murder tax wise. he s using the washington post for power so that the politicians in washington don t tax amazon like they should be. other than jeff bezos, we probably have the most relevant guest you could have, the former executive editor of the new york times, howell raines. you re one of the few people who have run one of these papers like the post or times that are important to american life that the president clearly obsesses over. do you view this as the president looking to get a better deal for the united states or bullying the free press? the latter, of course. i agree with post master brennan and the former trump s own former budget director, gary co cohn. he s simply wrong on the numbers and this would be a devastating move for the economy. now, what is interesting to me about trump, he s a gift to the amateur psychoanalysts of the country because everything he does is so nakedly obvious. this is a classic case of
know is an economic expert. let s talk about what it means to have someone like gary cohn walk out the door. gary cohn isn t just a wall street guy. this is a guy who before he came to the white house had one job his entire adult life. he came to new york city and he was acquired by a company that acquired goldman, he left goldman where he was the president and the coo to join this administration, so it s a big deal to see gary walk away. now many people speculated that once gary got tax reform done, he was most likely going to leave, because he came there for a mission, he got that done, he had never had political aspirations before, but, you can can yourself why now, why today? you know he was very against president trump s comments after
now with over 10 billion historical records, discover your story. get started for free at ancestry.com the breaking news that started this broadcast, white house economic adviser gary cohn out and he joins a large list that you ve seenen before, high profile departures under trump, the lower right-hand corner two important people hope hicks and
cohn to leave said people who were briefed on the matter, the president, quote, never formally offered mr. cohen the job, these people insisted. but mr. trump had had discussions with him about whether he would be interested. i mean you kind of get the feeling that the help wanted sign is always out and they move it from office to office. so i guess the question is, is this any way to run the white house? and is there any question that he might have become chief of staff and the most important guy around, guy or gal, and then he s gone. gary cohn s name is floated around all the time as a potential white house chief of staff, so it s not surprising that it just came out a minute ago now that you re reading it to me. but we all know that donald trump loves pitting people against each other. and i think he s intimidated by the adults as we call them in the white house, and the generals, and cohen, he s intimidated by these people, he
the camel s back, i don t know if cohn is in that position or not. there s so many reasons to leave this white house. there s so many reasons to leaf the white house, it will be interesting to see what the republicans on capitol hill have to say, if not specifically about this particular departure, just the disturbing number of, high number of people who are just i mean it s like they re being thrown out of windows over there, this is not a good thing, it s alarming and at some point our congressional leaders are going to have to comment on it. they can t act like this is normal, that this is okay, because then they loses credibility. we know this isn t okay, this is not normal. so somebody has to at least be honest about that. this is not normal and as john was explaining, this comes out of a policy making process that is increasingly and