>> right moment. cme group opportunity. >> is everywhere. >> hi, frank. >> hey, goldie. i'm looking for those. >> reports from yesterday. >> they're already. >> on your desk, frank. >> of course they are. >> easily isolate phone calls to the. >> driver's seat in the. >> all new three. >> row infiniti qx80. >> welcome to power lunch. i'm kelly evans here at cnbc headquarters in new jersey. >> and i'm. >> brian sullivan here in. >> washington, dc. >> we're here. >> for a big. exclusive interview with the new secretary of energy. you saw. >> some of it earlier. >> live right here on cnbc. but we're. >> going to show you. what you didn't. >> hear or. >> see earlier. coming up. >> plus the. >> implications of some new tax. >> proposals from president trump and why it might impact your favorite football team. >> oh, yes. let's start with a check of the markets, though, because we're kicking things off here at session lows. the dow is down more than 400 points for the first time so far today.

that's a nearly 1% drop. same for the s&p. and the nasdaq is down 1.3%. now the jobs report is one factor. we also we saw some inflationary pressures. we took a bigger leg lower at 10 a.m. when that sentiment report hit. sentiment fell a few points. inflation expectations really shot up. and that's when you saw more angst. we've also had a bunch of tariff headlines throughout the day today. the president saying there will be reciprocal tariffs on many countries next week. and the markets have been under some continued pressure on that. the president also saying he is considering allowing the sale of u.s. steel to japan's nippon steel. let's take a look at shares of x, not the platform, the corporate. the shares are up about half a percent now. so not huge move. but that's a story to definitely keep an eye on. let's begin there with the impact of today's data. the drop in consumer sentiment caused by inflation fears and tariffs could be a real problem here for investors. rebecca patterson is former bridgewater associates chief investment strategist, currently a vanguard board member and senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. we also have our chief economics

correspondent, steve liesman, in the house. rebecca, the market very unhappy today. why is that? >> you know, it's. >> interesting the ten year yield tells you a story of this whole day. and what. >> could this, this whole. >> year be. >> like after we got the payroll report. decent job number, not too hot though. yields rose a little bit fed. >> fund futures didn't move. >> so no need for the fed to react. the sentiment report came out. bad sentiment high inflation ten year yield goes higher. and now we start to see the market taking out fed cuts this year at the margin. >> tariff talk. same thing. >> and so what's worrying. >> here is. >> if we have. tariff related uncertainty. >> or actual tariffs. >> and we have. >> inflation expectations and actual inflation sticky or even higher. you're going to have higher ten year yields for not good reasons. and that's. >> the worst. >> case for investors. you have lower stocks higher borrowing costs. i'm not saying that is going to happen this year. but that's the little glimpse of what we got in today's trading

action that i think is a risk for us to keep an eye on this year. >> are we putting too much on all these macro? i mean, could it could it be amazon's fault? right. look at the nasdaq rebecca and its underperformance and how poorly tech has done this year. there's a big debate with rich bernstein last hour about whether it's time to get out of the mag seven. and i mean, i don't know, i guess granted all that the dow is down 400 points. >> i mean, i. >> think you're. >> making a great point. >> macro and micro. >> both matter. >> you always. >> have. >> to be looking at both and putting. >> the bigger picture together. >> again, if you think about the jobs data we had, but also some of the data out of that amazon. >> report. >> yes, it disappointed overall, but they also talked about year end. activity being very strong. the us consumer today is still very strong. and at the end of the day, that and the hundreds of billions of dollars. that are coming. >> into the us economy. >> from tech capex, these are important. >> supports. but those. >> are what is today and behind us. but we have to think about going forward, if the consumer, which is the engine of growth,

if they get more cautious because of the prices of eggs or uncertainty around tariffs and they start to pull back, it almost doesn't matter what amazon does. i'm picking on amazon, right. but if the consumer pulls back all bets are off. we're going to get lower yields because we're going to have a growth slowdown. steve you've heard this phrase snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory right. so we come out with the jobs market. and not only did you have major revisions to the prior months upward, but you had this nice cooling back down to what looks like a more sustainable level, one that people think is more in line with where people think. now look at that chart now, guys, if you wouldn't mind, in the back, put up the three month average chart. and it's a fascinating chart. what it suggests, kelly, is this economy is accelerating after a summer swoon in the job market, which really was behind the fed rate cuts. if you look at that three month average, you can see july, august, september was there. it is right now. so it's a little bit squirrely in the middle

