perhaps, in response to that, the house ethics committee has gotten more transparent. and they post, reports. there's more to be done. i would add that there are certain documents that are very difficult to obtain. pink sheets and some of them are online, and not all of them. and those are things that they need to have to know what standards, they will be held to. >>> we asked the rules committee for access to this. and it seems absurd that they won know what the rules are held to. and they didn't provide it to us. and that newspaper reporter was able to get it. >>> the senate has a lot further, to transparency. >>> another a time, when the approval ratings are in there at best. and they would welcome it, and when we talk to everyday americans, about this, and they're shocked, in place, and all these organizations, have been helped to create the ethics investigation, and that's to provide welcome transparency, and it's not complete. so, i think creating a senate office of professional ethics, in the senate, would provide a welcome to the boost in rating. >>> there are

transparency won't solve that problem. because you turn the lights on in a roach-filled apartment doesn't kill the roaches. >> that wasn't my phrase. >> you see what i'm saying. sunlight isn't a particularly good disinfectant. alcohol is much better. you can't -- when you turn the lights on, when you shine the lights at things, the shadiness just moved to the corner. the roaches call -- >> i disagree. scalia's a little bit bullish attitude does come out in oral arguments. i don't think he would change that. knowing his character, which is a little bit of a bully, with all due respect, is important to the american people. we should know that he is a little bit of a bully. we should know better than we do that justice thomas never speaks. >> we know he is a bully. as you said, it's final. he is there. it's alive. >> general fear is part of this. justice breyer said this, fear of the unknown. o'connor said this, too. we don't know what's going to happen. we have done it this way for a long time. let's not change anything. >>

of what kind of transparency people have even about benefits in their plans and the transparency thath plan is and what those benefits are and those being clearly stated. across the board in the health care space -- and whether it's around the provider information, around the consumer information, we are trying to move on all fronts. it's also related to electronic medical records in terms of the transparency that an individual can actually have about their own health care. and so with regard to what are we doing, we're working, actually, on all fronts in terms of trying to move the information forward so that both consumers and providers have information that they can make decisions about and that we create a transparent marketplace where decisions are made. can we improve it, should we improve it? yes. when we hear the feedback on this most recent elements of open enrollment, we want to do that. one of the decisions that we had to make and i had to make the decision is the information wasn't perfect. in the most recent rollout. there was data that was not as clean, and so we had to

so we're here to talk about transparency, not just cameras. but all the aspects of transparency. but i want to just open by saying that transparency means not just that we can't see the workings of oral argument. means also we can't hear the workings of oral argument until the court releases audio on fridays. we can't readily access their website. when we on the day of the health care cases came down tried to access their website, it crashed. we don't know the justices' speaking schedules, we don't get copies of their speeches, it's very difficult to get their financial disclosures. don't get me started on their papers. so that's what we're here to do today. and we thought in lieu of me reeling off introductions of our panelists who are amazing each in their own right, i'm going to ask each of them to introduce themselves to you. and tell you, you know, for half a minute who they are, why they have skin in this game. and then i want them to answer a question that is completely open ended because that's the kind of hip sisters we are. and the question is going to be what does tran

and we also don't understand the frank dod transparency, et cetera. again, we don't understand why you measure oil companies and ugz the courts to undermine that. why do your big oil companies get transparency? where are the board members? where is your corporate governance? we're really asking this question. so please behave. and, of course, you have this discussion here in russian about the exit bank. please have your discussion. but don't throw the baby with the bath water. that's not smart. thank you. >> thank you. mo, we have limited time. i want you to really talk about the issues of tax and transparency. because the last g-8 summit put on the table issues of the other companies. because of complex managemen at the not yoez, i hope your colleagues can come to this lat later. you have been successful many mobile banking. this was known for. but even more. bringing more people into the banking world and by expanding the middle classes. can you tell us more on this? >> thank you very much. the mobile banking concept is more of a delivery channel fo

