With alayne fleischmann, the whistleblower who helped the Justice Department forced the bank to pay one of the largest fines in american history. You might be surprised what she says about the bank as well as the obama white house. She is featured in a new Rolling Stone piece a recently returned matt taibbi. The significance of this story to me is that it talks a lot about the legacy of eric holder. We finally have somebody from the inside who is telling us what a lot of us expected all along, that the Obama Administration did have enough evidence to proceed against a lot of these banks, and they just did not do enough with that evidence and those witnesses. And we finally have someone like alayne fleischmann who can tell us all about that and all that went on. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal Appeals Court in ohio has dealt a blow to Marriage Equality in a move expected to bring the issue bef
We dont know if this is politically motivated. There are some indications that it could be. Threatgovernment cited a posed by the Islamic State and raise the terror rating. A sweeping victory in japan gives the Prime Minister a mandate for his reform package. It forced leader of the opposition to resign. Thirdsnt more than two of the seats in japans parliament. Obama congress is getting a green light for stricter sanctions on russia. It allows them to send russian weapons to ukraine. It is the largest leveraged buyout this year. A group led by a British Company is buying petsmart. Beat out another firm. Petsmart has been hurt by other retailers. Holidays,et near the its the busiest day of the year , mailing day. This is a rush for the Postal Service. Henan 40 handle a six million cars and the packages today. The post office as you can wait until the 20th. Amazon is saving the u. S. Postal service. Lets do a day to check. A nuanced data check. Yield does nothing. Its back to where it wa
Security threats, will be deported. Response tot those that accuse him of overreaching. The actions taken by every single republican and democratic president for the past halfcentury. Of congressbers that . Authority to make our immigration system work better, or arch and the wisdom of me acting where congress has failed, i have one answer. Pass a bill. Republican say they will use that power they had to stop the president but they do not say what they will do. Here is john boehner. The president said before he is not king and he is not an emperor, but he is sure acting like it, and he is doing it at a the American People want nothing more than for us to Work Together. Turning to china, surprise move by the countrys central bank to boost the economy. China has cut Interest Rates for the First Time Since 2012. The benchmark lending rate was cut to 5. 6 . China is on track for its slowest growth in two decades. Has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In june, the Supreme Court ag
Sugary drinks that are not selling like the used to. Welcome to Market Makers. Im Stephanie Ruhle. Erik schatzker is out today. Have a special cohost this morning. There is nothing worse than a person sitting next to a person getting their name five euros sample deli bobby o scarlet fu is in the newsroom wholesale inventory data. Wholesale inventories increase at a slower rate in the month of december. Again of 1 10 of 1 . Looking for an increase of 2 10 of 1 . This marks a slowdown from the 8 10 of 1 that we got in the november period on the month over month basis, that was a drop slightly larger than what economists had been anticipating. Carl written on a word warned that this would not generate thats pretty much the case right now when you look it how stocks are performing. They are holding on to their games. Hard to say. Stephanie it is time to take you to topic the stories of the morning top business stories of the morning. Shares of cocacola are trading higher this morning. Coke
Point trading range from top to bottom. Sglefr single trading day this year as youve said. Incredible were up 261 points. We should remind everybody in case you missed it this morning or some hugh a historic day. European central bank decides it will launch quantities taitz difference easing. Japan was first back in 2001. The u. S. Followed suit. Now its europes turn. The baton is being passed and markets are rewarding it. Say with us for a closing bell exclusive, david mckay in his first interview since becoming ceo. Much to speak with him about. Of course moved today by the European Central bank. Also canadas surprise rate cut yesterday. And they make a huge acquisition. National city bank today. He will tell us about it and their plans for the u. S. Denmark cut overnight by the way. Another surprise rate cut. Exactly. They have to respond. Its a cascade. A race to the bottom as it were. And when it has a gate at the end of it you know its big. And the nfls deflategate is now hit thi