alfred: good to see you.s the most exciting and fastest growing large enterprise tech company, run by probably the best ceo ever been enterprise tech. they are unique. whatever they do in fundraising is their choice they decided not to go to the public markets. they are more than qualified to do so. that is choice. that choice comes from, in the past 10 days, how we feel with founders in the valley. we are going through a reboot. the process will likely have a chance to look at how sec, ftc, cfpb, how they conduct business on policies? are they going to regulate ai? other crypto's? other things? we were stuck for the last three years in a place where it is difficult to get anything done from that perspective. very little ipo and m&a. there's a lot of new. the new administration won't start until january 20. what are they going to do differently to reenable this ability to do these things? i am optimistic. next year will be unreal for innovation and venture deploying capital. ed: the next area of growth for yo

alfred. alfred. 21. [applause] crank. crank. crank. going for number 27. not bad. min. min. 31. 31. subramaniam. 36. 36. well. -- bell. bell. [applause] bell. 15. [applause] and harris of north carolina. harris of north carolina. there is one left, right? and that is number six. [applause] ok. all right. having fun with that. now we have concluded the lottery for member select. the suite selection rounds will be displayed in a few minutes on the house transition website. please continue to monitor the list of available suites. they will change throughout the day. the first selection of the day will begin at 10:00 a.m.. 10:00 a.m.. it should pop up here in a second. there it is. there it is. conaway will go at 10:00 a.m.. that's not right. hold on. wait for the time to pop up. it will be given. -- gillen. le chatter] >> since 1979 in partnership with the cable institute c-span has provided complete coverage of the halls of congress from the house and senate floors to congressional hearings, party briefings, and committee meetings. c-span gives you a front-row seat to how issues are d

>> marci. >> god, it's been forever. >> alfred and ashley both live in henderson. it can't be. >> there's no way that that's the exact same person. >> she moved to the valley seven years ago for her business. >> oh, my god, you've got to be kidding me. >> he and his wife moved here to retire in 2020 after 30 years. the two former pen pals live only seven minutes apart to reconnect as friends now was cool for me because of our past and just that connection we have, giving them every opportunity to catch up on decades of memories. >> and that was molly mcbride reporting in las vegas. of course you can hear about the we coast top stories every weekday right here on ktvu. west coast rap with alex savage airs 7:00 monday through friday. or you can find a round the clock coverage at west coast rap.com. >> dozens of protesters held a demonstration tonight in san jose to protest against president elect donald trump and the war in the middle east. no, trump usa, no racist, fascist kkk. the demonstration was organized with the silicon valley immigration committee held near s

the world's oldest man, john alfred tinniswood, has died at the age of 112.to "pure luck". here's danny savage. it was the year the titanic sank — 1912. there we go, john. we've got your fish and chips. it was also the year this man was born. he became the world's oldest man in april this year, with an acknowledgement from the guinness book of records. he married his wife, blodwyn, in 1942. she died back in 1986. john retired aged 60 in 1972. of course, he answered the obligatory question to the secret of a long life. if you don't eat too much, and so long as you exercise, will both the brain and the body, you should keep them young. if you don't, they will wither. it's as simple as that. john alfred tinniswood insisted he was no different to anyone else, saying you either live long or you live short, and you can't do much about it. john tinniswood, the oldest man in the world, who has died at the age of 112. before we go here as a reminder of our top story at this hour. the cease—fire being agreed between israel and lebanon to hold that hostility there along

alfred tennis wood was 112. and this is a live look at victoria, canada.the big stories across canada tonight. toronto police arrest a woman in connection with a scam involving taylor swift tickets. police say 28 victims paid for fraudulent tickets with a value of more than $70,000. the suspect allegedly offered the tickets on facebook marketplace. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ oh, we got a weathertech gift card! weathertech is the perfect gift for everyone. may i? (laughs) laser measured floorliners protect carpet in the front and second row. cargo liner protects the rear. the side window deflector offers more protection. my turn! the sinkmat contains spills in cabinets. something for you too, buddy! pets eat safely with the non-toxic pet feeding system. find these american made gifts or get a gift card instantly at wt.com. >> bret: newly formed department of government efficiency screening job cabinets. meanwhile one republican senator has a list of things for those new employees to do on the first da

and i'm using just one example, but alfred inspired hugh hefner to playboy magazine. he encouraged helen gurley to turn cosmopolitan magazine into a sex manual for women he took the pornography industry, which was mostly underground and it mainstream, resulting in millions of broken lives and, marriages and karl truman, a friend and scholar, i think, summarizes it very, very importantly when he says in short, the tradition of seeing world as driven by sex that. kinsey's reports inaugurate is responsible for the fact that we now see the world as driven by sex. and by the way, we've arrived in 2024 at the lowest fertility rates and the lowest marriage rates in recorded american history. oh, by the way, i went back to hef just briefly by the way, the abusive sense of, the so-called playboy view of life is very important. but in 1953, when the first issue of playboy arrives on the newsstands as kind of a prelude to to what we see in the sixties many people wanted to believe, it's hype about enhancing the sophistication and urbanity of american men. by today it's harder, a

as in alfred sicily's apple trees in flour. >> this is a site that has suffered.rough its own trauma. . you have this mingling of the old and the replanted trees. apple trees will take many years before they will bear fruit. so it is not just a pretty picture. it is about the country, the family, the community working to rebuild the present for the future. >> the new for the country and for art. there would be seven more impressionist exhibitions over the coming years. the movement coalesced and expanded into the form the world came to know. while some artists including monet and pissarro experienced success in their lifetimes, recognition for sicily and others came only after their deaths. for the pbs news hour, i'm jeffrey brown at the national gallery washington, d.c. ♪ >> and that is the news hour for tonight. i'm william brangham. on behalf of the entire news hour team, thank you so much for joining us. >> major funding for the pbs news hour has been provided by -- >> in 1985, two friends set out to make wireless coverage accessible to all. with no long-term

and i'm using just one example, but alfred inspired hugh hefner to playboy magazine. he encouraged helen gurley to turn cosmopolitan magazine into a sex manual for women he took the pornography industry, which was mostly underground and it mainstream, resulting in millions of broken lives and, marriages and karl truman, a friend and scholar, i think, summarizes it very, very importantly when he says in short, the tradition of seeing world as driven by sex that. kinsey's reports inaugurate is responsible for the fact that we now see the world as driven by sex. and by the way, we've arrived in 2024 at the lowest fertility rates and the lowest marriage rates in recorded american history. oh, by the way, i went back to hef just briefly by the way, the abusive sense of, the so-called playboy view of life is very important. but in 1953, when the first issue of playboy arrives on the newsstands as kind of a prelude to to what we see in the sixties many people wanted to believe, it's hype about enhancing the sophistication and urbanity of american men. by today it's harder, a

. >> alfred rowe was a guard at a prison in columbia when susan was an inmate there. >> when i first susan, she was kind of friendly. she was well-spoken, polite, confident. >> they had an affair back in 2000. according to the court records, she also had sex with a second guard. both men lost their jobs. the second man went to jail for three months, and rowe got five years probation. susan was ultimately transferred to a different prison. >> i truly regret what i done. she has shown, through her abuse of the institutional rules and regulations, that she's not ready to join society and be a law abiding citizen again. she doesn't deserve parole yet. >> records also show at least three instances of drug use in being sanctioned for mutilation. but she had no infractions for ten years until this past august, when, according to the south carolina department of corrections, she got into trouble for speaking to a filmmaker who deposited an undisclosed amount of money into her prison account. >> why should this board think that if we grant you parole, that you're going to go out and follow th

she's an icon for her country — we hearfrom 100 metre olympic gold medallist julian alfred about hergles en route to success welcome to the programme. there are seven british teams in european action tonight, with some europa and europa conference league matches already under way. conference league matches we'll update you on those games and build up to the others still to kick off. can under pressure rangers manager philippe clement get a moral boosting win? they're playing 0lympiacos in greece. the new saints and shamrock rovers are playing each other as we speak in the conference league. chelsea play fc noah later. larne and hearts in action too. and of course, manchester united kick off against paok fc later. but before all of that, there have been several goals in tottenham's game against galatasaray. the half—time whistle hasn't quite been blown yet and it's 3—1 to the home side. galatasaray opened the scoring with a cracker from yunus akgun onjust six minutes. tottenham equalised not long afterwards. brennanjohnson setting up will lankshear for his first senior goalfor the clu

