she didn't mess around. >> mark's brother set donnah and mark up on a blind date.d pretty quickly. >> he was smart, jewish. he was attractive, and he was fun. she just felt like she had found her person. >> he was good to her. and as a mother, that's all that i would care about. >> he came from a very nice family, and what more can you ask for? >> he was quiet. but he had a fabulous sense of humor. >> this is a test of the winger broadcasting system. >> the rest is history. >> we always joked about that when one sister marries, that husband marries three sisters. we shared our lives with mark. we were a very close family. >> donnah couldn't have been happier. the only thing was she would have liked to have had a child. >> donnah called up, and she was hysterical. she had just found out that she could not get pregnant. and that was a very hard moment for her. >> mark was unhappy for the fact that i know he wanted to have a big family. >> really all she wanted was to become a mom. and so when this didn't happen it took a toll. there was a lot of tension in their home

no, said mark, he hadn't. well, asked the colleague, haven't you ever wondered what happened to people you used to know? facebook might tell you. and mark thought about it and said well, there was this girl he used to talk to back in high school. it was in a real girlfriend or anything, but he was curious about why ever happened to her. so, sure enough, the colleague found the woman on facebook. and pretty soon she and mark were texting and talking on the phone. catching up. >> we talked, we visited, you know. then we got carried away with a little texting here and there. >> carried away? well, that maybe a little strong in this age of lured electronic dalliances. they did talk and text, yes for several months. even said i love you a time or two. but was it some kind of affair? well, judge for yourself. >> was there ever any pictures sent? or anything like that? or was it always just -- >> there is pictures of this, maybe -- her, innocent -- you know, we're not yet into any of that nasty -- it was just, what d

fox news prime time hosted be i mark steyn is right now. hi, mark. >> hi, bret. i'll give that one to bill. a nice touch of personal bitterness underlining that headline. a goody. thanks for that, bret. great show. good evening. welcome to "fox news prime time." i'm mark steyn. spring has sprung. baseball is america's pasttime. eliminating their enemies is communist china's past time and chairman xi is thorough. that doesn't borrow major league baseball. the league's major, the morals of a minor consideration. while they're commissioner rob manfred makes a big deal of pushing out of georgia, he's doing a multi-deal with the chinese company controlled by a murderous bureau for whom suppressing the votes means harvesting uighur body parts. by buy rob manfred peanuts and cracker jacks. he doesn't care in the uighurs never come back. where uighur muslims make up 90% of the population, the birth rate since 2017 has fallen over 60%. 60% drop. gee, almost makes you think something wacky must be going on there. have they been afflicted by the south african variant of cov

mark twitch ill mark twitchell? a very normal guy, trying to do a film. >> nice guy. >> very. nice >> very pleasant. >> playing a serial killer was almost too much fun. >> action. >> a kite kind of scary where i enjoyed it too much. >> you've got to be the state is big time. >> absolutely. it was very fun for me to play actually. i rather enjoyed doing. i was thinking to myself, did i just think that i could do this and make it believable? >> which said barnes lee, was exactly what director twitchy wanted to happen. >> there is a point where i had to stab the dummy through the chest with a samurai sword. and he would be sitting behind the chair and leaning in and say ok. listen. when you're turning the blade richer teeth and really show that you're enjoying, you know. >> wait a minute. was this all about enjoying some fantasy game, pretending to be evil? detectives served around a twitchell's computer. account and discovered a facebook relationship that was all about pretending. at about the time he started filming

here is my concern mark.en is a guy who his very close friend robert gates, who served secretary of defense said that joe biden was wrong on every national security and foreign policy decision in last 40 years, one thing to be wrong when you are a u.s. senator or vice president, but he is the president of united states and early on reflecting he is still making the wrong descrigs with decisions with our national security and foreign policy. mark: amazing, i think about it, listening to you, here comes donald trump, who never served in washington d.c., did not sit on senate foreign relations committee, not involved in official diplomacy. common sense businessman who loves his country, america first. he is one of the greatest foreign policies in american history, peace through strength, and also he would use economic power on trade, focused on our enemy, china. he would use economic power with respect to iran to cut them off. he was so effective at using the carrot and the stick and keeping us out of wars, then

