Former bush 43 spokesperson mercedes schlapp. Is this latest distinction, mercedes from the Obama Administration, president obama himself purportedly he had given the new president to be a heads up on general flynn a game changer . How would you describe it . I dont see this comment from these Obama Administration officials to be necessarily a gamechanger in any way. I think that President Trump at the time did have faith in Michael Flynn. I do believe that following what we have seen in these events that happened in the months, in january, february, where flynn had to resign, flynn continues to be that reoccurring nightmare that does not to away for the Trump Administration. Were all anticipating see what happens with the sally yates testimony which i think will be very telling in terms of these warnings that were given to the Trump Administration. But i just dont see it necessarily, what this actually brings what is a gamechanger, after the president and his team said no longer they had trust in Michael Flynn and released him. Neil when you say things change in the white house, you havent changed, the original argument was that the former security advisor Michael Flynn had lied or misrepresented himself to Vice President pence. Right. Neil possibly there is more nuance to this, comes out in sally yates testimony where she too, were told, raised concerns about him, where is this going . I think you saw with the attorney, flynns attorney they were seeking immunity for flynn if he were to testify in front of the senate or house intelligence committee. Obviously the senate said no, they will not give him immunity. That is opportunity to get more information. Flynn, from a legal perspective could be in trouble, neil. So i think that, this is something that needs to develop, but what youre trying to see is the fact that, there is a story stop with flynn or does it get into the higher ranks of the Trump Administration . At this point indications show it is basically the problem here has been Michael Flynn. I think it would be wise for President Trump to not necessarily keep trying to, you know, back him up in any way. I think that relationship is severed. There is no reason to look back. He has brought on a very qualified National Security team and there is no reason to be defending Michael Flynn at this point. Neil for those watching at home were following markets as well. Normally developments, unexpected developments might weigh on stocks, were not in a big way. Technology stocks continue to have a good day. Well get to that in a second. If this is dissuading investors that Health Care Bill ironed out and brought back to the house and repeal and replace obamacare, that will grease the skids for tax cuts they have a funny way of showing it. There doesnt appear to be any doubt about that. Or latest developments president obama warned his incoming success general flynn how that changes the dynamic anyones guest. Bring in New York PostWashington Bureau chief. Gabby, are you getting a hint that its too administrations views on the same guy and that the obama people are going out of their way to insist that they warned, telegraphed, gave a heads up, whatever you want to call it that general flynn might be problematic and the trump people coming back to say, well, wait a minute, it was you guys who gave him the security clearance that, lets say made him problematic. Where is this boeing . Both sides are trying to defend their positions on this it is certainly significant revelation to find out Obama Administration officials had warned the Trump Administration that before President Trump took office neil im sorry to jump on you. Do we know that trump people confirmed that by president obama or is it coming from obama folks . The white house has gone radio silent on this we havent heard confirmation. If these claims are true, it does mean that the white house obviously had some reason to believe that general flynn might not be the best person for the position of National Security advisor. Yet werent ahead and hired him for that position anyway. I think that is something that sally yates will certainly be asked about in her testimony today. Especially, what those concerns might have opinion. Keep in mind, this is an individual who was let go by the Obama Administration in his role as director of the Defense Intelligence agency for mismanagement and other issues. So whether there are concerns and whether there are warnings to president obamas successor had to do with those issues or other concerns that they may have had possibly about his relationship with contacts with russia or other things is certainly something that we should see, you know senators ask sally yates about today. Neil gabby, i see things always through the greedy, selfish prism on wall street, if you indulge me here, the collective read is anything that delays Health Care Repeal or replace or tax cuts after that is bad news. Is this the kind of thing that could drag on longer than thought and imperil those initiatives . Well, look, neil, i dont think this will have a Significant Impact on the legislative process on health care or tax reform. I mean the stories about general flynn and russia and this administration have been going on since the minute President Trump took office. Yet