The good news is theres been a huge explosion of information from a lot of sources and the agency, i think cia understands that and theyre using open sources. Ive seen wonderful programs of people, you know, big data collecting social media in real time and in, for example, election situations, being able to detect very quickly where a electoral violence is happening and a counter twitter or counter Text Message Campaign to calm the violence down. These are wonderful tools that allow us to know in real time whats going on. And i think the challenge is for the Intelligence Community to become an Information Community and incorporate these into our the kinds of informational source that goes to principles. Theres a tendency to think the only reliable information is the information you steel. I dont think thats right. I think a lot of things you need to know are hiding in plain sight. If you look historically, particularly about some of our more nefarious world leaders, they told you exac
The question is sort of the Yellen Dudley more dovish wing of the fomc as to whether or not theyre adamantly opposed here, but the other guys, i think it was about letting the markets settle down and waiting to see if there was anything more serious that the markets were telling us from the recent volatility. But if things have passed and they seem to be quite a bit calmer than they were previously, then i think that group of people we were just talking about are quite comfortable hiking rates. Steve, thanks so much. The markets were already moving lower throughout the last 45 minutes or so because of whats been going on in health care. Theyre going to react to this more in the minutes ahead. Steve weiss, it brings up the question again, if the fed acts in the next month, stocks are going to blow that off . Look, i dont know market can go up if the fed hikes rates . I believe that if we get Everything Else sort of more comfortable, the markets trade up. I just dont think the fed is the
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Jon and kayla. Kale aa having just interviewed john stone ed lee joins us as well, managing editor of re code. Busy day. Markets getting a little volatility. Were getting auto sales all through the morning. Right now we have breaking news from toyota. Phil lebeau has that in chicago. Phil. Carl, tale of two automakers. Lets start first with toyota. An increase in november auto sales. Well above expectations. Up 12. 4 . The edmonds. Com estimate was for an increase of 4. 9 . The best black friday sales in eight years for toyota. Thats what was driving strong numbers last month. Meanwhile, weve also gotten a peek at what november was like for volkswagen. We knew it would be bad, but im not sure people were expecting it to be this bad. Sales plunged 24 last month. More than double what most people were expecting in terms of a decline. What was driving it . A drop in pasat sales. Up more than 60 . All of this tied into the stop sale order on those tdi diesel vehicles. Those versions of tho