Lieu of people who have been told do not go outside this is crazy but heres what we want to do we want to start with Something Else i want to start with this what in the world i have to ask is going on with european carmakers who are being caught red handed lying and cheating what are they lying and cheating about car emissions its like if i sold you a car and i guaranteed you that it does not pollute the environment but it does. If you drive a Mercedes Benz this may have happened to you investigate or say the company produced to a t 2 180000 c class and class vehicles 280000 of these things that were outfitted with a little trick gadget that goes into the car to fool people into thinking that its not polluting when in fact it is essentially who they want to fool is the people who test the cars for emissions right the maker of mercedes has recalled 700000 cars and while the investigation of mercedes continues volkswagen is still reeling after they got caught pretty much doing the same
An amazing crowd. We had to turn away a good 50 people or more. There is a briefing on u. S. And it is part of a National History center bringing historical perspectives to Current Issues that have confronted congress. It is a political position. It is nonpartisan. It is intended to inform policymakers in public about the sorts of finishes theyre dealing with. I want to give a few thanks to the melon foundation. I also want to thank our assistance jeffrey who is outside of this room for helping make the arrangements. I want to thank the off the of gerry connolly. I want to explain why there was index cards on your seats. We will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards. So keep them ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. Everyone out there that supports the National Historic center and thank you for coming to the event. We have to get you information about professional organizations like schaffer. Panel rooms are f
Confronting congress and the nation. The purpose of the program is not to provide or advocate for any particular political positi position. It is nonpartisan. It is intended to inform policymakers and the public about the sorts of issues they are dealing with. I want to first give a few thanks first to the Melon Foundation for providing the funding that makes these briefings possible. I also want to thank our assistant jeffrey who is outside this room for helping to make the arrangements. I want to thank the office of Jerry Connolly which booked the room. And i want to remind or explain why there were index cards on your seats and why i passed other index cards around. What we will do after the presentations by the speakers we will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards rather than ask them in front of the audience. Keep your index cards ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. And so now i will turn this over to m
America one of the most important questions begging begging to be asked of our great elected officials from donald trump to nancy pelosi to Mitch Mcconnell is why did you allow this to happen why did over 12000. 00 americans die on your watch especially when you spend 1. 00 trillion dollars of our tax dollars on National Security this year alone the trumpet ministration secured a near record 750000000000. 00 in defense spending but what kind of security are you buying us one a simple virus can crush our economy and Health Care Infrastructure in just a few short weeks naturally the most common answers we have citizens get in return when we ask these questions is either a litany of spoiled toddler like finger pointing like the kind we witnessed this week when u. S. President donald trump tried to claim his an adequate season failures were. All the fault of the World Health Organization or or the other excuse one of my own personal favorites in political excuse making the a big protests w
Good evening everyone and welcome to books and thank you for supporting your local and Employee Owned bookstore. Cspan is here to make sure your phones are in. [silence] i do want to like you know about a couple of other events coming up as my friend reading from his new novel, on tuesday Stephen Kinzer is going to present the history of the cia. We also have some offsite events tickets are Still Available for mondays conversation between selecting a norcal and talking wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary, author of rebooting ai which argues the computer began human in jeopardy does not signal that we are on the dorsum of fully Autonomous Cars are super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human minds, the book explains that if we need to advance our intelligence to the next loophole, and suggest that if we are wise on the way, we wont need to worry about the future of machine overlord. He says that finally book that tells us what ai is and its not in what ai could become if