Well see what happens as we get closer to the opening bell. Three big stories were watching this morning. Eu finance ministers are meeting in brussels in just a couple hours from now discussing greeces request for a six ismonth loan extension. Michelle will join us in a minute. Also in Corporate News this morning, deere will post Quarterly Results before the bell. Earlier this week we learned Berkshire Hathaway bought a stake in the company. In political news the nations current and former governors are going to be gathering in washington today for an annual meeting also taking part in the conversation administrative and legislative officials along with business and academic leaders. Here are some of the stocks were watching. Intuit posted a stronger than expected loss, Strong Demand for its turbo tax. Tax season. Hurry up. The clock is tick inging. Sneaks up on you. Nordstroms earnings falling short of estimates. The company says margins fell as it worked to clear inventories and used
Mother of the murdered black teenager, steven lawrence. Lord [inaudible] a former assistant Deputy Police commissioner. Lady jones, a Green Party Politician in london. And lord finkelstein, columnist and a former associate editor of the times. To put all the new peers, in october a former first sea lord had a novel suggestion to make. And i wonder if the royal navy could come to the nations assistance again, ive been asking people to buy the third invincible class carrier, two having been scrapped, and i wonder if the house authorities would like to buy it to accommodate the huge number of new piers being created. [laughter] in fact, it can accommodate up to 700 people and has a bank, laundry and shop. The death of Nelson Mandela was a moment that parliament couldnt ignore. The first black president of south africa and father figure for his nation came to parliament back in 1996 and spoke in Westminster Hall. He was fully aware of the antiapartheid campaigns that ran in britain through
Their smartphones and so on can be identified and profiled by just for interactions through their mobile devices. If you post a tweet, check your bank account, send an email, or check your facebook newsfeed, boom. Some ad network is profiled you. That a lot of the companies collecting this data can not live up to their security claims. This data is vulnerable to hacking. Security experts will tell you that any device connected to the internet can be hacked. That is not just your computers, or your smartphones, or your tablets. Carsasingly it becomes our that are connected to the internet, your Home Security system, your medical devices, power plants, all of this is vulnerable to hacking. Hacking is not just for criminals. Governments all employee hackers. Ony dig up information people outside of their country and people inside their country. As we have failed from Edward Snowden found from Edward Snowden who released a large trove of documents, our government, the nsa, exploits quite a
That we can speak our only much and you will get translation our english, but that colleagues here do not get any translation, or do you . No. But you should get translation into ingush so signal if there is a problem. Im also going to ask colleagues and our guests to be as brief and concise as possible and to allow for maximum number of questions. We will have one question, one i will ask time, and everybody to be very, very concise. Listen toll, we will the men from the dsnd group. Greenwald formr. Being with us today. Can i begin with where you finish, the source, Edward Snowden . In my report, i am going to be talking about whistleblower protection. Yesterday we saw the Congressional Committee that by mike rogers, and they rejected snowden asion of mr. A whistleblower. What is your view of that . By rejecting that definition, they are seeing him as a felon. Simple question, what is your view of that . Secondly, on the federal court gment, which he welcomed, which you welcomed, agai
Important to our distinction between ordinary exercises of discretion. Law and larger ones that the president has been engaged in. We will eventually weigh in on that issue. My view will become insignificant. Host cases moving through now. What your out about the new challenges to the Affordable Care act which wouldve been talking about a lot this morning . What are going to be the things to watch in the coming year . Guest the Supreme Court had already granted review with a contraceptive mandate. The issue there is whether private forprofit operations whose owners have religious objection to providing access to contraceptives for insurance tons can be required purchase those plans for their employees. That issue is going to turn not on the constitution but on a federal statute called the religious freedom act that said congress cannot impose substantial burdens on a religious exercise of individuals unless theres a substantial justification for it. Whetherhe issues is these private co