diamond, steve schwartzman from black stone. since that time and particularly since tax reform, just the opposite has occurred. jamie diamond is in davos scheduling conflict prevented him from seeing trump this afternoon, but lo and behold, he met with trump privately last week in d.c. where he enthusiastically supported his economic agenda. so he's got a convert, jamie diamond. steve schwartzman, on the business -- boycotted after charlottesville. he's been meeting with trump regularly and met with him today as part of other u.s. business leaders in some sort of confab they had in davos. the business community believes that donald trump, despite his crazy stuff on twitter and the stuff that we criticize him for is an amazing salesman for the economy based on some of the stuff he's done with regulations and corporate tax cuts. steve schwartzman's case, since he's the ceo of blackstone, the private equity loop hole is maintained -- >> neil: it's interesting who was doing the sucking up to him here. the who's who of european busin

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black stone's steve schwartzman says the whole world wants a says the whow do you win s a at businessstay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com i'm the one clocking in when you're clocking out. sensing and automatically adjusting to your every move. does your bed do that? i'm the new sleep number 360 smart bed. let's meet at a sleep number store. maria: there is no question american companies have been a big beneficiary of the president's economic plan. while american companies are enjoying it, international companies are also reaching the benefit, so they are investing in the u.s. >> starting in the united states, and the tax changes, the tax bill will be quite positive. first you have got lower tax rates and highly competitive for the first time in a very, very long time. you have expensing of capital equipment, 100%. so if you have in any kind of business that needs equipment, this will be a great place to be located. you have

remember jamie dimon, steve schwartzman, all the major ceos went off these various business councils.s, they didn't like his reaction. >> they didn't like his reaction which they thought supported white supremacists, quite frankly. that's what they did publicly. since the corporate tax cuts and since he's been pushing the corporate taxes and since they've been enacted, a 180 has occurred. every one of these ceos are now embracing trump, some in private, some in public. all of them are at davos. jamie dimon could not meet with trump personally, trump was having a meeting with u.s. business leaders. i think he speaks with foreign business leaders tonight. and guess what? but it didn't matter because jamie dimon went to d.c. last week and met with donald trump, the president, and from what i understand, it was a great meeting, and dimon has said to enthusiastically support trump's business agenda. another ceo that bowed out of that business council, steve schwartzman, the ceo of blackstone, he -- from what i understand -- has been meeting with trump regularly particularly after he got hi

. >> i know one of the president's closest ceo the day after the senate bill was written up, steve schwartzman threw $100 a plate party for the president in new york city. >> so, let's stop right there because i think he's a little bit unfair to steve schwartzman. >> what am i speculating on? >> i think there's probably strong lobbyist communities hitting the congress super hard and it got left in the bill. and i think if you sat down and said, okay, should it be in the bill or not be in the bill? unfortunately, we both know these about the bills. a lot of disgusting things happen and things get left in the bill that shouldn't be left in the bill and then they get cased, like the way sausages do. you can't blame the president for all that. what you have to say about the president is that he wants to change the pain washington and what has not worked well for the american people for at least 30 years. >> you think based on this book "the portrait that , do you think that's better? >> look at the dashboard. look at the opportunities for peace. look what's going on in israel. look what's going on

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it's over, this is the exact kind of headline ten years ago in 2005, 2006, steve schwartzman or somebodys -- >> 30 years ago. >> exactly are we hearing any of that after new year's this time around? no, it's drake, snap, and apparently microsoft and macklemore >> go ahead. >> i was just going to say, you know, reminds me of a number of years ago when hp acquired my company. i just commented the other day, but evps were flying around in g5 jets and doing that while running the company in the ground i think $4 million on a party is no big deal. >> $4 million on a party for a company that doesn't make money is the other thing you have to consider relative to what we're seeing in the tech space, it's the new wall street, yes, it's somewhat modest, but again, i think snap needs to figure out its business in terms of how -- >> stock was at 30, maybe 15 >> you could sell some stock evan made out nice on the ipo. >> that's why he paid for drake. >> that's probably a nice idea >> saved him money he paid for drake. >> yes >> there you go. >> i think you're right, though. if there's an issue with t

i think about steve schwartzman who is one of the best philanthropists in new york city. individuals have the benefit of stepping back to say, is this the right thing? should we think about the impact of president trump's words? because we know the administration walks us back, look at the market. the market ignores the president's words because they say, oh, it is just rhetoric. >> i think the thing that i would want from business leaders is simple honesty about the role of immigrant labor in this country. we pretend in this country all the time that we can just kick everybody out, those jobs will be fine and go to americans, that is not how labor is constructed in this country. this is a devastating article out from "business week" last week that looked at the subcontractors to meat packing plants. and then they subjected them to harmful conditions. that's part of the labor force. those companies are listed on the new york stock exchange. this is business, right? so what i want from business is not just to say a platitude about how immigration is important to america, w

