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"Welcome back, everyone. I am Cass Pianci, and I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, not of the criminal sort, Bennett Tomlin. How are you today? I'm doing well. How are you, Cass? I'm doing good. It's been busy. It's been a very busy week for both of us. But today's episode is going to be about SPF's parents, the Bankmans and the Freeds, and their what appears to be increasingly important role that they each played in the criminal elements of FTX and Alameda Research. They called it a family business. They accepted incredibly large salaries. His father was getting a million dollars after requesting it because he was only getting 250 ,000 before. Mom pushed and tried to ensure that any money getting sent to the charity arm of the company had two steps of separation, two degrees of separation. And just really shady, weird stuff going on over there with the Bankmans and the Freeds. But those are kind of vague descriptions of what's going on. Bennett, why don't you walk us through some of the seriously criminal elements and what is happening? There is a decent amount of allegations contained in this lawsuit from the FTX debtors in possession against Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried that at a high level alleges that they were involved in specific aspects of the business and were closely connected to various alleged criminal acts and criminal acts people have pled guilty to. Starting with Joseph Bankman, he was involved with Alameda Research as early as 2018, which is when it was founded, and stayed involved throughout the entire time. The first several years, this appears to have been relatively informal. He directed FTX towards their first law firm, suggested their first accounting firm, was involved in consultations for hiring of certain executives and things like that. But none of this was documented in any kind of formal way. Eventually, in January 2021, he decides that there should be some kind of piece of paper that describes his relationship with these entities. And so he creates a document that describes his work for Alameda Research and FTX and FTX US, saying he's doing a variety of pro bono legal work and consulting work for these entities. What's interesting, of course, is that he was the signatory for the FTX entities and for himself on this entity. Really has kind of vibes of that loan agreement between Bitfinex and Tether years ago, where JLVDV and Juan Carlo was signing for both entities. And so that was one moment that really struck me as I was going through that is that he felt the need to, after providing advice for several years, finally in 2021 documents it and says he's providing this pro bono legal advice. This did not stay pro bono for very long. Later in 2021, he would take a leave of absence from Stanford University. And after he took this leave of absence, he allegedly told an FTX US employee, I'm no longer getting paid by Stanford because I'm on leave, so you should have me on salary starting December 1st. In December 2021, this is when he finally entered into a formal employment agreement with FTX US, where his nominal title was Senior Advisor to the FTX Foundation. You said it was $250 ,000. It was actually $200 ,000 a year, plus bonuses he was supposed to be getting paid. And this is where we get to the fun part that you made an allusion to before. He went to FTX's head of administration after signing this employment agreement that clearly said $200 ,000, told this person that he was supposed to be getting $1 million a year starting in December, and then he sends an email over to Sam Bankmanfried, his son, that says, and I quote, Gee, Sam, I don't know what to say here. This is the first I've heard of the $200 ,000 a year salary putting Barbara on this, meaning he cc'd in Sam Bankmanfried's mother and his domestic partner to help him deal with this contract negotiations that happened after he signed that contract. And it worked. It worked. Within two weeks, Bankman and Fried were gifted $10 million in funds originating from Alameda. Within three months, they ended up getting their $16 million mansion in the Bahamas funded entirely by FTX. And over the period after they got that mansion, they were able to expense something like $90 ,000 in various other expenses. And before he signed that contract agreement in December 2021, I do want to make clear he was also provided with an option to purchase shares of FTX US and FTX trading in November 2021. Before he was even employed with FTX, he was getting large options of shares. So yeah, I think that kind of is a good initial overview and we can get into some of the details he was also involved in, but they were receiving a lot of this type of monetary compensation. Yeah, well, I want to specifically bring up here some things that really made a red flag go off for me were, for instance, how they were keen to keep the residencies, the properties that they were acquiring with these gifted funds and all this money that they were essentially taking from customers, to be clear on that, that they wanted to ensure that that money in those properties would be shielded from a bankruptcy. And I'm just wondering, like, why, if they're so confident in this business, if they're so confident in their son, if they're so sure this is the future of finance, and I get it, you want to shield your personal property from a bankruptcy, but you just got gifted $10 million. You have to know this isn't exactly personal property, right? Like, you have to know your son is giving this to you. Your son is making money from the company. How is he making all of this money? You haven't really nailed that down yet. And you still are just letting this all transpire. Nobody was asking any questions is kind of what I'm getting to. But the questions they were asking were about, like, ensuring that they were shielded from any problems in the future. Yeah. And we should clarify the timeline a little bit here. There's a 2021 email exchange where FTX's general counsel wants to set up a meeting with their law firm to discuss how assets, including primary residence, can be structured to be bankruptcy remote. And Bankman quickly kind of responds in this email chain the next day and says it would be great, all else equal, if we could have the founders put money into property in the Bahamas and sent them a link to a description of an offshore trust structure in the Bahamas. He then discusses this with a lawyer in the Bahamas, another Stanford law professor, and his brother -in -law, and then ends up saying something we might use when we buy property in the Bahamas. And the reason I'm belaboring this point is because it happens, I think, about a year before they actually end up getting the house. And then, five months before they get the house, there's another thing that happens, and that's that they apply for residency in the Bahamas, permanent residency in the Bahamas. In order for them to get that, there's a $15 ,000 fee. That's also paid by FTX. And so I think what that kind of shows is this kind of series of planning that went into them eventually getting this mansion. They started discussing how to structure this about a year before, and I don't think they ended up using those trusts, at least not at the time of bankruptcy. They had already gotten their residency months before they got the property, and then they got the property. They wanted to benefit from this. There's no doubt about that. I mean, there is no doubt. I just want to be clear, and we're going to link to the very thorough protest article that goes over all of this, but it is very obvious. I think before we get to the crux of this, I first want to delve into this a little bit more. So Stanford yesterday decided that they were going to return all of the donated funds from this family, which amounted to $5 .5 million, which is a lot. I mean, I know that they get a shit, a metric shit ton of cash every year, but the idea that they're getting $5 .5 million in a single year from one family, one company, you know, essentially one family. That's how you get your name on a building and stuff like that. So they were donating a ton of money to this educational institution. All I want to say is that I think Stanford is disgusting. I think we see this in a bunch of these higher education, these private institutions, probably equally common in great public universities as well, but the ones that we hear about are like MIT or Harvard or Stanford accepting money from Jeffrey Epstein or accepting money from these guys, and then, oh, okay, you're returning it. Great. Well, you know why you're returning it? Because you got caught. That's why you're returning it. You're not returning it because you thought it was the right thing to do. Now that it's all coming out in these court documents, Stanford's giving the money back. They didn't do it one minute before that happened, though. Isn't that interesting? And I, you know, I think you should get into kind of the details of those donations, which there were many over this period, but like, oh, what a nasty, nasty way for a university to operate. I think the elite private colleges are at a special risk for kind of this because so much of their, like, existing structure is based around taking in cash and converting it to some vague elite authority. Speaking specifically about the donations from FTX to Stanford that appear to have been directed by Joseph Bankman, there was one that came from Paperbird directly to Stanford University. And this one was interesting because there was a lot of discussion about which entity to use. And what Bankman ends up saying is that he thought it should come from Paperbird, which was one of the entities that Sam Bankman -Fried owned that held most of the stock for FTX that investors were buying into. The corporate structure of FTX is a mind fuck. But this shows Bankman was aware of parts of the mind fuck. He says Paperbird can use the deduction. And when he discusses alternatives, he says we can have another entity loan Paperbird money, but that requires some paperwork. Eventually they get it all sorted out. FTX transfers money to Paperbird into a newly set up bank account, which immediately sends that money on to Stanford. There was another four million dollar donation to a Stanford fund for pandemic preparedness that he described as pretty much a no brainer. Bitcoin were transferred from Alameda Research's FTX account eventually. There was another series of donations where it was proposed that they give 1 .5 million from the FTX Foundation to Stanford College. However, the initial 500 ,000 for this came from an Alameda Research bank account, and the second 500 ,000 came from an FTX US bank account. There was another donation they did for a Stanford blockchain conference so they could sponsor it. That one was only 10k. But again, it kind of points towards how Bankman saw these entities as interchangeable. He said 10k is so little it doesn't really matter. So if we think that having FTX US is easier or safer for some reason, we should just do that. And what's most interesting is you talked about your name on a building. And there was a Stanford University employee who provided comment as part of this lawsuit. And this Stanford University employee apparently says that internally in Stanford, these donations were categorized as directed by the Bankman -Frieds. And like when they specifically got the big $4 million pandemic preparedness donation from Alameda, this person even reached out, should this one be categorized like the rest as from you all? Or is this one somehow different? And so yeah, I think that those donations kind of point towards how they were specifically using these commingled customer and client funds from across all these different entities in this self -promotional activity of giving these donations. Yep, there's more to where this money went, how much was spent, why they were in control of this. But I think the question that everybody wants to ask and is wondering about is how are they not being criminally charged with anything yet? And will they? I think we should hold off on that question for just a moment, because I want to talk about how Joseph Bankman also made sure other people he was related to and friends with got paid while he was in this position, because I think that's kind of fun. They talk about one example where he got a Stanford law student a free trip to the French Grand Prix tickets to the race so they could go and visit that. But I think the more interesting one was a hackathon that they had planned that was run by his sister. Bankman freed Sam's aunt. They hired her at a rate of $14 ,000 a month to prepare the FTX million -dollar hackathon and crypto summit held at the Miami Heat Arena, which was the one they put their name on briefly. They spent a total of $2 .3 million on this event, which was attended by 1 ,200 people. They were spending crazy amounts. They said she was authorized to spend like without a budget, whatever it was needed to get this event done. There was so much of this kind of like self -enrichment here that we'll get to your question as to how are they not being criminally charged. That's just grift. Yeah, obviously. The other person we need to talk about, of course, is Barbara. Barbara Freed, Sam Bankman Freed's mother. In her specific role, she, as you alluded to at the very beginning of this episode, described herself as her son's partner in crime of the non -criminal sort. And Sam made sure to sing her praises to his team, making known to her that he intended to rely on her direction regarding who to give to, how much to give to, and how it should be disclosed and told them that it would be good for them to follow her advice as well. And what seems really interesting is she seemed to have a great deal of control. The lawsuit even alleges she was able to unilaterally commit funds of Sam Bankman Freed's to her political action committee, Mind the Gap, meaning without Sam's authorization, she was able to take Sam's money donated in Sam's name to her political action committee, which is a great deal of trust. And even inside her own committee, when she had to talk about some of these donations, she would say things like, I don't know exactly what interconnected entity he sent the money from, but the business is real and revenue -generating, which again, I think, points towards kind of the interchangeability of these entities for these folks. What I think really gets interesting is Nishad Singh, who has already pled guilty for conspiracy to defraud the federal election committee, as well as a variety of other conspiracy charges. He was one of the people who appears to have served as effectively a straw -man donor for Sam Bankman Freed, and was advised in this process by Barbara Freed, Sam's mother. At one point when they were discussing donations to her organization Mind the Gap, and she suggested that, now that my connection to Sam is publicly known, because we don't want to create the impression that funding MTG is a family affair, as opposed to a collective effort by many people, including some mystery guy Nishad Singh, which is when she was suggesting that on their end, they would prefer if his name was the one that was donating to Mind the Gap instead of Sam Bankman Freed's. And similarly, she was worried about a lot of their political donations. There's a really telling one, where she's warning him in an email, And again, later, just the last one to really put kind of a cherry on top of her seeming knowledge of some of the criminal acts that Nishad Singh has pled guilty to. She said, And I think this, as well as some of the more specific tax advice that Bankman Freed was giving on FTX their specific finances and stuff like that, point towards potential knowledge of criminal acts. I tweeted out shortly after I read through this lawsuit, or as I was about halfway through reading this lawsuit, if I'm being honest, And as you alluded to previously, that is kind of what this feels like. It feels like these two law professors, who should have known better, had high -level knowledge of things that people have already pled guilty to, and were deeply involved in the business. Bankman specifically was even mentioned on an internal document as a member of the management of FTXUS, along with only a few other names. They had knowledge, they were inside the organization, and they had some amount of presence. One last thing that I think really hammers that home. When we went to consensus, and we talked about this in our episode that we did after that, Anthony Scaramucci was talking about his experiences in the lead -up to and aftermath of the FTX collapse. And one thing he said that seemed to be corroborated in the lawsuit is that Bankman was involved in them attempting to get the emergency funding. And as we said, and we shared the audio clip of Scaramucci saying it, Bankman apparently told Scaramucci, Anthony or intimated to him, that there was an asset liability mismatch at FTX. What happened to me is I was actually speaking in Sarasota, Florida. There was rumblings that day, I think it was November the 6th or something like that, or 7th. The Monday was the 7th. And then I got back to New York and I spoke to Sam's dad about the problem, and it was intimated to me that it was an asset liability mismatch, that they were leading redemptions and there were assets available, but they weren't necessarily liquid, and they needed time to get the liquidity, and they were looking for some rescue plans. And so at that time, I was a good citizen and a partner in the business. In fact, they owned a piece of my business. I was certainly trying to help them on their fundraising round.
