Kara Swisher on Elon Musk: He’s not bluffing

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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“I don’t love to compare him to Trump but these techniques…are not dissimilar.” Pivot podcast co-host and Silicon Valley journalist Kara Swisher talks Tesla and says Elon Musk is not bluffing in his threat to relocate his California manufacturing. Musk may be eager to reopen economies and get back to business, but Director of the NIAID Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning the U.S. about the dangers of reopening state economies too soon. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) discusses his state’s gradual reopening and the House Democrats’ $3T pandemic relief proposal. Plus, CEO of direct-to-consumer online shoe retailer M.Gemi explains how his company is ramping business back up as Italy’s economy reopens and America’s remains largely closed.

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0:00.0	This is Guacapod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our
0:05.2	podcast reopening the economy. Some say it's too fast and others like
0:09.5	Elon Musk say it's not fast enough. Tech journalist and fellow podcaster,
0:14.0	Kara Swisher on Musk and his plans for Tesla.
0:16.6	You can't see a Tim Cook doing this
0:18.2	or anybody else doing this.
0:19.6	I think Texas and Nevada would probably welcome him.
0:22.3	So I don't know why he wouldn't accept the defense.
0:25.2	Senator Rob Portman, the Ohio Republican,
0:27.4	responds to House Democrats' latest coronavirus relief proposal.
0:31.1	This is $3 trillion. This is three trillion dollars.
0:32.8	This is more than the last four packages combined.
0:36.1	And it does nothing as I see it to help get the economy moving.
0:39.7	And the founder of direct-to-consumer Shoe Brand and and Jemmy like those Instagram ads
0:43.9	considers the path forward. For sure demand has changed. We're actually still
0:48.0	selling product but it's a very different type of product. We're focusing on
0:51.8	comfort product. It's Wednesday, May 13th, 2020,
0:55.5	Squawk Pod begins right now. Good morning everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box here on
1:00.9	C. I'm Becky Quick, along Quick along with Joe Kern and Andrew Ross
1:04.0	Sorkin. First up on today's podcast, Reopening America. During Tuesday's
1:09.6	hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, we heard from the White House's top
1:14.7	infectious disease expert and in many ways the face of the American response to COVID-19, Dr.
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