The 37th president s administration. This portion is about one hour 20 minutes. Right from the beginning and until late in 1971 for a couple of years, i always thought for the pentagon papers to have any effect, they should be the basis for congressional hearing. Precisely because i knew they did not tell the whole story for an adequate story. I knew a lot of what was excluded from them and what you needed was oral testimony preferably under oath. Of people who really knew the decisionmaking at the time and could explain what was the implications of these papers. When things were written down, it was a brief for mcnamara to argue with other people to present mcnamaras preferred policy. It did not usually express what mcnaughton thought was appropriate policy or what he thought to expect work for considerations. He was writing lawyers briefs for mcnamara to present. That was one example. I knew in many other cases that it did not answer many of the questions. What you wanted was testimo
Owned homes is falling short. The consensus among economists we surveyed was four point 4. 9 million. Economists were looking for a 1. 7 rise. That had been ratcheted down from last week. Existing home sales are tallied only when purchases are closed. They do account for more than 90 of the u. S. Residential market. Perhaps harsh weather played a role for the disappointing read. When it comes to effect on the market stocks are not showing much change from this latest report. The dollar remains weaker. The 10 year yield is pretty much where it was before. Off its low, certainly. This kicks off a week of lots of housing numbers. We will have that for you throughout the week. Matt thank you so much. We will dig deeper into that story in just a moment. Olivia lets start with the bulletin. The top business stories that you should be watching. This week could prove decisive for greece. Prime minister tsipras is meeting with Angela Merkel this week. The bailout money is not likely to happen u
Market makers on Bloomberg Television. I am Erik Schatzker. I am Stephanie Ruhle. Im here at the nasdaq at the founder summit. This brings in great names like aero and oculus, and the bankers to represent them including Goldman Sachs and blackstone. P are hot. Is stephanie, looking forward to it all. On assignment not too far away in midtown manhattan this morning. In the meantime, the monthlong feud between ebay and carl icahn appears to be over. This will give him confidential access to the company, and he has withdrawn his demands for a paypal spinoff and 2 seats on the board. I spoke to ceo john donahoe in the morning, who characterizes this as a win for shareholders. I asked him, why give carl icahn anything at all. What he has done is seeing the potential in the opportunity in our company. So he is becoming a longterm shareholder, which i think is a winwin. And dave dorman is coming on as an independent director. An independent director that i respect and that carl respects. I th
Challenges at home and abroad these days. The crisis in ukraine is raising worries about russia, another shooting rampage at fort hood has upped immigrant soldiers killed by one of their own, and just troops are still at war in afghanistan. That is not stopping chuck hagel for making this trip to asia right now. I spoke with him in honolulu as he needs meets with defense ministers from 10 asian countries. I asked him about the shooting at fort hood. It is a terrible tragedy. It has been revisited once again on fort hood. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to the families of the big adam scott, and those who have been wounded and are going to continue to focus on them as we should. In the meantime, the investigators do their work. We do not have a lot of the answers, we do not know why it happened, we do not know why he did what he did. We will find that out. This is 24 hours away from that terrible incident, so we are working very hard to ensure first of all the safety on all of our b
Independence. Our third line, 202 5855883, set aside for iraq war veterans. You can contact us via social media, cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan if you want to make a comment and participate that way. You can send an email. Of the financial times. Obama to send 300 troops to iraq as sunni rebellion grows. That is how they headline it. Inside, they have an editorial. Where the blame lies in iraq. The instinctive response of many western is is that the usled invasion of 2003 is the cause of todays turmoil. The invasion is judged to have been a mistake. Host all this was bound to create longlasting turbulence your custom of the editorial in the financial times. Of the newront york times. Obama orders 300 advisors to iraq. A story below that about Prime Minister Nouri Almaliki and potential replacements. Challengers emerge to replace maliki. Three members of the shiite majority have emerged as possible candidates to take over as Prime Minister. It says that the kurds want the Iraq Central Gov