Trump Set For Asia Trip; US Air Travel Struggles To Recover | Bloomberg This Weekend: Nov 15th, 2026

0 November 15, 2026 10:21

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Stories on today’s show includes:
– President Donald Trump will meet China’s Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin Nov. 19 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a White House spokeswoman said. Xi is hosting this year’s APEC summit, which is set to take place on Nov. 18-19 in Shenzhen, China.
– US air travel struggled to recover over the weekend from the longest nationwide flight suspension since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, with thousands of cancellations following an outage that laid bare the fragility of America’s aviation infrastructure.
– SpaceX successfully caught its Starship rocket as it returned to the Texas launch site from orbit, a novel engineering feat and major step toward Elon Musk’s goal of developing a fully reusable system.
– The White House won’t commit to complying with potential subpoenas from a Democratic-led Congress and believes company executives who’ve had contact with President Donald Trump may be covered by executive privilege, White House Counsel Will Scharf said.
– ASEAN ministers meet in Manila ahead of the 49th ASEAN Summit. The ASEAN Business & Investment Summit also begins and runs through Nov. 15.
– Anthropic PBC is in the home stretch for its initial public offering, which including the $26 billion private placement is poised to top SpaceX’s record. The deal could raise up to $90.4 billion for the company and its co-founders when it prices on Nov. 18, cementing the first listing for a frontier AI model maker.

Today’s show includes conversations with:
– Avril Hong, Bloomberg Television Reporter
– Annmarie Hordern, Bloomberg Television, Chief Political Correspondent
– John Pistole, Fmr. TSA Administrator / Fmr. FBI Deputy Director
– Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg Intelligence, Global Head: Technology Research
– Bailey Lipshultz, Bloomberg News, Senior Equities Reporter
– Jason Schreier, Bloomberg News, Video Gamer Reporter
– Henrietta Treyz, Veda Partners, Co-Founder, Director of Economic Policy Research
– Philip Delves Broughton, Journalist & Author, “Embargo”
– Rep Raja Krishnamoorthi/(D) Illinois(D) Member, Committee on Strategic Competition between US and CCP/(D) Member, Oversight Committee/ (D) Member, Intelligence Committee

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