Good to be with you. Im katy tur. This is a monumental day, the Federal Reserve cut Interest Rates for the first time in four years. This was an aggressive 50 Basis Point Cut or half a Percentage Point that will move markets and Mortgage Rates. It might also move the tide of the election. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell followed the announcement with a speech of his own, appearing to signal more aggressive cuts to come, indicating that inflation is finally under control, all of this, just 48 days before the president ial election. Big day. Joining us now, nbc News Business and data reporter, brian cheung, national Affairs Correspondent with the nation John Nichols, and director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy Institute of politics and msnbc political contributor, John Della volpe. Nbc Business Correspondent Christine romans will be here in just a second. Brian, i shall begin with you, explain what We Saw, and also tell me what he said in his news conference. Yeah, and its stil
Good morning. My name is Kirsten Carter and i am the supervisory archivist at the fdr president ial library, and on behalf of the library, id like to welcome you again to the 2017 roosevelt reading festival. Fdr plans for the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The librarys Research Room is consistently one of the busiest of all of the president ial libraries. And this years group of authors reflects the wide variety of research down here. And if you love the roosevelt reading festival, and want to support this and other programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today at the membership table in the hall or online at fdr library. Org and if you havent already please do go see our new special, temporary museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. So let me quickly go over the format for the festivals sessions today. At the top
I am Nikki Kennedy and on behalf of the edward m. Kennedy institute for United States senate im very pleased to welcome all of you to this very special edition of our getting to the point series. The candidate kennedy two dozen nonprofit, nonpartisan plays in vision and plans by my late husband senator edward kennedy. Its a place where visitors come now virtually as well as inperson to experience democracy their hands on learning about the United States senate and then use that knowledge as a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. Its also a place where we encouraged participatory democracy. In fact we just started to nonpartisan effort called just about and i encourage you to to go to our new web site called just go. Org but most important i encouraged you on november 3 to just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. This is a place where we work to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. I can think of no program an
The candidate kennedy two dozen nonprofit, nonpartisan plays in vision and plans by my late husband senator edward kennedy. Its a place where visitors come now virtually as well as inperson to experience democracy their hands on learning about the United States senate and then use that knowledge as a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. Its also a place where we encouraged participatory democracy. In fact we just started to nonpartisan effort called just about and i encourage you to to go to our new web site called just go. Org but most important i encouraged you on november 3 to just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. This is a place where we work to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. I can think of no program and no speaker who meets every one of the goals that my husband had for this place more than todays special guest Justice Stephen breyer. Without question Justice Breyer is a man for our time and de
The copyright ability question in this case. Oracle has a copyright to the computer code in java. Right to the functions and oracle cannot leverage the copyright to create patent rights. Under their murder doctrine there is no copyright protection for computer code that is the only way to perform those functions. Java developers have the right to use certain commands to create applications for google, android platforms. To work the commands require google to reduce a set of declarations from java fc. Because there are no substitutes oracle is claiming the exclusive right not merely to what the declaration is saying but to what they do. That is not a copyright, it is a patent right. Reusingtice of interface is critical to commuter software. Reusing the declaration allowed developers to write billions of creative applications that are used by more than a billion people. Those policy questions are almost academic because the issue is not one this court would find fair use. The standard of