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Now joining us, I'm going to just say this flat out the auto interview of our Davos and

that is because I'm sure I can speak for those in early morning America.

Volkswagen is not the Volkswagen that we know.

Far more than that, it is the auto company of the world,

path-breaking in so many things,

including this

regularity mass and that regulatory mass called in to straighten it out Herbert Deese

Volkswagen chief executive officer and the mechanical engineer from Munich joins us

this morning. I am driving around the World Economic Forum in these gorgeous

VW, 8-Share vans and buses. On tariffs to the United States, the United States wants to keep your product, your vans, your trucks out of America.

How are we going to get the advantage of what I'm driving around in Davosin get more of those trucks into America?

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