Who questioned gruber. Well ask him about the Lame Duck Congress that has been anything but after name calling and finger pointing and intense negotiations. The trillion dollar budget is on its way to the president s desk. Is this a shade of politics to come . We look ahead this morning on sunday morning futures. After 13 years the u. S. Officially ended the combat role in afghanistan. Now we are two weeks away from another troop draw down that can only leave 10,800 men and women in uniform helping to keep that country secure. And at least 19 people were killed this weekend alone. Two american soldiers died in the Taliban Attack on friday. Today, afghans new president made an impassioned plea for the violence to stop. He yelled, enough. Saying his country will never surrender. Critics saying now may not be the best time to draw down. Retired u. S. Marine general Anthony Zinni is the former commander of centcom. Thank you for joining us this morning. Good to be with you. Can you characterize where we were in afghanistan today . Well, i think were at a point where were testing the Iraqi Military to see if theyre able to stand up against the taliban. Its i think its critically important that the training and the equipping continue at a level that they need. But most importantly, this really is ghanis moment. He has to step up and give the Afghan Military and the people something to fight for. Hes got to get rid of the corruption in the government, got to make sure that the government is inclusive. Sort of a repeat of what we saw with maliki and his successor. I think 10,000 troops and drawing down is fine if we keep several capabilities in there. Special operations capabilities, that we can hit targets that are important to us that maybe that capacity isnt there for the afghans. And more importantly the advisers, the trainers and the equipment that are necessary for that afghan army to sustain itself. General, we have a lot to talk about with you in addition to afghanistan. I want to get your take on iraq and of course isis, as well as that cia report. But first, lets take a look at the reality of a troop draw down and what do our past actions tell us about the future . Fox news Senior Correspondent eric shawn on that angle. Good morning. Good morning, maria. It seems we dont or in some places should not ever leave. Afghan is an increased hotbed of terrorism and troops are deployed in far greater strengths everywhere. Americas combat mission will be over by the end of this year. Starting next year, afghans will be fully responsible for securing their country. Well, not so fast. Six months after announcing the end of our combat role in afghanistan, president obama increased the number of u. S. Forces even though just by 1,000 who will stay there. Will they be enough to help the Afghan Forces eventually defeat the taliban once and for all . Right now, 10,800 troops will remain, but the plans to cut that number to 5,500 by 2016 and zero in three years. All this as the u. S. Has deployed much Larger Forces elsewhere. A sizable presence, decades after war and hostilities ended there. Nearly 50,000 u. S. Forces remain in japan. More than 38,000 in germany. 28,500 are still in north korea. 10,000 deployed in kuwait and even south africa rates 216 military personnel making more troops assigned to peaceful countries than are facing the taliban. Some insist those commitments are exceeded for the u. S. To remain a global leader. Theres a lot of responsibility on the u. S. Shoulders but we have the posture and the people to do it. We have to have the will to sustain this long war and thats exactly what it is. Well, the challenge that continues in afghanistan can be symbolized by one shocking attack just last week. It happened at a French School in kabul. Students were performing a play called heart beat about freedom and democracy when a suicide bomber sitting in the audience blew themselves up. That attacker was a 16yearold boy who hid the bomb in his underwear. Maria . Just horrible stories continuing. Eric, thank you very much. We have now more with former centcom commander, general Anthony Zinni. When you see what has gone on in iraq after the u. S. Troops were pulled out and how the isis force really just rolled over the army, why should we have any sort of optimism about the draw down in afghanistan . Well, i think the optimism in iraq first of all, is with the new government. Its still very iffy. But if this new government can reach out and be more inclusive, work with the sunni neighbors, and we can rebuild the army, rebuild the leadership, make sure they have the right kind of equipment, i think it can be salvaged. But i want to go back in both cases, its going to be up to the new leadership in the government. In the case of afghanistan, ghani, and of course in the case of iraq, malikis successor. I dont think us staying there forever and continuing to fight the taliban or isis and other elements are going to get it. We have got to get these countries to stand up on their open and it was time to take off the training wheels. In iraq, we knew maliki was the problem. We knew it from the time he took over. I heard it from every Embassy Official out there and general that we had out there. And yet, we watched as he slid away from being an inclusive government