1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: Yea. Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene 2 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: Jay Lee. We bring you insight from the best in economics, finance, investment, 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: and international relations. Find Bloomberg Surveillance on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, 4 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course, on the Bloomberg. We 5 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: begin with the state of the union here in the 6 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: United States, the President calling for bipartisanship in his address 7 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: on his terms, making another push to build a border wall, 8 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: declaring that it will get built. The lawless state of 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: our southern border is a threat to the safety, security, 10 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: and financial well being of all America. We have a 11 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: moral duty to create an immigration system that protects the 12 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: lives and jobs of our citizens. This includes our obligation 13 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: to the millions of immigrants living here today who followed 14 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: the rules and respected our laws in the past. Most 15 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: of the people in this room voted for a wall, 16 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 1: but the proper wall never got built. I will get 17 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: it built, the President of the United States, urging that 18 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: he will get it built, calling for compromise, but offering 19 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: Democrats very little in exchange for backing that project. Kevin's 20 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: already joining us now. Blinberg Chief Washington TV and radio correspondent. 21 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: Always great to catch up with you, Kevin, walk me 22 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: through how this is playing Adam Washington this morning along 23 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: party lines. Uh, And I think you know yesterday I 24 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: or last night after the speech, I interviewed Senator Chris 25 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: Kearns to keep Democrat within the intelligence community and on 26 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: foreign policy, and he said that, you know that Democrats 27 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: were skeptical heading into the speech, and they heard a 28 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: couple of areas where they would like to hear more 29 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: from the president, get more details, whether it's on trade 30 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: policy specifically with the congressional push that the President asked 31 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: for in terms of advancing legislation that would make it 32 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: more difficult for lawmakers, or I'm sorry for other countries 33 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: rather to to rate Harris on issues like combating childhood 34 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: cancer as well as on infrastructure. But I don't think 35 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: there's anyone who really thinks that in the next ten 36 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: to twelve months there's gonna be a major economic stimulus 37 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 1: bill that advances out of a divided Congress. So I 38 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: think the thirty thousand foot view, Jonathan, is that one, 39 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: this is largely expected the type of speech that we 40 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: got last night, But two, I'm not sure it does 41 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: anything in the immediate short term to change the negotiations 42 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: on Congress to avert another shutdown. Now, if you would 43 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 1: have declared a national emergency, that would have poured gasoline 44 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: on the political fire. He did not, And I think 45 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: the takeaway is he's relying on Republican leadership like McConnell 46 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: to get this over the finish line and Kevin for 47 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: those that are assuming that he won't, he won't declare 48 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: a national emergency because if he was going to, he 49 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 1: would have done it by Now. Do you think that's 50 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: a mistake to think that? Why? Absolutely a huge mistake. 51 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: I spoke with senior administration officials on Friday heading it 52 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: to the speech, and I spoke with Sean Spicer yesterday, 53 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: who helps the president craft this speech. And you know, 54 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: we in the media have have kind of I think 55 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: misrepresented this this choice because we're saying if he gets 56 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: the money from Congress, it's an either or get the 57 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: money from Congress or declare a national emergency. He could 58 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: do both. He could do both. He could do both. 59 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: Let me family, I don't I want to reiterate that 60 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: because you could get the money from Congress, and that's okay. 61 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: I want even more money. I'm going to clare a 62 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: national emergency. Let's see how much more money we can 63 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: get out of it. Kevin, great to catch out with you. 64 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: Blent by Chief Washington Correspondent. Good morning, Tom, Good morning, 65 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: Kevin's really uh with the State of the Union address, 66 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 1: what we've been doing is we've been speaking to a 67 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: set of Republicans nationwide, frankly more in the South about 68 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,679 Speaker 1: what they see from their president. Is clearly a launch 69 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: of the campaign. Chuck Flashman is a congressman from Chattanooga, 70 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: all the way up to oak Ridge, Frankly, Chuck, where 71 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: my parents were in the early early days of their 72 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 1: marriage at the oak Ridge Research Lab. And we welcome 73 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: you on Bloomberg Surveillance this morning. Well, thank you. You're 74 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: a man after my heart. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is the 75 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: birthplace of the Manhattan Project and it's right now the 76 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: side of I believe, the best national lab in the country, 77 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: and we're building a brand new uranium processing facility. And 78 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,919 Speaker 1: perhaps one of most proud of is we lead legacy. 79 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: Lean up, Congressman, this is how this is how Tom 80 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: Selton's up the guests. What's interests me, Chuck, And it's 81 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: a hugely Republican district, and your Republican primary, when you 82 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: won by votes, was really the election. I get that. 83 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: But what is fascinating to me is how the debate 84 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: is shifted in four weeks, maybe six weeks, and the 85 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: debate is shifted last night to what Kevin surreally talked 86 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: about earlier this morning and Mike Allen and axios. Which 87 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: is the new word of the campaign, which is socialist. 88 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: How does it play in your district when the President 89 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: of the United States calls a new Democrat theology not progressive, 90 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: not liberal, but socialist. Great question. First of all, my 91 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: very first race in two thousand and ten, I did 92 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: win with four hundred shifts even votes. But the last 93 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: two times I've had of the vote in the Republican primary, 94 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: and that, of course, is the race a Democrat cannot 95 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: win in the third district. Congressman comment, the only Democrats 96 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: in your district root for Vanderbilt. Okay, let's okay, continue 97 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: and most of those volks vote for me. They've got it. 98 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: The mayor of oak Ridge is a liberal Democrat in 99 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: the campaigns for me. But to answer your question, uh, 100 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is exceedingly popular in the third District of Tennessee. 101 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: I allude to the most recent Senate race when I 102 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: brought the president and the vice president into Chattanooga, that's 103 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: my big city in the district, and really drove the 104 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: vote so high. Marcia Blackburn won that race. Uh, the 105 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: message is in my part of the world overwhelmingly conservative, 106 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 1: overwhelmingly pro Trump. Um, you did this is important. You 107 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 1: didn't answer my question. The new word is socialist. How 108 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: does that play in your district? Oh, it's poison. Socialism 109 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: is poison in my district, And actually I think it's 110 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: poison in most parts of the United States. But uh, 111 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: it is Socialism is a dirty word in the third 112 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: District of Tennessee. Congressman, how do you draw the distinction 113 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: between progressive policies and socialism? Quite clearly, the Democrats aren't 114 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: going to use the word socialism because they know the 115 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: word is poisoned around much of the country. How are 116 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,239 Speaker 1: you going to push through the idea that the idea 117 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: that progressive politics is no difference to socialism, because if 118 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: you look at the political spectrum, what has basically happened. 119 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: I do believe most Democrats used to be liberal or 120 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: closer to the center. The Democratic Party has moved much 121 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: further to the left on the social scene, on the 122 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: economic scene. If you look at where they have taken 123 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: their party, when they talk about redistribution of wealth, and 124 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: when they talk about government control of everything from healthcare, 125 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: very facet of your life, it will scare mainstream America, 126 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: not just the good hardcore conservatives in the third District 127 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: of Tennessee. But um, when when when my mother, who 128 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: was a New Deal Democrat my father was an Eisenhower Republican, 129 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: grew up in New York and and basically we talk 130 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: about things. The values that my mother, as a New 131 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: Deal Democrat gave me were patriotism, um, belief in God 132 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: and country. The Democrats today have gone the other way. 133 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: I don't understand them. Candidly. I have a lot of 134 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: friends who are Democrats, but I still don't understand that. 135 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: And there are a lot of Democrats who lament the 136 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: fact that their party has been jettised into the left. 137 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: And I think they will have to come back to 138 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: the center. Uh. I'm a center right Republican. I'm not 139 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: a far right Republican. But I think the American people 140 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: will put a check on either party if it goes 141 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: to a streme either way, Thank you so much. The 142 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: gentleman from Tennessee from Chattanooga with us UH this morning 143 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: or after his president gave a State of the Union. 