It all, the dax, the ftse and frances cac, all up this morning as you can see britain not, perhaps, with the uk, at least for now the uk. Maybe not that much longer. The 10year, there it is, 1. 57. Only a few weeks ago we were below 1. 4. I know. We have moved up. Oil at 44. Didnt think we would take it at 45. Inventory at 10 30 today. Lets get to the rest of our road map this morning and it start with more fireworks from the Republican National convention as we kick off day three in cleveland and carl, of course, as we said is there live. Shares of Morgan Stanley up in the premarket on earnings. We will dig into the numbers. Also ill be speaking to Ceo James Gorman later in the show this morning. And roger aisles future at fox is in question. It appears he will be leaving the network he founded after the Sexual Harassment claims. Were going to give you the latest details and what does it mean for 21st century fox, the company. But first, lets get to carl in cleveland. Carl . Hey, good
Times finds that months before the 2016 election, donald trump jr. Held a meeting at trump tower to field an offer to field help to win the election. That one took place in june from 2016. This newly discovered meeting took place two months later in august. According to several people with knowledge of the meeting, the emsayerry was george nader, a formal adviser to the uae with a shady past that includes a conviction on the child pornography charge in the 90s and whos now cooperating with robert mueller. Nader reportedly told donald trump jr. That the crown princes were able to help trump win the election. Also in and it attendance was joel zamel. The meeting was arranged by erik prince, the brother of betsy devos and the founder of the Security Firm blackwater. According to the times zamel had drawn up a proposal to use thousands of social media accounts to promote trump on facebook. The times source said trump responded approvingly. Joining me now clint watts. Jennifer reuben of the
about things relating to setting up contacts with the campaign and back channels and now this meeting. what do you make of it? so the involvement of erik prince, specifically, what do you make of that? i used to run into him while i was doing security contracting, all of the stories about what he was doing, like running the new private security force from columbia for the crown prince of the united arab emirates. he was the kind of guy that most westerners wanted to stay away from, but all the emiratesi wanted the pa nash of being around the blackwater guy. it is not a surprise to me that erik prince was the go-to guy for some secret operation to meet some secret russian oligarch. same thing for meeting, you know, george nader who is working for the crown prince of the united arab emirates and