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AP News Radio
Pope to be hospitalized for days with respiratory infection
"Pope Francis is in a Rome hospital. The Vatican says the Pope will be at the gemelli hospital for several days with a respiratory infection. He has had difficulty breathing over the last few days. A Vatican spokesman says the Pope does not have the coronavirus. The 86 year old had part of one lung removed when he was young. Francis spent ten days in the same hospital in 2021 to have part of his colon removed. The hospitalization comes days before the start of holy week in the Catholic Church, leading up to Easter. President Biden told reporters at The White House, he's learned of Francis health problems and said he was concerned about his dear friend. I'm Ed Donahue
AP News Radio
Police: Nashville shooter bought 7 guns before school attack
"President Biden says he's done what he can. Now it's up to Congress to help curb the gun violence. The president says he's exhausted his executive authority. I can't do anything except leave with the Congress to act reasonably. That was here at The White House before leaving fort North Carolina, where the president renewed a call for lawmakers to ban assault style weapons. Why in God's name do we allow these weapons of war on our streets? And at our schools. The president says he knows people wonder why he keeps unsuccessfully calling for a ban. Because I want you to know who isn't doing it. Who isn't helping? Not long before that, number two Senate Republican John thune was asked if Congress will take up gun legislation. This is premature to talk about it. And I think there are a lot of grieving hurting families in Nashville. Sagar Meghani at The White House.
AP News Radio
Debt ceiling impasse: McCarthy presses Biden to negotiate
"The house's top Republican is pressing President Biden to negotiate on lifting the nation's borrowing authority with the potential debt default to blooming. In a letter, speaker Kevin McCarthy says the president is now on the clock. It's time to set a meeting to avoid a crisis, so far number two Senate Republican John thune says the president's been unwilling. Frankly, I think it's ridiculous. The White House responds to McCarthy. We've seen the letter, but where's the budget? Spokeswoman Olivia Dalton repeating what the president's long said. McCarthy and the GOP should publicly present their own budget ideas. Here at The White House, officials insist the president will not entertain proposed program cuts simply in exchange for lifting the debt limit. McCarthy and Republicans say he must for a debt ceiling legislation to move ahead, Sagar Meghani at The White House.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Scott Pressler on the Crucial Supreme Court Race in Wisconsin
"Scott pressler, he goes by hashtag the persistence. Scott's been too long. Welcome back. Hey, thank you, doctor gorka. All right, so the website is early vote action dot com early vote action dot com. Tell our 3 million listeners right now. Where are you today and what are you doing tonight? Well, I'm here in Green Bay and Brown county, Wisconsin because everyone should not be talking about the 2024 presidential election. They should be focusing on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race on April 4th. Now let me give you some background on why this is so important. Right now, the court is currently for conservatives to three liberals. However, one of those conservatives has to retire, meaning that if we are unsuccessful at electing justice Daniel Kelly on April 4th, maintaining our conservative majority, then the court will flip from four to three conservative to four to three liberal. And the liberal opponent of justice Daniel Kelly has already indicated that she will get rid of voter ID in Wisconsin. She will get rid of proof of residency in Wisconsin. They will make unbanned drop boxes constitutional in Wisconsin. Our gun rights and hunting rights will be attacked in school choice will be defunded. This election on April 4th for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is consequential and is not only going to affect the people of Wisconsin, but it's going to affect whether or not Republicans are able to win back The White House in 2024.
AP News Radio
Appeals court blocks vaccine mandate for US gov't workers
"And appeals court has blocked a vaccine mandate for U.S. government workers, I'm Lisa dwyer. A federal appeals court has blocked president Joe Biden's order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. The 5th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments that Biden as the nation's chief executive has the same authority as the CEO of a private corporation to require the employees be vaccinated, opponents of the policy said it was an encroachment of federal workers lives that neither the constitution nor federal statutes authorize Biden issued the executive order in September 2021. The White House said at one point that 98% of federal workers were vaccinated. U.S. district judge Jeffrey Brown appointed by then president Donald Trump issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement back in January 2022. I'm Lisa dwyer
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Raz0rfist Unpacks What We're Witnessing in America Right Now
"Are we witnessing in America right now? Because it's really weird for me, raise a fish that I come to this nation as an immigrant who's been naturalized. He's worked in The White House, who was born and raised in the mother of democracies, the home of the Magna Carta, but whose parents escaped a communist regime whose father was actually liberated by freedom fighters from a political prison. And I'm at a point where I have to admit things like America has political prisoners. You know, I've had the family members of the January 6th who have been imprisoned for two years without an arraignment. And I look at the idea that a man who's not only a former president who to use a British term is the current leader of the opposition, is about to be arrested on a trumped up charge that even if it were true would be a misdemeanor slap on the wrist and a fine. Am I overstating the case? Or are we at risk of losing the republic to those who think that the mechanisms of the state are there for political targeting of their adversaries? It's true. And I think it's a fundamental, it's an inversion of the philosophy upon which the country was founded. The reason I made that Abraham Lincoln video wasn't because I harbor any kind of grudge against Abraham Lincoln. It was because Abraham Lincoln is one of the fathers of a belief that the government is ruling from the top down and lording over the states and that the states, in fact, Lincoln literally argued this, the states were created by the union. Historically, that's absurd. When England finally surrendered, they acknowledged each individual state by name as sovereign separate nations, right? And then they formed a union later on. This is really sort of sadly. It's interesting you bring that up. It's apropos to the point. Biden is a believer in this as well. And many of his followers, unfortunately, are this believe that ultimately the government, the federal government, is what gives us our rights.
AP News Radio
Skeptical US lawmakers grill TikTok CEO over safety, content
"House lawmakers have been grilling TikTok's chief over the popular video sharing app's data security and content before the hearing show choo told reporters he was excited. The many misconceptions about a company from there chew was hammered by lawmakers on both sides. Your platform should be banned. Commerce committee chair Cathy McMorris Rogers said TikTok threatens American security due to the platform's Chinese parent company choose as TikTok has been trying to avoid a U.S. ban by announcing plans to protect American user data by storing it on Oracle servers. This eliminates the concern that some of you have shared with me that TikTok user data can be subject to Chinese law, TikTok is already banned on official devices here at The White House at The Pentagon in Congress and more than half the states, a complete ban, though, with risk both political and popular backlash with the ACLU among others, saying it would set a dangerous precedent for restricting speech, Sagar Meghani at The White House.
AP News Radio
Pentagon: Budget readies US for possible China confrontation
"The Pentagon says it's proposed budget will help the U.S. get ready for a possible confrontation with China. Amid a growing alliance between China and Russia, including president Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow this week, The Pentagon says Chinese actions are concerning. Moving it down the path to its confrontation and potential conflict with its neighbors and possibly the United States. Join chiefs chairman Mark milley and defense secretary Lloyd Austin told a House panel, The Pentagon's $842 billion spending pitch would help ensure the U.S. can deter China if needed by boosting capabilities in the Pacific and modernizing the force worldwide. Reparation for war and deterring war is extraordinarily expensive. But it's not as expensive as fighting a war. Sagar Meghani at The White House.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Fed Has Two Options: Bank Failures or Inflation
"You combine this with our troubled economy how to listen during the break So Dan are you going to address the rate hike yesterday in the economy Yeah you're damn right aim because we're in a lot of trouble folks The fed right now our government we have two choices And we have only two choices The Federal Reserve and the Biden White House we have two choices right now The choices are a pick your poison No matter what the fed does you are either fighting against bank failures or you're fighting inflation You either going to get inflation or you're going to get bank failures coming up There's no option C I'm sure of it Remember this show and remember the date The fed rate raised their rates yesterday 25 basis points Not a huge hike They were doing 50 basis points before But real interest rates are still negative Meaning inflation is running at 6% the fed target rate now is about four and three quarters So effectively the real interest rate is still negative because four and three quarters is less than 6 which is the actual inflation rate which arguably is not arguably I believe but it's much higher I don't think the way the feds even calculate calculating inflation is accurate Here's the long and short of it The entire economy has been feasting on low interest rate money for a long time If this is complicated stop me in the audience send me a message and say you're born us too complicated I'm fascinated by this stuff But for years we have had zero or near zero interest rates So if you owned a company what would you do If you could borrow money where the real interest rate is negative on that money Think about what that means That means the money is effectively free That means you could borrow money to run your business and the value of what you borrowed goes down and down and down is real interest rates are negative It's effectively free money
AP News Radio
TikTok CEO faces off with Congress over security fears
"TikTok CEO appears on Capitol Hill today to face a grilling by U.S. lawmakers. Some politicians have started talking about banning TikTok. The CEO of TikTok reached out directly to users ahead of his appearance before the U.S. House committee on energy and commerce today. Amid escalating U.S. China tensions shows the Chu will be making a case for why the popular video sharing app isn't a national security risk, at a White House briefing yesterday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby wouldn't confirm reports that the Biden administration is asking the Chinese company ByteDance to sell the app, amid concerns that user data could end up in the hands of the Chinese government. We've made very clear our national security concerns about that particular application. That's why it's been banned on government devices. TikTok has been trying to sell officials on a $1.5 billion plan called project Texas, which routes all U.S. user data to domestic servers owned and maintained by software giant Oracle. Texas business owner gohar Khan is one of the influencers lobbying against a ban. Was brand deals would go away and so was 60% of my consulting business. Jennifer King, Washington
The Officer Tatum Show
What's Wrong With Gavin Newsom?
