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The Rachel Maddow Show, Transcript 3/16/2017
Guests: Glen Caplin, Wendy Sherman
March 17, 2017, 1:00 AM UTC
Show: The Rachel Maddow Show Date: March 16, 2017 Guest: Glen Caplin, Wendy Sherman
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: Thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour.
In 1980, the Summer Olympics was held in Moscow. And even if you were an old person like me and you were an old enough person in the year 1980 to conceivably have memories of those Olympic Games, if you`re an American, there`s a reason why you don`t have memories of those Olympic Games. And it`s because the United States boycotted those Olympics in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980. It wasn`t just us. Ultimately, the U.S. led a coalition of 65 countries that did not go to the Olympics in Moscow that year. And then, incidentally, it was pitiful four years later, the Olympics were held in Los Angeles four years later in 1984, Moscow decided that they would lead their own international boycott of the United States hosting the Olympic Games as retaliation for what happened to them in 1980.
But the United States had, again, led a coalition of 65 countries for the boycott of Moscow. The Soviet Union basically just got themselves and their little sphere of influence in the Eastern Bloc. It was 14 countries in total, including the Soviet Union that boycotted L.A. in 1984.
But that weird period in Olympic history had one legacy for right now that`s turning out to be sort of interesting. That -- the Moscow Olympics, that Moscow Olympic adventure with that weird international intrigue around it in 1980, that was the last time Russia got an Olympics for a very, very long time, for a generation.
Fast forward to 2007 -- July, 2007, the International Olympic Committee met in this city, in lovely Guatemala City in Guatemala to make a decision about who would get the Winter Olympic Games in 2014. As you can see, Guatemala City is lovely, cosmopolitan place. The International Olympic Committee likes to do their selections of cities who get the Olympics, they like to do it with as much drama and pomp and circumstance as possible. So, there was really global focus on the International Olympic Committee when they convened that July in Guatemala City to make their decision about where the Winter Olympics was going to be in 2014.
And the top three contenders were Salzburg in Austria, Pyeongchang in South Korea and Russia, the city of Sochi in Russia. It would have been Russia`s first Olympic games since 1980.
And it`s interesting. Most people thought Pyeongchang was going to get it. Pyeongchang had only narrowly come in second place to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics so a lot of people thought they actually had -- still had a good chance. They still had a pretty good bid in 2010, would hold up four years later. In the end, though, Pyeongchang didn`t get it, Russia got it, Sochi was awarded the Olympic Games for 2014.
And in order to win that bid, in order to get awarded the Olympics that year, Russia really had to pull out all the stops. They were not favored to get it. They hadn`t had one in a long, long time. They hadn`t had an Olympics since 1980. I think they knew in 2007 that was their best chance to get one. They really put the pedal to the metal.
For example, Vladimir Putin personally flew to Guatemala City to make the pitch for Russia getting the Olympics in person and when he got there he made that pitch in person in three languages. I`m not sure people were widely aware he speaks languages other than Russian. He doesn`t like to show that off. He`s a nationalist after all, right?
But that July in Guatemala City, Vladimir Putin was like the Rosetta stone. Jean-Claude Killy, the famous French ski champion, he was on the IOC that year and this is what he told the "Associated Press" that summer about what happened with that vote. He basically said the IOC was powerless before Putin`s charm.
Quote, "He worked very hard at it. He was nice. He spoke French. He never speaks French. He spoke English. He never speaks English. The Putin charisma can explain at least four votes."
And I`m sure the Putin charisma is considerable, particularly in KGB- accented French. But Putin didn`t only rely on his personal charisma to get Sochi the Olympic Games, to get it done that year in Guatemala City. He also had kind of a trick up his sleeve. He had a grand flourish in mind that he knew nobody would be able to resist.
In addition to Vladimir Putin flying personally to Guatemala City to make the pitch in three languages, Putin also flew to Guatemala City an ice rink. Russia literally flew a whole freaking functioning ice rink from Moscow to Guatemala in July to impress the International Olympic Committee. The ice rink, they set it up in Guatemala City, that`s where they mounted their official presentation, that`s where they made the case they should get the Winter Olympics at their Russian ice rink that they purpose built in Guatemala for that occasion.
And that is how Russia got the Sochi Olympics for 2014, which we now know ended up being yet another way that Putin found to make his friends spectacularly rich. That was also the winter Olympics where Russian athletes did better than they ever had before at a Winter Olympics. And that, of course, is how we ended up with the Russian Olympic doping scandal. So, all in all, it worked out great.
But the company that Vladimir Putin used to seal the deal in Guatemala City, the company that Putin used to show off what Russia could do, to fly this freaking ice rink from Russia to Central America to make a good impression for Russia`s Olympic bid, it was a Russian air cargo company called -- this is the name of it. I`m not going to pronounce this because Stephen Colbert will make fun of me if I try. I know the first word is Volga, the second word, no idea. Pronounce it however you like that.
But that is the company Vladimir Putin picked to fly the ice rink to Guatemala. It`s also a company that was at the center of one of the great modern corruption stories at the United Nations. This year`s Russian U.N. mystery is, of course, about the Russian ambassador to the U.N. dropping dead with no warning at the age of 64 last month, followed by the U.S. State Department putting out a strange statement insisting that no cause of death would be released for him because, quote, "Ambassador Churkin`s diplomatic immunity survives his death."
That`s -- that`s this year`s Russia-U.N. intrigue. Before this, though, before the mysterious death of the ambassador, this year, before this intrigue, the big Russia-U.N. intrigue before that was when a bunch of their senior diplomats got nailed in a huge bribery and corruption scheme. It was a bribery scheme involving that same company, that same air cargo company that flew the ice rink to Guatemala for Vladimir Putin. A bunch of Russian diplomats, including some of the most senior diplomats they had at the U.N., were caught and arrested in conjunction with this bribery scandal.
The company itself got in big trouble. They got struck off the list of approved airlines for any U.N.-related business because of their links to corruption and their links to corrupt Russian officials. It turns out, though, that Russian company, that air cargo company -- don`t worry. They`re doing OK now because now we know as recently as august, 2015, that company was paying Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. And then in October, 2015, he was taking more Russian money from a Russian computer firm that U.S. intelligence agencies have long believed to be linked to Russian intelligence.
If you want to see the documentation of those payments, it`s here. These documents were first published, the story was first reported by one of America`s great investigative reporters, Michael Isikoff. He now works at Yahoo News. How Mike Isikoff got this documentation, though, how he got this stuff is itself a great story.
And it`s about Flynn. I mean, if you step back from it for a second, the national security adviser getting fired 24 days into the new administration because he misrepresented his contacts with foreign governments -- I mean, that alone, if that was the only worrying or negative thing that happened in the entire Trump presidency thus far, that would be one of the biggest Washington scandals in decades.
As it stands, it`s one of many but it has been one month since Michael Flynn was fired and almost everything about his fire and his tenure as national security adviser has question marks lingering around it. Why the administration hired him in the first place is a big part of the mystery. When Michael Flynn got brought on board as a top advisor to the Trump campaign, even before they won the election and he became national security adviser, just being brought on board the campaign in a formal role, that itself raised a ton of eyebrows in part because Michael Flynn`s behavior toward Russia was already really odd for a recently retired general.
And at the Republican National Convention last summer, Mike Isikoff, this great reporter, he asked Mike Flynn about that directly to his face. It was one of the great news moments that came out of the Republican convention. Watch.
MICHAEL ISIKOFF, YAHOO NEWS: Last December, you flew over to Moscow --
MIKE FLYNN, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: Yes.
ISIKOFF: -- to participate in the tenth anniversary --
FLYNN: Russian television.
ISIKOFF: -- celebration of RT, Russian television, a propaganda arm of the Russian government.
And you sat next to Vladimir Putin at a celebratory dinner. Were you paid for that event?
FLYNN: You`d have to ask my -- the folks that I went over there to --
ISIKOFF: Well, I`m asking you. You`d know if you were paid.
FLYNN: Yes, I mean I went over there as a speaking event. It was a speaking event. What difference does that make, though? Is somebody going, "Oh, he`s paid by the Russians"?
ISIKOFF: Well, Donald Trump has made a lot of the fact that Hillary Clinton has taken money from Wall Street.
FLYNN: I didn`t take any money from Russia, if that`s what you`re asking me.
ISIKOFF: Well, then who paid you?
FLYNN: My speaker`s bureau. Ask them.
ISIKOFF: OK.
MADDOW: My speaker`s -- ask them.
You know what? Don`t say something like that idly. Don`t say ask them idly to an investigative reporter like Mike Isikoff. Also just don`t say it unless you mean it because we now know that a congressional committee did ask them. A congressional committee did follow up on Michael Flynn`s suggestion, ask them that they ask his speaker`s bureau about that trip to Russia.
From this letter released by Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, we know the oversight committee in the House, they asked Michael Flynn speaker`s bureau last month, hey, who paid Flynn to go to Russia and meet with Vladimir Putin? And the speaker`s bureau responded in full, providing all their documentation surrounding that trip, including the stubs of the checks and the e-mail chain negotiating it, the terms of the deal.
And it terms out, yes, Russia paid him. Russia paid him. My favorite part of the back and forth with the Russians is this, "Great news, he has accepted" and then the smiley face emoticon. Great news, Russia, he`s coming. He`s going to take your money.
Russian state-run state-funded TV paid Michael Flynn $45,000 minus a percentage cut that went to the speaker`s bureau, but plus, a three -day long all expenses paid trip to Moscow, including accommodations at a five star hotel right off Red Square for him and his son Mike, Jr. And all of that, the cash that he pocketed, the business class round trip airfare, the five-star hotel rooms, all of his meals, all his on the ground travel, all of that appears to be payments from a foreign government.
And, you know, presidents are not allowed to take payments from a foreign government. American public officials are not allowed to take payments from a foreign government, and the Defense Department has made clear that retired military officers are not allowed to take payments from a foreign government. Michael Flynn took it, though, plus the money he took from his other two Russian gigs which we learned from his speaker`s bureau that was released to this congressional committee and then obtained and reported out and published by Mike Isikoff.
If you are a public official or president of the United States or a retired military officer and you want to get around the part of the Constitution that says you`re not allowed to take payment from foreign governments, the only way you can get around that is if you get permission in advance from the U.S. government to take the money. In Flynn`s case, he would have needed permission from the U.S. Army. And Flynn himself is not commenting on whether he stopped that permission, but the Army says nothing in its files indicates that he did, and he took the money.
So, this is an uh-oh moment for the administration. Did they vet this guy at all when they made him national security adviser? When they brought him in to sit in on the president`s daily brief and all the other highly classified intelligence briefings that he received alongside Donald Trump during the transition and into his time at the White House? Did they vet him?
Did they vet him? Did they not vet him? Did they know this stuff and decide they didn`t care?
Congressman Elijah Cummings wrote to the White House asking for the relevant portions of Mike Flynn`s applications for security clearance. Did he hide these payments from Russia when he applied for a security clearance? If he hid those payments, why wasn`t the White House able to discover them anyway?
I mean, Mike Isikoff is a good reporter, but he`s not god. He`s not omniscient. There`s Mike Isikoff at the Republican national convention asking him about his payments from Russia on the record. Did the White House not have any idea? Did that not pop when they vetted him?
If Michael Flynn didn`t lie about taking money from a foreign government, if he disclosed he`d taken tens of thousands of dollars from Russia, how could you then appoint him national security adviser? Especially given that him taking that money may very well have been illegal, not just a conflict of interest, but also illegal under the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
And this is separate and apart from the fact that he`s also now retroactively registered as a foreign agent. He`s now retroactively declared that he was also taking money from another foreign government. He was also taking money to lobby on behalf of the government of Turkey while he was advising the Trump campaign and while he was working in the transition, while he was getting those highly classified intelligence briefings alongside the new president.
It`s been a month since Flynn got fired but there were so many things that have not been explained about him. When he was fired a month ago, the White House purported explanation of why he was being fired then made no sense. I mean, the White House maintains to this day the reason they fired him is that Michael Flynn lied to the vice president. He lied to Mike Pence. That`s their explanation.
But they let him stay on the job for almost three weeks after they learned that he lied to Mike Pence. So, that doesn`t make sense. And now, increasingly, with each new revelation about him, including today`s new revelations about what Michael Flynn was up to between the time he was fired from the Pentagon at the Defense Intelligence Agency and when he came on board with the Trump folks, there are increasing questions every day as to how on earth the Trump campaign and the Trump transition and then the Trump White House could ever have hired him. Either their vetting was criminally negligent or it wasn`t, and they knew what they were getting with him and they wanted somebody like him around classified information, which is inconceivable unless they`ve got brilliant explanation for it.
The vice president has become implicated in a Michael Flynn story in a way that needs explaining. As of this past week, the vice president has been asserting that he had no about Michael Flynn`s foreign government ties, even though the vice president was head of the transition effort and he was notified multiple times, including by Flynn`s own lawyers that Flynn was in fact working on behalf of a foreign government.
Mike Pence`s explanation for his role in all this is that he had no idea. Never heard of it, completely in the dark which, again, is utterly impossible and now, there`s one more piece of this that is either going to fall in place tomorrow or it`s going to become a whole new scandal in its own right tomorrow.
What Mike Flynn ostensibly was fired for was lying about the content of his communications with the Russian government during the transition, right? His assertion that he didn`t talk about sanctions with the Russian government, that assertion was exposed as a lie when it emerged in multiple news reports that Flynn had been captured by U.S. surveillance in fact talking about sanctions with a Russian government official.
The piece of this that is about to fall into place, at least it seems like something about to fall into place, is the question of why Michael Flynn was caught in that U.S. surveillance. Foreign surveillance warrants, foreign surveillance practices allow U.S. agencies to capture the communications of foreigners, of foreign nationals, of non-U.S. citizens. That is not legally controversial. Foreign surveillance warrants and legal foreign surveillance practices by U.S. agencies can capture the communications of foreigners. They are not allowed to capture communications involving Americans.
If a foreign person under surveillance establishes communication with a U.S. person, foreign surveillance warrants say that that person, that U.S. person can`t be captured. The American can`t be listened in on, can`t be surveilled by the U.S. government. But Michael Flynn apparently was. Why is that?
Yesterday, we reported the chairman and the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee wrote a very terse, short, two-page letter to the NSA, the CIA and the FBI, demanding an answer to that question. Why was Michael Flynn being surveilled?
They have given those agencies a deadline of tomorrow to report to them why Michael Flynn, a U.S. person, was captured in U.S. surveillance. They`re also asking whether other U.S. persons associated with either the Clinton or Trump campaigns were also captured in U.S. surveillance. They want an explanation they say by tomorrow.
And this is going to be really important and really interesting, because those agencies are going to respond. I mean, this isn`t a member from any member of Congress. This is the chairman and ranking member of the Intelligence Committee.
This is an oversight committee. The Intelligence Committee oversees the intelligence agencies. It would be frankly unheard of for these agencies to not respond to this request from Schiff and Nunes. It would be a scandal of really significant proportions if the intelligence agencies and the FBI say no to this request, and they don`t disclose this information to this committee.
If they say, "No, we`re not telling you, it`s sensitive, we`re not going to disclose it to you," that would be a really big deal. That would be a huge break with all past practice. That would be kind of an epic national security moment in our country.
And so, it is very likely that they`re going to respond. In all likelihood, we`re going to get or somebody`s going to get a response from those agencies and that is going to be in all likelihood an explanation for why Michael Flynn ended up in that surveillance. Was it a mistake in which case people are going to go nuts and you`re going to hear a lot of calls for the heads of whoever inappropriately allowed this to happen, right? Who inappropriately and maybe even illegally surveilled this U.S. person, thus leading to the firing of the national security adviser.
If it was a mistake, that is going to be a huge deal. If it was not a mistake, if it was legal and appropriate for them to be surveilling Michael Flynn -- well, why that would be? In all likelihood, that would mean that Mike Flynn was the subject of a court-ordered warrant. Was he under criminal investigation or counterintelligence investigation personally during the transition in which case, oh, my God, how did he end up being national security adviser?
If the intelligence agencies tomorrow do not respond to this, it is a scandal. If the intelligence agencies respond to this and say Mike Flynn was outed for his calls to the Russians inappropriately, maybe illegally, that would be a scandal. If the intelligence agencies respond tomorrow and say, no, it was legal and appropriate to be surveilling Mike Flynn because he was under criminal or counterintelligence investigation, that, too, would be a scandal.
It`s a scandal if they don`t say anything, it`s a scandal if they say A, it`s a scandal if they say B. And their choices are A or B.