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"Welcome back, everyone. I am Cass Pianci, and I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, not of the criminal sort, Bennett Tomlin. How are you today? I'm doing well. How are you, Cass? I'm doing good. It's been busy. It's been a very busy week for both of us. But today's episode is going to be about SPF's parents, the Bankmans and the Freeds, and their what appears to be increasingly important role that they each played in the criminal elements of FTX and Alameda Research. They called it a family business. They accepted incredibly large salaries. His father was getting a million dollars after requesting it because he was only getting 250,000 before. Mom pushed and tried to ensure that any money getting sent to the charity arm of the company had two steps of separation, two degrees of separation. And just really shady, weird stuff going on over there with the Bankmans and the Freeds. But those are kind of vague descriptions of what's going on. Bennett, why don't you walk us through some of the seriously criminal elements and what is happening? There is a decent amount of allegations contained in this lawsuit from the FTX debtors in possession against Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried that at a high level alleges that they were involved in specific aspects of the business and were closely connected to various alleged criminal acts and criminal acts people have pled guilty to. Starting with Joseph Bankman, he was involved with Alameda Research as early as 2018, which is when it was founded, and stayed involved throughout the entire time. The first several years, this appears to have been relatively informal. He directed FTX towards their first law firm, suggested their first accounting firm, was involved in consultations for hiring of certain executives and things like that. But none of this was documented in any kind of formal way. Eventually, in January 2021, he decides that there should be some kind of piece of paper that describes his relationship with these entities. And so he creates a document that describes his work for Alameda Research and FTX and FTX US, saying he's doing a variety of pro bono legal work and consulting work for these entities. What's interesting, of course, is that he was the signatory for the FTX entities and for himself on this entity. Really has kind of vibes of that loan agreement between Bitfinex and Tether years ago, where JLVDV and Juan Carlo was signing for both entities. And so that was one moment that really struck me as I was going through that is that he felt the need to, after providing advice for several years, finally in 2021 documents it and says he's providing this pro bono legal advice. This did not stay pro bono for very long. Later in 2021, he would take a leave of absence from Stanford University. And after he took this leave of absence, he allegedly told an FTX US employee, I'm no longer getting paid by Stanford because I'm on leave, so you should have me on salary starting December 1st. In December 2021, this is when he finally entered into a formal employment agreement with FTX US, where his nominal title was Senior Advisor to the FTX Foundation. You said it was $250,000. It was actually $200,000 a year, plus bonuses he was supposed to be getting paid. And this is where we get to the fun part that you made an allusion to before. He went to FTX's head of administration after signing this employment agreement that clearly said $200,000, told this person that he was supposed to be getting $1 million a year starting in December, and then he sends an email over to Sam Bankmanfried, his son, that says, and I quote, Gee, Sam, I don't know what to say here. This is the first I've heard of the $200,000 a year salary putting Barbara on this, meaning he cc'd in Sam Bankmanfried's mother and his domestic partner to help him deal with this contract negotiations that happened after he signed that contract. And it worked. It worked. Within two weeks, Bankman and Fried were gifted $10 million in funds originating from Alameda. Within three months, they ended up getting their $16 million mansion in the Bahamas funded entirely by FTX. And over the period after they got that mansion, they were able to expense something like $90,000 in various other expenses. And before he signed that contract agreement in December 2021, I do want to make clear he was also provided with an option to purchase shares of FTX US and FTX trading in November 2021. Before he was even employed with FTX, he was getting large options of shares. So yeah, I think that kind of is a good initial overview and we can get into some of the details he was also involved in, but they were receiving a lot of this type of monetary compensation. Yeah, well, I want to specifically bring up here some things that really made a red flag go off for me were, for instance, how they were keen to keep the residencies, the properties that they were acquiring with these gifted funds and all this money that they were essentially taking from customers, to be clear on that, that they wanted to ensure that that money in those properties would be shielded from a bankruptcy. And I'm just wondering, like, why, if they're so confident in this business, if they're so confident in their son, if they're so sure this is the future of finance, and I get it, you want to shield your personal property from a bankruptcy, but you just got gifted $10 million. You have to know this isn't exactly personal property, right? Like, you have to know your son is giving this to you. Your son is making money from the company. How is he making all of this money? You haven't really nailed that down yet. And you still are just letting this all transpire. Nobody was asking any questions is kind of what I'm getting to. But the questions they were asking were about, like, ensuring that they were shielded from any problems in the future. Yeah. And we should clarify the timeline a little bit here. There's a 2021 email exchange where FTX's general counsel wants to set up a meeting with their law firm to discuss how assets, including primary residence, can be structured to be bankruptcy remote. And Bankman quickly kind of responds in this email chain the next day and says it would be great, all else equal, if we could have the founders put money into property in the Bahamas and sent them a link to a description of an offshore trust structure in the Bahamas. He then discusses this with a lawyer in the Bahamas, another Stanford law professor, and his brother-in-law, and then ends up saying something we might use when we buy property in the Bahamas. And the reason I'm belaboring this point is because it happens, I think, about a year before they actually end up getting the house. And then, five months before they get the house, there's another thing that happens, and that's that they apply for residency in the Bahamas, permanent residency in the Bahamas. In order for them to get that, there's a $15,000 fee. That's also paid by FTX. And so I think what that kind of shows is this kind of series of planning that went into them eventually getting this mansion. They started discussing how to structure this about a year before, and I don't think they ended up using those trusts, at least not at the time of bankruptcy. They had already gotten their residency months before they got the property, and then they got the property. They wanted to benefit from this. There's no doubt about that. I mean, there is no doubt. I just want to be clear, and we're going to link to the very thorough protest article that goes over all of this, but it is very obvious. I think before we get to the crux of this, I first want to delve into this a little bit more. So Stanford yesterday decided that they were going to return all of the donated funds from this family, which amounted to $5.5 million, which is a lot. I mean, I know that they get a shit, a metric shit ton of cash every year, but the idea that they're getting $5.5 million in a single year from one family, one company, you know, essentially one family. That's how you get your name on a building and stuff like that. So they were donating a ton of money to this educational institution. All I want to say is that I think Stanford is disgusting. I think we see this in a bunch of these higher education, these private institutions, probably equally common in great public universities as well, but the ones that we hear about are like MIT or Harvard or Stanford accepting money from Jeffrey Epstein or accepting money from these guys, and then, oh, okay, you're returning it. Great. Well, you know why you're returning it? Because you got caught. That's why you're returning it. You're not returning it because you thought it was the right thing to do. Now that it's all coming out in these court documents, Stanford's giving the money back. They didn't do it one minute before that happened, though. Isn't that interesting? And I, you know, I think you should get into kind of the details of those donations, which there were many over this period, but like, oh, what a nasty, nasty way for a university to operate. I think the elite private colleges are at a special risk for kind of this because so much of their, like, existing structure is based around taking in cash and converting it to some vague elite authority. Speaking specifically about the donations from FTX to Stanford that appear to have been directed by Joseph Bankman, there was one that came from Paperbird directly to Stanford University. And this one was interesting because there was a lot of discussion about which entity to use. And what Bankman ends up saying is that he thought it should come from Paperbird, which was one of the entities that Sam Bankman-Fried owned that held most of the stock for FTX that investors were buying into. The corporate structure of FTX is a mind fuck. But this shows Bankman was aware of parts of the mind fuck. He says Paperbird can use the deduction. And when he discusses alternatives, he says we can have another entity loan Paperbird money, but that requires some paperwork. Eventually they get it all sorted out. FTX transfers money to Paperbird into a newly set up bank account, which immediately sends that money on to Stanford. There was another four million dollar donation to a Stanford fund for pandemic preparedness that he described as pretty much a no brainer. Bitcoin were transferred from Alameda Research's FTX account eventually. There was another series of donations where it was proposed that they give 1.5 million from the FTX Foundation to Stanford College. However, the initial 500,000 for this came from an Alameda Research bank account, and the second 500,000 came from an FTX US bank account. There was another donation they did for a Stanford blockchain conference so they could sponsor it. That one was only 10k. But again, it kind of points towards how Bankman saw these entities as interchangeable. He said 10k is so little it doesn't really matter. So if we think that having FTX US is easier or safer for some reason, we should just do that. And what's most interesting is you talked about your name on a building. And there was a Stanford University employee who provided comment as part of this lawsuit. And this Stanford University employee apparently says that internally in Stanford, these donations were categorized as directed by the Bankman-Frieds. And like when they specifically got the big $4 million pandemic preparedness donation from Alameda, this person even reached out, should this one be categorized like the rest as from you all? Or is this one somehow different? And so yeah, I think that those donations kind of point towards how they were specifically using these commingled customer and client funds from across all these different entities in this self-promotional activity of giving these donations. Yep, there's more to where this money went, how much was spent, why they were in control of this. But I think the question that everybody wants to ask and is wondering about is how are they not being criminally charged with anything yet? And will they? I think we should hold off on that question for just a moment, because I want to talk about how Joseph Bankman also made sure other people he was related to and friends with got paid while he was in this position, because I think that's kind of fun. They talk about one example where he got a Stanford law student a free trip to the French Grand Prix tickets to the race so they could go and visit that. But I think the more interesting one was a hackathon that they had planned that was run by his sister. Bankman freed Sam's aunt. They hired her at a rate of $14,000 a month to prepare the FTX million-dollar hackathon and crypto summit held at the Miami Heat Arena, which was the one they put their name on briefly. They spent a total of $2.3 million on this event, which was attended by 1,200 people. They were spending crazy amounts. They said she was authorized to spend like without a budget, whatever it was needed to get this event done. There was so much of this kind of like self-enrichment here that we'll get to your question as to how are they not being criminally charged. That's just grift. Yeah, obviously. The other person we need to talk about, of course, is Barbara. Barbara Freed, Sam Bankman Freed's mother. In her specific role, she, as you alluded to at the very beginning of this episode, described herself as her son's partner in crime of the non-criminal sort. And Sam made sure to sing her praises to his team, making known to her that he intended to rely on her direction regarding who to give to, how much to give to, and how it should be disclosed and told them that it would be good for them to follow her advice as well. And what seems really interesting is she seemed to have a great deal of control. The lawsuit even alleges she was able to unilaterally commit funds of Sam Bankman Freed's to her political action committee, Mind the Gap, meaning without Sam's authorization, she was able to take Sam's money donated in Sam's name to her political action committee, which is a great deal of trust. And even inside her own committee, when she had to talk about some of these donations, she would say things like, I don't know exactly what interconnected entity he sent the money from, but the business is real and revenue-generating, which again, I think, points towards kind of the interchangeability of these entities for these folks. What I think really gets interesting is Nishad Singh, who has already pled guilty for conspiracy to defraud the federal election committee, as well as a variety of other conspiracy charges. He was one of the people who appears to have served as effectively a straw-man donor for Sam Bankman Freed, and was advised in this process by Barbara Freed, Sam's mother. At one point when they were discussing donations to her organization Mind the Gap, and she suggested that, now that my connection to Sam is publicly known, because we don't want to create the impression that funding MTG is a family affair, as opposed to a collective effort by many people, including some mystery guy Nishad Singh, which is when she was suggesting that on their end, they would prefer if his name was the one that was donating to Mind the Gap instead of Sam Bankman Freed's. And similarly, she was worried about a lot of their political donations. There's a really telling one, where she's warning him in an email, And again, later, just the last one to really put kind of a cherry on top of her seeming knowledge of some of the criminal acts that Nishad Singh has pled guilty to. She said, And I think this, as well as some of the more specific tax advice that Bankman Freed was giving FTX on their specific finances and stuff like that, point towards potential knowledge of criminal acts. I tweeted out shortly after I read through this lawsuit, or as I was about halfway through reading this lawsuit, if I'm being honest, And as you alluded to previously, that is kind of what this feels like. It feels like these two law professors, who should have known better, had high-level knowledge of things that people have already pled guilty to, and were deeply involved in the business. Bankman specifically was even mentioned on an internal document as a member of the management of FTXUS, along with only a few other names. They had knowledge, they were inside the organization, and they had some amount of presence. One last thing that I think really hammers that home. When we went to consensus, and we talked about this in our episode that we did after that, Anthony Scaramucci was talking about his experiences in the lead-up to and aftermath of the FTX collapse. And one thing he said that seemed to be corroborated in the lawsuit is that Bankman was involved in them attempting to get the emergency funding. And as we said, and we shared the audio clip of Scaramucci saying it, Bankman apparently told Anthony Scaramucci, or intimated to him, that there was an asset liability mismatch at FTX. What happened to me is I was actually speaking in Sarasota, Florida. There was rumblings that day, I think it was November the 6th or something like that, or 7th. The Monday was the 7th. And then I got back to New York and I spoke to Sam's dad about the problem, and it was intimated to me that it was an asset liability mismatch, that they were leading redemptions and there were assets available, but they weren't necessarily liquid, and they needed time to get the liquidity, and they were looking for some rescue plans. And so at that time, I was a good citizen and a partner in the business. In fact, they owned a piece of my business. I was certainly trying to help them on their fundraising round.
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"elections committee" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"The Ukrainian military and the Russian Wagner private army have reported that Russian forces are retreating from around the city of bakhmut. Kib has pressed on with its biggest advance, a 6 months ahead of a planned counter offensive. China's president has unveiled an ambitious plan to help develop areas of Central Asia by aiding countries to build infrastructure and boost trade. Xi Jinping said development strategies would be created to elevate the 5 Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The number of people known to have died in floods in northern Italy has risen to at least 13 with thousands forced from their homes. 6 months worth of rainfall fell in a day and a half in the Emilia romagna region. And The Pentagon has accidentally overestimated the value of the equipment sent to help Ukraine by $3 billion. The error now means more weapons could be sent by Washington to help with cues fight against Russia. And those are the headlines. We turn now to Cambodia where the country's opposition party candlelight has been banned from fielding candidates in the elections in July. Candlelight has been seen as the only really credible alternative to the prime minister Hun sen, who's been in Paris now for the best part of four decades, or Phil Robertson is deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. He joins me now from Bangkok a very warm welcome to Monica radio Phil. Thank you so much. So just explain to us, what is the official reason for this ban? It is really absurd. What they're saying is that the candlelight party needs to present its original registration certificate. However, that registration certificate was lost when a previous party, the Cambodian national rescue party, which candlelight sort of grew out of. Was dissolved in their headquarters were taken over by the police. So there's no way for them to provide that original certificate to the national election committee. And last year, when they had the commune elections, it didn't matter, because they provided a copy, and that was fine. So, you know, somebody has created a new obstacle to basically prevent the candlelight party from contesting this election. No, it doesn't. I mean, what you've just described there is a hint of a background of prime minister Hun sen, effectively doing what is necessary to stay in power for the last 40 years. I mean, what is the state of any kind of opposition in Cambodia at the moment? Well, the candlelight party is the main opposition party. We've been documenting attacks on their members by people wielding iron bars on motorcycles and Phnom Penh the capital. People have faced trumped up charges and being sent off to prison. And, you know, now we have this latest administrative impediment, which is imposed by a national election committee that is basically a puppet of prime minister Hun sen. So it's all clearly heading back to Hunza and he doesn't want to have any serious competition in the July 2023 elections. It's made that election a joke. And it's a bit of a death knell for Cambodian democracy. So what could cause a shift here? Well, it has to be real international pressure. For various countries to stand up and say, look, we 40 years ago supported the UN to come in to create a multi party democracy. And you're now basically tarnishing that legacy by these actions by preventing any sort of serious democracy, any sort of serious democratic competition or election from taking place. What could be done though by the international community because I mean, you're obviously pushing it Human Rights Watch for change. We have the human human rights commissioner, saying that Hun sen continues to suppress political opposition. So politically, it's not very that no change is being prompted there. But what about economically? Well, I mean, I think we would like to see action against some of the senior officials in the Cambodian government, particularly the military and police officials who have involved in human rights abuses. We've called for targeted sanctions against them in their economic interests. We'd also like to see the European Union take another swing at the everything but arms trade preferences. They took away 20% earlier because of Cambodia's failures on human rights and labor rights and we think they should take another look at that and perhaps take some more. That kind of economic pressure I think would wake up Hun sen and the administration and put on Ben and hopefully get them to realize that they've gone too far. And indeed, the neighbors, I mean, you're a neighboring Thailand. A country which is possibly potentially seeing political change in the wake of this weekend's elections. I mean, could that do anything? Well, I think it's certainly inspirational in as many as a million Cambodian migrant workers who are working in Thailand are certainly paying attention to that. But I think that Hun sen has made it very clear that any sort of serious challenge to his authority is going to be met with violence and incarceration. Jono, you know, there needs to be an international buffer to try to push back against these excesses by him. I mean, we're not expecting that the candlelight party, even if it was allowed to run, would be permitted to take power if they want a majority because who doesn't really believe in democracy. He believes an autocracy. And that's what he is constructed. You know, he just wants to have it. Look a little bit democratic. So that he can claim he's a democratic leader when he goes out on the international stage. Phil Robertson from Human Rights Watch speaking to us on the line from Bangkok. Thank you so much for joining us on Monaco radio. You are the globalist. Venice's architect of Biennale takes place this weekend and joining me now from Venice is monocles designed as a Nick monies. Nick, how are you coping? I'm coping everyone else. And so it's the press preview today.
WTOP
"elections committee" Discussed on WTOP
"Navy federal credit union where members are the mission, this navy federal dot org ensured by NC UA. It's four 28. Time for traffic and weather on the 8th Dave dill died take it away. In Maryland and Virginia, beltway traffic is Friday slow, nothing too surprising about the volume delays around the beltway, the crashes, though, we do have a couple of them that are causing some pretty big backups like in Virginia on 66 westbound between 50 and the manassas rest area, westbound traffic is a slow through centerville, but the crash is mostly now on the right shoulder near bull run before the rest area, a lot of battlefield bailout on 29. There's a crash inside the beltway eastbound on 66. It's actually inside the rosalyn tunnel and blocking the right lane of two if you're heading for a one ten or the Roosevelt bridge or slowly getting by that by staying left. Three 95 slow both ways between the third street tunnel and Pentagon city and both ways through Springfield, 95, pretty slow southbound through Stafford county. Lots of Friday travelers and slow traffic northbound through Fredericksburg and in stretches between Dale City and Springfield. Now in Maryland in prince George's county, fort Washington, the crash on two ten at old fort road near Potomac village is still blocking at least one left lane in both directions backing up traffic both ways. There was one in the northbound backup called in along the right side as well. And arundel county on Richie highway, northbound Travis flows toward the community college and college Parkway, but now the crash near west campus drive should be out of the way, 50 bay bridge bound, only dealing with minor slowing at the severan river. 95 southbound south of two 12 had a crash reported, no specifics called in traffic will be heavy at times through Howard county, Baltimore, Washington Parkway, volume delays, and two 70 northbound, slow in normal places like in Gaithersburg and clarksburg, traffic brought to you by navy federal credit union proud to serve members of the armed forces DoD veterans and their families. The members of the mission learn more at navy federal dot org. Dave, WTO traffic. We can forecast Mike's dinner for high wind warnings and wind advisories in effect for Saturday afternoon Saturday evening, often on rain showers tonight is going to turn rather windy. It loves to be in the mid to upper 50s. Morning showers and storms on Saturday than turning mostly sunny and quite windy. Risk of a late day thunderstorm housing the little bit 80s watch out for wins which could gust over 60 miles an hour at times. Mike's dinner for WTO news. Wins out of the south pushing up our temperatures, 65 at Tyson's 61 in Potomac and Atlanta Plaza up to 65°. At four 31. This is WTO P news. Everything you need every time you listen. The WTO producer's desk is wired by IBW local 26. Where electrical contractors come to grow. Hello, I'm Hillary Howard. And I'm Sean Anderson, Mike chicas is our producer. CBS News special report, Donald Trump will go before a judge Tuesday and security in New York will be tight, Richard esposito's retired NYPD. They can move thousands of cops if needed to Trump Tower to bridges and certainly they can ring the courtroom and make sure the president to form a president's entrance to the district attorney's office is a smooth one. Trump's lawyer Joe Tucker peanut. It's a very troubling case because there's no crime here. The United States attorney's office who has jurisdiction over federal election campaigns turned this down. The FEC, the federal election committee, turned this down and said there was no wrong thing. But the DA claimed Republicans are interfering CBS Mira Rubin. In the letter, the attorney general's office defended the indictment and rejected GOP accusations of political prosecution, pointing out the charges were brought by New Yorkers doing their civic duty and wrote the former president has every right to challenge the charges, but he nor Congress
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"elections committee" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"It's a shocking moment because you're right. They've weaponized the Justice Department. They've the justice system, the judicial process to punish their political opponents. And that's what's so shocking. A friend of mine this morning said to me, Trump's going to be fine. And I said, don't be so sure. This guy is going to face now the indignity of being apparently fingerprinted, a mugshot, maybe being handcuffed. I want to find out what your prediction will be about what that looks like next week, but before we even go there, can you speak to how relatively easy it might be to find 12 Trump hating jurors who could literally send the 45th president to jail? Isn't that a possibility? There's two separate things. It's not going to be easy at all. I actually think it's impossible to get a fair and impartial jury here. So that's me being on the statement on the record with that. I also though I do not see a scenario where anyone puts Donald Trump in jail, any judge. Any judge in that building. I don't see anyone putting him in jail for the crimes that we know about now. So if they figured out a way to create this misdemeanor and make it into a felony, and that's a stretch. And if that passes legal muster after the motions are done on it, if that all happens, and he goes to trial and he loses, but it's on the facts that we talk about this retainer agreement and filing a false document and the election, the federal election committee. It would be so outrageous. Like, beyond even this indictment to be asking for jail. To even be asking for it, let alone to a judge to sentence into jail. You're talking about a prosecutor here in Alvin Bragg, who has run his office on the premise of alternatives to incarceration. His whole, his whole policy is when people make mistakes and people commit crimes. Instead of putting them in jail, let's try to fix them by giving them some sort of a program, which, listen, that may be great. And maybe it's going to work for a lot of people, especially younger people. But now, you have someone who is the president of the United States who's never been in trouble in the life. And gets to say, goes to trial, gets convicted of a victimless crime. There is no victory. Right. No one lost money, that no one didn't pay taxes. No one obviously got hurt physically hurt. There's no family telling the DA, please make sure he goes to jail because my family needs justice. It would be, it would be insane if the prosecutor asked for jail time. And I do not see any judge giving Donald Trump Jill. Yeah, but
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Arthur Aidala: Will Pres. Trump See Jail Time?
