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[applause] senator harris ok. All right. Its good to be home. Its good to be home. Bisons. S, president frederick, members of the board, distinguished faculty, thank you for this incredible honor. And to the class of 2017, congratulations. [applause] and to youris families and friends who encouraged you and help you up, thank you for all you did. Lets hear it for them. [applause] senator harris ive had the honor of speaking at many commencements, but this one is particularly special for me becau...

Figures that resonate with middle america. Narrator . Who promised disruption. What bannon said was, we are going to do everything we can to take your power away and move it somewhere else. Narrator tonight on frontline. Deconstruction of the administrative state. Narrator bannons war. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. ...

Figures that resonate with middle america. Narrator . Who promised disruption. What bannon said was, we are going to do everything we can to take your power away and move it somewhere else. Narrator tonight on frontline. Deconstruction of the administrative state. Narrator bannons war. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. ...

[applause] senator harris all right. It is good to be home. It is good to be home. Greetings. President frederick, members of the board, distinguished faculty, thank you for this incredible honor. To the class of 2017, congratulations. [applause] senator harris and to your families and friends who encourage you and held you up, thank you for all you did. Lets hear it for them. [applause] sen. Harris i have had the honor of speaking at many commencements. But this one is particularly special for ...

Convenes the committee to examine the russian interference in the u. S. Elections. This is an opportunity for the American People to drill down on this important topic. In 2016, and hostile foreign power reached down into the state and local levels to touch voter data. It employed relatively sophisticated cyber tools and capabilities and helped moscow potentially build detailed knowledge of how our collections work. It was another example of russian efforts to interfere in a democracy with the g...

Plans for a second Scottish Referendum on independence have been put on ice. First minister Nicola Sturgeon has categorically not dropped the idea of another vote, but said today that no legislation will be brought forward until autumn next year at the earliest. Given the pace at which these things proceed, that means no vote would happen until 2020 and by then it would likely be delayed until after the next scottish elections in 2021. The reset amounts to a setback for the ambitions of the snp,...

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to barnes noble tribeca. Have the pleasure of introducing Heather Cabot and samantha wall ravens has the discuss their new book, geek girl rising. Heather is a form abc news correspondent, angel investor, adjunct professor at columbia university, and a woman at forbes contributor. Samantha walrevens, contributor forbes, and Huffington Post and disney interactive. So join me in walking can welcoming them. This is a superexciting moment for us because, f...

Overall evenings discourse about a 50 minute podcast and also a radio broadcast, and because of that we will do bits of production in front of you. You will see me say things like that i will be right back, but i wont go anywhere. [laughter] i will still be here. The other part of it is we will take breaks and i will ask for your entirely spontaneous applause, for the atmospherics. I want to introduce the debaters, etc. I will let you know ahead of time i will be making that request. We dont hav...

Of our time is whether the west has the will to survive. What did you make of the speech the president delivered this morning and how much of it is set in place for what he will be going with at the g20 . Look, i think it is very reminiscent to me of his inaugural to adjust, which people said was dark. I think todayspeech was dark. He literally questioned whether western civilization, the United States, European Union nations, what we think of as the modern west, can survive the onslaught ofterr...

Programmable computer. Its arrival gave the allies a huge edge in world war ii and saved thousands of lives. It also marked the start of the information age. England built 10 of the colossus machines. And they became the heart of its booming computing industry. Actually, no. This is a replica of colossus. The real machines were destroyed after the war so that the pesky russians would not find out about the technology. The metaphor then is a simple one england dismantled decades of pioneering com...