Security. He talks about waterboarding, the apple iphone encryption debate and the brussels terror attacks. The American Enterprise institute hosted this event. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you. Whoa, were life. Were live. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im marc thiessen, a fellow here, and were pleased to be joined today by former cia and nsa director michael hayden. With the events in europe this week, i cant think of anyone better than mike to enlighten us and put these, put everything that were seeing on our Television Screens into perspective. Mike, thank you for joining us. Thanks, marc. Thank you. So you have a new book out called playing to the edge. What motivated you to write that book, and what does it mean. Sure. In the forward which i actually wrote at the end, the manuscript was already done, and penguin said, so whyd you write this book, i talk about being in australia in the outback at a joint facility, the australian call
Outbreak . We speak to the companys ceo, coming up. Also lyft you know, lyft are raising another 150 million right now, the majority coming from carl icahn. Coming up well discuss how much this cash and icahns name can help lyft compete with uber. More of those puns are awaiting us. The story today, bill that has everybody talking from Silicon Valley to back here on wall street. What are carl icahns intentions and what does it signal about the prospects for these two in the markets . Exactly. The dow, well start with the blue chips there, up about 3 points. The s p roughly flat. Remember yesterday with the close of 2121. That was a new alltime high for the index. The dow is still 30 points away from where it needs to be. 18,288 is the number we need to keep an eye out for. 33 points shy at the moment. The nasdaq slightly under pressure and still has a few points to go as well if it wants a new high water mark. This is the third friday of the month, therefore, it is expiration day as we
The white house again says the media is too focused on all things russia instead of whats important. We are not telling the American People all the good thats happening in this administration for a couple reasons. First is because of the russian obsession, as i call it, the russian concussion, the russian percussion, but secondly, and this doesnt get covered at all, it is easier to sit around and scream russia, russia, russia with no basis than learn the finer points of the new Health Care Bill and really dig in and understand the simplicity and fairness and middle class tax relief in the new tax reform plan that is being developed right behind. Also more details tonight about who let the russian lawyer into the country in the first so, gutfeld, russian concussion, that was the band you were in in high school. We released a few songs and then broke up. A lot of drugs involved back then. This is like they call it the drip, drip, drip story. It is like a methadone dose for the media. Jus
breaking news this morning. there s a briefing that is expected to start any moment now in tennessee. we are expected to get an update on a train derailment that forced evacuation of thousands of residents near maryville, tennessee. it was carrying flammable and toxic gas. we ll monitor that news conference. officials are expected to announce when the residents can go back home. we ll keep our eye on that and pass on new information to you as we get it. let s start with those concerns this morning as americans gear up for independence day. security officials are geefgaring up for an intense 48 hours. all the chatter on isis social media plus the fact that fourth of july weekend takes place around ramadan raises the possibility of a terrorist attack. there is no specific threat out. there officials nationwide are on their toes. in los angeles, they increased security measures and personnel at dozens of fireworks shows if boston. they re using uniformed troops and helicopters.