Price nomination, i wanted to see if i could put a little perspective on the upcoming debate. Focusing on bipartisanship has always been important to me. I know many of my colleagues on the Senate Finance committee on the democratic side share that view. And in 2009, the nominations of democrats tom daschle, tim geithner and ron kirk were all handled in a bipartisan way. Issues came up in the vetting process in each of these cases, and both sides of the committee took the investigation seriously. Unfortunately, mr. President , that has not been the case in 2017. P while congressman price served on the powerful ways and means i committee, he traded in healthcare stock, push policies that help his portfolio, and got special access to a promising stock deal. I asked th the congressman direy in his finance Committee Hearing whether he got a special deal. He said that he did not. I dont think you could be much clearer than the following passage from a recent report by a pulitzer prizewinnin
Jon fortt, sara ooist eisen and me at post 9. Joining us, recodes executive editor kara swisher. Kara, always good to talk to you. The dow is up and up across the board and the president meeting with canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Its not just that meeting. The president and trudeau will discuss launching a joint task force aimed at helping women in the workforce, talking about executives from general electric, accenture, gm, and a lot more. We know what an issue that has been over the past couple of years, kara, especially for the Tech Community out west. What do you think this brings . Well, well see. I mean, hes obviously interested in creating jobs and hes got to meet with various executives, and well see where these meetings go. I think the real issue is where do the jobs get created and how . So, i think good terms with the Business Community is an important part of the job, i suppose. Im wondering, kara and we want to keep talking about this meeting, of course but this
Tightens hitting brandnew alltime highs. The dow, nasdaq, and s p, though, are suddenly spooked. We will tell you why. Its something that happened in the last hour. Meanwhile, hope and change in the middle east is discussed at the white house at a rose garden, President Trump expressed hope for a peace deal between the palestinians and the israelis. Not just hope but a path the president also using very strong words saying hes changing his attitude on syrias sevenyear civil war after deadlys deadly gas attack. The focus on middle eastern issues comes on tomorrow tomorrows rival chinese president. Also what to do about north korea. Former nato ambassador Nicholas Burns reads behind the red lines for both syria and north korea and former u. S. Trade representative ron kirk on what the president must do to get the better trade deal from china. The global food supply not on the menu at the white house but one entrepreneur says hes pinning his hopes telling the world let them eat bugs. Meet
It is election day in the u. S. 226 million americans cast their ballots in one of the most among jewish u. S. President ial elections in recent history. One of the most tumultuous u. S. President ial elections in recent history. Hillary clinton held a narrow lead in most preelection polls. Her campaign has and armed by federal probes into her handling of classified emails, questions about her familys foundation, and public doubts over her trustworthiness. Republican real estate magnate and reality tv star donald trump, defeated 16 primary opponents and promises to drain the swamp of washington corruption. He has faced criticism for his treatment of women and denunciations of immigrants. We bring you the analysis you need on this historic day. I am joined by bloombergs politics and economics editor, Michael Mckee. In london, we are joined by Alexander Friedman for the first half of the program. Alex, good to have you on the program. First, lets get to the bloomberg first world news. Th
In government, and he is now taking over as the white house chief of staff. What skills do you think are transferable . See of him heading the rnc transferred over to the white house . Have you see this equal partnership between the chief of staff and mr. Ban and find out mr. Bannon playing out . We had a most 7000 people who were part of this effort to take mr. Trumps message and work on behalf of the entire ticket throughout the country. I think they did a phenomenal job rights previous laid out a vision, phenomenal job. Riebus laid out a vision, worked with parties, but he is a consensus builder, and one who takes a vision and gets it done. If you think about what the team that was sortout of taking his position and what he wanted, now he is going to take those qualities and transform to administration and work on behalf of the president elect to take his vision and if amended and get it done very i think he has a track record of use the sameill qualities to move mr. Trumps agenda f