The only way to avoid a major news scandal breaking out on this subject tomorrow is if time stops and we don`t get to tomorrow. In which case, I`m going to Guatemala City to go ice skate and relax for a few decades and you can wake me up when this is all over.
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MADDOW: So, the president is doing reelection rallies for 2020 already. Literally his reelection campaign is sponsoring events for him now. And the president took the stage last night in Nashville, Tennessee, in one of these campaign rallies. We`re now told to expect one of these every couple of weeks, apparently, for four years.
But as he was taking the stage in Nashville last night, outside the arena more than 2,500 people were out there protesting against him. This is Tennessee. Donald Trump won Tennessee by 26 points. But here were more than 2,000 people out on the street chanting, singing, waving signs in opposition to him last night.
The Trump presidency, of course, has been a huge change in our country. It`s a new thing. But it has created an equal and opposite reaction that is making itself manifest in all sorts of unexpected places and all sorts of unexpected ways.
Consider Virginia, for example. It`s kind of a national bellwether this year because Virginia holds off-year elections. Virginia state elections are this year in 2017, and this year in Virginia, there is an unprecedented wave of Democratic candidates running for office in that state.
Democrats are challenging 43 of the 66 Republican incumbents who are standing to try to defend their seats in the statehouse. That`s more than twice the number of Republican seats the Democrats contested last time around. Some of these districts even have a bunch of Democratic candidates who are going to be competing in a primary for the privilege of going up against the Republican incumbent. That is something that never happens in Republican districts in Virginia, but it`s happening all over Virginia this year.
There`s all sorts of signs of the energy on the Democratic side or at least the anti-Trump side in the country right now -- tons of protests, waves of new political candidates in local and state and congressional races.
But here`s the thing to consider -- Democrats in November picked up seats in the House and picked up seats in the Senate. They did not win the White House. But there was energy there, too, around those House and Senate races. You know, Democrats didn`t do as well as they were expected to or as well as they might have in November, not just Hillary Clinton but Democrats all the way down the ballot. And part of the reason for that is tied up with the biggest story in the country right now. Part of what happened to the Democrats in November is something that was done to them by an external force, and I`m not talking about the Republicans.
And the question is, are Democrats going to face that again this year right now?
Hold that thought.
MADDOW: Last year, in Florida`s 26th congressional district, which is at the very southern tip of the state, there was really bruising Democratic primary fight to see who would take on the incumbent Republican congressman in that district. One candidate was a Democrat who used to -- who formally held that congressional seat, another was a really popular Florida state politician.
The Democratic Party, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, they had picked one of these guys over the other. It was the kind of primary fight that causes or exacerbates internal party rifts. You see the "Politico" headline here. "Primary fight drives rift between House Democrats."
So this was going to be, you know, a tough one for Democrats. But then, suddenly, in August of last year, it got much, much worse very quickly, because a whole bunch of hacked documents related to that race got posted online. Strategy memos, opposition research, e-mails, it included a 76- page dossier of dirt one of the candidates had compiled about the other as well as all the dirt the Democratic Party had dug up on their own potential candidates in order to know their weaknesses.
This oppo research that was posted online apparently included one of the Democrats getting caught on a C-Span feed picking his ear wax and appearing to eat it. OK!
So, all of this stuff was supposed to be behind-the-scenes Democratic Party stuff. It magically appears online. You can imagine how nasty the primary becomes then between these guys, right? Accusations and counteraccusations fly. The candidates use the hacked documents against each other.
And then, one of them wins. One of them wins the primary, makes it to the general election. But all this stuff is in the public domain, and, of course, the Republican in the general election turns around and uses the hacked documents against the ultimate Democratic candidate. And the Democrat, of course, did not win that race in Florida. Democrats didn`t pick up that seat.
We all know now that the Democratic Party was hacked last year as part of a Russian attempt to influence the outcome of our presidential election. And we know how that material was used against the Clinton campaign and in favor of Donald Trump.
What is also known, though, but got far less attention was the way that Russian operation also got deployed down-ballot. Russian hackers in their op against our election last year, in addition to targeting the presidential race, they targeted about a dozen House races around the country, some of the most competitive races in the country. Russian hackers took and then leaked damaging documents, they hacked the stuff from the Democratic congressional campaign committee which shares an office with the DNC in Washington, and then they released that stuff publicly in a strategic way.
Notably, they targeted Democratic primaries in most cases, and that`s a great tactic if you not only want to weaken Democratic candidates for the general election, but you also want to sow dissension in the Democratic ranks. You want to exacerbate splits or rifts that occur inside the Democratic Party.
"Huffington Post" has been doing some great reporting over the last week on what appears to have been a coordinated Russian effort to flood Bernie Sanders supporters and Bernie Sanders Facebook groups with anti-Hillary Clinton spam and fake news during the election, stories about Hillary Clinton murdering her opponents and using body doubles and all this crazy stuff. One Sanders Facebook page administrator started tracking down where these nuts stories were coming from and found that at least 40 percent of the domain registrations were in places like Macedonia and Albania and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Another Facebook group administrator told the "Huffington Post", quote, "It came in like a wave, like a tsunami. It was a flood of misinformation."
Now, a lot of the people who are posting these things from foreign countries claimed to be Bernie Sanders fans who had decided to vote for Trump or had decided to vote for Jill Stein because Hillary Clinton was a murdering person with body doubles and all the rest of it. I mean, the goal, obviously, was to depress Democratic turnout, to inflame the mistrust that already existed between different parts of the party, to give people a narrative that would explain why they shouldn`t vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstances whether or not they would consider voting for anybody else.
That was the goal of that op and it worked to a certain extent. And now, it`s 2017 and now, in large part because Trump is president, right now, there is a ton of energy on the Democratic side. You see in the protests but you also see it in a flood of new interest in running for office, new Democratic candidates registering to run in local and state and congressional races.
So, here`s the question -- is what happened last year going to happen again? As we start gaming out congressional races and state legislature races and statewide races all around the country, how much involvement should we expect from Moscow? Do the Democrats have situational awareness about exactly what happened to them last year? And since we can probably assume they`re not going to get any help from the federal government in preventing it from happening again, are they capable of stopping it from happening again this year and into the future?
Joining us now is a man who knows, actually. Glen Caplin, he`s former senior national spokesperson for the Hillary Clinton campaign. And his responsibility on the campaign included handling questions about WikiLeaks and the hacking and that Russian op.
Mr. Caplin, it`s really nice to meet you. Thanks for being here.
GLEN CAPLIN, FORMER CLINTON CAMPAIGN NATIONAL SPOKESMAN: Good evening. Thanks for having me.
MADDOW: First, let me ask you, in terms of the way that I laid that out, does that seem roughly right to you in terms of what you understood happened last year?
CAPLIN: It does but also, that`s the second shift in sophistication that we saw with Russian hacking operations.
MADDOW: What do you mean?
CAPLIN: Well, the first we saw was the original dump of information was by Guccifer 2, a name people don`t know, on an obscure web site called D.C. Leaks that people did not know. It was a massive dump of information and it was not user-friendly in any way. Even we had trouble wrapping our arms around what was in that information.
MADDOW: But it was from the Democratic Party, from your servers?
CAPLIN: It was from the DNC. Those are first DNC dump of the hacked information.
MADDOW: OK.
CAPLIN: The second one was WikiLeaks, a very well-known outlet with a highly-searchable search function where you could easily get to the good information, and on the eve of the Democratic Convention. So, it was the first shift in -- where Guccifer didn`t get a lot of attention with the original dump of information, the second one gotten a enormous amount of attention by going to a more well-known web site that was very user- friendly.
MADDOW: And at the time, again, you were on the campaign at the time, and these dumps -- these attacks were targeting the DNC and as you mentioned here, the DCCC, which shared an office with the Democratic Party. How aware were you on the campaign of how much information this was and how it was being deployed operationally in the campaign for political purposes?
CAPLIN: Well, we were aware very, very early what this was, which was the Russians interfering in the election, to put their thumb on the scale --
MADDOW: You saw Russian fingerprints on it from the beginning?
CAPLIN: Well, the very first dump of information by Guccifer and D.C. Leaks had Russian metadata on it. A friend of mine who is an expert in Russian cyber told me Russians are really good at espionage, but not very good at propaganda, which was why it was sloppy with Russian metadata on it.
MADDOW: So they can get it, but they don`t know how to present it in a way that`s going to be accessible.
CAPLIN: Which is why I think the first two shifts the, shift from Guccifer to WikiLeaks which, by the way, Guccifer claims -- the persona Guccifer which is a front for the Russian intelligence claimed that he gave the information to WikiLeaks.
MADDOW: Uh-huh.
CAPLIN: So, we -- in summer of 2016, U.S. officials, cyber experts were already attributing this hack to the Russians and you could see it was only hurting one side and benefitting the other. It was very clear what this -- what this operation was. It was to discredit Hillary Clinton and to help Donald Trump.
MADDOW: Glen, I am going to ask you a weird question.
CAPLIN: Yes.
MADDOW: Would you agree to come back on this show tomorrow? Because I feel like what you`re describing in terms of the way you saw this unfolding from your perspective on the campaign is a piece of the story that hasn`t been told and I`d like to give you a bunch of time to just walk us through it and tell us why what you experienced and what it was like at the time.
Are you busy tomorrow at this time?
CAPLIN: I would be -- I can ask the babysitter to come, I`d be happy to come back.
MADDOW: OK, if you need a note for the babysitter --
CAPLIN: A note will help.
MADDOW: All right. I will.
I have to go help Glen Caplin write a note to his babysitter. He`s former senior national spokesperson for the Hillary Clinton campaign who worked on the WikiLeaks and Russia hack issue. We`ve got to get him a babysitter. If that works, we`ll be back with him tomorrow night. But we`ve got more ahead on other subjects tonight.
Please stay with us.
MADDOW: In most foreign countries, their equivalent of our secretary of state is called the foreign minister. So, when our secretary of state travels abroad, he or she meets with the foreign minister of that country, it`s the norm. I know this is an unsettling time in our politics, sometimes hard to keep track of what`s normal and what`s not normal anymore.
But I can tell you that in normal politics, one thing that would be weird is if the foreign minister of another major country came to the United States and didn`t meet with our secretary of state. That would be weird. It would be weirder if our State Department didn`t when another country`s foreign minister came here. That would be particularly, particularly weird if it was the foreign minister from one of our closest allies and the State Department had no idea.
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TRACY WILKINSON, LOS ANGELES TIMES: I see that the foreign minister of Mexico is in town, Luis Videgaray, meeting with -- according to the Mexicans -- Kushner, Gary Cohn and McMaster. Is there no State Department meeting with him? And if not, why not?
MARK TONER, ACTING STATE DEPT. SPOKESMAN: Tracy, good question. We`ll take that and get back to you. I was unaware that he was -- the foreign minister was in town and I`m not sure, I can`t speak to whether there`s going to be any meetings at the State Department at any level.
WILKINSON: OK.
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MADDOW: I was unaware that the foreign minister was in town. That was a few days ago at the new and improved Trump State Department. Who`s in town? The foreign minister from Mexico. Seriously? Nobody called.
Since then, since that happened a few days ago, we`ve had news the Middle East envoy appointed by the Trump administration who is a former lawyer for Trump`s real estate business, we`ve now learned that as Middle East envoy for the United States, he doesn`t even report to the State Department. He reports instead to Jared, he reports to the president`s son-in-law. OK.
Earlier this week, the new secretary of state had two hand shakes on camera with other countries foreign ministers. These events where he does not speak, at least does not speak in a way that would be audible to anybody else in the room, this is him with the Tunisian foreign minister not speaking.
Now, when these things happen, it`s not just Andrea Mitchell shouting questions that the secretary doesn`t answer. Now, it`s all sorts of reporters who shout out questions and the new secretary of state just smiles and turns his head from side to side and pretends he can`t hear anything.
This is him with the Greek foreign minister, another silent movie, not answering questions, can`t hear you, not speaking. There was supposed to be a third silent photo-op this week with Rex Tillerson and the foreign minister from the UAE, United Arab Emirates, they cancelled that photo-op, closed it to the press. Even with the "I don`t speak and I pretend I can`t hear you" rule, they didn`t even want reporters to be in the room for that one.
Well, now, the new secretary of state is on his first trip to Asia and there`s been attention to the fact that he`s breaking with decades of precedent and bringing only one reporter with him on the trip, a reporter from the conservative blog instead of the usual traveling press pool that travels all over the globe with the secretary of state.
If we`re talking about the invisiblization of the State Department, though, what was maybe even more striking than the no reporters thing today was that when the secretary of state got to Tokyo today, rather than visit the U.S. State Department outpost in Tokyo, rather than visit the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, Rex Tillerson instead opted for a nap. Rest time. Screw the embassy, nap time is upon us, everybody.
And he has made a habit of this. In February, he sent his acting deputy, a holdover from the Obama administration, to meet with the Israeli prime minister, instead of him meeting with the Israeli prime minister because Rex Tillerson decided he need to fly to Bonn, Germany, his first foreign trip, a night early, so he could, quote, "get a good night`s sleep before the conference started." Forget the Israeli prime minister, it`s nap time.
Beyond the cardboard secretary himself, though, is the consequential news today from Washington about, really, what is the planned decimation of the agency in terms of its budget. And we`ve got news on that ahead. Stay with us.
MADDOW: Listen to his explanation for why the cuts are OK, why the cuts don`t matter.
REX TILLERSON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: What the president is asking the State Department to do is I think reflective of a couple expectations. One is that as time goes by, there will be fewer military conflicts that the U.S. will be directly engaged in.
MADDOW: Don`t worry about cutting a third from the State Department`s budget, there`s going to be less war, you guys. There`s going to be fewer military conflicts. I mean, look around the world, isn`t that obvious?
We`re seeing the systematic destruction, chipping away, of the U.S. Department of State, little by little, bit by bit. The dismantling of the very thing that have put the U.S. State Department at the forefront of everything on the international stage appears to be dialing back and fast.
Joining us now is Wendy Sherman. She`s former under secretary of state for political affairs in the Obama administration.
Ambassador Sherman, thank you for being here. Appreciate your time tonight.
WENDY SHERMAN, FORMER U.S. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE: Good to be here.
MADDOW: I look at that proposed 37 percent cut, which we`re now told will be 30 percent in the first year, the secretary of state saying he is not just OK with that, he is going along with that willingly, he is excited about that. He thinks it`s appropriate, and I feel like the State Department is about to change radically.
Do you see it that way?
SHERMAN: Indeed. It`s sort of ironic, Rachel, that Secretary Tillerson is saying that there is likely to be fewer wars, while at the same time, Secretary Mattis of the Defense Department is buying more ammunition for more wars. So, they seemed to have a different strategic view of what the world is going to be like and what is necessary.
And it`s also strange because I understand that Secretary Tillerson was a CEO of a successful company. And in a company, I`m in the private sector now myself, in a company, you`ve got a bottom line and if you`ve got to tighten your belt, you tighten your belt. You tell employees they`re gone and you just move forward.
Government has more responsibility than that. We have a moral compass that is different and more expansive that what a private company or public company has to do.
And among the kinds of thing that are going to be gone as a result of this, we have a 65-member coalition fighting ISIS. We organize that coalition. We keep it together. We look at the interests of that coalition. We care about supporting the members of that coalition because we want them in the fight against terrorism.
The president wants to cut the OPIC, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Because of the investments that OPIC has made, it`s created 280,000 American jobs and returned in 2015, $2.6 billion to the U.S. Treasury.
The president is worried about Ebola. We know he is worried about pandemics. We heard that he`s terrified of a disease like Ebola coming here. Because of what the U.S. State Department did, what USAID did to help Nigeria build the health system, Nigeria managed Ebola very quickly and sent 200 health workers to other countries in Africa that were experienced in Ebola, that helped keep Ebola from our shores.
Those investments are in America`s national security interests. And it is short-sighted, dangerous, and cruel to do what is being suggested.
MADDOW: Ambassador Sherman, there is one threat that the new secretary of state has made in terms of U.S. involvement in the international community that I`d like to ask you about. If you could hold for one moment --
SHERMAN: Sure.
MADDOW: -- and we come back on the other side of the break, I have one of those questions for you. Thank you.
We`re with under secretary of state for political affairs in the Obama administration, Ambassador Wendy Sherman.
We`ll be right back.
MADDOW: We`re back now with Wendy Sherman, who`s the former under secretary for political affairs.
And, Ambassador Sherman, thank you again for sticking with us.
