Trump. My first takeaway is that donald trump is not the man sending off a lot of the tweets he fires off. Maybe the ones in the middle of the night, but not all the time. Ellen not all the time. Brad, who runs the data operations for the organization, for the trump company, i mean organization, campaign. He is doing some of the tweeting. Mr. Trump does some himself. But while he is on stage, if you have been wondering who mans the twitter buttons, it is brad. We introduce you to him in this story. Carol he is a big deal in the Trump Campaign, how did he get there . It is not the usual route. This is not a political strategist type. Ellen no, he is not a career politician. That is one of the interesting things about the story, it takes you behind the scenes. He works in san antonio, and somehow he was hired to do websites for the Trump Organization david on the street. On the cheap. For the trumprelated parities. Ellen on the cheap. And for some of the trump related charities. When it
Cofounder of the intercept. His most recent article is headlined, mike pence will be the most powerful christian supremacist in u. S. History. But that is just the beginning. Is like a cabinet team of rivals. Neocons and war criminals, radical rightwing christian supremacists the antiimmigrant activists. Juan all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im juan gonzalez, in for amy goodman. Amy is on assignment. President elect donald trump held meetings with finalists for highlevel cabinet positions at his golf resort clubhouse in new jersey over the weekend. Among those who were paraded in front of reporters were retired marine general james mattis, who is considered a contender for defense secretary, former new york city mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 republican president ial nominee mitt romney, who are both considered to be finalists for the secretary of state position. Mattis is a former
Open bigotry, threats against immigrants and muslims, and blatant misogyny. Today we spend the hour looking with Jeremy Scahill, cofounder of the intercept. His most recent article is headlined, mike pence will be the most powerful christian supremacist in u. S. History. But that is just the beginning. Is like a cabinet team of rivals. Neocons and war criminals, radical rightwing christian supremacists the antiimmigrant activists. Juan all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im juan gonzalez, in for amy goodman. Amy is on assignment. President elect donald trump held meetings with finalists for highlevel cabinet positions at his golf resort clubhouse in new jersey over the weekend. Among those who were paraded in front of reporters were retired marine general james mattis, who is considered a contender for defense secretary, former new york city mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 republican pr
Forecast for global growth. The business ramifications of a post fidel castro world, will the president elect reverse the thawing of relations . Plus, the American Consumers back, at least according to estimates from the shopping weekend. But did retailers benefit . And at t goes over the top, another Online Service aimed at cord cutters. Were going to have those details in a moment. First up, a new trading week after the three major indices closed friday trading at record highs. Same goes for the russell which is coming off its 15th straight day of gains since february 96. Small caps up 12. 7 since the election. The russell, guys, only had two streaks longer than this one in its history. This is remarkable rally because its based on everything that this guy says. Like anything that trump said is going to come true. And i think thats because people just feel like the republican partys going to fall in line. You know, i have to tell you that the agencies control a lot of what happens to
We are but an hour away from the close of the trade. Emy has the latest remy we saw the dow below 200 points. We are close to that pair the dow is down by about 193 points or so. Lets look at what is happening if we could pull that up. Stocks are lower, giving up all of the gains we saw monday and then some. The s p yesterday hit its 50 Day Moving Average and then some. The dow is up half of 1 . It is pretty much flat. The nasdaq cannot be pulling out of the red anytime soon. Part of this is because of what happening in Consumer Staples. Is a little bit more than 1. 8 . We are talking about the biggest fall since january. All of the stocks are all in negative territory. Climb this is the biggest since january 20. Craft as welllude as campbell on the order of 3 or more. Down by nearly 4 . Betty an interesting move in the bond market as well. In thee is a strength markets. People are fearing the strength right now. We are seeing the potential for the Interest Rate rise and definitely imp