who questioned, they think he s worth $10 billion. i don t know anybody that believes that. they say it s a much smaller number. he s had his own business failures. yes, he has. we need to know more about both. david chalian, we ve seen this come up in past races. barbara boxer ran this ad. let s have a listen. fiorina shipped jobs to china and while californians lost their jobs, fiorina tripled her salary and bought a million dollar yacht and five corporate jets. i m proud of what i did at hp. that was no longer a neck-and-neck race. that was a killer ad and obviously that race was in california and so carly fiorina had an uphill battle anyway. this is exactly the kind of ad
warren buffett but he said trump is here to say. got some economic giants in that mix. donald trump inherited his father s real estate m fire the early 70s. he has become a billionaire through his own ventures and the ownership of the miss usa and miss universe pageants. his immigration comments cost him partnerships with nbc universal as well as macy s but he has a long list of previous business failures as well. joining me on the phone is kevin o leary, co-host of shark tank and cnbc contributor. kevin is chairman of o leary financial group and was just appointed to serve as a celebrity host for this year s miss america competition. kevin, you re on the phone but we are also keeping an eye on the trump helicopter. we have the trump logo, the name emblazoned front and center what else do you with donald trump, right? kevin? we don t kevin on the phone
his. he essentially is dismissive of any idea of the business failures have anything to do with him. he s a big he says i followed the letter of the law in bankruptcy. exactly. i think essentially when you look at donald trump s careers, the biggest question is he essentially made the argument time and again as a crony capitalist he is proud of his behavior, she the best crony capitalist, that was his answer to megyn kelly which is not in defense of how he s behaved and what he s done over the course of years and decades of these various deals. there have been questions at cnn about his mob ties in terms of his atlantic city career. i think there are much bigger questions. i don t want to put anything out there. i don t know what reporting you have on that. i m not pulling anything out there on mob ties. liz, we do have to go, if you are watching, we have folks, huge supporters of trump coming on the program this evening. thank you for both being on.
down on rains down on him, he doesn t give an inch and that s resonating with the republican base. the inverse of bill clinton, who gains energy when people come to him in a positive manner. trump gains energy when people come to him in a negative manner. he s grown larger and larger in that regard. by any means he s not the person he presents himself to be. he has numerous business failures constituency of one. his shareholders and bond holders don t like him nearly as much as everyone else. he has made money for donald trump. people talk about him tapping into this let s make america great. the united states is in reasonably good shape when you look at metrics and compare it to the next of the world. china is about to implode, russia is in recession. the u.s. is a bastian of stability. when compared to the bad
it s huge. many of the businesses have been failures. the casino company went through bankruptcy three times. the trump shuttle failed. lots of very successful business people often have business failures but according to donald everything is a success. but he is really rich. without doubt, donald is an extremely wealthy man. but to live the lifestyle he has doesn t require $10 billion. it could be much lower but we don t know. we ll drill down the example of his worth. with regard to the apprentice, he was paid $213 million for several seasons. that s not a bad day at the office. mr. trump announced he signed a deal for $130 million. and nbc, his employer issued a statement saying those numbers are way, way out of bounds. it s nowhere near that kind of money. and donald testified under oath that he inflates the numbers he tells people. he s admitteded to this under