When he made an offhanded comment about what it would take to solve this through diplomatic reasons. Well talk more about that. Just a moment. But a new cnbc wall street journal poll finds 60 of americans are against striking syria. John harwood will join us with that in a moment. But first, andrew has a rappup of the days headlines. The big one being apple. Apple holding a major media event today. Its expected to update you with its lineup of iphones. The company will likely announce it has penetrated the Worlds Largest mobile carrier, which is china mobile. In the run up to the party, in the past two weeks, apple has made buyups. Twitter is preparing to get public. They have purchased public Advertising Company mopub. The deal is expected to help automate ad buying on tweter. Unclear what the means to advertise on target. Chinas factory output grew at its fastest pace in 17 months. And investment and consumption beat market forecasts. Lets get back to the story of the morning, which is syria. President obama will be addressing the nation at 9 00 eastern time. John harwood joins us with a preview now and a look at the new wall street journal poll as becky was saying, showing 60 of americans do not favor striking. John. Not surprising, andrew. Thats wa weve seen in other surveys and thats what weve heard from members of congress. When you ask people, should the United States strike syria . You get about six in ten says first of all, they want their congress meven giving the authority. He says he has the constitutional authority. Another 60 say now, if you define it as cruise missiles launched from navy ships, the support creeps up, but its still under 50 with a majority opposed. And when you talk about president obamas ratings on handling syria, two to one negative, and lo and behold, theyre looking at a pretty good picture here and i think theyre going to take it and ride it for a while at least while they test it and see if its credible. You said that really well, john. Stumbled on yeah. And michelle, first lady, i am checking to see whether who the source of that was. The source of that was the president , so i guess he knows, right . He kind of alluded to 245, that his wife is against it, too, right, john . Well, look, the president was against he spent two years trying to stay out of syria. Yeah, right. But hes always had this reluctant to be involved. His hand was forced. He went right at the last minute when everybody expected him to use force unilaterally, he backed away from it. And i think a lot of that was from inside him. He decided to go to congress. Congress said, hey, we dont want this. And lo and behold, you cant tell what happened exactly yesterday, but the president said he talked about this idea with putin at the g20, the kerry simply throw it offthecuff not expecting it to be taken up . I dont know. But this has not be a strong period of the president s strong leadership over the last couple of week and hes landed in a place that seems to be purposeful . What kerry has done . Yeah. Thats really hard to tell. The understand cases were its something he never intended to be taken up. He kind of snapped. He said well, ill tell you what they can do but then he followed up by saying hes never going to do that. Richard haas, the former Bush National security adviser told me yesterday, this is worth testing. Could you do it . Thats the question. Do we know where they all are . Can we identify them . Its not easy to see quester them. Could we get them under some kind of international and the longer it takes us who firth out the logistics, it puts off a senate volt and all true. All true. Which is why one of obamas foreigner advisers was telling me yesterday, it would have to be coupled with some sort of a commitment to a political conference. The United States and russia have been talking about a geneva conference to end this war. If you have a real move talking about something credible on chemical weapons, then you might have something. Certainly, were going to explore this for a while. Theyre not going to vote in the senate this week, which i can tell you you is a huge relief for all these senators saying, yeah, if we have to vote for you to do the authority, i guess we can do it. But we really dont want a vote. And just as the president didnt want to go ahead, the members of congress didnt want to vote for it, either, and now they dont have to for a while. France wants if people who were responsible for the last chemical attack to be brought to justice and brought up against charge in front of an international court, as well. And i guess those are things maybe more complicated, but, john, take a lot of time to put together. Yeah. And im sure people are going to add more on to it to give it the appearance of credibility. Asadz might not want to appear in front of a court on that. Theoretically, it goes up to him. I think theyre over there laughing, kind of, but i dont know. I dont know, john. Well see. But you know what . No one really wanted me included, no one relate wanted to open the hornet aes nest. So weird. Everybody is sort of get what they want, but it doesnt feel like a vick toir for some reason. It certainly does not feel hike a victory. Its like a game where theres 20 turnovers and your team ultimately wins, but its ugly. The team is going to by taking president obamas address to the nation live 9 00 p. M. Eastern time and you can see it right here on cnbc. The president has a lot more gray hair than in that picture now. Lets check on the markets this morning after a big day yesterday. A lot of it was on john carry. Yeah, thats right, the idea that there might be a way to get out of the bulls without having an attack. It was the best day in almost two months nrt dow. And yesterday we couldnt tell, andr andrew, whether he was serious with the weapons ban, we couldnt tell whether he was sardonic, whether he was surprised, because his face didnt change. Nothing changed when he said that because he cant move any part of his face now. Ive given you 24 hours to come up with something. Why dont you say there but for the grace of god go you, groupie kernen . Something. Ive been thinking about it. Its in the front of my mind all the time. Never mind. Lets check out the that would be too entertaining if you did. Lets look at the oil boards this morning. Oil, this is not entertaining when its still above 100. But its down 1. 