there. but look at it 31234 months in a row you've had accelerating three month average. the economy is accelerating. so the handoff from one administration to the next looks like it went pretty well. not only that, if you look inside the university of michigan numbers, republican sentiment has fallen for three months in a row. so we're not to mention. >> growth is up and sentiment is down. inflation is the only thing that. >> inflation is the thing. and this idea that you flagged to me in the last hour that people volunteered their concern about tariffs, which i'm hearing at cocktail parties right now. you can imagine how droll the whole thing must be if people are talking about tariffs at this point or how serious it is. >> 27% of respondents in that survey. rebecca, i'm curious what you make of this mentioned spontaneously tariffs as an issue. again, this was for a tariff story, especially as it relates to mexico and canada. that wasn't even a major headline in the media until the very last minute. right. and now we're. >> hearing today headlines that we. >> could. have broader. >> based reciprocal tariffs as. >> early as monday.

>> who knows what we're going to get. but the bigger issue here is that all this uncertainty at the margin, it makes consumers and businesses more cautious. just like, you know, steve's hearing at his cocktail party, people are worried about tariffs. it's going to slow them down at the margin. and that is not the outcome that i think this administration wants. >> and rebecca, just real quick, let's remember president trump came in with really sky high confidence numbers from the business sector. and when i read what the commentary was in the ism service sector, you just i could read them out. but every other one is about tariffs. >> well, the. >> fact that you had to back. off the de minimis tariffs, right. the little small packages, because we don't even have the mechanism yet to collect the tariffs on them. so we had to pause that. you know there's a lot of things being thrown out there. how it actually plays out how quickly we get the revenue. what do we use the. >> revenue for. >> is it for tax cuts. is it for sovereign wealth fund. there's a

lot of talk. and you really have to kelly, to your initial. >> point, try. >> to put the noise aside as much as. possible and focus on how is the consumer doing. how are earnings doing, what's guidance. but keep in mind confidence around inflation, around consumer sentiment that drives economic activity. it is a leading indicator by about 2 or 3 months. >> brian. >> hey, rebecca. you know, i'm down in d.c, i love america, i love america so much. i came down to our nation's capital. i brought an eagle. i probably had a hot dog. but when i. >> look. >> at. >> the global markets. >> i look. >> at a europe. which is soaring. >> no one's. >> talking about it. >> i posted about. germany the other day. >> their economy is in shambles. and yet guess what? investors in europe just keep making money. i know we're. >> talking about. >> america and the jobs number. but i'm looking at a europe. which is in trouble. and yet guess what? >> it's just. printing money. >> for investors. do you have a take on europe? >> i you know, it's interesting. i saw that too. and i thought,

how did that sneak up on me? you know, europe is up almost 10% year to date. canada is. beating the us. the uk is beating the us in terms of market returns year to date. i think this is a trade and not an investment. what's happened is we had initial relief by investors that we didn't get tariffs on day one, because that had been something that had been campaigned on, and then we got very low valuations in these markets overseas relative to the us and very little ownership. everyone's been putting their money into the us and especially tech. so it's been a catch up trade for it to last. i think we'd need to see again a benign tariff outcome. maybe we need to see more investment in china in their consumer sector to get that engine of. >> growth. >> going again. and we need to see in places like germany, a new government that's actually willing to do some fiscal stimulus. it's possible i wouldn't put a high probability on it. >> all right. there we go,

steve. just buy europe. everything's fine. just turn everything. >> for a short term. >> short term, we're turning every conclusion from. 2024 on its head today. >> there's two potential. i know we have to wrap, but two potential underpinnings here. the idea of a america is very fully valued. the second is that the dollar may be at the zenith of where it's going to go. and so both sides this is this would be the time to buy overseas. >> very very interesting. thank you both. rebecca patterson steve liesman. >> yeah. and i think i got it correct steve. they pronounce it. zenith over there. all right. lots of people apparently were. >> eagerly awaiting. >> this morning's job numbers. and even after we get the jobs numbers, we're still trying to get a proper read on this economy here. now, to give us his take away is national urban. >> league ceo marc morial. >> also the former. >> mayor of new orleans. >> where apparently. there's like some big football game on sunday. we'll get to that, marc. >> but from. >> where you sit, how do you see. the american economy? >> well, yeah. great to be with you. >> this jobs. >> report is a continuation of a

