YouSaid · the spoken record

Bianna Golodryga

lines on the record: 73
first: 2022-02-24
most recent: 2022-02-24
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“Instead, in diversifying their economy, and there's been a massive brain drain for that very reason. And so I think Ukraine, I think, I want to take my kids to Russia. I found this sort of new passion for the culture and the language. I want my kids to enjoy it. And I'd love to go and show them everything. And I'm just worried that as long as he's in power, it's just not going to be a safe, stable country and it perhaps could only get worse. And you could see YouTube and whatever free internet is left there disappear. That's what worries me.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is created throughout the country. I mean, we talked about those protests for Navalny just one year ago. And now you see an image of maybe six people, seven people protesting against the war. I can't help but think if this had been a year ago, we wouldn't be in this position or there would be tens of thousands of people marching on the streets saying no to war. And yet they're in a hard place of just wanting to survive and not have to deal with the ramifications of speaking their mind and to hear people who had lived through really dark times and leave everything behind for better times and a better future say that things were better than now in many ways. It's shocking. And I feel for Ukrainians, I feel for Russians, you know, Putin aside, I think he's probably the worst thing for that country in many ways. His fascination with NATO kept him from focusing on that country's future.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, listen, you never want to bring your personal to work, right? Of course, it's not just that I happen to have a Soviet background and I'm on television. You know, I always go back to this being my area of expertise as well. So I do think what's the most ominous to me about this is having grown up and listened to and lived through my parents' experience under communism and what they saw there and what they sacrificed to not see their family for 10 years being told when we left. You know, not only do they pick our citizenship away, we were stateless, but you'll never see your family again and your people never touch Soviet soil. My mom couldn't go back to her father's funeral. All of that having been said to hear them and others say things weren't as bad then in the Soviet Union as they are now under Putin's Russia and the authoritarianism and the fear factor that it's”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're Republicans like Liz Cheney, you know, we keep coming back to that handful, but they also are on this. Not just her, though.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think what you really saw was just, you know, a shiver down the spine of every European country when they heard him speak this week and what they've seen transpire over the last few months for a long time. There had been a sense that there's no possible way that there can be a major war on European soil in 2022. And yet here we are. And you see so many countries, rich countries are allies.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But being clear with Americans as to why this is important, and I understand this poll, you know, Ukraine is not England in terms of the personal connection and bond between the two countries, the United States and any, I would say, NATO member. It speaks to a larger dynamic that's playing out, not just similar from Biden suggesting that this is a battle of democracy versus autocracy in China, and that clearly was his focus going into this administration. And he's been distracted, to say the least, by Putin. But I think the two are similar in a way. Obviously, Putin, his economy is nowhere near the size of China's, but he's a nuclear power, I believe by number size, I may be wrong, they actually have more nuclear once you get to the thousands. What's an extra hundred or so? But then the United States, and Putin's made clear that he...”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The president has done a good job of not just saying that this is sort of our duty as a democratic country, as the beacon of democracy in the world and the world's superpower to stand up for what's right, but connecting it with saying, honestly speaking with Americans, that they may be feeling some of this pain too at the pump. And we have to be aware of cyber attacks and all of that here. Any sort of retaliation from Russia.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Listen, I think he's in a very difficult position because on the one hand, he's made clear to Americans that no U.S. troops would be in Ukraine fighting a war between Russia and Ukraine, as he described. That would be World War III. And obviously NATO, Ukraine is not a part of NATO. And Article 5 would then not be invoked. That having been said, He's made clear a few times just connecting both the economy and the potential hit that we could feel here on top of what we've already felt despite the economy thriving in many ways. Inflation and high gas prices have been something sort of an aftermath from the virus. And on top of that, to then have a major escalation and crisis and Europe, you can understand why oil markets are riled up and very volatile as that is. So I think”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, right. And compared it to what he thinks should happen at the border here in the US. So I can say this is definitely a moment where I am glad that he's no longer on social media because that's not something I want to spend much time covering, though. Unfortunately, he very well may be back in the”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's a great speaker, very charismatic, has a lot of qualities that Putin lacks. And yes, it's clear why he would be a threat to Putin. To this degree, though, is a bit stunning. He doesn't carry as much popularity as you would imagine just given Putin's actions and overreactions. And so I think, again, everyone who tries to describe Putin as this evil genius, you know, had Navalny knocked him.