Project on covid19 laws and policies. Before joining georgetown, i received my bachelors degree in law from kingstown university in saudi arabia. I am pleased to introduce our guest today, dr. Anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci is one of the u. S. s most visible leaders in Public Health. Dr. Fauci also currently serves as the director of the National Institutes of allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of health. He is also a member of the White House Coronavirus task force. We are thrilled to have dr. Fauci with us today to discuss the covid19 pandemic and the unique risks and responsibilities young people have in mitigating the spread of covid19. Please join the conversation on social media using the hashtag fauciatgu. For our students, please remember to submit your questions for dr. Fauci using the q a feature at the bottom of your screen. Please remember to include your school and year. This event will be moderated by mr. John monahan, a Senior Advisor to the president w
Host this week on the communicators, it is a tech policy roundtable with three working journalists. We look ahead to the fall and what congress and executive agencies may be doing when it comes to executive policy. Our panel begins with Emily Birnbaum of the hill. Ashley gold of the information and Alexander Levine of politico. Facebook, what is going on with that case . Thank you for having me. The ftcs 5 billion with 5 billion settlement with facebook opted by the cambridge has dividedandal washington. On one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying the meantlion fine, that it facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democrats and consumer and privacy advocates blasting the ftc track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebooks size and money, this wont deter facebook in the future. Right now in washington, we were we are in this wait and see mode with facebook. Facebook is still doing damage control to convince skeptics and lawmakers
The hill, we also have ashley gold of the information and Alexandra Levine of politico. Ms. Levine, first question to you. Facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town the last couple of months. Do we expect what is going on with that case and do we expect further attention . Thank you for having me. Great to be here but 5 million settlement with facebook was a combination of this long privacy probe by the Cambridge Analytic data scandal was in washington so on one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying that the 5 billiondollar fine because its the largest go down in history of the agency that it meant facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democrats in Consumer Privacy advocates blasting the ftcs track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebooks size and how much money it has it will not deter facebook from bad behavior in the future but right now in washington we are sort of in this wait and see mode with facebook where faceb
Athletes. Gunfire and explosions once again rang out in france today. This time during a Massive Police and military raid just outside of paris. At least two people were killed. And eight others taken into custody in an operation to capture the alleged mastermind of last fridays massacre. But tonight, we dont know if he was killed in the raid. We have the latest from the city on edge. French leaders have spoken of a war in the massacre, in the northern paris suburb of saint denis, there was one. The prosecutor said that he believed that he was in the at a. Hes suspected of carrying out a very great number of terrorist attacks, and thats in the interest of the Islamic State. This witness received on the 16th of november, and with great caution. We verified all of the zeta, the bank accounts. 4 30 am, the police fail when they try to blow the door open. The door is reinforced and the gunmen inside are alerted. And the gun battle is on. In the first 1 hour 15 minutes, 5,000 rounds are fir
Passage in the senate and the president is expected to veto this bill. For our first hour this morning, your thoughts on the events that took place in the house yesterday when it came to Syrian Refugees. You can give us a call at these numbers you can post in our twitter page or on our Facebook Page and you can also send us an email. Usa today breaks down the action that took place in the house of representatives yesterday. The bill is being decried incribed as a pause admitting Syrian Refugees. Give us a call with your thoughts on this matter. If refugees want to give us a call on the actions, the number you can call is 2027 the Washington Post488003. Has more on the events in mali. The numbers will stay on your screen if you want to give your thoughts particularly if it applies to iraq a refugees to come to the United States. We will start off this morning with kathy in silver spring, maryland, honor democratic line. What do you think about the events in the house yesterday . Caller