Devos thank you so much, john. I appreciate that and thank you for this important discussion today. I wish the subject need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against anyone on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that refrain today is troubling. Its even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This administration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism and we acknowledge this reality. Jerusalem is israels capital. [applause] devos when President Trump moved the us embassy to jerusalem it was a historic step towards peace in the region. And peace in the middle east begins by recognizing israels right to exist. Israel is a light to the region, but we all know its surrounded by jihadists who embrace people evil and who deny israels existence and violently work to wipe it off the map. I think of my own visits to the holy land. They were indelible experience
Brian New York Times photographer doug mills, your last visit in 2013, you were photographing a lot of barack obama. What has changed in your life since then . Doug the American People we have a president who is not a politician in the white house and the American People elected a businessman who is now the president of the United States and things are drastically different for us. It is a lot of work. We work nonstop. The president drives a new cycle hourly. Therefore, it affects us everyday. The white house is quite an exciting place to work right now. Brian how is it different . doug from a photographer standpoint, we have a lot more access to the president. I see him more on a daily basis than we did with president obama. Sometimes three or four times per day. Sometimes five times a day. We are able to photograph him in different situations. Some meetings, will science, some bill signings executive , orders, things like that. There is a lot of travel involved. Not a lot of weekend
Well now so let me use this tool. I understand that tariffs may be a little drag on the economy. But now is the time to do it. Because in the end, we are going to get a better trade agreement, and both sides will benefit. To have itneed try both ways . This past week he delayed implement think tariffs saying he did not want consumers to have to pay them. Right. Which i think is saying, recognizing that the tariffs are a drag now on economic growth. They are i wouldnt say small drag. They are not as significant as other things could be like higher taxes or more regulation. The it really means is window is narrowing for when we have to get the new trade agreement. When that happens, i think you see another boost to economic growth. In for the cycle we are a number of years because you have certainty basically in the World Economy about trade with United States. And im axley confident the president is able to deliver on that. Them actually confident president is able to deliver on that. A
Businessweeks editorinchief, joel weber. We begin with jay powell. Joel take something complicated and simple it down. The cover is an expression of that this week. Jay powell, fed chair, probably the most important person in the world of finance. The Financial Institution that is probably the most important anywhere in the world and for a year now, hes been the target of trumps friend are ire, because trump wants lower rates, lower rates, and jay powell has basically been a stoic figure through all of that. Anol we believe this is independent organization and for the first time, we are wondering is it going to remain independent . And can they continue to fend off the executive branchs desire for lower rates . We will see what happens this next week with rate cuts. The market basically thinks there will be a rate cut. The bigger story is one we wanted to ask to dig into, which is for a year now, weve lived through the tension between trump and powell, more from trump than from powell.
Borisjohnson has won the conservative leadership election and will become the uks Prime Minister tomorrow. He beat his opponentjeremy hunt by some margin, nearly double, with over 92,000 votes. Heres a little of his acceptance speech. And we know the mantra of the campaign that isjust gone by. In case you have forgotten it, you probably have because its been a while since weve covered it. It is deliver brexit, unite the country and defeat jeremy corbyn. And that is what we are going to do and i know some lad has alreary pointed out that deliver, unite and defeat is not the perfect acronym for an Election Campaign since unfortunately, it spells dud. But they forgot the final e, my friend. E forenergise the Deputy Editor of the guardian points out and the leader of the opposition has warned that mrjohnson may not be able to hold on to powerfor long. Jeremy corbyn says labour will table a vote of no confidence in the new pm, but he wont say when. We will decide when that will be. It will