and he alienated the sunnis and the kurds to an extend. How do we ensure success . What can the u. S. Do to ensure that these governments can in fact take the lead . I think that what has to be done this becomes more of a diplomatic mission. We need pressure on these governments. We need to work with them to ensure they understand how to clean up corruption, favoritism, cronyism. Obviously, maliki was rewarding generals who had no military skill. We cant do it for them. But we certainly can stay on them about this. We dont want to get our military tied down into decades worth of war that going nowhere. I do think we have an obligation in iraq since we broke it. To ensure they have the equipment and the training. But theres more of an obligation to ensure that government changes and reaches out to the minority populations that have been alienated. Meanwhile, the threats are getting bigger. How will you characterize isis today . Well, i would have i would have taken a different approach. I would have put Ground Forces in early on. Isis has been in iraq for six months now. We are betting that time is on our side. And that some magical ground force is going to appear in the short term which i doubt. It will be a while before the iraqis are able to stand up to isis and obviously the kurds, theres an unwillingness to arm them which i dont understand. But i think had we put even a small ground force in there, we would have gotten other allies. And we should have extricated isis from iraq and that would give more space and time for the development of the Iraqi Military and a little more space and time for the government, given some breathing space. But in this case we have isis right at the gates of baghdad, and they have been sitting there for quite a while. Let me turn to the big news of course this week in terms of the release of that cia report on interrogation tactics. What are your observations, general . Well, first of all, i think john mccain said it in the most eloquent way it could have been said. This is not who we are. And we should not subscribe to this kind of use of whatever you want to call it my mind its torture. Thats several things that are bad about this. One, we claim it saves lives. In fact, it puts lives at risk. If you remember the abu ghraib incident that occurred, i talked to the young ncos and officers in the villages and they said that put them at great risk when it came out of course, that wasnt part of this program, but that americans were torturing. By us saying that these measures are okay, its saying we condone them. My son is a marine. Are we saying if he was taken as a prisoner these methods are okay when the International Community and the conventions we signed say no . I also dont understand why we paid 81 million as i understand it for some contractor to come up with these things. I dont know if its a marquis desaad or llc. But this is the most ridiculous things we have done in years. What about releasing the report, thats up for debate in terms of what this information and the presence of this report is doing to to our people in harms way right now. Well, first of all, by saying that releasing the report puts people in harms way sort of val validates it. I think the important part about releasing it is the is the rift that has occurred between our Intelligence Committees in congress and the cia. That to me is very, very dangerous. If they are at odds with each other, that flies in the face of congressional oversight. To me, that is something critical that we need to fix immediately and i would hope that the director of central intelligence, the new chairman of the Intelligence Committee and the house and the senate begin to work to heal this rift. Information should not be kept from the Intelligence Committees. They are required by law to oversee the agency. And i think that may be the most important point to come out of this release of this report. General, good to have you on the program. Thank you for your insights today. Okay, maria. See you soon, sir. Thank you so much. Good news meanwhile, our government gets to stay open. But boy, was it a tough ride getting there. A member of the House Oversight committee on that and putting Jonathan Gruber back on the hot seat after last weeks meeting. Hope you follow me on twitter and let us know what you want to hear from representative ron desantos. Hes next as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Dad,thank you mom for said this oftprotecting my future. You. Thank you for being my hero and my dad. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance could be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Twhat do i do . You need to catch the 4 10 huh . The Equipment Tracking system will get you to the loading dock. There should be a truck leaving now. I got it. Now jump off the bridge. What . In 3. 2. 1. Are you kidding me . Go. Right on time. Right now, over 20,000 trains are running reliably. We call that predictable. Thrillingly predictable. Thanks. 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How tough was getting this bill done . Well, look, i mean, i voted against the bill because i think when youre passing bills to find out whats in bills, thats not in the best interest of taxpayers and the bill was unveiled less than 48 hours before we voted on it. And i know a lot of republicans were critical when nancy pelosi used to pull those tactics and i just cant stroke a 1. 