President. Betterrnors make president s . Our phone lines are open to you. Republicans can call at 2025853881. 5853880. At 202 if youre outside the u. S. , it is 2025853883. You can also catch up with us on your favorite social media pages. A very good saturday morning. We want to start off with those comments by wisconsin Governor Scott walker. He made them to the Washington Post tv website. We will play you a bit of what he had to say. [video clip] historically americans like to see chief executives become the top cheap executive top chief executive. As governors we have to make decisions that are similar to what the president makes. I dont think any republican should get ahead of the curve and Start Talking about a future election. 2014 is the time we have a for us tois the time show we can lead. Host that was scott walker. We want to hear from you. Do governors make better presidency echo our phone minds better president s . Our phone lines are open. This is from the left or center
You have firstquarter earnings and more importantly you have this strategic review, an entire level of bureaucracy taken out of siemens. Four sectors becoming nine units. The healthcare care sector, speculations that will be separated just like we saw within finian. You have the turbine business from rollsroyce. A lot going on. I will be back with my interview with the ceo of little bit later. We will get back to that shortly. In paris, you are watching ahlstrom have a bidding war getting more politically more political. Conference is just about to start behind me the focus will be on whether ill strom ill strum al will put up for the 70 billion on the energy unit. Will this the Share Holders vote on the energy units in the fourth quarter. Thisl bring you this with with figures from the french finance minister in a moment. Thank you. We are watching alibaba, the chinese retailer, it filed to go public. It is the biggest ipo ever. Well have more on the story later this hour. Has loads o
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Overshadow jobs. Retail sales for november. Expectations are for an increase of 0. 6 . This gueives us a very good ide of whats happening in the early shopping season. Ahead of those numbers, the futures right now are indicated lower. You can see right now those dow futures down by 16. 5 points. S p futures off just over 2 points. And on the earnings front, lululemon is expected to record at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. The expectations have been for 41 cents a share. This after the ceo was forced to step down after making comments about the pants arent made for everyone. Shares of lululemon right now, down about 6 cents. Lets get over to andrew with more of todays stop top stories. Good morning. Thank you, becky. As joe was mentioning earlier, Hilton Worldwide will begin its first day of trading. Hey, squawk box. Thats hot. Thank you very much. Youre pricing at 20 a share. Thats the high end of the expected range. The offering raises more than 2. 3 billion and its trading under the symbol
Control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy. That is why earlier today i signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing and developing standards that protect our national security, our jobs and our privacy. Host Michael Daniel is the president of cybersecurity coordinator. Mr. Daniel, did the president s executive order of february 12, 2013 he talks about vital infrastructure. How is the white house defining vital . Guest title infrastructure is really defined as that infrastructure that is something really bad happened to it lots of really bad things would happen in the real world. In other words, significant damage to our national security, significant economic disruption and potentially loss of life and specifically in the cybercontext means that infrastructure that something happened in the cyber realm you could have the resulting