[applause] mayor driscoll is an old friend of mine, so she is referring to me by my former name. [laughter] now i have embarrassed her. so without further undo, i want to introduce to you my colleague, emerson "tad" baker, who i think you all agree with salemthe expert on the witch trials, following the publication of his masterful book "a storm of witchcraft." we are so lucky to have him to .ive us an overview it takes a master of the craft to present an overview. i am really struggling -- he told me -- so hard to do an overview of the salem witch trials in an hour. i said, tell me about it. i have to do all of europe. [laughter] so i do not feel that sorry for him, really. [laughter] and i am sure he will do a great job. tad has been my colleague and friend over 20 years. probably well over 20 years, but let's call it 20 years. i am kind of sad to introduce him today, because i am hoping this is not his academic swansong. he is not dying -- not that bad pick he will become the interim dean of undergraduate studies here at salem state. [applause] hope, in that important position

anyway robert driscoll, thank you very much, we appreciate you coming on. >> thanks for having me.a change in tactics at the g-20 summit as thousands of protesters take to the streets, but without the violence and mayhem we have seen in recent days. we are live in hamburg germany, next. >>> plus, a cease-fire giving a glimmer of hope for the people of war-torn syria, but will it really take hold and end the bloodshed? that story still ahead. [radio alarm] ♪ julie is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor- positive her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ♪ ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. and ibrance plus letrozole shrunk tumors in over half of these patients. patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. before taking i

bob driscoll, stand by for a second. this is from the president's twitter feed.s raining today, sometimes the president plays golf on saturdays. he's not golfing, but tweeting, if a new health care bill is not approved quickly, bailouts for insurance companies and for congress as well. leland: this is something he's threatening congress with, if they don't things to change the law a little bit. not sure if you're an expert in this. what level of authority does the president have over the subsidies that congress and congressional staffers get that are sort of outside the normal bounds of obamacare? >> i don't think the president has much that he'll be able to do. i think that most of that is handled by house administration and things like that. certainly not an expert. but i think what you see is the president trying to put some pressure on congress and do what he can by executive order. i think what he's in some ways, although he campaigned hard against president obama, even though he's replacing obama, he's turning to executive order, if i can't get it done thro

you're putting their lives driscoll we don't one journalists here. despite the worsening conditions and other issues both in and out of the camp more people continue to arrive. ski r.t. ments. with the white house signaling donald trump is ready to sign off on the anti russia sanctions bill america's top diplomat has explained the thinking behind the legislation rex tillerson sees moscow should know to a greater steps to get relations back on track the near unanimous vote for the sanctions legislation in congress represent the strong will of the american people to see russia take steps to improve relations with the united states we hope that there will be cooperation between our two countries a major global issues and these sanctions will no longer be necessary when russia head back with country measures on friday it told the united states the cut the number of diplomatic staff it has in the country by the first of september moscow also said it would seize to u.s. diplomatic property starting next month the includes a warehouse in the south of moscow

you're putting their lives driscoll we don't want journalists here. despite the worsening conditions and other issues both in and out of the camp more people continue to arrive. in ski r.t. mats over in italy activists are holding a maritime protest in solidarity with the migrants risking their lives to get to europe via the mediterranean sea the protesters are sailing to the port of qatar near in sicily that's because the city is a starting point for a sea mission called defend europe which aims to prevent illegal immigration to europe while the group behind that controversial operation is accused by many of being anti migrant it claims that n.g.o.s are working with people smugglers and other just wants to monitor them italy's currently seeing record numbers of migrants londoner it sure was nearly ninety five thousand people have reached the country since the beginning of the shear. a man suspected of a stabbing rampage in hamburg on friday is a known islamist according to german police it killed one person and injured six others in an attack on a su

you're putting their lives driscoll we don't want journalists here. despite the worsening conditions and other issues both in and out of the camp more people continue to arrive. in ski r.t. mats elsewhere in italy activists are holding a maritime demonstration to show solidarity with the migrants risking their lives by crossing the mediterranean the protesters are sailing to the port of qatar in sicily that's because the city is a starting point for a sea mission called defend europe which aims to prevent illegal immigration while the group behind the controversial operation is accused by many of being anti migrant it claims that n.g.o.s are working with people smugglers and that it just wants to monitor them it's a of course is currently seeing a record number of migrants landing on the shores only ninety five thousand people have reached the country since the beginning of this year alone. the u.s. led coalition is urging iraq to publish the results of all investigations into alleged war crimes committed by iraqi forces in the city of mosul it comes

you're putting their lives driscoll we don't want journalists here. despite the worsening conditions and other issues both in and out of the camp more people continue to arrive. in ski r.t. ments. violent clashes are continuing to wreak havoc in venice weyler ahead of sunday's crucial votes on who will be responsible for rewriting the constitution perhaps one indication of how severe the situation is earth from iberia have canceled all flights to caracas this week at. you know. i. i. i. i. well on sunday venezuelans will decide whether they want changes to the country's legislative body from the very beginning of the initiative has the opposition which say's it's simply a way of extending the president's powers we heard from both sides of the divide. the purpose is not all it's a right there comes a decision the purpose is to get rid of the nationalists on the we're to war with two thirds of the bo does precisely the reason and they have five percent of rejection of the regime sold the resources to the c b go. and unconstitutional there's a presidenti

you're putting their lives driscoll we don't want journalists here. despite the worsening conditions and other issues both in and out of the camp more people continue to arrive showing that even ski r.t. metz. elsewhere italy activists are holding a maritime protest to show solidarity with the migrants risking their lives to come to europe via the mediterranean sea the demonstrators assailing to the port of could tanya in sicily it's been chosen because the city's a starting point for mission called defend europe which is suspected of aiming to disrupt migrant rescue operations that group's been accused of being anti immigrant but it claims its aim is simply to prevent n.g.o.s working with people smugglers italy is currently seeing record numbers of migrants landing on a children's goals in the ninety five thousand people of which the country since the beginning of this year alone. the u.s. led coalition is urging iraq to publish the results of all investigations into alleged war crimes committed by iraqi forces in the city of mosul it comes as rights

you're putting their lives driscoll we don't want journalists here. despite the worsening conditions and other issues both in and out of the camp more people continue to arrive showing that even ski r.t. metz the suspect in friday's stabbing rampage in homburg is a known islamist according to german police the attack left one person dead and six others injured following the developments for us artie's peter over. well as we find out more information about what unfolded on friday evening in hamburg we've heard from the interior minister of that city state he's described the assailant he's in custody as a known islamised. the suspect was known to authorities there are indications of radicalization as for the motive there is a reference to religious motivations on the one hand and islamic motives but on the other hand there are also signs of psychological instability. we do know though is exactly what he did he went into the store he took a kitchen knife from one of the displays in the supermarket opened it from its packaging and then attacked people who

you're putting their lives driscoll we don't want journalists here. despite the worsening conditions and other issues both in and out of the camp more people continue to arrive showing that even ski r.t. mets. are more troubles in venezuela big problems there again this weekend violent clashes are continuing to rig work ahead of sunday's crucial vote on who's going to be responsible for rewriting the country's constitution the situation is in fact deemed so serious by air france at least that they have no council flights to caracas this weekend. only. with the country falling is so facing a constitutional crisis president duros called on venezuelans to elect a new body that's going to be tasked with rewriting the current comes to choose south out under the former president hugo chavez over five hundred representatives are said to be chosen from key groups in society but the initiative angered a lot of the opposition they say it's simply a way of extending the president's powers we have from both sides of this big divide. the purpose is not all it's a

you're putting their lives driscoll we don't want journalists here. the worsening conditions and other issues both in and out of the camp more people continue to ride showing that even ski r.t. ments. warning there's more trouble in venezuela violent clashes there are continuing to wreak havoc and head of sunday's crucial vote on who's going to be responsible for rewriting the country's constitution the situation is deemed by air france now to be so severe it's canceled flights this weekend. will. her as. with the country fighting itself facing a constitutional crisis no president would duros called a vote as well as to elect a new body it's going to be tasked with rewriting the current constitution set out under former president hugo chavez over five hundred representatives will be chosen from key groups in society but the initiative has angered the opposition they say it's simply a way of extending the president's powers we heard from both sides of this big divide. the purpose is not all it's a right there comes a decision the purpose is to get rid

about the type of robots that they're using and they're not letting press take pictures however driscoll's is one of the berry farms here that produce a lot of berries in their farmlands here they have tested in agro bought and it was not very good the first generation robot very unsophisticated in trials it was only able to pick about half of all of the ripe berries that were available for the picking so they're not quite there yet but companies are trying to come up with better robots that duplicate human dexterity their ability to pick and differentiate between different types of crops things like that so that's something they're working on and in california there are over half a million different. positions available for these low wage workers that these robots may eventually be able to fill and you know i'd really like to know some wage comparisons there how much these migrant workers i. and expect as far as wages how much farmers are adhering to federal laws and how much these robots are actually cut down on that and you know one of the things you mention is that they're not letting

