Congressman Ro Khanna
This week, the House Judiciary Committee sent 81 letters requesting documents from agencies and individuals tied to President Trump as it investigates possible obstruction and corruption. Another House committee asked the Trump administration to turn over documents concerning the security clearances of the president’s closest advisers, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Meanwhile, just days after a U.S.-North Korea summit in Vietnam abruptly ended, new evidence emerged showing North Korea is ramping up its missile program.
We hear from Bay Area Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Armed Services Committee, who is co-sponsoring a resolution to declare an end to the Korean War.
Guest: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA)
Facebook’s New Privacy Focus and the IPO Race
The world’s most profitable and popular social media platform may be getting a major reboot that could usher in a fundamental shift in how social media is shared and consumed. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his vision of a privacy-focused platform where smaller groups of people would use encrypted and private channels of communication to share messages and other content with other users they know. Last year, Zuckerberg testified before Congress in the wake of a massive data breach affecting millions of its users, highlighting the tension Facebook has with protecting privacy while pursuing profits through targeted ads. Meanwhile, ride-service company Lyft recently filed the first round of documents with the SEC to go public ahead of its bigger rival, Uber, which is also expected to go public later this year. Other Bay Area startups expected to file IPOs soon include Airbnb, Slack and Pinterest.
Guests:
- Mike Isaac, technology reporter, The New York Times
- Jeremy C. Owens, San Francisco bureau chief, MarketWatch
That Lady Thing
In San Francisco, a team of creative women is honoring International Women’s Day on Friday with a three-day art pop-up experience that celebrates women and the struggles they face, from wage inequality to harassment. It’s called That Lady Thing, but it’s not your typical art gallery or museum. Visitors to the event can explore what toxic masculinity smells like or try scaling a corporate climbing wall or grabbing fake bills to remind us of the gender wage gap. Last year, when the event was first held, only adults 21 and older could attend. This year, organizers are opening the doors on Sunday, the last day of the event, to teens 14 and older after they received requests from teens, parents and college students to share That Lady Thing’s blend of satire and visual whimsy to bring feminist statements to a younger audience.