trend of continuing job creation. and it's sort of the punctuation point on the previous administration and. >> the. >> starting point. >> for how. >> the jobs. >> market will perform for the next administration on its watch. my main. concern now. >> is that a. combination of. tariffs and over. >> the horizon, extreme fiscal budget cuts could. be recessionary. >> on one. >> hand. >> tariffs will introduce inflation because the way they have been talked about and the way they. >> were. employed for. >> really 24 hours was. >> as an across the. >> board blunt instrument, not. >> a strategic. >> rifle shot with respect to some industries, which is the type of tariffs i could support. but that blunt instrument. >> which creates. >> volatility and. >> political uncertainty. >> along with the possibility of massive. layoffs at the federal government level, i. >> think will continue. >> ■to. >> create volatility and

uncertainty. >> here's what we have. we have a stable economy, and i think policymakers should look at. >> a do no. >> harm approach. as opposed to. >> tariffs. >> extreme fiscal. >> cuts which do nothing but create what both wall street and main street do not want. and that is uncertainty. that's how i see it. >> and i think we're going. >> to have. >> to continue to measure what happens. >> going into the future. >> but you'd. rate the overall economy still is pretty good. >> it's good. >> look, i mean, compared to where we. >> were four. >> years ago. >> or five. >> years ago. you've got job growth. you've got inflation, not. >> where we. >> want it, but far. >> in a better. place than it was. >> so you've got to. >> if you're managing fiscal policy. >> or. >> monetary policy, you've got to say let's. >> do no. >> harm, let's do. no harm. >> and try to continue. >> this trend of growth and.

>> declining unemployment. >> and reductions. >> in inflation. so i think that's what's important. >> and i'm. >> concerned that. >> some of these public. >> policy measures. >> extreme fiscal. >> cuts. >> tariffs could. >> create just a round of. >> uncertainty and volatility. >> and really damage the economy. >> look the retaliatory. >> we've got to wait. but we don't. >> we have to. >> but i will say mark. >> we have to i. >> know listen i'm in d.c. there's. >> a lot. >> of concern here. >> everybody's jumpy scared nervous. >> they don't want to lose their jobs. >> they don't their friends lose. >> their jobs, their neighbors. but are we are we. >> kind of. >> should we wait and see. >> what what happens first? >> that's we. >> the tariffs are delayed. >> we don't know. >> and i hope everything will be okay. >> maybe it. >> could be worse. >> than i expect. >> i don't. >> know, but. >> don't we need to. wait and see. >> what happens? >> it's almost like a preemptive panic. >> i think. >> it was interesting that. >> the administration issued. >> these. >> tariffs, and within 24. >> hours. >> completely backed off. >> and of. >> course. >> they said, well, we leveraged

it for. >> some things, but in truth and in. >> fact, i think they tested. >> the waters. >> and found that the markets were not going. >> to. >> react favorably. >> hopefully they've. learned that across. >> the board, tariffs. >> is not a smart way. >> to do this. >> but what we have is now canada. >> and china and. >> mexico and other. >> countries taking retaliatory action. and that represents a trade war. so waiting to see i understand. but what leaders should do. >> is communicate. >> much more. >> clearly where. >> they are going. >> we all want some certainty. we all want. >> some expectations. >> and right now what we've got. >> is a whole lot of uncertainty. >> hopefully we'll get more certainty. i know certainly we're going to have a big football game in your hometown on sunday. no time for that. but mark, let's certain. >> philadelphia eagles to. >> disrupt this trend. >> i love.

>> andy reid. >> i love. >> kansas city. but i got to. >> go with. >> the. >> philadelphia eagles. >> in this one. >> marc morial is going with the philadelphia eagles to beat the kansas city state farms. mark thank you i appreciate it. thank you. all right. >> i love jake. >> did you get that folks. all right. coming up what is the future of. nuclear energy in america. another part of our exclusive interview. with the incoming energy secretary, chris incoming energy secretary, chris wright. it is next. when emergency strikes, first responders rely on the latest technology. that's why t-mobile created t-priority built for the 5g era. only t-priority dynamically dedicates more capacity for first responders.

