After the us justice department sued america s largest card network, accusing the company of illegally monopolising the debit card market and driving up prices for businesses and consumers. Lifting us financial markets, well, there was a sharp rise in al darling nvidia s stock price. That was after the company said its ceo, jensen huang, was done selling stock in the chip maker for now. And china s wave of stimulus to jolt its ailing economy, well, that also boosted us stocks that have exposure to china. So far this week, it has been light on the economic front, with investors still digesting that rate cut from the federal reserve. But on the economic calendar, things should pick up as the week goes forward. As michelle mentioned, the usjustice department has filed a lawsuit against visa. It says the world s largest payments processor illegally stifled competition to maintain a monopoly over the us debit card market, through means like paying off potential competitors. Visa says the cl
Exploding pagers and now Walkie Talkies across lebanon. Israel says theyre opening a new phase in the war. Whats their strategy . And more leaks from whitehall, with a Bbc Story on Sue Grays pay. Whats going on behind the door of number 10 . Welcome to newsnight, live each night with insight and interviews. Our panel David Yelland, the presenter of the Hit Podcast about crIsIs management, when it hits the fan. Davids a former editor of the sun. Also political commentator Tom Harwood. And it wouldnt be newsnight without nick watt, our political editor. Tonight, hes got fresh intelligence on divIsions in the number 10 operation. But first, were going to look at Israels Strategy following the exploding Walkie Talkies In Lebanon. Yesterday, we covered the story about the exploding pagers. Multiple sources say mossad, the Israeli spy agency, was targeting hezbollah fighters. Daniel levy Is a former official negotiator for the Israeli government in Peace Talks with the palestinians hes now c
happy thursday, everybody. so sometimes the univers einsometimes the univers you that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. like jesse watters getting jesse the 8 p.m. hour after being diagnosed with micro. yes here s here s another example. the wildly popular comedian named shane gillis.me if you ve never heard of them, here s a taste. the tonight, the united states killed the leader of isis. trump comes out of the situation room at midnight. he walks up and for the entire world at midnight just goes abu bakr al-baghdadi is dead. he died like a dog in front of of the whole world. abu, we can hear him crying ,said abu, don t let me tell you something. abu kraidy great, great. a bit. i wouldn t have crie quitd, right?ve crie baghdadi that s when we were all going. he s funny and he does trump better than alec. tha plus, plus, he hasn t shot anyone yet.. but what s special about gillis is that he beat cancel culture.e in 2019, he was hired as a cast me
and the most important thing is, it doesn t have to be absolutely true, it has to be supportable. they have to prove that i was deliberately lying, which i wasn t. you know, it s so fascinating about what he just did there. yeah, it s good stuff. good stuff. it is as if he read david french s column yesterday in the new york times talking about maga man. mm-hmm. and what it takes to be a maga man. he mentioned rudy giuliani as the prime example but listed mark meadows, kari lake, listed a number of other people who may have all done different things in the past, may have all had different backgrounds, different political ideologies, but the key was once they became infected by trump, there were two things you had to do. yeah. again, david french wrote this before rudy went on and lied again last night. he said, number one, you have to lie. the key is, if you re going to follow donald trump, if you re going to be a part of donald trump s team, you ve got to be
viewers. i m max foster. bianca is off for the day. but just ahead this is the first time we re seeing this scare happening in washington. the white house and both sides of pennsylvania avenue going to grasp the consequence of what is happening right now. stop playing games, stop blaming somebody else. we got 30 daysys to do it. and a simple request that turned in to a violent situation. and we don t know where he is and we don t have any tips. writers in hollywood are underpaid. there is a tremendous amount of content, but they are not getting the compensation that they want. at some point they have to take a stand. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. and it is tuesday, may 2, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where u.s. secretary janet yellen is asking congress to overt what could become a global catastrophe. and she warns that the u.s. could default by june 1. and she says that the impact could rob not