he'll look from jamie dimon to steve schwartzman and lloyd blankfein and will he say, yes, may i havehile they thank him for the big tax cut. >> i've been in davos meetings and all around the world, the truth is with the biggest star, and donald trump will be a big star there. >> huge. >> this place will seem a way to seem very obsequious to donald trump. he will walk out of there not feeling rebuked, not feeling demeaned or looked down on, he will walk out feeling as if he was king of the hill yet again and i now own this piece of territory, which last year sxi jinping owned. he came in and said i'm going to save all of you in the say, i'mn markets. >> the takeaway was xi jinping was number one world leader. we are talking china. bloomberg put out a report this morning, it caught your eye, you alerted me. officials in china are recommending or slowing a halting of purchase of u.s. treasuries. why is this a big deal? >> this is a big deal because we just decided to borrow $1.5 trillion. maybe just $1 trillion depending on how you do the math. we'll say $1 trillion. that whole act was

who are we hurting and helping nowadays i want a broad based i think steve schwartzman had it right. go piecemeal you need to sit down and you need to look at, all right, where's reciprocity breaking down china, steals our intellectual property assets. i get that we need to do something about it okay should be done in a broad framework. when you go piecemeal like this, you're damaging consumers but you're also running up against bto. against sensible trade policy. >> right sounds like something you might talk about at davos were you to travel there and speak. >> i'm going to miss davos this year i don't know what the president will say in davos. look i'm not saying we should -- i'm not saying america shouldn't seek fair trade. i'm a free trader. but where there are violations, violations should be corrected and negotiated but these one shots belie that that's not an orderly process, you see. and consumers do hurt. look years ago we had -- unfortunately i lost this when i was a kid working for reagan we had chips put tariffs on chips didn't work. damaged the industry enormously. georg

dimon, as we reported yesterday had a private meeting with him last week from jpmorgan chase, steve schwartzman from blackstone meeting with him lately. they know his policies are good, most of his policies are good. neil: and they like making money. >> a slowdown in gdp this quarter, guess what? the tax cuts haven't kicked in yet. neil: by the way, wasn't trade part of that? that worsened it, right? >> because of the way they calculated doesn't mean imports hurt us because the way they want to avoid double counting things. >> some worry this could drag future gdp numbers. >> the trump agenda is a concern. i think the actual capitalists in davos are concerned about that. they might have been reassured. neil: put them in a phone booth, where were they? >> right. gdp number, look, the very good story underneath the headline which absolutely was disappointing is 6.8% growth, nonresidential fixed investment. businesses investing in the u.s. it's the same thing you're hearing from that crowd in switzerland. it's going lead to productivity growth going forward. >> this is a president who campaigned a

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i spoke with steve schwartzman about the new trade policy early this morning. >> china has very substantial trade deficit on the u.s. side in his 250, $400 billion. that relationship over time has to be changed. >> is ceo of nasdaq on the panel. we'll be breaking down the tear from international trade. meanwhile, earnings and focus on wall street today. a big chunk of earnings, johnson & johnson, a few to report before the opening bell this morning to tell you what the stocks are doing. it was a stream come true for investors. netflix reported fourth-quarter earnings yesterday. subscribers brought expectations of major milestone for the media giant in all of its streaming this morning at 9%. plus, the crypto currency crazy than i did on the nasdaq plans to rollout the coin features later this year. we'll talk about that coming out. joining me right now, chairman and ceo will be with me shortly. paypal those ideas that the spirit of a ceo is here. joe lynn jenkins, aarp is special assistant to president trump. the dow sather will join us as well. all of that coming up. our top stories this h

>> you know, i saw steve schwartzman on the show.ey're doing a lot of pro growth. i'm not going to say retroreform. having regulations that make sense, going to create proper control on companies doing bad things but also, you know, enhance growth and stuff like that we're pro immigration. i'd like to see him describe pro immigration. he's pro daca. i've heard him speak about it many times they have to negotiate an immigration bill trade. i'm a big person in trade. i think it's a very good thing i think there are legitimate issues being raised by the administration in trade, much more in china than around mexico. >> intellectual properties >> intellectual property, tear ris, when they talk about fair they mean reciprocal that's not what the chinese mean you don't have to have a reciprocal system to be compliant on the wto there are issues that need to be resolved, done strategically, think it through, do it right. you can hear that. gary cohen was on your show or something talking about america first means -- doesn't mean america alo