Page an advisor to Trump's 2016 campaign f.b.i. Director Chris Ray says the problems detail the reporter unacceptable but that its broader conclusions undercut President Trump's claims the Russia probe was biased against him that was consonantal Guard has been breaking federal laws related to sexual assault and harassment reporting as well as prevention verb measures for years that's according to report released today by federal officials Wisconsin Public Radio's Laura White has more the report by the Federal National Guard comes after a 6 month investigation Wisconsin governor Tony even worse and u.s. Senator Tammy Baldwin requested the probe after whistleblowers contact their offices the report found the Wisconsin National Guard violated federal policy by conducting in-house investigations of sexual assault allegations it also says those investigations were often incomplete and inaccurate due to low staffing levels and port training and that the guard failed to protect victims report misconduct and hold guilty parties accountable the governor says the report is quote extremely upsetting he has called for and received the resignation of the head of the Wisconsin National Guard for n.p.r. News I'm Laurel white in Madison a group of Business Economists are ramping down their forecast for u.s. Economic growth this year and next where the forecast also states they believe the economy will avoid falling into recession if the prognosis proves accurate it will mean the current economic expansion will extend beyond it's already record breaking 11 years on Wall Street today the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost ground falling a 105 points to close at 270090 9 The Nasdaq was down 34 points today this is n.p.r. Live from k.q.e.d. News I mean it came California is among the states leading the effort to block telecom giant t. Mobile's purchase of sprint from more than $26000000000.00 the track got underway today in federal court in Manhattan Attorney General Javier Basara said the deal would affect about $32000000.00 customers in California and reduce competition they regard. Competition for credit card consumers there. Are 43 d. Mobiles as the deal is good for consumers and argues the combined companies will be better able to build the next generation 5. 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Of conducting a partisan witch hunt the Justice Department's inspector general said today it's looked and found no evidence of political bias that's a key takeaway in a new report more than 400 pages thick it rebuts a number of conspiracy theories that President Trump and his allies have floated but the report does find errors and misjudgements in the petitions to eavesdrop on one trump campaign aide Carter page here's how President Trump reacted to the report it's a disgrace what happened. With respect to the things that were done to our country and should never again happen to another president and. Incredible far worse than I would have ever thought possible when the Russia inquiry began in the summer of 2016 James Komi was the f.b.i. Director President Trump fired him less than a year later and James Comey joins us now welcome back to the program thanks for having me 1st give us your top line reaction to this report it's been 2 years of waiting for the f.b.i. But the American people now finally have the truth that the organization didn't engage in treason or spying on a campaign or any of the horrible things that the f.b.i. Was accused of over the last 2 years you can so sort good you say you've been biting your tongue for 2 years what's the thing that you wanted to say they weren't able to say that now you can that it's all made up it's all lies it's all nonsense the f.b.i. Is a human organization so it's flawed but it is fundamentally honest and committing to getting it right you say it's a human organization so it's flawed but this report documents a number of errors omissions and distortions in the application to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter page an investigation of a presidential campaign is so sensitive How did this application contain so many mistakes. Well I'm not sure I've read the report I think the inspector general found something like 17 separate mistakes and that is really unfortunate and really important that he found them so they can be fixed and that's a worthwhile part of any inspector general report and so I don't want to step away from that but I want to underscore nothing was done with political bias or with improper motivation given that you were the top of the chain of command during some critical moments do you take responsibility for any of these mistakes yes of course as the leader you have to take responsibility when their mistakes in your organization a matter how far down they are it's your responsibility and if I was still director of you doing what Chris raise doing which is figuring out how we make sure they don't happen again if it doesn't reflect political bias What do you think it does reflect good people doing really hard work in unprecedented situations and doing it as they always do working incredibly hard and making mistakes it reflects the F.B.I.'s commitment to its mission it was handled to us and it is situation it didn't want didn't volunteer for but it needed to investigate to see whether any Americans were part of the Russian effort to interfere in our election this was an elite hand-picked team that has received more scrutiny than almost any investigation in my memory so many at errors entered into their surveillance petitions around quarter page if the f.b.i. Had this many mistakes even on a high profile politically sensitive case do you think there's a broader problem with f.b.i. Agents taking a cavalier attitude to eavesdropping on