r carney is a very cool character.ce to give around the process they have set to look at these issues. comfort around the governance process generally. i expect to hear him saying they are supporting the investigation. i think he will make statements not condone market manipulation. i do not think he will be talking about details of the investigation because he does not want to prejudice what is going on. wayn what way -- in one this is an opportunity for carney. he has made it clear he wants to change the culture of the bank of england. this is an opportunity to do that if things emerge that are not what they should be. >> it is an opportunity. he has only been around for a few months. he was not around at the time of the events under investigation. his difficulty is that the investigations are going to go on for some time. he is going to be a feature in that for some time. the timeline of all of this might not suit his agenda. -- we you talk us through have been covering day in and day out the fx probe. what do we kn

at the same time, latent print examiner tom carney took a fresh look at these prints, too. was new to the el paso county crime laboratory. he came from miami where he learned something not many others knew. the fbi's fingerprint database did not contain the prints of everyone in the united states who was convicted of a crime. >> he knew right away that they had not, all these afises out there had not been searched. to the best of my knowledge only two afis systems had been searched. >> i just assumed that it was a centralized network and tom carney was the one that really opened our eyes on that. >> generally, the fbi stores only the fingerprints of criminals convicted of major crimes, not those convicted of minor crimes like burglary or theft. so, carney needed to identify every database that had fingerprints which were not on file with the fbi. >> i just contacted every state and tried to track down every system in every state, including canada and even mexico. >> carney identified 92 fingerprint databases in north america that hadn't been searched for the prints from the

. >>> canadian mark carney stamps his authority on the bank of england. new deputy could be announced as early as today. >> we'll bring you the update on the results of that as soon as we get to them. meanwhi meanwhile, the federal reserve and the fomc begins its two-day policy meeting today. the decision and u.s. forecasts are toous due wednesday, 2:00 p.m. eastern. and it's janet yellen's first news conference as fed chair which feels at t 2:30. investors expect the fed to continue its bond buying program. several officials have suggested scrapping the threshold of describing general changes in the jobs market inflation that could trigger a rate hike. we'll get more from adam on that. we just heard that the carlsberg court, as i understand it, has approved the esm rules, the esm is in line with the constitution. so any potential market threat from that has been taken away. the esm has been ruled in line with the german constitution. there we go. the man reading out that ruling is sitting down taking his hat off. a quick word on that. this should be the

marco carney gives testimony today. was to know what the central-bank at new about possible manipulation and the foreign currency exchange. no bank said they found evidence of collusion. securities exchange commission has started a pro. bank of japan has maintained a record easing. japan is facing a sales tax a bump next month that could trigger the contraction since march 2011 earthquake. today is of the third anniversary of that disaster. ukraine defense ministry is testing the combat readiness as the crimean region gets closer to a referendum on joining ukraine. they said there are close to 20,000 troops in crimea, those are russian troops. the prime minister meets with president obama in washington tomorrow and the world bank said it is really -- ready to give $3 billion in aid. welcome to "countdown." i am mark barton. >> i am anna edwards. our attention to the crisis in ukraine. russia is planning a outer .roposal to the u.s. solution ryan chilcote will give us more details that could be a diplomatic solution. >>

but really, the carney carnage has taken precedent.hing we've seen from the treasury this morning is this brand new one-pound coin which will be in speculation from 2017. this is in order to make sure that counterfeiting comes down. but this coin has gone from being round to having as many sides almost as the bank of england has new deputy govern governors. i'm not sure if the chancellor can remove that kind of market moving change in terms of the budget, but we'll watch that. back to you, julia. >> thanks so much, helia. we'll catch up with you later on in the show. >>> janet yellen will wrap up her first fed meeting since becoming chairman later today. the fomc will likely change guidance for when it may start raising rates back to that 6.5% unemployment threshold. yellen's news conference will be at 2:30 p.m. elin joins me now. you're asking the question of whether or not it's possible for the fed to be too transparent at this stage. i think stanley fisher would say absolutely, but what are your thoughts? >> if you try to explain to

coststched mark carney speech last night -- mark carney's speech last night.talked about the reforms of the bank of england and try to break out the structure in that organization. he has looked at what he needs to do and he is making changes. we have new faces coming in. and talking to deliver macro credentials. time, is try to keep things lower. that is more significant. >> thank you so much. i'm looking forward to coverage coming throughout the day on the ground. we are getting breaking news from bmw. profits have risen significantly on new models. we will get more on this shortly. this is just crossing the bloomberg terminal. models because of new that they say would lift car sales. today, the f from oc meets c meets. on quality instead of quantity. >> absolutely. it is 10 billion every month. this is what they are expecting. forward guidance is a known unknown. what are we going to do? no one really cares about it anymore. we have heard janet yellen speak over the last couple of months. she has notis that had a federal reserve meeting in the back. today i

