More bullish than two decades . Absolutely. Because the risk that youre taking is so much less than it was any time since the financial crisis. We made our big sell call at 1999 and because we saw all sorts of additional risk whether its leverage and the types of loans the banks were making and the lack of oversight now its night and day. The degree of oversight on the banks, i mean, you know, jamie dimon cant leave the building without someone watching what he is doing. What were talking about here is the amount of capital at record levels. The liquidity is at record levels. The oversight, record levels. The First Quarter it was a terrible environment but you know what, the quality of loans even with energy, its fine. Book value is still growing. These are resilient banks. Theyre banks that are becoming more one way or another and the valuations are pricing in levels that werent perceived. Does that give me upside . What generates the rally here . When youre going to see revenues have
Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. Im tiffany cross. Now we all know that donald trump has a thing for dictators and each time he praised these leaders, men who he has called good friends, trump exposed and apparent autocratic envy that foreshadowed what we are seeing right now in portland, oregon where on friday thousands of protesters including the wall of moms and a wall of veterans standing in solidarity for black lives matter were met with federal agents who deployed tear gas to disperse the crowds. Federal officers wearing military style camouflage and helmets have been patrolling portland with batons and tear gas driving around an unmarked vehicles sweeping up and detaining protesters in a way that oregons own attorney general says resembles abductions. This is trumps secret police. Federal agents igniting chaos in a city led by a democratic mayor who was also tear gassed by u. S. Agents this week. According to trump, he simply is trying to quell unrest. In other words, he i
Another grim record, another grim milestone for the sunshine state. Nearly 100 of those victims were in miamidade county. Thats where things stand on this monday morning, august 3rd. With us we have contributor Mike Barnicle. White house reporter for Associated Press, jonathan lemire. Host of kasie dc on msnbc, the great kasie hunt. And politics and journalism professor, politics editor and msnbc political contributor, Jason Johnson will join us in a moment. Jonathan lemire, i want to start with you and then go to kasie and get her take on whats happening on capitol hill or whats not happening on capitol hill with the coronavirus outbreak and then i want to go to Mike Barnicle and you and i are going to pile on Mike Barnicle and ask him how he allowed the red sox pitching to get this bad. Jonathan lets start with you first and talk about a piece you wrote for the Associated Press about donald trump and the campaign. Something youve been saying for some time. And that is that his staff
So we have an election this year. I heard the music and that so we have an election this year, mika . Yes, we do. Do we really . Yes. 60 years in 60 seconds for you. The Democratic National Convention Kicks off today and because of the coronavirus, it will be unlike any of the Party Conventions weve seen to date. Wont look like any of those. Good morning and welcome to morning joe it is monday, august 17th. With us we have White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire wait. Jonathan, this is important. Jonathan, so the great thomas ricks who has a wonderful book coming out in a couple months said that what the Boston Red Sox are doing are nothing less than a remarkable experiment. He said they decided to elevate an entire triple a pitching staff to the major leagues at the same time, of course, tom is a little off. This is single a, double a pitching staff the red sox have sent up. But its just its beyond words how bad the pitching staff is. I dont know if you know thi
And people wear masks. Trump, falsely, claiming the u. S. Is rounding the turn on the virus. That, as the nation passes 8 million confirmed cases. 68,000 new cases, just today. Biden campaigning, in michigan. Slamming trumps handling of the covid19 pandemic and its severe impact on the economy. Lets discuss, now, with kirsten powers, cnns senior political analyst. And senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. Good evening to both of you. Good to see you. Kirsten, i want you to take a look. This is the closing arguments we heard from trump and biden on the coronavirus pandemic. More than 215,000 i think its now 217,000 dead americans because of covid19. And experts say well lose nearly 200,000 more lives, in the next few months. All, because this president cares more about his parkavenue perspective on the world and the stock market, than he does about you. Because he refuses to follow the science. The light at the end of the tunnel is near. We are rounding the turn. Were round