"Do not see a scenario where anyone puts Donald Trump in jail, any judge. Any judge in that building. I don't see anyone putting him in jail for the crimes that we know about now. So if they figured out a way to create this misdemeanor and make it into a felony, and that's a stretch. And if that passes legal muster after the motions are done on it, if that all happens, and he goes to trial and he loses, but it's on the facts that we talk about this retainer agreement and filing a false document and the election, the federal election committee. It would be so outrageous. Like, beyond even this indictment to be asking for jail. To even be asking for it, let alone to a judge to sentence into jail. You're talking about a prosecutor here in Alvin Bragg, who has run his office on the premise of alternatives to incarceration. His whole, his whole policy is when people make mistakes and people commit crimes. Instead of putting them in jail, let's try to fix them by giving them some sort of a program, which, listen, that may be great. And maybe it's going to work for a lot of people, especially younger people. But now, you have someone who is the president of the United States who's never been in trouble in the life. And gets to say, goes to trial, gets convicted of a victimless crime. There is no victory. Right. No one lost money, that no one didn't pay taxes. No one obviously got hurt physically hurt. There's no family telling the DA, please make sure he goes to jail because my family needs justice. It would be, it would be insane if the prosecutor asked for jail time. And I do not see any judge giving Donald Trump Jill. Yeah, but
Bloomberg Radio New York
"elections committee" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is Michael Barr. Tom Paul, President Biden declined to comment this morning on former president Trump's indictment. A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Trump on criminal charges making him the first current or former president to be indicted. Trump could surrender as early as Tuesday to the Manhattan DA's office investigating the $130,000 hush money payment made to adult film actress stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 campaign. Trump attorney Joe tacopina said today, his client did not break any campaign finance laws. The FEC, the federal election committee here, did not proceed in this case. They found there was no violation. I've spoken to former chairman Bradley Smith of the FEC. And he said there was no violation of campaign finance laws. The Justice Department here did not proceed in this case against the president. So there is really no pressure for this case. This is done with personal money, George. Trump attorney, Joe tacopina spoke to ABC. Meme all Republicans are coming to Trump's defense, former vice president Mike Pence spoke about his former boss. I think the unprecedented indictment. Of a former president of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an outrage. Pence spoke to CNN. Funerals will begin today for the 6 people killed in Monday's mass shooting at an Asheville school yesterday protesters packed into the Tennessee capital to demand action from lawmakers. Chandel Brooks lost her son in the 2018 Nashville waffle House shooting. I
Northwest Newsradio
"elections committee" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"42° at two O 6. Senator Bernie Sanders is raising the stakes in his effort to hold Starbucks accountable for alleged union busting, northwest news radios Cathy O'Shea explains. Sanders of Vermont independent and chairman of the Senate health education labor and pensions committee said the committee will vote on March 8th on whether to subpoena Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz to provide testimony about ongoing unionization efforts at the company in a written statement Sanders says he was scheduling the vote because the company hasn't responded to several requests to meet and provide documents to the committee. If the vote passes, Schultz would be required to testify march 15th. Cathy O'Shea, northwest news radio. Government accountability advocates are frustrated that two bills to rein in the powers of the state executive branch did not receive hearings this legislative session. The measures come in the wake of governor Jay inslee's executive powers concerning the COVID pandemic, which lasted just shy of a thousand days. Democratic representative Emily Randolph sponsored a 2022 bill aimed at giving lawmakers more oversight. I have heard loud and clear from my community and many of your constituents as well that we need to do some work to ensure that our balance of power is the right one as we enter any future emergency. This session, the Senate government and elections committee refused to hold a public hearing on a similar bill to give the legislative bodies some power in case of state emergencies. Jason mercier with the conservative Washington policy center says inslee's office overstepped authority. And if he's putting restrictions on citizens or businesses, those have no time limit and they don't require any type of legislative approval. We did reach out to the democratic committee head senator Sam hunt. We were told that he was not available. Dozens of homeless people in Seattle got something Tuesday that most of us take for granted. A document proving who they are, you know, your ID. Michelle Esteban reports from a new pop up service center right next to a troubled encampment in the Chinatown international district. What do you want
Bloomberg Radio New York
"elections committee" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is brutal and what's happening in the book is outrageous And everyone's seen it And the president says he will also increase sanctions and Ukraine's foreign minister Dimitrov kubala saying that the atrocities go beyond bucha We all referred to but we should not forget about other towns and villages in the key of region which also became the crime scene for Russian army And kubala did meet with China's foreign minister Wang Yi Wong statement is the China has no geographical designs on Ukraine and that it will not fuel tensions The recorders from the China eastern crash have been sent to the U.S. some answers possible this week With Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie lam announcing she will not be running for a second term Bloomberg Stephen engel reports the next step is of course narrowing the field of perspective replacements Wide speculation is that there's essentially down to a three horse race That could widen of course we have two weeks nomination period before the May 8th election by this select election committee Now Stephen does say the prevailing opinion is that John Lee is a FrontRunner The confirmation process for judge could Johnny a Brown Jackson taking a key step today committee deadlocked at 11 but under Senate rules that can advance before the vote heavy debate Republican senator Lindsey Graham said that well let me pull up mister grant please Excuse me sorry Now that you're talking about the Supreme Court you're making policy not just bound by it And senator dick Durbin We don't agree on much in the Senate but not one senator on this committee has questioned that she's well qualified And again Democrats can bring it to the floor for confirmation And police and Sacramento California say more than 100 shots were fired in the mass shooting the day before yesterday One man has been arrested on assault and gun charges 100 In San Francisco I'm at Baxter This is Bloomberg All right Eddie thank you Dan Schwartzman's with us as we look at global sports Dana.
