louis strauss, who was the director of the atomic energy commission in 1953, didn't like oppie partly for just kind of petty, personal reasons. teller, edward teller didn't like oppie because teller thought he should have been a appointed head of the theoretical division at close alamos. so there were -- los alamos. so there were these people who got together in the early '50s to take down oppie. i think it's because we as a country had come to a fork in the road. and oppie would say maybe we should be rethinking this fork that we're going down in nuclear weapons. maybe we should go a different way. and so in december of 1953 a report was given to president eisenhower saying more probably than not oppenheimer was a soviet spy. so, of course, ike then created a wall around oppie. oppenheimer still had his top secret clearance. a couple days before christmas in 1953, louis strauss had oppie come into his office and say, you know, there's this report about you, and we're going to have to remove your top security clearance. you can either go quietly and nobody will know, or we can have a

doctor strauss is accused of abusing student-athletes in 14 sports over 21 years, strauss killed himself in 2005. there has been no comment from congressman jim jordan. shannon: any related sports story, players protesting the national anthem as we kick off preseason nfl. >> the preseason opens with 12 games on the schedule and the meeting and the players union is deadlocked. in the spring the nfl said players who deal or sit during the and would be fined but when the union barked at that they suspended the rules. it is a gray area and the number of players are protesting. the miami herald says dolphin receivers sills and wilson took a knee prior to their game against tampa bay and defensive end robert quinn raised a fist like he did last season and for the steelers eagles game, melbourne jenkins reportedly raised their fist during the and some and defensive end michael bennett walked onto the field after the anthem started. shannon: thank you very much. the controversy surrounding kneeling for the national anthem is front and center. let's talk about it with the senate minority leader a

strauss zelnick is the ceo good to see you. >> thanks.e to be back. >> grand theft auto 5, sales approaching 1.5 million units. you increased your guidance due to the strength. you launched it five years ago in gaming it tends to be very short shelf life for hit games how have you managed to keep it so popular so long >> ne entire industry has been transformed. i wish i could say it's just us, it really isn't. when you have a hittitele we found you can engage and captivate consumers on an ongoing basis. titles for one month or two months or three months can extend for a year but a big hit like grand theft auto. many years and basketball used to be a short seasonal game. now, our fans will stay engaged in nba 2k for nearly a full year and have an opportunity to buy the next season. >> do you equate it to film franchises mission impossible 6 that goes back 20 years. analogous to that? >> there are some similarities our goal is to create permanent intellectual properties. "mission impossible" is fine i expect to see that movie this weekend,

strauss himself killed himself in 2005. there has been no comment tonight from congressman jim jordan. >> shannon: also tonight, interrelated sports story, sounds like players are still protesting the national anthem. as we kick off the nfl preseason. >> it open tonight with 12 games. the league and players union remains deadlocked on a national anthem policy. in spring, the nfl said players who kneel or sit during the anthem would be fine but when the union involved is that, the nfl suspended the rule. for now it's kind of a gray area. a number of players are still protesting. in fact, the "miami herald" says that dolphin receivers took a need for the anthem prior to their game against tampa bay. the dolphins defense of end, he raised a fist like he did last season. before the steelers-eagles game, the eagles players reportedly raised their fists during the anthem. defense of end michael bennet walked onto the field after the anthem started. >> shannon: all right, trace gallagher. thank you very much. the controversies tur

strauss' inappropriate behavior. coleman told "wall street journal" no way unless he has dementia he has recollection of what is going on at ohio state.d is currently running for speaker of the house. nbc news reached out to coleman to confirm the statement, but have not heard back. >>> it'sow 4:36. there is at least one good thing about summer coming to an end. the countyfair. in just a few hours, the montgomery county fair will open to the public. joining us live from gaithersburg with a look at all the rides and the food. you don't want to miss it. >>> it is 4:37 right now. coming up, a bomb scare sparked by a science experiment. turn out nasa behind it all. a look at the mysterious package and t odd messaget contained for president trump. >>> what started as a search for an uber ends with a deadly punch. up next, new details about the >>> wcome back t at 4:ay we'll find out more about the guilty verdict for aer fer uber driver. told news 4 that he picked up the woman from a d.c. bar. e was supposed to drive her t

