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Recognize me of my tie were fixed. But ok. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running an equity firm. How do you define leadership . Is it that makes somebody tick . When you went to cornell, your grades were very good. Was the class have women and half men . Justice ginsburg in my entering class, there were over 500 and , marty was a year ahead of me, there were five women in his class. And today the Harvard Law School david you0 women did extremely well and you got onto the harvard law review. But when your husband needed to move to new york, you wanted to transfer to Columbia Law School and the dean did not think it was a great idea if you wanted to be a harvard graduate. Justice ginsburg time Justice Ginsburg . I didnt because marty was diagnosed with a testicular tumor in his third year of law school. Were early days for cancer and there was no
Lines. That means for democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, we want to hear from you at 2027488001. Is endants, your line independents, your line is 2027488002. You can text us your opinions at 2027488003. And we are always reading your opinions on facebook and twitter cspanwj. President trump is expected to reveal his pick for the Supreme Court later today at the white house, and several news organizations are reporting the picked to be federal judge Amy Coney Barrett. In fact, we will read a couple of paragraphs from the latest bloomberg story announcing their sourcing on the cake, heres what they said President Trump has told associates he will nominate amy barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could cement conservative control of the judiciary weeks before election day. If confirmed by the senate, barrett in the 48, would become the third justice appointed to the ninemember high court by trump. She is no
Bader ginsburg who died friday night. She died on the eve of the jewish new year, the first jewish woman on the Supreme Court and a very interesting thing about individuals who die right before the new year. They say they suggest very righteous people die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end. Under jewish tradition those who die on the new year holiday, a title given to the righteous and saintly. Certainly Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was entitled to this honor, being righteous and saintly. At her confirmation hearing she talked about her immigrant experience was her father was a jewish immigrant, her mother was a secondgeneration american, she talked about American Values and then she said what has happened over me could only happen in america and then she spent her entire career protecting those values that make america a great nation it is in the reason people come here in order to reach their full potential. It guided her well in her public service
Women in the Business World is ruth porat. David she started as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, rose to be the cfo, and was recruited away to be the cfo of google and now the cfo of alphabet. In that role, she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job of making certain their Balance Sheet works well and that they are much better organized in the financial sense. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for some time unless the next president of the United States says i would really like her to be secretary of treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for the position. David so during this period of time, google has done quite well and alphabet has done well. Your stock is a more than 20 this year and i should say, from the time you became cfo, the stock is up over 200 and market cap is up over 200 . They have done quite well under your leadership. But i am curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 period of time