make the official announcement public today at noon. up next, lights, camera, election. if you want to win an oscar, you ll have to go get the votes. we re breaking down the costly and complicated politics of the academy awards next. a reminder as i told you and teased you a at the top of the show, the new rundown begins today. before we go to break, a look at today s politics planner. it s a big day. last day of the governors being in town. q&a session with the president. i always say be the man with the plan
let s increase domestic production of energy, creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs. why not delay all the mandates in obamacare, which has become a job killer in our economy? a reminder, he was the chair last year. this year, of course, chris christie. he left early, the meeting, to go spend his the 18 celebrating the 18th birthday of his daughter. joining me is maggie haasen, the vice-chair of the governors association. good morning. good morning. tell me about dinner. was it all fun? it was fun and lovely, and a very good time. all right. you re headed over there today, and it s going to be less light hearted and more always a q&a session. what s a specific issue you have with the president that you d like him to deal with? well, i think we ve all been focusing on growing our innovative economies. certainly that s what we ve been doing in new hampshire, being responsive to business needs and really focusing on the middle class, growing the middle class
was brought to federal court in new york where he pled not guilty to terrorism charges. as you look at the tape, people quickly gathered on that street, shocked at what they had seen, but it was all over in seconds. michaela, george? barbara starr, thank you for that. new this morning, we are finding out the possible motive behind a series of cyber attacks on the nation s biggest retailers. a new government report says the hackers were not trying to take down the u.s. economy, but instead, it implies that their goal was simply to make a lot of money by selling your personal data. let s talk money and get a check of what the markets are doi doing. alison kosik, good morning. good morning to you. we are seeing lots of green arrows in markets overseas. hong kong closed with a gain of more than 1.5%. london, france and germany starting the day higher as well. all eyes on the new federal reserve chair janet yellen today. she s heading to capitol hill for a q&a session with the house
we are following some breaking news this morning. cnn confirming that a hollywood legend has died. shirley temple black, who was a child star in dozens of films. she later became a u.s. ambassador and ran for congress. she died at her home in california of natural causes with her family by her side. the child star who was a fixture in dozens of films, shirley temple black was 85 years old. alison kosik joining us now with a look at the markets. alison? good morning to you. global markets looking like they re in the green today, and it looks like the u.s. markets are going to open with gains as well. u.s. futures riding a trend that started in hong kong and spread to europe. financial markets, though, are going to be keeping a close watch on what the new chair of the federal reserve will say today on capitol hill. janet yellen will have a q&a session with members of the house financial services committee later this morning. now, we aren t expecting any major signals on policy change
they list charles g. koch of koch industries as their chairman. and one thing this koch-chaired non-profit has done is offer the charles g. koch summer fellows program. the koch summer fellowship is a paid public policy internship at the state level the fellowship strengthens the institutional capacity of market-oriented think tanks. you and i might not get invited to the kochs fund-raising party in the desert. we don t get to watch them building their network. but every so often we get a glimpse of the kochs network itself building. next and this is my personal favorite because it s the one i direct, is the koch summer fellow program. is run for the i and the koch summer fellow program is run by the institute for humane studies, and here are the basics. and obviously, i can go into a lot more detail in the q & a session. it s a paid internship program which pairs you with opportunities throughout the entire country. so we work with state policy