more typical viewing of our video or television, as we describe it. >> you can talk about it with straussis case their focus for fis dahl year 2019. >> yeah. keep an eye on faang apple is the worse dow component. keep your eye on facebook up a little bit more than a buck. interestingly tom lee has a note out this morning just looking at the fundamentals of faang and how they tripled what the s&p has done argues all of faang benefitted from the advent of the internet. they got on the train at various points in time his new theory is it's going to be about millennial's faang. given the power that millennial's will have over american consumers spending. >> right i think jim did a deep dive on "mad money." i think he was one of the fathers of the name of faang what distinguishes them is the monopoly power they don't have a lot of peers and competitors. each one of these individual names. and so he says stick with it versus a win resort, for instance, which is getting fresh. these are companies that deal with a lot of competition. >> right and the times has piece today, guys looking at whether

he stood his ground procedures strauss's as he was easy to get along with says tommy espinosa was thelatino advocate in the senate and with close friends for over thirty j. is obviously younger my so close that mccain asked espinosa to be a key player in his senatorial campaigns. john i said you know i'm a democrat so i'm not sure it's going to get you any votes you know and i don't care you're my friend i want you to be my co-chair i say well let me sleep on it because no i want to have certain yes or no that. i say yes. and spinoza says he wants to attend every single ceremony in honor of the senator who will first lie in state at the arizona state capitol. arizona is one of its most influential politicians on the national stage john mccain was one of the last republicans standing up to president struck he believed in bipartisanship at home and strong alliances overseas but it seems that the worth of mccain's death his brand of conservatism is losing out that republican party is increasingly taken over by the president's rentals divisiveness and isolationism the one man who typifies

almost rebuilt city palace on saturday during the special event the orchestra played works by richard strauss and the trick then bass have tickets to the concert was sold for two hundred ninety five heroes proceeds will help finance the remaining reconstruction of the story corps facades the city palace is scheduled to open by the end of twenty nineteen after a six year long construction period. cliff divers jumped off the rooftop of copenhagen opera house on saturday into the harbor they were competing in the cliff diving world series and leapt from a twenty seven meter on a platform merged on the roof of the opera house the winner was britain's gary hart to mark this year's tenth anniversary of the cliff diving series seven competitions are being held in spectacular locations next stop on the tour is the city of muster . two male amberley kids have been born in a crimean teigen safari park the two cats are easy to tell apart as one is black and the other is spotted black elmer is in particular are extremely red. only around one hundred eleven it's in total still living in the wild around th

republican congressman jim jordan was accused of knowing about but not reporting abuse committed by straussassistant wrestling coach at ohio state. jrd an has denied any technology. -- knowledge. >> trevor: wow, turning a blind eye to rampant sexual abuse of the kids are you supposed to be protecting. i'm sorry t doesn't get more scum bag than that. and if these allegations are true, then jim jordan is basically joe paterno part two. which sounds like a sequel nobody would want to see. like titanic part two. so awkward because rose would open the door and see jack and she would be like jack, you're alive. and he would be yeah, i've been measuring doors and i'm pretty certain i could have fit. i'm pretty certain. now look obviously these are just allegations but congressman jordan's defense doesn't sound very convincing. >> i never saw, never heard of, never was told about any type of abuse. >> take a listen to the one of the statements made earlier this week. >> i know jim knew about the what i call the deviant sexual atmosphere that we were. >> how do you know. >> well, we all had conversa

receiving a straw they might not use right absolutely my goal is to encourage restaurants to offer strauss instead of serving one with every drink garden and now you're well known for raising our consciousness about plastic straws clearly though plastic shopping bags and bottled water and styrofoam cups are also ending up in landfills too right absolutely but i think by focusing on straws you can make one simple change in your life and once you've done that you see how easy it is to change other thing that's why initially i tell people to focus on straws focus on how you can reduce the number of strides you use and then from there it's easier to explain and it stars have been called a gateway plastic meaning once you stop using straws you can look around the other plastics and you like you can help produce a gateway plastic you've been at this since age nine and you just turned seventeen so you've been at this for half your life are you encouraged that we are now more conscious about plastic. i am very encouraged and these recent developments are very exciting i hope they don't become stan