Americans I don't I think there is a problem with human beings working hard and making assumptions and not realizing the other people are making different assumptions they make mistakes but they're good people well overseen and checked one of the checks is an inspector general look back at any significant investigation you always find mistakes and that's important this is not the only check the attorney general has asked a u.s. Attorney to conduct an overlapping investigation and that u.s. Attorney Durham has said that he. Differs from the conclusions of the inspector general on key conclusions about how this initiation how this investigation was initiated what do you make of that mystifies me I don't know what the basis is in which he has decided to speak about a piece of work he hasn't completed just department policy allows you to speak about a pending investigation of there's a compelling public interest I can imagine what that is on the same day that Inspector General's finishing 2 years of work and sharing all of those facts in 400 pages with the American people why a prosecutor would then issue this statement confuses me and mystifies me but I hope at the end of the day whatever he's doing give the American people transparency when you're done show us what you found Are you concerned that his findings are going to find fault with what you did I am not not at all I'm as concerned about this is I was about what's going on the last 2 years will have to wait because when you're outside an investigation you can't say don't do it because you don't know what they're looking at but I look forward to the transparency not just for me but for the f.b.i. Let me ask you about the term the attorney general's reaction to this bill Barr put out a statement today characterizing the report quote the f.b.i. Launched an intrusive investigation of a us presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions going on to say the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory What's your response to that you think is a fair description of the report's findings it's not a fair description just as his description of Muller's work was not a fair description once we all got the report you folks doubt that it's not fair read the report the investigation was properly opened conducted without bias or political motive and important to do the attorney general for some reason is continuing this new role of acting as a spokesperson for the Trump administration rather than the leader of an organization devoted to fact and truth what what consequences does that have for the Department of Justice Well it confuses the American people about the Department of Justice and sends a message that it is just another part of the Trump political operation which is why it's a. Long been important for the leaders of the Justice Department to maintain a separation in spirit from the political to realize that the statue of justice wears a blindfold for important reasons you can't be seen as carrying water for a political boss when you're finding facts and that sure the smell that the attorney general gives off you cooperated with the investigation you did interviews with people from the inspector general's office is there anything in this report that you disagree with. No I don't think so I think it's fair it's tough as it should be finds the mistakes again which are important to find and to stare at him to try and avoid in the future but most importantly tells the American people what you've been told over and over and over again over the last 2 years that was all made up there was no treason there was no conspiracy there were good people trying to protect this country that's James Komi who was director of the f.b.i. When his bureau opened the Russian inquiry that was the subject of today's Justice Department inspector general report thank you very much for speaking with us today thanks for having me. Weak poll numbers and anemic fund raising have led some Democratic presidential hopefuls to call it quits not Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar she's running an aggressive campaign in Iowa a state that in the past has rewarded candidates who spend lots of time on the ground Globish are is now drawing a small but growing audience in Iowa as N.P.R.'s Don Gonyea saw on a recent tour these are not blockbuster events the club which our campaign is hosting. Here Ok here we are. It's old school Iowa politicking small is just fine as long as people show up and pay attention like this roundtable on jobs at the Machinist Union Hall in Des Moines you all know my background which is a heavy duty union background my grandpa was an iron our miner who worked 1500 feet underground for a manner her voice reinforced that she's one of them I don't come from money and I don't have a political machine but what I do have is great and this on President Trump at a gathering of farmers in the town of Grinnell and the way I see this is he is literally treating our farmers like poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos people line up for selfies with the candidate All right right up here. For us some pledge to show up on caucus day for clubs. Mains in contact info are collected in Dubuque over the weekend Chris Erickson Epperly a retired counsellor says she's gotten on board for clothes shower who is at 6 percent in recent polls well behind the leaders but above the bottom tier is well she did well in the last debate and it seems like a lot more programs are giving her airtime and mentioning her by name as a model Globish hours attempting to follow do the work to countless people and maybe maybe that will pay off with a better than expected showing on caucus day Democrat John Kerry did the ad with the surge in the polls and then a caucus win in 2004 