06 on this. Lets get to Ross Westgate who is standing by in london. Ross, good morning. Good day. Good to see you. Weve taken our phones from you, tweer 9 to one advancers outpacing dexwlieners. The uk market yesterday was around around service points. Really about is now. We are doing better in germany and france, as well. The ftse mib is up 1 . Well get into that in just a second. Lets show you whats driving us firmer this morning. Weve got autos doing very well. 2. 5 . Frankfurt motor show is on at the moment. All the executives there as you mute expect coming out with positive noises. The key thing is, besides they talk about key things in asia, we for the first to him they pointed some rooshgs about the inn market, as well. Chinese industrial product up 10. 4 . Its the best performance since 2012. A lot of that investment, growth, retalt sales edging higher, as well. Those two things helping fears about any kind of hard landing in china hes away. Resources doing well. There are those sectors at the moment in negative territory, either. As far as bond markets are concerned, this is interesting. Spanish yields, 4. 48 on the tenyear. The italian yields, 4. 501 . Its the first time span yash yields have lower than the others. Sylvia berlusconi is looking at being kicked out of his party. That could mean the government will collapse. Most people think they wont, but you have to keep your eye on that over the next day or so. Thats where we stand in europe. With that, back to you. As we mentioned near the start of the show, it is a big day for apple. The Company Hosting its first major event since june and a possible announcement with china mobile is waiting in the wings. Is there any surprise were going to hear about today at all . Thats a great question. Its become such a sport to redifficult wh predict what apple is going to do. The last 40 years, this company has reinventsed how you incident every act with computer twice. How many people are out there you just said 40 years . 30 years. I was thinking im getting ahead of myself a little bit. Im looking out the next ten years and saying this company is going to regenerate the computing industry. But the point is, everyone is so unlike apple. Theyre completely done, they have nothing new in their roster. The effe the engineers have nothing else that theyre testing out. I cant prove it because, oh, they havent had any new products in a whole year. Wait a second. Can microsoft be reinvented, too . Yeah, it does not seem particularly likely. Clearly, they understand that they nationwide to reinvent. So theyre transforming and becoming a hardware company. But i think its going to be a pretty tough rode to hoe from microsoft here. You just said a parity video of a new commercial for the 5s apple iphone, you said you didnt think there was a lot goc on. Here at apple, we have break boundaries. We have a found a way to save millions. We call it the iphone 5s. The s sands for same. We think youre really going to love it. Take a look. Isnt it revolutionary . This is sort of the great critique of apple, which is that every year they come out with the same device and they put a new name on it and its marginally better. But thats my point. In the last ten years, they have three new segment thats came organically. They didnt acquire entry into the phone business. They didnt acquire becoming the biggest media seller outside of walma walmart. So i dont subscribe to that view that the company isnt innovative. Theres not a tech company that i know, not even google, that dont produce any revenues. But everything that happenel has done has created new revenues and real earnings. Today will be interesting because i think that, you know, the critique is reasonably fair. Theres not likely to be any leaps and boned. What is the factory worth . We work its worth 700. And you dont have to get a whole lot of earnings growth. When the stock was 700 the last time, it earnings had grown 60 pir60 . Earnings are down 0 year on year. So the real question is not how well china mobile does in the first quarter, how will the 5s does in the fist quarter, but do we have a couple mr quarters of sustained groth and when is that new segment for apple going to come out . We will see if it happens today. Throw it sounds like its unmriekly. Thank you for coming in this morning. Appreciate it. When we come back, why some of the nations biggest banks are warning of a slowdown and cutting jobs. Fist, sports news. In movend night football, the Philadelphia Eagles won their first game under chip kelly, beating the washington redd skins. Michael vick had a pair of touchdowns he ran in. He ran seven dimes for 55 yards. Then the Houston Texans rallied for a 3128 victory over the san diego chargers. Randy bullock fired a 21yard field goal. In tennis news, are a fayel nadal won his second u. S. Open tennis title beating novak djokovic. This is the 13th grand slam title for nadal. Right now as we head to a break, lets check on the National Forecast with the weather channels alex wallace. Alex. Good morning to you. Hot times ahead through the middle of the week. Temps well into the 90s as well as st. Louis and chicago. Were going to see some of this heat building to the northeast. Highs here will be 10 to 15 degrees above average today. D. C. , 94. Well see the 90s spread up into the boston area as we head into tomorrow. But there is some relief in sight. Cooler air will come on in. By the end of the weekend, look at these temperatures. Huge drop off here in the northeast. Going from 90 to 60s across new england. Whats your weather update. Its time now for the