thank you, mark. former congressman joe crowley is a political consultant who provides stajic advice to clients on a wide range of public policy matters. he represented the 14th district of new york, including his hometown of woodside, queens, in the u.s. congress for nearly 20 years. the former chairman of the democratic caucus is also known for his love of music and even the odd duet with stephen colbert at a famed democratic retreat. today's moderator is gordon peterson. gordon is an award-winning news anchor, reporter, writer and producer. for 25 years he served as moderator and executive producer of the political roundtable "inside washington" which was broadcast in washington, d.c., and many other major television markets from coast to coast. by the time he retired, peterson had also covered local news in the nation's capital for 50 years. we're excited to this this d.c. legend with us today. now, as a reminder to all our viewers, we're taking your questions on our social media platforms. please

both white and round with markings. rph on one side 10 over 325 on the other side. >> and you mention earlier pharmaceutical markings. what did you mean by that? >> the markings rp1035 third-degree they had a mark or logo on both sides of the tablets. >> in your job do you have to become familiar with how manufacturers mark their pills? >> somewhat, yes. >> and when you saw these markings, did you recognize them as anything? >> i did not. >> they're just markings on most pills. >>>> yes. >> so sounds like you recognize these as markings for aspirin or something of that nature? >> correct. >> and so initially you only tested one of the pills, why was that? >> per our policy, at the bca typically when we receive multiple tablets in a submission, the only will analyze one of that population if they're all similar unless it is requested that additional tablets are. >> did that, in fact, happen here? >> yes. >> who requested that you remember who requested to test both pills? >> agent. >> and describe for the jurors how you

, mark. >> mark: bi. bye. welcome to "fox news primetime" i'm mark steyn with tucker carlson, miranda devine and all the big news from guns, lights, to toxic -- today joe biden issued new executive orders or royal proclamations as we say in my cultural actual addition. as a matter of fact it was one of the complaints rebel colonials against poor old george the third royals were getting vapor raised by the royal prerogative ever since january 20th in washington we have had legislation by photo op. whoever is waggling that sock puckett maneuvers joe into position, they slide the executive order under his nose, he signs, and it's now the law of the land. he is doing it at a brisk clip and today he turned to the big one for many americans, quote; unquote, gun control. >> they are phony arguments suggesting these are second amendment rights at stake what we are talking about. but no amendment, no amendment to the constitution is absolute. >> i have no idea what that really means. an amendment is part of the co

steyn this week starts right now, hey, mark. >> >> mark: hey, bret. i have quote to work in some of my family members to tomorrow's headlines feature. you need to expel them for that. i think that ought to be against the rules. thanks a lot, bret, terrific show. let's get to it. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ i'm mark steyn i'm an immigrant to this great republic. no, no. don't worry, i'm not an undocumented immigrant. i'm the other kind and boy, i wouldn't make that mistake again. years in the system, the arbitrary whelms of the bureaucracy, the paperwork. fortunately under the laughably misnamed homeland security express check-in. get a human trafficker to throw you into the country. yeah, how about that? it's time for your toddler to start crawling. through the dessert. for some reason many apparently sensible person cnn and listeners to npr and the "new york times" think the government industrial scale enablers to some of the most evil people on the planet is progressive and compassionate. it's not. there is nothing kind about

