From your times, I'm Michael by this. The day today, as President Trump near the end of his first year in office, why? The next few weeks will be crucial to his presidency and how the armed robbery of a radio shack has led to what could become the most important keys on electronic privacy ever to go before the Supreme Court, its one November, twenty seven Maggie Oberlin. Can you tell us about this meeting on Tuesday at the White House Shore, Sir President, tramp is meeting with the four congressional leaders from both Parties-

the majority and minority it's for public and Paul Ryan, Democratic Nancy Policy, Republican Mitch, Mcconnell Undemocratic, Chuck, Shermer. There are a lot of issues that are on the table. Address natively for all of these leaders to discuss with each other and with the president, the most urgent and really the reason for this meeting. To begin with is to discuss passing another continuing resolution to keep funding the government after December. Eighth, that's when it said to shut down which would be difficult at best for the political field, first of all five people in that room. We had a very good meeting with national policy. In September, we agreed to a three month: extension on debt sailing said the less time, leaders, mad the president, stunned leaders from his own party and essentially pull the rug, under in a stunning move president Trump bucking, his own party, cutting a deal.

With Democrats to provide disaster relief funds and extend the debt ceiling and fund the government for three months by citing with trucks. Humor Nancy policy on their side priorities in terms of a deal to keep the government running this head, a longer term impact on the president's relationship with Macao and Ryan we walked out of everybody was happy not do have, because you can never be too happy, but they were happy enough. How speaker Paul, Ryan lashed out a Democrat. I think that's ridiculous industry peaceful that they want to play politics with the dead ceiling. At this moment they were curious. That's a word. They were very, very unhappy sue newly three months later there back for another meeting and they have to agree on a plan to fund the government. Yet again, what's happened in the time since definitional meeting that's meaningful,

you're. Almost nothing has happened, Michael and that that is the easier question to answer. You have Republicans and control of both houses of Congress and Republicans in control of the White House, and they have not managed to pass any significant legislation beyond just keeping the government funded. The president often likes to talk about his presidency in historic terms. We ve side more, sales and I'm talkin about through the legislature than any president ever for awhile Harry Truman had us and he keeps claiming that there has been some record amount of legislation passed now. I think we have everybody, Michael, I better say think otherwise, I'll give you Pinocchio like those are like Pinocchio is. There is no signature piece of legislation and right now they are just focusing on tax reform and trying to get That done, I think, after healthcare taxes are gonna, be so easy. It really helps. Tax reform was the issue that the president wished. He had tackled. First

state of health care reform. So now you have the White House making a push for what has always been the president's own personal main priority and they oh, that they have a limited window to get it done. They know with all of these things that the clock is ticking, but with tax reform. It is incredibly incredibly important to the president. However, there are not enough republican votes to pass. It just

the majority- and there is really a very nice, I'm Denon chance of getting democratic votes this afternoon. The president returns right here to Washington where he is facing what might be the busiest and most defining month of his first year in office with no major legislative accomplishments. Today, president Tromp, an congressional Republicans, are now racing to pass tax reform before the end of the year. As it happens, you know this meeting must take place because a continuing resolution to keep running the government must take place, but it is coming at a really crucial time in the life of this presidency. It is the final month of the calendar year. It is the final month before the holiday recess, when Congress goes home when they get a feel for weeks

their voters are in their individual districts, and it is the final month where the president has a chance to pass something like tax reform, which is his big ticket. I assume o Conall and Ryan, go into this meeting on Tuesday looking at the end of year, one and there are worried about tax reform. Their last hope this year

a big legislative victory and the need to prevent a government shutdown. What might they have to give Democrats in order to prevent that shut down? Look. I think that Republicans are going to have to give a little bit on something that they don't necessarily want to. I think that the EU could look like a bipartisan fixed for health care. It could be on something like a fix for Dhaka where they give Democrats, if not everything they want something that would be allowed. The democratic party leaders to claim a victory so in this final month of trumps first calendar year as president in trying to protect themselves, and prevent a down. Republicans might end up providing a legislative concession to Democrats, and their mean priority, which has tax reform, is not at all a sure thing. So could all of this effectively.

Democrats with more legislative energy. Then Republicans, headed into this next year. Look if republicans cannot pass tax reform. That's going to be a significant loss. Republicans can't quite decide whether they are better off with or without this tax reform bill, but they have telegraph publicly that they believe, are better off passing it. If it gets, past Democrats are going to pound them, Hindi and two thousand and eighteen there going to be some pretty easy to write commercials that is going to make life easier for Democrats, certainly politically and potentially legislatively depending on what comes out next year. Maggie. Thank you very much. I've always Michael, thank you for having me

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and dangerous. They wanted. These kids was armed with an automatic weapons. Couple weeks before Christmas, rounded up the employees took some of them to the back, forced others of them to put a bunch of smartphones in bag during garbage basis, smartphones right out of the store. What they really wanted was the apple Iphone and they got away with dozens of them. They did this at least eight more times in and around Detroit, hitting radio Shack, T Mobile stores and trafficking smartphones that they still and all of this was masterminded by a guy named Kim Carpenter

supplied the guns and waited outside in a look out and getaway car. What do we know about TIM Carpenter came Carpenter known as little TIM to distinguish from his covert and half brother. Big TIM was not a super capable criminal. One of his confederates was nabbed flipped on him and identified the folks who are doing all these robberies and what evidence did prosecutors have in this case, while they had testimony from his confederates, they had testimony from witnesses, but important leader helped make their case with ironically carpenters. Own cellphone, always gotta hold him cell phone records used to make the case against him. Now the unilateral investigator obtained months worthy of his cell phone location. Records, which help show were covered are wise when he made and received com

