join the discussion. 4 >> who is steven cohen? >> he built up an a enormous personal for tune on the basis of his incredible skill for trading. so he had a strong instinth for the stock market. he would sit down and look at the way stocks were trading and believed to have an incredible sense of how to ride the waves in the market and make money. he has this very compelling almost rags to riches story. he grew up very middle class and long island. his family has less money than a lot of others around him. he felt a sort of hunger to become rich. he started playing poker in high school. very quickly built up a for tune. he has a mansion in connecticut, helicopter rides, works of art. he became an object of extreme envy. >> sac. >> his initials. e embodied the firm. >> there's a moment you say in your book he wouldn't talk to you. tell us about that. >> i had spent several years reporting this book. i went about doing that the i had a lot of court documents interviews with people and i tried to convince him to sit with me. of course

hedge fund manager, steven cohen and sac capital. the book "block edge," the the most ring down wanted man on wall street. >> the two central characters at areheart of the story, they central characters in my book, two former portfolio managers cohen's fund, matthew and michael steinburg. artoma is serving fairly lengthy prison sentence, although his case is on appeal, was convicted,rg but his conviction was later verturned after an appeals court made a ruling that made it harder to convict someone for insider trading. sunday night, 8 p.m. eastern q&a.span continues. journal" host: we are back here in open phones this morning, taking on any public policy or politics issue you'd like to discuss, before we get to

night q&a, new yorker staff writer insider lks about the trading case against hedge fund sac er steven cohen and capital in her book "black edge, dirty money ation, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street," -- >> the two central characters at the heart of the story, central twoacter necessary my book, fund, matthew martoma, rs for one ofhael steinburg, is them. martoma is serving a fairly lengthy prison sentence, his is on appeal and mr. steinburg was convicted, but his overturned as later after an appeals court made a to ng that made it harder convict someone for insider trading. > sunday night 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> raise your right hand. >> with the confirmation hearing court nominee neil gorsuch starting next week, tonight 8 p.m. eastern, we'll at confirmation hearing of all eight supreme court starting with justice kennedy in 1987. 1991, ruth mas in breyer, john , alito, , 2005, samuel keagan, in ayor and 2010. watch tonight 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues.

night on q&a, new york staff writer talks about the insider trading case agains hedge fund manager steven cohen and his firm as the a capital in her book black edge. >> the two kind of central character is part of the story, they are very central characters in my book are these two former portfolio managers for the fund. matthew and michael. he is curtly serving a fairly lengthy prison sentence although his case is on appeal. michael was convicted but it was overturned after an appeals court made a rolling, made it much harder to convict someone for insider trading. >> sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> last week fbi director james comey spoke in boston and comfort on cybersecurity. he talked with the fbi is doing to fort computer hackers and his intention to serve out the remaining six years of his tenure term as a director. this is one hour. [applause] >> thanks for the introduction. good morning everybody. thanks to give me a chance to share some thoughts with you. this is the perfect place to have this conference and i'm thrilled to be part of the inaugural gathering. i hope

on q&a, new yorker staff writer talks about the insider trading case against hedge fund manager steven cohen in her book "black edge". >> the two are kind of central characters at the heart of the story, they're very central characters in my book, are these two former portfolio managers. one gentleman is serving a lengthy prison sentence, although his case is on appeal and then the other's conviction was overturned after an appeals court made it harder to convict somebody for insider trading. >> sunday night on cspan's q&a. >>> with the confirmation hearing for neil gorsuch starting next week, on thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern we'll look at confirmation hearings of all eight justices. >>> president trump on the road today in detroit earlier and in nashville this afternoon visiting jackson's home and speaking in favor of the republican plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act at a rally in nashville thiss g evening. as the house budget committee gets set to take up the republican plan, some gop members of the budget committee are indicated they're not in favor of advancing the plan.

, on q&a, new yorker staff writer sheila kohotcar talks about the insider trading case against steven cohen in her book black edge, inside information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street. >> the two concentral characters at the heart of the story, they're very central characters in my book are these two former portfolio managers for cohen's fund, matthew martoma and michael steinberg. martoma is currently serving a fairly lengthy prison sentence, though his case is on appeal. and mr. steinberg was convicted, but then his conviction was later overturned after an appeals court made a ruling that made it much harder to convict someone for insider trading. >> sunday night, at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >>> the atlanta council hosted a panel discussion recently with foreign affairs and trade experts on the future of north american trade. speakers discussed the trump administration's trade policy, the north american free trade agreement or nafta, and secretary of state rex tillerson and homeland security secretary john kelly's trip to mexico. this

