classified documents. what he wanted his lawyer to tell the national archives. also ahead, another headline making moment for herschel walker s senate campaign. as new documents reveal the pro-life republican appears to have paid for an abortion. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, october 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for starting your day us with. we have a new development in the mar-a-lago document case. the washington post reporting that former president donald trump asked one of his lawyers early 2022 to tell the national archives that trump had returned all materials requested by the agency. but that lawyer, alex cannon, declined to do so because he was not sure if that claim was true. that s according to people familiar with the matter. we now know that in fact that was not accurate. thousands more government documents, some highly classified, were found at mar-a-lago through a grand jury subpoena back in may and then, of course, that
so let s get started, and we begin with the latest meeting of the world s major oil producing nations - 0pec+. world leaders, including president biden and the uk prime minister, are hoping the group will agree to pump more oil and ease energy prices that is fuelling inflation. in a bid to increase pressure, joe biden is headed to saudi arabia next month for meetings. but so far the signs are the oil producers group, which includes russia, is unwilling to budge. opec nations produce around 30% of the world s crude oil, about 28 million barrels a day. let s talk this through with spencer welch oil analyst with s&p global. good morning to you. in the last month they had agreed to increase production a teeny tiny bit. but what is their argument for not increasing it more now? more now? good morning, actually more now? good morning, actually they more now? good morning, actually they have - more now? good morning, actually they have been - actually they have been increasin
The programme. Turning back time on a family business. Later in the programme well speak to the young entrepreneur whos hoping to revive the watch making company set up my his ancestors. And according to the trade union congress, todays the day that an average Chief Executive in the uk has earned as much as an average worker in a whole year, so we want to know, are they worth it . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. In a few hours well receive the latest Inflation Figures for the Eurozone Economy. The block managed growth of 0. 3 in the Third Quarter of last year and a sustained rise in prices could lead to the scaling back of the European Central banks de facto money printing program. As you can see here, there has been a marked improvement in the rate of inflation for the block and in yellow you can see the 1 Inflation Rate that economists are predicting for the last month of 2016. Although this is still some way below the European Central banks Target Ofjust u
from four days after the attack saying that his only regret about january 6th is that the group should have brought rifles. he added that they could have, quote, fixed it right then and there if they had weapons with them at the capitol. the new york times notes that because of the wealth of evidence, the trial is less likely to focus on what the group did and suppose to why they did it. joining us now is former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquaid. thank you for being with us. the trump s lawyer refused the former president s request last february to say that all of the documents had been returned to the national archives. yeah. this lawyer, alex cannon, could end up being a he really important witness in a case.
today also all indications pointing to a more positive side. and it is weaker coming out of the u.s. we have this manufacturing numbers yesterday, 2 1/2 years old, the thinking is that this may afford the fed to be slightly less hawk wish their hiking cycle which will be a good thing, actually, for stock markets. that s why we have the positive reaction yesterday. all right. we ll keep our fingers crossed. the oil producers group opec plus plans to reduce output by one million barrels a day. what are the analysts saying? do they forecast this could lead to oil prices soon returning to 100 plus dollars? that s right. so we re all watching this event very, very closely. this is the first meeting since the beginning of the pandemic and over two years. and the expectation is they re going to go for a hefty output