Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Growing anxiety today on the Korean Peninsula following north koreas second, and more ambitious, test of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile on friday. The missile is thought to be capable of reaching deep inside the u. S. Mainland. China condemned the launch and urged restraint, but President Trump expressed frustration with beijing last night, criticizing chinese leaders over trade, and then saying in a visible show of force, the pentagon ordered two air force b1 bombers to fly over the peninsula. They were accompanied by south korean and japanese fighter planes. At the same time, u. S. And south Korean Forces conducted joint livefire exercises. Ploy four more units of thell advanced u. S. Thaad anti missile system, in addition to the two already in place. The pentagon reported a successful test of the thaad system in alaska last night when it shot down a mediumrange ballistic test missile launched over the pacific. North korea said today its Missile Program is a response to threats by what it called american imperialist beasts. In a significant deterioration of diplomatic relations, russian president Vladimir Putin today confirmed that the u. S. Must reduce its Embassy Staff in russia by 755 by september 1. That would reduce the total number employed by the u. S. There to 455, which is the same as their russian counterparts in the United States. Russias Foreign Ministry had announced the measures on friday, but did not specify the number of staff to be reduced. This move is in response to the expanded economic sanctions approved by Congress Last week over u. S. Election meddling. The white house has said security was tightened at airports across australia this evening, after federal police said they foiled a terrorist plot to bring down an airliner. Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said police raided locations in suburbs of sydney and said four suspects were arrested in what he called a major Counter Terrorism operation. The Police Commissioner said the plot appeared to be, islamic inspired, and may have involved the use of an improvised explosive device. Police say the investigation is ongoing. In venezuela, where the economy has collapsed, the opposition is boycotting todays controversial election of a powerful new assembly demanded by president nicolas maduro. More than 100 people have been killed in clashes with police in four months of antimaduro protests, and nationwide protests are planned today. Two new deaths have already been reported. Protest leaders charge the new madurocontrolled assembly will only pave the way for him to dissolve the oppositionrun congress, delay elections, and rewrite the constitution. The u. S. And other countries had vowed more economic sanctions against maduro if todays vote went ahead. The white house continued pressuring the senate today following last weeks dramatic defeat of republican Obamacare Repeal efforts in the senate. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has said its time, to move on white house budget director Mick Mulvaney followed up on President Trumps tweet yesterday, telling the senate not to vote on any other legislation without a health care repeal, and even suggested senators cancel their august recess. Is this official white house well, i think yes. In the white houses view they cant move on in the senate. Sreenivasan white house counselor Kellyanne Conway said President Trump will decide this week whether to end about 7 billion dollars a year in subsidies to Insurance Companies that help lower costs of healthcare for lower income americans. President trump suggested in a tweet yesterday that the bailouts would end if congress doesnt pass a new healthcare bill. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said democrats could work with republicans on at least one proposal. I think there is a proposal in one of mcconnells bills that he had the repeal and replace, he had a provision that we can all embrace and it was a provision to cover the cost sharing reductions extend the reinsurance which is very important sreenivasan despite last weeks setback, Senate Republicans are still working on yet another repeal bill that can win approval by 50 members. Hear from transgender soldiers facing uncertainty following President Trumps declaration that they can no longer serve. Read more at pbs. Org newshour. On friday, hackers were able to penetrate a touch screen voting machine in less than two hours. The machine was used in a 2014 virginia election, and the hack was part of a demonstration of election System Security weaknesses at defcon in las vegas. The annual event is attended by hackers, but also by security and technology firms, Government Employees some undercover and of course reporters. Defcon wraps up today, and joining me now from San Francisco is Robert Mcmillan of the wall street journal who has been covering the conference. That headline, you know, someone hacking elections machine in two hours, that has everyone kind of interested. This is not a machine that is in use today but it was just a few years ago. Reporter yes and it was in use for years and definitely hackable for years. That was the thing that really caught my attention just sitting there next oa guy with a laptop whos connecting to a voting machine that is stating that it was used in Fairfax County in 2014, connects to it wierm wirey in front of me. Sreenivasan the dpasmedz det of Homeland Security and other agencies, what is the extent of the damage it could do . It could have altered the votes. It could have done anything to this one voting machine, you know, and it would have been undetectable after it happened. So theres definitely concern about this one particular machine. I think broader picture about what we need to worry about with voting machine security is only becoming clear right now. You know, i think for a while people really focused on the integrity of just this devices you know ten years ago we had audits of Voting Machines and there is away a lot of discussion of this. But what happened last year the whole scenario of what could be hacked and how it could be hacked and the concept of the network being attacked, people are rethinking voting machine security right now. Sreenivasan what was intriguing was this voting machine was used in 2014 but the hearing looks like they had found ahole, microsoft had issued a patch for that years ago. This machine, called a win vote machine, widely considered tto be the worst voting machine ever. What happened to people who followed this is not surprising. We knew for years that these vote being machines were vulnerable, it is hard to get access but the act of seeing someone do it is pretty rare. Sreenivasan the strength and the weakness of our entire system is the fact that there isnt any uniformity in the kind of machines that exist in every jurisdiction all over the country and no central i. T. Staff that says here is the central patch thats going to go out to everything at the same time, or that a hacker could get into that central system and hack everything at the same time. The conventional which tom is that our systems would be so diverse that it would be difficult to compromise them in a widespread way. But i think what were learning about the 2016 effort, the fact had a there were so many states affected. These werent Voting Machines, these were the machines that keep track of the registered voters, but the fact that remotely, people were able to access county systems like this, ant you know, what might have what might have happened after that is still a question mark. So i think the whole network of Voting Machines and people are really reevaluating this question of how