From Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 30, 2016

Felix Salmon, senior editor at Fusion, discusses Donald Trump's selection of former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as his Treasury Secretary. The Wall Street banker is now chief executive of Dune Capital Management, a privately owned hedge fund, and had previously spent 17 years as a partner at Goldman Sachs, but Mnuchin's first proposal is to move forward with tax cuts solely for middle-class families. 

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