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On the peculiar way that we choose our president , not through a direct election by the people, but in an indirect by 51 separate elections to elect 538 electors who then go through a process to select our president. Louder i can you hear me now if speak like this . The election of donald trump marked the fifth time in our history that the Electoral College awarded the presidency to the candidate that did not win the most votes. The experience of the last election was also disheartening in other...

Thank you. Im happy to be here today to introduce amy webb. Her title is quantitative futurist, so she has the most interesting title of anybody in this room. She founded the future today institute. She studies technology and science. She guides universities, intotry, and government navigating change. She explores a range of intriguing ideas such as fair and equal codebase against the dangers of bias. Her most recent book teaches us how to think like a futurist and distinguish the real trend fro...

The alarm over children of Islamic State fighters that have been brought to germany he says the youngsters are living time bombs and can be used in terror plots inside the country and hes peter oliver has more. Well hung old muhsin said the children all german parents who went off to join isis in iraq syria pose a potential Security Threat when or if they return back here to germany in fact he went as far as to refer to them in some cases as ticking time bombs they were confronted early with Isl...

And for that reason were very pleased to happy to have cspan with us today. Cspan2 will be broadcasting this live at this time. And for that reason when you ask questions wed ask that you please identify yourself both so that the, our speakers know who you are as well as the larger audience. Another of the missions of the aba is in nonpartisan as well as bipartisan fashion to talk about highlight and advance the interests of National Security law and do so in twoways. One, to stand up for the pr...

A shakeup for the Leadership Team at twitter. The ceo has resigned from the company to take the ceo position at a fintech startup. He has his work cut out for him. He will fill a Leadership Void that has existed since the cofounder resigned as ceo last year, amid accusations of Sexual Harassment. We got all the details from selina wang. That delivers a blow to twitter, especially just at the very early beginnings of their turnaround strategy. Several analysts upgraded their company. They are fin...

First, to our lead. A shakeup for the Leadership Team at twitter. The ceo has resigned from the company to take the ceo position at a fintech startup. He has played a leading role at the company. He has his work cut out for him. He will fill a Leadership Void that has existed since the cofounder resigned as ceo last year, amid accusations of Sexual Harassment. We got all the details from Bloomberg News tech reporter selina wang. That delivers a blow to twitter, especially just at the very early ...

More helpful to look at the spread in this sense. Its not often that weve had these kinds of swings like there were yesterday. Its continuing today. , buthe same magnitude not very frequent weve had that kind of spread between the intraday low and high. Yesterday was a wholesale selloff. There were only two stocks and the s p that were higher. , we have some companies out with earnings rising on that fundamental news. A bit of a switch in tone. Sky works supplies apple. That company out with ear...

A warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Lets get to the market picture. As we said in the open, the nasdaq and s p closing at record alltime highs the nasdaq up 0. 7 the s p up 0. 2 the dow was negative, but fractionally this morning pointing to a higher open for the dow and the s p. Just slightly for the nasdaq we got to the 2. 6 level in terms of yields. Just pulled back the last couple of days from that level, but rising again today 2. 63 the yield on the tenyear holdi...

Kevin youngs boat and roxanne memoir hunger. Booktv is covered several of this years finalist. I think most of us, it means an end to come it means losing people we love. One of the things i learned from reading especially the dying writers like Christopher Hitchens who are writing about their own death, and even with my parents one of the things i realize that dying people want to tell us is to live. Like, live the best life you can. Live it so you dont have any regrets at the end. Do we, to th...

Faculty and students and its a real pleasure to be here today. At the finish line of what has been a terrific project for much of the last three years here at the Miller Center. Our first year of project. Were now one yore and one week into President Trumps administration. And we started planning this effort in the spring of 2015 shortly after i arrived at the center but it really came from the Miller Center itself. There was a real question when i came in as the new director here about how we t...