"transpare "transparent" as its answer to "house of cards." >> to have the best new show of the fallven on a cable channel but on a service where you can also buy underwear is a revolutionary moment, that's when you stop and think that great television can come from anywhere now. >> reporter: the hands off approach gave her liberty and streaming it online has changed the experience. >> the binge thing is something that netflix has a corner on now. it is so perfect for "transparent." >> are you saying you're going to start dressing up like a lady always? >> honey, all my life, my whole life, i've been dressing up like a man. >> reporter: samuel burk, cnn, new york. >>> finally, today, the u.s. coast guard had a unique rescue on its hands on saturday. ultra marathoner, rhesa balucci was attempting to run. he was attempting this run in a large, inflatable bubble. the coast guard had been monitoring him since wednesday after concerns about his supplies. he is recovering, and he's expected to be just fine. that's this hour of cnn. thank you so much for joining us. i'm george howell. for o

tocompanies want to be able be as transparent as possible. they want to share withth their users all the inforormation that they have available to share with those users. >> who is going t to win this fight? >> if i had the ney, i wou put it on twitter. going to be a fundamental question and a right to know wh the government and is not doing. >> about the google case in europe --- european courtsuled there is a right to be forgotten there. we do not have that right in the u.s everything you have done will found on google. say theyn respond and ll not take information down. reportle just released a that they have taken down about requests, and almost 60% the requests, they have not abided by. definitely a very delicate balance, trying to balance between what they shouldld take downwn, th requireme for privacy, but also that demand from the public, and be able t o adhere to their mission in life and share thatat information wih the public. >> the balance thagoogle is trying to strike -- the court ruled they have the right. how is google denying

i think i have always respected your sense of transparency.i know on this project ever more you are transparent. >> it's always worked in the 25 years i have always madeim tha choice to not maybe do the comfortable thing0k but stand i my truth and be transparent, up front. it led me exactly where i'm supposed to go. i have no desire to stop now. i feel our society is just opening up to amazing things now. >> there are truths about your life, all of our lives. there are truths harder to handle than other truths about our own existence. how have you become comfortable to the extent you are being so transparent and being truthful, never mind what others think of your truth. >> there came a point in my life where i realized that what i felt about myself. the love or frustration. whatever i was feeling about myself was more important and more -- did more to my life than what other people thought of me. so if i could begin to guide my life with -- i call it the truth. thoseñx choices. it always -- always, never lets me down. it's the better thing.

do you believe this hospital has been transparent?ure, anderson, to be honest. what i do know about this hospital is that it is a very high-quality hospital. it has been recognized for excellence in nursing care. and we do know that nurses are the front line of a health care system. they do get annual training on infection control procedures. every nurse in this country is really an expert at what we call universal precautions. but this is a very different thing and certainly when an ebola patient shows up people have a very specific protocol that they need to follow and at that moment, at that time really need to understand exactly what that protocol is and follow it rigorously in each and every interaction with the patient. so, you know -- >> have you ever heard of a protocol which tells nurses -- >> two health care workers have contracted ebola says we need to understand what's happening. as you described, for the purpose of everybody being able to deliver better care. >> but you don't know whether this hospital has been transparen

but as said before the transparency is critical. when the oce releases the report at the end of the investigation to make the house ethics committee responsible because they know any transgressions would not disappear into the black hole of the house ethics committee. >> but it has made the process on the house side to be more transparent. the data itself have gotten more transparent you could not get those very easily in the past those that are the most difficult to obtain even the basic guidance or the pink sheets some are on line but not all of them. that is a guidance and also the legal defense fund. on the senate side there is much less transparency even the rules was senators are in are not allowed to do is difficult to ascertain. several years ago my organization there was a us senate members manual to guide the behavior's of the members of the senate. it seems absurd and then several years later they could contain this but to bring more accountability to the system. >> talk about why average americans care about this with th

being transparent is the best sort of program for that.ere's a lot of people not being transparent. >> as a star for a little while now, what kind of response are you getting to it. >> yeah, ultimately, any movie i've done is something different or feeling something different before they bought that $11 or $12 ticket. and this movie in particular is one that can create dialogue. or someone who spoke this afternoon said they sturk with them. that's a great thing i think, to have happen. when you think about it. some people are really 6+ emotionally affected. that's what i hope happens with when they'll started digging a year or two ago, i wonder what you think investigative journalists are still being stooped upon and being gone after today. >> yeah, well, i think it's cautionary for both sides. what to do and whatnot to do. i think if someone can walk away from the movie scene now and say oh, wait. it became a cautionary tale. we're in a very different time now. the interwas just kicking off back then. and i think it's hard to hide on bot

