Mike Pence, Former Vice President: 2024, Social Security, & China 2/22/23

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In an extended interview, former United States Vice President Mike Pence discusses the 2024 Presidential race, U.S. competition with China, and the current debt ceiling negotiations in Congress. He considers the best ways to avert a national debt crisis, including implementing changes to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security. Plus, Amazon’s return to office mandate is prompting backlash among employees, Starbucks is adding olive oil to its Italian coffee, and Twitter is changing its authentication process. In this episode: Mike Pence, @Mike_Pence Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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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 Squackpot.
0:09.0	Former Vice President Mike Pence and a deficit that he says is unsustainable.
0:13.4	We're looking at a debt crisis in this country over the next 25 years that is driven by entitlements
0:20.8	and nobody in Washington DC wants to talk about it.
0:23.7	The programs like Medicare and Social Security
0:26.6	that Mike Pence might put on the chopping block
0:29.0	and the road ahead to 2024 and beyond. At the end of the day, what we need in this country is leadership.
0:36.0	China is common economically and is the greatest strategic challenge
0:39.6	in the United States of America facing.
0:41.6	That extended conversation,
0:43.8	plus Amazon's employee backlash,
0:46.3	and keeping your Twitter account safe
0:49.1	just got more complicated.
0:50.6	But help is on the way.
0:51.9	Unless you'd like to pay $ 99 for your blue checkmark.
0:55.0	And a new fat forward addition to the Starbucks menu.
1:00.0	It does add, by the way, 120 calories to the coffee.
1:05.0	No, no, no, no.
1:06.0	But it's good fat.
1:08.0	Good fat like jumbo shrimp.
1:09.0	It's Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023.
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