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Either in prison or they left the country. And I think this contributed to the buildup that we saw of troops around Ukraine and where we are here.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Poisoned and treated in Germany, returned Russia became sort of this bulk hero for no other reason than his bravery to return home. There are plenty of Russians that don't support him politically, but it's hard not to just look at what he did with admiration because most people wouldn't be able to do that. And you saw the massive protest, the early 2021 in February, March, April, not just in the big cities, but throughout the country that galvanized people to come out. Again, as people told me, not necessarily to vote for Nabalni, but to have the opportunity to vote against him too. And I think that played a huge role in part in this shift that we've seen from Putin to become just a 100% authoritarian cracking down on any independent media. The last vestiges of media, all of Navalny's colleagues.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And facing another 15 years in a new trial mock trial that took place this week as well. I think something fundamentally changed in Putin since”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's sort of an outlier. I think for most Russians, he is right to say there is a cultural connection. They're very close. I mean, there are many Russians that I know that a family is in Ukraine and that a family in Ukraine and vice versa. They're very close and I don't think anyone wants war, but I do think that he's created, and going back to Navalny, I do think this sort of in his arc of”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They are once again preparing for ward. This would not have the response that annexing Crimea did. I mean, not one shot was fired when he took Crimea, and Crimea was rather popular. I mean, even amongst Alexei Navalny. Yes”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If both parties want that to be the case. And I think he's help-bent on disrupting and destabilizing Ukraine as we know it today.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Debt at this point. So he finds himself in a position where he can withstand, at least publicly, and what we've heard from Russian officials, whatever sanctions come their way. But yes, I thought he would have an opportunity to leave. And then perhaps the low-hanging fruit would be to go into Luhansk and Donesque's, the two regions. They're the separatist regions in Donbass. And maybe that's it. I think what we've heard from him this week has changed my mind on that all rules, everything's out the way. I don't think you can predict what he's going to do. And judging by U.S. Intel, which I think probably was correct, I think he probably did have a date to go in on the 16th. And I think that Intel and this novel idea of releasing it to maybe preempt an attack worked, but it can only work for so long. I mean, he can only, we can only avoid war.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Home. I thought he had an opportunity to turn around because he doesn't have a narrative to send it home, and because Russians weren't really expecting war, sure, the Russian state media was focusing on the West and how they will never leave Russia alone and they want to expand NATO. It was never really as much about Ukraine as it was about NATO and the West and that Russia was the aggrieved party, the West is the aggressor over the past eight years or so ever since he went into Crimea, he's been able to sell Russians on sanctions because he has described them as nothing to do with something that Russia did to deserve them, but more the West just trying to keep Russia down. And they have weathered sanctions pretty well at this point. Where oil prices are now, he's amassed a huge fortress of reserves around him and doesn't carry much international”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would have never expected things to get this far. He had built up troops around Ukraine last spring, and that led to that summit in Geneva between him and President Biden, where it's almost laughable now to say that Biden's goal was to establish a predictable relationship with Vladimir Putin. It's anything Vlad at this point stable. And so I don't know. I think On the one hand, part of me said he's accountable to no one at home. He's got the support of not only his Duma, but a great number of Russians. And I don't know that you should always believe the polls, but he does still carry a lot of support at home and his popularity has increased the past few months. He's got nothing to prove, even if he just wants to say that's it. We got some concessions out of the West. These were only just training operations and exercises. I don't know why the West is so paranoid trying to deflect from their own grievances at home.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“During the shuttle diplomacy the last few weeks, but he's been surrounded by his security honchos, and that's about it. And these are yes men who feed him information that he clearly only wants to hear and no bad news at all. And there was a lot of, he just seemed delusional, I would say, at times and bitter. And another Russia watchers hadn't recognized that part of him in many, many years, if ever. So I think that really, in addition to what was happening on the ground, I firmly believe that it was that speech and that speech alone that really riled up the reactions that we saw less than 24 hours later with the new Chancellor of Germany saying that Nord Stream 2 is shut off now and the Baltic leaders came out strong. Obviously, the US did as well. I think there was a real setting. Given what they heard him say.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Years old, and not only has been in power for 20 years, but has found himself to be more and more isolated the past two years during COVID, where he's been alone by himself, he's been paranoid about anyone coming to see him, hence those extremely long tables when foreign dignitaries.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And these were his words. He wrote, as you know, that the essay last summer proclaiming many of the falsehoods that he did this past week and denouncing the Ukraine sovereignty, right to sovereignty, blamed. I mean, anybody that says he sort of longs for the days of the USSR, that's not actually true either because he heaped a lot of blame at Lenin and the Soviet Union creating a situation where they created Ukrainian homeland in a sense that they were their own culture and people and know in his mind it's all tied to one Russia and that's the Belarusian Russia and Ukraine connection. And thus after this long revisionist history anger, I saw so much anger in him too and really a bit of disillusionment. This is somebody who not only is about to be said”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, somebody texted me because I was watching it on Russian television. So without the translator and one of my colleagues text me and was clearly watching him speak with the translation and ask, is he stuttering the way this translator is? And I said no. He's speaking as if he's not even reading a speech. I'm pretty sure.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He has evolved over the past few years to really turn into this man who I think when he first took office was not necessarily focused as much on NATO and Russian expansion and the cultural ties, historic ties, religious ties between Ukraine and Russia. You know, I think he was more upset at the rupture and the relationship following his going into Chechnya and then the US going into Iraq. Then he was focused still on NATO. And I believe Kondolez arise, Eve, and said in an interview that she doesn't recall NATO being the source of a lot of his angst and animosity that obviously years later our ambassador and your colleague Michael McFall talks about.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look, were there mistakes made? Sure, by all parties, by all sides, and I think you'll have, there are many it's not just Tom Friedman, there are many people who took part in those negotiations that would argue that they moved too quickly and too aggressively and weren't sensitive enough to Russia's situation and thus, you know, Ukraine had always sort of been a hands-off scenario because many knew that that was just too close, too closely tied to Russia physically and historically. And that was sort of a no-go zone. But I also think we run the risk of adhering and falling into Putin's trap of the argument he's laid out and his wild revisionist history speech that he gave.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, right. I think he came along as a man who nobody knew of and nobody had heard of. And he was there to instill order and stability in a country which lacked all of that. And I don't know how much of that came from him and how much of it was just timing and the global economy was coming around when he first took office. Once upon a time, he himself has said this week that he was open to joining NATO and cultivated, he was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush after 9-11. It did seem as if that evil Soviet Union enemy of the United States that I grew up as a child sort of being embarrassed of and being accused of being part of, that that had changed and the evolution, the relationship between the two countries may be not allies, but definitely not adversaries.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That surrounded Russia, the Soviet Union's breakup, and the economic collapse that ensued after that. And, you know, the real despair felt throughout the country. And no matter how you felt about it in the world, used to see a superpower really turn into barely a regional power and that phrase got your former boss for.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think he's a case example of why someone should never be in power for 20 plus years, regardless of whether you're a benevolent dictator or authoritarian. He's evolved. He came to the scene as somebody who, not dissimilar from Trump, no one really took seriously. And unlike Trump, he never liked to be the center of attention. So when he worked as the chief of staff or the mayor and a reformist mayor at that of St. Petersburg in the 90s and then worked his way up to the FSB and he always found a way of surviving and that's why up until recently I would have never described him as an ideologue. He was a survivor and first and foremost KGB, right? His history. So I think given the uncertainty that”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is his innate talent, self promotion, right? And, you know, I think our failure in many aspects was not taking it seriously, right? And I think the business world used to talk to people in the industry too who never took them seriously and would just try to dismiss him or not have to deal with him or settle with him on any legal disputes. He himself likely did not think he would ever win, and we all know how things turned out after that.