Hardtoreachen populations with the goal of ensuring that a safe and effective vaccine is available v for every american o wants one so i want to welcome you for the discussion. I can see and hear you so hopefully the others can as well i want to ask a question about the ongoing surge. Many suspected this to be bad but we are creeping towardsds 200,000 cases per day. Last tuesday we broke the single state record for debt and then the next day we broke it again. Meanwhile ive seen large crowds still going c to the malls and people are all on the street out protesting the closure of bars. There is clearly something going on so how does the cdc and the rest of the American Enterprise go aboutth convincing the public to take this seriously . That is a great question and i dont think that its that people dont take it seriously. I think it is just that people are tired. Just this week i canceled our christmas vacation and i think what folks need to understand is now is the time to really buck
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The midst of the pandemic. U. S. Stocks rising today despite no new stimulus. Yet, even shares of google. Alphabet shaken off the threats of antitrust scrutiny. Joining us, abigail doolittle. Why would google shares rise on a day that the Justice Department is filing a suit that could threaten to break google up . Abigail not the response you would expect from Investors Committee u. S. Suing alphabet usingcusing it of monopolylike powers. This is not exactly new. Theres been many shots across the bow. We have had executives from many of these Big Tech Companies testifying before congress for a couple of years now. The fact that google is underperforming on the day. At one point, it did dip briefly lower. You could make the case that it is really priced in. The stock price over the time period when we have seen some of the congressional testimony, it has underperformed some of the other Tech Companies, telling you that there could be some idea that investors are not surprised by this. W
Participate but declined our invitation. In addition to questions from us, midway through the debate, we will have a segment where the candidates, unscripted, will discuss issues among themselves. Willuestions greg and i ask the candidates this evening have been drawn from questions from wyoming pbs listeners and staff and viewers and developed by craig and i. Candidates have not seen the questions. Craig we want to get right to the debate. Each candidate is allowed an opening statement, questions will follow. We are ready to begin. T, you are first. Jeff thanks to wyoming pbs. I am the Constitution Party state chairman and candidate for the u. S. House of representatives. I think we are all in agreement 2020 has not been kind to this country, with the fires in covid19, etc. , but for all the things we can worry about, lets not lose sight of the thing we should hold near and dear, our liberties, which are the safeguard of our freedoms. The liberties i refer to are the principles of nat
Body worn throughout the d. O. I. In response d. O. I. Issued a new draft about Body Worn Camera policy. The Leadership Council for human rights and dozens of other organizations came together in 2015 to release basic civil rights principles for Body Worn Camera usage. Though turned those principles into eight criteria for which to evaluate body camera policies. We measured interiors policy against the leadership criteria. Interiors draft interim policy only fully met one of eight criteria. Thats an 88 failure rate. 88 . The deficiencies are significant. The policy isnt publicly available. It doesnt limit Biometric Technologies like facial recognition. It doesnt prevent the officer from seeing footage before writing a report about an incident. In fact, on many of the important questions like those the interior policy says that bureau should decide. That creates an inconsistent set of basic civil protections that will change depending on which bureaus Law Enforcement officer you run int