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Landmark cases, cspans special series produced with the constitution center, explore and the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, Petitioner Versus arizona. Number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our famous decisions were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate are very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the...

We still cant hear you. I wonder if we should try having you sign in again or have you call in rather than just a video link and we could hear you by dialing in. I will let my staff interact with you directly and in the meantime we will begin with some questions. My apologies, Mister Morrison, we will get this worked out. Let me look for any of our witnesses that can be heard. The current pandemic began in china. If possible the next pandemic may begin somewhere else. If the pandemic were to beg...

Intelligence Committee Heard from former ambassadors and diplomatic officials. House committee on intelligence, first remote hearing. Before we proceed to where were topic today, the impact of the covid19 pandemic in Subsaharan Africa, i want to address some housekeeping matters. Todays session will be conducted on an unclassified basis. Urged tonts are inrain from presenting compliance with House Resolution 965 and resolutions for remote proceedings. Like many of you, i would have preferred to ...

First will be taken advantage of. Our state and federal governments as well as our nations largest corporations have a responsibility to do what is right. And let me end by saying this, this virus doesnt care whether or not youre republican or whether or not youre a democrat. It should not be about party or politics. This is will health and safety of our nations food workers and our food supply. And as such, no company should be shielded from the responsibility for adopting irresponsible practic...

Revived trade war with china this time, the chinese are threatening to label some of our best companies as unreliable, meaning they wont be able to sell in the peoples republic. Then we got some mid retail Sales Numbers that werent just bad. They were grapes of wrath bad. But just when it looked like it would turn into a the buyers came right back. Plus, all sorts of Companies Keep reporting and telling us that april was much better than march, which bodes well for may. S p advanced 3. 9 . Nasda...

Announced, but the big story is surrounding big tech earnings like microsoft, facebook, and even comcast and qualcomm. It look like some of these companies were basically created for this moment if you didnt know, the microsoft quarter was just a thing of beauty a lot of that is because theyll have a product like teams or like azure that are incredibly strong linkedin doing very well facebook quarter was good, and boom, they say april is stabilization. One of the themes were seeing in tech, or y...

Hochschild who was a Founding Member of americas communist party. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone, and welcome to politics prose. Hi name is matthew zipf, im part of the events team here. Each year we host close to 1,000 authors here at the wharf and at union market. Please see our web site, politics. Prose. Com or pick up a paper copy of our Events Calendar at the desk. Before the event, i do have a few short housekeeping items. First, please silence your cell phones so we dont...

Locations here at the union market. If you would like a full list of our Upcoming Events please see our website. Or you can pick up a paper copy of our Events Calendar at the questions desk. Before the event tonight i do have a few short housekeeping items. First, please silence your cell phones so that we dont have any buzzing or ringing during the event. What is time for the q a session after the presentation, please come up to the microphone there as we are recording the event via audio. Plea...

Reopening process going. Look, it does feel that there is a very self confident sense by governors that its time. I think that the president is so oriented towards its time, and the president is soed ed ed eet in having a vaccine by years end, that theres an element of two different worlds here. Theres the real world influenced by the president saying open it up, people want to do it, and the stock world influenced by Warren Buffett who said i sold the airlines because that industry has fundamen...

[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone and welcome to politics and prose. My name is matthew zipf part of the events team. Each year we host close to 1,000 offer1,000authors across the the locations here at union market. If you would like a full list of the Upcoming Events please see the website, politicsprose. Com or you can pick up a copy of the calendar at the desk. Before the event tonight, i have a few short housekeeping items. First please silence your cell phone so they dont hav...