Speakers have appeared before the club over the last century, and have established a very strong tradition of excellence. I would like to take a moment to recognize those of our 297 members as the Centennial Society attending today in the front of the room as their contributions continue to be the financial backbone for the club. They actually enable us to offer our wonderful diverse programming now and into the future. Wed also like to welcome students joining us today from Columbia Business School and Harvard Business school. In addition, we have attending members of the 2019 class of ecny fellows, a select cohort of next generation thought leaders sponsored by members of the club for our yearlong program. Welcome to all of you. [applause] it is both an honor and a privilege for me to welcome the 45th president of the United States, donald j. Trump. [applause] President Trump built on his success in private life when he entered into politics and public service. Hes a graduate of the
America inside of the peach there. He is expected to talk about deregulation, tax cuts, tax incentives, boosted economy to the record recovery what is expected to talk about. 11 years going forward. He is expected to talk about wages are rising. We have low inflation, looking at that, boosting spending. How his policies done that you will hear frustration from democrats. This is, frustration about democrats. This is how the Vice President , chief of staff earlier talked about how democrats are holding back the administration they have not done the things what they promised to do. They problem is to work with the administration to lower drug prices. They promised to work with us on infrastructure and work with us on trade deals. We are anxious to complete the trade deals that keep this economy going. Reporter some excerpts of the speech we obtained. One of the key insights of economic power is incentives. Unlike past leaders the president is expected to say my goal to insure this power
Were seeing around right now and it would be seen as a sign of weakness if the German Government wasnt able to stick with this selfproclaimed goal it is kind of the last hallmarks of stability that the magical government can demonstrate and all if so its the finance minister goes along with that lets just put it this way the leading photograph for wolfgang swipely who became infamous for being so tough on greece over that debt was all of his Staff Members forming the bloc 0 everybody behind yeah bend. And as a leaving present say actually one of the experts who work that out is now in a think tank and is questioning the very concept right now so thats where we are and i think the next weeks and months will tell how adamant he will stick to it come of back to you briefly last week even rumors that germany might invest more and provide some stimulus help lift it lifting stock markets around the world how important is this. Well youre right out of course many other factors are driving the
I feel like i have ifeel like i have said i feel like i have said this to you a few times, but. Im not sure we have ever seen a Statement Like this from a president of america. Steve bannon was Donald Trumps chief strategist. They campaigned together. They were in the white house together. Now this. A lengthy statement on bannon by trump in which the president says, when he was fired, steve not only lost his job, he lost his mind. He goes on. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, and says steve doesnt represent my base hes only in it for himself. Thats just the first two paragraphs. This isnt a democrat, or an old guard republican, or the media this is the guy who helped him get the presidency, the guy who oversaw the policy priorities at the start of the presidency. If at this point youre thinking, whats trump doing 7 well, in the short term, its almost certainly to do with this excerpt of a new book on trump by Michael Wolff thats been published by new York Magazine
Peace process. Turkey pounds Kurdish Militia positions in Northern Syria as Ground Troops roll across the border for a second day the kurds hit back with rocket fire on turkish town. And in the book this league of runaway leaders by munich forced to work hard to not have things all the roadway against about a claimant but they are champions for a reason. Fellow im terry Martin Thanks for joining us a glimmer of hope for german chancellor Angela Merkel after four months of political deadlock the social Democratic Party has voted to enter a formal Coalition Talks with merkels conservatives to form a new government but the chancellor herself says negotiations will be no easy task just a slim majority of the s. P. D. Rank and file backed the move but that could help the s. P. D. Demand more concessions from the conservatives who dont want to lose another grand coalition. It was a nail biting finish to our long debate with three hundred sixty two voted yes with two hundred seventy nine zero