. >> wolk. >> all right in fact, let's bring in gentleman right now. johnson & johnson cfo joseph wolk for more on the company's quarter. he's a member of the cnbc global cfo council. thanks for being with us this morning. meg just set it up you raised your sales guidance, not the earnings per share sales guidance alex gorsky made some comments that it's the pipeline and strong company guidance -- strong company pipeline that he's using for this guidance tell us a little bit about that. >> good morning, becky it's a pleasure to be here and discuss the results with you we did take up our top line guidance given the first half strength given our pharmaceutical unit where the pipeline continues we're bringing new medicines to patients in need, extending the package inserts on some of the products that have been successful to date we are seeing trending prices in consumer medical devices we're encouraged by the first half and that caused us to raise guidance for the second half that portends well fo

wolk is a social news platform the word being a popular used to describe someone who's acutely aware of social justice issues especially racism it uses bright colors and has a morton told designed it's a space for politically engaged young people to come together and discuss the burning issues of the day. were created for us to eat with you. just lies really how we choose you. know topic as off limits out woke climate change beacon to some gender issues kept the something for everyone across its pages has around 73000 followers and one of its most successful videos has hit 1700000 of you mark but scrolling through its pages one can see that its content is primarily centered around the experience of british muslims and their identity and politics so alongside islamic holiday well wishes you'll also find debates on different perspectives of terrorism for example but no one has an issue with the content of what with it sponsor because the report has just revealed that the platform is the co-founder of the u.k. government counter-terrorism strategy now the home office hasn't been particu

i would like to introduce our guest roland de wolk, an investigative reporter in print, broadcast and online journalism and a historian university adjunct and author. during four decades in journalism roland de wolk has investigated projects and features earning him most major citations in his field honoring him with this heidi professional journalist with his career achievement awards. he's also the author of two books by chronicle books and senior lecturer at the san francisco state university journalism department where he taught with distinction for 25 years and published the first online journalism textbook. also with us tonight is columnist for the san francisco chronicle phil matier. whether writing about politics or personalities he has informed and entertained readers for over two decades about fascinating things. scoops, insights and executive a reporting can be seen every sunday, monday and wednesday in the san francisco chronicle and he is a regular kt i asked tv and k cbs radio. i would like to thank our cosponsors tonight, publisher at uc press, and thanks to peter kearn

that is joe wolk, johnson & johnson chief financial officer. coming up, we will speak with bill's mead -- with bill smead, ceo. capital management this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ david: big day for the big banks. jp morgan cuts its lending outlook, while golden beets estimates. wells fargo on deck. tech on the dock. in fors hauls tech crypto plans and whether or not the government needs to get tougher. later, we get a read on the u.s. consumer and whether they can continue to drive economic growth. welcome to "bloomberg daybreak" on this tuesday, july 16. lisa: we are getting some wells fargo numbers just out. on earnings-per-share, they did beat on a year-over-year basis, $1.30 versus an estimate of $0 .98. also, their second quarter total average of loans did come down a little bit. we are going to be looking at that. the other issue is the net interest margin. david: and that missed the estimates for the second quarter. lisa: interestingly, you are seeing an increase in shares, perhaps on the earnings-per-share beat. we will continue to dig into

trying to cash in on social justice movements by paid painting themselves as woke and what is woke wolk is a term which is used to say that you're aware of injustices in the world in particular racism and this is a term from the united states that's used so essentially unity ever have come out and said that they you know are saying that it's bad for the industry the big companies are jumping on this and they need to be very careful because they can actually lose a lot of buyers of their products that's the thing of course if they don't seem authentic then you know they are not trustworthy is iran's all right thank you so much probably is greatly appreciated. next up glaciers in the himalaya mountain range north of india are melting about twice as fast as they used to according to research by columbia university in the united states the world's highest peaks which include mount everest have been losing ice at a rate of about one percent a year since 2000 the scientists say the excel or weight of glacial melts poses a serious threat to the water supply of the indian subcontinent. the glac

well the media group which runs wolk has told us it is proud of the work it undertakes for its clients meanwhile facebook is expanding its fake news crackdown to his instagram platform will be able to flag what they deem to be suspicious posts but the content can be marked as fake or false and will then be deleted from searches experts assess status for example suppose somebody posts a false statement like this one over here tagging it with the hash tag math expert now somebody flags it up is false it will stop appearing under that hash tag social media privacy advocate bill he is skeptical that the safeguards will prove to be a success. it's when you get into pictures and primarily with video where things start to get really really difficult and at this moment in time the automated tools that they're using cannot tell the difference to a cat a dog and a terrorist at this moment in time the having certainly would lead you on facebook platform to use an enormous number of me who sit and do nothing but look through these videos to moderate them and to recognize them. taking this sort of

which became public last week the one that triggered an impeachment inquiry against the president and wolk is testimony today it was private but president trump he said plenty in public today well i think by. going down and i think his situation because you may very well find that there are many other countries. just like this. so i would say that president. if it were me i would recommend that they start an investigation. nobody has any doubt that they were that was a christian 100 percent. carli he joins me tonight from kiev in ukraine good evening to you nic let's talk about kurt volker he had an important job as special envoy to ukraine for the united states until he resigned last week last year i interviewed him here and he was adamant in his defense of trump's commitment to ukraine take a listen to what he said i can imagine your job is very difficult if there was one thing that you. could get from the trip administration that you don't have right now what would it be i think i do have what i need from the trump administration i think we have very strong support all the way through a