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environmentally sensitive way. >> i think the conflict there is more perceived than real. you know what we've done over the last ten, 15, 20 years globally. i have called. >> the greatest. >> mal investment in the history of the world. maybe $4 trillion has been invested. mostly in wind, solar, batteries and transmission systems. it hasn't changed the mix of the global energy stack at all. we've got a little bit less than 3% of global energy comes from wind, solar and batteries less than 3%, all in the electricity. sector and everywhere with high penetration. we've seen more expensive electricity and a less stable grid. one thing we know for sure that's not going to continue. the rest of the world will never adopt a model like that. the only way you're going to change global greenhouse gas emissions is with energy technologies that are affordable, reliable, secure and make people's lives better and

have lower greenhouse gas emissions. >> like what? what are those? >> well, the biggest one by far to date has been natural gas. the us has reduced our greenhouse gas emissions more than the next seven countries combined, and it's mostly been by market forces. >> natural gas. >> is outcompeted coal as just as cheap or cheaper, and cleaner burning, meaning less pollutants as well as less greenhouse gas emissions. that's a model. >> that can grow and can scale. >> and hence that's why it has been the biggest driver of reduced emissions. >> wow. so that's a pretty big statement that malinvestment or mis investment. brian, it gives you kind of a hint of what might be up their sleeve. >> yeah. >> and i. >> know a lot of people are going to disagree with that statement, kelly, but the reality is that. if we're going to produce more power and the japanese prime minister was here is here, i should say, in town today, meeting with president trump to buy more natural gas if we. >> are going. >> to do it. i'm not saying we. >> are, but it looks. >> like we are. we should. >> do it in.

>> a way where we can do it as smart. >> as possible. >> and not contribute. to a warming planet. >> now, i. >> also asked secretary wright. >> about our. >> as a nation. sort of renewed love affair with nuclear energy and. >> the real. >> fear, kelly, that if and when we restart some of these older nuclear reactors. i'm looking at you, three mile island. we make sure that some of that power goes to. >> homes and neighborhoods. >> and not just to the highest bidder of big technology. >> we've had 30% increase in electricity prices under the last administration with almost no demand growth. now we have rapid demand growth. you hit a key issue right there. so we need to balance both of those. we need to supply that electricity. so this industry of manufacturing intelligence ai stays in the united states. but we want to stop the price rises for consumers which means we need more supply. what's the biggest supply growth for electricity that can happen in short order. natural gas. but nuclear now has commercial buyers data centers that will

pay a premium for that electricity. that's just what we need. a market force that will pay a premium for a technology that can't compete with natural gas today, but maybe it can in 5 or 10 years, and we're going to have private capital driving the construction of these new small modular reactors at scale. >> is that going to happen or. >> is actually going to occur? >> because right now they're kind of just i don't want to say a pipe dream, but they're not far off from a pipe dream. >> the long talked about nuclear renaissance is finally going to happen. that is a priority of this for me personally and president trump and this administration. you're going to see that move in the coming years. >> that's quite a statement. so he's saying the long awaited nuclear renaissance will finally happen. brian, i thought your question was excellent. and i think is going to be where we see a lot of debate over this in coming years. if energy bills keep going up, whether it's nuclear or what have you, there's going to be more scrutiny on how much of that is because of this big demand coming from big tech. >> yeah. and the. >> reality is, the point i.

>> was trying to. >> make was that if three mile. >> island, which is now. >> known as the crane energy center, comes back. >> online. >> microsoft is likely to buy. all that power at something like 100 to $130 per megawatt hour. what does that mean? well, a residential neighborhood might pay $30 a. megawatt hour. i'm speaking very generally. my point is, microsoft is willing to pay 2 or 3. >> or maybe even. >> four times the. money for the guaranteed power. and what we. >> don't want to. >> have, kelly, is neighborhoods and housing price, competing with big tech and data centers. because i'm just going to tell you, you as a homeowner are. not going to outbid amazon, microsoft, google. >> amazon or others. >> right. >> but i. think twice. >> you get my point. i take his point, though, that you kind of want the people with the deepest pockets to foot the bill of getting this stuff mothballed and back online, and if so, if they can do that and really get a ton of capital and a ton of momentum behind nuclear. look, the households to your point,

