[inaudible conversations] in. Good evening everyone im courtney, a bookseller at politics impreza a union market and on behalf of our owners and our staff i would like to welcome you to tonights event. If this is your first time with us, please feel free to grab a calendar over by a register which shows the Event Schedule for the rest of august and those at this location and other two locations in town. You can also go to our website politics pros. Com dizzy with coming for the upcoming month. We ask that everyone silence your cell phones so theres no unwanted distractions during the talk. During the q a portion of the handheld microphone to pass around. Plus we recorded tonights event and its important we hear your questions on the audio. After the talk there will be assigning in this room and if you have not purchased the book with many copies behind th for e im pleased to introduce zahra hankir who writes about the intersection of politics, culture and society in the middle east. Sh
Apis, i have the narrative she wrote, and the emails she tried to suppress, on the tape recordings of her lawyers, there is nobody reading this book. To come away with any doubt whatsoever. This woman made up the story completely. And i never met her. How to permit mouth, i never met her. Sue mcmanus 7 15 p. M. Eastern, and her latest book, this truth will set you free. But first it will put you off. Lori steinem has her live and career, through her collection of essays. I think it is supple to see, what came before because now the me to moment, thanks to all of this and thanks to technology and the web is now or the world but it is a process and now it is a majority consciousness. Sue mckennitt 9 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards, Baltimore County president on his book the empowered university. He is interviewed by author and antipoverty firm revenue ceos westmore. We are through hard work in the humanities to the scientists, looking at ways of helping students to learn to ask the hard q
Communicators of tech policy roundtable with three working journalist. We will look ahead to the fall at what the congress and executive agencies may be doing when it comes to tech policy. Lets introduce our panel beginning with Emily Birnbaum of the hill. We also have ashley gold of the information, and Alexandra Levine of politico. Ms. Levine, first question to you. Facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town in the last couple of months. Do we expect whats going on with that case and we expect further attention to that company . Thank you for having. Great to be. The ftc 5 billion settlement with facebook which was the culmination of this long privacy probe prompted by the Cambridge Analytica data scandal has divided washington. On the one hand, you have republicans and Industry Groups say this by building daughters find because is the largest to come that that in history of te agency really, that it meant facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democra
Hes going great. 100 seasons, which seems like enough, right . I think we get it now. Quick question for those of you in our studio audience. How many of you are on vacation right now . [cheers and applause] the reason i ask is because weirdly, its become unusual, according to a study done by the u. S. Travel association, more than half of American Workers do not use all their vacation days, which is confusing, because based on what i see on instagram, it seems like all anyone ever does is go on vacation. But they say that last year alone, u. S. Workers left almost 800 million days of vacation on the table. They didnt take those days off. I guess ferris buehlers sacrifice meant nothing to us at all. The only american whos really using his vacation is donald trump. The president has been [ applause ] i have to hand it to him. He has been very hard at work not working lately. The first item on trumps schedule today, and this is true, was at 11 45. People who work at marijuana dispensarie