we're suffering a lot because of the strauss we had so many animals and we lost all of them and there's nothing left for us these animals that are left we are feeding just once a day on what we're just trying to keep them alive. at fifty sario as the matriarch of her family the currency here runs in leases and they a wealthy it than most. she has kicked twenty sheep alive from her flock of one hundred fifty they go bali ahead we sacrificed our animals that they should be the first victim rather than losing our children. into one a village and across here our province agriculture provides ninety five percent of income so when the water dried up and their livestock and crops died many were forced to leave for the city the u.n. estimates more than eighty thousand people have abandoned their homes and travel to herat city the main hub in the west all in a search of water. and this is what they found blankets by sticks and could by rocks formalized into a community of people children suffer from skin diseases smell nutrition and i and fictions from the dust. some people have been here for fo

republicans, highly unified republican party in terms of voters and grassroots pushing hard against speaker strauss and against the mindset, the mentality, have all led to joe straus saying he is not running for reelection, not going to be speaker of the house because of this push to do this unimaginable thing which was elected the speaker of the house out of the republican caucus rather than let the democrats pick. >> back to the question of accountability. the speaker of the house in a chamber that is two thirds republican, it is somehow controversial in austin, this notion that the two thirds of texas house republicans should be the ones deciding who the speaker is rather than the democrats. that is a controversial notion in austin. the rest of the state, that is not how it is already? they are shocked. >> freedom is a controversial notion in austin. >> we haven't banned strongs yet but they are trying. this conversation, those affiliated -- just scorecards to show that some republicans really don't vote like they say they will. >> that is great point. one of the core functions that empower texa

after his conviction was overturned by the international criminal court in the hague jumpier told strauss's there. the first batch of u.s. sanctions against iran go into effect on august sixth. as iranians brace for the impact will be wrong. covering the story from their perspective looking at what sanctions mean for iran's economy and its people a special coverage on al-jazeera. on counting the costs pakistan's new leader is facing some tough financial questions will be taking a look at the economic and human cost of the extreme heat events plus china the u.s. and saudi. counting the cost. al it has been more thunder in the caucasus and there are still showers showing up further south in the caspian coast into iran but there's precious little in the way of rain for iran or iraq and you wouldn't expect it's b.s. middle of summer of course so it's breezy sometimes dusty and of course hot forty five a study for cross of baghdad fifteen degrees lower back on the coast of the mediterranean has no real change in the immediate future there's an increasing cloud in pakistan and may be coming cross

hitler went to vienna on a whim to attend the seventy fifth birthday celebrations of composer richard strauss on his way back to best us gotten the furer a visited places where he had spent his childhood. eva brown filmed his arrival official han primary school near vents in his book mind comfort hitter described himself as a little ringleader when the boys of the village played cops and robbers his class teacher later remembered him as pale and skinny an undisciplined boy who despised learning and squandered his talents. back at the back off hitler was planning the eminent military campaign against poland in the meantime the brown family decided to go on an unusual cruise mother francisca was filmed during her visit to a travel agent where she booked a trip to scandinavia for her and her daughters eva and gretel preterist brown did not go along. for. the little tour group arrived in hamburg shortly afterwards to board the crew ship milwaukee. the browns with eva behind the camera took a launch across the harbor. the milwaukee was operated by the national socialist organization cost oibda str

