Geopolitics, the Election, & Stemming Fentanyl’s Flow 08/08/24

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Richard Haass, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and Senior Counselor at Centerview Partners, discusses the escalating tensions in the Middle East, critical geopolitical hotspots, and support for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb is zeroing in on the opioid crisis; fentanyl claiming over 80,000 American lives each year, and he’s urging the U.S. to disrupt the fentanyl trade. Plus, the Financial Times is reporting a secret deal between Google and Meta aimed to target Instagram advertisements at teenagers, and Taylor Swift has canceled her Vienna shows after authorities suspected a plotted attack. Dr. Scott Gottlieb - 14:20 Richard Haass - 22:47 In this episode: Richard Haass, @RichardHaass Scott Gottlieb, @ScottGottliebMD Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Cameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:02.6	This is Squawk Pod from C and B.C.
0:07.2	and I'm producer Cameron Costa.
0:09.2	On today's episode,
0:10.6	The Geopolitics in the US presidential election.
0:15.0	Richard Haas from the Council on Foreign Relations
0:18.0	explains the message that America should be sending.
0:22.0	If Putin comes away with the sense that U.S. support is not going away,
0:25.3	that Ukraine has the ability and the permission from the U.S.
0:28.2	to do the kinds of things they did yesterday.
0:30.2	And then I think the chances of some type of a ceasefire begins to grow.
0:35.0	And where are we in the fentanyl crisis?
0:38.0	Former FDA Commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb explains where illegal drugs are coming from and his ideas for how to stop
0:45.8	them.
0:46.8	We don't have to rely on these countries to be cooperative.
0:49.4	I don't think they're ever going to be fully cooperative and put in place the kinds of stringent measures that
0:53.2	we're going to require. We could be taking unilateral action here.
0:57.0	Plus Warner Brothers Discovery, writing down TV by over $9 billion.
1:04.5	But first, where the markets go from here?
1:07.7	There's some middle ground between a soft landing
1:10.5	and a hard recession.
1:12.4	I don't know what it's called.
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