Bloomberg's Steven Dennis discusses the Congressional hearings for Donald Trump's cabinet picks. Mike Materasso, senior vice president and co-chair of Franklin Templeton's Fixed Income Policy Committee, talks to Pimm Fox and Lisa Abramowicz about monetary/fiscal policy and geopolitical risks on the fixed income and currency markets. Chris Strohm, a national security reporter for Bloomberg, discusses President-elect Trump being informed that he was compromised by the Russians in an unsubstantiated intelligence report. Finally, James Crombie, editor of Bloomberg Briefs, talks about the top-ranked forecasters' predictions for U.S. growth, inflation, trade and Trump.

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