cnn starts now. america holds up a mirror to itself and what we see is ugly. that s tonight. this week the united states gave itself a physical of sorts and found that extremism runs deep in its blood stream. it runs across both parties and it courses through our most esteamed institutions. the example that sparked the most headlines interesting most discussion and the most fear of a constitutional crisis was delivered by the former president. under no circumstances, you are promising america tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. except for except for day one. by now, this kind of rhetoric from trump isn t really surprising and neither are the mental gymnastics from republicans determined to dismiss it. are you okay with that kind of rhetoric? i mean, it s entertainment. we ve been around him long enough. it s entertaining. i think he is an executive that does make decisions and gets things done. now, all
tapper: for a country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy, we sure do love a strongman, and from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality tv president, nowhere produces more of them than the empire state. and i get it. in an age where congress approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. that was eliot spitzer to a t. but when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor s mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. this will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so there s this honest po
you can still drive between the lines. so rod s tale is a cautionary one a camera-grabbing, over-the-top example of how bribery, extortion, and graft easily sneak into our political system behind ambition and enormous egos. and if politicians or the public feel the same way he does, then another rod blagojevich is just around the corner. i didn t break a law, cross the line, or take a penny, okay? but i never said i wasn t a [bleep] idiot. [laughter] thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much! -awesome. thank you so much. -yeah, thanks. appreciate it. really enjoyed it. you re all right. i wish you the best. we ll see how it ends up and who cares. that s true. find out what are you gonna do, throw me back in prison? -no, but i mean, like, -you can t hurt me, man. tapper: for a country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy, we sure do love a strongman, and from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality tv president, now
After two years of losses, bps set to reveal its making profits again thanks to the rise in the price of oil. And, can the thrill of the auction room be recreated online . We investigate the digital challenges for the likes of christies and sotherbys. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Bps expected to say its been making a profit in recent months, drawing a line under years of painful cost cutting and transformation as it grappled with low oil prices. Using the oil giants preferred measure of underlying replacement cost profit, last year it made a loss of 2. 6 billion a 55 fall on the year before. The shift in the price of oil on Global Markets was the main reason why the white line shows you the slide. It bottomed out at 27. 88 a Barrel Injanuary 2016. The yellow line shows you bps share price during that time and the effects of the two year slump in the oil market as well as the cost of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster. This year bp plans to sell off around 4. 5 billio
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. Heres rico. A Mining Company makes the biggest investment in australia ever by an Indian Company but where is the funding going to come from . And find out how an executive behind japans most popular Search Engine feels up for a busy day. Fuels up. Vaticanjoined us vatican joined us for this vaticanjoined us for this midweek edition. Shares of adani jumping 9 in more by Trading On Tuesday after news that the adani group is going to go ahead with its controversial coalmine project in australia. Mumbai. There are still many u na nswered mumbai. There are still many Unanswered Questions about this project. After a lot of hurdles and delays, adani is moving ahead with the project but there are still a lot of questions that remain unanswered. The biggest one of them, how was adani going to finance this project . The total cost of building this coalmine is 12 billion. Adani is in no position to finance this project internally