this merger will do for the competitive space, we think it's going to be a real positive thing >> ted christieairline, busy week, ted, thank you very much for joining us today. just a few hours after the board of directors unanimously rejected the tinder offer from jetblue. yet another twist and turn in this ongoing battle between jetblue and spirit where jetblue says yeah, we think this deal can still come together. >> thanks or that, phil. >>> coming up, what you need to know as we head towards the opening bell on wall street. we have your blportfolio covere with some of the brightest on the street katie stockton will be our guest and jeremy segall will join us it leads up to our interswru esther george. all that's ahead we'll be right bac rem sleep, so you know all you need for recovery. and you are? i'm an investor...in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to... nasdaq 100 innovations like... wearable training optimization tech. uh, how long are you... i'm done. i'm okay. the pursuit is on. the pursuit of outperformance at pgim. with deep expertise to outthink across multiple asset cla

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now the question is what does ted christie, the ceo of spirit, what do they do.ically they think that the doj is unlikely to approve a merger with jetblue. there's a few other reasons but that's the primary reason they've given. i asked robin hayes about this, they have hidden behind the regulatory approval argument as a smoke screen he's emphatic about the fact that he believes that is not going to stopa potential deal between jetblue, and spirit, and that if spirit at least comes back to the table they will convince them that they can get this across the finish line. now the question becomes, what happens next in terms of the tender offer there is a vote, again, scheduled on june 10th for the spirit shareholders on the f frontier deal, which jetblue is saying to the shareholders, reject it, get rid of it whether you take our $30 a share or at least force the spirit management to come back to the table, that is the focus right now for jetblue. we have yet to hear from spirit. we have reached out to them this morning. i'm sure we'll hear something within the next

spirit air's ceo ted christi was here with us yesterday and expressed his concerns and frustrations >he reason that we view the jetblue deal as problematic is the antithesis to the way we look at the frontier deal. these are two like-minded, low cost businesses that are looking to expand and drive more stimulation with lower fares this is not a discussion about capacity constraint and higher fares, which is what we're hearing out of the jetblue camp. >> all right, for more on this and the state of the airlines, let's bring in gordon bethune, former chairman and ceo of continental airlines and a cnbc contributor and jamie baker, senior airline analyst at jpmorgan mr. bebethune, welcome to both you, let me begin with you, what do you see happening in the airline business obviously there's a bounceback from the pandemic, but now there are rising jet fuel prices there's war in europe. there are still labor shortages, and now we have a hostile bid on the table for frontier what is the state of the airline business from where you sit? >> tyler, you're 100% on the problem is that all of this

ted christy was very clear, he's not happy about this at all. thank you very much. i mean, he's being restrained so far. i think at some point he says something publicly and it's going be as strong as what he said during the earnings call last week. >> what is really going on here with robin lhays does he feel it's big threat for them >> it's a combination of things. jet blue looks at their future and the growth they have outlined and most believe there's no way to achieve that organically on their own they can get there if they combine with spirit and then you have some growth potential in a number of markets, nationwide, et cetera. that ultimately is the belief for many people. robin hayes will tell you this makes sense. we believe it's good for us, good for the consumer. the usual argument you hear from a number of people >> airline i fnflation is throu the roof a flight to cincinnati is $1,000 i've never seen it to be the cost >> it was a costly trip for me to change my flight and come in here last night. >> and the department of justice is

senator ted cruz. christie norton. governor of south dakota. although you had some of the performers that were expected to perform this weekend pulling back from this show. the protesters that will come out here and meet them. i spoke to one of the organizers yesterday. they say they're expecting 500 to 1,000 people. their main call earlier in the week was to cancel the convention or postpone it. right now, they say their main goal is to have a rally for gun safety. they want common sense gun safety measures in place and they're trying to target. they're trying to direct their attention and energy at the politicians, the lawmakers who will be here. this brings out some awkward tension there. that's something you've been hearing from attendees and vendors going to this convention. listen to some of our conversations our team has been having with folks going to this convention here about how they square. the shooting that we saw, that devastating tragedy we saw just four and a half hours away from here. how they square that with the convention th

he did so along with ted cruz and christy known as texas governor greg abbott sent taped remarks.lieutenant governor, backed out of his in-person experience a lot along with two other gop lawmakers and several musicians. this is hundreds of protesters gathered outside the convention center, among them, beto or kick, who had this message. >> to those who are attending the nra convection across the street, you are not our enemies. we are not yours. we extend our hand, open an unarmed, in a gesture of peace and fellowship, to welcome you to join us, those who will be the victims of the next mass shooting unless we act. please join us now or be left behind. >> there's no sign, however, that his message is getting through to the nra. so what will? i'm gonna bring in a former firearms executive and gun industry insider, ryan bossy, who was also the author of gunfight, my battle against the industry the radicalized america. the overwhelming message from the nra is not gonna laws that we need to worry about, it's security and people with mental health issues. it's never about the guns. a

other high profile politicians such as former president donald trump, ted cruz, and christy gn nome will others have canceled their appearances. cnn's jeff zeleny is in houston at the nra convention. what has this first day of this event been like so far? >> pamela, this is just a remarkable split screen, as you said, three days and just under 300 miles away from uvalde, texas, here to downtown houston, where there is the annual meeting of the nra. there are thousands of people attending the meeting inside, and it's largely business as usual. there's a massive exposition hall where thousands of new guns of all varieties from antique pistols to new ar-15s and others are for sale and on display. outside this convention hall, there was a massive protest. thousands of people were gathered. people of all walks of life, mothers and daughters and sons and fathers holding signs, urging politicians to do something, anything about this epidemic of gun violence. it's a tale of two americas here in houston, again, just less than 300 miles from uvalde. >> okay, jeff. governor greg abbott and other of

