25 years in the making. in the early nineties icahn couple to trump s rescue. the corrupt nature of this arrangement cannot be understated. voters who wanted trump to drain the swamp just got another face full of mode. ben i assume you disagree. why? first this is not a paid position. it is an adviser wroel role. and if you look at how much we ve been celebrating wall street going up and people making money and retirement accounts going up this is an individual who understands how overregulation truly affects wall street and affects feel and their retirement and their mutual funds and hire 401(k)s. keith. of course he doesn t have a problem because this is the inconsistency. all the things trump said about getting rid of the wall street elites and he brings in more wall street elites. not only the inconsistency of
donald trump said on the campaign trail. expect negotiations there. mnuchin is one of three people tapped from goldman sachs. he became a financier in hollywood after being at goldman sachs. and gary cohn is under consideration for office of management and budget. and trump s chief strategist steve bannon also worked at goldman sachs in the 1980s. during the campaign, goldman sachs was a dirty word for trump and hillary clinton. wall street elites succeeding while the american middle class struggled. very smart people working there. obviously, donald trump is tapping several for advice. let s go live to washington and bring in zachary wolf. how is this all playing out in d.c.? thinking about goldman sachs. people who work at the firm are
till. they have no idea what he s going to do and it scares the hell out of them. very fair. but if you are a working class voter in middle america and you are trying to i am not trying to speak for everybody, but if you are going to vote this morning and you hear that the financial markets are going to protest donald trump s victory and your wages have gone down in real terms since 1987, that actually probably makes you think i might want to vote for this guy? i think you would run to the polls as quickly as possible and vote for trump. in many cases if there is that anger and resentment, and he knows that, and that has been true through history, william jennings brian welcomed the hatred of the wall street elites and that brought him close to the presidency. i follow you on twitter, and i retweet you many times a day. do you have a favorite moment
republican party is the wall street elites. you have the blue collared white vote that donald trump is appealing to. and then the evangelical piece. out on the campaign trail, what is cruz doing to try to appeal to other two components of the republican base? i think it is interesting. you are seeing him start to pattern himself after some of the things that have been successful for trump without doing the full showmanship and without going as far on any of these issues as trump has gone. i think he is starting to be more populist. he is starting to have more of an every man s stance that certainly has done well for trump and certainly as we were just discussing i think that he is now making what may turn out to be a smart play here where he s calling trump out as trump
texas. it is amazing to hear some of the prices. consumers, john, reaping the rewards of the oil prices via the gas pump. john, thank you. with the fall of the dow comes an avalanche of political finger pointing. the republican candidates blaming plunging markets from the federal reserve annud wall street elites. listen to donald trump sounding a warning we heard from him before. i have been telling everybody for a long time china s taking our jobs and taking our money. be careful. they will bring us down. you have to know what you re doing. we have nobody that has a clue. former hp ceo carly fiorina blames the market slide on the federal reserve for the easy money policies. new jersey governor chris christie insists it is the obama