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Speaker 1: of course on the Bloomberg. Tom Keen in Davos, Switzerland
Speaker 1: for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. He just sat
Speaker 1: down with Jacob Frankel, chairman of JP Morgan Chase International,
Speaker 1: former Governor of the Bank of Israel, and let's take
Speaker 1: a listen to some of their conversation. How are we doing?
Speaker 1: Are we out of financial crisis? Yet? We are clearly
Speaker 1: very close to it, But I would never declare victory prematurely.
Speaker 1: The important point is that at the beginning of the crisis,
Speaker 1: the mindset of policy makers was how to extinguish a file.
Speaker 1: This is a mindset that has a short term perspective.
Speaker 1: In front of you, you say, I have a file.
Speaker 1: I have to put a lot of water on the file,
Speaker 1: and if the carpets get spoiled, so beat. I need
Speaker 1: to deal with the file. But over time, as the
Speaker 1: file is being put away, we need to worry about
Speaker 1: the resumption of growth. We need to have a medium
Speaker 1: term approach, a long term approach, the only approach that
Speaker 1: matters for investment and growth. And that's why the challenges
Speaker 1: now how to move towards an economy and policy making
Speaker 1: that is looking into the long run, that is having
Speaker 1: a flexibility of the economy, that has structural policies, that
Speaker 1: understands that in order to grow, you need to be
Speaker 1: part of the global system, that understands that trade is
Speaker 1: a privilege that everyone should be gaining from, etcetera. But
Speaker 1: we have this year theme, my theme populism. Trump's dovo
Speaker 1: certainly not original, many other people have picked up on this.
Speaker 1: How do policy makers, through the prism of their economists
Speaker 1: and advisors deal with populism? It's just simply a search
Speaker 1: for economic growth, isn't it? Where it is sells for
Speaker 1: economic growth. But I would add two adjectives search for
Speaker 1: sustainable economic growth, namely medium term perspective and search for
Speaker 1: and inclusive economic growth, namely that the benefits from growth
Speaker 1: are shelled. If we miss on any of these two
Speaker 1: inclusiveness and medium term approach sustainability, then we will really
Speaker 1: miss the boat. And it is the responsibility of policy makers,
Speaker 1: of the media, of educators alike to shift the narrative
Speaker 1: and debate away from the protectionism and populism towards more
Speaker 1: concrete issue. Let me give you an example. When you
Speaker 1: talk to people who are saying I want to have protection,
Speaker 1: is against trade, I don't want the globalization, etcetera, ask them,
Speaker 1: are you really against the benefits from trade? They will
Speaker 1: tell you owners, I want the benefits. So what are
Speaker 1: you against? I am against some of the negative consequences
Speaker 1: that trade unchecked may entail. Maybe not everyone will benefit. Okay,
Speaker 1: then shift the debate to this, how do we make
Speaker 1: sure that society shows and how do we do that?
Speaker 1: How do we affect a policy that meets the president
Speaker 1: elects demands and the people that supported him, and it
Speaker 1: gives us a policy for those left bend. Absolutely, it
Speaker 1: has to be at least two dimensions. Number One, you
Speaker 1: need to ease the transition period. This means trade adjustment assistance.
Speaker 1: This means job retraining, This means making people more capable
Speaker 1: to accommodate the changes. Not good enough. The very fact
Speaker 1: that now, years after an after, there are those who
Speaker 1: say that NAFTA was a bad thing is a testimony
Speaker 1: to the debate. So instead of saying afterwards a good
Speaker 1: thing of a bad thing, which goes to the political debate,
Speaker 1: we really need to say, how do we ensure inclusiveness?
Speaker 1: Tom King, they're talking with Jacob Frankl, the chairman of
Speaker 1: Japing Morgan Chase International, chairman of the Ward trustee in
Speaker 1: the Group of thirty as well and former governor of
Speaker 1: the Bank of Israel in Davos, Switzerland at Annual Meaning
Speaker 1: of the World Economic Form. Let's do this, David, Let's
Speaker 1: uh move forward to the quiet strength of Davos, which
Speaker 1: is year after year after year, persistent research. No one
Speaker 1: has done that better than Richard Edelman. Of course, this
Speaker 1: company is dealing in public relations, usually for corporations who
Speaker 1: blown up their relations, and they assistance in moving forward.
