Game. So well see how it all turns out, but again i say president ial immunity, very powerful president ial immunity is imperative or you practically wont have a country anymore. An ominous warning about donald trump following pivotal arguments on president ial immunity. Well play key moments from the justices and what theyre now poised to do as they learn of trumps actions. Plus what we learned of david pecker during had hush money trial as well as Instrumental Role in payments to kill stories about trump ahead of the 2016 election. And new ads to court nikki haley supporters. Well discuss the swing state where he plans to make his appeal and why. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, april 26th. Im ali vitally in for jonathan lemire. And we begin this morning with yesterdays historic morning at Supreme Court where the justices heard Oral Arguments regarding Donald Trumps claim that hes immune from prosecution from his official acts while president. Nbc senior Lega
Justices seem divided as they debated trumps Immunity Claim for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Youll hear their remarks with one justice raising concerns that shielding president s from prosecution could turn the oval office into a seat of criminality. Plus, this morning, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker is set to return to the stand in the hush money case with Defense Attorneys continuing their crossexamination. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, april 26th. With us, former white house Director Of Communications for president obama, jennifer palmieri. Cohost of the podcast how to win 2024. Rogers chair and the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham. And our legal analyst, former litigaor and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin. Former u. S. Attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquade. Good morning to you all. Lets dive right in with yesterdays historic day at the Supreme Court where the justices he
but let s start with the war in ukraine. on thursday leaders agreed use the interest from frozen russian assets to raise $50 billion for kyiv s war effort, plus humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts. the g7 countries which include the us, canada, britain, france, germany, japan and italy are sitting on about $300 billion in seized russian assets. meanwhile, speaking in moscow, president vladimir putin on friday laid out his terms for a ceasefire. mr putin demanded ukraine withdraw from four regions of ukraine that are partially occupied by russia and abandon efforts tojoin nato. both ukraine and the west dismissed the proposal. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale is following reaction and the latest from the g7 in italy. the war in ukraine has been fought on the reference. you have the fighting on the ground, the industrial arms race to generate as much ammunition as possible, and then you ve got the global diplomatic battle for international opinion.
on thursday, leaders agreed to use the interest from frozen russian assets to raise $50 billion for kyiv s war effort plus humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts. the g7 countries, which include the us, canada, britain, france, germany, japan and italy, are sitting on about $300 billion in seized russian assets. meanwhile, speaking in moscow, president vladimir putin on friday laid out his terms for a ceasefire. mr putin demanded ukraine withdraw from four regions of ukraine that are partially occupied by russia, and abandon efforts tojoin nato. both ukraine and the west dismissed the proposal. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky called it an ultimatum similar to a move made by adolf hitler in the past. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale is following reaction and the latest from the g7 in italy. the war in ukraine is being fought on three fronts. you have the fighting on the ground, you ve got the industrial arms race to generate as much ammunition as
Just under 30 minutes to the close of trading. The stoxx 600 snapping three days of gains, the longest run in a month for europes equity benchmark. Financials leading the losses. Part of that driven by lower bond yields we were seeing earlier in the session. Most Industry Groups in the red and in the green, you do have utilities outperforming. I will about metals in just a moment, but first, a great chart showing european docs. The pricetobook ratio compared to the s p 500 pricetobook, european stocks are at their cheapest versus u. S. Stocks on record by this measure at least. That is something to keep an eye on when we talk about where investors should be putting their money in the equity markets. Looking at the euro, i talked about the ecb accounts and the fact that we got some signals that the ecb with concerns about a stronger euro, so we did see the euro dipped just after thes accounts came out. It has recovered ever so slightly, but we are down to 10 support of a percent on euro