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richard strauss' inappropriate behavior.an told "wall street journal" unless he has dementia or something that he has no recollection of what was going on at ohio state. jordan has denied knowing anything about the allegebu and currently running for speaker of the house. nbc hasor reached out comment, but h not heard back. >>> skins lost their first preseason game. if you went to bed at half-time you thought maybe they could hold on to that lead. they beat the skins 26-17. rookie runningback darrius guice was hurt. >>> the preseason games aren't the only thing you'll be hearing about across the nfl. several players continued protests during the national night. last two miami dolphins players knelt and other players raiseheir fist or did not take the field until after the anthem. the nfl announced a policy"óú >>> welcome back, 5:40. university basketball coach ise facingous charges. >> demill jones is accused of throwing a fatal punch while in new yo city. on sunday s, ndor ckszabo k on the door of his car thinking he was his

a couple days before christmas in 1953, louis strauss had oppy come into his office and say, you know, there's this report about you and we're going to have to remove your top security clearance, and you can either go quietly and nobody will know, or we can have hearing. but this was in a way a public humiliation. supposed to be secret. soon after it ended, the 997 page transcript was released to newspapers. it was made public so that everybody heard what hat happened with oppenheimer. and that they didn't ever prove he was a security risk. the second charge against hem was that he advocate against the hydrogen bomb, and he did say that hydrogen bomb was -- atomic bombs were powerful new hampshire hydrogen bombs are a thousand times more powerful than what was dropped in japan. so oppy was against the high dre general bomb. did he try to coordinate scientist not working on it? that was the charge. he might have talked to some people, saying that atomic bombs are powerful enough and don't need to unleash a thousand times more powerful bombs. but nonetheless, in a public humiliating way

glenn strauss: we experience how lives have been changed, how people have been transformed simply with gift of surgery. lou: a mixed performance on wall street today. volume on the big board 2.9 billion shares. the sec investigating tesla after ceo elon musk tweeted his plans to keep the public private or at least his thinking about it. he could face civil and criminal penalties if he doesn't have the funding he hinted at and of course the issue of raising this on twitter. this is where we are today and what we are look at for tomorrow. the counting of provisional and absentee ballots continues in ohio and kansas tomorrow. candidates all fleeghtd latest round. ed rollins advising people to wrap themselves in the trump agenda if they want to win in november. the socialist wave of the democratic party failed to materialize yesterday. the candidates endorsed by alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders failed to win their races. >> what the liberal democrats are trying to sell america is not buying. what she said about middle america is some of the moves offensive things out there -- th

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>> good morning, peter strauss on the board of the san francisco transit riders and the member of the transportation justice coalition and we want to thank supervisor peskin for all of the work in the past few years that led up to this. and i want to thank supervisor fewer and your colleagues on the full board for joining as co-sponsors of this measure which we strongly support. as you know the voters passed it by two-thirds in 2016. and also many people were part of the task force late last year and early this year which supported an investment program in transportation but failed to develop a revenue source to support it. so we look to this as addressing the revenue issues as best we can. and we also recognize that we have a lot of work ahead of us and we look forward to working with you on developing the allocation strategy that needs to accompany this measure as we go forward. but today i want to thank you for your support and i urge the committee to pass this to the full board for it to pass recommendation. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your testimony. any other m

desirable demographic and that's why i think those folks have driven this stock up 100% >> take two and strauss seems of the right stuff right now. one month, that stock's up more than 17% three month, more than 18. it's been the dramatic outperformer over the other major names. glu not withing. i get your point, but it's not discussed the same >> they're not selling these >> all right dow and s&p, we are at the low es of the day. dow is down by more than 100 points now tech clearly, trade clearly remains in the focus what i wanted to say is tech. a big tech stock big one. i looked at tech in the telepromter. before i said that the stock is up 20% in a month jon is following the options market next. it's a big name. don't want to go away. first s&p sector check back in two. when you rent from national... it's kind of like playing your own version of best ball. because here, you can choose any car in the aisle, even if it's a better car class than the one you reserved. so no matter what, you're guaranteed to have a perfect drive. [laughter] (vo) go national. go like a pro. see what i did there?