144 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: We are advantage of Bloomberg surveillance with good conversations on 145 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: this nation's international relations and foreign policy. We particularly thank 146 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: Ambassador Hass of the Consul and Foreign Relations for joining 147 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: yesterday with his definitive knowledge on northern Ireland. We continue 148 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: that conversation. Stevens is the admiral from the U. S. 149 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: Naval Academy, formerly with NATO, formally with Toughs Fletcher School, 150 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: Good Morning one O six one FM, Boston and now 151 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: has a sugle out of the Carlisle Group as well 152 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: at M de Vidis. We got a two hour conversation here. 153 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: We gotta squeeze in the president once again within what 154 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 1: i'll editorialize where gross insecurities went after John McCain yesterday 155 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: saying is New York Times bestseller book was I can't 156 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: remember the exact language obamb et cetera. Reef you McCain's book, 157 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 1: and what was a lesson in it that would have 158 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: put it in your classic the Leader's bookshelf? It was 159 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 1: a superb book and it it was the culmination of 160 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: everything that John McCain put into his life. It's a 161 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: book about ethics and character and about sailing true north 162 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: in your life. And it was a bestseller. And the 163 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: President denigrated it and said the book UH was a failure. 164 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: It was anything but a failure. It's a must read. 165 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: The big lesson is, at the end of the day, 166 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 1: all leadership devolves from your character. What you do when 167 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,079 Speaker 1: you think no one is looking. John McCain understood that. 168 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: It's a superb book. I want to go through the 169 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: litany of things. We must start with North Korea a 170 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: second meeting. Let's review at well, what did we learn 171 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 1: from the first meeting of North Korea and the United 172 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: States leadership? Point one that Kim is willing to come 173 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: to the table. Point two is that Kim is a 174 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: slippery negotiator who is not giving us much so far. 175 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 1: And point three is that if we are going to 176 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: land this thing diplomatically, Tom, we're going to have to 177 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: establish a concrete series of steps. List of weapons, location 178 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 1: of weapons, what are the developmental programs? Before we raise 179 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: UH sanctions, before we lift sanctions. We've got to see 180 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: concrete action. That's going to be the focus of this meeting, 181 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: and in Vietnam coming up fairly since what is the 182 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: symbolism of Vietnam? You had the courage to join the 183 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: Navy in Ish, which is a time where no one 184 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: did that. I think it was you and six other 185 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: lonely souls take us back to Vietnam. What is the 186 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: symbolism of the President of the United States traveling to Vietnam? 187 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: It's powerful and I hope that the President will go 188 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: to the Hanoi Hilton, which I have done and see 189 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: John McCain cell there. Tom Um. It's a lesson about 190 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: our failure in that war, let's be honest and clear, 191 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: but also of redemption and hope as we have managed 192 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,719 Speaker 1: to pull Vietnam more and more toward the West and 193 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: engage with them. So it's a powerfully symbolic trip for 194 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: President Trump. I think it's an ideal location also because 195 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: North Korea's airplanes can't fly very far, so it's a 196 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: good place for Tim as well. That's always the art. 197 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: More moving the dialogue forward, let us talk of NATO. 198 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: Mr Soldenberg we visited within Davos. He was forceful about 199 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: the future of it NATO. They will meet in London 200 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,719 Speaker 1: in December. The President's scheduled to attend. What is the 201 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: US policy you see right now of James tra Vitus's NATO. Uh. 202 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: You know, in my days four years a Supreme Allied 203 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: commander of NATO, I pressed the Allies to spend more 204 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: on defense. President Trump, let's be fair, has done that 205 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: quite effectively and added tens of billions of dollars to 206 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: the NATO budget by doing so. On the other hand, uh, 207 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: he needs to be forceful and positive in his leadership 208 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: with this alliance, which is uh firing on all cylinders 209 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: against Russia in the Middle East, in Afghanistan, on counter 210 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: piracy missions. This alliance is very valuable to the United States. 211 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,719 Speaker 1: We need to push them, but we also need to 212 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: embrace them. I hope the President does both those things 213 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,079 Speaker 1: when he goes to the summit in London in December, 214 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: joining US worldwide. James te Vitas with Carlisle Group, of course, 215 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: the former dean of the Fletcher School, Tough University, and 216 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: a tour of duty are a few with the United 217 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: States Navy as well. Can you give us a mark 218 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: of Mr Pompeo. I mean, there's been a shift here 219 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: to listen to Pompeo. Has there been a Is there 220 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 1: actually been an adjustment in the foreign policy of this 221 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: administration or is it smoken mirrors? No. I think there 222 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: has been an adjustment in two important ways. One is 223 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: that Secretary Pompeo has exercise positive leadership in Foggy Bottom. 