okay here we are
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Andrew Ross Sorkin do you agree with
Larry Kudlow that Medicare and Social
Security should be handed to Wall Street
through privatization is that what he's
for I'm sure I'm sure he is for it yeah
I think I'm for that no I'm gonna take
the other side of that is that what you
want me to go well I know know what do
you I think I chose this I think that's
a real problem
I think the privatization of so many
things actually especially when it comes
to people's pension retirement part of
our problem has been that so I would I'm
gonna take the other side but as an
economist who plays one I'm just gonna
give you the other argument okay just go
for it I've seen the chart of where
money if you put your money in the stock
market is if you just put it in the bank
or whatever it is it'll do better in the
mark like the market one goes like this
now you can't watch it every year cuz
the market goes up and down but over the
time if you put it in when you were
twenty went by they tell you retired at
65 look if the money goes like this and
if we hadn't forced if we had a forced
savings program I'm just saying by the
way if we had a real for savings program
where you couldn't take it out and you
couldn't and somebody else and was
effectively gonna be managed elsewhere
and there was a guarantees on it I could
have to go for that yeah it's not the
craziest crazy world that Bush who is he
to you is he easier uncle he George Bush
yeah he's my he's my cousin and to think
about that yeah there's a lot of us
they're cousins right dad's my uncle
okay sure
yes you guys hang out there's a lot of
us no not much so Billy how was the rest
of the Bush family holding up under
Trump this card said I'm gonna take the
high road I think I don't know if he's
right I'm not sure either one cast a
vote for him I'd in fact I'm pretty sure
they didn't yes speaking of me to stuff
boy or the old man start sure skated on
the scrapping have you ever talked to
him about that I told him never again
you hear me
don't do that I know but yeah because
there's a conservative he did I mean it
sounds like the same thing you know that
Al Franken was accused of and that just
kind of like went into the ether okay
except tv4 he's a former President of
the United States right you know people
didn't know that about and there's a
whole bunch of women that said it's
pretty it's pretty messed up pretty
unacceptable and there was a joke that
went with it it's disgusting and
inexcusable right you are
well he's Pete what a lot of fun you are
well I mean okay there's no upside to it
yeah yeah I'm with you I'm not sure what
Al Franken did I'll just say that I'm
talking about I'm talking about pappi
either one I mean who who's grabbing or
what in a photo op it's weird it is
weird especially and you have you
everybody wants a photo with Bill Maher
have you ever even considered you do
I'll even touch your take pictures like
yes exactly
hands up okay why does the NRA get a tax
exemption and how do we take it away
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they do run they would like to say that
they don't want a political action
committee but they do have that wing and
otherwise they say their grassroots
nonprofit organization but they've use
illegal corporate tax loopholes to build
out an entire political lobbying wing
that doesn't get taxed so that that is
that's a corporate tax loophole but
that's also because the NRA knows how to
work the system boy do they by the way
and then how to use a crisis but but
I'll never let a crisis go to waste all
the money on the NRA now we're arming
teachers you know yet they somehow turn
that or once you're sure it's moving
ahead in many states somehow they turn
that around to a way they could sell
more guns it's moving ahead in the
states where they still beat kids with
paddles I mean it's not you know I don't
think it's taking hold I don't it's not
there's no agreement with a bunch ex
educators and experts about arming
teachers teachers don't want that well
they go is just gonna say on money on
the NRA you know you can go after them
on the taxes or whatever it is but the
real thing the real opportunity given I
cover cover the world of finance is the
companies it's all the companies that do
business with the NRA and people who do
business with guns it's the credit card
companies that allow the transactions on
the cards it's Apple TV and Amazon and
everybody who allows this stuff over
their airwaves
that's your Washington unfortunately is
not gonna do anything
I don't think anytime soon I could be
wrong I hope I'm wrong
but I think in the meantime there's a
huge swath of stuff that can actually
happen but it depends on everybody
actually doing that so the action
related to your pocketbook right
consumers have to wait about two years
before we can use our powers citizens to
kick somebody out of office I can make a
decision tomorrow if I want to go to a
different store if I don't like like
Walmart Walmart business they got the
business of a lot of people have that
right but Dick's Sporting Goods did yeah
I got uh uh I got paddled a couple of
times
hey now didn't seem to destroy me I
don't know but only when you do
something really bad you know and you
know like my elves in it or anything I'm
not quite sure what kind of paddling
he's talking about but maybe we should
move on
I'm just saying have you worked in the
White House would you resign on
principle or stay to help minimize the
damage Trump causes oh so I I don't
think there's any heroism and serving in
this White House anymore I think
initially people really did think that
like John Kelly is like I'm gonna serve
my country and do this but it's you're
not serving the public at this point
right you're serving Trump and his
personal Trump interests and that's
that's just not and you don't know what
they are very clear what they are
actually they're advancing his family
and and and where else is willing to
line his pocketbooks whether it be
Russian oligarchs or any other dictators
that he may or may not want to emulate
but there is and I yes I I did work in
the White House and there's absolutely
no question that I would ever work in a
Trump White House and the sad thing is
everybody who's walked out has walked
out tarnished like it's it's yeah and
it's a dead-end job
Ikaros why close to the Sun yes has a
better reputation than Sean Spicer would
you want John Daly Monica Lewinsky is
doing better bro why isn't Sean Spicer
anybody as you can attest anyone who
gets in contact with he's a human wood
chipper people just no to a job to
Donald Trump you shouldn't be running a
problem I do want to throw in about
public like public servants who are I
was a political appointee there are
public servants in the Foreign Service
the military civil servants who keep the
day-to-day function of government
running the fact that they are feeling
demoralized is a massive problem because
they're the ones who make sure we get
things like our Social Security checks
all those who say is the real problem
though is if look you can call all the
people who showed up in the beginning
and opportunists which they are today
they're the new people are believers and
fortunately or unfortunately fortunately
for Trump and unfortunately for best
cartoon villain but but but the
opportunist to the degree you thought
that they were saving the country from
Trump those people don't exist in yeah
and so I think there has to be there has
to be some thought about whether you do
want some diversity of thought in the
room even if it ain't people I don't
know what the right answer is he has to
want the diversity of thought he doesn't
exactly right so like what do you get
out of serving like that doesn't any
fix anything that's what their but
that's what they're claiming these days
all over TV is that he wins that that's
why there's this turnover because he he
has this that he likes to see people go
at it like well I like to just see
people go at it this is how we know him
the boardroom I mean this is how he's
the host of The Apprentice firing he
instigates he's about selling lemonade
on a corner what's that Avenue but like
it wasn't all there for us to judge
orders thank you being able to take
business savvy and apply that to
politics and all these other things and
and policy maybe so many people are in
that though don't you yes and it's shady
business deals that's a problem it works
in real estate it doesn't work in videos
your own policy how many of those bojay
convinces my question how many of those
voters that he did convince you know
have changed their mind more importantly
did has anybody said since Trump was
elected you know I was really against
him the whole time but at these 14
months he's really impressed to me I
think I'm gonna reconsider my vote to
November that's like one guy who's a pig
farmer there are I think all right real
thank you everybody
okay thank you
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you