Hello. Im a columnist. The Washington Post and i write about politics and i want to thank you for joining us for our conversation with senator Amy Klobuchar. A member of the Senate Commerce committee and specifically the subcommittee that deals with manufacturing we are testing our technical capabilities here because she is joining us from a car in wisconsin where she is traveling with herin fellow senator and plenty of swing states this year. Yes, i am in the car and im parked so there wont be like a moving background behind me but yes we are doing an event for Vice President joe biden but im excited to be here today because there can be nothing more important besides moving the country forward and focusing on jobs in the economy and in a big way that includes manufacturing. We are here to talk about manufacturing but it also feels like weve had ten years worth of news in the last ten days so ive got to ask you how do you see the state of the president ial race right now and what are
[applause] good afternoon, everybody. Hello. So on behalf of the center for Civic Engagement here in new england college, it is my pleasure to introduce to you to president ial canada and United States senator, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] amy is the first woman to be elected to the United States senate in minnesotas history, and she has a wellknown reputation of getting things done while she is there. A recent study has actually ranked her the most effective democratic senator in the last United States congress. [applause] she is committed to improving the lives of families in the heartland, ensuring that kids that grew up in Rural America can stay in Rural America. And without spreading lies or spreading the blame, amy is focused on getting things done and making sure families lives are improved every day. When she first came to congress, our number one ask was to be on the Senate Agricultural committee, and she understands that this country has to do more to support our beginning farme
First half. Is ticking asck london and brussels plan new talks. They can still block a new deal divorce. Kathleen breaking news on south korea Industrial Production. I was talking about whether or not the bank of korea might cut their key rate and a couple of hours. The pricing jump, up 2. 6 . Up more than forecast at 0. 5 . That is what was expected. In terms of the monthly number, lets move on to the yearoveryear number. Up 0. 6 . A big improvement over 2. 9 . That has been revised a little bit higher, 2. 6. Very good news for south korean Industrial Production, closely linked to manufacturing, closely linked to the trade war. We will get more details on that and get more on that later. Beijing for ato look at the asian markets. There has been a lot of volatility this month but it looks like on the last day, we are seeing cautious optimism. More green across the board. For the nikkei. Positive numbers out of korea so that will help bolster when the markets open, up almost 1 . 5 thise
Five minutes to make an opening statement. Today the committee is holding our second hearing on the use of racial facial Recognition Technology. We will be examining the use of this technology by Law Enforcement agencies across the federal government. We had a broad survey of full range of issues, raised by technology. We heard from a number of experts about the benefits and the dangers of this technology across government and the entire private sector. Stark conclusion after our last hearing was that this technology is evolving extremely rapidly, without any really safeguards, whether were talking about commercial use or government use, the real concerns about the risks that this Technology Poses to our civil rights and liberties and our rights to privacy. The other conclusion from our last hearing was that these concerns are indeed bipartisan. As we saw at our last hearing, among conservatives and liberals, republic republicans and democrats thats a widerange agreement we should be c
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser