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Critical condition, the attack on a young israeli girl that could push a fragile situation over the edge. The cyber war rages on, just when you thought it was safe to watch ginseng on line, hackers hit your living room. Welcome to alJazeera America. On Christmas Day, the president marked the end of americas longest war. It is still one week before the end of the year when the u. S. Officially ends its 13 year combat mission in afghanistan. Yesterday, president obama thanked Service Members for t...

Our Steve Leisman sat down with him live in jackson hole, wyoming. Stay tuned for this important interview. Was it a well deserved 17 billion fine . Or was it extortion . A former bank ceo says bank of america was extorted by the u. S. Government to the tune of 17 billion. Paying for the sins of Merrill Lynch and countrywide during the housing crisis. Even though it bought those firms to help stave off the economic catastrophe for the u. S. Were going to debate that state with our own friend, la...

Welcome to countdown. The other major story of the day we have been following the u. S. Jobs figure. What will it mean for the outlook for Interest Rate hikes in the world apostle are just economy . But first lets get back to our top story. The hunt for the two suspects in the french massacre is intensifying. Antiterrorist police have sealed off a group of villages northeast of paris. Is a densely wooded area. The brothers have been at largee for more than 43 hours. Police believe the brothers m...

In what may be the quietest day in the quietest year, or the quietest week of the year. And im sure people will be skeptical about it for exactly that reason. Nevertheless, its interesting to sit here. I remember when we had our dow 11,000 hats, we had repurposed one of those and here we are dow 17,000 and change and s p 2,000. Well, the top sector since the s p hit 1,000 back in 1998 is energy. Ah. In an hour of fast facts about the market, thats one. Yes, and they will be flying, so stay tuned...

Portfolio funds, and our own rick santelli. As mentioned, were seven points out from an alltime closing high on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Karen, whats it mean to you here . It means that we could definitely go higher. Its just a number, and everything is coming in better than expected, Economic Data, corporate earnings. So, i see us going higher for the rest of the year. Looks good. Everythings coming up roses. Michael pagino, do you agree . I would say those are all true, but for every ...

We go through this investigative process and we must insist on the access to do so. We must demand full, immediate, unhindered access to the site of the tragedy, including all parts of the aircraft, missile battery and site evidence and, most of all, proper treatment of the remains of the many victims. President putin by himself can ensure that success and that access and he absolutely must be required to do so. Third, we need to demand an immediate russian standdown in the ukraine. Crimes like ...

Big day for soccer. Its also a regular working day here in the u. S. Sony the interview opened up as planned. It was released online and at 331 theaters in the u. S. , mostly independent theaters. Sony has said it will release ticket sales later today, but there have been no reports of problems at any of the theaters or with online distribution. North korea is accused of launching a massive hack attack against sony to stop distribution of the movie that features the killing of their leader kim j...

Now, im not going to let my government colleagues off the hook, because we also used to see a lot of senior government officials on the Government Coordinating Council side of the house engaged frequently in that business. Ive seen a diminishment of senior level engagement over the last decade. We need to fix that problem in two ways. Ceos and coos need to get supportive of this, so do senior government officials. We need tough decisions and risk outcomes to be decided and thats not going to hap...

Transport like what eisenhower had, which was one of the things that apparently convinced him of the need for a system of defense highways. Im not aware that there was any use of interstate 70 for those purposes. It seems to have been, as far as the evidence i have been able to find. There was a lot of talk at those times about the highways being defense highways. The official name for them, for the interstate system when it was created in 1956, the National System of interstate and defense high...

Its not a coincidence that its the First Amendment to our constitution. And its not a coincidence that the terrorists chose an element of the press in france, the free press, as their target. Yet here in the United States and in europe theres there are signs, have been signs of a sort of unilateral intellectual disarmament in the face of these kinds of threats. We all saw the pusillanimous initial reaction of sony to the threats of the north koreans. We saw that the Associated Press pulled Charl...