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ernst and young for an audit inspectors come to dubai and the first thing they see is a pile of moroccan gold buyers casually bundled up on a desk stacks of gold at a gold refinery could be business as usual except these buyers are literally painted silver in order to sneak them into dubai four to five tons of gold gold bars coated silver smuggled old to more cool arriving in dubai he declared as gold when the team found the discussed it with with colucci the admitted this is the way of doing business with the with these moroccan suppliers inspectors do some more digging and what they reveal brings us to act two some of the precious metal in colossus coffers could be blood gold shuffling through papers auditor's discover the refinery was more than happy to shake hands with small mining operations in sudan and the democratic republic of congo apparently colossi asked for no licenses offering cash in hand in exchange for gold proceeds from search sales and conflict torn countries are known to directly fuel gang wars which are responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths soldiers naam group

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ernst: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mrs. ernst: mr. president, i rise today to urge each of my colleagues to support the pain-capable unborn child protection act. this critical legislation would prohibit a child from being aborted at five months of development. now, for those that we have watching today, i'd just like you to focus a little bit on these photos, focus on those photos and i'll return to them here in a moment. again, i'm urging my colleagues to support the pain-capable unborn child protection act. by any measure, at five months of development, an unborn child is a child. at five months, babies have grown nails on their fingers and on their toes, hair has just begun to grow on their heads, and an ultrasound can tell an expectant mother and father whether their baby is a boy or a girl. these babies can detect light, hear sounds, they can swallow, and even experience taste as their tastebuds grow and develop. these unborn babies in all ways are babies. there is also significant scientific evidence that at five months of devel

to money guns and power for forty two of the ruthlessly often targeting civilians in the process so ernst and young employees calm through colossus cash transactions that's when we get to act three apparently the company deals in cash almost as much as in conventional bank transfer. that's billions of dollars going into a legal black hole impossible to trace so the auditor's diligently record every failure of the dubai giant but there's no pats on the back for them from the boss we requested a meeting with the babies to get it or when they realized that we're not going to alter our findings or change them they went ahead and. changed their own guidelines in such a way that our findings and or for their conclusions will not be made public ernst and young have denied allegations they were in cahoots with the group the dubai refinery is still in business saying there's been no material impact on their ability to operate or trade i'm just rehired the man who led the team and expose the alleged wrongdoings says the audit ing giant branded him a troublemaker and sacked him so is blowing the whi

joining me now, joni ernst. with us. >> it's great to be here. >> shannon: i know that something you while they're working on around the clock. there's controversy from the left and the right for the president's plans. what you think are the odds that it moves forward? >> certainly this is a great starting point. what the president has provided is his road map. it's up to congress to make those final decisions on where we go. whether it's the number of dreamers that are included, the 1.8 million that he has proposed or whether it's a smaller number, those are all things that congress will need to make a decision on. it's a great starting point but there are still a lot of questions that we have for his proposal in immigration and daca. we will have to work through that. >> shannon: at least the proposals we initially saw were so different. do think that the lawmakers can buy can really together? >> i'm very helpful in this regard. daca is not an issue that is owned by one side or the other. we all agree that we

senator ernst, i'm going to turn to you now. mrs. ernst: thank you. i'd like to thank my colleagues. thank you, mr. president. i thank my colleagues from oklahoma, missouri, and will be joined shortly by the senator from montana as well. mr. president, i'm rising today to discuss the importance of protecting and celebrating life. as i travel across the state of iowa, i have had the opportunity to hear directly from families whose lives have been changed by the innovative life affirming services offered by their local pregnancy resource center. and there are so many more stories of vulnerable lives saved all across the country, not just in iowa but all across the country. so i would like to begin by recognizing the critical, on the ground actions of these pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, and adoption agencies across the country that are changing and saving lives. and i want to thank them for all that they do. since coming to washington, i've tried to hold congress accountable to do its part to protect the most vulnerable in our society. the

