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The rally itself to resuming, but weakening into the final stretch, all following yesterdays steep selloff, perhaps on continued hopes today and expectations of rate cut sometime later this year. We are going to bring in our experts on all of that in just a moment. Let me show you the major outages. We have been green all day but weakening as we enter the final stretch. We are Still Holding on, but the dow is only good for about 15 points. Nasdaq has been the out performer. Cut those gains in half, the mega stocks, many of them bouncing back. Nvidia is still positive moving toward 900 a share. Meta is in the green, as well. Apple, microsoft, alphabet, tesla, are all ready now. How about crowdstrike . Those shares are higher after his own earnings report. A lot coming in after palo alto and that stock went down, not so much for crowd. A lot in todays session, near 11 . That takes us to the talk of the tape, rally and risk, how many are front and center, given todays developments. Lets w
Viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Im lynda kinkade. Welcome to cnn newsroom. Coming up we call it a sham indictment. The man whos doing it, we really believe hes mentally ill. Donald trump continuing his pattern of stunning public statements on his indictment a day after running into legal trouble for comments he posted online. Coup leaders in niger face an ultimatum. Reinstate the president today or face potential Military Intervention. Well have a live report from the region. And were an hour away from the u. S. Facing off against sweden in the womens world cup and the excitement is building. Well take you live to a World Cup Watch Party in New York City. A new deadline and a new legal ruling in the latest indictment of donald trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has responded to a court filing from Special Counsel jack smith last night. Smith wants the protective order after trump posted this. Quote, if you go after me, im co
Section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place in waco with the Branch Davidians in 1993. And then think through some of the consequences and implications of what happened there and then of of the way that the cult has been applied in context and and others. So so thats thats roughly the the agenda for today. I want to start out since this is so
Class in. Inventing religion in america and we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians and in particular using Eugene Gallagher and james tappers why waco to to shape our conversation is. I think i explained at the beginning of the course or at least the beginning of this this section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place i