I wanted to ask you about a threat that the secretary of state made this week that the United States might drop out of the Human Rights Commission. How important would that be in terms of American leadership in the world?
SHERMAN: I think it is very important. It is tough because the Human Rights Council at times has not been very good in terms of who it`s members are. There are human rights abusers who become members, and they certainly haven`t been a friend, nor has the U.N. has always been a friend to Israel, a key ally and partner of ours.
But if we aren`t there to speak up, if we aren`t there to put our values forward, then the silence will be deafening. We have to be there and we have to speak up.
MADDOW: Wendy Sherman, former under secretary for political affairs in the Obama administration -- appreciate your time with us tonight. We have been watching the sort of dismantling of the State Department, in my case, with some considerable alarm. It`s good to have your perspective on it tonight. Thanks, ma`am.
SHERMAN: Thank you, Rachel.
MADDOW: All right. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again tomorrow.
Now, it`s time for "THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O`DONNELL".
Good evening, Lawrence.
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However, a growing body of research suggests that competition and violence among militant groups leads to serious negative consequences.
First, when multiple groups seek to represent the same broader community, this can lead to groups trying new tactics to "outbid" their rivals. Mia Bloom argues that this explains the surge in suicide terrorism in contexts as diverse as Sri Lanka and the Palestinian territories.
There are debates about the generalizeability of the outbidding hypothesis, but a number of studies find support for it.
A just-published study finds that militant group competition is associated with more unusual or "shocking" target types and attack types. Beyond innovation in types of terrorism, there is also evidence to suggest that outbidding simply leads to more terrorism, in terms of the number of attacks in a country. Competition can also lead to the emergence of new terrorist groups.
A second reason to not necessarily celebrate competition among terrorist groups such as al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State is that the rivalrous relationship is unlikely to lead to the destruction of either group – an explicit U.S. goal in the case of the Islamic State. President Obama has said, as noted previously on this blog, that he wants to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the group.
Violent competition is unlikely to destroy militant organizations. It could even contribute to their survival.
The apparent negative consequences of interoganizational competition are especially relevant since a much-discussed counterinsurgency strategy involves a state supporting one militant group against another. An example of relative success is the Anbar Awakening in Iraq, but there are more examples that didn't turn out so well. Given that many countries are encouraging various militant groups to confront the Islamic State, we should be prepared for a number of unintended consequences, such as those described above.
Overall, the likely deleterious consequences of militant group competition should give us pause about cheering on – or materially supporting – interorganizational rivalry and violence. The "good news" probably won't last.
Brian J. Phillips is a professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of sub-national political violence.
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In the previous chapter we looked at this important way of making news into a two-way exchange of information and opinions, between leaders and ordinary people. We considered different types of vox pop, and looked at the advantages of each, for newspapers and for radio and television. In this chapter we look in detail at how to conduct vox pops and how to analyse and present the results.
Whether your vox pop is to be an expensive public opinion survey or a quick street poll, you must prepare if it to be of any use.
You must have a clear idea of what you are trying to find out. That sounds obvious, but it all too easy to design a questionnaire badly, so that it fails to give you the information which you want.
For instance, if you are conducting a pre-election survey and you want to know who is likely to win the election, you ask people for which party they will vote. If you also want to know the probable shift in political influence, you need to know how these same people voted in the last election. Without this information you cannot do the job properly.
This is where the difference between the types of survey becomes clear. In a structured questionnaire, avoid open-ended questions like "what do you think about..." or "what would you do if..." The answers to these questions are impossible to collate and analyse. You should ask questions requiring yes/no answers, or multiple choice.
For example, a pre-election survey might ask: "Who would you like to be the next Prime Minister?", with the six possible answers: "Julius Chan", "Rabbie Namaliu", "Michael Somare", "Paias Wingti", "somebody else" (asking them to specify who) and "don't know".
For street polls, exactly the opposite applies. What you want is good quotes, and the questions must be open-ended to encourage them. You might ask questions such as "what do you think about photographs of election candidates being included on ballot papers?" or "what do you think of election candidates offering gifts to voters?"
What newspapers can do is to have five or six questions with yes/no answers or multiple choice answers, followed by one or two open-ended questions. In this way, they are able to run a story which has statistical information, but also has some good lively quotes.
Which political party will you vote for?
Which political party did you vote for?
Who would you like to be the next Prime Minister? Julius Chan, Rabbie Namaliu, Michael Somare, Paias Wingti, somebody else, don't know.
Why should he (she) be Prime Minister?
What would you most like the next government to do?
The first five questions will give us results which we can analyse. The last two questions should give us some good quotes.
You cannot interview everybody: it would take too much time and involve too many reporters, who have other things to do. However, too few interviews will produce results which are unlikely to be representative.
A compromise is difficult but necessary. One good way is to have a team of reporters, each placed at a strategic location in the district on the same day - the market, the shopping centre, the post office and so on. Each one should be able to talk to about 30 people in three hours, as long as the questionnaire is sensibly short. For a street poll you will not need to interview so many.
A target figure for each interviewer gives balance. It avoids the situation where one person interviews only 12 people, another does 25 and a third does 89. This would give undue weight to the views of people in one particular location.
Have some form of official identification with you, in case you are asked to produce it.
Remember that the people you wish to interview are under no obligation to answer any of your questions. You are a representative of your newspaper, so be polite at all times.
With a street poll, it is enough to find the liveliest and best quotes, and use them. However, you will also need to calculate roughly how many were "for" or "against" any particular issue, and choose the quotes so that they reflect that balance as well as giving you the best quotes.
With a questionnaire survey, the analysis is more important and more difficult. You will be faced with a mass of statistical information: what should you do with it?
First, count the number of people interviewed in the vox pop by adding together the number interviewed by each reporter. You can then divide them into different categories, if you wish.
For example, if every reporter makes a note by each interview as to whether it was a man or a woman; and which age group the person was in; then you can divide the sample into useful categories.
Perhaps you had five reporters working on the vox pop, and they each did 30 interviews. In this case, you have a total sample of 150 people.
Add up the number of men and the number of women - it might be 81 women and 69 men. Of course, the numbers must add up to 150.
Add up the number of people in each age group - it might be 41 aged 18 and under, 83 aged 19-50, and 26 aged 51 and over. Once again, of course, these numbers must add up to 150.
You could categorise your sample in any way you choose, depending upon the make-up of your society.
You can give this as the answer "from those old enough to vote". You will need to continue, analysing each answer in the same way.
You can see from these figures that Mr Namaliu appears to be more popular among women, while Mr Wingti has equal support from men and women.
You can see a very interesting pattern emerging from these figures. While support for Mr Namaliu and Mr Wingti is evenly divided, we can see that it is coming from very different age groups. Mr Namaliu is very popular with the 19-50 age group, while Mr Wingti is by far the most popular with the young age group. This is significant for the political future of each man and his party, and therefore for the country, so this would make an interesting news angle for your story.
The last thing to do, especially in a vox pop about voting intentions, is to compare the way things are now with the way they used to be. This might mean comparing the results of this vox pop with the results of a previous vox pop; or it might mean comparing answers to different questions in the same vox pop - as with comparing the second and fourth questions in this example.
Most of our sample seem to be fairly constant in their political support, if these figures are anything to go by. However, PPP's support has dropped by 33%, PDM has dropped 12%, PAP has almost doubled, and support for other parties (and independents) has increased a lot.
This, too, is significant material, and could provide some indication of which parties can expect to do better than last time, which parties can expect to do less well, and which can expect to perform at about the same level.
Once you have the results analysed, you must treat them like the raw materials for any news story. Pretend that you have just encountered them for the first time; look at them; assess their news value; decide on the most newsworthy angle and make that your intro.
Clearly the story has to be presented to the readers or listeners as a normal news story, written in words. You cannot throw a pile of statistics at them and expect them to sort it all out for themselves.
Nevertheless, once you have presented the most interesting information in a well-written news story, you can give detailed information tabulated at the end. In this way, the readers who are particularly interested can do some of their own interpretation and analysis from your statistics.
As we mentioned earlier, though, do not try to conclude too much from a limited street survey, and even less from a street poll. From an accurate opinion poll you can extrapolate. This means that, for example, if 30% of the women of a particular age and social group interviewed held a particular view, you can confidently say that 30% of all women of similar age and social group hold this view. You cannot extrapolate in this way from our more instant and amateur surveys.
You can say "more than two-thirds of the people interviewed thought...", but you cannot go on to say "most people in Papua New Guinea think..."
Radio and television stations usually only conduct the simplest kind of vox pop - the street poll - with a single reporter asking one or two questions to a small number of people. Its only purpose is to gather a few comments on a current issue, to hear what some ordinary people are thinking. No attempt is made to draw any statistical conclusions from the answers or to suggest that the comments are a guide to how people in society as a whole react. They are a way of illustrating a story, not a way of discovering any new information about what the population thinks about an issue.
Very few radio or television stations attempt the kind of statistical survey you have just seen demonstrated for newspapers. Wealthy television stations may pay a specialist public opinion company to conduct a survey for them, usually at election time. Radio stations seldom pay for such surveys for the simple reason that they cannot use the information properly, as newspapers or television can. Listeners will be bored by a mass of statistical figures.
Although many of the principles of the street poll vox pop apply equally to both print and broadcast journalists, there are some obvious differences. The most important is that, although television can use film or video of people interviewed, vox pops are useless for radio and television unless you can hear the actual words people use - what we call the actuality. (See Chapter 48: Radio and television basics.) So you must always use a tape recorder or television camera. Before you leave the newsroom, check that all your equipment is working properly.
Choose a busy place to conduct the interviews, but keep away from loud background noise. For television vox pops the background might be relevant; vox pops about buying habits can be conducted in shopping centres, vox pops about travel at bus stops or train stations.
People are always interested when they see a reporter approach them with a microphone or camera, but some may be shy and try to avoid you. If you let all the shy people escape, you will not get a wide sample of people; you will only get those people who are happy to appear in your report. So try to talk people into giving you "a quick interview". Tell them it will not take more than a couple of minutes. Be polite and if they refuse again, let them go.
You will usually attract quite a crowd, which you can occasionally turn to advantage by bringing in observers for quotes. On television, try to avoid young children standing behind the interviewee, making faces into the camera. Choose a location which will not allow them to do it, for example against a wall or on a piece of high ground.
Once you have them in front of the camera or microphone, help them to relax. If your vox pop is on a humorous subject, maybe relax them with a little joke. Although you must hold the microphone close to the interviewee, do not frighten them with it. Many people are uncomfortable with strange technology like microphones or cameras. So do not push the microphone or camera into their mouth. On television, the camera operator should be a little distance behind the reporter, shooting over the reporter's shoulder.
It is best to ask only one question of everyone. Although it is possible to ask two or more questions, this will create problems later when you come to edit your tape. Decide the exact wording of the question before starting the vox pop. Keep the question short and simple.
Never ask questions to which people can give "yes" or "no" answers. Ask open-ended questions, especially ones beginning with "How", "Why" or "What". For example, instead of asking "Do you agree with the proposed law to ban smoking in public places?" you should ask "What do you think about the law to ban smoking in public places?"
Avoid interrupting their answers unless it seems that they might go on talking for too long, then politely thank them for their time and move to the next interview.
It is not usual for radio vox pops to use people's names, but television reporters might occasionally take people's names to use in captions.
Your interviewee might want to hear what their voice sounds like, and ask you to replay the tape. Refuse politely, as it will only slow you down. They may also ask when the program will go to air. Because you are not yet in a position to guarantee that their particular interview will be used, do not promise them anything. But tell them approximately when the report will be used. They can then tell all their friends and relatives to tune in at that time, increasing your audience.
There is no fixed limit on the number of interviews you should conduct. Some of the interviews will be better than others and you may not use some of them at all. If you have only a two-minute space for your report, you may be able to use up to 10 short answers or only four or five longer answers - perhaps an average of 6 voices. It is always better to have some in reserve, so always do a few more interviews than you think you will need. As a rough guide, two or three interviews are not enough, twenty will be too many.
Whether you report for radio or television, the principle is the same. The quotes must be strong, easy to understand and in good taste, with no swear words or other bad language.
You must listen through the whole of your tape again when you return to the editing suite, making a written note of the best quotes and their location on the tape. If you have had to use multiple questions or a large number of interviewees, make a grid with the interviewees down one axis, the questions down the other. Once you have filled in remarks about each answer, you can look at the grid to choose the best and fairest sample for editing.
You do not need your own questions between the voices of your interviewees. You should write your cue or intro script to explain the issue and what question you asked, but then allow the people's voices to be heard replying one after the other. Edit their comments very tightly, taking out all unnecessary words and pauses.
It will make your tape more interesting if you mix a variety of voices, male and female, young and old, well-educated and uneducated and so on. In multilingual societies, you can also mix languages, although you should check with your producer that this will be all right for the particular program chosen.
Finally, make sure that all the sound is adjusted to the same level. There is nothing more annoying than trying to listen to a bad sound recording.
how many interviews you need.
take a head-and-shoulders picture of them.
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Treat the results of your analysis like any news story.
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The Senate rejected President Barack Obama's slimmed-down jobs bill on Thursday as Congressional Democrats failed to get the 60 votes needed to break the Republican filibuster. The legislation was part of an effort by Obama to break up his $447 billion jobs proposal into separate acts, a move that apparently has not placated Republicans in the Senate, The Associated Press reports.
The smaller, $35 billion measure was targeted the save the jobs of teachers, first responders and other vital employees. It would have given $30 billion to state and local governments to hire educators and other works while it provided $5 billion to pay for the salaries of police offices and firefighters.
Despite the setback (the GOP unanimously voted against it, with three Democrats joining in), Obama's camp is steadfast in its commitment to moving forward with more attempts to push the bill through. Thursday night, Obama issued a harshly-worded statement condemning the Republicans seeming refusal to pass any bill that could spur job growth.
"For the second time in two weeks, every single Republican in the United States Senate has chosen to obstruct a bill that would create jobs and get our economy going again," Obama's statement said, according to the AP. "Every American deserves an explanation as to why Republicans refuse to step up to the plate and do what's necessary to create jobs and grow the economy right now."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell repeated the GOP talking point that so-called big government spending is not the way out to jump start the economy.
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Sarah STEYAERT (FRA) has shown that she belongs to the top. On the last day of the races she sailed a third and first position, winning the second place overall. Alberte LINDBERG from Denmark sailed a 17th and fourth position. Though this can be seen as a mix of a good and bad day of racing, it did mean that she won bronze! For those who were cheering on the local talent of Gea JUTJENS (NED) many were celebrating at the end of the day with her coming in fourth place. It means that she has qualified for a half-nomination for the Olympics.
PATON, though with disappointing 26,13 results on the final day, became the World Champion Laser Radial 2007 for the men. It was a close call with until the very end as to who would win - PATON or Eduard VAN VIANEN (NED)? With a difference of two points only the title belongs to PATON. For the Dutch competitors this event was a huge success. Three men on he podium of which the silver and bronze were both for the Dutch. Steven KROL was very pleased with third place, according to him, ''It's a good way to end such a fantastic event'.


