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Bloomberg Radio New York
"five seats" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of emergency for new york city that's according to a b c and we'll have some more reporting on that but i can tell you as you see that i did not on your phone you should have gotten on your mobile phone an emergency alert uh... said that from the national weather service a flash flood uh... is their warning flash flood until twelve thirty p m and they're saying do not attempt to travel unless you're fleeing an area uh... that is subject to flooding or under an evacuation order yeah great and the subways are impacted as well so uh... you knows that explained to me in our listeners how five members of the scan have so much influence in impact on the broader u s government i'd just don't get the the math so the house usually operates on something called a rule that gets placed on the floor uh... before they can get to final passage of any bill they basically have to set the terms of debate that actually create the floor that a bill with a simple majority and remember ken mccarthy only has a four or five seat shorty uh... smaller than that we've got members uh... who are out sick or uh... in one case had designs to some family emergencies uh... and so on those rule votes uh... democrats usually vote against the public is it the same with democrats in the majority is a long -standing practice in the house of representatives and so on those rule votes mccarthy has very little wiggle room in order to get uh... that's more debate set up which then sets the final uh... you know sets the path for a final passage of these bills and that's why over the last couple weeks some of these fiscal twenty four uh... funding bills for things like the department of defense department of agriculture have been tougher to get across the house floors because it's actually been defeating the rules rather than the bill itself uh... and that's usually been done in protest either of the contents of the bill itself as part of this larger debate of enough house freedom caucus members saying that speaker McCarthy is not extracting enough concessions from the Biden administration, the senate, democrats for generally bringing up funding bills that are small enough. Zach, we also received the news this morning that Senator California Feinstein of has passed away. What's the feeling on the hill today? Have you kind of interacted with anyone to give you a sense? I did run into a former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the way into the hill today visibly emotional by the news that Senator Dianne Feinstein of 90 passed away. Last night, a fellow California Democrat had noted that Feinstein in her last day in office actually voted to advance a Senate bill that could end the government shutdown. So certainly some sadness here. Senator Feinstein has been around for a long time on the hill, but obviously has had serious health complications over the years, including a very bad case of shingles earlier this and year that actually took her out of Washington for a couple of weeks. Alright, Zach, thanks very much. We really appreciate that. Zach Cohen, Bloomberg Government reporter. Let's go down to Washington DC right now. Speaker Kevin McCarthy making his remarks. Thank you all. Moments ago, the flags over the Capitol were lowered in memory of Senator Dianne Feinstein. As California's longest serving senator, Senator Feinstein broke barriers and blazed the trail for women. Her career was, by the way, historic. Speaking personally, I worked with the senator for quite some time together on many different bills, but the one that I think stands out was our water legislation. It was historic. It was the first time in California history in more than 25 years that water was the win act. And I remember the hours and the nights that we would have to work to try to work through and the challenges. We come from different parties. We have different philosophies, but we put our state first. At the same time, Barbara Boxer opposed it. It was one of the last votes that the Senate had more than 70 votes at the time. I believe at the end of the day, the trailblazing of the elected mayor, even coming from a different party, inspired women from both sides of the aisle to seek elected office and to have their voices heard. My deepest condolences to her colleagues and to her staff. Last night, the house did something none of you sitting here thought we could do. The number of questions I could take in the number about of weeks doing appropriation bills. I told you, don't give up us on because we're not giving up on the American people. We passed three appropriation bills, defense, state, and foreign ops and Homeland Security. My biggest question is, I don't understand why the Democrats voted against funding the government. In all, we have four appropriation It's bills done. There's 12 overall to get done. It's the discretionary spending every year the government is supposed to do. We have now in the house passed more than 70 % Discretionary spending appropriations. Need I remind you has the Senate passed? Zero. Not one appropriation bill has passed the Senate. We've done what many have said was impossible. When I became speaker I said we're going to change Washington. We did that by keeping our commitment to restoring regular order. Bills that passed committee in June and July have been open for Amendments for months struggled with a number of members who wouldn't allow it to become up, but I never never gave up. 440 Amendments were considered on the floor this week And for those who are historians we are the first Republican majority to pass the state and foreign ops bill through regular order since 2006. My entire political career as member a of Congress, Republicans have never been able to do what they just did last night. As we continue to get conservative wins and return to regular order, we actually need a stopgap
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"Of emergency for new york city that's according to a b c and we'll have some more reporting on that but i can tell you as you see that i did not on your phone you should have gotten on your mobile phone an emergency alert uh... said that from the national weather service a flash flood uh... is their warning flash flood until twelve thirty p m and they're saying do not attempt to travel unless you're fleeing an area uh... that is subject to flooding or under an evacuation order yeah great and the subways are impacted as well so uh... you knows that explained to me in our listeners how five members of the scan have so much influence in impact on the broader u s government i'd just don't get the the math so the house usually operates on something called a rule that gets placed on the floor uh... before they can get to final passage of any bill they basically have to set the terms of debate that actually create the floor that a bill with a simple majority and remember ken mccarthy only has a four or five seat shorty uh... smaller than that we've got members uh... who are out sick or uh... in one case had designs to some family emergencies uh... and so on those rule votes uh... democrats usually vote against the public is it the same with democrats in the majority is a long -standing practice in the house of representatives and so on those rule votes mccarthy has very little wiggle room in order to get uh... that's more debate set up which then sets the final uh... you know sets the path for a final passage of these bills and that's why over the last couple weeks some of these fiscal twenty four uh... funding bills for things like the department of defense department of agriculture have been tougher to get across the house floors because it's actually been defeating the rules rather than the bill itself uh... and that's usually been done in protest either of the contents of the bill itself as part of this larger debate of enough house freedom caucus members saying that speaker McCarthy is not extracting enough concessions from the Biden administration, the senate, democrats for generally bringing up funding bills that are small enough. Zach, we also received the news this morning that Senator California Feinstein of has passed away. What's the feeling on the hill today? Have you kind of interacted with anyone to give you a sense? I did run into a former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the way into the hill today visibly emotional by the news that Senator Dianne Feinstein of 90 passed away. Last night, a fellow California Democrat had noted that Feinstein in her last day in office actually voted to advance a Senate bill that could end the government shutdown. So certainly some sadness here. Senator Feinstein has been around for a long time on the hill, but obviously has had serious health complications over the years, including a very bad case of shingles earlier this and year that actually took her out of Washington for a couple of weeks. Alright, Zach, thanks very much. We really appreciate that. Zach Cohen, Bloomberg Government reporter. Let's go down to Washington DC right now. Speaker Kevin McCarthy making his remarks. Thank you all. Moments ago, the flags over the Capitol were lowered in memory of Senator Dianne Feinstein. As California's longest serving senator, Senator Feinstein broke barriers and blazed the trail for women. Her career was, by the way, historic. Speaking personally, I worked with the senator for quite some time together on many different bills, but the one that I think stands out was our water legislation. It was historic. It was the first time in California history in more than 25 years that water was the win act. And I remember the hours and the nights that we would have to work to try to work through and the challenges. We come from different parties. We have different philosophies, but we put our state first. At the same time, Barbara Boxer opposed it. It was one of the last votes that the Senate had more than 70 votes at the time. I believe at the end of the day, the trailblazing of the elected mayor, even coming from a different party, inspired women from both sides of the aisle to seek elected office and to have their voices heard. My deepest condolences to her colleagues and to her staff. Last night, the house did something none of you sitting here thought we could do. The number of questions I could take in the number about of weeks doing appropriation bills. I told you, don't give up us on because we're not giving up on the American people. We passed three appropriation bills, defense, state, and foreign ops and Homeland Security. My biggest question is, I don't understand why the Democrats voted against funding the government. In all, we have four appropriation It's bills done. There's 12 overall to get done. It's the discretionary spending every year the government is supposed to do. We have now in the house passed more than 70 % Discretionary spending appropriations. Need I remind you has the Senate passed? Zero. Not one appropriation bill has passed the Senate. We've done what many have said was impossible. When I became speaker I said we're going to change Washington. We did that by keeping our commitment to restoring regular order. Bills that passed committee in June and July have been open for Amendments for months struggled with a number of members who wouldn't allow it to become up, but I never never gave up. 440 Amendments were considered on the floor this week And for those who are historians we are the first Republican majority to pass the state and foreign ops bill through regular order since 2006. My entire political career as member a of Congress, Republicans have never been able to do what they just did last night. As we continue to get conservative wins and return to regular order, we actually need a stopgap
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"Selena Zito joins me for the Yinser Report. Good morning, Selena. How are you? Good morning, Sunshine. How are you? I am great. Kevin McCarthy was in the land. I loved your column about it. What was he talking about to you? First of all, where did you do the interview? At this place called the Lake. It's near Poland, which is, as you know, is a suburb of Youngstown where Ron DeSantis's mother is from, actually. Right. Right. So what was he doing there? Was he campaigning for David Joyce? Well, he is campaigning for candidates that already exist, but he's also campaigning and looking for and recruiting candidates in Pennsylvania and Ohio. That's good luck in Pennsylvania. I got a question for you, Selena. Do you boil or do you grill your hot dogs? Oh, grill. Oh, the people who boil their hot dogs, you know, they need to go to confession. You know, Selena, you're so wrong about that. And my poll proved conclusively. I did an online poll. Duane is a grilled person and I'm a boiled person. But you're wrong. Let's go back to Kevin McCarthy. So you sat down in Poland. You crossed over the line. You got your papers. They let you through from Pennsylvania into Ohio. How long were you with the speaker for? The interview went for about 45 minutes. How many columns are you going to get out of that? Well, probably a couple, but this is a, you know, sort of a big profile piece of him in the magazine. And I thought he was really interesting in talking about how he has dealt his hand with only having a five seat majority. And he was really thoughtful about, you know, we actually got more done with five seats than we did when we had a really big majority.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"five seats" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Dollar terms is down 2.3%. But it's tumbled more significantly and is down 60% year to date $18,250 right now. Aside from that, though, it's about the midterms in the U.S. and what that will mean for Biden and stop features for the U.S. have been fluctuating as the results have been coming in. S&P 5 funded immune are currently down a tenth, but now is that futures are up one tenth. U.S. dollar 60 futures also down by four tens of 1% this morning for Europe as for the Chinese developers. They've jumped thanks to the backing of with more state cash effectively a key Bond regulator expanding finance support to 34 and a half $1 billion $1 billion in debt sales to support that industry, although COVID cases have gone up in China to a 5 month high. So that's the kind of thing that's dragging the CSI 300 down. Currently 1% lower hang seng index also down by 1.6% blip a dollar spot index is flat, selling at one 1528 so much speculation about what will come from the chance in a statement on the 17th of November. That is a Bloomberg radio business flash is the angolans with autopsy money now. Caroline, good morning and thank you, Democrats have flipped to key Senate seat with Jon feta men beating memorables and Pennsylvania who is a TV personality backed by Donald Trump while Republicans are projected to gain a House majority, control of the upper house is now a toss up. GOP majorities and one or both congressional chambers would end the Democrats control in Washington and lead to intensify partisan battles and also policy gridlock. Now the UK and EU are close to a major breakthrough in their months long dispute over post Brexit trading rules in Northern Ireland. Bloomberg has learned Brussels has begun testing the UK's live database, which does track goods moving from mainland Britain across the Irish sea. If the EU is satisfied with this very system, it could pave the way for a deal on customs checks. And finally, Matt Hancock says survival in the Australian jungle is a good metaphor for the world. I work in a teaser ahead of him entering. I'm a celebrity on ITV, the former house secretary says people will have the chance to see all sides of him, his decision to go on the show's been heavily criticized as he is, of course, still a working MP. Hancock is expected to enter the camp during tonight's episode. Global news, 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm neon garands, this is Bloomberg, Lizzie. Do we want to see all sides of Matt Hancock Caroline? Well, hanger didn't we see all sides of Matt Hancock? How would you not be very familiar with somebody in the midst of a crisis or once in a century crisis the pandemic et cetera haven't we? I would say. I was just having a look around and some of the newspapers and Matt Hancock, I think, has himself admitted that what happened during COVID will be top of discussions when he does enter the jungle. So it'd be interesting to see what people want to ask him on that front because he did become a divisive character, of course, and we did see lots of various sides. Including his love life. I mean, look, yes. Oh my goodness, the love life as well. Look, I do wonder whether it could be effectively some kind of weird cathartic conversation, you know, who cathartic for the British public perhaps to have that conversation because there was a lot of anger with how Hancock dealt with the situation himself, but also about the pandemic and how many people it killed in Britain, I suppose that's what he'll be hoping he is only human after all. Well, in other news, apart from Matt Hancock, commerce bank has joined its European peers in getting a boost from rising interest rates in the third quarter, prompting the lender to raise a key revenue target even as cost headwinds mount. Net interest income jumped 44% from a year earlier, helping to drive net income past analysts estimates to €195 million. Commerce bank CFO bettina orlop spoke to Bloomberg earlier this hour. Take a listen. You were relating to the 2024 targets where we have increased revenues on the one side, but we are also reacting to the inflation headwinds on the other side. But the basis for that is clearly our 2022 situation. And that's very positive. We have said it will be the expectations. We have seen year to date a really strong revenue base stemming from our two customer segments. We are now 12% up year on year on the revenue side and if you take the burden from Poland decided even 20% up and the risk result came in again and this quarter are very low due to the good asset quality and the real resilience of our specific corporate clients. And yeah, we maintained the cost discipline despite all the headwinds we currently see because of the inflation and that leads us to the fact that we now have generated and net income of nearly €1 billion coupled with a very strong capital ratio of 13.8%. So very satisfying and that gives us the possibility to also weigh expectations for 2024. Patina, good morning. Great results there. I'm just going to clarify there exactly what you're saying about 2024. So you've raised your revenue targets. But you're not raising your profitability targets as you previously anticipated because of inflation. Does that mean we're out of stage where interest rates are no longer a positive tailwind because they're not keeping up with the pace of the inflation rises? And does that mean that we might be coming in a more deteriorating outlook going forward as inflation stays elevated, but interest rates can't keep on rising at the pace they've been first of all, we raised the revenues by 900 million, the cost by 600 million. So we still benefit. So operating income expectations for 2024 are higher than originally expected. Also on the ROTE target, we believe that it will be above 7.3%. So also slight increase, and because income measure indeed sticks to the 60% target, which is for us really a key ratio. You have to keep in mind also what is the basis for our revenue resumptions and we also describe
WMAL 630AM
