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Speaker 1: Ye, Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane.

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Speaker 1: Daily we bring you insight from the best in economics, finance, investment,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course on the Bloomberg. This

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Speaker 1: is our interview of the day. It usually would always

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Speaker 1: be that case, but really none more than this day.

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Speaker 1: After what we saw in Brussels at NATO. It checkers

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Speaker 1: with Prime Minister May and in Helsinki as well. We

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Speaker 1: do this with a gentleman who did a tour of

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Speaker 1: duty on one platform in Haiti, Bosnia and a Persian

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Speaker 1: golf out in the real trenches of a projection of

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Speaker 1: her U S Navy and Admiral Strevidis at the Fletcher School,

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Speaker 1: Toughs University. Admiral your Twitter feed I featured this morning.

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Speaker 1: It is the most scathing feed I have ever ever

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Speaker 1: seen in the history of what Twitter wrought. I like

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Speaker 1: in respect Ambassador Dan Coates. I am not sure how

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Speaker 1: he goes to work tomorrow. President Trump has lost his

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Speaker 1: grip on reality and by the way, Mr Putin offering

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Speaker 1: to help find the culprits in our election is like

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Speaker 1: Edward Snowden, et cetera. And then you finish up on

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Speaker 1: a classy Strevida's note by saying that the president's decision

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Speaker 1: not to throw out the first pitch at tonight's Baseball

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Speaker 1: All Star Game in d C now seems brilliant. Admiral,

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Speaker 1: this is the number one question I've gotten on this trip.

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Speaker 1: When do people start resigning and why don't they resign?

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Speaker 1: Discuss I'll start with Dan Coates, as I said in

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Speaker 1: by every regard um. He ought to resign and he

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Speaker 1: just think that to watch your boss, your immediate boss,

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Speaker 1: and he goes into the White House almost every day

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Speaker 1: to brief the president on intelligence. To watch your boss

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Speaker 1: stand next to the president of Russian avowed bitter hater

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Speaker 1: entire intelligence community under the bus, UH screams for a resignation.

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Speaker 1: So I think I think it's kind of got to

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Speaker 1: start there, because I don't think the Congress can really

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Speaker 1: do much. Tom, you are very close, particularly with General Madison,

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Speaker 1: your wonderful book on leadership, which was the year a

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Speaker 1: few years ago, Admiral stevinus our General Madison. General Kelly

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Speaker 1: held to a different standard of resignation. Can they not

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Speaker 1: resign because they serve the nation in the military. I

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Speaker 1: think two different cases, tom Um. First of all, they

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Speaker 1: can resign, but I think both of them have a

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Speaker 1: and I think both of them, probably part of them

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Speaker 1: wants to do that. I think for General Kelly in

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Speaker 1: the White House, it's probably about time for my good

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Speaker 1: friend John Kelly to wrap it up. Uh. In terms

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Speaker 1: of General Maddis, I hope he stays, and I think

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Speaker 1: he should stay. He's in a different category. He's not

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Speaker 1: part of the intelligence community per se. Uh in his

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Speaker 1: role is just so vital that I hope he stays,

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Speaker 1: and I think General Kelly has got to be pondering

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Speaker 1: his options today. Admiral Stavrida's I'm wondering if you could

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Speaker 1: comment on the notion that perhaps Donald Trump sees something

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Speaker 1: think we have to examine that possibility. But here's how

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Speaker 1: I would approach Russia. We should confront them where we must,

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Speaker 1: and that is on things like intrusions in our elections,

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Speaker 1: support for war criminal like Assad invading Ukraine and annex

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Speaker 1: and crimea. We have to confront Russia on that. But

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Speaker 1: we should cooperate where we can. Can we work together

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Speaker 1: cooperation in the Arctic, on arms control. I think there

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Speaker 1: are zones of cooperation. But to approach Vladimir Putin as

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Speaker 1: the President did yesterday essentially as a supplicant um undoes

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Speaker 1: I think we need both. And I don't think that

