[applause] emily is the author of the book, "emily gets her gun," which is about the current national political debate over gun control. she was awarded the clark -- [inaudible] award for investigative reporting from the institute on political journalism in 2012. a baltimore native, she is a cum laude graduate of georgetown university's school of foreign service. so that's, that's a lot of credentials for a saturday morning. and i think the way i would like to handle this is i'm going to pose some very open-ended questions, spark -- in my usual, very literal-minded way -- by the titles of these three books. and be i'll ask each author to address the question for a couple of hadn'ts and then ask the other two authors to address think comments they'd like to make to those, and we'll just kind of go down the line like that be and then try to reserve some time for questions from the audience which, particularly on a topic like this, is usually a very fruitful exercise. so, craig, let's start with you, and why don't you give us the short version of "the liberal's case for the second amendm

. >> reporter: that was baby emily. after the girls were born, the doctors realized emily was also missing a bile duct. to give both babies a fighting chance the medical team decided to wait for ten months for their organs to develop more before sep gre separating the twins. >> they were so cute. >> fast forward 18 years. these girls are all grown up. emily has an artificial bladder and bile duct but otherwise she and caitlin are your typical teenagers. >> that looks look you. >> that looks like me. >> no health issues, that's what people want to know, any health concerns, issues since being separated. >> they had concerns that emily would continue to sitill be sic after the separation. we are completely fine. perfectly healthy. and very blessed. >> reporter: and co-v co-valedictorians of their high school class. but this fall they will be taking on a new kind of separation, college, in different cities. about to head off to college, eh? >> it will be the first time, we will be separated more permanently. yeah, kind of

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emily chang spoke to olivia sterns. started by asking what it was like on the ground. >> up until an hour ago, the area was a two-mile radius. here is the square. essentially, traffic came to a standstill. it was gridlocked. several thousand taxi drivers turned off the engines. there were several hundred policemen trying to keep with the order. things went quite smoothly. no reports of arrests. taxi drivers are very angry. they said uber is operating illegally. they said it threw them a curve ball because as of this morning and i checked on my app, you can order a black cab through uber. i spoke to the chairman of the cab club and he said uber can -- he said no can drivers will move on to uber and if they did, they would be scabbed. i asked if he was losing business and he said no. he said they are angry with the authorities letting one company operate without going through the legal channels they had to go through. they said they had to jump through hoops to become cab drivers. here is uber making money without doing t

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i am emily chang. ahead on bloomberg west -- theomberg west" this hour, annual videoconference, e3 in los angeles, facebook agreed to by oculus four $2 billion, they are showing off some potential gains for their oculus headset that has not yet been released to consumers. other game companies like nintendo, sony, microsoft. are focusing on new games rather than new hardware. limo drivers are taking to the streets in europe to protest. it backed up traffic in some of europe's largest cities. they want to be subjected to the same regulations they are but bloomberg has already responded. next steps, the stunning primary loss from eric cantor, according to a top republican aide. the tea party challenger beat eric cantor in his district. the loss could heal a death blow to the chances of immigration reform passing conquerors -- passing congress. he had been willing to compromise on parts of the reform. a crucial issue to the tech immunity. to our lead story of the day, virtual reality may be the next egg th

i'm emily chang. every weekend we'll bring you the "best of west," the top interviews with the power players in global technology and media companies that are reshaping our world. well, amazon has fired up a challenge to apple, samssung and others by announcing its very first smartphone. c.e.o. jeff bezos himself unveiled the amazon fire phone in seattle. >> can we build a better phone for our most engaged customers? can we build a better phone for amazon prime members? well, i'm excited to tell you the answer is yes. [applause] >> from 3-d viewing capability and image recognition technology called firefly, bezos was keen to point out how the phone was different from the wide selection of smartphones on the market. at&t is the exclusive carrier of the fire phone. it hits the market july 25 for $199 with a contract and includes a year of free prime membership. so how will the fire phone stack up against the competition? i spoke with our editor at large, cory johnson, who was in seattle for the event. a

