This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer today on our podcast.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on the challenges of leading in a time of

coronavirus. Imagine predicting in late April what late June would look like in America.

Probably none of us would have gotten it right.

And enforcing a quarantine for visitors from virus hotspots to New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.

It's very simple.

We have gone through hell.

None of us want to have to go back through that hell again

if we could possibly avoid it.

And our investors gearing up for a Joe Biden win in November.

Polster Frank Lentz weighs in on a Trump slump in the polls.

I watch what the president says.

And quite frankly, the language that he's using is not language of the American people.

He's being very tough.

The public wants empathy.

Those stories plus New York City scooting is in,

food sampling is out, kind of.

Hard pass on that for me. And Ford's new truck is taking remote work to a whole new level.

Pick up truck buyers crave technology and comfort as much as brawn and towing power.

It's Friday, June 26, 2020, Squawk Pod begins right now.

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