mr. thomas. howard marks a former journalist and i started reading your columns 50 years ago. >> my grandmother was a fan of yours. that's the one i hate the most. >> you defined iconoclasm. my question to you is you touched on it briefly previously what shaped your views and tell us more about yourself and i'll pretend i'm wearing this talkshow personality. where did you go up and where did yougo go to school and how e your views shaped against the majority culture? >> this is usually a 30 minute talk and if i gave that i to tell you. i was born in washington d.c. and i grew up in the area went to public school in montgomery county maryland at the american university in washington and therefore the book a few years ago and that's the standard we should use. if the d program is working andf they can't be done better by the practice sector than we keep it and if it's not to get rid of it. that's what businesses do it only in government like reagan's line about eternal life is a government program

mr. thomas. you have written after the 215 pulse nightclub shooting and at other times there should be a ban on a billeting new mosques as we apprehend islamic terrorists couldn't that still your view would you also be in favor of repealing the first amendment freedom of religion clause? and if not how would you reconcile your view with the freedom of religion guaranteed by the first amendment? >> first, that column was written right after 911. clearly if you read the sermons you will hear with their agenda is. they want to destroy israel than they want to come after the great stay tuned which is us. the leaders of iran have said they have sent people to infiltrate the united states. look at our open border. nobody knows who's coming in. nobody knows what the agenda is. certainly i do not want to repeal the first amendment but i do think if you are going to promote the general welfare, provide for the common defense and ensure domestic tranquility you have to know who is coming into this country

mr. thomas.ou have written after. 2016 pulse nightclub shooting and also at other times that there should be a ban on building new mosques in the u.s. until we can an upper hand against islamic terrorists. i'm presuming that that's still your view was wondering if you would also be in favor of repealing the first amendment freedom of religion and if not how you would reconcile your view with the freedom of religion guaranteed by the first amendment. well, first, that column was written right after 911. and clearly, if you read the sermons by some of the mullahs throughout the middle east, you will hear what their agenda is. they want to destroy israel and, then they want to come after the great satan, which is us. the leaders of iran have said that they have sent people to infiltrate the united states. look at our open border. nobody who's coming in. nobody knows what their agenda is. so i think that certainly i don't want to the first amendment, but i do think that if you are going to promote th

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mr. thomas scheffer, said that, it turns out, the roof of the people's car is on fire that the fire alarmthe background of the report. as the success of the german auto industry, virtually all brands reported high, if not record-breaking profits in the 22nd . especially increased energy prices in germany doubly slow down the production of the german auto industry, as well as the entire industry of germany, the reverse effect of anti-russian sanctions is catching up, although there are many gas accumulated in storage facilities and electricity prices to a crisis level, never returned and in the foreseeable future. it is unlikely that they will do this , while, in addition to geopolitics, which the industry cannot directly influence, there are a number of gross miscalculations associated with moving along the path of least resistance. so it turned out that with all the twistedness on the eco agenda, the germans overslept the electromobilization by the german manufacturer. really need to say good morning. they put their cruise control into deep sleep mode. or how it could happen that this tr

mr. thomas, by the parties to the parts under parts. so that's that he is taking 5 awards and the other said that i thought i asked about the calls, the case was yes for the party and the small guy. so technically i have a guy like julian clowers. i just be a visa. we have seen the spot for this in the whole business cities, supporters after 130 on the streets and the by mean these offers on the farm. we have seen that that are meant to call susan police as do the bite on farmers losing feelings, sense or astonishes, especially the pop groups. happy charge to save dark, the happy solar cells in different cities. we have not seen lots to be a lot of our lives in the summer. this time about the suit is on spots in to find my on the streets. finding the leaves are part of the problem is $31.00 and run con has a $200.00 wind support from the public during his turbulence legal case. all pakistan has been turned in with protests of the full, the prime ministers, domestic arrest by power military troops on corruption charges in may, but last s

