Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026

What was the feeling the first time you were on Air Force One? It's just Or Marine One? Like, is there a special thing where you're just like, what is going on? Like, are you Yeah. Yeah. When you're on these things, you you like, it's amazing. Yeah. Right? You're you are when Part of history. Real conversations happen. We went to see, Putin. So I get on air force one at 5AM. He gets on at 05:45. We fly to, Alaska. Right. K? Right. So we're talking about then we we're there for four hours with Putin, and then we fly back. Now, Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff go take a nap because we have to wait for Zelensky to wake up. It's called Zelensky, and we have to wait for the European leaders to wake up. Right? Because it's the middle of the night. So I stay up with the president. And we're just chatting, like, we're just chatting, watching golf. I mean, we just like, it's a lot of hours. Yeah. So then Zelensky wakes up. So they get on the phone with Zelensky, and he talks to Zelensky on his phone. And then when he calls the European leaders when they get up, they wanna have us only secure call. So there's three secure handsets in his office. So he's on one, Rubio's on one, and Witkoff's on one, and I'm just sitting on the couch. This is in in Air Force One? In Air Force One, in his office. Yeah. In Air Force One. So I'm just sitting on the couch, and I've been up for, like, twenty hours. K? And, and the president's been up for twenty hours. But if he's on the phone and the European leaders are talking, so I'm just sitting there, and they're all on handsets. So I can't hear a word that anybody's saying. Right. And I'm just sitting there. So I, I fall asleep. K? So I'm just sitting there. They're talking on the phone, like, right there, and I fall asleep like this. Something like that. So Witkoff elbows the president. Right? Points to me. And then he, the president unrolls a tootsie roll. He goes like this. He tries to throw it into my mouth. Yeah. He hits me in the face. I'm like, I wake up. He goes he goes, Howard, while you're napping, we're trying to settle world peace. That's awesome. I'm doing all in. Well, welcome everybody to the all in interview. I'd like to welcome Secretary Howard Lutnick, our esteemed secretary of commerce. When we did the first interview with you, it was at the beginning of the administration. It was almost a year ago. And to be honest, it turned out to be one of the most popular things we've ever done. There's the Elon Musk view factor but then there is the Howard Lutnick view factor and they were pretty much side by side actually. It's great that you gave …