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Want to highlight energy. It is at the bottom of the barrel, down 1. 6 . Part of thousand of cyclical trade we saw the beginning of the week on monday. 8 also have oil lower today. I want to stick on oil. Even though it is lower today, it is still up in a massive way on the month. It has gained nearly 80 in may, the best month on record. Supply and demand in the market starts to look more balanced and wti is ending the month around 33 a barrel. David . Waiting to hear from President Trump. We ha...

What do you remember about june 14, 2017 . I remember waking up excited about going to practice. As the day before the congressional annual baseball game and a great tradition. I was Just Announced to be the second base starter so i was excited about that you get out there early in the morning working with your colleagues and its kind of lighthearted because most of the real practice has already been done and youre just kind of going through the motions of getting ready for the game, and all of ...

Challengesscusses facing taxpayers with the complexity of new tax laws. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its tuesday, july 30, 2019. The Senate Continues its workweek today. At 10 00 a. M. Eastern, theyll have votes at 11 30 and lunches afterwards. The house will meet in the brief pro forma session later this morning. Were with you the next three hours on the washington journal. We begin today gaugin...

Book, 26 words that created the internet by jeff kosseff. General housekeeping notes, week, for the first time will have our offer and two commentators reflect on this book followed by a question and answer session. Then about 1 30 p. M. , we shall have lunch and more conversation about these issues. Lets go to the subject matter today. Legislators and regulators work on a greater burden that facilitates intimate speech. Left and right receive whats treated as the publishers of the users speech....

We have to understand the history of why Congress Passed itliable if they knew or had reason to know of illegal content. Once we had early online compuserve, the courts said, well, if you dont moderate user content, you can receive that protection, if you are like a store like a bookstore. But if you moderated, you are more like a newspaper. In 1996, Congress Passed the Communications Decency act, section 230, which says if you dont moderate or moderate, if you have reason to know, you will have...

Example of criminal conduct that we lawyers studied in law school. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then eight minutes of video must be worth one word. Guilty. The complaint filed yesterday is as difficult to read as the video is to watch, quote, bwc, thats body worn video camera showed mr. Floyd continued to move and breathe at 8 24 24 mr. Floyd stopped moving. At 8 25 31, the video appears to show mr. Floyd ceasing to breathe or speak. Lane said, want to roll him on his side. Keung chec...

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