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Taxpayers are subs digs is the trump kids travel to do business in the middle east. at some point, some one will catch the attention of a judge. there will be an injunction and ruling. then there will be traction. but for the moment, the only person with standing to do this would have been north stram, they arent going down the road. >> stephanie, dont know how to put this. you guys have a foot in the news world and a foot in the business news world. it is interesting to hear some one say, he is...

Fr where prime minister abe on a sumit to south america stopped in new york and had an extensive meeting with donald trump. interesting you saw the whole row of trump advisers, gary kohn, economic adviser front and center, gen malmike flynn, national security adviser. no questions about that from either the two american reporters who asked questions, one from fox, one from the "new york post" so no questions at all out of line from, well they were clearly asking about the immigration order and t...

They own these policies now. the decision to go into yemen was the decision they made whatever, and accedance it has, jon finer and juan zarate who served in the previous administration could comment better than i. i think they own this now and the idea of saying well we werent well prepared, that ability to make those arguments really has ended i think. >> thanks so very much, david ignatius, jon finer and juan zarate right now. were expecting more details shortly on the executive orders presid...

Alumni or one current member of the goldman sachs hierarchy for his economic adviser. what do you make of that? >> it is interesting how the goldman sachs people seem to infiltrate almost every -- >> interesting word, infiltrate. >> they seem to come out smelling like a rose. i will say this, when you look at the trump cabinet so far from the perspective of free market people and conservatives, you have to give very high marks. people like andy puzer in at the labor department, elaine chow at tr...

I think where donald trump needs to fill in the gaps at this point, paul, when you talk about his economic team, the senior economic people like gary kohn and steve mnuchin, theyre not people that paul ryan or the congressional leaders know very well. they dont know much about him either. i think that trump is going to have to pick someone at his council of economic advisers, someone like larry kudlow, perhaps, who is in the mix who does have the relationships with the paul ryans and mitch mccon...

>> oh, yes. i think donald trump wants him as some kind of economic spokesman for this administration. who better than larry to carry that torch. but there is going to be, paul, i sense a little bit of tug of war in this administration between the traditional republican supply side free traders and the more protectionist wing of the trump camp. i think its important for trump to have both views at the table at the very least so he can have the argument of dealing with nafta and the asian trade d...

My administration will be focused on three very important words, jobs, jobs, jobs. donald trump in wisconsin tuesday promising to make jobs his top priority when he takes office in january. the president-elect continued to roll out his economic team this week announcing hell appoint goldman sachs president gary kohn to chair the national white house economic council, joining steve min nuch chin and steve bannon. steve moore is an economist at the harris foundation, served as a senior economic ...

Of a tabular asset to a lot of us. >> thats the issue. goldman sachs, the economic team at goldman sachs, their economic advisers, thats a hot house of keynesian economics. they think government spending is the key driver of growth, down on tax cutting. they dont think regulation is a real problem. i agree with you. we looked and we couldnt find where gary kohn had a lot on the public record about where he stands on public policy. youre telling us you dont know either. what about steve mnuchin, ...

Oneills huge. takes a champion to know a champion. >> she said she was honored to have spent time with donald trump today. one note from the transition office, gary kohn will head up the national economic council at the white house. the day aint over yet. >> the big banks very popular all over again. john roberts to tower, thank you. now more on the reports that the cia told lawmakers and 17 u.s. intelligence agencies agree, russia interfered with the u.s. presidential election to help donald tr...

Top candidate for secretary of state. the wall street journal says rex tillerson has strong ties to vladimir putin. he has perhaps the closest ties for russian president vladimir putin, having negotiated a 2012 energy partnership with russia. he bestowed the friendship decoration on tillerson. he plans to name gary kohn as the director of the presidents cabinet. he picked steve mnuchin for treasury secretary and steve bannon is a top adviser. during the campaign, donald trump attacked goldman-sa...