kaufman. >> thank you. chairman blumenthal, ranking member blackburn, members of the subcommittee, i'm daniel kaufman, consumer of bureau protection. my written statement represents the views of the commission but this opening statement represents my views and not necessarily the views of the commission or any individual commissioner. i'm pleased to appear before you today to discuss this issue. combating covid-related frauds. ftc's bureau of consumer protection is compromised of eight regional offices and each has been actively working on covid-related issues. so far, we've brought more than a dozen lawsuits, engaged in consumer education efforts, kept the public informed about the scams we're seeing and removal of deceptive claims made about covid by more than 350 companies. our most recent action utilized the new civil penalty tool congress recently gave us, and we are very thankful for that new, important strattory tool. the ftc is committed to expanding its outreach to lower income commun

a �*70s remake by philip kaufman added an eerie widemouth alien scream that was picked up in abel ferrara'smovie that actually opened in the us a couple of years ago in which the residents of a american town are replaced by soulless replicas that grow in pods and that emit a strange widemouth alien scream. can i help you, boys? you could be forgiven for assuming that assimilate was simply the latest in a long line of body snatchers remakes, which also includes the invasion from 2007. yet, unlike its predecessors, which duly acknowledged their source, assimilate makes no mention of the novel or any of its screen adaptations, preferring instead to pretend that this is an original film from an original script, rather than a bland rip—off of an uncredited yet enduring classic. in the interest of balance, i should admit that this time the protagonists are teenagers armed with spy—cams and a website, and there are some bitey bug things. hey, that's new, but other than that this is nothing more than a movie that does exactly what its evil aliens do — making an artificial replica of something that

originally scripted by a now uncredited charlie kaufman, chaos walking was a chaotic production fromet by endless re—writes, reshoots, dismal test screenings and disastrous word—of—mouth. the result, which cost around $100 million, is simply one of the stupidest and most boringly inept sci—fi fantasies i have ever seen. a movie that makes the dystopian maze runner and divergent films look every bit as ground—breaking as blade runner. i'd rather stay with you, todd. i'd rather be with you. kiss me, todd. kiss me, kiss me. seriously, comparare to tom holland arguing with the animated purple haze of his thoughts, the sight of sean connery in a posing pouch climbing into a giant flying head in zardoz looks positively sensible. chaos walking is available for premium rental on all digital platforms now. in the 2002 documentary lost in la mancha, bafta—nominated producer lucy darwin captured the unfinished story of terry gilliam's ill—fated attempts to make his dream project, the man who killed don quixote. now in he dreams of giants, she re—teams with co—directors keith fulton and louis pe

haslinda: that was michael kaufman, author of "the time for come -- time has come."bitcoin many hits record levels. the world's largest crypto exchange is staring at evaluation of close to $100 billion. details, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ his is bloomberg. ♪ rishaad: coinbase, a fast-growing crypto exchange, is set to go public on the nasdaq wednesday at a staggering valuation of about $100 billion. joe weisenthal took a look at how far crypto has come and what this moment means for the future of currency. joe: coinbase is going public. but it is not just another direct listing. it is a symbol of how far crypto has come and its increasing institutional except in. bitcoin has been -- institutional acceptance. bitcoin has been around since 2009, but the mainstream always viewed it with extreme skepticism. >> in our view it is nothing but a ponzi scheme. >> i could care less about bitcoin. if you are stupid enough to buy it, you will pay the price. >> i think it is a scam. >> it is money laundering. joe: now, bitcoin has more than doubled justice here and up more than t

are here, when i was here last time i wanted to run around the stage and say "god said listen to kaufman then i realized i am elected -- an elected official and could not do that. [laughter] i literally wanted to do that. [laughter] he gets so fired up, so motivated, that the country should know your name. i have been a south carolinian for 55 years. some of you thought it was 65, but no. [laughter] i still have a county called scott. thank you very much for inviting me to scott county. as a kid who grew up in south carolina, raised in a single parent household, mired in poverty, the one thing i know about this country and our god of this country, as -- is indeed a story of redemption. having a chance to become a united states senator after my start is impossible. almost anywhere in the world, to be in the united states senate after my start. from seven to 14 i kind of drifted. as a freshman in high school i failed out of high school. i failed geography and civics. civics is the study of politics. after seven or eight years in the senate, i am not the only one failing civics in the unite

