Well. President trump will make his way to austin, he will tour mac pro manufacturing facility with tim cook. Impeachment hearings in washington, was billed as the most crucial day. The morning session many ways appeared to live up to that billing. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland retreed new details about dealings with ukraine. President trump reacted to all of that. Blake burman was on the lawn of the white house. He joins us from the north lawn with the very latest, blake. Reporter what a morning in washington. Started with explosive testimony from Gordon Sondland, current ambassador to the European Union up on capitol hill as part of the impeachment hearing. Son land in his written testimony today he laid out an entire section he described in his words a quid pro quo. According to sondland in order for the newlyelected ukrainian president Vladmir Zelensky to have a meeting with President Trump, ukraine had to announce it would have investigations into the 2016 serv
In his San Francisco laboratory. Reporter science has been working on egg replacements for years and for good reason. Eggs have too much cholesterol. Theyre hard to transport. They spoil. And the quarter billion chickens they come from are damaging to the environment. The problem is, eggs are used in so many ways. Its proved impossible for scientists to find one solution. Those San Francisco Hampton Creek foods may be close. The startup located in the heart of hightech south of market is working on plantbased replacements. Funded in part by microsofts bill gates. Josh is ceo, a former football star, scholar, teacher in kenya and blogger whos now reinventing one of natures most basic foods. Joined by anthony hobb and Quentin Hardy of the new york times. In my list of things youre good at, i dont see biochemistry, molecular anything. What qualifies you to be trying to replicate the egg . I think im pretty good at finding people that are a whole lot smarter than i am. So am i which is why
Said that it was called true crime but we wanted it to be a social issue and explain a creature like whitey could only exist in a certain time and place and pecuer pucular to boston because the irish were in control of politics, Law Enforcement and business. The influence of the Italian Mafia the fbi could create a National Policy to go after the mafia and use whitey to say they were being used to help get the mafia. This is a story with great sweep. And there was a guy named John Mccormick who was the representative from boston. Dot. He did because if youre an fbi agent your prestige, status within the bureau is based on creating informants. And Whitey Bulger was seen as a very high level organizedcrime figure. There was an ulterior motive. He wanted to protect the Whitey Bulger family. He was very close. So a lot of and you know, i think you all probably know that Martin Scorsese did a film, the departed, which is the very, very loosely based on the whitey character. But the whole st
The first africanamerican president to make campaign and at the end of it i think even people who had not voted for barack obama, lot of them felt good about breaking down racial barrier, where the country was. I think there was a sense that there was an opportunity at that point to kind of break through the politics that we have seen, the gridlock and polarization, that sort of thing. I knew that this charge each of campaign was not going to be in assets as riches story as the 08 book because of the absence of some of the personalities. The country was a different place. President obama was certainly in a different place. And as i went through the campaign while the concerns i had was is there going to be an interesting story to tell . As it turned out there was for some reason is that we did not expect. The republican race was at times more bizarre than anyone could have scripted. David maraniss, my friend to is a brilliant book writer and has written a great biography of obama said
Selling their First Software company for 5 million. Enough to become the talk of the town in their home of limerick. But its when they came to San Francisco and their second startup when they achieved the kind of success measured with a b, naz billion. Their Financial Service startup, stripe, has raised enough funding to be valued at 1. 75 billion. Stripe make its easier for merchants to take payments online. John cullisson is cofounder at stripe. He recently took a pause from harvard to concentrate on the company. An interesting bit of trivia. Johns leaving certificate score, i take to be a little bit like the s. A. T. S. A. T. , was the highest in the country . I think i got that right, but lets introduce hannah cool. Leer from financial times, john schwarz from usa today. Start with this leaving certificate, like the s. A. T. S. A. T. . Yeah the end of school year. Highest in ireland in all of irish history . Im not sure. Its little hard to if i were close, i would have checked. Was