[ inaudible ]. The tax will be substantial. We will put them on payments. What is your number . The number we talked about is 70 increase. Where are you now in terms of your number . We are at 1. 4 . Youre getting there. Neil whether you are a fan of the president or not, you have to just be startled at what you are seeing here on global tv live. Negotiating with the leader of canada saying why arent you coughing up more, what kind of progress are you making on that and all of a sudden Justin Trudeau say we are about 1. 3 , 1. 4 live for the whole world to see, not behind closed doors for no one to see. And talking as well with macron of france about how much are you putting and why did you say that nato is brain dead and why did you say that behind my back when you can tell me to my face. So macron did raise it to the president sitting right next to the president but thats the way its been going today. As the president , when it came to tariffs that are targeting much more countries a
Twitter send us a tweet at cspan wj and facebook or facebook. Com cspan. Couple of the polls that have come out since thursday since the last of this weeks hearings and let you know about some of our political coverage starting with the intersection of the debate and the impeachment hearings. Jerry simon writing impeachment invades the democratic primary. For the good portion of the campaign, it sounds like it feels like an intrasquad basketball game. The same side scrimmaging against one another. Outside forces began to muscle into the president ial primary primary contest. The first force was president taught President Trump, not of his own accord. The biggest was hearings on the possible impeachment that paid out played out in the house of representatives, in particular a hearing on wednesday dominated the news and stole much of the spotlight that otherwise would have gone to the democrats president ial debate. Not surprisingly, the first question was directed towards Elizabeth Warr
Shellady and moodys economist john lonski. Welcome to both of you. Scott, what do you make of what is happening right now . Maybe because of stormy weather, folks expected to participate in Online Shopping more than otherwise would be the case. How do you sort of look at that . The shocking numbers, Online Shopping still has not eclipsed bricks and mortar. Depending who you read about 20, 25 . What do the malls look like when there is 50 50 . There is a still room to have Online Shopping area. I think bets, ultimately death knell at some point in time but right now it is small. We need to see 10 billion, the market would love. That would be something good to underpin we see what happened today. U. S. Economy, u. S. Consumer, the way they feel, it is a good recipe. Stuart john, youve been telling me the consumer is the key to this recovery and even when ceos, cfos, sort of dialed back expectations or not hired as many or ratcheted down their plans, the consumer had none of that. Is that
Fourth quarter bottomline estimates. We will break down the results ahead of disneys highly anticipated streaming platform debut. But first, to our top stories. Facebook continues to struggle to regain trust over how it handles user data. But that has become more complicated. There has now been a leak of internal documents suggesting business considerations outweighed those privacy concerns. It is something that facebook publicly touted when it decided five years ago to cut off tens of thousands of developers from its platform. To discuss, im joined by Bloomberg Technologys sarah frier, as well as ben brody in washington. Sarah, let me start with you. You covered this story. What do we know from these leaked documents so far . Reporter the documents give us this interesting internal picture in a way we really havent seen before of how these decisions are made and the difference between how they are discussed internally and how the company explains them externally. Internally, they are
What is he proposing, and what do you think . Patrick a lot of the principles of this regulatory policy come from the 20th century and even the 19th century. We are talking about overly prescriptive government regulation managing the minutia of the policies of technology companies. He is talking about very prescriptive regulations in terms of how these Companies Use data. There are good things about the policy, i would say, things like reempowering congress through the office of technology analysis. So there are good parts of the proposal in terms of wanting to create more education, more knowledge, out of the companys work and how the digital economies work. But there are also things in this plan that resemble what we see in a lot of plans coming from both sides of the aisle. I would say this plan shares a lot of similarities with things proposed by senator josh hawley and other senators in terms of regulating how you interact with platforms, the amount of time you spend on the platfo