hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, really,
demanding more transparency and they argue a special master could provide that. he could also provide a delay in court proceedings. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez leads us off. this all boils down to one judge. that s right. she came in over the weekend and said she was inclined to grant the former president s request for a special master without seeing anything from the justice department. that s what we re doing to see today. the justice department asking for to exceed the page limit that normally applies in this court in southern florida. they re asking for about 40 pages. now that s longer than the affidavit that we saw unsealed last friday. what we expect to see is, you know, more description of what s been doing on behind the scenes. we know that there s a group of fbi agents who are not involved in the investigation who have been looking specifically at these documents for anything that could be attorney-client privileged and they are removing that a
Consumer staples keep falling. Plus no sign of recession in ticket sales for live events, not just taylor swift or beyonce. Well talk to the head of the company that puts on monster jam, disney on ice, and the circus about the Strong Demand for experiences. First lets check on the markets. In the past hour we went to fresh session lows with the dow down 150 points but are off that some point. S p down 11 points today. The nasdaq is back into positive territory by about 5 point. Home builders are getting hit hard today as Interest Rates rise. The xhb Home Builders etf is down and the tenyear yield at last check was up around 425. Shares of United Airlines falling sharply midday as the Company Issued a nationwide ground stop due to computer issues. That stop has now been lifted. It seems to be that the fed has threaded the needle well enough to avoid tightening the u. S. Economy into a recession. Goldman sachs today cutting its recession expectation. Steve liesman joins us now with more.
Im melissa lee coming to you live from a brand new set here in studio b at the nasdaq. On gorgeous set here. Unbelievable. Amazing. Like on a new rocket ship. Were going to take off at any moment. Exciting. Awesome. They did an amazing job. We get to sit here and enjoy this beautiful set, but this is eight months of work from our crack staff back in ec. And the folks here at the nasdaq. Theyre the ones that should get all the praise here. With that said yes. The sound system in this place kicks ass. We easy, come on. It does. You had to do that on the first day. Family program. Commercial breaks are fun. They always are. The show is going to be even better with the brand new bells and whistles we have here. Well show them to you as the weeks go on here. We start off tonight with rates resuming their run higher. The yield in the tenyear treasury hitting twoweek highs after the recent pull back. Climbing back towards 5 this is putting pressure on stocks to start the holiday shortened wee
Historically a tricky month. How much, though, does it have to do with the turn were starting to see and the data . The calendar itself, sure. The data are what they are in terms of performance but its want been bad when you have the market up, 10 or more. To me thats one of the things you keep in the back of your mind. The seasonal weakness was mostly felt in august. Either the turn in the data or just the fact that were not being able to escape the late cycle back drop. At least psychologically. When you have employment down to 3. 5 . The fed has been tightening for a year and a half,ist time to wonder, how much longer can the cycle last . Theres not much to observe in the numbers, aha, its here, the soft landing is a fantasy, its not going to happen. As many have said in the jobs number is consistent with a soft landing. Who knows. Consistent with descending into Something Else . I think the biggest risk in the near term is that longer term yields keep going up, and not just because