covid-19 it's become very important for american consumers. >> okay. nela, appreciate your time and perspective as always. we'll look forward to that hearing later today, which is going to be news, news, news becky, it's great to have you back in the house. >> thanks, andrew. great to be here. >> we'll do this tomorrow. "squawk on the street" begins right now. good wednesday morning welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer we've got a fed decision, big tech at house judiciary, mnuchin/pelosi talks we have the earnings of starbucks, ge, jetblue jim, occasionally we get these days where it's going to be a

struggle just to keep up. >> look. i think that all of these have one thing in common. they all believe that the future is a little bit better and a little bit faster to come than many of us believe it is rather remarkable to see a consensus overnight from companies that basically say, you know what? darn covid full speed ahead that includes boeing boeing has what i regard as being a very bullish scenario involving good cash, involving the possibility of returning to much more flight in, let's say, the next year. and even after 1,600 flights of the 737 -- i don't think they're going to call it maxx anymore -- i don't know i think we're growing to have a hard time keeping us down today unless faang keep us us down because the hearings go badly. >> we have a couple of guidance.

ebay the other one that raised guidance. >> starbucks had a lot of things to say >> analysts recommend stocks it's an exciting time. in a lot of ways, you're with a tesla call it turns out tell la sla is goi be a big car company that's not going to get us anywhere there are a lot of things going on i say the analysts are takingen by surprise how strong things are. david, you know, the analysts are all optimistic. >> there's a lot of optimism out there, there's no doubt. viewers, after the series of ceos that join us in the next

half hour or so are going to have a pretty good sense of the economy. and there's the amd that stands alone in its own way it's probably the one whose business model you would most want to have right this moment. >> yeah, because you have intel's business model faltering. you had the top ten list you had people thinking, including me, how much better can it get a lot. >> it is as i occasionally do, i will compliment you there's a way you do create wealth if you can hang on there when a new ceo comes in with a new vision as lisa su did. you mentioned ebay this is the ceo's first interview. he was forceful on the earnings

call saying, hey, things have not gone as well as they could have >> guys, we've got a packed hour let's get to phil lebeau. >> good morning. let's bring in dave calhoun, ceo of boeing just after the company reported q2 results. dave, thanks for joining us. you've announced that you're cutting your production rates over the next couple of years, and at the same time people have the same question for you that i hear all the time. what's the outlook when you look at airlines around the world over the next few years? >> yeah. following last quarter's outlook when you'll recall we believed the industry would return to roughly 50% of service by the end of the year, we didn't know then there would be a second wave of the virus or the cases,

and the extent to which they've traveled to leisure markets, certainly here in the united states in terms of a near-term perspective, things have gotten quite difficult. flights have not come back as quickly as we thought they would. with respect to the long term, we still feel like three years is the right time frame. we've always believed that if anything has changed on that front, it's that there's probably more optimism today about the vaccine and the notion that a vaccine would become whi widely distributed over the course of 2021 in my view, that should give people confidence. the last comment i would make, the experience of the airlines immediately following the first spike when we all believed it might be under control, there was a pretty robust demand coming back into the

marketplace, and for me, that just speaks to the underlying demand that exists and that i believe will ultimately fuel the industry. >> in the near term as you mentioned, we're seeing a weaker demand from around the world in the airlines as you assess, do we need as many planes or cancel or push out our orders you're out with an order saying, look, we're in the midst of adjusting our staffing, and now you're going to further assess potential cuts in the future what can you tell us about that? >> well, the rates are going to come down from what we announced a quarter ago. they're not going to come down in quite the dramatic fashion that they did the first time, but we're going to delay sort of the reramp of our business, and as a result, we will have actions that we have to take over the course of this year into the middle of next year when we bring those rates down

to more modest levels. we adjust these rates and consider the market pretty much every day because there is, just like you suggest, there's a customer calling us every day with a desire to want to defer and to deal with the difficult environmentals that they're dealing with. >> you know -- jim cramer. good to see you be a little more optimistic one thing i believe you've done right is cash, the second thing is cash, and the third thing is cash i believe you've taken some things off the table for investors and you have right-sized the company so when things come back, there's a possibility you may have an inflection point of earnings, which means you may have to buy the stock now. could i be overoptimistic, or is the possibility vaccine, return to travel, including business travel, quarantines, and shortage of new planes because of so many planes needing to be replaced >> well, jim, that's -- that is

my stump speech, and it's not a stump speech i believe that to my core, and so does my team. i am optimistic. i've always been optimistic about the recovery of the industry as i said, in light of all the circumstances you've just described, including the eventuality of a vaccine and more and more confidence about that, i believe there is a chance in those second and third years out from now where we're going to be struggling to keep up with demand so i don't want to buy or sell stock at this moment on the basis of that. i'm not going to recommend anybody else does, but it is worth saying that we remain very confident in that future and as i said, just that early recovery, just that early recovery, post the first spike and the fact that bookings came back and they came back fairly robustly for me says that the underlying demand equation still exists and that eventually we will solve this.

>> all right let's go a little deeper on that one, i think people are starting to realize that an airplane is a far -- with masks -- is safer than a building or structure or elevator you don't hear of anyone getting sick on planes second, the masks. there was a time i think it was front and center look, you're never going to be able to take back the tragedy that happened, but 1,600 flights since the maxx i think a lot of people are saying, wait a minute. it's punitive at this point. safest plane around. these two things, the fact that people recognize plane safety is right there both for actual safety of engines, but more importantly safety of covid, is really not top of mind anymore we're accepting. i think that's happening >> yeah. i think that awareness warrants,

one, a lot of concern on our regulators, business associat associaters, customers for sure on what really happens in an airplane it is not a trapped tube of air. it's processed every two or three minutes through a hepa filter there are a number of things that provide for a safe environment. in addition, all the procedures that the airlines and regulators have put in place to ensure that sick people don't get onboard an airplane, the requirement and strong recommendation that masks be worn. this layer of protection works for the public i believe it's a safer environment than many of the communities in which people live, and we have to believe that the education is happening, and i believe the public is beginning to accept that that is a fact with respect to -- >> mr. calhoun >> with respect to the 737.

>> go ahead. >> i'm sorry the progression, the certification progression has been fantastic it's been thorough been transparent as you said, the airplane flies every day. it has incredible performance associated with it and now we have to finish it we have to finish it the right way, this process, with all the global regulators, and i'm confident that we will my hat's off to the faa. they're doing the work it's diligent. and we're just going to stay confident and follow their lead. >> yeah. mr. calhoun, sorry to interrupt you there. it's david faber i wanted to get to the balance sheet. certainly one of the moments in this pandemic concerning the financial aspect, it changed sort of a perception you have $32 billion roughly in marketable securities, $60 billion in debt. will you need to access the

capital markets or are you satisfied in terms of the cost cuts and dividends not being paid, in terms of extending buybacks that you will not need to go to the captain markets again? >> with respect to the forward look and capital rates, we think we're at a good place to get us from here to the environment i just discussed with jim, a more optimistic environment, and, therefore, not having to go back to capital markets on the other hand, never say you never go back. we believe we have tested difficult circumstances, we have put every sensitivity analysis we think we know against what we've now described in our earnings announcement with respect to production rates, and we believe we're in a good place and we're going to get through this with what we've raised. that was always our intent we're pleased with the way the capital markets responded. we're really pleased with the

