Dr. Scott Gottlieb & the CDC Reorg; Walter Isaacson & the Other Side of Elon Musk 8/18/22
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4.2 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bring in show music please. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer, today on Squawk Pot. |
| 0:08.0 | A Mem Stocks missed Signals. |
| 0:11.0 | I think a lot of people got this story wrong, possibly including us yesterday, definitely |
| 0:15.5 | including Wall Street yesterday. |
| 0:18.2 | Bed Bath and Beyond's Big Buy from a Reddit star. |
| 0:21.6 | The options were bought back in March |
| 0:23.1 | when the stock was trading at about $16. |
| 0:25.6 | That may be a big sell. |
| 0:27.0 | He clearly saw everybody piling into the stock |
| 0:29.9 | and he decided he was going to run for the hills. |
| 0:32.8 | The nation's top health agency looking inward. |
| 0:35.8 | It's time, says Dr. Scott Gottley. |
| 0:37.8 | I don't think CDC ever had the operational capability |
| 0:40.2 | to run a national response to a pandemic at this scale. |
| 0:43.5 | I think we were wrong to assume that it did. |
| 0:45.2 | And that's the original mistake we made. |
| 0:47.1 | Plus, the extremely online, Elon Musk, |
| 0:49.9 | keeps Twitter, Wall Street newsrooms a buzz. |
| 0:52.1 | Was he really behind that team? |
| 0:53.5 | But he is not horsing around, |
| 0:55.2 | says Arthur Walter Isakson. |
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