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📺#FoxNews #Election Fraud Trial

Jury selection underway, trial starting as early as Monday with Fox Chief Rupert Murdoch and Fox News stars having to testify in the Dominion defamation trial.

The judge presiding over the lawsuit against Fox News ruled that he would not stop efforts to compel Murdoch and his son Lachlan to testify in person. others on the list include Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs.

Fox suffered a setback in its defense against the $1.6 billion lawsuit that claims the NewsChannel lied about voter fraud in the 2020 election. The judge says the case is strong enough to conclude that Fox hosts and guests repeatedly made false claims about Dominion voting machines and their supposed role in a fictitious plot to steal the election from Donald Trump.

Murdoch, chairman of Fox News’s parent company, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted a false narrative that the election in 2020 was stolen from Trump.

“They endorsed,” Murdoch said under oath in response to direct questions about the hosts Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Dobbs and Bartiromo.

Despite what Fox News reported after the 2020 election, behind the scenes its most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives privately trashed claims of election fraud. In messages, Hannity said Giuliani was "acting like an insane person" and Ingraham described him as "an idiot." Murdoch said it was "really bad" that Giuliani was advising Trump.

The messages also revealed that Murdoch did not believe Trump’s election lies.

🚨DA Sues Republicans Interfering In Trump Case

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hitting back, filing a lawsuit against the House Judiciary Committee and its GOP chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, alleging Republican lawmakers are illegitimately interfering with his prosecution of Donald Trump.

Trump earlier posted this threatening picture of himself holding a baseball bat — with DA Bragg’s hands up — on his Truth Social platform.

Trump said he wouldn’t drop out of the 2024 race even if convicted of a crime.“I’d never drop out, it’s not my thing,” Trump said in an interview with Fox’s Tucker Carlson. “I wouldn’t do it.”

The former President also praised the leaders of China and Russia, while criticizing President Biden.

On Biden, 80, running in '24: Trump says "I don't see how it's possible."And it's not an age thing," said Trump, 76. "I have friends that are 88, 89, 92. ... But there's something wrong. ... I don't think he can."

Meantime, Russia's "merchant of death" is offering Trump asylum in Russia, saying he believes the former president's life is in danger if he remains in the United States.

In an interview on a Russian state-TV, Viktor Bout—an international arms dealer made infamous after his portrayal by Nicolas Cage in the 2005 film "Lord of War"—told a reporter he had sent a telegram to Trump warning him of an imminent threat to his life and urging him to flee to Russia for safety.

The threat against Trump's life, Bout suggested, is not from an assassin or some unknown plot against him. Instead, he said, it comes from Trump's own government.

You Won’t Believe This Post From Trump:

This Moronic post on Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ site comes after he Plead Not Guilty To 34 Counts of falsifying business records to hide hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 election. All together, the charges of falsifying business records - carry a maximum sentence of more than 100 years in prison, though if convicted a judge could sentence him to probation. 

It also comes after the judge in the case warned him against insightful behavior.

Still addressing the media at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, the ex-president referred to the well-respected Judge Juan Merchan as a “Trump hating judge” and invoked his daughter, alleging she was involved in a Democrat conspiracy.

“I have a Trump-hating judge with a Trump-hating wife and family whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign,” he said.

The next court date is not until December 4th.

Trump is the first former president to face criminal charges, and as a candidate for President is seeking to milk the event for voters and campaign donations.

“Head­ing to Lower Man­hat­tan, the Cour­t-house. Seems so SURREAL — WOW, they are go­ing to AR­REST ME. Can’t be­lieve this is hap­pen­ing in Amer­ica. MAGA!”

-Trump said in a post on his so­cial-me­dia site two min­utes be­fore he en­tered the court build­ing.

After returning to Mar-a-Lago – fundraising all the way – Trump spent 30 minutes Tuesday night trashing the myriad investigations he faces. Trump ranted against his unprecedented arrest and arraignment, telling supporters at Mar-a-Lago that the real “criminal” is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Notably absent his wife Melania.

The campaign has been using the indictment in fund-raising appeals, and said it had raised $4 million in just 24 hours, though financial records corroborating the claim will not be available for weeks.

🎢Stocks UP

Stocks higher as the March producer prices index, a measure of prices paid by companies and often a leading indicator of consumer inflation, declined by 0.5% month over month.

Shares were higher Wednesday too, as the CPI showed inflation eased to 5% in March from a year earlier, its lowest level in nearly two years. BUT then came the Fed, also just released minutes from its last meeting showing in­fla­tion and a tight la­bor mar­kets led of­fi­cials to sig­nal they could raise in­ter­est rates at their next meeting. Markets closed lower as a result, Dow down about 40 points, Nasdaq lost 0.85%.

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💸CreditCrunch: Is YOUR Money Safe?

The S&P 500 is up 6.5% since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank last month, but Wall Street does not think the banking crisis over and many worry a ‘credit crunch’ is making it tougher to borrow money. There are 186 banks across the country that could fail according to a study published on the Social Science Research Network.

