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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

Warren Buffett on politics, the economy and Wells Fargo

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Warren Buffett weighs in on the 2016 Presidential race he calls "like none other I've ever seen," says the U.S. economy is "softer than people think," while calling embattled bank Wells Fargo "a great bank that made a terrible mistake." Interview recorded November 10, 2016. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In this episode of Boss Files, what does legendary investor Warren Buffett think of President Donald Trump?

0:07.2

Our exclusive interview and why he says the U.S. economy is actually softer than people think.

0:13.0

Plus, he weighs in for the first time on the scandal at Banking Giant Wells Fargo.

0:18.0

Here's our full interview with the Oracle of Omaha.

0:22.9

I sat down with him just days after the election on November 10. Warren, thank you very much for doing this. Well, thanks for

0:29.1

inviting me. We have a lot to cover. Let's start with the election. A hard-fought election on

0:35.4

both sides, no question.

0:40.6

What do you think this election has done to America?

0:44.6

Well, we will find out the answer to that.

0:48.7

I mean, it clearly was an election like none other I've ever seen.

0:51.8

I voted in my first election in 1952.

0:55.0

Dwight Eisenhower, Adelae Stevenson. No one went in and voted for Dwight Eisenhower, Adelae Stevenson.

0:58.5

No one went in and voted for Dwight Eisenhower because they didn't like Stevenson.

1:00.3

No one went in and voted for Stevenson

1:01.9

because they hated Eisenhower.

1:03.6

Every vote almost was an affirmative vote.

1:06.8

And I'm sure we set a record for what you might call

1:09.2

negative votes this time.

1:10.6

I mean, people went in and voted against the other person.

1:13.6

And that's a huge, I mean, that has real repercussions.

1:17.6

And the trend has been in that direction over the years, but we are having, and this was the culmination of it,

1:25.6

but we are having elections more and more, partly because what money can do with negative ads and all of that sort of thing.

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