We speak to the cofounder of apple, Steve Wozniak. He discusses everything from trade to services to his strong concerns on privacy on facebook. To our top story federal officials charming former uber engineer Anthony Levandowski with stealing Driverless Technology from the waymo unit. This is one of the most intriguing recent legal battles in Silicon Valley and a top priority for the fbi. Tolerate thell not theft of trade secrets. Let me be clear these are the crown jewels of companies. Taylor joining me to discuss is bloombergs eric newcomer. What a long saga it has been. What have we learned today . Eric this was a total surprise. Uber and google settled this and while ago. There had been a private arbitration. But the idea that there would be criminal charges is something i think people had largely given up on. It has just taken so much time. This is a big deal for Silicon Valley. Taylor talk to me about the difference between the two trials. They settled one, arbitration. But this
Host what is facebook trying to do and why . Guest the simple answer is that they are trying to create a Digital Currency that people can use across borders and a Digital Currency means not necessarily a theirment currency, but own private currency that people can use and ship to one another in different parts of the world. The reason why they are doing this is a little bit complex ause no one knows exactly they have explicitly said that they want to, and i am reading this because i think it is useful for the listeners to hear, to enable a simple, global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. There are some financial motives as well. Host as far as the current system, what would facebooks plan do that others do not . Is planning to create this look currency and by doing so, have established a consortium of different kinds of larger, Global Technology companies and a couple of nonprofits. The global currency is called the libra currency and the consortiu
Talking about teenage vaping. Interest from congress. What is driving this . Guest interest started a year ago last summer when numbers showed teenage vaping rose significantly between 2017 and 2018, 78 jump in the number of High Schoolers using ecigarettes and congress was concerned because there is a playbook from big tobacco that they think looks very similar and they are concerned we could lose all the gains we have made in getting people off of cigarettes. Host focus on the company juul, why is that and what is the company . Guest juul is in san francisco, they have an ecigarette that is very discrete and really appealing to teens. A live talk at schools that you can hide it in your sweatshirt, people may not know when you are using it. There were some really great flavors that teens like that were able to be sold in Convenience Stores. Now those are just online except nthol that aree still in the stores, but that has been the ecigarette of choice for kids from the evidence from d
Debate hope on the next our aim is to fix the things that trump has broken, not how barack obama made mistakes. He didnt. What i want to make clear is that this going back 2030 years, this is a game to make sure we handle republicans in the election coming up. Look, folks, there are a lot of things everybody has done in the past, votes that dont have a context today. It was taken out of context. I want to make the point that some of the assertions being made were absolutely, how can i say it nicely . Not true, taken out of context. And if they meant what they said, they would not have done what they did. Do you think your party has gone too far to the left . On immigration, for instance . Mr. Biden the world has changed since obama, and heres the deal. This is about the future. This is about taking the same kind of integrity and moving beyond it. By the time the president s term ended, he was able to focus in ways that werent just about keeping the car from going over the cliff. And us
New report. And a Health Policy reporter for Bloomberg News on rising levels of vaping and ecigarette use among teenagers. Host it is the washington journal for august second. We want to hear from those of whomurrently undecided on you will vote for in 2020. Specifically, we want to hear about what is the most important issue you will consider when choosing a candidate you will support. May be, perhaps immigration or another issue entirely that has you concerned when making the choice of who you will vote for. For undecided voters only, here is how you can let us know your most important issue. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002. If you want to post on our twitter feed, you can do so at cspanwj and you can also do so on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. It real clear politics through ir opinion did an opinion a poll looking at issues the topor those was Health Care Immigration at 11 and making a tie for education and the environme