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people don t listen in the same day that something is produced, like a lot of other mediums. but what has thrived in its place is so heartening to me. it s context. it s explanation. it s narrative. and a lot of it has gotten us far past the sort binaries of who is winning the horse race today, whose got the cycle down. not to denigrate that because there is part that is really interesting to me. the washington post is doing with their series presidential, where they go through and talk about each and every one of the presidents and their challenges and their story. mike and the economist are doing a show called special relationship, which is really fantastic, which has a political reporter from the uk talking to one here in the u.s. and if anybody has traveled overseas recently and tried to have a political conversation with somebody who is not american, you will know exactly how interesting that can be. and the show really gets at that. and i would just say, coy tal ....
, forgh the scorecards agencies have realized $2 billion with the savings over the last two years by moving to the cloud. watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. tonight on c-span, a look at the 20 16th presence of election and impact 2016 present election and the impact technology is having on the race. we will show you one conference from santa monica, california, and another from the george bush presidential center in dallas. later, a conversation with facebook s chief operating officer sheryl sandberg. an all-female panel of digital media correspondents, producers, and executives discussed the 2016 present election and how podcast, live ists, and other technology being used to target millennials. this is from the ideas los angeles conference in santa monica. this is 40 minutes. it is all women. [laughter] [applause] hi, guys. thank you, everybody, for coming this afternoon. was thea mentioned, i editor on the digital side and ....
an integral part of america. over the past several years, we have seen achievements that would have been unimaginable to the people that started the modern lgbt movement at stonewall. today, all americans are protected by a hate crime law that includes sexual orientation and gender identity. do not ask, don t tell is history. companies can no longer turn you away because of who you are. transgender americans are more visible than ever, hoping to make the nation more inclusive. one year ago this weekend, we lit the white house in every color, because in every state you are now free to marry the person you love. there is still work to do. as we saw two weeks ago in orlando, the lgbt community still faces real violence and discrimination we cannot rest, we must push for equality and tolerance. but the art of our history is clear, it is of progress, and a lot of it can be traced back to stonewall. this week, i am designating the stonewall national monument as the newest add ....
the past two weeks here in our france,and yesterday in it is really good to be among friends today. thank you all for being here. we have an amazing group of speakers so i will get right to it. thank adam.d to adam, where are you? netroots the board of and used to be the chair. he s a big booster of this panel so i am very grateful to you. bys panel is organized alliance for justice as well as the center for american progress. and again, we are just privileged to be here with such an amazing group of panelists. with a vacancy on the supreme court and we all know there is a vacancy on the supreme court, we are really at a tipping point in our history and the coming years will swing the court dramatically in one direction or another. nextct, during the resident term, three justices will be in their 80 s, ginsburg, breyer, kennedy. so that no matter who wins this bection, we will not only going to vote for a president, we will also be going to vote for a supreme court. giv ....
and vote. that is what we do. for the first time ever, we have a senate leadership that says, now we are not going to do our job. there not going to vet candidate or vote on the candidate. we re going to sit on our hands. this is destructive, this abdication of responsibility. we have seen a lot of this at lower levels. failing to rapidly and responsibly that and vote vet and vote. but we have never seen it at the supreme court level so it is a phase.ew this most important court. why would not mitch mcconnell and france simply hold mitch mcconnell and his friends simply hold vet andt abn vote. don t have heard say, why they nominate someone like merrick garland? so they do not have a reason to not vote. and they do not want to be accountable for basically voting to get somebody who is qualified. when you have to understand is this is the court acting. this is an effort to delay the nomination to a republican president who will nominate someone from the far right. ....