To our viewers in the United States and those of you joining us around the world, welcome. We have full coverage of the stocks and stories making headlines today. We are live at Yankee Stadium for derek jeters last game, weather permitting. We have details on obamas latest comments on the ebola epidemic. Peter cook has word that attorney general eric holder will step down. We will get to all of that in just a minute, but first, stocks are falling the most in eight weeks as apple shares tumble and concern is growing that russia macys foreign assets. The dow extended a fouryear high, fueling speculation that the fed is a step closer to raising interest rates. Lets take a close look at the numbers. The s p 500 is down about one. 5 . The Dow Jones Industrial falling as well today. The nasdaq falling as well, down 1. 8 . We will get a check on the markets from Olivia Sterns as we follow equity trading throughout the hour. Now lets get to peter cook with details on attorney general eric hold
According to those familiar with trujillo may take Telecom China state. Commercial join strikes in the continental United States. Production copies would be allowed to use the small unmanned aircraft. That is according to people with knowledge of the plans. 40 other u. S. Companys have asked for permission to fly drones. The u. S. And its arab allies are going after one source of the Islamic States finances. They bond Oil Refineries in Eastern Syria and estimated twomic states takes up to makes up to 2 million a day from oil. Iphone 6ok called the the best role ever. But many customers have been complaining the iphone 6 plus gets bent out of shape if you keep it in your pocket and an upgrade to the operating system blocked users from making phone calls. Those are to do big snafus, i would say. Paul, what do you make of all of this . It is great if you dont want to get phone calls, otherwise, it is kind of lousy. This is disappointing. If you think about the way historically soft or cop
Still unanswered questioned. Why did they delay for several months notifying congress, the Justice Department, and the American People about the problems with miss learners email. The Deputy Attorney general told us that she learned from press accounts in the media. One of the highest profile investigations in years and the Justice Department has to learn about Critical Evidence by the central player in this investigation. They learn about that in news accounts, not directly from the Internal Revenue service. Thats why last week, Deputy Attorney general cole said he would have liked to have known about the emails earlier and announced that the Justice Department was investigation why the commissioner failed to disclose the missing emails in a timely manner. Let me reiterate. James cole, Deputy Attorney general, United States department of justice, said last week in that same chair to this same committee, that theyre investigating why the Internal Revenue Service Delayed months in telli
Feel differently about the effectiveness of the office of Inspector General. Attorney general cole asked the office of Legal Council to issue a formal opinion resolving this dispute. I hope the Principle Deputy assistant attorney general Karl Thompson and his team would adhere to the plain text of the statute and to our obvious intent and grant the Inspector General unfettered access to every document in the departments position. If the office of Legal Counsel find ambiguity to hold in place any of them on the Inspector Generals access to information, the house judiciary should be the first to act to correct their mistaken impression. Inspector general horowitz, we welcome and we look forward to your testimony today. And to your assistants legislative response is indeed required. I thank the chairman and yield back. The chair thanks the gentleman. And chair understands that the gentleman from ohio would like to make a brief statement welcoming the Inspector General. I thank the chairma
The irs, now retired. And i asked them what they thought of what was going on at the irs. I heard despicable behavior every step of the way. The irs, no longer credible. I think, at this point, mr. Chairman, id like to yield back. Thank you, chairman. In regular order, this is helpful to have a second round. Commissioner, theres been approximately a year of production of emails. In your earlier hearing, i remember it might take two years sort of an estimate. Well, let me ask you a question. Have you reviewed the timeline when this committee issued lawful demands for lois ler lois lerneres emails, have you reviewed the timeline of who did what and when . No. Would you be prepared to deliver to us a timeline, meaning calendars, activities of individuals who were charged with going out and finding those email sns. With over 250 people doing that work no, actually, youve had people redacting and legally reviewing. Im only talking about who went and got the information, the emails, who accu