Canada & Greenland & the Panama Canal, Oh Trump!1/8/25

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In a news conference lasting over an hour at Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Trump discussed the addition of Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada to the United States. Axios senior political reporter Marc Caputo explains that after over a decade of Donald Trump in American headlines, the public should take him seriously–at least some of the time. Trump also weighed in on the changes underway at Meta, including the shift from third party fact checking to a community notes model. Facebook’s first general counsel and former chief privacy officer Chris Kelly discusses what Mark Zuckerberg’s original intentions were, with his platform, and whether social media platforms should be “arbiters of truth.” Plus, fires continue to spread near Los Angeles, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has projected a timeline for useful quantum computing. Chris Kelly - 18:06 Marc Caputo - 28:34 In this episode: Marc Caputo, @MarcACaputo Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin 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 Pot.
0:09.0	Many things are happening that are exciting.
0:12.0	Very exciting for our country.
0:14.0	Not even inaugurated in making big waves around the world.
0:17.0	He's not president yet, so none of it is really.
0:20.0	I know, but he's going to be in 12 days.
0:22.6	President-elect Trump on annexing Canada, in Greenland, and the Panama Canal?
0:27.6	What do you take seriously?
0:28.6	Axios' Mark Caputo says pay attention to it all, just in case.
0:33.6	By now we had, what, 12, 13 years of this, we should realize it's both. You have to take them literally, you have to take them figuratively, you have to take them seriously,
0:41.3	and sometimes you have to take them unsuriously.
0:43.3	Plus, the rest of today's stories that got us squawking, like those big changes at Meta.
0:49.3	We never wanted to be the arbitrage of truth. That's always a hard position to be in.
0:55.9	Facebook's first general counsel, Chris Kelly,
0:58.4	weighs in on the new approach to fact-checking and moderation online.
1:02.9	More speech is the answer to difficult speech.
1:06.3	It's Wednesday, January 8th, 2025.
1:09.4	Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:12.1	Stand Becky by in three, two, one.
1:15.0	Cue, please.
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