For questions from audience. I had a couple of questions weve received over the internet. For the last 15 minutes or so lets talk about kind where the Roberts Court is and where the Roberts Court is going. We 15 years of the Roberts Court. What do you guys think of the most significant decisions the court has issued during that time . Citizens united, the heller case, marriage. You are clearly ready for that one. I think also juvenile Death Penalty. You know, the juvenile Death Penalty and the rulings on whether you can execute somebody who may not be technically, but is challenged. Cutting back on the Death Penalty in cases not involving murder and cutting back on juvenile life without parole. So the court has narrowed harsh punishment across a number of dimensions spent except for the Medicaid Expansion these. Its basically like an overruling of [inaudible] south dakota. Right. Be interesting to me, the Court Decision about suits unite this but because of the court held as a legal ma
Auction task force. Mr. Epstein, what does that mean . Guest thank you, peter. Im happy to be here. I am the head of the task force at the fcc which is responsible for implementing the incentive auction which is a firsttimeever auction at the fcc for spectrum. Host and the incentive auction is the auction, the spectrum auctions involving the broadcasters, correct . Guest indeed, it is. It is whats called a twosided auction which for the very first time will acquire spectrum from broadcasters in a socalled reverse auction and then turn around, repackage it and make it available to the wirelessc carriers9jz a forward auction. So it is a backtoback auction, a reverse auction and a forwardq auction. Host well, two followups to that. The fcc has set march of 2016 as the date for the incentive auctions to happen. A, will that date hold and, b, how long have you been working on this . Guest the auction commences on march 29th, 2016, and we do intend to hold to that date. All the commissioner
Earlier today, astronauts mark kelly and terry virts discussed ongoing Nasa Missions and research, including the mars mission. Mr. Kelly talked about nasas study of himself and twin, scott kelly. This is about an hour. Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is john hughes. Im an editor at bloomberg first word. Thats bloombergs breaking news desk here in washington, and i am the president of the National Press club. We have a historic day here in the National Press club. Our guest live via video link from the nsInternational Space station is scott kelly. Here at the table is mark kelly and terry virts. From the audiences right, david shepardson, Washington Bureau chief for the detroit news. Robert kunz. Frank mooring jr. , senior editor. The Washington Bureau chief for the buffalo news and current chairman of the speakers committee. Senior Vice President for business wires Public Policy wire and the press club member who organized this mornings breakf
Implement encryption where the products make sense to include encryption. Yeah. Agent littlehale, as you know, when the Police Search a home or business, officers will provide a copy of a warrant authorizing the search. This might reveal the basic type of investigations whether it involves terrorism or drugs or medicare fraud, but the police dont have to say anything more. Im told Law Enforcement has serious concerns about a provision in the lee leahy bill that changes the notice provisions to require Law Enforcement to go beyond that, potentially divulging specific investigative detail to a target. Do you share these concerns about in this bills notice provisions . Why or why not. We do, mr. Chairman. Because we are both concerned that providing greater protection for evidence because its in digital form is in fact not bringing digital evidence in line with evidence in the physical world. And also because when a search warrant is executed in the physical world, we control the access t
Things like that potentially unininvestigatable if the target has done a good enough job of hiding his other traces. If we believe that be the case, we wouldnt take the position we have. Our belief is the civil agencies with the tools they have can veth. It is our belief that the type you have to be arguing in order for that to be the case, you have to argue theres no case in which access to information by direct request to the Service Provider contributed in a material way to an investigation . I think its difficult to be categorical in a hypothetical situation. So i would not want to say that. But i will say i think we think on balance, balancing the law the needs of Law Enforcement with the privacy here we believe that the best the best outcome to this is that the civil agencies work with the tools they have rather than extending this new power to them. But you agree and accept that a contested Court Proceeding in open court with the target of the investigation present is a more rig