Eppsaddison, president and executive director of the center for popular democracy. Good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host tell us about your organization. Guest it is a National Network of grassroots political organizations. We are in 34 states. There are a lot of things our Community Works on. Fast food workers going on strike for better wages and the right to form a union, immigrants not just working to transform our broken immigration system but who are building the culture and fabric of their communities, black workers and black folks who have been struggling economically in this country who are seeking the opportunity to thrive and not just survive. Withe a network of people great imagination who believe that america can be a place where all of us have what we need, not just a select few. Guest we will talk call it host we will talk politics in a moment. This is from the Washington Post with regards to the dominant store in our countr
Having a room full of reporters is a milestone and quite frankly, it is attention that getting a fewot campaigns ago. Jessica has spent most of her professional career working in the legislatives base and is a manager of resources. To quote a political piece, they wrote steering democratic strategy to win and operative who is little known outside of Democratic Campaign circles and has spent the last five years turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. Without taking any more of your time, i will turn it over to jessica. Jessica thank you. I appreciate it. Should i on mute . Unmute . Thank you, everyone. The juggernaut is powered by a lot of hard work so i appreciate everyone coming here today. I am the president of the dlcc. Flipe announcing today our everything 2020 campaign. Redlipped 10 chambers from to blue. We have done that since donald trump selection. We are Donald Trumps election. And by state legislators matter. I will tell you a little more about the dlcc. On a are not
Libre is set to debut next year. We will hear how the head of libre and the facebook coo touted this big promise. But first our top story. Recordbreaking sales for amazon. Posted itsrce giant largest advance on thursday. Amazon didnt release specific sales figures, but they say it backs up broader reports that Online Shopping picked up this year. I want to bring in spencer and darren baker. Spenser, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. In terms of their statement, we didnt learn much. Every year is another record for amazon. What we did see was that this was the first year, one that they rolled out their oneday shipping pledge on millions of items, and that they handled so much of their own delivery on their own. I think a little bit of the boost is that amazon got through christmas without any disasters. Everyone was wondering how they would do this year. And darren, every year is a record year. Is amazon just riding the wave of ecommerce or are they doing
Charles schwab takes advantage firm and israge said to be moving on rival Td Ameritrade. Apple overhaul Software Testing after finding glitches in its software. This is our second day at the new Economy Forum in beijing and we have plenty of great interviews ahead on our programs including mastercards device. Hairman also eurasia groups president as well. Competition was really focused on trade tensions, the risks for the global economy, the u. S. And china dynamic. We will see more conversations about today as well, but also more focus on technology, ai, 4g, and transitioning into 5g. Much it was very optimistic or hopeful is maybe a better word, hoping to come to some sort of heavy copper mines, but there was the idea that some of these issues are just going to remain issues forever, like Henry Kissinger saying the issue remain kong will problematic and other people saying the issue of sovereignty will be sensitive and will come up during trade negotiations. All of that has affected
News fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have the answers to these questions melissa ryan a digital strategist strategist who studies online toxicity and extremism and writes the weekly blog control all right delete i love that name jody westby a legal expert on privacy and computer crime and the founder of global 6 cyber risk and Jennifer Brody who has worked on programs combat online dissent from asian and works at the Digital Rights group access now thank you all for joining us today where you have some fun with this one i think so let me just start with with you melissa censorship or free speech how do we draw that line between what we see is the you know my right to say what i want to do and the question of basically becoming the source of conspiracy theories and false is i think its really important that we consider the frame of speech and who social media empowers the Tech Companies have consistently made policy. That empower the already powerful so what happens is for