Mr. Obama coming very close to yet another red line. Putins aggression. It is true that if, in fact, diplomacy fails, what ive asked my team to do is looking at all options. What other means can we put in place to change mr. Putins calculus . And the possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options thats being examined. Lou all options in obamiyan language, thats tough talk, too tough for the president himself, here he is ten minutes later making it categorically clear, he did not intend in a categorically clear way to threaten mr. Putin or russia. So theres not going to be any specific point at which i say, ah clearly lethal defensive weapons would be appropriate here. It is our ongoing analysis of what can we do to dissuade russia from encroaching further and further on ukrainian territory. Lou well take this up with k. T. Mcfarland in a moment. Also, the white house claiming they rejected Prime Minister netanyahus address to congress because of an upcoming israeli ele
Government. This even dominate the interior ministry. So these groups have been around for a while. Lebanese hezbollah, theyve also been around since the early 80s. But that doesnt mean they are not growing at rates weve never seen before. Because theres a new crisis we have new organizations. The other main thing is irans reach in this is totally overstated. I cant say how much annoyance that actually causes me because theyre so open about this about how they control these organizations. Again, all you need to do stoimz is go sometimes is go on facebook or follow iranian media. Heres the weird thing, and dr. Knights brought up this. Even if theyre not directly controlling the group theyll claim to do that and beyond that theyll try to influence them with cash and weapons and support, and then guess what happens. They become another micro hezbollah. I would actually say in this you can never ignore this topdown strategy. Just because these people are recruiting from a wide stream of sh
Point this year. But Stanley Fisher made it clear that the path ahead will be anything but smo and st. Louis fed president James Bullard also warned of potential volatility. But this time in the equity markets as the Federal Reserve gets ready to raise its benchmark Interest Rate. The temper tantrum in the summer of 2013 was all about markets being surprised that the fed was going to pull back on qe sooner than it thought. There was a mismatch between what markets thought and what the fed thought. And we do have some potential for that today. Steve liesman has more on vice chair fishers speech today in new york and the road ahead for rates. Reporter Federal Reserve vice chairman Stanley Fisher said the fed will likely hike Interest Rates this year but gave no clue as to what month, if he said it was june or september or some date in between or some date after, that essentially the increase will be from a fund rate to a low funds rate. Heres how he put it. When we raise the Interest Rat
Charlie hebdo, rose 112 points. Other days world events bring stocks down. Today was one of those days. Not only was there word that that germanwings aircraft deliberately crashed by the coe pilot but new risks arose in the chaotic middle east. Still, the Worlds Biggest Oil producing region. Saudi arabia and the pew of Regional Airlines began rebel strongholds in yemen where the government disintegrated. Ground troops may be next. All that with economic and profit worries more than the market could withstand today. The Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 40 points to 17,678. Nasdaq fell 13 and the s p 500 was down almost 5. The conflict in yemen felt in the oil markets, west texas intermediate shot up more than 2 a barrel to 51. 43. Brent prices also spiked higher. Jackie deangelis has more now on the mideast tensions and why theyre rattling oil. Reporter oil prices seeing a significant setback on geopolitical turmoil in the east. Reports of saudi air strikes in yemen and saudis and e
The language of the president s request for authorization, which they see as unclear and too broad. And has been the case of late. This white house talking about what the president wont be doing instead of what he will. The resolution weve submitted today does not call for the deployment of u. S. Ground combat forces to iraq or syria. As ive said before, im convinced that the United States should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war in the middle east. Thats not in our National Security interests and its not necessary for us to defeat isil. It is not a timetable, it is not announcing that the mission is completed at any given period. What it is saying is that congress should revisit the issue at the beginning of the next president s term. So should Congress Grant the president his authorization . Right now the congress and senate dont agree to the answer to the question. Well be talking to Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committee member senator James Richard tonig