My name is jon stewart. Olivia wilde will be joining us from the lazarus effect. First, hsbc, one of britains largest Financial Institution a spot of sticky pudding a couple of years ago after the bank was caught laundering nearly 1 billion in drug money. You heard the gasp. laughter what . Whats that . And like in most cases of drug cartel money laundering, the perpetrators were sent straight to pay a fine. laughter case closed. British bank hsbc is under fire again. The companys Swiss Banking arm is accused of helping clients hide billions of assets from International Tax authorities before 2007. Jon still breaking the bleep laws. I know youre british but keep calm and carry on wasnt meant for major financial crimes. Of think you can hide in switzerland . You should have known, where theres cheese theres a rat. None of this would have surfaced had it not been for this man, herve falciani, an hsbc Computer Security specialist at the geneva, switzerland branch. laughter jon falciani is
We have also got the overall number at 108. 6. That was forecast at 108. 4. Thats the Business Sentiment index and the Business Expectations. Lets have a look for that has come in at 103. 5. The forecast was 104. 4. So lets just have a look. Overall the expectations just below forecast the Business Sentiment and Current Conditions just ahead of forecasts. Of course this follows yesterdays pmi where germanys came in at 41. 9 down from 52. 8. So mixed set of data coming out of germany over the last couple of days. We saw the euro dollar there bouncing in fact in todays session. Lets get a comment. He is chief economist. Good morning to you. So slight contrast to yesterdays data but still mixed this morning. This ifo sentiment. A bit mixed but not very much. If you look at it the key thing is that Current Conditions have improved a lot and then of course expectations where people are asked whether it can get much better than what the currency is are no longer as stellar as they used to be
Attorney for aaron quinn maintain he is a victim not the perpetrator of hoax in the socalled kidnap for ransom of girl friend denise. Quinn is the one who called Police Monday claiming she was taken in the middle of the night from his home. He was drunk and there were at least 2 kid nachlingts i could understand some kind of theory if they were training to get money out of someone else but the rab some demand were specifically to his account. They keep saying that he is telling lie. Not cooperating. He has cooperated. Wednesday night Vallejo Police stated they had zero evidence that she was actually kidnapped wept so far to say they believed the whole story was fabricatedism the fact that we have essentially wasted all the resources for really nothing tips setting. Revelation come after exhaustive search for the 29yearold woman who turned up unharmed yesterday at her father home in Huntington Beach father home in Huntington Beach. This morning abc 7 news spoke with the uncle jeff cape
Give us a call. Republicans can phone in on a very good thursday morning to you after 166 days, Loretta Lynch getting a confirmation vote on the floor of the senate today. Here is how it will take place. 9 30 this morning. The senate will join its session after a leader remarked. The debate will begin on the confirmation of Loretta Lynch. A two hour debate is expected around 11 45. Motion to invoke cloture will be held. If it is invoked, there will be two hours of closed debate and the confirmation vote could come as early as 2 00 p. M. This afternoon for both the final vote and the cloture motion. Loretta lynch would only require a simple majority of those votin g to vote for her. Due to the Nuclear Option that was invented 2013 by democrats on president ial nominees. That nomination revoked after republicans took over the senate chamber. That is the process that will happen today on the Loretta Lynch confirmation vote. Our phone lines are open. Here is a story about the lynchburg. Th
Course the fiscal cliff and negotiations, how are they going. How unpopular are the republics. Then we go to zero dark 30. Mccain and republicans are mad at the scenes in the movie. Theyre not your friend. Theyre not going to help you. Were going to break you. Any questions . Cenk damn, that sounds harsh. All right well talk about you fracking how the bankers got away with it. Finally should a transgender woman be allowed to play basketball in a Womans League . Interesting. Even though there might be a Million People telling them no, dont do it, follow your heart. We didnt think about her being a transsexual. Shes 67. Who doesnt want that . Well discuss the end of the world. Did it end in sydney . We will have a live shot. Its not only go tile. At the end of the show, well find out if its stop time. Go. [ theme ] cenk all right the whole crews here. Anna ben michael and we were discussing a little politics here in the beginning. First of all let me give you guys awesome poll. Is the go