>> mark, thank you very much for having me on. not speaking for the board, but our school system is inherently dishonest. while everyone was suffering with covid school closures, they secretly conspired to implement socialist indoctrination. the board passed an equity statement glossing over being based on ibram x. kendi's antiracist definition. next, the district secretly created a transformational equity procedure manual to promote critical race theory and curriculum, discipline, hiring, and training for all staff members and teachers. >> mark: just let me stop you on that, transformation expiratory what manual? >> is called a transformational equity work manual. it's actually a procedure manual. they've already done most of the first steps. they have 14 committees, or whatever -- how many four or five committees. it they've been hiding this from the public into the teachers, and they are still hiding it. i only found out about it when it was posted for board members only. even though cats out of the bag, the superintendent is f

mark: hello i am mark levine, this is "life, liberty and levin." let's talk turkey.n oval office, joe biden, joe biden has been saying many hateful things about many people. because they disagree with him, joe biden has been saying things that are flat out lies, he has been dishonest about the way he has approached his policies. this is par for the course for joe biden, he served in senate almost a half century, anyone that served with him who is honest, knows that joe biden does not have a principle in his body, he is a chameleon. if you look at early part of his life. he was a cheat, he wanted to be president of united states, first and second time, he stole word for word from a speech of neil, the labor party head, and from late robert kennedy. it not because he is a smart man, he is quite a dumb man. all about power and joe biden. for joe biden. all about promoting joe biden. the other week he met with a bunch of historians, he wanted to know, how could he be bigger than roosevelt, and barack obama, he leaned hard left, he will do what of he has to do. whatever i

mark: hello america i am mark levin, this is live, with two great guests, john ratcliffe. and newt gingrich. i want to talk to john ratcliffe. i am looking at this threat assessment put out this week. john. from the biden administration, now they realized that china is quote, near peer competitor, you were director of national intelligence, you were trying to tell the american people that democrats in congress we have a huge issue with communist china. you think they realize it now? >> i think they realized it all of last year. i spent much of the past year saying that china is our greatest national security threat. militarily, economically, china and china alone intends to is u supplant the u.s., we received a lot of push back it was not the political narrative that the left wanted, they wanted russia to be the bad guy. intelligence was clear, mark, i fell strongly about it, i did something that directors of national intelligence had not done before, i wrote an op-ed, saying that china is our number one security threat. you point out, intelligence can't be ignored. you sa

, which showed all the marks in a contrasting color that they would use when they marked a deck of cards. and we have a fan deck here that shows where the marks on the card. we also have edgework here. if the card on the left, if you notice, has a pointed edge, which indicates that's an ace. and the card next to it has a slight bump on the design by the upper left-hand corner and that indicates it's a king. so, if you actually go down all these cards and look at the marks, you have ace, king, queen, jack, ten. we have a card cutter here, which was a traditional device for marking cards, shortening a side of a card. and we also have a corner rounder because once you trim a card, the round edge of the card is destroyed, so you have to put a round corner back on the card. we have a number of different things, including one of the last 1961 blue books from the kansas city card company. the issue of cheating in gaming was largely resolved beginning in the 1940s when the state of nevada became much more active in the control of gambling. and one of the issues that they had is they had to clean

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mark cudmore -- live in berlin. mark cudmore joins me out of singapore.he cash trade is less than an hour away. here are your top headlines. european and u.s. futures pushing higher after another record for the s&p amid dovish fed minutes. that eu fails to form a united response over astrazeneca's vaccine following concerns continuing over rare blood clots. and under pressure. the credit suisse ceo faces anger in the ranks over archegos and the bonus cuts. we will bring you all of the details throughout the program. so, mark, we see again a couple of days of muted moves, no real narrative to pin to them. i thought maybe yesterday the minutes would get us unstuck. what's the next catalyst you see? mark: good morning. i warned you yesterday not to get excited about fed minutes. you're asking what the next catalyst is out there, i think we are all casting around for that. there is a bit of a lack of theme in markets, a bit of a lack of clear driver. i do think virus concerns are starting to crop up again in a number of different avenues. i wonder whether tha

. >> well back in the early '90s, i was a big critic of ear marks. in every spending bill, highway bill, had all of these ear marks in there. and i thought the whole practice of ear marking was irresponsible. i didn't like it. i didn't do it. so i was on the floor of the house criticizing some bill that was probably a highway bill, a transportation bill on the floor, criticizing the ear marks that were in there and finished my little speech and was walking towards the back of the chamber and next thing you know, this big gruff guy pushed me up against the back wall of the

mark: welcome back.d declaration and constitution who seek to dissolve this government. it's those governing over us who seek to go big and go fast. i want to remind you of what is said in part of the declaration of independence. we hold these truths to be self-effort, that all men are created equal. they are endowed by their create for with certain unalienable rights. among these life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. government derives just powers from the consent of the governed. is that what's happening right now? we go big, we go fast the historians tell biden. is that what he ran on going big and going fast. come on, i'm a platd. i'm no socialist. really? you have us followed. what. jon: is doing is step by -- what joe biden is doing is undermining this country. open borders? why are they doing that? massive taxation, redistribution of wealth in secret legislation hundreds of pages long. changing the electoral system when it comes to the supreme court. what's the hushy? why is he going big? think

mark: welcome back america. civil rights attorney for a long time. you have seen both sides with a liberal democrat and said that's enough. they don't have any answers. i will move on the side of liberty. let me ask you a question. you see these numbers in the cities. you are from the l.a. area. the numbers are tremendous. the slaughter. the mayhem, indiscriminate shooting. kids watching tv on the sofa on the bullet comes to the window and we are trashing the cops all the carnage that's occurring for those that are killing each other why do you think the mayor of the democratic party and all the rest don't even talk about it let alone focus on it quick. >> let me be very clear in detail. joe biden and kamala harris and black lives matter and t5 don't care about americans they don't care about the people they represent and they went to protect. the people who have been deprived by the horrific americans system giving up 200 years of greatness they use people of color for their own selfish gain. black lives matter

mark: absolutely.ag the g7 up about eight years ago, so they got close and started to see some of the impacts. there is an urgency to this. we are tracking it is a world. paris succeeded in the adjective -- in the objective that it got people in. but the world is still warming north of three degrees, so this is a critical year for action. there is tremendous momentum now . we need to reinforce that momentum, and having $70 trillion of private capital coming behind that has been announced today is the kind of momentum the world needs. tom: how do you convince the united states senate? mark: first, it is in the united states' interest directly in terms of the impact. i wore her -- i will refer to the comments of secretary blinken of a couple of days ago. it is an issue of competitiveness. the world is moving in this direction. the firms that are innovating, that are part of the solution, and the financial institutions getting behind those solutions, are doing very well. they will do much better. this is

>> exhibit 178, you can see the photograph in the center, and item marked ten with the ph positive marking bloodstains that was positive for the presumptive blood test and this was the rear passenger side, item number 11, a little out of the photograph more in the door frame of the vehicle and that was positive for the dozens of blood. >> in this photograph exhibit 178, what we see on the left side is what? >> doorframe where the edge of the rear passenger seat on the seat backside. >> exhibit 179. describe this. >> these are two stains on the rear passenger seat bottom postmarked as items 14 and 15 and its ph positive, indicating it tested positive. >> these are the areas where we saw the strap. >> yes, the strap is right next to. >> exhibit 180 describe this. >> item marked item 16, a rear passenger seat back and again, an area positive for the presence of blood. >> exhibit 181. >> a photograph of the seat back as well, you can see two items stickers, item ten is an area positive for the presence of blood in item 18 is also marking what i believe was possibly a bloodstain. i didn't do pr

mark: welcome back.governor desantis of florida. governor, i touched on this, california has shut down that entire economy, shut down their schools, shut down its churches and temples. new york, the same thing. other states, new jersey and so forth honestly run by governors of the opposite party, you have taken a completely different path which is more of a liberty path, a civil society path, what have you done different than the others and what cause you to do things different than the others? >> mark, if you go back to the middle of march, it was all most like a dime where the country started shutting down. we had our theme parks, all these places they just voluntarily shut down. i wasn't telling them to, they just did it. we had kind of late march and into april anything people started to calm down a little bit. i told all those folks, we want to get you back, we want to get everybody back open so we worked really hard from probably the middle of april to get folks back up and running. obviously our p

