Good evening and welcome to politic and prose live, im grad graham, the coowner along with my wife. Thanks for joining us sures online where we have been able to move many of our event in response to the current pandemic, and continue to for social distancing. We crowdcast you can see us but we cant see you. You can still ask a question. To do so just click on the ask a question icon at the bottom of your screen, and there youll also see a green bar. To purchase this evenings featured book which is trump and is a assault on truth. The Fact Checkers path at the weapons. The fact check are column first appeared in the post in 2002, 2007. The column was a permanent feet noor 2011 by glen kessler, and became famous for rating falsehoods with pinocchios, one pin knownor for minor shading of the factsment for outright lies. But nothing has quite prepared the truth spotting effort for the sheer scale and brazenness of trumps mendacity over the past few years. By the posts latest count, trump
Discussion or save them for the q a at the end of the event, so i just want everyone to know that before we get started. So as i said, this, of course, could not be a more important or more timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last night. We have seen nationwide unrests, we have seen protests not only here in america but internationally. Weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It start with the assumption that the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through racial lens. In fact, all of encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly view this way. Its a narrative of Derek Chauvin and that george floyd is every black man in america. That blacks essentially leave the house each day worried about having a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback, very little skepticism and it leaves with us with the impression that the biggest probl
Theres a lot of commentary, some people saying its a win for congress and the prosecutors, some for trump, what do you think . Well, it is a split decision and frankly it was john roberts finest day, a lot of controversy, here he managed to hold together two 72 coalitions, alito and thomas were sort of with him in general, they meanted even more basically. The cases will now continue. Its not a slam dunk that we are going to see the tax returns tomorrow or anything like that, and effectively pushes it past the election, but the really thread of the needle in min takenning the balance among separation of powers between legislative and executive branches as well as federalism with state inquiries into the federal executive. Paul i think i disagree with you. What i worry about is what alito talked about, 2200 local prosecutors, a lot of them politically motivated. The courts did set up standards but i wonder how strict they are going to be and how strict local strict federal judges and ot
Hello and welcome to tonights virtual Commonwealth Club program. My name is read and im a Technology Reporter with the Washington Post and im pleased to be the moderator for tonights program, the historical importance of the transformation brought on by Artificial Intelligence and virtual environment. As we have seen over the last three months with the covid19 pandemic and with social media with the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and the aftermath , technology and online environments that every aspects of our life here tonight i am pleased it to be joined by two Silicon Valley pioneers to discuss these issues. William davidow and Michael Malone, their new book, the autonomous revolution reclaiming the future of the machines is out now and delves deeply into the revolution we are living through regarding a i and virtual environment and it can be purchased everywhere including bn. Com. A bit about tonight speakers, bill david, the cofounder of the earlier in his career he worked
Course this could not be a more important or timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd m Police Custody last month we have seen National Wide unrest weve seen protests on only here in america but internationally. We have also seen a certain narrative take hold. It starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view george floyd is through a racial lens. In fact all encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. It is a narrative that assumes the behavior thats typical Police Behavior towards black suspects and it assumes george floyd is a sort of black every man in america. That would happen to him happens to black people all the time that black essentially leave the house each day worrying that theyre going to have a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback very little skepticism. It leaves us that the biggest problem facing black America Tod