From msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. We begin with new developments in georgia, where security is tightening around the Fulton County courthouse as State Officials raise concerns about the potential for violence. Two new subpoena suggests the fani Willis Grand Jury will meet in the next couple of days. Indictments related to attempts to overturn 2020 Election Results are widely expected there this week. One Georgia State official said today, trumps rhetoric around his investigations and indictments could trigger violence. Obviously, at this point, you never know whats going to happen. In my biggest concern is that somebody will be at this point, and do something super. It is not gonna be an organized thing, its not going to be a bunch of conspirators together. One, probably mentally unstable individual, who is going to be radicalized through this process. Thats my biggest concern. Also new today, the cnn report that georgia investigat
The u. S. Media is covering israels assault on gaza. We will be joined by the acclaimed broadcaster mehdi hassan who left msnbc earlier this year after his shows were canceled. Then to tiktok. The u. S. House has passed a bill that could lead to the banning a bill that could lead to the banning of the social media app tiktok. It was potentially ban tiktok is a huge mistake because it does not do with the real issue which is social Media Companies of all types are actually targeting as for our data, exploiting our attention, threatening our democracy. Instead of that, this act is just targeting foreign actors and playing a nationalism and xenophobia. Amy we will speak to ucla professor Ramesh Srinivasan. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In gaza, at least five people were killed on wednesday when israel bombed an unrwa Aid Distribution Center in rafah, one of the u. N. Agencys last remaining aid sites in
25 of the jobs in america and close to 25 of the nations gdp. Right now, they are feeling good about the economy. A brt survey came out which suggested the rating right now in terms of how they feel about the economy climbed 11 points to85. That is a little above the reading83. Feeling good about the capital sales. Those are up double digits from the last quarter. Plans for hires have particulared higher. They sent out a survey asking ceos and if they think Government Policies are undermining American Free enterprise. 75 of ceos think that. Of those who answered yes, 92 partly s92 cited over regulation. We will talk to the ceo as and what they would like to hear from the administration and what they feel is most important to growth policies in the United States. Thats what we are talking about with the ceos today. I can forecast whats coming. Some buyback stuff. They dont like those. Corporate ceo compensation stuff. A lot of different populous rhetoric coming out of it. What is weird
Incredible month where you saw stocks continue to climb add that to year to date dow up 7. 3 . The s p up 19. 5 the nasdaq is up a whopping 37 . Lets put that in historic context. The year to date, you were talking about the nas ddaq with the best first months since 1975 held on to gains gave some back in the second past of the year up 30 by the end of the year. If you look at the s p, up 19. 5 . That is the best performance since the beginning of 1997. That year, s p up 28 . It ended up 31 . Adding to gains, mike, throughout the things. You look at this and look back the pattern in history is that markets that are consistently strong with five months up in the s p 500 happens in the context of generally continuing uptrends. It is not a fluke. That being said, it has happened eight times in the last decade it happened 40 since 1949 the dow was up 100 points in the last minute of trading yesterday. A lot of stuff that gets done at month end. In general, the market has answered most of t
Leader not holding back. I thought the reference to my favorite punk scaband, insane. What was it . Malignant clown show. Malignant clown show. A good one best 1990s bunk scaband out there. Close cousin to the Insane Clown Posse out of detroit. Yeah, of course. Fantastic. That a Malignant Clown show. This as Top Republican in the Senate Releases an fbi memo that fails to prove any, any, of the accusations against President Joe Biden and his son hunter. And the people said, oh, how nice. The republicans now have their own steele dossier. Yeah. Plus, Kevin Mccarthy made a secret promise to trump. And speaking of the form period well play his ominous comments that seem to be calls for a january 6 response to his legal issues. Heres the problem. Willie a lot of problems there there are a lot of problems but he needs to read the room. This does not help him with jack smith. I dont know. Maybe this helped him with a Contract Dispute in new jersey when hed throw words around like that. Threat