both are marking locations of potential bloodstains. and then also on those stickers is a littles notation that said ph positive that means that blood test that i performed was positive. >> do you recall how many separate they thinks you collected from that squad car that appear to be blood at least in this area of the squad car? >> in this particular portion of the squad car on the seat's bottom there was four different bloodstains. >> and then other areas of the seat? >> on the seat back rear passenger seat back were additional four stains. if we then go to exhibit 178, can you describe what we're seeing here. >> in exhibit 178 you can see photograph in the center is an item marked item 10. with that ph positive so this is marking bloodstain that was positive for the presumptive blood test and this was on rear passenger seat back and item number 11 a little bit out of the photograph is more in the door frame of the vehicle. and that was also positive for the presence of blood. >> so in this photograph exhibit 178, what we're seeing on

on equity marks.have talked about is inflation over weeks and weeks, thinking about inflation, particularly in the u.s. but emerging mark inflation and the link with food prices interesting as well. we are seeing some incredible moves in some of the agricultural spot markets. what is going on? mark: it really is phenomenal. this week we are on track for the best week for agricultural price in almost six years. in fact, at the moment we are seeing a 66% gain since the lows last summer over the last 10 months. that is really a quite incredible rise over the last 10 months that keeps on going. this is vital for the c.p.i. baskets, the consumer price index baskets. in asia and many other developing countries. this is what squeezes people at the lower end of the income spectrum. if you don't have a large percentage of your income goes on food, this is really affecting other people. it is more a part of this k-shaped recovery. i think it is going to feet into the inflation picture that we have been driving

guy: mark, stick around. i really want to talk about what is happening in the commodities space which is really roaring today. you can see we are up by 0.8%. i don't know whether this is happening on a day when alix steel is off by design. it kind of feels like that a little bit right now. but i certainly think she's going to be on the edge of her sofa, looking for to the next conversation that is coming up. we will get mark's take on what is happening in this space next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: we are all in on the commodity trade, except for energy. metals are rallying really strongly. . it is a global industrial rebound. copper hitting its highest level since 2011. iron soaring to a high. the ags are really on a tear as well. bloomberg reporter mark burton is joining us now. if you take a look at the charts, these are getting ever and ever steeper. how sustainable is this move? mark: good afternoon. it is a great question. i think for a lot of people in the metals market, there's been sustained disbeli

mark: thank you very much. with buyers and restaurants closed for so much of the last year in france, winemakers have gone looking for new ways to sell their products. many found themselves cutting out the middleman of the local wine shop and selling directly online instead. >> in an otherwise dismal year, really for french wine producers. producing between eight and 10,000 bottles per year. his inventory is nearly sold out but not due to purchases in his store. a year ago, he only sold to shops. now everything has changed. [speaking french] >> online wine sales have skyrocketed since the first national lockdown. the seller revenues nearly doubled since march of 2020, encouraging management to hire a second employee to help prepare the 30,000 bottles sold last year. but after a record year, some industry experts wonder whether these new habits will last after the health crisis. [speaking french] >> nationwide, one study found online wine sales were worth nearly 600 million euros in 2020. >> that is all for us f

pharmaceutical markings. >> the markings rb1025 they had a mark on both sides of the tablet. >> in your job you have to become familiar with how manufactures mark their pills? >> somewhat, yes. >> and when he saw these markings did you recognize them as anything? >> i did not. >> they were just markings on those bills. >> yes. >> it's not like you recognize these as markings for aspirin or something of that nature. >> correct. >> and so initially you only tested one of the pills. why was that? >> per our policy at bca physically when i receive multiple tablets as mentioned we only will analyze one of that population if they are all similar and less they request additional tablets we analyze. >> did that happen hear? >> yes. >> who requested that you test both of those? >> agent mark. >> described to the jurors how you go about testing these pills. >> with tablets that have markings the first thing i would do is take the weight of the tablet in the second would be to look up the markings using a database to determine if they were a pharmaceutically made type of tablet which would give an

