Were kicking it off with what everyone is talking about good one word, credibility. Jersey governor Chris Christie is facing a test of credibility after a report he clear him of the scandal with the bridge. We will have those stories in just a minute, but we want to begin with president obama. Thecrisis in ukraine and ensuing international standoff with russia has been his main topic of conversation lately. It is also hurt his image. Surveyed by the ap disapprove of his handling of the ukraine situation come pushing his Approval Rating down to 41 . While he has had worse numbers in the polls, the president is sticking to his message. He talked about russias massing of troops at the Ukraine Border in an interview with cbs. It may simply be an effort to intimidate ukraine, or it may be that they have got additional plans. In either case, what we need right now to resolve and deescalate the situation would be for russia to move back those troops, and to begin negotiations directly. Presid
President obama said in a cbs interview that russia must move its troops that on the ukrainian border. The president also warned russia not to revert at to cold war practices. Inwe have no interest circling russia. We have no interest in ukraine beyond a leading the ukrainian people make their own decisions about their own lives. And it is true that we reject the notion that there is a along theinfluence russian border that then justifies russia invading other countries. At this afternoon, the Un Security Council is planning to hold a secret meeting to discuss the crisis. Russia has rejected a yuan resolution affirming the territorial integrity of ukraine. Mood among a strong the vast majority of russians that the United States is very happy to facilitate russia declined, Energy Diversification away from russia and even Shock Therapy which i do not necessarily agree with. But that is their perception. And they are sitting on red line which they take much seriously than we do, on ukrain
Abdullah for formal meetings and then a dinner later tonight. University of Michigan Confidence is at 9 55 a. M. We have blackberry earnings today. We will be joined by john chen, the man who runs blackberry. He will be joining us on market makers. It is more than curiosity. How is this Company Possibly going to survive . It loses money every quarter. The moneymaker for blackberry is going to be the enterprise customer. The fact that you have the value and cash on the balance. They are burning through it. Earnings at 7 00 a. M. Lets do a data check right now. Stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. It is a backandforth week. Screen. Second i dont, cows know what 138 means. 138 per dollars pound . That affects everyones food prices. Lets go to this chart on spain. Inflation in spain. The financial crisis. Get over it. We got over it. Thank you, mario draghi. Off we go. Under the zero line. It may force some unconventional options as well. It is not greece, it is not italy. Significant d
Its a very, very important. That again, i just thank you and the committee and all the panelists for engaging this topic which is critical, not only to the future and your children and to our country, and make no mistake, the decision to reauthorize will have a definite impact on our schools, our hospitals, our economy, our military and our homes. And most importantly our kids. I thank you for this time. Thank you very much. Dr. Cook . Thank you very much for the question. I find it a persistent question we get a lot as i can presentation but sometimes its whats the one thing i would do if i could do something would be to get everyone to realize there is not one thing you can do. Everything is part of the problem. Each one of the strategies and proposals represents 1 of the solution. It cant be left off. Its not the magic bullet. So we need to include all of it. We need to think global and act local because thats were i find like a lot of change occurs, it occurs at the Grassroots Leve
Example of the bureaucracy of the government. So many levels of management and no one does anything. President obama is requesting a nearly 4 billion of emergency funding from congress to address the influx of children coming across the u. S. Border. Heres more about that. The administration has requested 3. 7 billion of emergency funding from congress for stopping some of the influx of children dealing with the situation along the southern border with mexico. Laura is with the wall street journal and writing about the story, what is in the administration request to congress . A lot of the money is to house the children and families crossing the border. That is where the crisis has been. A huge influx created children traveling alone and adult traveling have come across the border. And in each of those cases there are sort of special needs for housing them and the administration is not able to handle right now and that is what a lot of the money would go to work. The white house propos