Speaker 1: Richard Edelman very good at that. But for me, the
Speaker 1: Edelman Trust Barometer is an important document. And no there's
Speaker 1: no year which is like this year for the distrust
Speaker 1: that's out there, Richard Edlman, wonderful to have you here
Speaker 1: your annual visit. Where As she said me, you know,
Speaker 1: two weeks ago and said, Tom, it's an extraordinary lack
Speaker 1: of trust out there. What is the telling thing in
Speaker 1: the sixty six pages of your analysis. Well, trust is
Speaker 1: imploded this year, Tom, in the institutions, but particularly in media.
Speaker 1: And it's actually seen that the media has become part
Speaker 1: of the elite um. There's a world of self reference,
Speaker 1: that the media is an is an echo chamber in fact,
Speaker 1: for whether you're right or left, and that you don't
Speaker 1: really want to read or hear anything that you don't
Speaker 1: agree with. Is the distrust out there contained within the
Speaker 1: United States, Or when we talk about global populism, is
Speaker 1: there a contagion effect? Or is each nation discreet in
Speaker 1: their barometer? So you know, this year is stunning in
Speaker 1: the number of countries that have moved beyond just loss
Speaker 1: of trust in their institutions to a loss of faith
Speaker 1: in the system. More than half the countries have have
Speaker 1: lack of confidence in fairness, in the extent to which
Speaker 1: they can make a better life for their families in
Speaker 1: the future, and in their leaders. They want change If
Speaker 1: you were to show the Edelman Trust Barometer to the
Speaker 1: President elect, what would you point out to Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: I would say that in a way, he reflects the mood,
Speaker 1: which is um deep socio and economic fears that people
Speaker 1: are looking behind themselves about to being replaced by robots,
Speaker 1: about jobs being outsourced, and that they want to have
Speaker 1: a direct and honest conversation with their employer about their
Speaker 1: economic future. Are they going to be better off in
Speaker 1: the future? You know? I look, Richard Edelman, the granularity
Speaker 1: of your report and the charm of it is. It's
Speaker 1: year after year. I remember a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: I think even CEOs worsen politicians, which is hard to
Speaker 1: fathom within the expertology that's your review. How does CEO's
Speaker 1: lineup this year? The Trust and CEOs fell apart time
Speaker 1: We're back to two thousand nine, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a matter of compensation and also just disappointment in this
Speaker 1: narrow focus on shareholder value as opposed to fix the
Speaker 1: problems of society and tell me the truth about my job.
Speaker 1: Let me bring in my colleague in New York, David Gura,
Speaker 1: with Richard Edelman. Please, yeah, try you don't mince words.
Speaker 1: So you say there's a complete loss of faith in
Speaker 1: the system and and and that's a bold, sweeping statement.
Speaker 1: How did we get here? And how reversible is this
Speaker 1: do you think? I think it's a long, slow rebuild.
Speaker 1: I think trust is lost easily UM and its confidence
Speaker 1: is hard to bring back. And it's going to be
Speaker 1: each company, one at a time showing that in fact
Speaker 1: it does give good jobs, that it does reinvest, and
Speaker 1: that it does actually make communities better. And I also
Speaker 1: think that UM trust is going to be done by employees.
Speaker 1: That you've got to tell the employees because the new
Speaker 1: crazy is that it's a person like you, much much
Speaker 1: more credible than the CEO or of the government official
Speaker 1: twice as credible. Help us with with how this is
Speaker 1: setting the backdrop for conversations at Davos. Of course they're
Speaker 1: ahead of the event. There are always articles about what's
Speaker 1: going to be discussed, how relevant the World Economic Forum
Speaker 1: meeting is going to be, how much are people They're
Speaker 1: talking about credibility and ways to sort of bridge this gap.
Speaker 1: They understand that business is the last retaining wall in
Speaker 1: a tsunami, that the first was the Great Recession. Then
Speaker 1: you had globalization. Now you have automation, so business in
Speaker 1: a way for that uncommitted group, half the people have
Speaker 1: lost faith in the system, about a third or sort
Speaker 1: of uncommitted. In fifteen half confidence. That uncommitted group thinks
Speaker 1: that business is actually the most credible force. So now
Speaker 1: is the time for ceo s to stand up. Don't
Speaker 1: do what you usually do, which is duck and wait. UM,
Speaker 1: you've got to actually lead now and show that businesses
Speaker 1: is good. Well, you're you're. What you're so good at
Speaker 1: is the triage of the moment for our large companies.