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Speaker 1: the negotiating style being displayed with Vladimir Putin gets us anywhere,

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Speaker 1: put it in his pocket, and then ask for more.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, the United States is outspending

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Speaker 1: President Trump has been vociferous in his support of the

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Speaker 1: for modest increases in the defense budget. We don't need

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Speaker 1: The United States has an enormous global uh sense of

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Speaker 1: our defense budget, we're to be encouraging them, not rejecting them,

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Speaker 1: as I see the President doing. Let's continue with that mostravitas,

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Speaker 1: of course, with tough university in the Fletcher school. I

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Speaker 1: can't say enough, folks about the briefings that you can

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Speaker 1: get from the work of j. Stravitz. His book See Power,

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Speaker 1: The History and geopolitics of the world's Oceans, will make

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Speaker 1: you far smarter about the seas. Things we take for

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Speaker 1: granted that he has lived as well. In my Book

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Speaker 1: of the Year a few years ago, the Leader's bookshelf

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Speaker 1: is a set of writings by military officers, for the

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Speaker 1: most part, uh their favorite books. And these are people reading,

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Speaker 1: including General Maddis I believe in the book, and General

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Speaker 1: Kelly as well. I can't say enough about the Leader's bookshelf.

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Speaker 1: You go in, you pick out one to three or

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Speaker 1: four books. Mark Twain is in there, among others, but

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Speaker 1: just a very valuable book to give you perspective in

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Speaker 1: this time of economics, finance, politics, and of course our

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Speaker 1: most interesting international relations. Right now, Ian Whittaker joins us

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Speaker 1: some libering in London as we look at the end

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Speaker 1: of Netflix. As we know and Ian, I just did

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Speaker 1: a two standard deviation chart. Netflix is such a juggernaut.

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Speaker 1: It's not even down to resistance. It's amazing. It's pulled

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Speaker 1: back this morning and it's still within trend. Has the

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Speaker 1: back been broken of Netflix? Is unreal ball market? Is

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Speaker 1: it just a quick blip along the road or is

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Speaker 1: there something different this time? I think what we'll have

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Speaker 1: for people in terms of longer term story. Very mind,

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Speaker 1: giving the market camp this stock, which is still after

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Speaker 1: they for over a hundred and fifty billion dollars, you

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Speaker 1: really need some funchy assumptions both in terms subscribe to

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Speaker 1: What's particularly worrying about that is it suggests that they

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Speaker 1: which quite frankly, nobody knows whether it will be a

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Speaker 1: momentum growing. The rest of the package just doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: I said, I think one quarters numbers, let's not put

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Speaker 1: would be very worried. So let's talk about a couple

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Speaker 1: the communication there ian. We didn't just miss, we missed

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Speaker 1: by a million subscribers. When you missed that big, typically

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Speaker 1: something's gone wrong with communication, both from the company towards

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Speaker 1: might argue that the World Cover has had an effect

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Speaker 1: rapidly comes down. But you're still looking at a company

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Speaker 1: where it doesn't our most analysts forecast it doesn't get

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Speaker 1: down to the point that maybe four. If their subscriber

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Speaker 1: growth is predicated on having to get a consistent stream

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Speaker 1: the history. Well, yeah, we gotta leave it. We gotta

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Speaker 1: just got to get to work to well. Well. President

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Speaker 1: Trump's proposed new tariffs on two billion dollars worth of

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Speaker 1: imported goods from China. They escalate the US China trade

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Speaker 1: conflict and intensify the debate about the economic and political

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Speaker 1: implications of trade negotiations, but do they obscure the investment

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Speaker 1: opportunities and reality. Here to tell us more is our

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Speaker 1: own Matt Winkler, Bloomberg Editor in Chief emeritus. Matt, always

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Speaker 1: a pleasure, Thanks for being here. I want you to

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Speaker 1: just describe a little bit about what you were trying

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Speaker 1: to do in your latest column, to kind of peel

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