the market is looking for and how it might react to this week's new is brian leavitt, a senior strategyist at open himeser funds. always good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> let's go one at a time here. take your pick, but i'll take the possibility of a jerome powell-led fed. is that going to be markedly different from a yellen fed? good for investors in neutral? >> i don'tening it's going to be markedly different. the big concerns was perhaps president trump might select someone more hawkish than janet yellen, something the likes of john taylor. if you look at the shape of the yield curve now, it's not significantly steep, so aggressive moves on the short end of the curve could have foretold a looming recession. i think in jerome powell is the choice, that risk goes down considerably. >> let's move on to tax reform, which hasn't happened yet, but they seem to be making some progress. does that have the potential to unnerve the market? because there's in back-and-forth about what deductions will be allowed in, how retirement savings might be treated, et cetera. >> the good news is a

does not take a away from the idea that the president ridicule mcconnell on occasions but his strategyistsg his campai campaign >> john we'll leave it there and we'll see you back we'll take a short break, folks, there is a lot more to doch we'll talk about that off the cup and unscripted and an interesting presidential conference moments ago we'll be right back after this hey, you every talk to anybody about your money? yeah, i got some financial guidance a while ago. how'd that go? he kept spelling my name with an 'i' but it's bryan with a 'y.' yeah, since birth. that drives me crazy. yes. it's on all your email. yes. they should know this? yeah. the guy was my brother-in-law. that's ridiculous. well, i happen to know some people. do they listen? what? they're amazing listeners. nice. guidance from professionals who take their time to get to know you. >>> turning to further our conversation of what we saw from the rose garden. our jared bernstein and sarah fagan. top topic is tax reform. at the same time the president and the leader both objecting have strongly to what they see as the po

the collintons' long-time political strategyist estimates that just $6,500 went to actual lex earring. you read that right -- electioneering. you read that right. $6,500. by contrast, the stuggering -- staggering $500,000 payday from a kremlin-tied russian bank for a single speech was part of a multimillion-dollar influence peddling scheme to enrich the former president, his wife, then secretary of state hillary clinton. at the time, russia was plotting successfully to secure the u.s. government approval for its acquisition of uranium one and with it tens of billions of dollars in u.s. uranium reserves. here's the kicker. the uranium one scandal is not only or even principally a clinton scandal. it's an obama administration scandal. the clintons were just doing what the clintons do. cashing in on their public service. the obama administration, with secretary clinton at the forefront, but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising american national security interests. the administration green-lighted the transfer of control of 1/5 of american uranium mining capacity to russia, a hostile