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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg P and L Podcast. I'm Pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Abramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: bring you the most important, noteworthy, and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money, whether you're at the grocery store

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Speaker 1: my privilege to introduce Joe No Sarah, who is here

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Speaker 1: in the studio with us. He is a Bloomberg View columnist,

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Speaker 1: a long time New York Times business columnist who I

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Speaker 1: have respected for many, many years. Uh and Joe, you

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Speaker 1: wrote a column this week talking about Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: can't I just bask in that intro for a minute?

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Speaker 1: Please go ahead? Would you like to? Would you have

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Speaker 1: you done basking? We move quickly here? The future already

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Speaker 1: happened somewhere. No, So, you wrote a column about President

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Speaker 1: and you were talking about this band hum price and

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Speaker 1: some of his decisions with respect to his stock trades.

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Speaker 1: Can you outline kind of what is the controversy here

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Speaker 1: and and kind of give us your take on it? Sure? Uh? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the controversy is revolves around you know, whether

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Speaker 1: in one particular case, uh, he bought the stock of

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Speaker 1: a company, then introduced legislation that would help the company,

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Speaker 1: and then uh, the company gave him a campaign contribution

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Speaker 1: of a thousand dollars um. I actually think in that

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Speaker 1: particular case, uh, he's telling the truth when he says

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Speaker 1: I really don't know. But to me, the larger issue,

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Speaker 1: the more important issue, is that here's a guy who

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Speaker 1: um both sits on an important health up committee and

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Speaker 1: calling FDA or another agency on behalf of a medical

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Speaker 1: company owning a bunch of medical stocks and farmer stocks.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't just own this one, it's he's he owns

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Speaker 1: Am Jenny owns Fightser. I can't remember the other ones,

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Speaker 1: but he owns like a dozen. And to me, that

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Speaker 1: while is not illegal, it is unethical because it creates

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Speaker 1: got he's gonna make money, he's got information in his head,

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Speaker 1: that in effect is inside information, which is I'm going

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Speaker 1: to introduce piece of legislation, I'm going to make this

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Speaker 1: It's not right. I just want to push back on you,

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Speaker 1: just not on the concept of whether it is right

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Speaker 1: But given the complexity and the Uh, Well, he's an orthopedist,

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Speaker 1: that's right, Mr. He's an orthopiece. So he comes with

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Speaker 1: whatever knowledge that would bring to the position of being

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Speaker 1: when he comes with that level let's say, scientific expertise. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Is that the same expertise that you want to be

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Speaker 1: and he does have, you know, sympathies towards the needs

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Speaker 1: and plight of doctors. There's nothing wrong with that. All

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is that if health is your primary area

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't have health stocks in your portfolio. You can

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Speaker 1: have any other kind of stock, but you shouldn't have

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Speaker 1: it's a conflict of interest. Why is it different for

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Speaker 1: thought that in two thousand and twelve, Uh, there was

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Speaker 1: from insterer traders laws. So why wouldn't Tom Price be

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Speaker 1: potentially susceptible to violating that? Okay? There? There There are

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Speaker 1: basically two reasons. The first reason is that he says

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Speaker 1: trade on inside information. You look a little stunned, I am,

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Speaker 1: But can can we just I don't want to defend

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Speaker 1: which has to do that This is not something that

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Speaker 1: is particular to Mr. Price. Oh, absolutely absolutely. Congress has

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Speaker 1: or various kinds of unethical or to deem the ethical behavior. Right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you just see that with Gary Cohn, who formally was

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Speaker 1: Council of Economic Advisors, right, and he probably won't have

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Speaker 1: a stock portfolio, well, but he benefited in other ways. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I just there's nothing wrong with owning stocks, obviously, But uh,

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Speaker 1: is it really too much to ask of a of

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Speaker 1: I'll get anything except healthcare stocks. I don't I understand

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Speaker 1: it is that biggest sacrifice. What's been their response, uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe there'll be a follow up to all of this.

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Speaker 1: Well done, all right, See that's why he's got to run.

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Speaker 1: Jonah Sarah, thanks very much for being with us, and

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Speaker 1: welcome a blue burg of view, a columnist talking about

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Speaker 1: Congress and malfeasance. This is Bloomberg. I want to bring

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Speaker 1: why this might not be the best time for automakers

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Jamie um So, you wrote

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Speaker 1: So you know, first day, as you recall two two nine,

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Speaker 1: That's the way the industry season, that's the way they

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Speaker 1: American Express, the Boeing Company, Johnson and Johnson envisioned healthcare.

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Speaker 1: You have been in corporate America for a very long time.

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Speaker 1: Do you agree with that? Well, I think it's very

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Speaker 1: millennial leaders the most right now? Well, I think the

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Speaker 1: As you know, corporations forward plan quite some time, and

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Ron Williams, the former chairman and

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Speaker 1: like us, and they're just going to uh look for

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Speaker 1: steady promotions and they're looking for to be a companies

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Speaker 1: for a long time. They might still buy automobiles and

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Speaker 1: they might still buy homes. Yeah, and they still care

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