Into a series of franchises are more or less influenced by the inspirational ideology of al qaeda. But in the control of their local commanders. For example, you have one franchise in north africa, one in mali, one in the northern arabian peninsula. You have al qaeda in iraq. You have al qaeda in syria. Then of course, you have al qaeda sleeper cells that we have seen pop up in europe, australia, and god forgive in n god for bid in canada and United States. The residual legacy of bin laden still seems to be able to attract these young arabs who want to be a member of al qaeda, aattracted to what is essentially this death cult of al qaeda. We have not a great deal of success to turn that off. Host we have this map of the middle east that we want to put back up. Ambassador ginsberg, what kind of military presence does the United States have in this area . Guest if you go to iraq after the Islamic State was able to take the city of mosul, the second largest city of iraq and seize territor
Support for hezbollah or hamas, or the assad regime. Now being confronted by our strongest adversaries in the region that are being strengthened on the back of sunnis who are afraid of the shiite ascendancy. Host lets take some calls. We will begin with dennis in arkansas on our democrats line. Caller you know, they say that you cannot go to war with g5 unless god tells you to or you are not a muslim at all. That kind of eliminates an awful lot of these guys. Those tribes have been fighting for a long time centuries trying to get a leg up on the other guide. Isis is being run out of yemen and libya primarily. Firsthand knowledge from people who escape their is different from the political point of view. Are we going to be the police force for the entire world . Obama kind of said im going to get as out of the war, those are campaign promises. He is a man of his word. He also killed osama bin laden. You can say bush did it host there is a lot better. A lot of connections being made by d
Next week. What are some of the details of this bill and what does it tell you about the overall strategy of House Republicans on immigration . Right at the start of the week, this is a tough Border Security bill. The chairman is calling it the toughest Border Security bill that has been out there and this is the first foray republicans are trying to take on the immigration bill or issue. Republicans have been very displeased with president obama plus executive action from late less cheer when the president put together some proposals to defer deportation for up to 5 Million Immigrants here illegally in the country. Republicans want to respond to that and one way to do that is to start taking a look at their own ideas for immigration. First up is the border bill. It is a tough bill and requires completing the 700 mile fence along the border. It requires the Homeland Security to have operational control of the border, some of the hot spots where illegal crossings happen, they have to ha
All of that ahead on bloomberg west. Breaking news, salesforce raising its Sales Forecast seeing the first and biggest firstquarter hes ever had, underscoring attractiveness as a potential takeover target. Cory johnson is live in San Francisco for you. Looks like a strong report, we did hear from the salesforce president , no comment on the deal but they are 1000 focused on Customer Satisfaction . Cory thats a lot of percent. Thats like 100 10 times in a row. Here is what i take away from the earnings report. Compared to what was effective they would do, its a little bit better than that, it typically is. The reaction in postmarket trading is very muted compared to what we usually see. Last quarter the stock jumped 12 and then down 12 of about 2 , we will see how that shakes out in trading. What we saw from this company is that while better than expected it is dramatically Slower Growth. Yes, this is the biggest firstquarter theyve ever had, but only 23 bigger than a year ago after acq
Well be hearing from Tjx Companies and after the closing Bell Jcpenney will be reporting its numbers. Its been a stock to watch for the past year down near 5 a share as of yesterdays close. Lets get to andrew with some of todays top corporate stories. Hey becky. The big one bank of america saying that federal investigators are looking into whether the bank violated certain requirements of a Government Housing program. The probe centers around compliance with the rules of the federal housing administrations direct Endorsement Program this coming according to a 10k filing by the banking giant. Also this morning, Credit Suisse under a lot of pressure in europe, it already is under pressure in europe this morning but going to come under pressure more so today because a Senate Subcommittee is now alleging new misdeeds by the swiss bank and accuse the Justice Department of dragging its feet. The doj probing 14 swiss banks after admitting to helping u. S. Taxpayers hide money from the irs. Th