about the uproar, conway said this. we re aware of the letter. we are reviewing that internally. i m happy i spend a lot of time with the president of the united states this afternoon. and he supports me 100%. the white house press secretary says sean spicer says conway has been counselled, but did not elaborate. we are told conway acknowledged making a mistake. no comment so far from ivanka trump. let s bring in eugene scott