"Gavin Newsom is an absolute disaster when it comes to California. I was sitting there thinking, listen, Gavin Newsom is going to challenge Biden. He's going to be the guy most likely, you know, God forbid of Michelle Obama or somebody pops up on the scene, but I don't really foresee that leaving all of her income and all that kind of stuff behind. Is Gavin Newsom still looking towards The White House? It's really seems hard to fathom. Given how disastrous he is, but maybe people don't understand how disastrous this guy has been. I think they don't. And the press just completely plays along with it. And sadly, even our conservative press over the last month or so, I was basically screaming my head off about something happening here in California. We all know he took off to Mexico when we had these snowstorms about what God ignored was that there was this mountain community outside of Los Angeles, big bear Lake arrowhead area San Bernardino mountains, 21 days these people were snowed in under 12 feet of snow. They normally get maybe 6 feet in a winter. So they have some equipment, but not for 12 feet that fall within 7 days. And people were snowed in. Even when they got the main roads, plowed up there, but then within the communities they couldn't get around. I talked to people who were trying to do relief flights out there like helicopter flights of supplies because grocery stores roofs valid so they couldn't get the supplies from there. And the sheriff wouldn't let them land because it was a disaster zone and they weren't government helicopters, but the government wasn't doing anything. Why? Because San Bernardino county voted to study seceding from California and didn't forget it.
Mark Levin
Ian Prior: No Signs of the Parents Movement Waning
"Do you find that the parents movement is vibrant and growing That is It's going to be very effective in the future I do I see no signs of it waning Obviously the COP is introduced as parents Bill of rights But you're seeing throughout the country different groups popping up I mean there is no shortage of parents that are reaching out to me on a near daily basis with issues in their school asking for advice on best approaches to handle their woke school board or their woke school superintendents and you can't get on social media or look at the news without a new issue happening and at some school board meeting or at some school district in America And certainly the weaponization report yesterday I think was a vindication for parents where you know essentially concluded that the NSBA The White House and Merrick Garland colluded on this memo from attorney general Garland two years ago to label parents as domestic terrorists really to try and help Perry McAuliffe in Virginia two years ago because this parents movement was so hurting his chances and ultimately doomed them
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Are Dems Setting Precedent for Punishing Political Enemies?
"We've laid out here, if you're looking for a crime, the only crime that had been committed, if in fact a crime was committed was a financial misdemeanor. And for that, the district attorney wants to literally handcuff and shackle Donald Trump. Keep in mind, this is a guy who received $1 million from George Soros. This is a man who campaigned on a promise to get Donald Trump. Letitia James, the attorney general of New York. Campaigned on the same promise to get Donald Trump. They have weaponized the judicial system. Look at what's happening in Atlanta, Georgia, where once again you have a George Soros funded district attorney going after president Trump. That one could get very ugly because apparently they're looking at RICO violations. Suggesting that Trump was trying to coerce the Secretary of State and to changing vote totals in the state of Georgia. But really, this is all about stopping Donald Trump and punishing political enemies. And this is why it is incumbent upon every freedom loving American, and even I would appeal to some of you you Democrats out there who still believe in the constitution who still believe in the rule of law, I have to hope and pray there are still some of you out there. And we all need to stand up and say, we're not going to tolerate this. We're not going to allow you to turn our country into some sort of a, of a Soviet style, police state. We're just not going down that path. Am I grave concern is that Republicans are going to return the favor if they ever get back in control of the House and this pardon me of the Senate and The White House? We can not go down this path as a nation. We can not, we can not be jailing our political enemies.
AP News Radio
Credit card debt is at record high as Fed weighs rate hike
"Credit card debt remains at an all time high after a year of interest rate hikes. The rate increases led to people with credit card debt paying more in interest. Bank rate dot com says the average credit card interest rate has hit 20.4%. The highest since it started tracking the rate in the mid 80s. The site says some 46% of Americans are carrying debt month to month up 39% from a year ago. Data show more people are falling behind on payments. An AP Nord center for public affairs research poll finds 35% of U.S. adults say their household debt is now higher than it was a year ago. Sagar Meghani at The White House.
AP News Radio
Americans' faith in banks low after failures: AP-NORC poll
"Uphold finds low faith in American banks after two recent bank failures. Treasury chief Janet Yellen and the Biden administration have been trying to boost confidence. In the U.S. banking system remains sound. But an AP Newark center for public affairs research poll finds just 10% of U.S. adults say they have high confidence in banks and other financial institutions. That's down more than half from three years ago. More than half now say the government's not doing enough to regulate the industry. Over the past month, there's been little change in how people see the overall economy, only a quarter, say national economic conditions are good. Three quarters describe them as poor. Sagar Meghani at The White House.
The Officer Tatum Show
The Best Reasons to Vote for Trump
"I think Republicans obviously, listen, I've said and I'll say time and time again, the best reasons to vote for Donald Trump are a couple of reasons, and he mentioned them and his cpac speech, but I think retribution is very important. I think that the American people need justice. I think that American people were sincerely wronged and continue to be wrong by these freaking marxists in The White House and these marxists that are occupying these bureaucratic agencies. So I think justice is very important. We don't use that word on the right often and in my opinion often enough because it's so wrongly used when it comes to people on the left, but justice is very important. The rule of law in the United States of America is very important. Retribution is very important. I know a lot of people, Carl, that's such a dirty word. Trump shouldn't have used that. No. I totally agree with them. We were wrong. We were wrong. And so I have no problem with Trump using words like retribution. At all. At all.
The Officer Tatum Show
How the White House Gave Putin a Green Light for Ukraine
"Now, we're talking about a Pakistan here, Chad and before we go, I want to make sure we have you wrap up on that, but I also want to get your take on what's happening in Russia, Ukraine, IRC, Xi Jinping, visiting Russia. This is absolutely insane. All right, so just if you would ramp up what you were talking about as far as Pakistan and the ISI yeah, I mean, just I mean, this is our enemy. This is who we've been fighting for the last 20 years when we fight when we say fight and Taliban. And the truth is, we didn't negotiate with our allies. We didn't negotiate with. We didn't negotiate with the Afghan government. We spent 20 years in place. The only people we talked to when I say we, The White House talk to was the Taliban, our enemy of 20 years, and we left Afghanistan without the consensus of the rest of the world. And we had 2500 troops there. We had 2500 troops and 20 places that can name around the world. We still have 50,000 troops in Japan and 40,000 in Germany and 35,000 in South Korea. This is not how the United States strategical leaves places and it created a catastrophe. And left Americans behind cost American lives left a 100,000 Afghan allies behind and left a 40 million vulnerable Afghans including 20 million women and little girls that we raped and for the rest of their life because of this. And so it's complete tragedy. And the world is watching our enemies are watching, which leads us into why Putin invaded Ukraine because he could. Because of the weakness in our White House and he postured against the imposture and the border with a 100,000 troops. Right. Joe, Joe Biden flinched, moved our U.S. troops out of Ukraine, moved our embassy out of Ukraine, the rest of the NATO partners followed and gave a green light for Putin to come in. And now we're sending a 113 plus $1 billion to Ukraine. None of that money is making it to help those people. It's a complete catastrophe. It's only it's only emboldening Putin and continue doing what he's doing and it's incentivizing people like zelensky who are getting all this money and never in this war because why they're making veins and dollars off of it, including corrupt politics in the United States.
