in loan guaranties. and which citizen of the swamp was at the center of that? none other than former democratic governor of new mexico bill richardson, he sat on the advisory board of ex-im bank around the time one lent money to the other. any time the federal government doles out fraud, in fact, we found at least 85 indictments for fraud, bribery or other wrongdoing involving the ex-im bank. we could spend all night showing you examples of swamp dwellers caught stealing our money. the problems are bigger than that. the bank makes money for the federal government, not true. they re long out our money at below market interest rates. they re effectively giving it away. the manhattan institute found that ex-im bank s protests are
right? he says in meetings i m not a democrat, not a republican. i like to get things done. jackie, to you. is this the gary cohn, the rise of gary cohn? in fairness, so did president trump donate to democrats and republicans before he ran as a republican. oh, yeah. but you do see the rise of this more moderate traditional republican and democrat stances on everything from chinese currency manipulations this week. he said he would keep the ex-im bank. he said that on the campaign trail that could be done away with. he said janet yellen would likely stay on. so you are seeing this rise of the jared kushner, gary cohn ideology. really starting to take hold and become real policy, and at the same time you re seeing steve bannon and the folks around him go under the radar. i had a former trump staffer say to me once that you want to get close to the sun but not fly too
confirmed and getting very good feedback on the strike in syria and he has flip-flopped on a few issues, in addition to the china not being a currency manipulator and now supports the export-import bank and said he may even keep the fed chair janet yellen. he says nato is no longer obsolete. is this part of the same phenomenon, learning on the job? it seems to be. i also think it s part of this phenomenon, again, of listening to different people, but and you can t imagine his conservative bank is happy about ex-im bank. the conservatives are not for the exim bank, no question, but republicans in congress, there s already been a vote on this, and there s so much support for the ex-im bank. also a president that the president feels that this is not a hill to die on. a lot of people among the president s core supporters, the most vocal ones on social media, talk radio, et cetera, who are very disappointed.
strong. and partially that s my fault because people have confidence in me, but, you know, that s hurting that will hurt ultimately. look, there s some very good things about a strong dollar but usually speaking, the best thing about it is it sounds good. shortly after those remarks, the dollar edged down a five-month low against the japanese yen. in that same interview with the journal, the president also made a campaign reversal by stating his support for the export/import bank on the campaign trail he called the agency unnecessary but yesterday he said the ex-im bank is a very good thing and it actually makes money. it could make a lot of money. meanwhile, white house press secretary sean spicer tries to mitigate his damage between the comparison of bashar al assad and adolf hitler. speaking with greta van susteren at the museum spicer asked for
conversation. maybe carley fiorina. let s all treat that event just like the second one. absolutely. absolutely. all right. there is more drama among senate republicans as the rift widens between senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and senator presidential hopeful ted cruz. last night the senate authorized a highway bill cruz claimed mcconnell lloyd to him about whether a vote would be held on the bank. he continued his attack after the vote saying in part quote, this tonight, the mcconnell-reid leadership team pushed through another win for the washington cartel and they did so at the taxpayer s expense. worse still, the one person who had the ability to make sure the ex-im bank remained expired was the majority leader, rather than keeping the promise he made to every member of the party. he turned his back on the people. mcconnell reportedly met with