Stuart where are you now. Is that a hint, a question for President Biden . Where are you . Why nothing on the student protests, 10 00 eastern, lets get to the money, the gains have moderated a little but still have the dow up a hundred points, nasdaq up 86. Look at the dow 30. More winners than losers right there, the year treasury yield is at 4. 63 edging away from 47. The 2year is under 5 . The price of oil below 80, 7883 and bitcoin is floundering around 58,000 a coin. Thats the markets and now this. Throughout the night, weve been watching shocking images from the ucla campus, at 2 am local Time Police Officers stopping to take down the 45 protest encampments. The organizers shifted plywood to build those barricades, strobe lights to blind to the police, tends, bullhorns, food and all the women needed, it was organized by leftist groups. The New York Times interviewed lisa pitkin, 6yearold professional agitator, shes not a student but she was right in the middle of the columbia occ
Everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning. I am maria bartiromo, wednesday may 1. Breaking news on the east coast, campus chaos accelerating again overnight. Protests at ucla turning violent as demonstrators huddling fireworks as police moved in to disperse the crowd. At Columbia University in new york the nypd commitment to clear out the hall occupied by protesters, students facing expulsion for their actions, suspension being threatened as well, will bring you the very latest coming up, happening today inflation reigniting. Spiking wages crating new anxiety for the Federal Reserve as well as investors after a selloff in stocks yesterday, futures extended the losses this morning ahead of jay Powell Press Conference at 2 30 p. M. After stocks sold off yesterday on the hotter than expected employment cost index, wages spiking, yesterday 500point selloff capping one of the worst month on wall street since september 22. Watching jobs april adp number out this morning along with the
The judge in his so called new york hush money trial, posting this, the judge has taken away my constitutional right to the free receive, im the only president al candidate in history to be gagged. The judge saying the court is hereby ordered that the defendant pay 1,000 fine for each time of the nine violations that trump violated the gag order, he says, trump responded to reporters yesterday. Watch. This gag order is not only unique, its totally unconstitutional. Im the republican candidate for president of the United States and they have me sitting here for a biden trial. Its a biden trial. Maria meanwhile, Michael Cohens exbanker testified saying the account he facility taughted was not illegal. I want to get your reaction. Ins creasingly were hearing from people, they cant find the crime. What is the crime that were talking about here . He just testified in terms of the transactions. Theyre not illegal. No, theyre not. You nailed i it. As an attorney, im telling you, i cannot find
Republican hardliners are claiming to bring a motion to the floor for ignoring the spending cuts requested in the package. I think we need to rip off the bandaid. I think we need to on with new leadership that can be trustworthy. The one thing everybody has in common is that nobody trusts Kevin Mccarthy. He lied to biden, he lied to house conservatives. The only way Kevin Mccarthy is speaking of the house tend of this coming week is if democrats bail him out. They probably will. I actually think when you believe in nothing, as Krevin Mccarthy does, everythings negotiable. We have a team covering the story for us. Arlette saenz is at the white house. Lets begin with eva mckenna in washington. What kind of tremors on capitol hill are being felt with threats against Speaker Of The House Kevin Mccarthy . Reporter fred, the speaker is clear eyed about what lies ahead. He says hell survive challenges from the rightleaning members of his conference, all but daring him to bring it on. Lets lis
Agitators for fueling the antiisrael protests at columbia and nyu while others are questioning who is funding these people. Watch this. People who peacefully protest for an issue, theyre not throwing bottles and chairs. Theres some organizing going on. Look at the tents. They all wore the same color. To me, i think somebodys funding this. These encampments didnt p spring up you spontaneously. Looks like they have expensive camping p equipment as well. I think its worth asking who is funding the organizations violating the law. Maria the daily mail is reporting the far left groups supporting the columbia protests supported the october 7 hamas attack and George Soros Fund and theres communist china because tiktok was behind a lot of the propaganda, antiisrael propaganda after october 7th. Heres florida congressman Carlos Jiminez with me earl in r in the program. Who is funding this. If you look deep, the ccp is involved, the communist party is involved. Maria i just said that. I have inf