why do you think jay carney said that stock market remark? did he do that deliberately to badg badger stock markets? what was he trying to do there? >> well, i can't say for sure but reading the tea leaves of what he said today and president obama said yesterday, i suspect they are planning the new sanctions on individuals. individuals related to the russian government, in the russian government but also probably individuals in the economy. they made very clear that if putin took this step of annexation there would be costs so i suspect there's going to be new sanctions. >> all right. let me just read a couple of names to you. you probably know these guys. this is from "the wall street journal" editorial. alexi miller, he can squeeze ukraine on gas supplies and prices. egor, another croni and canadian became a billionaire after putin took over the kremlin. they've got a lot of assets in london and the united states and travel back and forth. is tht kind of thing that you want to see the president do? >> well, all three of those gentlemen you

. >> so carney offered no specifics, a broader look at enrollment shows less of a triumph than claimed. first, the administration has to substraekt those who signed up but haven't paid premiums meaning they're not officially enrolled. >> we had kind of three months of strong enrollment. they were heartened by the fact they had about an 80% payment rate, but again, that did not come from us. >> insurance analysts and surveys agree, if only 80% of the 6 million total are paying, then the officially enrolled number would drop to about 5.2 million, down from an original prediction of 7 million sign-ups the first year. and paying will be an ongoing issue. >> it's not the success story that i've got somebody joining the plan. it's continuing to stay in the plan and begging those monthly premiums from then on that's going to be the real challenge. >> another issue, officials insist they don't know how many signing up were previously uninsured even though covering the uninsured was the purpose of the law. >> if we ask how many people were previously uninsured are now insured, it's probably 1 m

jim, i want to play something that jay carney said earlier. listen and we'll talk about it. >> there are a number of possible scenarios that are being investigated as to what happened to the flight, and we are not in a position at this time to make conclusions about what happened, unfortunately, but we're actively participating in a search and, again, we're -- we, in an investigation led by the malaysian government, an investigation that involves many nations with many assets, are following leads where we find them and it's my understanding, that based on new information, it's not necessarily conclusive, but information that it may be in the indian ocean and we're consulting with our partners about the appropriate assets to deploy. >> jim sciutto, what do you make of that? >> well, i think the best way to look at this, this is an investigation like any other. there are clues and some of those clues are going to pan out and some of them are not. yesterday we had the satellite images which looked very interesting but that clue did not pan out. h

>> i'll resist. >> jay carney resisted. david? >> well, i'm not confined as carney is. what popped to mind, which should have been called notes from the peanut gallery, the line where he said able leaders anticipate events, prepare for them and act to shape them and all i had in any mind was the image of mitt romney sitting there on election night, the only man in america who didn't know he lost the election and he didn't prepare for that one. i think it's, the whole column offered no solutions and offered no at least acknowledgment that there might have been conversations going on that mitt romney wasn't privy to, so it came off more like sour grapes than constructive criticism. >> what was interesting is there are a lot of people in romney world, i've heard this, romney say, hey, guess what, president obama mocked romney when he said that russia was you know, the number -- it's a sore point for romney and may be the motivator for this. just to refresh, here's the back and forth. president obama during that debate in 2012 when he mocked mitt romney for that xwhent. . >

this is making money with jay carney.you whether you would take advice from obama's press secretary. we got a couple responses. allen says jay carney is the same guy advising me to buy obamacare and that won't happen. mary says i would not ask for a weather report. just look out the window. he is an embarrassment to the country like the rest of the administration little harsh. howard things we should have sympathy for jay carney saying do not blame him, look at who he is paid for speak for. is a dirty job. not sure how jay carney feels about the two stocks we are going to bring up now, we value his opinion, check the now. an ideal, it would be cute to, put out cloud computing for banks. it is a 27%. q the trumpets, please. q the trumpets. thank you, thank you. microsoft hit $40 a share. i am a shareholder. i am not contemplating retirement but that is a wonderful piece of news for me and i'm going to leave it up on the screen for a while, let this thing in. they are telling me to move on. all right. time to reveal today's

marco carney and paul fisher, it may be a little bit more uncomfortable than a carney who is in charge institution when the issues came to be force. mark carney instigated back in october. one of the big accusations that they need to be more independent and terms of governing themselves. 15,000 e-mails. bloomberg and state messages. telephone calls have been listened to on the back of fcc investigating to rig the fx market including options and exchange credit. be commonse will it committee focus on? -- would've heard lots of comments from various people. you cannot be judge and jury of your own institution if you have an issue. you need to bring somebody much more independent than a law firm. the reputation of london again at the heart of looking after markets like libor and foreign exchange suddenly comes into question. 80 years ago, heart of the group and your institution was told by market participants -- were told by market participants suggesting that there was a form of collusion in a market and has did eight years to do something. is about reputation and governance and how are

. >> you have carney out there every day. has anybody asked jay carney.'t see the whole press conference. does anybody ask him doesn't do anything, he looks very very weak in the eyes of americans? does he understand that? does anybody ask carney that? >> nobody asks that direct question. >> will ask you him please. >> i asked him about syria for example. >> this is cut and dry henry. >> you follow through and send a signal to putin. >> this is really cut and dry. i mean, here is the president, he has got the ukraine prime minister in the white house today what are they there going this is bad. this is bad. no, it's really really really bad. and then when it comes out we are not going to do anything about it. that makes mr. obama look weak. and i'm wondering whether the president himself understands that or whether carney would actually deny that. a point taken that talk is not going to scare putin. as you acknowledged a moment ago even the "new york times" editorial page saying something needs to be done. they don't have a solution. >> they don't know wh

give carney questions before the white house briefing and then he gives us the answers maybe by e-mail or something and the white house briefing is just scripted, she said, and base cle we all know what's going on. i can tell you i've been here eight years, two presidents, two different parties, never once scripted a question to any press secretary. to say this is naive is the misstatement of the year. we'll e-mail questions or topics that we're chasing a health care story or something like that, that gives jay carney time to think about what kind of answers he has but the idea we're scripting it is ridiculous, bret. >> if anyone watched your questioning at the press conference you'd have to watch that. >> not usually that scripted. >> thank you, ed. >>> up next some lawmakers ask the question does raising the minimum wage kill jobs? but, first, here's what some of our fox affiliates across the country are covering tonight. ktvc has the sentence for brigadier general jeffrey sinclair, got a reprimand and was fined $20,000. he pled guilty to adultery with one woman, having inappropriate

bias to check back later said there was too many visitors but that did not stop spokesperson jay carney to claim it a success even with help philippi's for the press corps. >> no one expected us to come back or to surpass the revised projection as 6 million would sign up but we have. and we have merit's noting in your reports. lou: i'm sure there were very appreciative. white house ezekiel emanuel trumpeting the new website and able to handle all the traffic just before he was informed on the air live that the web site crashed once again saramaccan notice with the big surge that was pointed out no problem with the web site it is working. so that is another real surprised that they have it working mechanically with sir capacity civic we should point out it was down as of midnight. >> really? >> yesterday i love don denton:00 p.m. >> is still down. >> timing is everything. >> there would be as a greater sense of humility about the administration with healthcare.gov in obamacare itself but not. here is another bizarre exchange with hhs secretary sebelius a handle local newscaster in oklaho

i hope jay carney's listening.ce that warning, russian stocks have actually been doing quite well. climbing around 6.5% compared to less than 1% gain for the s&p 500. thank the white house for that investment. >> it's so dangerous. i don't know where they get the you know what to tell people how to be investing. especially if this guy wouldn't know the russian market if it hit him in the head. >> there didn't seem to be a hint of sarcasm. there's one thing to say in jest goofing around. >> and he could've taken it back. >> there was nothing sarcastic. i think he was really stating -- >> and by the way, from a market's perspective, that's the time -- when people like that are saying sell a market, that's usually when people in markets say i'm buying. >> all right. coming up, the company that's banking on innovation. doug bowers joins us days after the company's debut on the nasdaq. aq. (announcer) scottrade knows our and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend

as we heard andrea a short time ago, jay carney trying to make it clear this is an administration --ppened under the last administration, saying specifically they are investigating activities that happened under the bush administration but the hacking accusations happened under the obama administration. >> exactly. and in fact, he may try to understandably trying to distance himself but when he's saying some would argue is a little bit too narrowly defined. he's saying that the interrogation and detention practices being investigated happened under george bush. but it also happened under john brennan when john brennan was working at the cia. and the hacking and intrusion into the senate intelligence computers that is alleged, happened completely under the cia -- in this administration after leon panetta left the cia. >> to be clear, within the last hour or so, he said they did not hack into the cia and computers and when you asked whether he should resign and him saying that's up to the president. the question was raised and jay carney punted that one as well. >> brennan is very clos

what do you make of what we just heard from jay carney, by the way? that the ntsb investigators they're working with the malaysian investigators. and based on looking at radar data they have, they believe the search area should be expanded. i haven't heard where exactly, but they show expansion -- >> yesterday one of the commanders of the u.s. navy seventh fleet said they were moving that search area west of malaysian. and now we're hearing from the white house they're moving it all the way into the indian ocean. so if you lose the transponder at one point, but then the plane is continuing to fly reverse course, fly over malaysia and head towards the indian ocean, what does that say to you? >> well, it could be anything. clearly there could be some type of incapacitation of pilots, they reprogrammed to get back and kept ongoing. >> so one theory the pilots actually turned off the transponders. >> no, let's say there's some type of massive event happened on the airplane and they want to get back to kuala lumpur, they reprogram and change and the pilot

now you know it is spring when the cranes return to carney, harry smith, nbc news, carney, nebraska. >> and that is our broadcast for this thursday night, thank you for joining us, i'm brian williams, of course we hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> nbc bay area news begins with breaking news. >>> and that breaking news comes out of the east bay where firefighters are still try oing to get a handle on a brush fire. this is in pittsburg. right now you're looking at a live picture from our copter. >> the smoke can be seen for miles. it's burning extremely close to a power plant. now the spokesman tells us that while the plant is operational, it was not active when this fire began. the power lines which you can see perilously close to the flames, if those lines fall, it could cause additional fires. they are working to deenergize those power lines. but right now all pg&e customers still have their power on. this is near the willow pass road right off of highway 4. and drivers are being asked to avoid the area. with us on the phone is george langenbrunne lang. wha

you're going short. >> carney also teed up that more u.s.ions could be coming soon. meanwhile reports a ukrainian man killed in a standoff between ukrainian soldiers and other soldiers in unmarked uniforms. a question about whether this was an escalation of the situation on the ground, something the world is watching very closely, jenna. >> did jay carney give any other investment advice during the press briefing? >> i have not seen that from jay. we asked about reports he may be leaving soon. he didn't get into that either. >> interesting. ed, thank you very much. a big story as we mentioned. vladimir putin defiant as ever ratcheting up his rhetoric. saying, quote, our western partners headed by united states prefer not to be guided by international law in their practical policies abide but by the rule of the gun. he added they have come to believe in their exceptionalism and their sense of being the chosen one that they can decide the destinies of the world, that it is only them who can be right. larry o'connor, host of mornings on the mal

for viewers in europe, still to come, mark carney testifying in london.will bring you the details on that. >>> good morning. the search widens for malaysia flight 370. details emerge about one of the passengers carrying a stolen passport. >>> congress launching an investigation into how gm and federal regulators responded to numerous complaints over the years about ignition switch problems and bill ackman, ready to launch another attack against herbalife. it is tuesday, march 11th, 2014, and "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew is off today. we start this morning with a developing story. the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 is widening three days after the boeing 777 went missing just one hour into the flight. one development overnight, one of the two men traveling with the stolen passport is believed to be an iranian national who was trying to seek asylum. the story has been developing throughout this and we will be checking in in just a litt

jay carney is the the latest member of the obama administration to plan his departure. those close to carney cites stress as the factor, although much of his job has been to deflect the questions of the press core instead of answering them. >> and i would refer to you the department of justice. i would have refer you to the doe. i would refer to you nhtsa. and i would refer you to the justice department for any action they may or may not take, but i would refer you to the government of ukraine. lou: well, i'm sure that the man who succeeds him will be much, much more effective. as a matter of fact, the current deputy josh earnest refused comment today when asked to confirm carney's pending departure. we're coming right back. the campaign trail littered with broken promises and lies. the president is finally admitting the truth, you can't necessarily keep your doctor, but we can. dr. marc siegel on obamacare and the frightening return of a deadly disease. in the new new york, we don't back down. we only know one direction: up so we're up early. up late. thinking up game-

mark carney revealed a plan to fuse departments of the bank of england.en makes her debut. >> it is u.k. budget day. live in westminster. >> welcome back to "countdown." i am mark barton. annaam an edwards -- edwards. >>

since spokesman jay carney telegraphed this last week. >> as was the case for the december deadline, we want to make sure people who are already in line can finish their enrollment. >> except at the same briefing, carney made the same declaration a long line of officials have made, no extension. >> march 31st is the deadline for enrollment, you heard us make it clear. >> are you going to delay the open enrollment beyond march 31st? >> no, sir. >> we have no plans to extend the open enrollment period. open enrollment ends on march 31st, and we don't have the statory authority to extend it. >> a lack of statutory authority has not stopped the president from unilaterally changing the law more than 30 times. >> so many waivers, special favors, and exemptions to help democrats out, that the heart of the law, the individual mandate, may actually no longer even be viable. it's basically become the legal equivalent of swiss cheese. >> those problems led a democratic pollster to tell reporters at a christian scientist breakfast, she has simple advice. in terms of obamacare, don't defend it. s

>> jay carney save they wanted to cook the books they would have done that in november when the newsas really bad. >> and have to have all the insurance companies in cahoots with them. what's the latest on the issues with the site? i hear it's back up now, right and. >> it is but the timing of the web web web site's prom -- problems has been terrible and the white house has to extend the deadline. officials promised anyone who starts to enroll but can't plead the application by midnight. they blamed a glitch that left the web site down hours past its maintenance time and the rush of enrollees took the web site down. jay carney blamed the republican critics of sweating the small stuff and missing the larger achievement. >> it's not a victory. this is all this about is providing benefits to the american people. it's not about mid-term cycle or what a critic in the senate or house says versus what we say. it's about delivering on a promise. that the affordable care act embodied, and that the president made, and that many presidents prior to him tried to make. >> critics say if the admin

. >> while white house spokesman jay carney warned there may be another round of sanctions on the way. >> there are more designations to come. >> except russian officials are openly making fun of the sanctions announced by the president with an aide to putin declaring -- >> translator: i'm proud of this so-called political oscar from america in the nomination of best actor in the supporting role. >> after russia's deputy prime minister had taken to twitter to declare, quote, i think some prankster prepared the draft of this act of the u.s. president. >> when your adversaries are spitting in your face and mocking sanctions that the administration claims are the most serious comprehensive sanctions ever imposed on post-cold war russia, it should alarm us because they're not taking us seriously. >> mitt romney charged in the wall street journal today there has been analysis paralysis because the administration could have interceded much sooner, when protests and violence in ukraine first started exploding weeks uz go. romney adding, quote, it's hard to name even a single country that has

what do you make of jay carney's investment advice?y was such a great advisor, you would have him on your show more regularly instead of having charles. [laughter] >> i just find this to be completely out of place. stuart: what about the future? stuart: it seems that this takeover of crimea has really woken things up. a new aggressive opponent in the world. the whole global situation is much more complicated these days. >> what should the u.s. do? what can the u.s. do to address this particular problem. foreign policy is not my area of expertise. i think that these are two of the answers that were we need. what is russia? should we be involved? stuart: is there any sanctions that would hurt russia? >> the uk has something like $40 billion in assets invested in russia. russia would be hurt somewhat. it would be to slow down fueled revenue. i do not hear the u.s. and the europeans proposing such a way of imposing such a cost on russia. stuart: no aggression of any kind. ten wins. dominique, thank you for joining us. we have toyota hit wi

. >> he sounded like art carney to me. i think it's absurd.nd having trading russia forever, isn't this what i expect from the russian government to make comments about the market. i think it's absurd. and sarcastically, i would say is the government a registered adviser here? and telling people to short the russian market -- >> it's irresponsible. >> i don't think he means that people should short russian stocks. i think he's being a little bit sarcastic. he probably wishes he could take it back. but let me tell you two things about this. number one, russia has been a very, very bad place for equity investors for years and years now. selling at four-times earnings, prior to anything to do with the crimea. the country has real problems. it's not they're insurmountable. but people are worried about asset forfeitures than about anything going on with 1% gdp growth. they pay about 6% or 7% to fund the government. not a great place to be. but the second thing is, nothing the u.s. can do is really going to change the russia story. >> you agree with

yesterday press secretary jay carney admitted that the cia had given the white house a heads up shortly cia planned to file a criminal inquiry with the justice department against staff on the senate intelligence committee. a criminal inquiry that senator feinstein said was potential effort to intimidate her senate staff. those are the people tasked with determining the results of the cia's enhanced interrogation program under president george w. bush. the white house involvement doesn't stop there. today mcclatchy reports for the past five years the administration has been withholding over 9,000 documents that the intelligence committee requested as a part of its review. the white house told mcklatchey those documents were "sed aside" because they raised executive branch confidentiality interests. it is unclear what those interests are. this afternoon white house press secretary jay carney defended the withholding of these 9,000 documents and usualed the senate to complete their report without them. >> throughout this process the administration has facilitated unprecedented access to mo

you said a very controversial thing to jay carney the other day. >> started out saying a million peoplelled. is that the correct word enrolled since we don't know how many people have paid their premiums? is it 5 million signed up? will we get the information on who has actually enrolled and paid their premiums? >> cms is working to provide more detailed data on who has already paid their premiums, what percentage of the population of enrollees that includes. we can point you to major insurers who have placed that figure at 80%, give or take. depending on the insurer. but we don't have specific data that is, you know, in a reliable enough form to provide. >> that's unbelievable to me that the white house doesn't have data to provide you with a very interesting question. how many people paying? how many people bought? >> give or take. that's a big give or take because some insurance companies have said 80 o% have paid. others have said far less have paid whether it's fifth or 60%. bottom line if you are out saying a million have enrolled and a bunch of them hadn't put their checks in and

carney did not directly answer that. while the u.s. was become with one voice with allies in europe ahead of the referendum, it is still going to go on. >> is the prime minister going to go home with the usa advantagee? tying the package of $1 billion loan guarantees with the provision with the imf to reallocate funds. loan guarantee that was passed last week did not include the reallocation of imf funds. john baeder came out and said the two should not be tied. the action we need to watch is in the senate. whether or not they go ahead with what the house past or whether it will have to get renegotiated. >> julianna goldman with the latest on that meeting. thank you. coming up, the u.s. china race. tell you about the push in africa when bottom line continues in just a moment. ♪ >> president obama's pick for janet yellen's top attendant needs to maintain monetary policy. stanley fischer testifies on thursday at his senate confirmation hearing but is prepared -- but his preparator comments of artie been released. peter cook has more on h

. >>> white house press secretary jay carney in the spotlight after a news anchor at a cbs station intioned by white house reporter in advance and that report spread online despite the report admitting she may have mixed up what happened and carney denied it as well. some of us might have missed the story. but it was interesting back and forth with the white house. catch us up. >> this blue up on twitter and if carney was getting questions in advance from the white house people this would be a big story. it didn't pass the smell test. the people in the room are not going to giving the questions in advance if you know the people in the room. the cbs affiliate interviewed president obama and had an off the record conversation with carney and he said she apologizes and engaged in bad reporting and she was never told this. >> a misunderstanding or did she say something she had to take back? >> she really screwed up. at first she claims she was asked for a question she was going to ask were in advance. then she said she volunteered. it is pretty big changes to allude. she didn't have the f

it has been a whirlwind tour so we are looking forward to your first comment from jay carney. looking forward in all seriousness we couldn't be more excited about john being at bloomberg. we are building the bureau, the bureau is on our role and john will help us lead that drive on top of a talented staff we already have. read the book, we will have copies for you and bags on the way out. jonathen allen and amie parnes have kindly sign all of them for you. thank you for coming and showing all your support and it is your turn. [applause] >> to be very brief time want to welcome you on behalf of the hill and say how delighted we are you are here to congratulate amie parnes and jonathen allen on a fabulous achievement they put together. we are very proud of them both. amie parnes came to was a couple years ago after a mid level start up in arlington, virginia and joins us in washington d.c. and white house correspondent doing a fabulous job, great sources and a real adornment to the paper. jonathen allen in his nomadic career was with us in 2005-2006, done obviously great work wh

mark carney revealed a plan to fuse departments of the bank of england. janet yellen makes her debut. >> it is u.k. budget day. live in westminster. >> welcome back to "countdown." i am mark barton. annaam an edwards -- edwards. >> the u.k. budget is set to be unveiled later today. let's head over to guy johnson. good morning, guy. to bes budget is going long on politics, short on economics. to be honest, the chancellor is going to conduct a series of tweaks today. it is about setting the agenda for 2015 when this country will go to the polls. it is about the narrative in advance of the general election. , it willare saying really be about the cost of living. it will be about social mobility. it will be about jobs and there will be some economic things were we'll have a bit of a push when it comes to generating more experts -- exports for the british economy. this is about filling out the political landscape in advance of the election. the labour party will have something to go at here but probably on the economic front, very little because the chancellor

carney is talking about major operational changes tonight in london.oing to be deputy governor, male or female? >> i think the one question everyone is asking is, will it be a female. how hard is it in any female any top position at the bank of england. quite hard, apparently. all five appointments to senior positions since then have been man. big pressure on george osborne. >> we have candidates. lucreziamber one is if you look at the take a look ate spencer dale, he is 15-8. they might actually name a female to the position. >> carney has made it everyone feel that the ratio was wrong. >> suspicion is that the candidate will not come internally. there's more talk about a fourth deputy governor. another financial stability, we may get links to markets and banking. who needs more italians, seen? >> i would argue that we have enough italians. >> at think that argument is well made by those onset right now. >> i am going to go to that speech. that sounds interesting. caroline hyde joins us now for more details. >> they were down one and one percent at on

carney is an alumni.eal history of taking cash where it came from and how it started and what is the significance. >> you're calling for increased global coronation. do you feel that they have the lyrical license to make international agreements? >> that is absolutely the key point. mark carney is doing the right thing in the u k by making clear that central banks have a much more broad mandate than we thought before the crisis. they were narrowly focused on price stability. he is saying we need to look a great deal more to ensure monetary stability. in this globalized world, there needs to be international cooperation. that is where you need political license. i'm not sure any banker has that. >> in her book, the subtext is the unauthorized biography. you chronicled the role of money throughout history. where does bitcoin fit in? >> bitcoin is a very interesting phenomenon. it has two aspects. one is a red herring. one is potentially quite revolutionary. the red herring is when people have focused on so

jay carney would not rule that out.he white house is holding that out as a possibility as the days move forward here. also whether or not some of the gas giants and oil giants of russia might be targeted next. whether we might see some of the olegarks who have a lot of control and influence in russia, whether they might be next. the white house is indicating that these sanctions could get ratcheted up and i put the question to jay carney, does vladamir putin care. he is expected to address russia and expect to give an address to the nation tomorrow and so that is going to be what we are all going to be looking towards. whether or not vladimir putin appears as economic sanctions are ratcheted up. about that referendum in crimea, jay carney was asked about that and officials have asked about that. they are not viewing that as legitimate and once the official went as far as to say the balance that came in according to the united states were premarked. the white house is essentially regarding this referendum that took place

just pressed jay carney on that. listen. >> do you believe we've moved from political conflict in ukraine to military conflict? >> russia intervened militarily, occupied a region of ukraine with military forces. so i don't think there's been any doubt there is military component to this activity that is deeply troubling. >> now, russian officials seem to be shaking off the first round of sanctions that president obama announced this week. some russian officials going on camera, others taking to twitter to joke about it and basically suggest these sanctions are going to have no impact on russia, on its economy. that's why republicans like karl rove are suggesting the president is not showing enough leadership. listen. >> we need to be tougher, broader, stop leading from behind. the world needs to see united states leading from the front on this issue. >> bottom line as jay carney pushed back on that criticism in the daily briefing. he suggested and hinted at the possibility of a second round of u.s. sanctions against

elections in 2014 like they helped the president in 2012, jay carney said he was offended. >> it hasnothing to do with the mid terms? >> you know what, i think every woman in here ought to be offended by it. i'm offended by it on behalf of my wife and daughter. >> this executive order will be coming just a day or so after those health care numbers were released yesterday that were lower than the white house had hoped. they showed progress but shows far from reaching goals in terms of signups and enrollment. the question is going to be whether all of this is an effort to refrain mid term elections away from health care. >> was there something or did they take notice of the comments that boehner was making that look, you know, the focus should be first on jobs, getting people jobs then we can talk about what they're going to get paid, whether overtime is going to apply, that kind of thing? >> no. frankly, i don't think the white house listened to that criticism from boehner because they have heard him say that on health care. the argument is going to push people to part time work. the

jay carney telegraphed in a briefing in washington, if people were waiting in line, they would try todate them just like they did in the run-up to december 31st deadline. what they are leaving out is jay carney and a stream of other officials also repeatedly said there would be no extension to the deadline. >> we have no plans to extend the open period. open enrollment ends march 31st. we don't have the statutory authority to extend the enrollment period in 2013. >> are you going to delay open enrollment beyond march 31st? >> no, sir. >> they said they didn't have the statutory authority there in that conference call to unilaterally change this. of course, as you noted, they unilaterally changed the law many times, gretchen. >> republicans are saying this is a politically motivated decision. does it have anything to do with the midterm elections coming up. >> senate republican leader mitch mcconnell said this is now the legal equivalent of swiss cheese, because there's been so many changes and the changes are tied to the midterms trying to give democrats up for election a little bit o

governor of the bank of england mark carney is facing tough questioning from uk lawmakers today.embers of parliament on the influential treasury select committee expected to ask exactly what bank officials knew about the allegations that key prices on the london foreign exchange markets were kind of being manipulated as long as eight years ago. the bank of england has already suspended one employee and more than 20 traders. they have been either suspended or asked to leave. we will see what he says. bangladesh, the second largest garment exporter with $22 billion. it has been under pressure to improve factory safety after the 2013 cole lambs of the plaza which killed over 1,000 workers. a safety agreement signed by 20 countries led to factory inspections. it's at a slow start with 10 factories out of 5,000. there have been improvements including higher wages. bosses from three major european retailers will be speaking to uk lawmakers about their efforts. they have found substandard building materials and electrical cables chewed by rats. not good. three years ago a devastating ea

but white house press secretary jay carney cautioned today, there are limits to what's possible. >> the president understands and is concerned about the pain caused by separations that have come about through deportation, but he also understands and has made clear that there's no comprehensive fix he can himself enact. congress has to act. >> woodruff: so far, though, there's little prospect of comprehensive immigration reform this year. the president says enough people have signed up, under his health care law, for the program to work. he told the medical website "web m.d." today that enrollment to date, 4.2 million, is sufficient to make the program stable. but he also urged young and healthy people to sign up, to off-set costs. the deadline is march 31st. the u.s. education department will try again to crack down on career-training colleges whose graduates can't pay their student debt. these programs account for almost half of all student loan defaults. education secretary arne duncan called today for stripping schools of access to financial aid if their pupils can't find decent-payi

white house press secretary jay carney is currently briefing the reporters and peppered with questions about this just moments ago. >> here's what i can tell you. this is a matter involving protocols established in 2009 for the interaction between committee staff and cia staff and officials as part of the investigation the committee was undergoing. there have been periodic disputes about that process. and as you know, this is under investigation, these matters are under two separate investigations an ig review as well as referral to the department of justice. i'm not going to provide an analysis or assessment -- >> joining us now fresh off of her conversation with brennan is andrea mitchell. nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports." thanks so much and it's so exciting to have you on the show. >> you bet. >> we've been hearing conflicting reports in different publications about the exact nature of where the computers were. did you get a sense from brennan about that and do you have a sense from our sources as to whether they were senator cia property

i'm offended on that on behalf of my wife and daughter. >> as for the health care numbers, jay carneyhey made progress, despite the faulty website, and in his words, we'll see where we are at the end of the month. >> thank you. >> stocks were mixed today. the dow lost 11. the s&p 500 picked up a fraction. the nasdaq added 16. >> president obama spoke for the first time about the rift between the central intelligence committee and the agency. it's a clash that has both sides alleging misconduct in handling of classified data. >> that's not something that is a appropriate role for me and the white house to wade into at this point, but the one thing i want to emphasize is the substantive issue, which is how do we operate even when we're threatened, even when we have gone through extraordinary trauma, has to be consistent with rule of law and our values. i acted on that on the first day, and that hasn't changed. >> the affair erupted into open view yesterday with a blistering floor speech by democratic committee chair dianne feinstein and a rebuttal by the cia director john brennan. just

i think we made the right call here. >> so made the right call, according to jay carney. bob, as greg points out, they pretty much have the young person locked up right now. maybe they should be doing things to reach out to maybe middle-aged people. >> look, it's early march. 4.2 million and they wanted to get to 7 million by the 31st. it's quite possible they could get 5.5 million or 6 million people. n none of you would have given that a prayer's chance of getting that far. if i said to you when you started to dump on obamacare when the website didn't work, if i said 4.2 million by march 10th or 11th -- >> bob, it's the likelihood of them getting to that place is highly unlikely. again, these are goals they set for themselves. and a good portion of these people who sign up haven't paid the premium. so you can't technically count them. they're counting them. they shouldn't do that. the point with the zach galifianakis interview, i think it's hilarious. he's really funny. the problem is he won the interview. he looks good. he got people to laugh at him. president obama, t

your take on what the president did and the fact that he left the questions for jake carney. >> this is a way for the president to stay on message. they don't want to dilute it. they wanted to just leave it at that to answer any questions in a follow up. president obama and as we said at the top, we can look at the sequence of events here. and john kerry, the white house the administration, and p pas in conjunction with david cameron and his government, decided it was time to go public and give this a push. >> our white house correspondent, thank you very much. and also comments coming out of ireland, former prime minister -- speaking just moments ago. and for ukraine to remain one nation. >> . >> we must now find a european wide legal and business solution. in this situation. but there is no time left. if we allow rub sha on march 16 hold the referendum at the point, on the annexation for ukraine -- and stability. throughout the whole world. >> recently released from prison following those protests she spent more than two years in jail, on charging of abuse of office. and meanwhile