the president has spoken twice at apac's annual conference but not next week. we's sending treasury secretary john lew and on monday it will be secretary of state john kerry who will be the point person on all these negotiations. >> ed henry, thanks. >>> south korean officials say north korea fired suspected short-range missiles into its eastern waters today. it was an apparent effort to protest ongoing military exercises between the south and the u.s. the north calls the drills a rehearsal for an invasion. >>> republican allegations that former acting and deputy cia director mike morrell misled congress over the white house role crafting the flawed benghazi talking points took a dramatic turn today. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been reporting on the morrell story for weeks and is here with the latest. good evening. >> reporter: the republican chairman of the powerful house intelligence committee told fox news that it is likely mike morrell will be recalled to testify, and investigators are also reviewing the testimony of his boss, fo

and a couple of weeks political leaders will be speaking at apac the american israeli public affairs committee conference and an aerial event hosted by one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the u.s. the meeting garners a lot of attention to the high profile names there but beyond the headline there's a growing religious movement in the us away from the strictly pro israel views you hear at the conference r.t. correspondent lives wall reports on how members of the movement hope they can lead a more balanced foreign policy approach. my commitments to the state of israel. every crucial juncture every four days in the road it's a commitment u.s. politicians are compelled to make if they want to be elected and for those appealing to christian evangelical voters devotion to israel seems mandatory he has chewed his back on the people of the issue that's rick santorum bashing president obama for not being pro israel enough at the annual apac conference the american israeli public affairs committee is the most powerful pro israel lobby in the us during the two thousand and twelve electi

the issue that's rick santorum bashing president obama for not being pro israel enough at the annual apac conference the american israeli public affairs committee is the most powerful pro israel lobby in the us during the two thousand and twelve election cycle almost every republican presidential candidate spoke at the event touting their support for the u.s. ally i think we've had an invented post of the young people but there is a movement among christian evangelicals in the us away from the political norms associated with the group it's a movement away from the staunchly pro israel stance to a stance that is more sympathetic toward palestinians there's no question about the fact that that is a common probably the most popular american christian view and yet there's an older historical christian view doesn't seem that is the case john scott red is the president of the reform theological seminary outside washington d.c. he observes a trend. in his students to a more balanced approach to the israeli palestinian conflict we see a lot of young evangelical both aspiring pastors and folks pur

it was one of a series of setbacks for apac including defense secretary and pushing for u.s. military action in syria. ambassador the former general counsel for israel in new york is in tel aviv. what happened? >> in which of the incidences? you probably are referring to the iranian issues. they miscalculated how many departments will join the republicans in pushing forward the mark kirk, bob menendez bill. once apac pushed for that bill and not enough democrats joined the republicans and the bill was not rescinded, but put on hold, by then aipac alienated many republican senators and in thus doing got into some kind of an unpleasant exchange with both parties, but i wouldn't call that a failure on aipac's side. it's just one of those things that happens when you do a political math on the hill and you get it wrong. >> was it a matter of math on capitol hill or was it a matter of underestimating the war weariness of the american public when it comes to any type of sanctions, action in syria. the american public send ago clear signal it does not want anymore engagement oversea

problem is the decli and programs at the workforce has not been met with an increase in individual's .apacity on their own we have increased the insecurity people feel. >> massively. within your panel today, at your seminar on the longevity that we face, is it a tipping point now, or is it a part of the continuum of the last 10 years? >> there is a lot of good news in terms of people living longer, healthier, more active in retirement. longevity means that the retirement savings challenge has gone to being a philosophy challenge. you have people thinking about what do i want to do with this longevity bonus, how do i want to spend the next 20 years. for are working to make up some of that lack of security -- >> none of us are going to retire. are you seeing in your statistics, people are going 65, you have got to be kidding. longer, a lotking of baby boomers are telling us they went to continue to work, you see people doing more information jobs than traditional manufacturing. a casket behind bloomberg radio, they are going to roll me into it. >> you will be fine, you will get social security.

have you a speech for apac. the speech wasn't on the schedule, it was off the record.s are reported. it was part of your job description to be a defender of israel. we're not going to resolve the complicated issues in palestine. as a new yorker, i don't know if that's true. i voted for this guy, i don't know if it's part of the job description for the defender of israel. it seems like he has a lot on his plate. the defender of the taiwanese against the one china policies. is it really your job description? >> i said something that was personal, i said something that was about my beliefs that we have to defend the state of israel. it has everything to do with the alliance, particularly as new yorkers, the deep connection we have to israel. and i think it's also a matter of protecting democracy, i think israel's stance is a pluralistic society, it deserves respect and it's been under attack, and i think it is our job to support it. that's me speaking as a mayor of the city, that is the closest to israel. and has one of the largest jewish populations to any city on earth,

i think the fed will continue apace in part because it's built up these expectations that it's going to continue doing so nols it has a very good reason not to. let me say one caveat to that. the federal reserve said a while ago when the unemployment rate gets to 6.5% they'll start thinking about raising the interest rate, which, of course, has been around zero for like four or five years. i don't think they're going to stick to that because they know that the unemployment rate is biased down by this labor force exit issue that we've been discussing about. so on that point, i think they'll be a little more flexible. but i think we'll continue to see the taper. there are other indicators in the economy that look better than that. the second half gdp growth was actually twice that of the first half last year. so there have been some acceleration there. >> peter, i want to get you in here and if you can do it without harshing on jared that would be great. >> that would be nice. >> go ahead. >> i don't believe that the fed is going to change course. i would be very firm about that if ber

kkr, paying $3.5 billion for two firms while apac partners snapped up a pair of companies for $3 billionon in this week ahead. back to you, carolin. >> looks like merger tuesday, not necessarily merger monday. thanks so much for that. these are your headlines this morning. japan extends its lending program to banks and responds. the nikkei closes up more than 3%. the china central bank rains in lending by draining nearly $8 billion from the system. >>> activists reportingly in talks with forest lab for $25 billion. and still ahead on the show, george soros doubled down on his positions on the markets. is the billionaire investor making the right call or hedging his bet? we get some market insight, coming up next. >>> there are growing concerns about fears of protests in venezuela today. on monday, crowds attack security forces and freed an opposition politician after he was arrested. he belongs to a party whose leader is accused by the president of inciting violence and heading a u.s.-backed conspiracy to oust him from forward. madudo expelled -- on monday. >>> six world powers are meeti

look at these numbers apac down 5%.y are getting their lunch eaten by i believe alcatel-lucent of all things, okay? that's not good. jdsu -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa, alcatel-lucent is eating somebody's lunch? >> yes. >> that's impossible. >> they are monga cisco. you know, for cisco. identify don i don't like the quarter at all and john chambers has an attitude on that call of basically, hey, everything's good here, don't worry about it. and the amen chorus from the analyst i find to be exasperating, oh, more than ever it's about the bottom. you've got to like it. weakness, you know, hey, listen, good opportunity here, puts and takes. holy cow, i mean, they're talking about a company that was a great growth company and it's not anymore. >> i do wonder in terms of activism with cisco one has to given how active activists have been when it comes to technology in particular. the company has -- this was -- i haven't looked at this latest quarter, jim, $37 billion in net cash and securities that represented about 36% of its asse