. >>> is the supreme court turning the scc into a toothless tiger. lunch" starts right now. >>> change by boy do we have movers in today's session, gold climbing to the highest level in search weeks. dow falls to the low. energy in the meantime -- and noble leading the gains there. macy's that stock is sinking as the gross margins could be below average. much more on that story straight ahead. >>> president trump is going to meet with house and senate leadership at the warehouse this afternoon. sean spicer getting set to brief the press. elon. >> the white house is trying to focus attention on this legislative agenda. the legislative director led out this time line to reporters. healthcare wrapped up by june or july. taxi reform by the fall. now as you mentioned, trump will be meeting with the republican leadership at the white house in just about an hour but even short is succeeding that the russian investigations are getting in the way of the administrative's economic prosecutor. tonight trump will have dinner with marco rubio owe and tom cotton. t

at the same time very much fulfilling our protection mission. >> the scc is there a level of cooperation with the department of labor at least, in my opinion didn't exist in the past? >> i am confident that we're beginning to have cooperation in this regard. it's a very complicated issue, i don't think it would have been here this long if it wouldn't complex but i'm confident we're going to cooperate. >> since the chairman used time to correct his answer to your question, my third question madam chairman i wanted to raise this second about eu financial markets, mark overall referred as mif-2. understanding this is an eu issue i want to check with you on how the fcc would be in its stance on how it intends to respond. my issue in this issue stems from entrepreneurs and small companies. if financial data becomes too expensive to access i think that's damaging to our economic growth. mr. chairman? >> you identified the issue which i would say the largest potential issue which is a reduction in research availability. this is a situation where an action taken by another regularity has an impa

because of this scc investigation. it was one of the few assets left in the portfolio. wireless business. it became a big part of what phil falcone still has out there. as a result, it is important to him. >> the project in vietnam is interesting. it is not easy to do a casino business in that country. matt: there is one big problem. it is illegal for vietnamese citizens to gamble. this is not as much of an issue as it might seem at first blush. the big money is from chinese gamblers. if you are running a casino in a remark part of vietnam, you want vietnamese gamblers. there is a big battle for years by phil and others to try to get the government to relax these rules. it looks like that may be on the verge of happening. it is unclear whether the project will get a license to allow it. oliver: refugees, immigrants, and ex-pats make scapegoats for some politicians, but in the case of western union, they are a market opportunity. >> it would be interesting to write about a company that is about moving money and people across borders. it has been for a long time, at a mom

if you are not, it's like lying on an scc form. >> don't do it. >> don't do it. it's clear this is a problem. this is an area that he's got trouble. his lawyer publicly coming out and talking about immunity and saying he has a story to tell. from me, he would expect a good lawyer to do that. i suspect that he's probably overing the pudding on the story he has to tell. >> you know these forms. is there a reasonable explanation for a former general to take trips like this and a reasonable explanation for him to not report it correctly on his security clearance? >> have i seen this before in the past? absolutely. you can't swing a dead cat in washington without hitting a former military or political person not on the commercial side. a better sense of understanding is how to proceed when they get to the private sector and do these things. i have seen people not being accurate because, for whatever reason, they don't understand it. i'm not saying there's no there there. i'm saying have i seen it in the past? yes. it's a point of jeopardy, there's no doubt about it. a

we kiet not in a vacuum but as scc, which has a set of economists, the ftc and many others. from what i've heard it would make it easier for us to attract the best and it prooest we can say the fcc takes economics seriously and the proof is we have a central office of economics and data where you can work on some of the most death cutting edge issues in i have. we have an economics orking group that has been stood up and they are talking with people in the agency and outside agency about the best way to do this. we want to make as much wisdom from whatever can. that would be prado optimal, the economists would say. that's what passes for a joke, c-spa c-span2. moving forward we are really excited about oed. with respect to tractional review, in november 2011 i said when i was asked about how i would handle tractional review i am a recovering anti-trust lawyer. i still review each transaction on the merits, you vault a-- evaluate and make the proper decision. we'll see if if anything congress decides to do on that topic. >> okay. well, i want to say that i'm familiar with tha

look at the fcc today, the issue we are describing here is not going on with the fcc or the ftc or the scc or the nrb and you can go down the list. why is that coursework is because the way congress has historically structured these independent agencies, multimember, it's all the studies, all the academics have shown, there's quick turnover at a new administration. this one will not. in fact, after 2020, after this next appointment it will go to the third year of the next president. if there's an appointment in 2230 go to the fourth year of the next president. with that president who might have run on the pleasant on consumer protection and having to live with president trump's appointee as consumer. >> that's precisely the point. >> here's the question, does that matter? does the dead hand of the past president controlling the agency which we don't have with fcc or ftc, does it matter? >> is both here and now. it does matter. the diminishment of the presence power and the diminishment of the power in the future. the point to make here are absolutely correct -- what the court is saying in

chris has been a top staffer on capitol hill and the chief spokesman for the scc that currently runs ainsley: and he's out with a brand-new book called finding your whistle. chris joins us right now. how are you? >> immigrate. i couldn't be better and thanks for letting me talk about my book. >> is it phone call whistlers? >> no. this book is not only about whistling. it's about love, joy, and making the world a better place. because whistle is just metaphor for what is your simple gift? and i think you don't have to be a hero to make the world a better place, and i've been able to take this super simple gift just whistling, whistle for the president in the oval office. i whistled happy birthday 400 times a year for people. i whistle for handicap kids, one of whom can't speak but being whistle. i've been able to it up of people with this simple gift. and the key is can you find it? and that's what find your whistle is all about. ainsley: describe these pictures right here. >> that's me and george bush in oval office. he was so gracious having me visit him. and i got to -- vice presid