trey: good evening and thank you fo trey: good evening and thank you for joining us, i m trey gowdy and it is sunday night in america. hamas released some hostages taken during the october 7 attack on israel, including a four-year-old american child, which may have you wondering what depraved group takes a four-year-old child in the first place? hamas does. the same group that orphaned that child by killing her mother and father. people of good conscience celebrate the release of that child, many still remain, deprived of life, liberty and likely humanity. hamas did not release hostages because it is the right thing to do, hamas only did so in exchange for palestinian prisoners and ground in the ground invasion in gaza. as fighting resumes, mediations are still ongoing. how do you even begin to negotiate with a terrorist group? joining us is hostage negotiator don o shay. you negotiate when e side doesn t seem to value life the same way the other side does? it is a chal
is under way. it sets the stage for a wednesday decision on whether they ll hike interest rates, or leave them unchanged. our business correspondent erin delmore reports from new york. what do you get when you add strong consumer spending? a tightjob market and remarkable growth. you get a resilient economy, an economy that defied earlier predictions of a recession and one that s not buckling under the weight of the fed s interest rate hikes. see, raising interest rates is the fed s best tool to combat persistently high inflation, which consumers have seen reflected in higher prices for nearly everything. and while inflation has fallen by half from itsjune 2022 high of 7%, it s still higher than the fed s target of 2%. earlier this year, federal reserve policymakers hinted that they may hike interest rates once more before the year is out. they ll have a chance this week or at their last meeting in december, or they could not do it at all. investors and economists are predict
litigation works its way through the court. early times. all right we ll keep an eye on that and have more on that coming up. joyce vance, great to have you on set with us in new york good to see you. good to be with you all. up next, the latest on the war in eastern europe as the biden administration shores up ukraine s military ahead of the country s expected counteroffensive. plus, russia appears to be benefitting from western weapons, as well we ll have new reporting on how moscow is skirting sanctions morning joe is coming right back are ya? let s tighten that. (fabric ripping) ooh. - wait, wh- wh- what was that? - huh? what, that? no, don t worry about that. here we go. - asking the right question can greatly impact your future. - are, are you qualified to do this? - what? - especially when it comes to your finances. - yeehaw! - do you have a question? - are you a certified financial planner™? - yes. i m a cfp® professional. - cfp® professionals are committed to act
they re all bank shills. that s what israel bank shills their shills for finance, of course, every single one of them, and particularly the utterly soulless nancy pelosi. she ll say anything on behalf of the banks. the banks love. so, of course, they want to make sure it continued. and that s why, according to amazing new analysis from the claremont institute, silicon valley bank brace yourself, spent more than seventy three million dollars on donations to blm and related organizations. wow. and this is not personal funds, apparently. is your bank funds, but kind of nice to have that money now. but it s hard to argue, even in retrospect now that svb has failed. that was a bad investment because even now, as banks are collapsing, no one in media is anxious to criticize banks almost no matter what they do, it doesn t matter what they do ,even if they were to just pulling us out of thin air, openly profiteer from the war in eastern europe that s killing hundreds of thousands of people.
fees tacked on? those things impact people s lives. they impact consumers. they are very popular. many republicans have voted against them. i expect the president will probably talk about them a lot more as he s out there in the country. the kind of things you talk about. totally. if you re running for re-election. jen psaki, thank you so much. thank you. glad you joined us this morning. we re going to be watching your state of the union analysis on peacock for more of your insight into the address and what s to come for president biden over the coming months. we ll also tune into that. thank you again, jen. up next on way too early, are republicans ignoring social and environment crises in their zeal to investigate the president? we ll dive into that question. coming up on morning joe, the latest from the war in eastern europe as russia seems prepared to launch new offensives in ukraine. we ll hear from the nato secretary general who is in washington for meetings wit