Bitcoin’s Bump, an AWS Outage & a Jewel Heist 10/20/25

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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An Amazon Web Services outage took down major websites including Disney+ and Coinbase. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, also Acting NASA Administrator, discusses the toll the government shutdown is taking on airport staff around the country. Anthony Scaramucci joins the set to chat through bitcoin’s rally, including his long-term perspective on holding crypto assets and the rising interest in diversifying portfolios to include it. Plus, the Louvre suffered a jewel heist. Sec. Sean Duffy - 14:44 Anthony Scaramucci - 27:36 In this episode: Anthony Scaramucci, @Scaramucci Sean Duffy, @SecDuffy Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Cameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:03.0	This is Squawk Pod, and I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa.
0:08.0	On today's episode,
0:10.0	Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on airport staffing as we enter day 20 of the government shutdown,
0:18.0	plus his agenda as acting administrator of NASA.
0:21.9	I love SpaceX. It's an amazing company. The problem is they're behind. They push their
0:26.6	timelines out and we're in a race against China. The president and I want to get to the moon
0:31.9	in this president's term. So I'm going to open up the contract. And Crypto's calling, Anthony Scaramucci says thanks to the Bitcoin's price boost.
0:42.3	If you were a long-term holder of Bitcoin, you bought it 10 years ago, you get to the $100,000 number,
0:49.3	a lot of guys look at that and say, okay, that was my number.
0:52.3	Plus, the Amazon Web Services disruption that took down major websites and the French
0:59.2	museum Jewel Heist right out of the movies.
1:02.5	You're like some James Bond villain that has some room with a bunch of...
1:06.2	What's the great movie with Pierce Brosnan? Right?
1:11.6	He has it sort of kept away.
1:13.6	It's Monday, October 20th.
1:15.6	What is it?
1:16.6	The Thomas Crown Affair.
1:17.6	Thomas Crown Affair.
1:18.6	And Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:21.6	Stand Becky by in three, two, one.
1:24.6	Cure, please.
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