Threatening,ery beyond a normal statement. Senator john mccain cautioned on the importance of a president talking about things they werent willing to do. I take exception to the comments because you have to be able to do what you say youre going to do. I dont know what he is saying up i have long ago given trying to interpret what hes saying. We are joined by kevin cirilli. Reporting from hong kong is our colleague who leads our coverage of east asia. I want to talk about what the president is saying in new jersey yesterday. Do we know whether general kelly said at this in advance . Invented this in advance invented that vetted this in advance . Administration who say that with regard to military strategy the president is making good on his campaign prominence in the sense that he is not looking to broadcast or forecast what his military strategy would be and that is why you are seeing him embrace this level of unpredictability. Yous very different to say are going to be unpredictable
Ben bernanke will be overseas. Taking us overseas to the investigation of what brought down a russian charter jet and now its looking like a bomb may have been the cause. We have the details on that story in just a bit but before that well go over to michelle with a round up of the days top business headlines. Thank you. Expedia is buying home away for 3. 9 billion in cash and stock. This is the largest acquisition and come ace year after they bought orbitz. It values the socalled alternative lodging market at 100 billion and the home away deal will help it directly compete with airbnb. The chairman will join us first on cnbc 8 30 a. M. Eastern time to talk about the deal. The fed vice chairman says the central bank may be closer than thought to the inflation target. The 2 target may be hit once oil prices stabilize and the dollar starts rising. When is that going to be . Kraft heinz is stepping up its cost cuts. Announcing plans to close 7 factories and lay off 2600 employees in north
Another round of heavyweights, including tim armstrong, brian grazer, and the chief creative jawbone. Or lead, a vote of confidence for jack dorsey. Andi arabian billionaire his Investment Company have boosted their combined stake in twitter to more than 5 . Gives the company the secondbiggest stake in twitter, worth about a billion dollars. It puts him ahead of ceo dorsey, which owns about 3 . Stone and i caught up with ed williams earlier today in his first interview. He was on the executive search committee. We started by asking him about their decision. Knew jack is capable and he had a unique perspective on the company. There is a question of could he do the twitter job and the square job. We wanted to see what our. Ptions are eventually, we thought the combination of what jack brings to the table and what he had already done in the last three or four months convinced us he was the best person for the job. Emily how do you really feel about the fact that he is doing two jobs . Elo
Shake shack some of the big names getting set to post their results. And then we will hear from disney ceo bob iger moments after those results are released. I wonder if he has seen the star wars movie yet. Plus chinas stock market rallying 16 over the past month. Jpmorgan chase executive of the Asian Pacific will tell you whether its over for the stock market. Dominic chu takes a closer look at the changing of the guard, if you will. Dom. A huge changing of the guard, a new world meets old world General Electric one of the most Iconic Companies in American Business history now, yes, worth less than facebook a company thats only be public for a years now. As you take a look at the market values you made mention of the fact that facebook is worth 306, perhaps 307 billion thats rare a if i had air. Lets take a look at the concept and put it in context of some of the bigger names in todays stock market the s p 500. If you take a look at current market values apple still at the top of the
Followed by the democratic primary a week later on february 27. In georgia both primaries are tuesday, march 1. And, in north ca primaries are on tuesday, march 15. Greenville county now. Mauldin police say more arrests could follow after a teen was killed during a shoot out at bojangles. A judge denied bond sund watts. The 19yearolds were arrest 15yearold girl. The teens face s police say it all started with a dr they say that meeting turned inin shootout. Investigators say d head. Police say after the shootg the teens hid the weapons in someones yard. They were found after one of the suspects told them where the guns were hidden. Allyson Anderson County deputies responding to a shooting say a teenager shot and killed himself. 17yearold shot himself in the head. To the call of a shooting victim out of athat victim said he had been shot at a nearby home on williamston road. When they got to the car, they say he ran inside. That is when he turnedgeoff investigators in taylors are tryin