Axios Re:Cap

Earlier today, New York regulators fined Deutsche Bank $150 million for its dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This came less than a week after the arrest of Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges. Business Insider's Meghan Morris has been investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties to Wall Street, and she joins Dan to discuss what Maxwell might know about Epstein's business dealings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the weekend, tensions between media and tech escalated because of a dispute that started on Clubhouse and spilled over to Twitter. But the divide between tech and the journalists covering tech has been growing for some time. Dan digs in with investor and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, who has been on both sides of the tech/media divide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This morning brought news that the U.S. economy added 4.8 million jobs in June — and an unexpected press conference from President Trump to tout the numbers. But the jobs survey the numbers came from ended before the recent spike in coronavirus cases, and questions abound about how far the economic reality in the country today diverges from that report. Dan digs in with the Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Kelton is an economist with rising influence in the Democratic Party who advised the Bernie Sanders campaign and is on a Biden campaign economic task-force. Kelton believes we’re thinking about the deficit wrong and that we should stop framing policy proposals with the question “How will you pay for that?” She joins Dan to discuss the economic theory she’s helped to mainstream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The chat app Discord announced today that it raised $100 million from venture capitalists at a $3.5 billion valuation. It’s an indication of how far Discord has come and how successful its rehabilitation has been after it was used as an organizing tool for white nationalists in Charlottesville. Now it might provide a model for other social media platforms struggling with content moderation. Dan is joined by Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben & Jerry’s is one of a number of companies that are pulling ads on Facebook and Instagram for the month of July — but the company will continue to post social justice messaging on social media platforms, even as it applies pressure to these companies to change several of its content policies. Dan digs in with Chris Miller, head of activism strategy at Ben & Jerry's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baseball players and owners have agreed to play a shortened season, but there's no guarantee games will actually happen. Dan discusses the prospects for the 2020 season with Boston Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy. Dan also talks to the CEO of grocery giant Albertsons, which went public today, and to Axios transportation reporter Joann Muller about Amazon’s latest announcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Axios Today is a weekday morning news show hosted by Niala Boodhoo. We’re sharing this morning’s episode. For years, some Democrats and Black leaders have called for reparations from the U.S. government for slavery. Axios business reporter Courtenay Brown says reparations may move faster in the private sector, where some corporations are trying to make amends. Plus, our new beer barometer tells us how much people are going out to bars and restaurants during the pandemic. And White House editor Margaret Talev tells us what to expect in the upcoming primaries after watching mayhem in Kentucky. Guests: Axios' Courtenay Brown, Hans Nichols, and Margaret Talev. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Carol Alderman, Cara Shillenn, Naomi Shavin, Nuria Marquez Martinez and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the midst of weeks of #BlackLivesMatter protests, lists of anti-racism books and black-owned bookstores went viral, part of well-intentioned efforts that culminated in a deluge of hundreds of thousands of orders for the same handful of titles. Dan and Danielle Mullen, founder of Semicolon Books in Chicago, discuss her experience as a bookseller who ended up on those lists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Justice Department official testified today that Attorney General Bill Barr abused his power by directing investigations of marijuana company mergers that were motivated by a personal dislike of the industry. Dan is joined by Teddy Scott, who led one of the companies cited in the complaint, to discuss what Scott knew about the investigation and when. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Anthony Fauci is optimistic that there will be a coronavirus vaccine by early 2021, but determining who will get it first will be complicated. Dan discusses what happens once we have a vaccine with Dr. Zeke Emanuel, former White House health policy adviser and chair of the department of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two new studies show that projections for a rise in poverty this year didn’t happen because of the federal stimulus. Andrew Yang joins Dan to discuss if the stimulus can be seen as a test run for universal basic income, Yang’s signature campaign policy proposal, and his conversations with Joe Biden about the idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As companies declare Juneteenth a corporate holiday, but fail to promote black workers to their own C-suites, Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story asks, “Is it time for racial quotas?” Dan is joined by Businessweek’s Rebecca Greenfield, author of the cover story, who makes the argument that existing efforts to improve racial equity and representation haven’t worked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Supreme Court ruled today to uphold DACA, the Obama-era program that protected nearly 650,000 unauthorized immigrants from deportation — but there are still unknowns ahead for DREAMers and their employers, because this isn’t a permanent solution to their immigration status. Dan is joined by Jeff Davidson, a lawyer who argued this case before the Ninth Circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal government has lent out more than half a trillion dollars to small businesses impacted by COVID-19, but there’s no way of knowing who received one and who didn’t, unless a business discloses that it received one. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are calling for greater transparency, including Representative Jennifer Wexton, who joins Dan to discuss a letter she sent today to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices