Local content and media diversity. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome. I am so excited to see this crowd to talk about the media ownership. Im gigi sohn, fellow at the georgetown university. I want to thank the institute for Technology Law and policy. The institute for public representation, which is will part of Georgetown Law Center. Fenton foundation and mozilla. I want to thank senator blumenthal from connecticut who well hopefully being hearing from soon for reserving this room and a Research Fellow and personal law clerk, doing a fabulous job, alexander gibbons, head of the institute, who some of you may have heard pro her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping at h m were shoopping and a shoplifter knocked her over. I was there the day before. If people send well wishes to alex, shes done a great job running the institute. I want to thank other georgetown students gathered by Andy Schwartzman, our panelist, helping today with various a
It was a bitter start. Many of you were out and about. Hopefully layered up. Brianne carter, what were peoples reaction when you were out talking to them . Brianne well, surprisingly, we actually found some folks that were out and about. Some in shorts. An hour ago a man out here running with no shirt. Some saying they were enjoying the dip in temperatures. But the one complaint we heard over and over from folks today all about the wind. You mentioned it earlier this morning. Many talk about that, how it was a bitting wind walking out the door this morning. If the wind is gusty and cuts through you. Especially as you are not in the sun and the sun starts to go down. We know folks have no choice but to be out in the cold. We found people braving the breezes. They know how to prepare and buckle up, workers said Mother Nature is still making it hard for a days work. Its brianne so the entire time we were talking to him, he is wiping away tears from the glasses underneath because he said i
Features pulling back from record highs. Expecting a decline at the opening of trading about 130 points down one half of 1 . The s p 500 down and the nasdaq down two thirds of a percent right now 42 points lower expecting a lower opening this morning. European markets similar story. Cac in the dax all over between a fraction that almost 1 . Asia overnight markets closed mixed. The indices at the close with the nikkei average in japan was down a quarter of 8 . Shanghai index was up a quarter of a percent. Federal judges here but cisco has bought the Trump Administrations decision to end the daca. The judge said the obama air a program which protects 700,000 people from deportation must stay as the litigation unfolds. Early in the day the commanderinchief reiterated his commitment to Immigration Reform during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers. Very far right and very far left they are very unhappy about what they are doing, but i dont believe they have to be. If we do this properly, da
Good morning. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. Its a great turnout on an important issue and im heartened to see so many people here for this important conversation. Welcome. Im Laura Rosenberger director at gmf. As an organization dedicated to strengthening transatlantic cooperation on regional and global challenges and opportunities in the spirit of the marshall plan, gmf has always been at the forefront of tackling transatlantic challenges and protecting the principles of democracy, good governance, and rule of law. Thats why we launched the alliance for securing democracy here last sumner recognition for the need of a bipartisan, transatlantic effort to understand the assem metric tools that russia and potentially other states are using and to deter such activities. While the threat of foreign interference in our democracy may seem new to many americans, our European Partners and allies are familiar with these aki all. There are many lessons we can learn from others who h
Good morning. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. Its a really great turnout on a really important issue and i am heartened to see so many people here for this important conversation. I want to welcome you to the general Marshall Fund of the United States. Im the director for the alliance of securing democracy here. As an organization dedicated to coordinating global challenges and opportunities in the spirit of the marshall plan, gmf has been at the forefront of the transatlantic challenges and detecting Good Governance and rule of law. Thats why we launched the alliance for securing democracy here at gmf last summer in recognition of the transatlantic effort to understand the a symmetric tools of russia and other states are using to undermine democr undermine democracies to deter such activities. While the threat may seem new to Many Americans our European Partners are all too familiar with these activities and as senator cardon highlights the reports, there are many lessons t