Speaker 1: When you say to CEOs you've got to re establish
Speaker 1: a communication with a public, what does that actually entel?
Speaker 1: It means tom actually going to the employees first, UM
Speaker 1: then also having a channel that allows customers and UM
Speaker 1: and consumers to speak directly to the company. So for instance,
Speaker 1: United Airlines has a thing called Airtime where people can
Speaker 1: complain about service or UM employees can complain about working conditions,
Speaker 1: and all of this has made public. The level of
Speaker 1: transparency and the response over time is something that's learned
Speaker 1: from the sharing economy, from Uber Airbnb. That's a huge
Speaker 1: positive and it's been really critical to United's recovery of
Speaker 1: trust Richard Elemen, do people hunger for good dialogue? Do
Speaker 1: they recognize there's a deficit here? Do they want something better?
Speaker 1: Or have they gotten beyond that? Have they just given up? No?
Speaker 1: I think that the business leaders here definitely have processed
Speaker 1: UM that this populist movement is really scary for business,
Speaker 1: that anti globalization and anti innovation, that people are nervous
Speaker 1: in fact about new services, new products because it might
Speaker 1: mean that they don't have good jobs or jobs at all.
Speaker 1: So they want leadership and and the business leaders are
Speaker 1: now talking about it. I look, and again, folks, I go,
Speaker 1: I really urge you to go to the website of
Speaker 1: Edelman and look at the Edelman Trust Barometer. Over to
Speaker 1: our politicians, I can't fathom your account with the Trump
Speaker 1: administration how Edelman helps the Trump administration forward. Do you
Speaker 1: have a recommendation to our presidential tweeter? Do you what
Speaker 1: would be the Edelman Council to our newly minted president
Speaker 1: this Friday. I think that President Trump has to establish
Speaker 1: a game plan and then show progress for it. UM
Speaker 1: that he can't as a candidate UM just tweet his
Speaker 1: way to UM satisfaction that people are gonna be holding
Speaker 1: him to account, and it's not going to be just
Speaker 1: getting forward to relocate its jobs back to Ohio. It
Speaker 1: has to be a real plan of infrastructure and um
Speaker 1: education and economic development and decent means by which to
Speaker 1: renegotiate an AFTA or with the child. Set you up
Speaker 1: because I knew what the answer would be. Now let
Speaker 1: me let me get to what matters here, Richards, and
Speaker 1: will come back. The core idea then is you have
Speaker 1: to affect the policy. Can you do that with a
Speaker 1: distrust that's seen within the barometer the Edeleman Trust Barometer. Look,
Speaker 1: government is the least trusted institution in our study, and
Speaker 1: it has to actually be done between business and government,
Speaker 1: and it has to be seen as something that has
Speaker 1: been um done by listening to the people. We have
Speaker 1: to move from telling the people what's good for them
Speaker 1: to doing things with the people and let them judge
Speaker 1: a result. Richard Edelman with us with the accept I've
Speaker 1: never I say this every year, but now I really
Speaker 1: mean the idea of the Edelman Trust Barometer. I'll put
Speaker 1: that out on social and as I have uh the
Speaker 1: last few days, uh, and we'll go from there. David
Speaker 1: just An extraordinary document and a pleasure to read every
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Speaker 1: A most wonderful panel this morning talking about the future
Speaker 1: of finance and giving terrific perspective on the potential transactions
Speaker 1: and combinations, and also on uh the Nation of America.
Speaker 1: David Rubinstein the Carlisle Group, purely one of our great philanthropists.
Speaker 1: I think the most wonderful thing you do is the
Speaker 1: Redond Ford's Theater across the street from Ford's Theater. You
Speaker 1: guys left extent the tragic room where the sixteenth President died,
Speaker 1: but you placed a museum right next to it without
Speaker 1: destroying the feel of it. Yes, Um, I was a contributor,
Speaker 1: but I was not the principal person behind it. I
Speaker 1: was on the board of it for a while. And interestingly,
Speaker 1: the person who was the chairman of the capital campaign
Speaker 1: that raised the money was a man named Rex Tillerson.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happened to him. I don't, but
Speaker 1: I think he'll He'll do okay. How will he do okay?
