This morningism maria bartiromo. I hop youre having a good friday morning. Happy weekend. Its friday, may 17, 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. Former President Trump so called hush money trial is entering its final stretch as the defense prepares to resume cross examination of exlawyer Michael Cohen on monday. Lydia hu with more. Reporter the cross examination highlighted cohens history of lying and made the discussion that Michael Cohen continued his lies on the stand before the jury yesterday. Defense attorney todd blanche crossexamined Michael Cohen about a brief phone call that took place in late october of 2016. Cohen testified that he called Keith Schiller, trumps body guard, and trump about Stormy Daniels, telling them the nons didisclosure agreement was done. Blanche used Text Messages to suggest cohen received a harassing series of phone calls and called schiller to discuss the harassment. Heres the exchange. Blanche, question, that was a lie,
Enemies. Robert george, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you . In the 1990s after he came to princeton and we are together in faculty seminars but we didnt know each other very well. We wouldhe just say hello to eah other and we interacted in the seminars. We began teaching together and 2007. Thats whe when our Teaching Partnership began. Host how does the Teaching Partnership began . Guest they set up a magazine i think it was called green light [inaudible] taking a course with a civil liberty and he asked who i would like to have a dialogue with and i said i would love a chance to dialogue so we got together and had about a 45 minute dialogue on the recording. He continued to talwe continuedt least three or four hours that weve got to continue this conversation and weve now been going for 11 or 12 years around the country primarily. But we have had a wonderful time and the family is just magnificent. We know the truth is bigger than us, but we aspire to it. The meeting
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In december federal trade commissioner mcsweeney wrote, scrapping the fccs Net Neutrality rules will harm consumers and content creators and the federal trade commission is and can be able to stop it. They do not have specialized expertise in telecommunications. We dont have engineers data Network Management practices, these are real and significant limits to the tools ensuring networks are open and free of harmful discrimination. To agree . I share a lot of the skepticisms and concern. Given ongoing litigations the ftc may face and on level Playing Field were some majors are exempt while others are subject to. My view is that the ftc, if it gets back its authority in the internet space there will be a vigorous enforcer, will take the Statutory Authority and use it as best we can. I dont know what types of unfair practices may, if they cannot we can reach them under statute. Something comes up we cant reach that i would come to you and the committee and talk to about it. The federal tr