1 trillion check with other peoples money without knowing where exactly that money going. I think it was a mistake to give the Lame Duck Congress all this authority to make all these decisions when we just had an election and had we just punted the spending issues into the new congress, i think we could have handled everything in a more transparent and fiscally responsible way. Well, that makes sense, given the new congress on its way in next six weeks. What was most troublesome about the spending bill and the reason that you could and sign you couldnt vote yes . Well, one, the amount. It was 1. 1 trillion. There was a lot of spending in there that was beyond the budget caps, that was characterized as emergency spending. But really, wasnt. Then you had a lot of special interest provisions that benefited particular constituencies that have power in washington and again, if you had an open process i think that would have given all members the ability to offer amendments and to make that more better and really, more consistent with what the average american taxpayer expects out of their government. What are your priorities in terms of spending and where the money should be allocated as we look ahead to the new congress . Well, i think what we need to do as republicans is do what we told the people we would do in this last election. First, obamacare is going to be a huge issue. When Chuck Schumer admits it was a mistake and that it didnt help the middle class, i think youre going to see a number of votes on obamacare that has the potential to save taxpayers a lot of money. I also think we need to check the president s overreach on illegal immigration and the epa and the hhs. That impoise as lot of costs on the economy as well as on taxpayers. I think we need to have a budget that is slowing the growth, reducing spending, eliminating programs that arent working going into the next fiscal year. We have the numbers now where well be able to get votes on that. So i think that thats important. I also think if you look at the economy, you have middle class voters who really feel squeezed by whats happening. Their wages arent going up, but yet the cost of the staples of life, groceries, Higher Education continue to rise. So a lot of them are losing ground. I think we need to address those issues as well. Theyre losing ground partly because of the cost of health care. Let me ask you about you grilling Jonathan Gruber last week. How would you characterize his performance at that hearing . I thought it was a dismal performance. We see hundreds of witnesses, he was one of the worst witnesses. He was not honest with the committee. He dodged, he wouldnt answer questions directly. I think he placed himself in some jeopardy. Well go through and look at all of his previous statements and then compare it with the transcript of what he provided to us and his testimony under oath. I think you will see some serious discrepancies there and then of course he would not admit the amount of money hes made from all of the consulting contracts hes received since obamacare passed. So we have subpoenaed that information. So i dont think Jonathan Gruber is off the hook. I think hes going to be back before that committee in the new year. How much money has he made . He admitted he made roughly 500,000 with consulting with the federal government and then he admitted that he as about six contracts with various states. Now the reports peg that anywhere from 2. 5 to 5 million. He said he would not he didnt know. He had to talk to his lawyer. And he have not willing to give us an answer. The thing is, were going to get that information, so i dont know why he was trying on the so coy about it. Right. But theres no doubt he has made out like a bandit with the obamacares passage. In terms of the discrepancies you heard from gruber is that going to impact the ability to change obamacare . The legislation. Well, i think it helps us. I think the wind i think the obamacare critics have the wind at our backs. I think his testimony shows theres always been a question of the legitimacy of this law because of the way it was passed, because of the way it was obscured. I think that helps us. I think grubers comments help us and only 30 of the democrats who voted for it remain today. See you soon. Thank you for your for joining us today. A new year, a new focus on your money. How are you set up for retirement . 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Well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. Welcome back. One of the biggest questions hanging over most americans heads am i saving enough for retirement . Robert kapito is the president of blackrock. So good to see you. Thank you for joining us. Before we get into saving for retirement and how you do it effectively, let me get your take on what went on this past week. We had some rocky days there. In terms of market selloffs. Are we seeing a change in sentiment, in terms of the stock market right now . I dont think so. I think last week was really a function of the end of the year. People trying to assess where oil is going to be and what the impact of oil is going to be. A weekend right before the big election in japan. And i think a look back at the year and wondering what the next cycle is going to bring. When it comes to equities, is it going to be cyclical stocks and defensive stocks and when will the fed raise rates . All those in conjunction at the end of the year, i think people squared off their positions and it caused a pretty big dip in the market. In fact, this upcoming week we have the Federal Reserve meeting with a twoday meeting. Theres some talk that the fed will remove that line for considerable amount of time. Rates will stay low for a considerable amount of time. Do you think the fed will raise rates in 2015 and how will that hurt people . I think its overblown. I believe it will be lower for longer, and if the fed did raise rates and signals a raise in rates for 25 or 50 basis points i dont think it will change the way you should be investing for if future. So i think its overblown, but if you wanted my view on rates i would say lower for longer. All right. So lets talk about the future. And in fact, retirement. Most people do not have enough money saved up for retirement. What are you seeing and i know you guys just did a survey in terms of what people are doing and how theyre saving for retirement. Well this is going to be the Biggest Issue in our times. People have not saved enough for retirement. And this is complicated by the fact that we have all learned that were going to live longer. So in the 50s you lived till you were 68. Today youre going to live until youre 80. That means when youll have about 10 to 14 years of retirement today you may have 25 years of retirement. And wow. We have found that people have not saved. This is very, very dramatic, maria. We have found that twothirds of the people that we surveyed have less than 25,000 for retirement. For 25 years . And onethird have saved nothing. Wow. So people have about 45 of their income is going to expenses. The rest of the globe by the way is around 32. The global average. We are finding that people are not investing for the future. And theyre thinking about timing the market. Instead of time in the market. Im going to tell you that you cant save for the future in the future. Now you have to do it now. What was interesting about this survey was that while people are confident about their financial future, theyre worried about the economy. Theyre worried about unemployment. But they havent done anything about it. So this 10 trillion sitting in Bank Accounts earning zero, every year people are saying im going to get in, and they dont get in market place earning zero. This is a very big mistake. And the more time youre sitting in cash, the harder its going to be to catch up. Whats the best way to do it . First, let me tell you this is a breakdown. This is fascinating stuff. The millennials have started saving. Why have they started saving . They spend 11 hours on social media and on financials. What theyre doing they havent gone through the financial crisis and they didnt have assets when we had the financial crisis. Theyre not thinking about the future. But the baby boomers, generation x are saving nothing. In fact, the quiet generation that is collecting Social Security, 50 of the people that are getting Social Security are living off of it. It wasnt meant for that. It was meant to supplement your income. So we have a problem with retirement thats going to be so big and maybe people will recognize it when parents are going to have to move in with their kids. So what should we do . Well, you have to get invested. And we talk about all of this short termism in the marketplace. The markets up, the markets down. Im going to wait until thats a pull back. You mentioned a pull back this week. Is anybody getting in . No. Theyre waiting. Because people never remember when they made money but they remember every single time they lost money. So theyre sitting in cash. In fact, in this survey, 63 of Household Savings is in cash. So money market accounts a cash account instead of actually getting a return from the stock market. Yes. Yes. Of course with rates being low, people need to look for income. So what should they do . Yeah. Well, dividend paying stocks. Dividend paying stocks are something that have been around for a long period of time. Dividends have been a large portion of the total return. I just looked this morning. Things in your refrigerator. I looked at kraft, it had a 3. 5 dividend. I looked at verizon, 4. 75 dividend. Just think of that in any appreciation on the stock because were very bullish on equities going forward. In the bond market, you could still get a good return and high yield. Our high yield funds yielded over 6 this year. Wow. Another year that you missed or even in Municipal Bonds if youre a taxpayer. Taxes will probably go up, higher product than them going down in history. So Municipal Bonds are another way to earn an income. So you need a diversified portfolio that has income producing securities, more weighted to equities than bonds, if you think that Interest Rates are going to go up going forward. Great advice, rob kapito good to have you on the show today. The president of investment firm, blackrock. Did you ever think youd see the day that nancy pelosi sided with ted cruz . The senate going topsyturvy . We are looking ahead with our panel next on sunday morning futures. Stay with us. vo rush hour around here starts at 6 30 a. M. On the nose. But for me, it starts with the opening bell. And the rush i get, lasts way more than an hour. announcer at scottrade, we share your passion for trading. Thats why weve built powerful technology to alert you to your next opportunity. Because at scottrade, our passion is to power yours. Hard it can be. How. To breathe with copd . It can feel like this. Copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. 