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thing is that, you know, despite my mom's history, despite the fact that i've actually lectured at alfred some genocide prevention, i found myself being called a self hating june and an anti semite by all sorts of people who are very supportive of israel, or very supportive of the so to of, of what our governments are doing in relation to israel. i'm the thing that really strikes me and i'd be interested in your thoughts on this. it's a sort of notion of you have freedom of speech so long as we're comfortable with what you're saying, we sort of seem to be living in a moment. we're off and i think to myself, hang on the races are actually describing the lifelong anti racist as racist which is insane. and it's, yeah, to, you know, it's, it's the moment we're in, and i'm shocked at the extent to which governments and the so called west point, the global know if you will, pad to undermine their own. democracies prepared to effectively destroy any vestige of international level. we have israel committing genocide before our eyes, and none of our mainstream politicians across the board seem to

think you just have to destroy but not the one of the system that was established by the and ms. alfred. easy would you suspend 2019, please wouldn't fuck with you. we see that the united states were gonna put, you had to put down their allies up with a new a on now considering what asked me and has successfully tested their capabilities to deploy advanced missile systems in different parts of the world. but i would have their exercises routinely include the use of such records and the federal engine, but you have to brush your house unilaterally. you know, what can i get to see me? i refused to deployed intermediate in small range and it sounds a little bit until we see similar and what is the point by the united states in a really well quote, if like, if this is the use of the novel system, i would just remind me what you sent me, which was essentially an operational test, was carried out in response to when you get to the decisions made by the united states and their own lives. and to further actions will be considered and decided to be based on what we see that you need from the ban

the world's oldest man, john alfred tinniswood, has died at the age of 112.ts. born in the same year the titanic sank, john tinniswood from liverpool was the world's oldest man at 112 years old. today, guinness world records announced the death of the lifelong liverpool fc fan, born just 20 years after the club was founded. liverpool is my home, really. i was born in liverpool and lived all my life until i was 27, i was 27 before i first left liverpool. in a statement, his family said his last day was surrounded by music and love. they said, "john always liked to say thank you, so on his behalf, thanks to all those who cared for him over the years, including his carers at the hollies care home, his gp�*s district nurses, occupational therapists and other nhs staff." in april this year, aged 111, john tinniswood became the world's oldest living man after the death of 114—year—old juan vicente perez from venezuela. when asked about his secret to longevity in 2023, mr tinniswood put it down to more than just luck. if you don't eat too much and so long as you exe

and to alfred, senior author at thegrio.ant to start with you, the number of people who turned out in this election is overall lower than 2020. for both of the candidates, trump is actually still tracking lower than his 2020 vote counts, as is kamala harris. nbc had exit polls that identified what nbc has defined as or is calling an ominous development for democrats. we saw just 31% of voters that identified as democrats turning out to vote, down from 37% four years ago. i mean, natasha, is it the product that is being sold that is a problem? or is it the way that it is being sold to the american people that is the problem here? >> i think one of the main things that we can look to in this moment is the power of the internet. and the power of media consumption. the way that it has changed. frankly there were a lot of messages that were directed through legacy media, that sometimes did not reach people. this is a different time that we are living in, and so you have people who have maybe cut the cord, who don't open the new y

a film made by these guys, alfred spellman and billy corben. so things were in decline. cocaine sort of say saved the city. >> well you could say so. >> are you gonna get in trouble, or are you gonna get in trouble for it yes. but, you know, by 1981, you had a you had a murder rate. you had 635 homicides here, 25% of those bodies had automatic weapons, bullets in them. >> right we talk about the uncomfortable reality of where a lot of modern miami came from over something. you just have to hit hard when in miami in season stone crabs federal reserve branch in miami had a $5 billion cash surplus, mostly 50s and hundred dollar bills, all of which had trace elements of cocaine on them. >> and the guys who were in cocaine trafficking in the 70s and 80s who got busted and went to prison, got out and are now big medicare fraudsters he's whispering because they're probably here somewhere so where's the money now? >> how's business in general? in miami? and where's that business coming from? >> well remarkably, the rebound from the great recession. i mean, people thought it woul

