eugene: it worked out fine. [laughter] eugene: on the data that i fit it to. it didn't work out fine on the whole sample. never did. that was a lesson in picking up things that aren't really there. barry: and how did that research into forecasting the stock market impact your thinking about whether or not the market -- could be beat? eugene: well, when i came here to chicago, research on asset prices had begun to get going in a very serious way. many people were interested in the question of how well stock prices were adjusted to new information. put in context, they say it started because of computers. before 1960, we really didn't have a serious computer to do data analysis on. with the coming of computers, statisticians and economists had a new toy to play with, and stock prices were easily available. so that was one of the first things they started to study. and immediately, the economists said well, how do we expect prices to behave if the world was working properly? in other words, if markets were efficient. they were not using that term, but that is wha

eugene: right.: what about technology? how does that impact how fast it makes its way into prices? eugene: it should make it better. the truth is, prices are so volatile, markets have always been really efficient. they don't look any more efficient than they ever have with the introduction of new technology. information is spread much more quickly now than it was 50 years ago because you have so many sources and they're so quick. you can see in the data it's had a quantum effect on the adjustment of prices. to information. barry: so, we may not see it explicitly in the data, the when we look at hedge fund performance, they did well before the financial crisis. since then, not as well. we look at the money flows away from expensive active towards inexpensive passive, it sounds like lots of investors are voting with their dollars that the market is efficient and we can beat it. doesn't it seem like technology's driving some of that? because there used to be information asymmetries. there used to be in

absolutely look eugene is trying to muck up what is black and white eugene is right there is some landhat were own privately by jewish families before 967 but the reality here is eugene is trying to make complicated but it's not every country in the world recognizes the west bank any shoes by the way even this u.s. government to this point. but every other country the world considers it to be occupied territory this is not some matter that needs to you know an international law professor to tell you how to read lines in the follows any of the convention in wyoming i mean there is the republic all you say it's black and white but there is a grey area in the case of in the west because eugene makes the point and a lot of people defending israel's behavior in that part of the world do make this argument that the there was no sovereign power there when the israelis took it over $967.00 it wasn't it's not as clear cut as crimea being part of ukraine and former ukrainian borders is that fair enough the exact same the exact same united nations mechanism that set up the creation of israel set

going as far back as eugenics. certainly worried about where the heck with this was going, he said, to the intercept. there was a couple of us talking about this. if you get better it could really be an issue. facial recognition technology did get better. it did become an issue. only as outside researchers, there's a woman at mit, Ãba guinean american computer scientist, she's trying to hold technology companies accountable. i know that watson and his ibm did not create my father's wound of color but working with at ibm with his long history of technology in the service of racial purity and oppression appears to have never allowed my father's wound to heal. my father's belief in the importance of skin color and determining one's definitely only grew stronger over the years with his employment and in some ways ibm's dark history however unconscious seems to have gotten under my father's skin. thank you all so much for allowing me to share some of that history with you. i think about the dark sides of this technology

or next figure, so that's charles davenport, he was the head of the eugenics record office, eugenicsord office was out of the laboratory in new york set up by the carnegie institute. again i wish i could say that they were out of the news, but as early as last january, some of you might remember that really kind of horrible incident that happened with james watson, watson, the dna folks where watson was spewing all of this kind of really racially bigoted hateful stuff and in some ways reflecting this whole idea of eugenics. guess what laboratory he worked for. gold springs of new york who yes, took the step of actually stripping him of some of his awards, but there is a history here and that's something i wanted to communicate in this book is that some of the issues that we deal with today had roots so long ago that he is often forgottewe oftenforgotten. so, 1928. and these are just some of the ideas i was thinking of. 1928, eugenics of the office under charles davenport to do a study entitled the jamaica study. it was meant to identify mixed-race individuals on the island of jamaica

in some ways reflecting this idea of eugenics.actually stripping him of his awards but there is a history here, something i wanted to communicate in this book. some of the issues we deal with today, we have often forgotten. 1928, these are just some of the ideas i was thinking of. 1928, eugenics record office under charles davenport gets a grant to do a study entitled the jamaica study which was meant to identify mixed race individuals on the island of jamaica and other means of population control. the problem with the jamaica study was there was so much data that davenport couldn't figure out how to tabulate and print the data out in order to see who it was they want to target for these means of population control. early 20s, 1922 now, the young company, a man named thomas watson, the name ibm, watson says to davenport i know how to do this. we've got the equipment that will allow you to store the information, collect it, tabulate it. one of the first project they went to work on was the jamaica study. it was quite shocking to me

