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Speaker 2: Bessie Duke writes in the following it would take something

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Speaker 2: extraordinary to derail a twenty five basis point cut in September.

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Speaker 2: The question we've all got what it would take to

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Speaker 2: make if fifty Bessy joins us now for more, Betsy,

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Speaker 2: wonderful to see you once again. Let's start with Friday

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Speaker 2: and that speech on Friday. Lisa and I've got a

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Speaker 2: similar question, and I think you might have the answer.

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Speaker 2: Was the chairman speaking for the committee on Friday or

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Speaker 2: speaking from South So for the.

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Speaker 1: Entire speech he was speaking for the committee except for

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Speaker 1: the one line when he said, my confidence has grown

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Speaker 1: that inflation is on a sustainable path. And there he said,

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Speaker 1: my and that's very unusual for this, for this Cheerman.

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Speaker 1: And I think what he was doing there was he

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Speaker 1: was expressing his own opinion, but giving the committee room,

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Speaker 1: not front running the committee, but giving the committee room

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Speaker 1: in September through the sep to all put out their

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Speaker 1: own estimates of both where the various indicators are going

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Speaker 1: to be and their confidence in their forecasts.

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Speaker 2: Bessie, how big do you think the range will be

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Speaker 2: wide is that range going to be?

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Speaker 1: The range of the projections themselves are the confidence. So

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Speaker 1: the projections themselves, I don't think are going to be

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Speaker 3: More than usual wide range.

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Speaker 1: But what I'm really watching for is the confidence and

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Speaker 1: particularly the confidence in the inflation forecast. In the gym projections,

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Speaker 1: there were just one or two participants who had more

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Speaker 1: of them said more uncertainty than usual. So that's the

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Speaker 1: confidence piece that I'll be looking for.

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Speaker 4: Betsy, do you think that it's appropriate for this fedter

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Speaker 4: reserve to be so disproportionately weighted to cutting rates at

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Speaker 4: a time, or we're not seeing true weakness in a

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Speaker 4: labor market.

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Speaker 1: Well, cutting rates is right now only reducing the amount

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Speaker 1: of tightness. It's not in any way becoming stimulative, and

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Speaker 1: so I think it is appropriate to begin that, but

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Speaker 1: I think they'll go fairly slowly and feel their way along.

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Speaker 1: The one piece that I don't think there's consensus on

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Speaker 3: Is the level of neutral?

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Speaker 1: What is the neutral level of interest rates those that

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Speaker 1: are neither stimulative nor restrictive, And I think they'll be

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Speaker 4: They also didn't really resolve the other issue, which was

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Speaker 4: the theme of the whole conference, which was how much

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Speaker 4: was monetary policy reponsible for bringing down inflation and how

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Speaker 4: much could it be responsible for preventing some sort of

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Speaker 4: downside to the labor market in general. I mean, did

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Speaker 4: other than simply a FED show came out and said, yes,

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Speaker 4: we're going to cut rates. We're going to start the process,

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Speaker 1: So actually I think he did address that question. The

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Speaker 1: and what I heard him say was, yes, you know,

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Speaker 1: we acted. And so what I heard from that is

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Speaker 1: so the Fed might get the individual settings wrong from

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Speaker 1: time to time, but its commitment to its mandate and

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Speaker 1: willingness to act in furtherance of that mandate is most

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Speaker 1: important for the confidence and anchoring inflation expectations. And that

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Speaker 1: piece I think he declared victory on not necessarily inflation,

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Speaker 2: Can we deal with inflation that contribution to actually bringing

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Speaker 2: inflation down from eight down towards three. Let's see what's

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Speaker 2: your impression of things, because in that speech on Friday,

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Speaker 1: Well, the problem this was a supply side driven inflation anyway,

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Speaker 3: Limit to how much they can continue to contribute.

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Speaker 2: Bessie Juke, appreciate it. Thank you, Former Fed Governor Bessie Joke.

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Speaker 2: Down the latest and the reaction there to that speech

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Speaker 2: begs the question further improvements on inflation from here? Does

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Speaker 2: it require the pain that the Federal Reserve chairman was

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Speaker 2: talking about two years ago? And Miss Pierre Fadagho of

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Speaker 2: New Street Research recently raising its price target on the

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Speaker 2: AI giants to one, expecting reassuring signals in the earnings

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Speaker 2: Pierre fredagu of New Street joins us now for more

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Speaker 2: pre just go through sort of base case expectations for

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Speaker 2: you and a team coming on Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: Yes, so on Wednesday, you know, investors got tricked up,

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Speaker 5: trioked off a bit by all this noise about a

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Speaker 5: black Whale family of chips and next generation chip's being delayed,

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Speaker 5: and so that created some kind of like nervousness around

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Speaker 5: the stock and to us, the reality is that NVDA

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Speaker 5: is still in the same situation. All buyers are increasing

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Speaker 5: their capex, the supply chain is increasing capacity very very steadily.

