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US Banking Editor at the Financial Times
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Ben McLannahan
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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf grilled on Capitol Hill After last week's roasting by a Senate Committee, John Stumpf, the CEO of Wells Fargo, apologized to a House Committee today for the bank's enrollment of millions of Americans in new accounts without their approval. But that didn't save him from another round of verbal assaults. Ben McLannahan, US Banking Editor for the Financial Times , has more on the hearing.
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
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The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.
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Venezuela spirals into economic and political chaos Venezuela, a country whose potential for prosperity is unmatched, finds itself on the verge of civil war. What sustains the repressive government? With time running out, guest host León Krauze looks at what the international community can do to pull the country from the edge of collapse.