yesterday had a fairly good performance. there were no new revelations. they didn t admit to any other wrong doing within the company. they said it was others responsibility. there was no shoe dropping. i think there was a sense of relief after the last couple of weeks of all the selling. i think there was some sense that maybe it s gone too far. paul thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. thank you. the taliban is getting in on the phone hacking thing. the afghan group insists its phones and website were hacked and that s what caused the announcement that its leader had died. the taliban now insists its chief is alive. denies that he died of a heart attack in spite of the text message and web announcement that went out. the taliban blames u.s. intelligence agencies for the hack. a stark warning from the capitol. we re in the debt deadline danger zone. time is running out to get a
it has certainly tainted the overall brand of the company. the stock market has punished it. it was off about 15% in the last couple of weeks. wiped out a few billion dollars of shareholder value. it recovered today and has been recovering because there s the sense that rupert and james yesterday had a fairly good performance. there were no new revelations. they didn t admit to any other wrong doing within the company. they said it was others responsibility. there was no shoe dropping. i think there was a sense of relief after the last couple of weeks of all the selling. i think there was some sense that maybe it s gone too far. paul thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. thank you. the taliban is getting in on the phone hacking thing. the afghan group insists its phones and website were hacked and that s what caused the announcement that its leader had died. the taliban now insists its chief is alive. denies that he died of a heart
hill? i don t believe it is. i don t believe a majority of democrats are. we had 60% of the democratic caucus vote with me on an amendment calling for the formulation of an exit strategy in afghanistan. the speaker of the house actually voted with us. so the majority of the democratic priority wants us to figure out a way to get out of this thing. we ve been there almost ten years. we have lost thousands of brave men and women. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a corrupt government and nation building in afghanistan when we should be doing it here in the united states. let s take a look at another document before we go back to congresswoman pingree. one document from september 2007, three years ago disclosed afghan officials made brutal assessments to the afghan government to american civil affairs officer. the report says the oldest member of the afghan