Speaker 1: A secretary of state? He has a different president than
Speaker 1: the previous president. Well, Rex is a very smart person
Speaker 1: and he's got a wealth of experience in dealing with
Speaker 1: leaders around the world. So I think he will be
Speaker 1: assuming he's confirmed, as I believe he will be. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be a very strong secretary of State. Remember
Speaker 1: he was recommended by one of my former partners, Jim Baker,
Speaker 1: and Jim Baker has pretty good judgment about these things.
Speaker 1: If I look at the so called Trump reflation and
Speaker 1: the idea of a boost and optimism, does that mean
Speaker 1: a boost and internal rates a return for those that
Speaker 1: invest privately, whether it's private equ venture capital, or good
Speaker 1: old all American mergers and acquisitions. I hope always springs eternal,
Speaker 1: of course, but there's no doubt that if you have inflation,
Speaker 1: inflation which we haven't had much of, that will probably
Speaker 1: produce higher rates of return. Whether they're higher in real
Speaker 1: terms or not, obviously uh to be determined. But I
Speaker 1: think when you have higher growth rates generally produce greater
Speaker 1: economic activity and that generally produces higher rates of return.
Speaker 1: So hopefully if this all can come about, it's not
Speaker 1: easy to do. Remember, we have a twenty trillion dollar
Speaker 1: economy and there's no history of twenty trillion dollar economies
Speaker 1: growing at five percent a year. So if we can
Speaker 1: get it slightly better than where it is, it's it's good.
Speaker 1: But a twenty trillion dollar economy is harder to move
Speaker 1: than a ten trillion dollar economy. Dave Rubinstein, there were
Speaker 1: two big speeches this morning. I don't need to tell
Speaker 1: you that, but the UK Prime Minister to reason they spoke,
Speaker 1: as well as the Chinese president jumping there in Davos.
Speaker 1: When you when you think about the global economy, which
Speaker 1: of those two was was most important? What were you
Speaker 1: listening for today? They're both important figures, of course, Uh
Speaker 1: president of China. A president of China had never come
Speaker 1: to Davas before, and President She therefore got a great
Speaker 1: deal of attention for coming. And what he was really
Speaker 1: saying is something that would not have been UH expected
Speaker 1: of a Chinese leader to say ten or twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: which is that globalization is very important and that China
Speaker 1: thinks that the world order should be respected in some
Speaker 1: respects UM. I think that Theresa May was saying that
Speaker 1: Brexit is going to occur at some point and that
Speaker 1: she's prepared to implement that. UM. Time will tell whether
Speaker 1: how how easy it will be to do that. It's
Speaker 1: a complicated negotiation, as we know, and and the courts
Speaker 1: have ruled in England that the Parliament has to vote
Speaker 1: on it before it can actually occur, and so I
Speaker 1: don't know you know when that will occur. Tom mentions
Speaker 1: your your philanthropic giving. I think of your reverence for
Speaker 1: history and American institutions, and I wonder what you're looking
Speaker 1: at his in terms of US history. At this point.
Speaker 1: This is such a pivotal moment. There's no no need
Speaker 1: to underestimate that. What are you reading, what are you
Speaker 1: thinking about at this point? Well, let me just mention
Speaker 1: one thing that I'd like all the Americans and anybody
Speaker 1: listening with to pay attention to. UM. The African American
Speaker 1: History and Culture Museum was opened a few months ago
Speaker 1: in washing d C. It is the museum that was
Speaker 1: conceived by John Lewis, or at least that he was
Speaker 1: the person who introduced legislation was signed by George W. Bush.
Speaker 1: Five hundred and forty million dollars was the price tag.
