One of the democrats who will be leading impeachment hearings this week, congressman jim himes is joining us then you know her from pitch perfect, shes here with a new movie for disney plus Anna Kendrick is here cheers and applause also on tonights episode, dead people are sending texts, gendee who wants to buy the white house. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Today is veterans day, a day when many take a moment to celebrate heroes who have put their lives on the line to fight for their country. But for those actively serving, another reason to celebrate. The marines are ending their twoyear ban on umbrellas. All marines will be able to carry umbrellas while wearing dress or service uniforms, must be small, black and carried in the left hand to allow for a proper salute. Trevor the marines can now use umbrellas. I didnt reis there was a no umbrellas rule for the marines. Makes sense, because if you have an umbrella and youre a marine and it flips inside out youve gone from badass
Congress actually asked the gao to study a number of years ago and even the gao concluded they harm the Public Interest or contravene the ownership rules, time to do this topic to bed. For the people not so deeply steeped in sec lingo, we are talking two way consolidation might take place, two ways the consolidation grows scale. What is a horizontal point which is the combined company would own more stations across the country and therefore cover a large part of the country, the question is what percentage is okay for broadcasters to have as a horizontal matter across the country in a world where many distributors reach 100 of the country, in the old days only broadcasters could reach mass audience, now the internet is changing that. The second question is within each market, how many stations can you either own or have a significant relationship with such as socalled js as and when it comes to the individual market it is important to remember there are two screens any deal has to pass
Of the institute. She broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping and a shoplifter knocked them over. Alex has done a fabulous job running the institute. I want to think the other georgetown students gathered by amy schwartzman. The otherto thank georgetown students gathered by amy shorts mentored what are we i want to thank the other georgetown students gathered by amy schwartzman. In may, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intention. It is seeking approval on the department of justice for the merger, which if consummated will result in sinclair owning 233 stations covering 72 of american viewers. The next largest will have 70 fewer stations. At the same time, the fcc will come out tomorrow including newspaper broadcast, the tv radio and the local tv. How many of you know what a uhf station is . Anybody under the age of 40 now . I saw three hands. We will have an opportunity to talk about that a little later and whether that was a rule that should have been reinst
Now, before we start i want to thank a couple of folks and a couple of institutions. I want to thank the institute for technology, law and policy. The institute for public representation, which is also part of Georgetown Law Center, the betten foundation and no civil la foundation for sponsoring this event. I also want to thank senator richard blumenthal, and i want to thank jamie who is a Research Fellow at georgetown and kind of my personal law clerk and doing a fabulous job. And alexander givens whos the head of the institute who some of you may have heard broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping at h m in friendship heights, a shoplifter knocked them over and down a flight of stairs. I was in that h m, like, the day before. If people could send well wishes to alex, shes done a fabulous job running the institute. I also want to thank the other georgetown students gathered by Andy Schwartzman, one of our panelists, who are going to be helping today with various an
Their countries and the United States. We should bring together our businesses, our artists, our actors, our scientists, our students. Thats important. Its a challenging time for diplomats. The u. S. Justice department recently indicted two russian intelligence agents and two hackers accused of stealing private information from millions of americans after hacking into yahoo accounts. It would be pure speculation. These people are innocent people now. Theyre innocent now until they are Proven Guilty in the court of law. Also, some consulate employees were among three dozen russians nationwide who were suddenly expelled at the end of 2016. The Obama Administration said it was in retaliation for russian efforts to interfere with the u. S. President ial election through cyber attacks. Its not the policy of russia to meddle with affairs of any country in the world. And with all the turmoil swirling around the consulate after the expulsions, consul petrov invited the media in for a chat and