Welcome to the Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. Were honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work have been the embodyment of Free Expression. Standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and let me move on to other subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter here is genius at. This the sprob i dont know any jokes. Bt First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do, i gook willed. I mean i asked alexa, i mean i asked siri. About jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology. Of course. There are many stories about someone making a joke of the First Amendment and countless stories about whether the First Amendment does or does not cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and vrabel minorities. The answer by the way is yes, yes, and yes.
Early because of a power outage. Of course i couldnt operate without it. The machines, everything, registers are electric. Reporter sundays tripledigit heat broke records, it turn under to the biggest outage event we have seen in 16 years. It was hot. Yesterday. I think at one point it was like 111 out there. Reporter at one point the heat left more than 40,000pg e customers in the dark leaving many unprepareed for life without power. Hard for us because our grandpa is a dialysis patient and he does at home, so without the power it is hard for him to do his dialysis. Next door they closed at 8 00 and had to close because it is a restaurant and they have the same issues i have. Reporter word on another tripledigit day thursday, arny refuses to let the heat beat his business. I will be more prepared. We do apologize for the technical difficulties, in the meantime, to our north, a traffic nightmare after a stretch of highway 50 buckled over the weekend, this is west sacramento, but the he
Seen as someone who hasnt really thought through his response, hasnt really worked closely with the lawyers, has left many people vulnerable, has left this white house vulnerable. And if you think about the context of how this all unfolded its telling. Rose we continue with ian bremmer president of the Political Risk consults ansi eur asia group. Never in my life as a political scientist have have i seen two countries, major countries with a constellation of National Interests that are as dissonant while the two leaders seem to be doing Everything Possible to make nice nice an be close to etch a other, that is what people dont understand. Rose we con cleul julia ioffe of the atlantic about done alt trump, jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer last area. She was a good russian lawyer. But the thing is what makes a good russian lawyer isnt what makes a Good American lawyer. Its not about how how you present your legal arguments or what you find in discovery. Its about who you know, its a
Seen as someone who hasnt really thought through his response, hasnt really worked closely with the lawyers, has left many people vulnerable, has left this white house vulnerable. And if you think about the context of how this all unfolded its telling. Rose we continue with ian bremmer president of the Political Risk consults ansi eur asia group. Never in my life as a political scientist have have i seen two countries, major countries with a constellation of National Interests that are as dissonant while the two leaders seem to be doing Everything Possible to make nice nice an be close to etch a other, that is what people dont understand. Rose we con cleul julia ioffe of the atlantic about done alt trump, jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer last area. She was a good russian lawyer. But the thing is what makes a good russian lawyer isnt what makes a Good American lawyer. Its not about how how you present your legal arguments or what you find in discovery. Its about who you know, its a
Seen as someone who hasnt really thought through his response, hasnt really worked closely with the lawyers, has left many people vulnerable, has left this white house vulnerable. And if you think about the context of how this all unfolded its telling. Rose we continue with ian bremmer president of the Political Risk consults ansi eur asia group. Never in my life as a political scientist have have i seen two countries, major countries with a constellation of National Interests that are as dissonant while the two leaders seem to be doing Everything Possible to make nice nice an be close to etch a other, that is what people dont understand. Rose we con cleul julia ioffe of the atlantic about done alt trump, jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer last area. She was a good russian lawyer. But the thing is what makes a good russian lawyer isnt what makes a Good American lawyer. Its not about how how you present your legal arguments or what you find in discovery. Its about who you know, its a