Speaker 1: Two d seventy million came from taxpayers, two hundred seventy
Speaker 1: from philanthropic gifts them throughout the United States, and many
Speaker 1: many of Americans contributed to that, and many Americans gave
Speaker 1: artifacts and other things. We now have people going to
Speaker 1: that museum, and it was expected that the average person
Speaker 1: going to that museum would spend an hour and a
Speaker 1: half touring the museum. The average person is now spending
Speaker 1: six and a half hours, six and a half hours
Speaker 1: because it's such a life changing experience to see the
Speaker 1: history of African Americans in this country, from four hundred
Speaker 1: years of history, through slavery, through Jim Crow Laws, through
Speaker 1: the great accomplishments of African Americans. And I recommend to
Speaker 1: all Americans, white, black, or any color to spend some
Speaker 1: time touring that museum. I regarded as the best museum
Speaker 1: right now uh of its type in in the United States.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about populism, and we only have
Speaker 1: a minute left. People just assume you grew up with
Speaker 1: a silver spoon in your mouth. I don't know why
Speaker 1: that happened, but they just assumed David Rubinstein couldn't be
Speaker 1: that successful with with with without if you didn't you
Speaker 1: grew up a real basic life. Well, my parents were
Speaker 1: not college or high school graduates. My father worked in
Speaker 1: the post office. Uh. I got very lucky in life
Speaker 1: and um now giving back like the anger that you
Speaker 1: see right now, David, within Americas, well, when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, I did believe in the American dream that
Speaker 1: you could work hard and rise to the top. Now
Speaker 1: many people don't believe in that. They believe that they
Speaker 1: are captain there for the Therefore, the social mobility that
Speaker 1: I benefited from is not present. And clearly I had
Speaker 1: some advantages. But uh I, uh, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know that everybody feels that they can rise to the
Speaker 1: top as they as they as I did. Thank you
Speaker 1: for visiting us with today and again thank you for
Speaker 1: my David Rumstein is where the Carlisle crew from New
Speaker 1: York from Davos, this is Bloomberg back to Davos to
Speaker 1: Tom Keane where we can hear the steam coming out
Speaker 1: of your mouth. A Tom, it's cold there. It is
Speaker 1: cold here. It's ten degrees colder last year, and a
Speaker 1: little bit of snow not record snow that we've seen
Speaker 1: in my thirteen years here. But it is a winter wonderland.
Speaker 1: And I would say, David, the key early theme is
Speaker 1: what we knew uncertainty. But I can't begin to tell
Speaker 1: you the level of uncertainty to confront it last night
Speaker 1: on the trip through Zurich was just remarkable. We have
Speaker 1: a special guest. There are very few sons that pull
Speaker 1: this off. Paul Jacobs did it. His father, to full disclosure,
Speaker 1: was one of my o There's heroes and engineering out
Speaker 1: of New Bedford, Massachusetts and Cornell to San Diego. And
Speaker 1: then there was this company two decades ago that started
Speaker 1: It has something to do with technology, and the Sun
Speaker 1: actually said hey, I'll do this too. He's a double
Speaker 1: E out of Berkeley. Paul Jacobs joined us down. What
Speaker 1: was that like? Was there a point where your father
Speaker 1: sat you down in your seventeen and said you don't
Speaker 1: want to do this now? He was actually always interested
Speaker 1: in me being in engineering, and so you know, he
Speaker 1: just did things to make sure I got interested in
Speaker 1: and I worked there every summer. Uh. You know, when
Speaker 1: I was in grade school, high school and I learned
Speaker 1: how to program early on. Did you use a slide
Speaker 1: rule or were you after that in early days? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Old enough, Yeah, I had to use the slide rule
Speaker 1: in the old things. Tell me about the people here,
Speaker 1: toss around the phrases. You and your father have lived
Speaker 1: technology innovation, and I find engineers the hair curls when
Speaker 1: they see the usage of today. What does technology mean
Speaker 1: for Paul Jacobs? Oh, technology is the way that we
Speaker 1: take an idea out of our head, something that we
Speaker 1: think about, and we turn it into reality and affect
Speaker 1: people's lives. And the coolest thing about Qualcom is that,
Speaker 1: you know, we thought we were going to affect everybody
Speaker 1: in the world's lives with this new technology, and we're
Speaker 1: actually able to execute and make that happen. Let me
Speaker 1: bring in my colleague in New York, David Gurrow, happened
Speaker 1: to go to Cornell, Thanks, sir, Iwin Jacobs. David Gurra, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very proudly. Here, Paul Jacobs, let me ask you about
Speaker 1: so where chip making is headed. I know that you
Speaker 1: unveiled your plans for five G recently at c e S.
