alexander wilson and ryan harwood are back with us again. hello. >> hello. >> your first tip, ryan?> i know a lot of people talking about recruiting and this is cliche. i cannot stress how important it is to hire culture first. first couple years, i looked at resume. you are desperate for success. you need to make money. you hire off skill set and if the resume makes sense for that still. you make a lot of mistakes. you want to hire culture first. a lot of times we have foregone skill sets of someone more talented than the second person. we will choose the one that fits the culture more. it works time and time again. you want to be able to work with the person day in and day out. get excited to go to meetings and have chemistry and trust. it will allow you to be quick and nimble. >> i totally agree with ryan. to be different, my tip is about transparency. be transparent. i think that can be applied on so many levels. on daily feedback. whether it is internal meetings, external meetings or pitch with a partner. i will ask my team members to give me feedback. i give them feedback. it

ryan, zerlina m maxwell and rick stengel. yesterday steve mnuchin said to our colleague, john harwood, there needs to be some revisement or tweaking summers has said this is double counting. >> yeah, so it's very confusing what's gone in the budget in the first place because of the things that aren't there. there are no details about the tax plan, which is really one of the big centerpieces of the overall budget in this budget submission. so what we do know is that the administration is relying on very, very high growth numbers to help get to their overall fiscal goal of balancing the budget. they're assuming 3% growth. they then show that there is a dividend, a savings that comes from those higher growth numbers that's going to be $2 trillion. again, that's based on high growth numbers. and they use it to help get the budget to balance. but what they have been saying for months now is that they're going to use those growth effects to help make their tax plan not explode the debt. so suddenly you've got the $2 trillion used to help get to balance and the $2 trillion being used to help offset the cost of the tax plan. again, it's v

john harwood has been listening and standing by with more headlines. john. >> paul ryan was trying not to make news today. he started out by giving a litany of some of the incremental advances the house made this week. overall, he was trying to push back against the idea that the cloud over the trump white house was slowing him down. he in particular got a question from a reporter as to whether congressional republicans would be better off with a president pence than a president trump that's in light of all the difficulties that president trump has been dealing with this week. he said good grief i'm not even going to give credence to that. as you indicated, he said the kong investigation would go on, even as the special counsel, robert mueller continues with his investigation. and he pretty much shunted aside substantive comment beyond that. >> john harwood, thank you for the recap. watching the market, mike, it's doing okay. i mean we are off the highs off the lows. s&p up a quarter of a percent an point after a brutal day yesterday. >> it's flagging a lib. the bank sto