Good morning. Welcome to squawk box. Andrew ross sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off today well go straight to show you how the markets are reacting on the back of that news. S p looking to fall 60 points. The biggest premarket decliners on the you dow looking at boeing, intel and apple off in some cases more than 2 or 3 eamon javers has been covering this story all night and joins us now with the latest good morning. Some very tough news for the president , the first lady and their family as the president and first lady have tested positive first, there was a report of bloomberg that hope hicks, the campaign aid to the president , travels with him a lot, tested positive she was seen traveling with the president on air force one, often photographed without a mask as with we watch some of those pictures of hope hicks traveling with the president a lot of the senior aids there shortly after 1 00 a. M. East coast time sending out a letter saying the president and first lad
Overly rosy optimistic picture only to find out later that the president used oxygen briefly on multiple occasions at least 2 and also had a high fever at one point we are hearing there that in fact the has not had to have any fever reducing medication such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen in more than 72 hours so certainly the president s physician giving a positive outlook something that will be welcomed by the supporters behind me as the president now prepares to move to the white house south of here in about 3 hours time but again there would be a lot of questions that remain unanswered that reporters will be looking for you heard them there specifically the timeline when the president knew that he was potentially ill and why there wasnt more done to protect the many people around him as we see the numbers of people infected rising at the white house not just the press secretary kaley machinating but also we know other members of the press team the press corps and even. Resident staff
We begin with the call from Goldman Sachs to avoid apple, to sell it. John, to you first it is your biggest position. Is this the right call from Goldman Sachs reiterated to get out of apple all right were not hearing jon. Well work on that the steve, youve trimmed a bit of it what do you make of this call. We see apples recent Stock Performance and trading level as unsustainable and will continue to recommend that investors avoid this stock i did trim some a number of months ago its still my biggest position i trimmed it to me, apple is the market right here the stock does not deserve to be where it is but neither does the market and neither do a lot of stocks. I believe youre in front of the companys biggest Product Launch ever, which will be the 5g phone. The market is forgiving lot of the sins if youre looking at purely does it deserve to be here in a microscope looking at apple . No you can make that case on anything im not selling anything let me take that back. I may trim a litt
Quarantine it, will be a pretty strong enforcement of quarantine. The key is you have to have separation. We have to have separation or this thing takes longer to go away. But the real, really important, and i think you can say this for your country, i think we can say it for a lot of countries, for all countries hope fullly it is going a way. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths. You know, we call it cases, how many cases do you have . Relative to other countries we have very few cases. Relative to certain of major countries that really have a bigger problem than us. Interestingly i think we have the greatest doctors in the world. We offered iran assistance. Iran is having a tremendous problem and we have offered iran assistance if they would like it. We will help them. We would be glad to help them. Reporter mr. President , pentagon determined that iranian backed militia fired rockets that killed two american solders in iraq. Should they expect a response . I would rather
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