Hi, I'm Becky Quick, co-host of Squawk Box. Today I'm with Joe Kernan, and this is

five things you need to know before today's opening bell. Israel and Iran trading air strikes

for the sixth straight day. Current and former Trump administration officials tell NBC news that the

president is considering a range of options, including a possible U.S. strike on Iran.

Amazon's chief executive, Andy Jassy, says that the company's corporate workforce will shrink in the coming years as Amazon adopts more generative AI tools and agents.

And a memo to employees, Jassy said, we will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today and more people doing other types of jobs. New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been released from custody after he was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court in Manhattan. Lander had linked arms with a person that authorities were trying to detain.

Lander's wife posted on X that the New York City controller had been escorting a defendant out of court.

He needed a boost.

I mean, his campaign needed a boost.

That other guy's coming on strong.

Cuomo was, like like they're buying ads

about that young guy that they're calling radical

the guy who's like a communist yeah wants to defund the police

aOC endorsed them some other guy

endorsed him but Brad you know worked he was on

CNN last night CNN last night got the call

immediately from the booker

yeah that how many more how many more times it's gonna happen it's it's like

it's a thing it's a trend it's gonna keep happening you you are guaranteed to be on

CNN he was apparently right next to governor kathy hokel from new york to

a key to all right the Senate passing a bill to regulate U.S. dollar peg stable coins.

It's known as the Genius Act.

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