Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Obviously busy morning as the president meets with top executives in washington this morning including the heads of gm, ibm, blackstone ceo Steve Schwartzman on the agenda trade, infrastructure, budget and education. Our Kayla Tausche is on the ground with all of the latest. Reporter good morning. Just a few moments ago we saw the president leaving the west wing going over to the Eisenhower Executive Office building to meet with those some 20 ceos of some of the largest Multinational Companies based here in the u. S. We are getting some headlines based on the comments that he has made on an introductory basis to this group saying the administration is going to have pleasant surprises on nafta and notified the senate that he negotiated. The nafta headline is one we want to discuss further. This group has been convened to discuss tax reform, to discuss trade, to discuss infrastructure, education, and this whole host of issues that cabinet le
Communication twun jona, but the firm is trying to engage the ceo. The interesting part of this story, jana was once short whole foods in 2014. It knows the company and its business quite well result of that campaign. In this case, im told jana is focusing on two tracks here. Operational improvements and b possibly a merger, depending on what offer might be out there. Im told januaa wants to put al the opgs on the table. Jana said to be heavily focused on the board, which has had one new member since 2008. Shares have lost half their value in the last many years. Have lagged the s p 500 over the past year. Leslie. Great reporting, now, Jana Partners took massive stake in whole foods. The firm said that it intended to speak with the company and underperformance in whole foods stock. A refresh of the board and Senior Management as well as how it can optimize real estate and improve its technology. Now, the activist firm came armed with a slate of potential nominees, each of whom took the