Well get to that in just a minute. How did you get into the businesses you are in . Guest well, like many things, its a question of taking a right turn at a corner instead of a left turn. So a lot of these things are accidental. When i was a kid, the first thing wanted to do was paleontologist. About dinosaurs. That led me to an interest in geology, later on i wanted to make some money, so i started studying economics. I put them together, got into the mining business, mining finance, but for many years ive kept up an interest in many different subjects because if youre going to be an effective venture capitalist, its good to know as much as you can about as many different subjects a you can. So, i guess that sums it up. Host when we think of venture capitalists we think of Silicon Valley and technology. Guest im a technophile. So i use my computers an ibm ibmseletric look aligning, i use at five percent of its capabilities. Host have you been successful . Guest i think i if. If retire
The way to answer all these questions is for the president to show his earnings. His partners, his debts. His tax returns. But the opposite is happening. President trump is now suing two banks and a Congressional Committee to keep financial documents secret. And as long as his finances stay hidden we will never know if the person elected to lead the United States of america is working for the peoples interest or his own. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon and at the end of a week when this president brought us to the brink of war with iran, a week when he doubled down on his trade war with china, one thats getting more and more costly for more and more americans, now this administration is flat out unapologetically breaking the law. The treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena from the house ways and Means Committee for six years of the president s tax returns even though the law does not allow him to decide for himself whether to comply. That is illega
Law . And in another administration that might be true, but this attorney general is doing the president s bidding, as always, speaking to an audience of one, as always, acting more like the president s attorney instead of the attorney general. The former fbi director james comey tweeting just tonight, and this is a quote, the ag should stop sliming his own department. If there are bad facts, show us, or search for them professionally, and then tell us what you found. An ag must act like the leader of the department of justice, an organization based on truth, donald trump has enough spokes people. Former fbi director. Wow. All of this as barr is slamming the mueller investigation. The president calls this a witch hunt. He calls it a hoax. Would you agree with that . Well, as ive said, if he were the president i think he would view it as a witch hunt and a hoax because at the time he was saying he was innocent. And that he was being falsely accused, and thats if youre falsely accused, y