Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
Host we regularly ask you about your trust or confidence in institutions, Government Agencies, individuals, confidence in the military, cdc, irs, and the economy to name a few. But what about organizations who wrote or on that . News media . Monday, august 14, many of you have probably by now watched or read if you news stories this morning. Do you trust of the news media . That is our question in the first hour of the program. We will look at several stories on that but mostly we want to hear from you. If you say yes, the line to call is 202 7488000. If your answer is no, 202 7488001. If you are unsure, trust some, some a little less, 202 7488002 would be the line to call. You can also send us a text, 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from, first. We are on facebook and on what used to be called twitter. You can find us cspanwj. We welcome your posts on social media. We spend your the first hour looking at your level of trust and how you get your daily news stor
Or, alternatively, trump can take his phone with him but his Defense Counsel has to babysit him to make sure he does not copy anything onto his phone. And if the defendant takes notes, regarding sensitive materials, the Defense Council must inspect those notes. It is sort of like the sats, only its all part of a federal criminal indictment. As the prosecution argued for that provision, they noted dryly and pointedly, trump has shown a tendency, a desire to hold on to material which he should not have. Yes, that is correct, trump was caught having taken more than 300 classified documents with him to his Florida Beach house when he left the white house. The reason this all had to be ironed out today is because Special Counsel smiths team is going to start handing trumps Team Evidence to review before they all go to trial. Those rules are part of a much larger protective order that judge chutkan ordered today, outlying what evidence trump cannot share from this case outside court. And we
Willie, what do fox news viewers who are lied to with great regularity on some of these issues, what do they think when neil cavuto is there going, yeah, no, none of that is right . Yeah. Fact checking. I was smiling because you can hear the lawyers for fox news in the anchors ear, 787 million. The hit they took for lying about certain elements of the election. Hes telling the truth. It is a verifiable, Objective Truth that a lot of people still reject. Neil cavuto says theres no doubt about it anymore, but, sadly, there is doubt in americans minds because of the lies theyve been fed for all of these years. Yeah, for so many years. Majority, actually, of republicans believe the lies that are spread by chinese religious cults and, unfortunately, by networks of america and politicians, too. You know, we showed very briefly that clip of biden going to the border. We heard at the end of Way Too Early that theres a belief, tom suozzi believes, hey, he won on long island by leaning into the
Important discussions we have had this week. The Supreme Court has agreed now to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal Election Interference case. We it will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled arguments for april 22nd, and a final ruling might not come until months later at the end of the term in june. If the court ruled in favor of trump the special counsels charges would be dismissed. The u. S. Court of appeals unanimously ruled trump does not have absolute immunity. The Supreme Court does affirmed that, the delays still would push the start of the trial probably into the fall. Lets bring in former litigator and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, and former u. S. Attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. Good morning to you both. Lisa, lets pause for a moment, i think this was shocking used a lot of people, lets talk about what the decision is and what it is not, it does not mean the supreme agrees that donal