republican nomination, donald trump is bringing in a good deal of cash, but there are questions about where all that money is going. we ll look into it. also ahead, more on the story we ve been following all week. the cocaine found at the white house, we re learning where exactly it was discovered and who had access to that area. plus, treasury secretary janet yellen kicks off high-level meetings in china with criticism of how beijing treats american companies. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 7th. joe and mika off this morning. with us, the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. jen palmieri. and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. we re going to dive in with president defendant s co-defendant and personal aide, walt nauta. he has been arraigned on charges in the classified documents case. he pleaded not guilty in court in florida yesterday. this was the third attempt to arraign nauta, who was finally able to hire a
the slowdown in the factory of the world is deepening. and boeing awaits an inquest into the deaths of three british passengers who died in a 737 max crash. we start in china where the latest inflation figures have shown an alarming drop in factory gate prices that s the price of goods as they leave chinese factories. they ve fallen at the fastest pace in more than seven and a half years. it s the ninth month in a row that the producer price index has fallen, down 5.4% from a year earlier, marking the steepest decline since december 2015, as the difficult post covid recovery continues to weigh on demand. so that s changed the picture on the factory floor when it comes to what consumers are facing when buying goods and services, the consumer price index was unchanged year on year, compared with a slight gain in may, the slowest pace since february 2021. the us treasury secretary janet yellen has just left beijing following a four day visit in an attempt to bridge us china tr
questions swirl about who left it there? the new york post with this cover. snow white house. the president true to form ignoring reporters questions about any of it. [shouted questions] julie: while it was all unfolding. the optics raising serious questions about what is going on behind the scenes, about the democrats first son being a serious political liability. especially given the scandals in his private life, his recent plea deal and tax and gun cases and while there continue to be new revelations about his business dealings and biden influence peddling scheme there is more. there seems to be a political liability for the president when it comes to his son. last night the first son was spotted right there along with the first family for the fourth of july celebrations. we see hunter pop up at a number of different events including a recent state dinner. the white house refused to comment on its recent story, a deep dive on hunter biden s relationships and dau
picked by president xi, really plucked from obscurity from a relatively unimportant job to leap frog over all these other people competing for not only the foreign minister job, but he also has a special state councilor job. so two very big posts in china. and with his removal, first of all, his disappearance, very suspicious, last seen publicly by a u.s. official which was in june by secretary of state antony blinken, he hasn t been seen publicly for a month, was in the apparently at the yellen visit, at the john kerry visit, with henry kissinger. so this is all a very big change. he is being replaced by wang yi who will now be holding three jobs and almost no one can do that, so this is considered a temporary fix. and i m told that this has frozen bureaucratic decision making because he was such an
would be harmful to our overall economic relationship with one another. and we have had very little contact, both senior officials and also adjust the american people and the chinese people who have had very little contact with one another over the last several years, in part because of covid and that s a situation where misunderstandings can develop. janet mui is head of market analysis at rbc brewin dolphin. let s talk about the economic data in a moment, but first focus on the yellen visit. what signals does it send about direction of us china trading relationship? good afternoon. there has been no major breakthrough but i think it is a good communicative tour. janet