John micklethwait. John, in your opening remarks section of this weeks is this week you essentially hold up donald trump his own meter stick, by his own standards for what he promised. Tell us about how you went about taking about this. John i think its probably the fairest way to judge him, and that he said its the way he wanted to be judged. He sold himself as being a businessman who would run the government more efficiently, and he would do better negotiation. He rubbished barack obama, Hillary Clinton and said he was better than this. He said he could run things very efficiently. I thought it was a nice conceit to sit and look and say, he was the ceo, and if you were the board examining how he had run this company of america, how well had he done . Carol lets go down that path. Lets just take, talking to russian officials and giving up intelligence information, that is akin to john allegedly. Carol allegedly. John if you were the board and this was your ceo, you would immediately c
Kevin cirilli. The rouhani victory comes at a time when donald trump is visiting saudi arabia and the saudis are going out of their way to welcome him. Walk us through what youve seen on the ground in riyadh. President nt trump is on a dealmaking spree worth billions of dollars. He is met with top ceos and leaders here in saudi arabia. Here is what you secretary wilbur ross told me. Rosss. Secretary wilbur told me. I could not imagine a business day mortgage for the United States and for the thedom more good for United States and for the kingdom. The investigations in the United States could risk ever shadowing his international trip. He is facing a lot of allegations about his international ties to russia. Tracey we did see u. S. Markets take a tumble off the back of some of the domestic headlines surrounding President Trump. Now that he is in saudi, what is going on on that front in terms of his domestic standing in the u. S. . Back in the United States and there are intensifying pre
Discussed 8 00 a. M. We are two hours away from the open of asias first major market opening for the trading week. Betty it is already after 6 00 p. M. On sunday evening in new york. We are kicking off to what will week ony adventurous wall street, a lot of focus on President Trump who has wrapped up his trip to the middle east, on to israel, or in israel soon and into italy. That will likely be the key event investors are watching for. Also watching for economic numbers coming out including housing in the u. S. Lets roll up what happened on friday as you were enjoying the weekend in asia. You did see quite a nice rally, sort of a bounceback in the dow, the s p, both of. Up. Still on awork losing streak, given the big tumble we saw. This as markets certain to price in the uncertainty from washington. We will see. This will be a key litmus test for how investors will absorb continuing uncertainties out of washington. Haidi that is right. It feels like we continue the misadventures in th
John dangerous to disagree. Stopped. You are an arrogant jerk. John lets break up with governme. We are done john that is our show tonight. John what was that odd film clip i just aired . It is a new series that actually is about breaking up with government designed to make the problems caused by government more accessible to people, but it is an overbearing boyfriend. The series is called love go and has gotten nearly 2 million views. I know that we just met. John we will debate that premise. I shouldnt do a show on this too many young people seem to love government. People like austin peter who runs the website libertarian republic. Com. You have the same name is a star on the film. John you are a long time libertarian. You have now watch this. When you see him getting all of the sons of thousands of young people you know that Something Like this is being shared. This Facebook Post that says it is in name, that is what we need. Maybe the libertarians need our own reality show. John s
And ally, all of the people in the United States of america. We are with you. Melissa President Trump assuring the people of israel that we have their back on day one of his actionpacked visit. The president saying this is a great opportunity for peace in the middle east. Could this be the start of what the world has been waiting for . Among our guests this hour, israeli ambassador to the united nations, dani damon. And pennsylvania congressman mike kelly. The dow as we get back to the markets, continuing higher. We are attempting to regain losses from last week. Our guy, sir Ashley Webster is all over it from the floor of the new york stock exchange. Good to see you on ashley. Reporter not bad. We had a huge selloff last wednesday where the bottom fell off down 400 points. Since that time the market gradually worked its way up. Some of the dow winners, cisco doing well. Boeing getting a nice contract out of that deal with saudi arabia, up 1 1 2 . 3m, visa, Unitedhealth Group all up ab