The concept is that by managing expectations in such a manner that you are positioned to exceed them, you stand a greater likelihood of leaving behind a happy customer.Or spouse, or child, or co-worker, as the concept really works anywhere in life. But what do you do when you are positioned to do the reverse, not by work ethic but by design?
Overpromising & Underdelivering: How Cutting-Edge Tech Is Often a Waste of Money The business mantra imploring you to "underpromise and overdeliver" is as true for Security Integrators as it is for your family.
This is the problem when the kit becomes so advanced and we (the end user) has to rely on the installers to give us what we need, as chances are, we would say "put in the good stuff" and hope we dont get ripped off!
You reminded us of that famous saying which means that the strength of the chain can't exceed the strength of the weakest link in the chain. What is the point in having a cable capable of high bandwidth when it will remain un-used. You are right the customer may have been lured into having latest technology in place when it is not needed.
All the three problems you mentioned with CAT6a cable are related to cost. Cost may not be a factor if overall performance of the system is increased. But when that doesn't happen, cost comes into play definitely. And it is not just the matter of cost per box of cable; costs of related equipment also follow which make considerable difference in the final bill.
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Diva is a Program Officer (Measurement, Learning and Evaluation) with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in India, where her portfolio includes research and evaluations in gender, ICT, nutrition, child health and youth. Diva is also leading impact evaluations in gender and education. Diva was formerly Associate Director at J-PAL South Asia for evaluation capacity building and the Program Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) in South Asia, where she worked on strengthening M&E capacity in the region and promoting evidence based decision-making. Previously, she worked for J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) on several impact evaluations in India, Bangladesh and Morocco dealing with governance, education, gender and urban services. She has also worked as consultant for the World Bank, Planning Commission and other non-profit organizations in the U.S. and India. Diva has a Masters in International and Development Economics from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.


