From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The escalatingh crisis in iraq. The Central Government is steadily losing control of its territory. Captured known as isis mosul and tikrit. Yesterday, it seized a city to the west of mosul. Graphic images emerged of a massacre carried out by isis as it continues its march toward baghdad. The administration has considered opening a dialogue with iran to assist in the reconciliation effort. Us, journalist robin and you are in iraq a month ago. Tommy what was going on and what happened to cause this to move so rapidly. It had been long planned and carefully thought out. Go ahead. This is the greatest threat we have had in the last century. The jihadis are well disciplined, wellfinanced, and welltrained. They have a game plan. I think they surprised the outside world largely because of the timing, the swift headway they made through northwestern iraq. Known, we have always for the past 2. 5 years, that this could happen, that they c
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We begin with the escalating crisis in iraq. The Central Government is steadily losing control of its territory. The group known as isis captured mosul and tikrit. Yesterday, it seized a city to the west of mosul. Graphic images emerged of a massacre carried out by isis as it continues its march toward baghdad. The administration has considered opening a dialogue with iran to assist in the reconciliation effort. Joining us, journalist robin wright and les gelb. You are in iraq a month ago. Tell me what was going on and what happened to cause this to move so rapidly. It had been long planned and carefully thought out. Go ahead. This is the greatest threat we have had in the last century. The jihadis are well disciplined, wellfinanced, and welltrained. They have a game plan. I think they surprised the outside world largely because of the timing, the swift headway they made through northwestern iraq. I think we have always known, fo
Getting reports on home sales. Andrew, good morning. All the way down at the stock exchange. Facebook shares getting a boost hitting record highs. The social times beating the street. The company says it saw an increase for both advertiseres and users during the Second Quarter. Well have more from analyst dean munser. Second Quarter Results fell a bit short. Cheaper Service Plans offered to customers without subsidized cell phone cut into margins. Were going to talk to an at t analyst in the next half an hour about that. There could be a bit of good news in there, too. Qualcomm Beat Estimates on the top and bottom line. The Current Quarter profit forecast came in below estimates. In unrelated news on the company, a Chinese State run newspaper reports china appss antitrust regulators report qualcomm has a monopoly. Also, gilliad, take a look at this, posting betterthanexpected earnings in revenue after the close. The company says its new hepatitis c drug has sales of 3. 5 billion in the
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See Charter Schools as the only way out of educational and economic poverty. A new study seems to show sec staffers are selling stocks just before sec investigations of those companies are announced. Either way, heres the big question. Why are sec staffers allowed to trade individual stocks at all . All those stories much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Welcome to the kudlow report. Im larry kudlow. Were live here at 7 00 eastern, 4 00 pacific. Two in one crimea, the ukraine where 2,000 Russian Troops moved in and what new government in kiev is calling an arms invasion. Nbc news Steve Handelsman joins us now with more. Good evening, steve. Reporter good evening. Headline is definitely those Russian Troops, medium size force newly in ukraine. The question is, what is Vladimir Putins plan . The day began with just a few Russian Troops seizing control of a pair of airports in crimea, southern ukraine, an area historically linked to russia with mostly russian speak