we have price heedley, kate warren from edward jones. and our very own rick santelli. a welcome one and all. anthony chan the big news this weekend, we have to talk about a china rate cut. the u.s. central bank the japanese, what's the message to investors. >> central banks all over the world are coddling financial markets, coddling the overall economy. that's one of the reasons we don't get big corrections anymore. we get mini corrections. right after the chinese announcement on friday that they were going to go ahead and restrict margin trading. the analysts warned and said the financial markets would melt down on monday morning. you get a much larger than expected easing in reserve requirements. in the united states we had a weak first quarter. bill dudley repeating the remarks, saying yes, there were a lot of things going on. if the financial markets don't handle fed tightening very much they'll go a lot easier. of course he gave the usual suspects but what what we knew the usual suspects weeks ago. why repeat that? again, coddling the financial markets. >> jeff ki

kate is off today. we begin this morning with ransom. the surprising revelation that the family of warren weinstein paid his captors in 2012. weinstein was one of the two hostages killed by mistake in a u.s. drone strike against al qaeda in january. a source in contact with the kidnappers tells cnn his family paid ransom but the terrorists demanded more. they wanted a prisoner exchange. also, new information this morning about the last time the family had so-called proof of life. warren weinstein's wife actually heard his voice over the phone. want to bring in cnn's chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. new details this morning and in some cases new disturbing details. >> reporter: the family making an attempt to win warren weinstein's freedom and questions about whether the money went to the right group. that's a fair question. an interlocator was used and that's raising the question whether they talk to it the right people. you have a couple degrees of separation there. bottom line is it didn't work. whether the money got to the right people or not, there was a demand for m