citizen. these kinds of bribes, they come back to haunt us in ways we wouldn t imagine. david, a great book and important thing for us to concentrate in these busy news times. important to look at with our influence on the world. david montero is the author of kickback exposing the global corporate bribery network. and that brings it to an end for this hour. and the end of the week for me. we will continue next week with our coverage, though, of markets which have been very eventful in the last few weeks for the year so far on the dow and the s&p 500. you are in negative territory. on the nasdaq with tech stocks, you re up by 1%. you would have done better in a normal interest-bearing bank account. we ll talk a lot about that, the falling price of oil, the economy and all the news we ve got to cover. i hope you have a beautiful rest of your thanksgiving weekend.
joe watkins is a republican strategist, former white house aide under george h.w. bush. the trump administration touts the fact it s urbired in a new era of regulation for americans. the trump administration has weakened our laws around corporate bribery, especially foreign corporate bribery. joining me is david montera, the author of kickback exposing the global corporate bribery network. david, look, one of the things the president claims as great support, he claims this is why the stock market is up and business leaders tell me all the time how much they like the fact the president promised to roll back regulation and he has done so. you are saying there s a dark side to that. yes, corporations should not be allowed to use bribes, which are not only illegal but entirely destructive when they go and do business abroad. this has a terrible impact on the lives of citizens in foreign countries and very poor and unstable places. this is not a smart way to do business for american