way the credit markets opened up as they did. and ultimately it played out for us. >> dave, speak of being a little more optimistic, on may 12th, you went on the "today" show and said i don't want to be too productive, but, yes, a major u.s. carrier would have to go out of business. can we take that off the table >> let me put it in this perspective. boeing serves the marketplace. most orders come from outside the united states and all kinds of jurisdictions there are bankruptcies going on today and at the time of that interview there were bankruptcies that were apparent to us. if you're boeing and you produce airplanes, you always have to consider bankruptcies in that process. what i will say is that the government's support, c.a.r.e.s. act in round 1, whatever ultimately gets played out in round 2, i believe has been incredibly effective with our u.s. carriers. it's kept them alive, kept the footprint fresh, they're warm,

they can take delivery of new airplanes when it comes. with all that said, they're in as good a place as they can be, and they're an incredibly come pe stent group of o ceos it's still pragmatic for bowing to look at that land scape because bankruptcies are happening as we speak. that's the finest lens i can put on it. >> dave, it's phil again you've had 700 some-odd negative planes iechlts shri planes it's shrinking, not growing. you do write that off or do you think next year you start to see airlines say, yeah, we're ready to order again >> i think it's sort of the discussion we've been having all along here it's that moment in time when the really healthy airlines -- and there are going to be a bunch that emerge in better

shape and better health than others the minute they think they can gain an advantage by building out their fleet, refreshing their fleet, and that the virus, the worst of the virus is behind them, then that's when it will happen it will happen in different jurisdictions at different times. china, europe seem to have a little more control over their environments than the u.s. does at the moment, but it will happen, and i believe somewhere in that -- depending on a vaccine and success and distribution of a vaccine. somewhere in the second half of next year, i'm hopeful that this worm turns. >> second half of next year. i think people are hopeful it will happen sooner than that one last question, dave. a lot of us, our first flight was on a 747 it was an iconic aircraft. was it a tough decision to say it's time to stop building it. >> yeah. it's been a tough decision for

quite a long time. you know, this is just facing reality with respect to the mark market, and the new airplanes that are available being part of the puzzle the customers want the new airplanes, new technologies. the 747 has been unbelievable. the only comment i would make with boeing and the 47 airplanes, we're going to support them it started in the late '60s. so, yes, it's emotional for everyone, but we believe that in '22, we will end production. >> dave calhoun, ceo of boeing thank you for joining us on "squawk on the street" this morning. carl, i'll send it back to you i think everybody would agree. you hear a tone of optimism from dave that i'm not sure we heard

when we talked with him after the first quarter. >> certainly an evolution from just a couple of months ago. phil, as always, our thanks to you for bringing it to us. that's our phil lebeau in chicago. we're not nearly done wchl very the ceos of jetblue, ge, amd, and starbucks. lisa su, raising guidance. don't go anywhere. look here, it's your very own all-in-one

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sometimes you have success stories so excited in the stockmarket that it take yours mind off covid, politics, anything that depresses you, and one of them is a amd and what lisa su has done guidance for the year, fantastic. a huge earnings beat left. 's find out what happened and let's talk exclusively to ceo lisa su. lisa, it's truly fabulous to have you. >> hey, jim. good morning it's great to be with you guys

this morning. >> one thing i find so interesting, despite the fact you talk about a competitor, and i do this too, when they make a mistake, you have a roadmap. could you sflan explain to people how you've taken the destiny of amd and put it in charge of you, not in charge of the customers? >> well, jim, look what i would say is we are in very important markets. when you look at the thinks powering our data centers or infrastructure or work from home, school from home, pcs, these are really important things for the market. we have been focused on this for many years, and it's all about delivering high h-performance computing, helping our customers, helping them do the essential things they need to do our roadmap has been consistent and has been strong over the past couple of years and it's

produced very good results we're pleased with our second quarter results. a lot of things came together in our business, but it's the result of a long-term journey of delivering great products to the market. >> that did not seem to be the case when you reported last. i felt that when you decided -- you shied away from guidance, you had gotten away from the notion you had a long-term plan. obviously that's changed what occurred to make it so that you have a vision that i didn't feel you had last quarter? >> well, i think what we have is, you know, there are a lot of uncertainties, right, when you look at the mackerel, the impact of covid-19. we wanted to make sunday we understood all the puts and takes. what came to us in the second quarter are a couple of things first of all, our server business had its highest ever quarter. we had a number of the top cloud manufactures really ramp on our products for their most essential services we had our p.c. business

you know, the fact is, youcs arl we had our notebook business with a strong ramp across. and now as we look through the second half of the year, look, there's no question, there's a lot of uncertainty we're watching like everybody is, what happens in the macro. but we feel good about the markets. we feel good that the pc market looks strong we have a great gaming cycle coming up with our new consoles. we look at that and say, hey, you know, despite the uncertainty, we have a very strong roadmap our customers want, you know, to partner more deeply, and we see revenue, you know, growing now at 32% year over year. >> unbelievable revenue. growth, and at the same time -- i don't want to be the guy who singles it out -- it's possible

you could have 20% server share up from single digits tore a lot of it has to be the competitor intel, a company that when i first met you, i was telling you i was an intel hawk and scoffing at what amd could do you schooled me, put me in my place. but is it possible you can get up to that share from single-digit share >> we had a very good second quarter in the sense that we met -- one of our key goals was meeting double-digit market share in the server market, and, you know, based on our result, we met that milestone. look i think this is a multi-year journey. i always talked about a multi-year journey we're in the business of high performance. it takes many, many years to develop these products we're excited about our roadmap. we have a new set of products coming out in late 2020 for both of our serves as well as our p.c.s and games markets, so

we're excited about those products we're going to keep focused. it's 2020, 2021, 2022. it's about being very consistent and ensuring that we're working on delivering that high performance to the market. >> lisa, in terms of analyst commentary, it seems like the bear case centers around some kind of price war that would develop in the second half and put your second half guidance at risk what's behind that. >> you know, carl, i guess it's safe to say it's a competitive market always been a competitive market our focus is on playing our game about introducing new products it it's about what our customers want to achieve. it's about delivering it to the marketplace. no doubt it's a competitive market we feel really good about it

we feel good that technology is becoming even more important in this covid and post-covid war that we're in, and the way we look at it is, you know, we want to ensure that, you know, we're playing the long game. and, you know, as important as this quarter is and next quarter is, it's more important that we continue to get on to the most important workloads that our customers are trying to do you know, that's what we're focused on. >> all right, lisa this is something i've got to ask. you're teaming up with da vinci -- i'm sorry gem see roy, who you know really well i have to tell you, i thought that was epic with an "i." are you two working together well i always felt that you guys were ene enemies, not frenemies. >> you know, in the tech partnership, there are

competitors and partners we're pleased and happy to be within the next nvidia systems, i think. they're a very big company and they chose our processors because we were the best in the marketplace. i look at that as validation of some of the other large customers that we're working with i think the key for us is, look, we want to push the envelope this is all about delivering more than you could do last year, you know, and the year before so, yes, there are lots of partnerships that are important to us, and, you know, we're happy to be selected. >> i was hoping you would guide up margins with guiding up on revenue, and i actually thought you could one day be up to the holy grail of 1662, if you're not with that, you're not a real serious company. any chance that can happen >> you know, we went through -- in march we went through our long-term financial model.

