My name is Vanessa Beasley and im the dean of the university. We will have a wonderful discussion about the presidency of Richard Nixon and the lessons therein. Im happy to invite you to a conversation we will have on the same theme. Before we get darted in earnest, its fitting we take a moment to remember the space we are in and who founded it. Tonight we are gathered in the First Amendment center at Vanderbilt University which was founded by john segan dollar. For those of you who may not know him he served for 43 years as an awardwinning journalist for the tennessean. He retired as editor, publisher and ceo. In 1982, he became the founding editorial director of usa today and served in that position for a decade. He left journalism in the early 60s to serve in the u. S. Justice department as Administrative Assistant to attorney general Robert F Kennedy. His work in the field of civil rights led to a service as chief negotiator with the governor of alabama during the freedom ride. Dur
And we also want to welcome our guests for this hour joining us this morning from londons Nyu Stern School of business professor Scott Galloway and from one markets, cofounder Kate Mitchell were watching shares of amazon. 14 hours into prime day. 14 hours into prime day. The company is saying the echo is the best per foming bestselling item for the day. Marked down by 50 its not just amazon were seeing deals across ebay and best buy mark things like ipads, lap tops, smart watches down by 47 . Lost the script. There kate, when it comes to amazon, is there a point at which the sort of dominance of u. S. Retail sales and disruption of the brickandmortar Retail Business stalls out . Well, its hard to see in a day like today i mean, these guys continue to impress me and theyre using prime day which is the day that they for prime users only have what are like black friday deals available on all kind of products and greatly expanded the number of products this year. And on top of it, you can
No match for a sea of samaritans. This is this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The russia investigation the president calls fake has just become a very real problem for his son. Today donald trump, jr. , released an exchange of emails in which he accepts what is purported to be an offer of help from the russian government in his Fathers Campaign against Hillary Clinton. A russian lawyer was to deliver dirt on clinton in june of last year at that trump tower meeting we first learned about last weekend. It involved trump, jr. , brotherinlaw Jared Kushner, and Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. We have extensive coverage tonight, including Major Garrett on team trumps changing stories, nancy cordes with the political fallout, and Julianna Goldman on the legal implications. But we begin with jeff pegues, who is following the email trail. Reporter the first email on june 3rd was blunt. Music publicist Robert Goldstone wrote donald trump, jr. , that a russian off
Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to the this is the regular meeting of the of the San Francisco Ethics Commission and i will call the roll. Commissioner keane commissioner chiu commissioner kopp and commissioner hayon is not present but we anticipate shell arrive shortly item agenda item 2 Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda anyone wish to speak on that item . Commissioners ray hart for San Francisco open government. In december this Ethics Commission held a hearing in the referral by the sunshine ordnance task force in ray heart commissioner hayon has exhibited could have recused herself in the matter rather than a fair hearing as the good golf o government guides we this facts and law commissioners hayons statements state their prejudice in part quote the issue of disclosure by the library quote unquote the belief this is something amiss with the friends and quote individuals that use this measure of requesting is a form of harassment end quote none of the
San Francisco Open government. In december this Ethics Commission held a hearing in the referral by the sunshine ordnance task force in ray heart commissioner hayon has exhibited could have recused herself in the matter rather than a fair hearing as the good golf o government guides we this facts and law commissioners hayons statements state their prejudice in part quote the issue of disclosure by the library quote unquote the belief this is something amiss with the friends and quote individuals that use this measure of requesting is a form of harassment end quote none of the issue issues had my bearing on the case before the commission that is a clearcut case and 9 to nothing by the task force and supervisor mondejar was the sublth of an i dr dragged it out for a year and two months one member of the Ethics Commission made a deal about the wasting time and energy and money but they always seem to ignore the fact it is not the person requesting the documents as wasting all the time and