money fraud. and the house republicans now war-gaming to attack the prosecutor. plus china s xi jinping touches down in moscow for his face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. xi says china and russia share key goals. unclear, though, is whether putin gets the help he wants from china for his war in ukraine. and $3 billion. a swiss bank spends big to take over its struggling rival. financial markets are reacting positively, but what does this mean for your money? a first for us, though, a week that could bring history, criminal charges against donald trump. the former president predicts as much saying he expects to be arrested tomorrow. new developments underscore the tension an high stakes. the issue, the 2016 hush money paid to adult film star actress stormy daniels. longtime fixer michel cohen made that payment. trump says cohen falsified business records in the process. robert costello is a trump-connected attorney who once represented michael cohen. costello asked
when there s life and light and love. and that if we can just get to the light and life and love, 51% of the time, then we are having a good day. and we are having a good era. don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and i think that america is a marvelous example of a human community that gets so much wrong but which knows intuitively that if you do the right thing, everybody benefits. and we have to see each other as neighbors and not as enemies. do not despair, do not give up, in the words of churchill, never, never, never give up. try john meacham, as always, thank you for being with us. i hope you and your family are having a great fourth of july weekend. that was joe s conversation with john meacham ahead of this july 4th holiday. erin o hearn picks up the coverage right now. good money. morning, john. don t go far. no holiday starting yet. good morning to you at home and welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, july 4th. we begin with the latest fr
Which i imagine mueller i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him. It would involve something that actually wasnt settled even to this day. Whats the conflict in. I have a good idea what it is. Its one that would have kept me out the investigation. All cleared up . Add to that this. Giuliani is not sure that collusion with russia that collusion with russia, if it happened, is a crime anyway. Is this the definition now of moving the goalposts . Regardless of goalpost moving, why then is the president spending so much time and at every turn will say that no collusion happened with russia if its now not a big deal and not a problem . Again, all cleared up . As far as Michael Cohen, the president s Attorney Says cohen doctored the tapes of his conversations with the president , says their experts agree. Now what . Abby phillip is at the white house. I would not fault anyone if their head was spinning today
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bondholders, it s not the way these situations go. but it s clear they could not let a global bank like credit suisse go down. it s connected to so many markets including the u.s. that s why we saw treasury officials come out very late last night and say they welcome the deal, as well as other central banks around the world. your team, bloomberg has done this, and a frequent guest of the program of the the new york times, over the weekend tweeting out the fed saw the risk of the svb a year before it collapsed. put it on acquisition, it didn t work. and the question is why? it s a big question. if you re on this crisis, call it what you will, and elizabeth warren says jerome powell is to blame. he s failing in both jobs, both in oversight and manager of these big banks which is his job and also what he s doing with inflation. i don t think he should be
election? there s a lot to juggle, clearly. we don t expect to hear from president biden directly about the january 6th hearings until they wrap up as jonathan noted, probably making that a campaign issue, it s easy to look and see what the white houses focus is. he said to head to cleveland later this week to talk about his economic agenda. and while the white house has said its primary focus is to tackle inflation and radon gas prices, there emphasizing there s only so much they can do well highlighting that inflation is a global issue. we have seen president biden over the weekend tweeting at oil executives, asking them to bring prices down because americans are paying such high premiums at the park. we have also seen his suggestion for the federal gas tax to be limited. but that s something that congress has to do. and on the abortion-rights side, that something is also kind of punting to congress. we saw him call that decision by the supreme court a terrible