our long-term model says we get to greater than 60%. it depends a lot on our product execution, our mix of business our goals are to deliver on the top line, grow revenue at a compound annual growth rate of over 20% over the next couple of years, you know, grow the bottom line as well as grow margins i think, again, part of that multi-year story is steady progress each year. >> you said on a call with enterprise, we have specifically addressed our total aggressive market i thought that was one of the most bullish lines of the quarter. please explain. >> the enterprise market takes a while. if you think about how fortune 1,000 companies are doing, they're not just betting on this generation, but they're betting that you have a long-term

roadmap. you know, we've made good progress in the enterprise market we've also expanded our number of platforms we can address. this is all part of this notion of it's a step-by-step journey the products are really good the products next year will be even better. and our goal is to make sure we're partnered deeply with cloud customers, enterprise customers. we're very big into supercomputer. supercomputing is very important these days in terms of medical research and the other key applications so our goal is to really, you know, specialize in this area of high-performance computing and deliver, you know, those improvemented to the marketplace. so increasing it is more about addressing more of the space. >> lisa, your prowess is only exceeded by your humility. congratulations on another great

quarter, which i think you might have been able to do despite the fact there was a competitor that slipped up always great to see you. >> thank you very much great being with you guys this morning. >> back to you, carl. >> jim, stay with us we're going to get the opening bell and the s&p heat map as it fills in there will be names that will probably slip through the cracks today. i want to make sure shopify is not one of them, though, as revenue, just a blowout, up 97%. >> you know, it's funny. jeff bezos is being drilled fwi house committee really on the basis of monopoly, i'll call it that i want to rewrite my speech if i'm jeff bezos and say, listen, shopify is beating the heck out of us. hey, we have no monopoly you should be talking to those guys because shopify is just on fire, and whose business are

they taking? they're eating amazon's lunch, so i think the house ought to get a little more familiar with a small canadian company that's no longer small and if they were bought by an american company that refused to do so, jeff bezos, yeah, he was really good and did a terrific job, i'm looking at shopify that stock may not even stop here. >> it's at an all-time high here, jim. do you believe given that that bezos going into this hearing has the least liability? >> no, unfortunately because there's always this contingent of small businesspeople that have to be catered to by the constituency this is who elects them. he has to be skewered. tim cook less skewered i have no idea if mark zuckerberg plays it right, he can talk about how his

company has created more jobs and instagram has been the answer to the pandemic jeff bezos is on the hot seat. tim cook is like in the jenkins hot seat like in the nfl he knows how do it well. that's more like a trump/navarro thing. he'll have to answer to people as he gets his head handed to him. >> jim, you have to explain it to people. they don't operate in direct competition, shopify and amazon across the board, but you should explain where the competition is in terms of shopify's business for those who are not following the stock closely. >> i would want to work with shopify as a retailer because shopify is my friend they'll even advance me money. i always felt from an excellent documentary -- gee, david, you're probably familiar with

it amazon competed against the people who shopify actually gives money to david, that doc told me amazon is patient and shopify is friendly if anyone in congress has heard of shopify, they should say, you know what? you should do some things that shopify does, which is helps these companies rather than hinders them i think jeff bezos could do that shopify is full of companies that are small who will one day go big they're not going with amazon. they're going to stick with shopify. >> you are referring to third-party sellers on the amazon platform. such an important component of overall revenue from retail. let's not forget amazon is aws, advertising, very particular from a profit perspective. but the third-party sellers sure

to get attention in terms of amazon competing against them, getting data, understanding what selling is, going into business, sourcing the same thing and selling at a cheaper level that said, these sellers are aware of it going into business with amazon originally they know this is a risk they take, but the platform itself is so ubiquitous, that they have to use it. >> yeah. we'll see if the same argument can be made with the app store they know the deal going in, but clearly the size of the app store is what's raising some eyebrows jim, the other one here, visa. even though a lot of value's working today and despite the beat, fiscal profit down 23. i see moffitt is at a top peak. >> still conversion from cash to credit card and contact lists. covid play and i think that's going to be what is the narrative going forward, which is why the stock

could end up being up. talk about being up, how about a stock that has spent a lot of time in the doghouse of late, and i'm talking about starbucks where a lot of people felt, you know what? i guess that was a great company at one time. well, it's back. rallying this morning. investors are shrugging off the coffee chain's losses, which have been substantial, okay? and they're thinking about the future why? because kevin johnson actually laid out a course of the future that i thought was incredibly strong first on cnbc, star buck's ceo kevin johnson. kevin, you did it. it worked. >> david, jim, carl, good morning. how are you guys >> it couldn't be better why? you have come up with a strategy, a covid strategy that will transcend even after covid, and whether it be curbside or what i think you should talk about, which is very exciting, the new i'm going to call them starbucks express. there are so many open

storefronts in this country. you've got balance sheet you can put stores where you don't have to worry about social distancing because the line moves. and i think you should talk about the new way retail can work in an era where crowds are an enigma. >> in march when we were closing our stores and providing economic certainty for our partners and taking care of frontline works, we put people over profit. certainly we think that was a very, very important thing do. it built our mission and values and built trust. it strengthed what starbucks stands for certainly as we've reopened stores, we operate protocols the way we run the stores, the digital dashboard that helps around the world now we're in a world where we

can navigate anything this global pandemic will do around the world. what you're pointing to, is we've accelerated strategic initiatives that really have improved the company. when you look at disruptions -- i spent 32 years in the technology industry. whenever there's a disruption, it's those companies that recognize the disruption, invest in ways they different yat their brands that's what they've done they've figured out how to accelerate strategic initiatives we've had in our strategy. we're excacceleratexcea acceler only in the covid era but beyond we're highlighting the stores. we see today that our drive-through stores in the suburban markets are performing extremely well

why? customers want experiences that are safe, familiar, and convenient so you think about in urban core market how do we do that? we have traditional starbucks stores today in china we qaa them starbucks now. these are the equivalent of a walkthrough store. it's a much smaller footprint. it's all geared toward mobile ordering and a very convenient service. these starbucks convenience stores will be located within a three- to five-minute walk if you as a customer want to share your coffee and food and have a sitdown with a business colleague or family member or friend, you can walk to a regular starbucks store and sit in a cafe. if, though, you're on the go and want to pick up your coffee on the way to work or school, these starbucks pickup stores are going to be for you. it's blending those store formats that create a network effect that's where we're going.

>> i think a lot of people look at a number, particularly people that are not from either company. sales declined 41% people say, it's crazy stock is up $3.70 there's a thing called cadence i think you have to tell people what happened in july. i think july is an ar bin jer -- a harbinger for what can happen for the recollect st of the yea >> we look at our two lead growth markets we saw our comparable store sales improve again from the month of june to july. in fact, we finished the month of june in the u.s. at a minus 19% comp, and in the month of july, we gained five more points in comp. we finished july at minus 14% comp the most important thing is, jim, i look at the leading indicators i look at three things

i look at our customer connection scores. they're at an all-time high. that's a signal that what we've done is resonated with our customers. and the digital reach we have is bringing our customers back into the store. that momentum is continuing. i look at the brand of infinity scores certainly those brand affinity scores have strengthened as we have come out of reopening stores in this period. and, finally, when i look at our market share numbers, certainly in the month of april when we had all of our stores closed -- i kind of ignored that month because when you're closed, you're not going to get a lot of share. in may, our market share was flat but when we hit june, the market share is taking off. customer connection is strong, affinity is strong, market share gains in june. look, we have now woven into our operating cadence how to navigate this global pandemic in every market around the world. the recovery is working, and