stephanie: alfred lipphardt is a vietnam veteran and the national commander of the vfw.ven with the efforts to reach out to a new generation, the old ways still have their place. >> there are times when a combat veteran needs to talk to another combat veteran. when one veteran meets another veteran, we pretty much understand. we know each other. stephanie: and so, while families cheer for the buckeyes over home-made chili, there's still a spot at the bar to meet, veteran to veteran, and share a drink and a story. for the "pbs news hour," i'm stephanie sy. ♪ amna: and that's the "news hour" for tonight. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. for all of us here, thank you for spending part of your evening with us. >> major funding for the pbs news hour has been provided by -- >> on an american cruise line's journey, travelers experience the maritime heritage and culture of them maine coast and new england islands. our fleet of small cruise ships explore american landscapes, seaside villages, and historic harbors, where you can experience local customs and cuisine. a

i was preparing for this and i found a quote by alfred north whitehead, ocu never heard of but was a big philosopher in 1900 and he wrote, we make advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking of them. that was more than a century ago so automation is not particularly new. this is new flavor of automation and in some ways very different. if we had named artificial intelligence advanced software tools, which is really what they are, but no one wants to make a movie starring arnold schwarzenegger about advanced software tools, so we'll call it ai for the rest of the day. we have a full schedule, and so i think my colleagues from the department of justice for proposing this and for organizing it and looking forward to the speakers. let me go through the list real quickly. we're going to talk about crime, civil rights, facial recognition which is my own pet topic, , and governance, ai governance. we have three panels, ai in crime, ai and governors at doj, and international on ai. we have three lightning talks. this is shorter talks than usual on

i've been in the rooms myself as i take care of them at father alfred center for addiction, and to hearomebody tell you, you hear voices with the friar there as a medical person, i will hear one thing and provide a medicine. as a friar, he'll hear spiritual need. so really powerful. >> and are you looking to expand those services in the new year? >> yeah, yeah. we have we see, i don't know, 13,000 visits for primary care with 2000 patients. what we're going to try to do is continue that integrated tighter and then hopefully create a medical home for our neighborhood. >> wow. you just do it all there at saint anthony's. you're also fighting for expanded green space in the tenderloin, which we all know there really isn't enough of. tell us how things are going with the golden gate greenway project. and do you think that that actually is going to happen with being able to permanently close that really important block there? >> that's what we and our us and our partners are going to shoot for. you know, there are 3000 children in the tenderloin. and the idea that there's no green space in t

mostly what colonel alfred pike of the militia sought to do. now and his men tortured mrs.wens, the wife of a unionist deserter named bill owens. now, while confederates searched for her recalcitrant spouse, mrs. owens dealt with one of the one of the worst moments of north carolina's war. the woman told confederates that her husband had died and that he was buried in the cemetery. but when they requested that she take them to grave, she refused. skeptical. frustrated. confederate soldiers then tied the hands of mrs. owens. and placed her in between fence rails, torturing the woman to find the location of her husband. now, bill owens was ultimately captured and later murdered by vigilante ortiz, who broke into the local jail where. he was being held, but his entire guerrilla band that he was the head of had escaped. in the aftermath of this incident. now, north carolina's unions were deeply immersed in a third irregular war in the mountains western north carolina that, piedmont and coastal unions did not experience. this was a border war of raids propelled by east tennessee

. >> one of those employees former prison guard alfred rowe spoke with news nation before the hearing. >> i don't know how i allowed it to happen. i just fell into her sweet talk and manipulation. >> david smith, focusing on the victims, his children michael and alex getting emotional while speaking on their behalf in today's hearing. >> i'm asking that you please do not hurt parole today. >> i miss him very much and i love him very much and i will be here every two years going forward doesn't go in vain and there will be another parole hearing in two years. >> the representative for susan smith said today at the hearing that she definitely has had mental issues in the past, that she's tried to commit suicide two times while she was in prison. her father committed suicide when she was six years old, but she has taken programs and the plan was for her to live with her brother, continue mental health treatment. but in balance jake, it was a very fast decision. no parole. >> all right. thanks to jean casarez appreciate it. how the new administration could prompt a crackdown on working fr

drug use to having sex with at least one prison employee one of those employees, former prison guard alfredh news nation before the hearing. >> i just fell into her sweet talk and manipulation. >> david smith determined to keep his ex-wife behind bars, focusing on his children, michael and alex. >> that's only 15 years per child. >> getting emotional while speaking on their behalf in today's hearing. >> i'm asking that you today. i miss him very much and i love him very much and i will be here every two years going forward doesn't go in vain and there will be another parole hearing in two years for susan smith. >> you know, her representative spoke today has been taking a lot of courses. anger management, mental health classes and also self-improvement classes. he said she tried to commit