mister kaufman, what tools does the ftc need to fight illegal robocalls? >> a lot of the challenges are technological. we have a lot of cases in the pipeline on robocall issues. education is a very important part of the ftc's mission, and it's important that we not only put information on the website but reach out to consumers, to different communities, to share the information about hanging up the phone when you get a robocall. we mailed postcards to hundreds of thousands of consumers in neighborhoods that have low internet access. we've appeared on a lot a radio shows to get the message out to consumers that might not go to our website to find information. >> thank, you mister chairman. i yield back. >> thank you, senator. a couple final questions. i appreciated the announcement about consumer community advocate center. i hope you are familiar with it. we all recognize that fraud actually exploits the most vulnerable and hard to reach communities. i'm hoping the ftc can partner with leaders and local communities, faith leaders, senior citizen leaders, ad

we're starting to see data from the manhattan institute by eric kaufman that found eight in 10 african-americans believe that black men were like more thlikely to be killed by police and to die in a car accident and of course the odds are more than 10 to 1 in the other direction. we're at this point in which the chauvin incident with george floyd set a narrative that we of course, have this misperception about policing in america and it's this misperception that driving the conversation so any pushback gets sort of characterized as insensitive to the concerns of certain communities . and i think also the misperception kind of feeds these overreactions to other incidents, i'm thinking here of the shooting in which the facts are much more ambiguous and they were in the that were killed in the incident and yet we're still seeing those kinds of incidents and those kinds ofprotests . >> i guess i'll ask you about the response of the departments across the country, there are several incidents we can talk about in just the past couple of days but in general, how have , what your perception of how polic

people in waxahachie wan drive by and see it today on kaufman street. i lived in that house for seven years. my dad worked three jobs to get us out of public housing. i ended up going to college for free for most of that period until i got injured. but look, [ inaudible ]. my dad cleaned up his yard and his house, he's 97 years old. if somebody walked by and threw a cigarette butt down, my biggest concern is that my 97-year-old father will try to get in a fight. that's what we've got to create, more home ownership. >> a few minutes left here, this is rodney in albuquerque, independent. good morning. >> hi, good morning. i have a complaint, i'm a minority hispanic person, and i guess what gets me angry with this whole thing is with the police officer. i know he's guilty for what he did and he has to pay for what he did. but i find that everybody's saying this was a racist thing. i really don't believe the police officer woke up one morning and said i'm going to kill a black man, i really don't believe that. i believe he got caught up in this whole thing

also how his friend and former teacher helmut do each sees it is a pianist and professor who's known kaufman for almost 30 years. as we have often admired him his incredible discipline. he's invited by friends who've bought a really rare and excellent wine just for him he'll apologize and say that he can't drink because he's singing the next day like. today and he really won't see me someone who when he has a certain job to do it will stick by the rules he set for himself no matter what temptation might come along the way that's crucial if you want a career like his. good opera is considered elitist aloof some say why put so much into opera when we have a climate catastrophe the pandemic and war why do we need opera. you know i think of fish to go. well i wouldn't say that it's more important than putting bread on the table it. is elitist it does cost a lot of money. it's not a form of art it's created one segment is available forever and you know like the visual arts. at the same time it's such a fascinating art form. otherwise it wouldn't have lasted over the centuries. and allows you to d

