Also hitting the market, s p global just dropped the scale that measures environmental, social and governance factors when assessing a companys credit policy. No longer important and we are seeing it ripple across the board. Sandra. Sandra all really interesting stuff. Thank you so much on all of that for us. As we hit a new hour, President Biden is set to deliver remarks shortly on what else his climate agenda and while hes taking a victory lap out west, back home in washington brandnew evidence released in the biden family investigation. Trace we start hour two of america reports. Im Trace Gallagher in for john roberts, great to be with you. Sandra im sandra smith, good to have you here, trace. Trace House Republicans released bank records that appeared to show millions of dollars were sent to bidens and their Business Associates from foreign sources. President biden has not spoken to americans about this or congressional testimony from his sons exbusiness partner. Sandra also over a
on the green agenda. can the congress rein in energy costs. in a moment, we will speak about all of this. sandra: big show coming up. first, america reports with the safety of the supreme court in focus at this hour following a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. hello, welcome everyone. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. hi, john. john: good to see you, glad you got the pink memo today. john roberts in washington. activists assembling outside of kavanaugh s home to protest demonstrations that are prohibited under federal law. the protest and in your face exercise just hours after police arrested a man accused of planning to assassinate the justice. police have charged nicholas roske with attempted murder. he could be indicted as early as today according to a criminal complaint. roske was planning to kidnap and kill kavanaugh when he was arrested early wednesday morning. sandra: republicans point the fingers at democrats rhetoric on abort
Plan to combine weed killing and crop seed businesses can help. Fourth quarter earnings were up. It is holding firm on its 2017 forecast. The stronger dollar makes its products things like components for smartphone screens, as well as wind and Power Generation and of course, posted more expensive on global markets. But also helps Profit Margins on some of them. Travelers operating profits hit an all time high but the Auto Insurance business disappointed. Costly personal injury complaints are up and theres concern about the growing number of accidents caused by distracted drivers. Johnson johnson Beat Estimates but sales fell short. J j lowered its output for 2017. Drugs used to fight arthritis were down more than 3 . That could be a worry for the rest of the pharmaceutical sector. And verizons revenues dropped too. Subscription dropped 61 . It is still growing but much more slowly than before. Verizon is trying on expand into Digital Media and advertising, offering to buy yahoo s Inter
Trying to represented the Human Experience from my sper perspective as undiluted as possible. Rose Zanny Minton Beddoes and Sturgill Simpson when we continue. Funding for charlie rose is 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. Rose Zanny Minton Beddoes is here, she became editor editor in chief of the economist last year, she began working there 1984 as its emerging market correspondent, the economists first female editor in chief since it was founded in 1843. This weeks edition includes a guest essay on the u. S. Economy written by president obama. Im pleased to have her back at this table on this program. Welcome. Thank you, charlie. Great to be here. Rose we have much to talk about. First the u. S. Elections, how does it look from london. Oh my lord, Something Like a reality tv show. No seriously it worries us enor