Bloomberg television. We are happy to be back. Lets talk tech. Another big tech deal to talk about, priceline is buying opentable 42 . 6 billion. For 2. 6 billion. This is crazy. Around isy head this the new normal, is this where we are supposed to be . Or is this the return of 1999 . In 1999, i loved opentable and urban fetch. But where those now . It a lot more worthable that uber is 17 billion. Er is a life changer. We will have to agree to disagree. Opentable is a life changer for me. He just eats at mcdonalds, they dont take reservations. Every time i try to use opentable, i can never get a table. Instead, i call, and restaurants say the same thing. 5 30, 10 30, i would rather they off. Say screw said, weo of priceline think it is a good fit. They called it an adjacent business. We have similar Business Models. You are catering to the same sort of customers. There is definitely true to that. These are the same people spending their money in different channels. One thing i was intr
Good afternoon, and welcome, myron. E is the National Press club is a leading professional organisation for journalists committed to our professional events such as this. For more information about the National Press club please our website at press. Org. On the halfhour members worldwide i would like to welcome our speaker. Our head table includes guests of ours speaker as well as who are Journalists Club members. I would also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences, you can follow the action on twitter. After our guest speech concludes we will have a period and d answer will ask as many questions as time permits. I would each of you like to stand briefly as your name is announced. Quinn woodward, christel cant a Athletic Director at texas university. Laurence denzil, of the amrick, chairman committee. Amy morris, 99. 1 fm. Anna miller, health and use report. A year ago scott received a fouryear contract extension as ceo of the Us Olympic Committee since he had from 2010.
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Not entirely. Why was this policy not put in place back then because it would have been 100 coverage . What we have said is the president stands ready to consider additional travel restrictions as necessary to further protect the american public. This is an example of additional travel restrictions that could be put in place by our Homeland Security officials to ensure the safety and security of the american public. When the president was asked in the oval office on thursday evening of last week about a travel ban, the president asked me why he did not believe a travel ban would be in the best interests of public safety, but indicated an openness to add additional restrictions that could be put in place to protect the american public. This is an example of one of those travel restrictions, and this ismething that this is not relatively creative policymaking. This is where the department of Homeland Security had to work with airlines that are flying passengers from a variety of countrie
Initiative is so important. It only covers one small slice of abuse, it covers ofeally important part abuse, one that needs to an dressed and we do need to bring to bear. Urce on the hope solo situation and the Michael Phelps situation, you know, both of those cases ie pending and it would be think inappropriate for us to comment on what may have happened or what should happen we have a version of the facts that either has been party ord by a third that all of the parties have acknowledged. Expect future repper kegses the the phelps . Clauses haveal been part of those contracts for a long type. We have a code of conduct that we ask each much our athlete to sign and they do sign. The truth is that if you look at of london, they were almost without exception, incident, buty almost would you exception the american athletes comported way that made us all proud to be americans. So one of the things were trying to do is focus the athletes attention on it in opposed to after the fact. So we a