you spoke with tom barrick. megan: tom barrick is a legendary financier,ea

you spoke with tom barrick. megan: tom barrick is a legendary financier, head of colony capital.e has also become very well-known for being one of president trump's fiercest economic advisers. he is one of the first people to come forward from the financial community to become one of his most prominent backers, did fundraising for him very early, and was consistently during the campaign one of his most public surrogates in making the economic case for donald trump. he said this man is my friend, he is a dealmaker, he is going to be a different kind of president. he is going to get things done. it was a great opportunity last night, during the opening we are seeing in the first six months, to take his temperature on how he thinks the president has done. oliver: he said he would not give him a grade yet, that is like asking before the semester is over. megan: he asked to take a sabbatical, specifically, on giving a grade. oliver: one thing i thought was interesting is that he views the trump presidency as disruptive in the way uber and amazon is to the corporate world. those were h

you spoke with tom barrick. megan: tom barrick is a legendary financier, head of colony capital.

coming up, tom barrick finding himself in hot water. ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i am vonnie quinn.his is bloomberg markets. business flash. some of the biggest business stories in the news now. ford posting a sales victory over general motors last month. sales rose 2.3% thanks to deliveries liveries to rental car companies. out gm by about 2900 vehicles. overall u.s. sales slowdown for a fifth straight month. deere is buying roads building equipment. paying $5.2 billion in cash for the group. shey plan to keep wirtgen' existing brand. ppg has withdrawn its proposal and will not make another. akzo rebuffed their bid. they wanted the company to hold talks with ppg. that is the latest bloomberg business flash. we provide context and background on issues of interest. we are looking at climate change. scientists are arguing about whether humans are warming the planet. the globe is on track to exceed the 3.6 temperature gain the united nations aims to prevent. the paris climate accord came in to a plan to cut emissions that trap heat in the atmosphere. during his campaign, trump question

we here have tom barrick. tax is a low hanging fruit for everyone.ouraged by a usable tax bill as i am for everything. everything wins. everybody wins. health care is much more complicated. i'm optimistic about the workable tax bill. it will be as great as people hope, what be as bad as the naysayers think, but mnuchin and gary cohn, together with the budgetary confinement and a congress who have to get there, this congress has got to do something. i think on a business sense, boldness.hope, when you look at transparency in the world, wise our? stockmarket doing what it's doing. what we have to do right now is investing google, amazon, that is the market cap of the entire world. , capital,cy, optimism at the time with the rest of the world is in southern wealth, central warfare. the only thing that is getting better is that central banks have now become the governor's dish you are -- 10 years ago, nobody cared. nobody cared who was the central banker in all of these countries. it was a boring job. right? now to dictate the pace. when you look and say