"five seats" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"You know, that's that's a big problem, And it's about confidence in our system of electing leaders or lack thereof, and about a lot of other things to thank you, Chris. Let's go to. Well, let's go to some audio. Let's go to Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Who, um Here's a Republican. He's talking about what the Democrats are doing, and he's talking about having them arrested. And I mean, like having them arrested having the police arrest them, which would be a wonderful thing, I think, and I went to story after story today from NBC News from CBS News about the horrors of the, uh, that Republican voting bill. And they said the GOP overhaul of election laws that you know they they exaggerate and blow out of proportion the significance of any changes, and then they pretend as though it's always been true that you could drive through. 24 hours like it so Wendy's or something to vote and 140,000 people in Harris County, which is home to Houston, Texas, which is a Democrat stronghold, 140,000 people voted at 24 hour voting. Really how many voted between 10 PM and six AM because saying 24 hour voting that includes the daytime hours to but in 20, 2100 and 40,000 people use 24 hour voting, CBS News says, and they're very excited to announce that How did we ever get by honestly? And the bill also limits early voting and implements more restrictions on absentee voting, including adding more identification requirement, which they say is racist. But black people say isn't the vast majority of black people are in favour of voting. I voter ID by the way, and those who wish to vote by mail You know, Honestly, um, this is about Democrats finding just creating cracks in the facade all over the place that they can utilize, And that's pretty obvious. I'm from Chicago. All right. So here's government Governor Greg Abbott last night talking about the Democrats fleeing the state. Isn't that the most annoying Texan thing you've ever heard Texans running from a fight? They're quitters. There's like during a football game or baseball game, taking their equipment when they're way behind and just leaving the field. That is not the way that Texas Texans do things. Yeah, well, it's the way that Texas Democrats have done things in the past. And in 2003, For example, the CNN headline was Texas House, paralyzed by Democratic Walk out well, Is not a Democratic walk, got its a Democrat party walk out. It's utterly undemocratic. With action in the Texas House brought to a standstill roughly 50 state Democratic representatives said they would remain and neighboring Oklahoma as long as it takes to block a Republican drawn redistricting plan that could cost them five seats in Congress. Well see, this is how redistrict that's how it works, and I'm actually in favor of changing the way that redistricting works, But that's the way that it works. They just decided to flee the state because that's what they do here is Governor Greg Abbott yesterday he's going to put him in cuffs. Lock him up. You know. Like Michaela Benetti. All of their sexual fantasies involve handcuffs once they step back into the state of Texas. It will be arrested and brought to the Texas capital and we will be conducting business and we will be. You know, All they have to do is vote. No, but see what they're doing is they're trying to prevent a quorum so that no vote can be held. It's incredibly undemocratic. It's Banana Republic. It's third world. It's non English speaking countries stuff and typical of the Democrat, Senator Ted Cruz. Also, just this morning on the Fox News Channel weighed in on the very same subject. What you're saying the Democrats do here is a political stunts and, you know, I will say it's ironic as they were getting on their private jet to fly to Washington, D. C. They almost surely had to show identification to get on that jet. And yet they're doing this at a fit because they don't want mail in ballots to be verified. They don't want the signatures to be verified. They don't want basic integrity steps to be strengthened in the state of Texas. This is at the end of the day politics and they need to get back to doing their jobs and one way or the other. They will. And one way or the other. They will, eventually maybe, But in the meantime, there subverting democracy and the news media is applauding. And that's why our news media smells. They smell very badly. Kamala Harris, not a bright woman by any stretch of the imagination. She is the vice president, United States. She was asked about this yesterday, and she thinks that they're like saving private Ryan that they're invading the beaches of Normandy that their bravery is and courage is so extraordinary. Like the cowardly lion that they should be applauded because there is so strong and courageous Kamala Harris yesterday first start by making a statement about the the legislators in Texas who are showing extraordinary courage and commitment, right? I applaud them standing For the rights of all Americans and all Texans to express their voice through their vote unencumbered. Yeah, right that they're not voting that she is as dumb as a stump. Leaving the state in order to prevent a vote is not voting conscience. It's not voting at all. And the extraordinary courage and bravery of police officers every day of our military every day, not of Democrats who charter a jet full of beer, probably stripper pole in the back. They got Hunter Biden brings the crack. They're flying around on a chartered airliner to get away from voting to get out of voting. And she congratulates them for their bravery and their courage in voting. Are you serious? Yes, She's serious, but she's not very bright. And here's Kamala with more praise for the cowards that Fled Texas yesterday. I will say that they are, um they are leaders who are marching in the path that so many others before death when they fought, and then he died on our right to vote. I do believe that fighting for the right to vote is as American as apple pie cackles so fundamental to fighting for the principles of our democracy, So I applaud them. God, that's fraudulent. It's incredibly fragile. No people fought and died on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq and Vietnam and Korea and Europe and Asia during World War two and For the right to vote. Um, this is not fighting for the right to vote. This is not people marching and dying and saying Swede, um another fake story that she lies about from time to time that she stole from Martin Luther King no less. And she's pretending, you know their extraordinary courage and bravery, the leaders and their leading in marching, They love this marching thing. You know all of their all of their political parties in the 20th century love, marching as well. Um, this This is not a civil rights. You don't have a civil right to vote in a precinct. That is not yours. They want people to be able to vote all over the state with absentee ballots and mail out ballots, 24 hours and drop boxes that nobody's watching. And they say that it's a matter of civil rights and race and you're a racist, not them. If you think that this jeopardizes the the sanctity of the vote, and honestly you steal a vote, and again I'm from Chicago..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"five seats" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Josh i will ask you from your vast trove of memory to compare the select committee on iran contra and its climate and operation with what you expect to happen with the so-called select committee on the insurrection. Well rencontre was a little bit before my time. I remember the history I remember the the the you know from reading about it but Yeah i mean this. Is you know this is a consequence. I think of The the bipartisan committee attempt. Not not going through progress. Mcconnell opposing it mccarthy opposing it and and now it's going to be much more partisan Affair and never see that may eight th the outcome and made answer the result But but pelosi was determined to go through with us to have some degree of of of of of accountability from her point of view in terms of what happened on january. say where. it's not the hook josh. because it's a fifty fifty congress actually fifty point five forty nine point. Oh nine five right something like that instead. She got an eight five committee democrat republican and very limited powers from the minority. This is in contrast to iran. Contra where dick. Cheney was the ranking minority leader with full authority over his legal staff including future federal judge. Dick leon senior counsel here. Nancy pelosi hasn't even guaranteed the leader. Mccarthy the right to name the five so while the senate did not agree to set up. And i'm glad they didn't so called a special commission. The select committee. Precedents are not partisan she has made this partisan therefore lack credibility out of the gate. And i just think if anyone goes back to study iran contra and you're too young remember too but i remember quite well for peggy. Noonan's what i saw at the revolution. It worked it worked. Well because whip cheney and council. Leon were in charge but they also had the confidence of both sides of the house in the undertaking and the rules of the committee. You i i agree with you that this whole exercise is partisan i think partisan on both sides and sadly there there has been no real. I think the commission that There was bipartisan support. A couple of dozen house. Republicans agreed with democrats the have Commission process To to examine. What happened on january six. I think it would have been a much more fair and balanced way of going about this But but republican leadership. Frankly worried about the politics. Midterm election did not want that to go through. So you know. I agree with you that this is partisan but i don't know how it how you escape a disconnect the partisanship from this with. That's josh wait a minute. That's easy you make it. Six seven republican democrat and you give forty five percent of the budget to the republicans to spend and fifty five percent of the budget the democrats suspending you give them nearly equal time with witnesses and you give them subpoena power. That's how you make it bipartisan. Even if it's one house that's how you do it. It's very easy for pelosi to have done that. She chose not to do it right as a response though to not having a commission that was intended to be bipartisan nonpartisan. However you want to describe it. I mean i think that was sort of the ball that was sort of the original intent and then it became business partisan football. Josh i disagree i wanna just great because the senate is an independent body. They do not wanna do. It's fifty fifty and they thought the rules of the road or not fair so they turned it down. They thought the timing was not fair so they turned it down so the ball goes back to pelosi and she can choose again partisan nonpartisan she again chooses hyper partisan and she doesn't have to do so so there isn't any fault on the the house or the senate all pelosi's decision to do what she always does. Which is the hyper politicized everything. Yeah i mean. I let political analyst. I look at it like which party the word you have. Bipartisan support and there were republican. Quite a few in the house and the senate as well that did support. The commission did agree with democrats. Originally were I'm looking back january six. I'm having a process to hold them some folks accountable and So i mean look we. The i talk writing about the infrastructure debate and it's the democrats who are divided and that's that's where the politics are in that is the fact that you had republicans quite a few of them. Who wanted to go about doing the commission mcconnell mccarthy for i understand the political considerations there but they ultimately decided not to go through with it so i think everything's artist i. I don't see anyone holding where we disagree about that. Nancy pelosi setup the original commission to and about the time that people vote in twenty twenty two instead of giving it a six month time line. I think the budgeting and the authorities were not equal the subpoena authority etc. But in any event she didn't have to politicize it quickly. Josh the republicans. Have to make a choice. I hear jim jordan going to be there ranking member of the five i would make sure the others were not other than hyper competent senior members of the of the congress and i would make sure that everyone agreed to let the senior counsel to the committee asked the question. I volunteered for that job. Is there any indication what the republicans will do with their five seats. Is it going to be jim jordan as the ranking minority member. Yeah very very strong possibility. I think given that this is going. on more. partisan route expected the some of the feistier house. Republicans they want some competent but also who are going to get in the trenches with with democrats. Either i agree with you that this. I don't think you could be a lot more than.
The Erick Erickson Show
"five seats" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"The democrats understand that if they get thrown into a recession nine months after an interest rate hike which would be marched. Probably twenty twenty three. That is the beginning of the twenty twenty four presidential campaign cycle if the economy craters during the two thousand twenty four campaign biden could be a one term president calmly. Harris would be holding the bag if she runs and they know this. The democrats know this. So they've got to do something to offset that in one of the ways to offset is to throw as much money americans that they possibly can right now to try to have americans fondly remember all of the good things. The economy was going. it's their strategies. Essentially go bigger. Go home the party that controls the white house is on defense off year elections. Twenty twenty two is the off year election the republicans even without redistricting are gonna make gains in the house representatives. They only need five seats. They're going to get five seats without redistricting with redistricting. They're going to get more. This is where traps. The democrats are falling into with the nonpartisan redistricting commissions. The democrats in their electric bills. Joe mansion wants to do this. That may be why stacey. Abrams supports the democratic. Strategy is to require every state have a nonpartisan commission to draw the the lines for congress to draw the redistricting lights. The problem with that is that it is overwhelmingly likely that a lot of states would become more republican. More than states would become more democrat. Maryland would pick up more republicans illinois. Would new york would california. Would georgia would probably have a fairly good balance now. Texas would still be republican. North carolina would still be republican. Florida would still be republican. The democrats think long term. It helps them short term. It doesn't and there's a lot of data to suggest that it would benefit republicans even in a nonpartisan redistricting. They would actually benefit in these blue states because they are more gerrymandered in the blue states than democrats are on the red states. Democrats believe that democrats reject that but there have been tons of independent academic studies that show that but even without re district either. Yeah parts dissertation all the way. The republicans just need five seats. They're going to get those five seats in an off election. It doesn't matter what the polling shows biden's popularity is. The party of the white house loses seats in an off. your election. Scuttle happen now and in happening now you then add redistricting that is going to be partisan because this compromise is going to pass the senate and that helps republicans even more so the democrats now have to preserve the senate and there are a lot of questions about the senate will. Donald trump interferes one of the problems. The republicans have objectively. There are states like in georgia or arizona where president trump isn't as popular as he once was if donald trump interferes in the elections and tries to steer people to particular candidates for the us senate. He risks the democrats winning the senate president. Trump's handlers know this. They're mindful of this. They're concerned about this. They want the president to be able to engage where he best can. And it's probably in the house races with those house. Members likely szczesny who voted to impeaching and possibly in governors races with governor. She's mad at doug ducey though. Not running Brian running for re election. He's easily got an idiot. Running against in the primary vernon jones. Who's not gonna win. The republicans georgia rallying except for the island of misfit toy..
The Erick Erickson Show
"five seats" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"The democrats understand that if they get thrown into a recession nine months after an interest rate hike. Which would be marched. Probably of tweet three. That is the beginning of the twenty twenty four presidential campaign cycle if the economy craters during the twenty twenty four campaign biden could be a one term president. Kamla harris would be holding the bag if she runs and they know this. The democrats know this. So they've got to do something to offset that in one of the ways to offset it is to throw as much money at americans that they possibly can right now to try to have rem americans fondly. Remember all of the good things when the economy was going it's their strategies essentially go bigger. Go home the party that controls the white house on defense in off year elections twenty twenty two is the off year election the republicans even without redistricting are gonna make gains in the house of representatives. They only need five seats. They're going to get five seats without redistricting with redistricting. they're going to get more. This is the traps. The democrats are falling into with the nonpartisan redistricting commissions. The democrats in their electric bills and joe manchin wants to do this. That may be. Why stacey abrams support him. The democratic strategy is to require every state have a nonpartisan commission to draw the the lines for congress. Turn to draw the redistricting lights. The problem with that is that it is overwhelmingly likely that a lot of states would become more. Republican more than states would become more democrat. Maryland would pick up more republicans illinois. Would new york would california. Would georgia would probably have a fairly good balance now. Texas would still be republican. North carolina would still be republican. Florida would still be republican. The democrats think long term. It helps them short term. It doesn't and there's a lot of data to suggest that it would benefit Republicans even in in nonperson redistricting. They would actually benefit in these blue states because they are more gerrymandered in the blue states than democrats are on the red states. Democrats don't believe that democrats reject that but there have been tons of independent academic studies. Show that but even without registry parts of our district take it all the way the republicans just need five seats. They're going to get those five seats in an off year election. It doesn't matter what the polling shows. Biden's popularity is the party in the white house loses seats in an off your election. Scott to happen now in happy. Now you then add redistricting that is going to be partisan because this compromise is going to pass the senate and that helps republicans even more so the democrats now have to preserve the senate and there are a lot of questions about the senate will donald trump interfere..
The Erick Erickson Show
"five seats" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"The democrats have a fierce urgency of now because they know in november twenty twenty two. The odds are the republicans. Take back the house and there's actually a chance there's a good chance they could take the senate a better chance in two thousand twenty four. Almost likely they'll take the senate back in twenty twenty four but there's a good chance in two thousand twenty two. If a few things go right for the gop the democrats are actually hoping donald trump screw stuff up for the gop. Twenty twenty two but the house looks almost issue and the republicans only need five seats to take back the house representatives. They'll get that through redistricting alone and they probably don't even redistricting for that because the party. The white house tends to lose seats in the house the way it typically works. I think early three occasions where it wasn't so all three were in wartime. We're not in wartime right now. Maybe we'll be next year. Who knows how the biden putin meeting is gone but right now they're frustrated and i understand their frustration but also you know what the republicans had that frustration to democrats just the republicans should always be blocked and they should always get stuff done. And they've got the media on their side tried to give them legitimacy trying to make it v. The republicans are always the obstructors. Would actually democrats themselves obstruct just the reality of the situation and they should know better. There are a lot of democrats who seem shocked. That republicans would vote to make june team the federal holiday. Why would republicans not lot to celebrate the day. The republicans freed slaves from the democrats. I have no idea. I mean i think we should memorialize this day in history. It was the republicans who freed the slaves from a bunch of democrats. Now i know that as well they evidenced today actually not true not true george wallace stay a democrat the whole time all right. Y'all i i listen. I've offended some people. And i have to apologize. I have twice now. Used the phrase to describe the media..
The Erick Erickson Show
"five seats" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"We're gonna go democrat anyway. But they also added up greater margins for joe biden notwithstanding all of that. Donald trump came forty-three thousand votes of winning the presidential race in two thousand and twenty three electoral college. Republicans came within five seats of winning the house of representatives republicans picked up seats in state legislatures around the country. They they held governors mansions. They were supposed to lose the picked up state legislative bodies. They were supposed to lose and the democrats have mis interpreted all of it. Actually you know. I don't know you part of the democrats have mr rely on the far left. You you really do believe that everything was hunky dory and the interesting thing here is that the far right of the far left are the same people through the mirror. The far right thinks everything was stolen from them. It was a disaster and they had such a terrible time in the left. The far left is thinking. It's granted glories. And we've got a mandate. When when they have no mandate they do not have a mandate joe biden. Dr have a mandate joe biden barely won the presidency. People act like joe biden for example. I'm in georgia. Joe biden won georgia by two tenths of a single percentage point and the democrats act like the man swept georgia. He didn't he barely won. The state of georgia by like eleven thousand votes raphael. Warnock and jon ossoff one georgia because four hundred twenty seven thousand two hundred five. Republicans stayed home. Who voted in general and then did not show up for the runoff because the republican party in georgia told him the ratio is going to be stolen. The former president united states Is going to be stolen members of congress that it was gonna be stolen so they didn't show up and they republicans lost democrats are treating georgia as if they won the whole state. Democrats are treating arizona's if they won the whole thing when you actually pay attention at the state level. They didn't do very well in arizona. Republicans actually made great strides in georgia. Republicans were expected to possibly lose. What house in the state legislature. They lost one. Net seat in texas. Republicans are gaining seats in border. Communities is the border crisis continues to expand.
600 WREC
"five seats" Discussed on 600 WREC
"The relationship that we've got with this administration and foreign leaders is a bit different than it was with President Trump. I'II. China right now is it continues to look like All indications are that the covert 19 came out of the Wuhan lab, this China virus and of course, I don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of this Kerry. We don't really trust the Chinese, but I saw over the weekend. We're I guess out of London. Now. The Brits are not leading towards us going. Yep, We were kind of thinking the same thing here. So your thoughts on that and where Biden stands when it comes to the relationship with China? Well in regard to the virus. Ah, lot of us have thought all along that it came out of the lab. On part of that JT's because Very early on. I know for a fact that President Trump had been in contact with G Ping. Trying. Tomo get China to allow our people from from the center for Disease Control. Get into China and try to get up a handle on it, and she wouldn't allow it. I was literally it launched with the president in the White House on January 24th. When we had this discussion now, think of four days later, that's president suspended travel into and out of China. The people who know have I think probably disappeared by now. Um, the guy who the doctor who was the whistle blower was arrested and confined to home and I think he died at home. So it's gonna be very difficult. Because I think China has done everything they can to cover this up. Entirely President Biden relationship with China. I think that's a great question on your part. Costs of the relationship between China and Hunter Biden. I think China literally has president over a barrel. Yeah, that's that was going to my next question. Will we ever get to the bottom of the relationship that Hunter Biden has with some of these international actors, or is that just never gonna come out like any accountability? For us. Another Democrat like the Clintons, another no accountability. Well, they said, politicized our department of justice that I don't know that we'll ever get to the bottom of everything involving Hunter. Biden, Um No, it's not just China. It's also Russia and Ukraine just relationship with charisma. On by the relationship from charisma, and some of those other players over there go deeper than just Hunter Biden. Um, but we've got the laptop, his laptop. The FBI has that we know that it's been logged in his evidence, but there's nothing that's been brought up about it. And if it were anybody else, Katie, if ever you're making the whole world will know absolutely if it were, you know, President Trump's kid, You know, he'd already been before Congress and arrested and put in jail by now. So you're right. It's It's a different world. When it comes to these elite Democrats. There's just never any investigation, let alone any convictions or Accountability involved here. Let's switch gears real quick election reform As we saw a Texas over the weekend Democrats walking out because common sense, enter the room and said, You know what? You're gonna have to show some idea. We're going to stop this drive by mail and stuff here because it's just too Too opportunistic for you know bad things to happen in our election process, so oh, boy, they're not having it. Well. The first thing people need to understand is that under the Constitution, election reform should be done through the state Legislature, not through governors or judges or through county clerks but through the legislature. Hmm. And there's two things that test is trying to do. One is comply with federal law and clean up their voter registration files. Of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act requires that every state maintain accurate voter files. Excuse me, and the other thing is is to keep outside influences out of the elections, Zuckerberg poured millions of dollars into state elections. In Texas is trying to set it up so that every vote counts. It's easier to vote but harder to cheat. And when you see Democrats organizing the way they did in Texas walking out, then it lent itself to tell you who really Is not for an open and honest election. Absolutely, And you said it best there when you said easier to vote, but harder, chief. That's the endgame. They're harder to cheat and Democrats. They don't want that cabby out in this. All right quickly. Gary Less than 30 seconds mid terms. Do we regain some control House Senate? We are going to regain control of the house. Well, I need to pick up five seats. And I think with the Biden agenda, Jakey, it's what we're gonna regain control of the Senate. I think people waking up in a lot of Democrats waking up. Yeah, I'm with you there. Well, Gary, thank you so much lot to pack in our short segment here, and I appreciate you glad to catch up with you, Congressman Gary Palmer 28 Now Alabama's morning news, traffic and weather together. Coming up. Bottom of the hour news. Stay with us. Hey, we get it. You don't want to be hearing a progressive commercial right now. So let us tell you something You do want.
KOMO
"five seats" Discussed on KOMO
"Lay on top of existing efforts. House Democrats have handled this proposal in partisan bath, bad faith. Going right back to the beginning. Bigger. Pelosi leader McConnell, weighing in that generates six commission. Let's talk about it on our roundtable. We're joined by Rahm Emanuel. Sarah is Ger veteran of the Trump Justice Department and want to welcome back two of our veteran roundtable, ear's, George Will. And Donna Brazile. Welcome back to both of you and George. Let me begin with you. We just heard Speaker Pelosi and leader McConnell right that we heard Susan constant. She's so optimistic. Something going forward in this generous commission. It's kind of hard to believe it's even controversial. Well, is controversial. For one reason we have something new in American history that is a political party defined by the terrorist feels for his own voters. That's the Republican Party. Right now, Every elected official is frightened of his motors, therefore doesn't respect his betters doesn't like his betters. It is afraid that a vote for this will be seen as an insult to the 45th president. There's no reason I mean, McConnell has a point there going to be lots of investigations. Journalists are going to go through this. 450 some criminal charges now being brought with 100 more probably to come. So they're gonna be lots of information about this. I would like to see January. 6th is burned into the American mind as firmly as 9 11 because it was that scale of shock to the system. And I think they will be a commission. But it is controversial for that reason. Your Republican Party. I think I wish you way E. I wish that the Republicans were being more honest. We're hearing lots of reasons. Oh, it's we can't hire Republican staff. It'll be partisan on this. The real reason is they need five seats to take back the house. They need one seat to take back the Senate and they're asking themselves. Is this in our political interest to have this commission? And the answer is no. So they're going to vote against it. I think everything that George said, is correct as well. But when it comes down to it, Nancy Pelosi has made clear that she thinks Democrats benefit from this commission and the Republicans think they don't They think they can take back the house in 2022. Everything about the history of midterm elections in an opposition party says that they can get those five seats. Why do anything that wouldn't be in their interest from? I guess the question is, is the Republican read on their politics? Correct. Look, I think they're caught in this vice. You know, Yogi Berra, you say when you get to a fork in the road, take it and their challenges they can either pick Trump where they could pick the truth. And right now it's pretty clear they're gonna pick Trump. Because the truth is too frightening. They know what this report would say. And it would be a damning report about not only what happened, but what was behind what happened and they can't afford that. And I do think it's a political calculation, and Sara said on I think at this point Has 9 11 or other incidences they rise above politics. It was interesting to hear that Senator Collins thinks that she's optimistic that they could actually work out the issues. But this is a case straight up that if their report that's issued It's gonna be a whole group of both independent voters and what I would call soft Republicans who are gonna be terrified by a party dominated by Trump and the likings. And I think George is absolutely right. Which is you? We've never had a party. A major party in a country that is scared of a minority of its voters and frightened rather than leading them. They're being led by them. This should go beyond our standard politics, the standard politics of which party benefits or which group of American voters will lose. This is about the city of Dale about democracy being attacked. It's about Country being in a state of disbelief. I cannot imagine not looking at all of the underlying factors that led to the march on the capital, and I kept thinking, who's going to stop these people Who's going to stop this? This attack on our capital? And for the first time in my adult life, and I'm not a scary cat? I felt frightened because I didn't know what else would happen that day. And here we are. District residents waiting for someone to call the National Guard. I reached out to the mayor's office and say, Where's the National Guard? Reached up. Where's the Metropolitan Police? This cannot be happening, And yet it was happening. If we don't investigate the underlying reasons what happened then we will not prevent it from happening again. That is what is so scary about what happened on January sick Your money at 20 and 50 past the hour on Co Moh news. Calm owes Money report is sponsored by Propel Insurance from ABC News Wall Street weekend. So how are you feeling about the.
KTRH
"five seats" Discussed on KTRH
"It is 7 31 here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett, along with sheriff Friar. Among her top stories this half hour, the Texas Senate Voting bill that's gotten approved in the House five seats away from taking over the U. S House of Representatives, and it's 7 38. I think we might have figured out What you might have seen in the night sky early this morning. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's morning news. First aliens? No. Sorry to disappoint you, Mike. Any aliens on the ground parkway this morning? I'd you know what I'd rather be flying in some kind of spacecraft right now are big problems are downtown. This is like sorting out spaghetti. This is what we got Southwest Freeway. Outbound and 2 88. I hope you're okay there. That's an 18 wheeler laying on his side under the ramp. We've got a backup on I 69 all the way back from the East Tex. That's terrible from Collinsworth. South bound. We had an extent in the backup on 45. This was all in the same congestion s O now. 45 downtown. I's packing up all the way back from the North Freeway. Let's call it the loop South bound. This is making I 10 terrible from student Mont. You're crammed up. This is all two accidents in one And then the Gulf Freeway up from Lockwood that solid breaks And now I've got a problem. Galleria South bound west loop at the 69. I'm sky Mike. The Gulf Coast windows dot com 24 Hour traffic Center from our ktrh John more services 24, our weather center son just a few clouds today. 88 for a high temperature weekend looks great. Even Sunday, now looks like it's going to stay dry pretty pretty much dry. We'll check out the entire forecast for the weekend when we talked to Terry Smith and eight minutes right now,.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"five seats" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"To break down what we know so far from the 2020 census, and what it means is Dave Wasserman, House editor of the Cook Political Report. Dave Welcome back to the takeaway. Thanks for having me. So let's start with an overview of what these latest results and census data mean for the 2020 census and what kind of political ramifications it'll have. Well demographic terms. It's a continuation of a long term trend of power shifting from the frost belt and the north to the west. In the sun belt. It was just a Baller shift, then what we've typically seen in past decades. Politically speaking, if you had applied these electoral college totals to the 2020 election. Joe Biden and would have won the race with three fewer electoral votes than he did three or three, first three or six. So this is a very slight boost for Republicans, but keep in mind. That the bigger deal for control of the house in 2022 is going to be how the lines are drawn within these states, Not just how many seats each state gets, and that's something that we won't know until over the summer. That data won't come out to form those maps. Is that correct? That's correct. We're expecting the deep tail block level data needed to draw district lines in the fall. And of course, all of this data has been delayed, which puts states in a time crunch too. Get redistricting done. Districts redrawn in time for the 2022 midterms. Now, keep in mind that Republicans have final authority over redistricting in states totaling 187 district's. That's down from 219 in 2011. Democrats only have final authority in states totaling 75 districts. That's up from From 44 last time, But on balance, Republicans do have an advantage in this process. They only need five seats to reclaim control of the house, and they control some pretty big states. So we were talking about the winners and losers. California's an interesting one. Given that it's losing a seat for the first time in its history, what's going on there? Los Angeles County Accounts for for California's decline in a House seat. Most likely we've seen, of course, Ah, lot of Californians expressed concern about the cost of living. In the past decade. But when you consider that California lost a seat, and that Texas and Florida gained fewer seats than we expected, and Arizona didn't gain a seat at all, it also raises concerns as to whether Hispanics Might have a lower count once we get the detailed data, then the census estimates suggested in the past year, so that is a concern for advocacy groups, and it could be a detriment to areas with high non citizen populations and two Democrats prospects of maintaining their district's What other states? Did you find the data to be surprising either for gaining or losing a seat. Well, The biggest surprise to me was that Arizona, which has been growing pretty rapidly, did not gain a seat. But there were a number of states that breathed a sigh of relief s O Rhode Island, Alabama and Minnesota. We're all on the cusp of losing district's, and they averted that. One of the shocking statistics was just how close The race was for the final seat in the U. S House, Minnesota beat out New York State for the 4435th seat in the House by just 26 people. In fact, if New York had had 89 more residents in this count, then they would have kept their current number of house seats and keep in mind that by April 1st 2020 the census today A lot of estimates. Uh, Said their official total suggested that there had been close to 2000 covert deaths in New York state, so it's possible that played a role. Wow, That's amazing. I mean, 89 votes is shocking and amazing. But the fact that this could actually be related to Cove. It is also Stunning to me. Does reapportionment favor one party over another or do we have to wait until redistricting is completed? To know that well, reapportionment itself is a small boost for Republicans because Texas and Florida are gaining seats, of course, but Redistricting is really the bigger deal, and the big question is what a lot. A lot of these states with new bipartisan or independent commissions will do. For example, in Ohio, there's a new reform that requires some level of bipartisan consensus is to pass maps, but it's also it's also under the rules possible for Republicans in the Legislature. To overrule that commission and passive four year map If there's a failure to achieve bipartisan compromise, same thing is true on the opposite side in New York, so we're really waiting to see how some of these untested regimes and reforms play out before we know with the landscape. Will look like for 2022. Of course, everything was delayed by the pandemic, but were there other factors that played a role in the delays? Well. The census implemented a new data privacy measure called Differential Privacy, which was designed to prevent elicit actors from hacking. We're trying to assume the individual demographic characteristics of census respondents and that Eyes proving controversial. There are some Republicans who alleged that that that leads to a less than exact count of the population. And so these court battles may take some time to play out. But the main cause of this delay was the pandemic and the difficulty of getting it a total count of the population. Dave Wasserman is the house editor of the Cook Political Report. Thanks for breaking this all down for us, Dave, Thanks.
The Takeaway
"five seats" Discussed on The Takeaway
"They only need five seats to reclaim control of the house and they control some pretty big states so we talking about the winners and losers california's an interesting one that it's losing a seat for the first time in its history. What's going on their los angeles county accounts for for california's decline in a house seat. Most likely we've seen of course a lot of californians express concern about the cost of living in the past decade. But when you consider that california lost a seat in the texas and florida gained fewer seats than we expected. Arizona didn't gain a seat at all. It also raises concerns as to whether hispanics might have a lower count once we get the detailed data then the census estimate suggested in the past year so that is a concern for advocacy groups and it could be a detriment to areas with high non-citizen populations and to democrats prospects of maintaining their districts. What other states Did you find the the data to be surprising. Either for gaining or losing a seat well. The biggest surprise to me was that arizona which has been growing pretty rapidly did not gain a seat but There were a number of states that breathed a sigh of relief So rhode island alabama in minnesota. Were all on the cusp of losing districts and they averted that One of the the shocking statistics was just how close the race was for the final seat in the us house. Minnesota out new york state for the forty four hundred thirty fifth seat in the house by just twenty six people. In fact if new york had had eighty nine more resident in this count then they would have kept their current number of house seats and keep in mind that by april first twenty twenty. The census today A lot of estimates are official. Total suggested that there had been close to two thousand cova deaths in new york state. So it's possible that played a role. Wow that's amazing. i mean. Eighty nine votes is shocking and amazing but the fact that this could actually be related to covid is also stunning to me. Does reapportionment favor one party over another or do we have to wait until redistricting is completed to know that well reapportionment itself is a small boost for republicans because texas and florida are gaining seats. Of course but redistricting is really the bigger deal and the big question is with a lot. A lot of these states with new. Bipartisan are independent. commissions will do for example in ohio. There's a new reform that requires some level of bipartisan consensus to pass maps but it's also a it's also under the rules possible for republicans in the legislature to overrule that commission and pass a four year map. If there's a failure to achieve bipartisan compromise. Same thing is true on the opposite side in new york. So we're really waiting to see how some of these untested regimes and reforms. Play out before we know what the landscape will look like for. Twenty twenty two and of course everything was delayed by the pandemic but were there other factors that played a role in the delays well. The census implemented a new data. Privacy measure called differential privacy Which was designed to prevent Illicit actors from hacking or or trying to assume The individual demographic characteristics of census respondents and and that is proving controversial there are some republicans who allege that That that leads to a less than exact count of a the population and so these court battles may take some time to play out but the main cause of this delay was the pandemic and the difficulty of getting a total count of the population. Dave wasserman the house editor of the cook political report. Thanks for.
Israel Daily News Podcast
"five seats" Discussed on Israel Daily News Podcast
"Both and our former ministers who worked under bb netanyahu party leaders to put our differences behind us. And come home referring to the right wing. Coalition that bennett and so are previously served in so who's been adamant about not joining a bb coalition reportedly rejected the offer benefits party amina. Says he would do what's best for israel's citizens. I'm brushed off a report. Saying that is welcoming into his fold if both the party leaders decided to enter a bb coalition than netanyahu would be able to form a right-wing majority government with sixty five seats putting an end to the years of political turmoil. According to a channel twelve report bbn likud are willing to make benneton. Yeah meena jared offers to get their party into the coalition. I wonder what that means the latest news between yet year. Lupita the esotique party and meena leader naftali bennett is that ll appeared. Says he would actually let bennett go. I in a rotation for prime minister if this would work out between them if yamina and yet not could come together and actually oppose netanyahu. lapierre says he's willing to let it go. I even though lipids party yes. Schettino picked up some seats. Which is the second largest number of seats after likud and yemen. A- only one seven however says that in this agreement bennett would have to publicly rule out using the mandate to build a coalition with prime minister. Netanyahu which many people believe he might do likud. Lawmakers are attacking president reuven rivlin accusing him of being in cahoots with the prime minister's rivals. Since he's been publicly party leaders to engage in quote out of the ordinary coalitions collaborations that cross sectors in order to break the strenuous political deadlock. Well that doesn't seem so treasonous to me. I mean the country needs a government and that might mean getting some parties to come together that did not previously want to come together if the country should have a government to move forward with they're going to need to be some concessions and some agreements. Don't you think i'm party. Chairman mansoura boss says. His party will not compromise on either. It's national or civilian rights when deciding who to back to become the next. Prime minister is an islamist party that broke off from the joint list. The joint list being a coalition of arab parties that work toward similar goals. I'm received five. Crucial swing seats in this election about tells a turkish news organization that his party's red lines are our rights whether national or civilian so arab rights. He says quote. We don't negotiate or compromise on these rights. The comments come after bb loyalists have tried to welcome romina boss into their right wing. Coalition abbass has not claimed which way the party would go or to which coalition it would lend itself to and his five seats. Five seats with party may have the power to help form. A majority government giving him an extraordinary bargaining chip above says. He's seeking broad plans to combat crime in arab communities and put an end to idea home demolitions. Those are just two of the items. He hopes to combat while in office as a punishment to terrorists and their families. The idea for the israel defense forces often demolishes the homes where terrorists and their families lived after a terrorist attack has been carried out israel. Daily news podcasters. If you've been enjoying this daily report support it so it can continue to come out daily. You can send over a monthly contribution at anchor dot. Fm backslash israel daily news backslash support. We have one central link in the show notes which you can click on. And it'll take you to the page where you can make a contribution and feel good knowing you are supporting independent journalism. You can also support us by leaving us. A review on apple podcasts by sharing the show with a friend and by following us on social media at israel daily news as well as shannon full. That's s. h. a. n. f. u. l. d. If you didn't hear about it. I just released and e book or a guide where i tell people my secrets to getting things accomplished it is called produce something how to overcome being overwhelmed and start your own project so that little book is in the link as well. It costs nine nine hundred nine. You can buy it for yourself or for a friend or somebody who is needing a little guidance and getting their project off the ground it could be an excellent passover gift so think about it. We have some positive news here. Cove wards throughout. Israel's hospital system are closing down thanks to the widespread vaccination process because so many are vaccinated and means that the nation is having fewer and fewer new. kobe patients. The new positivity rate for those testing for covid is one point. Three percent around two four million israelis have received their first shot out of nine million in the country. Don't forget three out of nine million are children under the age of sixteen so that means almost all adults in the country have had a shot. Haddassah hospital is one of the busiest in the nation at one point more than one hundred forty covert patients per day were busting through its doors. Now they're seeing just a few patients on any given day. That's something to really look forward to. Microsoft is establishing a new data center in israel. We've been reporting on this. The deal is worth more than a billion. Us dollars the tech giant will also be expanding chip research and development in israel. Microsoft ceo satya nadella expressed to prime minister. Netanyahu that israel is very important for microsoft's future. Microsoft gave jobs more than two thousand israelis by the end of twenty twenty and currently has development centers located all over the country other massive tech companies have expressed interest in setting up shop in israel to like google nydia oracle and amazon. Let's bring it on especially amazon. I've been so spoiled. These last few months in the united states with one day amazon delivery. I'm looking forward to having that kind of service in the holy land as well as russia mich should happen and now for a little clip from my live interview with omar abu sadie of the united arab emirates. We spoke about peace and diplomacy. He says that it's not a normalization between the u. a. in israel rather a formalization since he said that the two nations have had business ties and diplomacy and work between the two countries for more than twenty years. Here's just a few minutes of our talk about his life. As an intern at the u a e consulate his studies as a fulbright scholar and.
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"five seats" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"Mean there is the there is no charge. Does precisely this scenario thoughts on accelerators pointing to on dotting deed. If given now nowadays the conservative labor party primarily dependent on this seats than if on examined words succeeded against securing representation. He would probably gain more of their seats at the expense of the opposition parties than you would have the. Snp truth one. You're doing what you're doing this. You have to guess. Which party is guide to the party. That would otherwise get seven seat that you might otherwise pick up. And we've i death kakuei. On the point i come back to. Yes seen six in the regions of scotland The calculation mr saban is making dust as quite pressing but there are two other regions wary that to regions by the snp might well need the despite bible. Make a difference. I do not extend east. I guess if mrs someone really trying to gain the system to the maximum advantage of the nauseous movement is all popsy might stand in six of the region but not standing the to the snp. John's however maybe what's going on here and you've a duty to this in your annual various tentatives. Maybe what's going on here. Is of course. Mr salman doesn't necessarily want the smp together jar because of course if the answer gets several majority then it will be able to determine what tactics deploys vis-a-vis the could got what he tries to do with the government not a referendum accessory in law have to accommodate the greens on mr summit. Perhaps mr summit actually really wants to be in a situation where he says king makeup. I e somebody perhaps mr summit on actually wants to be in a situation where you says king makeup i e somebody onto whom mr hostile. Look this pulled. In order to a nationalist john you that's up to mr solomon to deny or otherwise whether or not that's the case but at least you can see why maybe it's one of the reasons why the smp very keen. On his the green party. I call the. Snp's gardening section as clinging to the snp like moss on a on a dyke. They are in a way. The first losers alex salmon's on because they only get the five seats they have in hollywood because snp supporters in the first vote. Give them votes in the second and summoned is likely to outgun them don't you think well yes and no george i think the honest truth is is to traffic here. I that some of the people who would fight for the greens if the greens to that constituency the snp. Because they can't vote for the green. So the truth as i think the smp posted in the constituency by the greens not standing. I did five constituencies last time. I just the greens do public. From the fact that some people strategically for that that said how about the one interesting baseman. Us actually come out so by website. Tomorrow i'd does to the kind of people who are most likely to say the best thing about mr seventy and the truth is not very much minority bites installment those tend to be the most socially conservative and of the nationalist counter shin that disproportionate people who've acted leave in the sixteen referendum on these on north kind to people who for the mice faw are inclined to vote for the v. socially progressive green. So you might well find. Actually the people who are winning vow to mister summoned on the list are not necessarily the same people who are waiting to buy t for the greens. Lastly and i'm grateful for your time. I said that dot summoned so far has picked up the kind of rough our trade. The rough trade end of the nationalist movement. You may or may not agree with that characterization. But how do you characterize the kind of people who've gone over to summon than what kind of Level of defection. Do you expect. Well the truth is looking people for the most part who've been pretty well assist While i earned views a previous position reflects the division that the has been within the smp for some weeks or months essentially to crucial issues. The fast is trust misjudge pursue holding the referendum with the zeal. And the odds and the resilience that you think is necessary these are people who love the disenchanted by the fact that black. Moths twenty seventeen. Ms surgeon cold for another referendum gotten scholars. Divide for when for one but died in the wake of the outcome of the two thousand seventeen. Uk the snp lost seats than mushed up troops stocked out. These people who think the unredacted misogyny is more interested in remaining. I missed scotland. Thinks she as oppa assuming independence that i mean without the second issue that divides most of these people on the nile. People who are concerned about the scottish cowan's proposes webuye trans people particularly trust women able to reassign data genda on the basis of identity. They dug be quieting the way of Medical evidence if you think it's rather than to toll after the fact that they changed that the gender on these are people who think that perhaps a step too far on his in particular putzing missed the device that have been getting something. I saw those odd crucial true divisions and they all these to to people who approximately not quite do not necessarily feel the reentering. The opinion is necessarily quite as important for an independent scotland. Sent me the. Smp thinks these. These are the four months. He's awful lies in a nike away. The snp for quite a while. While mr someone just done is in the what is this kid is just how many people are actually winning to defect to the party to do this. He's only going to pick up sub. I suspect how for the most part and this is a relatively minority group within the minority groups of winning actually to defect. And certainly when you look at smp voters only about sixteen percent. Think favorably of mr summoned over ninety percent. Think favorably of mr. forgive me. I said last if you will answer me this one. Why why would nationalist. Populist party liked the snp go off the tangent that you have just a blade described for example. Their lists have to be taught by an ethnic minority or a disabled person. The gender rich thing that you talked about the hate crime bill. And so on these. These seem to cut across the. You might say tunnel vision. The nationalist populist coalition normally our would be expected normally to be pursuing me. As i think you know the reminded to george socks. Dsm highs always been ruled chech- when it comes to anything of independence that while people in the paci on the center right who probably be being the consensus for that belief. Independence got salsa social democrats e rene out plenty of sexual liberals but thou ii some social conservatives and sunny when it comes to brexit for example. There has always been a body of smp support. That is felt that. What's the point of liberating association. London to put ourselves in chains from brussels while we see with the smp government is not about. The issues made a bread. Sandy trans rights engages aspects of of hate crimes. Bill that you mentioned the begins to fracture the coalition biggest when it comes to these kinds of issues the fact that you are not in favor of independence doesn't necessarily mean to site that you agree with the stock since being taken by the smp. Don't on these other issues professor so john carter's as always thanks for joining us on your mother of all talk shows. Will alex salmond hold the balance of power. Yes twenty one percent no thirty four percent or a plague on both our houses forty five percent. You can vote on my twitter feed. Let's take a call before the break. John is in pennsylvania but wants to talk about scotland. While jared go ahead yes. Hello tom i mean come on come up yes. Hello george Yeah i wanna talk about scotland So this recent talk about independence is a bit Interesting case. Because in america we've also had a long history of secessionist movements and independence movements. We know quite a bit about the american civil war but what most people don't also know is that we had states like rhode island that almost a complete. These seceded from america during the war of eighteen. Twelve against britain Would he have a large independence. Movements in oregon and washington and We have hawaii and california and texas as well but the thing about scottish independence. That i don't seem to really get is You're on a big island. And basically they want to rebuild hadrian's wall almost you know about hadrian's wall and They're building from the other side this time. Instead of it being built from rome this time Being from edinburgh and It seems to be a divide and conquer tactic. Almost you know like up these big states in the smaller states we see this in the soviet union you see this in yugoslavia The us deep state is trying to do that in china with G jiang and tibet and hong kong. You know all these chinese states. They're trying to break away from so it really doesn't make any sense other than if you wanted. I see the hand of european union and all this well me me me too on bravo read. I couldn't put up better myself. And i won't try. But there is no doubt at all in my mind that the hand of the european union and its historic relationship between the scottish nationalists and the germans the founders of the snp collaborators with the germans the nazis in nineteen thirty four indeed. The lita mainly. Dr was intern during the war collaborating with germany against britain now of course germany and twenty twenty one is not the germany of nineteen thirty four. And the snp. Twenty-one is not the snp of nineteen thirty four but there is doubt at all in my mind that the european union would like to punish britain for exiting and there are many people in the british political system and in the media perhaps especially in the media the hate brexit so much hate boris johnson far brexit so much that they will even subconsciously if not consciously they will agony and punishment on our country because we deserve it for having decided to leave. The european union position is very clear and always has been all of my life. I'm against the break-up of countries. And the idea of partitioning a small island of english speaking people especially given the economic situation which i shall adam bray later courtesy of a good friend of my in the business community in scotland when you take it into account. It's actually an act of political suicide. But.
The ROI Podcast
"five seats" Discussed on The ROI Podcast
"This doesn't have to be a half hour conversation. let's. Let's unpack these five seats. Because i think this becomes the meat of you know how it all comes together and i think it's extremely important to not just have all these great ideas and great tools at our disposal. But you know how do we use them you know. How do we build them in stitch together. So you know the check in what what goes into the checking phase. How does it. How does it become important as we start off. Yeah but the check in phase is that you know it is establishing a relationship. Here is really the point of it right so we want to. We don't want to jump into what the problem is. Or what the issue they wanna take how you doing what's going on. Hey last time we met we talk about these things. Let's do some ballo up but it's really kind of warming up the conversation and also what we might find in the czech inveighs and one of the most important pieces is. Maybe what you think. You have to talk about as a manager what that person thinks they need to share right now. That person may have come in from a bad meeting or something else and they aren't going to be engaged in the same topic so checking in to say you know. Hey i i had a scheduled to talk about this this issue on this project. Is there anything you need to clear right now or anything else that that you wanna talk about in in that. Oftentimes you find people that go. Yeah actually this issue came up especially when there's a high level of trust right and that's important because we've all been in meetings where we've probably been the koji or the person presenting to our boss and we're not really there because something else you know. More urgent more important more media came up to talk about. And so that's a it's a. It's a really important phase what we think about. I'll i'll go into the current state as well because they're related when we go into something like the current state. What a lot of I would say inexperienced coaches or well intentioned coaches with the wrong metaphor might say they think the current state there there to educate them about how they need to respond to give us a solution. Talk all these things. I'm gonna listen to them to think about ten years ago. When faced the same problem walking up hill both ways in the snow with no shoes and everything else that went wrong..
