This table. Welcome. Sec. Carter thanks. Good to be here. Charlie we have done these conversations in office and out of office. I appreciate you coming by. From the time you have been secretary of defense, tell me what you set out to do and what you believe you have accomplished . What was your highest agenda . Sec. Carter well, in the here and now, it was to put us on a path with respect to the principal dangers that we face today, which are first and foremost isil and put together , the Campaign Plan that you now see unfolding towards the destruction of isil. Charlie it and we will discuss that. Secretary carter second, a strategic approach to russia and possible russian aggression, iran, north korea, china. Those are our principle here and now problems and put together a strategic approach and get us on the path. The other thing is that if you are secretary of defense your , other jobs are to make sure that your successor and your successors successor had what i had, which is the fi
This table. Welcome. Sec. Carter thanks. Good to be here. Charlie we have done these conversations in office and out of office. I appreciate you coming by. From the time you have been secretary of defense, tell me what you set out to do and what you believe you have accomplished . What was your highest agenda . Sec. Carter well, in the here and now, it was to put us on a path with respect to the principal dangers that we face today, which are first and foremost isil and put together , the Campaign Plan that you now see unfolding towards the destruction of isil. Charlie it and we will discuss that. Secretary carter second, a strategic approach to russia and possible russian aggression, iran, north korea, china. Those are our principle here and now problems and put together a strategic approach and get us on the path. The other thing is that if you are secretary of defense your , other jobs are to make sure that your successor and your successors successor had what i had, which is the fi
Good wednesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortt, sara eisen and me at post 9. Markets once again chasing some record highs, eight straight gains now for the dow, which, of course, hit a record intraday high earlier this morning. Thats a 13 jump for the industrials since the election. Joining us this morning, paul christopher, head of Global Market strategy at wells fargo investment institute. Paul, its good to have you today. Thank you. As the debate goes on about how much of this is fundamentals versus political expectations. You think its the economy at work here, dont you . Yeah, we do. We have a lot of clients, though, investors who think that, well, gee, if this is really all just about policy, then this rally is riding on thin air. We dont think thats necessarily the case. The economy started to improve long before the elections, just started getting noticed on november 9th. We got the s p now above the average yearend strategist target of 2,364, or just about there, b
Good to see you. Eric thank you. Good to be here. Ok, so dhs this week said we have new orders in terms of how we are going to deal with deportation of undocumented immigrants. Short version, there is going to be more enforcement. You are going to try to alleviate that, fight it how . Eric we anticipated this attack, particularly where it regards socalled sanctuary jurisdictions. There is no Legal Definition as to what a sanctuary jurisdiction is, so we anticipated there would be an attack coming. And last month, issued guidance for the first time setting out a legal roadmap of what the city has to do, what you are obligated to do under federal law and what you dont have to do. Im pleased to say there have been jurisdictions around the country using our legal roadmap to help rewrite their resolutions to prepare themselves to be in compliance with the law. The two memos issued by dhs are followups on executive orders trump issued in late january and deal with how we handle the immigrant
Good to see you. Eric thank you. Good to be here. Ok, so dhs this week said we have new orders in terms of how we are going to deal with deportation of undocumented immigrants. Short version, there is going to be more enforcement. You are going to try to alleviate that, fight it how . Eric we anticipated this attack, particularly where it regards socalled sanctuary jurisdictions. There is no Legal Definition as to what a sanctuary jurisdiction is, so we anticipated there would be an attack coming. And last month, issued guidance for the first time setting out a legal roadmap of what the city has to do, what you are obligated to do under federal law and what you dont have to do. Im pleased to say there have been jurisdictions around the country using our legal roadmap to help rewrite their resolutions to prepare themselves to be in compliance with the law. The two memos issued by dhs are followups on executive orders trump issued in late january and deal with how we handle the immigrant