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Of events like this all throughout the year and one such event we are doing this coming wednesday june 5 David Epstein for his new book triumph and a specialized world before we start if you could turn off or silence your cell phone we would appreciate it. Please step up to the microphone here before asking your questions or we can no we cannor and enjoy the conversation but make sure that its going to be recorded there are copies right behind the Cash Register sound front. Last, please keep you...

Thank you both. Let me begin with the final two decisions by the Supreme Court. They called them stunning and proof that chief Justice John Roberts is making this court his own. What is your view of the rulings and imprint he is having on this court . Talking about the gerrymandering case and the census case, what we are seeing is the gerrymandering case was a wonderful opportunity for the justices to step back and say we are being asked to do something that judges arent entitled to do in the co...

Politically, saying that you want to break up the companies feels nice, right . Its like, okay, there are issues lets just take a big hammer and go do it but i just think the reality is, we want to be we want to make sure that the things that we do actually address the problems. Well, joining us now here at post nine, bob pec, now chairman of Global Internet banking at barclays thanks for having me. Congrats on the new job excited to be there so lets talk about facebook and social media writ lar...

Facebook, google, amson, snapchat amazon, news organizations and anyone who wants to get a message across or sell something. The media has been transformed in the last decade. The vast bulk of Advertising Money now corporate, nonprofit, political is spent on digital platforms. Most of it goes to google and facebook. Those digital providers have been able to dominate primarily because of the power of data. Theres so much data that they can target advertising and messages so that they reach us mos...

Department through the commerce secretary wilbur ross put out a statement essentially saying that the 2020 census would go forward without the Citizenship Question, even though they dont agree with it, even though they dont like it, the census is being printed. Here is what the commerce secretary said yesterday, quote, the, he said he respect the Supreme Court but strongly disagree with its ruling regarding my decision to reinstate a Citizenship Question on the 2020 census. The Census Bureau sta...

Hello again. Welcome to the town hall portion of our afternoon and weekend. Were excited to be able to be joined by a handful of folks who are truly making a difference right here in this very building on the values that animate all of us, faith and Freedom Coalition and all of our members. Thank you so much. As folks are kind of working their way through security out there, were going to go ahead and get started. Obviously things are still moving fast and furious here in the building as theyre ...

State blessedher with that number of candidates all in one place. You are special. [cheers] my task is to introduce to you the members of congress who have joined us from all over the country. We do have a few. And if they would join me on the stage, i would appreciate it. And these members are the ones not running for president. First, we have representative barbara lee from california. 13th district. Secondly, we have marcia fudge from the 11th district of ohio. We have representative richmond...

Regarding violations of the hatch act under the Trump Administration are now recognized and for five minutes, i will give my opening stamen. Today, we are holding a hearing on a troubling report issued by the office of the special year. L on june 13 of this this report finds that Kellyanne Conway, counselor to president donald trump, violated the hatch act dozens of times and it recommends that the president , for her immediately repeated violations. There are rarely issues that come before our ...

Temperate wise it is a humid start to the day. With all of the cloud and the i pretty hgh rain chances around, afterno high today will be comfortably lower an average the upper 70s to around 80. Take your umbrella. Its the humidity and raince chans today. Complete updated forecast zonebyzone in our nbc washington app and i will post more on my social media pages. Rain across thesearea. Also rain right here across part of calvert and st. Marys county. Lets go over to traffic. Good morning. We are...

Still hopeful that the house will ratify the agreement calling on house peeker nancy pelosi to do the right thing. An wall street, a record day. The s p 500 closing at an alltime record high, the dow closing at its third highest level in history, only 75 points tonight from its record high. All of this despite heightened tensions in the middle east after iran shot down that american drone over International Air space. President trump today slammed the roi rogue nations mistake s iran made a big ...