. >> sunday night on q&a talks about the insider trading case against hedge manager steven cohen. in her book black edge, inside information, dirty money and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street. >> the two central characters at the heart of the store, central in my book are these two portfolio managers, matthew martoma and michael steinberg, and martoma is serving a lengthy prison sentence, with you stein berg's was overturned. >> sat night 7:00 p.m. ian on c-span's q&a. >> federal relations chair -- testified at a hearing over the commerce senate committee over neutrality rules, wireless broadband access and internet access and connectivity for americans in country's rural areas, this was commissioner's first appearance, in late january, this is about two hours, 40 minutes. abouttwohours 40 minutes. abouttwohours, 40 minutes. twohours, 40 minutes. hours, 40 minutes. >>> good morning. welcome to today's hearing on oversight of communications commission, i should point out since this committee has jurisdiction over sports last night the south dakota state uni

. >> her book explains beautifully that steven cohen was trading on insider information. >> right. >>with $10 billion of wealth. he'll be opening up his hedge fund again shortly, it seems. and that is the story of where is the accountability? >> lower level people ended up going to jail, but not the big names. >> the book is "block edge." thank you so much for being on. jeffrey sachs, thank you as well. we are reading your book "building the new american economy." >>> president trump loves talking about the power of social media. >> i really believe the fact that i have such power in terms of numbers with facebook, twitter, instagram, et cetera, i think it helped me win all of these races where they are spending much more money than i spent. >> but it's not about friend and followers. we are going to you take the ucla prefer who is traofessor w trump's cyberteam in cyberspace. "morning joe" is coming back. i can't wait for her to have that college experience that i had. the classes, the friends, the independence. and since we planned for it, that student debt is the one experience, i'

specifics on things and things really borne out so the rally can -- >> you've bot wilbur ross, steven mnuchin, gary cohen, working well together as team. once they start to roll out the tax policies, and the good news is they're in harmony with speaker paul ryan. you will see -- and the markets reflectsing this -- 20 to 25% pick up in profits and earnings for businesses in the united states large and small and is being reflected right now in the stock market. >> eddie, you're up 270 points on the dow. yet you say the market is too invested in trump. i mean, market, yeah, we're all in. but why is that a bad thing? >> because i think we're still waiting for the evidence that the policies are going to happen and the details of what's in them just on that last point that we heard that, you know, this means an earnings lift for stocks. it means an earnings lift for some stocks but if it's going to be a revenue neutral tax plan they're going to be losers as well as winners and we can't quite figure that out until we see the details. >> yeah, i agree with that. i think it's been somewhat indiscriminate but i al

. >> steven miller last night crafted -- again, on the fly -- a speech that brought in jared, ivanka, gary cohenss of himself. >> mike pence. and, again, it was donald trp who crafted this speech. but a lot of voices that had not had a big impact before and you could tell it last night. and it's why donald trump, the speech he made and chose to make is why he is probably getting the best reviews from "the new york times" and "the washington post" that he has ever gotten in his life. >> the question is going to be, if i may say, whether he is going to absorb that and say, this is the track to proceed on and this is the quest we are engaged in in the media. who is donald trump? >> not making any false promises, but a chance of that happening. >>> up next, because he responds to what is around him. president trump, is he softening his stance on immigration? that new reporting straight ahead. ♪ only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® whether it's connecting one of or bringing wifi to 65,000 fans. campuses. businesses count

goldman sachs is not going to let anybody, including steven bannon or reince priebus get in his way and we have really seen the last two weeks. gary cohen and dina powell and jared and ivanka assert themselves. >> it is a court of people sneaking around behind each other and watch out for the dagger. the tone in the white house the last couple of weeks, i've been trying to talk to cabinet officials who were just a little bit outside this process. if you think of this as a boat cking wildly, you need som out rigors on it to damp that rocking. those out rigors ought to be our secretary of defense, general mattis and our secretary of state rex tillerson. >> what the heck has happened with rex tillerson? >> i think tillerson does not want to talk to people like us, talk to the media and be highly visible until he knows exactly what his policies are. very deliberate decision not to take media with him to asia. i think his meeting with xi jinping yesterday was an important one. he got some heat for making nice noises to china but we have a real crisis, a real crisis ahead with north korea. as little distance as possible right now between the

- steven ge: insidek "black ed information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street." >> the central characters are these two a former portfolio managers for cohen's fund. is currently serving a fairly lengthy prison sentence, though his cases on appeal. mr. steinberg was convicted, but it was later overturned. after an appeals court made a ruling that made it much harder to convict someone for insider adg. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." u.s.w, a discussion on immigration policy. this is from friday's biannual summit hosted by the national review institute. it is just over 45 minutes.