don't have enough purchasing power and wherewithal to really galvanize that movement. so i hope he's right that they'll start and then maybe we'll get it more broadly and more cheaply. but of course, if we hit any snags along, that process is where we should expect some conflict. >> it's been a huge anti-nuclear focus in the united states. >> three mile. >> island, fukushima, i get it. there's a lot of worries. these reactors are not chernobyl. they're not built like that anymore, the way they're constructed. i'm not saying they're risk free, but the risk is lower, especially if. >> and when. >> and small modular. >> reactors are not a thing yet. >> we hear a. >> lot about them. kelly. it's like i hear a lot about this high speed train from dc to new york that's going to bring me home in an hour. >> we're not. >> quite there yet. i'll be on the amtrak. it chugs along at, you know, 65 miles an hour. but down the road we might have. >> you know. >> the maglev or the shinkansen here. >> we'll see. you're in the car. if i'm not mistaken. >> i took the train. >> did you? it was. >> it was. >> icy yesterday, and i just.

>> was, like, too lazy. >> to drive. yeah, it's a lot of this. >> yeah. anyway, i always get there. i get up to go to the restroom right when we hit a corner. whoa. across the train i go. >> exactly. so i'm going to apologize. >> to people. >> i fall into. >> so you and i are our center of gravity. we don't. we don't cope. well, brian, it was an excellent interview. thank you for bringing that to us. brian sullivan, interviewing the new secretary of energy, chris wright. further ahead, sports owners getting hit with the potential penalty if the president ends a key tax break. we do have those details further we do have those details further ahead. (♪♪) (♪♪) what took you so long? i'm sorry, there was a long line at the thai place. you get the sauce i like? of course! you're the man! i wish. the future isn't scary. not investing in it is. nasdaq-100 innovators. one etf. before investing, carefully read and consider fund investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses

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2010 flu season. at least 41 states are reporting very high levels of flu right now, and president trump says he wants to get the nation, quote, back to plastic, at least when it comes to drinking straws. in a post on truth social today, he said he will issue an executive order to undo the biden administration's push to require the federal government to ditch single use plastics and adopt environmentally friendly paper straws. back over to you. >> we'll see if that spurs people more broadly to do the same. angelica, thanks. thank you. let's take a look at shares of roblox taking a turn lower. this our steve covac with the details. and didn't they have earnings steve. but this is. >> this was yesterday. >> this is something separate going on here kelly. so bloomberg just reported they got some confirmation from the sec that roblox is under investigation. they're not exactly saying what this investigation is about. but we do know that hindenburg research put out that short seller report, of which roblox denied everything in there, that they fudged some of. >> their gaming. >> metrics or some. >> of their user. >> metrics and other. things that caused the short report to come out. and since the stock

tanking, when it did come out, since then. they had that blockbuster report afterwards. >> but right. >> now you. just see shares down about 2% on this. >> news that the sec is looking to it. >> again, we don't know what it is. i've reached out to roblox. >> for comment. >> have not. >> heard back yet. shares off. >> about 2%. all right. we'll keep an eye on that. meanwhile, not to say it's a busy day on the video game front, but probably the real big headline was about grand theft auto six. >> i know you're. >> excited for this one. >> you know, i'm actually interested in i've never played the game, but i know about the speculation and anticipation for this thing, which is ten years in the making to come out in the fall and people wondering whether it really will or will it be bumped back. what was the. >> yeah, yeah. >> so this is huge because. >> yesterday take-two interactive, that's the company that publishes grand theft auto six, just reiterated that it's going to launch this fall. that's not new news. we knew this was going to happen, but it was enough to send shares soaring. >> this is. >> especially after the pain we've. >> seen from. >> other gaming companies this earnings season. >> let me. >> just give you some examples

here. electronic arts, they revised their guidance lower in january. that's after football club their soccer game franchise and another game called dragon age vanguard failed to live up to expectations. it was a really disappointing quarter. and then you look at microsoft, their gaming revenue for that december quarter down 7%, and their gaming hardware revenue, that's their consoles, the xbox consoles. it was down 29%. and by the way, kelly, this. all includes activision which has now been fully absorbed by microsoft. it was that $69 billion acquisition that they made. all that regulatory headaches and all this kind of stuff. you got to wonder now was that worth it. especially as we see microsoft just spend all this money on capex that makes that $69 billion acquisition look kind of cute by comparison. >> i was going to. >> say right. >> the last. big thing they did before the arrival of. >> i before everything. >> else happened. and then. >> in the meantime here, we got bloomberg reporting last year that. take-two competitors, they're just waiting for this gta. six solid release date before announcing their own games. this is going to really