Makom Israel Teachers Lounge
"five seats" Discussed on Makom Israel Teachers Lounge
"Collapsed and collapse spectacularly and the left it's civic religion collapsed after a trying to do huge powerful and profound an amazing things. Many many of the things that tried to do it succeeded in. And how build the israel we have today that association successful but it's ideas have all collapsed and hasn't yet found another idea and so now it's a secularist drive among the fifteen drives and that's worth about twenty five seats and so the israeli leftist twenty five seats and there's something called the israeli center which is all the rest of the israeli left. That just doesn't use the word anymore because it doesn't know what that's what i think happens. Rarely left. I like the last. Since some of my best friends in israel left is just wanna clarify. Thank you so much for having me. I say one thing which. I really fascinating a whole todd really politics election and the fact that the prime minister is currently a trial for three crush in cases. Come up once i'm going to you. I don't like that trial i think. That's an ios cases. Very strong. And i also much more importantly so in other words it's a subject of its own. Name's not quote more importantly. The trial has been announced. Investigation actually started actually happening for five years now so whatever effect it has on politics. It's already long long been baked in to the system. Just fact has been going on for so long. it's kind of neutralized that is if you like netanyahu. you don't believe the trial is serious. And if you don't like netanyahu believe it's very very important and if he's exonerated you'll be absolutely sure the judges were wrong but it has to do with the actual evidence on trial and of course completely objective journalists who neither likes or dislikes anything but But separately from my views on its in. Yeah which are that. He has had many many terrible mistakes. Muscle spectacular successes. I think is a real problem with his trial in ecosystem Flood this one. So now we talked about. The trial shocked the thesis of the the power of the try right our democracy in a way you know. An old is just over store looking for here. You know shows more important than this trial where another democracy i can america. For example the heart inciter of the democratic process and elections. And way are here. Maybe i don't know maybe america america ten years ago arguably america today is Pretty immune to shenanigans by donald trump impeachment. Thank that's not gonna change your mind that if this lichen exoneration isn't going to change your mind so there was a crazy amount of protests about the trials and like if you if you just dried roads in israel like a m- million submarines lived Name like the case the name of the we sent reporter demonstrations off submarines we sent reporters to the protests and one of the instructions we give reporters was find us. Rightwingers we wanna find right-wingers protesting a corrupt prime minister. Being prime minister i would go and so link left t- there really so many and even now when they're ours. It's because of the new bennett style. Political frameworks. I'm telling you. I would call if it won't be so lefty right but it's ultimately lefty. It's ultimately a particular tribe and it's not really about by the way they do feel that it's about the corruption of the prime minister that they don't know about the tribe and the right is absolutely convinced that it's absolutely right and the left is mentally ill. Everybody's absolutely sure they're they're right and there's a lot of science about tremendous research about how socialization mechanisms in the human brain of created that kind of system. We actually may be developed language not in order to communicate where is going behind the trees but actually in a profoundly socialized the animal where one of the most socialize animals insects we are able to sacrifice ourselves for other animals outside of a biological relationship which is not something that lions or elephants do and with the only mammals that do that and so there's tremendous socialization and language developed in order to facilitate that socialization other words. The reason i can speak in so that i can convince you guys of my social value in this deeply socialized situation which we are on completely dependent on each other as a tribe crossing the savannah and so political parties that is there that their fundamental neurological structure. They are people suffer. Validating each other against the other tribe and that is that that is a structure in our brains. That's two million years old. So there's that's not a little bit of science. That's a tremendous amount of evolutionary psychology even neurological science on all of this and so they believe what they say and to outsiders we can look at it. We can say well that's tribal because they aren't so concerned about potential corruption elsewhere. There aren't so concerned that some of the things that was accused of have never been prosecuted. Have never seen a politician prosecuted for them for example relationships with journalists anywhere in any democracy. And there's no explicit law forbidding implemented on trial for it. They're not concerned with a serious debate about the substance of the charges. It's not about that and that's okay people. Sometimes asking people often ask me people today. In several times i felt for and simple answers first of all documents. Because as soon as i tell you a name of who i vote for Nothing i ever say will ever sound the same. You want your physically neurologically capable of ever hearing me outside of the statement of who i voted for. And if you try to do won't be able to cite. Just don't say but the other reason i don't say who i vote for is that it's the least interesting thing i have to tell you. It's like i vote very boring. I vote very mainstream. I thought somewhere between bennett between merits. And that's that's very normal. And and i also votes kind of intuitively kind of by entity kind of by whether i trust these people are not like everybody else. Just the fact that. I have a profession of constantly. Thinking about politics. Doesn't mean when i act politically anything other than an animal like humans have always been so so. Yeah dr thank you guys. Thank you as always night..
Joe Pags
Republicans rally at CPAC in Orlando
"Predicting the Republicans will win back a majority in the House House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy at the conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC, in Orlando, Florida We're gonna get Shorty back five seats away. President Trump expected to speak at the CPAC conference in Orlando tomorrow.
The Promised Podcast
MK Yifat Shasha-Biton, first Likud lawmaker to defect to New Hope
"First we have a matter that we're following with alert interest. Great concern is part of an occasional series. We call the premise. Podcast ponders the politics of pentameter and the use of the bard to advance a canard last week. The chair of the knesset corona virus committee. He fought shasha beaten announced that she was leaving the likud to join the new right-wing. Hope party where she would become. Don't sars number to an announcement that right away added five seats to the tally. New hope was showing in early polls. Shasha beaten is a popular politician. Mostly because as the head of the corona committee she overturned government decisions to close pools and gyms and stores in schools and even though her decisions were themselves overturned right back again by the government people came to see her as a straight shooter and someone fighting for the people trying to get to work and pay their bills and maybe grab a little exercise if they can. And who doesn't like a truth to power rebel. Also most everything about josh abi tone is wonderful. She grew up in the development town of kiryat shmona the daughter of a nurse from morocco and moshe feed a guy born in iraq who built up a bus company. She had a phd before she was thirty was deputy mayor of kyoto before he was thirty five and was a college vice president forty. It's partly because shasha tone has so much going on that folks and the likud were furious mad when she announced that she was switching parties and they insisted that she resigned right away. Shasha beaten refused on the grounds that she had been elected in this term and she would serve out. There are practical issues in play each sitting. Mk gets government allocated campaign funds when they run for the successive knesset. So if on stays and she'll have one point seven million shekels to use for new hopes campaign but if she quits now she'll be replaced and some other likud member. We'll get that cash lee cooed transportation minister miri regev tweeted quote. You've thought shasha beaten if you have a drop of integrity left resign. Immediately from connecticut and return the mandate to the national camp which you took for a ride for your own benefit a disgrace and when shasha baton refused the likud petitions something called the knesset house committee basically a rules and procedures committee to declare shasha beaten a quote unquote deserter which status would allow them to strip her of her likud campaign funding at the very least anyway. The committee met a few days ago. And because by then blue and was on the outs with the likud they supported chechen tone and she remains in the knesset with her one point seven million shekels in election funding which is when this happened. Uzi they on a likud. Backbencher angry by the outcome of the committee meeting convinced that chechen beaten had not gotten the come up and she deserves asked to be recognized by the chair leaned into the microphone and said quote. I would like to give some free literary advice to get on the of shasha zones new party that it was for matters such as these that shakespeare wrote in fellow i believe and then diane went onto quote not on alternate translation. I think of rabbani ios warning at the end of act one in fellow look to her more if thou has is to see. She has deceived her father. And may the shot a mile invoked up via gumbo which couplet was met by pandemonium in the committee with shasha be tone saying the volume clement. Actually came on the la. I have heard low things. But i must say that. I have never heard things as low as this. At this point mikhail cutler launch a religious blue and white. Mk screened uzi. Why are you referring to shakespeare. Why not refer to the woman who strays and you'll at least be using our own sources. The woman who strays as a reference to the book of numbers by bar chapter five verses twelve through sixteen about what to do with a wife who acts on faithfully to which topic an entire track date of the tomlin. My second sota is devoted later. Uzi dayan said quote. Someone wrote me and said on your life man. What a sexist remark. if that's how it was perceived. I really apologize and quote. And i know what you're thinking. That's a lousy apology. If that's how it was perceived blah blah blah blah blah. But i'd like to think the best of who was married to my favorite zoologist environmentalists tamar. Diane i adore her and she's lately been. The person who by force of character and charm willed into existence. The amazing new natural history museum at tel aviv university which is among other things. A brilliant polemic for sustainability and there ain't no one more feminists then tomorrow diane uzi on also mostly diane's nephew and yours on geffen's cousin so there's that he thought shasha zone for her part. Classically accepted the apology. And the matter seem to be over but all week. I've been thinking that there was an opportunity. Missed here and i can't get it out of my mind. Would it have hurt chubby tone to respond rather than with. I have never heard things as low as this. By saying with catherine from the taming of the shrew my tongue will tell the anger of my heart or else my heart concealing it will break. Would it have hurt. Shasha beaten to insist with don john and much ado about nothing. Let me be that. I am and seek not to alter me. Would it have hurt. Shasha be tone to say with polonius in hamlet this above all to be true and it must follow as the night the day thou cancer not be false to any man. Am i asking too much from shasha tone. I think not because truly. Now is the winter of our discontent. Elections are nine but a week and a day after the ides of march. But i'll stop. I'll stop because who knows better than me. That truly brevity is the soul of wit and that this is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. This is how safe. Because i am that idiot today.
All In with Chris Hayes
North Carolina voters unmoved by Dem Senate hopeful’s sex scandal
"Weeks from today Americans will not just decide who they want the White House, but the balance of power the Senate as well On. Congressional races in down ballot races in the US Senate thirty-five seats up this year twenty three held by Republicans, Twelve Democrats, and pulling analysis site fivethirtyeight. Now, project Democrats are slightly favored to take over that chamber, but it's close we've been falling day by day and expanding battleground map of states that now have genuinely competitive Senate races one of those races where the pulling seem pretty good for Democrats early on with North Carolina. That's where incumbent Republican Senator Thom Tillis is facing a challenge from former state senator and. Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran cal Cunningham and back in the beginning of September cutting performing pretty well point ahead of us in the monmouth university poll which left a lot of people thinking wow, this could happen. Could this be a democratic Senate pickup and then a week and a half ago that also seemed to be up ended on October Second Tillis his campaign confirmed the senator tested positive for corona virus, and later that very same day text messages surfaced between cal Cunningham and a woman who is not his wife. After about a week of pretty brutal extramarital relationship accusations started look like I don't know maybe Democrats were counting their chickens a little too early in the north. Carolina Senate race but that new bullying came out and guess what the whole thing seems to have helped. Cal. Cunningham. In a Monmouth University poll just released today cutting lead over Senator Thom Tillis is actually expanded. He's now by four points whereas he was only by one September.