Take 2
"elections committee" Discussed on Take 2
"Let's roll it back and actually look at what happened because i get a round of applause for political theater once again this week for mike lee but it is so how marriage and all this was all. This was the the school association which isn't which isn't employed by federal government reached out and said we're highly concerned about some of the threats. We're seeing merrick. Arlen said go check it out and see if we could do anything. That's all that happened. That's that's all. That's the senators run to their re election committees and scream that we shouldn't have jack-booted. Fbi thugs beating on these precious parents. Now given vat no. No one thinks that the federal government should go in and pound these parents. All that was asked on behalf of people who represent superintendents. I do think there's a level of vitriol. I do think there's concerned by teachers and superintendents in schools service and teachers and superintendents who had no expectation of this and they just asked if some of the fbi would review this and see if there were protections. This wasn't about any individual parent. The fbi is not tracking. This is much ado about nothing and it's political theater. Just let me listen to this. The exercise i love to go through his. Just flip the issue and see if you would just be as like Who cares if you took an issue. If you take a took an issue that liberals were passionate about or that they cared about and you had had an absolutely no. I'm saying if you took something that you that would actually make you work. Say freedom to attorney. General of the united states of america were to take such a ludicrous comment. Can you can you. Can you designate parent. Angry parents that go to school board means domestic terracini exercise the patriot act. If they said they will look you would lose your mind. You would never let a trump administration attorney general and never say that. Not hold them accountable. What i will say is this. It was also when they found out that this that a lot of what is being complained about is a company that zuckerberg has helped funded the his his children. His wife's husband runs. There's a conflict. They're all in. That conflict was actually put out there. Did everybody start retreating from when they asked jen psaki. This is where you know that what what mar saying is she like you to believe but this is honest truth when jen psaki was asked about this idea of school. Angry parents going to school board meetings being treated domestic terrorists and even staring at the patriot act. She did not dallas. that idea. say it's absolutely ridiculous we they. She didn't say what you just said what she said is. We're not the attorney general. That's down the street. You'd have to ask him about that. We're not a school board or we're not the attorney the doj so you'd have to as if they don't actually talk or they don't have they don't know who you know. Merrick garland is. They don't know she just she. Completely in this voided voided answering directly russian on the supreme court right. Oh my gosh. Now i would not prefer that. I'm so grateful that we wasted do not have him on there..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"elections committee" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Week. Want to watch in Hong Kong in the coming week? If you're wondering about the areas political future, and for more, let's go to Hong Kong down Bloomberg Daybreak Asia host Brian Curtis Johnny in the coming week, Hong Kong will hold the election committee subsector elections. Only those vetted to be patriots are eligible, so it's perhaps better to say the committee will be formed in the coming week. There will be 1500 members of the Election committee. This committee is responsible for electing 40 of the 90 seats in the Legislative Council in the 2021 election that's coming up in December. And the chief executive in the 2022 election. Joining me is Matthew Brooker, columnist for Bloomberg Opinion in Hong Kong, and Ian Marlowe, senior government reporter. Ian, perhaps I can go to you first. Well, let me just tell the audience. We have opposition parties that have disbanded here in Hong Kong. We have leading opposition figures like Martin Lee and Lee Wing tat, who have either retired or left Hong Kong many democracy supporters like Jimmy Lai, who are currently in jail and others. Student leaders, former student leaders like Nathan Law and others have resettled. Abroad. So first let me put it to you. What is the threshold for politicians here to prove that one is a patriot? Yeah. I mean, I think there's a low tolerance for any sort of, uh, opposition sentiment at the moment in Hong Kong. I mean, we've we've We've always had a situation in Hong Kong where people had to be. Had to be judged to have genuinely up held the basic law of the mini constitution here before running for office. But the situation now is that people are being over the last year and a bit disqualified, kicked out of office of fully jailed for National security crimes or alleged crimes that were, you know, basically in yesteryear. We're just regular parts of political organizing. I think the The election committee that's being formed now is sort of the you know, In some ways, the final coffin of Hongkong's, You know, sort of attempt to move towards some form of fuller democracy and They're basically going to be appointing quite a large chunk of Ledge Co. And then you have this other committee that will be vetting candidates for suitability for office based on patriotism and another qualifications and just the other day, there was a long Press conference from Carrie Lam, the chief executive about the oath, taking the kind of loyalty pledge to China that they were making all these district councillors take, which has led to an exodus of 260 of the nearly 500. You know, Um local district councillors who won office back in November 2019. So it's a It's A It's a high threshold for patriotism and, well, that was an election that that scared the establishment here and also, Beijing had 85% of the seats won by Quote unquote opposition politicians. So Matthew, in your view, is politics dead in Hong Kong. Bone in any, uh, conventional sense that we would understand it from the democratic world. Yes, obviously it is theirs. Almost no tolerance for departure from the kind of official pro government line at this point. I mean, we've seen that there's been a, uh, correctly described by Indians very good in our systems approach. I mean, that's what we've seen. It's been a purge of the opposition pretty much in its entirety. If I could draw a comparison with the regulatory crackdown in China, we have seen the party in a couple of instances, seemingly get on the defensive and come out and try to soften the blow of this. Matthew, Have you seen anything like that in this realm? No, not at all. I think Um, I think it's very clear that they, um they just the Communist Party decided they were. They were very, I think alarmed by the progress of events in Hong Kong. Probably particularly by the District Council elections at the end of 2019. After all the unrest, uh sometimes violent protests. Um, and there had been this line pumped out by the government and its supporters that there was a silent majority who were against the protests, and I think they really actually believe that they expected these people to come out. Uh, and repudiate what had happened in Hong Kong in the course of 2019, and we saw the opposite We saw at landslide for the pro democracy parties. And I think they decided very clearly, then that that's it. We're not having any more of it, Matthew. Thank you. Matthew Brooker, columnist for Bloomberg Opinion here in Hong Kong, and Ian.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"elections committee" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm John Tucker in New York with your global look ahead of the top stories for investors in the coming weeks. I want to watch in Hong Kong in the coming week. If you're wondering about the areas political future and for more, let's go to Hong Kong down Bloomberg Daybreak Asia host Brian Curtis John in the coming week, Hong Kong will hold the election committee subsector elections. Only those vetted to be patriots are eligible, so it's perhaps better to say the committee will be formed in the coming week. There will be 1500 members of the Election committee. This committee is responsible for electing 40 of the 90 seats in the Legislative Council in the 2021 election that's coming up in December. And the chief executive in the 2022 election. Joining me is Matthew Brooker, columnist for Bloomberg Opinion in Hong Kong. And Ian Marlowe. Senior government reporter Ian Perhaps I can go to you first. Well, let me just tell the audience. We have opposition parties that have disbanded here in Hong Kong. We have leading opposition figures like Martin Lee and Lee Wing Tat, who have either retired or left Hong Kong many democracy supporters like Jimmy Lai, who are currently in jail and others. Student leaders, former student leaders like Nathan Law and others have resettled. Abroad. So first let me put it to you. What is the threshold for politicians here to prove that one is a patriot? Yeah. I mean, I think there's a low tolerance for any sort of, uh, opposition sentiment at the moment in Hong Kong. I mean, we've we've We've always had a situation in Hong Kong, where People had to be had to be judged to have genuinely upheld the basic law of any constitution here before running for office. But the situation now is that people are being over the last year and a bit disqualified, kicked out of office of fully jailed for National security crimes or alleged crimes that were, you know, basically in yesteryear. We're just regular parts of political organizing. I think the The election committee that's being formed now is sort of the you know, In some ways, the final coffin of Hongkong's, You know, sort of attempt to move towards some form of fuller democracy and They're basically going to be appointing quite a large chunk of Ledge Co. And then you have this other committee that will be vetting candidates for suitability for office based on patriotism and another qualifications and just the other day, there was a long Press conference from Carrie Lam, the chief executive about the oath, taking the kind of loyalty pledge to China that they were making all these district councillors take, which has led to an exodus of 260. Of the nearly 500 You know, local District councillors who won office back in November 2019. So it's a It's A It's a high threshold for patriotism and, well, that was an election that scared the establishment here, and also, Beijing had 85% of the seats won by Quote unquote opposition politicians of Matthew in Your view is politics dead in Hong Kong. Bone in any, uh, conventional sense that we would understand it from the Democratic world. Yes, obviously it is that there's Almost no tolerance for departure from the kind of official pro government line at this point. I mean, we've seen that there's been a, uh, correctly described by Indians very good analysis as a perch. I mean, that's what we've seen. It's been a purge of the opposition pretty much in its entirety. If I could draw a comparison with the regulatory crackdown in China, we have seen the party in a couple of instances, seemingly get on the defensive and come out and try to soften the blow of this. Matthew, Have you seen anything like that in this realm? No, not at all. I think, uh, Um, I think it's very clear that they, um they, the Communist Party decided they were. They were very, I think alarmed by the progress of events in Hong Kong. Probably particularly by the District Council elections at the end of 2019. After all the unrest, uh sometimes violent protests. Um, and there had been this line pumped out by the government and its supporters that there was a silent majority who were against the protests, and I think they really actually believe that they expected these people to come out. Uh, and repudiate what had happened in Hong Kong in the course of 2019, and we saw the opposite We saw at landslide for the pro democracy parties. And I think they decided very clearly, then that that's it. We're not having any more of it, Matthew. Thank you. Matthew Brooker, columnist for Bloomberg Opinion here in Hong Kong, and Ian Marlowe, senior government reporter in Hong Kong. I'm Brian Curtis here in Hong Kong. Along with Doug Prisoner you can catch us every weekday for Bloomberg. Daybreak. Asia, beginning at six, A.m. in Hong Kong and six p.m. on Wall ST John Brian, Thanks alive just ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak weekend. Elon Musk's space venture..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"elections committee" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"York with your global look ahead of the top stories for investors in the coming week. Want to watch in Hong Kong in the coming week? If you're wondering about the areas political future, and for more, let's go to Hong Kong down Bloomberg Daybreak Asia host Brian Curtis Johnny in the coming week, Hong Kong will hold the election committee subsector elections. Only those vetted to be patriots are eligible, so it's perhaps better to say the committee will be formed in the coming week. There will be 1500 members of the Election committee. This committee is responsible for electing 40 of the 90 seats in the Legislative Council in the 2021 election that's coming up in December. And the chief executive in the 2022 election. Joining me is Matthew Brooker, columnist for Bloomberg Opinion in Hong Kong. And Ian Marlowe. Senior government reporter Ian Perhaps I can go to you first. Well, let me just tell the audience. We have opposition parties that have disbanded here in Hong Kong. We have leading opposition figures like Martin Lee and Lee Wing Tat, who have either retired or left Hong Kong many democracy supporters like Jimmy Lai, who are currently in jail. And others. Student leaders, former student leaders like Nathan Law and others have resettled abroad. So first let me put it to you. What is the threshold for? Politicians here to prove that one is a patriot. Yeah. I mean, I think there's a low tolerance for any sort of, uh, opposition sentiment at the moment in Hong Kong. I mean, we've we've We've always had a situation in Hong Kong, where People had to be had to be judged to have genuinely upheld the basic law of any constitution here before running for office. But the situation now is that people are being over the last year and a bit disqualified, kicked out of office of fully jailed for National security crimes or alleged crimes that were, you know, basically in yesteryear. We're just regular parts of political organizing. I think the The election committee that's being formed now is sort of the you know, In some ways, the final coffin of Hongkong's, You know, sort of attempt to move towards some form of fuller democracy and They're basically going to be appointing quite a large chunk of Ledge Co. And then you have this other committee that will be vetting candidates for suitability for office based on patriotism and another qualifications and just the other day, there was a long Press conference from Carrie Lam, the chief executive about the oath, taking the kind of loyalty pledge to China that they were making all these district councillors take, which has led to an exodus of 260. Of the nearly 500 You know, local District councillors who won office back in November 2019. So it's a It's A It's a high threshold for patriotism and, well, that was an election that that scared the establishment here and also, Beijing had 85% of the seats won by Quote unquote opposition politicians. Matthew, in Your view is politics dead in Hong Kong. Bone in any, uh, conventional sense that we would understand it from the democratic world. Yes, obviously it is theirs. Almost no tolerance for departure from the kind of official pro government line at this point. I mean, we've seen that there's been a Correctly described by Indians very good analysis as approach. I mean, that's what we've seen. It's been a purge of the opposition pretty much in its entirety. If I could draw a comparison with the regulatory crackdown in China, we have seen the party in a couple of instances, seemingly get on the defensive and come out and try to soften the blow of this. Matthew, Have you seen anything like that in this realm? No, not at all. I think Um, I think it's very clear that they, um they just the Communist Party decided they were. They were very, I think alarmed by the progress of events in Hong Kong. Probably particularly by the District Council elections at the end of 2019. After all the unrest, uh sometimes violent protests. Um, and there had been this line pumped out by the government and its supporters that there was a silent majority who were against the protests, and I think they really actually believe that they expected these people to come out. Uh, and repudiate what had happened in Hong Kong in the course of 2019, and we saw the opposite We saw at landslide for the pro democracy parties. And I think they decided very clearly, then that that's it. We're not having any more of it, Matthew. Thank you. Matthew Brooker, columnist for Bloomberg Opinion here in Hong Kong, and Ian Marlowe, senior government reporter in Hong Kong. I'm Brian Curtis here in Hong Kong. Along with Doug Prisoner you can catch us every weekday for Bloomberg. Daybreak. Asia, beginning at six, A.m. in Hong Kong and six p.m. on Wall ST John Brian,.
