Russia, china, iran and north korea. This is about two hours. Good morning. The Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to consider the nomination of general john e. Hyten to be commander of the United States Strategic Command. We congratulate you on your nomination. We thank you for your decades of distinguished service and your willingness to serve, once again. Of course we know today woul not be possible without the support and sacrifice of your family and friends, some of whom are with us this morning. As is your tradition, we hope you take the opportunity to introduce your family joining you today. General hyten threats o to the United States and allies have increased recently. We confront security challenges in the world and in domain including nuclear, cyber and space. This new strategic challenge has implications for stratcom. Scholars and strategists warned we have entered a quote, Second Nuclear age. This is not something the United States has chosen and indeed there are
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Stocks are holding in the red. Ibm, home depot, united health, the biggest laggards in the dow at this hour. Oil also headed lower on unexpected build in u. S. Stockpiles last week. The death toll continues to rise in central italy following a magnitude 6. 2 earthquake. We are headed to the scene straight ahead. Welcome to power lunch. We have a big two hours coming your way including mounting pressure on the Clinton Campaign and its uncomfortably close ties to the Clinton Foundation following a release of yet another new round of emails. Susie welsh is with us for the entire show. So good to have you here. Thank you. First, lets begin with mylan labs down close to 8 since we reported on friday. The company is once again raising the price of its life saving epipen allergy drug. Lets get to meg tirrell with the latest. Hi, guys. You are seeing continuing pressure today though its not been quite as bad of a day as previous days. Wall street analysts coming out acknowledging the pressure
We take up the major change in obamas strategy with former pentagon official k. T. Mcfarland and dr. Jonathan shanzer, and also tonight, donald trump and ben carsons campaigns threatening to boycott the next republican president ial debate to be held later this month. Trumps campaign reportedly furious with debate host cnbc over their efforts to format the event. Trump wants the Event Limited to two hours and have candidates to give opening and closing statements. Cnbc does not. Well have a full report for you. And republicans handing Hillary Clinton another gift on benghazi, a second republican congressman saying the purpose of the House Select Committee on benghazi was to damage Hillary Clintons president ial chances. Of course, the first congressman to say that was House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy who was forced to withdraw for rales er of the house because of it. Well be talking with House Freedom caucus member mick mull vaneny. The pentagon expanding its drone base and operati
We take up the major change in obamas strategy with former pentagon official k. T. Mcfarland and dr. Jonathan shanzer, and also tonight, donald trump and ben carsons campaigns threatening to boycott the next republican president ial debate to be held later this month. Trumps campaign reportedly furious with debate host cnbc over their efforts to format the event. Trump wants the Event Limited to two hours and have candidates to give opening and closing statements. Cnbc does not. Well have a full report for you. And republicans handing Hillary Clinton another gift on benghazi, a second republican congressman saying the purpose of the House Select Committee on benghazi was to damage Hillary Clintons president ial chances. Of course, the first congressman to say that was House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy who was forced to withdraw for rales er of the house because of it. Well be talking with House Freedom caucus member mick mull vaneny. The pentagon expanding its drone base and operati