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many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president and his superfluous excellen excellency. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do, i think you d probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 ....
the u.s. adds 136,000 jobs were added. that s less than expected. but there are more than 1.5 million more jobs than unemployed people, changing the job search. and shelter from the trade storm. htc says it s more sheltered from trade tensions than its u.s. or chinese competitors. we hear from its ceo. but first, our top story. microsoft is exposing a foreign power for trying to hack into a u.s. presidential campaign. the tech giant says computer hackers linked to the iranian infiltratetried to accounts for a political campaign. foreign accounts were compromised by the group. to further discuss, i m joined by bloomberg executive editor tom giles. so tom, does this show basically that we haven t done enough to look at election hacking? tom: it s going to be a big issue. election security and protection against foreign interference in an election has been a big issue and it potentially will be an even bigger issue in 2020. all kinds of ways for foreign powers to get in an ....
foundation capital and a vc vet. good morning to you both. good morning. timothy, i ll start with you. looking across your coverage universe right now, how are you factoring in china trade talks, and are there names that you like in light of the potential for a partial deal we generally favor communication service companies and cable companies that don t have a lot of exposure to china and pricing is holding up very well microsoft probably has the most exposure of anybody. we think we ll come to a resolution here but microsoft is walking through a mine field. paul, 24 more u.s. entities put on the black list including eight pretty high-profile tech unicorns in china, moving beyond the talks longer term, does this represent a further entrenchment of this tech cold war we re seeing between the two countries? if so, what then i think it represents a further entrenchment of a temporary war between the two countries that s been carried out by the current administra ....
less than what were expected. but there are more than 1.5 million more jobs than unemployed people. changing the job search. shelter from the trade storm. it is more sheltered from trade tensions than its u.s. or chinese competitors. .e see we hear from its ceo but first, our top story. microsoft is exposing a foreign power for trying to hack into a u.s. presidential campaign. the tech giant says computer hackers related to the iranian government tried to infiltrate a campaign account. foreign accounts were compromised by the group. to further discuss, am joined by bloomberg executive editor tom giles. does this show basically that we have not done enough to look at election hacking? be a big issue. election security and protection ininst foreign interference an election has been a big issue and it potentially will be an even bigger issue in 2020. all kinds of ways for foreign powers to get in and muck around with u.s. elections. we saw it here today with microsoft ta ....
much is about where the consumer is physically, but how does that square with data concerns? we will ask the foursquare ceo. for many of the national security teams that monitor threats on the u.s., the apparent drone strike saturday was the realization of their worst fears. the attack raised concerns by u.s. security officials and experts in terrorism about the rapid evolution and technologies that may have allowed these inexpensive devices to pierce saudi defenses, flying long distances to drop bombs. i m joined by alan. alan: we are still not 100% sure exactly what devices were used. the rebels in yemen, which took initial credit for the attack, said they used drones. later, u.s. officials said that they were cruise missiles and possibly drones as well. a cruise missile is a kind of a drone. at the very least, cruise missiles used to be kind of the weapons used by large military organizations, but as the technology has gotten cheaper and easier to use, we now see k ....