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general secretary of a communist party of britain, robert griffin sees the u. k. a strictly witness saying a level of strike action that hasn't seen for decades. and that's something the incoming prime minister is going to have to tackle immediately. people really aren't quite as stupid as the the zone be prime minister is the time those want is position seem to think they are for people to pay these bills is not, is not money that's going towards support in ukraine in the wall. it's money that's going straight into the coffers from the dividends, all the oil companies and energy companies and their shareholders public. undoubtedly the public or rally and 2 initiatives such as enough is enough, as well as other campaigning bodies. there's support for strike action level that i certainly haven't seen for decades in britain, there's a lot of sympathy for workers who are fighting back against real terms coach in the pay and fire and re fire and replace policies and so on. so there really isn't upsurge of anger and it means that when the new prime minister takes over

guess a lot of tardies uprising with a visit from nancy pelosi, but that's course live now to robert griffin. a general secretary of the communist fall here, britain, joining us here live on the international a very good evening to you. what do you think? well, should i say, who do you think is the real driving force behind or this you have the by the ministration saying, it's not that keen on the timing, and yet pelosi almost seems to be on something of a personal pilgrimage. what's, what's your thoughts? well, i think the burden is putting on a little bit of a diplomatic front. after all, he's just had a phone conversation with susan payne and probably intends to have another. but i've no doubt the told nancy pelosi is going to try one with the full approval of the of the us. you might disagree a little bit of time in, but i think they're both engaged in the same exercise, which is an exercise of continuous provocation. accompanied by campaign, of course, a massive propaganda campaign aimed against china listening to some of nancy pelosi remarks a little earlier. what does the wonder, how

griffin. robert frank convinced the bosses he had to be there in person to report this store i y he is clearly a persuasive man robert >> well, tyler, we have never seen a shopping spree in real estate quite like this with ken griffin. now behind me is star island that is where ken griffin purchased four properties for a total of $175 million. he is going to put all the properties together, tear down the houses and build brand new home similar story in palm beach. he spent $450 million to assemble 25 acres, that's larger by the way than mara lag yo just down the street. he's going to build a new 44,000 square foot home there meanwhile, citadel which is moving the headquarters from illinois to miami, they have spent over $600 million near miami. that's for empty land, temporary office space, and leases so add all that together between ken griffin and citadel, over $1 billion in south florida brokers say all that spending is starting to ripple through the real estate market >> prior to the citadel relo

as for griffin himself, he still owns an enormous amount of real estate other places too, doesn't he, robertthe most expensive home in chicago he's got the most expensive home in new york. and america, with that $240 million apartment, just off central park south, he just bought that calvin klein place in the hamptons in 2020 and he's got all these properties here and he is building the most expensive home in america in palm beach, that will be 25 acres, that will be larger than mar-a-lago with a 44,000 square foot home he's building in palm beach for what he says is for his mom. >> robert, whenever you hear hedge fund manager or anyone else of that ilk moving to florida, you think taxes immediately. is there any kind of benefit to citadel, to griffin himself moving the empire down to florida other than just really nice weather as it appears you're enjoying today? >> well, i think it is the nice weather. it has got to be the taxes for somebody like him who makes over a billion dollars a year in income setting aside carried interest issues but what ken has said over and over, and he told "the

robert frank going to the break on a boat. >>> good morning. we have never seen a real estate shopping spree quite like this in southern florida. the white house you see, that was purchased by ken griffine bought here on star island and he spent 100 main dollars altogether, he spent $175 million on five acres. the plan is to tear the house down and build a new house on all this property. the new home for citadel is across the bay over on rickel. the company has spent $600 million on a new vacant lot. a temporary office building and an apartment holding and leases on 100,000 square feet for the workers to stay in as they build the new headquarters and north in palm beach, ken griffin has spent four to $50 million on land to build a new home there. that will be over 25 acres. that is bigger than mar-a-lago. he got approval to build a 44 five -- 44,000 square-foot home. he said that is for his mother. they spent over $1 billion recently on south florida real estate. >>> the brokers always love him. he is a broker's best a dream. he is a market maker and he raises all the comps. >> no comment from ken griffin are citadel on these purchases but he said in the past he likes to buy iconic, ra