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Massachusetts State Flag
A flag is often an amalgam of anecdotes that tell the history of a state.
You will find below the description and explanation for the symbols of the flag of Massachusetts.
The flag of Massachusetts was adopted in this form March 21, 1971. It is composed of a white background on which is drawn the seal of the State. It is the only one that had previously contained a different verso because it wore (until 1971) a pine tree on a green blue shield, referring to the Navy of the State. The seal of Massachusetts is an Algonquin, who is an Indian warrior. The state is in fact the name of a Algonquin�s tribe, �the Massachusetts�, which could then be translated as "near the great hill�, in reference to Great Blue Hill, the most famous mountain of the State. A star symbolizes the country's accession to the United States, and the state motto is inscribed on a blue band "Ense Petit Placidam Sub Libertate Quietem": "With the weapons, and free, it seeks peace". Massachusetts has joined the United States on 4 July 1777, at the Declaration of Independence, as a part of the original thirteen states that created the United States. Massachusetts is known as the "Bay State" and its capital is Boston.
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On this website, you can download the Massachusite flag in different sizes.
All Massachusetts's flags are available in 4 different resolutions to best suit your purposes (S, M, L, XL). Click on the flag to access the download page.
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Individual Pear Crisps are a simple dessert with a yummy cinnamon oat filling perfect for kids to have their own!
Slice pears in half down the middle. (This saves you time from slicing!) You won't need to peel the pears – pear skin is thin and can be eaten right along with the middle. It just adds fiber and nutrients! Hollow out the core from the pears. Mix oats, butter, brown sugar and cinnamon together. There is not enough butter to make it sticky, but it is sufficient for baking. Pour the oat mixture into the cored pears. Place pears in a baking dish and Bake at 350 for at least 25 minutes, or until fruit is tender.
Make sure your pears are ripe. If they are under-ripe they won't taste very sweet, and if they are overripe, they will turn out very mushy.
You can use pretty much any pear variety. We have tried it with different varieties and they all turn out great.
Bake in ramekins! This way you can serve your individual pears right in the dish you used to bake them in.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Cut each pear in half, down the center. Carve out the core area, forming a small hole. Place pear halves open side up, onto prepared baking sheet.
Melt butter and then add to a mixing bowl with oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and salt. Mix together until crumbly. Scoop an even amount into each pear.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, allowing pears to become tender.
Wow, I wish I could see his presentation – sounds cool! My pediatrician's office has all female doctors and all male nurses – how funny is that?
I think your piggy pear looks great!
Amy, I would try but I'm hooked on the Good Day Pear Crisp you had last year.


