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David senio Senior Vice President of p Global Public policy at amazon. Corrects high the committee will come to order. Wildfires are an increasing threat to our country. They have burned more land and put more communities in danger. Last year alone, wildfires affected americans from hawaii to the great smoky mountains. This year, it is likely to get worse. As we sit here today, communities in texas just finished fighting the largest wildfire in the history of that state. It burned almost 1. 4 mi...

Program, filmmaker, author and lecturer, professor haim brasith, and joining us via skype from london, sakina datu, journalist and producer, welcome to you both. Ill start with you, professor, if i may, um, we were of going to of course take a deep dive into the other issues soon. Can i have your reflections on more than 160 days of bombardment that has gone on in the. Gaza strip so far, this is certainly unprecedented that for 160 days um nothing was done to stop the israeli crimes. Um, its cle...

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. The current issues, policing, prison, and systems panel. Im a Los Angelesbased journalist reporting on gangs in the Los Angeles County sheriffs department. Thank you for reading. Im joined up here by a group of fabulous authors. I will let them introduce themselves. My name is robert samuels. Im a staff writer and coauthor of his name is george floyd, one mans struggle for interracial justice. If only my coauthor was hey, everybody. Im the Whit...

We are trying to hector people into making sense of daily choices when the right strategy is actually to liberate them and let them use their common sense sense and initiative and ingenuity and emotions to try to do a good job. Over time, judge whether they are doing a good job. Host you the former vice chair of covington, you have written a book called life without lawyers. Ay. What is the legal structure that allows the people who run the lay grounds and the parents to let kids go out and be k...

American history. A former Vice President but a warning the nation against reelected his old running mate. Thats tonight on these good evening. Im abby phillip in new york, and tonight, former Vice President mike pads, making a Cleaner Break with trumpism that was years in the making. Finally, he is saying out loud, the trump cannot be given the keys to the oval office. Again it should come as no surprise that i will not be endorsing donald trump this year. I cannot in good conscience endorsed d...

Professor joanna schwartz, its such a pleasure. Finally meet you. How are you. Im well. How are you . Very good, thank you. Very good. I really enjoyed reading your book. Even though the subject is quite a serious subject matter. So i feel a little uncomfortable saying i enjoyed it, but i always enjoy being informed. And certainly as someone who focuses on these issues in my teaching and as former Police Officer here in new york city, i just found it absolutely fascinating. I wanted to start off...

Peter rob henderson, author of troubled, a memoir of foster care and social class. You wrote harold bloom once told you you were forged in a fire. What did you mean by that . Well, that was shortly after i arrived at yale. Harold bloom was an esteemed literary critic and professor at yelp. He was in his Twilight Years at that point. And i visited him at his home when i was a student at yale, and i conveyed my shortened, abbreviated version of my story was 87 years old at this time and he listene...

Host good morning. It is saturday, march 16, 2024. The house passed a bill this week that has the potential to band tiktok in the United States, but the legislation faces a tougher time in the senate. Increasing tensions between top u. S. Democrats and israels leadership first into the open with a speech from Chuck Schumer calling for a change in leadership amid the ongoing conflict in gaza. We want to hear your top new story of the week. 202 7488000. Republicans on 202 7488001. Independents, 20...

Im excited to welcome karen nyman today to discuss this new book rich white men, what it takes to uproot the Old Boys Club and transform america. Its no secret that our country has a problem when it comes to wealth inequality and systemic racism and patriarchy have only exacerbated the advantages of wealthy white men in rich white men and women. Brings us into the enclaves of the silver spooned white men to illuminate their role in the world, how they justify inequality. Rich white men reveals t...

Good morning, the subcommittee on communications and technology will come to order. And the chair recognizes himself five its with the statement. I begin thank you very much to our witnesses for being here today to examine the importance of a. M. Radio receivers in vehicles. A. Im radio has been an integral part of our society for well over a century, and at the americans local news serving is the backbone to our nations Emergency Communications infrastructure. Over 45 million americans tune int...