Introduce sabine weyand, who is the new director general for trade in the e. U. In that you commission. She took over the position a month ago and this is her first visit in washington. Csis is happy to have her here to make some open remarks, then she and i will have a conversation that will touch on a number of issues. Then we will open it up for your questions. Dr. Weyand for trade. Prior for this, she was the deputy chief resident negotiator for two and a half years, which had to the one of the difficult jobs in the e. U. I told her that if we invite her back a year from now, we will ask her who was harder to negotiate with, the british or the americans. I am sure we would get a polite answer, but, she has a history in a number of positions of significance inside the european commission. As i said earlier, one of my personal favorites is before she was a brexit deputy, she was Deputy Director general of trade. Those of you who are european know exactly what that means and how impor
Questions. Land for trade. Prior for this, she was the deputy chief resident negotiator for two and a half years, which had to the one of the difficult jobs in the e. U. I told her that if we invite her back a year from now, we will ask her who was harder to negotiate with, the british or the americans. I am sure we would get a polite historybut, she has a in a number of positions of significance inside the european commission. As i said earlier, one of my personal favorites is before she was a brexit deputy, she was Deputy Director general of trade. Those of you who are european command, know exactly what that means and how important it is. I have no clue, but it certainly sounds impressive. She has numerous positions going back more than 20 years with the commission. She has a doctorate in political science, her phd thesis was on the, transport policy, a study in au policymaking, and she also studied political science, economics, literature and linguistics at Freiburg University in g
Makes the launch important, coming up. Mornings with maria begins right now. Middle east tensions report that new u. S. Sanctions have closed door on any diplomacy, it has threatened Global Security and stability according to iran, President Trump signed an executive order yesterday designated Iran Supreme Leader in new round of sanctions. The Supreme Leader of iran is one who ultimately is responsible for the hostile conduct of the regime, hes respected within his country, the regimes most brutal instrument, sanctions imposed through the executive order that im about to sign, the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leaders office and those closely affiliated with him and the office, access to key financial resources. Maria joining me right now chairman of institute for the study of war, fox news senior strategic analyst, retired four star general jack keane, general, pleasure to see you. Thank you for joining me. Your reaction first to irans reaction to sanctions and i want to talk about p
Lets go oneonone nwith a white house ecdirector of trade and Manufacturing Policy and assistant to the president , Peter Navarro. Peter, congratulations first of all. Youre the president said the fed really does not know what its doing. What should the fed be doing . Us talk about the numbers first. The beautiful numbers. David they are very nice numbers. Guess what . Construction and manufacturing added up to almost 40,000 of those. And as director of the office of trade manufacturing i just love it when we get more manufacturing jobs. We are up to over half a million new manufacturing jobs since president Donald J Trump took office and it compares with a loss of almost 100,000 manufacturing jobs in the obama and biden administration. Love any factory jobs. The other thing i love, david, [laughter] david im laughing at a reference to the obama administration. Back in the campaign when hitler is talking about the deplorable, these are the prime age workers that were sitting at home, ou
We saw a little bit of volatility with stocks starting the day on a down note. Crude oil is the one to watch after this attack on oil tankers after the tanker incident in the gulf of oman. We will be speaking to reporters on the ground. This is the picture for the u. S. 10 year yield. Also looking at the pound but this is the first day were we have u. K. Lawmakers doing the first round of voting. Voting to choose the next Prime Minister want to choose the leader of the tory party. Minister and to choose the leader of the tory party. Coming up next, we speak to the chief executive of the Swiss National bank after their policy decision. But first, lets get bloomberg first word news. Hong kong lawmakers have scrapped a debate on controversial extradition legislation as tensions remain high between police and protesters. The question turns to what happens next and if this will become a prolonged protest. Some say hong kong is not a safe place to keep assets. If you are an investment banker