Speaker 1: Talk about adoption. Uh, A lot of the world still
Speaker 1: has not yet adopted four G technology. You're talking about
Speaker 1: five G. How quickly can you move along with something
Speaker 1: like that? Well, so five G is going to be
Speaker 1: driven by the end markets. So you got the Koreans
Speaker 1: who want a version of five G in time for
Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics, and then you kind of got the
Speaker 1: standards process. It's going for the Tokyo Olympics in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why Olympics are the catalysts how happened
Speaker 1: to be, but anyways, so really cool stuff though, because
Speaker 1: now you're gonna be able to do, you know, things
Speaker 1: like virtual reality and fly drones around and get you know, uh,
Speaker 1: telemetry off of people's bodies to you know, see how
Speaker 1: they're We tried that last night, I want to ask.
Speaker 1: But anyways, so but the interesting thing about five G though,
Speaker 1: is that it's going to go not just into the
Speaker 1: phones and the tablets that we carry around, but into
Speaker 1: all other kinds of devices, whether it's sensors in the
Speaker 1: world around us, whether it's cars or as I said,
Speaker 1: drones and robots and uh, you know, all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: And so we just did a study that said but
Speaker 1: by the time comes around, you know, it'll have been
Speaker 1: integrated wireless connectivity will be integrated to all these different devices,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna create an excess of twelve point three
Speaker 1: trillion dollars of incremental benefit to all these other industries
Speaker 1: that that will make use of it. Paul, And we
Speaker 1: know about Moore's Law, and I wonder what the biggest
Speaker 1: challenge right now is to to chip making, to getting
Speaker 1: more advanced chips. I mean, look, Moore's Law, we still
Speaker 1: have it progressing, but it's slowing down a little bit
Speaker 1: from an economic standpoint, and we are getting close to
Speaker 1: the physical limits of More's law. And I was just
Speaker 1: on a panel for the White House the previous administration,
Speaker 1: uh talking about you know, what are the implications of
Speaker 1: that and and how do we do moonshots to sort
Speaker 1: of uh incentivize the industry to come up with the
Speaker 1: next new thing. How do we go from where we
Speaker 1: are and how do we keep it going? And there's
Speaker 1: an analogy with what happened in wireless. We got to
Speaker 1: a point where we sort of made every radio link
Speaker 1: as good as it could and we had to then
Speaker 1: change the network. We had to make the network denser
Speaker 1: to get more data down to your device. So we'll
Speaker 1: have to do something different for chips. Whenever the lads
Speaker 1: to Apple Toy comes out. I'm always amazed how the
Speaker 1: media doesn't about the Qualcom world of technology around it.
Speaker 1: In all, one of the things we do talk about
Speaker 1: what you've got in your cool new not time folks
Speaker 1: for Qualcom shameless play the snap Dragon eight, three, five
Speaker 1: and next gen processor made for power users. But there's
Speaker 1: still batteries. Tell me about what you're doing about what
Speaker 1: every parent knows, which is we can take a room
Speaker 1: in the house and make it a battery dumping ground
Speaker 1: for our kids and everything. What are you doing about
Speaker 1: lithium batteries and that? Yeah, I mean there hasn't been
Speaker 1: as much progress, for sure in the battery technology as
Speaker 1: we would like. We hadn't done some investments in battery
Speaker 1: companies to try and improve that situation, but it's slow.
Speaker 1: And Uh. The other thing is we try the other side,
Speaker 1: which is to continue to make the chips more and
Speaker 1: more power efficient. We moved to the latest generation of
Speaker 1: integrated circuit technology to to do that, but of course
Speaker 1: people also want more processing. When you want to do
Speaker 1: virtual reality or more graphics, ben you're gonna use up
Speaker 1: more battery life. So there's always this balance between what
Speaker 1: we can do in terms of lowering power consumption and
Speaker 1: what the consumer demands in terms of increased performance. Uh.
Speaker 1: One other thing we've been trying is why I was charging.
Speaker 1: I want to get this in if I could in
Speaker 1: the time that we've got a very quickly here. Stem
Speaker 1: is all the rage? Did you have to take liberal
Speaker 1: arts as you wandered through Berkeley? I actually wanted to.