i'm emily chang. a wave of protest is planned against ride app uber. 30,000 taxi and limo drivers are expected to take part in the rally in london, paris, and berlin. upset that they are not subject to the same rules they are. songwriters went before a subcommittee urging congress to update music royalty rules to include digital performances. witnesses told the panel that they are losing a lot of money due to the royalty rules were created in 1941. a second hearing will be held on the issue with executives from pandora, sirius xm, and other companies. nintendo presented at e3 today for the struggling wii u conference. splatoon, a new legend of zelda game coming next year and amiibo, allowing users to scan characters into games. and the first legally approved commercial drone flight over land happened earlier this week. it was made by a company called aerobyerman in alaska. more than 30,000 limo and taxi drivers from across europe are going to hold massive road test tomorrow against uber. scheduled in

i'm emily chang. ahead on "bloomberg west" netflix and verizon are not backing down after a feud over internet fees escalates. netflix says it will not remove messages it shows to viewers and blames verizon for the -- they demand that the company stop the messages or face illegal -- legal action. soared to a record $17 billion. this comes after they raised another $1.2 billion in a round led the fidelity and clement perkins and blackrock and others. financing to expand its operations. today marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most popular ego wass ever -- tetris designed by a russian scientist who worked in a soviet computer lab when he came up with a puzzle game. the game has millions of paid mobile downloads and is on 50 different platforms. to the lead story of the day, the fcc created creating internet fast lanes,, netflix has no plans to back down and is fighting with verizon over internet speeds. some say netflix will continue to display on screen messages and blaming internet providers for

i'm emily chang. every weekend, we will bring you the best of west, the top interviews with the power players in global technology and media that are reshaping our world. it was a big week in san francisco as apple held its conference. plenty of highlights that yosemite, a8 and new system for the desktop. and the integration before macs and mobile's. a new health feature called health kit and a developer called home kit. features aside, did apple hit a home run or were they missing something? our editor at large cory johnson spoke with author of "johnny ives." and she is the editor and publisher and has covered apple for more than a decade. we were joined by one the most widely followed analysts, found an author of simco. attend from finland to the conference. we asked him how the conference backed up. was amazing. one of the best shows. >> why? >> you need to get out more. >> very different. >> no, you are right about that. i was a developer when i was at college. for me, when they announced the new

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to emily's point, all politics is local.nd i think what the local people even saw there in the richmond area is this guy is kind of a big government republican. we need something that represents a smaller government kind of thing. and people are now particular of things like spending all this money on the va, having horrible runs. obama care say bust. medicare and social security is broke. the message is starting to resonate. we want to also cut the debt. >> someone wittier than i said david brat is eric cantor's term limit. >> in 13 years, i couldn't imagine doing anything for 13 years. and that's how long he's been in office. >> we expect you to be on your show for at least that. >> so 13 years, he's out. i think he was resting on his britches. going to wall street. he was a high flyer. he forgot about his purpose there. wall street loses a friend. i'm curious to see how this plays out. eric cantor was a big friend of wall street, helped wall street along the way. now david brat disdains wall street. you wonder how that wi

i'm emily chang. every weekend we will bring you the best of west, the top interviews with the power players in global technology and media that are reshaping our world. apple makes a bold statement about its product pipeline with senior vice president proclaiming great things to come this year. take a look to him speaking with its cofounder at the code conference. >> later this year, we've got the best product pipeline that i have seen at apple in my 25 years at apple. >> it is the best product pipeline you have seen in 25 years? >> that's right. >> will you tell us about them? >> i get to see it tomorrow. i have been hanging out with this guy for two months. i'm not kidding. >> that is a really strong statement you made a few minutes ago. i think you set for the rest of this year, you have the best product pipeline you have seen in 25 years. in 25 years, you did the imac, the ipod, the iphone, the ipad, the macbook air, those are all widely recognized as pretty good products, right? >> i agree with

