Analysis of the week's top stories by the best reporters in Washington. Moderated by @TheAtlantic's @JeffreyGoldberg. Friday nights at 8/7c on @PBS.
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"Donald Trump is now viewing the sort of AI doom warnings coming, again, from inside Silicon Valley itself, he's now saying that's some kind of a Democratic hoax ... and it shows the extreme personalization of power," @sbg1 says.
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Trying to control the press is President Trump's "M.O.," says @AdamHSays.
"What we are seeing is a president who feels increasingly cornered," he said. "You think about the economy. You think about the sort of losing battles across the board ... he has defined a sort of enemy."
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"Trump has never really been explicit about his views on Taiwan, and he's sort of taking a wait-and-see approach on what kind of positions him best with Xi," @vmsalama says. "There's been major concerns that he will kind of throw in ... Taiwan, if he's to get a China deal."
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President Donald Trump said Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from covering the White House.
Why did he do this?
Here's what @alaynatreene, White House correspondent for CNN, told @ElizLanders.
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Why is President Donald Trump taking an unpopular stance on data centers?
"I think it has to do with how he views AI technologically as being a race with China," @asmamk tells @ElizLanders.
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The House of Representatives left Washington on Wednesday, and members don't plan to return until after the midterm elections.
So where does that leave the debate over AI regulation? Here's what @LACaldwellDC is hearing on Capitol Hill.
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"The stock market is absolutely hitched to this AI boom right now," says @EamonJavers. "If the AI bubble bursts, you're going to see huge collateral damage throughout the financial markets, and a lot of Americans are going to feel that."
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TONIGHT: @LACaldwellDC, @EamonJavers, @asmamk and @alaynatreene join guest moderator @ElizLanders to discuss President Trump’s summit next week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as tech executives warn of the threat posed by AI.
Watch at 8/7c on @PBS.
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"Almost 3,000 innocent people were murdered that day, and as far as I'm concerned, we can never talk about them enough," @JeffreyGoldberg says of the 9/11 attacks. "Their memory should be a blessing for all of us."
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Sally Jenkins shares the story of Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, who led his men into the World Trade Center on 9/11.
His body was never recovered.
Dowdell's son, James, now serves in the FDNY.
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Osama bin Laden thought 9/11 would lead to the U.S. leaving the Middle East, says @gcaw.
"It didn't work out that way," he says. "I believe over the last 25 years there's been a pretty continuous American presence. It's gotten larger, not smaller."
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.@JonLemire was an intern at the New York Daily News on 9/11.
For him, the most harrowing image from that day was the number of empty hospital beds.
"There weren't the survivors that people thought could be rushed and saved," he says. "They were all killed instantly."
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Former ABC News White House correspondent @AnnCompton was on pool duty and with President George W. Bush on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
She describes the moment inside a Florida classroom when the president learned of the second plane that hit the World Trade Center.
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TONIGHT: @AnnCompton, @JonLemire, @gcaw and Sally Jenkins join moderator @JeffreyGoldberg to discuss the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the people who lost their lives that day and the continued fallout from one of America's darkest days.
Watch at 8/7c on @PBS.
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Josh @Tyrangiel shares where he sees hope for AI, especially in health care.
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“We’ve seen AI commit a felony.”
Josh @Tyrangiel details how OpenAI’s models broke out of their offline sandbox and hacked another AI company, Hugging Face.
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“I don't think people believe that they are going to partake in the wealth that comes from data centers in their community,” says @Tyrangiel. “Every community is going to make different choices, but what I’m sensing is that … the politics are out of line with where people are.”
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TONIGHT: Josh @Tyrangiel joins moderator @JeffreyGoldberg to discuss Americans’ growing anxiety about AI and why Washington has failed to regulate the technology.
Watch at 8/7c on @PBS.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney "is on strong political footing, and there's a lot of appetite in Canada for him not to cave," @josh_wingrove says.
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"Donald Trump values power. He is a bully on the world stage, and it's sort of a game respects game. He likes these strong men. He likes the control that a dictator has over his or her country," @AshleyRParker says.
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