play out which is donald trump promising a certain thing in the campaign, i m going to be tough, i m going to bust down on wall street, i m going to go to carrier and i m going to tell them they have to stay, and then now that he s actually going to be in office, instead of threatening them, he just paid them to stay. and instead of trying to drain the swamp, you know, the joke is, yes, he s draining the swamp right into the west wing. he s hiring people straight from wall street that he said he was going to okay so you sound a lot like bernie sanders because as we mentioned in the first block of this show bernie sanders wrote an op-ed in the washington post and this is part of what he wrote quote trump has endangered the jobs of workers who were previously safe in the united states. why? because he has signaled to every corporation in america that they can threaten to offshore jobs in exchange for business friendly tax benefits, and incentives. do you think that s what happened,
over, i want to thank americans for their support, and i m going to try to represent both the people that supported me, and the people that didn t support me. that opportunity is there for him. and it really does depend on what he says today and in some of these other speeches. all right. david swerdlick, ron elving thanks for being with me this morning. still to come, donald trump delivering on his vow to save carrier s jobs and his economic team says it will deliver a lot more but at what cost. i m victoria alonso and i m an executive producer at. .marvel studios. if my office becomes a plane or an airport the. .surface pro s perfect. fast and portable but also light. you don t do this 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. .if you don t feel it in your heart.
who had actually been one of the people who helped do all of those lousy mortgages. reporter: the president-elect s team defending the pick. take someone like steve who understands how the system works and how can we go make it more fair and help american workers to get in there and actually change it. reporter: capitol hill also reacting to trump s announcement that he will separate himself from his billion dollar empire. you ve got to be very, very careful on conflicts of interest. sooner or later this had to happen. he s probably not very happy about it but one of the things that had to be done. reporter: the office of government ethics sending out an unusual series of tweets applauding trump s pledge and encouraging the president-elect to divert his assets, a commitment that trump has not yet made. and since donald trump is hitting the road, expected to leave here around 10:00 this morning his transition team telling us we shouldn t expect any more personnel or cabinet an
you re going to see a lot of countries doing this. a lot of them are going to think the more they interact with him, the more they praise him, the better for relations. from what i understand the pakistan prime minister called mr. trump and here s some more of the conversation. um, this is what the pakistani information services said was said on the phone by mr. trump, trump, as i m talking to you, prime minister, i feel i m talking to a person i have known for a long time. your country is amazing with tremendous opportunities. pakistanis are one of the most intelligent people. i m ready and willing to play any role that you want me to play to address and find solutions to the outstanding problems. the thing is, is this is quite different from what mr. trump has said in the past about pakistan. it s not been very flattering. now he s criticized between in tweets in the past. pakistan is one of the most vexing countries the u.s. has faced over the last decade. to be fair to trump ma
former obama white house chief economic adviser austin goolsbee and former director of the nonpartisan congressional budget office douglas holt eken. okay i m going to start with you christine. carrier is owned by united technologies. united technologies makes aircraft parts. the unknown here is this. did donald trump threaten to pull federal defense contracts from united if it didn t save those carrier jobs? it didn t even have to. you have the president-elect of the united states calling the ceo of united technologies. united technologies had some almost $6 billion of contracts with the federal government, and on the campaign trail donald trump has said i m going to put a tax on that company. i m going to tax them for sending jobs overseas, and then bringing the product back to the united states. so if you re the ceo of united technologies, what do you do? you play ball with donald trump at this point. that s what s so remarkable at this point. we haven t had a ceo or a president r