transgender soldiers, cutting illegal immigration in half. and charlottesville and defending confederate monuments. so what, with steve bannon there or not, i think the big question is whether whatever comes next still believes that it has to kind of elevate this culture conflict as a way of pulling back voters who drifted away from the president on economic grounds and the cross-pressure for economic conservatives like business leaders uneasy with the racial tone the president is setting. getting, chris, a statement tr carl icahn, resigning. carl icahn. this confirms our conversation today in which we agreed i would cease to act at special adviser to the president, issues relateding to regulatory reform. a letter he wrote to the president. just got it. you remember during the campaign. i do. almost every appearance the then candidate was making, he would quote carl icahn, talk about carl icahn. i m going to bring people in like carl icahn.
97 and the end of the first bush term. they went further than a lot of corporations that were unhappy about that deal. a lot of reasons to oppose it on fairness grounds, on economic grounds but exxon-mobil went after the science and tried to create a culture of doubt about what was emerging and has as mainstream science around climate change. now they changed in the last four or five years, but it s a suggestion about when they decide to intervene in the public debate about a big issue in their world, they can do so very aggressively. josh, i want to bring you in. you re in the business world. i feel that we talk about the power of oil companies and largely it s sort of in the sort of like star wars dark star sense of things. really, this lays out how incredibly powerful exxon-mobil is. we talk about the debate around oil and alternative sources of fuel and they dominate it. one of the ways i think is interesting that i wanted to talk to steve about they do it by depersonalizing.