>> guest: i am a senior adviser to the house majority leader, ken mccarthy, which is a fancy way of saying i help 'em him with communication and trying to modernize the federal government. >> host: and what's your background for that position? >> guest: so my career has been at the cross-section of the sort of tech and the private sector, capitol hill but particularly in leadership, or leadership offices and in the political space. so i like to say there's this venn diagram of winning campaigns, trying to, you know, improve government and getting some tech jobs every now and again. that's how i landed where i'm at. >> host: so what's your training? >> guest: well, i was -- i trained in computer science, kind of old school coding. i was actually -- i don't want to be too in the weeds, but i was pretty good at action script which is a totally defunct language now. [laughter] and also in doing kind of communications marketing. so i've always been pulled between those two worlds. >> host: before we get into why you're here at the state of the net conference, how important today is tech to a ca

. >> a break ken mccarthy with us coming up momentarily the host of varney varn stuart varney as well don't miss a moment we've got a big hour coming up we kick off right here with 50 million people northeast bracing for massive winter storm adam sharp iro live in new york city bracing the weather. reporter: 27 degrees snow accumulating wind blowing an icy pellety snow hitting your faithful kind of hurts the proliferated for people in cleveland ohio a typical summer day the serious nature of all this there are 5900 flights have been canceled because of this storm when you look at how it is paralyzing tax reform from new york to boston, amtrak usually can take the train, they have canceled a service to boston delayed service on regional train station and that includes south to washington delayed service, in new york city, the subways are only running underground, all above ground trains they are not running, schools obviously closed, and this is the part of the story where live reporter outside tells everyone stay inside and asking people to stay off the streets, because they are tryin

. >> that was interesting with leader mccarthy. the stuff you say about

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