mark joins us from their. what are the markets saying to you, mark?ark: well, it's a well-equipped -- relatively quiet day in markets. that is to be expected, given we have got the fomc tonight and lots of earnings to scrutinize, and of course the biden tax plan as well. those issues are preoccupying traders. and the huge humanitarian crisis that is the virus continues to get worse in india. the macroenvironment relatively quiet today. anna: absolutely. we will continue to pick up on some of those themes, certainly around inflation and what's going on with yields. let's get back to the breaking news we've got going on in europe. some corporates reporting. we will start with the banking sector. numbers coming through from lloyds banking group. q1 statutory pretax profit, 1.9 billion pounds, that is the red headline. the estimate was 1.17. that looks to be better than had been anticipated. they are giving us items, net interest margin, 2.49%. 2.48% was the estimate. they are taking some q1 impairments of 223 million pounds. they are occurring the divide

mark: we can do that.att: thanos vamvakidis, managing director / head of g10 fx strategy, bank of america merrill lynch joins us. cudmore has been poo-pooing the fed, but you cannot take your eye off of the federal reserve, especially in your job. do they move markets? thanos: absolutely. the fed is the main market driver. it has been for a while but particularly right now. they are supporting a risk rally amidst the pandemic. at some point there could be market correction. what they are doing is not sustainable. they are telling us they are data dependent. they have to see improvement in the data. they have told us they will give us enough of an early warning. in the meantime, the economy started booming. when the fed decides to move, they might need to move too fast and actually cause a shock to the market that they are trying to avoid. they are not as data dependent, and they might find themselves behind the curve. mark: good morning. i feel obliged to defend myself. i am not saying the fed is not drivi

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the event was marked by this music tribute.t also coincides with a resumption of negotiations between tehran and the international community aimed at reviving the accord which netanyahu has said israel would not be bound by. mark: i man this monday evening -- iran this sunday evening has suspended cooperation with the european union over sanctions. the revolutionary guard cracked on civilian protest. there is no link between this decision and the incident. the world health organization is warning the covid pandemic is increasing exponentially. the coronavirus has already killed more than 2.9 million people and affected nearly 136 million across the world. there is growing alarm over the situation now and south asia. india has become the second most infected country worldwide. maria is an ep genealogist -- an epidemiologist. >> there is a 9% increase in transmission last week. seventh consecutive week where we have seen an increase in transmission. and a 5% increase in deaths. this is not the direction we need to be going and we

mark: i think the u.s.e is starting to feed through to bond markets generally so we are seeing a slight nudge higher on the board. not feeding through to other assets. one thing to draw attention to is we have been talking non-stop about the inflation data. we also have u.s. retail sales. some investors need to be ready for the fact that retail sales and cpi might send different signals today and which one to pay attention to. in the short term, retail sales. anna: that gets complicated with the different signals. mark cudmore in singapore. i will be back with the market opened here for the european equity markets. futures pointing in either direction. u.s. futures looking mix to. the openness next. this is bloomberg. ♪ wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're g

mark: absolutely. mixed is the right word. hate to use it because it shows a lack of definition of a theme. but there are many different themes and they are not all aligned. he look at the gmm page, you can see the two biggest things are sliding and indian assets. the search in the virus is incredible, over a quarter million cases, and it continues to rise. and then the mass outperformance of chinese equities. the best performance of the csi 300 so far this month for the 26th of march. there is an hour left in the session, so we'll see how it closes, but they're trading very closely. in fx, we're seeing risk off, and currents a little weaker, dollars stronger, yen stronger. we normally characterize that as a risk scenario. you are seeing the bond markets, commodity markets a little bit stronger. they're trading very well. i thought we might see oil lower after the optimistic iran deal. but overall, commodities are trading well. bonds are under the radar. anna: indeed. it interesting when you think, about treasuries and how exc

mark: good morning. think this makes sense. whether it's ahead for bitcoin is a slightly different view. it's unclear whether bitcoin has a correlation with many other assets. recently, it has been going up no matter what the background is. some say it's a product of inflation. i think bitcoin, whether it succeeds or breaks down, might be more independent. however, it's true that a move higher in real yields should make the opportunity cost of bitcoin more expensive. it needs to go higher to make that expensive. matt: do you see real yields moving higher? the question is how the inflation component ax. mark: i do see real yields moving higher. you are right. the inflation is the more immediate one we are looking at. we know we will get some high inflation in the next month or two. we know that in the short-term term, you'll real yields will move higher. i think that after the print in cpi, we will see inflation come down a bit and we will see nominal yields picking higher. real yields will be higher late

