How power lunch starts right now the dow is down about 200 points slightly off the lows of the session. The big loser is the nasdaq. Down by more than 1 ty thanks very much. President trump heading to the nato summit in london today. Before he left he cast more doubt on a trade deal with china. President trump was noncommittal today on whether the phase one deal would be done this year. The chinese are always negotiating. The chinese want to make a deal. Well see what happens President Trump tightened one screw on china by signing into law a bill with hong kong protesters trump faults the countrys massive devaluation. I gave them a big break if tariffs. Its very unfair to our manufacturers and very unfair to our farmers. Our steal companies will be very happy and our farmers will be very happy on top of all of that theres still the usmca where officials are hopeful for movement soon. Theres eight working days left in the capital back the you trade concerns only part of the reason stock
We take you now to a liaison on a discussionfor with House Speaker paul ryan. He will be taking part in this politico playbook discussion. Now here to say a few words is nikki kristof, head of federal affairs at uber. Thank you for joining us. Thanks so much. Next for having me. I lead Government Relations here for uber for uber here in washington. Ande has been a parlor game d. C. Of comparing the 2009 inauguration to this years inauguration. I will not leave you in suspense. There were more uber rides this time. 2010. Not exist until in the first five and a half years of our companys existence, we talked about a billion rides. We clocked our second aliens ride after the first month of 2016. Today there are 700,000 americans driving on the uber platform. Those drivers earned the United States 9 billion last year, and 5000 of those drivers are from the great state of wisconsin, from which ails our 54th speaker of the house, paul ryan. As he tells me, there is only one uber driver in ja
Series with a timely conversation to provide insight into the New Washington and what to expect and what you need to know as we kick off the trump administration. These events are a life extension of the playbook interview, which we do in the playbook often, where we host conversations that we run in playbook for you to read. We are looking forward to hosting many conversations throughout the year. Before we get started with the program, i want to extend a special thank you to our partners uber for making this possible. Here to say the keywords, head of federal affairs at uber. Thank you for joining us. [applause] thanks so much. Thanks for having me. I lead Government Relations for uber in washington. Over the last week or so, there has been a parlor game in d. C. Oncomparing the 2009 inauguration to this inauguration. I will not leave you in suspense. There were more uber writes this time. We did not exist. Not until 2010. In the first five and a half years of our existence, we clock
Series with a timely conversation to provide insight into the New Washington and what to expect and what you need to know as we kick off the trump administration. These events are a life extension of the playbook interview, which we do in the playbook often, where we host conversations that we run in playbook for you to read. We are looking forward to hosting many conversations throughout the year. Before we get started with the program, i want to extend a special thank you to our partners uber for making this possible. Here to say the keywords, head of federal affairs at uber. Thank you for joining us. [applause] thanks so much. Thanks for having me. I lead Government Relations for uber in washington. Over the last week or so, there has been a parlor game in d. C. Oncomparing the 2009 inauguration to this inauguration. I will not leave you in suspense. There were more uber writes this time. We did not exist. Not until 2010. In the first five and a half years of our existence, we clock
Thank you to all of you in the room and all of you joining in live stream land for our first playbook interview is and widths with speaker paul ryan. We are kicking off this new series with the time the conversation to provide insight and intelligence about the new washington, what to expect, and what you need to know as we kick off the trumpet administration. These events are a live extension of the playbook interview, where we host conversations with newsmakers. We are looking for to hosting many of these conversations throughout the year and excited for speaker ryan. Before we get started, i would like to extend a special thank you to our partner, uber, and now here to say a few words is nikki kristof, head of federal affairs at uber. Thank you for joining us. [applause] thanks so much. I lead Government Relations for uber here in washington. There has been a parlor game and d. C. Of comparing the 2009 inauguration to this years inauguration. I will not leave you in suspense. There