Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt. David faber and Morgan Brennan are here a lot to get to today, including winners and losers from last nights Golden Globes. Well begin with todays market drop, though stocks are off the lows, actually at the highs of the session. Bob pisani has whats driving todays down swing and maybe swing a little back up more than a little. We almost went positive a few moments ago on the s p 500 heres the intraday. This is similar to friday. The low print but v was there at the open friday we tended to have faded into the middle of the day, looked more like that. Well see if the same pattern happens. For the moment, we touch even going on the s p ill show you the sectors here cyclicals tend to be most affected energy on the upside today mostly the big integrated companies that are up, shale down, e banks down but off the lows same with transports not a good day for the transports overall retail is down, but again, off the lows thats the general pattern you se
Subject, human rights in iran. I want to first recognize some really amazing people we have here today. I believe they have over 50 members of the diplomatic corps ambassadors in washington. Thank you very much for coming. Im very glad to see we also have so many people from the iranian diaspora as well this event is really for you. Well begin todays program with the marks and secretary mike pompeo followed by a session with three cohosts of todays event and International Religious freedom Sam Brownback Deputy Director for the Iran Action Group might spell and assistant secretary for democracy human rights and labor robert estero. During the listening session we have this morning we heard from members of the iranian diaspora but how we can continue to stand with the iranian people by sharing stories, supporting their voices in championing their rights. Today we will share what we heard from them and we will dig deeper into the issue. We will also have an opportunity to hear from three
Parliament where the opposition is accusing the government of mounting a coup. Also ahead 3 u. S. Service members are killed an aircraft are destroyed after al shabaab fighters stormed a kenyan army base. Plus the treasures of ancient egyptian king tilton come on now ronald world tool will explain what the exhibit could mean for egypt. While the fallout from the u. S. Militarys assassination of irans 2nd most powerful man Major General hossam soleimani is spreading fast in baghdad politicians have voted to expel all foreign troops in the country the nonbinding moves being backed by iraqs outgoing Prime Minister. The vote was followed by a number of rocket attacks inside the heavily fortified green zone as well as incentive. Baghdad in the past few hours iran says it will no longer abide by any limits to uranium enrichment under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers but leaders of germany france and the u. K. Arjan tak iran to reconsider its decision meanwhile in lebanon the leader of
Good morning, everyone. Oh, isnt that nice . Thanks. Good morning back. I morgan. Thank you for everyone coming to this event to focus on a very serious subject, human rights in iran. I was the first to recognize some amazing attendees we have here today. Have over 50 matter members of the core. Thank you for coming. Im very glad to see we also have many, as well and this is for you, as well. Remarks from mike pompeo, followed by a discussion of the days events. Group director for the rn mike bell, and assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, rubber distro. Lesson, we heard about how we can continue to stand with the iranian people by sharing their stories, supporting their voices, and champing ning their rights. Championing their rights. We will have an opportunity to hear from three survivors who have firsthand experience of the regimes open russian. I would like to welcome robert distro. He previously served a sixth six year term on the u. S. Commission of civil rights. He h
Sounded awful and he said to me but im slowly dying. Life from moscow where its just past 4 in the morning youre watching r. T. International welcome to the program. Baghdad says it is summoning the u. S. Ambassador over the latest airstrikes on iraq and syria that killed 25 people iraq Officials Say they were not able to prevent the attack with their objections being ignored by washington. I said this was a very dangerous matter and asked to discuss it face to face with the responsible parties not only by phone he said the decision has been made and i am informing you of this well after the attack hundreds of protesters gathered on the streets of the iraqi capital they condemned the u. S. s strikes and expressed support for the militia who were appalled and the u. S. Special representative for iran brian hook has defended the operation insisting it was meant to deter rain in a question on the scale of hope and has. The u. S. State department has defended the decision to conduct air st