dominate the entertainment industry. >> it's going to kill productivity. >> it's going. >> to kill. people are going to spend the entire where's kareem is kareem here today. >> kareem kareem is going. >> to buy it. what are you going to do when gta six comes out. am i going to see you for like a week. >> i'm putting in a leave of absence. >> yeah i wanted to see take two shares over the past decade or so because my only question while they're popping today is it's so long in between these cycles. does it make. i mean, can you hold these shares for the long. >> run. >> and you can't? well, here's the thing about gta again. the gta five, the best entertainer or the best selling entertainment property of all time. in the. >> meantime, it's. >> still generating. >> sales 100% in ten years, right? >> and so. even though this. game is 11.5 years old. it's still generating meaningful sales. >> for take-two. >> it's a huge part of their business. >> and the. >> expectation here. >> is that gta six is just going to knock. >> this out of the water. keep in mind, back. >> in 2013, when this first came. >> out, when gta five first came. >> out, it did $1 billion. >> in sales its opening weekend. >> that's going to look tiny. >> compared to what.

>> gta six. >> is. >> expected to do better than any movie, anything like that that we're going to see this year. see for now. thanks, steve kovach, quick check on the bond market. we've seen interest rates rising after some inflationary pressures showing up in the data this morning. rick santelli with the latest. rick, what can you tell us. >> well there was a lot of warm data out this morning that's for sure. whether it was the unemployment rate dropping to 4% as you see on that chart, or university of michigan, not only the weakness in confidence, but of course, the big jump from 3.3 to 4.3. that really is a big jump on the one year assessed future inflation. but a word of caution. there's a lot of nervousness and uncertainty that goes with these. i don't think it's a coincidence some of this information gets released on a friday. i would take it in stride. we see what happened with canada and mexico and how the markets reacted. but you see a lot of red in the equity space now. you know, it's been an interesting week. we flattened the yield curve 14 basis points. look at twos and tens. that's a

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could actually raise taxes on some very rich people. all in. >> all. >> there. >> have been a. lot of surprises, and we're only a couple of weeks in. let's talk about all of this with kyle bass, founder and ceo of hayman capital management. kyle, good to see you. what to you has been the most surprising thing of this new administration or renewed administration so far? >> i mean, the thing that's. >> the most exciting. >> i think, to. >> many business people and to the people of our country, is. >> is the. >> doge team. >> going through the various agencies and cutting the fat, taking some of the ridiculous expenditures out of government's budgets. and i think that with our government spending $6.1 trillion last year and set to spend more this year, i think musk's targets of trying to save $1 trillion would be phenomenal. >> if he could hit those. >> so that's that's the most that's the largest change in

anything i've ever seen in an administration. and i'm very excited about the results of the doge team. >> well. >> it's very scary to a lot of people here. i will say that. and by the way, if you haven't seen our interview, not you, but our audience with the secretary of energy, my first couple questions were about that. and chris wright basically said, yeah, these are people that we have vetted. they've got badges. they're going through just trying to find waste. there's a lot of still confusion, but i urge everyone to kind of go see that outside of that. and i. >> know it's not getting a lot. >> of attention with all the domestic stuff. but you. had president trump issue. >> a pretty. >> big statement about iran. obviously, i'm talking to the energy secretary. iran's a big part of that. i mean, it. sounds like if there was any hope for any kind of reconciliation with iran that is out the window. >> i mean, brian. >> we had. >> in 2017, we had iran pinned down to about 12 to $15 billion of working capital. iran, what produces 4 million barrels a day? they export 1.7 million barrels a day. and we. had we

had them sanctioned pretty hard. >> in 2017. >> and what the biden administration did by loosening their iran's ability to access. >> capital. >> they went from having 15 billion in capital to 100 billion of capital. >> and look what happened. >> october 7th happened. >> and so. >> i don't know if you saw the president. signed a couple of days ago, he signed a presidential. memorandum to apply maximum pressure to iran. and he instructed treasury secretary scott bessent to impose maximum economic pressure on. >> iran to get. >> them to comply again. >> with their nuclear ambitions. >> and, you know, i'm afraid that the war between iran and its proxies and israel doesn't really have an. >> off ramp. >> and i think that as. you've seen. the hostage, the hostages returning are. >> going to slow to a. trickle and maybe even stop. >> because it's hamas's only leverage. so now we need to go back to iran and their nuclear ambitions, and we need to get to