AP News Radio
US: No reason for China to react to Taiwan leader stopover
"The U.S. is trying to tamper any anger from China over an upcoming stopover by Taiwan's leader. I'm Lisa dwyer. The Biden administration is stressing to China that upcoming unofficial stopovers to the United States by Taiwan's president Tsai ing Wen should not be used as pretext by Beijing to increase aggressive activities in the Taiwan strait and that such transits are routine. Tsai is tentatively scheduled to transit through New York on March 30th before heading to Guatemala and Belize. She's expected to stop in Los Angeles on April 5th on her way back to Taiwan. Following an August visit by then House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Beijing launched missiles over Taiwan, deployed warships across the median line of the Taiwan strait and carried out military exercises near the island. Beijing also suspended climate talks with the U.S. and restricted military to military communication with The Pentagon. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the plans stopovers are business as usual and consistent with long-standing U.S. policy. I'm Lisa dwyer
The Ben Shapiro Show
"white house" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"And suggesting by name that that guy is not credible and then you have the Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer going out publicly and suggesting that he should be taken off the air, it seems to me that there's only one reason that The White House is really doing this. And it's not because they think the Tucker Carlson should actually be taken off the air. The reason they are doing this is because they actually enjoy controversies around January 6th because it means that people are talking about January 6th. And that is actually what The White House wants. Joe Biden wants nothing more than for January 6th to be the topic of discussion all the way up through the next election cycle. He thinks that that'll ride him back to The White House. And then maybe a smart political strategy. It also happens to be really, really toxic, because the fact of the matter is that we all at this point should know what happened on January 6th. There was a riot, people got violent with police, it was not all the people who were at the rally, the original rally for Trump, not even not even remotely. And many of the people who entered the capitol building were, in fact, trespassing, but we're not in fact there to do violence. They were not there to beat up Congress people. There were some people who are, there are people there who are threatening violence and doing that sort of stuff, but that was not everybody who's in the capital. Like all those things can be held in your mind at once, but the idea, as always, is that the American people can only handle a single black and white narrative in there can't be any shades of gray or any complexity to any situation at all. There's no nuance. Whatsoever. And The White House likes that fight. The White House enjoys that fight because again, their goal is to portray everybody who's on the other side of the aisle as a rioter. It's tied up and he brought a narrative that they have generated. Which is that not only was everyone there at the rioter, all the rallies were essentially rioters, even if they weren't. And all of the Republicans voted for Trump were essentially rally or who were also rioters, and so by the transitive property, everybody who voted for Donald Trump was in favor of rioting. Now if it turns out that a fraction of the rally ears were rioters and that a fraction of the rioters were the ones who were like the most violent and that many of the people who are rioting were actually just trespassing. Well then that kind of breaks down the narrative. This was a dire threat to the Republican that the entire democracy was in danger and the only way to protect democracy from the predations of Donald Trump and his crew is to elect Joe Biden and allow them untrammeled power. That narrative starts to fall apart. The smaller those numbers get. And that's why people are so angry at Tucker for having revealed that footage in the first place. Again, you can disagree with the angle that Tucker took on the footage. I disagree with a lot of the angle that Tucker took on footage. But that doesn't change the underlying fact, which is that the generalized narrative, the January 6th was, as The White House suggested the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War is not true. And it's very hard to maintain that perspective in light of the footage of people walking down cordoned lines through the halls of the capitol building with police officers standing on either side in some cases. We'll get to the media response, which has been just overwrought in the extreme in just one second. First, it's tough to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The reality is that you have a busy day, and then you're being told that you need to eat basically nothing but fruits and vegetables. And I'm of the personal belief that God's punishment to humanity was making vegetables healthy because in the reality is they taste like garbage. So what exactly are people like me? People with a child's palate. Supposed to do, but what are we supposed to do when we want to have stuff that tastes good? And also we want to be healthy. Well, one answer is balance of nature bounds of nature, fruits and veggies. Are the best way to make sure that you're getting essential nutritional ingredients every single day. Their products are 100% whole food, balance of nature uses a cold vacuum process that preserves the natural phytonutrients in whole fruits and vegetables and encapsulates them for easy consumption. Balance of nature sent a bunch of their product down to the studio from 19 to try. We love them. I was excited to find out that
Dennis Prager Podcasts
"white house" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Here. Thank you, Julie Hartman for sitting in for me yesterday. She's remarkable. Which is an understatement. Anyway, great to be with you, my Friends. I was in New York City yesterday. You know, interestingly, it is not much colder in New York City than it is in LA, which is a statement about how cold it's in the 40s and its daytime. Here in LA, I think it's terrific. But I just thought I would share that with you. I don't know why people in Southern California are scared nightmarishly scared of the threat of climate change and I live here. I don't feel that's a subjective term, I fully acknowledge. But I don't feel any difference in the course of my 40 years of living here. We had hot summers when I moved here in the 70s, and we have hot summers now. Some summers are worse than others that has always been true. I will have a report to you about the cooling that is taking place. And of course, the great question is, will any mainstream medium report the cooling issue that I will bring to your attention? So it's always a question in my mind. What do I begin with? And even my dear producer does not know. Well, you know what, this is a fun game. Which of the stories you sent do you think I'll begin with? I have to think of the least beard. You're going to think of what the least likely is that at least was going to be followed by, well, all right. New York Times no, the Dutch farmers. Such far, oh, that's interesting. The Dutch farmers. Nope, Biden invites non binary drag artists to The White House for bill signing..
Daybreak Crypto
"white house" Discussed on Daybreak Crypto
"Good morning, everyone. Welcome to daybreak crypto. We today are having a bit of a roundtable discussion on The White House's very recent release of their digital asset regulatory framework. This is a report that we've been talking about on our podcast and a lot of people have. It's been widely anticipated for the last 6 months since President Biden really tasked all of his agencies with putting this together getting together since March and he gave everyone basically 6 months to say, take a look at the space and digital assets and from your agency's perspective, tell me what I need to be concerned about. Tell me what are our goals here? What are we trying to accomplish? And give me a report so I can put this all together. And this is really that report. And what it outlines are 6 key priorities that are identified in President Biden's executive order, protecting consumers, promoting access to safe affordable financial services, number three fostering financial stability, number four, advancing responsible innovation number 5 reinforcing global financial leadership and competitiveness and number 6 fighting illicit finance. There's also a piece towards the end that talks about the ongoing task of trying to establish a potential Central Bank digital currency, but this is really there really isn't any hard policy here rather it's more of a framework and that's kind of where things stand. So I want to get you guys take on maybe areas that you were surprised about, maybe just overall impressions, but I'll kick it to you first Swiss, what were some of your first takeaways here? Yeah, first off, when I started reading it, I entered with a pretty cynical view. Just kind of a bias against a lot of what they talk about doing, that the government tends to talk a really positive game. Like, oh, this is going to this regulation we're going to think about is going to really help and going to protect people and save the world. And so I really struggle with that, kind of out to, I guess, just seeing what they've done in the past. But this wasn't so bad. I think there's some good and bad and ugly here. And I guess the good part, the good is that it wasn't that bad. I think the advancing responsible innovation is important that this idea of consulting with the actual companies, the actual thought leaders, the people who know the space that is absolutely needs to be happening instead of just trying to regulate it from a blind eye view. So I think that's good. I think what's bad, well, ugly first.