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Amanda Lemke was 9 years old when Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825. Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer Troller, an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom, and a 49% stake in Jiangling Motors of China. It also has joint-ventures in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Russia. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family; they have minority ownership but the majority of the voting power.
Amanda Lemke was 18 years old when Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule. Nicholas II or Nikolai II, known as Saint Nicholas in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas the Bloody or Vile Nicholas by his political adversaries due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Russian Revolution, the executions of political opponents, and his perceived responsibility for the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Soviet historians portray Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects.
Amanda Lemke was 29 years old when Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy". Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Amanda Lemke was 40 years old when Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. Adolf Hitler was a German politician, demagogue, and Pan-German revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator, Hitler initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and was central to the Holocaust.
Amanda Lemke was 41 years old when The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945. Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event involving the persecution and murder of other groups, including in particular the Roma and "incurably sick", as well as ethnic Poles and other Slavs, Soviet citizens, Soviet prisoners of war, political opponents, gay men and Jehovah's Witnesses, resulting in up to 17 million deaths overall.
Amanda Lemke was 54 years old when Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr.
Amanda Lemke was 65 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire.
Amanda Lemke was 78 years old when Star Wars is released in theaters. Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star.


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Remembering Robin Williams
Letter to the Editor: We are students in Monteverde. This is why we are striking against climate change.
Letter to the Editor: Monteverde Community Fund creating local opportunities
Letter to the Editor: The story of the Cortez Amarillo, or how a country loses its own land
The rise of the #metoo movement through the eyes of two Costa Rican teenage girls
The dream of a community called La Carpio
Marielos Méndez March 22, 2018 April 30, 2018
Kindergarten students hold balloons to celebrate their new school. (Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times)
On Tuesday, March 21, the first phase of construction of La Carpio's new primary school was officially inaugurated by President Luis Guillermo Solís, First Lady Mercedes Peñas, Education Minister Sonia Marta Mora (read more here). The new three-story building required a $6.4 million investment and will serve 1,735 elementary school students and 400 preschool students.
In 1993, people from rural areas of Costa Rica and abroad, especially from our northern brother country of Nicaragua, migrated to settle down on a property belonging to the Social Security System, or Caja (CCSS) in the district of Uruca in the province in San José. Two years after that, some residents started to worry about reserving a piece of land so that their children could study. With few resources, they began work on a humble building for their boys and girls.
That's how a transcendental decision was made that would change the course of thousands of lives: a decision to fight for a small school.
What the old school in La Carpio looked like before construction began. Courtesy of Marielos Méndez
A scene from the old school. Courtesy of Marielos Méndez
That simple building, which featured a few classrooms made out of wood and cans, became a place of learning. Soon there were so many children coming in that there was no room for them all. The teachers at that time had to adapt to the precarious conditions that merged with the arid landscape of the location. Classes were given in churches or in the hallways of neighbors' houses. Little by little, the process was shaped into what became hte Escuela Finca La Caja.
The name Escuela Finca La Caja, for a long time, was emblematic of the community's longing for learning. Through these classrooms various generations of La Carpio's sons and daughters have marched, most of them managing – with the help of God, their families and teachers– to move on and be good, productive people.
The school under construction. Courtesy of Marielos Méndez
The children in charge of carrying a school crest, which reads: "Kindergarten La Carpio". Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
Kindergarten students pose for the camara. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
Despite the economic contributions from the Public Education Ministry (MEP), through which improvements have been made to three impoverished buildings at three locations in the community, these became more and more inadequate over time to respond to a student population of more than 1,600.
For all these years, the school, because of limited space, has had its student attend in three shifts of only 3.5 hours each. This short school day placed its students at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the country's institutions.
Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
A teacher guiding her kindergarten students. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
It's important to point out that throughout all this, La Carpio witnessed years of violence between gangs, generated in large part by how difficult it was for its young population to access education and thereby a dignified job. This intensified efforts by education authorities to put into action the right to an obligatory and free education, established by the Costa Rican Constitution.
It was more than 20 years of waiting, of battling, of requests and paperwork, until an administration came along that decided to look back at a community forgotten by previous governments, that decides to listen to the voice of a group that has knocked on many institutions' doors. That's how the government decided to join the effort, creating links between the MEP and the Ministry of Housing (MIVAH), the Mixed Institute for Social Aid (IMAS), the Municipality of San José, and many other institutions that look for a solution that responded to the educational needs of the children of La Carpio.
A girl from elmentary school wears a bow with the colors of the Costa Rican flag. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
Happy children at their new school. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
Finally, yesterday, the administration of President Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera delivered a grandiose achievement, one that the citizens and educators decided to Escuela La Carpio. This educational institution will allow its students to develop their intellectual, athletic, cultural, and technological potential, being an inclusive school were everyone has the opportunities to learn in conditions of equality. Where all students have the chance to achieve their goals.
The construction of these buildings will allow the children of La Carpio to study in comfort, in enjoyable spaces and with technology. They'll have the necessary tools to deal with personal, educational and professional challenges of the future, given that this is a community of working people that, with great effort, contribute daily to the country's development.
Students from one of SIFAIS's music ensembles performed at the inauguration. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
Kindergarten students paying attention at the speech. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
A kindergarten student poses for the camara. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
This new building represents the hopes of a citizenry that believes in education as a motor for development, for human growth. We believe in education as the way in which our girls and boys will build their present with effort and enthusiasm, and look to the future with hopes of a better tomorrow.
Education is a source of development; it's an essential tool to achieve the transformation of societies, and La Carpio has not been the exception.
President Luis Guillermo Solís. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
The implementation of the Education Ministry's Programs of Different Modalities in the community has been indispensable to improve the living conditions of its inhabitants, which shows that a country's wealth lies its children and youth. Investing in education inevitably moves us toward the construction of a better future for all citizens.
Joyful children enjoying the inauguration. Elizabeth Lang / The Tico Times
The author of this piece has worked as a teacher of Special Education at La Carpio's Escuela Finca la Caja since 2001. She works with primary school students who have cognitive disabilities as well as coordinating with regular teachers and families to enable successful educational inclusion. During her 18 years of working with the community, she has experienced La Carpio's evolution through education.
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Jako motorové vozy Uerdingen (německy Uerdinger Schienenbus) jsou označovány dvounápravové železniční motorové vozy lehké konstrukce, které byly v 50. a 60. letech 20. století vyráběny ve firmě Waggonfabrik Uerdingen (později DUEWAG, nyní včleněna do společnosti Siemens AG), která se nachází v Uerdingenu, části německého města Krefeld. Celkem jich bylo vyrobeno (včetně licenční výroby) 1 492 kusů. Byly využívány společností Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) a dalšími soukromými dopravci. DB, u kterých nesly řadu VT 95 (později 795) a VT 98 (později 798), je vyřadily nejpozději do roku 2000. Část vozů řady 798 byla v roce 1988 upravena pro jednomužnou obsluhu (pouze strojvedoucí) a nově byla označena řadou 796.

