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Speaker 2: All right, So two days later, we finally get GM's

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Speaker 2: conference call slashing guidance with up to five billion dollar

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Speaker 2: hit from taruffs. Joining US now David Well to Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: Detroit Bureau chief.

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Speaker 1: David.

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Speaker 2: I thought that these offsets that were announced on Monday

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Speaker 2: or Tuesday, I forget, my time has no meaning, were

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Speaker 2: supposed to help this part from the administration.

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Speaker 3: They did. I mean, some analysts had they hit to

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Speaker 3: General Motors from tariffs being as high as ten billion dollars. Wow,

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Speaker 3: so it did help some. You still have a twenty

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Speaker 3: five percent tariff on imported vehicle. This does help offset

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Speaker 3: vehicles they important, the rest is parts. So if the

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Speaker 4: So, David, is the expectation this is kind of a

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Speaker 3: It's what they know based on the structure of the

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Speaker 3: GM gets a couple hundred thousand vehicles, all entry level

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get more on Cole's here. That stock

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Speaker 4: The Facebook Effect. It's a great book, highly recommended. Hey David,

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Speaker 2: David Kirkpatrick joining us one of the best. He literally

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Speaker 2: wrote the book on Facebook, founder of Teconomy, helping us

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Speaker 2: to break through meta earnings. Here's my question. Oh well,

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Speaker 2: went away, look at that question. Oh video and video

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Speaker 2: Say AI is priced in and their customers are going

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Speaker 4: Let's check in with the professional here, Marsha McGregor, head

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Speaker 4: of Portfolio Strategy, where the CIO at Meryl and Bank

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Speaker 4: of America Private Bank. I like keeping the Meryl name

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Speaker 4: Marylyn the name. I worked at Maryland, so the Thundering

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Speaker 4: good I thought the Meryl folks were. So Marshie, thanks

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Speaker 4: so much for joining us here. Boy volatility, I mean,

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Speaker 4: if you like it, this is your kind of market.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we're trying to help our clients kind

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Speaker 8: clients to take a step back understand that being really

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Speaker 5: To feel choppy.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, when I think about our portfolio positioning right now,

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Speaker 8: this kind of big picture arms race for technology and AI.

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Speaker 4: Marcy, my notes, tell me that you're based in Savannah, Orga.

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Speaker 4: Please tell me.

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Speaker 3: That's not the case.

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Speaker 8: That is the case.

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Speaker 4: How did you wrangle that? He's just jealous, hugely jealous.

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Speaker 8: Well, if it makes you feel better, I'm in New

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Speaker 8: York pretty regularly. But yeah, as I look out the

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Speaker 4: Mean that might be, pound for pound, the prettiest city

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Speaker 4: in all of America. It is awesome, is it down there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And the word I mean, she went the Rutgers good,

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Speaker 4: but then she ends up in Savannah, Georgia for banks

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Speaker 4: a jealousy.

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Speaker 5: Marcia, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: For joining us.

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Speaker 5: We'll have you back.

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Speaker 4: I really appreciate getting some of your thoughts on Marcia Gregor.

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Speaker 4: She's had a portfolio strategy for the CIO at Merrill

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Speaker 4: and Bank of America Private Bank from Savannah.

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Speaker 8: George Savannah.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it is just it's a great long weekend trip

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Speaker 4: from New York. Yeah, it's good, it's I highly recommend.

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