Speaker 1: One thing that was kind of funny at Berkeley was
Speaker 1: I actually was a good writer. When I went in
Speaker 1: and I tried to get into an English class. They
Speaker 1: didn't want an engineer in the English class. But I
Speaker 1: took some arts classes and I'm doing I'll have to
Speaker 1: leave it there, Paul Jacobs, thank you so much. With
Speaker 1: qualcom from Davos. He has been, without question, the most
Speaker 1: interesting person on Wall Street, UH, for any number of months.
Speaker 1: It is one thing to find a candidate in politics,
Speaker 1: as another one to get way out front of everybody else,
Speaker 1: and Anthony Skermuchi did that with one Donald Trump long
Speaker 1: ago and far away. It is simplistic to say that
Speaker 1: he has taken the position that Valerie Jarrett held in
Speaker 1: the Obama administration. Nobody believes for a minute that Anthony
Speaker 1: Skermucchi will only be director the Office of Publicly aison
Speaker 1: he can't even pronounce it publicly is on an inter
Speaker 1: governmental affairs as well. Anthony skermuch he joins us this morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning, we picked the French name for an American job. Well,
Speaker 1: I think so. But what will you do? What will
Speaker 1: you do January? Well, I'd like to start January twenty,
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping right after the inaugural of many of
Speaker 1: us will be in the West wing. Uh, starting to
Speaker 1: put the apparatus of government together. But I think the
Speaker 1: number one objective for me, Tom and I said this
Speaker 1: last week, is to try to help people see the
Speaker 1: president elect the way we see him. Uh, members of
Speaker 1: his staff, members of his family. Uh. He's a very caring,
Speaker 1: generous guy, very thoughtful. UM. He's got a great vision
Speaker 1: and great direction of where he wants to take things.
Speaker 1: We had a fantastic meeting yesterday. Unfortunately I wasn't there
Speaker 1: because I was in route to Davos, but we had
Speaker 1: a great meeting with Martin Luther King the third. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jim Brown said recently that he sees him as the
Speaker 1: quarterback of the inner city redevelopment. I think it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun things that Caden still plays against that
Speaker 1: just in the last X number of hours a thirty
Speaker 1: five pc terrifying BMW. The things that Donald Trump says
Speaker 1: help our our listeners worldwide with the process. After he
Speaker 1: says something to do, the advisors get together and say,
Speaker 1: excuse me, sir, go in this direction, how is that
Speaker 1: process working out? I don't. I don't think so specifically
Speaker 1: the BMW. You just so that Americans understand what happens
Speaker 1: is they're under a V A T tax system and
Speaker 1: so they're they're effectively getting a rebate back on the
Speaker 1: V A T to ship a car over to the
Speaker 1: United States. In our system, because we have an income
Speaker 1: tax and corporate income tax structure, we fix it day one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he can necessarily be fixed day one,
Speaker 1: but there are border adjustment taxes that can be put
Speaker 1: in place to level the playing field. We have an
Speaker 1: eight hundred billion dollar trade deficit. Uh, there's no reason
Speaker 1: why the United States needs to have an eight under
Speaker 1: billion dollar trade deficit if we just equalize and create
Speaker 1: symmetry in our trading relationship. So the President is saying
Speaker 1: one thing, I think it's very specific let's make the
Speaker 1: trade deals fair. Let me bringing my colleague in New York,
Speaker 1: David Girl, with the Trump administration. David, it's great to
Speaker 1: speak with you, and uh, you know, I I take
Speaker 1: what you're saying that you want the American people to
Speaker 1: see President Trump the way that that you see him,
Speaker 1: help us understand where the humility is. I look at
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal this morning, and I see the
Speaker 1: outgoing director of the CIA really taking the President elect
Speaker 1: to task here for imputing the integrity of of folks
Speaker 1: in the intelligence community. I look at what the president
Speaker 1: elect tweeted about John Lewis, virtual punches on Twitter towards him,
Speaker 1: a guy who's taken real punches in the South during
Speaker 1: the civil rights movement. Where's the humility? Would you like
Speaker 1: to see more humility? There? We are we miss reading
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Should should he be demonstrating more of
Speaker 1: it on Twitter and and just publicly generally. So let's
Speaker 1: let's let it's interesting the way you're characterizing all that,
Speaker 1: So let me recharacterize it for the listener. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: Congressman Lewis decided that he wanted to say that the
Speaker 1: election of President Donald J. Trump was illegitimate. So I
Speaker 1: guess it's you're you're saying that he should not have
Speaker 1: responded to that and the way they responded to it.
