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Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the department of defense acquisition Reform Efforts and we welcome our witnesses, ellen lord undersecretary for acquisition, technology, and logistics. Mark esper, secretary the army. Heather wilson, secretary the air force and james geurts assistant secretary of the navy for acquisition, technology, and logistics acquisition reform is one of the most important and frustrating topics committee addresses. Four years we have been...

Unemployment report but the idea they can goose it, everybody gets a tax cut, were exploring that now with charlie gasparino, mike murphy and last but not least dagen mcdowell. Is this thrown out there, dagen, lower the top right. I dont know how likely that is. The senate plan would bring it to 38. 5 , what do you think . Because im a nerd, i carry this around. This is an editorial in the wall street journal from the other day how to help the hightax states, about that very thing, calling for l...

Under secretary. And the civilian officials from the army. Air force and navy. They discussed military readiness and modernization efforts. This is about two hours. [ inaudible conversations ] Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the Department Reform effort. We welcome our witnesses ellen lord under secretary of defense for technology. Mark es per. Secretary of the army. Heather wilson secretary of the air force. And james gerts assistant secretary of the navy for resear...

[ inaudible conversations ] Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the Department Reform effort. We welcome our witnesses ellen lord under secretary of defense for technology. Mark es per. Secretary of the army. Heather wilson secretary of the air force. And james gerts assistant secretary of the navy for research and development. Acquisition reform is wup of the most important frustrating topics we address. For years, we have been warned that america is losing its technolo...

Its of expansion also says the Unemployment Rate is down to 4. 1 , down for two straight months the holding at a 17year low. What is the reason for some of these positive figures . Guest we have been in a long stretch of economic expansion to we have been growing fairly consistently in this country since the middle of 2009, so we are starting to see that they all for more and more americans. Businesses are seeing demands for their products and services, and they need workers to meet those demand...

Geled the director of the center for pharmaceutical policy and prescribing at the university of pittsburgh and also an associate professor of medicine and Health Policy and here to help walk us through the impact of the proposed merger between c. V. S. And aetna. Thank you so much for joining us today. A pleasure. Ood morning. Host good morning. Cvs changed its name three years ago some say to reposition itself as a Health Company rather than just a drug store. Of about the significance a major ...

As a Health Care Company rather than a drugstore. Talk about that. Talk about the significance of a major drugstore chain merging with a Health Care Insurance provider. Dr. Gellad it is a must like this transition has been happening for decades. Cvs started in the 1960s as a single store. Kind of been expanding its footprint since that time. The Minute Clinics a decade ago, and then a joint with a pharmacy benefits manager to do other things and then it added some longterm care services, and som...

Lets have a look at the stoxx 600. Falling for a second day. It is a big week for Central Banks. We are keeping an eye on oil and the dollar. The dollar, sixday winning run come to an end. Best winning run until early 2015. Crude high is the most in over two years. The big news in the oil market is what is happening to brent crude, 1. 3 higher, something above 65 a barrel for the first time in 2. 5 years yesterday. One of the most important pipelines in the world was shut because of a crack. Com...

Bob iger is about to join us as disney buys a big chunk of 21st century fox. Retail sales up 0. 8. But we know what the lead is today. Yep, we finally got the deal weve been talking about now for more than a month, of course disney buying those fox assets that weve detailed time and again over this last, lets call it, five weeks or so since we first brought the story to you of the talks between the two it is a large deal, to say the least. Depends on how you want to value the equity right now, a...

It is 8 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and ii 00pm in los angeles, where one of the biggest media deals in history will reshape the world of entertainment. Walt disney is buying a large part of 21st century fox, the business controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family. It is worth more than 50 billion, and the deal could see new films and tv shows reaching homes in asia. Our media editor amol rajan reports. When Rupert Murdoch bought the news of the world in 1968, he was an outsider. But...