The meetings have been face to face. No longer separated on different floors. We talked to both sides tonight. First the Union President who said the presence of elected officials has helped, but barts chief negotiator said having other elected officials there is counter productive. How much is that helping, just having her there . I think she is getting both sides of the story and that is important. We dont know what is being filtered to her, but she is sitting at the table, we know this is what we are telling her. It doesnt help the process at all. If anything delays it a little bit, because they spend a lot of time in the other room talking to them. Again, Union Negotiators just told us they are expecting to see the new offer tonight, any time now up until now, he has been doing a lot of listening, a lot of asking questions, barts ridership fell 20,000 compared to your average friday. Many people made other plans. The deadline sunday at midnight. We dont know how long they will be n
From Edward Snowden revealed the nsa is recording all phone calls from an entire country. 100 of the phone calls. Phone calls are stored for up to 30 days, giving them the ability to rewind any phone call in the previous month. Then return to scott olsen, the iraq war vet, who almost lost his life and occupy protests when he was shot in the head by a Police Projectile. I know i was on the ground, my left side was turned toward the cup, and that is where i was hit, right here. Ground, beinghe carried away by all these people. Scott olsen joins us today to announce he has reached a settlement in a lawsuit with the Oakland Police. And we will look at how wells fargo instructed their employees to fabricate missing documents on how to foreclose on homeowners. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Russia and the United States have each impose new sanctions on the other over the crisis in ukraine. President obama made the announcement thursday
System and gps technology. Moving from air to cars. L General Motors has of course re recalled 25. 7 million cars in the u. S. This year and the Auto Industry has recalled a record 40 million vehicles. On should drivers feel safe and are regulators doing enough . Well, look on the latter question, i have to say that e they have done an incredible amount of work over the last several years. Ten i think over the last ten years there have been about 1200 plus recalls effecting 95 million vehicles. Thats not counting some of the more recent recalls. s prett thats pretty significant. Our tool box is actually improved over that time in the wake of the toyota situation a few years ago we developed alont with ibm some analytics that allow us to be more predictive i in identifying issues before they emerge. We continue to look to build a better mousetrap so i think that when its all said and done they have done an incredible job over the entire trend line. In in terms of the autos and you wheth
Organization. This is really not meant to be a technical debate. Its a policy debate of where we a year after the snowden revelations and what weve learned and what has and hasnt kind of gone forward from there. Im just going to ask each one of our panelists to really well written and well spoken on this topic to just give a couple of key points of their point of view and then we will get into a dialogue among of the us panelists and we will open it up so be thinking about questions. So im going to start with stuart baker whose a partner at step tow and johnson. Were you the first policy assistant secretary. I want to make sure i get that title right at dhs which is something weve seen grow in its responsibilities. This is something you really hadnt fathomed at the time. Its probably to know what you know and be where you are now. I will open with stuart and just a little shout out for those who are looking for a summer book read. Hes got a great book. You might want to look that up. S
Referred to recommendation 11. Okay. And so we think its depending on what the California Supreme Court decided this could affect other Electronic Communications that isnt about email but to the take the opportunity extending stent an official can use private emails and text and otherwise and claim because its not on the public Communication System s it is automatically not subject to the private act so that question which the District Attorneys Office is advised they shouldnt make the argument but it the definitely a gray area and an ear where the law is developing thats all when a the commissioner is trying to get at. Things will become clarified especially with the new Communication Technologies has it been auditor yet. No, i dont believe so. This is another one where i would like to revisit it once you know so if you could keep us advised when it is argued and decided. Any other questions or comments for the commissioners on 11 i wanted to check in the commissioners and staff and p