President Trump To Attend NASCAR's Daytona 500 Today
WALKER: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is warning America's allies to steer clear of Huawei. Many European unions are turning to the Chinese tech giants to build their 5G cell networks.</s>BLACKWELL: Speaking in Munich today, Speaker Pelosi warned that using Huawei's technology would be choosing autocracy over democracy. Here's a portion of what she said.</s>PELOSI: Security, economy and values all come together on the Huawei issue. In terms of national security, I have very, very deep concerns about giving the information highway direction to the Chinese government. I also think it is a matter of not having economic threats be a reason why someone would choose Huawei. It is cheaper for the moment. It is cheaper. They don't have to pay a lot for their research and development because they reversed engineered many U.S. technologies and Western technologies. And third, it's about values. This is very dangerous. This is about choosing autocracy over democracy on the information highway. It's about putting the state police in the pocket of every consumer in these countries because of the Chinese way.</s>BLACKWELL: Now, earlier, Pelosi also spoke about the moment she ripped up President Trump's speech after the State of the Union.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America. Thank you very much.</s>WALKER: Here's more of what the California Democrat told our Christiane Amanpour in Munich.</s>CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Are you giving a signal that the Democrats will fight back hard, that you will not be constrained by what you believe to be insurgent behavior on the other side, and that this is, you know, a time to go mano-a-mano?</s>PELOSI: Well, let me say this -- I had no intention of doing that when we went to the State of Union, that was well into the past of the first third of it. Now, I'm a speed reader, so I was reading ahead. I knew what was there. I got past like about a third of it, and I thought this is terrible.</s>BLACKWELL: Well, some people call this NASCAR's Super Bowl. It starts today. Daytona 500 kicking off the 2020 season and President Trump will be there.</s>WALKER: He is set to speak before the race and sources say discussions are under way over whether or not he will take a lap around the track. CNN White House reporter Sarah Westwood is in West Palm Beach with more. Will he?</s>SARAH WESTWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: That is the question, Amara, whether President Trump will take a lap when he attends the Daytona 500 later today. That is a possibility. The White House possibly planning on having the president do that lap in the presidential limo known as "The Beast". The president will also be serving as the grand marshal of that race, which means he'll be giving that famous command, drivers start your engines. He'll make a little bit of history there. He'll be the first sitting president ever to say the words at the race. The last time a president served as grand marshal was 2004, President George W. Bush. The campaign is also taking advantage that's likely to be friendly to President Trump by running a campaign ad with themes that are likely to go over well with the president's base. Take a listen.</s>AD ANNOUNCER: America is great. Better than ever. Under President Trump's leadership, we are racing to new heights. Millions of new jobs, rising wages, record low unemployment, securing our border, protecting our country, and respecting our veterans.</s>WESTWOOD: The president is likely to get a warm welcome from the audience at this race today. It's keeping on a string of sporting events that the president has attended where he's gotten that warm welcome that he craves from the crowd. His attendance comes one day after he attended the most expensive fundraiser of his campaign so far here in West Palm Beach where couples paid upwards of $500,000 to attend that dinner with the president. It was expected to bring in more than $10 million for his campaign just in that one night. That comes after the RNC and his campaign posted pretty high numbers from January, $60 million in that one month. They attributed that to impeachment victory, Amara.</s>BLACKWELL: Five hundred thousand dollars a couple, you don't have to invite too many couples to get $10 million. Sarah Westwood, thanks so much.</s>WALKER: It is a nasty battle of the billionaires that's getting worse by the day. As Michael Bloomberg spends millions on ads targeting President Trump and the president fires back on Twitter. But are they more alike than they are different? Next, we'll talk with somebody who wrote the book on Bloomberg.