224 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: He's motivated his diplomats. They there is much more confidence 225 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: coming out from the State Department than was the case 226 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: under Rex Tillerson. So there's an upgrade on leadership. In 227 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: terms of policy, I see Secretary Pompeo because he is 228 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: close to the President, He's able to take Donald Trump's 229 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: impulses and move them into real policy. So again back 230 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: to the two things we just discussed. Will he be 231 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: able to move the President to press on Kim to 232 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: get concrete outcomes? And will he be able to both 233 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: embrace and push NATO. I think Pompeo is an upgrade 234 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: in those two ways. Time, I want to go back 235 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: to your wonderful book, folks, James te Vitas not only 236 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: with a wonderful book in the Oceans, but is the 237 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: leader's bookshelf which I mentioned at the top with Senator McCain, 238 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: is a spectacular book, not only Chapter four Team Book 239 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: of number four, I should say Team of Rivals. Obviously 240 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: Doris Karrent's Goodwin on Lincoln, The Face of Battle, the 241 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: John Keegan Study of three different battles, and on and on. 242 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick a book I haven't read, Admiral, and 243 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: this would be on the gentleman from Hawaii, Mr Nimitz, 244 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: who kept it together with spruance in World War Two. E. B. 245 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: Potter's Nimitz. Why is that a book Americans need to 246 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: be familiar with? First because it unpackages Chester Nimitz, who 247 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: took command of the US Pacific Fleet tom as the 248 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: battleships were sinking in front of him, as there was 249 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: Courtykee hanging in the air at Pearl Harbor. So it's 250 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: a book about resilience. Secondly, Nimitz was calm. He never 251 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: lost his temporary, never denigrated his uh those he supervised 252 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: and led. He was the consummate quiet warrior. And Thirdly, 253 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: because he truly understood the geopolitics of Asia, he worked 254 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: from knowledge under good politics and then applied it to 255 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: war fighting. That's a pretty good model with a ton 256 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: of lessons for any of us today. Our national debate. 257 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: Admiral is Immigration book number thirty eight Buffalo Soldiers a 258 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West William Lucky. 259 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: I've seen that monument outside the Theayer Hotel at West 260 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: Point of where they used to actually practice on the 261 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: field as they got ready. But that speaks to the 262 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: diversity of the American community and goes back, you know, 263 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: into the nineteenth century as well. Why do we need 264 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: to read Buffalo Soldiers and what does that say about 265 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: your navy in two thousand and twenty two. We need 266 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: to read Buffalo Soldiers to understand one stream of the 267 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: power of the diversity of this nation. And of course 268 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: it's not just our African Americans, it's our Asian Americans. 269 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: It's the rise of Latinos in this century. Um. We 270 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: bring all of the races together, Tom, and we stand 271 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: together in defense of the country. Um. That is a 272 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: crucial aspect of all this, and it brings us to immigration. 273 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: We had to continue to support immigration so many and 274 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: I'll point to the U. S. Navy. We lost seventeen 275 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: sailors in collisions that see a terrible day for the Navy. 276 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: Of those seventeen sailors tom eight of them were born 277 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: in another country. UM, immigration helps us. Those who come 278 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: here sacrifice for us. That slipstream of diversity is well 279 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: illustrated by the book Buffalo Soldiers James Javis. Thank you 280 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: so much again, folks, the Leader's bookshelf I put it 281 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 1: out on Twitter. All I can say is own it 282 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 1: and dip into it for your next read. Mrs Stevinus 283 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: atmos Devinus, I should say is with Carlisle Group, Julia Corneto, 284 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: with us with macro policy advisor Juliet you mentioned earlier 285 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: this morning the cornetdo collar. We all know the Powell put, 286 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: which is where he says different things and that puts 287 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: a limit to how far down the market can go, 288 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: or it makes yields move. What's the Coronado collar? Well, so, UM, 289 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,479 Speaker 1: I have thought about the central banks, actually since Yelling 290 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: came in as FED chair of the Central Bank reaction 291 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: function as more of a caller than a put because 292 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: they do understand that policy works first and foremost through 293 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: financial conditions, and they don't want to see them get 294 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: sort of dangerously frothy, frothy in a way that a 295 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: correction could really damage the economy. So last year when 296 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: we were sort of firing on all cylinders, both in 297 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: the economy and markets. The fact that markets were getting 298 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: to a place where they described the risks coming from 299 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: them as elevated, they were more willing to add a 300 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: hike into the baseline, more willing, more biased to tighten policy. 