The subcommittee will come to order. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement. The United States of america is in the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic brought to us by opioids. It does not matter where you live. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. While new england and the ohio valley regions represent states hardest hit by. The epidemic, Health Officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West report deaths of those counties. The latest figures from the centers for Disease Control and prevention is astounding. 91 americans die every day from an overdose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this. I expect todays members will bring to the forefront key insights and potential solutions on this critical issue. In the previous congress, the energy and Commerce Committee led several initiatives to help address the the Opioid Epidemic. The comprehensive recovery act and the 21st century cures a
Injured several others. Senator graham was chairing a meeting of the crime and terrorism subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee on extremist content and russian disinformation online. Representatives from twitter, facebook, and google appeared as part of the Ongoing Investigation into russian interference in the last president ial election. The hearing lasted about three hours. And we are going to show you some of that now. Starting with Opening Statements from earlier today. Thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle. Ill make an opening statement, senator whitehouse, i think senator feinstein would like to make one, and if senator grassley come, he will certainly be allowed to do this. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformation online, working with tech to find solutions. Thats exactly what we want to do. So were here to try to find solutions. Let me describe, i think, the challenge. I doubt if i would
Anna a very warm welcome. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Manus delivering the numbers. Francs,ion swiss penciled in by the market. Through, 22. 1 percent. Global growth will remain strong in the Fourth Quarter. Withue coming in line estimates. In terms of the net income looks to be a bigger force. The Global Markets division that we will break down. The trading divisions at parabas and barclays came under pressure. Some breaking news. Numbers are getting from elsewhere in the financial sector. Ing giving firstquarter numbers beating estimates. Underlying pretax profits to billion euros, the net income number 1. 3 8 billion euros. In the Third Quarter, that is above the estimate. A ratio of 14 point 5 . This is the biggest debt to lender, ing and the business is cutting costs to ease pressure on revenue because of the low Interest Rate environment. When youre into the plan they want to achieve 900 Million Euros annual savings by the end of 2020 one. They are limiting jobs and invest
For it not to be a problem. We look forward to sundays president ial election in france. Its kind of historic proportions. We are way beyond what happened in the u. S. Election and certainly what happened in the brexit vote. Thats why they dont want to sound too complacent about it because they want the voters to get out there and put the ballot paper in the box. But it has to come to turnout levels weve never seen before. We end with the broadway play oslo leading to the accord 1993. Its not choosing sides, its not saying so and so is right or so and so is wrong. The political act is to expands the kinds of things we see people on the stage. Healthcare, the election in france and the play oslo when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Good evening, im jeff glor o
Welcome to program. Im jeff glor, cbs news in for charlie who is away. We continue with the coverage of congressional legislation on healthcare. Were joined by Nick Confessore of the New York Times. Big lesson of healthcare reforms over several attempts where the people are more afraid of losing the care they have than whatever benefits are promised under a new bill. Its always the e nerve to make it hard for a party to pass a big change. Guess what, obamacare is no longer care. President obama is gone. Now its just care people have ople who find the premiums are still high or dont want to pay them. There are ways to fix that. Im not sure this bill is going to hit all those cylinders nerve for it not to be a problem. We look forward to sundays president ial election in france. Its kind of historic proportions. We are way beyond what happened in the u. S. Election and certainly what happened in the brexit vote. Thats why they dont want to sound too complacent about it because they want