Taking his name out of consideration to become the next House Speaker. Some republicans reportedly ok with working with democrats to get the winning votes. Outside of d. C. The defense secretary and the secretary of state in israel to show u. S. Support for the country as the war with hamas continues. You can comment on these events on republicans 202 7488000, democrats 202 7488000, and independents 202 7488002. If you want to text us do that at 202 7488003. You can post on facebook and on x and also follow the show on twitter. Republicans were set to meet going into that meeting and coming out of that meeting a distinct change at Steve Scalise announcing he would no longer be in the race to be the next House Speaker. After that meeting he went before cameras and gave an explanation. I just shared with my colleagues i am withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker designee. If you look over the last few weeks, if you look at where our conference is, there is still work to be don
Conflicts, not like this. In the middle east, you have these fights, conflicts, bombing campaigns, and such. We have done them, israel, other countries, but they usually return to the status quo. Only a few times do you see a few big ones. The yom kippur war 50 years ago. The iraqi invasion of kuwait. This is one of the big ones, because it puts israels existence at stake. It cannot deal with a hamas capable of attacking much of the population of israel at the same time as facing hezbollah in the north by the lebanese border, syria, and iran. That is why israel feels it has to act. Host how is the u. S. Are fonts and we have seen the last couple of weeks how do you rate that . Guest that has been an a so f ar. President biden is committed to israel, and he is very shocked, as we saw yesterday, tony blinken reacting to what happened yesterday. There support diplomatically their support will magically is 100 . More importantly, they deployed forces, including two aircraft carriers, to de
Antiwar protests in the United States. Students at Columbia University fabricate themselves inside of campus building. The thank you for joining us. The United Nations top court has just ruled against ordering gemini to hold. Tom says israel the case was 5 by nicaragua and accused germany of failing to prevent genocide and gaza by continuing to sell hom. So israel, its the latest case involving israel before the International Court of justice, south africa approach, the court in december, accusing israel of committing genocide as by 16 votes. The one find thatd be circumstances as they now present themselves to the quote. I have not such estimate acquired exist sides of its spotwood on the article 41 of the statute to indicate television and measures that go live to ill just here is feeling marks who was at the hague for us. So then tell us more about what the court said today to explain their decision not to issue a professional matrix. Will fully that with 2 specific issues. One was
Comes to the opec meeting on thursday. Spread coming in at 57 basis points. And bitcoin. Is it going to be 10,000 today . Time for the morning brief. At 8 00 this morning eastern steven mnuchin, William Dudley on the hill of the sec will all be speaking in new york at a conference on the structure of the u. S. Treasury market. At 10 00 all eyes will be on capitol hill as Senate Begins confirmation hearings for Jerome Powell. And President Trump continues to campaign for a tax overhaul. He will be going back to the white house for a meeting with congressional leadership on how to avoid a government shutdown. Thats all coming up today. The big story into ec is Federal Reserve nominee for the chair, Jerome Powell. The gap appears to be narrowing between short and longterm Interest Rate raising concerns on the future of the u. S. Economy. Joining us now is drew matus, metlife and that achievement metlife management chief market manager. Are we expecting to see anything different from the c
Up investors are nervous about whats happening in the bond market is that what this is about i think thats part of it but also the impact on health care from the announcement that we had this morning from mr. Buffett and jamie dimon and amazon is enclosuclearly is havn impact the expectation would be that youd see increased m a in 2018 when youre getting significant selling like youre getting in the managed Health Care Space youre going to see a dow tape clearly under pressure. Steph, the dow was down 350 around there, at the low yesterday sold off into the close. Whats this about . I think it is a little bit about rates but not fundamentals of the economy, its not about earnings because earnings continue to go higher. Its about getting overbought. Were up 7 in january still the best since 1989. However, youre up on top of 19 last year. So weve had a nice rally. We havent had big corrections, we havent had big pullbacks sure, rates are going higher and its something to be mindful of. B