. >> julie: for more on this, let's bring in robert driscoll, a former justice department official.ou so much for talking to us. first of all, i want to read to you a statement released by the ranking member of the house committee on oversight and government reform, issuing the statement just moments ago regarding the email chain between donald trump, jr., and rob goldstone describing the russian government wanted to provide high-level and sensitive information about secretary hillary clinton. it reads in part "this is a sad day for our country, the email chain confirms that the president's son was both aware of and support of the russian government's efforts to help the president get elected. he goes on to say, we must investigate and act on our findings." your reaction to that statement in the emails? >> i think the emails are problematic, more problematic politically them legally because they contradict what has said it before by the administration. i still think that -- i have yet to see a real rock-solid legal issue, although certainly i think politically it is very damaging to

. >> no, it is not jim driscoll. >> for hottest people. >> you have to be single, jim 's married, with a couple kid. >> look at you. >> stir the pot. >> always. >> that is our boss man. >> i know what you are doing, you want a raise, that is what you want. >> richard's our new guy, let's feed him to the sharks. >> all right. >> this is honestly like a singles tank because there is a lot of heavy petting with these stingrays. we have feeding them. it is lunchtime. show me how to do this. >> take this fish, put it in between your hand. let them come over to you. they will suck it right out of their hand. >> so they suck it, this is tough. it feels like they are kissing your hand. >> mike, alex, karen, you have to get down here and try this. >> oh, yeah, there it is, wow. >> i don't think i have ever seen a stingrays mouth. >> yes. >> that is cool. >> they are hungry. >> her hungry. >> you have to be careful of those sometimes too. >> but he will swing with the sharks in a little bit. >>> let's set this up. i want to hear opinion of a couple of parents, you, jen, q , there is a new york b

more officially, dan driscoll is development manager and principal architect of the microsoft bot frameworkections with some of these chatbots and have long conversations sessions. i think the average for xiaoice is 23 turns per conversation, so people will chat, will say, "hey, how are you doing?" and xiaoice will respond and say, "i am having a good day, how are you doing?" they form a kind of emotional relationship and that is one of the things we put into chatbots. so many bots have both a sort of like a factual, an iq component and an emotional or personality e0 component. ai will not only be able to know and recognise everything and everyone, it will know how to charm us, how to persuade us. it will know how to reassure us and how to frighten us. instead of us operating the computers, the computers will be pushing our buttons. whoever controls the ai probably controls the future. there's already disquiet about using big data to target voters. well, imagine what an all seeing, all knowing ai could do. are you concerned at all, for example, about al elections, ai in democratic processes

. >> our smartypantses news director, what is his name, jim driscoll. he got a bigger offers., she can help us with it. before completely away, i know random, throwing it back a little bit, but asking people who would you like to see perform. >> he was like so philly what do you think? he did the prince meme. >> ever scenes they haven't had the roots on the fourth every july, it has rained. >> so let us know. >> what are you having for lunch? >> my mother left some left over chicken, leaving today. but left over chicken, some corn. >> i can like that kind of woman, she has an opinion. not whatever you want. whatever you want tennis game. for like an hour? >> oh, no, we went there last month, oh, this and that. >> then they say something like, i'm east. >> i then you get there, i real i would have rather gone for, you know, the tai food. >> sushi? >> i just don't have a taste for this. >> the reason i bring this up, we know this woman. amanda whic how to solve the bae of this situation. the teacher, she is a teacher by the way, used her classroom problem solving skills to make

driscoll, welcome, and what could this mean? if, indeed, the a.g. and mr.talking about substantive discussions as the post reports with mr. sessions during the campaign? >> i mean, first of all, i think factually this is a fairly attenuated claim. we've got "the washington post" summarizing what someone told them. they haven't seen the intercept. someone read the intercept and summarized it to "the washington post" who summarizes it to us. the intercept was of kislyak talking to his bosses. i think as anyone who's been in washington knows, no one really comes out of many meetings in washington and tells their boss, oh, it was pointless, we exchanged pleasantries -- [laughter] eric: maybe they should start doing that after some of those meetings. >> people tend to blow up what happens. so i think it's a far cry to even say that any substantive conversations happened. but, i mean, even if there were foreign policy discussions, i'm not sure that contradicts what jeff sessions testified to before congress. eric: as you said, the post is saying they were substan