a jcpoa 2.0 or a deal in which they allow us full inspection of places like natanz and their pickax. >> facility, where. >> they're doing all the uranium enrichment, because we believe as a country that they're pretty close to, to having the ability to, to have a nuclear bomb. >> yeah. >> and your connection is the idea that that hamas and hezbollah are. largely proxies and maybe the houthis in yemen, of iran, they get a lot. >> of funding from iran. so the more money. >> that iran has, the more likely they are to. fund these terrorist organizations. do you think that. president trump then will try to effectively bankrupt, not bankrupt iran, but reduce those foreign capital flows back to where they were, so they simply don't have enough money to use it for bad things? >> yeah, i mean. >> i call it. >> maker and broke. >> again. >> this is what has to happen, brian, for us to be effective in, in neutralizing their, their nuclear ambitions. you think back to the cold war in russia. the russians. didn't wake up one day and say, you know what,

brian? you know what? >> united states. >> democracy sounds. >> like a better idea than communism. we're just going to change our system. if you. remember what. >> happened. >> we along with our with our middle eastern partners, took oil. >> down. >> to 10. >> to $11. and 60% of russia's gdp is urals crude. and we broke them. we can break. iran and we can certainly break china if we're willing, if we're willing to use tariffs and sanctions as the tip of our spear, we are still the strongest and largest economy in the world by far. and these belligerent. malign actors around the world only understand two things. they understand violence and they understand money. and if we want to avoid violence. >> and we. >> want to avoid kinetic. >> conflict, then we have to be willing. >> to not only. >> sanction, but secondarily sanction some of our mortal enemies. and i think that reading reading president trump's national security. >> memo. >> which was different than an executive order, it was broader.

it it it basically it basically conveyed a new policy. so i think that that was a big deal. >> let me ask you this, though, and we know you've. >> been. >> critical on china for years. i get that. let's put canada and mexico aside because those tariffs may never happen. they're on pause. let's see. let's talk about china. there is a fear and i'm not endorsing it or supporting it or whatever. but there is a fear and you know it. you're you're originally a bond guy. people don't realize that about you. but here's the thing. is there a level at which you think that we could tariff. >> china. >> but their, quote, nuclear option is actually just dumping a. >> bunch of our. >> treasuries, spiking interest rates, raising borrowing costs and average americans and sort of cracking our system. is that because i honestly, i don't care if i buy cheap socks from china, whatever it may be, but is that a real. >> risk from china? >> it's not. >> a. >> risk at all. this is this is a chinese propaganda narrative, brian, that somehow you and the and the press have have picked

up on they own 700, 740 billion of our treasuries. we have a $30 trillion economy. if they sold their entire. treasury holdings. >> in one. >> fell swoop, they'd move our rates about 25 basis points and it'd be over. they are inconsequential to us in the treasury market. >> i love clearing that up because i think, you know what i'm saying, kyle, that narrative does exist. >> i know it's. >> the chinese. >> sword of damocles that they think they can hold over our heads and they propagate it in social media, and it's complete bs. >> well, let's not take my initials in vain, but. >> i. >> think the i think it's important, kyle, to recognize the truth of these numbers. and we're trying to clear a lot of stuff up. kyle bass hayman capital management really appreciate you joining us kyle. have a great weekend. we'll talk to you soon. >> you too. pleasure brian. >> all right. coming up we got movement in the shares of u.s. steel. they're down 7%. and it may have something big to do

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>> very great company. and they'll work out the details. >> of course a little confusion there. the president did say nissan. we think he meant to say nippon based on all of his remarks there. brian, i'm sure we'll continue to get more clarity from the white house. usually the market can figure these things out. >> yeah, he clearly meant nippon. i mean, he said nissan, but he meant nippon steel. that's obvious. i think that the investment versus outright purchase is interesting. so whether or not, you know, there's a buyout of u.s. steel which and you got to watch clf cleveland-cliffs is another player. your buddy lorenzo goncalves, the ceo of cleveland-cliffs, who's come after me a few times, but i think he's a he's a straight shooter. they're involved in this. how this plays out. >> ultimately will. >> not only impact x, meaning u.s. steel, but also clf. >> sure. and also our relations with japan. so in this meeting, there was there's been discussion from the president where he says, you know, i'd be open to tariffs on japan, that sort of thing. and everyone said, wait a minute, they're an ally. so what's this all really about? they are also right up your alley talking about more