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, not at all. Because, as you know, he was not this behemothin in business here in New York. So he was somebody that you would see on the night scene, the nightclub scene, or on page six, sort of the tabloid pages here, but covering I can't even recall from a strictly business perspective and not one of his investments to the side, CNBC doing it, at least a segment that I produced, an interview with him and all the time that I had been there. So that gives you a sense of the relevance he played.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because talking to a parent, you understand, you can feel their anxiety. I don't know their backstory. I didn't know them at all. And obviously you see that their children committed this heinous attack. And on the other hand, you have a father crying for his sons. It was difficult road to navigate for sure.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In Russia. And so they literally said, can you just call and see if this is him, if they're related? And I did. I was in a taxi on the way to work and he answered the phone. And it was a very shocking 15-minute conversation where he sort of told me his story life. He was a mechanic. And it's bordering Chechnya region of Russia there. And he began talking about his sons and how and he left them there and they would have never done this. They're not terrorists. And then he kept asking me what the latest was. So it's about a 12-hour cycle where I'd have to leave the set literally to take a phone call from him and finally tell him that his son had been captured and was captured alive. And it was an unusual experience to say the least, but it was conflicting.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it was the initial bombing was a Monday, I believe, right? And the investigation continued throughout the week and the search for the bombers evolved. It was Friday morning and I wasn't working. I wasn't scheduled to work that morning. I got a call from one of our producers saying they found a number. This is after we had already they relocated the boys and they were the shootout began and so they located a number for the father.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, he had me come over for cocktails before that dinner. That was the only time we'd really spent one-on-one. And he went big. He kept emailing me to come down and I just out of principle said, no, I had other plans, even though I didn't because I thought that he should come me in New York City. And then when he said he has this big dinner party that he's planning.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In and of itself. Yes, anybody else I tell thinks it's glamorous, they see it's a White House correspondence dinner and then how it's portrayed in movies and what have you. But yes, he was a guest at ABCs at the time. 2009, so it was just early months of the Obama administration. And we met and started talking and he invited me to a dinner party at his house in DC, which I don't know if you remember you were there.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Our story when we met is one of the stories that anybody inside the beltway or in New York City and Washington corridors there just cringes when they hear. We met at the White House correspondence dinner, which I just find rather, for lack of a better word, you know, cheesy. But anybody else.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And yeah, I got, I started doing the morning cut ins at CNBC when I was working with Maria again. It was a big supporter of mine. So I'd get in really early and start doing the financial updates for the Today Show and the New York Morning shows. And I got a call from ABC. And as I'm sitting at my desk with Maria and the team there, and they asked if they could speak to my agent. I said, I don't have an agent. You're talking to her. And so ABC had seen me, I guess, on the local station there and had wanted me to come in. And I did. And I spent seven great years there covering the financial crisis, 2008 and Wall Street and the housing crisis. And then I ended up a few years later joining the weekend Good Morning America Teams at Kulancher. And I was there for four years. It was a wonderful experience.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a wonderful ride, a great experience, something obviously I never imagined I'd be doing even when I went to work at CNBC. I never thought that or had aspirations of being in front of the camera. I really enjoy being a producer. And quite frankly, I think being a producer is so critical to being a good on-air talent and reporter as well because clearly”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And anybody who watched television that day, it just appeared that no one would have survived those buildings falling down. It just looked like nowhere Manhattan was a war zone. So I walked home that day, Maria Bapasani I worked with were very caring and comforting. And you think back to somebody you're an adult at 22, but you're a child. can't even imagine what a 22 year old today going through something like that would experience and I wouldn't wish I own a new one but it took months it took months for me to get over it it really I hadn't experienced that kind of trauma I would say you know my mom and I talked about it later maybe it was borderline depression for a little bit I couldn't watch anything but coverage I felt guilty if I didn't so it was it was a good you know six years to a month before I started coming back to”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And said, Go to the building. And I called my mom in Houston. And they had known what had happened yet. And so I said, this plane hit the towers and we're going to go cover. Bye. And that's it. And so the three hours before they heard from me again.