corey kaufman joins me from new jersey.officials there about a possible, again, another wave. >> richard, this is something that is high on their radar. i mean from those five states, 44% of the cases. but they make up just 22 percent of the population. there is a clear correlation here. they are looking at several fact oars as to what could be driving surges in these states. one is the uk variant is driving infections to grow faster than vaccinations are going out. an official here told me this. >> we don't know if it is people letting their guard down, being in larger groups because of the holidays, maybe even some travel. it's hard for us to know until patients tell us. and it seams like it is the family gatherings and the family travel. it's difficult for the staff. you know, when we went through the pandemic, everybody was working on adren little. we've got this, let's get through it, the second wave, okay, we can manage. now thatter with seeing upticks after each holiday, it is taxing. it is exhausting and it is a lot

scott: anyone and everyone should be intimidated to follow brother kaufman. if he was not here in my home county -- scott county -- [laughter] thank god you thought that was funny. you could move to south carolina and become an amazing southern preacher. i can see you have already taken up the offering. i listened to him and want to go

mister hall would be invoking his 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination last week puts kaufman testified that hall was floyd's drug dealer. >> that was karen wynter reporting for us this week. we will also hear from the medical examiner and another witness for the prosecution. president joe biden announced on tuesday that he is bumping up his deadline for states to make all american adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by april 19th. well, this comes as the administration hit another milestone, a 150 million shots in arms since inauguration day. washington correspondent anna wiernicki is in washington with more. good morning, anna. >> good morning. president biden says that his administration is well on its way of meeting its school of administering 200 million vaccines in arms by his first 100 days in office. and while he says that is ahead of schedule. he does warn that americans are not out of the woods just yet. >> get all your friell get a shot when they can president joe biden and vice president kamala harris continued their campaign across the country on tuesday tel

originally scripted by a now uncredited charlie kaufman, chaos walking was a chaotic production fromd $100 million, is simply one of the stupidest and most boringly inept sci—fi fantasies i have ever seen. a movie that makes the dystopian maze runner and divergent films look every bit as ground—breaking as blade runner. i'd rather stay with you, todd. i'd rather be with you. kiss me, todd. kiss me, kiss me. seriously, comparare to tom holland arguing with the animated purple haze of his thoughts, the sight of sean connery in a posing pouch climbing into a giant flying head in zardoz looks positively sensible. chaos walking is available for premium rental on all digital platforms now. in the 2002 documentary lost in la mancha, bafta nominated producer lucy darwin captured the unfinished story of terry gilliam's ill—fated attempts to make his dream project — the man who killed don quixote. now in he dreams of giants, she re—teams with co—directors keith fulton and louis pepe to watch gilliam finally complete the project on which he began work nearly 30 years earlier. prepare to die, fo

. >> msnbc's cory kaufman is with us. walk us through this decision. >> reporter: lindsay and garrett, good morning to both of you. ultimately, this decision came down to weighing the benefits of the vaccine and the potential risks. the acting fda commissioner put out a statement and said that ultimately they felt that the vaccine was safe and effective to bring back to market with that warning label about the potential risk for blood clotting. according to our latest numbers, there were about 8 million doses given out before the national pause and about 15 cases. so the new numbers show that it happens in about 1.9 people per million cases. a little bit higher than we had previously seen with the previous 6 million cases and 6 people. as scientists continue to monitor this though, they do say that this is a higher risk for women 18 to 49 years old. the vaccine could come back as soon as today. johnson & johnson has said they are ready with 9 million doses to bring back to market. the question is whether or not people are

scott: anyone and everyone should be intimidated to follow brother kaufman. if he was not here in my home county -- scott county -- [laughter] thank god you thought that was funny. you could move to south carolina and become an amazing southern preacher. i can see you have already taken up the offering. i listened to him and want to go back home and find a powerful southern preacher, because when i was here last time, i wanted to run around the stage and say, god said. listen to kaufmann, then i realized i am an elected official, i can't do that, but then, the bible says you have to believe -- i literally wanted to do that. because you get so fired up, so motivated. the whole country should know your name. [applause] i have been a south carolinian for 55 years. some of you thought it was 65. i still don't have a county called scott, so thank you for inviting me to scott county. i will say this, as a kid who grew up in south carolina, a single-parent household, mired in poverty, the one thing i know about this country and our god of this country is, indeed, a

