welcome to the republican rorschach primary. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. people are reading into the results so far whatever they re wishing for. first there are the never tr trumpers. they say he is essentially running as an incumbent, and still 49% of the voters in iowa, they didn t want him. speaking of iowa, the turnout was abysmal. a little over 110,000 participated, accounting for just under 15% of the state s 752,000 registered republicans. do you know that trump only received a little over 56,000 votes? iowa, iowa is lily white. it is unrepresentative of the country at large. we are a diverse nation of over 335 million, a small number of iowa voters should not determine our destiny. besides, the iowa field, it was still too crowded. when nikki haley finally got him one-on-one in new hampshire she was able to keep it close and received about 43% of the vote. worse for trump, the independents in new hampshire supported haley in huge numbers, showing that tru
Note. As for the european markets lets go to the map. There is more red than green on the screen today. Mirroring really what we saw in the United States post the yellen News Conference. Our roadmap today starts with the markets. Stocks under pressure again after sliding during janet yell yellens First Press Conference yesterday. Is it all about interpretation . Well explain. Plus, Goldman Sachs is the latest bank to go bearish on china slashing its Growth Outlook for the next couple of years well tell you why . And how about lennar and underarmor as well the Companies Making big moves thus far this morning and, of course, nike reports after the bell this afternoon. Well go behind those numbers and tell you everything you need to know. Well, its the message heard round the market world. Courtesy of janet yellen in yesterdays News Conference following the fomc meeting the fed chair said the period between the end of the feds bondbuying program and the first rate increase from the centra
one thing senator kerry and i were talking about is the senate is supposed to vote at 10:30, and based on senate time, we don t know if that means 11 or whatever, but we are supposed to vote at 10:30. at some point we have to swap the gavel back and forth and race and vote and come back. we ll try to keep the hearing going during that time. also, i know that senator kerry has really been a leader on this type of legislation looking at privacy concerns and has been working on a bill, and so we would like to hear from him in just a few moments on that. what i thought i would do is give a very brief statement, and i know that senator hutchenson is on the way and other senators are on the way. we might dispense with the opening statements for all the senators if that s okay, except i thought i might call on senator kerry for a few moments to talk about his legislation and then go on to the panel, and once senator hutchenson shows up, we ll recognize her for an opening statement.
public radio in the corporation for public broadcasting. bret: after an undercover video surfaced showing the foundation president of npr talking about conservatives, the story evolved from there. today, the president and ceo of vivian schiller announced that she is stepping down. reportedly ousted by the board there. here is what she was talking about. just monday night, at an event. take a listen. we made some mistakes, and i made some mistakes. the key thing now is reflect on the mistakes and fix some things that some of the systems that fell down on that day and make sure it doesn t happen again. that is the learning experience from the experience with juan williams. bret: two days later she has stepped down. what about the shakeup at npr and the talk about federal funding? bring in the panel. tucker carlson, editor of the dailycaller.com. a.b. stoddard, associate editor of the hill.
fell 14. the upheaval at npr reached a zenith today as president and ceo vivian shiller became the newest casualty. she was brought down in string of incidents reinforcing the belief by conservatives that the organization has a liberal bias. correspondent molly henneberg has the story. two more executives are out at national public radio. ceo vivian shiller and senior vice president ron shiller no, relation. one day after undercover video was released by a conservative activist showing ron shiller slamming tea partyers. it s scary. npr said it was appalled by the comments. later both shillers resigned. npr board of director says m s shiller s departure comes on what has been a traumatic period for npr in part because of the decision last year to fire analyst juan williams who expressed on fox his personal concerns about traveling on