gain. the company raised its biggest rival, topping melissa myer to be its new ceo. so welcome to today s program. after a bit of a slow start to the week yesterday, with the retail sales from the u.s., we have a full agenda today. inflation. a lot of chatter. a lot of libor, more data, bernanke. maybe this will excite is market a little bit. we had our seven down monday in a row which tells you more about the market than mondays. it s like that song. why i don t have mondays. i have to do googling. it s an old one. let me remind you what s on the slate. coming up will be questions about libor and the bank s stability report. eclipsed by the rate fixing scandal. turner told lawmakers that investigations into other bank are ongoing subsequent to barclays admission of rate manipulation. events over the years was giving us an impression, as we said in my letter about a pattern of behavior which we felt precisely in gaming the system. also appearing before uk la
this? no, i m going to move on and ask you about bono. yeah, i ve known bono for a long time, but mike eliot works with us, runs the one organization, and bono came by, he s in america this week on the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the aids virus and has an event. tonight in washington with president obama where he basically says that obama will commit to funding for another two years and increase the funding from 4 million people being helped to 6 million people being helped. and bono says i m here to thank america for american leadership, for saving 5 million lives and talks a great deal about and gives a great deal of credit to george bush who stuck with this policy, who started it, who announced it in the state of the union and basically has been transformational in africa when it comes to this disease. people like bono and others working in africa talking about
as newt gingrich rises in the polls, there s growing scrutiny into his work after he left congress. the times reports through his health care made millions of dollars helping companies promote while gaining access to government officials. that s an outrageous accusation, yes, boo, yes, how dare you accuse a former congressman with no discernible skills of raking in cash by lobbying his former colleagues and future fellow lobbyists. we know, we know this isn t true of newt because newt s aides have pointed out he is not a registered lobbyist. and if he is not registered, he is not a lobbyist. the same reason i have not registered my audi a-8, legally it is not a car, which is why i can drive it on the sidewalk. it s beautiful! there s the tree. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 1st. we re counting down. can you believe it? welcome to morning joe. the tree does look beautiful. lit last night. i know a part of my family was there. with us onset we have the
the times reports through his health care made millions of dollars helping companies promote while gaining access to government officials. that s an outrageous accusation, yes, boo, yes, how dare you accuse a former congressman with no discernible skills of raking in cash by lobbying his former colleagues and future fellow lobbyists. we know, we know this isn t true of newt because newt s aides have pointed out he is not a registered lobbyist. and if he is not registered, he is not a lobbyist. the same reason i have not registered my audi a-8, legally it is not a car, which is why i can drive it on the sidewalk. it s beautiful! there s the tree. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 1st. we re counting down. can you believe it? welcome to morning joe. the tree does look beautiful. lit last night. i know a part of my family was there. with us onset we have the director of the earth institute at columbia university economist dr. jeffrey sachs, and we also hav