Realal treat to be hosting ken auletta has been covering the media world a with the new yorker for many years and ranked as americas top media critic. He started in journalism 50 years ago as a political respondent for the near post and staff writer and columnist for the voice and a contributing editor for new york magazine. For a decade and a half since the 1970s to the early 90s he wrote it with a political column for the New York Daily News and also during that period writing for the new yorker. He began doing the annals of communication profile for the magazine. Over the years cann is profiled many leading figures of the Information Age and reported on many importanten developments io the media business. Hes also author to does in previous books on subjects from Network Television to the ad is thus to microsoft to google. Five of those works reached the sellers list. A hollywood ending he looks at Harvey Weinsteins tragic rear and the rights of one of the biggesthe powerbrokers and
Gold scaled back 15 dollars and oil. 1. 63. Caterpillars ceo says he is guardedly optimistic about the global economy. Which added into the buying blitz on wall street. And the power of the plug. Yesterday we told you about the fuel cell stock plug power that surged 24 monday well on tuesdays it rallied 15 more. Trader daniel stecich of athena Advisor Services joins us now. There was a collective sigh of relief in the market yesterday but will that continue . I think it will. You have to put what happened in russia behind us and if you look at what happened over the course of the last week, the market had a decent gain. If you could take mondays loss out of itwe closed friday around 18. 56 with a high of 18. 59. You take all that out of it and we gained a few points no doubt and i think thats because of economic data. Thats what we need to look at right now. Exactly. We have a lot of it coming in today as well as the jobs number on friday. Yeah, the big one today is going to be the ins
It does not sound like me on the phone and it was not me. Team trump distancing himself from a former member of his own circle circle, a butler publicly called for president obama to be shot and hung outside the white house. And as to his taxes he plans to release them eventually. Until then what is your tax rate . Its none of your business. You will see it when its released. I fight hard to pay as little tax as possible. And will all this help win over the gop and be the top man on the hill. We wo behind the presumptive nominee, donald trump, paul ryan says theres no endorsement but he and donald trump are sewing seeds of unity and any disagreement is due to donald trump not being a politician at least thats what ben carson told my colleague. Take a listen. Donald trump is no at politician, does not use political speak, is not poli polished. The same problem that i had. You know, the people understand you but the media certainly doesnt. Even as trump and ryan are seeking common ground
For terror attacks. Is he being grumoomed to take or the leadership . And long lines. Travelers are facing huge lines at security checkpoints at the airport as thousands who checked bags miss their flights. Is there any relief in sight . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Another bombshell from donald trump. A blast from the candidates past. In previous decades, trump routinely made calls to reporter posing as a binl cyst and answering questions about his business dealings including business relationships and divorces. A recording sounds very much like donald trump speaking in the third person about his exploits. Trump says, quote, it was not me. An audio forensic specialist says its trumps voice. This is as hes trying to pass up a badly divided Republican Party and being pressed on statements that hes made during the campaign. The presumptive nominee says his proposal to ban muslims from the United States was just a suggestion and in the same breath says hes not softening h
And finally, the bridgegate list. A deadline now just hours away for prosecutors to reveal the names of unindicted coconspirators from the scandal that upended Chris Christies administration. Anybody who works for me who believed that Something Like this was going to be something that would be pleasing or acceptable to me didnt know me in the first place. And now a new twist this morning. A lastsecond bid by wone of those unindicted coconspirators to keep those names hidden. Plus, a special edition of the most important number of the day. A surprise guest is going to join us. Who is it . Stay tuned and youll find out. Coming up, we begin with the top story. Phone call recording emerging of what the Washington Post is calling a young donald trump. Peter alexander has that story for us. Reporter the voice is instantly recognizable. Hes starting to do tremendously well financially. Reporter the audio recording obtained by the Washington Post capturing a 1991 conversation between the Peopl