that was ben brody. for more on the trump impact on the u.s.he u.s. institute of economics. happy new year to you. thank you very much for being here. if we arestion is, looking at an economy that is near full employment, what can donald trump really do with incremental jobs to move the needle? adam: that's a great question. the answer is nothing except make things worse. picking up in the discussion that david was just having about jobs, for the reason that no chief executive president of the u.s. has ever done this in the modern era is because it doesn't work. not because it's a different constituency. the going around and worrying about supposedly a thousand jobs here and there, which we saw with carrier are not even really net jobs, in a column -- economy of 160 million people at any one time, that's like invading grenada and saying -- that's my foreign policy, america is top. or in the midst of hurricane katrina going down and holding a bake sale at one high school. you do this just to distract from the fact that you have no strategy and n

we think ben brody for joining us. tomorrow, we will get into the issue of u.s.nows more about it than anyone. that is at 5:30 a.m. in new york. michael: good morning. i'm michael mckee with francine lacqua in london. it is time for our morning must-read. george will writing in "the washington post." sufficientlys to disbelieve something, there is no everest of evidence to large to be ignored." we are back with john silvia of wells fargo. 1953, the rest of the world recovering from world war ii, the u.s. was the strongest, biggest economy, we made everything and shifted elsewhere. that is not the world we have today. we will go through a whole series of example about when you put in protectionist measures, a generally seems to backfire on the economy. john: it generally does because you are offsetting the supply lines that many companies have built over the years. with consumers who are used to go into a store and accessing a certain product at a certain shelf and all of a sudden, the price is higher or unavailable. again, it is kind of challenging us and our abi

joining us from our washington bureau with more on trump's picks is ben brody. ave graphics of the cabinet picks and what they represent in -- s of white male >> rich. vonnie: and so forth. what does that tell us about how they may govern? ben: -- trumpre in the mold of himself. he did not have relationships in washington or know which people you need to court or who has close toicy thing their heart and that may be the case with a lot of these businessmen. they are mostly men. they may be able to go in there and make relationships and they may be able to work as they did sort of in their business careers before. congress, at the ian did -- end of the day, works on relationships, the back patting and handshaking goes on here in the sea and they may not be as familiar with the players. david: he picked the number of former military people. what is that say about the leadership here? ben: donald trump has made no secret of the fact that he admires the u.s. military and there are things he wants to do to reform it and he has sort of insulted military leaders. that i

oliver: for the latest on cabinet picks, we are joined by ben brody, are bloomberg politics reportertrump would report al gore to anything. does this mean everyone going to trump towers not necessarily a candidate? : i do think he's trying to take the temperature of a variety of leaders in different fields. i'm not sure why he would bring in some elect former vice president that when he spoke, he did suggest he might be open to staying in a climate accords, and that would be something gore would be pushing. it was not in that part of the tape, but gore said he met with yvonne cut trump who is an advisor to the transition but supposedly, they say, won't be going into the white house and presumably could not go into the white house in a formal capacity, so it is unclear how she might be pushing for some of those climate things. a lot of uncertainties when it comes to how they trump children will function in any executive capacity. looking ahead to secretary of state, it seemed as though donald trump had narrowed the field to general the traitorous and mitt romney. it looks like he is e

meantime, we want to check in with ben brody, he is at carrier as vice president-elect mike pence speakslis. what kind oft know trade-offs the trump administration or trump team has made to get carrier to keep jobs in indiana, but presumably, there were some trade-offs. does it matter politically? ben: i know the democrats feel that it matters. we had a pretty amazing op-ed by bernie sanders this morning where he basically said that this was the opposite of what donald trump promised to do. this was not a pro-worker policy where donald trump is using the bully pulpit of the presidency to ensure the growth of the middle class -- this is basically another form of corporate giveaway. that is how bernie sanders was portraying it. i have heard that certainly from other democrats today. so if that message is going to sort of unite democrats a little bit more broadly, yes, it does matter politically in terms of how democrats respond to this. i think a lot of people have been saying today, you know, it is hard to criticize the president or the president-elect for saving people's jobs. saw that b