Table Talk with Senator Steve Glazer State Senator Steve Glazer

On this week's episode of Table Talk, I sit down with Former California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye to talk about her 32-year career as a jurist and her new career as the President and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California.

On this episode of Table Talk, I interview several guests who were close to Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird; Governor Jerry Brown who appointed her to court; Steve Buehl, who was her Chief of Staff; and Dan Walters, Dan Morain, and Bob Egelko, veteran reporters who covered Rose Bird as the first woman cabinet secretary and as Chief Justice.

On this episode of Table Talk, we talk with UC Berkeley Professor -- and artificial intelligence and cybersecurity expert -- Hany Farid about scams; how technology is evolving to make scams more believable, and what you can do to spot them.

At UC Davis, the California Veterinary Emergency Team (CVET for short) is preparing for the next big disaster -- and how they'll evacuate and treat injured pets when the time comes.

This Spring, I visited Hiroshima, Japan, where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in 1945. The site now contains a museum, memorial and eternal flame. I interviewed Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki, of Hiroshima Prefecture to get his perspective on world events from his unique vantage point as well as visit with Americans touring this haunting place where more than 120,000 Japanese people were killed by the first use of a nuclear weapon.

On this episode of Table Talk, I visit with three leaders in the autonomous vehicle space. Dan Chatman, UC Berkeley professor; Gokul Hemady, CEO of Glydways, an autonomous transit vehicle developer; and Angela Richards from Monarch Tractor. High speed testing and deployment of AVs is coming to a community near you!