Mornings with Keyshawn, Jorge & LZ
Pandemic playoffs: Brewers, Astros in despite losing records
"When you woke up on Sunday morning none of the eight matchups were said I. think that's kind of cool that would be like the the final day of the regular season Lebron Yeah I don't even know who we're playing. That's what it was for every single team yesterday in Major League Baseball your dodgers are going to play the brewers who got in yesterday with the first losing record granted at sixty. Games with the first losing record for a team in the history of the Major League Baseball Playoffs there were twenty nine and thirty one opening round best of three all in the same ballpark what are your thoughts and we couldn't lose I mean you know it. Likely not, but we could because his only three games all they got to do is win two of them, right? So baseball is so weird dodgers obviously you mentioned we got him at home dodger stadium. I don't think that you know I'm sure we're going to roll out Walker Bueller in Kershaw and we're going to do what we need to do to get to the next round But you could lose you know teams could lose you know the beginning of the year, the dodgers and the Yankees were pretty much the favorites to to get to the thing. In the end, but then the pandemic happened then we had to do all of the rescheduling and figure out how many games that went on for so long how many games should they play the only WanNa play this amount, the players, WanNa, play that amount it became a money issue, and now we finally have gotten to the point where October will be playoff baseball. Speaking out, let's go through a couple of interesting storylines after this round by the way, then everything is going to be played at trial sites and eventually the world series will be played at the home of the Texas Rangers and they'll wrap that no. Later than October twenty eighth, they want to avoid the second third. So homefield everybody early, and then we're going to neutral sites, Los Angeles San Diego. Texas and Houston quick thoughts the Yankees of the five seat in the AL, the five seat, the rays of the one-seat. What does the same thing with the dodgers? Right? The Yankees could they take care of business they moved their events they don't they go home whether they a one C or DHCP. It's everybody's even really to be honest with you. Everybody's even Garrett Cole. Start, for the Yankees Chain Bieber for the Indians in for all the money they paid Garrett Cole Shane Beavers had a better year he has in when you look at it, there are no fans in the stands. So there's no home field advantage for anybody you know what's great about not having fans the Houston Astros. Left right. Everywhere they go. They are the sick see the astros have made it in baseball's big off season, they should just get blinked. Every time people bring up the Astros are frown just cheated just blatant just cheat to win. They're taking on the Minnesota twins keys, dodgers will take on the brewers the padres in the playoffs for the first time in fourteen years will take on the Saint Louis Cardinals and the much maligned and I know it's a sixty game season. How about the Miami Marlins under? Derek. Jeter, for everything that they have gone through there and they'll get the Chicago cubs. Yeah. They they. They deserve to being I'm happy for I'm happy for Jeeter because when he? Blew everything up and traded. Call Stan and everybody was like Oh they just care about the money. They're completely trash in the organization, and now they're in the playoffs and they take on. Chicago like you said, one
Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast
Booms Sustainable Supersonic
"Supersonics and sustainability are two words. You rarely hear uttered together, but that's about to change. Boom supersonic is developing the first civil supersonic airliner of the twenty first century, and unlike the concord, it will be able to operate sustainably. Boom is building a one third scale demonstrator as a precursor to the overture, a seventy five seat mach two point two airliner it hopes will begin service later this decade. Senior Editor Guy North provides exclusive details about the boom project and a cover story that will appear in the June twenty nine edition of Aviation, week and space technology. He joins us here from Los Angeles so guy. What's the story? Joe, yeah well. It was It's been fascinating of course this whole idea of the renaissance, supersonic travel and You know we talked to area of course a couple of months ago and did a pretty good story about that evolving design We've seen that NASTAS X fifty nine low boom demonstrator is being assembled by Lockheed Martin right now in the skunkworks, so there's a lot of activity, but it goes. Boom boom, supersonic based in Colorado has been working for several years now on a design, which as you mentioned called the overture, and it's getting to the point now where the XP one demonstrator is kind of ready getting ready for prime time so that looking at rolling out this summer and putting into flight test next year. I should say by the way it's taken a lot longer than they or anybody else thought, but you know they're working their way through it and getting their. So how does the XP one demonstrator help with the development of the overture? Roy well good question in fact strangely enough. That's question number one that I put to Blake Shoal. WHO's the CEO of of boom and so I guess why not just let him tell us exactly what he told me. Right so the way XP one is it? Is it approving in flight? The key technologies we need sustainable, safe, economical, supersonic flight, and it had that you principally Amex materials and befall Trent, so using the statement of carbon fibre system that we would use them on overture, using the same design techniques where your ally in simulation of getting all the calibration day. in-flight Shit exactly how your models performed the real world, and then a similar approaches to high efficiency who supersonic intakes they can big difference, overall performance and it's. It's really important. You do this in hardware. Just in the wind tunnel installation because when you do when you do concept studies. Near you're not forced to solve all the problems. You can leave little bits of things. It unfinished assumed we get get the rest of the way there, but sometimes the last ten percent of work is ninety percent of the innovation really happens. Now of course, the the thing about the demonstrator is that it's also beginning to kickstart the supply chain as well a loads by and large a supply chain. That's probably going to be quite different when the when the production version comes out but I think one of the things that really is interesting is the fact that that's The supply chain is very interested in supersonics and getting more so particularly as they finding pressure from the classic at bussing, Boeing supply chains way, you know Boeing an episode of having their issues, so supply China's looking for other outlets and other avenues. And of course, one of the key parts that supply China's the engine. Nobody's going to go anyway without without a good engine boom on at the point yet of being up to say particularly where they all with that and where the selections but. In, this question, I asked I asked bike. You know what the situation was, so this is what he had to say about. This supply China on propulsion. And when we started bill six years ago, frankly people thought we were crazy and It was the this was a thing. That was some bad idea. An audible and that's that's that's really changed, and you see across the industry of writing efforts. Supersonics were credible. And when that? When that starts to get internalized the supply chain people. Stop thinking like well. Is this worth doing. Back out instead they start thinking what if this happens part of it? At that changes that really changes a lot of the conversations and if you are. A big piece of your business comes from widebody aircraft and the most profitable passengers during the wide bodies into supersonic. That, it's actually a bad thing if you don't have a supersonic
The Savage Nation
Netanyahu claims victory after Israeli election — but future still uncertain
"Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is projected to come out of the election in Israel with thirty five seats three more than his challenger but he got many asking how the former head of the Israeli army lost to an indicted prime minister set to stand trial for corruption in just two weeks that after general Benny Gantz a centrist party lost its lead short on experience and charisma guns was always at a disadvantage competing against Netanyahu a savvy political veteran and above all else a tireless fighter guns trying to make up for that by focusing on the tenuous legal troubles but even there the
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach
Seed Starting Tips From Joe Lamp'l
"Back? Joe How. How are you Margaret? I'm fine trying to hang in. There was apprised. You have anything left in the after trial and all those damn see he's Giddy boy so you've been growing from seed confidently or at least I thought so for years and then you sort of went went wild this last year with these extra trials and I mean you know I would look at your instagram photos and videos and you were like in the jungle of seedlings and there was somehow however ever a method to the madness so tell us the truth. How many seedlings did you grow and explain sort of the mad scientist process? That went in prepare into preparing to do this course on sites and I think I'm as guilty as anybody when my exuberance in over enthusiastic nature takes over so I had I lost Canada. Pack had Margaret in each packet has a minimum of twenty five seats. I would say I was in the neighborhood of a couple thousand seedlings every round the trial. So about fifty. Two to fifty to sixty see trays in each trae had at least eighteen sales and some had seventy two cells so you can understand why. I'm a little delirious. I sort of lost count and lost in the jungle. But it's not a bad thing so we're their parts of the seeds starting says that you are particularly uh-huh determined to sort of get to the bottom of things that had maybe stymied you year after year that were just super confusing like in five different resources or different books or online sightsee five different recommendations. Were there yeah. We're there like certain things you were trying to figure out in particular couple in particular in one is certainly was the alighting lighting continuing to evolve. And you know with led grow lights is not just their led anymore it's what spectrum of led lights. Do you want. And how strong do you want it. And how how high do you hang it and how your plants respond and is it worth it to spend all extra money on a superpower. Led light if you're just growing seedlings to put outside six weeks later. I mean I had so many questions. And that's the thing I'm I'm such a curious gardener myself I just feel like I gotTa know everything and why not share it with the rest of the people. What's the crash test Gardner Alloy number of your speaking of light so we can start there so a number of years years ago Dr Thomas Borkman of Cornell. He's a crop physiologist who studies the effects of Environmental Stimuli on plant growth and their development particularly in vegetables and that's his whole career and he has like a laboratory in his specialty. Is You know vegetables. Vegetables seasonings like how it's physiology all G of how they grow. And how can we do better with them. And so forth and he advises you know the nursery and farm agriculture industries and. He told me that in the home seats starting environment. The number number one thing we can do to improve results and especially prevent leggy seedlings is to improve the light. You know that was and there. There's a lot of other factors that affect affect how seedlings develop But the light was the thing an and you know he was like Margaret. No you know think thank you even though the tell all your people even though the window sill looks bright. It's not right and tell them that. The old fluorescent Sir a lot less light than the T- fives saves and and now he would say and the led is but what did you end up kind of. Did you come to a conclusion about light because I mean clearly. I'm I'm on the fence. You can hear it in my voice you know. I'm not changing out. I T five fluorescence which I have mirrored. Would you sell reflective interior. The interior of the hood is reflective. So you get a little extra light. Yes do really well with those I did well with regular fluorescence for a million years or shop shop light for a million years before that but I don't know like where we're wh what did you try. And what do you feel about it because I know you had crazy pictures pictures of like. Is this your basement or where is this place that you do. All this I call it my seats starting room but it's just the I guess the breezeway from going going down in the basement out to the door my garden. So there's this about ten foot wide space in. It's probably about twenty five feet long. And so that's my my laboratory starting starting all these seed trays. And it's right outside my office and so the challenge for me is trying to get through that area without getting distracted and getting sucked into the world of watching seeds. GERMINATE ORNATE I'll stand there for ten minutes seen about a notice a seat a sealy move just because it's grown a little bit in those ten minutes that I was there right but to your question I did in fourteen different light trials and so I tried every type of not every type of light. There is there so many out there but I went from the classic old fashioned old school shop. Light right to stop lights with the led inserts to shop light led lights that all come together as one unit. So you can't change out the lights you get you get buried. Read the light spectrum of the forescent tubes I went from you know low Kelvin. At three thousand zero. Hi Kelvin. The sixty five hundred tests color temperatures I went to the led. Eddie lights and I went to the type that has just what appears to be a clear white light which is just what's called full spectrum. which is all the frequencies that sees and I did dual you'll band led's which is Focusing on the red and the blue which we now know plants respond best to from a vegetative standpoint so I try those against everything else and and then the the Grand Allie was I splurge for a really expensive. Led full spectrum girl like the cost three hundred dollars and it was two thousand watts. And I'm like wow. This is a big light and it really was. It was twenty eight inches wide and our long twenty eight twenty inches wide so it covered the whole shelf in so over over multiple trials. I put them all up against each other head to head and if you're asking for my conclusion it's fascinating because on the super expensive grow light it really does perform uniquely in. If you're trying to have things go to fruit or flower indoors you need a light like that right but if you were just trying to get ceiling caught along for four to six weeks whatever likes you have can work. What I learned Margaret is that you just have to learn how now your light works with the plant? You're going underneath them and learn how to position those lights over the plant and learn how many hours a day you need that. Have that light on in. How does that plant? Get the optimal amount of light coming out of what you have. So you don't necessarily need to go buy one you just need to understand better relationship between the light and the plant and had to get the most data both right and I. I just think I'm just like if we had some sound effects I would go ding Ding Ding. Ding you know. I'd love that answer right because because I again. I'm an old gardener. I and you know forty something years ago. I was using shop hood with a cool and a one cool light and one warm white eight fluorescent and I mean they hardly put out anything if you compare them to the sun outside on a day in May when seedlings would germinate themselves in nature As as Dr Borkman again at Cornell explained to me but but it's a lot of light if you know how to use it and the things that you have to know is how warm is what's being emitted from that a tube. So how close can you get because you WANNA get close but not so close that you toast the baby's cooking you know what I mean and the led's cooler are they. They don't have the heat commission is at so they're considered more efficient for the whatever wattage they are. They're considered more efficient because when the power is coming out of the white it's going to to place it's going it's going to put out the light and it's going to put out heat and so the less heat the more light and vice versa right. Led's do a better job of of being more efficient in that they're putting out more light but the thing about What we often misunderstand about those lights is that we think brighter is better in indepth plants perceive the same way we do but they don't you know they they respond completely differently so just because a light is brighter doesn't necessarily make it better right right so so again? I'm feeling happy with my. I don't know if they're you know. Five or seven year old I'm not talking about that. I've been running them for the obsessing bald necessarily for seven years nonstop because again I might use them for six weeks twelve hours a day right in once a year for that little period. Here you know because I'm overlapping a bunch of different crops. But that's it you know it's not I'm not doing a million things. I'm not doing as many fifty two trays times. A billion seeds. He's like you did. And obviously you change out the bulb when the ball is you have to read the instructions and see what the life of the bulb is your. Yeah yeah go ahead I was going to say I mean if you really wanted to geek out on that there. There's an instrument that you can get that measures that like quality around your plants. It's not for the everyday the day. See Starter who doesn't want to invest a minimum of one hundred fifty dollars but there are tools out there which I invested because I was determined to really measure the details tales right. And that's one way that you can do it. is those those light readings. Go down as the bulbs get older. And that's one indication but probably not the most practical things for people to do but using your is in in looking at how the plants respond will really give you lots of clues you might not be able to detect it in the perception of the brightness of that light to the human eye but the your plants plants will tell you they they. It's amazing how much they'll tell you if you just learn to communicate with
ESPN Daily
Buffalo Clinches Playoff Birth
"Your namesake team is in in the play offs. The bills I mean. I don't WanNa Brag Bill. Barnwell is a senior football writer at. ESPN he has consulted with NFL teams. But the bills are not in fact named after him. So tonight the buffalo bills beat the Pittsburgh steelers seventy ten clinching a spot in the postseason and bill. What's amazing about this team? Aside from being named after you Is that for most of the two thousands. They didn't even have a winning record but but now they have made the playoffs in two of the last three years during this rebuilding process. Where does this recent success begin in your mind? I think the simplest place for it to start is just hiring Sean McDermott. This is a coach. Who really seems at odds with with a lot of what? NFL Teens tend to do when they have head coaching opportunity. Pop Up Sean. mcdumber forty two wasn't like he was old but let's face face it every coaching opportunity. That's popped up over. The last three years has basically been. Let's try and get a offensive minded coach or someone who is particularly close to. Sean McVeigh and correct defensive minded coach the panthers weren't even coming off a good season they were six and ten and ranked twenty six points allowed the year before so the bills really took a shot on shark dermott top of that. The bills gave McDermott some level of personnel control. which teams are really it? Really Loath to do it. First Year head coaches but it worked. The bills had an excellent free agent period in two thousand seventeen and they earned their draft totally differently that year their previous previous GM Doug Whaley had repeatedly traded up in years past regrettable move. Sammy Watkins. Being the most notable one but damage first move was to trade down and and the first player he drafted was Davis White. WHO had a big game against the steelers? Last night tonight again squirts out of bounds around the twenty yard long. So why headed early picked in fact. We'll before McDermott joined the team in two thousand sixteen they had the twenty seventh best defense in the NFL according to football outsiders after that they started taking up up in now bill. It's one of the best units in the League. How did this defense gets so good so quickly? I mean just to keep it simple. They got rid of everybody pretty much. I mean. The fifty three players were on their roster for the final game in two thousand sixteen before Mcdermott arrived. There's three guys left in the Renzo Alexander Jerry News and Shack Lawson all front seven pieces. I mean everyone else. Fifty other players on this roster Aurora ellsworth point and the bills have drafted well. But I think what makes this team so interesting as they really go out of their way to get veterans from other rosters and saw seemed to get more out of those players in their previous teams games in their first free agent period Jordan play Mike Hide Jordan Philips for example comes to mind in recent years where he was a second round. Pick washout of Miami. The bills brought him in. He has nine and a half sacks this season as defensive tackle. That's really impressive. There's just a lot of players on this roster who either were good somewhere and have become great in buffalo or who really weren't playing very well at all or almost out of the League who have become regulars on this really talented bills defense so last year the bills. Roll the dyson Josh Allen in the draft trading up to take him seventh overall despite his lack of college production in his rookie season was pretty underwhelming warming. Bill Fifty two point eight percent. Completion percentage just five point four adjusted guards per attempt. It seemed to me that they approached this off season with a really concerted strategy to build around him in free agency. Signings worked out for the team. It's been really good. I mean it's really the same philosophy sophy we saw on the defensive side of the ball. Those have had fifteen players. I not on offense for at least twenty percents of the snaps. Twelve of those guys are new into the roster. It's both running backs. All three of their tight ends five of their six top offensive. Lineman you know in a League where so many times you hear here that a team should sign a player or they actually do sign a player because they know the system quote unquote the bills. Sort of realized. Hey we have coaches who we pay to teach each player's the system. We should just go get those guys instead and so many of those players are playing in a high level and I think. It's really been perfect for Josh Allen Alan who even going back to Wyoming. He had to play hero ball. He had to sort of make big plays for his team to win. And we've seen a totally different quarterback this shear. I wouldn't argue. Allen is finished product but he's been productive quarterback this year a using his legs to create opportunities. He's hitting a lot of intermediate passes when he didn't do that last year. And he's avoiding turnovers man after throwing four interceptions in that really frustrating loss the Patriots week for this offense. Turn the ball over four. We're times in nine games. That's incredible for an offense that really just turn the ball over at will last season and they turn the ball over twice against the steelers last last night but they still did enough on offense to victory the snap just gonNa keep it off. He will sail. into the end zone touchdown touchdown buffalo. Josh Allen from one yard out and the bills are on the scoreboard early in the second quarter. Do you think there are any lessons. That other teams can take from the bills rebuilding process. Yeah I I do think so and I'm GonNa make a comparison that I'm sure. Bills fans are not really gonNA love but there's a lot of patriots in what the bills have done in their philosophy. The bills have been great at Pro Scouting and they've really found a way to bringing those players like I said who were struggling elsewhere. who were just guys elsewhere and turn them into much better contributors with Buffalo? They've done great work with undrafted. Free Agency have a couple starters in their secondary from there as well. They built their scheme scheme to really accommodate their players. And that's not just the Patriots thing but also way ravens thing where we're seeing that with Lamar Jackson and all the great stuff they've done on offense The bills don't have a scheme that throws the ball up fifteen times a game downfield. Just because Josh Allen has a strong arm they create better throws for him that that play to his arm strength as opposed to just trying to hit a big play because Josh Allen has in his arsenal I think in the big picture. There's just this idea that you shouldn't blindly follow what the NFL does with their trans so the bills are in the playoffs. Most likely as a wildcard team and bill while the defense is he's one of the best in the league offense has been up and down they really didn't produce very much against Pittsburgh. Do you think that that's a formula that can and work in January. I do not. I think they're a team. Nobody's GONNA WANNA play this postseason. It's very different from twenty seventeen eighteen where I don't think it's fair to say. The bills sort of meant the playoffs by accident that year. When they benched tyrod Taylor Nathan Peterman in mid season and kind of just rent a hot streak into the playoffs over the final month of the year? This team is way better on defense. They have more faith than Allen and I think the playoffs actually line up pretty well for for them as a five seat which is most likely where they're gonNA fall. They're terrible matchup for the Texans who they really really gave a tough game. Two in two thousand eighteen only for Nathan Peterman the throw too late interceptions to hand the texts victory and then they gave them our tax and Fitz. When they played last Sunday? I don't think this is going to be the last time the bills are going to be in the playoffs with this court. They're really opposition to be the best team in the AFC east. If the Patriots slip any further. And I am. I don't think I think it's too far to say that I'd be the best team in the AFC east right now
