the bottom line for dimond and blankfein, they stand apart. price investments of all the banks since blankfein took over when both of them were in position. because of this performance, they and they alone will decide when it's time to go guys >> that's the key point, isn't it they don't appear to be going anywhere dimond or blankfein. >> blankfein is a couple years older than dimond, and in terms of the two purely against each other, they stand out amongst the rest if you have to push between the two, on average, people say for dimond, sorts of three to five years. for blankfein, one to three. it's up to both of them when they go, but just purely on those factors you could say blankfein might decide a little sooner than dimon, but it's up to them. their performance stands out >> okay. wilf, thank you. wilfred frost back at headquarters there >> it is day two of the annual consumer electronics show in las vegas, kicking off this morning's agenda, our julia boorstin joins us from there and she's got a special guest for us julia. >> good morning

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but jamie dimond knows the president well and jared kushner is in charge of innovation.e kind of announcement the white house would have loved to have made in conjunction with these guys? here's the president. he's about to tout the stock market tonight. all we've seen are health care stocks get whacked off this news. >> no, of course, it's the holy grail. it's single payer but nobody has to take responsibility for saying we brought in single payer. what's interesting about this announcement is we know nothing happens in american politics unless a large industry group wants it to happen, right. so what we've seen for the last ten years is you've got hospital groups fighting for their insurance. hospital groups want to keep costs up. and now you have this other group that's saying we, too, want to keep costs down, which might move things. this is fascinating. because american industry has been saddled with health care costs since a bargain we made after world war ii, you know, that we decided we would allow businesses to, you know, raise benefits instead of raising wages.

that's not the case with dimond. >> what is the significance of that, especially for two guys who now that jamie dimon plans to stick around in the top job for some time? >> i think it's interesting. gordon smith, 59, in my reporting recently just before earnings season when we did a big piece on potential long-term successors for blankfein, one of the parts of the reporting is he wasn't desperate to become ceo this promotion is probably exactly what he was looking for. pinto head of the investment bank at 55 may still well have ambitions. assuming it's not the full five years for dimon at the helm, you could say it's the other way, these promotions keep these two happy in the meantime. then there's the other three members of the committee, marietta is head of the asset management arm, 50, doug, 52, and marianne lake, cfo, she's only 48. those other lieutenants probably aren't feeling a need to leave just simply because jamie dimon said five years. some of those past lieutenants you mentioned in the past that we may have anointed h eir-apparent in the media, they are older than the ot