was taking a stake in jpmorgan or bank of america, i think we should be having a meaningful conversation about this. and not to be dismissive of what anthony has created in sky bridge, but sky bridge on a relative basis to the planet is, you know, a minnow in the world. so it s not clear to me if you were looking at this on a sort of relative basis, to me there s a larger question, do you think hna is somehow trying to curry favor the white house through anthony scaramucci? that s a political and by the way potentially legitimate question, but that s very different than does this deal make sense, is this somehow going to undermine the national security of the united states. at the end of the day, though, in order for anthony to get this job in the white house, he s got to get this deal to clear. bill? well, again, i don t know what the criteria the cfius goes through, but this global eagle deal that fell apart was $450 million deal. the sky bridge deal is a $180 million deal. as
about what s in the news in the past 24 hours andrew seems to think he s allowed to ask questions. i m sorry. i read the column and wanted to talk to him about it. bill? look, i ve never heard anthony swear like that or say things hike that, okay? what he said to ryan liz sa. you have to hang out with him more. well, look, i got to go drinking with him more or something. look, he s also you know, i think particularly bipartisan. he has complimented barack obama. he has complimented hillary clinton. he is always trying to get people together to disagree but not be disagreeable. and now he s utter lly par zan, which obviously is his job, but i think we need to go back to this hna thing for a minute. me too. this is really important. not only is larry o donnell last night led with it, stephanie ruhle talked about it on brian williams, the really important thing that has happened here is
msnbc is a media partner for plit con. but there s another layer to the scaramucci story, and this one is actually a lot more important, potentially. scaramucci stands to profit nearly $100 million if the deal to sell his hedge fund to a chinese conglomerate goes through. now, watch dogs say it may be a major conflict of interest. it steals needs approval from the government as regulators, chaired by, are you ready for this, donald trump s appointed treasury secretary. joining me now is william cone who has known scaramucci for years. good to see you. thank you for having me. all right. this is important, because scaramucci made a deal to sell his company to hna, a chinese company that has a bit of a murky murky is the wrong word. an unclear ownership structure, but some have said may be tied to the chinese goth and hence american regulators are having a second look at it. that s kind of why scaramucci haflkt already gotten a bigger job in the white house or in the administration
make money off of this? unclear. but in terms of following the money what would motivate someone so much? why is he there to so dramatically please the president? well it s not just about public service. that s a whole lot of money at stake. and if there is only one buyer which hna is and there isn t a buyer beneath it that s a lot. mr. scaramucci we should add has been on this profit. he has been in this very studio where we invite him back day time night of his choosing. he was straight up with us on his last visit here np. mr. stengel you are offering as as i understand it a way to save us from ourselves by injecting sports and not just sports, the 1962 mets. how is that? well, brian, you got a hint. my name sake cayce stengel can t anyone play this game for me that s how i m looking at the white house. it s funny scaramucci chose the job of communicationing adviser. he said he he i had i made the
that b of a, morgan stanley, and citi group have all stopped doing business with hna because the know your customer rule, when investment banks start saying they don t want to do business with a customer or a client because of the know your customer rule, you know there s something up. and this is not necessarily a done deal. i mean, maybe andrew knows something i don t, he probably does. there s a lot i don t know. i agree with you. but i think this is not as slam dunk as you might think. in theory, yes. mnuchin runs the regulatory body. trump could rubber stamp it. is trump truly going to put himself out there? who cause he he put himself out there for ever and rubber stamp it, given the scrutiny specifically around china? he s going to do that for anthony? i think he might. look, i think there s a different hna has its own issues. we all have lots of questions about hna, who funds them, how it works, what relationship they have with the government, all of that. i get that