Back at this particular moment and talk about facebook the inside story couldnt be more timely. I am just going to start off we have a lot of places to go with this kind going to start with something timely. This morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of her and the fact trump has gone to facebook to get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for things over the years and i actually wrote a column recently about why Mark Zuckerberg hasnt fact checked. Tell us about your relationship with facebook and free speech. Im going to throw a big question to launch this off. Guest it is good to be here again with some virtuosi. Like a lot of things you cannot just tease out any one problem of facebook dna in its origins. In the case of trump obviously it wasnt something they talked about but by the time the campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook blather on top of the way that it dealt with controversy and it first came out in 2015 when he po
News i. Right there is breaking news at this very hour delay in maxwell has entered a not guilty plea to all criminal charges related to her alleged dealings with Jeffrey Epstein and since her bizarre arrest at her connecticut mansion maxwell has been behind bars in brooklyn in a private cell wearing paper prison garb all her bedding the sheets all of that has been removed so joining us to explore the legal steps ahead of this maxwell attorney and legal media analyst lionel a line of media ok one of my friend 1st the states attorney for the Southern District of new york argued against maxwells bail request in a very aggressive motion filed monday night a prominent feature of that motion was in reference to the. N. P. A. Nonprosecution agreement what is that exactly for us non lawyers here. Well i was listening right now live and the glane maxwells lawyer was about to speak she entered a plea of not guilty as you say now were talking about her being granted a bail of bail now what what
University of North Carolina. Parents were my parents walther b gaither and fanny little gaither. Uh, great falls was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina and my mom and dad met while they were students at friendship. College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship they moved permanently to great falls. Initially they were both schoolteachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as is per month payment for teaching was not the same as he this was thatand a time when the boards of education were all composed of white men. And so at the end of the year, my father approached the person who signed his voucher for, uh, payment and said, i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. Differenceve dollars between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioni
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Richard Wolffe in new york he is a Professor Emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst as well as the author of the recent books understanding socialism and understanding marxism and in chicago or which he has a chief marketing strategist bubba trading all right gentleman rules in effect that means you can jump in time while i was appreciate todd let me go to you as you just heard in my introduction you know that we have an ongoing deep recession i think as of this morning the i. M. F. Came out with their global projections and a contraction of about 5 percent globally the u. S. Doesnt do much better the industrialized world is more or less in the same position but at the same time as i said you know we how the wealthiest among us. Keeping in enormous revenues and profits here and the unemployment depending on who you want to look at it from 13 maybe 17 percent and thats not going to go away any time soon so whats re
Chairman, congratulations. Thank you. [indistinct conversations] the committee will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing, oversight of the department of justice. Political interference and threats. Before we begin, i want to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating written materials members might want to offer as part of the hearing. If you want to submit materials, send them to the email address previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate them to members and staff as quickly as possible. I want to remind all members the nodance of the office says facetoface is required. Required here is to follow guidance. This is for the health and safety of our staff and loved ones we will return to at the end of the day. I expect all members to wear a mask, except when you are speaking. I but recognize myself for an opening statement. Mr. Chairman, the point of last friday,er wi