rubenstein: what does it take to be a leader?ichaels: if you are in power, i think everybody sort of knows yore in power, so don't ever have to explain you're in power. woman: would you fix your tie, please? rubenstein: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way? all right. i don't consider myself a journalist, and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? did you think at the beginning that you were going to change television history and the history of comedy when you were starting that show in 1975? michaels: i don't think i thought of it in those terms, but i thought that if we actually got on the air and did the show that the people who were doing the show would stay home to watch. i thought there were enough people like us because we all pretty much come from the audience. i was probably the pers

he was telling david rubenstein that he regrets the u.s.ot made more progress in resolving hard issues with china. or getting north korea to shed its nuclear arsenal. he spoke with david rubenstein, co-chair and co-founder and host of peer-to-peer conversations. have a listen. david: you have been tough on china on human rights issues and other issues they have with respect to hong kong and a new security law. do you have any hope that china will ease up on its constraints on hong kong, or do you think that is a fate a calm plate? sec. pompeo: i'm afraid it is. i'm hope i'm wrong about that. everything we have seen over the past year has indicated that hong kong will become nothing more than another communist run city. it had a special status. the chinese communist party committed to that, they broke their promise halfway through. now the people of hong kong are living under threat from the national security law which you referenced, where actions they take pose the risk that some of the people who were just doing the bold acts, what we wou

david rubenstein is the cofounder and co-executive chairman of the carlile group.he has been the chairman of the board and held senior governance positions with many organizations that you are right familiar with including the smithsonian institution, the john f. kennedy memorial forming arts center -- performing arts center, which is the living memorial for president kennedy, the harvard corporation, duke university, council a foreign relations as well as many others. he has a heart and passion for patriotic philanthropy, and he invests in places that are involved with history like the white house historical association, our sister institutions that are supporting history causes. great american monuments like the lincoln memorial and washington monument that he has helped save. he has been a giver of transformational gifts that allow us, through the david and rubenstein center for national history to have programming like this and undertake the research that we do. we are very grateful to him for that support. if you've had the opportunity to watch him on his tele

rubenstein: and how do you coach them,

rubenstein interviews former secretary of state colin powell. david: hello, i'm david rubenstein and we are here at mount vernon, george washington's famous home and we are here with another famous general, colin powell, also a secretary of state. thank you for being here. secretary powell: thank you. david: as we sit in this incredible house, it was thought hundreds of years ago that this association has bought it and now they operated -- operate it.

pompeo speaking exclusively with david rubenstein. can watch more from that interview in an upcoming episode of the david rubenstein show. that is only on bloomberg television. now, a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. the company says it is turning to a backup plan, including a possible partial ipo after four years of delay surrounding the $2.7 billion deal. and berkshire hathaway tech andng to unite finance around this. this marks the end of three years and the struggle to demonstrate in full results. these three companies say they will continue to collaborate informally. are forminglphabet -- the alphabet workers agreementmeeting in after years of disagreement. union organizers say google has ignored staff concerns about workplace conditions. at a newjapan hints state of emergency in tokyo and we discussed the possible impact on the wider economic recovery. we have seen tokyo stocks shifted by this news. it will take another look at that and also add bitcoin with a young woman who is now the only female ceo in a ma

pompeoe: that was mike speaking to david rubenstein. that later on the david rubenstein show. us, leslie vinjamuri from chatham house. how much will joe biden focus on foreign policy as opposed to domestic issues? leslie: well, if you listen to the biden team, as we all have come and continue to do, they are making it very clear that domestic policy and foreign policy are two sides of the same coin, strength abroad has got to be premised on what works for americans, what works for the u.s. middle-class. i think we are going to see an immediate move into thinking very strategically about america's foreign policy from day one, reinvesting in alliances in order to do that, really working very carefully with e.u., with europe, with u.k. on the challenges of china, of trade and investment, on the question of a jcpoa, the iran deal, and any number of broader strategic questions, clearly the domestic agenda will occupy so much of the president's time, and i think the fact that he's taken susan rice and put her in a domestic role shows both the

