Arizona for First Time Since 1996 and thats where we will begin this morning as the president continues his legal challenges today. President elect biden winning the state of arizona, thats according to nbc news decision desk overnight further cementing his victory in last weeks election biden now holds 290 electoral votes, to trumps 217. Georgia and North Carolina are the ones that are still too close to call, jim but if you put those two together, even flipping those for the president would not be enough yeah, look, carl, this matters tremendously there was a lot of uncertainty in the last four days that perhaps the president wouldnt leave the white house, the legal challenges would go on forever, december 13th would come, 14th is the last day, and there would be no concession about the electoral college. And this kind of makes it so that it is less likely, plus the attack on fox, believe it or not, made people realize maybe there is a second life, maybe a station that will be owned
Expected but still noteworthy in terms of timing right for the g. 20. Many feared as a signal that beijing still have critical leverage and perhaps he was signaling to President Trump that maybe he should modulate the trade for accordingly if he wants to see progress in the negotiations. And obviously there was President Trumps recent visit to tokyo and the desire to meet. Hes now met with him five tim times. President trump five times and putin warns. Then we obviously have the g. 20 later this weekend of this muchanticipated. Just last friday the administrations added five embassies and further restricting the access to technology and further complicating efforts to reach a trade deal with high tensions between the u. S. And china so all of this going on and we couldnt ask for a more distant this panel to discuss these and other issues. No one on the panel really needs an introduction so i will make them very brief so we can start the discussion. We have on my left ambassador campbel
Us. I am maria bartiromo, thursday march 21. Your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast markets extending the gains after the Federal Reserve left ray unchanged. Markets higher across the board after jay powell said to expect three rate cuts this year and three more over the next two years all three major nbc closed in record territory since the First Time Since november 2021, what a performance with the dow industrial 401 and the nasdaq 202 at the close yesterday. Everything investors are watching. Initial jobless claims in the Philadelphia Fed and ducks at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. European markets are mixed, the eurozone factually higher. The bank of england making this decision we will have that news. In asia overnight markets finished higher with the exception of the shanghai composite, the cosby in korea to win 3 . The biden family influence peddling catching up as a former business associate of hunter biden testifies on capitol hill giving a list of crimes that he said they are gu
Russia ukraine war, u. S. Competition with china, and other emerging threats. This hearing is about two and a half hours. Along with the select Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracys interests. Next look at the top Global Trends with the director of intelligence Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lieutenant General perry. They testified before the Senate Armed Service committee about foreign Intelligence Surveillance and ongoing project ukraine more, u. S. Competition with china and other emerging threats. The hearing is about two and a half hours. Good morning. Before we begin today, i would like to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of general stewart this past weekend. General stewart was an inspiring, trail blazing marine who served the nation with honor for more than two decades. Rising from a all the way to director of the Senate Intelligence agency. He committed himself entirely to the defense of our nation, and his leadership will continue to be
Russia ukraine war, u. S. Competition with china, and other emerging threats. This hearing is about two and a half hours. Along with the select Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracys interests. Next look at the top Global Trends with the director of intelligence Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lieutenant General perry. They testified before the Senate Armed Service committee about foreign Intelligence Surveillance and ongoing project ukraine more, u. S. Competition with china and other emerging threats. The hearing is about two and a half hours. Good morning. Before we begin today, i would like to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of general stewart this past weekend. General stewart was an inspiring, trail blazing marine who served the nation with honor for more than two decades. Rising from a all the way to director of the Senate Intelligence agency. He committed himself entirely to the defense of our nation, and his leadership will continue to be