To cnbc first around 9 30 eastern time this morning. Well also be talking to an analyst in just a few moments about ges offer, what he thinks ultimately will happen with this deal. First, more headlines from andrew. Andrew, good morning. You made it. Good morning. We can tell that story in just a little bit. Lets get you through some of the other headlines first. Two big names reporting after the bell. Twitter reported lackluster user and usage growth for the second consecutive quarter. That raised concerns about the company maintaining the mass following weve been talking about. The news on the growth overshadowing the betterthanexpected results. Twitter stock falling below postipo twice of 38. 80, that was the ipo low of 38. 80 on november 25th. You can see right now were at 37. 58. Also, lets talk about ebay a little bit. The company earning 70 cents a share versus on estimate of 67 cents. Revenue topping estimations as well. Coming in at 4. 26 billion. But guidance for its Second Q
Hes made comments about the assassination of journalists and hes joked, his Administration Says it was a joke about murdering somebody whether he he was younger. This is somebody who is not a traditional leader ally like you might see in other parts of the region. Yet, the president and white house have talked about this friendly relationship between the two. I think you saw that here in manila. The two toasting. At one point duterte singing a love song in honor of the president , getting up on stage and delivering this duet with lyrics like you are the light of my life, the half of my heart. So clearly the two of them working on this relationship. The president seeming to hope the Good Chemistry leads to good policy. Again, questions on why no mention of Human Rights Abuses here. That is similar to what we saw from President Trump in china, for example, and on past overseas trips. Im thinking of the one, for example, over to saudi earlier in the year. Back in may. The White House Admi
It is only monday. A couple things stood out to me. The press secretary got a number of questions the president floating the notion there might be recordings of his conversations with former fbi director james comey. He was pressed on that repeatly including by our own hallie jackson. And he continuals to repeat this talking point that he wouldnt add anything to the president s tweet. It was striking because there was a lot of pressure over the weekend from democrats, from republicans, for the white house to fill in the blanks there. And of course you heard lawmakers say if there are tapes, the presses needs to turn them over. Or recordings. So spicer is still giving that same line only very controversial topic. Then he was pressed on the ninth Circuit Court proceedings which are underway. The fact one of the jts hjustic, has the president walked down that the the muslim ban . And he has been questioned about this in frequent days. In the days running up to the federal court proceeding
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