and he sort of pushed it off like everything s fine, we are getting our work done. is that your understanding, ed? there s always political problems for the present, people around here say we are just fine, but gary cohn is a gathers been through a lot of battles on wall street. he has that calm, cool demeanor. he told me a quick anecdote that they have one country out west this come to them several times that they are trying to build a copper plant. they ve been turned out twice by the federal government. i said is that for a few months? he said no, more than ten years. trying to build a copper plant, but they can t do it. it means tens of thousands of u.s. jobs. it is the kinds of deals that we are working on. sound small, but can have a major impact. martha: ed, thank you so much. good to see it tonight, as always, ed. straight ahead, a retracted cnn story prompted the white house to go on offense tonight against what it called a barrage of fake news.