he has accomplish ad number of things during his first 100 days. Just last week we saw the house pass the Health Care Bill. I dont think this will overshadow or delay or have Significant Impact on those process. I think Congressional Republicans are capable keeping those things separate and not let what is speculation is happening in the media overshadow or affect their legislative process in any way. Neil gabby, a pleasure, thank you, very, very much. Thanks, neil. Neil meanwhile he is deemed i guess the left of center candidate, very triumph man emanuel macron who easily won the french presidency by two to one margin over his closest opponent marine le pen, in second place was none of the above. Protesters are building in the 39yearold future president , i think takes office on sunday, they see a former investment banker and one who already talked about cutting spending. Generally the stuff we associate with conservatives and republicans in this country. Ashley webster, in france now with the latest. We have daily mail columnist Katie Hopkins. Both by the way are in paris. Ashley to you first. I caught your earlier. Ashley yeah. Neil you talked about the fear, i only say the fear among protesters, hey this guy is like, you know a costcutting republican and he wont be good for us . Ashe ark he is. He is a miserable millionaire. Former investment banker whos proposing they cut government jobs by 120,000. That they cut Government Spending by 65 billion. And that has had many people here in france saying, say what . What are you going to do . That does sound like an extremely conservative republican. He also, god forbid, wants to reform french labor laws as we know very difficult for a French Company to hire and fire people. Also very strict regulations on the number of hours that can be worked in a day. You start messing with that, you will get protests in the streets. Yes, he won the election, neil, but he is not a friend of lets say the trade unions and those on the left. Neil you know, always a risk too, i think, katie, when you look at this, because you have no party to associate yourself with, i know he was a economic minister or thereabouts by president holland, that relationship quickly soured, he went off on his own, but not much telegraphing leader he will be like. What sense are you getting . Katie, can you hear us . Oh, im sorry, my sound dipped out there for a second. In terms of the president youre going to be getting, one of the things i look forward to him meeting with trump. What you have in emanuel macron someone verging on autistic levels of not being able to communicate with people. He is known not to have any friends. He doesnt how to handle a regular conversation. So the idea that he is going to meet this man mountain of humanity that is trump it is going to be horribly, horribly awkward. I reckon even more awkward than the meeting with merkel. But i just run here from the protest, or gathering from the bastille. About a million plus people. These arent rightwing individuals. This isnt the front national. This is is the front social as they call themselves. They are deeply concerned about having a financeer, a banker as their president. This is a socialists are out protesting against the election of macron. Were not going to see a lot of this on the liberal media, i dont think, but i think these protests will grow overnight. There will be trouble later. Neil i didnt know about the conversation difficulties or some of his social inequities but look, ashley, he has done quite well, but there is that promising future there. This is true. But he is really awkward. He is so awkward. Neil really . Okay. Ashley, are you getting a sense because maybe both candidates were so outside of the box if you think about it, obviously le pen more so, that the french really dont know what theyre getting . Ashley they really dont. You know, macron is somewhat of an enigma to katies point. Someone said he is incredibly charming and uses a lot of words to get what he wants because of that charm. They say he could charm an office chair or seduce an office chair, im not quite sure what that means but does he have a you substance behind it . Can he form a government . Can he get other partys lawmakers to join him to form a coalition government. Well have to wait and see. It is very difficult to get a sense who this person is. Certainly protests we covered today, it was all about the Millionaire Investment banker who is just another member of the elite and doesnt look after the worker. And certainly doesnt appeal to those supporters of le pen. Neil this is a fiveyear term, i believe, katie. Now there is, there is all of us despite his promises to keep france within the European Union and community, there is no gain i that any of guarranty of any of this populist wave some termed was stymied is really same mid forever. What sense are you getting . Not at all. Not at all. I think look at this kind of tidal wave coming in of change of populist politics. Macron is small, small child stood up against this enormous wave. There is nothing he can do to stop it. To the last point were talking about, he feels very surface level. This is politics. There is only skin deep. There is nothing really authentic to hold on to. I was at the celebrations at the louvre last night. Before i had even got through the door, i had been given two tshirts with macron and flag to wave. When the camera came on the people waved flags even though they didnt know what they were waving for. It looks very pretty, looks very polished, but behind that there is 39yearold little boy, who is married to his nan, has no friends or representatives to put up to the legislature. I dont see this lasting very long. He walked up on stage to the eu national anthem. It made me shiver and shudder as brexiteer, terrible. Neil well put you down as a maybe, kate. That could always change. Guys, thank you. It could change neil very good reporting. It gets tough following this election nonstop. Give them a break. Meanwhile the tech sector is bringing the Broader Market into focus this year because they seem toby the big names. Some looking at now, amazon and alphabet and apple. In and out of alltime highs and one of the reasons why investors are still confident, no matter what is happening abroad. No matter what is happening here on the whole general flynn dustup, it is still steady as she goes for investors. Are they right, after this. Dear predictable, theres no other way to say this. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say if you love something. Set it free. See you around, giulia arbreak through your allergies. Try new Flonase Sensimist instead of allergy pills. Its more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. 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Switch and you could save 509 on auto insurance. Call for a free quote today. Liberty stands with you™ Liberty Mutual insurance. Neil i want to check in with Katie Hopkins whether she would give macron a chance. Shed said la no way. Quite a fan. Look at apple, that is still at a new high. Technology has been driving this puppy of late. In fact not at all chagrined by all these other developments. The real tech rally though, might be over with apples one trillion dollar market cap possibly a pipedream. It is closing in on that but you dont think it will get there . Well, if you look at it, neil, that is almost another, 30 jump in the stock price. Neil i guess youre right. That it is very hard for a company of that size and at that level or age or maturity of technology to go make that jump. And, they have just neil it has been done, right . Sure it has been done. Neil went back to half a trillion. That was a huge leap, right . It was, it was, but there are Technology Companies we use that rubric very broadly by the way. Neil right. To include companies doing wildly Different Things and with wildly different security of Business Models and just, you know, if you ask me of the kind of the four horsemen of amazon, google, microsoft and apple, if you ask me which one was the most likely to jump 30 in its stock price over the next year or two or three, it is not apple neil what is driving technology . I mean, i always think of this group, not to get weighed into politics here, but a group monolithically opposed to donald trump, certainly not a fan, it is this group but yet it seems to be the biggest sector beneficiary and election and postinauguration. What is going on . I think thats true. In the first case it is the old Marc Andreessen statement of software eats the world or is eating the world and it certainly is. No matter hoyou slice it, more and more of our activities and more of our jobs and more of our stuff is being delivered in some softwarized sort of way. There is over all big, sort of return to Technology Companies, that is coming at them. And the more theyre freed up, the more laws say fair our economy becomes laissezfaire your economy becomes more were attuned to that. Donald trump conflicting impulse he has wants to support people being harmed by that but at the same time he wants to unshackle the competitive forces. Theyre the right impulses but to a certain degree theyre in conflict. Neil wellsaid, dave. Dave main any, he has been following following this stuff long before people were looking at these names cool names he was on to that phenomena. That makes him invaluable to me. I copy what he says and use it as eye own. Comcast and chart irare confirm agreement to call wireless partnership. Brand new person to introduce her today, for example businesss tracy with all those. Thank you, neil. Their goal grab a piece of the competitive wireless marketplace, share the tech expertise with each other around figure out ways to make service more efficient and save you money. You can get everything you need, cable, landline, Home InternetWireless Service from either one of the cable giants. Comcast rolling out out the xfinity working under a reselling agreement with verizon. Once you have a wireless plan with them of the hope for customers to be able to travel seamlessly between the hot spots, the same with charter. In a statement, charter ceo tom rutledge says this agreement, will quote, provide more competition and drive costs down for consumers at a similar National Scale as current wireless operators. Comcast ceo Brian Roberts agreeing saying quote, working together our goal is to even create a experience for our cuomers. Comcast the lowest wireless plan is 45 a month compared to others ranging from 50 to 90. Neil, its a good deal.