tom: david rubenstein with the secretary of state.for the david rubenstein show on bloomberg television at 9:00 p.m. on thursday, looking forward to that. on our diplomacy and the diplomacy to hong kong, christopher patton joins us. the former governor of hong kong and also a scholar from oxford of a few years ago. coming over to america in his early years. before we get to the topics at hand, i must ask about the marshall scholar to oxford. mr. burns will be appointed head of cia president biden. this is a return to a more traditional cabinet and officers of the government. >> it is. he is a really fine man. i worked with him and saw him when he was in oxford a couple years ago. he was finishing his wonderful book on american foreign policy in today's world. he was the sort of public servant who they probably would not have had identical views but was represented people like james baker and george schultz who are fine public servants and never -- america's national interests and its role. i hope we will see that again with mr. biden'

rubenstein interviews former secretary of state colin powell. david: hello, i'm david rubenstein and we are here at mount vernon, george washington's famous home and we are here with another famous general, colin powell, also a secretary of state. thank you for being here. secretary powell: thank you. david: as we sit in this incredible house, it was thought hundreds of years ago that this association has bought it and now they operated -- operate it. can you imagine how that worked? secretary powell: they did a great job. they have kept the place looking absolutely beautiful. david: i think is probably true. think about this. we have had 200-plus years with men as president of the united states. what if a woman became president? could they be as good a leader? secretary powell: david, that is a sucker question. there's no reason they can't be. we see them moving up, day after day, within the senate, within the house. now we have the vice president of the united states to be. who will say that she will not be president if something happens or sh

janine rubenstein, host of "people every day podcast" and "people" editor at large, is here telling usso much for being here. what movies should we watch this weekend? >> oh, first place to go is apple tv plus, i am watching "palmer." this is justin timberlake's new big role and you get to see him in a whole different like. gone are the suit and ties and bringing sexy back. he gets grungy and we kind of saw him around last year just, you know, in that grunge phase wondering what was going on. it's for this role. he plays just a down and out former high school football star who comes back into his hometown to kind of put the pieces back together and strikes up this relationship with this 7-year-old and there's a lot more there but i love the transformation for justin like he posted something on his social media about the tattoo that he had to get for this -- not a real tattoo. but he got this really real-looking fake tattoo and r m -- not really.ard that w >> yeah, a grungy j.t. is a little different than we're used to. there's also a new documentary that music fans will love. tell us a

rishon ray is a sociologist and david rubenstein fellow in governance studies at the brookings institution he conducts implicit bias training for police departments writes about policing in america. dr. rae shawn ray. thank you for talking with me. is it as simple as a generational divide where people who are the older generation talk about malcolm and they talk about mlk and people who are younger say, you know what that hasn't. that they need a new strategy as i look at keyshawn story and i think about the similarities that i have a little cousin named keyshawn who is around the same age that keshawn was in that particular segment and he had been stopped over 100 times and i also think about he sean's mother's health and how research highlights that women particularly black women also oftentimes have to deal with the collateral damages that are left over from police violence. but what i think that they did highlights from a generational perspective is that i hear a lot of young people saying that i am not my ancestors sincerely these hands that is a slogan that i see on social media a lo

you can hear more from that interview in the david rubenstein show on bloomberg television.cent is on the cusp of joining the trillion dollar club. the company has pushed its market cap near the milestone for the first time. we will discuss, just ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: here's a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. noble is losing its chief financial officer after just a year in the job. just attorney is a former cfo and only joined noble last march but is leaving to pursue other opportunities. this adds to a string of executive changes at noble. southeast asian ride-hailer rabbit said to have picked banks for a u.s. ipo that could raise about $2 billion. we are told morgan stanley jp morgan have been selected to work on an offering that could happen before the end of this year. grab is back and saw a net revenue rise last year. u.s. listed casino operators showed gross gaming revenue falling last week. jeffries says it was expecting a negative reaction to the numbers , warning revenue could fall further. new lock downs on the mainland and the resul

