Lisa Abramowicz

What does that mean for national security?

Because critics would say that it means that national security is up for sale.

What would you say to those critics?

Is it fair to say then, Ambassador, that even if this does go through, the kind of cases where this is allowed, where it's approved, will still be quite limited in scope?

Tesla has been a stock that's been in focus.

That's a stock that needs a stock split in a big way.

Talk a bit more about that.

So when you're talking to executives about that regulatory environment, how would you describe it?

I mean, we see some of these agencies where there's not a full panoply of commissioners, for instance.

We heard it from the Treasury Secretary, there's going to be some new corporate tax policies coming here.

into effect in the coming weeks.

How much of it is still in co-ed or clear for you at this point of where it's headed regulatorily?

As you've watched that parade of executives going through the Oval Office, some of whom are giving up equity stakes to the U.S.

government, what are you thinking as a lifelong Republican, this kind of new breed of Trump Republicanism that involves, again, it's not dirigism, but it's sort of like the state is having a heavier hand in the way that these companies are being run.

Don't have a whole lot of time left, but I want to ask you about the prospect of the fiscal stimulus in the new year from the tax bill.

I mean, the president talks about it so much, maybe he hasn't been focused enough sort of on the potential benefits of that for ordinary Americans.

How do you see that playing out in the year ahead?

Happy holiday.

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