Power Trading Radio
Boris Johnson's Conservative Party Wins 365 Seats
"Voters in northern England and Wales gave conservatives a majority not seen since the days of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with three hundred and sixty five seats and labor it's a worst defeat since before World War two with just two hundred and three working class voters rejected the promises by labor leader Jeremy Corbett fox's Leland Vitor Johnson calls a landslide victory irrefutable and on or
Pacifica Evening News
Exit polls show Boris Johnson leading UK election
"An exit poll in Britain selection projects that prime minister Boris Johnsons Conservative Party will likely win a solid majority of seats in parliament at a size about com that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U. K. out of the European Union next month the survey released just hours after polls closed predicted the conservatives would get three hundred sixty eight of the six hundred fifty house of Commons seats and the labor party one ninety one that would be the biggest Tory majority for several decades and the disastrous set back for labor based on interviews with voters leaving one hundred forty four polling stations across the country the poll was conducted for consortium of U. K. broadcasters and is regarded as reliable although not exact the poll also projects fifty five seats for the Scottish National Party thirteen for the Liberal Democrats Benji higher reports from London this is just an exit poll conducted by Austin voters who they supported as they left polling stations on Thursday but in British electoral history this poll released it back on ten PM local time is normally pretty accurate and if the same applies this year then that means the Conservative Party have come out on top in this election with the biggest majority in decades the full results will be known until early on Friday morning Hey also the trickle in from across the country throughout the coming hours if this exit poll is any indication of the final outcome the the Tories in for a good night boss Leyba the main opposition party will be facing some very tough questions with the fourth election defeat
Digiday Podcast
USA Todays Kris Barton on building publishing products that also make money
"We are going to get started and I WANNA welcome Chris. Barton Chris is the chief product officer at at USA Today correct. Thank you great to be here. Okay so Chris. you started your career not in publishing in fact like publishing is it's sort of recent endeavour bureaus urine technology right yes at Microsoft and reach local and then he became art of USA Today. What is the biggest difference the of running product being just even in product or executing product at a publishing company versus a Tech Company. Yes so there's his I'm assuming USA Today's not calling itself a Tech Company. We're not although we do think we have some great technologies but it's definitely different and it's also interesting when you look at the roots of software and tech companies and all that when software companies make software you know if you if you backups at Microsoft at one point and working on office Microsoft Office and you look at how they develop products and what they do and it's it really comes into they had this software development in life cycle and there was these phases of you plan into research and then you would specify what you were GonNa Build and then you would do development than you would do quality assurance and testing and then you would ship and the Shipping Ping was a CD or DVD or something that you did not cycle might take a few years to actually go through and do that and then one of the big pushes that happened you know ten fifteen years ago and software to say that doesn't work the world's moving way too fast when he'd actually do things much quicker much shorter cycle so you had these agile development common methodologies that came in and tried to look at things in terms of two or four week sprints where you would try and do things and what's what's an interesting analogy. Though is when you look at the publisher aside the DNA of the company is to ship something every day you think of you've got multiple times a day and you've got DNA. It's not about let's work on something. That's three three or six months out. There might be a few of those but really the core. DNA is every day. We're pushing something where we're trying to do something and so actually there's almost some things. I think technology companies can learn from from from publishers and that that side which kind of interesting and different but that's that's one thing that jumps out that sort of unique. What's the core product challenge challenge at a publisher verse. Tech company doesn't mean product. Eh you say the product changes every day. I mean that's that's certainly a challenge but also technology has never been the core competence of content companies the end of the day at technology companies. It really is about the technology for for the most part at publishers it really is the confluence of three things right it's advertising journalism and and technology and the technology tends to manifest crested self a lot in the experience. You know how do I know what to Click on next. What do I do. How am I exposed to different things and I think that's that's one of the things that ultimately different about them but as you look at most I mean I think the web again sort of introduced this brand new model where it said actually you need to monitor. If you're GONNA do a web service whatever it is and it's a consumer product you still need to monetize it so it brought in the advertising piece in where that's actually more similar than you would think but what's missing is the the content itself. The journalism side is so core to what the product is and that is a different environment really than anything that you see in tech companies as a whole because that is really one of the main essence elements of the product itself so talk about balancing any you talked about advertising the talk about the users and I think there's some of that with ad-supported technology products but core challenge has to be balancing those two needs right because because we can talk about them being harmonious sometimes earn conflict absolutely one of the things that you shared a story with me before I have not that go there but I I one of my own I grew up and had a for me and three siblings four kids and my parents and we had a Honda accord and we would go on road trips across the country and you think about that accord has five seats right so so we my parents in the front. My siblings were the older ones in the backseat and my seat was the emergency brake. Literally I actually put a pillow over the emergency brake and I sat there and I always felt like I was sort of squished in after the analogy. I felt like I was an after right as the reason why I say that is we think about balancing the two. You think there is a lot of times where it feels like an element of that. Whether it's the monetization piece whatever sort of squished in at the end I have an interesting take take on that which is I don't think that's bad of the time it's like. Sometimes it's not good but I actually don't think it's always bad when I when I look back to the Honda accord trips. It's still got us for me to be it would have been nicer to have something else but we had what we had and we do and it served its purpose and so I think there are times where we look at that and we say it's bad to have this tension you know and it's so tough whatever but actually it serves its purpose it allows both sides of the business to be represented for the newsroom funded and for modernisation to occur cause a company has to have money to to run and so there are times where we want to minimize that but there are times where I think it's okay just to say yeah that's not the most elegant thing but it works and it's it's achieving our goal which is to be able to deliver quality journalism to our consumers and pay for it but I think the counter would be that if if you're just pure product standpoint publishers are failing product right. I mean they there. You don't have to go very far. Click Berry. It's very far to come across disastrous product experiences. I won't name any publishers but you know with your bombarded with with auto play. Video sites are are slow because there's there's hundreds of calls going on and obviously platforms have used this to their advantage right so I mean how can publishers balance a really difficult monetization landscape with delivering truly really great products. I think that's where having good technologists people who understand technology and what's evolving can help to introduce the technology normalcy that will solve some of those problems and we've had several examples of that one of the things that love to talk about today a little bit is we're currently undergoing a design on USA Today so we're at two percent rolled out and are going to be rolling out completely by October and and as part of that we've looked at a lot of these issues performance and low times we re architect things technologies and coming at it from a technology standpoint we can look at some of these technologies and say how can these technologies empower us to deliver better experiences and that adds a new element and you can get. Geeky really fast asked him some of that stuff but hd two is a protocol that allows you to pull in content from different domains at the same time which allows you to load things much faster. There's all these things you're looking at from a technology standpoint. You're able to take a different. Lens on it and say that's going to solve a problem which will help us create better experiences and so that's why I think it is important to have that balance of technologists who are at your company who are empowered to think about technology. I am not come into the net. Come everyday thinking. How am I just thinking about journalism but they come come together on. Both sides create better experiences. Let's talk about the redesign. What were the core goals of. It wasn't to get the site faster core goals goals. Were really a few things. One was we want to increase engagement with our customers. That was number one because out of that drives all the behaviors we want so that was number one increased engagement with customers or consumers and then secondarily it was much faster load times that was a big focus of our so we re architect architect everything really from the ground up so really beat all of our competition we wanted to be the fastest site and then the third thing was a creating safe experiences for advertisers where we could take more advantage of layouts and themes to create more compelling engaging rich environments but also scrape brand safe environments that we could really feel confident going out and selling our clients would be able to say oh. I know advertise with you that I'm going to be sure that uh I'm not showing up to next content. I don't want that so those are the those were the three main things engagement monetization side the performance side where things that we're really trying to drive what what was the hardest to to soften. I think engagements the hardest one because you can always add more ads or it or add more features do things but if people aren't engaging with them then you're defeating the whole point so from our standpoint we really wanted to understand the behaviors of consumers how those evolve and change and one of the things that that we see all the time is things that might have been true three years ago might be evolving now and they evolved because because the technologies change in different pieces change one little sign up for answer that our organization of our teams and how we're set up at USA. Today is we have when it comes to product. It's really three main disciplines so it's product management and those are the people that are sort of thinking through what are the the ideas or the features the things that we need to do and the sort of researching out who the markets we're. GonNa go after the audiences are going to go after the second element is user experience and design so a lot of people will outsource elements that we for this specifically did not want to do that. We wanted to make sure we had that competency. In House that we knew this was so quarter who we are and what we do that we had an in house and that we could deliver those experiences ourselves and then the third one is the actual engineers who build what you're doing and so those three core disciplines are Organiz together and their singular purposes to work with our stakeholders our stakeholders our marketing. It's the newsroom. It's our advertising retail sales teams to bring together.
The Economist: The Intelligence
Likudnt: Israels political crisis
"In Israel just last month. Benyamin Netanyahu was celebrating a strong showing by his Likud party in parliamentary elections. He had been forced to call an early poll as he faced a raft of corruption allegations, his victory seemed like a vote of confidence by the Israeli people. And he grinned ingredient cheering crowds on election night, but all has not gone smoothly since Israel has many political parties and mister Netanyahu has struggled to build the coalition he needs to form a government. He called publicly on one party leader. His former defense minister of eager Lieberman to join him. Let's through this of net, the victim liberal, unfortunately, until this moment, including tonight, I didn't manage to complete a victory Lieberman to avoid elections. But whoever looks at the reality that we need to be responsible and former government immediately those please failed. So a few minutes after midnight, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset voted to dissolve it. So for reports from Israel for the economist and recently wrote a book about mister Netanyahu. And this is just thirty days after it was sworn in seven weeks after Laos election in. This is unprecedented in his right. But it'd go history. And why it's been so difficult to, to build a coalition Netanyahu proclaimed victory, because his block of right wing, religious parties had a majority of five seats in the Knesset. So it seemed that he had one. However, to make that victory reality needed to get all those policies cooperating together in one coalition and one issue the issue of the draft of Sheva students, students in religious seminaries proved so prove so contentious that one of the parties demanded the law on this. We should be ready drafted the previous be passed as literally, without changing, a comma, while some of the religious parties in the coalition demanded major changes to the law, and the prime minister. Currently so prime minister, who was very eager to begin his fifth tablet, prime minister couldn't bridge those differences. So what happens now? So what should have happened last night at midnight was with Netanyahu deadline on the tiny allocated to him to form the coalition up sewing else you've received the opportunity to, to form a coalition by his Rayleigh low, but there was also, there's those close into never been used with specifies that dissolved the whole process of foreign governments stops and the country goes back to the polls, and that is the closet into Neo used and therefore in three and a half months Israel will be held another election. And meanwhile, mister Netanyahu is under investigation on corruption allegations. How will that then play out in the current absence of government and the potential for a different one was really Mr. Gatien's ready been wraps up, and the attorney general has tentatively decided to indict into now on bribery and fraud in through? In, in those three investigations Mosul efforts over the last few weeks when he should have been trying to solve this problem between his coalition partners was trying to get the parties to agree to vote on various pieces of legislation, which would grant him immunity from prosecution and would shield him from any intervention of the high court in that decision. That is now that has now been shelved those pieces of today's another go ahead. Certainly not until the election, and another government is formed, assuming wins the next election form that government. So he's lost very valuable time for him. And in that time the hearing. Harry's. It will proceed and there's a chance that before the attorney general decides to, to indict attending and to charge them in court for bribery, he, he won't have any relation in place. It to shield him has steadfastly denied the allegations ever since the investigations begun over three years ago. He said, there's nothing in them, but step after step it turned out that there is some serious evidence, which led to form investigation. But now he's instead of is standing up in court against he's trying to vade any kind of you say this situation is unprecedented. And, you know, everyone would have expected that mister Netanyahu could have formed, a government does the fact that he hasn't suggest that, perhaps his rivals smell blood and are positioning themselves for power. Well, certainly Evita Lumine the leader of small, nationalist secular, particle, Estrella bay, taint, Israel, our home, who demanded that. The law be. Passed. And that was the reason why there is no code Asian. He says he felt that he could challenge the two now. And see his calculation is that now is, is going down eventually and therefore, there's no reason for him to be a member. His coalition is ready staking out, new ground in the right wing for the in the post tenure era. So he's, he's the first major is right wing politician, Israel to openly challenge. It's in recent years, and they'll be others who will follow him, if there is this large group of parties. Why is Mr. LeBron Lieberman ended up as the king-maker here? Well, the there was nothing, you know, block of parties had a majority of five seats, those five seats, a walked LeBron's party without those five seats than the majority, and what about the peace process? Jared Kushner is is in the country with this US led plan in hand on solving is really Palestinian issues. But there's no government for. Him to talk to. Well, we've got used to the fact that the Trump administration delaying disposing the unveiling of its much way to peace plan. But now that finally have gone out to this piece for spiritedly workshop beret next month. I doubt that they'll delay once again due to the political turmoil in Israel. It's mainly anyway, for the Americans to get together with our bed regimes and work out some kind of economic offense not yet, the ethical stage of, of, of the Trump, and if we ever get to that stage, that stage will will probably be postponed due to these Rayleigh election. Right. And how do you think the, the election will go? Do you, do you think that mister Netanyahu will be able to form a coalition the next time around? It's wouldn't election two months ago. He didn't manage to take that victory and, and China into a function government, but he, he, he wouldn't the right wing religious, bodies one majority, which was not known large one, but it was pretty clear. And it's difficult to see the opposition overturning that this point. But we're in uncharted territory. Now we've never had a second election in the same year's election held just only five months after the previous one. And there's also this new rift within the right wing have a right wing party. Basically saying that Netanyahu, dreitzer, former government, he failed, and now we probably won't be sporting in the future. So there's a sort of shift in the political map in Israel, which which will have to wait and see how that pans out. Thank you very much for your time.
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Israel Calls News Elections After Failing to Form a Government
"Israel will hold new elections in September after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition in parliament. Now, you may remember that Israel had national elections in April, there was ultimate, which was a victory for mister Netanyahu's Likud party, but not a majority to find out what happened, I rang up, our Israel and Palestinian territories correspondent Felicia swertz in Jerusalem, so fully show, why did Mr Netanyahu failure? So he had ninety days since the April elections to cobble together a coalition his Likud party, only one thirty five seats to form a government, you need at least sixty one or at least a form of stable, government, you need at least sixty one and it's pretty common for these coalition negotiations to go down to the wire, but over the, the last few days, it became clear that he was at a major impasse with his former defense minister, AVI jor Lieberman, who heads. Secular small secular party with the large Russian base. In the end they couldn't bridge a gap on legislation that sets a quota for the number of ultra-orthodox men to be drafted into the military, so it really came down to these societal divides between religion and state. What happens next so Isreaeli will go back to the polls in September. They'll, they'll vote again. And then the same process that we just went through here. We'll happen again, which is the votes will be tallied the heads of each party. That wins seats in the Knesset the parliament will go to Israel's president recommend someone to have a chance of forming a government last time.