. >> please welcome david rubenstein.nt of the economic club of washington dc. >> welcome, everyone. i want to thank you for coming to our 12 virtual signature event of our 35th season. for the calendar year, it is our first event. i wanted to thank everybody for coming to this event. we have a larger attendance than any event we've had with our members. and that is obviously because of our special guest today, doctor tony fauci, director of the institute of allergy and infectious diseases, and we will discuss a whole range of issues related to covid-19 and the vaccination situation. before i get to that, i just wanted to say to everybody, thank you for your support of the economic club last year. last year, we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual

next, smithsonian secretary institution lonnie bunch and secretary lonnie philanthropist david rubensteinilanthropist david rubenstein discuss the central discuss the central role of role of slavery and slavery in antebellum antebellum washington washington, d.c..

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states about the atlantic alliance, the european union, among other subjects, and we have david rubensteind our common good form on march 4. i do hope we can have you back. i have such admiration for all three of you and i appreciate you taking the time and even adding to the time here. thank you to all. thank you to our terrific audience. we hope we see you again next

david malpass, the world bank president, a good conversation with david rubenstein. look for that. this is bloomberg. ♪ so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business. karina: this is bloomberg surveillance. i'm karina mitchell with the bloomberg business flash. another potential scandal at deutsche bank. an investor is complaining that the bank sold risky investments. the newspaper says it appears only spain and portugal made clients -- only spain and portugal clients were affected. tiger global management generated $10.4 billion for clients after fees full-time millennium measurement was second. renaissance tech line judges fell. some of the companies lost 30% last year. cryptocurrency enthusiast

i want to thank our good friend david rubenstein for moderating a fascinating conversation with the descendantsbout their personal first hand experiences of living in the white house or sharing family stories that have been passed down to them through the ages. that is what it is really like to be in the white house. in our next panel, we will shift gears to hollywood, and as dede myers said in her message, we'll examine how both the big and small screen portray the fictional perspective of the white house and the people who live there and who work there. from comedies to dramas, there is no shortage of interest and fascination in washington. there are more shows and more characters and roles that are portrayed and examined and certainly a large volume of material to draw from. one person who knew the power and reach of television was first lady jackie kennedy. when she led a tour of the white house in a landmark television broadcast on valentine's day 1962, 80 million people watched and listened as she walked from room to room. her tv appearance was also syndicated in 50 countries. she not onl

. ♪♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome david rubenstein, president of the economic club of washingtonwelcome, everyone, to our

. >> please welcome david rubenstein. ... ... we have a larger attendance than any event we've had with our members and that is obviously because of our special guest today, doctor anthony fauci, director of the institute of allergy and infectious diseases that we will discuss a whole range of issues related to covid-19 and the vaccination situation. before i get to that i just wanted to say to everybody thank you for your support of the economic club last

please welcome david rubenstein. david: we are going to discuss the whole issue of covid-19 and the vaccine situation. before i get to that i just wanted to say to everybody thank you for your support of the economic club last year. last year we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual format and in doing so we had an honest number of events and had 26 signature events, 26 signature events. normally in a year we might have 12 or 13 and present events and we had 78 guests in our 26 signature events and 13000 people watch the events live and then we had about 2.7 million who watched our youtube replay of that. we have a lot of people watching what we did last year and want to thank all of you and sponsors particularly and the members for participating and i want to thank mary grady and her entire team for doing a spectacular job of converting a organization that was used to doing in-person events to an organization that did events more virtual than anything else and hopefully this year

>> david rubenstein, larry fink of blackrock, the name that stood out for me is edina friedman, nasdaqof the most woke ceos pushing for diversity rules, and guess what? she's going to a conference that is, you know, put on by the least woke people in the world maybe. [laughter] so there you have it. and one of the reasons, from what i hear, the saudi royal family, they have a lot of money, and they're going to spread it around. they're going to, you know, do what investors or do. and wall street is looking to cash in on that. the larry finks of the world, the david solomons of goldman sachs, james goldman of morgan stanley and adena friedman of nasdaq. last year with, or again, there was basically a boy coot. -- boycott. this year everything's forgotten. liz, back to you. liz: yeah. short memories. yeah, interesting. charlie, thank you. good report. charlie gasparino. okay, forget fortnite and call of duty, gamestop becoming the center point of the biggest battle in the market right now. andrew left, the same short seller -- famed short seller, fending off hackers after his apocalyptic

. >> please welcome david rubenstein.resident of the economic club of washington dc. >> welcome, everyone. i want to thank you for coming to our 12 virtual signature event of our 35th season. for the calendar year, it is our first event. i wanted to thank everybody for coming to this event. we have a larger attendance than any event we've had with our members. and that is obviously because of our special guest today, doctor tony fauci, director of the institute of allergy and infectious diseases, and we will discuss a whole range of issues related to covid-19 and the vaccination situation. before i get to that, i just wanted to say to everybody, thank you for your support of the economic club last year. last year, we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual format, and in doing so, we had an honest number of events and had 26 signature events, 26 signature events normally in a year we might have 12 or 13 and -- in person events. we had 78 guests in our 26 signature events and 13000 people

. ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome david rubenstein president of the economic club in washington.. >> welcome everyone to our ninth virtual signature event of our 35th season but it's not completely virtual because for the first time since covid test we are actually having live guests here today and it's because it's a special program that i want to thank our live guests ford: coming in. severely any probe ran for us because we have been virtual for almost nine months now ito guess it is better guests are here to talk about something very special day abraham accord which was signed at the white house on september 14 with president jumping bears the official husband that the official husband that mean to diss our our guest and i will make announcements afterwards and i will have an interesting conversation. first is the ambassador excellency abdulla al-khalifa who is the ambassador from bahrain theam kingdom of bahrain and he has been the ambassador since 2017. yousef al otaiba ambassador since 2008 and one the longest-serving ambassadors in washington d.c. and also ambassador fro

. ♪♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome david rubenstein, president of the economic club of washington. >> welcome, everyone, to our 9th virtual signature event of our 35th season it's not completely virtual because for the first time since covid has hit we're actually having live guests here today because it's a special program and i want to thank our live guests for coming in and participating in the program because we've been doing everything virtual for almost nine months. they're here to talk about something special, the abraham accords, signed to the white house with the heads of each of the countries as well as president trump there as the official host. let me just introduce our guest and i'll take announcements afterwards and we will have an interesting conversation. so, first is the ambassador, his excellency abdullah el kalefa, the ambassador from bahrain, the kingdom of bahrain, ambassador here since 2017. and even youssef, his excellency, he's been ambassador here since 2008 and one of the longest serving ambassadors now i guess in washington d.c. and also, our ambassador

. ♪♪ >> ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> hello, i'm david rubenstein at the members room at the library of congress in washingtonional book festival. and we're very pleased today to have in another washington, washington state, bob gates, who has written a book called "exercise of power" which i've read and highly recommend. now we're going to talk about this book and also a little about bob's career and i should point out that bob and i worked together a long time ago, about four decades ago in the carter white house when i was deputy domestic policy assistant to stewart eisenstadt and bob gates was there. did you think you would become one of the most famous secretaries of defense and have a heralded career. did you think about that when you were his executive assistant? >> first of all, david, we're probably both in situations we never dreamt about back in the late 1970's. you know, i joined cia in 1966. i was recruited out of the russian and east european institute out of indiana university. just to do my bit in the cold war, and i never dreamed in those days that i would end up being the director of cia at

[music] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome david rubenstein, president of the economic club of washington dc . >> welcome everyone to our ninth virtual signature event of our 35th season but it's not completely virtual because for the first time since covid has hit we are actually having my guests here today and it's because of the special program and i want to sithank our live guest coming in, participating in what unique program because we've been doing everything virtual for almost 9 months now i guess is that our guests are here to talk about something special, abraham records which weresigned at the white house september 15 with the heads of each of these countries as cewell as presidential being there as the official . let me introduce post and i'll make some announcements outwards and we will have a interesting conversation. our first is ambassador, his excellency abdulla al-khalifa who is the ambassador from bahrain, the kingdom of bahrain andhe has been the ambassador here since 2017 . then yousef al otaiba, ambassador his excellency yousef al otaiba, he's been ambassador since 2

