and wal-mart s bribery scandal hitting the stock. we ll talk about the fallout and whether such practices are systemic to doing practice internationally. new survey says do not expect a new merger boom. and apple posts earnings tomorrow night. we re all waiting, a report that could set the tone for the rest of the week given the companies market cap and influence. the first round of the french presidential elections. nicolas sarkozy coming in second. dutch prime minister set to offer his resignation. and data shows the eurozone contracted the sharpest pace in about five months. this would not be the day for good news out of europe. it is always important to kind of own up to when things don t look good. we had imf this week. let me give you a thesis that may be short term bad or longer term better. i think what is happening in the netherlands, these are revolts against no growth and fiscal osterity. it s very hard but we talk about this a lot. you need growth. there r
where you book matters. expedia. beautiful day outside in nan hatton, is it not? welcome back to morning joe. california congresswoman democrat maxine waters maintaining her innocence after an ethics panel outlined specific charges against her. in documents released yesterday, waters was accused of three counts of violating house rules by allowing her chief of staff to grant favors to a struggling massachusetts bank in which her husband owned stock. struggling. those allegations had been announced last week, but yesterday s release shifts the focus of the case somewhat to water s chief of star and grandson. waters is about to fight the charges in a trial before fellow house you can defend blago, i m going to defend maxine.
the daily news, planely nuts. they re calling him a wing nut. a wing nut. because this this hits me so close to home i m not going to go through the details of it. i may tear up. but what happened with this guy? well, basically he got into a fight with a passenger. it happened. the passenger was standing up when he was supposed to be sitting down. you know, you land the plane and people get up before they re supposed to. anyway, the guy wouldn t listen to him. so he just said, i ve had it. hurled a few expletives apparently. it happens. grabbed a beer. oh, did he get a beer fl two. wait, first the passenger hit the guy on the head with his suitcase. and the flight attendant said, please apologize, and the passenger refused to apologize. so the guy then dropped an f bomb on the passenger, then they got on the p.a. and dropped an f bomb on the whole plane. then pulled the chute, then grabbed two rogue sodas, two beers and went out in fact, to ge