ernst and young for an audit inspectors come to dubai and the first thing they see is a pile of moroccan gold buyers casually bundled up on a desk stacks of gold at a gold refinery could be business as usual except these buyers are literally painted silver in order to sneak them into dubai four to five tons of gold gold was coated silver smuggled old to more cool arriving in dubai declared as gold when the team found the discussed it with with colucci the admitted this is the way of doing business with the with these moroccan suppliers inspectors to do some more digging and what they reveal brings us to act two some of the precious metal in colossi scoffers could be blood gold shuffling through papers auditor's discovered the refinery was more than happy to shake hands with small mining operations in sudan and the democratic republic of congo apparently colossi asked for no licenses offering cash in hand in exchange for gold proceeds from search sales and conflict torn countries are known to directly fuel gang wars which are responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths soldiers naam group

to money guns and power for forty two of the ruthlessly often targeting civilians in the process so ernst and young employees calm through colossus cash transactions that's when we get to act three apparently the company deals in cash almost as much as in conventional bank transfers that's billions of dollars go into a legal black hole impossible to trace so the auditor's diligently record every failure of the dubai giant but there's no pattern the bad for them from the boss we requested a meeting with the babies to get it or when they realized that the law going to alter our findings or change them they went ahead and. changed their own guidelines in such a way that our findings and or for their conclusions will not be made public ernst and young have denied allegations they were in cahoots with the group the dubai refinery is still in business saying there's been no material impact on their ability to operate or trade i'm just rehired the man who led the team and expose the alleged wrongdoings says the audit ing giant branded him a troublemaker and sacked him so is blowing the whistle a

to money guns and power for forty two of the ruthlessly often targeting civilians in the process so ernst and young employees calm through colossus cash transactions that's when we get to act three apparently the company deals in cash almost as much as in conventional bank transfers the billions of dollars go into a legal black hole.

senator joni ernst is here with us. what did you think of that? >> when they accuse the president of being bemeaning, it comes from both sides. we need a bipartisan group coming together to listen to the state of the union, listen to the president's message. listen to the accomplishments we've had the past your around let's focus on what we need to get done in the future. whether it's infrastructure, whether it's trade, whether it's strengthening our military. >> neil: will there be help on any of these fronts? >> i'm an eternal optimist. i hope that we can come together. i'm very pragmatic in understanding that the democrats are going to demand certain things that maybe we cannot reach those expectations. but we have to come together in a bipartisan way to get things done for the american people. >> neil: you know, i've always seen you, senator, i know you tried very hard obviously loyal to the president, a republican, but you call them as you see them. some of the comments the president has made lately, i believe you were at a group meeting in d

paris, you heard senator ernst, a republican senator getting laughs, not in a good way.hat the makeup of the audience is in terms of their politics. if she's getting laughs when she attempts to defend the president, do you see his words as a problem for the gop or do you think this is just news, this news cycle? >> listen, i don't think that anybody should go out and try to defend every word that the president of the united states says or every tweet the president tweets about. senator ernst needs to defend her record and what she's trying to do for her constituents in the state of iowa and focus on that. that includes not having this government shutdown. when you look at 2018, you look at looking forward to how it's going to impact the gop, i think this white house has to stay focussed on the things they're doing right and the things the president is leaning on when it comes to the economy and the tax cuts that are going to take place and you'll start to feel them in your pocketbooks next month. and leading to infrastructure and all the other positive things this admini

to money guns and power for forty two of the ruthlessly often targeting civilians in the process so ernst and young employees calm through colossus cash transactions that's when we get to act three apparently the company deals in cash almost as much as in conventional bank transfers that's billions of dollars going into a legal black hole impossible to trace so the auditor's diligently record every failure of the dubai giant but there's no pads on the back for them from the boss we requested a meeting with the babies to get it or when they realized that we're not going to alter our findings or change them they went ahead and. changed it on good lines in such a way that our findings and all for their conclusions will not be made public ernst and young have denied allegations they were in cahoots with a group the dubai refinery is still in business saying there's been no material impact on their ability to operate or trade i'm just rehired the man who led the team and expose the alleged wrongdoings says the audit in giant branded him a troublemaker and sacked him so is blowing the whistle a