we're now accelerating initiatives to superproof the company. >> kevin, speak of markets around the world, i want to focus on china where you're largely entirely open -- in fact, i think you open 1 hub new stores in the country during the course of the quarter. what have you learned from china in terms of dealing with the virus and obviously the rew e opening there that you can then transport back to the united states >> well, you know, david, as you point out, this virus started to spread in china long before it came to the united states and other markets around the world, so back in january as we began really focusing on supporting our team in china, we learned the store protocols that allowed us to open our stores in ways that were safe, safe for our starbucks partners and safe for our customers. now, those store protocols that were created in china were

imported to the u.s. and adapted for the u.s. and other markets so all the store protocols we're using -- they were originated in china and have been adapted in other markets around the world in addition, the key thing we learned about from china, once you're open, you have to monitor the situation of the spread of covid in every city across the country, and if you see that there's a resurgence of cases, covid cases, you're able to in that city carefully turn the dial back, basically constrain some of the customer experiences to help support government and health officials as they work to contain it that learned translated into a digital dashboard that we now have in place that cruises some of the artificial intelligence software we have that's called a deep brew that informs our store managers what's happening with covid, what our customer preferences are in that particular market, and what we're seeing with market

incentive. a lot of what we've done in china, we've now operationalized in the united states and around the world. >> kevin, you've got a lot of investors tracking high-frequency data that is not seasonally adjusted, very volatile, things like chase card spending, open table, and google mobility, which do suggest that we've at least stabilized, flattened, maybe come down a bit. is that being reflected in anything you're seeing in july >> look. this -- the recovery process, the plans that we have in place, they're working, you know, carl, and we continue to execute against those. now, look. until there's a vaccine and more therapeutics, we're all going to live in this world of covid and we all have to be mindful of that the jury won't be linear, but as company, we have really operationalized how we're going to deal with this and it's working. we're continuing to monitor it it's different in different

parts of the world there was a resurgence in bay shirng and the government was cautious they tested everyone we dialed back in those stores and now china and beijing is back on the front foot you look at what's happening in florida, texas, being cautious there. so this is just the world we live in. but, you know, we're able to now do that, and i believe we're going to continue driving the recovery i have full confidence in addition, i'm pretty enthusiastic about the future. i'm enthusiastic about the additions. jim highlighted at the top of this call, we're really embracing new ways to blend new store formats, ledge go digitald service the customers, and that's going to serve us well in the long-term. >> kevin, i wanted to come back to china briefly it can't escape your attention

the deterioration between the u.s. and china how worrisome is that for you from a business perspective, and is there a break-the-glass plan at starbucks should we embark on a new cold war with china. >> well, you know, dana, we've been in china for over 20 years. and ever since we've entered china, we've had the mind-set we're building starbucks in china for china, and what that means is our team in china is completely self-sufficient we have people in china that run the real estate, that design the stores, that invent the food and beverage we hire local chinese craftsmen that build our stores, artisans that come and create these great stores and we continue to invests in china. and i think because we are in china and we've done this in a way that's respectful to the culture and we value the relationships that we have in china, you know, i feel like

we're going to navigate this just fine. certainly, you know, we think about the range of alternatives. but right now i think our business is healthy. we just crossed 4,400 stores we said, look, this fiscal year alone, we're building over 500 new stores in china, net new stores we're going to continue to grow. we just announced a couple of months ago, a $130 million investment in a global roasting plant in china, and certainly that's there to serve, you know, asia, but also the world in terms of roasting coffee for starbucks. and so, you know, i'm bullish in terms of china for the long term, but i also recognize the geopolitical situation is a bit tense, and, you know, we're going to stay focused on what we do and what we do well, and that's hand crafted beverages, taking care of our customers, being respectful, and creating that warm welcome into our stores, and that will serve us well. >> kevin, i hate to truncate

you. you said on july 15th, i'm a believer in mask, we believe i in it a lot >> you know, jim, when we reopened storrs, we required all starbucks partners to wear masks in reopening why? because we know it works we know that wearing maskshelp reduce the spread of the virus we know that washing hands helps reduce the spread of the virus we know that social distancing helps reduce the spread of the virus. we built that into all of our safety protocols when we reopened, we respectfully requested that customers wear masks certainly many of them did but as we saw the importance of wearing masks and more and more states were mandating that, it made sense to do it across the country. it gives us confidence, not only

our partners but the customers we serve it's a same experience you can come to starbucks and enjoy your favorite hand crafted beverage or food item and feel safe i feel this is a positive step not only for starbucks but for the country and society. i think like you, i believe this is something we can all do as citizens it's something we can do as citizens, so we have a responsibility to do, that care for ourselves and others in our country. >> amen. kevin johnson, stock up nicely congratulations. ceo of starbucks. >> thanks, jim. >> carl, back to you. >> jim, thanks for that. we're getting some headlines regarding tik tok and the ongoing discusses on the hill. >> the president and treasury secretary stopped to talk to reporters briefly at the white house on their departure, the president suggesting they're still far apart in their

negotiations with democrats on the coronavirus relief bill but seeming to signal he's willing to negotiate on the issue of eviction and also payments to americans, whether that's those direct payments or unemployment checks, the president signaling a little bit of wiggle room there. and on tik tok, the treasury secretary saying tik tok is under review by the federal government, the president saying he might make a decision at some point, no idea what the decision could be the government could block tik tok entirely they could require them to divest and sell to an american owner, or they could negotiate with tik tok and come up with some set of rules and regulations to satisfied the government that data is not being abused there no indication or hat tip in which direction they're going in, but they do say they're considering it, david. >> yeah. i've been following it closely, as you know. the chinese parent of tik tok is

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shares of e-bay are down after a strong performance for the stock price. there's concern about deceleration at the company. joining us now is the new

president and ceo of e-bay i want to start off on your first conference call. you said we're not satisfied with where we currently stand and the reality is the past few years we have not executed to our full potential briefly, what are you going to do and focus onto change that so e-bay does execute at its full potential? >> thanks, david, and thanks for having me on this morning. since i've been back, i think there's lots of areas of opportunity. i'm not satisfied with where we are, and i see enormous up side potential in getting back and focussed on the customer experience i'm planning on leading what i'm calling the tech-led reimagination of e-bay that's using our technology and compelling experiences in three different areas. first, building compelling experiences in key verticals that are really core to e-bay. and also getting back to our consumer selling that's individual selling which

is really important to the platform second is being the seller platform of choice especially around nonnew in season we have a $500 billion opportunity in the core of what e-bay is great at in nonnew in season and being the seller of choice is a huge opportunity and third is building lifelong buyer relationship trusted buyer relationships. we have new buyers coming into the platform all the time. turning them into enthusiasts. that's the plan to really drive this tech-led reimagination of e-bay. >> yeah. you know, investors obviously have ben facilitied as the company has from the pandemic, from so many people shopping at home, revisiting e-bay, perhaps, or using it for the first time but in speaking to some investors, a number say given what you're talking about in the second half of the year, they don't feel confident in the sustainability of your growth. how do you answer that

>> this quarter we've seen more than the last six quarters combined and what we've seen is that while growth moderates as mobility opens up in countries, obviously we're a global company with lots of countries around the world. it's sustaining at a higher level. we feel really good about the new buyers coming in all the things we're going to keep them on the platform, getting them to down load the app, et cetera what we're focussed on is building a long-term sustainable healthy business, delighting buyers and sellers in their experience on the site >> you're no longer attached to papal in the sense of having to use them what is that freedom going to allow e-bay to do when it comes to an opportunity for you in payments >> we've announced we're launching managed payments that's the ability to manage payments on the platform it's great for buyers and sellers. for buys, it's seamless. they command they don't have to create a separate account and can manage the transaction seamlessly on e-bay.

