plus a look ahead at what is expected to be one of the key political storylines of 2023. trump versus desantis. more on that ahead. we are going to start with some breaking news. kevin mccarthy set to hold a call with a gop conference in about an hour s time. he s facing some tough numbers in his fight for the house speaker. abc s ali roth joins me now from capitol hill. ali, what more can you tell us about your scoop. just about an hour from now, this big gop meeting. yeah, lindsay, my colleague haley talbot and i getting the scoop about an hour ago that really explains what kevin mccarthy is doing in these last two days before that make-or-break moment, the speaker s election on tuesday. sources are telling us that in less than an hour at 4 pm he s going to hold this call with members of the house gop caucus, really trying to solidify every last gop vote, every ounce of support he can be for that critical vote on tuesday. the last thing he wants to happen is for, is to no
Maria good friday morning everyone, thank you so much for joining us. I hope you have a good friday. I am maria bartiromo, friday ma. Your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. All that jobs, features indicating a rally ahead of the april jobs report this morning. Stocks are higher across the board, the dow industrial of 300 points about three quarters of 1 , the nasdaq up 109 and s p 500 higher by 18 and a quarter all of this ahead of the jobs report 8 30 a. M. Eastern all hands on deck to break down the market moving numbers up for the april jobs report coming up. Take a look at Interest Rates going into the number yields pulling back on the tenure sitting at 4. 57 . Apple, the big story, stocks reporting after the bell iphone sales falling last quarter as good revenue as competition coming after china is spiking but the stock is up regardless, wait till you hear why, treasury secretary janet yellen getting political while speaking in arizona, we will break down the treasury sec
All right. Im the assistant managing editor for politics at the los angeles times. I do lots of work usc and even though im a berkeley grad, i manage to come to usc all the time. I was just here for fest valve books over the weekend. Thank you for being here. I hope its been a great conference. I have actually been on maternity leave. Im just finishing up and going back to work next week. Its been really interesting for me to sort of absorb President Trumps first 100 days not covering it. Im looking what the my colleagues are doing and all the analysis here is very important for everybody at this marker. So without further ado, im going toinlt deuce this panel. Starting with robert english. Hes an associate professor of International Relations here at uc and he previously served as a policiantively for the department of defense. Joel pollack, am i pronouncing that correct sfli hes the Senior Editor at large for an in House Counsel for brightbart. He also is the awe thofr a book you may
All right. Im the assistant managing editor for politics at the los angeles times. I do lots of work usc and even though im a berkeley grad, i manage to come to usc all the time. I was just here for fest valve books over the weekend. Thank you for being here. I hope its been a great conference. I have actually been on maternity leave. Im just finishing up and going back to work next week. Its been really interesting for me to sort of absorb President Trumps first 100 days not covering it. Im looking what the my colleagues are doing and all the analysis here is very important for everybody at this marker. So without further ado, im going toinlt deuce this panel. Starting with robert english. Hes an associate professor of International Relations here at uc and he previously served as a policiantively for the department of defense. Joel pollack, am i pronouncing that correct sfli hes the Senior Editor at large for an in House Counsel for brightbart. He also is the awe thofr a book you may
Puncture the ceasefire, and a year after the loss of mh370,relatives are no closer to knowing what happened to their loved ones. Ed chad and niger have launched a ground and air offensive against boko haram in in northeastern nigeria. A convoy of more than 200 vehicles is heading towards the nigerian boarder. The offensive came after the African Union created a Regional Force of up to 10,000 to join the fight against boko haram. We have this report from abuja. Reporter for nigerias neighbours the fight against boko haram has taken a new urgency. The operation of troops it from chad and niger from the group is underway. The objective is to push the fighters into a corner ahead of an onslaught. More than 30 towns and villages have been liberated from the fighters since chad and niger joined efforts to fight the group. For niger, chad and cameroon defeating boko haram is crucial. 5 years of violence cut off trade between them. Theres a fever if the group is left unchecked, it will be a bi