ernst: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mrs. ernst: mr. president, i rise today to urge each of my colleagues to support the pain-capable unborn child protection act. this critical legislation would prohibit a child from being aborted at five months of development. now, for those that we have watching today, i'd just like you to focus a little bit on these photos, focus on those photos and i'll return to them here in a moment. again, i'm urging my colleagues to support the pain-capable unborn child protection act. by any measure, at five months of development, an unborn child is a child. at five months, babies have grown nails on their fingers and on their toes, hair has just begun to grow on their heads, and an ultrasound can tell an expectant mother and father whether their baby is a boy or a girl. these babies can detect light, hear sounds, they can swallow, and even experience taste as their tastebuds grow and develop. these unborn babies in all ways are babies. there is also significant scientific evidence that at five months of devel

senator ernst needs to go out and defend her record. and focus on that.nd that includes not having this government shut down. when you look at 2018 and looking forward to how that is going to impact the gop, this white house has to stay focused on the things they are doing right and the thing that this president is leading on. the tax cuts that are going to take place and you start to feel them in your pocketbook next month and the positive things that this administration is doing and should get credit for, those are winning messages and i think that is what they should focus on and this too will pass. >> bakari will this pass? >> i am hesitant to say it won't, it won't be just a phase. everything we have seen in donald trump's trajectory since he came down the steps and called mexicans rapist, and people are getting exhausted. it is the equivalent of drinking out of a fire hose. it is difficult. i don't think that everybody has to be a coward. you can have people who for instance governor charlie baker who spoke about the fact that his mother had alzheim

earlier, i spoke with max loh from ernst & young. excited by the news that jack ma could list the company on his home turf. alibaba is already listed in the united states. bringing it back to hong kong is always exciting. it brings it closer to home. people are able to identify with the company and the things that they do in the market. it is always exciting. what will it mean for hong kong, the ipo market, and the rest of asia, if alibaba goes market, and the rest of asia, if aliba ba goes back market, and the rest of asia, if alibaba goes back home?” market, and the rest of asia, if alibaba goes back home? i think it will give a filip to the already robust exchanges that exist, especially to hong kong, because when you have a big company that comes home that excites investors. you already have dual listings between chinese companies who have listed in hong kong, but could this open floodgates of more american listed firms setting up in the big lights of hong kong, tokyo, seoul or china? definitely. right now the world is globalised

you probably heard from senator ernst on this issue born at 20 weeks and is alive today to tell about it. roe v wade says there is a lot to protectff the unborn with viability 1973 and 2018 we are providing a new theory. can the legislative body prohibit the abortion on demand when a baby feels excruciating pain? or that parents should sing to their child that this baby has well-connected tissue and can feel pain on occasion can survive. my answer is yes they can pass a law to disallow abortion on demand there is exceptions but it will be fair so what are we trying to do? to proceed forward and get out of a club with only six other members. and to reconcile the law with other side listen to scientist with climate change. climate changes real. it listen to what medical science is able to do and to make it. that the unborn child in the fifth month. and america does not want to be in the club or where the vote would turn out. but for those who believe in the issue and better place that the law would be there for the child. and to reconcile the laws to science. o so the losses they can be

joining me on the cnbc news line is daniel ernst.aniel, extraordinary performance again from netflix subscriber growth did not just tick up, it accelerated, that's despite some price increases during the quarter that was the big surprise in the earnings, was it not >> yeah. they added about 8 million subscribers in the quarter alone. estimates were for around 6 million on a global basis. and last year this time they added 7 million. so it's an acceleration of the growth you don't often see that they have 11 million subscribers around the world there's no other network, television network that has a global reach like that netflix's customers are there with them. they have a relationship with customers. there was almost no volatility in the stock around the price increase i think people realized how sticky this business has become. the way i looked at it was is there any other service that you use, whether it's your mortgage, whether it's your car, whether it's your cable tv, any other service you could think of that actually earns the

