I will be monitoring this conversation and you will have a chance to ask questions. First, a senior fellow here at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is the author of this report, when corruption is an operating system. Shes using honduras as the case study. To add to the conversation, we have the author of corruption in america. She is also an attorney in the loss of filed against president trump. So, corruption as an operating system. What does that mean . Yeah, what am i talking about . Exactly. So, would you mind we have a picture. Fundamentally what i am talking about here is not corruption as that some practices members of government indulge in, in some countries a lot of government officials might indulge in this, but you know, the way we normally think about it is sort of like i dont know, like a disease that creeps in and infects the tissues of government. Int ive been seeing honduras turned that to be a really clear example of it. Network, anding a a network
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News, president elect donald trump is planning to ask congress to front the money for a border wall between the u. S. And mexico. And the search is on for a pickpocket that stole from eldery customers on the main line. And the big story is a normal possible snow storm this weekend. It wasnt much but enough snow fell overnight to make us break out the shovels and scrapers. This is Chester County, where people were cleaning off they are cars and clearing the sidewalks. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee, is tracking the snowfall totals and details on the next one. Reporter it was a nice welcome to 2017 with the snowfall across the delaware and lehigh valleys. And 3. 2 inches in chester, burlington 2. 4 and 1. 8 inches in huff church. And Philadelphia International airport we picked up 1. 9 inches of snow and it has moved out and temperatures are cold in the wake and in at the freezing mark in philadelphia. And 28 in reading and feels like the teens north and west when you factor in the windchi