Lets welcome him on the stage. [applause] good evening. Thank you for being here, we are very excited at the conversation you are about to see. Not just because its on other celebration or successful book fair that miamidade book fair put on every year but its rare to have professionals with the type of firsthand knowledge that they bring to this discussion shared with you and have the opportunity to engage. Rest assured theres going to be an opportunity for all of you to ask questions of our panelists but we thank you for being here and with that, let me introduce the first of our authors this evening. Josh campbell is a correspondent for cnn and prior to joining the network, he did a very distinguished tenure at the federal bureau of investigation where he served as a special assistant fbi director james comey, hes worked with former special counsel on fbi director robert malik and hes the author of the brandnew book, crossfire hurricane inside Donald Trumps work on the fbi, lets giv
The dow right around the 28,000 mark. This after communist china says it will change their rules on ip protection. For more details, Edward Lawrence is live in washington with more. Edward . Reporter Chinese State media saying theyre very close to phase one deal between the u. S. And china. The chinese trying to show good faith here. China announced new guidelines within the last 24 hours, that would increase protections for intellectual property, and extend more enforcement to patent and copyright laws. Now on intellectual property, what china is trying to do, showing it could be a fabric. Trying to make it a social fabric within their company or country. The criteria. So protecting intellectual property will be one of the criteria for evaluating local government employees. Thus creating an incenttive to follow through. That follow through is the key for the u. S. Trade team. Robert lighthizer is pushing for a change inlaws to make sure protections stick. China is trying to show it ca
Good evening. Welcome to new america. Such a nice room, comfortable chairs. Im the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america and i want to welcome you all to a discussion about the possibilities of rankedchoice voting, as folks can revive our democracy in various ways, potentially solving a bunch of differently challenges. This is an event, a a series of events for new americas 20th anniversary which is done in 1999 with the idea of creating a home for new generation of both people and ideas across a wide range of policy questions. I kind of one of the oldtimers although it wasnt your in 1999. I saw the creation of it and fundamental ideas about political, reforming the political system, part of the dna of this organization from the beginning. As my colleague lee reminded me, the book that the founders wrote called the radical center which was one of the ideas that they wrote that was not really like a bible but it is kind of hard of that. And that i was here, came b
My name is emma morris, and im the Global Policy director. I would like to start by thanking congressman cardenas and his staff for securing the room for us for having this important discussion today. Briefly, by way of background for those not familiar with the safety institute, were an International Nonprofit organization looking to make the online world safer for kids and their families. We are pleased to host the panel today to discuss one of the most important issues facing families and kids privacy on the internet. In the united states, the collection and processing of childrens data has primarily been regulated by the childrens Online Privacy protection act for over 20 years. This law long preceded facebook, snapchat, youtube and hello barbie. Weve seen numerous legislative proposals to change the way childrens information is regulated and at the beginning of the summer, the federal trade Commission Published a request for public comment. With all of this activity in mind, it re
Inquiry procedures. Tracie potts joins us live. How soon is that vote expected to begin, tracie . Reporter in about an hour t. Could take a few hours, maybe even less. Its not to formally authorize the inquiry. What it is is laying out ground rules for how public hearings will work when they supposedly get started in just a few weeks. Democrats and republicans with equal time to ask questions, allowing the president s attorneys to participate in some hearings but not for republicans to call witnesses. They still argue the rules are unfair, that it doesnt provide the president due process, that some committees like intelligence can still hold private hearings with private testimony where the transcript isnt shared. The vote happens today and both sides eager to move forward before we get knee deep into president ial primary season where people are seeing this process move forward and they may blame one party or the other or both for playing politics. Theyre eager to move forward but in