Killer or catalyst for Language Learning Companies . The ceo says hes welcoming it with open arms and joinstous make his case. Lets start with dom chu with the numbers. So if you talk about lets just bring in the headlines. 40,000 for the first time ever, rarified air. Im going to take you through the charts in a couple seconds here, but im going to put the stars up off the bat. We did hit rarified air, record highs for all three indexes, the dow, s p, and nasdaq. The dow above 40,000 at one point, just slightly below that. The s p 500 is at 5316, about eight points up. So a very modest move. Its been very tight and narrow, but it has been marginal but to the upside. The nasdaq composite, up about 0. 1 of 1 , 16,764. Lets focus on the dow, because we dont often focus on that price weighted index. Since it closed above 30,000 in november of 2020, check out american express, caterpillar and microsoft. Each stock has pretty much doubled in the course of that span. They are your leading pe
Under oath. Cohen is the last prosecution witness and the question that remains this morning, what, if anything defense will trumps legal team mount . Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside that courthouse. I also want to bring in our legal panel, former u. S. Attorney and former senior fbi official Chuck Rosenberg, new York Law School professor and director of the schools criminal defense clinic. Ana coe min ski and criminal Defense Attorney and former federal prosecutor duncan levins. There was a little bit of uncertainty this morning in court, a long Bench Meeting before the Cross Examination got underway. Bring us up to speed on all of it. Reporter the last day week five of this trial, a 19minute Bench Meeting at the start of court before the jury was brought in. We dont know what they talked about. Once we get the partial transcript out this morning, were going to figure that out and let you know. A couple of things that have come out so far even just in the last 30 minutes or so, the
President biden challenged former President Trump to two debates, and trump accepted. Oh. Yeah. Trump agreed. He said, ill be there, assuming its okay with my parole officer. The first debate will be next month, which is the earliest a president ial debate has ever been. If were being honest, an early bird debate feels right for these guys. Boom, just like that, headtohead, toe to toe, mano and mango. Trump posted, just tell me when. Ill be there. Lets get ready to rumble rumble . Ive seen your rallies. I think you mean, lets get ready to ramble. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, may 16th. I just have to ask, the Question Alex asks, why is it not friday . How is it not friday, guys . Its thursday. Were grateful that god has given us another day to come in and be together. Im very grateful. Were close to friday. Were not at friday. 24 hours, itll be friday. A lot to talk about. We have White House Bureau chief for politico, jonathan lemire. We have john heilemann. Ma
Good to be with you, im katy tur. The Hush Money Trial of former President Trump. Defense attorney todd blanche is going through cohens direct hm. Cohen is talking about his dealing with the press as a Quote Surrogate of mr. Trumps campaign, and the secret recordings he made of the former president. Blanche is starting to dig into the stories cohen attempted to bury about trump. This goes back to early days of this trial, alongside National Enquirers david pecker. Joining us now, Nbc News National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the court, back with us. Chuck rosenberg, catherine christian, and Danny Cevallos. Yasmin, what is happening right now . Reporter theyre talking about the calls beginning in june of 2016. This is when cohen alleges he informed the former president of the united states, his boss at the time there was a meeting between mcdougal. This was the beginning of the payoff by ami. It was october in which the payoff was made to Stormy Daniels, initial contact bet
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