susceptible the United States is to sort of a centralized voting attack. Sreenivasan rosht mick minimally journeying us from San Francisco, thank you for joining us. My pleasure. Sreenivasan many businesses subscribe to the philosophy of doing well and doing good. Some even give a fixed percentage of their revenue to charity. But by law, publiclytraded american corporations those that issue stock must maximize profits and shareholder value. However, in the past decade, a new model of Corporate Responsibility has gained a growing foothold in american business. Theyre called bcorps. In tonights signature segment, newshour weekends Christopher Booker explains how they work. Reporter a tour through the New Belgium Brewing Company in fort collins, colorado, passes through the bottling facility and brewhouse, before ending at the bar. New belgium is one the largest craft breweries in the country, distributing beer to all 50 states. When you buy its best known brand, fat tire belgian style ale, that b on the label doesnt stand for beer, its stands for b corp, a designation given to businesses dedicated to more than profit. I think when you get together with people you realize you have a lot of the same values. Reporter Katie Wallace is new belgiums assistant director of sustainability. If youre running a business thats not considering the impact that you have on the environment and society, or the impact that those things have upon your business, then youre not operating a business thats really going to be in existence in the future. Reporter new belgium is privately owned and profitable, selling nearly a Million Barrels of beer a year and generating 225 million a year in revenue. For a long time we felt that we kind of stumbled into this for valuesbased reasons but then found that economically it was a really powerful Business Model and has been a key ingredient of our success over time reporter new belgium took its dedication up a notch in 2013, when it became a certified b corp, submitting to a rigorous audit of its Community Impact by the pennsylvania based b lab. B lab likens the certification to fair trade for coffee and the leed certification for buildings with environmental and energyefficient design. Beyond charitable giving, companies can score more points for making ecofriendly products, offering robust benefit packages, and being transparent in their Corporate Governance. New belgium earned its certification in large part because of its environmental practices generating 12 of its electricity from solar panels and biogas, a fuel they create by the wastewater produced when they make beer. After one year on the job, employees are given bikes to commute carbon free and given shares in the company, which is now employee owned. B corp has given us a way to measure things that arent inherently quantitative, but we know are important to us. Like providing 100 of our Health Care Premiums for our co workers or putting solar on site or biogas. It helps us to bring that into a measurement space where we can compare ourselves against other companies and see are we really being leaders in this area or is there a way we can improve . Reporter believing business can function as a force for good, b lab has certified 22,000 Companies Worldwide since 2007. Subjecting mostly small and mediumsized, privately Held Companies to a 200 point assessment. The list includes ice cream makers ben jerrys, eyewear manufacturer warby parker, and Outdoor Clothing giant patagonia. There are 99 b corps in colorado. That includes businesses that dont manufacture anything, like denver law firm moye white. Attorney Dominick Sekich oversaw its b corps application. There are a lot of opportunities that, say, manufacturers have that, as a service organization, we dont have. Reporter moye white acheived B Corp Certification after it improved a number of employee benefits, expanding paid parental and family leave, increasing flex time, and starting an Employee CommunityService Group that volunteers with organizations like habitat for humanity. Sekich says each time an employee takes advantage of their threemonth paid family leave benefit, it can cost the firm between 20,000 and 50,000, but the firm believes its worth it. Weve had some clients approach us asking us how weve committed to the environment, how weve committed to our communities, and were able to point to our certification as a B Corporation as part of that effort. Reporter when moye white was working toward its B Corp Certification, it turned to b labs kim coupanous for assistance. If you look at society in general and all of the good things that capitalism has brought to civilization and humanity over the last hundred plus years, theres been an equal number of really negative things. Massive income divides, biotoxicity, greenhouse gases, you name your kind of social or environmental ill. Capitalism has kind of created that. Reporter before joining b lab, coupanous ran an Outdoor Clothing company for 16 years. I agree with the profit motive and theres no bones about that. I also know that the power of business to transform society is huge. And we are going into this new century facing some pretty challenging problems that havent been solved by the Nonprofit Sector or the government sector. And at the same time, theres this kind of spirit of innovation and optimism, especially among millennials who say we can do better than this. Reporter economically, colorado is doing better than most states. Its 2. 3 Unemployment Rate is the lowest in the country. The denver skyline is filled with cranes constructing new apartment buildings for some of the 60,000 people who move to the state every year, most settling in the relatively affluent greater denver and boulder areas. Will this be relegated to areas that are already populated by the upper middle class, the educated, the tech sector . I can think of many corners of america that they just want jobs. Theyre not even having the ability to think about how does this save water. Certainly it really cant be relegated to the realm of upper middle class progressive city, because if we are trying to create shared and, or durable prosperity for all it means cities that are depressed. It means, you know, local businesses, nail salons, and moving companies, and the local garage. Reporter the B Corp Movement is not without its skeptics. It is a band aid on a cancerous patient. Reporter Boston College law professor Kent Greenfield applauds the intent of bcorps, but fears the b Corps Movement may mask the need for far greater changes to the way American Companies conduct themselves. Lets be honest the real bad actors in the corporate world are not those who are voluntarily opting in. Reporter greenfield argues that there must be changes in Corporate Governance to legally support Companies Working to be better citizens. As long as its voluntary, then its still gonna leave bad actors aside. So if youre a wall street hedge fund manager, are you going to prefer companies that are b corps . Are you gonna prefer companies who are saying, no, we dont think that being a b corp is conducive to the shareholder value . So i think our efforts need to be aimed at a more fundamental adjustment in the way we think about corporate obligation and the way we govern corporations. Reporter despite the lack of federal or state regulation Compelling Companies to function as better actors, there is a way for companies who pursue both profit and social good to be legally protected. With a push from b lab, colorado and 32 other states have passed legislation allowing companies to incorporate as a Public Benefit corporation, which enshrines their social mission into their articles of incorporation. This spring, food and Beverage Company d