Lloyd Blankfein & David Rubenstein Remember Charlie Kirk & 9/11 9/11/25

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Business News, Business, Investing, News

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this somber day, Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin remember Charlie Kirk and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. CNBC’s Eamon Javers reports on Kirk’s assassination, and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy joins former Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp to discuss America’s future and our current political environment. Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein discusses his wary optimism about the state of America’s economy, and another longtime guest of Squawk Box helps celebrate the show’s 30 years on air: Carlyle Group co-founder and co-chairman, David Rubenstein. David Rubenstein - 02:52 Eamon Javers - 15:40 Kevin McCarthy & Heidi Heitkamp - 22:42 Lloyd Blankfein - 36:11 In this episode 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.
0:07.1	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.7	30 years as a business news institution.
0:12.8	We're marking Squawk Box's anniversary in a conversation with the Carlisle Group's David Rubenstein, who's been with us for decades.
0:20.2	The Dow started the year under 4,000, 30 years ago.
0:23.6	And the most popular TV show, Steinfeld and Friends.
0:26.6	See, those don't seem that long ago to me.
0:29.6	And it is a somber day, remembering 9-11, and the shocking death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk,
0:36.6	CNBC's Aiman Javers, reporting.
0:38.5	You know, we don't know anything. There's a manhunt underway. We don't know anything about who the shooter was, what the motive was.
0:44.5	Grappling with a culture that could have encouraged a political assassination with former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, and former Senator Heidi Heidekamp.
0:52.9	What does it say as us as a country?
0:54.9	Says we need to do better.
0:56.5	That's what it says is.
0:57.0	It's more than doing better.
0:59.4	Then Lloyd Blank Fine, former Goldman Sachs CEO, a little wary about industrial policy
1:05.2	and about his own optimism.
1:07.4	I feel very, very good about things.
1:09.3	And in fact, but kind of informs my sense of foreboding that I haven't felt this good since 2007 or 1994.
1:17.5	It is September 11th, 2025, and Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:36.6	Today on the podcast, three big discussions across three major themes driving the news. We start with philanthropist, private equity pioneer and amateur historian, David Rubinstein,
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