give the headline address, with a roster of high profile republicans like senator ted cruz, south dakota governor christymy head, and body are in uvalde right now. >> reporter: this moment similar to days after the columbine shooting, which killed 13 people in 1999. the nra's conference that year was also scheduled shortly after, and just miles away in nearby denver. a private audio recording since obtained by npr revealing the tense deliberation within the top brass of the nra whether to cancel or pair down the events. >> we're going to have media running through the exhibit halls with kids handling firearms. >> reporter: that decision shaping the nra's response to mass shootings ever since. leading to this provocative moment the following year. >> from my cold dead hands! >> reporter: all this comes as the nra is facing a slew of other financial and legal problems. in march, the new york state supreme court blocked an effort to dissolve the organization, but allowed a lawsuit from the democratic new york attorney general to go forward. the suit accusing the nra's leadership of violating laws governing

speakers included south dakota governor christie noem, texas senator ted cruz, and former president donald trump. the session begins with remarks from n.r.a. c.e.o. wayne lapierre. >> legislative action forum. ♪ please welcome your executive vice president and chief executive officer, wayne lapierre. ♪ [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you. before we begin today, kuwait to talk -- i want to talk about the evil that occurred at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, on tuesday. every n.r.a. member and i know every decent american is mourning right now. 21 beautiful lives ruthlessly and indiscriminately extinguished by a criminal monster. we are with this community and all of america in prayer. n.r.a. members are parents. we have sons, daughters, and loved ones. these tragedies cause gut-wrenching, unimaginable pain that too many are being forced to go through right now. it's not right. it should never happen again. if we as a nation were capable of legislating evil out of the hearts and minds of criminals who commit these heinous acts, we would have done it a long time ago. we do

christi? >> daniela diaz, thank you so much. and you highlighted ted cruz.ott is also dismissing calls for gun reform following the deadly school shooting there. what he says is the real problem. that's next. stay close. the stronger, lasts-longer energizer max. lash sensational sky high frfrom maybelline new york limitless length + volume flex brush over 10 million sold* ♪ ♪ intense black pigmts only from maelline new york ubrelvy lps u fight migraine attacks. u do iall. one dosef ubrelvy, quicy stops migraine in its tracks within 2 hours. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high ♪ ♪ you know how i feel ♪ (coughing) ♪ breeze driftin' on by ♪ ♪ you know how i feel ♪ copd may have gotten you here, but you decide what's next. start a new day with trelegy. ♪ ...feelin' good ♪ no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps peo

ted in new york city. yes, for the sake of the entire free world. yes. glenn is in texas, corpus christi.hat do you think? caller: i don't think we need to invade taiwan. we need to give the military aid. i'm not against that. we need to give them air missiles. but we have the wrong president in the white house. he is poking china with a stick in hopes of a conflict. democrats always like to have a war going. this president is no different from the last democrat presidents. host: do you think what we are seeing play out in ukraine is a workable model in taiwan? mass sanctions, massive amounts of money and military aid? but president biden has made it clear in ukraine that there won't be u.s. troops, u.s. boots on the ground in ukraine. caller: we have not given ukraine the white weapons -- right weapons. we have not given them any kind of ground missiles to combat. russia is ground air missiles. that is why russia is trying to destroy ukraine with missiles. we are not helping ukraine combat that. we are not giving them airplanes to fly sordis. we are going to do the same thing in china. c

christie is kind of off that team. vice president pence is for kemp. and obviously president trump is for perdue. >> ainsley: so is president bush for kemp. >> brian: tedope hicks for mccormick. >> ainsley: people who used to work in the white house are supporting mccormick but trump is supporting oz. >> steve: that's going to be really interesting when we see the head to head in georgia where it's essentially trump vs. george w. bush. brian kemp is leading in the polls. and when you look at last night, you had dr. oz supported by donald trump, but then you had david mccormick supported by kellyanne. and mike pompeo. and hope hicks part of that team. >> ainsley: what does that tell you? either one if you are a trump supporter either one who wins would be a good candidate? >> brian: that's one way to look at it. >> brian: it's not a situation where the president is lashing out at former staffers and calling them rhinos. >> steve: that's what you don't want. you don't the former president, particularly if you are a candidate for him to blow you up. >> ainsley: more congress mic started this big hedge fund he is very wealthy and married to dina powell who

ted cruz, i mean, this was nothing. >> and you have rudy giuliani that screamed about combat justice. you have donald trump that was pushing this well before the election. chris christieng to lose, so he started talking about this privately in june. saying they're going to rig the election against me. we have to get that message out. >> publicly. >> at the republican convention, on stage, he said in his speech, he said there are two outcomes. outcome where i win, and an outcome where it's stolen. that's what he said from the white house. >> again, all the way back to iowa, the first race he ever ran. ted cruz beat him. what did he do? he just kept talking about how it was stolen from him. >> again, you get back to the persecution. we've had a number of people, ordinary citizens, swayed by propaganda, swayed by the influence that donald trump and what his tough guy rhetoric had on them. >> by the way -- >> it led them there. >> people who make millions and millions of money on primetime television are feeding lies every night. >> that's right. how sit a new york police officer, a farmer from iowa, take the trouble to go to washington to participate, to save their democ

speakers included south dakota governor christie noem, texas senator ted cruz, and former president donaldrump. the session begins with remarks from n.r.a. c.e.o. wayn