michelle hadley was out on bail living with her parents.naheim police suspected michelle had sent threatening emails to her ex-boyfriend, ian, and his pregnant wife, angela. even though on its face it didn't make much sense. >> reporter: a young woman who lived an exemplary life, good student, she's trying to get an mba, and -- >> well, there's two sides to every person, and all we're seeing is the evidence that looks very clear that everything is -- is originating from michelle hadley. >> reporter: but the case against michelle went way beyond threatening emails. police had evidence she was up to something much more sinister, something stomach-churning. it began in early june about the same time as the deadline on the condo was approaching. >> somebody was posting ads online through craigslist saying that they wanted to fulfill this rape fantasy. >> reporter: rape fantasy as a genre? i don't think i've ever heard of this. >> i had never heard of it either, until this particular case. but apparently yes, there's a market for it. >> reporter

michelle hadley seemed to have it all. loving family, solid education, with the opportunities and support to help her fulfill the promises of youth and now she had a fiancee she was crazy about. but her life what's about to be turned upsidedown. here's dennis murphy with diabolical. >> locked in a cage, the shrieks of women howling into the night. >> this isn't real. this is like something you see in a movie. this doesn't happen in real life. >> how does a self-described goody two shoes disney princess get swept away in something so convoluted so twisted. >> this is one of the most well thought out well executed plans and it's scary. >> diabolical? >> absolutely. >> a tangled web? you bet. an altogether bizarre plot. a complicated scheme? >> very complicated. very creative. >> this has been a shocking foremost love rivalry itself that i've ever seen. >> there would be allegations of harassing, cyber stalking, assault and attempted rape. someone was going to get hurt. someone was going to jail and at the end of the night, w

police had no question it was michelle hadley.he night michelle spent in yale sjail sh received no e-mails. she made bail and she was out. >> and almost immediately they started get. >> was there a, look, we have warned you about, and it is continuing in. >> correct. >> daily beast reporter kate brickley tried to unravel the story from her office in new york city. angela diaz appeared to be the victim of an increasingly dangerous game. >> she was afraid for her life. she was afraid to go anywhere. she felt she had to uproot her whole life, take down her online profiles and hide. >> july 11th, two weeks after michelle bailed out of jail, a new rape fantasy ad appeared on craig's list and a response. once again, the e-mail directed the man who placed the ad to the home of angela diaz. >> and what would michelle's motivation be in doing this campaign? >> it is interesting. i mean there's the fact that there's some sort of a love triangle going on, right? there's two women, one guy, and there's also the unsold condominium. >> the cond

>> police believe there was no question it was michelle hadley.at led them to arrest michelle outside her parents' home. angela reported that during the night michelle spent in jail, she received no threatening e-mails. but then michelle made bail. she was out. >> and almost immediately the e-mails start again. >> so, is there kind kind of a feel here, we warned you about this activity. >> correct. >> and it's continuing. >> correct. >> this is a very complicated scheme, kate. >> yes. "daily beast" reporter tried to unravel the story from her office in new york city. angela diaz appeared to be the victim at the center of an increasingly dangerous game. >> she was afraid for her life. she was afraid to go anywhere. she felt that she had to uproot her whole life, take down her online profiles and hide. >> july 11, two weeks after michelle bailed out of jail, a new rape fantasy ad appeared on craigslist, and a response. once again, the e-mail directed the man who placed the ad to the home of angela diaz. >> and what would michelle's mo motivation be

michelle hadley was in jail.iple felonies, including stalking and attempted forcible rape. had she sent those threatening emails to her former fiancee's wife or was this all a terrible mistake? her parents thought so. and were determined to help. but where to even start. here again is dennis murphy. >> reporter: the charges, and the headlines, were devastating. in an article in her hometown paper, the shorthand was that michelle hadley was the psycho ex-girlfriend from hell, the mover behind a lurid and devious plot. her parents, michael and suzanne, couldn't, wouldn't believe it. >> there's nothing in character with the michelle that you've raised here? >> not at all. >> it's actually 180 degrees so out of sync with her behavior. >> reporter: they went to see michelle on her first day in jail after being charged. >> is this gonna be a conversation with phones through glass? >> yes. >> yes. >> there's cells without cages, but she's in a caged one. you know, i don't know why she always has to be in a caged one, bu

