Warren Buffett on Apple, Trump and the Economy
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow
CNN
4.6 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of Boss Files, people don't need a minimum wage. They need a maximum amount of cash in their pocket. |
| 0:07.0 | Legendary investor Warren Buffett, his take on the Trump economy, and why he teamed up with Amazon's Jeff Bezos and J.P. Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Diamond, to take on the healthcare industry. |
| 0:18.7 | The goal is to check this tapeworm of cost. We spoke to the |
| 0:24.2 | Oracle of Omaha here in New York on his 88th birthday. Happy 88th birthday, Warren. Well, thank you. |
| 0:30.2 | It's also my anniversary, too. Well, there you go. Thank you for spending some of it with us. |
| 0:34.5 | Good to be here. So the reason we're here today, wine bottles and all, is because |
| 0:40.1 | someone paid $3.3 million to have lunch with you for a very important cause. And that's the |
| 0:46.2 | Glyde Foundation, which sole purpose is to break the cycle of poverty and marginalization |
| 0:52.4 | for people in this country. It shows that somebody cares for somebody that didn't think anybody cared. |
| 0:57.5 | Why is this cause so important to you? |
| 1:01.2 | Well, it's for real, for one thing. |
| 1:02.9 | I mean, I was a little skeptical at first, but my first wife kept saying this is something special. |
| 1:08.9 | And so I actually went to church there on a Sunday. |
| 1:11.3 | But then I met Cecil Williams, |
| 1:12.7 | and I saw the people that he was helping, |
| 1:15.3 | and I saw these people that they'd given up on themselves. |
| 1:19.9 | Their friends had given up on them. |
| 1:21.3 | They thought the world would have given up on them, |
| 1:22.8 | but Cecil never gave up. |
| 1:24.6 | And so now they've changed the lives of thousands and thousands of people one at a time. |
| 1:29.9 | And I've never been able to do that, but I love supporting somebody that's been over 50 years |
| 1:37.0 | now doing that, and they'll continue to do it. |
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