by kenneth chesebro, and it s gonna affect how this all plays out. and donald trump s lawyers came in right behind that, saying that if this motion is granted, we want a severance. they want to separate? exactly. they said of any other defendants ask for the same they want to be separated from them as well. it s a good question about what the tactical advantages for kenneth chesebro. could be a couple of things. he could be hoping that the dea is not ready. when i was a prosecutor i used to worry about this. what if someone demands a speedy trial. we re not necessarily ready. i would guess that she is ready. and maybe they want a speedy trial. the reason what we have the speedy trial protections of the constitution is because people are not supposed to have cases lingering over them for longer than necessary. or it could be that this is a coordinated, tactical maneuver where it was basically decided that somebody go firstly. the canary in the coal mine. get out there,
just ahead on cnn newsroom. pushing back. donald trump s legal team says that a protective order proposed by the special counsel would infringe on his first amendment right. we will look at whether that has any legal merit. severe weather across the u.s. ripping off roofs, taking down power lines and disrupting more than 10,000 flights. details on the plot ukraine says it foiled to assassinate president volodymyr zelenskyy. good to have you with us. the judge in donald trump s election subversion case appears ready to move forward quickly. she is looking to schedule a hearing this week on how to handle evidence and what trump can say publicly about the case. prosecutors and defense attorneys are facing a three pm eastern deadline. 13 hours from now to come up with options. the justice department wants restrictions on trump. fearing that he could disclose sensitive information or intimidate potential witnesses. the former president s attorneys say that would infringe on his
we re seeing right now. we re trying to parse that out. that s what makes the markets so interesting. let s start here as we head into the final hour with where we stand on the major stock market indexes indexes. the dow is up 168 points and remember we ve had many, many more 1% swings this year than we had last year, and today by the way, we ve had them in both directions. the dow is up about 170. the s&p is up 18 points right now, nearly 1% there to 2085. the nasdaq adding 36. it s actually the underperformer on the session to 4,922. we ll also and we ll get to this in a moment talk about what we re seeing across the benchmark interest year 10-year. have to talk about oil as well. very strong. i don t know if you can show oil right now, but last i saw it was up about 5%. it s now 6.25% gain for u.s. oil. wti. that s at $52. brent north sea crude is at $58. that almost feels like a short squeeze. let s all make sense of this. all of our guests today except rick are o
here. none of his topics are facebook or twitter. he says social media stocks are out of control and should be out of your portfolio. also get a read on the economy ahead of friday s key jobs report and that s with bob nardelli. he s a little worried and he s here exclusively to tell us why. and united airlines launching a crackdown on carry-on luggage. we ll have a special report ahead. and in the markets right now as mentioned, the dow is off 40 points. the s&p 500 is now slightly negative 1,872 as we head to the final hour. joining us in our closing bell exchange, it s susanç fulton, nathan bachrach, steve fitzgerald, david kudlow, our own steve liesman and rick santelli. steve, i ll begin with you. what did the beige book tell us that seemed to confirm what everyone has been talking about, that one word that s dominated for the last two months, weather. i feel like i got hit with another storm. it got down to minus ten. the beige book mentions the word weather
Typically would draw the jury from the atlantic division which would be atlanta counties in the northern district of georgia. sometimes in cases where you don t think you will get enough people from just that division you major off to the entire district which means even in the north district where marjorie taylor greene s from and other people who might be favorable to trump, it expands further they need to do it. it would be unprecedented if they drew a large najarian south of georgia, because they needed to make sure they had enough people who did have some reconceive ideas about the case. that s what will be difficult here, the jury selection is going to go on for a long time, until they can find a panel of 12 an alternate will have no real feelings one where another about the former president. that becomes, i think, a difficulty. you and look at public polling on that. i mean, do you think