on the Republican side in 2012 Rick Santorum and his driver hit all 99 Iowa counties in a pickup truck before a surprise comeback win in the caucuses fundraising is up for club Ashar and she's getting lots of local endorsements now she needs to win over undecided Democrats you hear a lot of this at her events here is voter Delores Carol and Cheri I really like the need to be sharp. I've been the Biden thing in since the 1st time hearing and. I'm just watching all of them the new listening publish our draws a lot of centrist and moderate Democrats many of whom say they're considering the Buddha churches well and now we have the arrival of billionaire and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg who is courting the very same moderate Democratic votes mostly with ads that are all over Iowa t.v. I ask Loesch are about that and I wake up in the morning in my hotel and there's Mike Bloomberg on my television. Now I want you to picture being me and you are you know at an event in a small town and you've got like 3040 people and then someone calls you a friend from New York City and says the same thing. I just saw Mike Bloomberg on an ad 7 dimes and it does seem absurd you need money to run ads she says but don't underestimate the power of doing the work on the ground in an early state because it gives candidates a chance to get out there and voters a chance to really meet people and make a decision clubbish our talk that day having just visited number 70 of audio was 99 counties. To hit the mall before the caucuses in early February Don Gonyea n.p.r. News. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News Good afternoon at 618 and Lori Sanders we're going to check in with Julie and find out how the evening commute is going well. So a little tough they've got there Rick north about 85 after Cottle road has been blocking the left lane really backing things up to great Boulevard More us out they travel south and waited for Guadalupe Parkway couple cars a volatile we're not clear of that still blocking it slow back to Highway 85 and a big 3 crash Emeryville eastbound 80 before Ashby Avenue dealing with that on the right hand shoulder already pretty Cham back to West Grand. Thank you Julie support for k.q.e.d. Comes from Netflix presenting the documentary The black godfather a look at the life and legacy of Clarence evident including his influence on music entertainment and politics over the last 60 years ago. 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Struggled with military strategy goals and spending and today the Washington Post published a transcript of interviews of hundreds of key players taken by the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction that revealed those concerns including one with Douglas Lute He joins us now welcome to the program it's good to be with you so your contributions essential to leave this story you told an interviewer at this inspector general's office on a cigar that you quote bumped into an even more fundamental lack of knowledge that the u.s. Was devoid of fundamental understanding of Afghanistan that we didn't know what we were doing Can you talk about when you bumped into that lack of knowledge at one point in the gig Well I appreciate 1st of all on your your listeners will appreciate that that's a pretty stark blunt statement on and it was made in the context of a Off the Record a private interview inside the government you know in an honest attempt to be introspective and that is a government effort to look at the government and how we were how we were doing Afghanistan so forgive my bluntness but the fundamental point remains my experiences over a period of 10 plus years watching and working on against them closely that we failed to accumulate a deep understanding. And expertise about Afghanistan that would then empower our strategy make I want to jump in here because there's another thing that came up one Army colonel said quote every data point was altered to present the best picture possible. Quote surveys for instance were totally unreliable but reinforce that everything we were doing was right and we became a self licking ice cream cone as you said these are candid assessments were you aware of or party to any effort to use data to mislead the public about the state of u.s. Progress in Afghanistan you know my experience with regard to collection of data and reporting on progress or lack of progress in Afghanistan is an experience of candor bluntness and speaking truth to our senior leaders then why would a colonel who is again speaking to an inspector general's office say this say look like most of the data we presented was manipulated or at least was not presented in a fair way to give people a true assessment of what was going on especially as your face of the war right for the White House well I think you'd have to ask that individual but I'm not familiar with and I didn't the not party to any attempt to obscure or hide the lessons or deceive anyone but rather to take a hard long look persistent look at what was going well and what wasn't as yet John Sako the head of the federal agency that conducted the interview is acknowledging to the post because the post got these documents by filing a for air right they weren't really vile and teared He says quote The American people have constantly been lied to do you agree with that assessment No I don't agree with that assessment I think that every hour every approach than I know of to communicate progress in Afghanistan by senior American political officials and military socials has always been couched as on the one hand we're making progress but on the other hand other challenges are severe so I've always seen especially if you look back at the statements by President Bush and President Obama this sort of balance between optimism and skepticism or optimism and realist just a few seconds left you were in a position of power doing 2 administrations Looking back what more. Could you have done to raise alarms so there are 2 things in particular that I care way as personal lessons one was that we tended to overrule on on military tools on the military means and we thereby counter is going to political economic and diplomatic tools and then Sentinel We didn't stay on the job long enough to build continuity and in turn expertise to understand a problem as complex as Afghanistan That's Douglas Lute former Afghan wars are for the Bush and Obama administrations He's now a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School thank you for your time thank you. If you're on the internet at all in 2014 this scene will sound familiar someone pours a bucket of ice water all over themselves then they challenge others to do the same and many people did including Taylor Swift. The ice bucket challenge raised a lot of money and awareness for us also known as Lou Gehrig's disease it's a neuro degenerative illness that has no cure at the root of the campaign was Peter Fraidy He's a former Boston College baseball player who was diagnosed with a.o.s. When he was 27 he died today at the age of 34 N.P.R.'s Andrew Limbaugh has this remembrance after that initial diagnosis afraid his family sat down for dinner in a ted talk peace mom Nancy Fraidy as described her son's attitude Pete phrase played sports his entire life he knew how to give a pep talk he said there will be no wallowing people he goes we're not looking back we're looking forward what an amazing opportunity we have to change the world. I'm going to change the face of this unacceptable situation of a.l.s. And I'm going to get it in front of philanthropists like Bill Gates. And that was it we were given our directive and the phrase did what started with their friends and families soon spread online to major league sports teams like the Boston Red Sox It is expression only important to us given our close friendship with Pete Freddy's the man who is battling right now and sister liberties on t.v. I'm going to town I'm here with Rob Riggle Horatio Sanz the pagans and the roof we've all been nominated to do the ice bucket challenge and I'd like to nominate the New York Jets to do this. Was. It even reach that original benchmark for success Bill Gates I'm here to join people bringing attention to Lou Gehrig's disease by taking the Ls Ice Bucket Challenge Pete Brady's didn't invent the act of dumping cold water on your head for charity but he was the reason it spread so rapidly in these videos they weren't just for show Brian Frederick is an executive vice president at the Ls Association in Washington d.c. Prior to the ice bucket challenge the only folks that really donated to rail last were folks who had a direct connection to the disease they had a friend they had a loved one Frederick says at a less organizations around the world got ice bucket challenge money his association alone raised $115000000.00 and that's money that led to important discoveries including some genes that are now associated with us including $1.00 of the most common genes neck won is now a socio with a 0 s. And I was thanks to the work of researchers around the globe field by I spoke of donations towards the end of his life Pete phrase couldn't walk or breathe on his own he depended on his family to take care of him and that was important for the world to see too Pete Brady said that raising awareness was his calling and Frederick says he succeeded besides the money and the research and the celebs. Endorsements Peter for eighty's got the word out about the symptoms and challenges of less and made those who are also living with the disease feel less alone. N.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News and this is k.q.e.d. Public Radio where we're going to check in with Julie definition head on over to dandle see what's going on trying to brag from northbound 6 eighty's Sycamore Valley Road they've been blocking the 3rd lane for the last causing that to delay better Canyon Road Petaluma we have a stone Southbound one of one before East Washington in the right lane it's a little slow back to over it would highway and we're just getting word of a sentence a wreck the Guadalupe Parkway southbound before Skype or drive to spike unit 2 left lanes and traffic stop back to 101. Support for k.q.e.d. 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Yesterday at the age of $92.00 Yeah it's kind of an amazing story that's author and New York Times editorial board member Binyamin Appelbaum on this show about a month or 2 ago he used to cover the Fed for the times when Paul Volcker 1st started at the Federal Reserve he worked basically as a human calculator in an office deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the early 1950 s. And he told his wife one night that he didn't think he had a future at the Fed that as an economist he was always going to be consigned to being as I'm actually you know workers. At this institution that was run by financial market types businessman there's even an Iowa hog farmer there and he didn't think that he had much chance of getting I had Suffice it to say Paul Volcker got way ahead at the Federal Reserve Jimmy Carter picked him to run the central bank in 1979 with inflation and this is board headed toward almost 15 percent I asked Carter about that about the economic and political fallout from picking Volcker when I interviewed the former president in 2010 so I went looking as I picked up this book I went looking for the name Paul Volcker who you appointed to the Fed in 1989 you don't come across his name until page 340 something and it's really funny because it is