i am emily chang. hewlett-packard keep playing off more people?it meg whitman make more money the more it she restructures? pay.t boosts here is a cory johnson found. isthe one-timer structuring going to take more time with more layoffs and it could all help meg whitman make more. attructuring cost estimated three point $6 billion in 2012 4.1 billiond to dollars, half a billion dollars more and 29,000 layoffs turned into 50,000. what is restructuring? let's take a look at business as usual. you have a new idea. you hire somebody to build it. maybe it becomes obsolete. maybe it fails. you shut down the project. it suggests the shutting down of the project and the laying off of the someone really does not count. that is how the accounting works. up, but the restructuring goes down here. that is the bottom line. that is what the shareholders get. the more cost the company to move from here down to hear, the bigger adjusted profit. then there is the bonus question. meg whitman has received $50 million, a $4 million bonus last year. hewlett-packard has

i'm emily chang. world's largest long time -- online retailers making an exception to the book locking and accepting orders for the latest book from j.k. rowling. five are still showing out of stock messages as amazon seeks a bigger cut in e-book rices. now to our wiring the world series looking at how tech is shaping the future of health care. hang going to the doctor, there is an app for that. in the process of launching technology letting you diagnose medical problems from the comfort of your living room. sam grobart takes a look at three of these companies. like certain technological breakthroughs have a way of making our lives seem more like science fiction than reality. big about the first time you've ever used a smart phone or see someone use microsoft xbox kinect. the future is happening right now. these giant leaps of already changed the way that we work and communicate. the next step is going to be how we take care of our bodies. we soon may be able to diagnose andelves using tiny sensors th

but when miss emily speaks, the congressman listens. [laughter] he's been the former chairman of the legislative black caucus. he is the, he's the former chair and vice chair for the democratic caucus in congress. he's been involved with so many things throughout the state. he was educated in the public school system. he graduated from -- [inaudible] he got his education at south carolina state university and south carolina school of law. he has three daughters. matter of fact, one of his daughters is here. meg, would you please raise your hand? meg is his oldest daughter, and she is a commissioner on the fcc, federal communications commission. and she's here with us today to be with her father signing some books. i can just give you so many good things that the congressman has done. now, he doesn't particularly like me to do his introduction. he doesn't want it done in conceit. but i'm going to be at liberty to tell you that not only am i related to him, but i want to have the opportunity to tell you a couple things about the congressm

i'm emily chang. jeff bezos himself will be taking the stage, expected to unveil amazon cost first smartphone. amazon is no stranger to hardware, already making its line of kindle fire tablets and e-readers, but entry into the ultra competitive smartphone market could be difficult where apple and samsung already dominate. i have brad stone here with me in the studio, author of "the everything store," a book about amazon. and i want to get to some breaking news coming out of the sea, where general motors ceo ise vara -- mary barra holding a press conference. investigation on safety issues based on those tips for the plex -- raised on those tips. >> there have been dozens. i cannot tell you where they all are, but we continue -- consider them to be a threat to safety until we have got with them. making sure we go back to the employee and they understand they were heard, we acted, and they feel good about it as well. >> how do you respond to the e-mail that it now says it was a safety issue? report under

i am emily chang.est" thisloombert hour, selling online, selling a tablet, and now selling smartphone. itson is set to reveal first smartphone tomorrow aiming at competitors like apple and google. at&t will be the exclusive carrier of the amazon phone according to "the wall street journal." is expanding everywhere from china to new jersey. the new jersey assembly has approved a bill that will allow customers to buy directly from the manufacturer. the else model is currently banned in new jersey and the u.s. states. uber rioters get a chance to test drive tesla tomorrow. twitter's golden ticket. analyst say revenue could rise to 14% of the total by the year 2014. it currently makes up four percent very leadership questions and changes. to our lead story of the day, amazon is adding ready to add a new chapter in the world's largest e-commerce company is knowing to enter the ultracompetitive our phone business come unveiling its first smart on in seattle tomorrow. we that is what is happening. just the --

