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Includes a discussion about Economic Growth in the workforce with senator jeff merkley of oregon. Please welcome to the stage [applause] good morning, everyone. I am the president of the center for American Progress and i am thrilled to welcome you to the 2017 ideas conference. We are thrilled to have people from all over the country here for our third conference. I think many of you know i am user so active twitter i encourage you to eat of tweet about todays event. The center for American Prog...

101 because all of our crashes have been along 101 this morning. So well begin this is in san jose, northbound 101 as you approach mckee, we have a two car crash. Traffic is backed up to about story at this point. So give yourself some extra time. Speeds drop 25 miles an hour. Thats your cruising speed. Another crash on 280 right near bird avenue thats in the northbound direction, not blocking or its blocking one lane, not causing backups just yet. Well keep an eye on it and let you know. And he...

We have some limitations to our jurisdictions. Around issues of common carriage. We are at a moment in time where the jurisdiction is very much a source of conversation in this area as well. I would say the ftc rule is a generalized Consumer Protection enforcer, but we need some of our jurisdiction when it comes to being clarified. A top republican, the only republican on the commission. Wiry down to two . Why are we down to two . We are waiting for new commissioner nominees from the new york ad...

Midnight in london and 2am in saudi arabia, where President Trump has urged Muslim Leaders to drive out terrorism from their countries. Speaking at a summit in riyadh, he described it as a battle between good and evil. The president also used Strong Language against iran, saudi arabias biggest rival, accusing it of fuelling sectarian conflict and terror. The bbcsjon sopel was there. The president has been on a deep immersion into middle east politics today, and a charm offensive, meeting a host ...

Guest well, its a great question and be incredibly topical given the wanna cry Ransomware Attack that is really zipping around the world over the last few days. The ftc is a generalized Consumer Protection enforcer and has also taken on the role of protecting consumer Data Security. And in that context, weve actually brought about 60 cases in the last few years involving whether security practices of companies are adequate to protect the consumer data that theyre holding. So weve been very activ...

Held a hearing on u. S. Military space assets and potential National Security threats. Hyten raymond be, commander of the air force Space Command, was among those testifying. This is an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible] fiscal year 2018 priorities and posture of the National Security Space Enterprise. Were honored to have the panel of expert witnesses who are leaders in our National Security Space Program to join us here today. And before i introduce them though, i want to take a momento to ackno...

Guest i was a surgeon in panama city doing your logical surgery, and ive been doing that for 25 years or so. Host and what was your practice, and why did you decide to go to panama be city to open it . Guest oh, is pan that city, my wife and i chose that after careful thought when i got out of the army back in 990. We wanted to go to a place that was friendly to the military, ask you remember and you remember that the country hasnt always been friendly to veterans. It is thousand. But in that ar...

29, and june 3rd on cspans and cspan. Org. Announcer this week on q a, author and journalist t. R. Reid. He discusses his book a fine mess a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. Brian t. R. Reid, better known as tom, in your new book, a fine mess, you start out in Chapter Three under taxes what are they good for . With on one saturday afternoon, a great teacher of ethics told his students , do you remember the rest of it . Tom of course. Said,t teacher of ethics let...

29, and june 3rd on cspans and cspan. Org. Announcer this week on q a, author and journalist t. R. Reid. He discusses his book a fine mess a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. Brian t. R. Reid, better known as tom, in your new book, a fine mess, you start out in Chapter Three under taxes what are they good for . With on one saturday afternoon, a great teacher of ethics told his students , do you remember the rest of it . Tom of course. Said,t teacher of ethics let...

29, and june 3rd on cspans and cspan. Org. Announcer this week on q a, author and journalist t. R. Reid. He discusses his book a fine mess a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. Brian t. R. Reid, better known as tom, in your new book, a fine mess, you start out in Chapter Three under taxes what are they good for . With on one saturday afternoon, a great teacher of ethics told his students , do you remember the rest of it . Tom of course. Said,t teacher of ethics let...