That would be a game changer. Bitcoins market cap is currently only 3. 1 the size of gold. As bitcoin and gold struggle between the risk off, is gone, copper is not hitting a sevenyear high. It looks a lot like that spike we see in early 2000 at the beginning of that chart, that is when china started commodities super cycles. Maybe there is some more longterm fundamental support from china. Lets get into the ring with todays top story. Opecplus agreeing to increase output starting in january, with monthly reviews to cf if more oil should be added. Alex longley joins us from london. What are the rules for the subsequent production hike . Alex there has been a fraud week of debate within opec. We have had the opecplus meeting. What we are hearing as they have agreed to hike production by 500,000 barrels a day in january, and will then have monthly reviews what they were at another 500 barrels a day to the market. That is doing the same, weve got a Strong Oil Market at the moment. But the
Investments in three sectors, semiconductors, quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence the order will prohibit investments in some forms of those technologies and require americans to disclose investments to u. S. Governments in some cases. And you know the one thats not necessarily going to be included which tiktok. Thats your thing. Its not been my thing. Its been the National Security thing. Right. For so long. But no action taken yet bipartisan cause, problem. It should be. Im not sure it should be. Its surprising given all this effort in this regard and why, for example, under the ai rubric, for example, it wouldnt be included. Think of all the data the Chinese Government has access to. And thats what people say. It has all how many lazy girl videos Andrew Ross Sorkin watches per day. I have yet to be convinced by the way the Chinese Government is seeing all this tiktok in terms of the way theyre trying to build this thing in a separate way but thats a separate story. The con
get rough, but the white house won t paint that bleak picture tonight. instead, the president is making a bet that many democrats before him have made. go high when they go low. think unity. a traditional victory lap touting his administrative wins over a tough two years. emphasizing that democrats and republicans can get things done together. it s what the country wants, a senior white house official told me. so where does he go from here? what bipartisan deal with the white house working on next and what will the white house do with the investigations and allegations that house republicans are throwing at him? we re going to ask the president s senior adviser that question in a moment. we ll also get the realistic outlook from capitol hill and what house republicans are willing to make a deal on. so joining me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent, kelly o donnell. nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles, and washington post senior national political c
coming right up. first hunter biden finally admitting the laptop filled with his emails incriminating documents and embarrassing photos does indeed belong to him. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. bill: how was the first hour? dana: good. bill: a plus? good morning. i m bill hemmer and good morning. after years of widespread claims dismissing the laptop as the work of hackers or russian disinformation hunter s lawyers conceding it indeed belongs to him and calling him hunter the victim. that change of tune coming as newly empowered republicans launch investigations into hunter s business dealings including his role with bhr, a chinese equity firm banked by some of china s largest state banks. he joined the board in an unpaid position in 2017. he pursued deals involving china s largest private energy firm. later that year a hunter biden associate says that joe biden was consulted on deals with china. one year after that, the department of justice laun
search warrant served on monday. that s right, victor. we didn t expect attorney general merrick garland to come out today but he is going to be making a statement from the justice department building in downtown washington. they haven t disclosed yet exactly what it is going to be about, but you re right, there has been pressure building in recent days since this search on monday, this unprecedented search of a former president s home, that we are watching to see whether garland may want to make a statement about this. now, this isn t something that the justice department typically would comment on. it is an ongoing investigation. we don t believe that there have been charges brought at this time. we haven t seen any emerge from this. it s also about national security issues. on top of that, garland is not the type of attorney general that makes a lot of public statements, does a lot of press conferences, even whenever there were charges for seditious conspiracy, another u