you have reason to believe that there are programs in the advanced tech space that are unsanctioned? yes, i do. how does a program like that get funded? i can give you generalities i can get specific in a closed session. misappropriation of funds. does that mean that there is money in the budget that is set to go to a program but it doesn t and it goes to something else? yes, i have specific knowledge of that, yep. laura: yeah, it s all fungible. it s your money, taxpayers, they can pick it out of any pot they want this all together. don t expect this lack of trainers to be turned around any time soon though, certainly not from this white house. david grusch who sat on a u.s. air force panel on uaps he said he was informed of a uap crash retrieval and reverse program based on interviewing 40 witnesses over four years. does such a program exist and do you believe that the american people deserve to know if it does. i have no information on that to provide for you today one
willingness to share information. now bill burns earlier this year, the cia rolled out a recruitment video that they actually shared in the region, in russia, trying to encourage russians and not just russians in the intelligence space, but also russians who work for businesses or russians who work in the tech space to share information with the cia. they rolled out some pretty clear details, sharing with them how to actually do that. so it s clear that the cia has seen this as an opportunity to recruit folks, to share information with them for a while now. and bill burns was clear, as you said, in calling this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. very interesting stuff there. thank you so much over at the state department. i want to bring in the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman jim himes. thanks for joining us. i want to go back to what you heard ukraine s president tell erin burnett moments ago, that the war will not end unless ukraine retakes crimea.
credit rating on watch. that is something investors took note of. it is worth mentioning in the tech space there s one name people are focussing on today and that is nvidia. has seen opening up more than 20% in early trade today, which is lifting other names in the tech space as well. in terms of futures we have the s&p and dow seen opening up in negative territory and nasdaq seen opening up in positive territory. in terms of what to watch out for today we have the second reading of the first quarter of gdp, pending home sales and earnings fronts we get results out of best buy and ralph lauren, so watch out for those. so target the retailer is removing some merchandise from its pride month collection. what prompted this, joumanna? yeah, that s right. so target announced that they are removing some merchandise linked to pride month, which is the month of june after threats to employees. so in a statement released the company said that since
normally deal with in our lives here in the beat summit series. we welcomed on for the first time ever, reginald cash, ceo of a media company that focuses on video games and diversifying this tech space. he s worked on some popular new series like gaming while black. everyone s coming to gaming. everyone is consuming gaming. they re playing gaming, consuming gaming. when we did our own work and i did my own work and looked at the amount of ad dollars and brand dollars that went to creators of color, it was less than 4% of tens of millions of dollars that i was generating and passing through my hands to pay creators to do certain things, to create certain content. we started to look at that problem and thaw, wow, one, shame on me, but two, the very same discrepancies that were