that fresh air, transparency is the best disinfectant. it does not look like the government, or feel that way. you see it not only in the white house but all the executive agencies, where they just make it very hard. it's harder to get press passes, harder to get into meetings. you get handlers who sit with you more. and that's partly a practical problem. but i think it's very important as a symbolic problem. because we really do want to be in a society that believes it's important for the public to know what's going on, and it's important for independent journalism to exist, and to exist in a really robust way. it does not feel as if very often the administration feels that way. >> i want you guys to jump in. is this administration more restrictive or less restrictive than past administrations? >> i asked members of our washington bureau before coming here what they thought. people have been doing it for a long time. and they do feel it's more restrictive than it has been in the past. they think they're a little more upset about it perha

but we need to have more transparency. we need to know what the role of these private contractors is going forward in operations will be and we need to know in the defense and security of our nation or our neighborhoods. you know? where do these people come from? who trained them? what companies are they working foresee that we can learn -- for and week we can learn more details so after three years of studying a report that was released and declared that we are overreliant on private contractors and that including the vast stretch of contractors in operations with a large focus on this industry. we cannot just look the other way. we cannot just say you do your defense and security. in several very passionate people in the military interviews are very passionate on this topic. you have to feel something to win a war. you have to feel connected. the sit zens of a democracy but feel connected and at the very least need to know who is doing it. when we are told the casulities of the iraq war it didn't including the contractor

currently starring in the new amazon series tranc transparent.triarc>> i play the family. >> stephen: previously called mort. >> now called mora. are you saying you're going to start dressing like a lady, always? my whole life, i have been dressing up. like a man. (cheers and applause) >> do not hurt my feelings. (laughter) >> stephen: i need your help. i'm going to put my cards on the table. >> do it. >> stephen: okay. i need your help. i'm not an actor. you're an actor, and you -- (laughter) i don't understand -- i don't understand certain things. >> i'm going to take you through this. (laughter) >> stephen: be gentle. be gentle. >> be gentle with me. >> stephen: transgender to me is fascinating like quantum physics is. >> okay. >> stephen: and quantum physics, a particle can both be there and not. >> right. >> stephen: and they can both be true. >> right. by the way, i'm lost. >> stephen: that's the way i am when it comes to understanding the transgender community. how can someone be both identify final as -- identifiable as a man but identify

we are also making every opportunity and every effort to be transparent at dhs, to be as transparent as possible. my name is ann barron-decamillo. i'm the director of u.s. cert within the national cybersecurity integrations center. we lead the company of homeland security's efforts in cyberspace to respond to major incidents, analyze threats, and share critical cybersecurity information with trusted partners around the world. u.s. cert is a 24/7 operations center and receives and analyzes hundreds of incidents reports a day. we work with public and private sector partner organizations and are committed to the protection of privacy and civil liberties for all americans. at u.s. cert we strive for safer, stronger internet for all americans. established in 2003 u.s. cert initially focused on securing u.s. federal systems networks. dhs's cybersecurity capabilities have grown immensely since the establishment of u.s. cert and we are working more closely than ever with partners across public and private sectors to develop a comprehensive picture of malicious activity and mitigation options

the issue of transparency when we think about where we were four years ago with regard to transparency and echoes that were consumer question the question is what do consumers have about their benefits and their plans and with the transparency now they know what a qualified health plan as some of those benefits are and those are being clearly stated. across-the-board and provider information around consumer information we are trying to move on all fronts. it's also related to electronic medical records in terms of the transparency that an individual can actually have about their own health care. with regard to what are we doing we are working on all sides in terms of trying to move the information forward so consumers and providers have information that they can make decisions about and we create a transparent marketplace where decisions are made. can we improve it, should we improve its? yes. when we hear the feedback on the most recent elements of open enrollment we want to do that. one of the decisions we had to make and i had to make the decision is the information wasn't perfect i

