Good morning, Broadsheet readers! The Boy Scouts are no longer a boys’ club, even more Harvey Weinstein news, and we wrap up the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. Have a lovely Thursday.
EVERYONE’S TALKING
•Harvey Weinsten.Yesterday was the last—but certainly not the least potent—day of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. The half-day session was packed with Washington power players from across the political spectrum, and discussions touched on everything from gun control to immigration to “fake news.” A few highlights:
Kellyanne Conway on the role of the media:
“I don’t utter [the term] ‘fake news,’” the counselor to the president told the MPWs, adding that her concern is instead with “incomplete coverage” of Donald Trump. (Her Twitter feed, however, reveals she has used the term at least once.) She said that “major measures” he’s helped put into law—legislation that serves veterans and protects whistleblowers, for instance—don’t get the media attention they deserve. “We need a full and free press in our nation,” she said, minutes after the president called for revoking NBC’s license.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) on the latest gun legislation:
A bipartisan bill banning bump stocks—devices that make weapons fire more rapidly—was introduced in Congress yesterday, but Congresswoman Dingell doesn’t think the accessories will be banned anytime soon. “It’s very hard to get anything through,” she told the MPW audience yesterday. “People have a way with the legislative process of adding other things to the bump stock legislation, which will make it toxic and will get it killed in the Senate.”
Sally Yates on her 10-day tenure as acting AG:
The former acting attorney general told the MPW audience the inside story of her 10 days in office—a tenure that ended when she was fired by Trump for instructing the Justice Department not to enforce his (first) ban on travelers from several majority Muslim countries. One of her first jobs, she said, was to notify the White House that Michael Flynn, then the president’s national security advisor, could be compromised because of his contact with the Russians. “There’s no playbook for this,” said Yates.”There’s not really a script for how you handle it.”
More news from the Summit below…
NEWS FROM THE MPW SUMMIT
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