Today. We will hear more about the budget from bernie sanders. He will be at the Brookings Institution outlining his economic agenda addressing things like wage growth, climate change, and text policy. Tax policy. The Political Landscape has changed with the 114th congress. Not only are there 43 new republicans and 50 new democrats in the house and 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate, there is also 108 women and commerce, including the first africanamerican republican in the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of the members of congress using congressional conical on www. Cspan. Org. The congressional chronicle page has lots of information coming putting Voting Results and statistics for each session of congress. New congress, best access, on cspan, cspan 2, cspan radio and www. Cspan. Org. Cyber security breaches, cases where personal information were compromised, how the government can respond in the Technology Available for making breaches l
Kurds were there. The kurds werent even at the table. This was a betrayal of the people who are on the frontlines fighting the big fight of today against radical islamic terrorism. We betrayed them. This is horrible. What kind of message does that send to other people around the world who have to stand up against this onslaught of radical fanatic, islamic terrorists and dictatorship that would be superimposed on them . We better make sure that these people understand whether its Abdula Abdullah or how about the crown prince of abu dhabi . Heres a man who is so strong in his conviction and leadership in that part of the world to try to stop this terrible threat but yet we dont yes, hes treated well. We should be honoring him. There should be there should be our administration shoulding leading the efforts to take abdullahs and crown prince there in abu dhabi and the president , these people deserve demonstrable support, not just ok. Not just sort of halfheartedly getting behind them. Wh
Justified the release of the taliban 5 . Were not at the end of hostilities in afghanistan. They said the reason we transferred the taliban 5 is because you traditionally swap prisoners when hostilities are over, therefore we get our guy back because the war is basically over and we release five of the taliban. I agree the end of hostilities that justice the transfer of these five is ridiculous. So i dont know why the administration would say that. Do you . Well, i said i agree with you, sir, hostilities are not over. Great. I couldnt agree with lets go for it as a committee. No one should be transferred because of the concept of end of hostilities. Second, if you have any deficiency and Legal Authority to hold these people, would you please inform the congress of what you need that you dont have and i bet you in a bipartisan fashion we can provide it to you. Yes. Do you feel like you have a deficiency today . Not today. Do you feel like you will have a deficient sin the near future .
Will not hold. Yahoo is laying off about 125 people 1 of its workforce. A person familiar with the matter says most of the cuts will be among Editorial Staff in canada. The ceo is looking to trim costs as she invests in highgrowth areas like mobile. Qualcomm chairman paul jacobs says Wearable Technology will transform sports. Jacobs is coowner of the San Francisco kings joins market makers, at the nba Technology Conference in new york. Grexits going to do things for people, give people information about their health and what they are doing. This whole notion that the phone is going to be at the center of a universe of sensors and the environment around us, maybe inside our bodies, its going to change the way that we are healthy, and our doctors take care of us. At all sorts of things. Qualcomm parted with tavaris to invest in Wearable Technology. Moving on. President obama is at Stanford University today for the First White House summit on Cyber Security and consumer protection. The pr
He says the q1 data was, quote, notably weak. The march picture march jobs numbers brought the jobs picture, quote, down to earth. Now, he does talk about this issue, was it partially explained by trance tore factors, we dont know yet but lower gas prices havent as expected boosted consumer spending. He says net exports are down as a result of the strong dollar and manufacturing has softened considerably. He does see growth picking up in later quarters but he says the evidence of that is not yet in the numbers. I guess ill throw back to tyler or mandy right now but this is a bit of a change in my opinion from a guy who was talking pretty confidently about june to september now saying you know what we need to wait and see a little bit. Steve, thank you very much. Mandy and i are both here by the way, welcome everybody to power lunch. Lets go down to dom and see if theres Market Reaction from these remarks. Youre not seeing a whole bunch of reaction but the dow industrials still here off