of the planning department on monday. >> before you go i have a quick question and i'm not sure if emily is going to discuss in her remarks but i'm curious to know what portion of the projects does prevailing wage apply to? >> prevailing wage applies in the development agreement to the infrastructure part of the project so all the roads sewers and landscaping those kinds of things the reason that prevailing wage applies to those parts of the project because we're a city subsubsidy helping to make that work. >> could it be applied to the vertical. >> so the answer to that is through a development agreement we can apply a prevailing wage to the vertical. we have the ability in the development agreement to require that we can not do it purely as a condition of entitling the project but because we have the development agreement we can legal ly do that, yes. >> great thank you very much. all right miss emily. >> hi good morning supervisors so the documents we handed out include the development agreement and the more detailed summary than i'm going to give so feel free to ask questions about t

i'm emily chang. every weekend we'll bring you the "best of west," the top interviews with the power players in global technology and media companies that are reshaping our world. c.e.o. jeff bezos unveiled the amazon fire phone in seattle. >> can we build a better phone for our most engaged customers? can we build a better phone or amazon prime members? well, i'm excited to tell you the answer is yes. [applause] from 3-d viewing apability, bezos was key to point out how the phone was different from the wide selection already on the market. at&t is the exclusive carrier of the fire phone. it includes a year of free prime membership. how will the fire phone stack up against competition? i spoke with cory johnson, who was in seattle for the event. also joining us is joe browne, bloomberg business and from san diego, the managing partner at venture firm s.k. ventures. i started by asking joe what he thought of the phone. >> i mean, this is a phone that is going to help you buy stuff. the coolest feature

. >> your friend emily -- >> emily is here. i'm ashamed of you. >> emily knows baby got back.back. >> nearer my god to thee, those are the only -- oh, emily. >> that was a hit 20 years ago. it was -- it is a product of the symphony to get more people involved. the symphony evolution project, they have composers and they reinterpret famous songs. >> i can't take it. broadway last night, and all -- >> did you love it? >> emily loved it. >> oh, my gosh. you're buying the lambchops today at mary's, not me. >> time for favorite things. >> yes, you know what, my friend daniel turned me on to this book, i don't think it comes out until october but you can order it. it is a country star named jimmy wayne. i heard of him. i'm not familiar really with a lot of his music. but he wrote a book called "walk to beautiful." it is a story of his life. oh, it -- it was released or will be released? i don't know. i'm telling you, this -- it will be. oh, my gosh. what a life. if this kid can turn his life around, he's -- ♪ you believe now >> i love that. >> he's good. i was sobbing my eyes out. i

so emily went through the changes to the respect changes to the agreement i'm not sure if david with the community of transportation authority is here yet. i'm going to turn it over to my colleague to talk about the projects in this part of town >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners i'm david i'm the deputy director for particular reason of the san francisco transportation authority i think a useful place to start with the bio county transportation study we developed alongside other partners clidz the department of planning thanks to mark schneider. do we have slides so part of the study essential focused on a fraction violation for the bio county vision it's the land use transportation process on both sides of the county like that. from this fraction two things resulted one was a priority list i'll show you in a few minutes but the priority project line items lists what's the needs generate by the land use developments and the second was a cost sharing fraction where the public and private sectors can reference and identify financing financing a lot of the in

so, emily blunt has to -- if you get injured emily blunt had to kill you. >> in order to try to defeatese aliens take over. >> and she's got to train me. my character is not a soldier. he's basically a pr guy who is -- you know. >> jimmy: he's the guy that shows up on cnn. >> he doesn't know anything about being a soldier or any of that stuff. so, he gets this alien power and it's a really fun relationship between emily and myself. >> jimmy: and this is the training clip. you are in the training room what different things are shooting at you and things are flying at you. >> she's training me and crushes me in the movie. >> jimmy: yeah. here's emily blunt and tom cruise in "edge of tomorrow." >> and i'm trying to learn. >> jimmy: take a look at this. b >> all right. let's go again. >> i just -- hold on, hold on. listen. listen. okay. do it. [ grunts ] >> less, less, less, less. keep your eyes open. again. again. again. >> oh god. oh. oh, oh. just wait, wait, i think i'm okay. [ grunts ] >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about. it is so fun. [ cheers and applause ] see it 3-d if you can.

i'm emily chang.rtup announced $45 million in funding. what is the firm? the ceo joins us along with cory johnson. max, you have been in stealth mode for a couple of years. >> we feel like we have finally nailed it. >> what is it? >> today, we are launching the very simple, but extremely convenient way of paying for purchases at the online point-of-sale and split them into several installments. if you do not trust or credit card, or if you can calculate that the api is way too high, we can make it simple for you. we can split it into three payments across three months, or six, or whatever, and we can make it transparent. >> anybody got partnerships with retailers. >> we do. >> is there an application? >> no, you fill out a couple of basic pieces of information, which are name, date of birth, and mobile number. in less than one second we will take the risk and stand by the hand -- standing in the transaction with the retailer immediately. >> what is the work? it sounds like you have two big technology

i want to it be a good grandpa to emily. i want her hanging on my leg, come here, emily.part about it is not being with your family, man. you can't see your daughter. she grew up on me. you know what i mean? it's like, my god, i missed it all and that sucks. >> not all of it. i don't feel like -- i wouldn't change anything because it made me who i am today. >> really? >> i wouldn't change it. >> you're not mad at me? >> i'm mad, i am, but it's done with. i can't hold resentment. i don't know. >> really? >> i am who i am today because of it. and i don't think i came out too bad. >> no, no -- >> after jumping the hurdles and going through ups and downs, but -- >> now you bounce back. >> yeah. yeah. >> i know we don't know each other that well. but i know i'm going to get to know you. i'm going to make a -- you're going to be a big part of my life, honey, you and emily. >> i just want you to be there. >> i'm going to be there, you know what i mean? >> life is too short. >> it is. >> we waste time. >> i know. >> one week after his reunion with rayven, slagle received horrible

i'm emily chang.esident obama is announcing new program in pittsburgh today to help the nation's inventors and encourage manufacturing for the giving inventors access to $5 billion worth of equipment at over 700 federal research and development centers. this includes equipment like nasa wind tunnels that most inventors could not afford on their own. partnering to are testdrive the chinese market tomorrow offering a free trial for the model as -- model s. tesla is facing regular tray battles in its own backyard. the general assembly approved a to allow direct sales to consumers. us and matt is with miller in new york. thank you all for joining us. the move in new jersey and egypt -- new york sounds optimistic. likes new jersey -- >> it has to get through the senate. there is a lot of backroom deals going on. in new york there are a lot of compromises. fighting between the dealers and the automakers themselves. they're using this as a way -- it is like world war i ended and we froze the up-ice lobbying

i'm emily chang. had on "bloomberg west" this the move adds restaurant bookings to priceline's online travel business. be deal is expected to completed in the third quarter, and is the first big move for priceline ceo who took over in january. the head of twitter's media unit is leaving the company. she announced her exit publicly on twitter. her departure follows the resignation of the twitter c.o.o. the seasond marks finale of the hbo hit "game of thrones." the show's director says this could be the best episode ever, and explains what it is like to direct such a popular and dramatic series filmed in locations around the world. priceline is stepping up its acquisition spree by buying opentable in a deal valued at $2.6 billion. the online booking service seats over 15 million diners per month across more than 31,000 restaurants. the purchase will help priceline connect to local businesses and boost its presence on smartphones. is company said the deal expected to be completed in the third quarter. to