CNN Political Briefing
"white house" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"Hey everyone, I'm David challenging, the CNN political director, this is the CNN political briefing. Here's what you need to know in politics for Thursday, August 4th. This is probably bad for former president Trump. I mean, that might be an understatement, as the Department of Justice's latest subpoenas signal that investigators have reached inside Trump's inner circle. Obviously, the select committee on Capitol Hill investigating the events leading up to January 6th, the events of the day itself that insurrection that occurred at the capitol have been very public. It's been the very outward facing part of looking at what occurred at that historic moment and yet what we are learning now is there is as robust an operation that has been largely happening behind the scenes at DoJ that is now creaking into public view. So keep in mind everything that the committee on Capitol Hill has put forth in their public hearings has been obviously quite compelling, a timeline of what occurred, a lot and lots of testimony from Trump aides, not these are not political enemies of Donald Trump in any way, who are stringing together the narrative of what went on between election day and the 6th of January. But what we're seeing happening at a courthouse in Washington, D.C. we are seeing people coming into provide testimony in a Department of Justice, grand jury probe into these very same events, and obviously a criminal probe from the Department of Justice carries far more significant consequences than public congressional hearings, right? The role of Congress may be to make some recommendations or referrals. The role for the prosecutors at the Department of Justice is to bring criminal charges and get convictions. And the latest moves from DoJ could not be more threatening to Donald Trump. Former White House counsel pat cipollone and his former deputy council, Patrick philbin, have both been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury. That's according to sources familiar with the matter. Philbin did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A source familiar with the cipollone matter said that cipollone and his attorneys are now in discussions about an appearance before this federal grand jury, including how to deal with executive privilege issues. Now, both cipollone and philbin spoke to the House select committee and we know through their testimony that has been revealed publicly that they were present for some very chaotic moments in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Cipollone was a top voice among a chorus of Trump aides who testified up at the congressional committee, saying that Trump was repeatedly told that there was no evidence that the election was stolen. And yet, there was a real question in my mind and a real concern, particularly after the attorney general had reached the conclusion that there was a sufficient election fraud to change the outcome of the election. When other people kept suggesting that there was the answer is what is it? And at some point you have to put up or shut up. That was my view. You may recall there has been quite a bit of criticism of DoJ through much of this year when it comes to this matter, whether Democrats on the hill did not believe Merrick Garland was being aggressive enough or even some Republicans like kinzinger and Cheney who were on the January 6th committee who had concerns about the pace of any potential DoJ investigation into all of this. Well, now that we see that Trump's White House counsel and his deputy have been subpoenaed, this DoJ investigation has clearly reached not just inside the west wing. But basically to the door of the Oval Office. I mean, we're talking about very senior people around president Trump. Here's Republican Adam kinzinger, who serves on the January 6th committee with his take on what these developments mean. It shows that this is more than what did John eastman do attorney that basically came up with that crazy scheme to overturn the election. And it probably is a very deep interest in what the president did. We'll see where this goes, but there's no doubt that this investigation has developed further one than where we either knew it was or thought it was a few months ago. Now, attorney general Merrick Garland has repeatedly made clear. No person is above the law in this country. I can't say any more clearly than that. There is nothing in the principles of prosecution in any other factors which prevent us from investigating anyone. Anyone who is criminally responsible for an attempt to undo a democratic election. And that clearly includes former president Trump in the mind of the attorney general. And he's been clear that it is the law and nothing else that will guide his team of prosecutors and investigators through this process. He was pressed today at DoJ by a reporter if a window exists, a window of time to bring about any charges, given the political calendar this fall. This is something I can't comment about. I'm sorry. Now, all of this is happening, of course, as Donald Trump himself is weighing whether or not to announce a third bid for the presidency this fall and whether that should happen before the midterm elections or maybe after the midterm elections, though there's no indication from Garland or anyone else at DoJ that whether or not Donald Trump is a presidential candidate again is going to impact the department's decisions around any charges that may get brought from this grand jury process. And more and more information keeps coming out, whether through the January 6th committee through reporting through court filings, all while the DoJ criminal investigation is proceeding. The latest developments that we've learned about in recent days are dealing with the missing text messages from government phones during that period around the 6th of January of 2021. You may recall the Secret Service has been under heavy criticism after the Department of Homeland securities inspector general told Congress last month that the agency had a race text messages from the time period surrounding January 6th that had been requested by Congress. We're finding out today through an agency memo that DHS will immediately stop wiping mobile devices of high level officials and political appointees without backing them up and will launch a 30 day review of policies and practices for retaining text messages and other electronic messages.
The Trish Regan Show
"white house" Discussed on The Trish Regan Show
"Failing. I mean, that's a whole other thing, but anyway, let's go back to the, let's go back to what's real for just one second. Janet Yellen and President Biden are trying to get you to believe that no, no, you get to wait until then, you know, national bureau of economic research, the NBER comes out and defines what recession is. I'm sorry guys. You know what? I'm going to go buy again the classic definition the textbook definition. It's right here in the economics one O one book. Two quarters of negative GDP growth to quarters, consecutive quarters of a decline in total production is a recession. Now, goodness, I certainly hope it's not a depression. We haven't had many of those, right? You gotta go back to the 1930s. I mean, it would be pretty horrible, albeit somewhat remarkable if Biden were to bring that on. I hope that it's going to be just a recession and I'm hopeful that we can recover from it. But look, you just had policy failure after policy failure. After policy failure. Are you can't even make it up? It was so obvious, frankly, to anybody who had a couple of brain cells and yet these idiots, both at the fed and in The White House, chose to ignore why. I mean, I would just argue that for political reasons, they want to be more sensible. They should be more sensible because they ought to know that inflation is going to come back and bite them politically in ways that makes it simply not feasible for them to continue in office. A quick shout out I have more to say on this in just a moment, especially looking at new poll numbers and the fact that Trump is now descending on Washington D.C. and Mike Pence is out there potentially as his rival, but before we get to that, a quick note about my Friends over at amac because these are folks that are working so hard so aggressively to fight all this inflation so that you and I and our families do not have to experience it for decades to come. I mean, heck you look at the debt to GDP numbers and it's not pleasant looking. And yeah, I mean, it's bad in the U.S.. It's bad everywhere, which tells me the developed world is in for some trouble. Certainly in the emerging market world too, by the way. And I say that as somebody who used to be trading emerging market debt and listen, if it's not going well in the markets that are developed, it's certainly not going well in emerging markets. But let's just focus in on this inflation for a moment that my Friends over at amac, they're trying very hard. This is the association for mature American citizens. Amac dot U.S. slash Regan. That's my last name, Regan. So amat at U.S. slash Regan and they're working prevent inflation. I mean, look, it's a mess. It's a total mask, because the Federal Reserve is all screwed up. But you combine that with a White House and a willingness from Congress to just spend, spend. I mean, the heck, the answer to inflation for these guys is let's give out more money. Let's help everybody with gas versus by just giving out more and more checks. I mean, none of it makes any sense. And I just think that there's a problem in Washington, D.C. with this because they just want to buy their votes. So amac is working very hard every day to prevent that. Go to amac dot U.S. slash ring and sign up and by the way, let me just say it's so worth it. Your money is gonna be pulled with everyone else's that cares about exactly the same things that you and I do. 2.4 million Americans. So 16 bucks a year, you make it back literally days because you get so many discounts on travel and restaurants and all that good stuff, cell phone, plans, you name it, go to amat dot, U.S. slash Regan, sign up today, join forces with this wonderful group of people that care about America like you and.
LGBTQ&A
"white house" Discussed on LGBTQ&A
"It's really, I'm so glad you brought that up because I think about that sometimes because I'm like, I'm out. It's not hard to know that I'm out. I talk about my daughter. I talk about my partner in interviews. And it's out there. But I don't lead with that. It's part of my multiple identities. I have multiple identities. And so it's a very interesting kind of way to be in the space. And it's actually kind of funny when people are like, I didn't know you were gay. And I'm like, how do you not know I'm gay? I've been out for a long time. They're like, wow. And so it's funny, but I am aware of it. I am conscious of it. I want to respect all of, like I said, all of the communities that I represent. And were you to bring it up every episode, I would say like, oh my God, she brings it up every day. It was like, what's wrong? What if you don't bring up ever once and even like she didn't even bring it up? Yeah, it's like, yeah, and it's a way I don't know how majority of people feel about it. But I want to lead with my experience and kind of my smarts, right? There's a reason I'm at this table and everything else just compliments me, you know? That's a great point. Yeah. You know, we've mentioned The White House couple of times. Can you just explain for everybody what your role was? Yeah, so that was one of the most amazing opportunities. I will never forget working in The White House for the first black president, you know? I miss those days. Yeah, you know, working in The White House, you felt the responsibility. You felt the weight of the country on your shoulders, the weight of the world. And you wanted to be good at your job and not screw it up because you knew at least for me, I knew that I was a everything that I was doing. I was representing president Barack Obama. If I went out and talked to people in different states or picked up the phone, I was representing Barack Obama. That experience was really wonderful. I worked in The White House office of political affairs. I was the northeast political director and basically what that meant is I managed a politics and about, I think, 11 to 12 states. In the northeast, I had to have my finger on the pulse of what was going on and what people were saying. How people were feeling about the presidency. And if he did specific political events, I have traveled with him and the vice president, sometimes the First Lady, and also any time we have to talk to a governor or a mayor or a political figure in the state, I was the one managing that relationship. And if he were to go into New York or Massachusetts or Pennsylvania, which was one of the states, I was in the room, I was with him. I was doing briefings, and I was briefing him, writing memos. It was just amazing job, amazing, amazing. I was there the first two years, which was I would argue the most hectic years, it was just an amazing experience. So similar to my question about talking about being gay on TV. How open or not were you working in The White House? Oh wow, I was pretty open by then, so we're talking about 2009. Yeah, I was pretty open. I was not. I was out. I even did, it gets better, but The White House gets better video. I was one of the people who produced it. And I was also told my story on tape on video..
