Awaiting Stimulus with Southwest Airlines CEO & Chef Marcus Samuelsson

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

After the President’s return to the White House, CNBC’s Eamon Javers discusses containment, messaging, and recovery in the West Wing. Pandemic-bruised airlines await a federal bailout, but Southwest Airlines Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly plans to save his business and his employees with or without the government’s help. Chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson is lobbying Congress for restaurant stimulus as Covid-19 continues to batter the industry. He says, “we just want to get back to work.” Plus, 2020’s Nobel Prize winners in Medicine and Physics; it’s not 2020, it’s a black hole discovery.

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our podcast.
0:07.0	Coronavirus in the White House, how the President and the West Wing are fairing and what their response means for the rest of the country.
0:13.8	The question is about messaging if you're telling the country not to worry we've got
0:18.7	this and we'll take care of you that's a difficult message if you're not going to respect this
0:24.1	virus. I hope everyone recovers. Southwest Airlines CEO says with or without a
0:30.0	government bailout he'll preserve his company and his employees.
0:33.6	We need to do everything we can to save every single job.
0:36.3	We'd never have a furlough on our history.
0:38.6	And thousands of independent restaurants across the country lobbying Congress for relief restaurateur Marcus Samuelson.
0:45.2	We just want to go back to work. That's all we want to do.
0:48.3	Those stories plus getting lost in a black hole.
0:51.3	The singularity and nothing escapes.
0:53.8	Gravity somehow even escapes light.
0:56.0	It's Tuesday, October 6, 2020,
0:58.8	Squack Pot begins right now.
1:01.9	Good morning.
1:03.0	Welcome back to Squawk Box right here on
1:04.4	CNBC this morning.
1:05.6	I'm Andrew Osorkin, along with Joe
1:07.2	Kernan and Kelly Evans.
1:08.4	Becky is off today.
1:09.6	I'm going to pass it over to Kelly.
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