Resident fellow here at American Enterprise institute. It is my pleasure today to welcome to the aei professor Cass Sunstein. Hes the University Professor at harvard law school. He formerly was professor of law and professor of science at the university of chicago for many years. He was the administrator of the office of information and regulatory affairs, commonly known as oia come in the obama administration. Hes written more than a dozen books, and im happy to say that hes spoken a number of times here at the aei. We can trim a good friend of aei. Hes here today to talk about this latest book, which is called republic. I think that a reader would not have pronounced the word that way 20 years ago. Its an important and interesting book, so please welcome Cass Sunstein to aei. [applause] okay, well its a thrill to be back here. You all do amazing work, and ive learned so much from whats produced here on the legal and regulatory matters, and i really think you on behalf of millions of
Blackburn, the chair on communications and technology and shes our guest this week on the communicators. Congressman blackburn, whats your reaction to fcc vote . I saw it as ui positive step in the right direction. Very pleased that they took the action and very pleased to have and hes going to do a wonderful job and focused on closing the Digital Divide and expansion of broadband and making certain the internet is an open source and is not going to be under heavy government control. I think those are good steps, good things. Host what else would you like to see done . Guest it would take congress to take legislative following what the fcc does and this is what chairman pi was right step to take. I like seeing that. Host in your subcommittee right now, what are some of the items that youre working on that maybe we havent seen surface . The news . Guest there are two reauthorizations that we are working on, one for ntia and those agencies have not been reauthorized since 90 and 92. Look
Legislation. Reporter as Brittany Maynards family mourns their loss, state senator leno says its not clear if his colleagues would propose legislation in sacramento or if the issue would be put before voters. If it does move forward as a ballot issue, it likely would be considered in 2016. Sergio quintana, abc 7 news. A Northern California woman is accused of trying to kill her two young sons by intentionally driving off a 300 foot cliff. Athena doyle and her sons ages 2 and 4 are recovering from serious injuries. Doyle faces two felony counts of attempted murder. She was arrested friday. The crash happened october 3rd. The vehicle as you see here was found off highway 1 north of fort bragg. A chp officer who has already surrendered his career today surrendered himself to authorities in Contra Costa County. Sean harrington is charged with stealing explicit photos from at least one womans cell phone during a traffic stop and sending those photos to other officers. Abc 7 News Reporter La
I dont understand why officers are able to patrol streets and falsify reports on what actions occurred. We dont have them equipped with cameras were in the heart of silicon valley. Capitol of technology. The city is searching for funding for every officer to wear a camera. Cameras will eliminate needs to physically record the data. And will show everything. Breaking news in fairfield. A federal agent and police shot two murder suspects. Investigate kroers say the suspect was arnled and shot by a member of a federal task force. Police confronted another suspect in a related case wanted for attempted homicide in an apartment complex across the street. That suspect was shot by police. None of the officers was hurt. The conditions of the suspects are unknown. A key suspect in a sweeping political Corruption Case could leave a jail at any moment after a judge agreed to release him. Prosecutors lost their appeal debate to keep Keith Jackson in custody. That means he can be freed on a quarter
His First Court Appearance is officer matthew switzer. The officer who is been on paid leave since february is battling addiction and checked into rehab for treatment. Prescription drug abuse is the Fastest Growing drug problem in the united states. Unfortunately it appears officer switzer is another casualty of that trend. Switzer who turned himself in is facing two counts of firstdegree burglary, one count of seconddegree burglary one count of fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs and one count of elder abuse. The District Attorneys Office says switzer used his status as an officer to steal prescription drugs from the apartments of senior citizens. He had prescriptions and the drugs that were involved are essentially harrowing. Switzers Attorney Says the client had numerous issues and severed from post traumatic stress. He was fighting a very serious addiction problem. It started out with prescriptions, he had an on duty injury. We were not told what switzers injury is or how it