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"white house" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"According to safe kids worldwide, about once every hour in the U.S., two children under the age of 19 are injured or killed after being struck by a vehicle while walking. For many cities around the world, these tragedies can be attributed to lack of proper road safety technologies and infrastructure. But for many children in these cities, walking along these dangerous roads may be their only way to get to school. 3M understands that every child deserves to get to school safely. They're launching a worldwide initiative to help make school zones around the world safer. By working alongside local governments and NGOs, they're using road safety technologies to improve crosswalk visibility and traffic markings around schools worldwide. Be on the lookout for education and advocacy materials across social media and other podcast platforms. To learn more and take action, visit 3M dot com slash school zone safety. 3M science applied to life it was a perfect storm, with a 100% chance of chaos, a global pandemic, a population pumped with record stimulus, an app aspiring to democratize trading, everyday investors stuck at home and a retail corporation assumed to be doomed. Go beyond the headlines of the GameStop short squeeze and meet the real-life players who took on some of the most powerful financial institutions in America. Diamond hands, the legend of WallStreetBets, Sunday, may 15th at 10 p.m. eastern on MSNBC and streaming next day on peacock. This is marketplace. We spent the program yesterday as I might have mentioned a time or two, mostly with fed chair J Powell, but also with a brief tour of The White House for conversation with Cecilia rouse, the chair of The White House council of economic advisers. And in a way, they're complimentary interviews, right? Monetary economic policy from the Federal Reserve political economic policy from inside The White House. Anyway, here you go. Doctor House, welcome to the program. Nice to have you on. It's a pleasure to be here. You have been an economist for a very long time. And you've been in and out of government for a very long time. And we are dealing with something in this economy now. That we haven't seen in a long time, and that you, by which, really, I mean, the president can't do much to control. And I wonder how that makes you feel. Well, that's a good question. I will tell you, here's how I feel. We have been through a really tough two years. At the beginning of this pandemic, when we told everybody to stay home, we wanted them not to work. We wanted them not to go to grocery stores, although we wanted them to be able to eat. And pay their rent, but we wanted people. We wanted to power down our economy. That struck me as the time when we needed to understand that there was an important role for government at that moment. The private sector, we needed it to step back. We needed the public sector to be able to step in. Congress acted with unbelievable speed in passing the cares act, didn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It was not a perfect law, but it did, it did what it needed to do and got money into people's pockets. It tried to save businesses, fast forward, President Biden comes in to office. We still don't know where we are in the pandemic. We know we have vaccines that in the lab look effective. We don't know if they'll reduce transmission. We don't know how long the protection lasts. We don't know if we can get the shots into arms. The American rescue plan has passed, it provides additional help for households, additional help for businesses, state and local governments, because we didn't know what their balance sheets would look like. And importantly, it underwrote the strategy against the pandemic. As a result, we had the fastest growth in almost 40 years. Households were able to spend. However, comma, right? Let me interrupt you here for just a second and ask you whether because of the American rescue plan and all the trillions of dollars that were spent, we are now in some ways bearing the inflation consequences of that. That is to say, does the Biden administration bear some of the responsibility for where inflation is today? Here's what I will say. Is if you look around the world in advanced countries, that did what we did, which said, we need to support our households. We need to support our businesses. We have to support our economy through this. We see inflation because while demand was supported, the supply could not support that demand. And inflation is fundamentally a mismatch between demand and supply. So if you want to say, did the Biden administration by helping people get through this pandemic in a way that they were able to stay in their homes, have jobs, have household balance sheets even among those in the lower part of our income distribution that are stronger than they were before the pandemic did that cause some of the inflation. Yes, and we are with our other countries. It's part of the, it's part and parcel of the pandemic. We powered down a 22 $23 trillion economy, and we can't just power it back up with we have some consequences. Let me ask you about the president and the speech he gave on Tuesday about inflation and the efforts that you and his administration are making. Pretty clear that he's going directly to the American people because he understands not only the political risks, but also the economic risks to everybody out there. Do you think he's getting through? I asked because people feel terrible about this economy. The underlying economy is good, right? Jobs are strong. Last quarter is terrible, but there's growth on the horizon, but people still feel lousy. Absolutely and the president understands that because inflation affects everybody. You go to the grocery store, you feel it. You go to the gas station and you feel it. And he understands it. He comes from a family where this kind of inflation would really hurt and cause a lot of anxiety every night. So you're right. He is trying to have his economic team go out and explain that he really is focused on this. This is first and foremost, the purview of the Federal Reserve. And it is a wonderful thing that at least three of the four current nominees have now been confirmed. And he respects their independence, but we welcome the fact that they have are now changing their policy stance towards how they're addressing the price stability mandate versus the full employment mandate. Let me go back to the president's speech the other day. He made a point I think a couple of times in that speech of calling out corporations for what he called price gouging. And I guess my question is, do you really think that companies making profits are responsible for inflation in this economy? Well, here's what we know about companies is that their profit margins. So that's looking at what they're taking in minus their costs are almost at record highs. That they increase, especially after-tax, that they increase something like 14.5% last year. And so companies have a choice when they are making those kinds of profit markets. They can lower prices, increase wages, they can pay their shareholders. The president believes they should be paying their fair share in taxes. He has proposed increasing the corporate tax rate because I know I said that it's their after-tax profit margins that have increased and that's largely due to the 2017 tax cut. Tax policy aside, you didn't really answer the question. Do you think companies are responsible for inflation in this economy? We have a long-standing problem with concentration in this country. And we know that economies that are more sectors that are more concentrated that they have higher price levels. And that that's bad for bread for an innovation. That's bad for workers if it's more monotonous. So the president has had a whole of government approach to address competition and to try to improve competition in our economy. So we know that that's a long song problem and we need to be addressing it. You talked about the role of. The public and the private sector in this economy as we started this conversation. And in the economic report of the president that came out last month, you guys spent a lot of time on that very issue. One of the things that became clear as the Biden administration took over is that he and you and I imagine his other economic advisers have a more expansive vision of the role of government in this economy. And I guess my question out of that is given inflation and the challenges that poses right now and whatever's happening with his build back better agenda, which to be completely honest I've lost track with and you're kind of shrugging, right? It is his domestic policy, not agenda, but his aspiration.
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"white house" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"The baby formula in the U.S.. It's been this way for decades. We've had large manufacturers that have consistently commanded the market space and edged out the competition. Brian dietmeier at the national WIC association says when you only have a few companies that make something, this is one of the risks. You wind up with a situation where one plant closing for the matter of a few weeks has this ripple effect throughout the entire industry. And it's particularly dire with something like baby formula that's a necessity and that doesn't have substitutes. There are many infants that can only tolerate one or maybe two types of formula. Carrie Chan at Columbia business school says some parents can easily switch their babies to any brand of formula that's available, but some can't, they need specific kinds for health reasons. And so when there's a shortage in that area, there's not a possibility to just switch to an alternative. So far, U.S. companies have not been able to ramp up manufacturing quickly enough to meet the need. The formula supply chain is very similar to the supply chain of other products, all of valente at Forrester says there's also another barrier to getting more supply on shelves quickly. In the U.S., we have restrictions on the import of baby formula. The Biden administration says it's taking steps to make it easier to import baby formula from abroad. As one way to help increase supply in the short term. I'm Samantha fields for marketplace. All right, this is a tricky turn to make. Baby formula to cryptocurrencies, but there is a certain level of market dysfunction common to both. You've seen the headline surely. Hundreds of billions of dollars in losses across cryptocurrencies, the collapse of something called Terra USD that's an algorithmic stablecoin that is supposed to be stable, but clearly is not and then coinbase, one of the leading crypto exchanges, revealing an regulatory filing this week that if they go bankrupt, depositors could just lose all the crypto they've got in their coinbase accounts. As marketplace is literally jamali reports from here in Washington, the word people are starting to use more and more is regulation. When it comes to crypto, there is a distinct whiff of I told you so in certain circles, that disclosure by coinbase is only one reason. It struck me that they should have said it a long time ago because it's absolutely true. Timothy massed former head of the commodity futures trading commission says a lot of people learn the hard way this week that coinbase and so much else in crypto isn't regulated by the federal government. This shows how volatile this asset classes, there are essentially no fundamentals. But there is so much to potentially regulate Lee reiners is with duke law. And the question is, which agencies should be given authority? Massive old agency, the CFTC is one possibility, another is the Securities and Exchange Commission, where Hester purse is a commissioner. In an interview with marketplace, she said the SEC has a lot of authority, but hasn't used it to set what she calls rules of the road. At this stage, it would make a lot of sense to spend some of those regulatory resources on thinking about a reasonable framework for crypto. A reasonable framework, not a crackdown, even after this week. You can't just say when something bad happens, we're going to try to shut down the whole thing. Per says until now, her agency has been regulating by enforcing rules that don't exist. When they are made, she says both.