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Speaker 5: So it's very reasonable to expect Nvidia to do better

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Speaker 5: like a above current expectations. So we think the numbers

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Speaker 5: second thing is all investors are going to ask on

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Speaker 5: the conference call about the black Well delays, what does

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Speaker 5: To slow down and now you here is kind of

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Speaker 5: like counter intuitive. The reality is that when you launch

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Speaker 5: Like Cobost packaging capacity per GPU, and so if the

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Speaker 5: and so what we think is that management is going

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Speaker 5: to explain on Wednesday that while black Bell might be

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Speaker 5: continue to sell very well because we're sted in a

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Speaker 5: world in which many, many, many people, many teams wants

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Speaker 2: Piah, I wanted to ask you a few questions that

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Speaker 2: I don't think will be answered on the call on Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: and it's what's happening further downstream. I had this conversation

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Speaker 2: last week with Bloomberg's man, Deep Sing, and he built

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Speaker 2: things out for us a little bit as well. I'd

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Speaker 2: love your thoughts too. When you hear from their biggest customers,

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Speaker 2: they are still bulled up on investing in this cycle

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Speaker 2: big time, without a doubt. It just gets the sense

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Speaker 2: though the investors just on around the edges might be

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Speaker 2: losing patients with the story that they actually want to

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Speaker 2: start to see that investment and it's a real bottom

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Speaker 2: line profit growth. PA, do you identify any kinds of

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Speaker 2: investor restlessness further downstream with the end use case for AI?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're spir that's becoming like the key

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Speaker 5: questions that he concerned for investors, and that's the right

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Speaker 5: way to look at it. So we're doing our best

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Speaker 5: tracking down you know who's doing what with AI, and

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Speaker 5: so far we think.

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Speaker 3: Signals are extremely positive.

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Speaker 5: Like you look at what Facebook can produce in terms

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Speaker 5: of numbers of efficiency gains driven by the migration migration

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Speaker 5: of their recommending recommendation engines on larger systems. When you

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Speaker 5: hear like companies like Walmart telling about how much efficiency

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Speaker 5: gains again form from AI, I think we're still in

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Speaker 5: a phase where people are getting excited about it, and

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Speaker 5: we are in that kind of like almost like contradictory

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Speaker 5: situation where today if you don't invest in, whether you

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Speaker 5: because AI is very very powerful and evolving very very fast.

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Speaker 5: So I think we're fairly safe in terms of the

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Speaker 5: new flow coming in. But there is another reality, which

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Speaker 5: key question is going to become again, well what's next?

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Speaker 5: You know, can Nvida's business grow significantly from there?

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Speaker 3: Again? But we're not going to have any.

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Speaker 5: six to nine months.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's it's always an overhang. You know,

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Speaker 5: the government can do whatever they want. The invisible hand

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Speaker 3: The government has to to.

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Speaker 5: it's very very challenging. They don't want they want to

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Speaker 5: they don't let like I say, they don't let China,

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Speaker 5: you know, catch up in terms of a capabilities. I

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Speaker 5: think this balancing act is going to continue. We've seen

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Speaker 5: it over the last two three years, and you have

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Speaker 5: back and forth and you might have like a tightening

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Speaker 5: we are still in a world in which people want

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Speaker 5: way more GPUs and way more chips than what is

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Speaker 5: limiting again access for China to leading GPUs, China will

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Speaker 5: we are supply constraints nobly.

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Speaker 2: a good New Street Research looking ahead to numbers from

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Speaker 2: a video Wednesday afternoon.

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Speaker 6: This morning, three ninety one, So.

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Speaker 2: Here's the lacest. Vice President Kamala Harris back on the

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Speaker 2: campaign travel this week as her campaign rags in over

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Speaker 2: half a billion dollars post DNC and Donald Trump is

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Speaker 2: of counterprogramming the convention, Henretta Trees have Vader partners saying

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us. So I want to start

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Speaker 2: with those numbers. Harris campaign and affiliates have raised five

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty billion US dollars since Biden quit. How

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Speaker 7: Well, it doesn't compare to the Trump campaign at all.

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Speaker 7: The Trump campaign is down into something in the ranger

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Speaker 7: about sixty three million dollars for the entire month of

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Speaker 7: the Harris campaign. The two are not equal. If you're

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Speaker 7: looking at the fundraising numbers the DNC versus the RNC

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Speaker 7: voter galvanization, the number of volunteers they've gotten in swing states,

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Speaker 7: it's it's it's almost double the size, if not more,

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Speaker 7: in the Harris camp. And I think that's something that

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Speaker 7: the Trump campaign is actively worried about right now. You

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Speaker 7: saw it from their internal polling memos this weekend. They're

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Speaker 7: anticipating that not just has Commonala risen six points since

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Speaker 7: after the DNC. That's a natural bounce, but one that

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Speaker 7: would supersed Trump and it probably won't fade. When you

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Speaker 7: in Pennsylvania. I mean, every single day is critical here,

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Speaker 7: particularly when you're behind, like the Trump campaign is now.

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Speaker 2: Just to go a little bit deeper into these numbers,

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Speaker 2: the five hundred and forty million, I said, bid an

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Speaker 2: excuse me, five hundred and forty million. One third, yes,

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Speaker 2: a heck of a lot more money. One third contributed

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Speaker 2: time donors. Two thirds were women. It's the gender split here,

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Speaker 7: It is extremely firm. And I don't say that because

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Speaker 7: It's particularly noticeable amongst young male voters and every other

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Speaker 7: So there is this extreme gender divide that is expanding

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Speaker 4: What the Harris.

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Speaker 7: Campaign is going to do to dig into those numbers

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Speaker 7: a little bit further with their super PACs like Future

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Speaker 7: Forward is they're going to spend three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 7: So get ready to hear a lot about Kamala Harrison

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Speaker 4: How much is this gender divide really hinged to the

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Speaker 7: You know, I think that the state decision piece is

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Speaker 3: Made at the ballot in November.

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Speaker 7: In Florida, for example, where I think two thirds of

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Speaker 7: abortions in the South are conducted, there is a band

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Speaker 7: I mean, these issues are on every single ballot. So

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Speaker 7: the last thing you want is our repeat of twenty

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Speaker 7: what they're headed towards in twenty twenty four. And the

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Speaker 7: messaging from the Trump campaign with JD. Vans and Donald

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Speaker 7: to put it nicely, is something that is alienating I

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Speaker 7: think a lot of voters, and it's not just women,

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Speaker 4: Neck in the meantime. Your first point, inflation is something

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Speaker 4: the price gouging type of discussion from Kamala Harris, although

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Speaker 4: talk about how she's not actually going to get it

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Speaker 4: that nature. I'm just wondering, how much are you getting

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Speaker 4: a sense that the criticism of Kamala Harris that she

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Speaker 7: I think that it's landing amongst sort of the media groups,

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Speaker 7: but amongst the general electorate. You don't see any of

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Speaker 7: they made eighty six million dollars just last week alone.

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Speaker 7: So the issue is not that she is not getting

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Speaker 7: It's not resonating with the average voter. And I think

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Speaker 7: the real problem for Trump is that she doesn't need

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Speaker 7: need to have a robust discussion about where do you

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Speaker 7: think carried interest tax rates should be, or capital gains

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Speaker 7: tax rates, what kind of revenue are you trying to

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Speaker 4: We don't need any of that.

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Speaker 7: We just need this sort of forward campaign versus do

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Speaker 7: you want to go back to the Trump administration of

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Speaker 2: Can we talk about policy, forgive me, but we want

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Speaker 2: to talk about policies, so hopefully we can do that.

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Speaker 2: This news came out from Canada from our team just

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Speaker 2: moments ago. According to people familiar with the matter, Canada

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Speaker 2: would impose new tariffs on Chinese made electric vehicles, aluminum

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Speaker 2: United States already previously, the government plans to announce a

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Speaker 2: It seems to be by the world is when it

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Speaker 2: comes to tariffs and China. How much daylight is there

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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, let's be mindful that the Biden administration

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Speaker 6: Are only growing.

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Speaker 7: I don't see any scenario where any of these tariffs

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Speaker 7: come off once they get put on. Think about what

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Speaker 7: you'd have to see in order to take the tariffs up.

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Speaker 7: You'd have to see China capitulate, China prove and then

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Speaker 7: sustain that they had made changes on force, tech transfer,

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Speaker 7: climate change, human rights, state subsidization. None of that has occurring.

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