Of facebook, a total of 146 million users of facebook and instagram, which facebook owns, saw content that came out of these russianlinked ads. We heard some new things from twitter and google as well, and lawmakers had some pretty tough questions for the general counsels of these companies which had to sit through a pretty rough two days of grilling from lawmakers on these different committees. Host you said we didnt learn a lot about very specific things at the beginning there. We basically dont know yet what happened, do we . Guest we have a, we have an idea of what happened. We know of a number of ads that were purchased. Its possible there were more. We know of fake accounts that purchased ads on twitter, and we know about some action on google. What we dont yet know is whether there is any collusion with the Trump Campaign in coordination with buying all these ads on social media. And we dont really know if it swayed the election one way or another. Host david mccabe, what did yo
Thank you, mister chairman. I was looking at the line and noticed eight minutes ago the Trump Administration reversed obamas policies with respect to cuba. Were you aware of that. It is going to scale back tremendously, i would appreciate you getting back to us what that means for travel in cuba. As i mentioned in a previous setting i got back from the resident delegation not long ago to western europe, jordan, to look at airports and Airport Security among other things was one thing we heard from people in germany and amsterdam and jordan, Security Officials think many airports that technically meet standards are not living up to those standards or adhering to standards even though they are approved. Have you heard that . I was in montreal in september, good standards, what i said in my keynote address is as a Global Community we need to implement these standards across the globe and with a sense of urgency. How do we do that . From my perspective we have a quad for, the United States
Chair good morning, now that our executive session is complete we turn to the issue of data breaches. This is not a new issue. The committee has been focused on the Consumer Impact since before i was elected to the senate. The september 2004 choice point breach was considered to be the first highprofile data breach in the modern era prompted investigations from this committee and state authorities. Choice point was a data Aggregation Company originally as fateby equifax who would have it is represented here today. In terms of the inquiry the major data breaches, we have come full circle. Congress and this committee paid close attention to data breaches big and small. The committee has entertained proposals to strengthen requirements for Companies Across the board and impose federal requirements for companies to notify consumers following discovery of the breach. We are in the air of major data breaches, including equifax and yahoo that we are examining. The yahoo breaches are larger, t
I would like to tell you about a few programs going on today and tomorrow. We open our new exhibit remembering vietnam and we are so limiting that opening with a full slate of public events. Donna lowry will discuss the participation of American Military women during the vietnam war, which she recounts in her book, women Vietnam Veterans are untold story. At 4 30 p. M. , members of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Association will share their memories and experiences and tell us about the three bell helicopters parked outside our building. Tomorrow november 11, we will present three exhibits. Willis orourke dowell show us experience in vietnam through the eyes of a child. At 2 00, we will show the film soldiers. And then we will celebrate the vietnam war memorial with a thel discussion about founder of the Vietnam Memorial fund. Consult our monthly calendar of events online at archives. Gov and check out our website to sign up and get email updates. You will also find information about oth
We are going to be looking to see if there are any tweaks of that before the rules committee on wednesday. There could be an amendment that could allow some state income tax to be deducted. Even proponents of that change say that it paul ryan can get to 218 votes without from, there is likely to be a change. About 20 House Republicans voted against the measure mainly because of the limits you talked about to state and local tax reductions. How much support you think that is going to get from House Republicans, and what about democrats . Looks like there are no democrats coming out to support this bill. What is the california delegation going to do . Most of them fell in line with the budget vote setting up the tax bill. Darrell issa has come out against the bill over this issue. Looking at others like tom mcclintock. So far, it has been the new york and new jersey delegations that have been leading this charge. I should mention that the margin is tight because there is a small group ca