markets in the president's agenda then new reports on who can possibly take the reigns at uber kara swisher is coming up. dow made its way back to the fl le. ba in a moment >>> more reshuffling in the white house inner circle after steve bannon's ousting, carl icahn stepping down and treasury secretary steve mnuchin respond to critics he defended the president. joining us to talk about this more and the whole agenda is terry hanes, head of political analysis and ed mills, senior financial policy analyst ed, feels like for the markets the next biggy, september 29th do we really have to worry about the treasury defaulting on its debt when republicans control three houses of government >> well, you still need 60 votes in the senate. and that's what's going to make this a fight we always have brinkmanship around debt ceiling fights we always have brinkmanship around government funding fights what makes this difficult is democrats look at republicans and see that they're a bit on the ropes politically. and they're not necessarily going to want to give them the easy vote out of this. there's a lo

joining us now, kara swisher, executive editor at recode kara, we were glued to your twitter account and to recode over the weekend you were the first to break this story. a number of scoops along the way. just take us through what happened this weekend and how surprised candidate dara khosrowshahi beat out jeff immelt and meg whitman. >> well, it was a tumultuous weekend and, in fact, it hasn't been officially announced yet, but we're pretty certain he's the candidate and the person they've offered the job to and it's a done deal but it was interesting, because going into the weekend, it looked like meg whitman had the strength of that job, and i think a lot of people thought that she would get it, and it was reported a lot i was writing that it was a little more sketchy than that because she had a lot of demands for the uber board that were pretty complex, including changes in governance, what the involvement of travis kalanick would be, and a whole -- and she wanted that lawsuit between benchmark -- that benchmark waged against kalanick to be stopped. and so, i think she was a mor

joining us kara swisher, executive editor at recode. >> before we get to kara on the top tech businesslet's get a check of the markets the dow is as just hit another record high. it's just backing off of that point. but if the dow manages to close higher, that would be the ninth record close in a row. and the tenth straight day of gains for the dow. certainly the big multinational companies have outperformed. take a look at the nasdaq. it is doing better at .25% coming off a week of losses. we'll see if tech can continue this rebound it is sort of a mixture, a mishmash, mike, of companies that are leading right now you have goldman sachs and apple leading the dow. as far as the s&p 500, tech is strong, consumer staples off that tyson report. we have a lot more earnings to come this week, disney, cvs, time warner and retail later in the week >> nasdaq is up 60% of the volume in advancing stocks the bread sj good and the nasdaq nod as g the market just holds steady the s&p 500 is hanging around the all time highs the dow getting gains every day. >> leftovers doing well this morning. grub

we're at post 9 of the new york stock exchange joining us this morning, re ric executive editor kara swisheroins us a lot to talk about including apple earnings after the close tim cook tempering expectations especially when it comes to iphone sales as more customers put off buying new devices in anticipation of the tenth anniversary iphone which may arrive as late as apple's december quarter kara, a lot has been written about this particular cycle. both the features and phone and the timing of the release. what are you going to be watching for tonight >> well, i think nobody is paying attention to this quarter. they're anticipating the next quarter. projections will be happening in the december quarter that's whether they start selling the phones there is some stories it will be release the later and they'll be in limited quantities. i think everyone is focused on the phone and not -- you know this is the midyear trough as dan wrote today on recode. but i think everything is about the next phone and how much they're going to sell and how much they anticipate and how much they'll have availa

jon fortt is off this week also joining us on the phone today from morgantown, west virginia, is kara swisherod to have you with us this morning. busy day this morning merk's ceo stepping down from the president's manufacturing council. we've been looking at that story. >> good morning. here's a statement from ken frasier of merck our country strength stems from the diverse & contributions made by men and women of different faiths, race, sexual orientations and political beliefs. as a matter of pefrnl conscious, i feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. that resignation by ken frasier of merck did not go well with the president who put out a tweet shortly thereafter, really within the hour saying that now that ken frasier of merck resigned from the manufacturing ago council, he'll have more time to lower ripoff drug prices so the president going on the offense here against ken frasier and african-american ceo who has been at his side at numerous events at the white house here during the course of the president's nearly eight months in office now. the question

