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>> mehdi, that is an understatement. lets get back to something you ask me a long time, ago he asked me whats the best defense he could muster in regard to a number of legal claims that hes facing, and i told you back then, throw his lawyers out of the bus and say hey, you know what? i keep all these lawyers around me because i say kersey things, i do crazy things, so hes on constant safeguard to make sure im not actually doing something illegal. turns out you ask one of these lawyers that you p...

Monica alba at the white house. mike, how did the senate manage to get this done so quickly? >> reporter: quickly is an understatement. this is called the worlds greatest deliberative body. the process could have lasted well into early next week, potentially even past that x date, the default date, but there are two very powerful forces that can often speed things up in the senate. one is momentum. we saw that bigger than expected vote in the house on wednesday, more than 300 members there havin...

Understatement to say this is high stakes stuff, high stakes decisions that fani willis is going to have to make. as you read the georgia rico law, how does it apply? do you think it applies potentially to something much bigger? >> it does. georgia has one of the most expansive rico laws in the country, and d.a. willis has not been reticent about using it. she famously brought a racketeers case against school teachers who were implicated in a cheating scandal. so under the georgia law all she ha...

Morgan brennan joins us with more. holmes was one of silicon valleys biggest success stories until she wasnt. it wasnt really, it would be an understatement to say that it was a fall from grace. what now? >>. >> right now, you have 135-month sentence. just over 11 years. with elizabeth holmes reporting to prison in texas just a short while ago for a blood testing scam. this is a very dramatic u turn from fame to enphamy in a years long saga that chronicles the rise and fall of one of silicon val...

Of technology that it can take the burden of dull, repetitive labour off our shoulders and let us get on with living. fine, as long as the technology is happy to remain our servant. but supposing it gets ideas above its station and turns into our master, more intelligent and much stronger than we are? geoffrey hinton, one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, says the situation is now quite scary, which sounds like a serious understatement coming from him. i spoke to zoe kleinman, the bb...

The u.s.s. harry s. truman. >> thanks for being here. well wrap up the show and eat. what do you think? >> lindsey, we had a wind problem. lindsey jumped in to save the flags. you are all true americans. >> happy memorial day. >> thank you for joining us and have a happy memorial day. >> after weeks of negotiations president biden and speaker mccarthy have struck a deal to raise the debt ceiling days before the june 5th deadline. getting congress on board could be complicated. good morning, im g...

And then, theres the politics. plenty of seniorfigures here are sceptical, to put it mildly, about the very idea of abandoning coal. youve been described as a coal fundamentalist, as a bit of a dinosaur, somebody whos obsessed with coal. yes, they call me all sorts of things. �*coal fundamentalist�* and �*fossil fuel dinosaur�*. do you recognise that? i take those as prestigious statements. it�*s a compliment. yeah. those are prestigious titles for me. do you believe the west, then, is...

Into our master — more intelligent and much stronger than we are? geoffrey hinton, one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, says the situation is now quite scary, which sounds like a serious understatement coming from him. i spoke to zoe kleinman, the bbc�*s technology editor. a lot of people say to me, you know, were just at this moment in time here where things are evolving so very fast. its astonishing to me to see how quickly things are changing. lets take chatgpt because its th...

Says the situation is now quite scary, which sounds like a serious understatement coming from him. i spoke to zoe kleinman, the bbc�*s technology editor. a lot of people say to me, you know, werejust at this moment in time here where things are evolving so very fast. its astonishing to me to see how quickly things are changing. you know, lets take chatgpt because its the kind of viral ai chatbot, isnt it, that everybody�*s heard of? its only been out for six months and already the latest ver...

Like a serious understatement coming from him. i spoke to zoe kleinman, the bbc�*s technology editor. a lot of people say to me, you know, werejust at this moment in time here where things are evolving so very fast. its astonishing to me to see how quickly things are changing. you know, lets take chatgpt because its the kind of viral ai chatbot, isnt it, that everybody�*s heard of? its only been out for six months and already the latest version of it can pass the bar exam thats taken by trai...