In the drama over the Supreme Court, my next guest will have a starring role. He is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, where the confirmation fight over Ruth Bader Ginsburgs vacancy will play out. He has had this frontrow seat in the last couple of nominations. Here to share his perspective along with what the timeline may be, is senator lindsey graham. Welcome to the values voters summit. Sen. Graham thank you. I guess Supreme Court nominations are the super bowl for our business. This will be number four for me. Looking forward to it. You are in the drivers seat as the chairman of the committee. The president making his announcement on saturday. That sets in motion a process. What is it . Sen. Graham it is a constitutional process. Every president has the right to pick replacements for the Supreme Court. History as a guide, there have been 19 Supreme Court nominations in an election year, where the president and the senate where the same party. 17 of 19 were confirmed. T
Make the American People see why this is a gigantic mistake. Mayor lyles good afternoon. Or good morning. Its still good morning, i believe. I want to say thank you for coming out on this fabulous charlotte fall day to have a very important conversation with a very important person that we will hope to see in january, on a stage, being inaugurated as the next president of the United States. I think thats why were here. [applause] but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists
Mercedes we were just talking about our homeschooling experiences. The kids just finished school. That was quite a test through this pandemic. Rep. Scalise families have pulled together and have had to do challenging things. With the economy shut down, you have a lot of turmoil. In the midst of all this, parents are having to homeschool their kids. We had interesting times. I relearned all those math formulas like area of a circle. It still works. We had a good time with the kids and the kids were good about it. Mercedes i think these kids are ready to go back to school. I dont know about you. Rep. Scalise we need to open school is again in the fall. Mercedes parents definitely want the schools back open, thats for sure. Lets get started. I know it has been such a busy week. This past week we have seen a split screen unfolding across america. On the one hand, thousands of Peaceful Protesters on the street. On the other hand, violent nurse, writers, and antifa hijacked the noble cause o
Host what is facebook trying to do and why . Guest the simple answer is that they are trying to create a Digital Currency that people can use across borders and a Digital Currency means not necessarily a theirment currency, but own private currency that people can use and ship to one another in different parts of the world. The reason why they are doing this is a little bit complex ause no one knows exactly they have explicitly said that they want to, and i am reading this because i think it is useful for the listeners to hear, to enable a simple, global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. There are some financial motives as well. Host as far as the current system, what would facebooks plan do that others do not . Is planning to create this look currency and by doing so, have established a consortium of different kinds of larger, Global Technology companies and a couple of nonprofits. The global currency is called the libra currency and the consortiu
Planning director of the infrastructure in the us gao. And also jim dolinsky chief executive officer and executive director and with that implementation of positive train control ptc to meet the deadline of december 3t 2020 with Community Hearings have highlighted it is an Important Technology that has the ability to prevent accidents including derailments including the one in washington in 2017. Ptc enforcement and in 2015 however to apply for the extension if and only if that milestone i am pleased to say under secretary chao this is been faithfully implemented for all those of the deadline with that documentation to show the requirements go up with two additional years many real roads receive such an extension since the deadline they continue to make progress on ptc implementation. This provides an opportunity for updates on the current status across the Network Since the end of last year. Witnesses should discuss Passenger Railroads are implementing ptc and at which rate and then t