Good wednesday morning, im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. The president this morning set to tour the mac pro Assembly Plant with apple ceo tim cook. Eamon javers will raise the curtain on that this morning. Reporter youre playing just the two of us and it is going to be about just the two of them. The unlikely relationship between donald trump, the president of the United States, and tim cook, the ceo of apple cook has spent the past several months cultivating a relationship with donald trump largely, im told, by going through the trump family having conversations about technology with Melania Trump at dinner at the white house. Talking with ivanka trump about workforce issues hes cultivated that phone call relationship with the president. I asked the president why he seems to have such a good conversational ability with tim cook the president told me a couple of weeks ago, the reason is because cook is the one ceo in incorporate america who actually picks up the p
U. S. Officials say there is a lot to be done if the two sides are to reach a deal. Some of the biggest backers of Softbanks Vision Fund appear to be having second thoughts. We are live in san francisco. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how wti crude is starting to trade at the moment. We are seeing a little bit of pressure, down 1. 7 . Still above the 60 a barrel level. This coming up to the biggest gain since february of 2009. 13 jump after those drone attacks on Saudi Arabia Oil facilities. Also at a time where we saw a decline last week of 3 . We continue to see this demand picture not so clear for the oil markets given the ongoing chinau. S. Trade tensions and the ongoing slow down of the Global Economy. At the moment, we are seeing a little bit of pressure from wti, down 1. 7 . In two hours, we will get you an update on how brent starts trading. We will take a look at how the saudi attacks are playing out of the oil market. Nasdaq Corporate Solutions director of e
[ indiscernible ] well find out. Are you willing to go to war with iran . Youll find out. Youll find out. I have a feeling, and i may be wrong, and i may be right, but im right a lot, i have a feeling that it was a mistake made by somebody that shouldnt have been doing what they did. I think they made a mistake. I think that somebody under the command of that country made a big mistake. Charles joining me now, retired general anthony t after. Youre also the author of the book, double cross fire. We appreciate your expertise this morning. How do you assess what went down . How do you think the administration handled the situation . Thanks for having me. I think what were looking at right here is the president ordered one of two things which could have been a probing attack to see what kind of air defenses the iranians had and then there were a series of decision points built in there to go or no go, based upon the level of defense that we saw. Or it could have been simply a show of forc
Topics include artificial intelligence, the Digital Economy and u. S. And european aid to ukraine. This is two hours and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you, everybody. Good morning. So great to be together for third annual Aspen Security Forum d. C. Beginning this evening, seasons greetings to all. Please join me in thanking the Aspen Strategy Group and are cochairs joan i and condeleezza rice and her speakers and sponsors. Thank you all. [applause] also, a huge thanks to our remarkable Aspen Strategy Group Team Including our executive director and so many others. Thank yall for the time you put preparing this summit. [applause] thank you also to the trustees of the Aspen Institute who are so supportive of this work and in particular jane harman, gilded born at a board chair margot who since a greetings, so thank you to our trustees here. [applause] eightytwo years ago today, japan attacked the u. S. Naval base in pearl harbor. Drawing the United
Minutes. [applause] a huge thanks to our markable Strategy Group Team Including emmanuel, Deb Cunningham so many others, thank you all of the time you put into preparing for this summit. [applause] thank you also to the trustees who are so supportive of this work and in particular, james harmon and board chair thank you to our trustee, 82 years ago today japan attacked the u. S. Naval base at pearl harbor. During the United States into what would become the deadliest war in human history. Terrorism, we are today, live in a tumultuous era bearing witness to the evils of holocaust to Nuclear Devastation and proliferation and the cold war. Brought about numerous geopolitical paradigm shift. The American Leadership in the world on behalf of freedom and democracy and human dignity. From the ferment of those transformational times, the founding of many of todays Civil Societies and social progress and human dignity, igniting potential to build understanding and promote possibilities for a be