in activity. the world s second largest economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter thanks to robust consumer spending after lockdowns were lifted. but factory output has lagged due to weak global growth and this latest data raises questions about the sustainability of china s recovery. a market strategist told me these numbers show how uneven china s economic recovery has been. fix, economic recovery has been. pretty dire set of numbers, although still an expansion. it has come below expectations, but of course the bigger shock on the manufacturing side, and to see how uneven the recovery is in china. two things worth noting. first, we are coming from a strong first quarter where we had this initial euphoria after the reopening of the economy, as well as some benefit from the chinese new year period. so of course, manufacturers are a little bit downbeat after that initial euphoria has come down. secondly, my bigger concern is about geopolitics and the impact maki
carefully studied china s peace plan for ukraine. we ll talk with congressman henry cuellar, and we will ask him with the hours long meeting with the president of mexico. and a teacher shot by a student is speaking out in an msnbc exclusive. i will never look at the look on his face as he pointed the gun directly at me. we begin this very busy hour with new developments in the high profile manhattan grand jury investigation of a hush money payment made from trump to stormy daniels. a new witness spoke to the grand jury on monday and accused former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, of acting alone and making the $130,000 payment to daniels back in 2016. former legal adviser to cohen, costello, testified for over two hours yesterday and slammed cohen. if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it, but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. here on msnbc, cohen responded to costello s comments and defended his testimony. the beauty t
oh, my goodness. the manhunt for a suspected kill in texas is now expanding. the lead starts right now. where is francisco oropesa. the man previously deere ported four times and killed his neighbors execution-style after they complained about noise and now agents are on alert as authorities admit they have no idea where he is. plus e. jean carroll back on the stand under aggressive cross-examination from trump s attorneys and her answers as they seek to undermine her credibility. and the second largest bank collapse in u.s. history. first republic taken over by jp morgan chase and are more banks in jeopardy of going down and how secure is the u.s. economy? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start with our national lead in the urgent manhunt to find the suspect behind a massacre. more than 200 law enforcement officers are currently searching for the man who murdered five people on friday night at a home outside of houston, texas. 38-year-old francisco or
full peal which i ve never heard of, driving us up the wall, but it s part of the day of coronation. about 100 yards behind us we saw king charles and queen camilla turn up in one of those horse-drawn carriages and we knew this was something special and we knew, in fact, something that hasn t been seen here for, oh, 70 years. a lot of hubbub, pomp and circumstance, but in the middle of the ceremony when the archbishop of canterbury took that coronation crown and fitted it on king charles head and you knew something would happen and a short time after that to show the tradition and heritage of the place you saw something else, his son and heir apparent, prince william, pledge allegiance to king charles. i, william, pledge and faith unto you, as for life and limb. they ve got the si ceremony, and there was an older carriage and the crowds have been battered and buffeted by rain and wind and they were there by the tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands just to show th