michelle hadley had been released from jail.ous e-mails filled with references to satan, threat of kidnapping, rape and death, who did? could the answer be in the e-mails, themselves? now with the conclusion of our story, here's dennis murphy. >> reporter: with every thump of her heart, michelle felt she was losing a little part of herself, out of jail, but not out of jeopardy, free to go to a high end coffee shop, but not allowed to remove the ankle bracelet tracking her. >> they wrapped it with this sports band annual because i was so embarrassed to be wearingiment, you know. >> but everything was about to change. after a thorough search of michelle's digital devices, investigators concluded the damming e-mails did not come from them. >> we actually had a lab from our own computer forensics lab and people well trained. that's how this came to fruition that we were able to determine that michelle hadley wasn't the suspect. >> this was momentous. after months in jail, after the ankle bracelet, michelle hadley was cleared. >> you

michelle hadley seem to have it all.ic normally, solid education, what the opportunities and support to help her fulfill the promises of youth. now, she had a fiancÉe she was crazy about. her life was about to be turned upside down. here is dennis murphy what diabolical. >> locked in the cage. the shrieks of wind and howling in the night. >> this isn't real. it's something we see in the movies. it doesn't happen in real life. >> how did a self-described goody tissue, disney princess, he swept away innocent conspiracy so convoluted, so twisted? >> this is one of the most well thought out, well executed plants. it is scary. >> diabolical. >> absolutely. >> a tangled web, you bet. altogether bizarre plot. complicated scheme. >> very complicated. very creative. >> this is the most shocking form of love rivalry i have ever seen. >> there would be allegations of harassment, cyber stalking, assault and attempted rape. someone was going to get hurt. someone was going to jail. at the end of the nightmare, well, no one saw that co

michelle hadley was in jail.f multiple felonies, including stalking and attempted forcible rape. had she sent those threatening e-mails to her former fiance's wife or was this all a terrible mistake? her parents thought so and were determined to help. but where to even start. mere again is dennis murphy. the shorthand was that michelle hadley was the psycho ex-girlfriend from hell. the mover behind a lurid and devious plot. her parents couldn't, wouldn't believe it. >> there's nothing in character with the michelle that you've raised here? >> not at all. >> it's actually 180 degrees so out of sync with her behavior. >> they went to see michelle on her first day in jail after being charged. >> is this going to be a conversation with phones through glass? >> yes. >> cells bout cages but she's in a caged one. i don't know why she has to be in a caged one but she does. >> her bail set at a million dollars. to get her out, they had to come up with 10% of that. that's $100,000 cash. they've told their daughter they had

. >> macke hadley west finds courage and inspiration after she buys a high 8 camera at a yard sale. >ke up the next morning and i was like, oh, my god, i have a weapon. >> hadley west says she shoots confrontations with more than 1,000 men. >> i'll break your camera! >> for what turns out to be a provocative documentary called "war zone." >> the initial message is walk in my shoes for a day. >> still want to keep doing it? still want to keep playing games? want to play games? >> what, you got a problem? >> many of the men in the documentary don't agree with hadley west's methods. >> do you say things to women on the street or do you just look at our bodies? >> or her premise. >> you're trying to judge all men. >> i'm not judging all men. >> oh, yes, you are. >> i'm a balls to the wall kind of chick. i have an agenda. [ whistle ] >> do you always whistle at women on the street? >> only the good ones. >> so it was her ass you were checking out initially. >> i was checking out her ass, yeah. >> why do you think they keep walking? >> because they don't want to hear that. >> i don't do you

