2020th election. This is also from the Aspen Security Forum. Welcome back everyone after that very short break. Were very happy to be back now and what doing a bit of a change in direction. You already heard this morning about modernizing the defense department. You heard from john bolton. You would from u. N. Ambassador kelly craft. Now we are turning west to Silicon Valley, and we have panel for you on technology and democracy actually going to dive into all of the complex things that either individual actors or nationstates are doing to influence social media, start disinformation campaigns and how that is impacting our democracy. To have that panel we have with us Laura Rosenberger who is i think with us here. I see her in the room. She isnt the director of the alliance for security democracy and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the united states. Previously she was a Foreign Policy advisor for hillary for america where she coordinated the Clinton Campaign to National
Southwest, at t, dow and Union Pacific this morning, jim, the hard thing today, jim, is going to know where to start. Yeah, i mean, look, i think last night the news flow was, as you said yesterday, heavily weighted toward microsoft which people regarded as disappointment i think that disappointment is not having the greatest quarter in the world, lets just say that today i think that the focus is whats going to happen when these benefits end and which companies are going to be able to continue to deliver the numbers. For instance, chipotle had a great number, will that be impacted whirlpool had a great number last night will that be impact snd what are we going to see with southwest air we had a fantastic interview with american and then secretary mnuchin i felt once again sounds like theres some room to get a deal done. We need a deal or else were going to find ourselves with a consumer who is too strapped and i think that thats what im looking at for next week and then of course im
Making that commute from pleasanton down through sunol grade we have some major backups because of an earlier crash involving an overturned vehicle. They are trying to clear everything out that all lanes are still stopped temporarily. Caltrans tumors have been sweeping up some gravel. We have the maps. If you are taking 680 from 580 to 237 that will take you 52 minutes for we have more cards using 84 as an alternate. Traffic is heavy. If you want to use westbound 580 words at 238 or 880, you will see delays to the dublin interchange with a broken down vehicle at san ramon road. This just in from indiana, a federal execution has just been carried out. It is the first in nearly 2 decades. The inmate put to death was convicted of killing arkansas family and the 1990s and a plot to build a white only nation in the pacific northwest. The execution faced a series of legal challenges related to the pandemic. We are continuing to follow the huge fire burning in san diego on the baby warship ca
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