rubenstein: right.hen you dropped out, your father and mother said, "are you sure you know what you want to do?" if one of your children dropped out of college to start a company, what would you say? well, i'd have to say yes, but, uh... [laughter] dropping is not an irrevocable decision. if you try and start a company, it doesn't go well, they always let you go back, so if you don't have kids that you need to support, you know, it's a very low-risk thing, particularly in the culture of the united states, where trying to start something and failing is not a black mark for the rest of your life. rubenstein: well, when you were starting microsoft, there were a lot of other software companies, and you were not number one at the beginning. i think there were others who were a little bit further ahead. what was it that enabled you to beat everybody else in the software business? was it bill gates, was it something else? what was the unique factor that made you the most successful? yeah. we were actually the

brian rubenstein, deputy chief of operations. we have [inaudible] the buildings are built really well, but we have a lot of geography with hills and a lot of overhead wires, so we have a lot of challenges. i just like to point them out because our members are so well versed in dealing with those, and they make it look easy. my reporting is not to warn you against them, but just to bring attention to the training and hours that they put in. does that answer your question, commissioner? >> commissioner covington: that's fine. i can always do a follow up at a later time, but i think your statement that it looks easy but it takes a tremendous amount of training to fight a fire, to get to a fire, so i'll let it rest at that. thank you. >> president feinstein: thank you, commissioner covington. if there is no further questions, i'd like to move onto the report of the safe streets program. >> clerk: and i can call out the item while he turns on his -- >> president feinstein: please. i'm trying to find him here. i'm sorry. ah, i found hi

david rubenstein, peer-to-peer conversations.as dealing with some nutella mail we got and bitcoin is not under 36,000, it will just now preach 33,000. lisa: you can see a real deterioration across the index, particularly the nasdaq. bitcoin is indicative of a risk off feel we see across markets. i wonder whether it becomes a bit of a systemic risk, and i did not mean in terms of collapsing the system, not to exaggerate this, but the idea a lot of big companies have invested heavily in bitcoin, the semiconductor producers have benefited from the crypto asset search. how much of this would be reflected in the risk off feel? tom: we will people you abreast of this with bloomberg technology, what joe weisenthal is doing in the afternoon as well. this is bitcoin in retreat and plunging. i will break protocol and type when we are on screen. lisa: why not? tom: mike will probably email and say what is the function? we look for news flow into the 9:00 hour while we get a plunge, now down over $4000. those are dollars, not index points. l

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i was picked up by chief rubenstein on saturday and was taken on a tour. part of it included station 35 and i can't quite remember when that was, chief rubenstein, but it was a few weeks ago and it was, i mean, it's beautiful. it's in great shape. i first would like to ask you really in terms that i can understand, what is the problem with getting it done? i know it's a hook-up. i know it's a hook-up to electricity and am i correct in thinking that it's basically done except that it can't get bluged in basically, that there isn't a power source for it or am i incorrect about that? >> you're pretty close. they're not quite done, but the finishing touches are being done right now. and you are correct, the main delay and let me just give you a little backup on the times that we had originally. the substantial completion date originally given to us was february 5th, 2021. the final completion was supposed to be march 18th, 2021. what we have right now is completion of august 19th and a final completion of september twenty-nineth. so we have six months or so de

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i was picked up by chief rubenstein on saturday and was taken on a tour. part of it included station 35 and i can't quite remember when that was, chief rubenstein, but it was a few weeks ago and it was, i mean, it's beautiful. it's in great shape. i first would like to ask you really in terms that i can understand, what is the problem with getting it done? i know it's a hook-up. i know it's a hook-up to electricity and am i correct in thinking that it's basically done except that it can't get bluged in basically, that there isn't a power source for it or am i incorrect about that? >> you're pretty close. they're not quite done, but the finishing touches are being done right now. and you are correct, the main delay and let me just give you a little backup on the times that we had originally. the substantial completion date originally given to us was february 5th, 2021. the final completion was supposed to be march 18th, 2021. what we have right now is completion of august 19th and a final completion of september twenty-nineth. so we have six months or so de

david rubenstein peer-to-peer conversations.eneral motors company has been around 1908 through various iterations. it has been reinvigorated with mary barra, she is chairman and chief executive of general motors. here is david westin. david: it is a good day for you and good day for will durant. looking at the numbers, one of the things i look at is the top line and the profitability. you did so much better than anybody expected. you almost put shame to analysts. my question is how did you do that? how did you get so much more money and profit out of a relatively flat revenue? mary: is a number of issues. strong demand for our full-size trucks and suvs. the chevrolet silverado, the gmc sierra, the escalate, the tahoe, there is exceptionally strong demand for those products. that is what is driving high average transaction prices because the demand is so high. we have able to be disciplined on incentives. gm financial has done an excellent job of taking advantage of higher used car prices and a strong market. we are also seeing r

rubenstein: so why do you think some people do not believe that there is such a thing as climate change, they must not have taken enough science courses or something. i don't know. you worry that there's too much power and too much data in the hands of these technology companies? the government needs to get involved.

