Our failure to do this over the recent decades has diminished our standing and encouraged bad actors around the world to break their word. To ignoreafford violations of international accords, as we have done with iran. We cannot continue to accept empty promises, like the ones china has made to pressure north korea to reform, only to shy away from enforcement. Looking the other way when trust is broken only encourages more bad behavior, and it must end. We cannot be accountable, though, if we are not truthful and honest in our dealings. As you are aware, my longstanding involvement with the boy scouts of america, one of our bedrock ideals is honesty. The phrase on my honor begins the boy scout oath, and it must undergird our Foreign Policy. In particular, we need to be honest about radical islam. Reason that our fellow citizens have a growing concern about radical islam and the murderous acts committed in its name against americans and our friends. Poses a grave risk to the stability o
Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua in london. We start with data. It is eurozone pmi figures. They are just below expectations. When you look at the euro area in january, services pmi fell to 53. 6. Economists were forecasting 53. 8. When you look at the manufacturing pmi, it rises to 55. 1. Pointrecast was that 54 eight. Anything above 50 indicates an expansion. Services a little bit below manufacturingbut better than expectations. Lets get straight to the markets to see whether there is a bit of dollareuro movement. The is my picture for markets. Watch out, as always, for the dollar. It has been erasing some of the earlier losses. Emerging stocks are gaining. This is the picture for the european stocks, putting much flat. 1. 2502. D currently a lot of weakness on the turkish lira. The msci world index overall a touch up. We will have plenty more from the markets. First, lets get to the first word news. Here is nejra cehic. Nejra donald trump has pulled the u. S. From the Transpacific
Hearings began thursday with fbi director james comey. Anne has more and joins us from the Washington Post where he is the papers chief correspondent. Director comey on the hill testifying. Dan it didnt play very well for secretary clinton. Director comey got a series of questions from republicans. I think there were some telling moments in that but overall, it was a reminder that this is an issue that will be with us and certainly with secretary clinton through the duration of this campaign. In no way did the lack of prosecution close the books on this. Director comey was speaking of the language of the law and politicians were speaking politics. One of the members of Congress Said if the average joe did what Hillary Clinton did, he or she would be led off in handcuffs. And mr. Comey said no. Walk us through that, if you would. Dan if you look at the totality of what she did and then it question of whether there was willful and or malicious intent, there is no precedent for prosecutin
Director komi on the hill testifying. It didnt play very well for secretary clinton. Comey got a series of questions from republicans. I think there were some telling moments in that but overall, it is anreminder that this issue that will be with us and certainly with secretary clinton through the duration of this campaign. In no way did the lack of prosecution close the books on missiles on this. Director comey was speaking of the language of the law and speaking politics. One of the members of Congress Said if the average joe did what Hillary Clinton did, he or she would be led off in handcuffs. And mr. Khamenei said no. Mr. Comey said no. If you look at the totality of what she did and then it question of whether there was willful and indoor malicious precedentere is no for prosecuting her under the statute and as he examined similar cases and molar outcomes, there was nothing to suggest she could or should be prosecuted under this. One of the interesting moments was when he was ask
Have all made the case. I think others have made it too. Job. Nk the fbi will do its ive seen the authorities in my career, federal authorities do their job regardless of political machinations. I fully expect them to. I do not think there will be an indictment. She released more emails, more pages of emails and more records, even before she was running for president. That speaks to her integrity. In theou have confidence outcome, whatever it is regarding the investigation . I always have confidence in our fbis personnel and leadership. It is called into question storney general lynch judgment. Unwise of her to take the meeting and unwise of him to seek the meeting. She is not fully recused herself and it raises questions about political interference. Is it a huge political vulnerability . Using a private server is a mistake and should knowledge debt. Whether it was commercial or personal server as a security vulnerability. We have to put this in perspective. Beenock of server has hack