Thank you for representing us. Appreciated. Could i get your signature and a photo . You are really an inspiration. Thanks, nigel. Are we going over there . This young lady. Ok. Pushed the button, push the button, hon. That is awesome. Takeover for me. Have a good day. Great. Good evening. I am a state senator. Where . [indiscernible] did you really . My wife could not come out. Her sisters were there. Thanks for what you have done. Yeah. Thank you. What is your name . Billboard bob. Billboard bob. Oh. [indiscernible] we had a privilege of having a house party in 06. Where was this . Here in cedar rapids. We met one time, we had a great dinner with all of them. This is the first time i have been able to be part of the campaign again. I was not 100 on board. But, yeah, we are still friends [indiscernible] such a class family. That is the shame of it all. People did not get a chance to see who he really is. Did that give you a sense of what he is really like . The other thing i do, the l
At a point of pause in the direct negotiations that were going on for the last nine months. And we have made clear and my message to both sides was that the only sustainable solution to this tragic conflict is yet a negotiated twostate solution. That is our view. That is the position of both sides. But they are not yet ready to take the steps, i think, to actualize that. And also we have underscored in the meantime as we manage this moment of pause and as they manage this moment of pause more precisely they ought not to take steps either of them that make the circumstances more tense or more fraught. What has happened the last several weeks is that some of the u. S. Officials involved in those negotiations are now saying that it was the israeli governments expansion of settlements, specifically Prime Minister netanyahu to build 14,000 more Housing Units that sabotaged the peace effort. I think you have heard american Officials Say quite directly and what i have said and what others hav
Definitely not. Solutions include pushing staff to the field, effective onsite security, and effective tools for Risk Assessment and recruiting. Regarding the culture of 2013,tability, and 2010, gao reported problems with Certification Requirements and training. There is no excuse for these failures. Three years later they should have been fixed and responsible managers should have been held accountable. Often lost in the broad brush of gao reports these are not organizationwide failures. In several of 11 regions almost everything seems to go well. Not used guards are for screening. Firearms qualification is monitored and guards are trained on active shooter scenarios. Fps delivers. Ns, it appeared to treat the failures is a structural issue to be resolved soft by reorganization. This resulted in an unclear direction funneled through next her layer of management who either ignored or missed missed problems. Dhs should remove the extra layer and fire or demote managers who failed to acc
Billion dollars. 36 is spent on medical programs. You can see this chart comes from the veterans affairs. Is that enough money . Telling me now that only 41 went medical care. This is a lopsided perspective. Were wasted onrs to conferences in orlando. Hr executiveave an testified to where the money theyre creative throwing money down the drain on nonmedical related issues. The should be going to Service Benefits such as funeral and education benefits. When your overhead is overwhelming your product, no Organization Works like that. No fortune 500 Company Works like that. Your overhead should be sucking and train in out not be sucking and training out your revenue. They had an increase of over 60 since 2009 creative it has doubled since 2001. They got everything they wanted from congress. This is not a money issue. It is a budget issue next to dod. Host a tweet guest that is all they are supposed to be taking care of. There are 22. 5 billion veterans in this country 22. 5 million vetera
Nikkei. Overnight in asia not good. 2 drop wrapping up what is the worst week in three years. Of course concern about china in terms of exports or lack thereof. A look at europe where we also are going to see a good amount of weakness. The follow through as you might expect from here yesterday, a day in which we saw the s p down almost 2 and the nasdaq nasdaq down 3 . Lot more than that. Yeah. Lets get to our road map this morning as you might imagine. Does start with that meltdown if you want to call it that in the markets. Stocks slide around the world. You just saw. Is this the start of a correction . The tip of the spear, jpmorgan profits disappointing. Jamie dimon confident in the american recovery. How will the banks weak results drag on the market and other financials. The flip side wells fargo profits up 14 and those shares are rising. Another bad month for sales at gap. Gap discloses a 6 drop in march samestore sales after a disappointing february. Gross margins taking a hit.