301 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: Markets correct, uh, and then that goes away and they're 302 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: more biased towards being neutral or potentially easing. So so 303 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: they do use financial conditions and asset prices to calibrate policy. 304 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: Can we talk about where the strike prices for the 305 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: federal Reserve? I don't expect a target on the JA, 306 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:14,959 Speaker 1: but I want a better idea of what would bring 307 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: the Federal reserve back in how loose to financial conditions 308 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: need to be. So, I mean, obviously the financial conditions 309 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: are also reflective of the economy. So it's not like 310 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: it's just a pure strike price. It's about like if 311 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: if we actually we're all expecting a pretty pronounced slowdown 312 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: this year. We're seeing it globally, we expect some of 313 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: it to wash into the United States. Some people have 314 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: recession calls either this year or next year, and so 315 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: the question is to what extent do we see that 316 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: slowing down. If instead, for example, we see China put 317 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: in a big stimulus, Europe stabilized pickup and the and 318 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: the environment gets much more. There's a relief, there's more growth, 319 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: there's more inflation pressures. Uh. Then you could see and 320 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: markets start rallying on that. Then you can see the 321 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: FED come in and say, yeah, actually we do need 322 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: to get another hike in there. But I think it 323 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: would be a combination of market risk on pushing back 324 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: towards those zones that the Fed doesn't see a sustainable 325 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: over the long run, and the economy doing better than expected. 326 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from the Chairman a little bit late today, 327 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: this savening in Washington, d C. I believe he speaks 328 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: at about seven pm. Policy, but it's not a monetary policy. 329 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 1: I think it's at an education first public remarks. Since 330 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: the dinner with the president, though, what you want to 331 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: hear from him, Julia, that you haven't heard already. So 332 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,239 Speaker 1: I think that with the dinner with the President, they 333 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: managed that as well as they possibly could. He but 334 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: first of all, Chair Powell made sure that he had 335 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,479 Speaker 1: Vice Chair Clarida with him. Never go into a room alone. Uh. 336 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: And so he uh he. He had that sort of 337 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: united front and then they released a statement immediately after 338 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: that dinner. So I think that he's trying to manage 339 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: I think Powell has been very clear about the political 340 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: independence of the FED and his commitment to doing the 341 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: right thing. Um. I don't see the market is really 342 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: questioning that right now. But but it's obviously we're an 343 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: uncharted territory with political pressures right now. Um, But what 344 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: do I want to hear from share Powell? I think 345 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,919 Speaker 1: what we've heard the story they're neutral, The FED has 346 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: moved to the sidelines. They need to see something in 347 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: one direction or another to make them change the policy stands. 348 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: And I think near term we're looking for a balance 349 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: sheet recalibration. Is there a real yield on where yields 350 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: are right now? If you take these yields and you 351 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: take out inflation, was the real yield there or there 352 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: is a little where in positive real yield territory? Um? Barely, 353 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: but we we did move into positive real yield territory, 354 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 1: and I think we saw the effects on intrasensitive sectors. 355 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: You know, we don't know what the neutral rate is. 356 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: We're we're feeling our way to that neutral rate, but 357 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: boy did bid did real estate and intersensitive sectors flatten actual? 358 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: This has been a big topic of debate on this program, 359 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: that we could be at neutral with a very slightly 360 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: positive funds. What does that say about how much the 361 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: economy has changed in the dramatically? But it's artifacts. I 362 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: don't know. I think that maybe what we're seeing is 363 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: a globally aging economy that works differently than it worked 364 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: in the podcast. So one day a million years ago, 365 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: Bill Growth said to me, you aught to buy Procter 366 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: and gamble and grab the dividend, and that made worldwide headlines. 