executive edge. Shareholderses are urging the tech gientds board to consider Allen Mulally. This is a name we have been talking about for over a week. And mike lawrie. We talk about mulally in the past. Lawrie is maybe someone you dont know quite as well. But he is at cfc right now. I think he just joined last year the first year for a first year turn around. I like mulally. I liked him personally, but i wasnt sure this is the right thing. I thought you needed a tech vision. But ive talked to some more people in the business and i think what they need is an inspirational leader and it doesnt matter whether they understand how to code or understand any of those issues. Well see. I like the idea of going back to someone who is almost like a lou gershner type. I liked it from the getgo because i think hes the type of guy who could really sit down and take a different look at the place and maybe bring in some new blood and i think thats a good thick. Who is the cfc . Mike lawrie . He has worked at a variety of different positions. He was in europe at a company there. Value act, is that the hedge fund . He knows, he was there at value act for i think about a year or so. So those guys know him pretty well. I think the biggest problem theyre going to have with that is he is only about a year into a multi year turn around at cfc. I think it would be harder for him to walk away from that than someone like Allen Mulally who has gotten things under control and did what he set out to do. Who is the other guy . Woz or whatever. Wozniak. He chased the ledgeend of steve jobs a little bit at this point. And he points out that he never wrote any code, either, i dont think. Great. Steve didnt write any code. Theette he was a marketing guy. Yes chased at jobs being, you know, all the accolades because he was i mean, its the same thing. Exact same thing. Exact same thing. Maybe the iphone is to be the iphone 5es. People will point on to allskully as a play where that was supposed to work. He went to the most amazing thing about him, he comes on the show now. Yeah, he does. And he looks good, too, if you notice. He does. He was going to do what we do all the time. Theyre going to do what we were able to do now. I dont think you can do it with your blackberry, but we can do it with an iphone. Send things, print things. Oh. Can you . Yes. I love that piece. Ive got good reasons for this. Lets talk about another story on the front page of todays wall street journal. It takes a look at mortgage lenders and home buyers being squeezed by a rise in Interest Rates. A number of banks are cutting jobs and theyre warning of declining profitability in the home loan business. Just yesterday, wells fargo said it expects Mortgage Loan originations to drop by 30 in the third quarter. Jpmorgan warned that it expects to lose money on its Mortgage Origination business in the second half. Bank of america laid off 2,100 employees largely because of its decline and refinancing activity. Gentlemen, i guess we had to know that this was coming. The average Mortgage Origination for a new one on 30 years i think is about 4. 75 . I chalk this up to breaking news, air has oxygen in it. This is what happened when Interest Rates go up. Yeah, but 30 . But its a short time decline. Youre going to see it bottom out next year and then they expect it to pick back up in 2015. Jpmorgan, what did they say . Theyre not even going to make money . Theyre laying off thousands of people in the Mortgage Business if you look at these companies. But these are just the mortgage divisions. Its not like the bank is going under or not about going under, but theyre still very profitable enterprises. Yeah, but you had a mortgage bubble, a mini bubble that built up and people were trying to get in before rates went higher. Bank of america is laying off people as part of their larger part of their strategy. Larger strategy. And i sometimes think issues like this become cover for larger strategic alternatives. That could be the case. Plans that theyve had in place for some time, anyway. Our next story is for all you road warriors out there. Theres a column in todays New York Times that talks about growing pains for the airport check program. This program was designed to give eligible flyers a quick past through airport security. Its only operating through about three airports and its only available at certain terminals, as well. Last week, the is the sa announced an expansion of prechecks. It will add 60 new airports by tend of this year in addition to more airlines. Have either one of you signed up for that . Its precheck on global entry. This is one of those cry me a river stories. I used it. When it works, it really works. When it doesnt, it doesnt because the airport doesnt have the service. Which is fine. Its going to get there. I dont understand the you said it worked once. Theres a guy in the piece, it didnt work for him. I dont know where hes traveling. It didnt work for him at new york. 50 times a your. Certain terminals at new yar and term terminals dont. Thats one of the major airports around. But if youre at one terminal and you change planes to another terminal, the poirnt is like, thats great. The guy at the airline said its not my problem, its the tsas problem. If its the government side running the precheck program, what do they care . Are you precheck . Im not. Im not. They more or less check the i. D. Now i know what fbo is. Oh, yeah. There were so many letters being talked around. What does private even mean . Im not even lying. I didnt know what the fbo was. You know the great line when the father bricks his son into the jet blue plane and the kid looks around and going, what are all these people doing on the plane . Who are these people . Who are these people. Can i order a coke from any of them . We have details, first on cnbc, right after this. And then at 7 00 iron, our newsmaker of the morning, sandy weill will talk about breaking up the banks. 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