Japans nikkei index down 1. 7 . And chinas shanghai composite closed at the hong kong hang seng closed for the lunar new year. Lauren oil prices moved lower. Not rebounding today, 31 . Train to Apple Earnings in focus when it reports today. To iphones seven sales over the holidays top investor expect patients . Well tell you what to expect. Drink with the Cleveland Cavaliers have a love january with the Dallas Mavericks and hacking scandal with the cardinals influence got to be be banned from baseball for life. Nicole good morning. I for 1 00 a. M. In new york. Taken at january 31st. We welcome you to fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Lauren straight to the big reagan is this morning. President donald trump firing acting attorney general sally yates after she told lawyers not to defend his executive order an immigration accord. The white house defended the dramatic move in the statement within obama up plenty of betraying the administration. Press Secretary
And then theres chipotle, sending 21 million coupons for free burritos out in the mail, desperate to fix their image problem. Rarely has any company taken such a hit. Varney company is about to begin. And how about this . Secretary of state john kerry will officially acknowledge that isis is committing genocide in syria and iraq, specifically christians, shiite musli muslims, theyre going to use the word genocide and apply it to christians, muslims. As to christians and tiny minority sects is correct. Its stunning to say that half of islam is now the victim of an attempted isis genocide. Remember, here, were talking about an international convention, american statutes, t constitute genocide. I dont think that that applies to the shiites in this case. There is conflict, but not all conflict constitutes genocide. Stuart theyve been resisting the use of genocide toward christians and only until muslims the subject is sensitive and to politicize it and thats what this inclusion of shiites
That front. Guest part of the challenge in wrapping this management arms around the challenge is that it has, it is been at this odd quirk of the way it was set up. Is legally prohibited from investigating its own workers misconduct. Investigate your coworkers misconduct. Instead, because of the way that they had anp, argument for doing it this way. All of those have to go to the Inspector General for the department of homeland security. Is the dhs igs who is never had the resources to police the police force as large as cvp, does the rest of dhs and has never been able to devote the resources that they need to investigate corruption. You have seen at least hundreds if not thousands of cases of reported corruption within cvp that is never investigated because of this weird bureaucratic quirk. It is played out in recent years. They are beginning to fix that challenge. The commissioner has made some tweaks to that system to try to allow cvp to be able to investigate its work force workfo
Overwhelming against it. I was drug czar, director of National Drug control policy, 8 990. We didnt have this kind of research then. We had some, smattering. But now it is overwhelming, the harm that marijuana does. And i just have to believe or want to believe the American People are not informed of these facts. And so the point of the book was to get these facts out so they can make a second judgment on this, an informed decision. Let me get to the end of my story. I think in colorado which has been kind of ground zero here, that they will reconsider at the end of the day. Host uhhuh. Guest try to put this jeepny back in the genie back in the boding and recriminallize because theyre starting to see the results. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And its day two of booktvs lye coverage of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs
Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs on journalism publishing, World Leaders and more, and today we continue our live festival coverage with author panels on u. S. History, california history and crime. Youll also be able to talk with authors such Azzam Quinones and ben shapiro. Theyll sit down with us on our outdoor set to answer your questions via twitter and by phone. Check booktv. Org for a complete schedule of todays events, and you can see schedule updates all day long at the bottom of your television screen. All right. We kick off todays l. A. Times festival inside newman hall on the usc campus. Youre going to hear from Claudia Rankin author of a book called citizen, which was a finalist for the National Book award. Live coverage of the 20th annual los Angeles Times festival of books starts now on booktv. [inaudible conversations] hi everyone welco