>> many of the men in the documentary don't agree with hadley west's methods. >> do you say things toon the street or do you just look at our bodies? >> or her premise. >> you're trying to judge all men. >> i'm not judging all men. >> oh, yes, you are. >> i'm a balls to the wall kind of check. i have an agenda. [ whistle ] >> do you always whistle at women on the street? >> only the good ones. >> so it was her ass you were checking out initially. >> yeah. >> why do you think they keep walking? >> because they don't want to hear that. >> i don't do you think they don't want to hear it? >> because they get constantly barraged with it. >> just being female and walking down the streets, being cat called, humiliated, degraded, that was intolerable to me. [ kissing sound ] >> who did that? did you do that? [ laughter ] >> do you always do that? >> oh, i do it all the time. >> so what are you trying to tell me when you make noises like that towards me? >> that i'm checking you out. >> i wore the same outfit in every city. i had a camera woman and a camera man following me usually across the

hadley, i said did we expand nato too quickly back then? forget that now. may decide, you know what, i'm a little nervous about what's going on over there now in russia. maybe i want in on nato. what is the talk about expansion? are they more open than ever? or is there an old guard thinking the nato expansion may have contributed to this crisis? >> there is no one here suggesting that nato expansion went too far. we recently added a 30th member in macedonia. there hasn't been a conversation at this summit about adding finland. finland has always had this interesting, close relationship with both europe and also with russia. i will say there is conversation, and i happen to share this view, thank goodness we did expand and add the baltics. had we not added latvia, lithuania and estonia, i think they would be in the very situation this evening than they are right now. there is, i would also point out, just, again, in speaking to fellow parliamentarians, people who i respect and have been friends with for several years now, there is real concern about what mi

. >> hadley, here comes -- hadley here comes rude interruption from me. just a moment, let's take a listen as we listen to bells ringing there at the presidential palace in advance of the president. presidential pe of the president well, apparently we were able to hear the bells, they're no longer ringing and again that's the presidential castle, not the palace, i want to make that distinction, and as we look at that sea of people awaiting the arrival of president biden, you see quite a beautiful backdrop setting for the president to make this speech that will be listened to by people around the world. those two large american and polish flags there draping, showing the unity between these two countries. hadley, i'm sorry to have cut you off, but i want to ask you, shannon, at this point, the crowd there, when we spoke with you, and it was a little lighter, i'll admit in the last hour, but about how many people do you think have gathered and what do you think the tenor is? is there a excitement, is there -- are people rather tenuously awaiting what this p

stephen hadley. i always learn something when you're on the show. >>> four members of congress have spoken to the australian ambassador today following the president's contentious call with the australian prime minister. here is senator john mccain. >> we've had a close relationship with australia. they fought alongside us in wars, including losing over 500 brave australians in the vietnam war, which some of us remember. this, in my view, was an unnecessarand frankly harmful open dispute over an issue which is not nearly as important as united states-australian cooperation and working together, including training of our marines in australia and other areas of military cooperation and intelligence. >>> bringing in tonight's panel. matthew, editor in chief of the washington beast. held even -- helene cooper. international correspondent. >> stephen hadley basically saying remain calm. don't panic yet. to the world. what are we saying? >> i don't know what else stephen hadley can say in a situation like

hadley gamble, our friend at cnbc. hadley, 180 million -- i owe mitch mcconnell said it's a drop in the bucket, but this is the most we've ever done, which means we'll be spending money as a government to replenish it, obviously, as fast as we're emptying our reserves here. what is this going to do to the markets? >> okay. essentially what we know is that 20 million barrels per day is what americans generally consume. that's the number. this is going to add eventually 1 million barrels per day to that number. that's going to basically be free oil. but eventually the united states will purchase back around $80 a barrel to replenish the spr. but this is the biggest release we've ever seen in u.s. history. 180 million barrels per day. that dwarfs the last two releases, around 40 million to 60 million barrels per day. those releases, remember, they moved the market just slightly, what we would call a blip. think about this more broadly. this is a president that is under severe political pressure. he's also attempting to pu

