With jake tapper starts right now the man trump calls old crow, is flying the coop the leads Ich Mcconnell there with his own 2024 plants, stepping down as Senate Republican leader, though hes going to stay on as a senator from kentucky. The new era of republican politics. Now, loading as a new highstakes restate kicks into gear to replace mcconnell, odds are the winter will likely be an old white guy named John Plus A Monster Wildfire in Texas Exploding at one point burning through 150 football fields a minute charring through land 11 size 11 times the size of washington, dc. Were going to go live on the ground as this fire and wide open land prompts evacuations in its path and President Bidens date with the dr. The report, do any moments after his annual physical welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start with our Politics Lead and the end of an era on capitol hill, senator Mitch Mcconnell, the longest serving Congressional Party leader in american history, announced today hes ste
Citing alibaba to cut prices by as much as 55 for more than 100 products. Alibaba currently trading down 0. 6 . In the markets it is trepidation. Investors waiting for that crucial pce data out of the u. S. On thursday after a hotter than expected cpi data, prompting questions about perhaps what signs may be gleaned from the data to suggest what the fed might do with rate cuts. Bear in mind, Market Expectations now coming to about an 80 basis point car from the year, down from that 150 basis point level. In the broad market in terms of the Chinese Market, inching higher at this point in time. Csi 300 index up by 1. 6 . Still, there are concerns despite more Foreign Investors pouring money into the Chinese Markets, concerns about the clampdown prompting the expectations of more meddling by china. Gains due for the philippines and malaysia. The nikkei 225 currently consolidating, down 0. 6 after reaching new record highs. In terms of the fx space we have the yen trading at 149. 78, below
His company a few weeks ago. There were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. He is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. But he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that appeal. We have been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so e huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. So his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing the bond, for posting the bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they had been unable to obtain a bond. They said they had reached out to 30 Different Insurance Companies but nobody would help him post a bond of that size. At that point, it looked like new yorks attorney general, who brought this fraud case in the first place, the a. G. Might be about to start seizing trumps Bank Accounts and seizing his properties to secure the judgment. But then, you may recall, there was sort of a lastminute f reprieve for trump. A new
We arranged for all of that to happen in that hour as hazing for you. Youre in the frat, dont worry. Thank you, rachel. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. Right off the top, there has been Breaking News in the last hour or so. In a couple of the legal cases involving former president donald trump, one of these we have been watching for a few weeks. He lost a big fraud case against his company a few weeks ago. There were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. He is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. But he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that appeal. We have been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so huge, the bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars. So his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing the bond, for posting the bond approached, his lawyers told the court that they had been unable to obtain a
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