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and eugene.friends, both of you for coming on tonight. >>> trump's attempt to counter programming tomorrow. it involves a white house visit from a certain world leader. ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. geico would like to take a moment to say thank you to our military service members at home and abroad for all their hard work and sacrifice. we all sleep easier knowing you're out there keeping us safe. and on a personal note... sfx: jet engines ... i just needed to get that off my chest. thank you. geico: proudly supporting the military for over 75 years. there's a company that's talked than me: jd power.people 448,134 to be exact. they answered 410 questions in 8 categories about vehicle quality. and when they were done, chevy earned more j.d. power quality awards across cars, trucks and suvs than any other brand over the last four years. so on behalf of chevrolet, i want to say "thank you, real people." you're welcome. we're gonna need a bigger room. that could allow hackers devices

betsy, matthew, and eugene.re concerned about this victory really at this point than the republican party. he seems to be more invested. >> he likes winning. and he likes being connected to people who are successful. and he also really enjoys giving these rallies. >> and it's his country. >> exactly, it's his people. it's not a hard sell for one to call in trump and have him help out. louisiana is a weird state. they had a democratic senator until 2014 when republicans flipped the senate. john bel edwards is one of the only more socially conservative democratic governors left in this country while most of the democratic party is much more progressive on social issues, john bel edwards is kind of a hold out which makes him interesting. it's hard to predict exactly how these voters are going to act nay weird off year. >> more importantly, louisiana voters, the louisiana democratic party is not considered to be as liberal. it's not just john bel edwards. all louisiana democrats -- john kennedy is a former democrati

eugenics died out in america.f course, hitler's plans did not. >> that idea of improving the human race, which is what eugenics is all about, definitely had echoes in nazi policy of the 1930s, and the holocaust is one horrific consequence of that. >> white lives matter! >> the white supremacy of today has not reached the level it did a century ago. but some of its deeply troubling ideas are returning. >> you don't think all races are equal? >> no, i do not. and i don't see why anyone would. >> the white nationalist jared taylor is a learned man, a graduate of yale, like myself. but we don't see eye to eye, to say the least. >> i want the people of africa to make africa the best continent they can for africans. and africans, i believe, will be happiest not living in a society like ours. >> i think that you place so much weight on the fact that a certain group of people's ancestors spent a lot more time in the sun than another group's and so their skin is darker. >> do you really think, do you really think that blac

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i know that among the two of you gentlemen you thought that was a bigger deal moment than eugene did, we're going to get to few gene and why. obviously the senators name he was lacking and trying to correct in realtime and saying no, the first instead. what do you think? >> i think it was less a question of the words and more of the picture. on old pro-tip is to watch big moments with no audio, just to read the visual side. and you saw joe biden looking out of it and the other two looking vigorous and young and can we trust him with the car keys anymore? that gets right at the idea biden doesn't have a fast ball and he can't beat trump. so i thought on kind of a subtext level it was one of the worst gaffes biden had just the way it played. >> eugene? >> i see mike's point and mike is a great observer of politics. i didn't think it was that big a deal for biden. i don't think it'll move his numbers. i think people know that about biden, they know that he's older. and so the people who are really worried about that are already worried about that, and they me be a little more worried abo

i know you thought that was a bigger deal moment than eugene did and we're going to get to eugene and why. obviously carol mosley braun is the senators name he was lacking and trying to correct it in real time trying to say the first instead. what do you think? >> i think it was less a question of the words. a tip is to watch big moments with no audio. and you saw joe biden looking out of the other two with genuine laughter looking vigorous and young and looking at grandpa like can we trust him with the car keys anymore. that gets right at the idea that biden doesn't have a fast ball and he can't beat trump. i thought on a subtext level it was one of the worst gafts he- had the way it played. >> i see mike's point and he's a great observer of politics. i didn't thing it was that big a deal for biden. i think people know that about biden. they know that he's older. and so the people who are really worried about that are already worried about that and there may be a little more worried than before. but he's still leading. he's still the frontrunner and his numbers have been getting a bi

eugene scott is joining me now. goo what's the fundamental understounder pe pending of the problem that pete buttigieg is having? months ago he was at 0% and now he's at a staggering 4%. what's the issue? pete buttigieg is still a largely new name despite how well he's doing in recent polls. he's a political office and a small town in indiana. a state and city that does not have a large black population. many black voters do not know about him. what they do know about him is something controversial. something he says about kids and education and their values. something he says about residents in the community and challenges with police. he's hitting situations repeatedly where he's not putting himself in a situation to gain support with black voters which is a demographic that he really needs if he wants to win the nomination. >> let's talk about a guy more who makes pete buttigieg got an easy time is mayor bloomberg. >> we saw the former mayor apologized for his support of stop and frisk of a policy that was viewed

