congressional history and education hosted this event. jay: welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the robert c. byrd center for congressional history and education. i think i know most of you. in case you don t know me, i am jay wyatt, i am the director here at the byrd center. i thank you for joining us as we celebrate constitution day. with the 15th annual memorial lecture on the u.s. constitution. constitution day, as i m sure many of you know, was yesterday. we are a little bit belated in celebrating, but that s ok. before i get started i want to take a minute to recognize the passing of cokie roberts. many of you were here in july when cokie and steve roberts very graciously came out and participated in an event on the stage to help us raise money for our internship program and we had a wonderful dinner afterward. they could not have been more generous and considerate. i just want to say that our thoughts and prayers are dedicated to them. as we are getting started here, i wa
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editor-in-chief, macon murphy. carol: you guys take a look at something, that is paypal for india. megan: this is a story that goes to the scramble in india. they extinguished their two largest bank notes to combat corruption and fraud in that market, but what it has really led to in this country and developing countries, the push for digital payments. what kind of space this is? the story captures that it is still wild west. we described it as a lot of people now pushing into digital payments. people don t even have cell phones. they are moving up the rung and they re going straight from not even having a bank account or cell phone to processing all their payments online digitally. it is a multi-trillion dollar market and shows how for people who are brave and innovative, who are willing to take risks, how they get that technology, there is huge opportunity. oliver: there is a big point of conversation, the advent of fake news. there are people combating it. it has become a
editor-in-chief, megan murphy. you guys take a look at something, that is paypal for india. megan: this is a story that goes to the scramble in india. they extinguished their two largest bank notes to combat corruption and fraud in that market, but what it has really led to in this country and we see this in developing countries, the push for digital payments. what kind of space this is? the story it sort of captures that it is still wild west. we described it as a lot of people now pushing into digital payments. people don t even have cell phones. they are moving up the rung and they re going straight from not even having a bank account or cell phone to processing all their payments online digitally. it is a multi-trillion dollar market and shows how for people who are brave and innovative, who are willing to take risks, and really just sort of get that technology, and amass that technology, there is huge opportunity. oliver: there is a big point of conversation, the advent
megan: this is a story that goes to the scramble in india. they extinguished their two largest bank notes to combat corruption and fraud in that market, but what it has really led to in this country and we see this in developing countries, the push for digital payments. what kind of space this is? the story it sort of captures that it is still wild west. we described it as a lot of people now pushing into digital payments. people don t even have cell phones. they are moving up the rung and they re going straight from not even having a bank account or cell phone to processing all their payments online digitally. it is a multi-trillion dollar market and shows how for people who are brave and innovative, who are willing to take risks, and really just sort of get that technology, and amass that technology, there is huge fortunes to be made. oliver: there is a big point of conversation, the advent of fake news. there are people combating it. it has become a big deal and played a c