the day president reagan was shot. he black listed journalists who had been critical of them. he threatened to sue the new york times for reporting on his taxes. threatened to sue nbc for the access hollywood tape release but didn t follow through. still, the 3450ed i can t is not blameless in the relationship. there were a lot of mistakes by the media. the media failed to treat donald trump seriously as they covered him intensely and gave him an extraordinary amount of air time during the primaries. trump s public disdain for reporters may have helped him at the poelgs. now he s showing signs of flexibility. he told the wall street journal he ll change his overall tone. it s different now. the dynamics of a campaign are inherently different. governing is leading, giving people a leadership role that makes people say to congress, do
of where the president was. there could have been worrisome information gaps on the day president reagan was shot. during the campaign, trump blocked the media from traveling with him. he blacklisted journalists who had been critical of him. he threatened to sue the new york times for reporting on his taxes, threatened to sue nbc for the access hollywood tape release but didn t follow through. still, the media is not blameless. i think there were a lot of mistakes along the way by the media. i think the media failed to treat donald trump seriously even as they covered him intensely and gaye him an extraordinary amount of airtime during the primaries. reporter: analysts say trump s disdain for reporters may have held him at the polls. he told the wall street journal he ll change his overall tone. quote, it s different now. the campaign is a daily clash. governing is different. governing is leading. governing is showing an example.
investor. so you couldn t have said anything? i m not saying i would have said something. but absolutely. we had told the federal reserve in june that we would be a passive investor. the ceo, john stumpf, someone you ve known well for years. a very decent man. do you feel misled by him? i don t feel misled. i feel he made a hell of a mistake and didn t correct it. it s somewhat similar, i don t want to make it too parallel, john goodfriend didn t commit the act at solomon that caused the problem, but he sucked his thumb when he learned about it. and then it mushroomed, as problems do, out of control. and then, being behind the curve, he didn t know what to do exactly. i don t know what happened precisely at wells fargo at all. but the problem was not doing something about it. we have a hotline at berkshire. and thousands of things come in. the guy next to me has bad
do something about it. and behavior that has really hurt the bank s reputation. it hurt the bank s reputation. 1991, salomon brothers scandal, you testified before congress, you said lose money for the firm, i will be understanding, lose reputation, and i will be ruthless. you re sticking with them. why? i m a passive investor in wells fargo. i will guarantee, we ve got i don t know how many, 30 companies we own stock in. i ll guarantee there s something going wrong at almost every one of them. it s not my job to run those companies. but it is my job to determine when something goes wrong whether it s going to be permanent. but i was on the board of directors of solomon. sure. to those who have said, why didn t you come out and speak publicly sooner, in the midst of the scandal. it couldn t be done. at that point i would have violated what i told the federal reserve. we said we would be a passive