Of course, today it is all about japan and all about governor kuroda. First, lets get straight to first word news. Nejra thanks. The yen tumbled and japanese bond yields dropped to records after the central governor adjusted negative interest rates. The bank of japans decision halted a yen rally. Stocks have risen for the first time in four days amid speculations that the monthly selloffs as the Global Financial crisis was overdone. The central bank injected more liquidity into the Financial System to avert a cash crunch before next months holiday. Frances recovery slowed in the Fourth Quarter as terrorist attacks cap tourists away and consumers from spending. Gdp growth. 2 in the final months of 2015. The spanish economy grew. 8 in the three months through december, pointing to further momentum for the nations recovery. Oil has extended gains from the n three weeks i after Russias Energy minister said that opec may meet to discuss output. However, no talks have yet been scheduled. Ear
Partners to combat the greatest risk to Border Security National Security and public safety. And ygn ultimately the articles answer those big three questions. Why we changed how we changed and how to answer whether were winning or not. With that ill turn itb j n back over to stephanie. Thank you. Thank you both. Im going to exercise the moderators prerogative and ask each of our guests one question first before opening it up to the floor. The first question i have is for chief fisher, and that is regarding your hopes for this trilogy of articles. As i mentioned earlier ive been impressed with thought leadership and strategy and having authority for the border control. I can understand from an audience perspective im not in the Border Patrol i can take these articles using my own experience. But your hope for what folks in the field will take away from these articles what was your intent from a border e g patrolspecific perspective. Thank you stephanie. For the Border Patrol agents, my
To talk about the campaign at the secretarys level how that is meshing what were doingnl . at the portsv we want to make morrow bust in the future. So help us t wout. If i, qcould turn e ÷ robert to follow up on that r2cquestion. Robert, youre in a unique position having been on the hill now for a while and i wont put you in an awkward position into what politicians will do in the coming congress but in terms am what you would Like Congress to focus on from a Border Security issue from a risk based strategy issue, what would you like to see happen . B81 what kind of key topics would you like to see addressed early on in this congress . This question ties in with what the gentleman asked and arizona. 9pf when they asked me what should you focus on i was asked at 4 1 99 recently what did we after thinking about it thereszp÷ only two states. Thats the dialogue completely. Im hoping the articles continue to change that ti log. I hope one of many articles that Border Patrol agents will ta
Im chuck todd. Joining me to provide insight and analysis this morning are matt bai of yahoo news, former Hillary Clinton press secretary karen finney, my colleague Andrea Mitchell here at nbc and former Senior Adviser to mitt romney, kevin madden. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press. With chuck todd. Good morning. The white house is hitting back hard on the issue of iran. Late last night they sent their own letter to senate republicans. The message, dont meddle and blow our chances of getting any deal. This, of course, comes after 47 republican senators warned irans Supreme Leader or was it president obama they were warning, that congress could undo any deal the president makes . The gop president ial contenders were quick to endorse the letters message. But democrats and some prorepublican newspapers blasted the move. By weeks end, some signers of tom cottons letter were expressing regret. Keep this in mind. It is not just the Un
Matt bai of yahoo news, former Hillary Clinton press secretary karen finney, my colleague Andrea Mitchell here at nbc and former Senior Adviser to mitt romney, kevin madden. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press. With chuck todd. Good morning. The white house is hitting back hard on the issue of iran. Late last night they sent their own letter to senate republicans. The message, dont meddle and blow our chances of getting any deal. This, of course, comes after 47 republican senators warned irans Supreme Leader or was it president obama they were warning, that congress could undo any deal the president makes . The gop president ial contenders were quick to endorse the letters message. But democrats and some prorepublican newspapers blasted the move. By weeks end, some signers of tom cottons letter were expressing regret. Keep this in mind. It is not just the United States negotiating with iran. Five other countries are also involved a