tornados tear through texas and louisiana, right now more than 60 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. ammunition on the agenda today. president biden meeting the german chancellor and sending more firepower to ukraine. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just hours from now, tau alex murdaugh will stand in a courtroom to learn his fate. a judge will issentence him for murdering his own wife and son. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. the jury heard six weeks of testimony but took less than three hours to convict him. murdaugh now facing a possible 30 years behind bars. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is, it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina.
we need to take some action because there should be no other child that should suffer the way my son and all the other parents here have lost their children. we need to get that bill passed. the parents of tyre nichols calling for action as their son is laid to rest. we ll have much more from yesterday s service and the push to pass police reform. plus president joe biden and house leader kevin mccarthy take the first step to finding common ground on the debt ceiling. and also ahead, another day, another scandalous headline for one george santos. this one involves the fbi. we ll tell you what the feds are investigating. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 2nd, ground-hog day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with the investigation into president joe biden s mishandling of classified documents in another consensual search of one of the president s homes by the fbi. a personal attorney f
countries. and you are seeing what is really just a massive growth despite the macro. more cash than some countries. a good way to put it. with more fears about inflation, potential recession, the fed continuing to keep interest rates higher, what does somebody investing in tech how do you position for this year? i think going into this year, i think the new york city cab driver was bare requirebearish . and in my opinion, tech un underinvested since 2009, 2010 and that is when you look at names like microsoft, apple, you look at semis, in our opinion despite the fed and some of the white knuckles, we are buying tech stocks here. names in the s&p 500. so passive investors in their 401(k), what he is saying is probably good news. nice to see you. just hours from now, alex murdaugh is facing sentencing for the murder of his wife and son.
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jackie: welcome back. new year, same hot crisis. goldman sachs says the inflation will get worse before it gets better. so what is in store for 2022? with me now, brian brenberg. great to see you. we ve been talking about inflation. people are talking about the pinch. there s no relief in sight. goldman sachs is saying it will be here awhile. yeah, the problem, jackie is nothing is changing. inflation will be around in 2022. there s nothing changes at the policy level. all year we ve had this problem because businesses can t fill jobs. they ve had mandates hanging over their head. they don t know who they can bring on, what the status of the workers has to be to come in to the office. changes week by week seems like. you have the fed continuing to pump money into this economy at an incredible rate. now we re talking about schools