dismissed in a sense Paul Volcker came in we decided we could work with him and then the next day bang you named a defense that was really though one of the most hotly debated things I did because a lot of my political advisor said Don't appoint Paul Volcker because it's going to tighten up phone everything and you will have no control at all over the Fed anymore you want to have communication with them and poker came I was seeing the prospect of enormous inflation rates and so I agreed with Paul Volcker in that conversation that I would not interfere in what he did and I was prepared for him to tighten up tremendously and drive interest rates and so forth up in order to control rampant inflation is funny actually because a little bit later in the book you basically say in this passage that you dictated at the time Volcker says he's going to have to time interest rates and it's going to hurt me politically I mean you know it was kind of. I knew it was coming but I was prepared to take it I thought that I could be reelected in spite of that as it turns out Of course things didn't work out for President Carter about which I asked Paul Volcker in 2012 if I read the recounting of that job interview correctly in this book you basically said I want independence and I got to do what I got to do reason obvious why he wanted to see me but I said Mr President if you're thinking of appointing me chairman sort of reserve you have to don't have it I believe in a somewhat tighter monetary policy than we have been following your not my predecessor followed and you know the next question I asked the president actually was Did you mind when he raised interest rates like that he said Oh no I thought it was going to be good for the next presidential term I just thought that's where it was going to be my not ready. You know he I asked him once that I cost me a lecture and some people said you know kind of or rise smiled and said Well I think there were a few other factors as row after he left the Fed in 1987 Paul Volcker worked on Wall Street for a while got drafted back into government service every now and then most recently as the chairman of President Obama's economic recovery advisory board and as the namesake for the Volcker Rule the part of the Dodd Frank financial reform bill that limited some of the kinds of trades the big Wall Street banks could make but really when you think Paul Volcker it's those years in the late 1970 s. Early 1980 s. When the Fed pushed short term interest rates up to a record 20 percent to get inflation back under control 20 percent went today the Fed's current short term target rate is between one and a half percent and one and 3 quarters percent and it has been over 5 in more than a decade which makes double digit interest rates hard for most Americans below a certain age to even fathom So Marketplace's Amy Scott takes us back in the early 1980 s. And o. And managed a bank branch in Boston to remembers telling customers they have to pay 21 percent interest. For a car loan today the average is just over 4 percent vaguely get mad at the bank and many times they would just basically say I can't afford that oh and went on to become an economist at the Fed and now teaches at Hamilton College she says those high interest rates had a purpose Volcker was trying to slow down demand by making borrowing more expensive it made it difficult for people to you know buy houses buy cars Iraq had a card interest rates were extremely high the economy did slow down falling into 2 recessions in 1982 unemployment topped 10 percent in protest homebuilders mailed chunks of 2 by fours to Volcker and members of Congress Fred Nepal a tanto is former president of the National Association of Home Builders just to make a point of saying you know this is what we do this is what we build you know and you know with this interest rate you know truly has that pain eventually paid off Robert King is a professor of economics at Boston University ultimately once people began to believe that inflation was going to come down it came down and interest rates tumbled and the economy recovered and it's you know viewed as a major triumph a triumph nobody wants to have to repeat I'm Amy Scott for Marketplace Paul Volcker did yesterday at the age of 92 Wall Street on this Monday mostly subdued We'll have the details when we do the numbers. We've been reporting for a couple of months now about the really rough patch that American manufacturing is in factory output has been shrinking since the summertime but the thing about manufacturing in this economy long term is that adjusted for inflation. It's been about the same percentage of Gross Domestic Product that is to say the same percentage of economic output for 70 years that's a dollar figure though right in people terms labor market terms about 11 percent of Americans work in manufacturing today compared with 25 percent or more back in the day in the Chicago area though there are manufacturing jobs to be had without though workers to take the be easy Esther unity Congo has the story the unemployment rate in the Chicago region hovers at around 3.5 percent which is just about the national average but in some parts of Chicago it's over 30 percent meanwhile manufacturing companies like the Freedman seeding company in Chicago tout new high tech jobs and they say they're having trouble filling that c.e.o. Craig Friedman gives me a tour of the factory it makes sense for buses boats and trains we want by a 20 foot long machine that slicing through a stack of upholstery fabric This used to be done by hand today it's done precisely by a machine and you can optimize it but that requires you to have a much higher skilled worker to operate the machine the program and that's the 1st barrier for many Chicagoans the skills