C the select committee will come to order. Welcome everyone to the select Committee Hearing or the leveling the Playing Field how to counter the Chinese Communist party or economic aggression. Who when i looked at the staggering economic relationship thats a word that comes to mind. One small example the American Pacific northwest salmon are frozen sent to china to feed tboned by hand and refrozen and shipped back to u. S. Grocery store sometimes miles from where the fish were copied the economical links between the u. S. And china are dizzyingly complicated that theres another word that comes to mind. Naivete. There were prescient dissenters for the last 25 years or both parties largely made the same naive bet on china that Economic Engagement would lead the Chinese Communist party to political liberalization. Beijing saw our quintessentially american optimism is an opportunity to exploit and their treaties and International Commitment are but not for me. I will enter video into the r
Daniels trial would involve Stormy Daniels. Donald trump was in court yesterday facetoface with Stormy Daniels for the first time in years. Forced to listen to her account of an affair she says they had back in 2006. We are going to go through her testimony and get expert legal analysis on this trial, as well as a Major Development in the classified documents case. Also ahead, we will play for you part of President Bidens Speech Yesterday at a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony where he condemned the rise in antisemitism and violent protests over the war in gaza. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Good morning. I interrupted you before you got to the date. Its all right. This will get the emails flooding in. Im sorry, sweetie. You forgive me . You forgive me . Yeah. Dont yeah. This week. Go ahead. Okay. Good, good, good. Willie. Willie on a serious note. It was so great. You know . A picture can paint a thousand words. It was so great for the world to see the american president and The
Katie im Katie Greifeld in new york. Taking a look at markets on this tuesday. Some early gains we woke up to are starting to fade. The s p 500 trying to hold on to green territory, currently up. 10. 1 . The nasdaq 100 dipping into the red, unchanged. The direction of travel is lower. The smallcap index, the relative outperformer today with a very thin margin. The russell 2000 higher by. 3 . We will see how that shapes up over the next hour. The big story of the day, the sparkle coming off of the mouse house. Disney shares slumping despite being profit estimates and raising guidance. The company reporting fewer subscribers to the Disney Plus Streaming Service and say the price hike isnt to blame. We took prices up in the beginning of the year and didnt really see much of an impact. As to what the future brings, we are very judicious with the way price. Want to provide access to as many guests as we possibly can but we do believe that the great experiences we provide people are willing
Our interview with both of the companys ceo later this hour. First lets check in on these markets. He turned to the green, even on the nasdaq after some strong days we have had for the last three days. Monday we had the best threeday run for stocks more broadly that we had had since november. Im going to bring you back to the benchmarks. I will get onto these individual players in a moment. We have seen bond markets rally as well as of that threeyear auction. We are also seeing crypto, keeping an ion what is happening with bitcoin. We have seen it up about 1. 25 . Now lets take it onto the some onto some of the individual movers. Earnings still coming, of course, after the bell yesterday and this morning. Disney down more than 9 . Some of the numbers were pretty strong. We are seeing a focus on bringing about profitability by bob iger. However, subscriber numbers looking to be a more cautious outlook coming from the cfo. Palantir came after the bell yesterday. Youre once again seeing s
You do not know, what our middle terry leaders do in the pentagon every day . You think they are just about giving advice . The ignorance this guy . I have to bring in Claire Mccaskill here, general hurdle, a guy who knows what hes doing. General hurdling retweeting an interview that he had on fox news. Where tuberville said that the Navy Secretary has to get wokeness out of the navy because quote, we have got people doing on Aircraft Carriers. And general hurdling said what i wouldnt get for a real journalist to Say Something like what the f, are you talking about senator. Senator, you are on the air forces committee. You are on the committee in the house, it is not that hard to figure out what they are doing at the pentagon every day. And it has to do with protecting america from our enemies, and planning on keeping this country safe. And keeping our allies safe, and keeping freedom safe from tyranny. And also, i must say, from idiocy like that guy. I have to tell you the truth. When