Konstrukce
Vozová skříň je samonosná ocelová a je usazena na dvou jednonápravových podvozcích. Vozy řady 795 mají pouze jeden motor, jenž pohání jednu z náprav, řada 798 již je vybavena dvěma motory, takže hnací jsou obě nápravy. Vstup do vozu je zajištěn dvěma skládacími dveřmi v každé bočnici, dveře ústí na plošinu, kde se nachází stanoviště strojvedoucího. Sedačky v oddílu pro cestující jsou rozmístěny 2+3.

Motorový vůz řady 815 v Česku
Vůz 796.757 byl v Německu zakoupen podnikatelem Radanem Stiftem v roce 2000, později byl odprodán společnosti Česká severní dráha. V roce 2002 byl administrativně označen českým označením 815.001, do léta 2003 byl celkově opraven a později byly uskutečněny zkušební jízdy na tratích SŽDC. Na podzim 2003 byl odprodán německé firmě Hochwaldbahn Eisenbahnbetriebs- und Bahnservicegesellschaft (označila jej VT 61), která v roce 2005 odkoupila zbývající podíly ve společnosti Sächsisch-Böhmische Eisenbahngesellschaft, dopravci na železniční trati Žitava – Großschönau – Varnsdorf – Eibau, od České severní dráhy a firmy Sächsisch-Oberlausitzer Eisenbahngesellschaft. Od roku 2004 používala vůz pro zajištění provozu na trati Žitava – Liberec společnost Railtrans.