our speaker is michelle marquetty-kaufman, author of "the life and writing of chandler." and the book she'll be speaking on tonight, "penelope winslow: reimagining a life." she served as curator for pilgrim hall museum's exhibition path founders, women of plymouth. and as a mass humanities scholar on women's suffrage commemoration project with the falmouth museum on the green. she serves on the board of the adams birthplace and as a museum administrator of boston's gibson house museum. without further ado, please join me in welcoming michelle to speak this evening. >> thank you very much, gavin, katherine, and sarah, for arranging this talk. and i want to say thank you very much to the massachusetts historical society for this wonderful opportunity. i have been using mhs' resources for years, and their collections, their exhibitions, their programs, and their staff are outstanding. thank you, mhs. so tonight i am talking about penelope pelham winslow. and i as a historian study early american women because i really feel they've been significantly underrepresented in the t

>> people are really here to hear you talk about kaufman stadium in the end. >> right. >> have you talked to the audience about who you are and what you've done? >> i've been lucky because i've written about things that interest me. >> or pisses me off. >> right. whether either way you like talking about it. i always loved journalism and i'm not very good at making choices. so i found a place where the two intersect. i've spent most of my life writing about architecture. >> did you study architect? >> architectural history. i went to princeton, a place that those of you who went to princeton, don't always acknowledge. >> i heard about it. >> it's a little school. little to the north in a place called connecticut. and studied architectural history. then began a career as a journalist. i toyed with the idea of going to architectural school. i thought the world had enough mediocre architects and didn't need another. i thought i was a decent writer so i went that route. >> what was it like working as a -- at the new yorker? >> second chapter of my career. i started at "the new york times" the

indicating his refusal to answer questions under oath if forced to take the stand last week puts kaufman testified that hall was floyd's drug dealer. kareen wynter ktla 5 news. police are looking for 2 armed and dangerous robbers who managed to pull off a daring smash-and-grab at a south bay jewelry store. >> after dealing with robberies vandalism and more. the owner of that san jose store is sharing his story only with kron four's rob fladeboe. >> it was something straight out of the movie say police who are now hunting for the 2 armed extremely dangerous suspects who pulled off a daring smash-and-grab robbery at the san jose jewelry store at 24th and east clara on a recent sunday >> kron news has obtained this dramatic surveillance video. it you seen as long intruder holds a clerk at gunpoint. >> and then uses the gun. he smashed display cases to get after jewelry and gold >> and they have a point in comes at our employees time to get down to the floor. >> they were going kill out of a movie when they come in and the way they write their full case of the way the point that once the peo

mister hall would be invoking his 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination last week puts kaufman testified that hall was floyd's drug dealer. >> and that was kareen wynter reporting for us tonight. this week we will also hear from the medical examiner. another witness for the prosecution. capitol police officer william evans will lie in honor at the u.s. capitol rotunda next tuesday. the 18 year-old veteran of the force was killed last week when a man rammed his car into barricade at a capitol checkpoint, a tribute for the officer will begin at 11 o'clock in the morning followed by a viewing period at noon for us. capitol police. border agents in california have arrested 2 men on the fbi terrorism watch list. >> they say the 2 men are yemeni nationals who both filled to sneak into the u.s. on separate attempts. one of the men was arrested just 10 yards from the u.s. mexico border back in january and recently, border patrol agents caught the second man. about 2 miles from the border. some lawmakers say that the recent influx of migrant children at the border has agents under incre

let's go to cori kaufman in new york city. are they giving j&j, vaccines there or not, cori?erna vaccines going on here and that is in addition to the johnson & johnson shot that is coming back here to the city, new york city, one of the first major metropolitan areas to announce that they will immediately bring back the johnson & johnson shot. that will be through in-home vaccinations and pop-up shots, but when it comes to the city sites you can walk up if you are 18 and older and it's part of the city's efforts to really get the vk out as much as possible. you mentioned that vote for the johnson & johnson to get it back on the market with a warning label. that vote came at a vote of 10 to 4, and what we are learning is that there were some 8 million doses that happened before the pause of about 15 cases, so it comes down to 1.9 person affected per million doses given out mainly given to women 18 to 49. they're encouraging people to talk to their doctors before johnson & johnson. this is an important step in getting everyone here vaccinated. i spoke with the site's leader he

