angeles airport. his instincts led to the arrest at that time that stopped that terrorism plot. i spoke to the lawyer for the fbi agent, fred humphreys, last night and he said his client is still working, has never been informed he s under investigation, though leaks from the fbi suggested otherwise. he says his client, fred humphreys, sent those photos to jill kelley a long time ago, those shirtless photos. they showed him on a firing range, they socialized with humphreys and his wife. also on capitol hill right now before the senate armed services committee general joe dunford is appearing. he is slated to be the next top u.s. commander in the afghanistan. jon: what a tangled-up mess. jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thank you. jenna: now this fox news alert on the economy, also a big story today. 439,000 americans filing first-time unemployment benefits last week, the highest level in 18 months.
jobless claims since superstorm sandy. here s the bad news, 78,000 new jobless claims. we re now up to 439,000 jobless claims. and that is not good news. you had to expect, and maybe it will come back, but that s putting a little bit of a fine point on really how impactful the storm ultimately was. other big news that wall street is looking at, walmart. they reported earnings. but the bigger issue, they acknowledged for the first time that there is allegations of bribery, of potentially, the foreign corrupt practices act now in china, brazil, india, you might recall mexico? and mexico. now, it looks like it s expanding and that is going to be a big issue. not just on wall street, but washington as well. andrew ross sorkin at cnbc headquarters. thanks very much. great to see you. well, is the middle east on
this out. but it s business before the bell with cnbc s brian sullivan. how this goes on you depends on you, barnacle. how so? we got the cnbc rise above the initiative, about everybody coming together. put on a pin and get with the program. so, you put this on. thank you very much. i ll be nice. and it will go well. jobless claims, 439,000 last week. that s high. disregard most of the data last week. for the next few week, the storm clearly going to disrupt all kinds of data regionally in the new york area. 439. a couple of quick comments i ve got about it, nobody has put a lot of faith in that. the storm has disrupted so much. we ve got bp reporting they will pay billions, we don t know exactly how much to settle the gulf oil spills. and two bp employees may be facing man slaurgts charges of part of that deal. we talked to everybody about the
still at 439,000, which is higher than anybody wants now for a recovery to take hold and really go forward. the number in the past week, 409,000, filing for first-time unemployment. that number has to be well below 400,000 in order to start bringing down that unemployment number. we ll see where it goes now. alisyn: the magic number they say would be close to closer to 300,000. bill: which would be a beautiful thing and it s been so long, too. alisyn: it has. meanwhile, he may be president obama s most controversial judicial nominee and he could be the first one that is actually blocked by lawmakers. how will republicans vote? we ll explore that. bill: there is drama in that, too. it will be very close. which companies get a waiver from the health care law, and which companies are seeking one? several waivers, granted to holts and restaurants, and nancy pell in nancy pelosi s district. we will debate this idea in moments, with a great panel. stay tuned for that.
safely, and, it happened two weeks ago and number of people filing unemployment claims rising slightly last week, 439,000 applications, unemployment rate, however, holding steady, 9.6%, hollywood community bucking up with big money to find out who murdered ronnie chaseen, who was shot multiple times in the chest as she drove through beverly hills, midnight tuesday night. and now, more than $125,000 of reward money for clues on her killer. martha: a big story in on capitol hill, we ll soon learn the punishment for congressman charlie rangel, what he ll face for violating house ethics rules, the ethics committee convicted the veteran democrat lawmaker on 11 charges this week. and, today he find out his fate. whether he ll receive a reprimand, censure or even, possibly, expulsion from congress, for charlie rangel, he ll find out today, james rosen is live in washington.