CNN Political Briefing
"white house" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"This podcast is sponsored by Angie. Hey everyone, I'm Jeff zeleny, CNN's chief national affairs correspondent in for our political director, David chalian. And this is the CNN political briefing. Here's what you need to know when politics for Tuesday, April 5th. Former president Barack Obama returned to The White House today for the first time since leaving office. To celebrate the 12 year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. And to offer a bit of a pep talk to Democrats bracing for a rough road in the midterm elections. Now the last time Obama was at The White House, he was welcoming then president elect Donald Trump for coffee on the morning of Trump's inauguration. Of course, so much of America's political landscape has changed during these 5 years and two and a half months. But it was clear watching the former president and current president walk side by side into the east room of The White House today that they clearly were enjoying being back in each other's company. And of course, that was the whole point for president Obama being at The White House today trying to celebrate the Affordable Care Act and offer Democrats a bit of a road map for how to tell their story in this midterm elections. But as president Obama took the podium, he clearly was talking about the long arc of the Affordable Care Act. He acknowledged bluntly its long and winding road. So given all the noise and the controversy in the skepticism, it took a while for the American people to understand what we had done. But lo and behold, a little later than I'd expected, a lot of folks, including many who would initially oppose healthcare reform, came around. And today, the ACA hasn't just survived, it's pretty darn popular. In fact, it is popular about 55% of Americans support the healthcare law. That is a significant change from back in the days of the Obama administration when it was viewed under an entirely partisan lens. Now more than 30 million Americans get their health insurance through the exchanges afforded under the ObamaCare, if you will, the Affordable Care Act. The point of this entire ceremony today at The White House was to make the case that the bill has been strengthened during the Biden administration. In fact, President Biden signed an executive order, essentially closing a loophole called the family glitch that has kept about 5 million Americans from getting healthcare subsidies under the law, but it's so striking to see these two men in The White House together again. Of course, Biden was once an understudy once a competitor, but during their 8 years in office, they did grow to have a fairly strong relationship. But we should also point out seeing them together today for the first time, really brought to mind how a part they've been during the first year and three months of the Biden presidency. And that is by design. Talking to officials and aides close to both men. They say that president Obama wanted to give President Biden space to chart his own path in his presidency. Of course, Obama's off writing his book and doing other projects, so he's not been around Washington as much, but they don't talk very much on the phone and they haven't spent a lot of time together recently, but clearly this is the beginning of Obama coming back into more of the spotlight. He has a series of speeches will be scheduling to give and Democrats, of course, hope he will be campaigning a lot in the midterm election year. There's no one who knows more about a bruising midterm election season than former president Obama. Of course, during the 2010 midterm elections, just months after he signed this healthcare bill into law, Democrats went on to lose more than 60 seats in Congress. They lost control of the House of Representatives and the healthcare law was largely to blame for that. Certainly the mood of the country was not behind the Obama administration. And this in that very same room where he was today the east room of The White House. This came back to mind what he said the day after his midterm elections in 2010. I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I did last night. You know, I'm sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons. Of course, the midterm elections were bruising, but his own reelection back in 2012 was successful, but at the time that was not necessarily preordained, and president Obama said that himself today, he said I intended to get healthcare passed even if it cost me my reelection, which for a while it looked like it might. But most incoming presidents, in fact, nearly all incoming presidents, their party loses seats in their first midterm election. So clearly, President Biden is understanding this. He's been along for all of this ride. One thing different in the 2022 midterm elections, then the 2010 midterm elections looking back dozens of Democrats were swept into power with Barack Obama. That did not happen with Joe Biden. His majorities are far more narrow. Only a slim majority, of course, in the house. And a 50 50 Senate. So there aren't as many seats left to lose necessarily. But clearly the mood of the midterm elections, the disconnect in the economy, there is a sense of dread among many Democrats. President Obama bluntly acknowledged the frustrations with Washington. He said, look, progress often feels way too slow. It often seems like there's not getting anything done, but he did point to the Affordable Care Act as something that in fact looks better in the rearview mirror..
Slate's If Then
"white house" Discussed on Slate's If Then
"This episode is brought to you by rad power bikes. What does getting outside mean to you? Is it going for a walk? A run, even a bike ride? What if that bike had a motor on it and allowed you to pedal or throttle to your destination? Even if that destination is simply getting back to fun. Rad power bikes designs electric bikes that let you do just that. They empower riders of all types to discover Vikings benefits. Schedule a test drive today at rad power bikes dot com. It seems pretty strange that a private foundation would be paying for public servants to work in The White House. But I guess I learned from your reporting that's not completely unusual in this office. People in the office would say that it's chronically underfunded. They only have an annual budget of about $5 million and peanuts in Washington. Yeah, even the founding statute said that they should utilize consultants. And as a result, you know, people from federation of American scientists from universities send fellows to OCP to sort of supplement the work. What's raised ethical flags is that it seems Schmidt futures was using this mechanism that I think was very earnestly created to help supplement the work of places that are underfunded and understaffed. And using it to get his foot in the door. It's such a murky. Set of issues because as you've laid out, it sounds really problematic, but then it also sounds like almost in the charter of The Office that it was set up to be a problematic. Yes, I mean, again, it was a mechanism sort of created with scotch tape, but what's happened is, and what the ethics officials internally flagged is that they felt that Schmidt futures was using this mechanism in an untoward way. The White House told Alex that there was nothing unusual about its ties to Schmidt, and that the ethical issues that were raised were properly handled. In a statement after Alex's story came out, Eric Schmidt foundation said that it had worked with the science office for years to address funding issues, and that there was no undue influence on policy. Do you see this as a story about the Biden administration or one about Eric Schmidt and his desire to influence policy? I think it's much more the latter, but I think it's striking that even as the politics around some of these tech Titans have changed a lot in the last 6 years. I mean, people forget like during the Obama administration, Eric Schmidt's influence didn't raise any eyebrows because tech was no, everybody was like, oh, Google's coming to The White House. That's right. That's right. It was a cool thing. So as the politics have changed, Eric Schmidt's influence within democratic administrations has not. I think what makes this story distinct is that this is a guy with a clear ideology about the future of science policy in America, both on The Pentagon and from The White House's perspective. And so it's beyond just him having influence. The way in which he has endeared himself to powerful Democrats over the last 15 years is distinct from the normal rich person. I think normal rich people have lots of Friends in politics and stuff, but Eric Schmidt has taken a keen interest in solidifying his relationships with the most powerful Democrats in America for the last 12 years. Alex Thompson, thank you so much for your reporting and for talking with me. Hi, thanks so much for having me. This was fun. Alex Thompson reports on The White House for Politico. That is it for the show today. TBD is produced by Ethan Brooks, we're edited by Tory Bosch. Alicia Montgomery is the executive producer for slate podcasts, TBD is part of the larger what next family, and we're also part of future tense, a partnership with slate, Arizona state university, and new America. I want to take a moment to recommend that you listen to Tuesday's episode of what next, because you get to hear some Dua Lipa and learn about copyright law at the same time. We will be back on Sunday with another episode. I'm Lizzie O'Leary, thanks for listening..
