President ial election, lots of thinks to talk about there, talk about people in the room. Talk about obamas legacy a little bit. We will those are the big things, i guess, some of the big areas. Peter just as a reminder, youre going to be bigtime, this is going to be broadcast live on cspan. Larry i know, absolutely. Cspan is so big, it doesnt need h. D. Thats how i like to think of cspan, it doesnt need it. Cspan, you want hfpblg d. , we dont need it. Were cspan, people will watch anyway. Thats how bad cspan is, how bad ass cspan is. Peter Larry Wilmore is not only the host of the nightly show, he is an author and also an executive producer. Whats your connection with the tv show blackish . Larry i helped do the pilot and exec produced the first several episodes. When we were producing the pilot, i got the call to do this show. I wasnt able to finish the whole season. I worked with the creator of the show and we had a great time. Kenya had such a brilliant idea with that and based on
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Force is growing plus how efficient our economy is becoming. If you add those two up, gdp growth. So what were seeing the last four years productivity growth averaging less than 1 . Historically thats low in the United States. Thats kind of really retarding u. S. Growth. How are we why arent we growing faster in this kind of Data Revolution where we hear all these great things about data . Theres this big conundrum there. Maybe what it is we have all these businesses gathering all this information and they really havent yet materialized the benefits from all this data. But from a macro perspective thats a huge, huge question. So how much all this data stuff were talking about, how much can this improve the u. S. Economy, okay . So im just going to throw out a couple real rough numbers here. Theres lots of studies out there who always talk about trillions of dollars and billions of dollars and so on and so forth. I always find those numbers really hard to understand. So im an economist.
And ochk that extends beyond the courtroom and the actions that we bring. Working with many members who are sponsoring this wonderful weekend and other members of congress as well, weve promoted legislative proposals to resore the Voting Rights act to its full and proerp. Weve profoesed legislation that would expand access to polling places for those living on indian villages and other tribal lands. We cannot have a situation in this country where the original americans are kept out of the participation in the bounties of this land. We cannot have that. [ applause ] we do this also through our monitoring program, we monitor federal elections and weve actively enforced the National Voter registration act to protect those who are registering to vote, as well as the rights of our uniformed members of the military. And overseas citizens who seek to vote as well. Keeping on to what makes them quintessentially american. We will also protect their rights as well. And of course, the right to v
Prosecution agreements. Laundered as much as it hundred 50 million for drug cartels. Minorly did they commit financial and technical infractions, we are talking about an organization operating at the top of the illegal narcotics pyramid. This is a major criminal enterprise. They admitted it. They did not fund it, that is on then. That is a failure of the regulatory system. They were in league with truly dangerous and violent people and the worstem out with kind of behavior that a band can be involved with. Nobody does a single day in jail . That is outrageous. It is even more outrageous when you look at in comparison with who does go to jail, people at the very bottom of the illegal sellingamid, people drugs. They go to jail for realtime, five years, 10 years. At the same time, they were living hsbc off. Taibbi sunday night. Next, a previews of todays elections. Idential they also talked about the future of u. S. afghan relations after president karzai. Posted by the alliance in suppor