That they short. This is a startling development in a battle that has taken it to washington as both sides are preparing to meet the politicians who have it out to regulate wall street. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. This is your world. And in case those big hedge funds were looking for trouble, well, they found it for themselves. Because theyre going to put up quite a stink, quite a fight that theyre no ones tool, capitalist or otherwise. Charlie gasparino has more. Whats happening here . Neil, the speculation in these stocks has farranging implications. The markets are going nuts. The stocks are up and town. Gamestop is down dramatically. Somehow the focus get on hedge funds following comments by massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren who thought this was a good time to crack down on hedge funds. She seems to have some support in congress, and some republicans. The Hedge Fund Business is fighting back. Theyre worried about restrict Tiff Measures from congress that curtails what
headquarters in new york city on this presidents day. there are high stakes today. joe biden, the first president in modern history to travel to a war zone without u.s. troops already on the ground. the message his visit is sending to ukraine, america s allies and the american people as he gears up for another run at the white house. how is vladimir putin responding to the president s diplomatic slap in the face as the kremlin tries to spin something positive out of a war marked by frustration and failure? we ll have a live report from moscow coming up. and ron desantis welcoming political attacks from his fellow republicans saying this morning if, quote, people aren t firing at me, then i m not doing my job. but how long until he starts firing back? a lot to get to. let s start with president biden already on the move, heading to poland following the unannounced and unprecedented visit to ukraine taking the opportunity to literally stand with president volodymyr zelenskyy
Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Theres no shortage of news today in the legal troublesing the disgraced expresident and current gop front runner, including a third trump lawyer and fourth trump associate earlier today Pleading Guilty in the Fulton County Criminal Election interference case. We begin with a moment years in the making at Aen Manhattan courthouse. The disgraced expresident coming face to face with Michael Cohen, the former fixer who said he would take a bullet for donald trump now, Star Witness In That Civil Fraud Trial that threatens to bring down the trump business empire. Here is what Michael Cohen said on arrival at court today. Let me just turn around and say that this is not about donald trump vs. Michael cohen. This is about accountability, plain and simple. We leave it up to the judge in order to make all the duststorm nations. I thank you all for coming. A few hours later in what he called a, quote, heck of a reunion, he took the stand in the 250 million civi
vote counts. the departments found those claims were not credible. not credible, as in, there was no foreign interference. the kind trump allies, rudy giuliani, sidney powell and others repeatedly touted on the campaign trail as evidence to fuel their dangerous lie on the legitimacy of the november result. of course, that was just a small part of the disinformation apparatus that trump and his supporters deployed in the weeks and months surrounding the election. there was also the lie that china not so much russia was involved in a massive election manipulation campaign. here s donald trump breaking with his own fbi director christopher wray on that point. we ve certainly seen very active, very active efforts by the russians to influence our election in 2020 through maligned foreign influence side of things. social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, et cetera. an effort to both sow divisiveness and discord and i think the intelligence community has ass
considering lethal assistance. msnbc s janice mackay fair is in beijing. reporter: china is hitting back to the idea that beijing is considering military assistance to russia in the war with ukraine. a spokesperson said, quote, it is the u.s. who has been continuously providing weapons to the war. the u.s. is not qualified to give orders to china. now, the timing of this warning from the u.s. is no coincidence. it comes as china s top diplomat, wang yi, is paying a visit to moscow. there are no details or any underlying intelligence the u.s. has that would prompt this sort of warning or explanation as to why the u.s. is being so public in its thoughts on beijing. this is not a new concern for the u.s. given the close personal ties between the leaders of china and russia. now, officially wang yi has said that china s position on ukraine is one of promoing peace tangs.