. >> joining me now, vanity fair's count chris smith and eugene scott., you go a long way with bloomberg, is this serious and can he win? >> until he's out there saying i am running for president, it is not official. when he gotten close to running for president, they're throw paragraph color on it. this time around he says we think he's in. >> eugene, primary voters across six states, wanted a candidate who's more moderate than most democrats. 39% referred someone who is more liberal. it is quite a split. do you think there is an opening here for bloomberg and if so at whose expense? >> it is not clear that there is an opening. we know bloomberg originally said he was not interested running for president if biden got into the race. biden is still leading in many polls and many of the groups bloomberg would have to make serious end road in to be competitive. he would be hurting biden as what the movement suggested based on what he said. more importantly he's taking away opportunities from existing moderates that have not been actually to gain significant

we turn no joshua burns in day buick, iowa, and with "the washington post" eugene scott.y that went red in 2016 for the first time since eisenhower. what are people there telling you? >> reporter: yeah, debubuque is big surprise in 2016. look, this has traditionally been a blue strong hold. in 2016, though, clinton doesn't get anywhere near those numbers. she just didn't inspire that kind of turnout. donald trump on the lower hand did get people to come out, in fact, even got some working place democratic voters to flip for him in that election. so this san important place to watch. when it comes to the topic of impeachment, we got interesting trends here. i want to play you sound from democratic voters who are supportive of the inquiry but have a few concerns. take a listen. are you concerned that all of the attention surrounding the impeachment inquiry is overshadowing other issues that people care about? >> i think that that's what people are unfortunately paying attention to. they think the entire congress is paralyzed. i don't think folks understand that the u.s. hou

a formerfirefighter, a former firefighter, eugene a formerfirefighter, eugene hayes is now battling toore than 6000 people in northern ireland waiting for a cataracts operation, some waiting several years.|j waiting for a cataracts operation, some waiting several years. i have been told i am 6555, on the list, and that is only to see a consultant. from the age of 40, i have a chance of going blind, and i am 52. it really scares me. i don't wa nt to am 52. it really scares me. i don't want to go blind. i really don't. figures obtained by the bbc show patients in northern ireland are waiting years for treatment across a range of conditions, 251 weeks for gastroenterology, 223 weeks for neurology and 238 weeks for a child to see an allergy specialist, that is about four years. the think tank the nuffield trust says that a weight of even 12 months would be highly unusual for many patients elsewhere in the uk, and here in northern ireland, there are warnings there is now a risk of some people dying while they wait for treatment, and little that health trusts can do without political interve

eugene?one of the questions i have is does parnas's willingness to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry means he has flipped basically and he's going to cooperate with the southern district of new york in hopes of more lenient treatment, i don't know against fruman, against others, against mr. giuliani perhaps. who knows what the angle is. he may have something to say to the law. >> more criminals around the president. roger stone is on trial today, paul manafort is -- i worked in politics a long time, but i've never known any elected officials to have so many criminals in their inner circle. >> and a couple of obvious thugs like those guys. it's kind of a -- it's a joke, right? would you like me to speculate? >> please. >> you know, i think that the president, you know, at this point if you're thinking about who the president has to be worried about, who are you nervous about, you're worried about rudy. because the truth is, that if rudy flipped on the president on this front, on the quest

and i think that's what jordan was playing toward. >> howell raines and eugene robinson get tonight'seally appreciate it. >> good to be here. >> that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight we'll cover the first impeachment hearings in a generation. and day one, while just getting under way, breaks some news. it's about a different phone call with the president. another witness has been called as a result. and republicans on the committee today were hitting back with all they've got. plus the two career public to tell the truth, both saying they would not be take a side, while across town late in the day the president again poured water on the whole case. tonight we have the takeaway moments from the long day on the hill, the first of many in the march toward possible impeachment, all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on this wednesday night.