states about the atlantic alliance, the european union, among other subjects, and we have david rubenstein, and our common good form on march 4. i do hope we can have you back. i have such admiration for all three of you and i appreciate you taking the time and even adding to the time here. thank you to all. thank you to our terrific audience. we hope we see you again next week. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> on january the sixth, writers breached security and cost extensive damage to the u.s. capitol for the first time since u.s. -- british troops burned the building in 1814. revisit the original production of "the capital," taking you inside and through time for the story of the history, art, and architecture of this iconic home to the congress since 1800, granted special access in 2006 by congress to grant, private places and rooms off-limits to the public. >> california senator kamala harris has resigned from the u.s. senate ahead of being sworn in as vice president. as vice president she will break ties in the senate and refer to that in her public nation -- resignation letter, i

rubenstein natural center for white house history and she chairs our presidential sites summit committeewhere every two years, we convene 200 presidential sites across the country and happen again in september of 2020 in dallas, texas. she is the executive and residents at the center for congressional and presidential studies at american university. she is on the role of first ladies and she has worked for four presidents and was chief of staff to the first lady laura bush. we have patricia mattison with us tonight who is a speech writer and press assistant for first lady patricia nixon and continued in the first office for first lady betty ford and has had a distinguished career in communications including many years of capital cities abc. our dear friend betty muckland who worked more than 30 years of the office of the curator in the white house retiring as the chief curator. betty is a great colleague with us here at the association and continues to work with us on many projects. she authored our book on major decorative arts in the white house book which is available in our book shop

dr rashawn ray is a sociology professor and rubenstein fellow at brookings and joins us now.were 68 arrests. if you go back to june and the black lives matter protest over a00 were arrested in a single night, do you see a discrepancy? yes, of course. the images are extremely telling. this is the bottom line, what we have to imagine, it is not difficult to imagine, it is not difficult to imagine because recently have to go back to last year as you mentioned, imagine if the people climbing the walls of the capital building, imagine if the people who stormed into the us capitol, a sacred place that has not been disrupted for over 200 years, imagine if they were not white. that is the crotch of what we are talking about here. these domestic terrorists, the reason why they felt emboldened to do this is because they are not afraid of the police, and the police are not threatened by them. comparatively, a lot of black people in the united states and around the world are fearful of law enforcement and rightfully and rationally so given the disparities that we have seen. so it tromped

states about the atlantic alliance, the european union, among other subjects, and we have david rubenstein, and our common good form on march 4. i do hope we can have you back. i have such admiration for all three of you and i appreciate you taking the time and even adding to the time here. thank you to all. thank you to our terrific audience. we hope we see you again next washington journal come every day taking your calls live on the air, on the news of the day, and we will discuss policy issues that impact you. tuesday morning, joe rogan discusses the trump administration's domestic issues. watch c-span's washington journal, tuesday morning. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. president-elect joe biden joins jill and members of his family, marking martin luther king jr. day by volunteering at

ambassador to the united states, about the atlantic alliance, trade, and the european union and david rubenstein of carlyle group on thursday february 18th and our common good for him on march 4th. i hope we have you back, i have such admiration for all three of you and appreciate you taking time adding to the time so thank you to our terrific audience and hope we see you again next week, thank you thank you thank you. >> thank you. >> former president trump became the first president to be impeached twice. this week house impeachment managers deliver the articles of impeachment against the former president on incitement of insurrection to the senate with maryland democratic representative jamie raskin reading the article before the senate. >> donald john trump of us wanted impeachment, trial and removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the united states. >> so help me god. >> the following day senators were sworn in as jurors in the trial. republican kentucky senator rand paul requested a point of order to dismiss the impeachment char