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mr. thomas gift, thank you for your analysis. >>> and we're also looking at hoinvestors are reacting looking for direction on u.s. interest rates from jerome powell who is set to speak today in wyoming. wall street hoping to recover from down day on thursday. and so far looking positive with major indices up slightly in terms of futures. the markets have closed for the day across the asia pacific region. they were pretty negative, actually the nikkei was down more than 2% even the hong kong and shanghai shares were down around 1%. still early in the day for markets across europe. and they have a mixed picture. >>> mortgage rates in the u.s. have hit their heiighest level rates will likely stay where they are or could go even hire in short term. just a year ago 30 year fixed rate was 5.55%. >>> we like our fast food news. and subway has a new owner basically. they saw raw capital is buying the chain for around $9.6 billion according to the "wall street journal." >> and it already owns arby's, buffalo wild wings and sonic among others. they bring in about half a million dollars per location ea

and mrs. thomasld bring home much more than that. there is no definition of clarence thomas's income that does not fit the word rich. he and his wife are millionaires. but clarence thomas's lifestyle is mega rich. a profile of clarence thomas, written in the 19 80s, won a few hundred thousand dollars was considered very rich, reports clarence thomas is thinking about money than this way. he says he plans to be rich. he says that means more than just a few hundred thousand dollars a year. no matter how rich clarence thomas's income and his wife's income have made clarence thomas, he has used his position at the supreme court to experience the life of billionaires. new reporting from propublica today shows that clarence thomas has taken much more from billionaires than propublica has already reported. today propublica reported that clarence thomas has taken least 38 destination vacations including a previously unreported voyage on the yacht around a bahamas, 36 private jet flights plus an additional ei

mr. thomas was executive director of the presidential task force on regulatory relief. his he is a trustee of the calvin coolidge presidential fund. please join me in welcoming mr. dismukes and our panelists to the stage. he ideas and ideals. that guided coolidge. the president. the products not only of his no nonsense vermont upbringing studies at amherst and training in the law. they were also a result of his on the job experience as mayor of northampton. president of the massachusetts senate. and massachusetts lieutenant governor. and governor. during coolidge's coming of age as a practicing politician. american politics, including his own republican party, were seized by a new impulse that called itself progressivism. the progressive movement championed many great causes and achieved some of them, including women's suffrage and a host of private, voluntary welfare initiatives. and institutions that included grace goodhue, coolidge's lifelong project of the education of the deaf. but when it came to government progressive ism sought to cast aside traditional constitut

mr. garvin thomas working on the 5:00 newscast. how is it going? >> good. i know you've been talking about the maui wildfires. we have even more stories out of there. damian trujillo caught up with one family today back home after escaping the flames. they had to spend the night in their car once they evacuated. it is a scary story. much different topic, a bay area proud story. a story of a legendary bay area chef. we don't talk with him about food. >> what? >> we talk about how he changed his life for the better and is using that as an example to help others. >> honestly one of those days i really need a bay area proud story you know? >> wonderful. glad i could be here for you. >> tissues? tears? >> no. maybe just a smile. >> perfect. looking forward to it. thank you. >>> the actors and writers strike is still going strong and tv's biggest night is getting pushed back because of it. we'll tell you when tys ll now be held when wee ck. >>> virgin galactic is celebrating another passenger flight to the edge of space. the company's rocket powered plane the ss

thomas was there for us. alex, you've been covering this woke up since the very beginning, mr. alex thomas. i know you've been soaking up the atmosphere. i know you've been speaking to fans. you have the floor down. i'm about to speak to a few more. it just feels like one big policy here in safety and has some for days at the same spot now, but i think penalty suits out when in the quarter finals. now straight is beloved matilda is our only one went away for a place in the women's world cup final which will be something truly special. not go next to me. c stacy, they use, i know mom tests really come on, so i think i transferred you take it into a while back to be realize what a hold so it could be would be. oh, absolutely. no, i thought it was going to be a couple of random countries and for that reason i just caught up with the twins cuz i didn't pick the rest of the family. want to come out here. i had to call sort of when say no, i can't be we off in the crisis game for women, sport in australian history. don't say explains what you're wearing while you go. so i'm going to go to the dic

