Lower starting point at 399 i asked cook if he was worried about the se denting demand for the higher priced models and then tanking his margins cook dismissed that telling us we are never worried about cannibalization. Our view is if somebody is going to cannibalize it better be us theres probably a little overlap between the two. The se right now cook saying appealing to android switchers and appealing to people who want the most powerful phone but in a smaller form factor. Sticking with the iphone i asked about iphone demand in china what are they looking like and can we use china as a leading indicator for other geographies in countries, europe and the u. S. Cook telling us there was a significant, very steep falloff in february that began to recover some in march, and weve seen further recovery in april so it leaves us room for optimism its hard to tell if thats a leading indicator, cook says there are differences. The u. S. Has had very bold stimulus programs and i think that wil
Of testimony on us military strategy in the asiapacific region focusing on north korea, that is at 9 30. Follow live coverage from the Senate Armed Services committee on cspan3, online at cspan. Org and streaming on the cspan radio apps. Now a look at the Trump Presidency and how it compares to previous administrations your presence here is true of every hour of every day of your life for other people who are in your presence conjures up the specter or the memory or the muscle memory and some of us of the experiences for decades ago with watergate. As we sit here in the tent tentk or the beginning of the 11th week of the Trump Presidency, obviously one of your themes over the last 70 days has been this question of whether the Trump Presidency is an unprecedented event, or whether it evokes, uncomfortably, evokes the period in which you were a major actor. Do you think that we are in uncharted territory, or is the territory all too charted, shall we say . Well, we are not at watergate 2
Indexes were pulling back. You can see, were now flat across the board. The nasdaq just inching positive. All and all, one of the rare not up days for your stock investments. And of course all of this coming ahead of what is likely just the second fed rate hike in a decade. Tyler . Thank you very much, brian. We are less than an hour away from that fed rate decision. Most people do expect a quarter point hike. Could it be more . Well explore that in this hour as well. It has been a year since the last hike, then there is yellens News Conference, thats at 2 30 eastern time. Steve liesman following all of it for us live in washington. Hi, steve. Good afternoon. Just a quick note that we got some data this morning, the fed got some data on the second day of its meeting when it makes its policy announcement. And decision. And that data was weaker. I want to show you the cnbc rapid update. What happened is economists have taken. 2 off their forecast for the current quarter, down to 1. 8, th
Paul, with ron paul and with richard, the senator black. The senator ron paul and congressman ron paul. And also who resigned schedule of defense. Nobody, i saw on the news, he designed because of syria. Another question asked, why syria brought, because isis came to iraq from syria. Why . Within minutes, a Second Attack to muslim, the city of my mother, by the way, people suffering right now. The city of my mother and im entitled i talked to them they say they would rather die than to live under isis. They need help. They need help. They need to work hard and please come and help us and save us. So we have the status quo, say today in iraq we terminated isis. We finished isis and we left them. After one week, one month, theyre going to come back. When you have a termite, you tent it the you terminate. You terminate the termite. And isis and al qaeda, if you want to destroy them in iraq, you have to destroy them in the syria. You cannot do half the jobs. You have to do complete jobs. I
Terrorists came from the Turkish Borders, all the terrorists inside syria. End of quote. But the examples we just heard, zadan al loush, who was killed inside syria, covered extensively by governmentowned media, he was described as a big terrorist leader by your own media. He was inside a syrian prison and he was let go in 2011 by the Syrian Government. Did you not know about his past . And why was he in prison, then released, based on that . And of course, turkey that means they did not all come through the turkish thank you so much. Thank you. Try to make the question short to give more portion to everybody to answer. Dr. Shaaban i really dont know. You know, if you are insinuating that we could possibly know that somebody is going to turn such a terrorist and we let him out of prison. He was taken to court and then he was released just as any prisoner would be released after he spends the time that he had to spend in prison. But i meant all the terrorists who came from out of syria