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Phones and notes. They were looking for evidence into who leaked this Police Report on the death of San Francisco public defender jeff adachi in this north beach apartment in february. Carmody obtained the photographs from a source and provided to the iteam and other media outlets. In response to complaints from First Amendment advocates, San Francisco police chief bill scott admitted his investigators made mistakes and apologized to Brian Carmody in may. We do owe an apology. To whom . The peop...

At ten oclock, clive myrie will be here with a full round up of the days news. First on bbc news our world. Since the election of donald trump, rival groups of far right and far left activists have battled in the streets of some american cities. Violence has broken out in new york, berkeley, and charlottesville. But perhaps most affected is portland, oregon a liberal, progressive city in the Pacific North west. Mike wendling has been there to meet activists from both sides to try to understand w...

They stand for coming out here on this lovely saturday evening. We are very pleased to have steve waldon to talk about his new book. Sacred liberty. It is about religious freedom and what steve calls in the subtitle, americas long, bloodied and ongoing struggle for that freedom. These days we tend to think of a religious freedom as a basic fundamental principle of our democracy and one we take very much for granted. But our countrys history as they recount in a fascinating history is filled with...

[gavel] this meeting will come to order. Will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus head of libra at facebook. On may 9 senator brown and i sent a letter shortly after it was reported that company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using a social network. We asked space bar for more information how the system would work, access and use of Consumer Financial information and facebooks access to use o...

Thank you so much, appreciate that. Thank you for all being here for this important discussion today. I wish the subject didnt need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against the one on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that refrain today is troubling. Its even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This administration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism, ...

Discussion on slave refugee camps during the war. Watch American History tv tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. This past june, facebook announced plans for its own crypto currency called libra. The cocreator of Libra David Marcus answered lawmakers concerned over the Digital Currency before the Senate Banking committee. This is about 2 1 2 hours. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sen...

The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. A regulars muscle for five minutes in Opening Statement the first one he was of age after wrestling incident. Was one protects the childs life . Think about it. Americans are dying every year while pharmaceutical companies have seasons able to afford the drugs some are developed with federal funding. Responsibility to the american taxpayer. They use loopholes and peasants. Even when they are supposed to be is the american ...

Please keep in mind there will be an opportunity for q a after the remarks from our speaker. I want to ask you to line up at the mics here and here in order to ask questions. Im tom hungar and i have the honor to introduce todays speaker who will be regaling us with his always fascinating insights on the Supreme Courts just completed term. It was certainly an eventful term, so there should be no shortage of fascinating material. For example, as you know chief justice i mean roberts continued his...

Republican on the subcommittee of communications and technology. The most significant subcommittee when it comes to technology and telecommunications in congress. He is our guest this week on the communicators. Congressman latta, what has your subcommittee been up to . Good news for the american citizens, we passed the robo call legislation. That is significant. When you think of the almost 50 billion rollcalls made every year into this country, it is going to hopefully provide relief to the ame...

Amb. Brownback the Supreme Court just wrapped up host we have briand goron and john malcolm here. Thank you for being in this morning. Brianne andt with ask you what is your take on the decisions that came down in the recent term . Guest i think this was a deeply different disappointing decision from the court because the chief justice threw up their hands and acknowledged that extreme partisan gerrymanders are inconsistent with what quit to do anything about them. Justice kagan got it right in ...