That begins at 8 00 pm eastern. Enjoy booktv every weekend on cspan2. Good afternoon. I am director of the center on National Security, i am delighted to be joined by ali soufan, author of the black banners declassified how torture derailed the war on terror after 9 11. You probably know ali soufan from some of the events weve done together, a special agent with the fbi, investigated highprofile terrorism cases before, during and after the 9 11 attacks. Is in recent years brought his investigative skills to the private sector, ceo of the founder of the center, his specialty is Global Security affairs from governance culture to state actors to nonstate actors and i will explore as much of that today as we can. I want to deck out each day, we publish the intel brief which is something you should read every day. It is a wonderful deep dive into timely issues that go to the heart of what we are thinking about even if it is not in the headlines. From white to premises him to what is happeni
Coronavirus fearing weighs on the market, surpassing 100,000 worldwide. We are expecting a briefing from Vice President mike pence a bit hear this evening. Though that survey was conducted in the middle of february before the outbreak took hold in the u. S. In just a few moments well talk about russ cost rich he says the u. S. Consumer remains strong and where he is putting to work now. Dan, what are you doing . Not a whole heck of a lot week on week, there was a bit of optimism. As investors star thinking about how to allocate towards equities visibility will be the big point. I think i dont think were going to get that anytime soon right now. That was the low for this move you had a strong reversal off of that we set ourselves up for a powerful rally, but most of that snsht has dissipated, so some say you will have to retest the low, and were doing it right now on a relatively tenuous way, so i still think, given the stress in credit markets, stocks are not yet convincingly saying we
Hasnt gapped down on earnings more than 5 in 17 years so by that narrow lane, its pretty significant selloff absolutely. Its down about 10 right now. So that really speaks to just how much investors dont like this report today. Its interesting though i mean, compared to amazon which can kind of turn off earnings whenever they want just as long as it shows up on the growth side, you got to wonder are they just sort of caught in the middle here where maybe theyre not investing quite enough to drive that online revenue but they still feel like they need to preserve the profit and maybe they need to pick a side caught between the cost of all the investments and its getting more to transport goods around the country so all those combining that is the margin story on walmart today. Absolutely. And labor costs, of course, have been going up. And some of that has been by their own measure, the fact theyre looking to increase wages. But its also, i mean, i think its also kind of interesting giv
The impact on the markets. Fed chair jay powell steeping out on cap hill. He signals the fed will keep raising rates. On that note lets go to senior economics reporter Steve Liesman for more highlights. Thanks very much. Yeah, fed chairman Jerome Powell in his first testimony before Congress Says that he doesnt believe this is going to happen, but one of the risks out there is an overheating of the economy. And he opened the door in a very subtle way to a possible fourth rate hike. Saying, you know what, the economy is strong. Weve had fiscal stimulus. His view on the economy strengthening as well. Heres what he said. Weve seen fiscal policy become more stimulative. So, i think each of us is going to be taking the developments between since the december meeting into account and writing down our new rate path as we go into the march meeting i wouldnt want to prejudge that. Heres what jpmorgan says about that economy todays comments appear to open the door for others on the committee to
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