Well. Its wednesday, february 6, 2013. Squawk box begins right now. Good morning, welcome to squ squawk box on cnbc. Becky quick is under the weather. Hope you feel better. Joe is off, steve leaseman here, as well. Our guest this hour, Yahoo Finance senior columnist steven kohey. A lot to discuss about the markets. Stocks rallying to wipe out most of the previous session losses. Check out the socalled ear gauge. The vix as we call it, tumbling below 14. Then in the next hour, something a little different on squawk box this morning. Were going to be joined on set by three wellknown names on wall street. Blair ephron, roger altman. And honeywell chief david cody y. These guys . All three have been sitting in on regular Conference Calls with the white house. Theyre among the leaders the Obama Administration is turning to for advice on everything from the deficit to taxes to the broader economy. Then, after we talk to them, theyre going to paint a picture for us, were going to turn to two
Why wait so long to apologize . Its been a couple weeks, you could have come out well, thats a very good question, i just im so emotional distraught. And the reason its hard for me, very hard for me, is that im wrong. I caused the problem. I dont know how to correct it. Do you trust people . I do. There are a couple phone recordings just in the past week of people who talked to you on the phone who seems to be your voice who sold it to vradar online on tmz . Do you have Anyone Around you that you trust . I dont know. The only one ive talked to Magic Johnson. You have talked to him . Twice. Did you apologize . He knew the girl well. Did you apologize to him . Well, if i said anything wrong, im sorry. Hes a good person, and he what am i going to say . Has he done everything he can do to help minorities . I dont think so. Ill say it. Ill say it. You know, hes great. But i just dont think is a good example for the children of los angeles. So there you have it. The first take on Donald Ster
Thats seen heavy fighting over the last 24 hours ago. Concern, it is very close, just a few miles from an air base where there are hundreds of American Military personnel involved in training. Iraqi army air fighters there. It is increasingly an area of iraq where isis has maintained military momentum over the iraqi army over the local sunni rip tribesmen that have been trying to stop the advance. This is also getting very close to the iraqi capital baghdad. Meanwhile, across the north of iraq where the kurdish fighters have done a much more effective job, they reported over the last 24 hours, theyve come under significant fire. They think this is part of the isis tactic to attack them on multiple fronts in order to distract them. Distract them from the main strategy which is most big city in that isis still holds. Please be safe. So from what phil is telling us with isis on the move whats going on here in the United States . Congress and the president are going back and forth on the l
Of President Trumps top cabinet positions. Youre looking at live pictures of the senate floor, where the vote to confirm mike pompeo as cia director is about to begin. Were going to see that this hour. He would be only the third trump cabinet nominee to be confirmed. Also tonight, President Trumps pick for secretary of state, rex tillerson, clearing a major hurdle. Confirmed moments ago by the Senate Foreign relations committee. That vote, 1110. Incredibly close. Senator marco rubio, who has expressed serious doubts over tillerson, ended up voting yes, the crucial vote. Tillersons nomination now goes to the senate floor. Manu raju is on capitol hill. At this moment, we are awaiting the vote on the cia director, mike pompeo. Do you expect the vote this hour . Reporter yeah, i do. And i expect him to be confirmed. Probably by a significant margin. This coming after donald trump and republicans were pushing hard for pompeo to get confirmed on trumps first day in office, but democrats resi
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