marks. i know the information that we're providing today will be very concerning to americans who have already received the johnson and johnson vaccine. and i want to let you know what we're doing to learn more and to protect people in the meantime. and what you can do to be on the alert. as dr. marks mentioned there has been six reports of a severe stroke-like illness with low platelet counts. more than six million doses of the j&j vaccine have been administered so far. while these events are very rare, we're recommending a pause in order to prepare the health care system to recognize and treat patients appropriately and to report severe events they may be seeing. people who received the vaccine and this pause will also allow the committee to review the situation. the safety of vaccines and the safety of the american people is of the utmost importance to us. the acic, or our advisory committee on immunization practices is the cdc independent scientific expert committee. we are scheduling fo

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mark: hello america i'm mark levin and this is "life, liberty & levin."alk some turkey. about the man in the oval office joe biden. joe biden has been saying many, many hateful things about many people simply because they disagree with him. joe biden has been saying things that are frankly flat out lies. he's been very dishonest about way he's approached his policy. this is par for the course for joe biden. joe biden served in the senate almost half a century. and everybody who served with him who is octave and honest knows that joe biden doesn't have a principle in his body. not a principle bone in his body. he's a chameleon. on top of that if you look at the early part of his life he was a cheat and plagiarist when he wanted to be president of the united states the first and second time around, he stole word for word from a speech of neil party he labor party had, he stole language from the late robert kennedy, he's absolutely shameless about the things he says and does. it's not because he's a smart man he's actually -- quite a dumb man. it is all abou

you are the host i have to go along >> well, mark, mark, mark, to be fair, we are not talking about dogecoingree with you 100%. we have been doing this for 25 years. we are talking about after asset class. dogecoin whatever it may be the idea there are dangerous, frothy markets we have to say be careful. i don't want to talk about dogecoin itself. inasmuch as the frenzy it has gone from a nickel to 40 cents. on no news, it makes no sense. >> that's right, brian just the awareness of the types of movements is really important, right you were talking about roaring kitty and gamestop and the redditers. that sounds like predators, right? i think the total gamification of investing you and i have been talking about this coming up on three decades. hard to believe. we actually talked about this construct of investing and what it means to put capital to work and what it means to buy things that have good management and good ideas and good businesses this is not that this is what happened in 2000. when you get to a bubble and excess liquidity and you get people blelieving they can buy anything that

mark, what are the markets saying to you this week? mark: good morning. traders are preoccupied by the virus tragedy in india. from markets perspective, that is not the story today. it is a softer dollar and the strength in certain metals and agricultural prices. anna: plenty to focus on. just under an hour away from the start of the cash equities trade. let's have a look at where the futures are positioning. when it comes to the virus and india in particular, but in terms of the markets, worth remembering how strong things were during friday's session in the united states. european futures not really reflecting much of that. european equity markets fairly flat. u.s. equity market futures fairly mixed. nasdaq futures a little weaker. fairly flat. that is after we saw a 1.4 gain on the nasdaq. small caps doing well. positive u.s. data friday help the market turn away from the earlier concerns around capital gains tax and focus on the improving story. that is backward looking. let's look at right now. what are you seeing? mark: the gmm screen is more intere

mark: good morning. i am just looking out for the inflation figures coming out of england at the moment. nothing too shocking as expected but the big want to watch is the ppi. what we have seen is month on month figure is .3% versus .4% expected and the year on year was .7 percent versus .8% expected so slightly below expectations. these were not the high basic affect numbers we were expecting. keep an eye out for the next month. soft issue inflation figures this morning. anna: i have numbers coming through. heineken reporting first quarter numbers. we will get to those. first quarter organic beer volumes, flat. the estimate was for a drop of 4.1 percent so that looks to be better that had been anticipated. that is some important context around that outperformance. they also say that their deployment of evergreen growth strategies, that their growth strategy is on track so that's one of the corporate earnings stories we are covering this morning. we have had plenty. we will be getting through plenty of t