and sellers love managed payments because they can manage their business in one area on the site and the vast majority of cases they're going to be paying lower fees on the platform and thus far all the sellers that have joined have been pleased with the experience of managed payments two weeks ago we expanded. we were live in the u.s. and in germany. we expanded to uk, canada and australia. pay pal will continue to be an important partner. the manage payments experience makes it seamless. when i talk about a technology-led reimagination, manage payments is a good example of that. we've committed that by 2022 that will bring 2 billion of revenue and $500 million of operating income to the bottom line also great for the overall business by doing manage payments on the platform >> all right i'm going to solve your problem because the stock is down. i go to the site, up to 60 % off

reeb reebok stock ex, for sale make a bid, get the mojo back. could you do it by the end of the day? >> you know, i think what you're talking about is what is important to me coming back to lead this company. i've been back 100 days and i'm focussed on vertical experiences. so experiences like in sneakers that you're talking about, experiences in our core categories where we're great whether that's luxury items or collectibles or fashion or parts and accessories. how do we get back as e pay and make sure we're building the best experience for buyers and sellers to transact on the categories i think what you're seeing with vertical and niche competitors is there's a lot of untapped potential for us they're getting gmv which should be transaboutive on tct i on thm i want to make sure those types of transactions happen on e-bay. we build the capabilities and

trust in the platform so the gmv is showing up on our site. >> you can roll them up. you can rent the runway. the world is your oyster, but you've got to get away from e-bay. core e-bay does not have the growth we want you got the capital. why don't you become the one stop shop for everything that -- every stock exchange that is not for stocks can be yours. >> yeah. you know, when i think about what's happened over the last couple weir years, i think we were chasing in new in season product and not focusing on the core our opportunity is in the core when you think about nonnew in season, that's a $500 billion opportunity. we're low single percentages of that t huge f-- bringing sellers tha that inventory and making sure buyers have a great experience is a key focus for it. we'll always look at m&a and find opportunities to bring

capabilities now that we're focussed on the marketplace business and accelerate that we think there's a lot of work to do in the overall experience, making it better for buyers and sellers and keeping buyers on the platform for a lifetime. >> speaking of m&a, you did a large deal in terms of divesting. it was the classifieds business. a $9.2 billion deal. to the surprise of some you decided to keep a 44 % interest in the combined company, with the buyer of it. why not have sold classifieds for cash, use some of it to invest, others to buy back more stock as opposed to having a 44% stake in a foreign company >> we think this is a fantastic combination. when you look at the transfer of the assets of e-bay's classifieds group, it creates the world's largest online classifieds group. in 20 markets it's the number one leading market share it's a fabulous company. for shareholders, the allows us

to capture in the short term the third thing it does is now that we've divested stub hub and we've transferred assets for classifieds, it allows the whole management team to focus on the core marketplace business where there's a lot of untapped potential. >> we appreciate you joining us to fill us in and we'll continue to be focussed on that core marketplace business as well look forward to getting your updates along the way. thank you. >> thanks, david thanks, jim. . >> excellent >> the president and ceo of e-bay. carl, over to you. >> still a lot more to come this morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with david faber and leslie picker. jim is going to stick around big cap tech ceos on the hill today. the democrat gop talks progress appears slow on stimulus we're going to talk to ge and

follow earnings in a moment. jim, the fed this afternoon as a ten-year real records at a record low today >> look, and i think obviously people feel maybe there's going to be a deal my sources indicate there will be a short-term extension and we're going to be out of this woods, and that people who are betting this is going to fall apart are going to be wrong. it was my principle concern. i think that there's a lot of good news coming and people should stop thinking there will be no deal short-term. we're going to get something stop worrying. and it could turn the market -- >> what, david you mumbled something. >> yeah. when you said stop worrying, i thought of "strange love". you know >> i am more confident than i have been, that there will be a short-term deal. >> that's big news, jim. >> thank you thank you, david >> i want to make sure people

understand, does that mean the $600 benefit gets extended for some period of time until they figure this out? >> not sure, but something is going to happen that is better than the way the papers read that's good. the goal of everybody is to not have a sudden drop off 600 to nothing rent not paid. commerce slowed down co-vid hot spots coupled with that everything we said about boichg. what we'll say with ge is going to be wrong. so i'm not saying you can take anything to the bank, but a short-term deal is in the offing >> all right well, it certainly would be very important for the overall economy. let's get to ge this morning the company reporting earnings of course, and we're happy as well mixed results, by the way. just to sort of reference them a bit. let's talk to larry culp, the company's chairman and ceo and he joins us now.

larry, always good to have you glad you're back for another quarter. another tough quarter, of course, in terms of navigating the head winds particularly in aviation i guess the good news is you went through a lot less cash than you might have anticipated. is that good news? >> david, jim, good morning. good to be with you both no question some of the better news from ge is the fact that our negative free cash flow in the second quarter, a time of unprecedented pressure on the business, particularly in aviation, was just over $2 billion. david still negative we're not proud of that. we have to do better we have to put it into positive territory. that said, i think the team took the reality head on here during the course of the second quarter. worked through a number of operational issues, and came out a little bit better than we had opera anticipated.

i think we're pleased with that outcome, but we have plenty more ahead of us as we work to transform ge in the second half and as we get ready for 2021 >> yeah. well, larry, you were working to transform ge before the pandemic you seem to be on a strong road there in terms of doing it but as you point out, there's nothing i would assume in your business career you've dealt with that's like this. when it comes to aviation, how confident can you be at all, and therefore, do you have to just keep cutting costs to make sure you're in a position to withstand whatever head winds are coming? >> well, david, i think we take a lot of confidence despite the near-term pressures in the industry right? this is a vital integral piece of the global economy. and we will see it return. we're all somewhat uncertain as to when that will happen but it will happen and what we want to do is make sure we take all the short-term actions to continue to serve our customers, keep our teams safe, and improve our overall performance while

making sure we continue to perpetuate the investments that allowed ge aviation to be a key partner to not only airframers but airlines around the world for decades. and that's the balance that's the challenge that we have in front of us. we don't know when we'll get back to 2019 levels. i don't think any of us really do in the near-term, we're going to be aggressive with respect to cost and cash preservation actions. and that's part of what you see here in the second quarter results. more to come in the second half. and i have great confidence that ge aviation will continue to lead in the future, but it will be if you will, a bumpy ride for a little bit >> you say more to come in the second half. can you give us any sense as to what you're referring to >> david, specifically i think as we look at the second half, we're going to see the majority of that $2 billion cost reduction and the 3 billion of cash preservation take root and

deliver impact for us in the second half. in addition, i don't think we see necessarily the overall aviation market changing materially we're encouraged by the sequential progress that we see. we look at the daily departures for our engines by platform, by region, every morning. and we've seen some nice recovery off the early spring lows china today is down high single digits it's a far cry from where we were in march. we think that will be the environment we're going to work through in the second half, and into '21 but getting better >> larry, first, didn't you have black hair when you got this job? >> i was somewhere inbetween, jim. >> you got dealt a tough hand. renewable energy was what i thought was a write off. i know down 19 % is nothing to