what was eugene just saying? winning in mississippi governor race.hat sounds like it was his phone. >> the fact is he's trying to distance himself from the losers and associate himself with the winners. but this has got to unnerve him. i think even in mitch mcconnell had a little bit of distance from the real elements that happened in kentucky, he has to be scrambling his political advocates a little bit tonight. i think that's going to lay into some of the impeachment proceedings. whether or not the republican party, how long they want to stay tethered to donald trump if elections in places like kentucky and virginia are turning against them. >> i can hear it now. i don't know matt bevin. i don't know that man. i might have a picture with him. i have a picture with everybody. >> notice how i threw down some latin. he brushed me back with a little real poll teke right there. keeping track of all of it. two friends of this broadcast. always a pleasure, gentlemen. thank you both. >>> coming up, it was an unlikely love story from the start, but it has t

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the results of that has been published and shows that they were equal and they were still highly eugenic and they could be used without to protect those individuals. >> thank you, doctor. dr. watkins, you suggested deep artificial intelligence that could be a useful tool to identify outbreaks early but can you elaborate further on how this technology could be utilized? >> sure. thank you for that question. public health does have a lot of data and it's not interconnected and i think that the ability to look at birth and death certificates and immunization rates and calling that with census tract information and information on poverty and immigration status, all those other datasets help us better understand at the community level what are the hesitations or what are the limitations to vaccination or access to health care or maybe language barriers. when were able to use all of the data that google has at their hands and we don't. i think that were better able to target where efforts should go. as an example, during the opioid crisis, we and other states i've been looking at vulnerabiliti

did it herself. >> you're welcome. >> eugene robinson.> up next some republicans are contorting themselves trying to defend president trump while others in congress are simply opting to leave. and not seek re-election. this is no country for old men i guess. is this the beginning of an even bigger republican exodus? you're watching "hardball." sundown vitamins are all non-gmo, made with naturally sourced colors and flavors and are gluten & dairy free. they're all clean. all the time. even if sometimes we're not. sundown vitamins. all clean. all the time. a former army medic, made of the we maflexibility to handle members like kate. whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. so when her car got hit, she didn't worry. she simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said... i got this. usaa insurance is made the way kate needs it - easy. she can even pick her payment plan so it's easy on her budget and her life. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa in the human brain, billions of nefor people with parkinson's, some

and he still as of tonight is employed by trump. >> eugene, we were on the air in this very studio last night and he had a lot of explaining to do today. and there's been a lot of robust discussion whether he'd take the fifth. he did the opposite of that. >> he did absolutely the opposite. he did, you know, i'm ready for my close up. he was -- he came with that big sort of smile on his face. he was ready to tell his story. he believes in his story, and he believes -- he emphasized a couple of points. this was the official policy of the president of the united states he was enacting. it wasn't some sort of rogue campaign. everybody was in on it, everybody knew what was going on. despite what they might tell you, everybody was in the loop. the other thing that really struck me that he said was that it didn't actually matter if the ukrainians actually investigated. it was that they announced an investigation. that was the whole point was to get the announcement of the investigation. and the sondland testimony was so full and so -- you know, it was long, but it had so much in it that we rea

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brook west worcesterd chris crane and former baltimore ravens, green thumb industry partner, eugene monroe welcome. >> great to have you all. >> great to be here. kennedy: all your expertise in cob placeone place, brook. is it true they denied any dozens application that came in there has been potential move to take new applications and increase grow production and the dispinsing outside of ole miss, nothing has happened on the growptd. they are still the ones controlling producttion making strains that are more limited than we see in terms of percentage of thc or cbd. kennedy: in a dispensary it has not been scientifically tested, does not mean it is bad for you, with you it just means they don't know what they should know. people are curious. right now nfl of all places studying marijuana as a potential pain management tool for players, yesterday, percy haharvin said he spoked weed for -- spoke weed for every game and he play for 8 years, they can't medicate themselves with thc, what does that say about the league. >> really been a stagnant situation, we see really the flow of moving for

eugene robinson.you were a predicting man, which side wins out in the democratic party, the side of the purity testing or the middle of the road center of the party that wants electability or is that a false choice? >> i think from the point of view of the democratic party, it had better be a false choice. i mean, there has to be, in the final analysis, some sort of synthesis that allows the party to unify around a nominee. and so, you've seen elizabeth warren, for example, explaining that, yes, there's going to be medicare for all and no private insurance, but first, there's going to be something else, first there's going to be some sort of initial step toward it. and i thought that was a clear signal that she is -- that she is mindful that not everybody is going to get onboard with immediately getting rid of the health insurance of 160 million people. and so, i think you're going to see more of that. i think you're going to see more of the moderates leaning liberal and the liberals leaning moderate.

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eugene scott is joining us now. >> half the country wants to impeach the president and remove him frome senate, let's talk technically. >> it is not clear that after impeachment, the president would actually be removed from office. we would need support from enough senators to vote against keeping the president in position for him to actually be removed in. there is no sign right now that number in the senate will be large enough even though we do know that republicans in the senate, growing number of them are acknowledging that quid pro quo has happened. we know the strategy they are employing, they think it is legal. this does not disqualify him from serving so that option, that many americans have chose does not seem to be on the table now for many people. >> let me ask you about a quote in "the washington post." senate republicans are ready to acknowledge president trump used military aid as leverage to force ukraine -- >> the strategy is not admit it is a problem but admitting that it happened. >> the republicans in the senate strategy appears to be different from republicans in t

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if you go back, you know, progressives in the early 20th century were into eugenics. that was their way to do population control. they have always been having this conversation about how to control the population and how to control what you do, and how you live your life. because they know what's best for the greater good and they know what's best for you. >> laura: even shaking his -- ethan is shaking your head, what's wrong? >> what we have is evidence of a climate crisis that is happening right now. we have a reduction in mass of up to 70% of insects. the base of our eco-system so we can pretend like none of this is expecting but don't misrepresent what was going on with eugenics in the 20th century with what bernie sanders said. empowering women, giving economic opportunities, making birth control widely valuable allows women to get ahead in the world and when that happens, as evidence in brazil there was a social campaign that reduced their birth rate from seven children per woman down to two and it was purely social, make economic opportunities available and bir

these men led by eugene proper were communists but gifted te technochats. this is eugene proper. for almost 18 months the fbi had no solid lead on this case. they had no name. it turns out it was michael townly. they heard rumors that cuban-americans, a grand jury subpoenaed them, but they kept mum. and the investigation kept getting threats just as orlando and isabelle had before the assassination. i'll give you a few examples of these threats. on october 4, an unknown male called letelier's aunt. maria, maria, maria, maria he said, talking to the fbimaria, condescendingly, talking to the fbi won't help you. your legs have been spread lewis like orlandos. then he hung up. in late november, a fight answer the ant was standing at kennedy airport rifling through her purse for a key to an airlines office. suddenly a man grab her arm and yanked her around. you tell your friend larry to keep his nose out of chile's business or you won't be so pretty anymore. boom boom, do you know what i mean? this happened over and over again in the investigation. two of the fbi, the lawyers, to the

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eugene robinson, steve schmidt, a veteran of john mccain's campaign. and lawrence o'donnell, host of the last word. at the big board, our national correspondent, steve kornacki. claire, i'd like to begin with you. i think as a point of information, everyone agreed this was a superbly well moderated debate tonight. total control over candidates, material, and audience in the room as far as i could tell. i'd be fine if they were named permanent debate moderators. there was a moment that caused cringes late in the evening. i want to say in the last 30 minutes. it involved booker, biden, and harris. we'll air it, and then we'll talk about it. >> i have a lot of respect for the vice president. he is -- swore me into my office as a hero. this week i hear him literally say that i don't think we should legalize marijuana. i thought you might have been high when you said it. >> i'm part of that obama coalition. i come out of the black community in terms of my support. if you noticed, i have more people supporting me in the black community because any know me. t

joining me now, eugene scott. how big of a deal is this for mayor pete?what could be the cause for this surge? >> this is significant. i mean, we know that it has bees been in the top one or two on a poll and he has had quite a bit of negative coverage in the past few weeks related to his inability to connect with certain groups of the electorate. so this showing that he actually is experiencing some success is the time of headliype of head l want. but his ground game perhaps is leading to the change. i've spoken quite regularly with people within his campaign about his work in iowa and he is meeting with so many different types of people. if you look at the poll, it is not that there is a clear group that he has an advantage with, he is doing really well with moderates, very well with people under 50, over 65. he is really connecting with as many people in the democratic caucus as he can. >> he does not poll well with african-american voters. and iowa only has 3%. so does this search account for any of that weakness? >> i don't know how it really could.