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At Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and if it will survive a Trump Administration. Ellen it is the baby of Elizabeth Warren and she is a big opponent of trumps and is meant to protect consumers, an offshoot of doddfrank, so president elect trump has talked about rolling back some of doddfrank. Is it going to survive or not . Elizabeth warren paid a visit to the offices of the bureau the other day to kind of boost morale. Oliver this is almost visceral way to think about what will happen in p...

Violence. The first is a Law Enforcement bill. It is a bipartisan gun trafficking amendment which would finally make gun trafficking a federal crime. We would assume bringing weapons up i95 and selling them out of the back of your truck to a gang member in new york city would be illegal, that it would be a federal crime. Its not. Its not a federal crime to do that. This bill is called the pendleton naison gun trafficking prevention act. Its named after two teenage girls would lost their lives be...

Number of ballet stars and im in havana at the National Ballet school and i will tell you the secret of its success. After more than 50 years of military rule in myanmar power has passed to a mainly civilian government, at a ceremony in the capitol tinchow sworn as president and she will be sworn this as Foreign Affairs and energy and over sea the president s office as well and she is barred from holding the top job of president and it is drafted by the military and going to someone whose childr...

The not know if broker is right word or contested is the right word, but they go in there is the rules work, everybody wedded to the outcome of the timelines on a first ballot. Part of it will depend on what the tally is. If you roll into a convention, and all he needs is 37 and you have got ted cruz, rubio, and case equates are down and john kasich wave down way down, even if he is ahead, it is more muddled. At 800 and somebody at 600, or 500. Muddled, not close enough, then you have a situatio...

Hundreds of First Responders who are like the Fire Department in a number of cities. Inside syria, theyve been a huge thing. Theyre independent. Theyre volunteers. Madame chair, may i ask another question or wait for another round . Go ahead. Thank you, miss frankl. If you all have an opinion, i would like to hear what your opinion is of what would happen if we wouldnt if we were not doing this aid . And what does that mean not just to the humanitarian part of this but i think what a lot of peop...

Necessarily conceived as such, or did he . I guess this is a big source of contention. What did reagan really intend to achieve with this pursuit of sdi . Guest he intended to protect the United States against incoming Ballistic Missiles house of representatives and it becomes much more, becomes this really big source of discussion during these two days. Im just interested to learn some the details and to really get a sense in your book of the kind of granular back and forth. Guest without cutti...

What is the proudest moment of your career so far . Guest wow. I dont mean to sound snarky or snippy here, but i hope it is yet to come. I feel very fortunate in just a few days well start our 12th season on pbs. Im now on 15 years in public radio. I feel very blessed at start of this year to do all weve done so far. I hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to i hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that i am still in here and so many people t...

Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years ...

Satellite6 and action radar showing were dry right now. We get a break in the clouds before they fill in and precipitation comes in. Temperatures colder than yesterday. Now we have a wind chill just in the teens so you need to bundle up as youre headed out. Heres how you can expect the day to unfold. By 9 00 a. M. , 28 degrees. Well see a little bit of sunshine mixing with the clouds. It will be cloudy by noon and 30 degrees. 33 by 3 00 p. M. Well be coming down from an early high of 34 and by 3...

Booktvs web site, booktv. Org. Host tavis smiley, you list jesus christ and paul robison, two of your influences. Guest yeah. Thats quite a pair, isnt it . [laughter] i was raised in a church as i mentioned earlier pentacostal church, and ive said for all of my life that i call them the three fs, the things that mean the most to me, faith family and friends in that order. I wrote a book called keeping the faith, i close my show on pbs by saying thanks for watching im tavis smiley, keep the faith...