367 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: Is that where we are is the real yield is 368 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: dividend growth on blue chip stocks? I mean, yeah, I 369 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: think that is where we are. Basically, I think we're 370 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: in a slow I don't think you can you can 371 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: deny that we're in a slower global growth potential environment. 372 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: And in that environment, you know that the rates are 373 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: lower and and yields, you know risk risk return is 374 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: going to be somewhat lower. Yeah, I mean, I mean, Juliet, 375 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: none of this matters all in my my agreement with Bloomberg, 376 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: I have to say the real yield on Wednesday, like 377 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: eight times to promote a real yield with John Farrell 378 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: on Friday at one pm. It's the real yield, it's 379 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: not artificial. What's your angle this week? Have you decided 380 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: to who you're guests. We haven't decided just yet what 381 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: the angle is. It's Wednesday, still early in the week, 382 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: it's still earlier work the sound. But tomorrow afternoon or 383 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: maybe my right Friday morning at eleven am, John Farrell, 384 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: the real Actually, it's very valuable here on the dynamics. 385 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: Julia Cornado love the great, Thank you so much, particularly 386 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: seriously on the cordoad of collar. It's a really important 387 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: concept for the FED view going forward. So tom of course, 388 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: as we've been talking about this morning, President Trump delivered 389 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,120 Speaker 1: the State of the Union addressed last evening, likely characterizes 390 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: light on policy proposals, perhaps in specifics, but certainly have 391 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: you on anti immigration and pro life rhetoric. Joining us 392 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: to kind of break it down to Cheryl Bowland. She 393 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: is Bloomberg Government White House reporter on the phone with us. Cheryl, 394 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us again, a little bit 395 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 1: light on specifics. I think as some of the feedback 396 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: we've been seeing, what did you take away from the speech. 397 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: And do you believe the speech had any opportunity to 398 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: move the needle one way or the other for the administration. Well, 399 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: there are certainly plenty of opportunity to move the needle. 400 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: Now whether it did is a big question, and I 401 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: think it probably did not. Um. It was a real 402 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: study in contrast. Um, the President went in talking about 403 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: bipartisanship and compromise but then continue to sort of backtrack 404 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: on that and particularly um, the President called for Democrats 405 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: to come to a compromise on immigration, but he offered 406 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: no movement forward that Democrats could accept to break the 407 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 1: impasse on what border wall funding. Um. He called for 408 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: you know, very popular uh, increase in immigration, excuse me, 409 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: in the infrastructure funding, rebuilding the nation's infrastructure, but then 410 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: absolutely no specifics on how to pay for it, which 411 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: was a big problem last year. He also called for 412 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: big infrastructure package, but they could never come to an 413 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: agreement on paying for it. Uh. He talked about coming 414 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 1: working on a new trade deal with China, but then 415 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,679 Speaker 1: was really uh really bragged about his two fifty billion 416 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: in terrorists. UM. So, Cheryl, I think one of the 417 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: key things, you know, arguments were approaching that February fifteenth deadline, 418 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 1: and the shutdown is coming again. Unfortunately, have to turn 419 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: our the narrative back to the shutdown. Was there anything 420 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: either in the president speech or the Democratic response that 421 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: sheds any light on how they might move forward? No, 422 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: and in fact, notably the President did not refer to 423 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 1: the previous shutdown, which is something that Stacy Abrams, who 424 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: gave the Democratic response. How did she do? Sure? How 425 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: she do? Give me a Stacy Abrams score card? Well, 426 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 1: she talked, she opened up with furloughed workers. She again 427 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: contrasting the Democratic vision with with the Republican guns, college costs, 428 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 1: healthcare costs, and also per choice. So so abortion was 429 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: it was an issue of the night. But she she 430 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: did fine. Um, it's always hard to give the Democratic response. Um, 431 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: but she certainly didn't make any missteps and and and 432 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: did and did as well as she could. I believe 433 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: the Washington score card. Cheryl Bowl and thank you so 434 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: much at Bloomberg Government. Greatly appreciate that. Uh this morning. 435 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg Surveillance podcast. Subscribe and 436 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: listen to interviews on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or whichever podcast 437 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: platform you prefer I'm on Twitter at Tom Keane. 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