thank you. ( ♪ ) >>> blackstone's stephen schwartzman speaking to michelle at cnbc's delivering alpha york. michelle joins us with the highlights michelle >> hey there, john this is the first time steve schwartzman has spoken since the leadership councils formed for president trump were disbanded in the wake of the protests in charlottesville. you recall it was a very tense time, and at that time schwartzman organized a phone call with all the ceos on the council at the time to discuss whether or not they should keep it going ultimately, when it was over, he said the decision was clear, he explained to me why. >> virtually anyone running a public company was on that group could nod and deal with the pressure from their constituents, and so i basically said it seems pretty clear, you know, that really didn't want to have a melting ice cube type of thing. and people were under legitimate astonishing pressure you should have seen some of the e-mails that i got >> tell me >> you you know, i was accusedy people of being a nazi i mean, i'm jewish >> he went on to say that he did find it fru