write home about, but when you have other doozys it's not so bad. this is an esg company, and a robin hood company i deal with a lot of youngen investors. they say i want renewable. tesla. is it possible or you can humor me is it possible that renewable energy may be the esg company of the future and people want to own it and they don't want this other stuff? so maybe we get it maybe you give it to us. >> jim, we're very proud of the work that our renewable energy team is doing. just looking at the second quarter, the growth engine within that segment, on shore, our new turbine and repowering kit volume was up 16 % and that's despite all the co-vid-induced pressures on the supply chain which were meaningful we worked our way through that we think renewable energy has a significant role to play in the

energy transition. we're a leader in on shore wind. we're making significant investments with our offshore platform to participate there more actively. but we do have a couple businesses, our hydro lines that are going through tun arounds. if i look at the second quarter, i think i saw real progress with respect to the way the new makt teams are exkuding the day in, day out plans. we have a tremendous future ahead of us in renewables. we need to make sure the growth is coupled with better earnings and better cash. we recognize that, the team does that's work underway, i think work we can and will do. >> are you surprised that given the prices of natural gas worldwide that you're not selling more gas turbines? because it's a great american story, for instance, but i would have thought that you would have been able to crush it because

you do have the best gas turbines >> i think we crushed it in a delivery perspective we had a very strong quarter in terms of shipments where we were late was on the inbound, the orders front i think gas certainly has i think a role to play in the energy transition. we like the way customers have responded to our rh platform and continue to see, i think opportunities to do better on the order book side of things in the second half. that was clearly a space really in a bit of a contrast in renewables where we saw financing slow a bit, customers taking a pause, but if we look longer term, we feel good about the potential to continue to deliver new units in that business clearly it's more of a services play as you know and that's where we also have i think the opportunity to continue to take cost out. we had 200 basis points of operating margins of support as

a result of the cost reductions that are underway. now, we lost that benefit largely because of the volume pressure on services but by and large, i think we really like the improvements that team has made over the last couple years to improve our execution and we think we have more to go there >> larry, we're kind of moving through the portfolio. let's get to health care orders there 4.3 billion down. you're benefitting in some ways from covid-19 related results and losing in others what's your outlook for health care at this point >>. >> you're right. we were pleased with the first half given the critical role we play on the front lines with a lot of talk about ventilators and other products like ct scanners, patient monitors that have been critical the world over in battling the pandemic. we certainly got hit hard.

you referenced the elective procedure referrals. that's the highest margin part of our health care business. but what we took the most comfort in through the course of the quarter and even into july, we look weekly at the utilization of our install base of our mri and ct scanners that really gave us a very good window on the slowdown in traffic in hospitals but that has had a sequential improvement that's been quite remarkable, and we're back really on a global basis where we were on a preco-vid level now, that doesn't necessarily translate directly into new equipment order s but it does support the underlying parts of -- a higher margin part of the health care business where orders are down single digits and we were down meaningful double digit number in the second quarter

so that is all moving in the right direction. we've seen good adoption of our digital projects to help them deal with pressure of patients from covid-19 but we think we helped accelerate their digital transformation as well here in this moment. >> any regrets about selling that business? obviously you never could have known it potentially would find itself in a good position given what's happened, but it did bring in significant revenues, i should say significant cash at the same time, at the same time, it would probably be a vibrant business right now >> it's a terrific business, and i think my friends that bought it are going to be excited with the team they just brought on board. but david, i think we have no regrets. we sit here today with $41 billion of liquidity that we would not have had had we not done that transaction. we're sitting here having reduced our debt load, down $22

billion from the beginning of last year on top of the maturities we pushed out relative to near-term debts. i think what we've done to derisk the company at a time of uncertainty broadly, you do what you have to do i'm convinced that we've taken the right actions including the bio pharma transaction to set ge up to weather this additional storm. it delays the transformation of the company, but it doesn't prevent it and that's a part but not the only part of what we're doing to make sure we realize our full potential. >> larry, i've been critical of the accounting you had before you got there to the point where i wondered -- did a disservice to shareholders. there's going to be a change kpmg has been your auditor since 1909 i want to know what it means and is there any way that kpmg can

be held accountable for some of the lack of or ill advised candida accounting it doesn't seem fair to you that you should be saddled with this? >> we're focussed on the future. we have time here as we transition before they're fully engaged. if you look at what i and the board as well as the management team, we have a number of new people on board. a new cfo, a new controller over the last several quarters. i think this is a team that has really gone through the accounting and the operational rigor required to run a company of our size and scope. and feel good that as we move forward with them we're going to have not only better results but we intend to deliver that with greater candor and transparency.

>> finally, you are going to continue to sell over the next i think three years. the remaining stake in bikaker hughes beyond that capital, is there a need for ge to potentially raise new capital in the markets >> we don't think so this morning's announcement relative to the multiyear exit from baker hughes allows us to monetize that noncore asset, something that began in the fall of '18 we'll do that over the next three years and do that in an orderly way. i think we're excited about that just to really get on with things in terms of what we've done this year with respect to accessing the debt market, we think we're done with that work. we're pleased with the results pushing out over $10 billion of nearer-term maturities i think at this point we have to work those levers that are

within our control to drive better growth, better earnings and better cash, and as we move forward, that's what this team is going to do >> well, we always appreciate you joining us to keep us updated. larry, thank you thank you. jim, what's on mad tonight >> we have very exciting stuff we have dexcom my favorite is aphria. it's about cannabis and every wants to talk about cannabis there we go. we pander to it. >> everyone does want to talk about cannabis that's right, jim. we'll look forward to that up next, the challenges facing jet blue as revenue plummets in the wake of the pandemic an exclusive with the ceo, robin hayes, straight ahead. and new polling out today from the cnbc change research poll of battle ground states with only 24% of likely voters nationwide saying it's safe to fly.

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jet blue reported the second quarter results with revenue tumbling 90% in the quarter. let's turn to phil with jet blue's ceo with him. >> thank you, leslie let's bring in robin hayes

coming to us from new york city. robin, let's start with your perspective. you heard from larry culp said from ge. earlier today we heard from dave calhoun from boeing. they think eventually the industry comes back. that's long-term what do you think six to nine months >> hi. great to be back on the program. >> we agree we'll see recovery at some point. people want to travel. there's a lot of pent up demand for travel lots of friends and family they've put off seeing how do we bridge to that point what we're focussed on at jet blue is first making sure people know we're doing everything we can to keep flying safe, and make it as safe as anything you'll do in your daily life and two, focusing on our cash burn we came into this with a really strong balance sheet and by

conserving cash, it means that as we pivot out of this, as we come out of this, we'll be ready to do well and take advantage of the opportunities that will present themselves >> robin, there's growing chatter in d.c. of a second cares act being passed another round of aid specifically for you and other u.s. carriers. what's your sense on the likelihood of that passing >> that's a hard call to make. i don't know the answer to that. i don't know if anyone really knows the answer to that i will say that a day of reckoning has to come. we were all so fortunate with the first cares act. it protected the industry. it protected hundreds of thousands of jobs in the industry but as you just showed before the segment started and as we're seeing, we're seeing in the u.s. volumes at 25 % to 30% of what we would expect. we are close to the end of july.

so we are going to still as we get to the end of the first cares act period through to september, we're still going to be at a fraction of our normal levels airlines are going to have to reset. it has the potential to cause a significant amount of job les--s losses in the industry an extension of the cares act would prevent that and protect a significant number of jobs >> having said that, you know and i've talked with people who have said you're one industry that was targeted in the first cares act and for a good reason. and people are saying wait a second should the airlines get a second round and there are a lot of other industries that were not specifically targeted? >> i appreciate and recognize that and as i said a minuting a, we were fortunate as an industry. but so much, the airlines are

really the toll that will help us recover there's no tourism without airlines the whole travel industry is built on the back of the aviation system. the economy, so much of our gdp is directly or indirectly tied to aviation. the multiplier affect you get if you keep the aviation industry intact will help us bounce out of this more quickly the argument when cares one was put in place and that's the argument that holds for cares two. >> you and a lot of your peers are experiencing a shrinkage of your airline in the middle of this crisis. how quickly can you scale back up to meet demand in the event hopefully there is one, a solution to this pandemic? >> you have to be nimble and flexible things will improve quickly.

in june we were looking at 20% to 30% improvement in bookings and then things turn the other way. this is a nonlinear recovery sometimes it feels like two steps forward and one step back. sometimes it feels like one step forward and two steps back what we're doing is making sure we can adjust our capacity upwards when we see demand but also reduce it and take it out of our system when we don't. we've had fabulous support from our crew members over 60% of our crew members have taken some form of time off over the summer and it's about kind of getting everything lined up so we can increase capacity when we see demand and reduce it when we don't. but all the time, our number one priority right now is to reduce our cash burn. >> robin, you've been creative in finding work arounds. this code share and partnership with american, of course, got a lot of attention the last couple weeks. can you talk about the progress

within that, and what do you say to those who suspect that it's a precursor to something larger between you two? >> yeah. no, i think we're excited about the potential partnership. i think there is a lot of evidence that when jet blue flies are out, not only do fares drop in many cases significantly, but service improves and everyone has to raise their game and we're constrained in new york we're a relatively young airline. we don't have portfolios other airlines have. the partnership with american allows us to have more flights in new york and bring more lower fares and also connect to their long-hall destinations it's going to allow between us to offer a better choice to customers and a third strong

combination compared to the other area we're excited. we're going to compete with american, too. we're going to compete with american over south florida and we announced flights we're going to london next year. we're competing with them to london too it's a partnership, but we're going to stay hopefully competitive in other areas >> robin, you brought down your cash burn stashlubstantially when we were on the earnings call, you said you feel good about your liquidity right now do you foresee the need to raise more capital in the second half of this year, or unless something strange happens, should you be good through next spring >> we feel good about where we are so far we left the second quarter with about $3.4 billion of cash we raised nearly a billion in

the quarter prior to that. we still have over a billion dollars of unimcouple bered assets and we have the opportunity to take the government loan out. and we have transactions that we can do we will continue to be prudent and make sure that we have sufficient liquidity it's been a priority for us over the last few years to improve our balance sheet. we came into this with the second strongest balance sheet of all in the u.s. airlines. it's been very important that we continue to protect our liquidity to make sure we can come through this. because it is going to take a significant period of time, i think, for us to see the recovery that we would all like to see >> one last question, robin, how do you feel about the comfort level of passengers, not just for you but for all airlines right now? polls show it remains really low in terms of people saying they're comfortable getting on a flight when i talk with executives, they feel the people they talked

to in the airports are generally good with the flying experience. >> you know, i think what we can focus on is make sure people know that when they need to fly, when they're ready to fly, that we are going to do everything we can to keep it safe. and there's been some really, really positive changes in terms of how we clean and sanitize airplanes that are going to stay forever. only this morning we rolled out a new uv lighting technology to sanitize airplanes to compliment what we are already doing and our customer satisfaction surveys have never been higher it's never been higher for customers flying, i think they're appreciating what we're doing and the industry we have to work on this together and over the course of time, you know, it's our view that as more people fly, more people are going to get comfortable and seeing the numbers adjust. but things have to be open when you get there, and they have to

be able to go and do something we have to get the case counts under control in states that are tourism markets so people have the confidence to go back there. >> i think everybody would love to see that. robin hayes, ceo of jet blue thank you for joining us this morning. guys, it's been a busy morning a lot of exclusive interviews with executives, especially in the airline and aviation industry, and the one thing you can take away, almost all of them believe it's going to turn at some point. the question is how far into the future before that turn actually takes place? >> that's a nice way to sum it up so far, phil. a lot of interviews to you when we come back, obviously big tech ceos on the hill is a huge story today we'll talk about the various strategies they have going into house judiciary in a moment.

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advantage. that was the executive chair of kodak joining squawk box earlier this morning look at the stock. that is nothing short of extraordinary. we mentioned this stock yesterday when it was up significantly after mentioned by peter navarro. this loan that is coming from the u.s. government under the defense production act of about $765 million to enable kodak to begin manufacturing the ingredients for generic drugs. that's at the heart of what's happened here. the stock has been halted for volatility and it's one weak performance is now -- well, 2,242% over the last two days. it's -- i don't know we see this occasionally it does remind me of some of the periods in the late 90s when we'd see some names, you can

name a lot of them, too. that just moved in ways you would never have anticipated he was speaking positively about the company's future in terms of its ability to deliver what has been promised or will be as a result of getting this money in, given kodak has dealt in chemicals for a long time. but unclear what this really means. i will tell you there's one director, george garfunkel i think he owns 15% now. he bought shares at the end of the year last year do the paperprofits right ther for him who i believe has been a pretty big supporter of republican politics in the past. over to you. >> or anyone, david, who bought monday's low of 213 and at 5060 now. you're looking at huge profits on paper the bulls will argue they're

heralding a new era on pharma. we'll have to see an an amazing run in the meantime, we're watching big ftech's hearing later this afternoon with tim cook, jeff bezos and others. walter joining us to talk about what's been called the biggest concentration of personal and corporate wealth to ever appear before congress, and similarities some say to big tobacco hearings decades ago you think it's that big a deal >> oh, man, we're going to have to process this, you and i over a drink five or ten years ago when you have this concentration, and it's being done on a virtual platform where because of coronavirus everybody is appearing in little boxes, it's such a weird period because it helps us understand how technology has enabled us to do things including survive this

coronavirus, but also technology is something that sometimes runs outside of our control >> the pushback, walter, from those who say this is nothing like the big tobacco hearings of ye yesteryear these are pillars of the american economy, and they share broad popularity among american consumers. is that fair >> absolutely, and we have to make a distinct. these people are not being caused with causing intentional or unintentional or reckless deaths of human beings i think this hearing, i hope it will focus very specifically on anti-trust it's a sub committee of the house on anti-trust. and the question that we have to face with these companies is they have become so success frl, so bilg and they've earned

confidence by creating great products the question is whether you can leverage the dominance in one field in order to crush competition in adjacent field. that seems specific, but that's at the core of what we need in our economy. our anti-trust laws often focus mainly on one of the prongs, does it harm consumers you'll see each of these tech execs say no, we're helping consumers but there's another prong of anti-trust law that says you also judge what's happening based on whether it suppresses competition that's bad for the economy and is bad for all of us in the long run. i do think that's an important question these tech executives are going to have to answer. it's not like the tobacco exec questions they had to answer, but it is very real for our economy. >> walter, what are the chances that congress passes meaningful regulation as a result of the hearings today can we expect to see anything change as a result of this, or is it more just getting these

