Good morning. The days top stories, the Global Markets. Political paralysis, the point of that in italy spooking investors and lead to go a selloff on wall street. And then asia follows suit overnight. European stocks are tumbling on upper trading this morning. It is tuesday, february 26th, 2013 and squawk box begins right now. Good morning and welcome to squawk box here on cnbc where thirchx feel a little under pressure. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen and becky quick. Well, becky quick is off today. She will be back tomorrow. Global markets focusing on italy this morning. Sylvia berlusconis center left rivals won parliaments left house, but failed to win an absolute majority in the upper house. This is creating uncertainty. Berlusconi has ruled out an alliance with former italian Prime Minister mario monti. Hes arguing the results reflect unpopular discontent with stocks. We saw sharp drops, italian yields jumping. Check out early stocks in european trading. This morning,
I have no idea if that is true, but i will say lets welcome our guests. Her smile could light up a small city. It is true. Her teeth are made of highpowered allogen bulbs. She is so precious that diamonds wish they could be friends with her. What a terrible interruption. It is joanne nosuchunsky. You beat him up when he was in high school and you were in third grade. And he developed a taste for human flesh. Sitting next to me in slow motion, tom shillue. A block. The lede. Thats the first story. All right. They are less exposed after he disclosed. A former top official at the nsa says isis has become better sneaks thanks to Edward Snowdens leak. Thats the subject of tonights what did you expect . Former nsa director tells the Washington Times that isis militants are now harder to track because they know how to elude our spies. When asked if the jagweeds studied the information he said, quote, clearly and i trust him, the exofficial said snowden went way beyond disclosing things that b
Back to you. Lets welcome our guests. She has more analogies than the s. A. T. s. It is joanne nosuchunsky. He solved more problems than bleach. Former u. S. Ambassador to the united nations. She left and its all right. And they are half right. Sitting next to me from the brilliant idiot pod cast, andrew schulz. Lets start the show. Has bono found what were looking for . A solution to violent extremism. The u2 front man offered an unusual approach to fighting enemies like isis. I think comedy should be the ploy. You speak violence and you speak language. But you laugh at them and it takes away the power. So i am chris rock and Sacha Baron Cohen. Send in the clowns. Of course it wouldnt be the first time we used that strategy. Who can forget how we won world war ii. Jackie mason showed them a thing or two. And Milton Burrell took down germany. What an awful, awful quote. Thats what we do. We put it in terms of it all the time. I think you were killing me when is youtube going to get inv
Lets welcome our guests. She is the pina colada of political pundits. Joan joanne nosuchinsky. And one of the stars of quote notorious, matt walton. She is a classier madison than the avenue. Madison jesiotto. He hosts a sports talk show, which seems right. His last name sounds like a sports bar. Sitting right next to me, comedian brendan fitzgibbons. Okay. Lets start the show. What really happened during bill clintons private meeting with Loretta Lynch last week . Lynch said their chat centered on his grandchildren. On tuesday, an interested party, lets call him, provided an eyeopening reenactment of the conversation. The account begins with clinton waiting at the airport and then seeing the attorney general. Hes waiting around. He is waiting at the airport. Oh, oh, look. The ags come. Oh, let me go say hello. 39 minutes. Im going to talk about the grandkids. Hes got two. I hear theyre beautiful. I hear theyre beautiful. Hes got two. Now i have eight grandchildren, and i will tell you
Nothing comes back clean, a sick president Obama Wiretapped him during the campaign, by the way that trump claim obama was sick was in quotes. It wasnt in quotes, really, he maents it. Still hasnt taken it back, much less apologize for it. Meanwhile, the president S Health Care bill, trumpcare lies in frav condition, pulled from the schedule. A youeuthanasia, there was no w it was going to survive this gang of obamalisionists is going to suffer. They will plot the way forward . Maybe, he came into office with a pre existing condition, himself, he had no idea of how to replace obamacare, the schedule proves that, we gin with fallout from devon nunes mad dash from the white house. He ran past the members of his own committee on his way to multiple press conferences on a meeting with the president. He should when he called alarming new information that Trump Associates were picked up on under surveillance of foreign officials. Nunes was asked about his reactions today. Reporter why did yo