Happening all around us as a result of new technology . Watch the communicators monday night on cspan2. Now a look at the terrorist attacks in europe and whats being done to prevent similar attacks here in the u. S. And other places around the world. This hearing from the Senate Homeland Security Committee focused on recruiting efforts by isis and the need to improve information sharing among European Countries. Its just under two and half hours. Ron johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome the witnesses, certainly thank you for your thoughtful testimony. Were going to be looking forward to hearing it and have an opportunity to ask a number of questions. This hearing originally was planned and we were going to be talking about an issue that senator carper and i are also very concerned about, is just biosecurity and the threats that we face, and, you know, with the unfortunate tragic events in brussels, we thought wed maybe expand it. We maybe can still p
His sentence on bribery has been reduced but he will be the first israeli lead tore go to jail. And why many chinese leaders are being pushed out on the enclaves known as chinatown. Theres a campaigned aiming at getting him out of the club, he says he is the victim of unfair criticism, and will fight his future at real. The u. S. And iraq are claiming to have significanted significant blows against the Islamic State of iraq. The iraq Prime Minister paid a visit to the newly recaptured city, and he pledged to retake mosul next. His visit was a day after special forces raised the flag over the main government headquarters in in the center of the city. The u. S. Meanwhile says his air strikes in syria, have killed ten isil leaders in the last month, including a man named harafi, suspected of involvement in the attacks. Harafi, al muda nexte, with a direct link to the paris attack cell. We killed him on december 24th. He was act ily planning additional attacks against the west. Not too man
Well xblor. A weaker than expected report on manufacturing out this morning. Will this change the feds mind about the strength of the economy . Steve liesman joins us now. Were looking at a contraction here. In the Manufacturing Sector. The belief is that fed will look through this week, at least for a while in manufacturing. The reason is because it seems the result of a crash in the oil and gas industry, a strong dollar and weak overseas growth all risks the fed knew before the report. The numbers were coming in at 48. 6, a level that is contraction in manufacturing. You need 43 for it to be a contraction in the economy. It is the lowest level since 09. New orders, production is declining. Back logs in exports remain at low levels. Heres some comments from respondents that they made public. One says the down turn in china and european markets are negatively effecting our business. Another says the strong dollar is slowing our sales to china as they can buy in europe. That gentleman i
The iowa caucus. And look at this, isis retreats in ramadi liberated, thats without american boots on the ground. How about that . Oil down, stocks down, gas a buck 99, amazons stock of the year . Maybe. Varney company about to begin. All right. Severe weather in the south, tell you about it, this is sad news indeed. Tornados in the dallas area and east texas killed at least 11 people overnight. Homes leveled, power lines down across much of dallas county. Meanwhile, blizzard conditions are forecast, heavy winds gusting over 50 miles per hour, snow accumulations up to 13 inches drifts to ten feet and very likely in some areas of north texas, southeast new mexico and the oklahoma panhandle today. Thats the weather and how about those markets . This is how were going to open on monday morning right after christmas. Were down about 80 odd points for the Dow Jones Industrial average. The price of oil is down, were back to 37 a barrel, so that same relationship holds this morning. Oil down,
As the Iraqi Military beats isis by taking back the big city of ramadi. Captain chuck nash has the threat assessment right now. National security still a major topic on the president ial campaign trail. With just five weeks to go before the iowa caucuses, former pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum pulled off an underdog victory there four years ago surprising just about everybody. Today we are going to ask him if he has to win that again in iowa in order to remain a factor in the race for the white house. Rick santorum is here live. And nfl quarterback Peyton Manning fighting off a new report that says he used human growth drugs banned by the nfl. Our panel of former players on whether they believe him, whether they think the nfl is to blame and how it could affect his teem, career and marketing his team, career and marketing opportunities postnfl play. Plus, the latest on the deadly tornadoes in texas. We have the eye check that, retina popping antihacker technology youll see in 2016,