richard strauss alledly groped scores of male athletes and other students over two decades.mmitted suicide in 2005.if an encino, cnia man was arrested today on charges of making death threatsgainst employees of "the boston globe". federal prosecutors say robert m chain mae than a dozen threatening calls to the "globe" newsroom this month. that's after the paper organized editorials in papers nationwide, promoting freedom of the press and pushing back on president trump's attacks on the news media. and on wall street: stocks fell on fea the u.s. will impose new tariffs on china next week. the dow jones industrial average lost 137 points to close below 25,987. the nasdaq fell 21 points. and the s&p 500 slipped nearly 13. still to come on the newshour: the u.s. justice department weighs in on harvard's admissions policies, exposing china's crackdown on a muslim minority, a look at how supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh has ruled on business issues, and much more. >> woodruff: the u.s. department of justice dived into a battle today over race college admissions. it's a case h

host: a couple of criticisms come from valerie strauss about your book and administration saying what you did focus on was onhing systems that relied standardized test scores a method of assessment experts warned was unreliable. guest: we did ask that a piece of teacher evaluation be based on whether students are learning and we are focused on growth and gain. when evaluating teachers you want to look at multiple measures. principal evaluations. a piece of teacher evaluation should be how much progress students make each year with them. host: would you say any progress has been made since those efforts have been put in? guest: what we've seen across the nation with all the noise is we've seen the vast majority of states raised standards. more states evaluating teachers in part based upon student learning. we have to professionalize the profession. aonomist at harvard did longitudinal study with millions of kids in new york. one great teacher raised the lifetime earnings of that classroom by $250,000. this is not about test scores, it's about changing young people's lives. less incarce

had oppylewis strauss come into his office and say, there is a report about you. we are going to have to remove your top security clearance. he we can either do it quietly or we can have a hearing. elution.a public it was posted be secret. ended, a 997 page transcript was released to newspapers. everybody heard what happened with oppenheimer. they never proved he was a security risk. the second charge against him was that he advocated against the hydrogen bomb. he did say that the hydrogen bomb -- he said that the atomic bomb was powerful enough area -- enough. oppy was against the hydrogen bomb. did he try to coordinate scientists not working on it? that was the charge. he might've talked to some people say that atomic bombs were powerful enough and you don't need to unleash 1000 times more powerful bombs. , humiliating way, his top security. -- security clearance was yanked. he went from 1945 being a hero that ended world war ii to 1954, being a villain who was maybe a communist spy. brought nuclear physics west, first to berkeley and caltech, and then to new me

we're suffering a lot because of the strauss we had so many animals and we lost all of them and there's nothing left for us and these animals that are left we are feeding just once a day and what we're just trying to keep them alive. at fifty sario is the matriarch of her family the currency here runs in leases and they are wealthy at than most. she has kicked twenty sheep alive from her flock of one hundred fifty they go belly ahead we sacrificed our animals that they should be the first victim rather than losing our children. into one a village and across here our province agriculture provides ninety five percent of income so when the water dried up and their livestock and crops died many were forced to leave for the city the u.n. estimates more than eighty thousand people have abandoned their homes and travel to herat city the main hub in the west all in a search of water. and this is what they found blankets by sticks and could by rocks formalized into a community of people children suffer from skin diseases smell nutrition and eye and fictions from the dust that some people have be

left to me which is to feel gratitude and express gratitude for doctor colleen shogan and doctor strauss the - - for helping us organize not just the start but the entire series. doctor - - and some other people that the library of congress and these wonderful surroundings. both last week and this week. reminder, next week we will be around the corner. i want to thank c-span and voice of america for projecting what happened here to a wider audience, including in asia. we couldn't do any of this without my colleague lauren bechard who takes care of all of us. i want to thank you for joining us and for meeting us around the corner next week. thank you again. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> tonight, on the communicators, look at 5g. the next generation of wireless technology and new infrastructure. 20 is on the program, former fcc commissioner and president and ceo of thewireless infrastructure association, jonathan avril edelstein. >> i am interested in 5g of course. i think a lot of people are. what are the benefits, why do we care? >> have sensors, smart cities. you can do all of