mr. thomas. present. present. helfen. present mr. driscoll. here mr. gandhi. present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. we do have a quorum right. thank you. can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little? can you do that? it's sort of. is that better? better better. item number two, communications . we welcome the public's participation during public comment periods. there will be an opportunity for general public comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. each item each comment is limited to two minutes. public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by calling for each item, the board will take public comment first. people attending the meeting in person and then from people attending the meeting remotely. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available by phone by calling. 56550001. access. code 26605203021. then pound, then pound again when connected you will hear

then we found out that thomas failed to disclose that mr. for justice le pen thomas's grandnephew, running a tablet may have exceeded $150,000. and today we learned of the dozens of destination vacations and private jets and otherwise high roller experiences that clarence thomas has received from other billionaires who have kept clarence thomas in a state of luxury. we've learned all this thanks to dogged reporting from le pen that nemours propublica. joining me is jesse eisinger, senior editor of propublica, who has overseen all the supreme court coverage. congratulations on important boarding the must of been time consuming and difficult. it's invaluable. it is a public service. but secondly, i was struck by the scale of this. as a lay person that has not overseen all this coverage, is there any parallel in history to a justice taking this much from a group of wealthy individuals? >> yeah, that's a great question, and thanks for having me. it's very flattering. we were flabbergasted by that, as well. where does the guy find the time? 38 va

title vii case- justice thomas: yeah. mr. hinojosa: -- your honor, yes, you know, then the burden would shift to that case, it might be the employer. justice thomas: what's interesting here is i cannot think of another area or another case the court deferred to the alleged discriminator on something as important as compellingntest. weon't do it in title vi. weo't do it in title vii. you have mcdonnell douglas. you have arlington heigh. and this is a first. d at i'm asking you is, isn't it odd that you have a framework in grutter that defers t critical issue in a case of compelling interest? mr. hinojosa: no, your honor. i ink it's entirely consistent, you know, with this case -- with this court's framin judging sugar -- judging strict scrutiny. let me make a couple of first. one is on the discrimination point. this is scrimination per se. the limited consideration of race in a holistic fashion asonn point. this is not discrimination per se. the limited consideration of raceholistic fashion as this court has approved is a limit

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justice thomas: mr. katyal, would you spend some time on discussing the source of the statt's involvement in a federal election. created under stateurt is constitution, but this is a federal matter. mr. katyal: co and we for reasons justice kavanaugh said, your honink that palm beach basically says there is sort of federal issue here with respect to elections clause, and we tbviously the state court got it right and didn't violate the elections clau but we think that's the source of authority here. in two decades of arguing before you, i have waited fs precise case becauseeaks to your method of interpretation, which is history. and the founding evidence here is overwhelmnd i'd point you to four things. firs t constitution uses the same word, legislatures, as the articles of confederatio a 10 state constitutions under the articles regulated federal delegates. second, after the constitution was ratified, states kept regulating it. states like delaware and maryland and mississippi expressly regulated federa

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clarence thomas and mr. y documentation of the loan, which could in fact be a gift, which could carry a significant tax burden that supreme court justice clarence thomas could be willfully and criminally evading. joining us now is a democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of new york. he's a member of the senate judiciary committee and chair of the subcommittee on federal court. he's also the host of the podcast, making the case. senator whitehouse, i am searching your face for surprise tonight, that clarence thomas got some help paying for the motor home. >> yeah, i never thought of a pattern with justice alito and justice thomas getting things unreported from wealthy friends. as you said, it does look like this individual was an actual friend, unlike some of the right-wing billionaires. but we are thrown right away into the problem of this was never reported. and when you ask questions to find out whether or not it should have been reported, was the lone forgiven, or was it paid off? really basic questions li