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Modi Wins In Landslide Election, A Victory For Hindu Nationalists
"Minister Narendra Modi met with leaders of his Hindu nationalist, Bharatiya Janata Party Friday after his victory in national elections, Mody met with his outgoing cabinet as part of a series of post-election formalities before it can be sworn in as India's. New prime minister the election commission announced the BJP one three hundred three out of five hundred twenty five seats in the lower house of parliament after the official vote count finished Friday. That's well beyond the simple majority of party in India needs to form a
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Generals election: Thai politics
"Billed as a return to democracy in March the people of Thailand voted in general election for the first time since a military coup in two thousand fourteen but it seems that the generals who seized power back then have done their level best to keep hold of it. So it's been an exceptionally busy week in Thailand and on Saturday. It was the start with three days. Hella gracious for king Maha, which your along. Koren's? Coronation Marinda Johnson is our southeast Asia. Correspondent the Viti busy time was on Sunday. When I camped out for hours in this. Well, touring heat with thousands of other type people all wearing yellow as that is the rule of color to see the world procession go past it was all extremely regal. And it was amazing to see how dedicated people would being that despite the extrordinary heat. And if that wasn't enough for the start of the new reign, his all. Also got off to fairly explosive beginning politically because in recent days, the full results of general election held in March were released and the election was a bit of a sham. It was stage managed and designed to keep the ruling military junta in power. We'll walk us through that a little bit in what way was it a sham and stage-managed. So at which is a party created to support the military hunter that came to power in a coup in twenty four teen sought to wean over put tied which is a party loyal to Texans. Shinno art who is a former prime minister who's basically been feuding with generals since an earlier coup in two thousand six which saw hidden kicked out of office. And the hunter reached the electoral system in its favor banning all political activity in just until just a few months before the election. Disbanding a second party linked to Mr. tax in. And then also warding itself the power to appoint all two hundred and fifty members of the upper house. So in March ties voted to fill the five hundred seats and the lower house, and despite all of this just after the vote a coalition of seven or. -sition parties who oppose the military and oppose it running the country, which includes Pertemps and also a new party called feature forward, which is popular with young voters. These seven opposition parties announced that they had won a slim majority in the lower house, according to the four costs so against all the odds, then the sort of coalition of opposition parties seem to have grabbed some of the power at least in the lower house where there was actually some power up for grabs. But will they actually have a voice? It sounds as if the who has tried to wrap this up pretty tightly. Yes. And so first time around into realized it didn't wrap things up tightly enough. And so what has happened this week with the announcement of the full results is that the election commission revealed that won the most seats in the lower house. Fully by the military linked palling Pratt trap. Party and then with future forward in third place, which is also an opposition party. But the biggest blow to the opposition came when the election commission tweet the formula whereby it allocated a hundred fifty party lists seats, which are awarded on a proportional basis. And that meant that the party the seats given to big parties such as future forward was reduced. And instead little parties got some of those seats instead. So the changes reduced the opposition alliance to having a minority in the lower house of two hundred forty five seats, whereas they were hoping for a very slim majority Hutu has after the fact then going in and essentially a rig things even further in its favor. And what's the upshot Willie's opposition parties actually have a? Voice in the eventual later. No. And right now, it looks as though a week pro military coalition government is the most likely outcome. Probably with the general who's currently prime minister once again leading it. So this new to gently reshuffled government, what will it priorities? Be. So some of them will be similar to the priorities that the current military government has shown in particular. It will continue to defend uphold the interests of the monarchy. It's also likely. That's the new government will come down hard on future. Forward already the party and its its leadership face sixteen charges of wrongdoing and the fighting those in various ways, but it will not be in the interests of the king for there to be messy disorder. So early in his reign. And so the junta will probably come down quite hard quite fast on anyone thinks he's causing descent you keep mentioning the future forward party, which is not one that we've spoken about before. When when talking about type politics are they an important new force. Yes, they founded about a year ago by a young charismatic parts billionaire and the appealed particularly to young people and their policy platform was progressive. It was sort of anti-establishment they want to do things like back the military budget. And so as you can imagine they ruffled some feathers also anti monopoly when it comes to business, and they really captured hearts and minds of young people who are tired of the old feuds in Thailand between put and Mr. tanks in and the Royal Military establishment what will? Members of future forward and indeed everybody else make then of this stage manage election that sort of visible fiddling with the incipient democracy. So it's very disappointing in many ways because Thailand particularly a couple of decades ago with considered a bit of a democratic leader in south East Asia. And so for Thailand to full behind now batik Lee as a crackdown in Cambodia is occurring as violence continues to rage in me, and mom, it's just that the region can no longer look to the country to be guiding light when it comes to democratic rights and human rights Morente. Thank you very much for joining us.
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Looking inside Israel's election
"The outcome of Israel's election becomes clear on the ground. It citizens can look to the skies and has rarely space probe nicknamed. Sparrow is on its way to the moon. Sure. It'll do some science, but mostly it's purpose is symbolic and these days, plenty of countries are joining the moon rush. And there's a massive demographic shift going on in the world's workplaces employees are growing older and retirees living longer how will accommodate adjust as the old increasingly outnumbered the young. But I. It's been another close election for Benjamin Netanyahu. Last night, both the Israeli Prime Minister and his main rival Benny Ganz claimed victory in yesterday's vote. Certainly do. The parties are neck and neck with thirty five seats each in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, but mister Netanyahu has a clear path to forming a coalition government. Seems to have won the election. His potential coalition of right-wing and religious parties has sixty five seats out of the hundred twenty see connected. So that's majority ancho Feffer reports from Jerusalem for the economist. He recently wrote a biography of Mr Netanyahu what happens next is that seeming with ninety percent of the votes almost counted, assuming these fun results, the president will call in the party next week for consultations, and assuming now has a majority of recommendations he will be called upon to full new government. It'll take probably couple of weeks coalition negotiations and then presented to the Knesset. Probably in early may. We'll have a new Netanyahu government, which sounds more or less like the way things have gone over the past few elections. Why does this one matter every election at says the next one's in four years, but Netanyahu's facing a more severe challenge this time. Both in the identity of his challenger bennigan's was. Someone poised to take away the Mendel Mississippi Carritti from Netanya Renna close race. If there is also accurate, then at least in the party vote. He equal Netanya and the other challenge facing was that since the previous election multiple corruption allegations have emerged resulting in three potential indictments to hap- mooring investigations down the road. So I was also going to the nation is ready virgin saying vote for despite all that you've heard about my alleged corruption about those allegations. I mean, how might they affect his premiership his ability to form a government. How do you think that will figure into things from here on out well into the fifth, but that may be pretty sure if he comes avoid indictments, and is charging cord it'll also influenced the coalition goes next you because attention go dish in partners are aware of the pressure into now is under and they will. Probably be extracting a heavier price visiting in his religion. Whether in the shape of ministerial positions in policies and budgets, and they're not just joining the coalition former McGovern joining a coalition which will act to shield him from the indictments perhaps in new immunity legislation or even standing by him. If he insists on meeting prime minister wants charge in court. So is this going to have a huge effect on everything happening going forward and supposing he avoids the imminent danger there, what should we expect from government that that he forms? What kind of campaign promises did he make? Well, really that many campaign policies in this election is election has been about whether or not should remain prime minister, the one big policy bum show that he threw into the Rena just a few days ago was sort of off promise to annex parts of the West Bank. Now, we have to wait and see if he has that far right coalition right now, his potential partners even more to the right than they were the previous coalition. This is an option perhaps of going to bet against say, let's form a grand coalition national unity government, which will be more moderate that doesn't seem very at this point. But it's an option and the other wildcard here is the Trump these plant which is expected to be presented in a few weeks perhaps late may mid June and that will affect policy going forward. So how does the content of the Trump peace plan change the calculus here? Well, it's a new is well refed on what he can expect to find the. Trump east plan his ambassador to run his very close the Trump team he himself obviously hands a good relationship with Donald Trump. And we don't know quite yet. How he's planning to gain the term he could wait for the plastic is attended down. Which almost says we happens. The seniors of ready said that due to all the concessions made by ministration to these ready site just over recognition of Jerusalem as capital they're not going to have anything to do with Trump. And so he made his wait for them to reject it. And then say says then rejected that things have changed and we can do new things in the West Bank. We can change the status of parts of it. We can exaggerate offering to seventy seven that's one possibility. The other possibility is that some of things in the plan off things that Trump, and if you want to work with even if the Palestinians on board, and that could include some kind of change in the state of the West Bank in Gaza Strip all the changes vital status issues that we don't know. Oh, yet, if they'll being the fan weather ten says about them, but mister Netanyahu has has made these promises or half promises to do this annexation. I mean, doesn't that upend? The the whole idea of any Trump peace plan, regardless of its content. Receiving fan. It's something about sitting on going to even agree to dealing with in right now, this falls, we never pass it is they have no interest in engaging with Trump east. So whether or not the drumbeat planned it contradicts latest election promise, maybe a moot point. But it also maybe possible within the parameters of the Trump is we'll have to see what is in that land. Do you get the feeling that the kinds of noises at the Trump administration has been making have intern emboldened mister Netanyahu in his sort of according to the right wing suddenly feels that he has Trump's complete support. And therefore it safe to assume that he also feels that he can make the kind of promises which will bring the far right into the code. It should at the same time. There is a possibility that will use the Trump to try and bring a blue and white, but against his party into the coalition, and in that way, have much more stable government can say against look we both said. During the election, many things we both said that we won't sit with each other in the same coalition. But now with these plan on the table, there is an opportunity to make serious progress towards a final status issues. You don't want me to do that with the foul, right and the government, but you and I can do that together. So we'll have to wait and see how that plays out into Miao now has different options for building code, assuming bennigan's is open to discussing with him a joint government though, so far they've both ruled that. But anything said before election day is subject to review the day after
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Thailand's election ends in uncertainty
"Should Hello. From the newsroom if the financial times in London, I'm season blimp soon after five years of military dictatorship tie, vases, have finally had an opportunity to cheat the government, but those hoping for a clear and transparent election will have been disappointed with the result laid and turnout figures disputed that's a risk that political turmoil. Could return to Southeast Asia's second largest economy. Ravi Macci discusses what happens next with John southeast Asia. Correspondent. But the Nixon. Free and fair. Manny wrongdoing has been reported and sure norm. And some what buying happened even the in front of the station that was actually Chinnawat who for years dominated type politics as a billionaire politician. But now is contesting the elections from exile. John results have been trickling out since Sunday with the opposition alleging irregularities just tell us why this election is being so fraught, this is the first democratic exercise Thailand has had in the nearly five years since the military coup of twenty fourteen the deposed to government that never took office headed by Mr. toxins, sister, young ocean, Awad Tra I mean, this is an ongoing theme in Thai politics for many many decades where the military has ruled directly or indirectly. And it's emerging as the theme in this election is well, what do the results of the election show us broadly? Speaking at showed Thailand is as In impressed. pest elections of very divided country. You have on the one hand the Democratic Front parties and on the other the pro military camp that want to keep general view, the current military dictator and the military in control of the levers of government within the Democratic Front camp. You have seven parties have agreed to work together, the largest of which is put tie the biggest pro toxin party. This camp has a mass following in the north east of Thailand and put aloneness likely to emerge us the largest party in the lower house. We also have a new party called future forward headed by Tana. Torn a charismatic businessmen activists who appears to have come in third place. Again, we don't have a final seat count who will go with the Democratic Front middle of this week. They said that they had enough support for two hundred fifty five seats in the lower house, which would be enough to get them a working majority not necessarily enough to get. Elected in his government because they need support of two hundred fifty senators as well, we're under control of the Quinta on the other side. Yes the punk portraits. The winter party emerged as the winner of the popular vote and looks likely to head the next government because they control the Senate seats another force. That's worth speaking about is boom Gye Thai or Thai pride new party headed by entertain another billionaire businessman who is emerging as a kingmaker because he could go either with the democratic camp were with the junta. And it seems that both sides will need his support in order to form a stable government. What are the gestures out the opposition's making about why the results perhaps aren't as credible? As the hunt claims to be it's not just the opposition. There were a lot of questions about the integrity of the vote both from office in parties. And from the limited number of monitors who were able to do their work in Thailand on voting day on the twenty four th there were questions about. Between the voter rolls. The numbers of voters registered and the number of ballots that actually ended up being cast the worst allegations of vote buying of which I personally haven't seen proof. An I'll be careful to say that here the biggest question, and it's a lingering question as I speak is around the delay in reporting the results, which in every past recent election came out on election night by nine or ten pm. But we're delayed for several days and still haven't been reported as I speak. Explain to us. How will the new government be determined? Yes. This is the first government to be formed under a new constitution that was drawn up after the military coup with the apparent design of keeping the tax and movement out of power and entrenching the rule of the military. The vote for prime minister will be conducted by seven hundred fifty and peace five hundred in the lower house who were democratically elected, I'll be in a flawed. Imperfect election and then two hundred fifty senators who will be handpicked by the junta will also have a vote. So this gives an automatic sort of one third advantage to prolong tra-, the pro-junta party that emerged as the winner of the popular vote and put them in pole position to form the next government. If we back up a good bit of the broader context, why is Thailand so important to the region, it's important economically. It's also I mean, there's kind of a bigger story in south East Asia. Now of what seems to be a move away from democratic rule. There's also been kind of continuing political drama in Thailand where you go through periods of stability and periods of great unrest. There's a lot of money most of Asian some of it western tied up in Thai stocks and bonds, this is a country that experienced of massive financial crisis less than two decades ago, and it's just coming out of it. So I think it's been it's of interest both for business. People also for watchers of democracy. You spoke to toxin, the billionaire politician. Former prime minister, why is he so vociferous in his opposition to the results is a major player in Thai politics. I mean, this is a man who's movement and followers have won every election since two thousand one possibly up to including this election. Although we don't have final results yet. He thinks Thailand could do better in short and thinks that it did under the government's that he and his sister ran, and he also thinks this election was not free and fair. Can you just run us through in a way the divisions acceded to the politics between guests the urban leads? Maybe some of the rural poor who seemed to be very supportive toxin. It's largely regionally based support of put tie. His main party are clustered mostly in northern and eastern Thailand largely rural poor who benefitted over the years from populous spending programs champion by his government's up against them as the Bangkok elite sort of royalist. And military and civil servants who like the status quo and to absolutely loathe his brand of politics. And indeed say it's corrupt and cost the country. Billions how did the politics then work? If toxin is in the country his sisters no longer there. Either he lives in self-imposed exile, his absence hasn't actually changed that much although arguably put has not done as well as it has in recent elections, but the same divisions or there has follow us her still there until recently. This was the only party with a mass following with a real political machine across Thailand. And it did they did very well in this election. We don't know quite how well yet we won't know for certain until may ninth when final results are announced that said it seems like his camp lost some support to new parties. Most notably future forward headed by another anti-military billionaire activists figure who does live in Thailand. Mr. Tana, tore whose party appears to have come in. Third place. So I mean, there are voices saying that toxin ISM and toxin that you know, his time is passing. Let me talk about the economy because talent is the second biggest economy inside Asia. What are the indications for the comic performance of the country, and perhaps even the water region? I think Tyler's entering without doubt a period of uncertainty, the consultancies that specialize in political risk have been warning this week of enhanced risk. There've been signs that some investors have been taking money out of Thai stocks and bonds, and this, of course, is because of the history of street unrest in Thailand. Over the past two decades of toxin ISM wearing the Richards against the shirts some violence. Dozens of people killed at one point in twenty ten. There's a fear that the process could go off the rails. Again, these two camps pitched against each other for now, it's a peaceful exercise. But when doesn't know how long that will last. What is the next stage of the process that we