Congress where i played a role in the founding of the Homeland Security department. I call myself one of its grand mothers. One of its grandfathers that would be thad allen, or i think hes one of the grandfathers, im not sure, is on the call with me and the rest of you children are the successors and i think that it is really wonderful today that we are having i guess hes been phone now, a lot of zoom issues, with chris and a panel organized by meg king who heads our science, technology and Innovation Program and a number of a rest of you on the phone. The topic is whats critical, evolving the security playbook for managing ones, zeros and everything in between. While its not as much fun to see you all or some of you on line, chris is on the phone, its not as much fun to see you in person. If any group could make a conversation interesting its our science, technology and information program. Today were joined by the nations chief risk officer chris krebs, director of the department of
Things. Stuart with me, hes not going to get away with it. He says kim jong un should be very, very nervous, china state media says this, if north korea shoots first, china stays out, if america starts it and tries regime change, china steps in. Face to face standoff and thats what investors have to live with as the weekend approaches. The possibility of Armed Conflict with the markets are closed. Each new headline will have new impact. Follow it all minute by minute on Varney Company, the friday edition is about to begin. Stuart so where we are in 28 and a half minutes when the market opens . Slightly higher across the board. Heavy selling from yesterday has not continued so far this morning. But, remember, the duh has dropped just 1. 25 since monday. Here comes a tense weekend, would you buy ahead of that . We shall see. How about the price of gold . Thats another twomonth high at 12. 91. Flight to safety. Oh, will you look at this. Its can you believe this. Jc penny resulted the res
Unsolicited stakeover bid led by anbang insurance group. Well give you the latest. United airlines ceo back to work today but the activists are not cutting him slack. Whats ahead for munoz and the airline at large. Starwood is up sharply in premarket trading. They received a takeover proposal from chinas anbang insurance. Its worth about 75 a share in cash. The board of starwood says it is not changing its recommendation at this point and supports the companys planned merger with marriott, but they have a waiver from marriott that will allow them to negotiate until thursday. People familiar with the situation indicate the hope is they can hammer out a definitive agreement with anbang insurance, which has chris flowers, former investment banker people may have known. And primivera, not an old Italian Restaurant on the west side, but a large private equity firm in china. Some of these names may be unfamiliar, but the 76 a share all cash offer and that 5. 50 is a significant premium over
The election of the canadian Prime Minister means, not only for that country, but our country as well. That is all tomorrow on the washington journal. See you then. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the president obama and a form of Prescription Drug abuse. Mac, john mccain and thornberry talk about defense spending. At noon, we will show you the first part of secretary of state Hillary Clinton p appearance before the house benghazi committee. On wednesday, president obama was in charleston, West Virginia for the Panel Description out of discussion on Prescription Drug abuse. Included in the panel were Law Enforcement and health silvioment officials, burwell, and the director of National Drug control policy. This is just over one hour. President obama thank you, everybody. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you s
Now, im not going to let my government colleagues off the hook, because we also used to see a lot of senior government officials on the Government Coordinating Council side of the house engaged frequently in that business. Ive seen a diminishment of senior level engagement over the last decade. We need to fix that problem in two ways. Ceos and coos need to get supportive of this, so do senior government officials. We need tough decisions and risk outcomes to be decided and thats not going to happen at the gs 14, 15 level. Its got to be higher than that. If were going to solve some of the nations most critical problems, like aging infrastructure, and the impacts of climate change, thats not going to be done at the level we currently are structured to deal with those kind of things. Its got to be a high order type thing. I also want to say, that at the state, local, and federal level, tremendous difference in terms of private sector engagement in Emergency Operation centers and Informati