Good afternoon, i am Michael Hanlon and its my honor to have the undersecretary of the army, Ryan Mccarthy with us to talk about the armys ideas on modernization of its future. I will ask you in giving him a big brookings welcome then we followup with a discussion between him and me and then go to your questions, all of that by 2 30. Mr. Mccarthy is a proud native of chicago, he went to the Virginia Military institute with a bachelors in history. Then he joined an Operational Army unit, was deployed in afghanistan during the 1997 to 2002 careers, since that time, he has done all of the kinds of additional things that you would want someone to do who has the kind of job he has, he was worked on capitol hill and for the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology and logistics and he has been in the Defense Industry with lock lockheed martin. He was the acting secretary of the army in addition to being the undersebt of the army while we waited for the permanent secretary to
That is prosperous, open to the world, but capable of recognizing and standing alongside those who have been forgotten and left behind by global initiatives. Mark he also conceded that the main challenge is to help prove that globalization is more fair to middle and working class families. Puerto rico, bracing for a wave of home foreclosures. Hundreds of thousands were granted a threemonth stay following hurricane maria. The majority of those expire this month. Officials say that many residents cannot hate what they oh. More than 30 of the island still does not have power. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. Julie live from new york, im julie hyman. Scarlet im scarlet fu. Joe and im joe weisenthal. Julie assets are posting is the biggest decline in the major averages. Joe but the question is, whatd you miss . Scarlet Steve Mnuchins endorsement of a weaker dollar to boost exports set the curren
When the students he recruited future Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas and Edward P Jones who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. This is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon, i would like to welcome everybody and start the program if we could. Good afternoon and welcome. This is a wonderful turn out and we are happy to have everybody this afternoon. On behalf of the college as well as though as the holy cross public radio of boston by want to welcome you to this monthly lunch. I am greg. Thank you for being here as we celebrate the publication of fraternity with author diane brady. An exceptional and accomplished journalist, diane has done all of us a great gift in telling the story of father bob brooks as well as in an Extraordinary Group of black students and how they are tied together at holy cross in the late 1960s to help shape their lives and changed the course of history. As one reviewer commented, fraternity brings to our attention for the first time an unsun
Politics could be a wonderful topic. Its like sports. It used to be xs and os. Julie, you are right in the hearts of all of this. Some of your major product are steeped in the controversy of toxic radio, left versus right, boycotts. What is your take . Julie listen to the shows. He have absolutely been diversifying the content. Politics is an important issue, but so are the other Current Events that are happening. I really believe we have taken a much broader approach and we are certainly doing a lot of testing with a lot of other programming. Michael thank you. I have met some of the most fantastic people in this business who are clients of yours. I was the owner of a local Radio Station and i just love the smell of the turntables and the ink in the newsroom. Radio stations used to have a smell about them. Steve jones is smiling. You remember, dont you . Its like that new car smell. There is a curiosity about a hunger for and a frustration about executing more local programming for al
Facebook ads that are linked to russia. Viewers howmind our we got to this story concerning facebook and potential ties to russia. Guest thereve been tons of questions circulating around what possible ties there were be tween between russian influence in the election and trumps team. Yet a sophisticated operation out of san antonio, and there are questions about whether or not the targeting of americans that russians did came from that team. Simultaneously, as we look into what the campaign was doing, you have to look into what the social media platforms were selling. That is where all this influence happened. Undergoing itsen own investigation, looking into any ads were purchased on its platform. Twitter has been doing the same thing, looking into the use of. Ots on its platform facebooks investigation turned up 150,000 worth of ads it could link to russian attacks. 470 of those accounts were linked to what is called a troll they spend day and night spreading propaganda on the interne