Commerce Secretary Lutnick & A Midtown Tragedy 7/29/25

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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After a gunman killed 4 people in a New York City office building in midtown on Monday, corporate America is evaluating office security and employee safety. Former Boeing chief security officer and current chief security officer at Corporate Security Advisors Dave Komendat discusses corporate safety measures and the next steps in the NYPD’s investigation of the tragedy. In Stockholm, the U.S. is continuing trade talks with China, and stateside, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is celebrating President Trump’s trade deal with the EU. Sec. Lutnick points to the auto and pharmaceutical industries as key in that particular negotiation. Plus, Sarepta Therapeutics will resume shipping of its gene therapy to certain patients after scrutiny over the deaths of two patients using the drug. Eamon Javers - 9:25 Howard Lutnick - 18:39 Dave Komendat - 32:29 In this episode: Howard Lutnick, @howardlutnick Eamon Javers, @EamonJavers 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.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:06.9	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.6	Deals before the next tariff deadline of August 1st, day two of trade talks in Sweden,
0:15.1	our Amin Javers, has the latest on the negotiations with China.
0:18.7	No indication that any progress of any kind has been made so far.
0:22.1	The bar was already pretty low for this.
0:24.1	Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik explains the art of the deal with the European Union.
0:29.1	It was important for them to have pharmaceuticals be part of the deal at 15 percent,
0:34.1	because President Trump is going to come out in the next two weeks with his pharmaceutical policy,
0:39.0	and it is going to be higher.
0:41.3	A New York City gunman kills four in a Park Avenue building.
0:45.3	Security expert Dave Commandot on what business leaders are asking today.
0:49.3	Have they done all they can do to be prepared?
0:51.3	And what changes might come.
0:53.3	I think you could try to make it harder for people with mental illnesses to get guns as easily as they do.
0:58.3	You hear that a lot from Second Amendment.
1:00.5	They always talk about mental illness, and then the left gets mad that they're talking about mental illness instead of just the gun itself.
1:07.4	It's Tuesday, July 29th.
1:09.7	Squawk pod begins right now. Stand Becky by in three, two, July 29th. Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:12.0	Stand Becky by in three, two, one.
1:14.9	Cure, please.
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