[laughter] in the United States today, there are only 38 women serving as ceos of fortune 500 companies. One of those with the best track record is tricia griffith, ceo of progressive insurance, one of the largest Automobile Insurance Companies in the United States. She started as a claim adjuster and worked her way up over many years, to become in 2016, the ceo. Since that time, the stock is up more than 175 . My big mistake was, i didnt know her then and i didnt buy stock in the company. If she ever leaves the company and goes somewhere else, im going to buy that stock right away. So for those who arent familiar with progressive, and if you watch television you would be familiar, because you have a lot of television ads, right . And i am just curious, why is it that Automobile Insurance Companies seem to advertise a lot . I see your competitors advertising. You advertise a lot. Is that because people really will be guided in their insurance decision by the advertisement . Tricia it i
Over the water war to prove kremlin critic was poisoned with. U. S. Vice president ial hopefuls. Like. Only t. V. Election but it was a high flying. Headlines. The headlines this hour up next this crossing how ill gotten gains have trickled down. Over the past 40 years given all have your morning news update in just under an hours time. Max kaiser this is the kaiser report kovi coated cope with so much to talk about lets check in with stacey well you know its hard to outdo donald trump and his shenanigans in antics and all that sort of stuff but were going to try so you know one thing we always say is where were at the end of a few dark ages and of an. Whether its the fiasco in c regime that has ruled the world since 1971 or the us empire since 1905 but of course that whole pocket before it when the British Empire disintegrated was also quite chaotic and interesting tet offensive we had a pandemic in 1008 team that was right and that was equally crazy as now perhaps we didnt have a pre
[laughter] in the United States today, there are only 38 women serving as ceos of fortune 500 companies. One of those with the best track record is tricia griffith, ceo of progressive insurance, one of the largest Automobile Insurance Companies in the United States. She started as a claim adjuster and worked her way up to become in 2016 the ceo. Since that time, the stock is up more than 175 . My big mistake was, i didnt know her then and i didnt buy stock in the company. If she ever goes somewhere else, im going to buy that stock right away. For those who arent familiar with progressive, and if you watch television you would be familiar, because you have a lot of television ads, right . I am just curious, why is it that Automobile Insurance Companies seem to advertise a lot . I see your competitors advertising. You advertise a lot. Is that because people will be guided in their insurance decision by the advertisement . Tricia it is just a really competitive industry, which is always o
Pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because theyre the theyre railroaded by Police Officers who give them false information or horrors confessions or because they are afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea using every 0 you dont know anything about you know the prison politics in county jail you dont know anything so they put you there with these people in this is how they force you to take deals the u. S. Justice system just like any Justice System in the world a system where 95 percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain you know its no longer trial system its a plea bargain system the whole purpose of plea bargains from the perspective of a prosecutor raises his conviction rate so prosecutors typically have a high 90 percentile convict. Including those plea bargains. Because of course from a legal standpoint we know that nobody would ever plead guilty to something they didnt
Leads tributes at a memorial for a teacher who was beheaded in paris last week. A round the clock curfew in the nigerian city of lagos after reports demonstrators were shot on tuesday. And they calling on the year of a special need for Young Workers at the polling stations for this years us president ial election. Hello everyone there is a crisis that has overcome so many communities in the United States in addition to the corona virus pandemic it is the fight against opioid addiction and the u. S. Justice department has in the past few hours announced that the drugs manufacturer. Has pleaded guilty over its role in the countrys epidemic in a deal with the u. S. Governments the company is pleading guilty to 3 federal criminal charges and will pay a fine of 8300000000. 00 the owners of the wealthy family have been ordered to pay 225000000. 00 in civil penalties. They lost control and ownership of a company that was worth very significant amounts of money they will have no future involve