he is lobbied heavily by trade of midwestern senators joni ernst of iowa, deb fischer of nebraska and pat from kansas as well. >> roberts. >> they all want him not to end nafta. they are want to. that is a huge market for them. melissa: let's bring in ned ryun. who better to ask? what will he say about that topic. >> your guess is as good as mine. i would reiterate what guy is saying this is trump's first big speech about what the had. trump should take the opportunity to remind people of successes in the first year. i know he will be talking about the tax bill and corporate raid going down from 35% to defend one and benefit to small business. i don't think there were as many benefits to the small business as i would like to have seen. still significant step in the right direction, with 20% reduction off the top rate for these guys. a lot of. his tax plan, one of the best communicators that the white house has. address issues coming to the forefront. opioid crisis and highlight cutting back the regulatory state, he cut or delayed over 1500 regulations. when you have farmers fighting t

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and suggested america should bring more people from countries like norway republican senator joni ernsts defending him at town halls. >> taking a stand or doing something about the damage that trump is doing to our neighbors around the world with his white supremacy talk. >> he is standing up for a lot of the countries where we have seen -- >> name a few. could you name a few? >> you bet. norway is one of them. [ laughter ] >> norway. >> joni ernst in response to that laughter arguing norway can see russia from their window. >> he is standing up for a lot of the countries that where we we have seen -- >> name a few. could you name a few? >> you bet. norway is one of them. [ laughter ] >> no, well, okay how many of you think -- you laugh but folks, who borders norway? russia. singular focus, a distinct determination. to do whatever it takes, use every possible resource. to fight cancer. and never lose sight of the patients we're fighting for. our cancer treatment specialists share the same vision. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized can

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information concerning the final results is known only to the accounting firm of ernst & young, llp priortonight's opening of the sealed envelopes. this is shawn parr for the 75th annual golden globe awards. rancic >>> right now at 11, the cold snap leading to bad breaks and water creating a mess on the road. >> we are in weather alert mode again, winter advisory for your monday. >> reporter: i'm at howard across the campus and delaying classes. we will show you the cleanup. >>> good evening, everybody, i'm erika gonzalez alongside chief meteorologist, doug kammerer. it is a storm team weather alert and spots vania schools closed tomorrow and stafford public schools delayed two hours and frisk delayed two hours. open our app and you will find them all right there. we're starting in the storm team weather center because we're talking about -- yes, another weather alert. a winter advisory that goes into effect. >> the fact of the matter is we we hit a record of 1 below zero at dallas airport and 8 at dulles. temperatures outside were only in the teens, 19 at d.c., 18 in roswell. whatever fa

micah from iowa you probably heard from senator ernst who is stalwart on this issue, born at 20 weeks and is alive today to tell about it. this is not about medical viability, mister president. roe v wade says there is a state interest to protect the unborn, i would argue the difference between medical viability in 1973 and 2018 is enormous. what we are trying to do is provide a new theory to protect the unemployed. it is something like this. can a legislative body prohibit an abortion on demand at a time science tells us the baby feels excruciating pain? at a time science tells us parents should sing to their child, at a time science tells us that this baby has well-connected tissue and can feel pain and on occasion survive. my answer is yes. it is okay for the congress and state legislators to pass laws saying in the fifth month we are going to disallow abortion on demand, there will be exceptions but they will be rare. 10,000 cases every year affected by this law potentially so what are we trying to do? we are trying to proceed forward to a better day in america, trying to get out

