Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
Movers this morning, grow upon shares as that Company Reports a smaller Second Quarter loss and raises full year outlook. Adding more than 1 million new customers. Thats the most in two years. Stock is up by 23 and ceo will be on squawk box in an first on cnbc interview. That is at 8 40 a. M. Eastern time. Amgen tops estimates. That stock basically unchanged. Cheesecake tractfactory repg better than expected profit. Still upping stock buyback plan. Up about 1. 5 . We have more here. Groupon. Is that going to be around . We are going to talk to the ceo and i suspect he will tell you he plans to be around. It was 25, 25 dollar stock once so its up today. Is it are a real. Its a real company. I bet the 6 billion offer they got from google a few years ago is pretty good right now. Lets talk about alphabet. Google now is a verb. Its probably known in every language. Then there was another one that decided changes the name. And totally ruins years. P when you say alphabet, i know its google,
As some of you heard me say, some guest my have to depart earlier. Chairman walden is here, and rob simms. This is chairman waldens fourth visit and thank you for coming back and bringing mr. Simms with you. I will talk about representative waldens family coming by wagon train in 1845 in order to get as many questions. That is it for the biographical portion and now to the ground rules. We are on the record, no live bloging, tweeting, no filing of any kind while the breck breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to the guest. It is likely we will beending well before the 9 30 usual stop time. To help you resist the selfie urge we will email pictures to the reporters after the breakfast. If you would like to ask a question do the traditional thing and send a subtle, nonthreatening signal and i will call on one and all in the time we have available. We will start with letting the guests make opening comments and set the stage and go to questions after that. Thank you for coming. A
In federal change was a violation of the law and the Supreme Court didnt agree with that. But we are larrying it over and over again. It turns out it was a good program, i can personally testify to that, when it was implemented there were delays because it is very complicated in implementing these complicated laws. They said it was quote wise unquote to do this. I think these charges of overreach reflect the reflection of this administration demonizing the act. It is reason to believe the executive branch acted appropriately in executing the law. My republican colleagues have been examining this for two years. Todays hearing is the filing of a lawsuit questioning the constituti constituti constitution constitutionality of the program. It follows interviews with 13 current and government officials from four federal agencies. My question is congress has a wealth of tools. Have they used their legislative authority to review this. I think the fact that Congress Republicans have taken no s
Alveda king. Russia teaming up with iran to bomb targets in syria. The message theyre sending to the obama administration. Ashley lets get back to the markets. Shares higher led by shares of 3m, pfizer around dupont. Oil and bass higher. Scott shellady has details from the cme and adam shapiro on floor of the new york Stock Exchange. Adam, youre looking at Home Improvement stores, lowes versus home depot, right . Reporter ashley, home depot had betterthanexpected Earnings Report thanks to the stock market. It was lowes that was down as well today. Lowes actually cut its earnings forecast for the year. They say they got hurt by of all things, a colder than expected may. They were blaming the weather in the united states. Also, fewer bigticket items getting sold at their stores. Take a look also, check out staples. Staples was down bigtime today. They lost almost 7 . The value in those shares. Theyre having a series of problems, but another quarter of losses there. This is their 15th str