Andrew Ross Sorkin

There's, I think, a fair argument that tariffs were now tied to national security, resilience today, and we may decide philosophically, you wanna have an automobile industry in the United States, because if you let BYD sell cars in this country, we would not sell cars in this country, and we wouldn't make cars in this country ever again.

And you may think that that's a bad idea, and you want that to be here.

Having said that, if we do this, which we are,

We will probably spend more to buy less technologically capable cars 10 years from now than the next time we all, you know, if you go on vacation to Europe or Asia and get in the back of one of these other cars.

And how should we think about that?

That to me is like a real fundamental question about capitalism and also about resilience and national security.

And the interesting part though, is there's going to be a premium on that, right?

Like we're going to pay more for that.

And that may just be the cost of doing business.

And maybe, and by the way, maybe those costs are even higher and those costs don't get added and they don't get added into the model, right?

I haven't sold them yet.

We're talking to a couple of people.

Hopefully we'll have some news on that sometime soon.

I mean, I tried to write it.

I didn't try to write it for film per se, but I tried to write it in as cinematic a way as humanly possible, given that I was also constrained by, you know, I had to have archives and notes and diaries, you know.

It looks like a long book, by the way, folks.

It's a little bit shorter because there's a hundred some odd pages of end notes at the end for those who want to.

And by the way, some of the end notes are kind of fun.

You know, I think actually in this day and age, just in terms of- Because it's probably in your mind, right?

Well, first of all, I think you have to let go a little bit at some level because that's just the nature of the business for better or worse.