President Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing an additional uh 100 billion dollar manufacturing deal. Joining us now CNBC contributor Walter Isacson. He's written books on Steve Jobs, Elon Musk. You know, when when we intro you, Walter, and we start talking about who you've written books, I I want to keep going uh because you it I mean the list is like mindboggling. Who else? So, Da Vinci, who else? You know, Jennifer Dow is the one you got to watch because she's the one who created the gene editing tec ...

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This afternoon. We're pleased to welcome to the White House one of the great and most esteemed business leaders and geniuses and innovators anywhere in the world, Apple CEO Tim Cook. Amazing job.Thanks as well to Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessant and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick for being here. Wherever you may be in New York, fellas, I missed you. Today, Apple is announcing that it will invest $600 billion just with a B in the United States over the next four years.That's $100 billion more th ...

Good afternoon everyone. Uh Mr. . President, thank you very much for having me here today.You've been a great advocate for American innovation and manufacturing and I'm grateful for your leadership and your commitment. That's a commitment we share at Apple because American innovation is central to everything we do. Our products are designed here.We're hiring and growing here and we support 450,000 jobs with thousands of suppliers and partners in all 50 states. Earlier this year, we made our largest ever spe ...

It's a big number in isolation, sort of, but it's also got to be taken in aggregate. Absolutely. Look, Apple spends a lot on these types of initiatives all the time.They have already been planning to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming years. The Trump administration likes big, round, big honking numbers. Right.And this is a way for them to say we've scored a victory. We are bringing manufacturing back to the United States on Apple's part, making these pledges, throwing these numbers out the ...

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Welcome back to Squawkbox. We are in Aspen, Colorado this morning with two former Treasury Secretaries uh who are uh the co-chairs of the Aspen Economic Group. Good morning to you.Hank Pollson is here. Tim Gner is here. Uh we just spoke to the president.Lots of questions about where our economy is today, what's going on with the tariffs, how you think about all this geopolitically, treasuries and everything. Um geopolitics, China. So I want to get to as much of this as we can.I just want to start though wit ...

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Joining us now, NBC News senior policy reporter Shannon Petty piece, NBC News White House correspondent Monica Alba and former US trade representative Michael Froman. He's now president of the Council of Foreign Relations. And Monica, we'll start with you.Has the White House addressed these new job numbers and those downward revisions. They have, Ariel, and they're really trying to put this into a larger context. And it's notable that a couple of days ago when that GDP report came out for the most recent qu ...