News Talk 1130 WISN
"elections committee" Discussed on News Talk 1130 WISN
"We're going to allow balance hearing it needs to be consistent, and we found 87% of what continent support that reform and even 83% of Democrats. Support that reform. So that's an idea that you know, sort of gets really across the board bipartisan support. Another one put the notion of ballot harvesting. So this is the idea that um an individual can go around and collect votes from who knows? Who knows what individuals Whether they're legal residents are not Collect them all. Bring them the polls at the same time, or bring them to a dropbox at the same time. We have folks that that should be limited, maybe to just the spouse of an individual that got 65% support across the board, and even 52% of Democrats were on board with that sort of reform. Open C here is on these election integrity measures that By the way, Yes, they increase security, But in some context, they actually can increase access as well. By ensuring that we have uniform standards across the board. The governor is on the wrong side of the debate here. You know, doubt, and they in many cases did not increase security. If they increase security, they wouldn't have allowed highly partisan left wing voter voting activists. Easy access to elections, and we know that that has gone on. There are a lot of records, of course, that the people investigating this stuff representative Jenelle Branch in who is heading up the investigation through the Wisconsin Assembly, Um, campaign and Elections Committee. Um, she's She's gotten a lot of stonewalling coming from these elections officials, which begs the question, What do they have to hide if everybody is talking about free, fair and transparent elections? We're in a difficult spot right now, With some of these elections officials who have been so much less than transparent and I think the numbers show that is exactly what voters in this state want. So do you believe Will that, um, the the polling numbers Evers Sagging polling numbers are a direct response to him. Not listening to the will of the people, basically, um, that issue Yeah, I think that this is an issue that's very important to again. What we see here is not just to Republican voters right? But the notion is that this only matters to Republicans, but Independence and other folks as well. What we really want to cross the border know that the election results we get can be trusted that we're not being things like we saw in Green Bay with, you know, with the TCL group coming in and essentially taking control. Of elections in the municipality was one of the most occurred. Things I've ever heard of, Um people would like to note that the results of the election can be trusted, and these measures that we report the seven bills or vetoed by the governor. Along with a few other things that are sort of common sense. I think absolutely is reflected in these poll numbers. They just showed their sort of across the board opposition to election reform, even things that are totally reasonable and can gain gain a level of bipartisan support. I think all the other issues you mentioned as well. That unilateralism with regard to covid, Um, the sort of standing back as we see our schools taken over by, uh, you know this critical race theory idea all of these things, I think, play a role. I think the election integrity peace is a very important component. Very good, sir. In very interesting poll, you can find it at the will, Of course, the Wisconsin Institute for Long Liberty we have and empower Wisconsin, put together a story. We've got the numbers there it empower Wisconsin dot org, Of course. We will be watching. This is 14 months less than 14 months to go between now in November, 2022. But I would imagine that these numbers have to be concerning for the governor. Thanks so much for your time will Thank you very much. Right me on. Have a great day. You bet. Doctor will Flanders research Director Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty again. The numbers show Tony Evers below 50%, but I think it's extremely interesting that this is a man. Back in, Uh, late March was at 65% Favorability. No longer there is the tone, man. We'll take a quick break and wrap it up this hour of the Vicki McKenna show coming.
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"It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Noel King, and I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning. Texas is not finished debating its voting laws over the holiday weekend. The legislative session ended in Texas Republicans in the Legislature wanted to pass a bill with numerous changes to election rules. Democrats walked off the House floor denied the majority party a quorum. Stopped business and they ran out the clock. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is expected to call a special session to consider the bill again quite soon, and Republican State representative Travis Clarity will have more work as a result of its on the House Elections Committee in Texas. And he joins us now. Good morning, sir. Good morning, Steve. Great to be on the show and I've got I've got to say a long time listener on your Red River radio affiliates. All right. Thank you for listening. I appreciate that, sir. Now Governor, Greg Abbott threatened to veto the pay for state legislators and their staffs for failing to get their work done. I gather he was aiming at Democrats, but that would also affect you was that appropriate? I think he he shot with a pretty big shotgun on that one. But I don't think that's going to become a reality. Uh, you know, if you think about it, uh, you know, we've been going for 140 days with session temper skill. Broad wars the end, so let's let everybody settle down, and I think we'll move fans that little bump in the road. It does sound like you're more likely to go into special session and consider this legislation again. But I want you to. As you know, there's a lot of strong feelings about this representative. I want you TOC beak to people who disagree with you hear Republicans across this country. And this just seems like a matter of fact to me have pushed for voting changes based on former President Trump's lie that the election was stolen, totally false. Thousands of election officials from both parties certified the results. Dozens of courts upheld the results. So why would Texas follows so many other states and trying to change the rules based on that? Now, you tell you also sorry. The actual we took in the Texas Legislature had nothing to do with the trump election. I've served in the state government in the Texas state Legislature. I looked at the elections we had in this past fall, and I'm very confident and very confident, comfortable with work done by election officials at the statewide level of that throughout the state. I have zero doubt about the legitimacy of lectures in Texas. That's really not the point for us. This is a preventative measure for us. We do have in her testimony. Rather session of problems of voter irregularities of voter fraud of cases currently being investigated. It is an issue it is a real thing, but I think it's our job to make sure that doesn't blossom into a problem that disturbs the underlying One of the underpinnings of our democracy That is confidence in our elections. So we took them a reason to measure steps. Did you find more than a handful of actual cases of voter fraud over the years? Because our correspondents who reported on this rarely find more than a handful? You know, it's a great question. And the short answer is yes, we have testimony from the office of Attorney General on there is a disturbing trend that we see in Texas. You go back half a dozen years there. Maybe you said a dozen cases. 10 cases 20 cases 25 cases. That trend line has moved mark dramatically, with the hundreds of cases now being investigated on Gwen appropriate prosecuted by the office of Attorney General. So no, there's there's distinct pickup and some of the activities. Frankly, they don't happen in the part of the world that I represent. There are things that I heard discussed in the committee for the first time. Concerning both harvesting that goes on in a very high level of a very organized level in the parts of our state. So it zah real issue about exact job not to allow this. Think of the fester become a problem that makes people really doubt. Religion out counsel, it goes. Do I think that was one of the most troubling things going to happened out of the last election? The seeds of doubt? They were so about how there was a national reaction that song with the Trump election representative. This bill has changed a lot in the last few days, so you'll correct me if I'm a little wrong here. But do I understand it correctly that under the new rules a judge confined, there is a preponderance of evidence, not proof, but a preponderance of evidence, which is lower standard of proof. That and that there's some some ballots were illegal and without actually trying to find out who won the election. He can change the result of the election. Is that correct? No, that that's really not accurate that Steve and I will tell you hope I have a kindred soul on this. One of you know, we came down to the literally The last few hours T get cynical seven past as amended by the House and worked in conference. Yeah, well, I'm sure you don't know many reporters. It will push the deadline and had to push something through and get it on the on the on the on air happen once in a while. That's what's required. And I will tell you I do regret there's something I regret about what we did is we didn't really have the time to inform the other members legislation both Republican and Democrats of the details of what's in the legislation. I do know we will be having special section. I look forward of cleaning this up. There's some great pieces of legislation and some things we worked on that they grow. Make elections. Favorable, open, more transparent. That's the gold here. We really want everybody it's eligible to vote. To be able to vote is easy and timely as they can. When I read what I think, is the final version of this legislation that limits the number of hours that account he can have early voting on a Sunday Which some people will think is targeted directly it souls to the polls. Black church events Can you tell me why limiting the number of hours of voting on a Sunday would make elections more secure?.
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"The driver picked up her cell phone today now faces a felony vehicular homicide charge car radios, Heather Bosch explains. The Washington State Patrol says a 78 year old man was changing a tire on I five into coma. When this happened, driver Dad approached him was distracted by looking at her cell phone and she struck him. Unfortunately, fatally injured him two per Robert Dreier says the driver's been booked on suspicion of vehicular homicide. A felony riots is despite tougher laws more than 122 people died in Washington state last year because of distracted driving. That's 10 people a month, she admits using city resource is to promote her tax Amazon proposals Now City Council member Shama Sarwan's Has agreed to pay the penalty radios in the Scott reports Thesixties Ethics and Elections Committee will vote tonight's on the Sawant settlement settlement requires someone pay over $3500 double the amount of city money her office spent promoting her tax. Amazon ballot initiative, which salon had promised at the City Council didn't pass one on its own, which it did. Want also Ding for violating city elections and ethics code by using our city office to create posters supporting that initiative and promoting it on her official city website, So once legal team had argued it was not a violation, since all that happened prior to the actual filing of the initiative, But that defense was quest when the state Supreme Court Allowed the recall against her to go forward on those same grounds. Hospitalization rates for covert or down statewide, but health officials still have concerns about intensive care unit numbers. Dr. John Lynch is an infectious disease specialist with you W medicine, which has about a dozen people with Cove it in the ICU now getting patients for across the state who are required ICU level care for their covert 19 infections, which is keeping our ICU number's fairly high as a reflection of what's going around the state still in, says he's hopeful the state is at the end of the beginning of that fourth wave as new cases flat, so and vaccination rates rise. I will. Radio weather We will see a high Today of 65. Partly.
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"elections committee" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Fraud. People love to use the word fraud. Or they will point to one example where something could not go right. It is such an unlikely crime that we shouldn't franchise the 99.9999% of good actors in our state, the House voted to place a question about early voting and expanded absentee. Ballot access on the ballot next fall. If approved by voters next year. The Legislature then could act to create the early voting system the following year. The bill now moves on to the Senate. Meanwhile, Texas looks to be the next day to revamp voting laws. The Texas House advanced a bill early this morning that will essentially restrict some voting measures. Here's more from CBS News political reporter Adam Brewster lawmakers made significant revisions to the bill overnight. Debate on the bill started with Democrats grilling the Republican House Elections committee chair and questioning why the changes were necessary. The process came to a halt when Democrats filed the procedural challenge in several amendments were agreed upon. During that pause. The amended bill lowers initially proposed criminal penalties for voting errors gives partisan poll watchers some more power but makes it easier to remove them for disruptions. It also bans election officials from sending unsolicited absentee ballot applications. There's Agreement that there has been some movement in the ongoing strike by nurses at ST Vincent Hospital in Worcester. But, apparently right now there's no an insight. Let's find out more from WBC's John Bay back. There has been some movement. Not enough, though, and the strike of unionized nurses at ST Vincent Hospital in Worcester. The key stumbling block is the 1 to 4 nurse to patient ratio that the nurses want as opposed to the 1 to 5 ratio that the hospital is seeking. The union meeting over the next couple of days with rank and file nurses to determine what happens next. There's been no new date set yet for another round of negotiations. The strike has lasted more than two months. In the Worcester bureau. John Bay Bag WBZ Boston's news radio. It's 10 await over now to Wall Street and business. Here's Tracy junkie at Bloomberg and Tracy. The jobs numbers not too hot. Yeah, There is a huge disappointing difference Jobs. Wall Street's reaction kind of makes you wonder what would have happened if the news was better than down SNP are rising to records. Dow's up 125, the S and P 27 points, the NASDAQ except 150. Some small businesses say business is booming there. In the tattoo business tattoo artists are telling you, I say today that many customers are in a celebratory mood because of vaccines. I'm Tracy Junkie Bloomberg business on WBZ Boston's news radio. It's.
Closer Look
China passes Hong Kong election law despite US warning
"Beijing has passed a law giving it effective control over Hongkong's election system. NPR's Emily Fang reports. The new law comes on the last day of big political meetings in China. Dubbed as quote perfecting Hongkong's electoral system. The new law in practice does something very different. It allows Beijing to expand an election committee with its own appointees that can pick the region's top leader and a chunk of its legislators. Guaranteeing pro Beijing factions control and both institutions.
