Rahm Emanuel

kinda okay with the uh... president obama's policy and i do i think it's a little short change not all of corporate america was there understood yet that's kind of a but you had some support i can i can't really republican area yeah i would say you did in i mean i could give you steve schwartzman yelled at the president for so they called him you know i think his policies i mean it was i don't even get in the language about nazis and stuff like that and me images of you know i mean just things that were said about the president from court voices in corporate america

They were also violently against him doing health care when they said just talk about the economy and et cetera.

So it was not like they were always applauding.

So my memory is slightly different than your memory.

But there was a consensus around – when we were first coming up with the Recovery Act, I mean Jamie Dimon says –

in the East Wing in a big meeting with financial and business leaders.

And this is when you're facing close to a small D depression.

Whatever it is, it's gotta be big, it's gotta be bold, and it's gotta be harsh.

And just get the thing moving and do it all across the whole waterfront.

That became pretty much what we did from the Recovery Act, etc.

So there was some consensus there.

I think corporate America here, just I'll say it here, is I think they've sold out America and America is loyal to them.

And what I mean by that is.

You benefit from a nation built on laws, and you're watching from the sideline a nation being destroyed and walking away from the rule of law.

Everything you have is built on the premise of the rule of law.

Number two, the president's declared war on the greatest research system in the world it's ever seen, and your company is a direct beneficiary of that.

And you're like the three monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

You are timid souls.

And if you don't want to speak of individually, what is these business groups for but collective voice with a singular message?

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