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Extract money for himself. the reason carl icahn is up there on that board, the reason he didn't last as special advisor to the president on regulatory reform is because of this reporting from reuters and this reporting from patrick keefe at the new yorker magazine. reuters and the new yorker documented how carl icahn used that trump administration white house gig like it was just any other carl icahn corporate raider business opportunity. he leveraged that gig into what may have ended up being hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit for himself. one of his interests at the time, hi...

Yorker" patrick keefe who has written extensively about el chapo. patrick, you first. who is el chapo in terms of the enormity and the influence of the whole drug cartel trafficking business and how is it he became so powerful even behind bars? >> he's an amazing character. i mean this is a guy who grew up basically a farm boy, who by most accounts is more or less illiterate even today. he never really got much of an education. but he became during the 1970s a pretty formidable drug trafficker and escaped from prison once as we head. then when he was on the run, on the lam, really developed th...

But he's cut a swath wherever he thinks he can use them to extract money for himself. the reason carl icahn is up there on that board, the reason he didn't last as special advisor to the president on regulatory reform is because of this reporting from reuters and this reporting from patrick keefe at the new yorker magazine. reuterss a and the new yorker documented how carl icahn used that trump administration white house gig like it was just any other carl icahn corporate raider business opportunity. he leveraged that gig into what may have ended up being hundreds of millions of dollars in per...