than the general area of those robberies. So, as we walk around make calls check emails search the web on our phones, they connect the cellphone towers and companies keep records of each of those connections, and that provides a kind of time machine. You can look back and see where I've been over months and months and prosecute were able to establish that his phone at least, and presumably he were near the sights of these robberies, not evident led to his conviction, limiting carbon, our wealth and the next one hundred and sixteen years and federal president. But this is a normal for prosecutors to use this kind of information from a cell phone in criminal cases. It's become very carbon, they love it and why they love it, because it's you, It doesn't rely on the testimony of someone whose memory might be hazy. You might have been terrified who might have reason to lie because they ve gotten of sweet pea deal its objective juries like the: U S, Supreme,

court agree today to hear a major privacy case involving cell phone data spring, It has created, decide whether police, canoes cell phones to track people without a war. The justices are going to hear an appeal from a serial robber who maintains that police unlawfully used his cell phone records to get a conviction William Pitts, with more than one hundred ways that sounds like a pretty straightforward criminal case. How did the case of Timothy Carpenter make its way Adam to the Supreme Court? The fourth amendment bars unreasonable searches and seizures, and in some settings for the search to be reasonable, you have to get a warrant, and in this case they didn't get a traditional warrant and the question in the case is: should they have gone to warrant the cell phone companies provided twelve thousand eight hundred and ninety eight locations for carpenter and a lot of people would say, there's some amount of data, that's so rich and detailed that it,

needs to be a real privacy violations, that should have the fourth amendments warrant protections kick in the case of Carpenter versus the United States. It sort of the latest battle over cell phones. A couple of years ago, the Supreme Court said the police data search warrant. If they see but a rest, someone to look in their cell phones. Now this is the next big question to the police need a search warrant to track you with your cell phone carriers received thousands of such requests each year. So far. The court's maintain that the fourth amendment does not apply here, because customers voluntarily gave up bad in both to phone companies. An item. What's the government's case here and it's rationale for having not sought a warrant. The government says listen. This is not your information. This is information in the hands of a third party. You have voluntarily decided to share with your cell phone company where you are, and you have no particular right

not at all, that's not even a search the government says, and there are old cases supporting that completely putting so that when you call somebody in a landline. The government is free to get information about what number you called how long you talked for the sort of what people call outside the envelope information. They can't wiretapped the substance of what you're talking about, but how long you talk, foreign with whom you talked that doesn't require a warrant. That's not even a search that so called third party material, and the government says this is the same thing. This is just information you ve decided to share with your cell phone company by dint of walking around with your cell phone and therefore the floor.

The amendment is not complicated at all. So what the government is saying is that when Timothy Carpenter or any of us move around town using our cell phones or basically volunteering, this information to the companies who provide our self service Verizon sprang T Mobile and therefore it belongs to those companies to us exactly right. Let's figure, there's a human being I witness in every place there happens to be a cell phone down. And that human being I witnessed witnesses TIM Carpenter, doing whatever he's doing nobody thinks the police need a warrant to get that information. There freed asked us people what they like you can think of. The cell phone tower is a similar kind of witness and again, if you do, then maybe you don't need a warrant to get information about what that cellphone tower knows. I guess, though, the question is: do people

oh that their voluntarily giving over this information when they use their cell phone in the same way that they understand that, then be seen by a witness on the streets Is there the same level of awareness? That is actually the key question. So fourth, amendment law turns on whether these are reasonable expectation of privacy and the government says. Of course, you know that your cell phone company is tracking you every movement and I'm just not sure, Michael that that's true, or maybe in some general. Since you know it's true, but you don't know that the details of it- and I don't think you have the same visceral in your gut knowledge- that your cell phone is right.

Putting all kinds of information about you that you know when you walk into a shopping, mall people going to see you there, I dont know that that's the same thing, so this could theoretically affect a lot of people who are in jail. Yes and, as importantly, it good going forward affect how we think about government access to all kinds of information in the digital age. This could easily be the most important case on electronic privacy. The Supreme Court has ever decided. It may have started with some you're, not very sophisticated. Robberies of all things have radio shags, but there is good reason to think that the Supreme Court will have to come to terms with an entirely different kind of information environment than the people who drafted and adopted. The fourth amendment in the eighteenth century could possibly imagine Adam

Thank you very much. Thank you. Michael. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear opening arguments in the keys carpenter, verses, United States on Wednesday. Here's what else you need to know representative John Conyers of Michigan, the longest serving member of Congress is stepping down for his position as the top Democratic on the House Judiciary Committee over allegations that he's actually harassed. A female member of his staff in a statement issued on Sunday, Conyers said He would not resign from Congress, but instead would fight the allegations and try to reclaim his spot on the committee. Conyers announcement comes as Congress,

pairs to vote this week on legislation sponsored by Congresswoman, Jackie Spear and Senator Barbara Comstock, that would reform how Congress handles claims of sexual harassment. If a victim would like to report sexual the right but they are a hundred and eighty days to do so with the option of compliance once that claim is process. Victims are required to undergo thirty days of counselling than fifteen days did decide if they would like to pursue mediation. That is another thirty day process that is confidential, either result in a settlement or yet another thirty day period. You get the idea that

which was used by Conyers and his accuser has been widely criticised for protecting lawmakers through a drawn out process and layers of secrecy. This is not a victim friendly process and a one victim, though I spoke with said. You know, the process was almost worse the harassment, so this is an absolutely top priority that we must focus on in terms of fixing the system. That's it. For the day, I Michael Barbara, see you tomorrow, I am Kristen minds are, and I'm the conquest of innovation and covered a new podcast the world changing in real time, often in ways we don't notice an can't protect innovation. And covered explores the breakthroughs that our driving our culture. Now, from how we play we consume to how we can act more more

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