That company is the saudio oil giant saudi aramco, and its feeling the effects of lower oil prices, lower than expected demand from china, and thinner Profit Margins for refining oil. Between april and june, the company made a Profit Ofjust over 30 billion, lot of money by anyone s metric, but significantly down from more than the 48 billion it made in the same period a year ago. The main reason is, as you can see here, that oil prices during the period were at the lowest point in the last year, as the boost they got from russias invasion of ukraine wore off. And last week, in an effort to keep them that way, saudi arabia said it would only produce nine Million Barrels a day. That extended Production Cuts by the 0pec group of big oil producers, who profit more from a higher price. When it comes to saudi aramco, those higher prices mean higher Dividend Payments for shareholders, and its boosted those to nearly 30 billion in the current period. So i put it to our middle east Business Cor
Of sight, out ofout of mind, an. Good reason, because joe ise joe deeply. His approval rating, itr. Is hovering in the lowoval rat. Biden he is hemorrhaging support among black latinoters and young voters. President is also struggling to raise money. Donations have dipped significantly since 2020, and the majority of americans think biden has an ethics problem. You think . No surprise there. But now his campaign is tryingd to capitalize on joes malevolent sidm. E with new dark brand and merchandise, merchandise that is sure to save the day, dont you think . Joining us now with reaction, Fox News Contributor concha fox and Friends Weekend cohost prll caix n and former Senior Adviser to president bill clinton, doug schoees cline well, i was going to start by asking you if you plan to get dark branded mugs for fox and friends like were doing on outnumbered. But dark bt i wont stop there. 10. 2 million. That is what joe biden got in small dollar donations, 200 or less. That is half of what
Count. There were seven swing states in the 2020 president ial election. Arizona, georgia, nevada, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and North Carolinasix of them won byjoe biden six of them won byjoe biden all of them crucial this time around, in the race to 270 Electoral College votes. In the popular Votejoe Biden won the 2020 election by Seven Million votes. But look how narrow it was in some of these swing states in arizona, joe biden won by 10,167 votes. In georgia, which biden also won, the difference was 11,779 votes. And in nevada, biden won the state by 33,596 votes. Three states which could decide this election, the two candidates separated byjust 55,832. But for democrats the polls spell trouble. In all these states right now. Trump is winning. Across all seven states, 48 of voters said they would back trump, 43 would back biden. We saw just the we sawjust the other week we saw just the other week that the issue of israel becomes very important. If that were beat to be repea
sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi
baier. alexandria hoff is live with what s happening on the campaign trail. reporter: we don t know in totally who s going to take part in this debate like former president trump. last night he skipped the campaigning in iowa. the caucuses are exactly six months away, and some republicans feel lashing out against a popular republican governor is a misten by trump. the former president sat down with maria bartiromo for an interview tomorrow on sunday morning futures. if people think trump is going to be elected, you ll never have a recession. if people think i m not, you re going to have a depression. reporter: again, the former president has yet to commit to next month s debate. former e governor chris christie and senator tim scott are the latest candidates to have met the rnc donor requirements the take part. today is the filing deadline for campaigns to turn over their april to june fund raising reports to the fec. these are the totals as of yesterday. today s repo