david rubenstein had thoughts on that topic this morning. >> i think it's yhere to stay cryptocurrencys not going away yesterday is not a good day for it but that's true of anything that's relatively new and i don't think you'll see crypto going away it is here and here because people in the market want something other than the traditional currencies and whether that's right or wrong it is something that the market wants. >> kind of indicating that institutional interest perhaps in crypto. joining us is luke kerner. lou, you are super bullish on bitcoin so i assume you think this is a buying opportunity but what do you think of the demand and the rest of it >> yeah. i am looking out ten years and think that bitcoin will be at least a million dollars in ten years. i'm pretty sure it will go up and down in very wild swings because that's what it does. i think we had six down swings of about -- more than -- if you have been in bitcoin a while you have seen this again and again. >> i saw your stat about a million dollars and trying to do the quick math you're talking about maybe 25 milli m

i was picked up by chief rubenstein on saturday and was taken on a tour.of it included station 35 and i can't quite remember when that was, chief rubenstein, but it was a few weeks ago and it was, i mean, it's beautiful. it's in great shape. i first would like to ask you really in terms that i can understand, what is the problem with getting it done? i know it's a hook-up. i know it's a hook-up to electricity and am i correct in thinking that it's basically done except that it can't get bluged in basically, that there isn't a power source for it or am i incorrect about that? >> you're pretty close. they're not quite done, but the finishing touches are being done right now. and you are correct, the main delay and let me just give you a little backup on the times that we had originally. the substantial completion date originally given to us was february 5th, 2021. the final completion was supposed to be march 18th, 2021. what we have right now is completion of august 19th and a final completion of september twenty-nineth. so we have six months or so delayed

the location of the fire right by his workspace. >> and this time, rubenstein has an ace in his sleeve he's driving around by her work site. in evidence, we had downloaded a surveillance video of her work site, and we pulled it up. >> the prosecution team spends hours poring over this surveillance video looking for signs of lester jones. >> paige's vehicle is parked at the entrance to one of the buildings. this is a normal office. so you would not expect there would be much office there at 9:00 in the evening on a monday. well, this chevy impala circles the parking lot two or three times. and one of the times, just drives right past paige's red ford focus. >> there are no signs of lester jones' white pickup truck, but the team knows that jones' wife is out of town. what kind of car does she own? a chevy impala. >> we were able to see that his wife's c, iving around right about the that phone number. >> the prosecution is feeling more confident this time around, but one of the witnesses almost jeopardizes the entire trial. carol linderholm. >> i was concerned about her safety because pr

i was picked up by chief rubenstein on saturday and was taken on a tour. part of it included station 35 and i can't quite remember when that was, chief rubenstein, but it was a few weeks ago and it was, i mean, it's beautiful. it's in great shape. i first would like to ask you really in terms that i can understand, what is the problem with getting it done? i know it's a hook-up. i know it's a hook-up to electricity and am i correct in thinking that it's basically done except that it can't get bluged in basically, that there isn't a power source for it or am i incorrect about that? >> you're pretty close. they're not quite done, but the finishing touches are being done right now. and you are correct, the main delay and let me just give you a little backup on the times that we had originally. the substantial completion date originally given to us was february 5th, 2021. the final completion was supposed to be march 18th, 2021. what we have right now is completion of august 19th and a final completion of september twenty-nineth. so we have six months or so de

was greeted by the members in terms of chief o'connor, but also, correct me if i'm wrong chief rubensteinut i think it was stations 12 and 22. and the last thing is that chief nicholson, these presentations by the various components of the department, for example, battalion chief parks, the [inaudible] of that as every package gives help in terms of wellness in terms of services. i'm really looking forward to chief o'connor's presentation. but that's where everybody gets the substance of the material. thank you, madam president. >> president: thank you, commissioner nakajo. further comments for any commissioners? madam secretary, do we have any public comment? >> secretary: there is no public comment. >> president: all right. public comment is also closed. and i believe we go on to chief bellow. >> good afternoon, president feinstein. chief nicholson. this is my report on the month of march. let me share my presentation. can you all see it? >> president: yes. >> thank you. again, for what i do my report is highlight some of the items that my report and also those item that is because my r

rubenstein national center for white house history dr. colleen shogan. my name is dr. colleen shogan, and i'm a senior vice president at the white house historical association and the director of the david rubinstein center for white house history. i'm honored this morning to moderate our opening panel of the first ladies symposium. the consistent variable of focus for this first discussion is gender. undoubtedly the historical role of first ladies has been affected by changing conceptions of gender that historical evolution continues today. specifically in this panel, we will examine gender through a variety of lenses including societal relationships societal ideals material culture art and the history of slavery. our first presenter is dr. sara. georgini who is a series editor for the papers of john adams. she will be speaking on the style and substance of abigail adams. sarah will be followed by dr. cassandra good assistant professor of history at marymountain university dr. good will focus on social relationships in the founding era. our third presenter is dr. mari

was greeted by the members in terms of chief o'connor, but also, correct me if i'm wrong chief rubensteins that chief nicholson, these presentations by the various components of the department, for example, battalion chief parks, the [inaudible] of that as every package gives help in terms of wellness in terms of services. i'm really looking forward to chief o'connor's presentation. but that's where everybody gets the substance of the material. thank you, madam president. >> president: thank you, commissioner nakajo. further comments for any commissioners? madam secretary, do we have any public comment? >> secretary: there is no public comment. >> president: all right. public comment is also closed. and i believe we go on to chief bellow. >> good afternoon, president feinstein. chief nicholson. this is my report on the month of march. let me share my presentation. can you all see it? >> president: yes. >> thank you. again, for what i do my report is highlight some of the items that my report and also those item that is because my report is at the end of the month, i've seen the last time