Day. Challengers in elections, oversight and regulation. For those who didnt see me at the top of the day, im alex gibbons and run law policy at the law school and happy to be hosting you today. Many key areas of challenges, somebody was just saying that theyre feeling a little depressed and we need to try to get the energy up on this final panel of the day. Issues from the fragmenttation from political discourse and new pathways for misinformation, Voter Suppression to election security. This panel is going to add another challenge, the significant challenge that we face in election oversight and preparedness. But also, talk about the Solutions Space as well, which is quite simply what do we do . We have another phenomenal lineup to help answer these questions today. Sitting immediately to my left is the honorable ellen weintraub, the chair of the federal Elections Commission are, right, indeed. Well talk about that a little over the course of the panel, too. She has served as commiss
Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios of Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. There is a mix of anger and acceptance in colorado after a jury declined to sentence james holmes to death for his mass shooting inside a Movie Theater three years ago. Because the jury could not come to a unanimous decision to impose the death penalty, holmes will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Holmes shot and killed 12 people and wounded 70 others during a midnight premiere of the batman movie the Dark Knight Rises in the denver suburb of aurora. One anonymous juror told reporters outside court the panel voted 93 for death, and the defendants Mental Illness pl
Maria spread the message of solidarity, protest against trumps when he ripped the country. Thousands of people filling the streets in at least 10 major cities. We will bring you the details coming up. The central bank and sher jan Ellen Goodman spacebar political pressure. We are taking a closer look. General motors but the automaker and its first playoff and six series and ohio and michigan. Earnings season for retailers gets underway. Investors will be watching the guidance for the upcoming Holiday Season from the group. Markets this morning looking higher. More gains on wall street. The rally yesterday goes on with industrial average up about 150. 3 Global Markets rallied as well. The initial shock of the trump factor has worn off as people focus on its economic plans and pretty good as her corporations. Dax in germany with the highest level of the year right now up 1 . The nikkei average joe nearly 7 on the session. But two and a quarter . Up almost 2 . A deer hunting season in sta
Her book, slow dancing with a stranger. Before i start my full introduction, meryl comer has asked me to play a short video and im going to turn that on just as an introduction to the talk. Before i do that, if you dont mind turning off your cell phones, that will just help us stay focused on the topic at hand with less disruption during the talk. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] it is time for a generation to say unacceptable. This is not the way for us to analyze okay. As i said, i am in german i am one of the managers here at politics and prose and i welcome all of you today. As you know, we have many events youre at the store and then we had things going on nearly everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. If you are not all connected through our email list or checking our calendar online, or if you would like to be in our emails, is stay involved and we consider ourselves much more than just a bookstore. We are a Co
Politics and prose and i welcome all of you today. As you know, we have many events youre at the store and then we had things going on nearly everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. If you are not all connected through our email list or checking our calendar online, or if you would like to be in our emails, is stay involved and we consider ourselves much more than just a bookstore. We are a Community Space that welcomes conversation and we have classes and both groups and author talks such as this one. So welcome and thank you for coming. [applause] meryl comer is an Emmy Awardwinning veteran reporter and talk show host and she was among the first tv news women in the 1980s to specialize in Business News as it relates to Public Policy with a nationally syndicated debate show, it is your business. She also coanchored nations as this today on espn. She is now the ceo of the Geoffrey Beene foundation alzheimers initiative, which is prominently providing 100 of the net profit of the Geof