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. ♪ ♪ (theme music plays) rubenstein: i'm at the tisch wnet studios today with walter isaacson.nce men. so you're obviously attracted to them, but there are some people who genius polymath or renaissance man. so, let's talk about why atsome people might say let's talk about your background. o you grew up in neans? isaacson: yeah and the person who's the polymath, who loved everything from engineering to art and music was my fatd he lived einstein, he was an electrical engineer. but he also was a humanist and that,

and we'll have david rubenstein and our common good forum on march 4th.n have you back.a i have suchll admiration for alg three of you and t i really appreciate you taking the time l and even adding to the time here. thank you, all. thank you to our terrific audience and we hope we see you again next week. thank you, thank you, thank you. >>> weeknights this month, we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span3. tonight, america's colonial and founding period. we begin at the university of delaware. they teach a class on how colonial history is remembered through historic site and is monuments and sometimes contested. she argues that our assumptions about colonial america are influenced by material and popular culture, including paintings depicting early american history in the u.s. capitol and statutes of columbus and pocahontas. enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> american history tv on c-span3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. coming u

six supreme court justice sonia sotomayor was interviewed by businessman and philanthropist david rubenstein at a virtual conference on leadership hosted by the brookings institution and mount vernon. jutice sotomayor: hello, david, how are you? david: i'm fine. how are you? jutice sotomayor: good. david: we originally planned to do this interview at mount vernon, but for logistical regions -- logistical reasons, it's easier to do this. you are in florida and i met my home in bethesda, maryland. so i want to let everyone know you are someone who has been to mount vernon, correct? jutice sotomayor: absolutely. and i sure enjoy it. i hope it's a trip every american would try to take and i know some people could never afford it, but it is a

kathleen: that was mike pompeo speaking to david rubenstein.keaways from the annual just markets. we dive into his calls across treasuries and bitcoin. that is just ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business. >> for a quick check of the latest business headlines. cementing its role as the world's chipmaker of choice. 2020 net income rising by more than 48%. the performance has sent the stock soaring more than 70% since the start of last year. on bets that apple will continue to be a major customer. toyota and honda are reducing car output because of a shortage of memory chips. honda has scaled back in the u.k. and reducing output

joining us right now is david rubenstein he's the cofounder and coexecutive chairman of the carlyle group want to thank you for joining us this morning and coming on. we have had statements that we have heard from lots of ceos, lot of chairmen, business leaders, but quite frankly it's been very difficult to convince any of them to come on air and talk understandably, they're trying to sort out what we saw yesterday. understandably, they do have concerns about what their customers are feeling and i just wonder why did you agree to come on with us this morning. why did you think that this was so important >> i think it's important for the business community to make it clear that we are americans who care about the democratic process. profit isn't the only thing we care about we care about our system of democracy working well i have been very involved in democracy related matters for quite some time, and to me, it's clear that democracy had a bit of a melt down yesterday and we need to fix the system my view is we should have a commission to figure out how to deal with the problem of the sec

. >>> up next, smithsonian secretary lonnie bunch and david rubenstein discuss slavery in >> please welcomeer. [ applause ] >> welcome, good evening. my name is rob fisher. i'm the rector of st. john's church and i am thrilled that our friends at the white house historical association asked us to provide space for

[music] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome david rubenstein, president of the economic club of washington dc . >> welcome everyone to our ninth

it was nice to hear david rubenstein say that he has confidence just now in that clip that you showedn the nation's national security apparatus. he would be an outlier even though he was condemning of president trump as well in that clip, that there is widespread fear that the greatest threat to national security right now is our own commander in chief and these ceos are all worried about putting in the guardrails. and they were felt justified in that belief by the catalytic action of dick cheney getting all former living defense secretaries all ten of them to say this is a time of great danger and warning the pentagon to not get drawn into any of the transition hijinx of this outbound president so ceos are really worried even before this insurrection on the capitol, the morning before, we had several dozen ceos call me and ask could we arrange one of our informal early morning zoom calls i think they come to me instead of one of the major trade associations because they figure i've got nothing to lose if it doesn't work, but -- >> jeff, isn't there an element that all of this is a li

please welcome david rubenstein. david: we are going to discuss the whole issue of covid-19 and the vaccine situation. before i get to that i just want t