After decades of service to the country, women warriors are the gold women lawyers are the gold standard. She said why should we trust nsa or any Government Agency to put the technical side of this together . Why should we and then why do you trust them and i said well, i start with this there are bad guys out there trying to attack us to read what sort of the terrorist piece of this. I want to know who they are and disrupt them before they do that. My assumption is most of them are in some Foreign Place and are not u. S. Persons. But at any rate, some of them could be. So, congress tried to design a system, and i think they did so pretty well. Building in safeguards. Court reviewing the congressional oversight. Now the system got a lot bigger since 9 11. Is it the right size . I dont know. I dont know if its the right size. But i know im not the person, or if i were a member of congress now or even as the slowly beat up president and ceo of the Wilson Center just getting im not the pe
Ashley and i and ashley webster. Fiscal cliff talks are stalling. Tax hikes and spending cuts. President obama said to speak in about 30 minutes from now. Shibani stocks are holding their ground. Waiting for some sort of news out of washington. The dow sitting at session highs. At least we are closing. Ashley it changes with every headline. The world ringing in the new year. New zealand, australia, japan, china, we will get a sneak preview of celebrations being planned as times square gets prepared for 1 million visitors. It is a complete nightmare. [ laughter ] ashley time now for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. We are up 51 points. Not too bad on this last trading day of the year. That is right. The dow has been pretty flat. Going back and forth between the red and green. The nasdaq is up 30. Same goes for the s p stock of about nine points. We are also watching a settlement between u. S. Regulators and about a dozen banks. Sources tell the New York Times that 14 banks include
Tracy good afternoon. I am tracy byrnes. Ashley and i am ashley webster. Congress off this week. Tracy talk about sticker shock at the pump. Gas prices climbing 432 straight days. I have cried every 32 of those days. Ashley immigration outrage. Working on a bipartisan answer. They are getting riled up. So is lou dobbs. He will be weighing in. Tracy if you have a job, you have felt the tax hike. Ashley president s day. Good afternoon to you. President s day is what matters sales and auto sales. The u. S. Holiday resulted in low trading volume. The market reacting. Risks to the euro zones recovery. Speaking of europe, by the way, is the u. S. Going the way of greece . Check out the front cover of the latest addition. We follow president obamas plan, the u. S. Will be in worse shape than greece is today. It will take 25 years, maybe sooner. The federal debt is the problem. We have to make serious spending cuts now. We could be like greece. Interesting. And frightening. Tracy nobody is cut