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Facts are. Sure. I do remember that was an issue that was of note. There was a precipitating event that made olc examine that question and issue that opinion in september 2011 that then precipitated the letter that the Deputy Attorney general sent out. We can find out exactly what that event was and share that with you. To release something on a friday before christmas, you just know theres something wrong. And i was the author of the National Commission on gambling a number of years ago, and there is a difference on the impact for destination gambling and convenience gambling. Destination gambling, youre going to go out far away, you take so much and thats it. Convenience gambling, around the corner the ultimate is to be able to go online in your bathrobe in your dorm at penn state. So, you know, id like to find out and also senator graham introduced legislation to restore the wire act. Will you provide the expertise to create that . Well look at the statute. I frankly dont know what
Toward tennessee and kentucky. And farther west heading due west later today you may be driving into some wintry precipitation. Right now getting some rain down in tennessee, southwestern virginia and kentucky. Ahead of that under the clouds we have temperatures cold. Were in the 20s to right around the freezing mark in washington and the nearby suburbs. Right near the bay its a little bit above freezing but away from waters below freezing. Into the Shenandoah Valley and mountains, most locations in the 20s. In fact, even colder. East of the mountains we dont have any weather advisories but there is one out for western maryland and into West Virginia. A combination maybe of some icing and some maybe light snow there later today. If you are heading west, you may be running into that later today and for the metro area a cold, calm dry morning and then by noontime might get a little bit of snow and sleet perhaps to our west and north otherwise light rain moving into the metro area and may
Skypes. Ves four that is the miracle of modern technology and it will either work or not work. It is very tricky so somebody may go down, somebody may have a time delay which is happening with one of our three guests. Analogous to the quadruple somersault ringling brothers. Please, bear with us. We will have problems from time to time but we have an Excellent Team of techies. I know because i can understand anything a say. It is my pleasure to interview introduce our interviewer, roger cohen. Thank you. [applause] good morning. We are going to rely on technology to try to bring this in balance and ignore whoever may or may not be listening. I think it is fair to say that in the immediate landscape there is a before and after Edward Snowden. Nsarevelations about global data vacuuming are backed with concrete evidence. The feeling i think that many of us have had since 9 11 that something has gotten seriously skewed in the appropriate balance between National Security and press freedom.
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