his death now raising fears of a potential escalation in the region which could expand into a wider war israel has eso far avoided. plus, three years after rioters stormed the capitol, donald trump further cements his dominance over republicans. what brand new polling is revealing about the gop s increasing loyalty to trump and their thoughts about the legitimacy of president joe biden s election win. and also ahead hours from now house speaker mike johnson and 60 republicans will head to the southern border as senate negotiations resume. we llbri you the latest on where those talks now stand. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning. we ll begin overseas where hamas is now blaming israel for the death of one of its leaders, who was killed in an explosion in lebanon yesterday. what appeared to be a drone strike happened in a densely p
it s weighed on all other chip makers around the world from taiwan to europe this morning as well. something we re keeping an eye out for. let s hit a couple of other headlines here. the world s largest crypto currency has surged to its highesel in nearly two years. what drove that increase? people are saying the winter weather is over. there s been a lot of excitement around the potential around a new etf that would allow investors to track price movements of bitcoin but not necessarily own the crypto currencych the hope is obviously this would get a lot more retail investors involved in the space. reportedly asset managers including black rock, wisdom tree have all filed application tuesday manage that etf if it does go ahead. this coincided with a massive