the harder challenge to me in some ways is what is the right balance between secrecy and transparencyd that's challenge for me as a professional. if i'm honest, i submit my whole life thinking about how to protect sources and methods. how to ensure that what we do is not to grow compromise. i realize as that an intelligence leader under the 21st century, rogers, you got to be willing to talk to a broader set of people and you've got to be willing to talk at least in broad determines about what we do and why we do it. and i'm very comfortable with what nsa does and why it does it. because i believe we defend the nation and its jl eyes and follow the rule of law and always remember that we remain accountable to the american people. that accountable comes in many forms. whether the congress that executes oversight of our functions, whether it's the courts that grants us the authority in many cases do what we do. o we have to make a case in many cases for a federal court and get permission to do what we do. nobody writes us a blank check. we are given permission for a finite purpose for f

. >> yeah, the website is transparent voting.com. this is the url that we have chosen for this particular visualization we have the get hub repo which is the place where we store our code, and we can put a link to it on this page, after we go. >> great, so the people want to go and play with this site, they can go to transparent voting.com? >> correct. >> voting. >> >> questions from the commissioner? s >> commissioner andrews? >> you know, first of all, thank you for the presentation, i did my absolute best to keep up with all of the terms after the url, i can kind of drift and thank you, and thank you for your or what you are providing on the volunteer basis and, so these are some of these are just the fire questions that you can answer, quickly and they tend to run around the organization. so, code for america is a national organization and it is funded, and it is a non-profit and it receives the funding itself, where are the headquarters? >> washington, d.c., i believe. >> and then it has a loose franchise model of them and then

and a lot of transparency there. there's a also been a battle between internet service providers that are subject to the government over what they can release in their transparency reports. a number of providers including google and yahoo! and the like went to the fisa court and seek ing the permission of the the court to release thing e ing in numbers of the orders they receives and the government settled out of court in this case with a new sort of set of rules those companies can follow that allow them to report in bands of 0 to 500, et cetera, how many requests they are receiving. and more recently in the last few weeks, twitter brought suit in federal district court seeking to disclose more information than that. twitter is not subject to that concept order and they want to be able to release even more information in their annual transparency reports. so then moving on to the president's speech, the president gave a major speech on nsa surveillance this year in january on the 17th. he really addressed two issues

they have not been transparent at all. sometimes you see people say least transparent.the white house press corps, the whole thing. i think this is the tile to release your pdbs if that is the case and be transparent. >> sandra, we've seen it before, stonewalling with certain documents. "fast & furious" they invoked executive privilege. they're probably going to be reluctant to release documents because if the cia is right, remember the president through them under the bus, intelligence committee, i bet there is pretty damning about the rise of isis. >> what i'm concerned none of this will change the past and none of this will change that isis did rise and isis strengthened and power by our lack of response. nobody can doubt. that the environment we're now in, we have the president blaming the intelligence community and the intelligence community saying, no, we have been warning you. that starts to be a really ugly environment i think just makes us overall look weak as a country, andrea. >> did the president think the intelligence community would go along with this narr

it will be very transparent.hey have a representative to make sure they get their due process. and we want the police officer to have his day in court. nobody is saying he is guilty until proven innocent. but we want to be able to challenge this police department. this prosecutor. as well as this medical examiner's office. and say this evidence does not purport what you're trying to make it purport. >> you and i have spoken to this, and have spoken to michael brown's parents from the beginning of this. and all along, everybody has said violence along the streets is not the focus here that takes it away from michael brown. how concerned are you about the reaction that has been going on, and what happened if there is not an indictment? >> well, quite obviously, anderson, people are frustrated in st. louis and all over america, because they keep saying our children keep getting killed over and over again. nobody is being held accountable. we encourage people to work on their rights, but we want it done in a non-viol

