Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
Then, national nationally syndicated talk show host on free speech. He joined us on this mornings washington journal. Host pamela constable, longtime Foreign Correspondent for the washington post. I feel like i should start off by saying welcome home. Pamela thank you. Im delighted to be home. Host all told, how many years of your reporting career or percentage have you spent overseas . Half. i guess close to first with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. That was close to a decade. Half. Off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. Host when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward a foreign reporting . My earliest, interest in journalism was more about domestic issues. Poverty, drug addiction, social ills you may say. I did a lot of work on that in the early years. Then i guess, i dont know, i traveled overseas as a tourist, two unusual places, and i began to think some of these same issues were definitely th
That will never work. Mr. Randolph, where did the idea of netflix come from . Guest ideas come from the strangest places, in that will never work i talk about this crazy idea we had and all places carpooling. My cofounder Reed Hastings and i were commuting back and forth to work brainstorming ideas and one of these crazy ideas we had in that ride was maybe we could do video rental by mail using dvds. Rather than rushing home or writing a Business Plan and doing a powerpoint slide show, we decided we would try and take the first step to validate that i did, if turn the car around, drove down to santa cruz will be both live. I went to used music store and bought a little music cd. I think it was patsy cline. We went next door and bought a little gift envelope like you put a greeting card in. We put the cd in mailed it to his house and the next day when he picked me up he had an unbroken cd and envelope that it got into his house 24 hours for the price of the firstclass stamp. If the wasn
Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for your service to our country. 13 people lost their lives, 30 people were injured. It underscores what we are dealing with here in terms of a threat environment. This is my ninth annual threat hearing that i have either chaired or participated in. I often say im not the most uplifting character. Those i could say that in nine years, i have seen tremendous progress being made and we have reduced these threats and all is well. Unfortunately, we face the same threats. If anything, the threats are growing. Nine years ago, we were talking about the blind use of drive drones or the use of social media. We face the same threats. They are evolving. Terrorist groups are metastasizing. They are spreading around the world. , it has happened is grown more complex and difficult. You have tremendous responsibilities on your shoulders. Really, i will turn it over to my Ranking Member and we will get to witness testimony.
Airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that are considered bipartisan nature in washington by concern over space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. [applause] thank you. Greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to cis and had to apologize to the cas team because i always get more out of these engagement that idea. A great, id hope will get to that, have a really good conversation and are some things i could take away and continued to work on. I will tell you about three years ago just a little over three years ago before it took the air force Space Command as commander job csis held a dinner series, dr. Hamre hosted a dinner series what we brought folks in to talk about the challenges in space. I always m