gap Friedman says many entry level jobs in manufacturing don't require a college degree but workers need solid reading in math skills like geometry and algebra to read blueprints and run computer operated machinery Friedman adds that many workers also lack what he calls soft skills these include good work habits like being on time or navigating conflict. Once a week in technology and manufacturing association and Schomberg Illinois buses in workers from Chicago to teach them metal working at the suburban training center find this in. Their number how we've come to write so soon or had a permit to about the association is about 30. Miles away from Chicago almost an hour's drive in traffic it's one of a handful of groups trying to link manufacturing jobs to the region's workforce according to Census Bureau data Chicago has about 60000 manufacturing jobs but the surrounding 6 county suburbs have more than 300000 jobs jobs over here and you've got people. Connected that's true a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago she wrote a report on the mismatch between jobs and the unemployed All right so we've got the skills gap and transportation here is the 3rd barrier image many people and especially young people think manufacturing jobs are dull dirty or dangerous so they don't want to go into the field. These students at Austin College and Career Academy in Chicago are in a program that introduces kids to manufacturing but none of them wants to work in manufacturing I would think it will be a lawyer I wonder. If I like to draw so maybe. Here's Friedman again the factory owner I spent years trying to. Point across that there are solid middle class career paths. He says manufacturing pays well nationwide manufacturing workers earn an average of about $20.00 per hour that's $8.00 to $10.00 more per hour than the average hourly pay for retail or hospitality service jobs. The professor says that to attract and train more workers in manufacturing government business schools and nonprofits need to come together and form a regional industrial policy. And. Sectors it's going to take more she says that's the only way to revive what was once a vibrant sector for many in the region and beyond. In Chicago. For marketplace. A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows the boys' club is alive and well in corporate America researchers at Harvard and u.c.l.a. Found men at an anonymous financial firm were promoted faster when they were transferred to male bosses and that that effect was even more pronounced when the 2 shared a certain habit Marketplace's Megan McArdle Corrino has that this income friends wasn't always the most realistic and say its depiction of the size of New York apartments but it appears only nailed the truth of office politics in a story line about Rachel taking up smoking to ingratiate herself with her new boss . Turns out smoke breaks with your boss can put you on a career fast track it's not really about the cigarettes but the socializing says Report co-authors Zoe Cullen of Harvard Business School we think of it is just one small part of overall social interactions and their effect on how employees perform so any interaction will do smoke breaks drinking golf even surfing we just call them board meetings when Jesse Smith was supervising recreation programs at u.c. Santa Cruz he was having a hard time with his boss until they discovered a mutual love for catching waves at lunchtime it's like the only time that you know getting work to go surfing actually improves your standing at work in short schmoozing works and it seems to work particularly well for men the report found the male to male social advantage accounted for a 3rd of the gender disparity in promotions at the financial firm in the study it wasn't the same for women with female bosses they spent less time with each other than their male peers Laura Cray a social psychologist at u.c. Berkeley has an idea why. Women are putting in more time into taking care of domestic duties so it certainly does leave less discretionary time for shmoozing she says that even after taking into account the extra time many women feel they have to work to get the same recognition as men. Support k.q.e.d. . We have to collectively work on this. 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Stepped out of the office when I was in New York last week for an interview at a business grounded in this reality the Census Bureau says 23 percent of kids in this country speak a language other than English at home enter and cunt those media companies started by 2 multicultural married couples to bring diverse entertainment to kids over a 2nd floor walkup Welcome to our Familia That's Stephen Wolfe Pereira he's the c.e.o. Also Susie and president and chief creative officer of media the 2 have known each other for more than 15 years both have kids with their respective spouses who are also involved with encounters the conference room table covered with encounters branded kids' books and toys we've got some fun stuff set up so that you could enter the world of encounters. How to do something with the Elevator Pitch have a company come to be it's kind of funny I worked in the in the advertising space so I pitched the actually these are 2nd time entrepreneurs. Yeah and I pitched the the diverse market every single day to brands and all that you could do and time when brands are really becoming content brands it was just so clear that when it came to content there was to such a a blank canvas so so much opportunity and when I would go to the brands and say oh you could build this for the market or you could build this for the market it was like no this is plug and play a celebrity and think oh my God there's so much opportunity I can build a brand we can build a brand and