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See we get in this morning with Tobias Lefevich, he's the chief U.S. Equity

Traged City and joins us in our Bloomberg 1130 studios.

We see the tweet this morning pieced together what happened over these last

nine days between the business meetings in Saudi Arabia, moving on to Europe, the

NATO summit, the G7 summit after that.

What's your takeaway from that about the state of the integrity of the alliance between the

US and Europe, and what does that say to you about the

direction of the US economy? I'm not sure the two are necessarily related. I would say

probably the alliances you know is fine. I think they are ebbs and flows of that alliance and there are certainly

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