Wave of consolidation in the Health Insurance industry. At t is on the verge of winning Regulatory Approval for its 49 billion takeover bid of direct tv. Bloomberg north the bloomberg report said many commissioners have voted to favor the deal. The Justice Department will not challenge the deal because it does not pose a risk to competition. Stephanie president obama will land in the country where his father was born, kenya. He left washington d. C. Last night. He is on his way to nairobi and will attend a Global Entrepreneurship conference, and meet with kenyas president. He will become the first u. S. President to visit ethiopia on sunday. A gunman opened fire in lafayette, louisiana in a Movie Theater. He killed two people and wounded nine others before killing himself. The shooter tried to escape but turned back when he saw police enter the theater. Governor bobby jindal spoke at a news conference. When these kinds of acts of violence happen in a Movie Theater, when there is no rea
Its uncomfortable to say we want to defeat islamism. It is much more difficult the take on allege ideal logical question. There isnt a government in the world, right, left democrat republican that has to do that kind of thing. Too bad. Well, i would argue that that is extremely kournts productive. The last thing look and i say this. I dont want to sound flippant. But if were going to dispute iraqi freedom with iraqi salvation, its not a good plan. The u. S. Government has no business this is in policy, we have no business involving ourselves in things were not experience on. Were not experts on reforming religion. We didnt do that in this country as a government. We shouldnt be doing that in other places. Something that dana talked about is crucial. This idea of we cant reform islam as the u. S. Government, but we certainly are experts on addressing the ecosystem in which these kinds of movements can find followers supporters people to fund, etcetera, etcetera. What are those . Theyre
Out defense against ideology. Its uncomfortable to say we want to defeat islamism. It is much more difficult the take on allege ideal logical question. There isnt a government in the world, right, left democrat republican that has to do that kind of thing. Too bad. Well, i would argue that that is extremely kournts productive. The last thing look and i say this. I dont want to sound flippant. But if were going to dispute iraqi freedom with iraqi salvation, its not a good plan. The u. S. Government has no business this is in policy, we have no business involving ourselves in things were not experience on. Were not experts on reforming religion. We didnt do that in this country as a government. We shouldnt be doing that in other places. Something that dana talked about is crucial. This idea of we cant reform islam as the u. S. Government, but we certainly are experts on addressing the ecosystem in which these kinds of movements can find followers supporters people to fund, etcetera, etce
Testifies before the House Agriculture Committee wednesday. This is two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning. This is a hearing on the committee of agriculture for oversight by the u. S. Department of agriculture will come to order. Ive asked Rick Crawford to open us with a prayer. Thank you mr. Chairman. Father, i bow humbling before you. Thankful for this country youve given us and, father, mindful of the great responsibility that youve charged us with. Father, just ask that everything that is said and done here today be pleasing in your sight and we ask that you help us to be civil in our discourse and discerning in our comments and dialogue. Father, i just pray it all in jesus name. Amen. Thank you, rick. I want to thank the secretary vilsack for coming to be with us this morning. He has a horde stop at 12 15. He has cabinet responsibilities to do. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for being here this morning. Be careful on your knee there on your on the table. I want to say at the start
By 15 points lets look at overnight in asia. The nikkei going strong closing at the highest level since 1996. A gain of 132 points that puts the nikkei at 20,823 hang seng was up by 0. 6 pfr . The shanghai was up by a quarter percentage point in europe, you will see that at least in the early going things have been mixed. These are modest moves in spain, stocks are under pressure down by 0. 9 this is coming as some concerns arise in catalonia. Well talk more about that in a moment we have news just out from the National Federation of independent business, showing Small Business sentiment dropping in september. The nfibs monthly index dropped to 103 for the month, that compares to 105. 3 in august. The group saying the immediate temptation is to blame the hurricanes in tex and florida but adds this is not case with Small Business owners across the country becoming measurably less enthusiastic but also points out the index is high by historical standards. Also in energy news, opec secret