information concerning the final results is known only to the accounting firm of ernst & young, llp priored envelopes. this is shawn parr for the 75th annual golden globe awards. >>> right now, we are in a microclimate weather alert. a powerful winter storm. rain, wind, and flooding, likely travel delays as well. the rain begins as we speak. might be the strongest storm we have seen in almost a year. the news at 11:00 starts right now. i i am raj mathai. >> and i will jessica aguirre. the rain is coming and it has already started in the city. >> we know how this goes. it is not just the rain and wind, it is the damage it will leave behind. sergio quintana is in the fire zone and rob mayeda. >> the burn zones, flash flood watches will be in effect. and for most of the bay area, a wind advisory with gusts of 45 to 65 miles per hour in some of the hills. unlike previous storms we will see periods of heavy rains. gusty winds, power issues and tree damage increasingly likely. there is that added chance of isolated thunder. the first outer fringe of it now bringing light rain into the north bay

oh athletes have ernst overcome but laid a pass battle through more than most as a competitive rock climber he was named asian champion four times before an accident left him confined to a wheelchair but rather than give up late came through what he calls one of the lowest points in his life now he's become the first person from hong kong to be nominated for a loris world sports award honoring the best sportsmen and women of the year and here's why. limbering up to lift not only his body but also his wheelchair like she why was a champion rock climber until a car accident in twenty eleven left him paralyzed from the hip down but he wasn't going to let that stop. the hong kong native has kept up his passion despite the extra challenges that come with being paraplegic by physical and logistical. i love rock climbing before there was a lot more freedom i could go to various indoor climbing spaces or if i wanted to i could go rock climbing outdoors i could do it whenever i wanted but now that i'm in a wheelchair i need to consider a lot of things is it appropriate for me to climb is it safe are

. >> joni ernst is the only person it hasn't killed in the last decade. >> it doesn't work out well for anyone. so the performance is part of it. and the staging was really sort of in tune with where we are. >> modest. >> he made a grab. he got in the ring and fought for those voters we were talking about, sort of the working class voters that were taken in the democratic column in last election. i thought he made a grab to pull them back. and i thought it's what is so lacking in both parties. it wasn't about him. he was quoting the wall. he was quoting a sign at a protest. i thought the strength of the speech was it wasn't about him. >> yeah. he was talking about america. the state of the union is hopeful. >> the audience helped. the audience helped. >> that's true. >> i have read he is irish, though i saw no evidence of that tonight. we are bringing to an end the 10:00 p.m. hour here on the east coast. following the state of the union address. and we welcome our viewers as 11:00 eastern time begins as we start a new hour of our coverage, having now heard from the democratic response,

entrepreneur of the year according to ernst and young. one of the 50 world's greatest leaders, according to fortune. they must have really good scout s. lsn for all of you, he and his wife, april, have reinvested back in georgetown university in public service. education and internships and experience there. he has been a member of the board of georgetown, one of the lessons here is you ought to go to georgetown, but -- [laughter] but he's active in his parish, little flower. supporter of catholic charities. he is most known i suppose for the bipartisan infrastructure bill. a lot of people talk about infrastructure. john actually did something. but two things struck me as i've had a chance to meet and have a people with john. but one, people make fun of the fact that he has announced for president. one of the headlines was what is john delaney thinking. and he answered very directly in the pages of the washington post. the american people are far greater than the sum of our political parties. it is time for us to rise among our broken pol

i talked to joni ernst who has taken the president to talk about some of his language.aid, while i don't like the word, i don't like when he does that sort of stuff, i don't think he's a racist. i'm getting the gist of what she told me, if you forgive me. >> president trump is not a racist. i know that for sure. >> neil: why do you think he constantly gets that rap? >> didn't nancy pelosi say something about trump is trying to make america white again? when president run the says it doesn't matter your skin color, your blood is red, doesn't matter. let's make america great again. he's not color blind. color blind means you have something wrong with your eyes. he can sell and celebrate. we're living in living color. he celebrates that and he wants all of america regardless of skin color to be better. that is not racist, neil. >> neil: so the tone. gets back to the tone. me economists have argued that if you just had to go on the economy and improvement in the markets, he would be a lot more popular than he is now. so it must be him and his tweeting and his manner. what?

