Hi, SquawkPod listeners. This is a special bonus podcast of my July 26 conversation with Warren Buffett.

We talk about his annual charitable donations, Berkshire Hathaway's investments and his thoughts on the markets.

That's all coming up.

Warren, first of all, thank you for sitting down and talking with us today. I appreciate it.

It's always good to sit down.

Yes, I find the same thing. The last time we sat down and spoke with you, or I guess it was

two times ago in March when we sat down with you to talk about what you were doing with your charitable giving.

You said that you were going to be watching and waiting, that you were kind of waiting to see what came out about Bill Gates and the Epstein files and what had happened. You said you hadn't determined

what you were going to do. Today, you put out a release saying that you will be increasing

the amount of money that you give to the Susan Thomas Buffett Foundation, your three children's

foundations, but there will be nothing given right now to the Gates Foundation.

Is that your decision?

That's correct.

But in interpreting that, I would point out that I read a great deal since January 1st in terms of what happened with Bill and Epstein.

And I've read his remarks to Congress given under oath, and I've read cross-examination.

And while it's distasteful, while he made mistakes, I've made mistakes in hiring all kinds

of people or choosing friends, and then finding out later that one way or another, they

weren't what I thought they were.

And so I found nothing in there that was beyond what I could see, I could picture myself doing.

And, you know, he ended it, and I've had situations where I made mistakes about people, or people felt I made

mistakes about me.

But they, you know, life goes on, and no one bats a thousand in the business of choosing people.

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