slide off the pedal. i was getting off the bike and it got stuck on the right side. come on. don t make things up. now you sound like a republican politician. that was a joke. all kidding aside, no, i don t think it is. i was talking to larry summers this morning. there s nothing inevitable about a recession. here s what we can do. i think we can get a change in medicare and a reduction in the cost of insulin. we also can move in a direction that we can provide for taxes on those in the corporate area as well as individuals as relates to trump tax cuts. we have a chance here to make a fundamental turn towards renewable energy, electric vehicles. across the board. that s something that we should be my team is going to be sitting down with the ceos of major oil companies this week. giving an explanation of how they make $35 billion in the first quarter. the president said quite a bit on the beach this afternoon. david asman and charlie gasparino join me now. great to have
hello everyone. i mfredric i mfredrickahere in the cnn newsroom. we begin in cairo, egypt. live pictures from tahrir square at nightfall. watching the crowd go by the hour all day long. demonstrators started gathering this morning right after an egyptian judge sentenced former president hosni mubarak to life in prison for his role in killing hundreds of anti-government protesters last year. let s bring in cnn s ben wedeman who joins us now from the balcony overlooking tahrir square. ben it is getting late there. however, it appears that the darkness isn t in any way disbursing that crowd. what is the objective here? [ no audio ] reporter: outside of cairo. hosni mubarak and his interior minister did get life sentences but cleared the corruption charges and the interior of ministry got off scot-free, that s krucrux of this and why people are so angry. remember, more than 800 egyptians were killed by government sources during this proet te protest and everybody responsibl