Speaker 1: But what do we know about the president elect is
Speaker 1: that he doesn't really like taking that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, when when Meryl Streep is saying the nonsense
Speaker 1: that she said ten or twelve days ago, he responding
Speaker 1: to it. That's something that he's doesn't change. Janus, Let's
Speaker 1: see if it does. You know, before I say if
Speaker 1: it is or it is, it's his. It's up to
Speaker 1: him to make the decision whether it's going to But
Speaker 1: but when you talk about humility, I think humility is
Speaker 1: often expressed in your children. I think humility is often
Speaker 1: expressed in your family and in your grandchildren. This guy
Speaker 1: is a very emotional guy. I knew he was moved
Speaker 1: to tears on election night. I watched it. I was
Speaker 1: there firsthand. Uh, this guy has an intense love for
Speaker 1: the country. Whether people saw this or didn't see this.
Speaker 1: And you were very nice in your opening remarks tom
Speaker 1: to say that I saw it, but I didn't get
Speaker 1: there as early as you suggested. But I got there
Speaker 1: because he was identifying something in the population through his empathy. Uh.
Speaker 1: There he is as a billionaire living in a very
Speaker 1: large tower and probably the best location in midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1: But he understood the struggle. I don't but the good
Speaker 1: news I get to hang out with him in the
Speaker 1: best location free. But but my my point is is that,
Speaker 1: like you say, humility, I see a lot of humility there,
Speaker 1: but I also see em lency. He really understood what
Speaker 1: was going on in working class communities and working class
Speaker 1: families and and whether people want to hear this or not,
Speaker 1: the democratic establishment that was their typical base. Uh, they
Speaker 1: left them there for him to go in there. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of good evidence
Speaker 1: of that, David continued, Please before I fry, Mr Scarmo repries,
Speaker 1: because my feet are so. It was a long weekend,
Speaker 1: of three day weekend, a lot of conversation about about Russia.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that the president elect would like to move
Speaker 1: on from this. You have Congress taking a renewed interest
Speaker 1: here in what maybe a relationship between the campaign and Russia,
Speaker 1: calls for committee hearings related to this. What's the president's
Speaker 1: president elect approach going to be here? Why not just
Speaker 1: go ahead with the hearings. Why not to deliver more
Speaker 1: formal explanation. Well, I think there's a lot on the agenda.
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to speak necessarily
Speaker 1: specifically about that. But if you look at the one
Speaker 1: hundred day plan that the administration is putting together that
Speaker 1: they want to project and execute over say the next
Speaker 1: three months, um, I think they're just trying to measure
Speaker 1: what is important, what's important to the American people, uh,
Speaker 1: and doing a cost benefit analysis of that. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, talking specifically about that, since I don't really
Speaker 1: know the answer, I'd rather focus on the one day agenda.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about the news that's out on
Speaker 1: social media now, which is your comments here at the
Speaker 1: World Economic Form meetings about selling your business. Unlike Mr Trump,
Speaker 1: who wants to somehow keep it going in different primitations,
Speaker 1: you want to be free and clear of your Skybridge capital. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's been public. It's been public on Bloomberg, Bloomberg Radio,
Speaker 1: Bloomberg TV. H. I have Greg Fleming working on that
Speaker 1: auction process for us. I think it's calm manating very soon.
Speaker 1: The good news possibly possibly yeah, and so we have
Speaker 1: I'm actually not being flipped about it. We're we're in
Speaker 1: uh the last strokes of a few pens of a deal,
Speaker 1: uh And I'll be very happy to announce it to
Speaker 1: you Tom once it once it actually comes together. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to do is because I'm a superstitious
Speaker 1: person tell you something that has actually formulate. But we're
Speaker 1: getting close. But the good news is for the company
Speaker 1: and for the clients, once the release is out of
Speaker 1: peoples seat directionly we're going. It's a very safe pair
Speaker 1: of hands. You're bringing up an issue that which I
Speaker 1: think people need to really understand. There's one person in
Speaker 1: the American government that is un encumbered by those restrictions
Speaker 1: and by those conflicts, and that is the American President.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know why that is. I don't
Speaker 1: know how that came into be, but he technically could
Speaker 1: run his business and and and work in the old
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