U. S. House candidates, one running in michigans 11th district the other in californias 39th district. They talk about their reasons for running for office and outreach efforts to Muslim Americans, latinos and millenials. This is about an hour 50 minutes. If i can have everyones attention. Were going to go into our sort of next panel, next discussion. Unfortunately, one of the congressional candidates that we had texted me about 3 00 a. M. , a picture of himself on a plane. He was going to be taking the red eye from california to here to be with us, and then taking the flight right away back. Unfortunately, his airplane had mechanical problems. He was unable to make his connection in chicago. But we have two of Young American congressional candidates. We are going to have a discussion about political activism. Theyre going to talk about their campaign. We will then break down to a discussion of political activism. How were active in your local communities and how we can sort of learn f
Are actually seeing the euro turning lower here. Looking at crude, the picture in crude, wti down by 0. 4. Date to for brent crude. Heres big stories that we are watching today. Another wild trading session for the worlds oldest bank. Shares of monte dei paschi tell 7 in early trading after the embattled lender admitted there are no anchor investors taking up its share sale. A state bailout is expected with any losses forced on to bond holders. The president elect is tapping carl icahn as a special adviser. The billionaire investor will work on rescinding what he calls excessive regulation on u. S. Businesses. The Transition Team says icahn will not be a federal employee, and he will not take a salary. Another well known face to cnbc viewers is getting a job in the Trump Administration. The president elect is hiring economist Peter Navarro to run a newly formed National Trade council. Navarro is the author of death by china. He backs a hard line approach towards relations with beijing.
Have exposed the credibility of the press. They have the lowest credibility. Given trumps reliance on free publicity and the access to news shows, including this one, its worth remembering the joke someone cracked during the campaign. Donald trump complaining about media is like an oil man complaining about the smell of crude. So this morning, we will take a close look at this love hate relationship between donald trump and the press. I will talk to the editors of the New York Times and the wall street journal. To a group of top media critics from around the country. But i will start with three people whose job it has been to work for a president and deal with him every day of the week as well as deal with the relationship between the president and the working press. Joe lockheart who was bill clintons press secretary in the second term, Nicole Wallace and ari fleischer. I asked them about the art of working with a president and what they think we can expect from a president trump. Let
Have exposed the credibility of the press. They have the lowest credibility. Given trumps reliance on free publicity and the access to news shows, including this one, its worth remembering the joke someone cracked during the campaign. Donald trump complaining about media is like an oil man complaining about the smell of crude. So this morning, we will take a close look at this love hate relationship between donald trump and the press. I will talk to the editors of the New York Times and the wall street journal. To a group of top media critics from around the country. But i will start with three people whose job it has been to work for a president and deal with him every day of the week as well as deal with the relationship between the president and the working press. Joe lockheart who was bill clintons press secretary in the second term, Nicole Wallace and ari i asked them about the art of working with a president and what they think we can expect from a president trump. Lets dive righ
Politics, spin, but theres a lot of policy and you better learn it fast. I guess i would say how hard is it to kick the partisan thing at the beginning of this when you go in when you transition . How hard is that . Well, i mean, we worked for someone whose top priority after winning an election was really bringing the country together. The first time he ran as a uniter. He came in after the recount which was excruciating for the country. He was acutely aware of that. So he didnt have an urge to continue campaigning after he had won. Reelection was even more so. We were a country engaged in two wars with uneven trajectories at the time of his second inauguration. So there was no resistance on his part to sort of refocusing the countrys attention on governing. I think its an exercise in as a candidate you are responsible for nothing. All problems are made by someone else. All solutions are magically doable. You can implement that. You say it. You just say it. All candidates know that. T