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Who could have seen john boehner teaming up with president clinton and harry reid on this or nancy pelosi and Elizabeth Warren aligning with ted cruz. Ed rollins is a former Principal White House adviser to ronald reagan. A longterm strategist and political and business leader. And Judith Miller is adjunct fellow from the policy research. Shes a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist. And we have the head of the hedge research and good morning to you. Strange bedfellows. I promise theyll all hop out of bed the next morning. This is not a long term engagement. I think the overarching thing for the white house and john boehner was not to shut down the government. They were willing to make compromises all the way. Two people who have emerged that have been longterm leaders and have been thorns in their side, Elizabeth Warren and she may run for president and ted cruz, a great champion of the base. Will they pull their parties in their direction and sort of muck it up for others . No. Theyre not leaders of the party. The thing about cruz he doesnt care. Cruz is the outlier all the way through. Warren i think was a little bit more responsible. She is against the banks. No friends of business though in the congress today. It sounds like she really does want to put her hat in the ring. Elizabeth warren. Yeah, she really does. To see this wonderful kind of reversal of we have all been watching the republicans, we have been watching them going at one another, the team party wing. The quote moderate or pragmatic wing, now we have the same or a mirror phenomenon on the democratic side which i think will be exacerbated by republican control of the congress. I love quoting nancy pelosi they have to pass the bill to know whats in it. No one has read 1600 pages of stuff. Who knows whats in it. Thats what she said of obamacare. We have to pass the bill to know whats in it. I dont think people trust her or congress. If they have your money, theyll spend it. I think theyll do anything to do that. If you look at this relative to the deficit, dont forget that four or five years ago when the deficit was high they couldnt spend your money because they didnt have any. Now gdp accelerates, they take the money and spend it. I think thats a huge topic. Jeb bush could nail this in the president ial election. One point i want to make. This is 1. 1 trillion. The 4 trillion budget. This is the unmandated part of the budget. Imagine if you had that whole 4 trillion with the entitlements being debated or the tax cuts that are as large as this what we went through. A good point. You have to put it into perspective. You mentioned jeb bush. Hes released 250,000 emails over the time that he was governor. I guess this tells you right now hes going to be running. Transparency. He gave us the transparency. Yeah. He can do so many things particularly, you know, going to the spending, spending, spending. He can be antispending, antihis dad, antihis brother, antifed. He can do a lot of things that are anti you know, government. Prosuccess. Hes antichristie. All the money guys want to write checks to christie, they have to write a second check. Bush will be a viable candidate. You think hes running . Hell be running. Is he going to be the candidate . I dont know. No one is getting out because hes going to win. And the New York Times did a very nice opening piece on him. And was very tough on hillary the week before. So clearly, the times want a race here. Interesting it will be bush clinton. This is the third bush. Shes the first woman. Do we want a third bush, thats the question that will be debated. A lot of people want the first woman. Absolutely right. But well see if she if she actually wins because of that. I mean, people are thinking they wanted the first africanamerican as well. We had that. Do we want a second clinton, thats also independent and on the second bush, i think he could really say, look, im not my brother. I mean, being antiFederal Reserve or antispending would be the opposite of his dad and brother. I think that could be the answer. He was a great governor on his own rights. He deserves to be a very viable candidate. Would have been four years ago or eight years ago. He has a big field to run against him today. Lets talk about more on that, and Foreign Policy in our next segment. But first a look at whats coming up on media buzz. Howie kurtz, over to you. We have a full plate this morning. Well look at the sony hacking and look at rape accusations as the new media battleground. We have the account of the Rolling Stone story about the alleged gang rape. And elena dunhams book and more accusers now in the bill cosby saga including a supermodel. All these coming up at the same time. So many Amazing Stories there. With will see you well see you in 20 minutes. Thank you very much. Deadly violence rocking afghanistan in the closing weeks of the u. S. Military campaign. Is draw down now a good idea . Our panel will begin there in our next segment as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Stay with us. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about . Foreign markets. Asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. You know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum and gets exposure to frontier and emerging markets. If you convert 4quarter p e of the s p 500, its yield is doing a lot better. If youve had to become your own investment expert, maybe its time for bny mellon, a different kind of wealth manager. And black swans are unpredictable. Bringing back our panel, ed rollins, judy miller, keith mccullough. We had Anthony Zinni on earlier in the program as we approach the deadline of the complete draw down of the troops in afghanistan. I cannot agree with mr. Zinni more. I think that this drawdown has been too fast. I think were seeing the results of that on the ground in afghanistan. You know, the policies in afghanistan should be dictated not by president obamas desire for legacy, of having ended wars and withdrawing soldiers, but by the facts on the ground and the facts on the ground simply do not merit the pace by which this withdraw it sounded like what happened against isis. He doesnt want troops on the ground even though the generals are telling him time and time again we wont win this. Deja vu all over again, as yogi berra would say. We cant win. Generals dont want to go to war. But when theyre in wars they want to win wars. They make it very, very clear that we cannot basically hold our own there unless we have 10,000 more troops there and clearly to do this drawdown would be idiotic. Yeah. The volatility situation will be perpetuated whats going nonoil, dont forget. There are many unintended consequences. Last week, oil was down 13 , down 45 since june. I mean, we have a crash in oil markets. Wow. Today, you know, the dubai stock markets opened today, its down 8 today. So youre seeing a lot of action in the middle east that are really going to hammer people where it matters which is in their pockets. An important point, oil has been crashing. That has to change the relationship with the russians. The russians they have had issues of their open, but bigtime Capital Markets are huge. Their currency is crashing. Their stock market was down 13 last week. Down 45 this year. So again, if you want to start to see some things occur, you know, start to see some reversals in these moves and then some more volatility. You know what i thought was interesting, while oil prices are coming down, if you spent 80 filling up your suv, now youre spending 60. Thats a big deal to fill up your gas tank, but at the same time, youre seeing the shale revolution get impacted. In the month of november you had permitting down 40 . Short term gains are going to be immeasurable for the consumer. Long term Energy Independence is going to be damaged by this. Equally important, our allies will have severe problems with this. The country we fought for for ten years, iraq, will have a big problem funding itself. I would keep my eye on iran because iran is a major exporter that needs high prices and will this translate into greater flexibility at the negotiating table on the nuclear side . We dont know yet. There are no indications that that its had that effect to date. As this pressure mounts, the iranians are going to have to respond. But i mean, the relationships that we have with the saudis, for example, all of this changes. This dove tails into Foreign Policy the fact that oil has plummeted so much. Its a huge inflation expectation. Think how we get paid. I expect my core assets to inflate. Now, once you get deflation into the system, youre deflating peoples expectations, not only sovereigns but those levered to the entire energy space. If you tie that back to home, yes, youll save money on the suv, yes its 6. 4 of the budget is gas prices and Everything Else matters too. We have a jobs revolution that occurred in the dakotas, in texas, theres a lot of unintended consequences associated with oil falling. We are seeing that on the good side of things, because its putting more money in peoples pockets. We had good news at the pump, but could it be taking a big bite out of your 401 k . Our panel will look at that as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Stay with us. Does your mouth often feel dry . Multiple medications, a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications. But it can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath. Thats why theres biotene, available as an oral rinse, toothpaste, spray or gel. 