Joining us this morning from los angeles. He is from George Mason University law school, the founder of the National Security both for area thanks being here this morning. Jamil jaffer, we will start with you. Theave a conversation about usa freedom act and what congress has to get to and reauthorized. Tell us first what the usa freedom act is and why it was passed in the first place. Caller sure, well, bill, you aspiringe are three provisions in the usa freedom act that would be rubberized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Reauthorized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Somewhere he added years later your specifically, the provisions expiring now are one that allows the government to identify and surveil terrorists who do not have a proven connection to a foreign power, and the second is called the wiretap authority, that gives ability to follow suspects when they switched their cell phones or emailed address rapidly to avoid surveillance. And th
Witnesses. Today the committee will hear from witnesses about the challenges that state stanksed businesses in the cannabis owners have when attempting to under the controlled substance act, its considered a schedule one drug. Being categorized as a schedule one means that the possession, distribution or sale of marijuana or other marijuana derived products is illegal under federal law and any proceeds from cannabis related activities remain subject to antiMoney Laundering laws. In the last several years many states have used valid initiatives or referendums that have legalized marijuana in some form, whether for recreational or medical use. Currently there are 11 states plus the district of columbia where it is legal to buy and consume recreational and medical marijuana adds well. And there are 22 states plus d. C. That have approvedmedcal marijuana totaling 33 states in all that have some form of Legal Marijuana. Senators gardner and merkley have introduced Bipartisan Legislation tha
Decision easterbrook, of course, took over as ceo in march of 2015 before todays move, the stock was up 96 under his leadership since he took over under that tenure, the company sold off many of its company own stores to franchisees and previeded over the launch of alldaybreak fast and mcdonalds named usa president the new ceo of the company but a lot to talk about there. Joining us to have that conversation right now about leadership change at mcdonalds, jeff simonfeld and cnbc contributor. This was a huge surprise, jeff clearly made a mistake but it was a consensual relationship and we now had a handful of these situations how do you read it well, we do see a trend here that of these roughly 90 ceos who left office last year is 40 of them was for misconduct we havent seen numbers that high 40 for misconduct and most of that misconduct was had to do with improper relationships at work but you make an important distinction, this was consens l consensual we say Harry Stonecipher at boei
Market for the uk. Ab inbev plunge as the Worlds Largest brewer misses Third Quarter estimates and wonders continue for the rest of 2019 kering shares surge after a slow down from the unrest in hong kong. Uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson says hell allow more time for mps to discuss his brexit deal. We are being very, very reasonable we are saying if you genuinely want more time, you can have it. Here it is but the continue for that is that we all agree to go for a general election on december 12. A very warm welcome to street signs and happy friday. Lets kick off the show with some fresh german data we got those fresh october pmi numbers. The efos survey showed german business moral was unchanged the index came in the 97. 8 versus a forecast of 98 flat the Business Climate index came in at 94. 6, which was a touch above the expectation of 94. 5. Weve seen a little revision to the september numbers. The index was revised. The expectation for the index revised to 90. 9. The message is tha
The committee will now come to order. Before we get started. We have to win this panels this morning. Senator brown and i will give our opening remarks first and then we will hear from Senators Gardner and merkley. Once the senators have finished their statements we will proceed with our second panel of witnesses. Today the committee will hear from witnesses about the challenges that state sanction businesses in the cannabis industry have one trying to access mainstream Financial Services. Under the controlled substance act, marijuana, or cannabis is currently considered a schedule one drug. Being categorized as a schedule one drug means that the possession, distribution, or sale of marijuana or other marijuana derive projects is illegal under federal law. Any protests proceeds from cannabis remain subject to anti Money Laundering laws such as the Money Laundering control act. In the last several years many have used legalized marijuana in some form. Whether legal or recreational. Use