the padres playing great as well. such a great division. can you believe the angels collapse? yankees initiated that and sent them into a tailspin. really? they lost 12 or 13 in a row before they finally won. loaded with talent but struggling a bit. stock futures are on the rise as investors anxiously await the federal reserve s action to tame surging inflation. this as president biden lashes out at republicans for blocking his economic agenda. msnbc s stephanie ruhle will join us to break it all down and the challenges ahead. and we walter isaacson with us. we were talking about presidents and inflation before. jimmy carter, i mean, you know, he had volcker, volcker tamed inflation. right. but there were so many global forces, external forces, you know, we like to think in america that presidents control the economy. there s so many external forces right now. especially now. especially now with two years of covid, the pent up demand. i understand bi
Morning joe starts right now. And good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is tuesday april 2nd. We have a lot to get to this morning, including the expanded gag order in Donald Trumps jonathan, just have a seat may as well put my lipstick on. Someone is passing notes. Just getting set from the show. I had to mov from over here to over there. I had to put stuff down. Right behind willie. Sorry. Have a seat. Are you ready for us to begin the class . Yes, lets do it. I know its your first day. Queue it up her name is mika. Welcome everyone to morning joe. Thats a beautiful shot. If we still even have you. Thank you for joining us. I think its tuesday, everybody is in their seats and well get to all thats going on this morning. The expanded gag order in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case comes as the former president came up with the cash needed to appeal for his Civil Fraud Judgment. Well talk about that. On wall street, truth social looks more like a meme stock with shares lower im not sure
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It is a pit of a freak key friday in the markets. I am Lauren Simonetti in for liz claman. Lets begin with a fox market alert. Look here, you can see stocks searching for direction all day, switching between red and green. Right now the dow is up 80 to points, near the highs of the session. The s p 500 is fractionally higher, not even a point. The nasdaq is lower by 2426 26, and the russell 2000 is down by 2. 5. We are within reach of records for all three of the major indices. Right now the dow needs to close higher by more than 38 points. It will then finish at a record high. It did cross 40,000 yesterday but has yet to finish bo that level. As for the s p 500, the Broader Market needs to gain 11 points for its record close, and the nasdaq needs to finish up by 44. Of course, anything can happen in this final hour of trade, and since were coalescing right near those record highs, well be monitoring it the whole time. Lets take a look at the week. Really great week. Each index up over
Case and what the jury will need to decide. Russia and china agree to tighten military ties and deepen their Economic Partnership after talks in beijing. What will washingtons response to that be . And police in slovakia have charged a man with the Attempted Murder of the Prime Minister, robert fico. The Prime Minister remains in a serious but stable condition. Good evening. Michael cohen once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. The prosection is hoping that in this case he is their silver bullet, but he has faced a withering day of Cross Examination as trumps lawyers worked hard this afternoon to demolish his credibility. Questioned the notion that Michael Cohen is a reformed man interested in justice. Putting to him the many lies he had told in defence of his former employer. He testified he lied out of loyalty and to protect the former presient when he was his personal counsel. At the heart of the case is a payment trump made to cohen in 2016 a reimbursement, say the prose