mr. vice president, governor, congressman thomas, senator wiley, congressman miller, mr. webb, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen. i appreciate having made me an honorary visiting professor and i assure you my first lecture will be very brief. i am delighted to be here and i'm particularly delighted to be here on this location. we meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three. we meet in an hour of change and challenge coming in a decade of hope and fear, and age of knowledge and ignorance, the greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds. despite the striking fact that most of the scientists the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this nation's own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension. no

mr. vice president, governor, congressman thomas, senator wiley and congressman miller, mr. webb, scientists distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen. i appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor. i will assure you my first lecture will be very brief for i am delighted to be here i'm particular delighted to be here on this occasion. we meet at a college noted for it knowledge fitted for progress and estate noted for strength. we stand in need of all three. we need in an hour of change and challenge in a decade of hope and fear. in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our influence unfold. despite the striking fact that most of the scientists the world has ever known are alive and working today. despite the fact this nation scientific manpower is doubling every 12ea years. population as a whole. despite that the vast stretches of the unknown and the un- answered, and the unfinished still farti outstripped our collective comprehension. no man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have. but

mr. thomas clinton. >> the defense put on a witness who told a story about being with two friends outside hot comics. >> a man approached us in the parking lot and he asked us to take a look at old comics that he wanted to sell. >> this new defense witness said he came forward only after watching the first comic book murder case on dateline. he testified that the dan teenagers didn't trust the seller and bought nothing from him. >> the five that the gentleman was giving us told us no way. >> the witness said that encounter took place july 14th 1990, significantly the day after barbara george's murder, but his friends called by the prosecution contradicted him and said it actually happened weeks earlier. >> we were walking towards the building -- >> the defense wasn't out of alternative suspects, one of the store customers who had initially come upon barbara george, recounted seen a suspicious man lurking about when he got to comics world a little bit after six pm. >> it appeared that the individual was trying to gaze into the store, quite focused, in quite a focused fashion. >> he remembe

mr. president. >> david: pierre thomas leading us off. i want to bring in jonathan karl, because jon, one of the questions going into whether or not jack smith was indict in this particular case, because, by far, this is the most serious case any former president has ever faced, would be whether or not they would present evidence directly linking donald trump to these conversations to this actual alleged conspiracy, and it's in the indictment. >> reporter: there are six co-conspirators here, but donald trump is at the center of this. he spearheaded this effort to overturn the election, including the gathering of those fake electors to create confusion on january 6th, but david, the big picture here, donald trump faces legal challenges all over the place. we have new york, we have civil cases, we have georgia copping, we have the documents case. nothing is anywhere near as serious as this. the allegation here, one of the counts, depravation of rights. what rights? the right of american citizens to have their votes count. he tried to overtu

mr. vice president governor congressman thomas senator wiley and congressman miller scientists distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen i appreciate your presence having made me an honorary visiting professor and i assure you my first lecture will be very brief. i'm delighted to be here and i'm particularly delighted to be here on this occasion.n. we need a college noted for knowledge a city notedog for progress and a state noted for strength and we stand in need of all three. we need an hour of change and challenge in a decade of hope and fear and an age of knowledge the greater our knowledge increases thehe greater our unfolds. despite striking back most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today despite the fact that the scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years and a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole. despite that that vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension. no man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come. condense if you wi

mr. thomas schaefer, said that, it turns out , the roof of the people's car is on fire that the fire alarm the background of reports, the german auto industry, almost all brands reported high, and even record profits of twenty second little who were surprised by the risks obviously itzu content, the future of car production in germany in danger warns the association of automobile manufacturers the industry is suffering from a number of problems. especially increased energy prices in germany doubly slow down the production of the german auto industry, as well as the entire german industry is catching up with the reverse effect of anti-russian sanctions . it is unlikely that they will do this, at the same time, in addition to geopolitics, which the industry cannot have a direct impact, there are a number of gross miscalculations associated with moving along the path of least resistance. so it turned out that with the whole wall turned. eco agenda, the germans slept through the electromobilization of the german manufacturer. really need to say good morning. they put their cruise control into

