Joining us now, NBC News senior White House correspondent Garrett Hake, also with us, senior fellow and director of the transatlantic security program at the Center for a New American Security, Andrea Kendall Taylor. She also served as a senior intel officer for nearly 10 years. Garrett, I'll come to you first.President Trump now says Zilinsky and Putin need to meet alone. What's the latest that you're hearing, especially as the Kremlin is saying maybe, maybe not, maybe eventually. Yeah, it does appear that ...

Retail is the story of the morning. We've got a number of results. Target, Lowe's.Courtney Reagan just speaking with the CEO of Lowe's and joins us with some comments. Morning, Courtney. Hi, good morning Sarah.Yes, so I just spoke with CEO Marvin Ellison getting more perspective on the quarter and this big acquisition. He said, "We estimate that you have roughly $50 billion in deferred projects in home because customers are just waiting to get a little bit more overall confidence in the macro environment. S ...

Hey, Ryan, I want to start with you. What do we know so far about this probe. What's the scope and what are the allegations.Not a lot, but I mean, this US Attorney's Office has a sort of history of getting the investig news of the investigation out there very quickly, which is not typically how these probes work, right. And I think that that's really the the headline here is that they are trying to get this narrative out there, sort of this idea that they're fudging the numbers. Now, we should say there was ...

Joining us now, NBC News chief White House correspondent, Peter Alexander. NBC News foreign correspondent Danielle Hamjin and former US ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor. He's a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center.Peter, I want to go to you first. What's the latest on preparations for the Putin Zilinsky summit considering the Kremlin is now slowwalking it. >> Yeah, Ally, it's a good question and heading into the break, you referred to this as sort of a TBD to be determined.I think ...

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Tomorrow, Disney is launching its highly anticipated streaming version of ESPN. Julia Boren looking at why it could be just the start of a big bigger rebundling move. Julia, what's the strategy.Well, Sarah, new chapter in the streaming wars starts tomorrow, and it's all about the power of the bundle to reduce churn. The launch of ESPN, the unlimited app, for $30 marks the start of Disney's aggressive rebundling. Subscribers to ESPN also get Disney Plus and Hulu for no additional fee for $30 for the first ye ...

Uh, speaking of which, we are getting a news alert out of the Fed this morning. For that, let's get to Steve Leeman in Jackson Hole. Hi, Steve.>> Hey, Carl. Um Fed Governor Chris Waller actually speaking down the road at the Wyoming blockchain symposium happening uh right before the um Jackson conference making some comments about payment systems and crypto saying uh the payment system has experienced a quote technologydriven revolution and he sees no reason to fear transactions that use a distributed ledge ...

So, as Russia continues to launch those attacks in Ukraine, killing civilians, Moscow also carrying out sabotage operations in Western nations. For a closer look at that, let's bring in NBC News international correspondent Raph Sanchez. He joins us from London. Raph, what more can you tell us about this? So Willie, ever since the start of Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western officials have accused Russia of carrying out a widespread campaign of sabotage here in Europe. It's sometimes cal ...

X sector under pressure again today after coming off the worst performance in a couple of weeks as some of the year's best performers lose momentum including Palunteer on pace for the sixth straight day of losses now down about 23% from the highs. Longtime Palunteer bearer Brent Th joins us from Jeff. Brent has a sell rating and a target of 60.Brent, it's good to have you. You actually wrote about this a few weeks ago in which you called it a disconnect between valuation and achievable growth. Uh, can you w ...