this is a bipartisan effort, i'm pleased to work with joni ernst from iowa and we've heard from members sides of the aisle ho are outraged about what has happened and who think we need to act. the u.s. olympic committee is a federal federally chartered institution. our athletes perform under the american flag and so we have a responsibility to take a look at what is happening here and to make recommendations so that it never happens again. >> senator jeanne shaheen. we'll keep closely an eye on this. and we thank you so much for coming on. good luck. >> thank you. >>> cola carreea is with me, from digital story telling. you've been following women's gymnastics for years and what does this mean for gymnastics as a whole. are we at a turning point or raise our hands in disgust and say how terrible this is but nothing really changed. >> yeah, i hope we're at a turning point for this. i've been a fan ever since i was a young girl. i was definitely not fearless enough to do the sport myself so i just started watching on television. but reports about abuse have been in the gymnastics communit

consent to a continuing resolution, stop the shutdown, they don't trust that mcconnell will have an ernstyou can give all the amendments you want but the majority controls what amendments make it into the bill. >> i don't know what to do about that. i don't speak for senator mcconnell. perhaps -- to me if he says it publicly and he changes his mind, he's going to have a lot of explaining to do and i don't think mitch would do that, but i understand the distrust. there's a lot of distrust. >> mcconnell says we'll have it in good faith, we understand that the d.r.e.a.m.ers deserve attention and then the president puts out an ad saying that basically the immigrants are coming to kill you and today he says either you're for american citizens or you're for illegal entrance. >> i didn't think the ad was helpful but that's just my opinion. in terms of senator mcconnell, i take him at his word. i understand there's mistrust, but one thing he can't do is guarantee that this particular bill will pass. maybe that can -- maybe that's the way it works in the house but in the senate it does not work th

. >>> all right, we're looking at the senate floor, you see senator joni ernst there addressing whoever the chamber at this point in time. and this is just minutes from when lawmakers are going to hold a key vote that could end this government shutdown. as we just have some news in from dana bash that it sounds like there may be some opposition from democrats softening. a shutdown that is already having a real consequence for the military, i want to get to barbara starr to talk about this. she's at the pentagon. the government shutdown means, barbara, that families of fallen military not going to receive $100,000 death benefits. that has been in effect since the shutdown on friday. that means the families of two service members killed in a helicopter crash on saturday at the national training center in ft. irwin, california, are not going to be receiving what is really a crucial payment. it is usually made within days of their loved one's death. what are you learning? >> well, we are learning just that, brianna, we now have -- there are pictures. there are real families, real names, rea

senator ernst? >> thank you, mr. chair. a number of my coastal colleagues have mentioned the detriment to hurricanes and so forth. and i would just offer them the opportunity to come inland a little bit. iowa has about a thousand miles of coastal setback in either direction. but regardless of those large scale effects that come from hurricanes, we do have flooding issues in iowa that occur on a much more regular basis than those 100-year floods or 500-year floods that are recorded out there. senator whitehouse mentioned that black hole that exists within the army corps of engineers. you know we get the projects in one side. and as he said, the funding in from the other side. and i tend to agree with the senator in that there is a black hole, and we need greater transparency there. part of that black hole i feel is the benefit-to-cost ratio. and mr. cochran, in your testimony, you encourage congress to direct the corps to modernize that bcr, the benefit-to-cost ratio analyses because you believe they are often inaccurate. a

senator ernst. thank you, mr. chairman, thank you, mr. pruitt for being here today and taking the time to answer our questions. americans expect good governance from all of us, and they expect accessibility, participation, responsiveness and accountability. and since taking the rains at the epa you have shown that you are not afraid to engage with the american population. and you just gave that example of going out, visiting those sites for superfunds. you have also shown that you are willing to hear firsthand the concerns of americans, while giving those that are affected an opportunity to engage in the decision-making process. so thank you for that. in addition to the superfund issue that you just addressed, in august of last year you traveled to des moines, iowa, and you met with over 50 stakeholders from across the ag industry at the farm bureau. we left that round table really encouraged by what we heard, and what we were able to engage in. knowing that we do now have a partner in epa. under your leadership epa has taken necessary ac