now the home office has not been particularly forthcoming about with details of its involvement with wolk it has admitted that it has material from the project but refused to answer any further questions about the motives behind establishing at all or indeed what methods it uses allegedly on the grounds of national security and its statement on the issue didn't really help clarify anything further we're committed to using all the tools the bubel to come to the throne. from tourism in the u.k. the home office works and botanists it with a range of organizations to reduce vulnerabilities to organized criminal extremist interest throats in the u.k. now it's not just the wider public or users who aren't told about the government's role the report also reveals that people who are invited on to woken actually featured in discussions one in form that it was a part of the home office an initiative this is an initiative called prevent that has caused great controversy since its implementation back in 2003 and that's been accused of essentially being a state sanctioned spying and targeting muslim m

candidates like liz warren and cory booker and kemal harriss is that they like to like to give a lot of wolk and progressive babble and doublespeak but they're not progressive they're neo liberals and they're just not believable and. everyone's trying to out woke the other person and it's just not working well i'll tell you alex it alienates a lot of people this woking it's ok because that's not part of solutions kevin you know i mean you know you're going to be the minority on this one i'm really happy you're here but i mean what's the difference between their policy suggestions and virtues signaling because you know you go from resistance to russia russia russia to races i mean you the democrats could try to keep pivoting these things that just fizzle or have no substance whatsoever and the democrats say it's good for the public it's quite exhausting what's their next little trick out of the hat i mean. there is the perception that there is just this all the thing you need to do is hate trump in a world will be a better place but we all know that's not going to happen go ahead kevin. well

that is joe woldk, johnson & johnson -- joe wolk, johnson & johnson's chief financial officer. this is bloomberg. ♪ lisa: this is "bloomberg daybreak." we are looking at a constructive tone to markets. equities generally rising. nasdaq leading the charge in the u.s.. across assets, you can see yields rising, but not a lot of action. the 10 year yield rising. dollar getting strength and crude getting a bit. u.s. trade talks with china continue, as do the trade talks that have just begun with japan, with europe saying it is ready to talk trade. let's welcome michael mckee. very busy around the u.s. trade representative's office. conducting trade negotiations with the biggest economies in the world. this week the japanese came to town. a couple themes that permeate these negotiations. one is agriculture and the other is self-inflicted wounds. both come together in the trade talks with japan. cars are important. we talked a lot about cars for the trump administration, but agriculture also. when donald trump came to office he took the u.s. out of the trans-pacific partnership. loo

would advice others to do the same thanksgiving is having a tough time finding its place in our new wolk world who knows if we'll even have anything left to celebrate i've never thought about turkeys but they're raised for this purpose they're bred for that purpose my family is a little bit divided religiously but we usually put our differences aside despite the differences that people may have you know they come together and they say what they're thankful for you know with the other aspect of it you know the native americans. take that down as history however in the present day modern time should be no. you know follow along the traditions of thanksgiving i can understand for some people maybe they don't feel the need to celebrate it but everyone so people can do it makes them comfortable. on carnosine 1000 celebrating waving american flags after donald trump side bills backing hong kong protests which i know some of the u.s. ambassador in response says that the white house's move amounts to interference and to threaten washington consequences move or one. of the us has been disregardin

. >> reporter: followers like martin wolk taking note. an avid smoker for five years calling it quits after he saw one of dr. leslie's videos. >> this is a normal chest ray. this is the chest x-ray of a person who has the new mysterious disease associated with vaping. >> she showed the damage to your lungs. i never really had seen x-ray photos of damage to people's lungs after vaping. kind of scared me and i wanted to do something about it. >> reporter: as cdc continues to investigate, it hopefully learned more about the lung-related injuries tied to vaping. dr. leslie says getting information to teens is critical. >> i share health information the way that i would to one of my friends. i really think that that's the most effective way talking about a health topic and getting people to listen. >> a big thanks to janai, who can't be bothered to show up to work today. left me with elizabeth here, which i'm grateful for. >> i was just going to say. >> thank you, janai. when it comes to this, it's serious. to hear mysterious illness, especial

we're wolking to r the issue as soon as possible. during the outage, social media users also turned to twitter. they were usinghe hashtag facebook down. that became a top trend. here's a w. mindy kaling writing, instagram and facebook are down.he we are, crossing my fingers, this is my best performing tweet ye josh peck wrote, with facebook and instagram down, 250 models just became dental high jeets. eric said, hey, try turning iac off and on again. facebook was restored around 00 a.m. easte time. facebook posted, it is good to be back. facebook said the outage was not the result of any attack, but th have yet to confirm exactly what the issue was. the issues were all over the place. i was trying to post sometng on instagram yesterday, last night, and it wasn't working. it wasn't posting. pictures weren't going to it. >> your life went on. >> very muc so my quality of life improved actually. >> i know, right? >> exactly. >> good for the soul. >>> how about pop start? >> quick pop start. there was a surpriseas return night to "the to

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six years ago yesterday, westland firefighter brian wolke made the ultimate sacrifice when he died courageously battling a blaze at a local strip mall. brian, who was born in detroit, certainly was courageous. and we lost his life in the short years of 29 years that he's been on this earth. ms. tlaib: on the sixth anniversary of his tragic passing, let us remember him and his loving family that survived him, including his wife, jennifer, and his daughter, ava. thank hem for their selflessness, bravery and offer unwavering support for our first responders across the country. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: are there any further requests for one-minute speeches? the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, on may 8, 2019, pursuant to section 3307 of title 40, united states code, the committee on transportation and infrastructure met in open session to consider 20 resolutions, including in the general services administration's capital investment and leasing programs. i've enclosed copies of the resolutions adopted. sign