Come tomorrow night ended thank you everybody. Have a great day. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Constitution center. Such a pleasure to see you here. I am the president of this wonderful institution in the National Constitution center the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution and on a nonpartisan basis. As part of the wonderful mandate, we have three goals with the museum called we the people and will be displaying the bill of rights and in america was down all the one place that summons all of the debates in a loving citizens to make up their own mind it in the last month we had such an exciting variety of town hall programs just last week we had eight debates about whether the president has the constitutional power to target and kill american citizens abroad and initially it was no but after a speech the audience changed its mind to say yes. Will also have a discussion with the constitution is brok
From the Stevens Institute of technology in hoboken new jersey, this is an hour. [applause] thank you. I want to thank the deans of stevens to helping to host this and to john in particular for both organizing it and the kind introduction. So i am old enough that i remember the very first time i ever saw and then used a computer. My dad took me to a Science Center in North Carolina at the age of seven where he learned how to program this amazing device to design a smiley face out of a series of letter ms and then i printed out on one of those oldschool principles with the perforated paper on the side that was my First Experience with computers. Since then the centrality of computers to my life but all our lives is its almost impossible without them. For example we live in a world where every year over 40 trillion emails are sent. The first webpage was made in 1991. There is now more than 30 trillion individual webpages out there. Moreover, the internet is no longer about compiling and
New Technology Developed but for the cycles to change that we can bring this to keep track of where colleagues are they had this tablet attached and this lasted an hour and a half in the second issue is we talk about the militaryindustrial complex and we have a real challenge in the sense that cybersecurity is not achieved without agility. What are we going to get to a point when providing cyberassistance to countries that are being attacked by countries that are not just a physical neighbors but advocates, this is critical. So what should we do about upcoming . They are trying to organize against western targets. Is there a military strategy there, i dont know, but that needs to be in the conversation. Is interesting is what the russians you have this one fighter problem and 15,000 that are coming in the civil war in syria in one side or the other. In the third upcoming from this as well. So it really is a global problem and they are sending this and sending Software Engineers to come
Live and in hd, this is abc 7 News Washington weekly, on your side. When it comes to the so called fiscal cliff, president obama and House Speaker john boehner met today. They said the lines of communication remain open. This comes after the head of the international my terry fund got tough on at the sunday talk shows. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org a quick fix is not the answer for resolving the fiscal crisis, said the director of the International Monetary fund. A more comprehensive solution is needed. Christine the guard says any deal between president obama and Congressional Republicans must do more than simply avoid the fiscal cliff to get america pause economy growing again. There is still the degree of uncertainty. Investors, entrepreneurs households, are not making decisions because they do not know what tomorrow will be. But washingtons Top Republican leader, House Speaker john boehner, complains there has been no progress in avoiding even imme
Qs which track are in negative territory. The big weight, one of the big weights is netflix. Down 25 in the past month. Its one of those stocks that move on no news, they move because they move. Today investors are paying a price. Sheila dharmarajan is at the nasdaq and is down the composite is down 3. 2 . Sheila . Ugly day here at the nasdaq. The composite and the 100 down by more than 2 . We just bounced off the session lows but keep in mind we are on track for one of the worst days we have seen at the nasdaq in two months. Heres whats amazing. This is a really broadbased selloff, not just biotechs or momentum names. It is weakness across the board here. If you take a look at the nasdaq 100, more than 90 of its members are in the red right now. So everyone is pushing the sell button on seemingly everything. Some particular pockets of weakness, though, got to talk about the biotech names. This is one of the groups that led the nasdaq up. Now today, the nasdaq biotech index is down by