Could i please have your attention . Please finish your meal or dessert quietly. Thank you all for being with us this afternoon. I am president of the fund for american studies. I know i have said hello to a lot of you. I want to say thank you for those of you who generously support our Educational Program and our work with high school and College Students around the world. It is my distinct pleasure and privilege on behalf of our board of trustees to ask you to join me in welcoming the 11th secretary of the department of education, secretary betsy devos. We are really honored that you could join us today for this fireside chat. We do not need a fire, it is about 85 outside. Thanks for the opportunity. I thought i would open with a policy question right off the bat. You have spent much of your career leading up to becoming secretary of education, promoting reform and education, improvement in dictation, trying new ideas that might improve opportunities for young people who might not be
Could i please have your attention . Please finish your meal or dessert quietly. Thank you all for being with us this afternoon. I am president of the fund for american studies. I know i have said hello to a lot of you. I want to say thank you for those of you who generously support our Educational Program and our work with high school and College Students around the world. It is my distinct pleasure and privilege on behalf of our board of trustees to ask you to join me in welcoming the 11th secretary of the department of education, secretary betsy devos. We are really honored that you could join us today for this fireside chat. We do not need a fire, it is about 85 outside. Thanks for the opportunity. I thought i would open with a policy question right off the bat. You have spent much of your career leading up to becoming secretary of education, promoting reform and education, improvement in dictation, trying new ideas that might improve opportunities for young people who might not be
Of this data breach. Target the newest victim of an attack, a data breach on tens of millions of target shoppers, the credit card number, the actual information on the card stolen around the black friday holiday, and were talking about in the stores, not online. Connell the secret service is involved and so is rich edson who joins us now. Reporter well, if you shopped at target recently and used your credit or debit card, check your statement. A massive data breach between november 27th and december 15th potentially affecting all u. S. Stores, not online shoppers. Affected information includes name, card number, expiration date, the cvv number, the number on the back of your card. In all, the company says the scam hit about 40 million debit or credit cards. The wall street journal reports the hackers gained access to data that is stored on the magnetic strip on the back of the credit or debit cards, and in the statement is company says target alerted authorities and Financial Instituti
And Valeant Pharmaceuticals teaming up for allergan. Well explain. Novartis unveiling a Restructuring Plan amid a flurry of deals involving glaxo and lily totalling 28. 5 billion. Netflix says it will raise prices for subscribers as the jump in earnings pushes the shares in premarket and slew of dow components reporting, mcdonalds, United Technologies, we have it covered. Shares of allergan are surging as we said bill ackman backing pharmaceutical bid to acquire the maker of botox, valeant offering 38. 40 a share in cash. Since february, Ackmans Pershing Square amassed a 9. 7 stake in allergan, but all the discussion guys, today, is about the role of the activist investorer. The times calls it the boldest move yet from an activist. Absolutely. I hope to hear from david. We were going back and forth last night about how does someone kind of basically know theres going to be a bid and be allowed to accumulate stock. Classically that would be front money. If we had an sec that was on the