I dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the ceo of uber for how long now . Dara two years. David do you enjoy it . Dara i love it. David when you came in, the company was not a Public Company when you came in. You have taken it public. You received a lot of publicity about the ipo. Obviously you know that. The company has a higher market capitalization, roughly 72 billion. Higher market capitalization than any company in american capitalism history except for facebook, this short a time after the ipo. Why are so many people criticizing you for having a 72 billion market cap . Dara i think there are many critics for a large company. That is a fact of life. What is different about some of the Technology Companies of our generation that are coming public, th
Vietnam and other places that take advantage of us, and well start working on that, too, by the way, but i dont want to do too many at one time. Chinas fine. We did mexico and canada. We have to get that approved by nancy pelosi maria you expect to get that done this year, mr. President . I hope we do. The deal is done, its sitting in congress. Its up to nancy pelosi to put it there. I would kalcall it, i told her other day get it done because we will call it a bipartisan deal. If they want to make a couple minor changes, we can make some changes. Its a great deal. Maria we got to jump because we are cutting into your friend mr. Varneys time. Let me ask you this. There was an oped we cant do that. Hes such a great guy. Maria there is an oped in the journal the other day basically advising you to take nikki haley as your running mate going into 2020. Are you locked in on Vice President pence for 2020 or would you consider having nikki haley as your running mate . I love nikki. Shes endo
To it. But it is a mess. Alix this morning we are looking at the gulf of oman. We have two tankers under some kind of attack. About how or by whom. There are questions as to what it actually means. And who has the military capabilities to do that . Alix that is where you had those two vessels on their way to singapore, but a month ago we also had saudi tankers attacked, leaving questions as to who in the region would want that kind of attack and who would be able to carry it out. That is the real turning point for the markets. David oil was really on its way down before all this happened. Alix thats right. Yesterday oil prices really took it on the chin. A 3 rally on this kind of geopolitical risk right next to the straits of hormuz is kind of nothing at the end of the day. Part of that, to me, is still demand worries. Opecs monthly report lowering demand for the first quarter. Says, youre right, trade tensions and demand dont go handinhand. So we will see. David and had they set the d
And with utter disdain for the people whose lives they want to run. Good stuff. Thats a blast right at the elites. Thats the president s theme for 2020. They dont care about you but i do. In the last 24 hours, the president s campaign brought in a record 24. 8 million, almost entirely from small donations. In new york city, joe biden raised 20 million entirely from the elites. I think its time we got to the fed, shall we . Five hours from now the Interest Rate decision and more importantly, the outlook for rate cuts later this year. That arrives at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. We will also see if chairman powell responds to the intense pressure for a rate cut that hes getting from the president. A flat market in advance of that. The Interest Rate news from around the world this morning is grim. Not here, no, over there. In four European Countries and japan, things are so bad that when you buy a Government Bond, you dont get any interest. In fact, they keep some of your money. No wonder the mone
Trump speaking to reporters moments ago before heading to iowa. The president took aim at everything including joe biden, the mentality of the democratic candidates. His deal with mexico, new tariffs against china and the phone witchhunt. For the record books right there. Normally is a good place to be here at the white house but i what is the spot to be today. Get ready for this because trump and biden both in the Hawkeye State today. Weve already heard from both. Joe biden is speaking right now, live spew speeches he will be giving. According to remarks, biden will unload on trump. Taking aim and part at his policies. Trump doesnt get the basics, he thinks his tariffs are being paid for by china, any student at iowa or iowa state can tell you the American People are paying his tariffs. The cashiers seat was going on. They know more about economics than trump. Biden will say the president hasnt threat to the country. The president was asked about this. He described biden as week, ment