iranians or it could be that the president who in the context of briefings always internalizes things being told to him. it s not clear whether it was told to him or written down. i think for president trump that will matter a lot. or did he just use it as an excuse? i m telling you, john, it s on the first powerpoint slide that the pentagon gives you. here s what it s going to cost you in terms of potential casualties. it s baked into the planning process of every tactical strike operation from the very, very beginning so i find it incredible for anybody to suggest that he wasn t told. it is a remarkable insight into the commander in chief, any commander in chief, but particularly this one. his reputation in town among his critics is he s impulsive, he s reflective, he s not nuanced, he doesn t do the either/ors. this was an either/or and he decided at the end, his advisers were unanimous. mr. president, you should do this. and he decided at the last minute i don t want to do this
saying, we re an offshore law firm who advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business. we do not tolerate illegal behavior. appleby s board minutes contain a list of declined individuals, business leaders accused of organized crime. a powerpoint slide used by appleby s head of compliance discusses terrorist financing. some of the crap we see is amazing, totally amazing. so that s a problem. it goes back to the motivation of people who want to move their assets to tax havens and offshore havens that specialize in keeping secrets. i think if that s your business, you re going to have to vet your clients very, very, very carefully. it becomes more complicated when talking about gary cohn who
this. according to the most recent poll from fox, it s even more disparate than people think. that is shocking, and it makes no sense at all. our employers should be trusted more than anyone at any time. [laughter] michael: i like the answer. tom, it s been served. tom: you re done? michael: yeah, that s my line. tom: i m used to andy. coming up, what big tricks will al gore pull out for the inconvenient truth is sequel? it rhymes with powerpoint slide slides. where s frank?
by signing a print-out of a powerpoint slide. this is how we figure out what our incoming administration is doing. and if it s not this exactly trick with the zooming in on the photographed unexplainable scribble, then it s something else, like the president-elect s one in-person meeting with a foreign leader. in that case we weren t looking at a powerpoint slide in someone s hand, we were looking at released images because they wouldn t let reporters in to take their own pictures. they had handout photos curated by the transition team and the japanese government. that s all we had to go by to determine what happened in that meeting, what happened in that room. that s how we learn that the president-elect had invited a top executive from his company to sit in on that meeting with the japanese prime minister. he invited his daughter, who works at his company, to sit in on that meeting. now we learn from the new york
american telecom company sprint. sprint has wanted to take over a rival carrier t-mobile. nobody thought the obama administration would let them do the takeover, so they dropped that bid. the new trump administration to be much friendlier to that idea of sprint taking over t-mobile. and now we have this, the powerpoint slide and the scribbles on it. sprint s stock shot right up after that meeting. so we really don t know what this is all about. but the word you re probably looking for is ka-ching. joining us now is a reporter for the wall street journal who has known softbank s ceo for several years. he was able to interview him on the street today after he left trump tower. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. what do we know about this investment? we read the powerpoint slide off