mrs. doubtfire, the thomas crowne aware, hair spray and overboard, just to name a few.hink i've seen all of those. ... those. and so leslie is going to moderate tonight and we're delighted to have her do that joining her is our featured guest, nancy natasha rogoff and natasha is an award winning american television producer, filmmaker and journalist who's produced television shows and documentaries in russia ukraine and the former soviet union, cbs, nbc, abc and pbs. so without without further ado, please join me in welcoming leslie and natasha to the stage. [applause] >> everybody hear me? yes, you can. hi, everybody. i'm going to resort to some notes for my questions when i'm introducing a subject, i can talk contemporaneously for hours but not necessarily as the moderator. i would like to welcome you to the commonwealth club which has endangered its classy image by actually asking a comedy screenwriter to moderate a discussion of complex political issues. wish me luck. i'm very humbled to welcome natasha who i happen to know personally to talk about her new book "mup

mrs. doubtfire, the thomas crown affair, hairspray and overboard just name a few. i think i've seen of those. and so leslie is going to moderate tonight and we're delighted to have her do that joining her is our featured guest, nancy natasha rogoff and natasha is an award winning american television producer, filmmaker and journalist who's produced television shows and documentaries in russia ukraine and the former soviet union, cbs, nbc, abc and pbs. so without further ado, please join me in welcoming and natasha to the stage. parliament. everybody hear me? oh yes, you can. hi everybody. i'm going to resort to some notes for my questions when i'm an interview subject that i can blather extra contemporaneously for hours, but not necessarily the moderator. so i'd like to welcome you to the commonwealth club, which today has endangered classy image by, actually asking a hollywood comedy to moderator of complex and very tense geopolitical issues. wish me luck and i'm very humbled to. welcome, natasha. lance rogoff who i happen to know personally to talk about her new

mrs. doubtfire, the thomas crown affair, hairspray and overboard just name a few. i think i've seen of those. and so leslie is going to moderate tonight and we're delighted to have her do that joining her is our featured guest, nancy natasha rogoff and natasha is an award winning american television producer, filmmaker and journalist who's produced television shows and documentaries in russia ukraine and the former soviet union, cbs, nbc, abc and pbs. so without further ado, please join me in welcoming and natasha to the stage. parliament. everybody hear me? oh yes, you can. hi everybody. i'm going to resort to some notes for my questions when i'm an interview subject that i can blather extra contemporaneously for hours, but not necessarily the moderator. so i'd like to welcome you to the commonwealth club, which today has endangered classy image by, actually asking a hollywood comedy to moderator of complex and very tense geopolitical issues. wish me luck and i'm very humbled to. welcome, natasha. lance rogoff who i happen to know personally to talk about her new

mr. childs was senior managing director of thomas lee company and prior to that he ran capital markets group of prudential insurance. mr. childs served our in the u.s. army. he's a trustee of the coolidge foundation and serves on numerous other corporate and boards. please join me in welcoming mr. childs and our panelists to the stage. good. what do you want? i'm going to put that -- there. where's. yeah. good have to be. i'll come down here. yeah. let start by thanking edie for that lovely introduction and then i'll pat myself on the back. i was on the board of jurors that selected her to be a coolidge scholar, so probably, probably the smartest decision of my coolidge career. anyway, we're going to be talking about the roaring 20 something. but before we do, i would like to call for a roaring round of applause for amity, matt and paul lane and the rest of the staff who've done such a superb job in putting on this centennial celebration. all very good. okay. you know, there's been a lot of talk by previous panelists about the importance of history and i pretty much agree with them. but one