TIME's Top Stories
"white house" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"Facebook whistle blower francis. How against testimony this week. On capitol hill turned the lights on the social media platforms algorithm that by design. Amplifies dangerous disinformation and lures people to spend more and more time scrolling. The question now is what the biden administration will do about it. White house officials know that the momentum generated by halligan testimony will fade over time and the window of popular support for major structural changes to the technology landscape will close the white house like everyone else in washington recognizes that the tide is high and the time for action is now tim. Wu special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy said in a statement to time white house. Officials are distressed by how gan's revelations that social media companies products are targeting children who said and the era of let's just trust the platforms to solve it themselves needs to be over president. Joe biden wants congress to strengthen antitrust laws make sure privacy is better protected and rewrite section to thirty of the communications decency act to make tech companies more accountable for illegality happening on their platforms according to woo legislation addressing. Some of those actions passed the house. Judiciary committee in june white house officials also are looking closely at the child online protection. Act an existing law to see if the biden administration can do more to ensure platforms are complying with those provisions to prevent harming children but biden and congressional lawmakers are juggling competing priorities and slow regulatory processes that threatened to delay or dilute meaningful reforms to take on big tack congress's consumed with the triple tasks of trying to pass trillions of dollars of infrastructure and social spending funding the government beyond december third and avoiding a self inflicted debt default while both republicans and democrats were alarmed by the detailed revelations on tuesday that facebook which owns both instagram and whatsapp promotes online content and away that contributes to body image issues and mental health crises among children and teenagers translating that into law. We'll take time and a legislative calendar that is short on it and july biden encouraged the federal trade commission to create a raft of new regulations intended to weaken the ability of technology companies to buy up competitors hoard data and further consolidate their control over ever-larger swaths of our digital lives. But those also take time to roll out and will likely face legal challenges..
The Daily
"white house" Discussed on The Daily
"Current with all this information Cecilia at the end of the day. Back to your original analysis that both sides are right and both sides are kind of wrong here the white house and facebook who seems to be more right when we think about the question of facebook. Social media vaccine hesitancy. Well i think the evidence is clear to anyone who has social media that misinformation exists. It's so ubiquitous. Definitely there have been efforts to take it down. I also think michael. It's really important to understand that. This is not just social media that so much misinformation about corona virus. Vaccines are also being spouted across cable television and other media platforms so there's a whole ecosystem to contend with but there's plenty of blame to go around among the social media platforms and i think for facebook which has by far the biggest scale much bigger than twitter. It is a place that rightfully should be a focus because if anybody has the resources to fight this it's a company like facebook with one trillion dollar valuation and eighty five billion dollars in revenue. And that have been fighting this and have experts on staff for years. There's a very familiar ring to everything you just said which is facebook and scale means that it has a responsibility to deal with misinformation. It felt like we had that same conversation. When it came to russia's disinformation campaign in two thousand sixteen using facebook or president trump spreading misinformation on facebook around the two thousand twenty election. And then of course facebook's role in the january six riot at the capital and. I wonder if it's right to see vaccine misinformation as of a piece with those previous episodes or if based on the fact that facebook has changed since two thousand sixteen and is being more proactive. And all the ways you just described that it's possible that history makes facebook an easy target for the white house when it comes to vaccines in a way. That may not be quite fair. I mean this is absolutely part of a pattern that existed at facebook for years. But what's different here. Michael is that kobe nineteen and efforts to end the pandemic through these vaccines have been a absolute priority. Not just for the government but also from within facebook mark zuckerberg has says this is absolutely one of his top priorities and they have stricter rules on kobe. Misinformation than any other pieces of content and the stakes are so high when we've seen facebook struggle with misinformation related to election interference. False news around politics. It's been upsetting for users. It's been frustrating. It's certainly caught the attention of washington lawmakers at our who are very angry at facebook.
The Daily
"white house" Discussed on The Daily
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The Daily
"white house" Discussed on The Daily
"He said that were the threats. Often come from what we eat. Drink and smoke. Today we live in a world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation's health. We must confront misinformation as nation. Every one of us has the power and the responsibility to make a difference in this fight. Lives are depending on it. So he's saying that online misinformation about the cova nineteen vaccine is literally a public health crisis. He is for the first time saying that speech and comments that are made on the internet have hopped over into real life and of caused real world harm. Thanks so much for your time. And i'll turn it to jen. And then bright after the surgeon. General jen psaki. The white house press secretary doubles down on his message. They're also proposed changes that we have made to social media platforms including facebook and she really homes it on facebook. facebook has been a leading cause of this misinformation. facebook should provide publicly and transparently data on the reach of covert nineteen Co vaccine misinformation. Not just and she said that the reach the company owes it to the public to be transparent about how much misinformation is on the site. How it's spreading and how much it's being engaged with your second That we have recommended a proposed that they create a robust enforcement strategy that bridges. There she pointed to the fact that the white house has had to repeatedly flag misinformation around the corona virus vaccines to facebook and at the company takes too long to respond to this misinformation that spreading so rapidly finally li Have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feet algorithm facebook. She really also focused by gold on the algorithms that allow the company to spread misinformation so rapidly compared to any other media platforms case on that certainly an area that would have an impact so these are fishing as a public call for facebook to do. Better thanks. Everyone thinks everyone. And then the next day president biden just before he got on marine one to camp. David was asked by reporter. Covert this information about what his message to social media companies would be like facebook and the president said they're killing people have is among unvaccinated. Not it was really a stunning statement. And the first time that i have heard the public has heard such a direct line that the administration was trying between these social media platforms and their problems and their challenges when it comes to solving the pandemic right is used to be saying this overall very highly coordinated effort by the white house seems to be saying that companies like facebook in a sense have blood on their hands when it comes to americans being unwilling to take the covert nineteen maxine because of the misinformation that they host it was an extraordinary statement and facebook immediately pushed back in the blog. Post facebook slammed the administration's position. It's perhaps not surprising that facebook is not happy about having that message come out of the white house and they said no. We're absolutely not killing people. And that's unfair. They said in fact we've tried to use our platform to help save lives. We put a ton of effort into putting out authentic incorrect information about corona virus. Vaccines and you the by administration. Facebook was saying are scapegoating us because it looks like you're not gonna meet your vaccine goals and that's not our fault at facebook so stop finger pointing and that's true right. The administration has missed vaccination targets. That's right the administration wanted tickets. Seventy percent of all adults vaccinate.
Every Little Thing
"white house" Discussed on Every Little Thing
"Bizarre i mean there's calvin coolidge had two lion cubs a donkey gu's I think the craziest is eisenhower. President eisenhower got a four hundred forty pound baby forest elephants but he ended up giving it to the national zoo. That's the right call. I think so too after the break. How the commander in chief gets his combos and cheese. It's and what happens. When first families fight there are some people who have been let go because they just couldn't discreetly exit the room. This episode is brought to you by edward jones lately. It's been hard to think about the future especially when there's so much going on in the presence but helping you achieve a better future is the guiding principle behind edward jones. Their nineteen thousand financial advisors worked to provide you with the individualized answers and attention. You need right now. Whether it's online by phone or in person as offices gradually reopened edward jones financial advisers listened to understand. 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And i'm just really curious about how the president and first lady make requests for meals and fact and groceries and logistics of how all of that works 'cause obviously he's probably not the wouldn't ordering or picking up any of that stuff himself. Well there's actually someone in charge of that and the person who i interviewed named bill. Hamilton was there for decades. he's retired. He's one of the longest serving people to work in the white house and he was the one that was in charge of getting the food for the family. You would go to a supermarket and he wouldn't tell me which one in an unmarked secret service. Dan low so he's going to get bananas he just puts it in a car like anybody else. You never know in washington if you're If you're gonna be grocery shopping with the person bringing food back for the the president and his family. You might have squeezed mellon to test it. That later ended up on the president's plate. Exactly exactly true. It's kinda crazy. It's the seems like kind of a dream that you could have You know you you have this someone going to shop for you. Make this food for you. and then is it all just free if you live in house no and that is a real myth the family. When they're eating alone they have to pay for their own food or when they have guests over like when the kids have friends over they pay for everything and they see that bill President kennedy was like obsessed with the the milk bill for some reason. Jackie with tell the c. Fester were not nearly as rich as you might think you know. Of course they were. Yeah rosalyn carter would ask for leftovers because it's it can be really expensive. So who makes the menu. Then who's deciding what the first family eats while the chef. She's the one who's planning out these meals. It's currently christina. She has been there since two thousand five. She's the first woman. And the first person of asian descent to have this job and then it's the social secretary telling the first lady you know. Here's the menu. Unusually on sunday nights that they get the menu for the rest of the week And they approve it or not And they like things you know. Some first ladies and presidents are really into healthy eating like the clintons hired a chef that was using like very fresh ingredients and then this chef was then fired by george w bush because he wanted peanut butter and honey sandwiches so it just depends on the on the person it's interesting you have these people who you know. They work under george w bush and then obama and then trump. So they have these bosses. I guess who have these totally different. Political philosophies approaches to what america should be and they're able to survive those changes but when it comes to like what somebody likes for a snack. That's what could get you fired. That's true and that's what keeps them up at night is that they work at the pleasure of the president and they can be fired on like a complete women and people have been you know I mean there are some stories that i love that. Aren't that surprising nancy. Reagan getting so angry. That some of her limos you know porcelain eggs were broken and she would screaming about it at the head housekeeper and it was such a big deal that they started to photographs every room so that when they would do a deep clean of the rooms they would be able to point to where everything was so that if anything was at a place they could defend it. Hi i'm digging into a pint of ben and jerry's ice cream right now and it got me thinking about the white house and the number of times that i have a food craving and it's seven eight nine o'clock at night and i don't follow through on that food crazy because of the inconvenience of having to drive to town but then i realized if you lived in the white house can they just get anything whenever they want it so they do have a kitchen upstairs on the second floor if they wanna make something or if they have a craving they can call downstairs to the chef and get whatever they want or. If it's three in the morning they can go and like get a cookie from the kitchen kind of thing and each family has their different you know cravings like hillary clinton loves. This chocolate mocha cake and when she was having a really bad day she would call the pastry chef and ask for the chocolate mocha cake. When when hillary clinton wanted the chocolate mocha cake was everybody's like she asked the cake. Stay out of Yeah they knew. It was a hard day for her when she was asking for that cake. What happens what does everybody do when the president and the first lady are having a fight oh they get out of there.