and phil kaufman, now 80 years old, riding the biggest harley i have seen in my life, falls down laughing and screams i've been waiting a half a century for someone to ask me that question. i took a step back, cringing, and i said, well? manson would come out of the classes, come back to the cell and practice the lines he had heard in class because now he thought he knew how to become a successful pimp. these lines were going to help him get women. later on when i interview leslie and patricia at the california institute for women prison in california, i said, what did charles manson say to you the first time he met you that made you want to follow him? he said this, he said this. word for word out of chapter 7 of how to win friends and influence people. these rules in the dale carnagie class. always let the other fella feel your idea is his own. number two, we all have the desire to be famous and the desire for sex. and then, number three, always dramatize your desires. actors do it. singers do it. you must do it too to get attention. and manson took it to heart. also studied scientology

. >> msnbc's cory kaufman is joining me from rockaway, new jersey, outside a vaccine megasite.ion into why americans are skipping that second dose, did they have a bad experience the first time, are they afraid? do you have a sense of that? >> reporter: there's actually multiple factors going on here, alex. one, some people feel nervous about getting the second dose. we're hearing reports of more severe symptoms that are flu-like, fever, chills, body aches. they're concerned, they don't want to get that, so they'll stick with the first. some locations canceled second dose appointments because they ran out of supplies. there's a lot happening here. a spoke to the ceo of this mega site. he acknowledged the pause with johnson & johnson didn't help with vaccine hesitancy. you mentioned about the children in michigan, this surge of cases happening there. that has been a major concern for many states, getting this next round of younger people vaccinated. they feel that that will help with this vaccine hesitancy and this plateau that many states are starting to see, getting up to that

and then someone like bill kaufman, i don't know if you've heard of, who's one of my favorites, he spent a large part of his high out of his hometown that he grew up in in upstate new york. and he's, no, i'm going back. that town is just as rich and is just, has just as many moving and important stories that maybe i could write about or i could relive again or explain to my children and another generation. so i don't care what the free market model is supposed to tell me, i'm going back. and so you have one on each side of that side of the story. and your question about what would the governmental institutions teach reminded me of an island that i go to sometimes in the summer off the coast of maine. and at one point they had a high school principal come in that basically said you all need to leave this island, high school graduates. you should go find another job somewhere. and their families were, like, you're lobster people, and we shouldn't be paying you to teach them to leave us. [laughter] and people have to, of course, as you say, as a friend of mine explained to me next, there is

our speaker is michelle marquetty-kaufman, author of "the life and writing of chandler." the book she'll be speaking on tonight, "penelope winslow: reimagining a life." she served as curator for pilgrim hall

originally scripted by a now uncrareited charlie kaufman, chaos walking was a chaotic production fromdest and most boringly inept sci—fi fantasies i have ever seen. a movie that makes the dystopian maze runner and divergent films look every bit as ground—breaking as blade runner. i'd rather stay with you, todd. i'd rather be with you. kiss me, todd. kiss me, kiss me. seriously, comparare to tom holland arguing with the animated purple haze of his thoughts, the sight of sean connery in a posing pouch climbing into a giant flying head in zardoz looks positively sensible. chaos walking is available for premium rental on all digital platforms now. in the 2002 documentary lost in la mancha, bafta nominated producer lucy darwin capturare the unfinished story the man who killed don quixote. now in he dreams of giants, she re—teams with keith fulton to watch gilliam finally complete the project on which he began work nearly 30 years earlier. prepare to die, foul and fearsome giant! there is a revised script and a new cast withjonathan price as the man who believes he is quixote, and adam driv