Tomorrow the president elect will kick off what is apparently going to be a multistate series of Campaign Rallies except theres no more campaign. So maybe its more like a concert tour but without a band . When they first announced plans to do this, people thought maybe that it would be their victory tour . Now they tell us they no longer want us to call it a victory tour. They want us to call it a thank you tour. Okay. Honestly, i dont know what to call it because who knows what this is . In other countries, you have sometimes seen stuff like this. That comparison is not a heartening one. In other countries in other eras of history, strongmen type leaders have liked to hold mass rallies to demonstrate their support among the people and often to intimidate their opposition. Theres no reason to think that that is what president elect trump is starting tomorrow, right . But we honestly do not know what this is for, what it is. Its not apparently about selling a particular idea, trying to get the country on board with any particular proposal. Its not apparently selling a thing at all. Its definitely not a press conference which he hasnt done in four months. This isnt even billed as a peach. Its a trump rally for trump. Because he likes rallies maybe. Were told this one tomorrow in cincinnati will be the first of a whole bunch of these. We checked with president ial historians. Nobody has been able to point us to any previous president select embarking on a series of mass rallies after an election. People have done Public Events on the way to their inauguration and stuff, but just rallies to celebrate their victory . This is new. This is new. President s go out in public. They go tour around the country to sell a thing. To get the country behind an idea. To launch a plan. But just going out to say, Come Celebrate me . This is new. This is a new thing. This is a new thing. And we have to get used to new things. We are learning this year in politics, theres a first time for every ridiculous thing. Meanwhile, though, the new administration is taking shape, and here is part of how you can tell that. This is a stock price that we can see chugging along over the course of this year. This is the stock price for the calendar year starting with First Business day of the year. You see there are ups and downs, chugs along over the course of 2016, but in the end ends up roughly about where it started, roughly about at the beginning of the year. But actually, look at the right side there. Thats actually not the whole calendar year. Look at the end date there. That end date is not today. That actually what was shown there was only ten months of the calendar year. That graph of that stock price ends on november 4th. Lets extend it. Look whats happened. Ooh, look what happens after the first week in november. Look what happens just after election day. Nice for that stock, right . But hold on a second. The end date there still is not all the way there. It doesnt go through to today. Lets extend this one more day. Look what happened to that stock price today. See right at the very end there. Boin boink, see how that goes straight up there at the end . Thats how you know the president elect has gotten the band together and touring around the country again because the president elects administration is really taking shape. The way you can tell that is because that stock graph were looking at there, that is Goldman Sachs. Thats Goldman Sachs stock right now. Why it is doing that . The president elect, of course, picked a Senior Adviser and chief strategist who is from Goldman Sachs. Today he picked a new treasury secretary who is from Goldman Sachs and whose dad was a Goldman Sachs partner, a Second GenerationGoldman Sachs guy. News was floated that the deputy to the billionaire banker who was just named commerce secretary, that deputy commerce secretary will also be from Goldman Sachs and for good measure the president elect today personally met with the current president of Goldman Sachs. So yeah. Yeah, Goldman Sachs. In is Goldman Sachs stock now. They hit an eightyear high today. They havent flown this close to the sun since the financial catastrophe of 2 thousand 2008. Good times. My contract with the american sloater beg e voter begins with a plan to end government corruption and to take back our country and to take it back swiftly from the special interests who i know so well. One other interesting announcement today, president elect today also named one of the billionaires from the Ricketts Family to be the deputy to the new billionaire commerce secretary. The Ricketts Family, funny story this, not that long ago they almost single sourced financing behind the president ial campaign of scott walker for president. When Governor Scott walkers president ial Campaign Died a fast and expensive death, the Ricketts Family briefly flirted with going nevertrump. But a very interesting moment in the campaign, donald trump responded by publicly threatening the Ricketts Family against spending money against them. He miss spled their name in the tweet. I hear the rickets family are secretly spending money against me. They better be careful. They have a lot to hide. After trump publicly threatened the Ricketts Family over what they have to hide and spending money against him, after that the Ricketts Family decided that they would spend money to support trump after all. And now one of the billionaire ricketts sons will be deputy secretary of the treasury. And so things are shaping up. The administration is starting to staff up with it top names. Its turning into quite an Employment Program for the nations billionaires. Goldman sachs has taken all of the seats around the table as Goldman Sachs intend ed pleb ed. Plenty of time to take off on a concert tour without a band. We dont know what the donald trump mass rally will be like tomorrow, but the fact that hes doing it is already an unprecedented thing. We really dont know how this goes from here. Watch this space. For lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads. Here or here. Today, theres a new option. Introducing drugfree aleve direct therapy. A tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors offices. Its wireless remote lets you control the intensity, and helps you get back to things like this or this. And back to being yourself. Introducing new aleve direct therapy. Find yours in the pain relief aisle. Give the gift of lower back pain relief. We think we have figured something out tonight that was previously a mystery in our current american politics. Basically about a week after the election there was a decision made by one very important american political figure that really made no sense at the time. Nobody has ever offered an explanation for why he made this unexpected decision, nobody has ever offered any sort of connection to anything else going on in the news, but now we know why he did it. At lease i think i know why he did it. Mystery maybe solved. Thats next. Be solved. Thats next. Aha, i think we have figured out a thing. A previously unexplained and strange thing that nobody had offered up any sort of explanation before now. I think we figured it out. You might remember during the president ial campaign, while the campaign was still happening before the election, the Trump Campaign put new Jersey Governor Chris Christie in charge of what would be the trump transition