Between the two right now. And as you pointed out, the Inflation Report really is accretive to this whole story here. And so the fed themselves had said that the Monetary Policy is tight, that they want to get closer to kind of that neutral rate. And theyre going to start that in september. And so whether or not they cut, you know, three quarters of a percent or a percent throughout the remainder of the year remains to be seen. But they will be data dependent. But this definitely sets it up with todays Inflation Report. Jeff, what do you make of the concerns that there are that the us could be heading into a recession . Do you see it as a risk or a likelihood . Well, i think its a risk out there, but i dont think its for certain at this point. And what you saw was the market was a little offsides. There was a lot of crowded positioning, and essentially the Bond Market is just waiting for another shoe to drop. And although were talking about inflation, the key metric that kind of set of
the american nurses association says it is deeply concerned about the change, citing insufficient evidence and concern for health care workers safety. everything we re going to do right now is going to be imperfect. just accept that right now. we don t know a lot of the things we wish we d know. but what we do know and what is emerging here is that this country is going to be in the soup just in the next few weeks with so many cases and so many locations that we re going to see critical infrastructure as well as health care challenged. take a look at this. for the first time since omicron hit, an uptick in hospitalizations. that s something to watch with data catching up from the holiday weekend. the number now almost doubling in the last eight weeks. michigan is one of several states to hit peak hospitalizations this month. the state department of health says it isn t following the new cdc isolation guidelines and it s sticking with its own rules while they wait for more
cdc, and she s been pressed after the decision to relax isolation guidelines just as covid cases hit record numbers. the question is did she provide assurance that the agency can, in fact, be trusted? and fully vaccinated. it s currently defined as two doses of either pfizer or moderna vaccines or one dose of the j&j. the question, is it now time to redefine that term? and ghislaine maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking for her role in recruiting teenage girls for jeffrey epstein. the question this morning, is the case closed? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is really ready to close out 2021. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, december 30th, the penultimate day of the year. we ll start with the news. ghislaine maxwell will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars after she was found guilty of five sex trafficking charges. nbc news correspondent ron allen has all the details. reporter: after six days
threats of violence. republicans are demanding answers. at this moment, the fbi is not, is treating parents as terrorist threats. and the attorney general came in front of the committee and suggest the opposite. attorney general garland purged himself in front of congress and should face the consequences. what this shows us, in fact, the parents are getting domestic terrorist treatment. oh, no we would not treat them like terrace but put them under oath and bring them before the committee and say what the world is going on question work greg: attorney merrick garland accused of lying under oath forcing the if you re using counterterrorism tools against parents. i can t imagine any circumstance in which the patriot act would be used in ine circumstances of parents complaining about their children nor can i imagine the circumstances where they would be labeled domestic terrorism. greg: defending to defend the practice but more harm than good a tag is merely a stati
brian: final our of fox and friends with a fox news alert. hundreds of pages of jeffrey epstein court documents unsealed. ainsley: several prominent figures are referenced including bill clinton and celebrities and business leaders. steve: many people publicly named, including clinton, have not been accused of wrongdoing, but documents are answering questions about epstein s web of famous friends and associates who would meet him at various locations. lawrence: peter doocy has more. peter: by now, been 20 years since bill clinton and jeffrey epstein talked, but he is in the pages released by epstein accuser joannashowberg. did jeffrey ever talk to you about bill clinton, she said he said one time clinton likes them young, referring to dpirls. in the deposition, david copperfield, famous magician, asked have you ever met david copperfield? yes. can you tell me what that was? sure. someone called me from the house and said he would be there and if i wanted to