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China set to revamp Hong Kong's electoral system
"It effective control over hong kong's system npr's. Emily fang says the law comes on the last day that china is holding big political meetings dubbed as quote perfecting hong kong's electoral system. The new law in practice does something very different. It allows beijing to expand an election committee with its own appointees that can pick the region's top leader some legislators and veto election candidates guaranteeing pro-beijing factions control in both institutions and two thousand eighteen massive anti-government protests against beijing's rule rock hong kong since then beijing has used laws to eliminate room for dissent hundreds of activists journalists and politicians have been arrested under a national security law passed last and today's law passed. An annual legislative and political summit in beijing makes it impossible for pro-democracy parties in hong kong to win control of the legislature as they had hoped to do last autumn. Emily chang. Npr news beijing. Today is the tenth
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China changes Hong Kong's election system
"China's National People's Congress has approved measures that will strip Hongkong's parliament of any effective opposition. The new rules will allow a pro Beijing panel to vet all candidates for the Hong Kong legislature and reduce the number of members directly elected by the public. Johnson Worth reports. Changes to Hong Kong is political system will mean a bigger role for an election committee stacked in favor of Beijing, giving it the power to disqualify any candidate deemed insufficiently patriotic. And to appoint others directly. China says this is about restoring stability following years of protests. Critics argue it's the final nail in the coffin for Hong Kong special freedoms, bringing a once freewheeling, sometimes unruly city into line with the rest of China.
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"In these and other complex text questions from a Tre Detroit businesses learn more Schindel rock dot com. This is the guy Gordon Show on news Talk. 7 60 wjr want to get your thoughts about Secretary Benson's proposals that she rolled out yesterday and we illustrated a few of them for you Also talk to Anne Boleyn, who's gonna be on the Ethics Committee of the Elections Committee. It will be reviewing all of this. In the meantime, interesting story just popped on The Detroit News. The state superintendent of schools, Michael Rice, was testifying in the House. And said that he believes that all districts in the state of Michigan need to extend their school years this year. That they need to go beyond the 180 days have required instruction to try to make up for the Devils. He said. Look, we needed more than 180 days. Even before the pandemic Now we certainly need more days. And this has really been born out in surveys with parents Education Trust Midwest put out a survey that shows the majority of parents Who normally would be saying, Hey, leave us alone in the summer. Let us take her kids on vacation. The majority of parents now say, Yeah, we've got to do summer school this year. We've got to catch up because this virtual learning Just isn't cutting it. So the state superintendent calling on lawmakers to legislatively extend the school year and make it Maura than 180 days, and to do that. Permanently. My only question is is what good does it do to extend the school year? If we aren't going to get the kids and the teachers back in the classroom? If you can't do that, What is the point? I'm just extending virtual learning that we know isn't as effective if you've got some if you're in the education business if you're an educator, if you've serving at a school board, love to know what you think about this 1, 808 5909571, 808 590 W. J. R and you know, the governor said on March 1st deadline to get in person instruction to set that is the goal. That's still a month away. And by the way, the Let them play folks did file suit Today. They're opening this up in a number of different ways. They're saying that it's an age discrimination. How does that happen? Well, because they say, Look, the college kids can play prose can play but you're not letting high school kids play. The arbitrariness of it. You could have 68 people on an open skate at an ice rink. But you can't have 11 hockey players playing high school sports on an ice rink after school. The fact that you can have kids playing basketball during PE, but as soon as the bell rings it three they can't play anymore. They also say, Look, governor, if you want to look at science and data, we've got the science and data. All of the nearby states around us are playing winter sports, all of them. Hyah! Have higher infection rates. And have higher incidences of positive tests than what we've got. Where is the common sense in that? S so they make they also make this a civil rights issue. They have evidence that this hits Urban District's harder and they also have a number of plaintiffs who are pretty compelling. These are in many cases, elite high school athletes, kids, They're relying on their athletic skills to get them a full ride to college. It will determine their life's path. They say this arbitrariness of shutting down Winter athletics until February, 21st and they have no confidence that they're going to be able to go back then. Because they keep moving the goal posts on this Um, that this is derailing their life plan. So if you wanna weigh in on that, anyway, they let them play folks, and I gotta tell you, I I don't know how well they're going to do other attempts, using arguments that may not be as novel Either failed. In the courts, or by the time they finally got through the process, and it already been rectified. They'd let them go back in this case every day that they missed would extend the playoffs a little bit later, it would jeopardize spring sports. On deer running out of days on the calendar, and we heard some very compelling testimony on that from from folks. Let's get back to your calls, and I just wanted to get you up to date on those two stories. And if you want to weigh in on that, we certainly welcome it. John is in Detroit, the other John in Detroit..
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"Time that this zone everyone's I'm trying to do a 10 hour thing here in about 10 minutes, but So as part of the rule of having primary ballot access the Republicans and Democrats if this candidate runs for statewide office are required to get the 445 100 signatures. Basically the theory behind that is Look, you have all this free exposure. You have all this free advertising. You should be able to get these signatures. It's 500 all nine Congressional district because the Republican Party and the Democrat Party have these massive built in competitive advantages because of that secretary of State's race qualification That's where the whole Todd Young thing comes. And he didn't get the signatures in one of the congressional district, of course, because he had access to the election board. They threw it out, whatever. But the point is This bill King of yesterday by a guy named Ethan Manning and Ethan Manning is one of those guys that came out of the womb in a suit and tie. I know you should I I looked him up to see a picture of him and I was like that guy definitely counts a lot of beings. He is one of those guys very there is very sad. He's one of those guys remember, Ethan when he was maybe 20 years old, I met even He's wanted to be in politics, as long as he's been reciting the English language. It's really sad character. But what happens is he's now a state rep is very young state rep and what happens to these guys when they get in there? Is they so badly? Want to be liked? They're what they call we called water carriers because I don't have any original ideas don't have any thoughts of their own. They're not capable of thinking things through. So he represents house District. 23 will be giving you his contact information here shortly so you can let me know what you think about this. Which is my Miami caddies Peru. I think part of Logan's ports in the district. And so what happens is experienced legislator comes to young water carrier guy and goes here could put this bill up because you want to move up, right you want You want more power? Your committee ships you can you know of the Republican leadership. And so he agreed to carry this bill. And that is completely gross. Because of all the things going on in this state right now Million plus people put out of work. Thousands of businesses shut down the emergency declaration of the governor that the Republican Party the state wraps, the stationers promised they would address right out of the gate. This is what they're putting forward. They're mad that Donald Rainwater got 11.7% of the vote. Republican Republican Party in the state of Indiana is so insecure There's so insecure and they hate freethinkers so much that one libertarian gets above 10%, and they completely freak out and try to move the gold and they're going to move the goal posts. Rainwater didn't win. He wasn't close to winning. But they know hundreds of thousands of people walked away from the Republican Party. Not because rainwater was some dynamo. Sorry, Don. I loved Andre Water, but it's so much of that. And you recognize this was about people being fed up with Eric Holcomb fed up with the lockdown fed up with the man. AIDS and rainwater was a good dude who spoke the truth. The people walking away from the Republican Party wasn't on the libertarians. They didn't do anything different compared what they normally did. It was people waking the hell up and realizing the Republican Party in the state doesn't represent me. So instead of addressing that, instead of doing the right thing, by the way, the Senate already passed a bill re naming popcorn. The official state stack that is important 45 before special state stacks, popcorn. They're all in on that they've done nothing about this governor. They've done nothing about the unconstitutional mass mandate They've done nothing about the lockdown is to shut down all the stuff that they promised because they won't Hair ever cross Eric Holcomb because they saw what happened to Curtis Hill. They do crap like this. Did you crap like this? Go after these libertarians because they know they know will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. That'll be very hard for libertarians to raise to get on the ballot. So is this a done deal like there's no turning back. There's no fixing it, and this is the good thing and hopefully Hopefully, common sense because here's Here's the thing and this is how stupid these establishment Republicans are. Rainwater will get those signatures in 2024 runs again. This is just making people mad at the people are outraged about this, so he'll get those signatures if he has to, But the good thing is it's step one, which is through the elections committee. Now we'll go to the entire house for a vote, and then we'll have to go to the Senate for a vote. So everybody needs to contact their legislature on house. Bill 1134 tell him to reject this partisan bull crap that nobody wanted that nobody talked about. There's a million different things that professional water carrier Ethan Manning could be doing out there. At and he's choosing. He's choosing instead to do something out of spite. Yeah, that's what it seems like. It seems like a very spiteful bill on and Ethan should be better than that. Like I said, even manage should be better than that. The Republican Party should be better than everybody has the rules. Everybody agreed to the rules. There's a million different advantages you guys already have. And hundreds of thousands of people walked away because you sucked. They walked away from you not because of anything the libertarians did, but because of what you did, and they're so they're so insecure man. That's gross. That's gross to be that in secure Republicans are also supposed to be about. They're supposed to love the spirit of competition, and when they're trying to cut off their own competition at the knees, it just does seem like it's purely spite. So I'm gonna give you Ethan Manning's email. He's the head of the Elections committee in the House. He's got to put this Ford Be polite. Respectful, be nice, but you have to tell him what you think of this because it's not again. It's not a partisan thing. It's a political party that controls every facet of government and the Republican Party. Does this all the damn time They make all these promises there, Johnny tough guy, and then they get in there and their name in the state snack. A million. Plus, people are out of work mock and they're naming the state snack. I need to know who the four because what would you tell me? The vote was before 45 before. So, 45 representatives said, yes, Popcorn should be the Indiana State snack and four people were like, No. Uh, I need to understand those four people, so I would urge you to politely respectfully email professional Republican water carrier Ethan Manning. At age 23 at idea that I n dot gov. That's H 23 at idea that I m dot gov and let him know what you think about this. Let him know what you think about the fact that There. It is so blatantly obvious that the Republican Party in the state is so damn insecure and hates free thought so much that your response Two people sending you a message is we'll just make it so when I hear the.
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"elections committee" Discussed on KOMO
"Of floated out there Bare Grower's guild that this had changed and it was sort of up to each of us tow figure out what that meant to each individual spot. There are a handful of hoops dining room still have to go through in order to open and it really does depend on where you are. And while that's working for some others demand fewer rules and lower taxes before they can afford to re opened. Well, there's no signs of fewer rules. The Washington Legislature is working on bipartisan changes that would lower employment taxes for these business owners and millions of dollars in emergency grants. None of them passed yet but many pieces of legislation of being heard this week. Brian Calvert Co. Moh news on Wednesday a bill that would move the entire state to phase two of the pandemic reopening plan will get a hearing before the Senate state government and Elections Committee faced who would allow gyms and restaurants to reopen for indoor service at 25% capacity. One of Bill's sponsor says We should be cautious about reopening but not overly cautious. Coming up here on the comb all morning news Your president Trump, please ignore our governor. I'm Corwin. Hey, CA Congress Members Plea for Wildfire Aid at 6 34. Let's check your driver. Couple traffic every 10 minutes from the dupe in law Group Traffic center. Here's Tammy building. Traffic is so polite this morning. I'm seeing for the first time on the Valley Freeway. Just past highway 18 north bound 167 right around 15th Street Northwest. Ah, little bit of slowing. This is aces for a traffic reporter. And I'm also seeing a little bit of slowing through the s curves right around sunset. But other than that, it seems all of our highways and freeways are wide open and moving at the speed limit. And some of the mountain passes. We're not expecting any weather right now or for the rest of the week. Really? So we've got no restrictions, except for traction Tire advisory for Steven's pants. The next traffic reported 6 44 Tammy Bennett for Come on news traffic sponsored this time by Beacon plumbing, heating and electrical called Beacon today, say $50 in all heating and air conditioning. Just call 1 800 freaking and stop.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
What's the deal in Kyrgyzstan?
