Welcome to squawk on the street live from the New York Stock Exchange, im carl kin ten nia with melissa lee, cramer and neighborer are off today but we are joined by dennis. Good morning to you dennis, thanks for coming in. Futures today, a lot to deal with as you probably know. The fiscal cliff headline watch continues. You just heard john kanas say the market not too concerned. Futures up 21 points. Decent data out of europe, we will talk about in a minute what a day for the asian markets again. Also coming up. Our road map begins at Andrews Air Force base where the president arrives in a couple of hours, cutting his hawaiian vacation short to address the fiscal cliff s there really any hope in the last attempt . Does the market fade if theres no news tomorrow night . The nikkei continues its 21month run. How much is the boj willing to put up with . Looking a at potential strike in the nations port on the east and southern coast, the first since 77 that could cost retailers and impor
That we can speak our only much and you will get translation our english, but that colleagues here do not get any translation, or do you . No. But you should get translation into ingush so signal if there is a problem. Im also going to ask colleagues and our guests to be as brief and concise as possible and to allow for maximum number of questions. We will have one question, one i will ask time, and everybody to be very, very concise. Listen toll, we will the men from the dsnd group. Greenwald formr. Being with us today. Can i begin with where you finish, the source, Edward Snowden . In my report, i am going to be talking about whistleblower protection. Yesterday we saw the Congressional Committee that by mike rogers, and they rejected snowden asion of mr. A whistleblower. What is your view of that . By rejecting that definition, they are seeing him as a felon. Simple question, what is your view of that . Secondly, on the federal court gment, which he welcomed, which you welcomed, agai
Important to our distinction between ordinary exercises of discretion. Law and larger ones that the president has been engaged in. We will eventually weigh in on that issue. My view will become insignificant. Host cases moving through now. What your out about the new challenges to the Affordable Care act which wouldve been talking about a lot this morning . What are going to be the things to watch in the coming year . Guest the Supreme Court had already granted review with a contraceptive mandate. The issue there is whether private forprofit operations whose owners have religious objection to providing access to contraceptives for insurance tons can be required purchase those plans for their employees. That issue is going to turn not on the constitution but on a federal statute called the religious freedom act that said congress cannot impose substantial burdens on a religious exercise of individuals unless theres a substantial justification for it. Whetherhe issues is these private co
Who arent graduating high school, going on to college or getting attached to careers the way i was able to . The president and ceo of marthas table on leading the nonprofit, sunday night at 8 p. M. On q a. Now, conversation about the u. S. Supreme courts role in badery with justice ruth ginsburg. Mr. Olson most recently argued before the Supreme Court on samesex marriage. Northern Virginia Technology council, this is 45 minutes. [applause]. Good morning. Good morning. [inaudible] audio. Someone will also have to control the microphone. [laughter] it is a great privilege for me to have the opportunity to ask questions of Justice Ginsberg instead of the other way around. [laughter] i want to thank all of you out there who planted questions with me in the hopes that i would ask those questions, but i probably will not ask any of those questions. [laughter] lets start with the Supreme Court of the u. S. You and your court handled the most difficult and most controversial questions of our d
And, sam, with all this extreme weather, the country is getting walloped. We got a huge amount of snow to get to today. And also some strong, gusty winds. The winds last night were amazing. Were also talking about a privacy breach for the first family of facebook. You see that picture right there, they didnt want that out everywhere. But guess what . It happened. Not good. And lucky in love again and again and again. Its the third times a charm for janet jackson. The private superstar, now engaged to a billionaire. Yeah. A b. Who is he . And why isnt she wearing the ring . Were going to have all the details ahead. And it is a very large ring, i might add. But first, sam, again, this weather. Coasttocoast, it has stopped this country. This is the storm weve been talking about since the weekend. And then yesterday, it delivered all the snow. Let me show you the pictures that weve been getting in. Facebook and twitter. You have been sending in pictures like this. This is in the middle of