howard hughes created a special committee of the board to review possible options back when that unsolicited bid did hit. i think it was january 13th. >> and at that time, mikeyou know, he announced the intention to increase their stake in howard hughes to what was thought to be between 61 and 69%, you talked about a majority stake, he said in the time at the time, excuse me? in a letter to the board of howard hughes, quote, it would create a modern day berkshire hathaway that would acquire controlling interests in operating companies. so he sort of put his hand on on the, you know, revealed his hand maybe before he actually holds this event at four. not that we know it's howard hughes, but i mean, if you connect the dots as you said. >> well, not that, you know, presumably he's alluding to howard hughes. what we don't know is whether there's an actual deal or that, you know, it's kind of just a reiteration of an intention to do what he wants to do. but obviously market not waiting for the details. >> yeah. all right, mike, thank you very much for that. that's mike santoli with the very latest there. well the us is best. that's the take today from our next g

mike lee. what's going to into this fund? crypto stocks or some other asset? >> howard lutnick is a dealmaker, and he said it best.re going to invest substantially in a company, if you're a private equity executive or if you're a foundation or you're giving must be to a private entity hike they did with the covid vaccine, the united states government should get some sort of equity participation in that. so i think you're going to see all sorts of things go into that. hopefully, a bunch of crypto. hopefully when hay sign a massive -- they sign massive contracts with enterprise, they get some equity in the participation to the upside that the taxpayer has funded. this is a turning point in america. it's time for us to stop being this broke nation of a fiat currency where we keep printing money into infinity, to start having some real monetary, financial assets that we can point to for the long-term health of our country. i'm really excited. stuart: it's a big switch. mike lee, appreciate president it, sir. >>> coming up, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is going to be at the white house later today. is he look to g

will be for marco rubio, scott bessent and howard lutnick to lead negotiations with mexico over the next month to see if a more permanent deal can be worked out. mike. >> all right. megan. >> nine hours left. >> plenty can happen. >> as. >> we've seen in that span of time. megan. cassella thank you. let's bring in dan greenhaus from solus alternative. >> asset management, wells fargo investment institute. >> sameer samana and invesco's kristina hooper to talk about. >> how all. this applies. >> to markets. so, dan. i guess. >> you have to have some kind. >> of theory of the case here. if you're an investor, about the probabilities of the various tariffs taking effect, how long, what the. >> passthroughs are. i mean, all. >> of these things feels. >> like. this kind of. >> decision chain. you have. >> to go down if. >> you choose to. >> all of which is very easy to do. exactly. so the point is, do you try? >> do you try to. >> be precise about it, or how. >> do you think the. >> market is. >> just digesting. >> all the probabilities? >> i don't think there's any. >> reason to. >> try to be precise about this, because we don't know what we're being p

mike johnson and the republicans are going to need democratic support in the house. democrats should say, no way. the government's yours. >> christina, let me play for you what the commerce secretary, howardhis is the day after trump said medicaid wouldn't be touched. watch. >> you know, social security. >> is wrong. you know, medicaid and. >> medicare are wrong. so he's going to cut. >> a trillion, and then we're. >> going to get rid of all these. >> tax scams that hammer against. >> america, and we're going to raise. >> $1 trillion. >> of revenue. and our objective under donald trump is to balance this budget. >> which is it? medicaid won't be touched or it's wrong. >> right? i mean, they have no messaging and no strategy. i mean, you know, if you think that donald trump won't lie to your face, then i've got a bridge and a sack of beans to sell you. sadly, though, you know, this is where republicans are painting themselves in a corner because they are getting phone calls from people within their districts saying, well, i know you all said you weren't going to touch medicaid at all, but this is what we're hearing, and where is the money going to come from? and we know that even when dona

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