Israel says it will “respond with force” after accusing Iran of launching a new missile attack hours after a President Trump-brokered cease-fire took effect. ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivers the Fed's semi-annual monetary policy report to the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday. Powell on Tuesday emphasized the central bank’s commitment to keeping inflation in check, saying he expects policymakers to stay on hold until they have a better handle on the impact tariffs will have on prices. In remarks to be delivered to two congressional committees this week, Powell characterized economic growth as strong and the labor market to be around fu ...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of ceasefire between Israel and Iran, his thoughts on Washington's surprise attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, fate of the Republican tax and spending bill, sticking points in negotiations, and more. ...

Iran still has uh several hundred kilos of enriched uranium enriched to 60%. Uh the only purpose for uranium enriched to that level is for weapons uh uh grade. It's weapons grade material.There's no civilian purpose for material of that kind. Uh that as far as we know was not uh destroyed in the US air strike. Uh the Iranians said they had secreted it somewhere.no longer under IAEA, the International um Atomic Energy Authority, uh supervision. And so what happens to that. And can we get Iran back to the tab ...

Because the Middle East is so important for global supply and particularly the straight of hormus is so important to global supply. The reality has been that every time that we have been involved in conflict in the Middle East, the oil price have increased. It just because the market was pricing the potential of a disruption and because of the centrality of the region into the global supply, a price increase will happen almost on every time that conflict has happened there.But that hasn't happened this time ...

How significant is this in terms of a blow to Iran's uh I would say uh closer ties with the GCC states that have been enabled uh over the last few years. Well, of course, Qatar and and Iran are business partners in the world's largest gas field and so they have communication lines uh between them that are quite important. Uh I my guess is uh careful notice was provided to cutter uh which went on of course to the uh military commanders at Aludade.But it is uh I I think uh typical in in situations like this w ...

I didn't like plenty of things I saw yesterday. I didn't like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal. They didn't have to unload and I didn't like the fact that the retaliation was very strong.But in all fairness, Israel unloaded a lot. And now I hear Israel just went out because they felt it was violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere. That's not what we want.I'll tell you. And I'm telling you, I'm not happy about that Israel either. All I do is play both sides.I'm going now, a ...

President Trump and his team making one final push to get the president's tax bill across the finish line by next week. Michael Falcon there is uh the deputy treasury secretary and uh Mr. . Secretary it's good to see you from watching from where we are.It just seems like there's you know so many we're going to have Ran Paul on for example there's so many different constituencies you know single person constituencies on both of we just had Michael on as well. Are you confident that when push comes to shove t ...

Fed Chair Jay Pal is out with some comments on the economy. This happened just moments ago and our Steve Leeman joins us right now with more. Steve, Becky, thank you.Fed Chair Jay Powell in testimony before Congress today will maintain his views on the economy uh policy and tariffs in his uh press conference last week saying the Fed is well positioned to learn more about the course of the economy before adjusting policy. The Fed, he says, needs to prevent a one-time price increase from tariffs from becoming ...

We're getting new details on a crypto regulation framework out of Washington. Emily Wilkins joins us with more on that. Emily, good morning. Good morning, Becky.Yeah, well, CNBC got an exclusive first look at what could be the biggest crypto bill of the year coming out of DC. Uh, banking chairman Tim Scott along with Senator Cynthia Lumis introduced a framework today for a piece of legislation that would really provide the rules of the road for crypto and other digital assets. Now, this framework includes t ...