effort if trump won, then trump won the election and all of a sudden Chris Christie was fired, out. They pushed him out of that job once the transition thing wasnt some theoretical make work busy work job that was never going to come to fruition. Once it became a real thing and a really important thing, christie was out, got rid of him. Who did they put in charge instead . They put in charge of the transition the Vice President elect, mike pence, which im sure was very exciting for mike pence. Also a huge amount of responsibility. Its tons of work. And he was starting late, right . Because they had to undo everything Chris Christie had done and start over. On top of that pence has to get ready for being Vice President as well. Him being put in charge of running the transition, thats a huge, huge, huge deal. Thats why it was weird when we saw this. Mike pence decided to keep his day job as indiana governor. He got named chief of the transition on friday. On monday he said he was staying on as governor. Whats that about . Well, it sounds like the sort of thing you wouldnt do if you were really worried about the amount of work you had to do. It would seem that the sort of thing you really wouldnt have time to do especially because your successor is lined up and ready to go in indiana. Now i think we might know what was going on there. Now i think we might know why mike pence decided to hold on to his job as indiana governor right after he got named chief of the transition. Tomorrow the president elect is going to go to indiana to announce that a Company Called carrier is keeping a thousand jobs in this country that they were going to otherwise ship to mexico. You were seeing tons of headlines about it today. Youll see more tomorrow. During the Campaign Candidate trump, he talked about what an amazing negotiator he was going to be in situations like this with Companies Like carrier. He said it was going to be supereasy once he was president to convince Companies Like that that they should stay in the country because of this one trick he would do once elected. It would be so easy. Were going to lower taxes, keep our companies and if our Companies Want to leave, theyre going to pay a nice big beautiful tax to get their product back in. Okay . Thats whats going to happen. Ive watched as politicians talked about stopping countries from leaving. Trump went on to say that when politicians talked about stopping companies from leaving, theyd say heres a zero interest loan you dont have to pay, heres a tax abatement. Well help you. They have money, they want to move to another country because our politicians are so dumb. They want to sell their products to us and have no consequences and no retribution, thats over. I would love telling some guy, youre not moving. Well, mr. President , sir, wed like to move to mexico. Youre not moving and if you do, youll pay a 35 tax. That Business Owner will say in that case im not moving, im not moving, in that case im not moving, it will be so easy. Thats how trump portrayed dealing with problems like this on the campaign trail. Thats how he would Keep Companies from going to mexico. U wouldnt do all this nonsense about t abatements and offering them loans and incentives and stuff in the tax code. They dont want that. You tell them, you move to mexico, youll pay a 35 tax bringing these products that you make in mexico back into the country. Thats what he specifically said he would do to keep this Company Carrier from taking jobs to mexico. He would tax their products 35 to bring their products back in. Thats what he said he would do. Thats not at all what he has done. And now i think we know why mike pence didnt quit his day job as governor of indiana. Because the way they persuaded this Company Carrier to keep a thousand jobs in indiana was not by doing what trump said he was going to do, was not by threatening carrier with some 35 tax when they wanted to bring those products back into the United States and sell them there. They didnt do that at all. Instead they just gave the company 700,000 in taxpayer money. They just paid them. And thats something you dont have the power to do as president elect. You cant just hand over federal taxpayer money. This wasnt federal taxpayer money that they gave to the company. It was taxpayer money from the state of indiana. And thats why mike pence had to still be governor. Mike pence gave them indiana state taxpayer money. 700,000 in tax incentives. They just paid the company to not move those jobs yet. So trump and pence can get their photo op tomorrow. The money theyre paying them is controlled by a state board in indiana. Its taxpayer money. That state board doesnt have to approve anything through the legislature. Governor pence made himself chair of that board. So its taxpayer money but he gets to spend it as long as hes governor. So as governor and the chair of that board, on december 13th, the next day that board meets, governor pence will get to approve that flatout payment to this company with his states taxpayer money. And thats why he had to not give up his day job so he could make sure he was still governor to make sure that it looked like trump did something that he did do and said he would never do. Trump is like these weak politicians weve got that hand over tax abatements, doesnt even work. Companies dont even want that. Theyre handing over a tax abatement. And because trump doesnt have the power to do that, he had mike pence do it to screw his state. 700,000 in tax incentives free to that company. 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For the Bahrain Embassy in washington every year for Bahrain National day they host a celebration, diplomats and military attaches and washingtons friends of bahrain, they come by invitation only to hobnob with bahraini officials in d. C. And for most o the last few years the reception for bahrain day in d. C. Was held at the ritz carlton hotel. Very nice hotel in washington, d. C. Mostly theyve held these things at the ritz. One year they held it at the four seasons. This year theyve decided on a new venue. This year, a week from today, according to an invitation obtained by politico. Com. This year the Bahrain NationalDay Celebration in washington, d. C. , is going to be held in a new spot. Its going to be held at Donald Trumps d. C. Hotel because, of course, because why not . I mean, of course, you book your big annual party at the hotel owned by the president elect, wouldnt you . Right . You have to have it somewhere. You like having it at hotels anyway. You go meet with the president elect in the new administration and say, we really enjoyed meeting you at the Bahrain NationalDay Celebration we held at the ritz. I mean, why not put a little cash in the new president s pockets. Youd be crazy not to if you had the option, right . So Bahrain National day, december 16th, celebrate at the trump hotel. The day before that theres also going to be some interesting news. President elect tweeted this morning that hell hold a major News Conference on december 15th. At that News Conference, hell discuss leaving his business, quote, in total. It is, quote, visually important as president to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses. He says legal documents, quote, are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The presidency is a far more important task. Business operations . Presi