mexico. trump is also claiming credit for a $50 billion u.s. investment by japanese tech giant softbank tweeting yesterday, softbank of japan has agreed to invest $50 billion in the u.s. toward businesses and 50,000 new jobs. he went on to say that masa had never done this had we not won the election. i m joined by a columnist from the daily beast, sally cohen, and ben ferguson. already, guys, something tells me you are not on the same page on this one. good morning, ben. let me begin with you. i mean, come on, you re a republican, you re a conservative, you don t like the idea of the government picking winnerers and losers. you don t like it at all. and what is interesting is that keith hennessey is quoted saying, when a politician rewards his friends and business friends and punishes business
his business friends and punishes his business enemies it s called crony capitalism. whatever side you re on in your politics, but for you as the attorney legally speaking, even though he s sold these stocks, is there any muddy water here still when it comes to these conflicts of interest? making deals, using sort of public shaming to convince companies to keep jobs here, to lower the price of an airplane, who knows what s next? that in and of itself, i don t think is an ethics issue. the american people can judge whether they like that type of politics or not. but to me, that s purely political. it becomes an issue if he has stock or holdings in a company that s affected by these deals and it s interesting that he took the position that the reason he sold the stock in june was for conflicts of interest. that s very telling because we haven t sort of heard that before from him. i think he s right. i think the right thing to do with those stocks is to invest