Good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. We begin with President Biden saying donald trump should not receive Intelligence Briefings. In a new interview with cbs, biden breaking with tradition, saying trump has no need for those intel briefings now that hes out of office. Should former President Trump still receive Intelligence Briefings . I think not. Why not . Because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection. I just think that theres no need for him to have that Intelligence Briefing. What value is giving him an Intelligence Briefing . What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and Say Something . Also in that interview, the president says he will not budge on the 1,400 stimulus checks but maybe taking a more targeted approach on exactly who will receive those checks. I will talk with Congressman Ro about covid relief in just a moment. Today marks one month since the attack of capit
Refugees and migrants travelling to western europe say theyve been subjected to abuse by police in croatia. 5 months enforcement of coronavirus lockdowns in kenya leads to legal actions and Rights Groups. With the sport Lewis Hamilton takes pole position for the portuguese grand prix and japan dives into its a limb pick preparations opening its Swimming Pool for the delayed take a games next year. Starting in the horn of africa and the grand renaissance down which is just become that much more controversial ethiopia has summoned the u. S. Ambassador of the President Donald Trump suggested egypt mind to blow up the dam its a 4 and a half 1000000000. 00 project aimed at pulling millions of ethiopians out of poverty but for egypt and sudan as well its been a source of contention for years well start with the support from ahmed. I want to just congratulate words of pride after brokering going to grima to between sudan and israel to normalize ties but President Donald Trumps next remarks su
Disclosed his firm, what that thens for the stock, and a rough week for banks. Reports of suspicious transactions and backlash against wells fargo ceo, but there could be some positive factors ahead. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english. Ben, im going to start with you. Weve been chatting this week about the market, and you kept on saying stocks are behaving in a weird way. Whats so unusual in. The week started pretty badly, fears about covid resurgence in europe that really knocked the market down. It built with the questions about economic stimulus and the likelihood that we wont get any, fears about the economy, about the election. And the market kept dropping, and it really looked like good news wasnt going to matter much. Nikes earnings were great, it didnt help the overall market. Darden, which owns the olive garden, it reinstated its dividend, this is a restaurant stock. But, again, that didnt have any big effect on the market. And even when california announced that it
Personally bought insurance for themselves fearing they would be sued because of the, quote, madhouse going on behind the scenes of the fbi, the misconduct there. The flynn probe was such a problem, it was a, quote, nightmare at the fbu, that the agent running it, quote, was obsessed with conspiracy theories. That person thought to be Andrew Mccabe. And so flimsy was the case against flynn, that the fbi planned to shut it down earlier than realized, in november of 2016, the day trump won. But top fbi officials kept it alive to satisfy the Obama Administration. Plus, ken starr back with us on this revelation, a key fbi agent who worked on both the flynn case and the Mueller Probe said he believes the flynn probe was part of a, quote, push to get trump, that trumprussia collusion was not there, it was a dead end, that the flynn probe was so, quote, problematic and based on such dumb theory thats a quote that he even warned there would be an investigation into what the fbi would do, and h
The Reagan National and washington but we talk about the airlines with edward and we start with you. Reporter yet, friday rally. Not seeing two days of gains a row and we not seen that and wrote while but they come back in today and closing near the highs of the session for all three major averages with the exception of energy all of the sectors were in the green, led by technology and the tech trader regained its momentum today. Lets take a look at apple shares up around 4 today all of these names, higher on the week with the exception of google just fractionally lower in the nasdaq higher this week but the Broader Market down or weeks in a row and is the longest losing streak since last august, augus. As you can see, the dow down one and three quarters of the week. S p down. 6 but the nasdaq certainly higher. In fact we have one dow stock that actually notched a record high today, that was a nike on a solid blowout earning report and their revenue is just about where it was last year