December 2007. The best gauge for fear in the motorcycles, the cbo volatility index plummeted last week. If you look this morning to see where things stand, youll see u. S. Equity futures are indicated just slightly lower. Right now, dow futures down about 35 points. Same story in europe. If you look at the early trading there, youll see a slight pullback across most of these markets. The cac is off. 3. 5 . Major asian markets overnight, things barely budged with the hang seng and shanghai was slightly higher and the nikkei was down by about. 8 . Andrew. And werings season officially begins after the bell tomorrow. Thats when alcoa will be posting First Quarter results. Earnings are expected to rise. Lets get a quick check on the weeks economic calendar. A quiet start today. Tomorrow, well be getting the Nfib Small Business sentiment survey. Were going to get the Consumer Credit and on thursday, weekly jobless claims and wholesale trade and finally on friday, International Trade and im
Lindsay vonn will be ready for sochi on tuesday. She had a bad crash in austria and needs surgery. What shes saying about her chances of a full recovery in time for the winter games. Let us start this morning with the decision by the Postal Service to end saturday mail delivery. Nbcs tom costello is in a post office in washington, d. C. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. This was a major move that the Postal Service is undertaking, losing 16 billion a year as it is forced to fund future Retiree Medical benefits. And Congress Still hasnt gotten around to addressing the issue. The Postal Service will act on its own to save money and heres the plan. Starting august 1st, the usps will stop saturday mail delivery and will however continue Package Delivery and we should say medical delivery, in other words, pills and that kind of thing. Mail delivery to post office boxes will continue on saturday. Post offices would remain open on saturday. The estimating savings here is 2 bil
First, earlier today foxs own ed henry pressed White House Press secretary josh earnest about why the president thinks that it is unamerican and immoral to interrogate terrorists but its okay to kill them with drone strikes. We bring in fox news correspondent ed henry to explain what an exchange you had with him. And i thought a very, very important point and question to ask. Ed. Thanks, sean. I tried to stick to the facts because, look, what josh earnest was saying earlier in this briefing today we repeatedly was the reason why the president supported the release of this Senate Intelligence report obviously very controversial because of the violence that may ensue against american interests around the world, various critics on the left and right wondering about the timing of all of this. Josh earnest kept saying the president wants to restore moral authority, that he believes moral authority for the United States was lost during the Bush Administration because of these tactics. Intere
Was saying earlier in this briefing today we repeatedly was the reason why the president supported the release of this Senate Intelligence report obviously very controversial because of the violence that may ensue against american interests around the world, various critics on the left and right wondering about the timing of all of this. Josh earnest kept saying the president wants to restore moral authority, that he believes moral authority for the United States was lost during the Bush Administration because of these tactics. Interesting because today the president got pressure from the left and the right. Democratic senator mark udall on the senate floor saying the president has a cia director josh brennan who served under president george w. Bush approved of these tactics and yet is still in charge according to udall has been lying t congress, john brennan has. And you remember Jose Rodriguez top official saying the president is against these Harsh Interrogation Tactics for dozens
Pentagon right now. A rare briefing for him, with plenty to talk about, including negotiations with north korea falling apart. We are going to bring you the latest, as soon as we get news from the defense secretary coming up. Well also have former cia director john brennan live with me on set next. Plus, in a d. C. Courtroom right now, could two for Paul Manafort and his lawyers, hammering out issues for his next trial, less than three weeks ago. Word that the man praised by the president for not flipping actually tried to. We have our team all across the country. The death of john mccain is once again a headline. Perhaps not the one he or his family want. For a president who seemed to want nothing to do with john mccain in life or death, its become about the president. One of john mccains closest friends, senator Lindsey Graham, seems to be unbothered by that. Watch. How the president feels about senator mccain is his right to feel the way hed like. I know how america feels about sena