Coming under pressure amid questions about the feds commitment to keeping borrowing costs low and the spigot open. Economic tests, key reads on jobs, inflation and housing and on the corporate front, really Important Quarterly results from dow component walmart. Its thursday, february 21st, 2013 and squawk box begins right now. Morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Stocks selling off late yesterday after the release of the fomc minutes. The s p and the nasdaq turned in their worst sess sessions of 2013 on the heaviest Trading Volume of the year. Not good news. The pain is not over yet. If you take a look right now, dow futures are down by about 61 points. S p futures off by about 7 1 2 points below fair value. Were going to talk much more about the fed with central bank watcher greg iff. Thats 7 00 eastern time. Walmart is likely to be a big driver of the market conversation today. Courtney reagan will be jo
Magazine photographer at a trump event in virginia. As for the race itself, on the republican side, the latest cnn poll shows donald trump with the highest National Number. He leads with 49 . Marco rubio and ted cruz are neck and neck way behind in the mid teens. What is at stake today . A lot. Nearly half of the 1,237 delegates required. As you saw before, the tension is a black lives matter protest at that virginia rally. After that is when the altercation happened with the photographer and secret Service Agent. Photographer saying the agent choked and threw him to the ground when he tried to leave the press pen that the press is required to stay in during events. You are trying to cover the protest . I stepped 18 inches out of the pen and he grabbed me by the neck and choked me and slammed me to the ground. Trump told protesters to get out of the event. Get them out of here, please. Get them out. Get them out. Are you from mexico . Are you from mexico . Huh . Are you from mexico . C
People. His dad confronted yesterday after his sons arrest said he had no idea Something Like this would be coming. When you hear he is accused of Something Like this do you believe it . I am not sure whats going on. You are not sure . I you are not sure . I think it is very hard right now to talk. Rahamis family was wellknown in their town of elizabeth for this place, the First American Fried Chicken. Make of that name what you will, the fbi raided the Fried Chicken joint and the rahami residents up above the Fried Chicken place. We are told there are number of issues operating hours of people being drunk and belligerent outside of it. The family sued the city saying they wanted to be what kind of inspiration or help did rahami have . If he h did he have any help toe these different types of bombs and did he have any idea of where to place them after 50 hours on the run. Perhaps hanging out in the taliban in pakistan was how he learned how to make bombs. They kept a note using the ter
Cancel the recess all together. Major event at the white house saying the president hosting the president of south korea. Your strategic patience with the north korean regime has failed and frankly that patience is over. And were allamerican in god we trust living the dream never giving up what we believe. This is pretty much the kickoff of fourth of july weekend. Wouldnt you say . Pete i think like thursday. Abby people are already out going on vacation. Clayton we have the cheapest gas prices right now in like, i dont know, in 200 years. [laughter] abby be a wow, clayton. Clayton this weekend a record on the road. Look out. Abby send us in your photos. I think fourths of july is one of my favorite holidays of the year. It reminds you how great this country is. At a time like right now we need to be reminded of that barbecuing, being with family. Good weather outside. In the fool pool. Hanging with family and friends. Clayton speaking of dogs, we are going to have hot dogs on the show
Including his anger at Jeff Sessions and chief of staff, kelly and hope hicks. Joining me right now, id like to bring in phil rucker who is politics reporter with Washington Post with some breaking news for us. And, well also have a great team to reflect on the new reporting after that from the los angeles time curtis lee and kevin serilli and betsy woodruff. Allstar team. But, lets now, as i was mentioning, get straight to Philip Rucker and you have some reporting on your website on Washington Post here and ill read the headline very quickly. Pure madness. Dark days inside the white house as trump shocks and rages. Two or three new pieces of reporting and if you can relate that to us. So glad to be here. We spoke with a number of white house officials over 20 folks inside the administration and other advisors who are increasingly concerned after the moves of the last couple of days. With the president s stability and control. There is a feeling that things are flying a little bit out