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so now i'm pleased to welcome adam lashinsky and kara swisher to the stage. [applause] >> did you like meeting everybody? anyway, i'm glad you made some friends. are we ready? >> kara posted a photo of me on twitter. >> we have a lot to talk about so we are going to start with this and then move on to a company that's been in the news as of late. hello, everybody. welcome to the program at the commonwealth club wednesday executive editor and host of baby code podcast and it is my pleasure to be talking with my friends a veteran journalist currently the executive editor at fortune author of inside apple here to talk about his latest book diving deep into the crazy world, "wild ride," uber . quest for world domination. >> executive editor, i didn't know that. >> so, let's start with the news of yesterday and then i want to get into the book. it is interesting that preclude all of the history and people can care about what is happening now. yesterday was a super busy day down to the wider travi wire trd to leave after a lot of pressure. he was the ceo in the cour

eastern on saturday with kara swisher of recode because stephanie is not here today and tomorrow. and we're going to have this very conversation because it's really important. thank you for joining me for it. matthew prince, ceo and co-founder of cloud flare. it might have been the president's worst week yet. is there anything he can do to turn things around? and tina fey had her own advice for dealing with hate groups. here she is on saturday night live's weekend update thursday. >> i really want to say -- encourage all good sane americans to treat the rallies this weekend like the opening of a thoughtful movie with two female leads. don't show up. let these more ones scream into the empty air. i love you charlottesville and as thomas jefferson once said, who's that hot light skinned girl over about the butter churn. ♪ gotcha mom. but now that you're listening... did you know capri sun doesn't have all that artificial stuff you think it has? well, you do now. get those kids some capri sun! you myour joints...thing for your heart... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take so

for example, twitter having to grapple with the issue of getting terrorists off of its website kara swisherold us she thought companies providing any kind of services, even a company like paypal should think carefully whether they want to continue to do so. what is your internal decision making about which sites were okay and which were not? going back to your point about free speech earlier. do you have an internal way of deciding or is there an external sort of guide can you go upon when it comes to making the tough calls? >> no, our terms of service is very clear as soon as the line is crossed and insighting violence against a group or individual, we take the site down. short of that, if somebody is, you know, espousing beliefs which we believe are ignore anlt, tasteless, bigoted, we can't do a lot without becoming a censor we don't that i is our business to be a censor as soon as that line is crossed, we act that's the conversation we had clearly this was breaking our terms of service and we took them down. >> of course, charlottesville eventually led to the story we're following regard

short list of candidates they are been looking for a ceo since the co-founder sat down in june kara swisher with her story said a vote expected within two weeks. >> wow i thought it was very surprising maybe he brings a steady hand and that's what is needed. you go from a colosas. >> it's a free for all every story makes it look like animal house he did not have an easy run there. >> if you're going to build the case, kara reports that he is close to ariana huffington, if you can go further and say truly global. >> he knows where to go. i think that it's not a complimentary skill. it does show you that. >> if it happens get ready for the hot takes on what it mean ifs for founder of a start up. i think that you can do some things infrastructure is target. it's as true as the fact that it will be dark at one point today. >> i remember when we interviewed i think in november asked him about if he regretted getting out of financials. >> almost all the moves were i remember when he had a terrible season before he went to kansas city and i happen to love him he said listen it's my fault but in th

. >> reporter: kara swisher smoke with employees who described the current environment inside the searchic. >> this memo has set off a stream of things. we should say and do what we want. the fact is goog le is a compan. it has rules. he broke the rules. >> reporter: in the 3,000-word document damore railed against what he called google's shaming culture which he said created a silent, psychologically unsafe environment. he said differences in distributions of traits may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech. the lower number of women in high stress jobs, he wrote, is because women are more prone to anxiety. damore also alleged that google discriminates by having programs only for people with a certain gender or race. >> it is a document full of sexism. >> reporter: erica baker, a software engineer for nine years at google was shocked by the document. >> what made them feel that was okay? what made them feel safe and protected to share this blatant sexism inside google? reporter: google ceo sundar pichai said portions of the mem violate the code of conduct

liz: he is in the front running according to rico kara swisher. well-respected in silicon valley.ould settle things down. they have morale problems. top executives have left the company. travis kalanick has been a big fight with benchmark capital, a big investor there who was suing uber, conflict of interest allegations against kalanick in the lawsuit. he denies it. this paper valuation of nearly 70 billion, some on wall street are saying this could drop to 50 billion given severe problems at uber? is jeff immelt the guy? big guy, ge, industrialist, silicon valley start up maybe he could bring balance to the situation. ashley: a lot of people are expressing doubt, that he is wrong guy, bad fit but he does have executive experience at the very highest level? liz: right he can fix deepening morale problem and management crisis. ashley: emac, thank you very much. liz: sure. ashley: coming up, pope francis say migrants rights are more important than security concerns as spain reals from multiple attacks this weekend. we're all over that story. mitch mcconnell and steve mnuchin are bar