Tim Cook, Neel Kashkari, & TikTok’s Future 9/19/25

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As Apple’s iPhone 17 goes on sale globally, CEO Tim Cook joins Jim Cramer in Apple’s 5th Avenue store for a conversation about global sales and the tech giant’s newest devices. President Trump and Chinese President Xi discuss the future of TikTok on a call today; former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs discusses the potential deal on the table–and the parameters of the law. After the Fed’s rate cut, FOMC member and Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari discusses the meeting, his newest colleagues, and the state of the economy with Steve Liesman. Plus, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen unpack the fallout from ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show. Tim Cook & Jim Cramer - 13:13 Neel Kashkari - 22:31 Chris Krebs - 39:04 In this episode: Tim Cook, @tim_cook Neel Kashkari, @neelkashkari Chris Krebs, @C_C_Krebs Jim Cramer, @jimcramer Steve Liesman, @steveliesman 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 CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.2	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.6	What a week!
0:10.9	The US Central Bank made its first interest rate cut all year.
0:15.4	We have FOMC voting member and head of the Minneapolis Fed, Neil Koshkari, on the health of the U.S. economy.
0:22.5	We're not okay with 3% inflation. I'm confident that we are going to get inflation back down to 2%,
0:28.3	but these tariffs have pushed inflation back up.
0:32.4	President Trump and China's President Xi set to speak today about a possible deal to keep TikTok from going dark in the U.S., security expert Chris Krebs.
0:42.3	The law is clear. It requires a complete divestiture of TikTok from, bite dance, from China.
0:48.5	And just who will own the wildly popular app?
0:52.1	If you don't want someone deciding what you're allowed to see,
0:55.0	it could change every four years.
0:57.0	Plus, the iPhone 17 goes on sale today.
1:01.0	We're on the ground at a New York Apple store with CEO Tim Cook.
1:04.0	We are so happy with what we see.
1:07.0	It's early going, but we're very happy.
1:10.0	And the media fallout from ABC's benching of Jimmy Kimmel continues.
1:15.0	A lot to blame for the mess we're in and the polarization that we're in
1:17.9	and the idea that we're getting misinformation and being polarized
1:21.5	and being pushed to different sides and all of those things.
1:24.6	It's Friday, September 19th, 2025.
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