iowa as he works to cement his hold over republican primary voters trump s comes just after his lates nemesis, florida governor ro desantis make stops in the first caucus state on friday desantis has yet to announce a official white house run but h pointed to his administratio in florida as a quote, blueprint for the rest of th nation we will talk about tha blueprint later in the show. meantime, trump s vice president mike pence is callin out his former boss for januar 6th. at a dinner in washington just last night, pence said trump was wrong when he asked penc to overturn the 2020 election, so that trump is just part of a series o legal wars with the former president, overshadowing the upcoming gop primary battle. tomorrow afternoon trump s former lawyer michael cohe will testify before a gran jury in new york the investigation over alleged hush money play to adult fil star stormy daniels before the 2016 election. should be just around th corner and this morning, chu
they regain power. they re telling us. they re being straight about it. they will appeal lower prescription drug prices and raise drug prices. the social security and medicare. they ll pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy, make them permanent, but they are not now individual tax cuts. delta and the very foundation of american economy, if we don t meet their demands. here s the thing, that s not conjecture. you don t have to just take the presidents word for it. this week, in an interview with punchbowl news, house minority leader kevin mccarthy, he laid out his vision as a potential speaker, and that includes holding the economy hostage, refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless his demands for spending cuts are met. now, this all sounds familiar, it should. congress raised the that ceiling three times when donald trump was president. the washington post reporting it as avoiding the market rattling, economic showdowns that congressional republicans had force one democrat
also, this is a critical week for the economy. we are expecting a deluge of economic data to drop almost every day. it will hopefully provide insight to the millions of americans getting pummelled by 40-year high inflation. some analysts believe the u.s. is hurdling into a recession but the white house is hammering the message that the economy is resilient. we ll get a better sense of how the public is feeling tomorrow when consumer confidence numbers come out. then it s the federal reserve s turn. it meets wednesday and will likely hike interest rates again to try to tame surging prices on everything from eggs to beef, to everything, rent as well. thursday gdp second quarter results are due. cnn s matt egan and rahel solomon are here with us. all of this economic data is going to be coming this week. what is most important? this is shaping up to be a pivotal week for the economy. politico dubbed it a category 5 storm of economic news coming and it could help the big
too early with us. morning joe starts now. biden signed an executive order to control a.i. there is no one i trust more to save us from the rise of the machines than joe biden. as long as none of those machines is a bicycle. he s fine. he s fine. the late show having fun with president biden s executive action earlier this week on artificial intelligence. we ll have a lot more to get to on that this morning. including donald trump jr. taking the stand. how did that go? we ll get legal analysis on his testimony, which i think will continue now. plus, the latest out of the middle east. more wounded palestinians and foreign nationals are leaving gaza. it comes as there is a new threat from hamas. and on capitol hill, republican george santos survives an effort to expel him from congress. that s thanks to some help from democrats. meanwhile, it appears republicans are finally getting fed up with senator tommy tuberville s antics. we ll show you what his colle
it overtook apple as the second most popular smartphone maker in china during the first quarter of the year. but now, apple has reason to celebrate. the company s chinese iphone sales rose 52%, compared to a year ago. that s according to data from a research company affiliated with the chinese government. that entity doesn t track apple specifically. instead, it measures the increase in foreign branded shipments. but in the foreign branded game, apple is the main player. and apple could see more gains from may it s been discounting select models which could lead to more sales. staying with technology nvidia s momentum continues, with its stockjumping 7% to hit another record high on tuesday. the chip maker and leader in the artificial intelligence space is now valued at $2.8 trillion. it is currently wall street s third most valuable company, behind microsoft and apple. this year alone nvidia has seen its share price double. tuesday s jump also helped propel the tech heav