Host this week on the communicators, it is a tech policy roundtable with three working journalists. We look ahead to the fall and what congress and executive agencies may be doing when it comes to executive policy. Our panel begins with Emily Birnbaum of the hill. Ashley gold of the information and Alexander Levine of politico. Facebook, what is going on with that case . Thank you for having me. The ftcs 5 billion with 5 billion settlement with facebook opted by the cambridge has dividedandal washington. On one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying the meantlion fine, that it facebook was being held accountable. On the other side you have democrats and consumer and privacy advocates blasting the ftc track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebooks size and money, this wont deter facebook in the future. Right now in washington, we were we are in this wait and see mode with facebook. Facebook is still doing damage control to convince skeptics and lawmakers
Board, pretty much all morning long. We talked to National Economic counsel director gary cohn first on msnbc and got his take on the numbers and the president s policies. Theres clearly a good februarys part of the numbers. Im not going to deny that. But on the other hand, when you look at what weve been doing here at the white house and all the ceos we brought in, whether it be exxon or sprint or intel, theyve promised an enormous amount of jobs and job creation in the United States. Those hirings have not been done yet. Those are future hirings. Were still living on the hire tgs from the normalized Economic Growth thats built into the system here. Lets bring in michael forruely. Guys, good morning to you both. Michael, walk me through. What carl just said and the degree to which expectations of a proBusiness Environment is feeding the jobs number now. So i think the jobs number now were seeing is probably just a continuation of the general trends in the business cycle. It was a very
50s it will feel like the 40s. By 6 00 p. M. 36 in reading, 35 in allentown. Again, these are windchills. 26 in the poconos. 42 for philadelphia. First thing tomorrow morning, windchills in the upper 20s low 30s. Throughout the day, the winds diminish it will feel better by afternoon. Satellite and radar showing cloud cover over the area right now. Skies clear later this afternoon. Again, it will be a nice looking day, the call from accuweather, sunny, chilly wind, 52 degrees is the high. We have one shot of rain in the sevenday forecast. Thats thursday. Thursday looking like a rain day, well talk about that and the nice stretch of weather ahead in the sevenday forecast. Ill see you in just a bit. Now to the latest on the deadly terror attacks in paris. Isis is claiming responsibility. We know that 127 people were killed, scores more wounded when attack are targeted 6 sites across the city. Three suicide bombs were ignited around the National Stadium during an exhibition match where fr
American petroleum institute. Thanks to president obama for the confidence, like an old soldier. So said David Petraeus 15 months ago, september 2011, when he was sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence agency, petraeus was nominated by president obama replacing outgoing cia director leon panetta. Now head of the department of defense. But petraeus suddenly resigned one week ago in petraeus own words, a quote unquote extramarital affair. The woman in question, Paula Broadwell who is also married and cowrote a 400page biography of general petraeus last year when petraeus was still the Top Commander in afghanistan. It is a portrait of modern warfare. And i tried to show in the back how his ideas are playing out on the ground through the poor traits of three battalion commanders. Petraeus still has a stellar reputation. A fourstar general, with a 37 year military career. He was chosen by president george w. Bush to oversee the surge strategy in iraq in 2007. He was sent by presid
Thanks to president obama for the confidence, like an old soldier. So said David Petraeus 15 months ago, september 2011, when he was sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence agency, petraeus was nominated by president obama replacing outgoing cia director leon panetta. Now head of the department of defense. But petraeus suddenly resigned one week ago in petraeus own words, a quote unquote extramarital affair. The woman in question, Paula Broadwell who is also married and cowrote a 400page biography of general petraeus last year when petraeus was still the Top Commander in afghanistan. It is a portrait of modern warfare. And i tried to show in the back how his ideas are playing out on the ground through the poor traits of three battalion commanders. Petraeus still has a stellar reputation. A fourstar general, with a 37 year military career. He was chosen by president george w. Bush to oversee the surge strategy in iraq in 2007. He was sent by president obama to be the Top Comman