mark is with us now.of apple's spending and what it signifies, we have seen a huge shift in thinking around supply chains. is this part of that? is this part of an on shoring process where might this have happened anyway? mark: this would have happened anyway. they announced a $350 billion u.s. investment over five years about two years ago, so this is perhaps an extension of that. they are upping the dollars spent by about $80 billion here, part of that on a new campus in north carolina, which is the biggest news of the day. this is their first east coast campus. they will hire 3000 people. they are investing money in the community. they are spending over $1 billion to build this. that is what i am focusing on, what this new campus means, and this general idea of them placing new offices and campuses across the country. matt: that is the cool part too, mark. you are lucky enough to already live on the west coast, but if i read it correctly, they will add 5000 jobs in san diego, which has to be the most p

mark: i think that is a vital point.priced in commodity effects we have seen, and the headline number is something we are expecting to be big. the outlook for the summer is bullish given the weather patterns we have seen. goldman said they are bullish on the commodity sector, and we will have the inflation threat. this might be running away again, even though there is a risk inflation might run away from emerging markets. anna: let's pivot to thinking about what the fed is doing. they have upgraded their assessment on the u.s. economy, while signaling risks have finished. chairman powell said it is not time yet to talk about tapering. he kept a criticism that the fed is running risks with inflation. >> for many years we have been focused on inflation below 2%, and we used our tools aggressively to keep it at 2%. if we see it moving above 2% in a persistent way that risks inflation expectations drifting up, then we will use our tools to guide inflation and expectations back down to 2%. no one should doubt that we would no

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mark: absolutely. have been watching this and we have talked about it, it is primarily a humanitarian tragedy. for investors watching, the global ramifications are large. what has happened is at the end of march, -- i was wrong because what is happening in india. three weeks ago, the global cases since then has surged 30%. primarily because of india where it is multiplied fourfold. they will continue to rise. it is the middle of an election in several states in india. india is a most 18% of the world's population and 12% of the labor force. there are supply chain implications and global growth implications. never mind that it is a bad virus situation that has a potential for a furhter mutations. asian-pacific numbers have risen excluding india. this means the pandemic is back with us probably worse than ever and is focused on india but this is a global problem. anna: it is a cliche amongst health professionals to say that nobody is safe until everybody is safe in reference to vaccine distribution. for

mark: it is very quiet.going to put one thing on your radar as tail risk, it is the crypto space. bitcoin is looking soft. it is a theory need to watch. -- ethereum we need to what. -- watch. will coinbase listing mark the week crypto hit its high? anna: have a good weekend. i will be back with the market open. futures pointing to the upside. the sun is shining at least than london. ♪ wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're gonna learn. over the next 10 years, comcast is committing $1 billion to reach 50 million low-income americans with the tools and resources they need to be ready for anything. i hope you're ready. 'cause we are. so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don'

carry on, mark. [laughter] mark: a lot of people expecting a little more of a of a cycle.we are seeing is they are obviously shifting towards a focus on inflation and inflation expectations. they are a lot more hawkish than people expected at the last meeting. they will probably tighten over the coming year. if you think about the u.s. infrastructure package, who benefits the most from u.s. growth? canada and mexico. if you are think about energy, links to the north american growth cycle, all linked to that play on base metals. jonathan: i appreciate that. tom: jon, you are worse than he is. jonathan: that is the sound of the audience. [laughter] thank you, mark mccormick of td. i'm almost at that long weekend. lisa: we are going to make it feel long. tom: are you going to san diego? jonathan: little-known fact, lisa lived in chile for a year. lisa: it's true. jonathan: wanted to see the real life action of conservative economics. is that what beat your interest? -- what piqued your interest? jonathan: that, and a really like -- lisa: that, and i really like avocados. riti