we'll ask brian brenberg. ambassador john bolton versus michael star hopkins who will survive? turn on the oven, it's time to get cookin. you would think the white house communications director, hope hicks is taking her chilled cheek bones and limited profile and sauntering out of the west wing in what many are calling a planned resignation. she has been president trump's body woman' and at six months the longest lasting communications director. former loveable spokesman sean spice were with interim comm director. it's been filled by jason mirl and mike duffy. he only lasted 3 months. then there was anthony scaramucci. brash, plain spoken and loyal. he only war thes comm stash for 10 days. never was there such a two-sided coin as the current occupant of the white house. those who are left in the wake of the ss trump, we concede he's a man who inspires great loyalty and you can bet speaks for himself. let's get on with the show. i'm kennedy. so hope hicks is leaving and soon another brave soul will take her place. until then, what is it like to run the communications wings of th

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brian brenberg is with us still.ou how bad it can be for your company if the president goes after you. >> the president has a lot of power. if you're an individual company, that is a big opponent to go up against. jeff bezos, he is probably playing his cards very carefully here. he is trying to pick his next headquarters. i said it on the show before say it again, i think it will be in d.c., so he wants to counter this power by having friends on the hill. so he will do that. stuart: do you think this is personal? ashley: yes. stuart: jeff bezos owns "the washington post" which absolutely virulently hates president trump. ashley: the president calls "washington post" the lobbying arm of amazon, let's be honest. he has been extremely critical of mr. strum and his administration. we need to ask people, when is the buy-in on this price? gone down considerably, two weeks ago we had someone on that this was going to 2200. the problem is what kind of regulation? a lot of people will take a step back, let the dust settle. at

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independent women's forum, nan hayworth and professor at the kings college right here in new york city, brian brenbergthank you for joining us on a big news day. happy friday. >> happy friday. lauren: you grew up in the steel industry. you even worked in the steel industry. do you grew up i just like you saying that this will damage the economy or you encouraged by the negotiating tactics? >> given what president trump is done already to help our economy and put americans back to work as we know his deregulation and tax cuts that have made an incredible difference. i view what he's doing with terrorists as negotiating stands to deal with trade policies that have all too often put american workers at a disadvantage. the concerns are legitimate that terrorists can be a very tricky and double-edged sword because of course retaliation could occur if some trading countries are threat in that kind of thing. so i think it does have to be very carefully administered. we also know that senator flake has a particular rivalry with the president. the kind of language is not terribly helpful. lauren: there is book

kennedy: let me bring in brian brenberg, associate professor of economics at the king's college.s worked well for the administration and republicans. what does it mean? >> nobody knows what it means. but here is one thing it does mean. it's going to take the individual tax cuts we are supposed to phase out at end of 2025 and make them permanent. you knew they were going to be permanent anyway. why would you want to give a congress 6, 7 years down the road that victory? democrats attacked his tax bill saying you didn't make the individual tax cuts permanent. okay, come on board. they totally stepped on it. now republicans can get another tax victory in advance of the mid-terms. i think they should go for it and that should be the basis for another tax reform. kennedy: there are a lot of areas where there could be big roadblocks. but when it comes to tariffs, companies like boeing, they are looking at a possible trade war. the tax cuts are good on one hand but on the other what's happening? >> tariffs are creating uncertainty. this has to get resolved. i get what the president is t

joining me now, associate professor of economics at the kings college, brian brenberg, is wisconsin makingoice? >> they are fixing the problem the wrong way, employers have said, we think that college graduates don't have the skills we need, they can't read well or whitwrite well or speak well, ty are not good at critical thinking, colleges saying what should we do, their answer is trade programs, the problem is education they are getting in thing like english. and philosophy, they have professors who are not challenging them to think, they are not creating a space where students get the skills for reading well instead they are getting ideology, no surprise they get that in college going to be to not good workers, it is not a trade degree, the problem is a bad education no matter what you are studying. >> not everyone can go to your college, the king college. >> too bad. >> people' to improve, the schools. they are afraid they are turning them to left wing factories. >> it is true in a lot of cases. >> how do you battle that? they are holdng that ground, you can't makeetcasion establish --

brian brenberg, what do you say to that?e sold it to that nfl will pull out of papa john's. peyton manning has options. talking about broadcasting deals. running for office. he does not need to be affiliated with papa john's, after all the news end of last year earnings call, john schnatter said nfl is driving sales. that is mess peyton manning doesn't want. he is good, clean guy. stay way afrom that. stuart: you want to step away from the nfl anthem mess. you want to stay out of that one. >>> next one a former olympic speedskater, apolo ohno is getting into blockchain technology. ashley: all in one cryptocurrency system. he calls it hybrid block. he has been a early investor early on in cryptocurrency, totally believes in it, but even more so in the blockchain technology where is the digital register where transactions are made. he is, you know, he says look, my olympic experience i know how to go the distance and all those adjectives. he says look, i believe in this. he has made money i can tell you that because he got in

stuart: brian brenberg i think facebook is a monopoly.onopoly it should be a utility and regulated as much. >> it is not a monopoly or a utility, but they want to be regulated. it increases barriers to competition. mark zuckerberg would love that i think it is a bad idea. the way to go after facebook, create a different platform, something else that gets it right. stuart: you can't have -- >> you're too pessimistic. liz: i'm sorry to cut in to say that is ridiculous to you, brian. stuart: to me. liz: to you either. mark zuckerberg to regulate us. this is all nonsense. he made 41 billion in sales. why? he lets in a hoard of army and apps developers to look into you, manipulate consumers. this is corporate flannel. this is nonsense. stuart: top guy at facebook, to preserve facebook in its current way and profitability. liz: trump factor. people don't trust him. who are you letting in to look at us? that is the issue. >> exactly why he wants to be regulated. because they can navigate regulation. they will turn into a utility. nobody else wil

republican strategist sfroerm trump surrogate elmore kings college business and economics professor brian brenbergise you they could do that. >> no, he is perpetuating mainstream class one narcotic versus opioids class two harder i don't know, i have no problem with that just given the fact his policies when it comes to that situation -- jeff sessions had a rough year i think -- dagen: has been target of the president's ire too. >> that is what i mean he can't win either way. what is interesting yesterday i was on the trading floors of three banks the market had a great update there was a lot of sentiment that next he week is going to be slow everyone going to wait till first quarter, come out the week after the banks are going to lead that off so there was risk off earlier this week last week people window dressing positioning next week should be slow. dagen: let's move to top story kevin teed up for us closing a volatile month with rally tournament trump touted strength of u.s. economy making that infrastructure push in ohio colin from the white house has the very latest. good morning. reporter: