Carly Fiorina, former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, listens before speaking during a campaign stop at the Stellar Industries production facilities in Garner, Iowa, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
Carly Fiorina said Sunday that neither she nor Hewlett-Packard should be faulted for the sales of millions of HP printers in Iran when such business was prohibited by U.S. law.
Appearing on Fox's Fox News Sunday, Fiorina said that despite being the CEO of HP when the Iranian sales took place via a third party, she was unaware of them.
"First, HP, you need to remember, was larger than each of the 50 states," Fiorina said. "It's a larger budget than any one of our 50 states, and a global enterprise. And so it's impossible to ensure that nothing wrong ever happens. The question is what do you do when you find out."
“In fact, the SEC investigation proved that neither I nor anyone else in management knew about it.”
Carly Fiorina
“Are you saying you didn’t know about it?” host Chris Wallace asked.
“In fact, the SEC investigation proved that neither I nor anyone else in management knew about it…” she insisted, adding, “...when the company discovered this three years after I left, they cut off all ties. The SEC investigated very thoroughly and concluded that no one in management was aware.”
A 2008 Boston Globe investigation found that, while U.S. companies were banned from selling goods to Iran, an Indian company in Dubai called Redington Gulf had sold HP printers there. They sold them so well, in fact, that HP had 41 percent market share in Iran by 2007. Redington Gulf obtained the printers through a European subsidiary.
Wallace asked Fiorina why HP had named Redington Gulf its "Wholesaler of the Year" award in 2003 if the company wasn't aware of its sales to Iran, Fiorina again deflected blame.
"The wholesaler of the year that you're describing was doing business with another company that was doing business with Iran. Clearly that wholesaler of the year, which should not have been wholesaler of the year, was not honest in their dealings with us, and they were not honest in their dealings with this third company."
Fiorina was also asked about the HP's struggles during her tenure, which included layoffs of 30,000 employees and a drop in share price. Fiorina said, as she has said before, that her time at HP (from 1999 until early 2005) was a period marked by widespread faltering in the technology industry.
"It's important to remember that I led HP during the worst technology recession in 25 years," Fiorina said, saying the Nasdaq technology stock index dropped by 80 percent and took 15 years to recover from that recession.
Host Chris Wallace pointed out that, by the time Fiorina was fired, the Nasdaq had only dropped 23 percent, compared with HP's share price, which was down twice as much at the same time.
"Yes and that technology-heavy stock index dropped again," Fiorina said. "There are people who look at a stock one day at a time. I never led that way."
Fiorina stressed that those who were laid off at HP got generous severance packages and career counseling, and said that if she were the president, government jobs would wind up cut, too.
"When you have a big, bloated bureaucracy costs too much, that is becoming inept—and by the way that’s what we have in Washington, D.C.—then there are some jobs that have to go away," she said. "And I will say as president of the United States, 256,000 baby boomers are going to retire out of the federal government in the next four or five years. I will not replace a single one."
CORRECTION: The original version of this story misstated the number of baby boomers who will retire out of the federal government.
-Sara Palin (1A)- “Based on @MegynKelly’s conflict of
interest and bias she should not be allowed to be a moderator of the next
debate,” Trump posted to Twitter on
Saturday
a.Megan Kelly on Sara
b.Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,”
National Review editor Rich Lowry. Conservatives Against Trump – Glenn Beck
(endorses Cruz) , Bill Kristol, Erick Erickson, Andy Mccarthy, Michael Mukasey,
Tomas Sowell, Brent Bozell, Dana Loesch, Katie Pavlich, David Macintosh. National
Review loses GOP debate sponsorship over anti-Trump issue. (1C)
c.Trump and Beck – Beck (CNN money article) “Trump wins it will be a Snowball
to Hell” "We need a new George
Washington," Beck said at the rally. "Today's Washington will not be
found in the garish light of gold, but rather, in the bold service of a man who
stands tirelessly for what he deeply believes -- that government should be of
the people, by the people, and for the people." "I have prayed for
the next George Washington," Beck said of Cruz. "I believe I have
found him." - Trump (1H 22 Failed Beck) renewed his feud with Beck on
Thursday, days ahead of the conservative commentator's scheduled campaign
appearances with Ted Cruz.Cruz's
courtship of Beck was perceived by many observers as a response to Palin's
endorsement of Trump earlier this week. "Wacko @glennbeck is a sad answer
to the @SarahPalinUSA endorsement that Cruz so desperately wanted," Trump
tweeted on Thursday. "Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul!" - “I
could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t
lose any voters, OK?” Trump told an enthusiastic audience at a Christian
school, Dordt College. “It’s like incredible.”
d.Kelly and Rich Lowry (1D)
e.Hollywood - Michael Moore, Kerry Washington,
Rosie O’Donnell, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Dylan McDermott, Roseann Barr,
and Lily Tomlin are among the film and television stars who have pledged to
“speak out in every way possible” to prevent Trump from becoming the next
President of the United States as part of the new “Stop Hate Dump Trump”
campaign.In a statement on its website,
the group says it believes Trump is “a grave threat to democracy, freedom,
human rights, equality, and the welfare of our country and all our people.”
f.by BREITBART NEWsA former McCain senior adviser blasted former
Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as
“just classless,” telling Politico’s Ben Schreckinger that McCain’s vice
presidential running mate is “one of America’s most astounding morons.” Schreckinger
reports: “It’s just classless,” said a
former senior adviser to McCain of the endorsement, predicting it would
backfire. “It’s undermining to a key Trump message which is one of competency.
What Trump has said is that he’s going to hire the very best people and bring
in men of Carl Icahn’s ilk … and he’s appearing with someone who’s viewed as
one of America’s most astounding morons.
g.Ted Cruz: Establishment Has Abandoned Marco
Rubio for Donald Trump
h.Clinton Super PAC responds to Pailn with a
Mocking Smiley Face on Twitter.
i.Rich Wilson GOP consultant on MSNBC Trump
supporters masterbate to anami. (1E)
j.Sara supported Cruz for his senate run. Mark
Levin on the birth Canada issue (1B)
-Weekly Standard 9 Tales of Trump at His
Trumpiest see Word FIle
-Willy Duck Dynasty (1F)
-Dr. and President Jerry Falwell Jr. Liberty
University on Hannity – Stories the Media wont tell you about Trump. (1F)
a.Trump at Liberty University (1G)
-Drudge Poll posted on Sick Bias.com
a.As a personally responsible American who is
currently working and supporting a family my greatest fear is that our freedom
and our sovereignty will be stolen from us by the socialist communist left.
There is no freedom in social programs only tyranny and control. S 2016 begins
the United States starts to to lose their sovereignty self-governance. Because
the politicians that were elected to protect us or doing the opposite the allowing
the invasion of the illegals from the south the north in the east as well as
overloading social programs, which is a socialist communist idea from the 70's
from Cloward and Piven. This poll taken by Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report is
probably the scariest poll I've ever seen you have the Communist Bernie Sanders
neck and neck with the capitalist Donald Trump who wins the communist or the
capitalist?
-The Week.com – Donald Trump is poised for the
strongest primary performance in modern history
a.No non-incumbent has won both the GOP's Iowa
caucus and the New Hampshire primary since the dawn of the modern primary
system. Trump has a real shot to be the first. And no recent candidate has
overcome the kind of deficit most of the other candidates face in both national
and state-by-state numbers at this late date, against a candidate with as
strong and stable numbers as Trump has, and gone on to win.
b.If Trump wins both Iowa and New Hampshire, and
then goes on to win South Carolina and Nevada — as he is favored to do — he
could very conceivably win every contest, or at worst lose a favored son state
or two like Cruz's Texas. Nobody has run the table like that — not Nixon in
1968, nor Reagan in 1980, nor Bush in 2000.
c.And if he loses Iowa to Cruz, and wins New
Hampshire decisively, there's little historical reason to believe that Cruz has
a better chance at the nomination than Trump does, much less that anybody else
has a better shot than either.
d.A Trump nomination would be unprecedented. But
an upset victory by any of his opponents would, in many ways, be even more so.
2.Obama
-Fox Brian Kilmean talks with Former CIA
operative, Joshua Katz – Obama threatens anyone that gives him bad intel on
ISIS (2A)
-Oct – Nov 10,000 Minors were caught attempting
to cross into Texas 2x as many as 2014 same time line.Forcing the opening of three new shelters and
threatening a worsening humanitarian crisis.’09-’11 upto 1k from El Salvador Guatemala Honduras now ’12-’15 surge up
to 15k and more.
-by JULIA HAHN 20 Jan , Breitbart On Wednesday,
Senate Democrats successfully and predictably blocked what many conservatives
described as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)’s “Show Vote'”on refugee admissions. It has
been called a show vote because the Ryan plan, even if the President signed
it,would still allow the President to bring in an unlimited number of refugees
from an unlimited number of countries. Democrats’ filibuster on the motion to
proceed to Ryan’s show vote comes one month after Speaker Ryan sent President
Obama a blank check to fund visa issuancesto nearly 300,000 (temporary and
permanent) Muslim migrants in the next 12 months alone. Ryan’s decision to
fully-fund Obama’s immigration agenda arguably ceded any leverage he may
otherwise have had over Democrats and ensured the large-scale migration into
America would continue and grow.
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3.Hillary Imploding
-Wash. Post Who Had the worse week?
a.For Hillary Clinton, it’s starting to look like
deja vu all over again. Start a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination
as giant front-runner. Check. Raise tens of millions of dollars and look
unbeatable for large swaths of the year before the primaries start. Check. An
insurgent challenger running to her ideological left? Check. Collapsing poll
numbers on the eve of actual votes? Check. Over the past week or so, Clinton
has watched as her national polling lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a
self-avowed socialist, has shrunk. And, far more important, Clinton’s standing
vis a vis Sanders in the key early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire has
eroded as well (27+). In Iowa, after holding a high-single-digit lead (at
worst) for months, Clinton now finds herself in a dead heat with the caucuses
just over a week away. The Real Clear Politics polling average gives Clinton an
edge of less than five points. Real Clear Politics polling average, Sanders is
up by almost
13 points. Bernie Sanders Hope and Change ad (3A)
-Breitbart Trump Hillary Should Be Indicted
a.Billionaire candidate Donald Trump says Hillary
Clinton should be indicted for her mishandling of classified documents – after
a Fox News report showed that she was sharing documents on her insecure server
that was classified higher than top secret. “What she did is so ridiculous,
it’s so, frankly stupid … she was conniving, you know it’s just the way she
is,” he said during an interview with radio host Howie Carr.
b.Trump suggested that Clinton was being protected
by the Obama administration, as she was running to succeed him in 2016. “Right
now President Obama and the whole group, they’re probably protecting her, and
we’re going to find out how our law works,” he said, calling it a “criminal
act.”
c.EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's emails on her
unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government's
most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified
letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers.
d.Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified
letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles
McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by
intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" additional
classified emails -- including specific intelligence known as "special
access programs" (SAP).That indicates a level of classification
beyond even “top secret,” the label previously given to two emails found on her
server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate’s handling
of the government’s closely held secrets.
-Observer.com – Poll Women Wont Help Hillary
a.First, a USA Today/Rock the Vote pollfound
millennial women preferring Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to Ms. Clinton. Women
between the ages of 18 and 34 preferred Mr. Sanders by a 19-point margin, with
50 percent choosing the senator and 31 percent choosing the former secretary of
state.
b.On Tuesday, a Monmouth Universitynational poll
found Ms. Clinton’s lead among women had taken a nose dive since December. Ms.
Clinton currently leads Mr. Sanders by 19 points among all women, a smaller
lead than what the same poll found at the end of 2015, when Ms. Clinton had a
45-point lead. That’s a huge drop in just one month.
-Moody’s Predicts that Democrats win the White
House in 11 months
a.The Democratic presidential nominee will win the
race for the presidency but the election is shaping up as historically tight,
according to a political model. Less than 11 months from Election Day, Moody’s
Analytics is predicting that whomever lands the Democratic nomination will
capture the White House with 326 electoral votes to the Republican nominee’s
212.
b.Those results are heavily dependent on how swing
states vote. The latest model from Moody’s reflects razor-thin margins in the
five most important swing states — Florida, Ohio, Colorado, New Hampshire and
Virginia.
c.In each of those states, the Democratic
advantage is less than 1 percentage point, well within the margin of error.
-Bloomberg.com – Campaigner-in-0Chief Bill
Clinton Gives a worrisome speech in Iowa
a.Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for
his wife in New Hampshire Wednesday, bluntly admitted how much more difficult
than expected Hillary Clinton's race for the Democratic presidential nomination
has become.
b.“This has turned into an interesting election,”
the candidate's husband told a rally in Salem. “We’re fighting it out in Iowa.
We’ve got a little lead that I think is solidifying and maybe growing a little
bit. We’re on a home-field disadvantage here."
4.GAS OPEC – IRAN to Destroy Oil Market
-We’ve defeated the shale revolution, claims Opec
| The Times.co.uk
a.Low oil prices finally damage US production
b.Opec was on the verge of claiming victory over
its North American rivals last night after its strategy of squeezing out the
shale industry by flooding the markets with oil appeared to be vindicated.The oil producers’ cartel said that falling
prices would force lower production from its rivals by the end of this year,
with American and Canadian producers particularly affected. Opec, led by Saudi
Arabia, has maintained production levels even as crude prices have collapsed 70
per cent from their level in 2014. In its first monthly report of the year,
Opec said that its policy was starting
-IRAN
a.Last Sunday, the U.S. Treasury Department
announced it would impose sanctions against a number of individuals and
organizations over Iran’s ballistic missile program.
b.“Iran’s ballistic missile program poses a
significant threat to regional and global security, and it will continue to be
subject to international sanctions,” read a statementfrom Adam Szubin, acting
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “We have consistently
made clear that the United States will vigorously press sanctions against
Iranian activities outside of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action –
including those related to Iran’s support for terrorism, regional
destabilization, human rights abuses, and ballistic missile program.”The new sanctions come as Iran is expected to
receive tens of billions of dollars in frozen assets in accordance with the
Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA), agreed upon by the regime in Tehran and the P5+1 world powers. On
Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the U.S. had granted Iran $1.7
billion dollars, repaying the Ayatollah’s theocracy a $400 million dollar debt
plus $1.3 billion in interest. Kerry called the payment a “fair settlement.”
President Obama agreed, claiming “the settlement could save us billions of
dollars that could have been pursued by Iran.”
c.by JORDAN SCHACHTEL18 Jan 2016Washington,
DC1,431 Iran will ignore recently-passed U.S. sanctions against its ballistic
missile program, the regime’s defense minister pledged on Monday, promising to
unveil new homemade weapons systems in the near future. “[Any] attempt to
impose new sanctions [against Iran] under irrelevant pretexts is indicative of
the continued US hostile policy and acrimony toward the Iranian nation, and a
futile effort to undermine Iran’s defense might,” said Iranian Defense Minister
Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan on Monday.