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Tock markets versus bond markets. This has been an epic battle this year. What is the russell 2000 and the stock market telling us . Bond yields are down in the russell 2,000, which is a broad measure of the u. S. Stock market. What is it telling us about growth . Global growth expectations are falling and now bond yields are falling faster. If youre long bonds, youve had a great week. If youre long the tenyear, 20year, the 30 years, youre up on the year. Were going to sit here and bank our heads whether the dow should be up 4 or up 2 . I think thats the first sign of volatility entering the market. Last week volatility, the vix was up 80 of the week. If youre long that thing, youre going to be agitated. Your 401 k just lost a couple of grand last week. This is going to start to wear on a asset perspective. Yeah, and its gone up steadily. Now were seeing some activity, you think that volatility is only going to increase. In terms of the spending bill, the budget, weve funded the government. Is this going to have an impact . Minimal. The truth of the matter is like i said, this seasonal a small portion. This is 1. 1 of a 4 trillion dollar budget. The revenues, i think what this has done, the chaos has been overblown for some long, back to having appropriation hearings. There are things in this bill that no one has any idea what is there except for the staff. I think if republicans want to be responsible, they have to make sure this works right. John mccain told us last weekend, no government shutdown. We need to convince the American People that we know how to govern. And if we dont, clearly, theyre going to have a short lived majority of the senate. Then theres the cia report, judy. Your thoughts on that . Speaking of Anthony Vinnie and john mccain, john mccain had his finest hour when he went on to the senate floor and talked about this not being who we are. And i think anyone who read that report as i did this week has to really take note of what it says. It doesnt have recommendations and i am very disappointed that it was so partisan and that they did not speak to anyone in charge of the program, but the bottom line of that, which is this was an agency which somehow, some way, managed to get out of control. We had 81 million spend on psychologists who didnt know anything about psychology, torture, or the military. This is a bad showing and weve got to fix this. What is the pushback for those who say this report should not have been released . I will make that point. Im against torture. I believe in the articles of the institution that says we dont torture and it gives us a moral authority and john mccain is the only member of the senate that has ever been tortured. But he basically was totally against it. He said it doesnt work. It doesnt work. We dont have torture any more. Weve outlawed. The president is not implementing it. And i hope we wont ever do it again. But the problem is weve now damaged the cia. Cia is very important in terrorism wars and i would imagine theyre very demoralized and to a certain extent, the Oversight Committee needs to set new rules, regulationes and be careful. Quick break and then the one thing to watch for the week ahead on sunday morning futures as were looking ahead, back in a moment. Dad, i know i havent said this often enough, but thank you. Thank you mom for protecting my future. Thank you for being my hero and my dad. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance could be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Twhat do i do . You need to catch the 4 10 huh . The Equipment Tracking system will get you to the loading dock. There should be a truck leaving now. I got it. Now jump off the bridge. What . In 3. 2. 1. 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Is this going to be like all of these reports that comes out and everybody rushes about them for a week and talks about them on the air and then they die, or is this going to be an opportunity to look at the Intelligence Community and its relationship with the congress, its overseeres. Your favorite on elected central plan agency on wednesday. What they say on wednesday matters, this considerable time friem which everybody is focused on i think remains. And youre going to get the Inflation Report on wednesday and what we have is deflation. That is what worries the fed. That is why i think the fed is going to be on hold longer than people think. So the whole thing is the fed has the language and the statement, rates will stay low for a considerable period of time. Theres a big debate going on about whether theyll take that considerable amount of time out. Yeah. And again, its only amongst the people that rates are going to be up this year to be cleared. Rates will be down. They will be down for a considerable period of time the. Thanks, everybody. Great to see you, ed rollins, judy miller, thanks, have a great rest of your sunday. Thank you for watching sunday morning futures today. Ill be back tomorrow morning on opening bell at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on the Fox Business Network. Find the Fox Business Network on your Cable Provider or satellite network. Media buzz with howie kurtz is up next. From all of us, have a great sunday. See you soon. Good evening, everybody. It was a week ago that attorney general eric holder traveled to atlanta to the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church and there, promised to end racial profiling as he put it once and for all. Holders declaration after the Michael Brown and eric garner grand jury decisions was, it turns out, not only grand eloquent but tardy by a decade. President george w. 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