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And call it Identity Theft as Scarlett Johansson calls out openai and sam altman. Its tuesday, may 21st, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good morning. Welcome to thank you for being with us. Lets look at the stock futures on this tuesday. A muted start right now. A bit mixed. Nasdaq in the red. You see the dow opening up slightly higher. The s p is essentially flat. Lets stick with the nasdaq. We watch the tech trade with the fresh record ahead of the huge report from...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. I am will roger, director of policy communications at the American Farm bureau federation. Today negotiators from three Member States of nafta will begin renegotiating a treaty that is more than 20 years old. Much is at stake particularly for agriculture. We have with us the three heads of the largest farm organizations in canada, mexico and the United States. The president of the American Farm bureau federation, ron bonnett, president of the Canadian Fe...

After he criticized the move. All of this happening on day one of a brandnew congress. Republicans are pushing an aggressive agenda as vow to put up a fight. Weve got you covered on this very busy hour. David and the markets getting aggressive there at the end. The dow climbing in the final minutes of trading. Nike and verizon moving positive and oil moving in the opposite direction. The ce in chicago to tell us why and lori rothman is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori, it was up...

What stocks staen to benefit from tax reform . Goldman sachs has a basket of names set to outperform. Elon musk is trolling his haters on twitter after the companys stock surge pushed its market cap above ford for the first time. The president scheduled to hold a town hall meeting with 50 Business Leaders. Among those slated the ceo of citigroup, blackstone, mast ecard and jetblue, it he will focus on improving the Business Climate discussions about infrastructure and jobs. Beth comstock from ge...

First from the fox news deck this afternoon, we begin with a live look at the white house. There it is. Press secretary Sarah Sanders is set to take to the podium pat any moment. She was set to take to the podium 31 minutes ago. The idea is to weighin on rising economies. Beijing is announcing retaliatory tariffs. That could impact soy beans to cars. Strategic in nature no doubt. In minutes, a look at what those proposed taxes would mean for american workers. First, a live look at the dow. What ...

A mega merger for two mobile phone companies. Why a union with tmobile and sprint could mean you pay more for service. They say leads to lower prices, though. We will discuss . We will. I wonder what regulators will say. That is the question. Good morning. I hope you had a great weekend. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Right now, immigration showdown playing out at the u. S. And mexico border. A caravan of migrants camped out at border. ...

New tonight, Rudy Giuliani calling on Jeff Sessions to step in on the cohen investigation. And henry just attended an event with the newest member of the legal team. What can you tell us . I was just with Rudy Giuliani at at 9 11 event and he was very upfront about saying he had another conversation with the president two hours ago and the president despite all the Media Chatter about really giuliani having disastrous interviews the pres. Is very happy with the tone giuliani is pushing, he confi...

Reporter thats right, christine. We are getting more information from the blue house about what exactly was talked about on friday at that summit. Kim jongun has agreed to shutdown his nuke test site in the northeast of the country. He will do that in may. That is a fairly tight timeframe considering may starts tomorrow. He also said he would invite experts and journalists along to make sure it was transparent. He had an interesting comment as well according to the blue house. He is not the kind...

President trump leaving from where he is staying in argentina for the first meeting of the day. He is tweeting about something different. Tweeting about Michael Cohen and about special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. Calling it once again a witch hunt. This tweet really is telling us more publicly about what is going on behind the scenes. According to the source, the president has been in a terrible mood over the last day or so as this news from the Mueller Investigation has come out. He ...

Goodbye to senator john mccain on the senate floor as his longtime friend Lindsey Graham stood next to mccains desk draped in black with white roses. Its going to be a lonely journey for me for a while. Im going to need your help. And the void to be filled by johns passing is more than i can do. Dont look to me to replace this man. Look to me to remember what he was all about and try to follow in his foot steps. If you want to help me, join the march. If you want to help the country, be more lik...