Now word overnight the next round of tariffs could escalate dramatically. Shifting blame. Heated statements and a 15,000 coat. A fast start to Paul Manaforts trial on financial crimes. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im Laura Jarrett in for christine romans. Good to see you, my friend. Im dave briggs, wednesday, august 1st, already, if you can believe it. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with a chilling story for Many Americans this morning. A federal judge flocking a Government Settlement that would allow for 3d printable guns for sale. You could print out the instructions to guns on the internet, if you can believe it or not. This is a terrifying ordeal for many parents in this country who simply know that their kid could be printing that at the moment. Now, the founder of the Gun Rights Group Defense Distributed says his companys site is going dark until he can review the judges order. Before the ruling came down, he spoke to cnns Laurie Segall
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It just is somebody that was so unique. I dont know what really shaped him. I dont know if it was his father, i dont know if it was the time. You didnt want to spend a lot of time talking about being in the hanoi hilton. He didnt want to talk too much about that. He just had a very quiet pride and a great humility and great sense of humor. A great determination. And great strength. You may have read all of the statements coming from former president s. But if thats any indication ive person that Wwas Boabove P statements from the clones, statements from barack obama as well as every george w. Bush all of these folks not necessarily in the history of his relationships with them were always good necessarily. Well, look the thing youve got to realize, this is something that is missing in todays politics. Being willing to stand up and take a principled position you know that was rational, something that made sense, it earns Great Respect. Even among people that dont agree with you. The abi
you 23450ed 30, 40 democrats right there. we think the number is going to be less than that. i am told for sure that they would have a majority of the majority, in other words the majority of all republicans. here is the other dynamic to watch, though. if you don t see all the republicans on the board who are for this, that they need to provide on their side, this is where you could have attrition on the democratic side. and they say wait a minute, if the majority is not even going to vote for this bill why should we haul the freight? and that s where there has to be the special level of trust between the house speaker and jeffries that each side is balanced in this. in 2008, i stood in this spot in september of 2008 and they did not have the votes to pass the tarp bill and the market went down with the vote on the floor. the reason is that there wasn t enough trust between the democrats and the republicans that they knew how many votes each side was going to provide.
financial crisis in the late 70s when they started doing it, even after the dot com, after 9/11, it s never been this low. this is, of course, a little above my pay grade, for everybody else here, symptomatic of the right track/wrong track of the country, the president s approval numbers, people are not happy. we can contribute an awful lot to inflation. most people alive today have never experienced the double digit inflation that mr. barnicle and i enjoyed in the late 70s. maybe it s a shock to the system. there are other things that have caused americans to be so, so pessimistic about the economy and everything else. actually, there s nothing else. obviously, inflation is terrible. people go and fill up their gas tank and, again, they re paying less now than they were before. grocery stores, there s supply chain problems. but this is nothing compared to what it was in september of 2008 when our entire economy was
than 1.6% yesterday. this follows news that the fed is likely to raise interest rates in two weeks to fight inflation despite the war in ukraine. meanwhile, oil prices are once again surging with crude oil trading as high as $115 a barrel, the highest since september of 2008. let s bring in cnbc s dominic chu. some companies are taking matters into their own hands in pushing back against russia. do we have you? mercedes-benz was halting production at its russian manufacturing facilities and halting eximportants of vehicles to russia. they re the latest to take steps to sever business ties with russia in the wake of putin s decision to go to war in ukraine. on the auto side, it s general motors and volvo, media companies from disney to sony