Months before an election. We were the two point people for the democrats. I didnt act in a sense of partisanship. Two, the president in his first speech to Congress Said he would ask for more money if it was necessary. We had a big debate in the white house we may have needed more money. The market needed to hear that he was willing to go went get more money. The precrisis need for that. He came to the aid of the fed. Bankers are not the Financial System. He was willing to spend Political Capital on the thing that was very unpopular and ask for additional resources. His firstat in address to the United States house of representatives. Brought up as it relates to compensation and bonuses was the first issue when we were first debating. I think you have the cause and effect backwards. Over the money being given to the banks was enormous. A large number of people were losing their homes. Intervening to help people foreclosed upon was a much more Conference Controversial issue than people
[applause] is there a nice woman that would like to inspect it in the audience . Its actually my hair. They say, you wear the worst hair piece i have ever seen. What a horrible wig. So i put on twitter, i dont. Its funny, when people want to keep but i like to defend myself. And the beautiful thing about the new media is that you actually can. If you have enough followers, i certainly have a lot. Many, many millions. You can protect. Its interesting. Sometimes ill be attacked. Then ill attack back really viciously. I never hear from that person again. Especially if its a famous person. If its not a famous person, they continue because what do they have to lose . I was attacked like by cher. She didnt like my politics. I hit her so hard, she still doesnt know what happened. The last i heard of her. I dont know. Rosie odonnell has gone around saying the worst thing i ever did was to attack donald trump. She attacked me. A young woman of miss u. S. A. , lovely young woman, she had an alco
I think they gained a lot of respect for me. I have been told by a couple of them that it was amazing the job that i did. I got more and to sign a contract is one of the great linebackers of all time. I think that they respect what i did and respected a lot. Dont see that as a problem we got out of Atlantic City about five years ago. We sold and the timing was good. Re. Not too much in thei do you ever worry about your brand becoming damaged . At could damage it is to what could damatge it . To go back to facebook, twitter, instagram. Something about me that is false, i will hit them hard. They will disappear amazingly. Somebodys real wiseguys. Many use bankruptcy. It is a tool. When i use it, i buy a Company Compact outlet into a chapter, i negotiate the hell loans and the problems it has, they say that from house bankruptcy. They dont sit with other guys. I let people know that it is not right what they are saying. They attack my hair. It is mine. Come here. [applause] is there a nic
In asia overnight, equities markets were a little bit mixed. The hang seng was up by 1. 5 . Oil prices are down another 1. 34. Thats probably because of what youre seeing happening in the dollar. Look at the ten year note before we get to the dollar. The ten year note is yielding 2 point poip 482 . The yield getting pressed down. Take a look at the dollar. The dollar is down against both the euro, the yen and the pound. Right now the euro is at 1. 3353. Oil would be going up. Oil is going down on syria. On syria is coming even further up to the forefront. If you take a look at gold prices this morning, up slightly. Up by 7. 40 to 1,316 an ounce. Andrew. Thank you. What a weekend. I remember five years ago we had one weekend and now we have another one. Its not the same. With Larry Summers out of the race, will president obama pick janet yellen . Is donald kohn a candidate . Tim geithner says he doesnt want the job. We have three guests joining us. We have ben white back. Ill start with
North lawn of the white house. Kristen, before you head off on that trip, there was a big meeting in the white house yesterday. The president , top congressional leaders, both parties. What came out of that meeting . I saw certainly the sound of everybody saying were going to Work Together, bipartisanship. I feel we hear that every two years. Anything come out of that that says this different . Reporter well, no, nothing came out of it that sounded different. What you heard publicly from president obama when he made remarks at the top of the lunch he was interested in hearing from republicans. We do know they discussed some is areas of agreement like increasing funding for fighting ebola and isis. However, when that lunch ended, the statements that weigh good from both sides seem to suggest theyre still dug in on some of the key issues, particularly immigration, steve. President obama has said he is moving forward with his plans to issue an executive order on immigration before the end