Earnings released this week by some of the country’s biggest lenders, including Citigroup, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, will be examined closely to determine the effect of the banking mess.

Still the crisis has a Silver Lining: Mortgage Rates Are Lower and as a result home sales rose.

SitusAMC’s Tim Rood, a GisermanGroup Client breaks it all down to Fox’s Neil Cavuto:

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🚗EV’s The Second Auto Revolution

The Biden administration proposing plans designed to ensure two-thirds of new passenger cars sold are all-electric by 2032. A monumental change from the current 6%.

If the two rules are enacted as proposed, they would put the world’s largest economy on track to slash its planet-warming emissions at the pace that scientists say is required of all nations in order to avert the most devastating impacts of climate change.

The av­erage price for an EV is $61,800, com­pared with $45,600 for ve­hi­cles with in­ter­nal com­bus­tion en­gines, ac­cord­ing to J.D. Power.

⛽️Gas Prices Pump Higher

National average gas prices have reached a five-month high, above $3.50 a gallon for the first time since November. The jump comes on the heels of Saudi Arabia and others decisions to drastically cut oil production.

Our friend Price Futures Group senior analyst Phil Flynn sees $4, even $5 ahead in the near future especially as oil companies switch over to summer blends.

.🏠Home Sales Surprise

If the economy is so bad, why then are home sales so good? Home prices nationally rose 0.16% in February according to Black Knight. That is the strongest one-month gain since May of last year.

SitusAMC’s Tim Rood, former FannieMae Executive, and a GisermanGroup client, on Yahoo Finance, FBN's Cavuto and on Scripps News says Housing is the Cinderella Story of the Year:

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🕕Crypto Rising

Bitcoin back around the $30,000 mark

Exiger’s Samar Pratt on FinTechTV explainsCrypto had just gained a foothold at BNY Mellon:

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⏰TikTok: Time Runs Out On Chinese Co.

Ban TikTok.

A high-stakes showdown as TikTok’s CEO testifies in front of a House Committee.

The Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion de­mand­ing Tik­Tok’s Chi­nese own­ers sell their stakes in the video-shar­ing app or face a U.S. ban.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told lawmakers that China-based employees at its parent company ByteDance may still have access to some U.S. data but added that won’t be the case once its risk mitigation plan is complete.

Matt Hayden Former Cybersecurity Czar at the Department of Homeland Security and a GisermanGroup client on Scripps News says TikTok is dangerous:

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🤖ChatBots ‘Profound Risk To Society’

President Biden says it remains to be seen if artificial intelligence is dangerous, but believes technology companies must ensure their products are safe before releasing them to the public.

More than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, have urged artificial intelligence labs to pause development of the most advanced systems, warning in an open letter that A.I. tools present “profound risks to society and humanity.”

Artificial intelligence is taking over “clerical white collar work,” says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. Jobs like customer service, human resources, and positions within finance and health care could all see ChatBots taking them over — not years from now but in the current day, according to Krishna.

Researchers from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania argued in a new research paper that 80 percent of the US workforce could have at least 10 percent of their work tasks affected by the introduction of ChatGPT. They also found that about 19 percent of workers may find at least 50 percent of their duties impacted by GPT, or General-purpose technologies.

There’s one big hitch: Governments — notably Washington — haven’t kept pace with regulations for the technology. That could lead to dire consequences: “By failing to establish such guardrails, policymakers are creating the conditions for a race to the bottom in irresponsible A.I.,” Carly Kind, the director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, a policy research group, told The Times.

Don’t Use CellPhone Charging Stations

The FBI has issued a new warning about ‘juice jacking’ cautioning consumers against using free cellphone public charging stations at airports, hotels, shopping malls or other such facilities. The bureau saying crooks have managed to hijack public chargers that can infect devices with malware, or software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer.

The Federal Communications Commission has also warned about juice jacking.

Consumer devices with compromised USB cables can be hijacked through software that can then siphon off usernames and passwords, the FCC warns. The commission told consumers to avoid those public stations.

To avoid becoming a victim of juice jacking, carry your own charger and plug in at a normal outlet.

🏓PickleBall TV Ratings Top MLB, NBA, NHL

‘PickleBall Slam’ slams TV Ratings.

The inaugural event featuring tennis legends John McEnroe, Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi and Michael Chang was more popular than 13 MLB matchups, seven NBA games and five NHL clashes for the week beginning March 27, according to Nielsen data.

An average of 669,000 viewers tuned in for the competition with viewership reaching a high of 796,000 fans during the hotly-contested doubles match between the stellar quartet on ESPN. What’s even more appealing for advertisers is it scored big in the coveted 18-25 demographic.

Here comes more PickleBall to your TV.

💊Abortion Pills in Danger

A federal appeals court temporarily blocked a decision by a judge in Texas to suspend government approval of a key abortion medication nationwide.

The court’s decision maintains mifepristone’s availability for now, though the judges declined to pause another part of the Texas ruling that said the Food and Drug Administration wrongly expanded access to the abortion drug.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone in 2000.

