Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a major attack on southwestern Saudi Arabia early Tuesday, targeting oil and other infrastructure in an escalation that risks widening the region’s conflicts and adding further pressure to crude prices. The attacks mark a dramatic escalation in the Saudi-Houthi conflict, which flared up again in July, shortly after the US-Iran ceasefire unraveled, with Houthi missile attacks on Saudi oil facilities and tankers in an expansion of the Middle East war. Meanwhile, in offices across the US military and intelligence community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people and facilities typically stationed in the Middle East if the Trump administration succeeds in ending…
Retired U.S. Army Major General Paul Eaton joins Alicia Menendez to discuss VoteVets new campaign aimed at stopping construction on President Trump's 250-foot triumphal arch. The group is raising concerns that the construction will interfere with military burials at Arlington National Cemetery.
MS NOW’s Stephanie Ruhle tells Morning Joe that, in the short term, retaliatory tariffs from Canada will not have a huge impact on the U.S. But in the long run, Ruhle explains an ongoing trade war with Canada “could be a disaster.” Canadian tariffs on roughly $20 billion in U.S. imports took effect early Tuesday in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on Canada put into place last month.
Author and former investment banker William Cohen joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book, “Money to Burn: The Unvarnished Truth About Leon Black, Apollo, and the Rise of a New Wall Street.” It tells the story of the rise and fall of former Wall Street tycoon, Leon Black. The book details how Black’s company, Apollo Global management, unraveled due to his own poor judgement that included a friendship and business relationship with the disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and an affair with a Russian woman who he accused of extorting him after having an affair.
