Starting with martin spencer, a bit of a bellwether for u. K. Retail. Talking about pretax profit. The company increased its profitability forecast. They have been cutting costs by buying more sales direct. This has been a challenge for martin spencer. This stock was called higher and is moving higher. Volkswagen is not coming in yet. This has been much lower. The company said that it found all the emissions readings for the first time in gasoline, petrol. Scandal that had centered on the diesel engines. One analyst said volkswagen is leaving us speechless. Ing, we got some mixed calls. It looks at the moment like it could be moving higher. The biggest dutch lender reporting a 14 rise. That was a beat for ing. And the eurodollar trade, you lower onhe euro moving the back of the dollar. Back to you. Jon we will bring you that data live throughout the morning. That is happening in the early part of the session. Here is what is happening in todays show. The volkswagen pile up. The scandal
Harvard Business School is here. Nejra cehic joins us now. Republicans and democrats are condemning Donald Trumps call for a ban on muslims entering the u. S. Trump wrote a Statement Last night at a rally in south carolina. Donald j trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our countries representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. Jeb bush called trump unhinged. Chris christie said this is the say whenhing people they have no idea what theyre talking about. Beijing haven raised in air pollution alert to the highest level. The smog is seven times the level considered dangerous to health. Beijing has suspended schools and banned outdoor barbecue. Oscar pistorius is now free on bail. Under housein arrest while appealing his murder conviction for killing his girlfriend. South Africas Supreme Court of appeal overturned his lesser sentence of manslaughter and convicted him of murder. You can get more on these and other breaki
200 house members is because we nominate candidates who talk about how were going to help American Workers and we have a platform and a plan that puts them first. The only reason im running for president is because i believe that if we can restore the Manufacturing Sector of our economy then we can make america the number one matcherer in the world. Youd say thats impossible. 10 years ago if i had said were going to make america the Number One Energy producer in the world youd have said thats impossible. America is now the Number One Energy producing producer in the world and we can be the number one manufacturer from the world if we put good policies together and good leadership in setting our sights in making america the strongest, most productive country again in making things. Thats my commitment to you. That if we go out there and you give me the chance, well go out with a message that will be focused on the 90 of people who work for a living and get a paycheck from the employer,
No. Know, formally, there is no discussion or consideration. We continue to work with south korea on a wide range of potential capabilities. I will leave it at that. That is a different lane from mine. I am the equipment provider. Thank you. Thank you admiral. Thanks to all of you for coming. [applause] a live look at the white house as the winter storm makes from the midatlantic up to the northeast between of foot and two feet of snow have rd fallen in the Nations Capital with more accumulation possible this evening. Earlier today, several people were outside the u. S. Capitol to go sledding. Reporter tweeted this video showing both children and adults having a bit of fun in the snow. Sledding had not been allowed on the Capitol Grounds for some time, at least not technically liftingress ended up the ban in december when it passed its 1. 1 trillion spending bill. From snowy easy, we take you live now to waterloo, iowa for a Campaign Rally for candidate senator ted cruz. He will be joi
Why did you want to write a book about the court situated not in american law but in the world as a legal and nonlegal venue, and what is the overarching theme that holds the project together . Well, i wrote it so i could speak at brookings. The first book by the way you still can get. Its at amazon. Its called regulation of energy by the federal power commission. Only costs a penny. Pretty good. And if you have one of those free postage things, just a penny. The second book i think it was a better book. A reviewer said, in alice in wonderland, she emerges with the history of england, why are you reading that says alice and the door mouse says because this is the driest thing i know. That was before breyer wrote this book. So in any case, i thought i would try to do better. The theme of this is to show people something. What is it i want to show. I want to show i deal i and maybe lots of others and maybe ordinary people who arent specialists, when they hear words about interdependence