then they can buy it you know we can do something that's powerful me. I do not repeat not want to get into the politics of this moment but this is an interesting cultural moment in this country trying to grow this company. So yes and no. If you think of what we're really trying to do we want to build brands that are purpose driven and that are inspired by culture at the end of the day this is a nation of immigrants and we want to really kind of tap into that cultural pride whatever kind of current state that we are in the global trends are things to be more diverse to be more direct consumer and to be more digital I would add to that Apple's not looking for a local brand Netflix isn't looking for a us only brand all of these companies are looking for the brands your point. About direct to consumer. Could you have started this company this way 15 years ago absolutely absolutely not I mean it is unbelievable that we are at this kind of true moment in time where you can go direct and have that one to one relationship with your consumer is there not peril in that for you though right because there's so much choice out there I mean I actually think the opposite there is you know certainly a paradox of choice but people are looking for you know you're going to a world of mass personalization and I think when you think of these macro trends you know diversity is soaring one of them and then you get to direct consumer Now you actually have the ability to understand your audience directly and personalize that experience every single brand every single company every single industry is going to be disrupted by direct to consumer It sounds so sterile for a children's content company I'm just I'm just well I think it's important to understand all these different things that Stephen talks about because I mean the the warm and fuzzy stuff which is the part that right I mean he's all the stuff on it was the number that interests me then I'm all right so it's my job to focus on the fact that this character is adorable and you know is going to make you want to get is that. You know and he's evolved into your body so you know and you know they're So I mean if you give you as well and they're bilingual. Enough pressure that you know none. You don't. C C look at now and then if you turn it off or how do i make it stop person one more time. Is that was a that's a Mexican song was originally written Spanish and how do you make it sound really create in English you know so it's fun to sing in English that's the art of can think was really making sure that you could I mean this is where kids learn right Gertler from America placemats or whatever the right add some kid singing this when he's 3 absolutely and have you heard the alphabet through a song. And Arsenal so let me tell you sing the days of the like you know so. Yeah there's an art to education in terms of like singing your way to learning with them to part of our competitors as she's really Dr Susie. So if you get this right I mean you know business is fine I'm sure and you guys are doing well and grown if you get this right what is this company look like in 5 years. So you know a lot of our inspiration I work very closely of p. And g. For many many years and they really built this incredible portfolio of brands we're looking to build a portfolio of purpose driven family brands are and so so that's the c.e.o. Answer yeah now I want the content person honestly I mean no offense but no no I hope we are a collector of wonderful talent that have stories to tell that we can build businesses around there are so many talented people out there that aren't given opportunities to tell their stories and to present their vision they're working for other big companies you know doing frozen for something like that. Is just a matter is there's a lot of talent out there and we and we want to bring them into our fold and we want to find those stories find those those opportunities for something powerful that we can put to the market that will inspire kids to be proud of who they are. Thanks to appreciate. Thank you for coming. In the holidays in the holiday shopping season comes paper and plastic and the detritus of those millions of gifts on top of the usual load of household trash so no wonder people get confused about what can be recycled and what can. Introducing then invisible bar codes and changes to packaging on all kinds of products that could make recycling more efficient the B.B.C.'s Dougal Shah has more. But come to the Tama test facility in Kabul and just south of Cologne in Germany to see a new method of sorting the waste that is far from standard several big manufacturers are conducting a test here which could have a huge impact on how we recycle. Different technology allows accurate identification of every package that stop to Robbie Sharma who is leading the development of the technology in the project did you mark Parco technology he refers to is also known as invisible barcode or digital watermarking it involves making small changes to the pixels on the artwork you see all over product packaging changes which are too subtle for your eye to ever notice so that cameras fitted with the right software can easily put them out. Because these hidden patterns are written all over the packaging easier to find than a single barcode the team behind the project say this method can make recycling more efficient it will be better at dealing with black packaging and crucially they say it will make it easier to identify which items of held food and drink and which haven't recycling regulations mean these have to be treated separately the performance that we're seeing is detection and high like a person range which is excellent for this type of charting. The tests at the center prove the technology can work