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, anybody who was in New York, and this is what I told my friends at the time, I still feel that it was clearly an attack on America. But when you're in the city, you know, just like Oklahoma City was an attack on America, but if you weren't physically in that city, it feels different. And I felt that with 9-11, having A physically just been a block away, two blocks away at the stock exchange, but also being 22 new to the city, I'd only lived here for five months. I felt so incredibly guilty because I called when we saw the first plane hit, as everyone else did, they thought, you know, it was a beautiful Tuesday and not a cloud to sky, must have been a small plane. It must have had a heart attack or some error there, but no one would have imagined terror. So I picked up the phone and our producers.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Weighing in on certain things, but it's something I never saw working with her alongside her. And, you know, I only wish her the best and she was always supportive, a big supporter of mine. But no, you clearly see an evolution of somebody who you didn't see when you worked together at the time.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, we stay in touch just over email and on Instagram from time to time her birthday happens to be on September 11th and we were there on 9-11 together. Something we went through, and we always send each other notes on that anniversary. It's hard when it's somebody that you know admired. And so I've really decided to steer clear of.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like taxes and what have you, so no one talked about who they voted for, who they favor. I mean, times where I don't want to say that everything's McColic and it was just a wonderful time in the 2000s, so you need the 90s. But it was different than it is today. And as you know, getting into your lane, people may have a party that they favor, but I always grew up with the mentality and my parents would talk about it. They voted for both Republicans and Democrats. At the end of the day, net, net, your life's not going to really change that much whoever's president. And so I never thought, you know, fast forward to where we are today, where we've really become so polarized that many people in this country seem to put party over country. And so to answer your question, no, there was never political discussions between us.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, yeah, I worked with her for a good six, seven years, and I have to say she was a wonderful role model. And as we all knew her at the time, sort of the money honey, the pioneer of women covering business journalism from the fore of the New York Stock Exchange. And I was just in awe that out of all people to be working for, I'd be working with her. And she was lovely. And she had high expectations, which I think is always a great model to have in a boss and she trusted me. And that's also something that you want out of a boss. And so we work together very well. It was never a political, it wasn't a political network, really. I mean, I guess you could say finance always leans a bit more to the right, but that's just on fiscal issue.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And one of the producers was leaving on maternity leave. And they said, we need someone to go work at the stock exchange and you don't have any television experience, but you understand what's going on on the floor. The exchange there. So we'll teach you how to put graphics together. And that was it.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And if people say stay in touch, you keep calling them and pounding them. And even if you're annoying, and this is where maybe a name like Bianca Rodriguez is helpful, certainly memorable. He remembered me, right? And then I just ended up packing up and moving to New York, living with my grandmother and calling him again when I moved here. And he said, come on in for an interview.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Once I graduated from college, that would be really interesting, not only just to move to New York, which I had been wanting to do, I had family that lived here, my grandmother and aunt and uncle and cousins who came from Moldova later in the 90s. But I just thought that a career, focusing on financial industry and the stock market while on television, which was something we took a few television classes I remember in high school, but not many. I was like, I had no idea what to expect. I didn't study communication in college at all. But I thought it was worth a try. And I cold called CNBC from Austin, Texas and asked if they were hiring. And I ended up getting somebody in HR.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My dad watched CNBC. So I would complain that it was on all the time, wish that he would change the channel, but I think Again, being an only child, not really having much of an option to do something else than sit there with them. I became interested in it myself and it was something that we would talk about and bond over. And so I found it fascinating. And I thought that”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. And I wouldn't say, I mean, I had never thought that I would go on to pursue a career in acting. I'm not sure my parents would have supported one. But I thought maybe I could go work in finance or something. And I went to college, started really spending more time in Russian history and majoring in Russian East European studies. And CNBC. I thought that was a good combination.”
2022-02-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 479 — Bianna Golodryga · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source