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 Fotografie vozu 815.001

Uerdingen
Uerdingen
Kolejová vozidla vyráběná od roku 1950
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Collège de Beauvais (také nazývaná Collège de Dormans-Beauvais) byla jedna z kolejí bývalé pařížské univerzity. Dochovaná budova je památkově chráněna. Jedná se o kapli, kterou využívá rumunská pravoslavná církev jako chrám archandělů Michaela, Gabriela a Rafaela. Kolej sídlila v latinské čtvrti (5. obvod), v dnešní Rue Jean-de-Beauvais. Na přelomu 17. a 18 století byla jedním z center jansenismu.

Historie

Kolej založil 8. května 1370 Jean de Dormans, biskup z Beauvais a kancléř Francie. Součástí byla kaple sv. Jana Evangelisty - dnešní kostel svatých archandělů, který postavil roku 1375 architekt Raymond du Temple, podílel se též na stavbě hradů Louvre a Vincennes. Stejný stavitel postavil v roce 1381 samotné budovy koleje, které dnes již neexistují.

V 16. století se koleje Presles a Beauvais, které byly odděleny pouze zdí, propojily bránou, na čemž se dohodli děkan koleje Presles Petrus Ramus a děkan koleje Beauvais Omer Talon. Během náboženských válek kolej vedl protestant Nicolas Charton, zavražděný během bartolomějské noci.

Kolej byla uzavřena v roce 1763 a prodána koleji Lisieux, jejíž budova byla zbořena v roce 1762, aby se vytvořilo náměstí před kostelem Sainte-Geneviève, budoucím Pantheonem, a mohla se postavit budova právnické fakulty.

Slavní studenti
 Nicolas Boileau
 Charles Perrault
 Cyrano z Bergeracu
 Louis Racine
 Louis Godin
 Jean Pierre de Bougainville
 Claude Nicolas Ledoux
 Edme Mentelle

Bývalí učitelé
 teolog Godefroy Hermant zde učil v letech 1636-1639
 literát a historik Jean-Baptiste-Louis Crevier zde vyučoval rétoriku

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Literatura
 Thierry Kouamé, Le collège de Dormans-Beauvais à la fin du Moyen Âge. Stratégies politiques et parcours individuels à l'Université de Paris (1370-1458), Brill, 2005,

Reference

Související články
 Collège de Clermont
 Pařížská univerzita
 Chrám archandělů Michaela, Gabriela a Rafaela

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  Záznam v evidenci historických památek

Koleje bývalé Pařížské univerzity
Historické památky v 5. obvodu (Paříž)
Gotické stavby v Paříži
Vzniklo 1370
Zaniklo 1763


Exactly this time last week, I was in a seminar room at a 5-star hotel in Penang, going through last minute preparations and chatting with colleagues and business associates. I presented a talk on wills and estate planning on behalf of the British High Commission exclusively for the sizeable British expatriates who have retired or relocated to Malaysia. These expats are in Malaysia mainly on a long stay visa called Malaysia My Second Home (more commonly known as MM2H). A few days later, I bumped into one of the attendees and she kindly complimented me on a job well done. But it was what she said later that truly struck a chord with me and prompted me to pen this blog.
"You forced the audience to put their thinking caps on," she remarked and added that Brits tend to procrastinate or see no urgency when it comes to estate planning. And here I was thinking that procrastination was purely a Malaysian affliction!
That comment was particularly satisfying because it's difficult for a speaker to give a large audience exactly what they want. Everyone has different needs with varying knowledge levels. If the speaker goes into too much depth on the topic, he risks losing the attention of some in the audience; while those with in-depth knowledge might be disappointed or bored.
It would seem that many of us choose not to confront or even think about our mortality. And this fear transcends nationalities! My take on this is, instead of dreading the inevitable; I prefer to focus on our loved ones and leaving them in a better place when we depart. With that in mind and instead of lecturing the attendees on the substantive laws of succession, I shared examples of problems which cropped up frequently and cost our clients or their estate.
Avoid a simple will. Taking the time to chat with your lawyer about your circumstances (as opposed to having a quick simple will just to tick the box) is worth more than its weight in gold.
I do hope this discussion about death and wills doesn't terrify but persuades you to put your thinking caps on and to be suitably prepared to confront your fears. I know I'll be doing that when I surf the strong Indian Ocean swells later.
PS. Just in case you are thinking of locating or retiring to Malaysia or have friends who are, some important topics were discussed at the seminar which was also graced by senior officers of the Malaysia My Second Home and the Immigration Department. Among the noteworthy subjects, the rumoured increase in the financial criteria for Malaysia My Second Home — this has been approved by the Malaysian cabinet and will take effect around the middle of the year. A formal announcement will be made soon.
MM2H holders will not be permitted to work in Malaysia.
All the above was conveyed verbally so I would advise that we await the official version in writing.


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Seamless, GrubHub Join Forces
Two top food delivery websites, GrubHub and Seamless LLC, announced on May 20 that they will merge to create a combined empire for food delivery services. The plans still have to be approved by U.S. regulators.
"We have the luxury of having two amazing brands right now," Matt Maloney, CEO and co-founder of GrubHub, told ABC News."Honestly, we don't have plans to consolidate brands at this time. We are looking to position ourselves as a combined unit within this massive industry."
Although financial terms could not yet be released, both brands said that they plan to combine their love of food and culinary certificates and business knowledge, with Maloney acting as the CEO of the combined company and Seamless CEO Jonathan Zabusky serving as president.
"This has nothing to do with cost savings; it has everything to do with increasing growth," Maloney told Bloomberg. "We're totally focused on the top line and how we continue to drive more orders for our restaurants."
According to USA Today, the two companies had a combined $875 million in gross food sales, which totaled to a combined revenue of more than $100 million. When GrubHub and Seamless officially merge, they will offer delivery services at 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities across the U.S. This merger will offer fast and easy delivery from some of the nation's best chefs and restaurateurs, some of whom may have learned their skills from online cooking courses.
"We are going to be able to do some really cool stuff to redefine online ordering," Maloney told ABC News.
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