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And we are just seven short hours away from the ball drop here in new york city as well. This is a look at times square live where a Million People are expected to fill the streets. Well fill you in on all that. And from times square to wall street, what a year, what a decade its been for stocks as they close out the very last trading day of 2019 in positive territory, turned around at the end of the day. Its the dows best year since 2017 and the s p 500 and nasdaqs best year since 2013. The dows more than 170 gain since 2010 now ranks as the fourth best decadelong performance in the past 100 years. And now theres new hope that the celebrations will continue well into 2020 as President Trump announces a breakthrough in the china trade deal. Hi, everybody, this is bulls and bears. Again, happy new year to you. Im david asman. Joining me on the panel today, jonathan hoenig, liz peek, kevin kelly and john burnett. Well, the president delivering a surprise new years eve tweet, quote i will
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Its disturbing all at one time. And i want to get into that. And birdies turning, i mean youve uncovered some pretty profound stuff here relevant to 45th president of the United States. So the first question that i have for you in this amazing book titled the man who sold america, is tell me why did you write the book and why now . Guest well, first of all, sophia, i want to say thank you. Its a measure to talk to a pleasure to talk to you. And ive got to tell you, the reason i wrote the book principally is just because covering this president , covering donald trump, its like a fire hose of news thats constantly coming at you, a fire hose of bad things. And they each kind of erase the thing before. So in one day you can have ten headlines where the first one for any other president would have been catastrophic and maybe even presidencyending, and then that gets erased from the memory hole literally sometimes within the same day, if not within days. So the main reason i wrote the book
I want to get into that. Youve uncovered pretty profound stuff here relative to the 45th president of the United States. The first question i have this book called, the man who sold america trump and the unraveling of the american story. Tell me why did you write the book and why now . First of all sophia, i want to say thank you. Its a pleasure to talk to you. I have to tell you, the reason i wrote the book principally is just because covering this president , covering donald trump is like a firehose of news constantly coming at you. Of bad things. They each erase the thing before. In one day, you can have 10 headlines where the first one for any other president would have been catastrophic and maybe presidency and the bit and then that gets erased from the memory hole literally, sometimes within the same day. The main reason i wrote the book was just to preserve the history. As much as i could get in before its gone to be honest. Before we forget whats happening. I think this preside