The Anderson Family fund. Rosalind p. Walter, in memory of abby m. Oneill. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening, and thank you for joining us. Theres confusion tonight over whos in charge of a federal agency created to protect americans in their banking and financial dealings. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created by president obama and congress after the 2008 financial crisis. The uncertainty began yesterday when the agencys director, richard cordray, an obama appointee, officially resigned and immediately promoted his chief of staff, Leandra English, to deputy director. That
Keep all your inventory . Yeah, this is where we display all our edibles for our bud bar. We see hundreds of patients every day. Do you have anything on special . Reporter the Marijuana Law will go into effect in california and anyone 21 and over can walk into a dispensary and buy pot. How will that impact your business . Its going to impact it a lot. Its going to increase our patient database probably double, i would say. That means the demands are higher and well have to satisfy demand from those products as well. How will you satisfy demand . Because of the new state regulations we can only buy after 2018 from state cultivators. We may go from seeing 500 vendors to seeing five vendors. They may not meet the regulations put into place or they dont have the finances to apply for the state permit or the state may lag on actually approving those permits meaning the couple may only get through. Those are the only cultivators we are actually purchasing from at that time. Youre saying that
Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening and thank you for joining us. The longestserving member of congress, 88yearold john conyers of michigan, announced today hes giving up his post as top democrat on the house Judiciary Committee, but he wont resign. The move follows last weeks disclosure by buzzfeed that conyers settled a Sexual Harassment claim by a former staff member in 2015 with a confidential 27,000 payment. The House Ethics Committee is now investigating the payment. Conyers denies the allegations. Conyers said today in a statement i cannot in good conscience allow these charges to un
Of abby m. Oneill. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. The u. S. Senate has passed one of the most sweeping overhauls to the u. S. Tax code in more than 30 years. The tax cuts and jobs act, as amended, is passed. gavel bangs applause sreenivasan just before 2 00 a. M. This morning, with Vice President mike pence presiding, the u. S. Senate narrowly passed a nearly 1. 5 trillion tax bill by a vote of 5149. After lastminute negotiations on the floor of the senate, the final text of the nearly 500 page bill was released just hours before the vote. The senate
Lying to the fbi. He is now cooperating with Robert Muellers investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. And gop senators remain focused on tax reform. Joining me now to discuss this weeks top political stories are Hoover Institution fellow lon chen and kqed katie orr. Welcome to you both. Katie, lets begin with you. You attended this weeks hearing in sacramento on Sexual Harassment within the state capitol. Currently what are some of the biggest issues about Sexual Harassment complaints and investigations are handled. Well, i think one of the biggest things people have to deal with is we dont really know how theyre handled. Especially this hearing specifically dealt with the assembly, and it was very unclear what happens when someone comes in and makes a complaint, if that complaint is tracked, who decides which complaints get moved up to a level of investigation. Also what happens to people when theyre investigated. Oftentimes the rules committee is deciding the punishm