Nancy, you sat down with Donald Trump for the better part of 90 minutes in advance of this
convention, the headline, the takeaway here, knowing that this took place before the events
of last weekend, give us a sense of his demeanor and what he was interested in when he
said that. So, um I sat down with him and a few of my colleagues from Business Week at Mar
A Lago. We were there for about 90 minutes, we got 90 minutes with him. Um And we had a very
wide ranging conversation about the business, the US economy. We talked about Taiwan Russia,
his legal cases. This was before the shooting and two days before the debate just to give you
a sense of his mindset, but he was in a great mood. He had just come back from a Louisiana
fundraiser. The fundraising numbers were starting to pick up much faster than they had
anticipated. The polling was showing him doing really well and starting to expand the map. And
so he was in a great mood and that was even before the debate two days later, it's pretty
incredible stuff that's in this article that everyone should read, you can find it on the
terminal now and, and online. The idea on foreign policy is we all get ready to hear
Nikki Haley speak this evening who focused so much of her primary campaign on foreign policy
that Trump suggested to you that the US may not actually have a duty to defend Taiwan, that
Taiwan maybe should actually pay the United States for protection. What should we make of
that? I thought it was a remarkable moment in the interview. Um You know, we ended up asking,
you know, a lot of economic questions about sanctions against Russia. And we asked about
Taiwan sort of as a throwaway question. And he uh he basically came out and said, what has
Taiwan done for us? You know, we have been Taiwan's insurance policy for years. They stole
our chips business. I'm just not sure it makes sense for us to, you know, keep defending them
when China wants them so badly. It was, it was a really remarkable moment. So let's bring in
Brad Stone editor of Bloomberg Business Week. Now for More Brad, this is uh an encyclopedia
of a story in some ways. If you want to get a better sense of what Donald Trump is thinking
about policy in his second term. How hard was it to narrow down what to focus on? Well,
thanks Kayleigh for us. It was easy because Business Week readers are interested in
business. No surprise. And the economy and the US role in the world. And so that's the
approach we took with the former president and the Trump campaign. And we really went to ask
him about a plan that at least in the estimation of many economists, it's sort of
unorthodox, right. His prescription for what he sees as an economy that is growing too
slowly and inflation that is too high is higher tariffs with a lot which a lot of
economists think will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. In
addition to a lower corporate tax rate, changing the US relationship with some of its
foreign allies, less regulation, more domestic oil drilling. Those are the questions that I
asked them. Fascinating. Uh Read here, Brad, we learned a lot, but it's an interesting
scenario because everybody already knows Donald Trump, you referred to Trump omics, uh
which is something I guess will play against Bidens here. What would be different in a
Trump 2.0 since we've already lived through Donald Trump as president? That's a great
question, Joe and, and, and we did ask him that and uh one of the responses that he gave
was of course, that he's more experienced and he really uh brought that to the realm of who
he would appoint, who he would surround himself with. He said that he knows everyone
now that the first time around, he appointed some people who he ultimately didn't agree with
as we, as we know. And so he, he really seems prepared to do that differently to surround
himself more with loyalists who people who see the world in the same way. He does clearly
reflected in the choice of his vice presidential pick J DJ D Vance. Um And, you
know, we, we talked to him, we asked him a couple of times what Trump economics meant. You
know, the first time around when we asked him, he really focused on the strength of the US
dollar. He talked about electric vehicles. At the end, we came back to it and we asked him
again and the, the answer was a little crisper . He said, low taxes, lower inflation, lower
interest rates and more prosperity for the US.