"The being few short remains for foreign observers of a given event to be clown themselves than by drawing convenient comparisons we should probably banish any suggestion that what is happening in Kingston has anything much in common with what has been happening in Belarus. There are granted superficial similarities, lodge crowds of citizens who aren't buying the result of a recent election and amount of violence between protesters and police but recent events in Belarus are actually pretty straightforward overstaying tyrant Riggs won election to many demonstrations and the present standoff ensue. Kingston. Is some several layers more complicated and seems poised for a more decisive and dramatic? K. Gaston voted in parliamentary election on Sunday. This was not necessarily predestined to be a Hollow Mockery K. Gaston previous parliamentary election in two thousand fifteen pretty decent reviews from international observers on Freeness and fairness fronts certainly by the generally would be gone standards of Central Asia. This is was different not least because this really doesn't happen. Often the governing party didn't turn up Kingston Social Democratic. Party was stunned by loyalties divided between Kingston's current President Surin by Jeenbekov and he's predecessor Almaz atom by of the two former have fallen out badly in recent years to the extent that last August automobile was arrested and this past June sentenced to eleven years in the clink on corruption charges. As of Monday morning Adam Beyer was a man thanks to the crowds which stormed the National Security Committee building in Bishkek with the former president was being held former Prime Minister John Toro Sati Baldev also on the hook on corruption charges will sprung in similar circumstances. According to official results only four parties of the sixteen contested Sunday's election past the threshold of seven percent necessary to take seats in Kigali stands parliament the Supreme Council three of these parties protesters could not help but notice enjoyed the favour of president. Jeenbekov, who was widely believed to have had his thumb on the scales protests on Monday morning started small and peaceful grew larger and Rowdier, and by Monday evening had taken the parliament building set bits of it on fire and set about redecorating the surrounding streets with ransacked documents. Giga Stan does have an amount of foam for this sort of thing in two thousand and five mass protests which eventually became known as the Tulip Revolution. Forced President Askar Akayev from office. He is now a mathematics professor at Moscow State University in two thousand and ten his successor. Kurmanbek Bakiyev also skipped the country with an angry mob at his heels he was lost heard of. In Minsk begin with breaking news in Kirghistan, the prime minister has resigned. Vert list of is leaders overthrown by popular acclaim. Now appears to have been joined by Prime Minister Cutback Borakove who resigned after the positive results of Sunday's election were annulled by electoral authorities nominated. Piece, in the country and stability in society is more important than any politicians mandates. Suggests that the central. Election Committee thoroughly investigate any violations during the election process. That's a no the result if necessary. I asked political leaders to calm the voters and ask them to take part in gathering. As, this explainer went to wear President Jeenbekov precise whereabouts on certain was also making these sort of statements of willingness to pass power along to responsible new leaders. That one issues is one shovels, the contents of the state treasury into one's Portman toes and frantically oldest one's pilot to fire up the engines and seek clearance for landing in some capital. Four, it's interesting extradition treaties. Possibly significantly President Jeenbekov found the time earlier today to convey birthday greetings to President Vladimir. Putin of Russia volunteering ernest appreciation of Putin's it says here, great contribution and constant attention to the consistent expansion and development of cages Russian multifaceted ties. Custodians Parliament has installed a new prime minister Saadia drop her off another politician who was in prison time last week, it very much remains to be seen how long he'll lost with the parliament buildings still occupied by protesters. Mr Japan was appointed at an emergency meeting in Bishkek hotel, which he had to leave virus service entrance. Once his presence became public knowledge the crowd still filling the streets and squares of Bishkek seen Kina until I talked to Gassiev, a businessman who trades in your shaped greenhouses and is also a representative of a younger generation of caregivers politicians. He is claiming the mantle of the head of government. As to what happens next, it may become important that to external players in particular will be hoping that what happens next? Little as possible Russia maintains a military airbase account in Gaston north China which borders Kingston to the south is a major trading partner. As, both will understand however, an as another cohort of caregivers politicians are presently learning the hard
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Facebook Fights Fake News With New Tools
"On its services. Its latest bid to fight off politically motivated interference in elections from India to the European Union. Let's head over to Europe for more joining us from Paris via Skype is Wall Street Journal reporter Sam Schechner Sam how you doing good. So the twenty sixteen US election seem like eons ago, we know that the handling of Russian interference did not go well political warfare wreaking havoc on social media. It's clearly a global issue. And it seems like Europe is the next big test. How would you describe the heightened level of concern? They're fast forwarding to January twenty nineteen. Where are we right now? We're just a few months out from a big parliamentary election for the us parliament and in the U. There are definitely concerns that Russia or other foreign actors are gonna try to sway the the national votes. In each country. They vote for the parliament, and they're certainly expectations that you know, eurosceptics or other anti-establishment or extremist candidates could could win significant support. So against that backdrop that you is been pushing companies to do more to try to contain in authentic, actively disinformation big news. And that's something that Facebook actually has been doing itself it's been under a lot of pressure in the US and elsewhere. And so it's been sort of its plan has been to roll out. Some of these features new features that they call add transparency and election integrity as elections come up. So there was you know, they did some before the Irish election last year and then before the US midterm election last year. And so then there's the next country is going to be India. And then following that they're doing some stuff in the EU and gonna roll these things out globally, but the EU is definitely a really complicated sphere. And I think it'd be one of the bigger tests simply because it involves dozens of countries and languages at the same time tall order, but it's got a game plan. You mentioned some of the tools that it's got on its belt right now. So how is it going to prevent this foreign interference? I imagine a lot of the focus will go into political advertising and making it more transparent. Yes. And I think that you know, I think a lot of people might say that that response is only part of the issue. You know, a lot of what people are seeing online is in this fairly paid ads, but his other what Facebook would call coordinated in authentic activity from fake accounts and things like that and Facebook has been removing accounts. Not all of his accounts are buying ads. You know, are purporting to be normal people spreading stories, and and things that aren't true. So this is tackling one element that problem people can debate how active it is. But with Facebook is doing. As they are rolling out a system whereby all political ads and ads that are issue ads on certain specific hot button issues that they are going to determine with outside. Entities. Have to have a disclaimer about who paid for the ad, and then you can click on that and see who's behind it. So that's that's one thing. And when can also debate whether or not the disclosure is is really deep enough. It's the there you need to enter the name of a group to buy the ad does that mean in the ads need to be approved. But does that mean necessarily that? There's enough information there to really determine who's behind it. You know that that's something that's been been debated. The second thing that this book is rolling out is what you know, essentially, a searchable database of ads because base book ads are by definition targeted at individual people based on their web, browsing habits, and that includes political ads they somebody decides that they want to target tiny because they know that she's really really interested in, you know, I don't know more pizza on Thursdays and. That's your political issue. I surprised it's political issue. But that's the thing you really activists about. And so they can target newly glad based just on that. So, you know, but that means I won't see those ads if I'm trying to see if there's an influence operation targeting people who like pizza on Thursdays. I wouldn't know about it. So the searchable database is supposed to solve that problem. All political ads are available there, and you can see who they were targeted at and why. And so they're rolling that out progressively and by June. It's supposed to be supposed to be global for all the elections that they're that. They're covering can't be stated enough how complicated. This is clearly and Facebook has been accused of not acting quickly enough not doing enough to get on the ball here. Where are its critic standing with its current efforts? What sentiment are you getting from them? Critics would say that they want more information that they want more data about who is buying the political ads that the transparency. Doesn't go far enough. Facebook says that they're making steps in that direction that it's a work in progress. And they know they have more to do. So it is possible that this pressure could could lead to two more action currently doing this sort of voluntarily in many cases, there's not, you know, something like the federal elections commission requirements for for donations. You know to to say who is buying which ads on Facebook election committees have to disclose where they spend money. So you can see all these campaigns spent money on Facebook, but you can't necessarily see which groups bought which adds. So this is adding some transparency provided and then on top of that, you know, I think people who are critics of Facebook would say that you know, beyond paid ads. They have more work to do on on the transparency for which kind of content is being shown to whom because it's the organic content. That's not always paid for that can lead to some of this very viral spreading of false information. So, you know. And that's something that Facebook has tackled to some extent recently. They've put restrictions in certain parts of the world on how many people you can share information with the what's at to help reduce the virology of some of some of the content, which is, you know, been seen to been accused of inciting violence, for instance. It's something that we're just clearly in the thick of. And again Europe is obviously going to be the next big test. Thank you for the latest on that front. Sam we always appreciate it. Thanks for having me that doesn't for the tech news briefing reporting from the newsroom in New York, I'm tiny boost us. Thanks for
Larry O'Connor
Conspiracy theorist Jones seeks dismissal of Sandy Hook defamation suit
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Vicki McKenna
Komi, Solicitation and Hillary Clinton discussed on Vicki McKenna
"The nba all rookie team the celtics jason tatum cow whose mother lakers and the bulls lauri markkanen round out the first team lakers point guard lonzo ball named to the second team the attorney for bucks forward sterling brown is reporter says his client is suing the milwaukee police department following his arrest in january the milwaukee journal sentinel reports brown was not combated during the arrest but police joe's tuesday stun gun on brown brown was never charged the nfl has approved the sale of the carolina panthers to david tepper for two point two seven five billion it is range i mean there's there's there's commentary alone on the presses refusal to report the actual story of the f b i spying on the trump campaign the way it's necessary to report it it is a legal what the fbi did they they got foreign foreign intelligence court surveillance tools to spy on the trump campaign in order to get those tools in order to use those kinds of tools against american citizens you must have evidence of purpose evidence of purposeful clandestine criminal activity on behalf of a foreign power getting george popadopoulos drunk in london and telling him at the russians might have hillary clinton emails and getting him to repeat that is not evidence of purposeful clandestine criminal activity on behalf of a foreign power mets that's what they've got and that was after the fact after they planted the spies in the trump campaign eric o'keefe is on the phone with me right now right now eric the media is trying to make this sound like komi was doing trump a solid by not telling anybody that the fbi was illegally spying on his campaign they're they're gonna have to do better picky they're going to have to do better than that i agree this this is the this is the greatest political scandal in american history it already looks that way by the way i just got an email purporting to be from donald trump so it's it's a solicitation email but still is from his election committee and and just i i'm gonna read it just because it captures a few things in the fact that the president of the united states would have this go out over his name indicates where we are in p people have heard us say some of these things already on the.