We are going to cut the music. We are going to do our last panel. For me, this has been enlightening, and it is great stability. And a time where there are no civil discussions or very few going on, with people with radically different views, there were a lot of respectful exchanges. , someoneannouncement had said in president had met with the entire senate to join his strategy on north korea. That he meante for 14 minutes with the entire senate. Yes, john, you met for 14 minutes. I dont know what that says about the last panel. Our final panel is on the future of the parties. Let me introduce people briefly. Schmidt, aeft, steve close friend. Previously the chief strategist for the 2008 john, and george w. Bush president ial campaign. You have all seen him commenting wisely and a sagely throughout 2016 and beyond. Colleague ands, a a professor of Political Science here. He is offer author of a book on race and representation in washington. Another friend, adam, the bureau chief of the
Markets. Well take a quick look at the futures right now. Youll see that at least at this point there are red arrows. Forget about being down and bouncing back. The dow futures are down by 35 points below fair value. S p futures are off by five and the nasdaq down ten. The markets will have a major event later this month with the release of the january employment report. That big number is coming up on friday. Also, janet yellen has a week or so to get her thoughts together. Her first testimony as fed chief is on february 11th. So a short honeymoon period. Over to brian now with todays top corporate stories. Brian, good morning. Good morning. Thank you very much. Well, the phone wars are heating up. At t is cutting prices for those who share wireless data plans to include any customer and Small Business with up to ten lines. At t is trying to regain lost ground from tmobile. And ibm executives are giving up their 2014 bonuses in response to the lackluster year for ibm. Many could have
This morning, the defense minister of estonia is scheduled to speak about the future of nato. The defense minister is expected to address defense priorities, security challenges, along with the current nato operations. Nato was formed in 1949, with estonia becoming a eight a member state in 2004. We are live for remarks on the future of nato. The defense minister of estonia is expected to address defense priorities, security challenges, along with current nato operations. , here inosted by csis washington. It is expected to get underway in just a moment. We will show you a roundtable talk on the congressional agenda from this mornings washington journal. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for making it hereto csis. Program the security here. I am not heather connolly. Florida,as trapped in of all places, by canceled flights yesterday. In good news is she ended up a place with the warmest weather in the u. S. , the bad news is, there are no flights going there, so she could n
Photos so he show that there are Syrian Refugees on every square turf of lebanon. He said they cant take any more people. Whats the likelihood in 2014 of lebanon closing their borders to Syrian Refugees . Im going to try would you agree that would be a bad situation . To keep that from happening. Trying im trying to plan for the worst case. The worst Case Scenario would be a lot more refugees streaming out of syria. The amazing thing to me is that not more have. They clearly are trying to stay put. I think the worst Case Scenario would be if they had no place to go. Whats the likelihood of lebanon and jordan closing their borders because their countries sovereignty and security is at risk, to Syrian Refugees in 2014 . We have seen that what is happening is that the borders have already been moved from being open in most cases to being managed. Could you give me a plan, lets assume for the worst now, what would our response be as the world and as a nation if in 2014, god for bid, the le
Little bit of a breakthrough and other places, mandating today. Will the princess phone of the masks in some counties but not others this is not working right now. Attorney general start ringing in an hour or so we are seeing exponential spread thank you for being with us. Across not only the south but my phone is ringing right many parts of the country with 40 states on the rise when it now. When we come back promising comes to number of infections. Early results from research and i really fear that our window of opportunity here is teams looking to develop that closing. If we want schools to be open in the fall, we know that even if silver bullet. There is another problem we implemented a total lockdown scientists and Public Health today, that it would take three officials will need to address to four weeks for us to begin to the rising concept activism from see the curve go in the other the antivaxers saying they wont direction. And so our window is closing as take it when it exists