And id like to first introduce our panelists including myself. Doctor Michael Pillsbury is one of the foremost china experts in the world. Hes currently a senior fellow and director of the chinese strategy at the hudson institution. Hes a distinguished defense and policy advisor, former highranking governorofficial and author of numerous books and reports on china. I can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the us militarys thinking back some number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writings and he was the First American official who revealed that what the chinese were telling themselves militarily behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public about how they wanted to be friends with the world and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militaries view of the peoples republic ofchina. His book is a landmark book. His most recent mark is focused hundred year map marathon, chinas hundred year strategy t
Guest reporter. Congressman, first off, why are you not running for reelection . I am not running for reelection because im looking forward to continuing to work on topics i care about. There is more than one way to preserve a country and everybody thought i was crazy when i left the cia, a job i loved and was good at in order to run for congress because i thought it could help the Intelligence Community in a different way but im looking forward to staying involved with the National Security, Public Policy and technology and to be able to continue talking about technology, whether that is through the media or working at a cuttingedge company that i am working on art of political intelligence and quantum is super exciting. I also dont believe these positions in congress were designed to be in for 30 years and i have always said that six, seven, eight years is likely the best thing and so i am hitting that time and decided to go off and do other things. Host in fact, you have written a p
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange obviously a selloff resuming today. The dow extending losses from a thousandpoint drop on monday when stocks had their worst day in more than two years big tech lost more than 200 billion in market value yesterday thanks to the selloff microsoft, apple, amazon all down more than 4 . Dan niles from alpha one capital joins us on the phone. Weve been through some challenging times together, you and this network, as we try to address global issues. This is one theres not an easy edge what does the playbook look like from your standpoint right now i think the way i look at this is simple whats your risk reward at any point in time. There are certain things we know for certain. One, we know for certain the markets are at record value. My favorite measure is i take the valuation of the entire stock market and i divide it by gdp. If you look at that, your
I dont know if the individual has the courage to ask that question. Is that possible . You want to do that . Ok. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weiner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, was functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never really learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to law school where he also boxed and ran track. He was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant, came home. Really didnt mind the war. Now, he was a nifty guy. And i think one of the main reasons im doing this tonight is because of him, because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning, which was quite a scene. And he would quote the gettysburg address or quote from shakespeare but above all, he would talk about world war ii. So i knew about the battle of the bulge when i was five years old. I know the differences in the airplanes, all
Putin is the president of russia and we have to deal with this reality against the backdrop of the conflict in ukraine, during other aggressive actions russia, as well as other steps contrary to the interests of the United States, which came from this president and from the Russian Federation under his leadership and the United States will continue to work. But the fact that chancellor scholz and president steinmeier, in general, people with state thinking and state vision, also decided to sign up for such a generally unwinnable deal, is very surprising and greatly discredits german politicians, im right i understand that from your point of view , the americans simply decided. To deprive european leaders have any right to vote, to speak in the event of, well, i dont know, some kind of peace negotiations . Lets say, they decided to deprive them of the decisive vote, leaving them the right of an advisory vote, that is, the decision in any case remains with washington, washington determin