She gave interviews, speeches, and met with foreign leaders while the president was on vacation this past week it the question this morning is about Vice President harris. What are your views and how would you rate her job performance. You can share your thoughts on our phone lines. The numbers are on your screen. You can send a text to the number on your screen. Be sure to include your first name and city state, and we are on social media at facebook and twitter. Welcome to washington journal. We are taking your calls. I want to show you an article from the Washington Post read, harris seems to be stepping up her 2024 role, and the article says Vice President harris is campaigning with the audiences she seeks an that word she uses bid they are not the words of a politician being sidelined for supporting even if that is hurt job as 20 between 40 subperiod the pace and tone of her involvement do seem to be escalating, but they may largely reflect the fact that the race is well and truly
Apparently discussing attacks. Translation of course it was dangerous. When the men sit here and fantasise about carrying out attacks, yes, i was worried. My children and my family live here. With the immediate danger apparently over, berliners gathered for a memorial this evening by the brandenburg gate. No matter what, we are all one. All people come together here and think of the victims. The berlin people, we are Something Else they have to beat. But germany as a country now confronting the reality it faces new and hidden threats. Our europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is in berlin for us tonight. As far as the hunt for possible accomplices of anis amri, that goes on for them it was by pure chance that Italian Police found at all. On for them it was by pure chance that Italian Police found at allm was. This was a stop by a routine police patrol. It was an officer who had only been in the Italian Police force for nine months who shot him dead. Not a europe wide Anti Terrorist g
The islamists are hitting us everywhere and frequently. What are we going to do about it . Varney company is about to begin. It sounded like an attack in beirut, i know that sounds crazy to say, but i said to my friend, this doesnt sound like fireworks, this sounds like beirut when its under attack. [gunshots] so it ended, but we just assumed they were fireworks still going off, but then really shortly after that, i saw people running and we didnt at this point have any idea what we were running from. Stuart we did not bring you the worst, most horrific video. Terror on the french riviera, as told by horrified witnesses. The question this morning, how do we stop attacks on very soft targets, how do we stop the spread of radical islamism. Tammy bruce is here. Look, tammy, this is war, president obama does not want appear to be appears to be reluctant to be a war time president. You cannot want to be a war time president and not make things worse, he has done so, obama, others refused to
Investment bank overhaul as early as today. Manus you are welcome to countdown. Anna a warm welcome to the program. We are getting some breaking news, as we suggested in the headlines. Breaking news on credit squeeze. Manus five months into the restructuring. Of 1. 7 billion swiss francs. Cut 2000isse will additional jobs. In terms of cost cuts, 1. 7 billion swiss francs in 2016. 4. 3 billion swiss francs in 2018. You have a rising in terms of the cost savings. By 2018, a net cost savings of more than 3 billion. Operating cost space will be less than eight teen billion dollars. Originally, they said it would be 18. 519. Anna accelerating this restructuring in various areas. Manus they are exiting distressed credit. They are to exit the Global Markets efpt division. They will exit Global Markets longterm. Illiquid financing. Speculation that various institutions had been talking to Credit Suisse about their portfolios. This is trying to produce more assets which take up so much p this i
Journal editor in chief, jerry baker. There are several wall street journal but porters on the scene which we will go through. Good to see you. Thank you for joining us. The very latest on the breaking news reports this morning about 25 explosions in the city of brussels killing at least 23 people this morning, injuring dozens more. This is coming to us this morning. Belgiums prosecutor confirming the explosion was a Suicide Attack. Reportedly carried out in retaliation for the rest of the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks. All flights out of the airport have been grounded. And thats like theyre diverted to neighboring airports at this time. Another explosion has been reported at a brussels metro station close to European Commission headquarters. Joining us on the phone is the wall street. Thank you for calling in. Can you tell us what youre seeing right now . We have multiple attacks and there is one confirmed that the metro station is very near the European Institutions at the