ron insana is a cnbc contributor. and the reverend, who hosts a program at sirius xm progressive talk radio. he must have had roller skates on to get here this quickly so i thank you for that. phil, i want to talk about the president's meeting today with the governors. walk us through the politics. are they as decided down party lines as we see members of congress are? we know a lot of members of congress spent a lot of time in washington so they don't have to face the music back at home. the governors are in a different situation. back at home, students, teachers, corporations, parents, they're pushing here and it's not politics, it's safety. >> yes, that's exactly right, stef. the gun issue is not a clean-cut partisan issue in the states. there have actually been a number of states that have been far ahead of washington on enacting tougher background checks and other restrictions. so i think the president's going to hear an earful from these governors about what's working in their states. and just look at governor s

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my panel, jason johnson, ron insana.blican leaders, they say there's not going to be another shutdown. but we've made no progress on immigration. and, in fact, we've gone in the wrong direction because lindsey graham, dick durbin, they had a deal. schumer, president trump shook hands. stephen miller, john kelly, they don't have a deal. >> yes, they don't want a deal. the republicans don't want a deal. i thought this all along. we were talking about hostages and everything else like that before. you have an administration that has made it abundantly clear they want to keep certain people out of this country. and once you make it clear that, like, hey, i'm not going to buy this house, i'm not going to work with you one way or another, it's difficult. what's fascinating is there are enough republicans and democrats in the house and senate that they could pass a bill that is veto proof but they don't seem to have the backbone to do that because mitch mcconnell and paul ryan are afraid of offending the president. >> republica

for se perspective, we're joined by financial journalist ron insana. always good to see you. >> thanks for having eme. >> youot a historical perspective. you've sat at this desk durin these types of days before. >> with the person next to you. >> and with me too! >> for that >> yes. >> what do you expect to see tonight and tomorrow as those ian markets open andhen the trading moves around the globe to europe and then back here? >> so, the nikkei in japan was down 2.5% last night followlig friday's ds here. i suspect we'll see additional selling in asia for a variety of freasons, not the least which is the federal reserve, whose policies we're worried about with the pacet of interate increases, but central banks around the world where we're seeing economic growth accerate in developed countries, so does japan tighten, does europe tighten, does china have to slow things down because they're growing again at 7% largely based on infrastructure -- >> we've gone from quantitative ndsing to a very different monetary regime tightening. a little bit. ertainly h

and my friend ron insana. ron, trump jr. there to promote the family business but he's speaking alongside the prime minister. i mean, walk me through this. >> well, it's one thing to have a groundbreaking ceremony with the leader of a country when you're doing a massive business deal. these are of course projects that -- >> it is a business summit. >> however, it's been billed as a foreign policy speech. which, again, blurred the line between what donald trump jr. does in his capacity as the head of the business portion of the trump family's operations and where he sits with respect to the political side. so in addition to the inherent conflicts on the business side, since it is donald trump sr. who is still the beneficial owner of the trust that makes money off these properties, they've never fully divested, there's a full blurring of the lines here. >> it's being billed as a foreign policy speech. ann annie, the trump organization has five businesses in india. i want to share what he told cnbc this morning about the potent

i think, you know, we were talking, tyler, you a i, with ron insana. he said pretty much we've seen bthe market pullk every time that ten-year treasury has gotten to 290. that's another big bellwethot. you'veo be watching cnbc and the "nightly business data." for the cpi is the consumer seeing any inflation? are we going to see that creep in? that comes out wednesday. >> you know,ch l, it's not very often that we have rising rates but also increasing stimulus in a bigio fa how does that typically play out or is there aal typ playout for that scenario? >> i'm not sure. yeah, sue, i don't know that we have this playbook exactly. interest rates going up and then throwing more gasoline kind of on the fire from the fiscal side of the house in tax cuts and spending programs. so it's going to be tough, i o think, keep inflation in a bottle. i know that apl lot of p aren't looking for it, but i really can't see with this much de a how we getund inflation. i think we have to start seeing it. the real key for me is that we do begin to see earnings go up and some

my old friend ron insana, news contributor spent some time on this this week.e'll get to why people should not worry too much about this and what they think of their own accounts. we've said for a long time, live by the sword, die by the sword. presidents shouldn't comment on the stock market moves. but president trump has been talking this market up a lot. he had been very quiet about it except for that tweet this week. >> there are things the president shouldn't talk about. the president should not talk about the direction of interest rates set by an independent federal reserve, and when you're talking about the stock market and taking credit for it, you are risked for getting blamed, or worse, if you have a bear market or something serious take place on wall street. it is a live by the sword, die by the sword type of thing. the president gets some credit for the market. >> the economy has grown again. >> we got a tax reform bill that's going to boost corporate profits and they're already at record levels. >> which does help stock investors. >> one thing abou

. >> okay, joining us live, msnbc contributor, host of the insana insights podcast, ron insana. the reason this sticks out to me is because cpi, things costing more money is going to have a more negative and lasting impact for everyone across the economy. people who worked at walmart for 20 years, who get a $1,000 bonus, less than that after taxes, that's a one-time kiss. but if everything in your daily life starts to cost more money, that's a recurring kick in the keister. >> yes, to put it in an old suburban buffalo polish expression, yes, that's exactly right. having grown up in an italian polish neighborhood, i recognize that word immediately. yes, it is. and it comes at a time -- >> did he just call me an old suburban polish upstate new york. >> but he said you're from buffalo. i'm from toronto. so that's kcool. >> walmart also raised wages to $11 an hour, which is $21,000 a year for -- >> for a lot of people. >> so if inflation does go up, it cuts into their disposal income, when gasoline prices have gone up, food, apparel was one of the big jumps in this month's report. e

joining us now, the one and only, ron insana. >> good to see you. >> good morning to you both. >> in the last 15 minutes or so, we saw the dow up, down by more than 100 points, up by more than 100 points. we're going in and out of correction territory. what stephanie pointed out is the important part. over the long-term, since the beginning of this bull market on march 9th, 2009, we're up 282%. since a year ago, it is up 12%. since the beginning of the year, it is down 4%. unfortunately, our psychology is that we look at the last number. we look at the fact we've lost 4% in a little over a month. >> it doesn't tell us what individual stocks have done. if you've been a follower of apple or mcdonald's or invidia or a host of other stocks that have done extraordinarily well, they are still contributing to a wealth effect in the u.s. however, this has a unique set of characteristics, insofar as the speed of which it's happened. it's been a week we've seen the market pullback 10% and change. we were up 249 points, down 200, up 48. we're trying to find the bottom. we retested tuesday's low

can we expect more volatility to come as we start march let's bring in bob pisani and ron insana ron,ary was quite a month. we hit records, things we haven't seen in some time. started volatile and we are ending that way. what do you see that gives us clues for what's to come in march. >> i'm not sure this is a long-term problem. we started with concerns about higher interest rates, concerns about inflation picking up the s&p moved from 2500 to 2900 in four months for the crazy february at the bottom we saw a 10% correction we were back to october. since that bottom, the stocks that have done well are cyclical the basic growth story, global growth story, earnings at record highs remain intact. investors are acting like that story will continue. >> what do you think, ron? was that just a tradeable bottom temporary but really doesn't change the picture of what we are looking at. >> that's true with respect to the fact there is a yield barrier that seems to be capping the bond and stock market. when we got to 2.9 in february that led to the unwinding of that's depression trades or howeve