this amount of intervention, the carrier thing made me worried right off the bat, before he is even president. i don t think american companies should be build hotels abroad. how about that? what in president obama in 2008 calls up donald trump and said can you make all of the hotels in the united states? he would have said no. what do you think? he would have. but that is not where we are now. he is changing things and he is doing things that would not necessarily benefit him if he was not in that position he is take on a new position of president and relied we need to change these things because it is not fair and i am trying to make it better. i like what he is doing. the question was, is it good or bad? we don t know. we have to wait is see what happens. when you call taiwan or they called him, and it was like, my god, the top five military in
didn t realize he would drain it into his cabinet in position after position after position. i want to lay out a scenario that seems quite likely to me and ask how you plan to handle it. i can imagine a president-elect and the president trump doing things like the carrier thing quite often. taking individual sort of concrete high profile cases in which he comes in and goes after american companies to save american jobs and he gets lots of coverage and meanwhile, in the senate, they re gutting dodd/frank, they re gutting the aca, and i guess the question for you is what are you going to do about that when there s these sort of high profile spectacle symbolic expressions of this kind of populism and an agenda on capitol hill that s totally contrary to that? yes, this makes you think of a magician who is performing some trick and making you concentrate on his hands while he pulls off something clever somewhere else. just this big distraction from what s really going on. and i expect h
and there s going to be millions of americans who are saying, ha, that s one thing i really liked was he was willing to take on wall street and they re disappointed. more broadly this conversation about draining the swamp, we didn t realize he would drain it into his cabinet in position after position after position. i want to lay out a scenario that seems quite likely to me and ask how you plan to handle it. i can imagine a president-elect and the president trump doing things like the carrier thing quite often. taking individual sort of concrete high profile cases in which he comes in and goes after american companies to save american jobs and he gets lots of coverage and meanwhile, in the senate, they re gutting dodd/frank, they re gutting the aca, and i guess the question for you is what are you going to do about that when there s these sort of high profile spectacle symbolic expressions of this kind of populism and an agenda on capitol hill that s totally
is it really feasible to do something like that? he may face a head wind in congress on that. and we ve already seen statements from people like senator ben sass of nebraska pointing out this sort of a policy, you know, while popular rhetoric also carries with it some side effects which would include, you know, taxes that would be passed down to consumers and paid by american families in many instances and the cost of goods would increase. and so, you know, taking account of those side effects is going to have to be a part of any plan if he wants to get it passed. and like i said, i mean, the republican congress may have some issues with this. sure. and ellis, look. we have seen carrot and stick from donald trump. he s using threats. he s also using financial inducements like the carrier thing. and the question, though, i think is, which one is more likely to see more of, the threats or the inducements?
politically? in the short-term, no. his poll numbers are a little bit better and any incoming president wants a honeymoon period with leverage from the country. the most important thing that happened yesterday that s not gotten much attention is mike pence meeting with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. mike pence is trying to cue up a fast legislative agenda particularly on a down payment on infrastructure and if those things happen and higher growth rates, the deficit won t be that bad. democrats will be able to run negative ads in two years but that s the key. can they pass some things early on that actually help the real lives of real people. that s what trump supporters are counting on. they want border security and national security but more than anything else that s why carrier thing is so important. they want to see voting for