AI Jobs, $100m Offers, & Two Plans for Iran 6/18/25

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Retired 4-star General Wesley Clark, once NATO Supreme Allied Commander, offers his advice to the Trump administration: don’t bomb Iran’s nuclear plant Fordow. In a lively discussion about geopolitics, General Clark suggests having both a military and a diplomatic plan for the conflict. Former Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is raising the alarm on AI’s impact on the workforce. Yang discusses the future of labor and technology. Plus, General Mills has joined Kraft Heinz in eliminating artificial food dyes in U.S. products, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has accused Mark Zuckerberg of attempting to poach OpenAI talent with $100m paychecks. Wesley Clark - 15:53 Andrew Yang - 29:51 In this episode: Andrew Yang, @AndrewYang Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.0	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.0	Iran threatens irreparable damage if the U.S. enters its conflict with Israel.
0:14.0	Retired four-star General Wesley Clark was once the Supreme Allied Commander of European Forces.
0:19.0	He joins us today.
0:20.0	I would strongly encourage the administration not to simply go in and use a couple of B-2s
0:26.2	and try to bomb that big plant.
0:28.2	The best option is to be prepared.
0:30.6	We need to be tough, but there needs to be two parallel tracks, a military track and a diplomatic track.
0:38.3	And AI Revolution hits the labor market.
0:42.3	Former Democratic presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang is raising the alarm.
0:46.3	We used to tell our kids, hey, if you major in computer science, you'll be good to go.
0:50.3	And now those graduates are having a hard time finding jobs.
0:55.2	Plus, $100 million on the table for some of those AI workers employed at Open AI,
1:00.4	and food dyes are out at another U.S. food giant.
1:04.1	I'm calling it. The end of Lucky Choms.
1:07.0	It's Wednesday, June 18th. Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:11.6	Stand Becky by in three, two, one.
1:14.5	Cure, please.
1:16.8	Good morning, everybody.
1:18.3	Welcome to Squackbox right here on CNBC.
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