WSJ Reporter Arrested In Russia

The State Department has designated as “wrongfully detained” Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested by Russian security services last month and held on an accusation of espionage that the Journal and the U.S. government vehemently deny.

Gershkovich’s case now shifts to a State Department section—known as the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs—which is focused on negotiating for the release of hostages and other Americans classified as wrongfully detained in foreign countries.

Over 200 Russian journalists joining President Biden, Eu­ropean gov­ern­ments and the chief of the North At­lantic Treaty Or­ga­ni­zation de­nouncing the ar­rest of Wall Street Jour­nal re­porter Evan Ger­shkovich and demanding his re­lease. A se­nior Russ­ian diplo­mat said the in­ves­tiga­tion in the re­porter’s case was on­go­ing and de­clined to state when he would be per­mit­ted vis­its from lawyers and U.S. diplo­mats.

Ger­shkovich, 31 years old, was ar­rested in the Russian city of Yeka­ter­in­burg. Russ­ian au­thor­i­ties have ac­cused Ger­shkovich of es­pi­onage, which the Jour­nal and the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion deny. He is cur­rently be­ing held at a jail in Mos­cow run by Rus­sia’s Fed­eral Se­cu­rity Ser­vice, or FSB.

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🍋CNN’s Morning Debacle

Don Lemon @donlemon

I appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning today. To my network, my colleagues and our incredible audience — I’m sorry. I’ve heard you, I’m learning from you, and I’m committed to doing better. See you soon.

CNN’s low rated morning show was already in trouble. Its three anchors show little chemistry reflected in dropping audience numbers. Now, Don Lemon, one of the morning-show anchors has been criticized by the man who created the losing show, after his on-air comments about women and aging set-off an uproar inside the cable news channel. Lemon made no on-air mentions this morning but did send the above tweet.

Lemon upset colleagues when he asserted on the air that Nikki Haley, the 51-year-old Republican presidential candidate, “isn’t in her prime, sorry.” “A woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s,” Lemon said, to the visible dismay of his “CNN This Morning” co-anchors, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins. He refused to back down after Harlow questioned his remarks, telling her to “look it up.”

Lemon returned to the show after a memo sent by CNN’s chairman Chris Licht said Lemon “has agreed to participate in formal training” over his on-air behavior and that the network took “this situation very seriously.”

☕️Cool Beans: Coffee Good For You

Go ahead have that second cup. A new study says Coffee is good for you.

The research showed that coffee has striking effects on physical activity levels, causing people to move more, taking, on average, 1,000 extra steps a day — a significant boost in activity that might help explain why coffee consumption has long been linked to better health.

But the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, did find some downsides to a daily cuppa. It showed that people lost about 36 minutes of nightly sleep on days when they drank coffee — and the more coffee they drank, the less they slept.

☕️How About Olive Oil With Your Coffee—Really

Coming to a Starbucks near you coffee with olive oil!

The cof­fee chain plans to launch a line of olive-oil-in­fused drinks, set to de­but in the com­pa­ny’s cof­fee shops in Italy this week and the U.S. in the spring. The Oleato bev­erages will in­clude an oat-milk latte im­bued with ex­tra-vir­gin olive oil, and a cold brew drink topped with “golden foam” in­fused with the oil, ex­ec­u­tives said. Star-bucks is also adding the oil to its Iced Shaken Espresso bev­er­age, pair­ing it with oat milk and hazel­nut. 

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💊Weight Loss Wonder Drug Worth Billions

What price beauty?

An Eli Lilly drug if approved for weight loss could become the best-selling drug of all time.

Experts are confident that the drug, called tirzepatide, will be granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration sometime this year.  If that’s the case, it would join two other popular — and expensive — recently approved weight loss drugs on the market, Wegovy and Saxenda, both from the drugmaker Novo Nordisk.

The drugs have been shown in clinical trials to be highly effective for weight loss. All three drugs — which are given as injections — work in a similar way: They’re a class of drugs called GLP-1 agonists, which mimic a hormone that helps reduce food intake and appetite.

Oh yea it would cost you $13,000 a year (and most insurances won’t pay)!

💻They Want Your Password

Warning-New Scams to steal your passwords.

If you've had a password hacked recently, you aren't alone. The volume of password attacks has soared to an estimated 921 attacks every second. That's a 74% rise in one year, according to the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report.

Exiger's Robert Kolasky with more on Bloomberg & CBS:

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💰Money Does Buy Happiness

Money really does buy happiness.

The rule extends well beyond the $75,000-a-year salary threshold that had been seen as the upper limit for making an impact, according to a team of scientists that include the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who introduced the idea of a happiness plateau more than a decade ago.

Happiness does increase steadily in line with incomes and even accelerates as pay rises beyond $100,000 a year and more — as long as the person enjoys a certain baseline level of happiness to begin with. That’s according to a study of 33,391 people living in the US, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

The results contradict a famous 2010 paper by the psychologist Daniel Kahneman and economist Angus Deaton, which reported that happiness goes up with income until the relationship starts to “flatten” at between $60,000 and $90,000 a year.