Mike murphy. He is a gop strategist and the host of the podcast radio free gop. And from austin, texas, matthew dowd, chief political analyst for abc news. I am least to have them both on the program. We have a lot of people around this table talking about 100 days. Let me start at the beginning from a political standpoint assess donald trump and his political performance and future. Mike . Mike i would say on the plus side, we conservatives are happy with the Supreme Court outcome. And he has continued to set the agenda, which is what a president has to do. Himselfot positioned where he has any popularity or strength in the country, either who are the core of support. He talks to the base with the same Campaign Rhetoric he used. And on the legislative side, he boxed himself out of working with them regrets becoming so radioactive, you are a democrat who helps them, and you will has not done a lot of what a president tries to do out matthew if i were grading his first 100 days, i would
Mike murphy. He is a gop strategist and the host of the podcast radio free gop. And from austin, texas, matthew dowd, chief political analyst for abc news. I am least to have them both on the program. We have a lot of people around this table talking about 100 days. Let me start at the beginning from a political standpoint assess donald trump and his political performance and future. Mike . Mike i would say on the plus side, we conservatives are happy with the Supreme Court outcome. And he has continued to set the agenda, which is what a president has to do. Himselfot positioned where he has any popularity or strength in the country, either who are the core of support. He talks to the base with the same Campaign Rhetoric he used. And on the legislative side, he boxed himself out of working with them regrets becoming so radioactive, you are a democrat who helps them, and you will has not done a lot of what a president tries to do out matthew if i were grading his first 100 days, i would
Bezos, hes now the second richest person in the world. Right behind bill gates. And bezos has around 79 billion. He made 3 billion just overnight. Lets not forget google. This is extraordinary. Thats revenue up every single quarter for seven straight years, thats a juggernaut. That stock also going straight up at the opening bell today. All right, thats money. Now, politics. It takes longer than 100 days to drain the swamp. Oh, yes, it does. No vote on obamacare today, or tomorrow. It may be next week. And the left, no growth plan for the democrats. The New York Times and democrat leaders call the president s growth agenda, a give away to the pitch. They dont like it. Your money looking good. Politics and that swamp is still there. But its friday and were glad youre with us. Varney company is about to begin. Aint no stopping us now were on the move all right, okay, ill go with that. It seems like theres no stopping, certainly no stopping the big, big tech names that have been on such a
Eu to ignore the u. S. And continue on with the nuclear deal. Lets look at how the u. S. Market post on friday. We at First Quarter gdp figures that took the wind out of equities sales. They are down almost 1 5 of the theent,. 20 , as well as dow industrial average. Strong following earnings from amazon and alphabet. Here at bloomberg, we are marking Donald Trumps first 100 days, and donald trump has done anything for equities, i have to say he has done a return of dispersion for stock market, a muchneeded dispersion. Take a look at this chart i have prepared for you. The s p 500 is up almost 12 since trumps election, however, this dispersion to pay big, big jump in the aftermath of the president ial win. This was muchneeded by investment professionals, who had been suffering under low volatility and low correlations for some time to come. What trump especially did essentially did was spur repricing as the market sought to adjust to his policies. We will discuss whether or not those po
Our exclusive with the ceo ahead. First to our lead. This week saw a showdown brewing in washington, cracking open the Net Neutrality debate. Fcc chairman ajit pai unveiled his game plan for rolling back Net Neutrality rules at a speech wednesday in the nations capital. Passed in 2015 by a democratic majority fcc, the Net Neutrality rules and to prohibit internet to prohibit Internet Service providers from favoring or discriminating against online applications, content, and services. Now democratic senator Edward Markey from massachusetts responded to the chairmans repeal, saying, it makes no sense. We cannot keep the promise of Net Neutrality openness and freedom without the rules to ensure it. Pai and the Trump Administration and the ceo should inspect a tsunami of resistance. The ceo said the rules as they stand have made a digital divide. We spoke to fcc digital chairman ajit pai from washington, d. C. Ajit this will be a political debate that will engage millions of people, but we