chris palmeri has been covered is the four years.hris, it boggles the mind, a situation like that, who is winning the endorsement race right now? chris: if you had asked me earlier this week, i would have said bob iger, he really was the winner of a lot of key endorsements. george lucas, jamie dimon, members of the disney family who had been critical of him in the past supported him. proxy advisors, all going into this meeting. yesterday, a monkey wrench. one of the largest proxy advisors came out in support of peltz. as did some board members. it made the contest a little bit more iffy. vonnie: yeah, what are they endorsing him for? what would he do on the board? chris: p issued a 133 page white paper making a lot of criticism of disney, much of which is valid. they have done poorly over the last five years. he was light on specific things he's saying he would do. as a part of his campaign he has done a lot of media interviews and people have pointed out that that is often the case with him, he doesn't have a lot of specific ideas b

haidi: that was our senior editor for media and entertainment, chris palmeri.ets are faring. we are getting into the trading session. you are seeing some slight weakness, but broadly, this has been some do training. u.s. stocks are a little lower and the prize session. big tech did feel the brunt of that, but trade is bracing for the u.s. ppi data following the cpi rating that came in hotter than expected, so that is the trend we are forecasting with producer price inflation numbers and retail sales is where we expect a pickup from the january reading. u.s. ppi is the last inflation data before the fed meeting next week. the bank of japan we are continuing to track expectations. inflation data salary data, the march. could become more likely. we are monitoring the boj signaling around the etf purchasing buying plans because they are axing that. that is what we are hearing from sources. it tells us that could set the stage for normalization of policy settings. aussie stocks into trading flat, but one sector we are watching are the copper mine because materials a

senator chris coons of delaware, this week was saying we need to let joe be joe.t is the state of the union thursday night. the president will follow that with some campaigning in philadelphia and atlanta, two key states, but what kind of message and perhaps in the world we live in with where optics matter for a lot, what kind of performance does biden need to deliver on thursday to start changing the narrative so american people can see what we're talking about? >> i feel really optimistic after coming out of the presidential primary season for the democrats in that trump consistently does not get republican votes, you know, 20 to 40% of republicans are still not voting for him. there is no energy, there is no anti-biden energy in the democratic party. if that was going to happen that was going to reveal itself in new hampshire. biden is not getting all of his votes from 2020, that means he has room to grow. trump has tapped out, he is at 93% according to the "new york times" poll of his supporters from 2020 so he doesn't have room to grow. and the white house, h