we talked to ceo ed bastian.always competitive, but we compete these days more on quality and reliability and not exclusively on price any longer. that share tends to stay with delta as we pull it in. alix: that's everything you need to know at this hour. in the markets, it was a very whippy session over the last few hours. s&p futures down 0.2 percent. let's of headlines on whether the chinese trade delegation will leave early. a currency pact is perhaps now on the table. we will get some smaller deal in this tit-for-tat? euro-dollar climbing to a two-week high, despite german exports in august continue to roll over. yields go nowhere ahead of the cpi read coming at 8:30. 0.4%.getting a tick up the fed, clarity on trade. those are the two things markets are thirsting for. dallas fed president robert kaplan minutes ago released a detailed essay on what is wrong with the u.s. economy. we go to dallas with michael mckee. thank you very much. we would like to welcome rob kaplan to bloomberg television and radio. tha

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. >> savanthe, thank you for joining us don't miss tomorrow's cnbc interview with ed bastian, that'sastern on "squawk box. >>> switching focus, president trump is speaking at the white house just moments ago our eamon jaffers asked him a question about trade >> mr. president, the report this afternoon, the chinese are lowering their expectations for a trade deal are you also lowering your expectations for a trade deal? >> no, i don't think so, i think they're doing a good job you know better than anybody, i think you doll a good job over there, i watch a lot we are so far down in terms of where we started for presidents that didn't do their job for many years since the world trade organization founding, china went in, 2001 or so, china went in and it just rimmed off the world. and i told that to president xi. i said like this can't be like a 50/50 deal because a 50/50 deal, you're like up there, we're down here so a 50/50 deal doesn't work, right? you got to have a little balance. this has to be a better deal from our standpoint. and i think they fully understand it. one of the reall