but we need to have more transparency. we need to know what the role of private contractors going forward in contingency operations will be and we need to know the defense and security of our nation or a neighborhood's. where did these people come from? who trains them? what companies are they working for so that we can learn more detail about the industry that as the wartime contracting commission after two years of study in the report of august 2011 declared that we are over reliance on private contractors. that included the vast stretch of private contractors in contingency operations but with a large focus on this industry. we can't just look the other way. we can't just say okay our defense and security. in several very passionate people in the military i interviewed, people very passionate on that topic. you have to feel something too when they were. you have to feel connected. the citizens of democracy must feel connected to the defense of their nations. at the very least they need to know who's doing it. when we ar

and i have seen a lot of transparency. and i have not seen it where, the public was shut down, or left out of the process. and i have seen the people show up and they have an opportunity to talk, and the commissioners are here and we are available, and a lot of times, i don't think that you guys ever see us, and we have meetings with people in the community and they call us up, want to have coffee and talk to us and that, you probably never put in your report because those are the things that we do, and you made the mention of us being a top down, i don't think so, i think that we are bottom up, commission and you can approach any of these commissioners and nobody tell us what to do and as you can see from the five of us up here we are all independent thinksers and we are think our own way and we have our own experience and we are knocking around and we talk. >> and if you really think of a lot of the types that the commission has been through, it happened to the commissioner and it is not easy. because we have had to take

there has been a lot of reporting going on in a lot of transparency there. there has also been a battle between internet service headers that are subject to the authorities and the government over what they can release in their annual transparency reports. another -- a number of internet service providers yahoo! and the like went to fisa court and brought their own brief seeking the provision of the court to release the aggregate numbers of the fisa orders that they had received and governments responded and they had a litigation settled out of court in that case with a new set of principles that allow them basically to report in bands of zero to 500, 500 to 1007 and how many requests they were receiving. more recently in the last few weeks twitter brought suit in federal district court seeking to disclose more information. twitter is not subject to that order and they want actually to be able to release even more information in the annual transparency report. so then moving on to the president's speech the president gave a major speech on nsa surveillance t

there's actually a transparency rule that is still in place.dtion has and otherabout at&t carriers about whether they are being transparent about their unlimited data plan. this is not the only case and it is important that federal regulators continue to keep a close watch over these companies and whether they are truly providing what they offer. >> i would be infuriated. >> are you and at&t user? >> no. >> im. .- inwe will be back with more just a moment. you can watch us streaming on your phone, your tablet, bloomberg. calm and amazon fire tv. ♪ >> i'm emily chang and this is hpoomberg west." ebay and had decided to stay with their companies into. what flexibility comes from taking a company off wall street ? why do it? theor a lot of companies, changes they have to make in the public markets are not available to them. they disappoint shareholders and the stock plummets. i set down to see what's going how thetarted by asking business is different than what we saw last time it was public. at your show. everyday you are talking about the new di

it will be transparent.will protect the officer if he did nothing wrong but also it will give these families answers. that's what they want. they want to know why their child was shot down in the middle of the street in broad daylight. >> i appreciate you being on. >>> imagine if this was happening to your mom, your sister, your daughter. take a look. >> how you doing today? smile. i guess not good. smile! hey, what's up, girl? how you doing? >> a woman walking down the street of new york, not making eye contact, minding her own business, not showing any facial expresses, this all taken on ai hidden camera. millions have seen this video of a woman getting cat called walking through the streets of new york. the woman in the video got dozens of uninvited comments and followed by one guy that kept talking to her. she joins us next. it has to offer,u'll sh especially if you're thinking of moving an old 401(k) to a fidelity ira. it gives you a wide range of investment options... and the free help you need to make

and we also don't understand the frank dod transparency, et cetera. again, we don't understand why you measure oil companies and using the courts to undermine that. why do your big oil companies get transparency? where are the board members? where is your corporate governance? we're really asking this question. so please behave. and, of course, you have this discussion here in russian about the exit bank. please have your discussion. but don't throw the baby with the bath water. that's not smart. thank you. >> thank you. mo, we have limited time. i want you to really talk about the issues of tax and transparency. because the last g-8 summit put on the table issues of the other companies. because of complex management models. i hope your colleagues can come to this later. you have been successful in mobile banking. this was known for. but even more. bringing more people into the banking world and by expanding the middle classes. can you tell us more on this? >> thank you very much. the mobile banking concept is more of a delivery channel for financial