as well as a young woman by the name of hadley duval.st year from kentucky's democratic governor andy beshear featuring her story as a sexual abuse survivor. >> i was raped but my stepfather after years of sexual abuse. i was 12. anyone who believes there should be no exceptions for rape and incest could never understand what it's like to stand in my shoes. this is to you, daniel cameron. to tell a 12-year-old girl she must have the baby of her stepfather who raped her is unthinkable. i'm speaking out because women and girls need to have options. daniel cameron would give us none. >> so that ad is credited with playing a role in governor beshear winning reelection and one of the mosts conservative states in the country. now hadley is speaking out on behalf of the biden campaign in defense of abortion rights. here is our discussion. >> this is your first national media interview. given what's at stake today, can you tell people what you want them to take away from, to know about your personal and deeply painful story and why it's so relev

cnbc's hadley gamble is joining us live in the french capital. hadley, good morning.hat are you hearing about this? >> reporter: good morning, alex. well essentially we have heard growing questions about the destinations that this a-320 aircraft made before flying out of charles de gaulle at 11:09 p.m. on that fateful flight to cairo. in the 24 hours prior to the depart chur of flight 804, the aircraft made stops in belgium. it was in eritrea, and in tunisia and in egypt itself before arriving at charles de gaulle, so questions if there were security implications for the aircraft and whether this was in fact a terror incident. certainly from the egyptians themselves, the civil aviation administrator saying this is indeed maybe terror. so some big questions concerning what actually happened to flight 804. we'll continue to follow them from here in paris. guys? >> thank you. cnbc's hadley gamble from paris. >>> let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. what say you about the weekend? >> nothing too violent, sunday, some storms in the cent

their futures are being ripped away . >> joining us now is reproductive rights advocate hadley duval.rst time i saw that ad, and i was speechless at the end because you're right, there are a lot of women right now across the country who do not have options. talk about your advocacy in the wake of this election. i'm sure this was not on your bingo card to be doing this. >> it definitely was not. it has been an amazing journey, don't get me wrong but obviously, a very tough one. it's not even something i ever planned to speak about publicly. and to be doing this on a national level, it's so surreal but to know that i am making an impact and i know that because i have survivors reach out to me and tell me that i helped them find their voice and i helped their families see why choice is important and that means so much to me. because of that, i will continue to do it, and it's been really amazing meeting so many amazing people. >> hadley, the interesting part of your story is, it's the story of a lot of women. and the fact that you're able to help frame and connect that.from your own pers

>> a hadley thank you very much. live from london, we appreciate it. >>> still ahead on "way too early," a bad night for lebron james as he ends game four with stitches a loss and an embarrassing moment that had social media on fire. >>> plus a cleveland weather man not too happy with the reves. >> not a lot of calls and a lot of hacking going on. frankly in the first quarter golden state could have gotten away with this. hey, lebron you want to get to the basket? no way. >>> meteorologist bill karins is good, but can he top that? we'll see when "way too early" comes right back. >>> the body of 34-year-old nicole brown simpson, the ex-wife of o.j. simpson was found outside her home next to her was the body of a man, both had been stabbed. it's so shiny. i know, mommy, but it's time to let the new kitchen get some sleep. if you want beautiful results, you know where to go - angie's list. now everyone can get highly rated service even without a membership. you can shop special offers or just tell us what you need and w

cnbc's hadley gamble joins us live from london. hadley, who's behind the sudden surges?an, according to analysts, they say that this was just a surge of positive momentum, and this is all off the back of that report that came out last friday saying that there was bigger than expected job growth. and that seemed to outweigh fears about brexit, outweigh fears about the fed rate hike, and also outweigh fierce about a slowdown in china and the u.s. now, of course, another story that we're watching right now, it seems that there's been another setback for the driverless car movement. essentially what we know right now is that the tesla-x has had another crash, and though its unclear at the moment whether or not this crash had anything to do with the car's autopilot feature, at the same point this is a company that's already under investigation from the s.e.c., and the big question going forward is whether or not this is going to weigh with investigators. jonathan? >> all right. hadley gamble live from london thank you. >>> time now for sports, and major league baseball's mids

joining me now, stephen hadley, former national security adviser to president george w. bush, senior adviser for international affairs, and ambassador chris hill, former u.s. ambassador to south korea and former secretary of state for each asian and pacific affairs. you are very familiar with these oval office situations but here we are, having a summit on north korea on the threat a few days after there was an accidental alert state-wide in hawaii, and today, another accidental alert on the japanese broadcast system, nhk, for which they have apologized. there is obviously a great deal of nervousness in the asia pacific region as well as here. secretary tillerson said today in the opening of this summit that we have to get north korea to de-nuclearize before we can have any progress. is that the right threshold? >> well, it's the right threshold for secretary tillerson to take. that is the position of the administration. that is the position of the u.n. security council, variety of resolutions. it's been the position of the last two, actually three u.s. administrations.

cnbc's hadley campbell joins us live from london. hadley, what can we expect in today's unveiling. >> good morning, sam. >> good morning. >> a lot of excitement and speculation surrounding apple's announcement later today and many industry insiders now expect of course that the company is going to unveil a smaller and even cheaper iphone. and that iphone, the iphone se could have features very similar to the iphone 6. now of course all of this coming just one day ahead of the company's encryption battle. they're due in court over that big encryption battle with the fbi. so a lot of conversation happening now amongst industry experts. wondering if apple's going to address that later today, as well. >> hadley gamble live from london. thank you very much. >>> now still ahead the sweet 16 is all set. we'll have full highlights from a weekend of march madness. plus bill karins is tracking snow. snow in new england. and a super coker on the west coast. the forecast when "way too early" comes right back. when your type 2 diabetes numbers ar

cnbc's hadley gamble joins us live from london.adley, who will be at that meeting, and what, if anything, might come out of it? >> well, chris, it's clear that for facebook, at least, this is all about clearing the air here. this is also about addressing conservatives' concerns and basically showing them that the company does care. now, we've heard from ceo mark zuckerbe zuckerberg. he said that facebook has no evidence that anything was manipulated in terms of their trending topics list. but, of course, with 41% of u.s. adults now getting their news from facebook, that's according to pew research, and also a senate committee inquiry in the offing about this, you know, it's certainly clear that facebook at least is trying to get ahead of this story and really clear the air. now, turning thousand to amazon, some exciting news for that company. in-house brands are now going to become a bigger part of what they do. and apparently names like mama bear are going to be the names of something like -- of half of these products. we're talki

bush steve hadley. steve, good to see you. a lot going on.s talk about iran and the testing of iron dome, at least against short-range rockets. the promise from president obama for more money for more missile defense against the longer range missiles. they already have patriots there, but obviously some more long-range protection as well. what is iran's read now, seeing that morsi and the islamist party has been the guarantor of this cease-fire? does that create more leverage for egypt and less for iran as the mentor to hamas and gaza? >> well, it does give egypt some influence with hamas. they, of course, have the same muslim brotherhood roots. on the other hand, this has been an opportunity for iran, because iran in some sense has been the arming agent of hamas in the same way they have been the arming agent of hezbollah. and it is also viewed by many as proof that israel only makes concessions in the face of threats of violence, which is very much out of the iranian playing book rather than the playbook of fatah or western countries who wo

thank you so much, hadley.ve a great day. >>> just ahead, brand-new poll numbers this morning in the race for the white house. first john oliver has some thoughts on the holiday. >> there are some things that after this labor day we should stop doing and then never do again. for instance let's stop saying that's interesting when we mean, that is not interesting. from now on when someone tells you a boring story simply say, bless you, like you were just sneezed on, because that is what hearing about someone's travel delay feels like. when it comes to healthcare, seconds can mean the difference between life and death. for partners in health, time is life. we have 18,000 people around the world. the microsoft cloud helps our entire staff stay connected and work together in real time to help those that need it. the ability to collaborate changes how we work. what we do together changes how we live. ssoon, she'll be binge-studying. now she writes mostly in emoji. soon, she'll type the best essays in the entire 8th g

that's what we are looking for. >> so, hadley, you are an expert in this region.g have you gathered today? >> in the view of saudi arabia specifically, this visit by joe biden is overdue. the question of how you get from pariah to partner in under two years is energy. it's about how much it costs, who wants it and paying for it. the idea that the united states wouldn't have a direct line to saudi arabia is baffling not in just this part of the world but other parts, china. why has the u.s. president taken so long to make this meeting. i had a chance to have a conversation with the former u.s. ambassador, saudi arabia to the united states. to put this in context, this man's father was a man who instigated the 1973 oil embargo. he has a lot to say. human rights, he said the united states needs to get off the high horse. they are not exactly a paradigm of virtue and he told me about what the saudis would be interested to do with oil. >> president biden in my view is coming as a much diminished president than when he was first elected. as an example on energy issues,

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joining us, hadley duvall is back with us. when we spoke -- i think air.nary that you are not just a zroifr of this most horrific of horrors but that you're telling your story and letting other women feel seen. now you're doing this on this biggest of political stages in the world. tell me how you're feeling about tonight. >> i honestly can't find the words. i am so thrilled to be here. i'm so grateful. and i just really hope that there are so many young girls and women who feel heard and feel seen after hearing what i have to say tonight. >> are you preparing any differently to deliver a speech than you have for any of the other speaking that you've done in interviews? >> i've tapped in a little bit more to me as a 12-year-old. i've done a little bit more of the backtracking and reliving some of the memories, just to remind everybody that this healing is not linear and it really does always stay with you no matter where you are. >> hadley, your trauma is something that no one can really understand if they haven't been through what you've been through. but

certainly, even though you had in hadley somebody that worked for an ideologue, both of these would bes, not only as republicans, as you said, but many democrats and certainly by the foreign policy establishment. and also for allies across the globe. this, mark, this would be two great choices and would be a very strong way. i think most people in washington and people who know foreign policy, would be a very strong way for donald trump to end his selection process. >> he's down in florida, as we said, but this will be a working vacation. what do you know about his attitude about how things are going overall? >> i think he's very positive about it. the campaign workers and transition staff very positive about it. i did notice one thing over this weekend, that a lot of his top deputies and even donald trump, they've just started to tune out most of the news. they figure that they are not going to be able to control what's going on. every headline is a bad headline. everything they do they feel has turned into a negative story, and so they are just not worrying about it at this point. th

and then you see someone like hadley duvall, an amazing person. of the bravest people certainly that i have ever met. and when she shares her story, you understand, you can see the actual real impact that this has on people. and for her to have gone through what she went through, to have had no options if it were today, is just simply wrong. and i think everybody can agree with that. >> and the other two women were from texas and louisiana and had had non-viable pregnancies in some cases and had no options. j.d. vance, i don't know if you know this, is blasting what you said this morning on "morning joe." >> okay. >> i'll prepare you for this. >> saying that when -- well, let me take a look at what he said about you. >> j.d. vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape inconvenient. inconvenience is traffic. i mean, make him go through this. >> so what he's saying is that you were somehow suggesting -- he said, "what the hell is this?" why is andy beshear -- he tweeted this out. wishing that a member of my family would get raped. a disgusting person.

hadley joins us. the show. >> nice to be here. >> i want to try to get to the conversation on the other side of the pond here. we're having plenty of domestic reaction to what the president is doing with our allies. what's happening in paris, in london, in berlin with these comments today? >> well, you know, i think one of the dilemmas for the president is he's trying to exert some leverage on the europeans to get them to do what america has been asking them to do for 20 years, to increase defense spending, to take more responsibility for their security, and he's doing it in the way that he knows how to do, speaking truth to power, being very -- probably too public and too sharp in his rhetoric. he's doing it to get leverage to try to get the outcome he wants. the problem is that in the public, it's getting a reaction which is in some sense making the publics more anti-american. and, you know, you saw this in terms of mexico when he made a lot of comments about mexicans coming across the border to get

and he explained to ray hadley that there were several demands that the gunman had made that weren't yet to be made, and they ranged from various things including asking for an isis flag to be delivered to the building and an on-air interview with the prime minister. and he wanted them broadcast on the radio. police advised us that won't the case, that we should avoid broadcasting those details as they were happening at the time. and we received several phone calls across the afternoon as the armed gunman tried to i guess persuade his hostages to force his message. we also saw it coming out on social media. he was getting those inside to post on their social media accounts his demands and make pleas to their loved ones to beg police to see it through. several television stations here as well also got similar phone calls from other hostages inside the cafe across the day. it was happening across multimedia platforms here and quite evident right across the day that he was using social media, listening to tv, listening to radio and watching the tv as this was unfolding within the cafe a

ambassador to russia under president obama, and steven hadley, george w.national security advisor. gentlemen, welcome to you both. ambassador mcfall, let me start with you. to unpack the president's statement there, he said putin was going in out of a position of weakness because assad was crumbling. by that logic, if assad was on that close to crumbling, did we miss an opportunity to sort of push assad over the crumbling line six months ago? >> i would say four years ago, chuck. the real moment for opportunity for change in syria was when there were hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators, assad looked very weak then, isis did not exist in syria at the moment and that was an opportunity lost. six months ago or two weeks ago i think it's a much more complex terrain, though i do agree with the president, putin has had the same policy for four years, which is to support assad. he believes that's a way to peace and stability in syria. that policy of putin's hasn't worked, so he's had to double down with these latest military attacks. >> steven hadley,

cnbc hadley joining us from london.rs bracing themselves for federal reserve most crucial policy decision in years. tell us more about it. >> that's right amy. i think you can expect major volume the tillty going forward for u.s. markets today. we've heard from the german finance minister saying another bubble is on the way. u.s. stocks closeing higher yesterday. this reflecting nervousness ahead of the fed decision next week. if they raise interest rates, if they don't, seriously concerning investors. top economists saying it isn't the right time. we'll keep a close eye on that and expect volatility in the markets. >> k cup manufacturing better known for coffee is changing the strategy to making chicken noodle soup? >> yes, basically get all your campbells favorites at 70 calorie ares in a pod. you have to remember both companies have had sales slumps over the last year. it's quite clear they're looking to this new pod to get a comeback. >> we'll see if it works. cnbc hadley, thank you for joining us this morning. >>>

. >> cnbc anchor hadley gamble joins me now from munich, addly, welcome to you. you about the role that oil and gas are playing in this crisis. but first, i want to have you recall the interview that you conducted with president putin in moscow last october. in that interview, hadley, did you hear anything that suggested or indicated in any way that we would be where we are, here, today? >> reporter: good afternoon, alex, and thank you so much for having me join you from munich. when i sat down with vladimir putin, we were there for 2 1/2 hours. i peppered him with questions, the first of which was whether or not he was using energy as a weapon to gain ground against the west, against his european counterparts. i also asked him whether we were in the middle of an arms race, he said yes, absolutely we are. he reiterated again and again the close relationship between russia and china and essentially made it very clear he still has some very, very big demands for the west, one of which of course is the overarching narrative we've heard for the last 20 years that he'

hadley, i want to move on to this question, and that is if nothing is done, obamacare on the privateide, it will have great difficulty. many reports that there will be either one insurer or potentially zero insurers in many of the counties across the country, and so then, what is the step here as we are trying to move forward? >> right. so i mentioned the cost sharing reductions are a government solution to a government-created problem, and we should go upstream to see what the root cause of that problem is. i want to agree with peter that the debate is not about health care, but it generally health insurance, and health insurance laws ash and what we need to do is to address the high cost of insurance coverage for so many millions of americans is undo many of the harmful regulations that have caused the premiums to skyrocket, and increasing 105% -- >> what would you look at? >> for example, i would allow the insurance companies to rate the policies according to age like they did before the affordable care act which requires the insurance companies to charge the youngest consumers ab