He was the first africanamerican student body president and his law degree from new york university. After law school he spent a month in new orleans playing trumpet and becoming friends with wynton marsalis. Then he worked in a law firm and later served in the u. S. Department of justice and on the staff of the house judiciary committee. He returned to charlotte in 2001 to work in a law firm there and got elected to the Charlotte City council in 2005, and he was reelected in 2007. He was elected the citys mayor in 2009, the youngest person ever to hold that job, and he was confirmed as the 17th transportation secretary in june of 2013 by a vote of 1000 a rare moment of bipartisanship. So much for biography now on to the everpopular process portion of our program. As always, were on the record here. Ive been told our guest may commit news this morning and so youre listening to the following ground rules your listening to the following ground rules is important. As is always the case at
The below listed as an employee. But they do. This does present all the way is to look at this. But im just not sure how large those are. Thank you. Good to see you again. Can we connect a couple of big picture items with a challenge to drive that . To the extent that these are connected a very big issue that has arisen to focus some of the shortterm. Corporations somehow have capital that should be enhancing the technology to show better quarterly results. There are two different issues. Ive tried not to get too obsessed but lets get though longer term trend so i certainly tried to take a prospective to understand what is going on in in the economy. Which is at the heart of the question is an important thing to be had and i was talking before with basic research that we would under invested in but the business will still not investing enough. But that is by finding funding is so important. If you put that into research and development that is terrific also. Led to think the longer run
Tory mac good evening, everybody. Thats nice. You dont usually speak back. Thanks for coming to another in the series. Just the right thing to do turn your phones all the way off. Anyway, and as a reminder we have dinner upstairs afterwards for those that wish to stay. Thank you again. Tonight, we are pleased to have chin to speak with us as the author of two books, tales of cases that mattered in americas greatest trial court and then of course tonights book supremely partisan how politics tips the scale in the United States Supreme Court. As many of you know and i think lets see here hes the host and producer of a Popular Television talk show conversations in the digital age just seen weekly throughout the metropolitan area and guests on the show are a range of personalities from the world of politics, law and business, theater, lifestyles. Hes a leading litigator having served as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of new york in the Criminal Division under
Tory mac good evening, everybody. Thats nice. You dont usually speak back. Thanks for coming to another in the series. Just the right thing to do turn your phones all the way off. Anyway, and as a reminder we have dinner upstairs afterwards for those that wish to stay. Thank you again. Tonight, we are pleased to have chin to speak with us as the author of two books, tales of cases that mattered in americas greatest trial court and then of course tonights book supremely partisan how politics tips the scale in the United States Supreme Court. As many of you know and i think lets see here hes the host and producer of a Popular Television talk show conversations in the digital age just seen weekly throughout the metropolitan area and guests on the show are a range of personalities from the world of politics, law and business, theater, lifestyles. Hes a leading litigator having served as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of new york in the Criminal Division under
You usually do not speak back thank you for coming. Another of our speaker series. If i could ask you to silence your cell phone, turn off the cell phones, it is the politest thing to do. All the way off. Anyway, as a reminder we have dinner upstairs after for those that wish to stay. One of our prefix dinners. Thank you again. Tonight we are proud to have james zirin to speak with us. He is the author of two books. Mother court, gels an supremely partisan how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court. As many of you know he is post of a Television Show in the metropolitan area and we usually have a range of personalities on his show. He is a leading litigator having served as an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of new york and the Criminal Division under the former speaker robert [applause] thank you for the overly and excessively generous introduction. As you begin to describe my accomplishments i kept looking behind me to see who youre