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or in some cases no transparent at all, and they are not on the ballot. so the contribution limits should be increased in order to allow for a much more transparent, much more accountable system, which will lack many of the portions we suffer undercurrently in our system. thank you. currently in our system. thank you. >> thank you. okay. we will give each side up to three minutes to rebut. so you don't have to take the full three minutes, but if you want, you can. mr. bona fide? >> thank you. we at free speech for people are interested in lifting up voices, not depressing voices. and our view of the current campaign finance system is that it depresses voices. because when you allow the very wealthy, and now very well endowed corporations and unions to drown out other people's voice, you are effectively suppressing those voices. now jim agrees that money does not equal speech. i think that's fabulous we reached agreement on that. i want to make clear, however, that when we limit the amount of money of money in our elections, we are limiting speech. scholar

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the last principle is the principle of transparency and i show mikhail gorbachev because transparency serves arbitration and serves access is not just a western value. glasnost was the policy of gorbachev who instituted this for the benefit of his own because they lost the cold war. this has become a transnational value. have you noticed the swiss have recently trouble because of non-transparency in banking? who ever thought we would see a swiss bank in vault? this is truly an international value. of new toolspread for human organization and self-organization explains the american values without coercion. theit doesn't explain why united states got involved, why withnited states jumped, both feet, in 1947, into the today. continue to have and i think that the answer is not just an answer which naturally enough historians will say, world war ii and then the cold war and the soviet union the verge of being western europe, everybody else wouldvastated, who else take this up, and this is true. all that is true. british were on war-time rations until 1955. until 1955, the british were on r

is a very important task force, because it really is the task force whose charge is to ensure transparency in everything that we do and not do in city government. and i also know that it's a very time-intensive commitment and a lot of work goes into this. so i'm very grateful to all of the people that want to serve on it. i do believe it's important and i don't know where my colleagues are, so i will just share my couple of thoughts. normally i want to hear directly from an applicant, but i do believe that moving the new california media applicant forward is really important, given sort of where the task force is. so i will be open to that, even though pixie chopra is not here. i think the two applicants that we heard from for seat 11 are both outstanding and i certainly was impressed with the comments from fiona hinze. but i believe that just based on experience, and the importance of continuity, that bruce wolfe would be a great choice for seat 11. so that is where i would be prepared to move pixie, chopra and bruce wolfe. >> supervisor tang? >> thank you, supervisor campos for your comm

again if elected what we do to make south dakota government more transparent?mer: you know as a democratic legislature is frustrating during the legislative session that as it seems all the systems are made behind closed doors. we tell our counties and their schools and our their cities that they need to conduct all of their business out in the open but in here, any decision of consequences made in a close governor's conference room, and the close republican caucus are in a closed pre-committee committee meetings where noses are counted in permission is parceled out to vote in a manner that will carry out the majority's agenda. the only way that we can change that is by putting another party in control of the governor's office. they can gerrymander the whole state as much as they want but they can't gerrymander the state as a whole. south dakota could pass some balance if we would put a democrat into the governor's chair. >> moderator: governor daugaard your turn for the question. what is one concrete thing you would do her champion if elected to make south dak

the committee has concerns about the team's transparency reported earlier this month. the administration has already spent a billion dollars on a website that is still not fully operational, and fully not secure. the same government officials responsible for the lack of transparency and accountability a year ago remain in the position of authority. questions of security, accountability and transparency go beyond whether or not you support the president's health care law. many of these issues are not limited to health care and mirror the transparency and accountability concerns raised again by 47 out of 73 inspector generals in an unprecedented letter to this and other committees of congress in august. minutes before hhs announced publicly on september 4th that healthcare.gov had experienced a malicious attack in july of this year, an hhs official contacted my office to give them limited details of the successful hack. during the brief call hhs gave my staff the name and phone number of a contact at the department of homeland security, and suggested my staff contact dhs