Honor and privilege to welcome you to the global event of the highly revised because of this incredible highly acclaimed bestselling book passing darwin. But until recently 100 people or a few more. Are some bad wine for now you can eat your favorite food from your refrigerator or the bedroom of choice on bed on beverage of choice and this is also being taped by cspans welcome everybody. These are unprecedented times and then and this moment in history where things could be shaped for ill or good in this we have found in our four weeks of telework is not really social distance it is geographic distance. We have galvanize the Global Community with that social interaction because we are all galvanized with our community and one of the biggest thinkers of the all and we will join the global conversation at the Atlantic Council we are concerned with covid19 for sure but looking at it the prism of friends and allies to shape the future looking between democracy and the uss role in the world
Joining us on the communicators is andrew marantz. He is a writer for the new yorker magazine, also the author of the book antisocial online extremists, techno utopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. If i understand it correctly, the book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Andrew yes, so around 2014, 2015, i was writing for the new yorker. And you know, its a magazine that allows people to kind of roam and be generalists and sort of go wherever they find interesting stories. And something that i was finding interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society, in terms of our information streams. It wasnt really political in my mind at that time. It was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information break down and people no longer know whats true or whats important vs. Irrelevant or how to spend the
Government doing those things. Among those many protections can be found provisions of the bill of rights, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States constitution. A Fourth Amendment reminds us, its our right, our fundamental inalienable rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and any warrants have to be backed by probable cause and any probable causebased warrant has to include with particul particularity, a description of the places and persons to be searched and to be seized. This is a tradition that reaches not just back a couple of centuries, it reaches back much farther than that. It has its origins not only in our own country, but in our mother country, in the united kingdom. By the time john wilks was serving in parliament in the 1760s, there had been a long established tradition and understanding in fact, a series of laws ena enacted to make sure that warrants were not abused and to make sure that the rights of english subjects would not be infringed
As we face the crisis of covid19 pandemic, the house must do its duty in full and do so in a way that contributes to the safety and welfare of our people, not in any way that harms it. I want to thank each member of the house for returning to d. C. Today to vote on this important legislation. Madam speaker, members are advised no votes are expected in the house next week. Members are further advised that the house will be in session on wednesday, may 27, and may 28. As everyone knows, the senate has amended the housepassed fisa bill. Very important piece of legislation. Which will require the house to act again. I expect that to be considered on the 27th. I also expect conversations to continue on additional legislation addressing the covid19 pandemic. The house can vote on covid19related bills on may 27 and 28. I am pleased that the house has adopted a resolution to allow the committees to work remotely. Our k forward to getting committees back up and running so they can begin having
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