u.s. sales of lng. >> yeah, and that's it. the japanese are here for a reason. maybe i should stay tonight. i used to be a commodities trader, briefly for a japanese bank, mitsubishi bank desk, and knowing what they might be able to do, spend tens of billions of dollars in either lng, natural gas, straight up steel. whatever it might be. it's really interesting to have one of the world's. they've got a lot of problems in their economy, but they're still a gigantic, gigantic economy. >> kelly energy is a big piece of that. obviously, the currency is very cheap. energy has been very expensive, so we could help solve that problem. i wonder if they're doing a state dinner. that would be a good one. that would be a good one to go to. i think. >> if anybody wants to take me to dinner, i'm available. >> brian, we'll see you next. >> brian, we'll see you next. after this, more ♪ who knows what tomorrow will bring ♪ (dog whines) ♪ but as for me ♪ (knock at door) ♪ i'll wait and see ♪ ♪ and maybe it'll bring my love to me ♪ ♪ who knows ♪ ♪ who knows ♪

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teams. mike ozanian is here now to explain. and, mike, some are bringing up trump's sort of history with the nfl. not even recent history. i'm going way back to the 80s when he tried to buy the bills and the whole usfl thing, and wondering if this is some kind of retribution. >> well. >> who knows. >> but what i can tell. you is the effect of this, if it does happen, could be pretty devastating to the value of sports teams, because the way the law is right now is when a business is acquired and not just a sports team, but many businesses, the purchase price that's allocated to intangible assets. so in the case of a sports franchise, tv contracts, player contracts, sometimes the franchise itself, they're amortized over 15 years. take the commander's 1.2 to 1.4 billion of the 6 billion price tag. present value could have been amortized. so that's a huge tax break that creates a loss for the team. and apart from that, the excess losses the team owners could use for their other businesses. so yeah. so if

you're looking at the commanders that could have effectively driven down the franchise cost from $6 billion to about 4.75 billion. so you could see where this could have a very bad impact brian. >> it's practically a bargain. >> well yeah practically a bargain. >> listen. >> i wouldn't mind writing off a couple of billion over taxes. but i'd have to, mike, make a couple of billion, which is not happening. so what does this all mean for valuations? how much of the have the tax benefits been baked into these incredibly growing numbers that we see to buy sports teams? >> i think. >> they're baked in a lot, brian. i know somebody who told me that with recent nfl team transactions, take the buffalo bills, for example, over 90% of the purchase price was allocated towards intangible assets. i think conservatively, you have to bake in at least at least 15% as being able to be written off because most of these nfl owners, as you know, have

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great in. >> the out years. in the out. >> years you get a lot more sponsorship. the chiefs since 2021 when they started this great run, their sponsorship revenue is up over 59%. >> wow. >> and you are looking for that. stadium or a big renovation. >> and you want to lock in those sponsors. you want to have that brand out there. you want to get the season ticket base excited, so could help them a lot in the future. mike. >> quickly, do new stadiums matter? >> absolutely. because you have to. that really determines the pecking order in the nfl, brian, because you got to figure over 60% of the revenue is shared equally. so how do you determine really you know, who's the most valuable. >> and least valued? >> it comes from things like those cushy suites, other forms of hospitality at the stadium, being able to have huge partnerships with sponsors. the old stadiums don't really have the capacity to do that. the new stadiums do, and. they really have the ability for activation with sponsors. and that really

drives the revenue. >> like i'm talking to my sister, she does all these activations. i was your activation act, brian, who are you rooting for? is it philly? >> oh, yes. >> i'm definitely rooting for the eagles to defeat the mahomes and the kansas city state farms. >> you and jake and state farm. i think there's like a beef there we all need to know about mike. thank you brian. thanks. and that does it for power lunch. closing bell starts right now. >> all right. welcome to closing bell and scott wapner live from post nine here at the new york stock exchange. this make or break hour begins with unsettled stocks with tariffs, inflation. >> and. >> earnings all pushing and pulling the markets today. we'll ask our experts over this final stretch how to. >> navigate all of. >> it. including tom lee. >> he'll be here at post nine momentarily. >> in the meantime, i'll show. >> you the scorecard here with 60 to go in regulation. >> it was late morning. really when that you missed inflation expectations report hit stocks along with more tariff talk from the white house. some other things going on too that we will tell you about. but that's your picture. former fed vice chair rich clarida