Track on the mining industry. The founder and chairman of one of the Worlds Largest Mining Companies Vedanta Resources willjoin us. Well get his thoughts on the Trump Presidency, and likely drivers for Commodity Prices this year. And we also want to know your thoughts are you optimistic or pessimistic about the new leader of the free worlds economic plans . Will it be a trumpjump or a bump . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Or 0rdump or dump welcome to the programme. Lots going on, weve got that friday feeling. Later today donald trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Lets be frank. The Billionaire Businessman has gone from long shot candidate to the leader of worlds biggest economy in just a year and a half. His supporters will now be hoping that he can shake up the us economy in the same way the he shook up the president ial race. Lets ta ke lets take a look at some of the details that we know. He has promised to create 25 million jobs over ten years, and
through the government s federal program, aimed at saving people from foreclosure. his bank had been bought by one west, owned by trump s treasury nominee, steven mnuchin, and his partners. we contacted them that seriously we need the modification. and they said that we don t qualify because we have never missed a payment. okay, so i ll do that. so we skipped two months. reporter: one west denies it gave that advice to customers but customers say there was a repeated pattern, a number of customers saying the bank told them to stop paying their mortgage for at least two months to qualify for federal help, help that didn t materialize. u.s. treasury officials tell cnn there was no requirement to stop paying mortgages in order to qualify for assistance. nicholas and eloise say it happened to them, too, though they admit they didn t manage their money well and got in over their heads after their mortgage ballooned. i told them that we need help
so he picks this treasury nominee. the day after he picks mnuchin to be his nominee. the stock goes through the roof. if donald trump is invested in the hedge fund, he just financially benefited to pretty significant amount with a multimillion dollar investment from what his treasury nominee said. first of all, i don t know if he has that investment. can we know that? let me get back to you. it s important. because remember he has accountants and lawyers working literally around the clock to making sure that what needs to be done by a man who is successful in business in modern times is sufficiently disentangled for him to take his job as president of the united states and focus on that 110%. secondly, i would expect the treasury secretary designee of a conservative republican president to say they would like to privatize fannie and freddie. i don t think that should
oe of those 104 pages it says that he had money invested in a hedge fund that s placed a particularly big aggressive bet that fanny may and freddie mac are going to be broadcast. so he picks this treasury nominee. the day after he picks mnuchin to be his nominee. the stock goes through the roof. if donald trump is invested in the hedge fund, he just financially benefited to pretty significant amount with a multimillion dollar investment from what his treasury nominee said. first of all, i don t know if he has that investment. can we know that? let me get back to you. it s important. because remember he has accountants and lawyers working literally around the clock to making sure that what needs to be done by a man who is
a congressman, then buying that stock, that would be a problem. you just gave the democratic senators a good line of questioning to ask. i m sure they re watching you. well done. well done. let me ask you something along the same lines. i m not going to ask you about the president-elect s tax returns because that s very well but he did release 104 pages. on one of those 104 pages it says that he had money investe in a hedge fund that s placed a particularly big aggressive bet that fanny may and freddie mac are going to be broadcast. so he picks this treasury nominee. the day after he picks mnuchin to be his nominee. the stock goes through the roof. if donald trump is invested in the hedge fund, he just