four executives, i would say in a room, but into a zoom-like format in order to hear their perspective on the state of things right now >> i would not look for legislation. i'm not one of these people who believes that washington is all that functional when it comes to complex tech issues, but what you will see, and it hasn't become totally partisan yet. in the field of anti-trust, you're going to see states attorney general and the department of justice which is now looking at google and preparing some anti-trust measures, especially in the field of advertising where google is using its dominance in the market of search and its other products to gain dominance in advertising you're also seeing the ftc look at the aunt trust issues on facebook what will come out of this is more gift -- or should, grist for serious anti-trust

investigations, not wild legislation that tries to control the tech industry. >> walter, it's david. i have at least three of your books, probably more behind me right now. you haven't heard anything yet about bezos. you've written about innovators, and a great deal about steve jobs bezos to me is the most interesting because he's never appeared in this way before. what are your expectations from him this morning or this afternoon? what -- well, what are your expectations, i guess, is my question >> first, let me say that in involve there's a book coming out of jeff bezos writings and letters. i've been studying and writing about him. that book will be out in the harvard business review, and what i expect from bezos is he's going to say we have made the

most consumer-focussed company ever that's one of the themes of his life, of his career at amazon from the very beginning. he focuses like a laser on what can be good for consumers. and it does. i mean, i look at the shorts and trousers i put on. they're amazon essentials. they come from amazon. the question is it helps consumers and we've learned that in the pandemic just to be able to have things delivered when it's harder to go shopping, but the question is how much is that suppressing small, independent businesses entrepreneurs? how much are they using that data so i no longer go to a land's end or to buy a shirt, but i go to amazon so i think you'll see from bezos a stress on what he's done for the consumer and a deflection,

perhaps, on has that hurt competition in the marketplace of america >> finally, walter, there's zuckerberg who according to some of the advanced testimonies will sort of frame his appearance through the lens of china, and we'd be remiss in not mentioning the statement out of tiktok that accuses their attempt to steal ideas as a lack of patriotism. >> i think zuckerberg needs to worry the most both about anti-trust because it's simple he's not only bought whatsapp and instagram, but i think 80 companies recently after a while when you keep keeping competitors or doing things that leverage your dominance in the social network, and you start trying to suppress other competition, so then you

have tiktok coming along, the only big competitor coming down the pike, and i think mark zuckerberg will play the patriotism card there. we don't want a china product coming in and they'll talk about stealing intellectual property but the anti-trust regulators have to focus on whether or not what facebook has done has been anti-competitive in a whole variety of fields. >> just a few -- an hour and a half away, essentially >> i can't wait for it it's going to be an amazing show >> yeah. hopefully we learn something and something constructive comes out of it. walter, thanks talk to you soon >> thank you still to come it's the busiest day of earnings with boeing, amd and others on the move today we'll dive into it deeper when "squawk on the street" returns

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years is the right time frame. >> dave calhoun, boeing's ceo joining us earlier on "squawk on the street." saying many of the same things he said the last time that he joined us. but somehow seeming more positive at the same time. >> indeed. and our question about whether he thought a major would go out of business, softened on that one, i thought although not definitively but said government support has had some effect on that front. boeing shares not helping out today. we're about an hour today from today's historic tech hearing on the hill we'll discuss that with early and facebook investor later on in the meantime, dow super tight range. up 70. we're back in a minute

keeping our eyes on shares of moderna with the fda the company is aiming to prize his covid vaccine 50 to $60 per dose that stock down almost 5% today. this as we're getting new results from the cnbc change research poll of likely voters nationwide with just 39% of the participants saying they would definitely get the vaccine while 19% saying they would definitely not get the covid vaccine. we're going to take a quick break. stay with us

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little lower this morning. the stock as you might know has doubled so far this year you might have seen those images of the shape two cabin interiors yesterday. our morgan brennan sat down with the company's newly-appointed ceo as well as now chief space officer george whitesides to talk about the unveil and the company's leadership transition. >> i think this inflection point that the company is in right now is really exciting george and the team have brought the technology to the point that we're on the last path towards finishing our testing and moving forward. but the company is very young. and so as we do get into commercial operations there will be time to scale and that's something that i have great experience and familiarity with in scaling amazing ideas into large businesses that look for amazing experiences for consumers. at a personal level, both disney

and virgin galactic are incredibly purpose-driven companies. the purpose of virgin galactic to open up space and allow people to see this planet from a greater perspective i think amazing good is going to come of that i had to be a part of it. >> yeah. there's been some, i guess, talk on wall street among analysts and investors the fact that you are essentially an outsider coming into this company right now. what do investors need to know about you and about how you lead >> well, you know, disney and virgin galactic obviously different businesses but they have a couple things at their core that are very similar both are grounded in a bedrock of safety. consumers trust us, need to trust us and we are embedded at the engineering level, process level and at the culture level safety-first organization. that's something that i will bring and amplify it's embedded in virgin galactic already

the second thing obviously is both these companies at the essence they deliver life-changing, amazing, magical experiences. and i tell you, i had the chance to be in the simulator with our chief pilot and came out of there knowing this is going to be a life-changing moment. and i look to bring my experience from disney to help amplify the efforts that have gone in here and will start well before the flight. it will culminate in the flight and continue far afterwards. >> yeah. and george, i know you mentioned on a call with investors and analysts that you were thrilled about this transition and that you've actually been -- it's been in the works or you've been talking with virgin galactic chairman for quite some time i wonder if you can give us some more details about how this process came to be, how it happened and also the fact that you are staying on with the company, what this will now mean in terms of your new role as

chief space officer. >> i think morgan, as you know, part of the excitement of this company is not just the present, which is space flight from here in southern new mexico but also the future of high speed point to point travel. that's a huge effort and so i'm going to be able to focus in on that as well as some orbital space flight stuff that i think you'll be hearing about very soon. >> i'm going to ask you a question that i asked george before, but i'm curious to get your take on it. virgin galactic stock is up more than 100% this year. commercial service hasn't even launched yet how closely do you watch that stock move do you feel like the market could potentially be getting ahead of itself and getting ahead of the company and setting the bar very high? >> so honestly i have been focussed on listening and learning in my new job and you know, i think at this stage that's right where i need to be. i spent the first two days with

the spaceship company meeting the engineers and technicians that are putting together the next vehicles that will be added to our fleet as i said i'm out here in space port america, new mexico, this is the most important thing for me right now as the incoming ceo. >> we note that morgan is not here today, guys that's because she and her husband, matt, just added a new member to their family nicco matteo was born on monday 27th weighing in at 7 pounds and 14 ounces. man, david, we wish them nothing but the best congratulations to those guys. >> absolutely. wonderful news i'm sure -- who knows, could be the first baby in space if morgan has her way we'll see. >> only morgan could juggle a ceo interview with virgin galactic while delivering a baby we wish them nothing but the best >> she would be a mom in space

with her child doing an interview with the ceo, that's something morgan could pull off. guys, we'll see you later. thanks for the help this morning, leslie. good wednesday morning, everybody. welcome to "squawk alley." the markets obviously got a lot on deck. the fed decision big tech ceos on the hill, the earnings continue to pile in, not the busiest day, that's tomorrow but, jon, this is the story of the morning is we're going to spend this hour dissecting how each of these executives is going to approach this important hearing at the house. >> yeah, carl. the question for me is how much of this is theater and how much is substance that's going to come down to the type of questions that get put to these executives not only in an election year but less than 100 days away from election day. how much will politics creep into this versus will the questions get to a cross-examining sense of defining what markets are and