leaked documents show president emmanuel macron and a former eu competition commissioner held a series of private meetings with uber. at the time, the ride sharing app had been banned in france and sparked protests across europe from taxi drivers who felt their livelihoods were being threatened. as part of an investigation by the international consortium of investigativejournalists, the bbc has discovered how uber used political contacts to get what it wanted. richard bilton reports. when hoover first arrived when hooverfirst arrived in france, it started a taxi well. but while many cabdrivers were
nassau county commode of the biggest counties, one of the biggest counties in the country, their legislature was bipartisan, unanimous, and pushing back and saying we don t want these cameras. unfortunately, for those of us who live in the city, we are governed by a radical far left anticar city council and we are governed by a state legislature who thinks this is just tucker: also into human. who drives a new york? commuters, cabdrivers, delivery men, the same people, by the way, who smoked the $20 pack cigarettes that you sell in new york city. this is another tax on poor people. it is certainly a tax on middle class and poor people. you know, we have $20 poles on her tolls on our bridges, we are soon going to say and undetermined amount yet from the privilege driving from one part of manhattan to a fancier part of manhattan, so ultimately yeah, it s a war in the middle class but it s also a war on drivers that i think you re seeing elsewhere in the country. i mean, this is s
try to get to the airport two hours two hours before the airport, and don t use any of those cabdrivers, tyrus. it is interesting that the decision to leave afghanistan is universally popular but yet joe biden still screwed it up. you know, we have a lot to unpacking her monologue with got to start at the beginning of course, it s always great to have some straight talking and one of the things that i used to i used to agree with people at president trump and his twitter stuff was annoying it it defeated the purpose or whatever, but the one thing i missed was straight talk. greg: right. he just gave us the most concise plan for how he would deal with afghanistan. we are still waiting for anything from the woke administration. the problem is that we have a moderate democratic president who is under it woke administration. so they re more concerned with saying things like stranded and
greg: here s a joke by economist mark period. what did socialists use before candles? electricity. recently celebrity socialist alexandria ocasio-cortez criticized ridesharing apps for creating financial hardship on cabdrivers. not untrue, these new services have eased the grip cab companies have on cities. the upside for the consumer: more choices, better service, more flexible jobs for people who can either choose to drive full or part-time. it is turned thousands of folks into small businessmen. for the first time in years, you can call for a ride in new york city. the downside: cabdrivers are indeed suffering. i take this young socialist more seriously if her campaign hadn t spent four grand on uber over ts on juno, and other car service.
then uber comes in. now it s a competitive marketplace it s going to force cabdrivers to innovate, to do better and provide better customer service. i would say it s regulation in the first place, why there was ever a marketplace for a company like uber to come in. juan: the other part of this and you could make the argument that bill de blasio, the mayor hair lisa: getting $500,000 from campaign donations from the yellow cab industry. juan: that s the point i was going to make. i guess you could speak for me. lisa: i am juan williams. juan: i thought you were lisa page. the other aspect, as a black guy who tries to get cabs, i couldn t be more in touch with what you are talking about but i will say the mayor and others, not only here in new york but around the country. you get the streets of the city flooded with uber and it creates different issues and i think that s part of the equation in terms of they want to regulate. greg: we have a lot coming up. class is back in