Youll join us in holding these antisemitic organizations accountable. Lets sanction the iccs employees and associates and prevent them from coming to the United States. Lets work with our allies to ensure that they refuse to honor the iccs indictments against either israel or the United States. Lets truly demonstrate our ironclad support and stand with our ally israel in its hour of need. Thank you, madam president. Mr. Budd madam president. The presiding officer the senator from north carolina. Mr. Budd today is the 229th day of captivity for eight american citizens held hostage in gaza by the terrorist organization, hamas. 229 days of being deprived of food, water, and medical care. 229 days of being subjected to unbearable violence, abuse, and psychological torture by Hamas Terrorists. 229 days that mothers and fathers, many of whom ive met, and husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, that theyve had to live with the pain, the anguish and the uncertainty of their loved ones wel
President trumps Hush Money Trial. He laid out tons of evidence during his testimony including tapes and emails and photos and calendar events. Impressive. One of trumps lawyers might win a case. Well, outside the court defending trump, he made a fraudian slip. Lets pray for our other side on this shameless prosecution. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, may 15th, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of Way Too Early Jonathan Lemire. You know how long it took us to book him . Years to get stephanopoulos and longer to get Jonathan Lemire. He just wandered . He is a chief columnist. How do you like it . I love it. Dont give me a hard time. Ive been in this seat at least three and a half minutes. Three and a half minutes yeah. Early. Right, you were. Early. Yelling there is that. Im shocked. Im shocked that john couldnt modulate his voice. I usually do that on good morning america. Heilemann is here. Author of the book how the right lost its mind Charlie Sykes
Regardless of the party they are from. Host anthony desposito, freshman lawmaker. Come back again. That will do it for us this morning. A reminder that the house is coming in now. We will be back here tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Now live coverage of the floor of the house of representatives. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Merciful god, how hard it is in these days of contest and contention not to keep score. Both outside and inside these chambers, we are hardwired to tally wins and losses. But while this may be the nature of things, forgive us when we gloat over our enemys loss when we find ourselves selfishly satisfied when our opponent stumbles. All around us there are countless situations where we find ourselves so inclined. Internationally, when a power suffers not just the loss of a certain battlefield advantage, but the devastating attrition of its young men and women sacrificed on
Melissa francis and this is after the bell. Joining us for all the major market milestones, gerri willis from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, phil flynn in chicago, forbes media chairman steve forbes. Barrons Senior Editor jack hough, financial analyst heather zumarriaga. Gerri, you are up first. Who are this years biggest winners and losers. There is pandemonium down here i barely hear myself think. The winners, boeing, caterpillar apple, and losers ge, we talked a lot about that company. Ibm and exxon. A lot of difficult sectors on winning side and losing side. The winning sector of course as you expect, 37 gain for technology. Those stocks doing really well and really the sector outperforming everybody else. The lagging sector, no surprise, telecom down 5. 7 . Youve seen the companies in this sector, verizon, a number of them are heavy with debt. Theyre constrained by all that they owe. Incredible competition in their sector. So lots of moving parts today, lots of exciteme