The Red Box Politics Podcast
"white house" Discussed on The Red Box Politics Podcast
"Will this. friday next. Time is matching. sit in the back. i felt. that's the world terrifying mentally. I know but i just wanted to say that. I think i think i sort of disagree with into but because i think i think beastie crisis we have to grasp about. It's not a. It's a matter of personal. I called your willpower. I think it is this kind of structural problem. And i think this report sounds great. I mean it's very very it was very jamesy in. It's like Sort of big ideas. You always get overexcited. By these things. I love the ideas of robots and fields picking weeds and completely behind that individual guitar. And i think this is probably the only way to fix the problem. I think we'd be amazed at the effect of their structural. Changes can have. I also think the sort of interesting stuff reading around at the fact that Childhood obesity although it stable thus stability is because increasing in poor children. Bit reducing enrich. Children means that. Evidently we have this evidence. That are the beastie crisis is something is not that inevitable progress through people doing things to reduce it and maybe it'll just take this with big government dimension to fix it is it is crazy is one is the majority of adults and overweight. And sort of three. And tanner obese or something has to these just absolutely you. This is just like unprecedented in human history. And i think the scale of these plans is completely know completely kind of commensurate to problem and it seems india if the government is having a lot of contortions as to where you know it's logical position lies in The nelson he coming libertarian again. Georgia georgia saying he will carefully consider the conclusions and respond with the white paper within six months. Which doesn't feel like they're grasping at too tightly. Generic was very much playing it down this morning Times ready to kathy before your coach policies. Like that and you know you go back to the old libertarian. Leaving people to do what they want. But then also having an argument about face masks and the government was has been telling us about exact house live our lives right down so when we can leave the house and is an isn't a necessary journey and all that sort of thing so this has been willing in the name of public health to take quite an interventionist approach but doesn't seem to want to do on this. Well no because you can see how wildly unpopular these proposals would be very such as society sections of society that always get the net. It reminds me of people giant. Teddy's people snaring a poor families with giant and actually the reason they've got telling because the giant entertainment so you can argue that the reason people go to the chippy and bhai comes of dying booklets fear. Fizzy drinks and give children. chocolate bars. is that because there isn't anything else very nice going on in our lives so it's really hard and this is the people particularly in. The news are new new converts to to boris johnson. It's a very kind of delicate thing. It's all very well to say the middle class way. Everybody should need brown rice and me so and organic eggs but and also of course the question of concrete essence which i think really a really really important to come into it and the idea that anything to do with cookery domestic science feeding yourself is kind of a city side subjects and you know on friday. We make scones and take them home and people need to be children. Need to be taught properly how to how to be able to feed themselves. It's a it's a really kind of basic basic thing. And i think the the shunting they do exist again crescents in schools since about two thousand fourteen but the sun to the something to the side of them for at least one generation was disaster because people literally feed themselves met todd. They've been working. They got home. they want something to eat. That's going to be instantly. Satisfying provide finlander immediately for the craving. And so they ruppees but you can't entirely blame them and you entirely penalized them. You need to be a bit clever about it. But generally i think the recommendations are great but then i would say out because i'm not the people i've just described and i think there's also an interesting point is being made on thompson breakfast. Morning is on the one hand. They want the tax base. The idea is you want the companies to formulate the food that they make all they have to pay the tax and then he's hypothecation the tax would go to support and all that sort of thing but there's a companies we formulate. You don't get any money so there's not totally because what we're seeing with lot. Fizzy drinks is when they brought in the georgia in the sugar tax. Fizzy lots of them did just take the sugar out of their drinks about. I'm boo people. Said it said it entices anyway. Let's not get bogged down in that. Because the last time. I mentioned something somebody sent us. Twix is i only treat myself in half on on a friday jibes lot you but not in the i want to talk about the call you today about how you think. The binds the ties that bind breaking down. Yes i yeah. I do This i guess is another sort of thing. Another problem that i think is the people people talk a lot about loneliness epidemic. And i guess like the epidemic. I think is something. We tend to think of a sort of a personal individual problem but is actually sort of structural problem in society and the basic with my column was that did you ever loading. This epidemic makes us think this sort of thing passing through society but actually i think these amazing statistics about leninists. That were reported last week. But hang on what i think. The number of young people say they have either one of your close friends has tripled in the last decade trust in strangest declining trust and families declining these things. Aren't this sort of isolated phenomenon. That's just seventy arrived. I think quite deeply rooted in the way society's structured in history of society. So just i mean one of the things. I meant in the column which i think is a crucial part of the loneliness. Epidemic is how mobile the population of Of our country and most western countries we take it for granted that will move around for jobs. we'll move. Cities is quite normal in in in the americas all mr rite of passage. That you'll move away. University eighty percent of students in the uk university and moving to new places basically one of the most important.
The Red Box Politics Podcast
"white house" Discussed on The Red Box Politics Podcast
"Let's talk about our favorite food. And how the government is going to try and take it off of apparently The view from henry dimbleby calling for sugar and salt tax to chine diverse. All into eating better food india. Will this work. How many times have you told a. Is it a problem that we don't know that we shouldn't be eating this stuff. All other forces at work. I think the main force it work in terms of suga certainly sold so i think is more to do with Junk food and ready meals. The problem with sugar is that we associated with rewards and treats and this starts really really early and childhoods. You've been a good boy has souissi and that late one link has made. It's very difficult to break. And i think if we could somehow gets the point where sweet things and puddings and pastries and chocolate bars. Want a form of rewarding ourselves than we would have a much say relationship with them so i think the psychological aspect of it needs to be taken into account because without it you will never gets away from the fact that people have sweet teeth sons. Wade sweet. tea's sweet tooths and that kind of sugar cravings very very hard to kick it. And i think sugar is addictive. It's kind of an addiction sugar so just banning people outright will make it more difficult or more expensive which will of course disproportionately effects for people who are fatter. Generally is is is kind of new three quarters right but then needs to be extra stuff on top and also. This report doesn't mention the very fattening. Effect of refined carbohydrates are wight storage which turns into starts on your body basically terms. What did you think about it because by partly award so if you've if something's gone think my eating habits something's gone well he's sort of avoid yourself with cohen is meal. If something's gone badly you commiserate yourself with some wide in knoxville. If you're very tired then you probably want to do nothing more than just somebody in a nice meal so you could basically for the reason to justify eating badly all the time as baseball it. I think so. Yeah well. I mean actually. My personal diet strachey. If listens times radio interested in that. Maybe not as friday tree day. So friday is my defer filled pastor failures. Much filled pacified as cabinet. I sort of seems to me like fresh pass. You know. I'm obsessed with it. It's like my favorite. And that's your treat on a finer. Yeah it's really filled pastor filthy vice to be. It's really bad while you were in the bath anew.