Book tvs look at political memoirs continues with former secretary of defense asked carter. He talks about the lessons he learned while working in the pentagon in his book inside the fivesided box. Good afternoon everyone. Im Margaret Brennan of cbs news thank you for coming here for this working lunch. And from foreign relations, of course you all know that is why you are here mr. Ash carter defense secretary and we will have this conversation for about 30 minutes or so and open it up to questions from all of you. Take notes and keep thinking of questions and will come to you in a bit. I do want to tell you that during the q a portion eight are on and ill remind you the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you margaret. Congratulations on your book. I was saying when we were chatting, the last time i interviewed you we were on a vessel office tony when you are carrying out a bill to rebuild up to respond to russia. Exactly. It was an amphibious and it was part of w
I do want to tell you that during the q a portion eight are on and ill remind you the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you margaret. Congratulations on your book. I was saying when we were chatting, the last time i interviewed you we were on a vessel office tony when you are carrying out a bill to rebuild up to respond to russia. Exactly. It was an amphibious and it was part of what i thought was sadly necessary after quarter century, we did not have a warplane to russia for quarter century. Its interesting to reflect on. Enter the cold war when i started when i worked on conventional and nuclear, at the end of the soviet union did not do that anymore for about 25 years. Then it became apparent to me whatever six years ago or so that we needed for pain. Thats when we positioned forces in different ways in europe but the particular reason to go at the time, was because that was going to be the location for new Cybersecurity Centers for nato. And why until then, t
currency. that was last year. this year in january, trump also said that he was going to be against a central bank of digital currency. those are just some examples of where the trump campaign has maybe taken a page or two out of the desantis florida playbook. sophia chi, always interesting. thank you. cormac in moments, capitol hill reaction to a new notion about some black voters and whether they are really swinging towards donald trump. good day to all of you from ms nbc world headquarters in new york. dq welcome to alex wood reports. we begin with decision 2024. 11 days before the president debate. president biden is starting to be prepped this week. he is leading california tonight with a record-breaking $30 million in campaign cash after weighing in on donald al trump s consistent threats of retribution, telling supporters, quote, this is the united states of america, did you ever think you d ever, ever, ever hear anything like ev this? meanwhile, steve bannon is pr
He has a Foreign Policy speech, can he stay on message . If he does, could he gain ground on hillary who has some potential liabilities ahead. Congress about to get its hands on her fbi testimony. The dnc hack could reveal some damaging information, and her husband, the former president , is he a liability on the trail . Well, to the markets, green arrows, what else, to start the week. The dow, s p and nasdaq all in record territory. Big day for your money and we are all over it. Of course, Varney Company about to begin. Trying to insight chaos, threatening institutions we have, police are a government institution. We stand on the front lines of order and liberty. They want to attack order and liberty and after the chaos last night trying to incite chaos. That was Milwaukee County sheriff david clark talking about the two nights of violence in the city of milwaukee. He will be joining us again next hour, but emack, what exactly happened to trigger all of this liz so Sylville Smith had
Price plunge. We want 1. 75 gas yes, we do. And 18,000 on the dow yes we want that. We might get both. See . Mondays not so bad. Varney company is about to given. Stuart two big market stories to kick off the monday morning. A big tripledigit rally for the Dow Jones Industrial average this is all speculation about the Federal Reserve and interest rates. On it goes forever. But we look like were up to close to 18,000 again. Now perhaps even an even more important story the price of oil keeps on dropping. 42. 97 that is a new sixyear low. That means, in my opinion sharply lower gas prices coming very soon. As of right now, the National Average for a gallon of gas is 2. 42, down a couple of pennies over the weekend, and its down nine days straight. Remember, please the refinery strike in the west is over, were still swimming in oil. Im going to ask Patrick Dehaan of gas buddy next hour if gas prices are indeed, set to plunge the way we want them to. That will be about 11 30 eastern time,