Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt, sara eisen of post 9 of the new york stock exchange. The s p, the nasdaq, the russell all hitting record highs the dow is very close to a record of its own. Were in a period of time here seasonally the markets tend to do well. Its been about two weeks since we saw not only intraday highs, but even backtoback gains on the dow and s p. Technology is in the lead with some familiar names dom pointed to paypal, chip makers, technology stocks. The best performing sector of the year continues to plow this market forward deals are also a big theme, and the question this morning is how many of them are going to get blocked. 200 billion worth of deal this is month, according to deal logic. That is actually a record high for the month, and a lot of it they paint in the backdrop of amazons, facebooks, and googles, john, just getting bigger and disrupting industries and leaving companies figuring out the next step. Meanwhile, this big re
But that may jobs report from the government is not good. Its a warning shot to congress. Please, get tax reform done. Im going to backtrack for a moment. The president takes us out of the paris clite deal ande says that that will stop the hemorrhaging of jobs. Well, investors went on a tear with all of this. And all indicators hit record highs late yesterday and look at this. For our followers on radio, listen to this, we will open up again this morning, not much, but maybe 30 or 40 points, a new high, another new high. Here it comes. This is not what youre seeing though in the establishment media. Look at this, states and Major Companies break with trumps decision with exit climate accord. Thats the washington post. Our disgraceful exit from the paris accord, thats the new york times. And the breakfast shows on tv were all about the threat to the planet. Theyve got it wrong. President trump did not say Global Warming is a hoax. He didnt question whether humans are warming the planet
President trump, quote, he is no order con man. He is way above average in the american political system is his easiest mark ever. Guest yeah. This was that was early the campaign. I think that was in march of 2016. So it was just around the time when he was sewing up the republican nomination and the purpose of that article is this is a come. Com compilation of articles to explain the trump phenomenon for people who were having to take it serious come to grip watches the fact this was happening. So i took kind of a different approach to trump and tried to really listen to what his supporters were saying and try to focus on what he was doing, and my take on him is that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator and that he was perfectly suited to play on all the weaknesses of the american political media, ask that turned out to be truism was i had stucks to my guns on the piece. Thought he would be president and then later on i didnt believe that. Host well, the dave after the election you w
Matt, and your most recent book, insane, president , youre right about President Trump quote, he is no ordinary conman, he is way above average in the american political system is his easiest mark ever. That was early in the campaign. I think that was it in march of 2016. It was just around the time that he was filling up the republican mom nomination. The the purpose of this article was to try to explain the trump phenomenon to people who were for the first time having to take it seriously and having to come to grips with the fact that this was happening. I took a different approach to trump and try to listen what his supporters were saying. My take on him was that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator and he was perfectly suited to play on all the weaknesses of the american political media. That turned out to be true. I wish i had stuck to my guns on that because i thought he was going to be president. And then later on in the book i do not believe that. The day after the election you
Morning. Host you can reach out on social media. You can send us a tweet at twitter. Com cspanwj. We have about 15 comment so far. You can send this email that journal cspan. Org. Your political hero for the first 45 minutes. Here are some thoughts on facebook and twitter. This is from jonathan espinoza. About 15 comments on facebook already. Danny likes Bernie Sanders. Host just some of the mansions this morning. Entions some of the mansi this morning. You can give us a call. 2025853881 for republicans. 2025853880 for democrats. 2025853882 for independents. Also on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A couple of stories related to the fiscal cliff. From thew bid frittle bit Washington Times. This is ron from louisiana. Caller good morning. Host who wish to nominate . Who would youll nominate . Caller obama. Host what makes him your hero . Caller we were on a major slide when he came into office. He save the automobile and got Osama Bin Laden. He did everything even though the gop did nothi