delegation as well, the tension between being a conservative in being a republican and from speaker strauss and the state house lieutenant governor in the state senate and how do you balance the tensions between being a conservative and being a republican when sometimes the ideology of one clashes with the party interest of the other. >> to be honest it's pretty easy. it is like most things in life and not is there is the foundation upon which texas conservative policies are based and then there's always things around the edges of that. the foundation is very simple. what is cool about this is the foundation is scalable and replicable. you could do the federal government, state government and local government. we have five principles that if we achieve these five core principles, everything else takes care of itself. keep taxes low, cut them whenever possible. two, always find ways to cut regulation to reduce the burden of regulations put on businesses trying to grow. three, keitha right to work state to avoid the union abuses you see in others dates. for his ensure that you have the rule o

the last major trade agreement, subside clinton administration was done by president carter and bob strausseal clear trader, he was respectful as he should be toward the president but he also said that truth was important, after all, we ran, neil, in a post watergate era where i will never lie to you was the center piece of his campaign and that was just not rhetoric in 1970, ethics act, special counsel laws, now at the 40th anniversary almost of having the inspector's general passed merit selection of judges, these were all done as part of the post watergate era. he grew up in an environment with the naval academy where the truth was incredibly important and that theme i will never lie to you was what helped him defeat gerald ford in post watergate era, obviously this was critical in the administration, it was not just rhetoric, he was careful today in how he dealt with -- neil: like a preacher, cautious in condemnation there. but i talk about this before when you and i were chatting about the fine book and imprint and i can't help but thinking he sees himself and maybe regrets seeing hims

, we have been telling you about many liberal cities and environmentalists pushing to ban plastic straussing the planet with your contact lenses. well, keith ellison is a -- kelo weigh in. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. ainsley: what's the latest contact lenses, millions of people across america wear contact lenses. >> according to new study environmentalists are raising the alarms about americans flushing their contact lenses down the toilet arguing it's bad for the environment. there is nothing wrong with researchers looking into the effects of our contact lenses being flushed down the toilet. but what we have seen time and time again is environmentalists weaponize this type of research to pass ridiculous regulations like what we just saw in california where can you actually face jail time for distributing straws. ainsley: i guess we all -- i know, we all want to take care of our environment but we want to focus on the right things. how big of a problem is this? >> in the grand scheme of things this is not a big problem. if you want to talk about rarge environmental problems. l

i am looking for bright spots maybe i am grasping for strauss the revision of the previous two monthstty good the unemployment rate comes down 3.9 i guess pretty good too so it balances out but not quite the -- the oomph we want to see. >> maybe not but we are talking about july. right, i mean in middle of the summer. yes i mean things we got a 4.1% gdp number i think it is solid 157 yes not where consensus was looks solid especially manufacturing strength construction strength. >> i go with that, i am not going to argue with you if you think solid that is fine with me -- >> the estimates i am not saying it is not -- >> i just -- i was looking for 200,000, i wanted this to be further proof that trump growth agenda works it is creating masses of new jobs. maria: i don't think this report says otherwise. >> well i am going to have larry kudlow on the show about one hour from now i will put it to him, i think it is slightly disappointing what do you say i want to see have a he has to say. >> fantastic we will be there thank you so much sigh 10 minutes' time "varney & company" top of the

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host: a couple of criticisms come from valerie strauss about your book and administration saying whatou did focus on was onhing systems that relied standardized test scores a method of assessment experts warned was unreliable. guest: we did ask that a piece of teacher evaluation be based on whether students are learning and we are focused on growth and gain. when evaluating teachers you want to look at multiple measures. principal evaluations. a piece of teacher evaluation should be how much progress students make each year with them. host: would you say any progress has been made since those efforts have been put in? guest: what we've seen across the nation with all the noise is we've seen the vast majority of states raised standards. more states evaluating teachers in part based upon student learning. we have to professionalize the profession. aonomist at harvard did longitudinal study with millions of kids in new york. one great teacher raised the lifetime earnings of that classroom by $250,000. this is not about test scores, it's about changing young people's lives. less incarcera