The cac and ftse are weaker. But spain has picked up, 1. 2 gains there after the catalonians did not go ahead and declare independence lets look at whats happening with crude oil prices. Yesterday another gain in crude oil prices this morning up 41 cents now talking about wti above 51, 51. 33. A couple other stories were watching china urging the United States to halt the threats of violence against north korea. Chinas communist party own newspaper saying the war on the Korean Peninsula would be craftic and dialogue remains the best option. Concluding trumps strategy could backfire bigley. They used bigley . They used bigley. Yesterday the u. S. Flew two bombers over the Korean Peninsula in a show of force fireeye reports that hackers linked to north korea north korea recently targeted electric Power Companies using fake invitations to a fundraiser to target victims on todays wall street agenda minutes from the fomc meeting come out at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time we will hear from charles
Debates. Hans nichols, great to see you. I will be reading axios in a little bit. You can sign up for the newsletter at signup. Axios. Com. That does it for me this morning. Im yasmin vossoughian. Morning joe starts right now. Having the two men appear on camera worldwide to all of planet earth was a statement that will be understood very well by north korea. This president , ill tell you, is the most informed person on planet earth when it comes to the threats that we face. On planet earth. Okay. All right. Good morning, and welcome to morning joe. Whats that about . I have they been its a lot. Its about him. Its wednesday, july 1st seen like lost in space, willie . He needs to feel big. Like warning, warning. Whats going on . These people are weird. Yeah. Theyre just strange people. Along with joe, willie and me, we have they know theyre i was just going to say, they know what their job is. They know why theyre sent out there, so they go to the most extreme statements they can possib
Hardship and heart break were everywhere, but president ial leadership came swiftly and effectively with an extraordinary rescue for health and safety to successfully fight the covid virus. Boy, that was something. Do you remember we were in the middle of that pandemic. That was something. Man. We never thought that would pass. That pandemic was bad. Just like cancer. That was remember when people used to get can terrible. Oh, wait. Theres still people dying from the coronavirus. Were moving towards 180,000 dead so im not really sure why larry cud lokudlow who used to about it going away quickly, im not sure why hes talking about it in the past tense but, of course, he is consistent if nothing else. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, august 26th. Along with me weve got willie. Also nbc news and msnbc contributor Shawna Thomas host of msnbc nation and reverend al sharpton. Mika will be back tomorrow. Willie, were going to get to the big take aways from night two of
President asked him to his face to back off the flynn investigation, a claim that could bolster allegations that the president tried to obstruct justice. Well, the explosive hearing is set for next thursday, as i said. That is if President Trump doesnt try to block comey from talking. As the New York Times reported late last night, quote, putting the highly anticipated hearing on the calendar would force mr. Trump to decide whether to invoke executive privilege and try to prevent mr. Comey from testifying. Well, thats because courts have recognized a president s constitutional right to keep his discussions a secret in most ip stances. However, trump might have already weakened his case when it comes to his right of privacy here. Thats because hes publicly commented on his conversations already with the former fbi director on multiple occasions. Lets take a look at how these characterized those exchanges with comey. Did you ask am i under investigation . I actually asked him, yes. I sai
Their shoulders after federal prosecutors determined that the president directed a pair of campaign felonies which basically defrauded voters. And believe it or not, thats not even close to our top story tonight. Our top story is oval Office Battle royal involving the president and Democratic Leadership over a border wall and a Government Shutdown fight, televised for everyone to see, with a partial Government Shutdown looming in ten days. Both sides publicly displayed, well, outright contempt for the other. It was sort of the first day what divided governments really going to look like and culminated with the president declaring he will be proud to shut down his own government if he doesnt get what he wants. You know what, we need Border Security. Thats what were going to be talking about, Border Security. If we dont have Border Security, we will shut down the government. One thing i think we can agree on is we shouldnt shut down the government because of a dispute. You want to shut i