it's what people like winslow, homer, alfred bricker and william merritt, chase are doing. it tends to be nostalgic. it tends to portray small town life. it tends to be genteel, right? i mean, homer snap, the whip is a class like depiction of a little red schoolhouse with boys playing out front, playing this this game. crack the whip. right. which is a lot of fun. i don't know. how many of you got to play crack whip as kids, but crack the whip not good. pass 30. i'm telling you right now, there's going to be some neck pain involved. but do it when you're you're all still enough. you can get away with it. and it's not that far off from crack the egg. you had a place of crack. crack the egg as a kid, you're not okay with it. you tramples mine. we're going to make you crawl up like an egg and i'm going to bounce on and see long. you could stay curled up like an egg because you don't crack until you open up. yes, i know. yeah, it's. it's a lot of fun. so this is the world. this is the world that that most painters focused on. it wasn't how life really was. right? it was suppose

. >> smith: professor alfred chan is author of an exhaustive biography of xi jinping that chronicless father was drag out and parade in the street. in those day, they put a dunce cap on him, and he was subjected to mock trials. those were essentially kangaroo courts. (crowd shouting) >> smith: here, a sign hangs around the neck of xi's father that reads "anti-party element xi zhongxun." >> we know that this was an emotionally traumatizing experience for him. when you're a member of the chinese communist party, everything is the party. your entire life is the party. so, for the party to tell you that you oppose mao, it's hard to overestimate just how galling it is for a member of this kind of organization to hear that. >> smith: xi's father was sent to work in a factory and was later incarcerated for eight years. ♪ ♪ meanwhile, some of the party elite were having doubts about mao's leadership. a famine, the result of mao's failed farm policies, had devastated the country. >> these people have come with reports of people dying in the fields and starving peasants eating some of the seed

oceanographer alfred. old redfield discovered, i believe, in the 50. he found that proportion of nitrogen to phosphorus within the cells of ocean plankton is exactly the same as ratio of nitrogen phosphorus in the deep. so where ever he was sampling know deep sea water, he was finding the same ratio of these vital elements within planktonic cells and them in the water and. you know over time for decades of research he established as as oceanographer koski has it that plankton were not just reflecting the chemical composition of deep ocean. they were actually creating it and maintain again, exactly how this happens remains a bit of a mystery, is being actively investigated. it seems to be related to. these complex sort of recycling behaviors of ocean plankton and microbes, the way that they are continually taking nitrogen and phosphorus into their bodies and changing them and putting out new forms of them and, recycling these elements through the ocean ecosystem over and over again is essentially calibrating or creating, creating the defining chemistry

review shows that 50 3% direct pass-through medially to the consumerha lower price and whate cite an alfreddy seven, 70% pass-through friendly to rest a significant being employees morning competing on service and the things that chris callahan just talked about profit margins for retailers did not go up now when i owed it in effect, or shrink they went down and so it has been much better for the consumers i this whole discussion of reward and having a few of the numbers is really key here is just understand that on credit cards, sinner marshall went through some of this from the consumer the banks issued the credit card think it $1,205,000,000,000 a year in interest and in fees 125 billion from merchants, they get $172 billion a year in swipe fees. and only $41 million get paid in reports each year and on $300 billion in revenue. this idea the rewards will go away, if you reduce those fees i was estimated for the credit card cognition act is 16 billion as of now we00 are out a few hundred 84 buildingre combined dollars to pay $41 billion in rewards. the banking industry had the highest pro

next we are joined by roger alfred, a professor of law at notre dame where his scholarship focuses on antitrust competition, trade and other commercial law issues. professor alford previously served as deputy assistant attorney general for u.s. department of justice. our final witness is doug cantor. since 2021 has served as general counsel for national association of convenience stores. the organization representing 148,000 convenient stores. the organization represents more than -- employing more than 2.3 million people across the country. mr. cantor previously practiced law where he served as counsel to merchant payment coalition, among other organizations. i ask the witnesses to please stand and be sworn in. if you'd raise your right hand. do you affirm the testimony you're about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record reflect all five witnesses thankfully answered in the affirmative. and we are going to proceed. the first one up is my book seller, i have a particular affection for bookstores, chri