Americas deal with iran gets a mixed review, along with mixed messages from the Obama Administration and the iranian president. With the two countries not on the same page, what is a deal a Supreme Court decision obamacare. Last time we saw watson it cleaned up on jeopardy, what is the computer doing and pope. We begin with an historic accord with iran. Is it a good deal . The u. S. Says its a first step to kur to curtail Irans Nuclear program. Within hours of the deal the parties contradicted each other on a clean issue. There is no right to enrich. Everywhere in the agreement it states they can only do that by mutural agreement and nothing is agreed on until everything is agreed on. Translation it has been written clearly in the text of this agreement that iran will continue its enrichment and, therefore, i announce to the people of iran enrichment will before. Joining me to make sense of the agreement are ambassador Thomas Pickering former u. S. Ambassador to russia and israel and j
With all of this Global Selling starting after weaker than expected ism numbers. It was a big drop. It dropped from 56 to just over 51. Massive unexpected decline and that really started things off. At the end of the day, the dow was down sliding 326 points to close below its 200day moving average. Also, the s p 500 losing more than 4 had . And the nasdaq dropped 106 points, to close below the 4,006 level. Where does that leave thus morning . At least at this point, the futures have been bouncing back, but just mildly. Now youre seeing some of the hesitation. At some point, the dow futures up by only 15 points above fair value. S p futures up by just over 2. 25 points and the s p up by 3. 6. Over to scott webb has todays top stories. Many of those stories this morning involve Quarterly Earnings reports. We are watching shares of yum brands, the parent of taco bell, pizza hut and kfc restaurant changes. It reported Fourth Quarter profits 86 above estimates. Sales fell shy, but the compa
But this is something that i think is then discussed quite probably. Let me ask, does the Intelligence Community way or consider how signature strikes, strikes against unnamed military aged males may increase terrorist threat because they could generate hatred for americans and actually motivate youth to join rather than reject terrorist groups quiet director clapper, director brendan. From the Intelligence Community perspective, we are always evaluating and analyzing overseas to include any counterterrorism activities we might be involved in to see what the impact is. I think the feeling as the activities we have engaged in with our partners, we the u. S. Government will be from the intelligence perspective and military perspective have greatly mitigated the threats to u. S. Persons both overseas as well as homeland. And do you believe the signature strike model, if adopted by other countries that are developed in an armed Drone Program can be a threat to the United States . Well, it
And i started there. I start i thought i would start by following up what senator hatch talked about, which is new technology that i understand has been adopted in europe. Is that true . Yes. And is it true that in great britain, they have seen a major decrease in these kind of breach as . They have seen a decrease a decrease. They have also seen a shift to the online channel. What is stopping our country when they are doing this in europe . I think they started using this kind of technology back in 2003. What has stopped it from being rolled out on a major basis, and how can we change that . You know, there are many participants in the payment card world that will ensure that transactions are processed appropriately in the u. S. We put devices in our stores to read chips. Cardtroduced a target visa with a chip in it, but without broad options there are not brought adoptions, there are not significant advantages for consumers. You mean other retailers . Others having the ability to rea
Both sides promised to end all hostilities, including rocket attacks and the targeting of individuals. Israeli officials agreed to open border crossings and allow the Free Movement of people and goods. That clause is scheduled to take effect after 24 hours. Translator after all the efforts, we were able to end violence and achieve a ceasefire. The egyptian foreign minister brokered the talks. He reaffirmed egypts commitment to the palestinian cause and a need for just resolution. U. S. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton helped negotiate the deal. She promised to work with partners in the region. The Israeli Military killed about 160 palestinians during the conflict. Palestinian militants fired rockets from the gaza strip that killed five israelis. Prime minister netanyahu said the right thing is to reach a lasting ceasefire but he warned of a wider military operation if security was threatened. Hamas leader mashau warned his forces would resume attacks if israel broke the truce. People