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7488003. Or you can join us on twitter, cspanwj, or facebook. Com cspan. We will get your thoughts here in just a minute, but first joining us on the phone here is lawrence hurley, a Supreme Court correspondent. What was the question put to the courts and what did they decide . Guest thanks. The question is whether sex discrimination within the title vii, which is the federal law that bars employment discrimination, whether sex discrimination applied to Sexual Orientation and gender identity. The court in the ruling ,esterday said that it does which was surprising to some because you had chief Justice Roberts and justice and neil gorsuch joining the four liberals, as you mentioned, in that ruling. The court basically said that any kind of discrimination on the basis of sex is kind of a broad concept and that can include elements of discrimination that concern Sexual Orientation or gender identity. It reads prohibits employment through discrimination based on color, sex, andigion, natio
That 10,000 mark and close there. The market picture is mixed, of course, as george floyd is laid to rest in houston. You are looking live inside the fountain of praise church as the Memorial Service continues. The death of the africanamerican man in Police Custody just over three weeks ago was the spark for protests on racial inequality and police brutality. Major corporations, you have seen this, we have told you about it, rushing to pledge support for the cause. Randall pinkette is not only the winner of season four of the apprentice but he founded and runs a company that actually leads corporations in a whole bunch of Government Agencies to overcome the racial divide. Hes here and he will tell you which companies are doing it right and what else has to be done to achieve true equality in the workplace. Forget carmageddon. Vroom is shooting straight up after its ipo today, up triple digit percentages. Wait until you see that. The ceo of the online used car dealership is here on whet
Mercedes we were just talking about our homeschooling experiences. The kids just finished school. That was quite a test through this pandemic. Rep. Scalise families have pulled together and have had to do challenging things. With the economy shut down, you have a lot of turmoil. In the midst of all this, parents are having to homeschool their kids. We had interesting times. I relearned all those math formulas like area of a circle. It still works. We had a good time with the kids and the kids were good about it. Mercedes i think these kids are ready to go back to school. I dont know about you. Rep. Scalise we need to open school is again in the fall. Mercedes parents definitely want the schools back open, thats for sure. Lets get started. I know it has been such a busy week. This past week we have seen a split screen unfolding across america. On the one hand, thousands of Peaceful Protesters on the street. On the other hand, violent nurse, writers, and antifa hijacked the noble cause o
Contains on a timely subject that the height of stocks of amazon and google and others and with a broad scope why this book and why now . Thank you for having me by the way. I started this book in 2017. I had just taken a job as a columnist the mandate was to figure out the World Biggest business in opinion form which is a rather large mandate and in order to narrow the funnel, started to look through corporate numbers i saw how well they transition from the Financial Sector to the Technology Sector since a great financial crisis and one number that stuck out was looking at how 80 percent of corporate wealth was being held than 10 percent of the firms. Those were the richest in personal data and intellectual property. You are holding the majority of the worlds corporate wealth and the majority of those are that i profile in the book. Netflix and google. Host there are some overlap like facebook and google with Digital Advertising and apple has shunned advertising and technology. Huber