noise the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable and ceo perspectives for the bank that broke americas trust. I now recognize myself for five minutes with an Opening Statement. Today, wells far go ceo, charles scharf, will testify before the committee about how he plans to end wells fargo egregious battle of abuse. Hes the third wells fargo ceo to testify before this committee and less than three and a half years. I will note that each time wells fargo ceo testified before this committee, he has resigned soon thereafter. Mr. Charles scharf, you have taken on a massive challenge and while i certainly wish you luck, it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is essentially a flawless organization that has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers around the nation. Wells fargo has opened 3. 5 million fraudulent accounts with their
[inaudible conversations] this committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess at any time to be entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable the bank that broke americas trust i recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today wells fargo ceo will testify before the committee about how he plans to and wells fargo egregious pattern of consumer abuses. We invited him to testify before this committee the last three and half years. We will note each time a ceo has testified before this committee he has resigned they are soon after. [laughter] you are taking on a massive challenge i certainly wish you luck it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is a lawless organization has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers throughout theor nation. Ells fargo has opened three. 5 million fraudulent accounts in their customers names which cause consumers over 6 million charged consumers for automobile insurance polici
Come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable and ceo perspectives for the bank that broke americas trust. I now recognize myself for five minutes with an Opening Statement. Today, wells far go ceo, charles scharf, will testify before the committee about how he plans to end wells fargo egregious battle of abuse. Hes the third wells fargo ceo to testify before this committee and less than three and a half years. I will note that each time wells fargo ceo testified before this committee, he has resigned soon thereafter. Mr. Charles scharf, you have taken on a massive challenge and while i certainly wish you luck, it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is essentially a flawless organization that has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers around the nation. Wells fargo has opened 3. 5 million fraudulent accounts with their customers names which ca
Mr. Mchenry you have access of liquidity to get through any crisis you would foresee . Yes, absolutely. Mr. Mchenry in terms of safety and soundness, you are from the harm previous regime, thats positive. In terms of safety and soundness youre management, cleaning up the ship. So our expectations is we should have no problems from you in soundness, ety and is that fair . Mr. Scharf i think its fair work once we finish the we laid out, you should feel that. Mr. Mchenry ok. At employees do you have wells fargo . R. Schaefer i have mr. Scharf 260,000. Mr. Mchenry how many are customer facing . R. Scharf i dont know the answer. It has to be easily 100,000. Mr. Mchenry sure. Do you have plans in order to respond to the current threats covid19, especially in your footprint in california . Absolutely. We are, as i said mr. Mchenry as well as and other state primaries that are seeing an outbreak . Approach on ur covid 19 is we should do the ing we can to ensure safety of our employees as well
Watching a Large International bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program we start with breaking news this hour as irans foreign minister has just written on the internet that its military unintentionally shot down the ukrainian plane on wednesday due to human error a passenger jet went down near tehran on wednesday killing all 176 people on board were joined live now in the studio for by our correspondent. Of course youve been following this story throughout these past few days as everything has been developing this goes against what iran had been saying from the beginning doesnt it yeah well the news that the government accidentally shot down the plane began earlier today when iranian government media began making these reports now it wasnt long after that like you said irans foreign minister post on twitter that. This was an accidental shoot down and he also attributed to the cause of it to us adventurism in the region. Assad day preliminary co