but will it ever be adopted in fact the project known as holy grail has more than 20 big manufacturers involved including the likes of Nestle Pepsi Co into known they were brought together into a working group by the British charity the Ellen MacArthur Foundation it promotes the development of a more circular economy at the conference in London run by the us organization the sustainable packaging coalition I caught up with another key player in the project he who looks after packaging and sustainability for Procter and Gamble we have to collectively work. This. But we all have to work together in order to realize higher recycling rates for packaging in Europe the project is called Holy Grail is the real Holy Grail just to get people to reuse packaging a lot more. I think for both of these systems either reusable or recyclable packaging it's going to be very important that we have things like a digital watermark integrated because it's can help us through the full lifecycle of packaging what we call from birth to rebirth right so I think this is the ecology that you can implement both recycle pitching but also reusable picture 9 of Goodrich is executive director of the sustainable packaging coalition she thinks we mustn't lose sight of the importance of getting people to reuse packaging if we think about reduce reuse and recycle I mean reuse is the 2nd one in the chain and it's more difficult for people to get their heads around that but what we're seeing are a lot of concentrates that are then sold to be put back into the original packaging container so you would use the large dispensing container over and over again and we fill up with a concentrates that is absolutely taking off. Invisible barcode technology doesn't just belong in the factory it could affect our daily lives too it might make scanning items faster itself check out the supermarkets and I also saw a prototype app which uses the invisible barcode to bring packaging to life when you look at it through your phone in the version I saw an animated cow magically popped out of a yogurt pot to tell you how to recycle the pot and pass on a message piece or start. In Copeland's Germany on the B.B.C.'s google show Marketplace. This final note on the way out today a rare entry from the pages of Golf World magazine this program Jack Nicklaus the Golden Bear. Is auctioning off his watch to benefit his kids' health care charity not just any watch Mind you it's an 18 karat gold Rolex 1803 day date if that means something to you seen in pictures of Nicholas since at least 1967 golf world reports including after 12 of his 18 major wins should you be wanting to bid though it is going to cost you a watch once owned by Paul Newman also a Rolex went at auction for more than $17000000.00. Marketplace is supported by black line helping over 200000 accounts at midsize and large enterprises achieve visibility control and automation for their financial clout Plaquemine dot com because trust is in the balance and by t. Rowe Price offering a strategic investing approach that examines opportunities 1st hand since $937.00 priced in that's what counts against and finally. Providing clarity on the regulatory sprint to coordinated care updates on changes to stock anti kickback and more. 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News and Washington I'm Jack Speer top House lawyers and lawmakers sparred on Capitol Hill today of what's expected to be announcement tomorrow of articles in Peach men against President Trump the House Judiciary Committee held its 2nd hearing in the ongoing impeachment inquiry Democrat Eric Swalwell of California brought back the ghost of impeachment past while questioning attorney Dan Goldin director of investigations at the House Intelligence Committee there's a reason that no one has said what did the president know and when did he know it from the evidence that you have presented Mr Golden and the in the intelligence committee's findings we know one thing and one thing is clear as it related to this scheme the president of the United States Donald j. Trump knew everything Democrats say Trump's push to have Ukraine investigate political rival Joe Biden while withholding u.s. Military aid ran counter to u.s. Policy Republicans who continue to deny the president was seeking any political favors from Ukraine President Trump says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani wants to take information he's gathered from his investigations in Ukraine to the u.s. Attorney general and the Congress Trump says Giuliani has not yet told him one information he's gathered Giuliani's been traveling to Ukraine to pursue investigations against Trump's potential 2020 rival Joe Biden and Biden son Giuliani also reportedly is investigating a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine not Russia sought to intervene in the 2016 election to help Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Amazon is accusing President trouble of improperly pressuring the Department of Defense to steer a giant military technology contract away from the company details are now unsealed in a legal filing that challenges the Pentagon's award of a 10000000000 dollars cloud contract to Microsoft N.P.R.'s Alina so you catch more at stake is the biggest military tech contract in history it's called Jet I amas on is asking a federal courts to stop the Defense Department from awarding the jet I contract to rival Microsoft in the newly unsealed filing Amazon Web Services the cloud business claims that the Pentagon repeatedly over looked Amazon's superior qualifications and the company goes further to argue that it was the president who influenced this citing Trump's quote public and behind the scenes attacks to harm his perceived political enemy that's a reference to Amazon.