Pam donaldson. [applause] thank you, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to this mornings program. You know there are states that all of us have that are very personal and there are dates that we have as a country that we all share. In my lifetime december 7, 1941, november 22, 1963, 911. These are three terrible dates for the country and then theres november 9, 1989. Good news, the fall of the berlin wall. Its a subject that we are going to discuss today. How did it happen . What are the consequences . He did this . Who knew . For a look at whats in store for us this morning its a pleasure to welcome andrew card who served in three administration with Ronald Reagan as Deputy Assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs. George Herbert Walker bush, the secretary of transportation and with george w. Bush he was the white house chief of staff. Andrew card. [applause] thank you very much, sam. I wanted to be here. We are grateful for Georgetown University and t
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to ord order. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today we are here to examine the act of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witnesses the facebook chairman and ceo, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebooks plan to create a Digital Currency, libra, and a digital wallet raised many concerns relating to privacy, trading risks, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy and the stability of the Global Financial system i and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks
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A bennett breaks a commissioning editor of the telegraph thank you thank you now its really looks set to have a new government after a breakthrough in Coalition Talks the head of the Opposition Democratic Party says hes ready to govern with the 5 Star Movement in college and get if he says his party will accept the 5 star can that it is a quantified Prime Minister once again italian president said that i lead has summoned the outgoing content for a meeting on thursday morning signaling that condit is likely to receive a mandate to try and form a government. Coming up on the aljazeera news hour mass arrests and the state of alert in gaza after 3 Police Officers are killed in separate suicide attacks with ice all being blamed indias government refuses to say how many people are being held in custody and in the disputed kashmir region and still to come in sports how does iran cover is doping among kenyan assamese training layout will be here with that story. But 1st yemens un recognised a
Lost the war yemen became united we want to be our own independent state all our resources are going north so these all these all these very different agendas because the National Dialogue that brought everybody together for the 1st time is not being supported by the un this is why we have a free for all and this is where until the u. N. Adjust its approach yemen will continue to be a stalemate. How mass says they cleared a state of alert after 3 Police Officers were killed in 2 separate suicide attacks isis fighters and sympathizers are being blamed mass arrests have taken place as a mass says it will not tolerate attempts to the stabilize the territory from within harry force said reports from gaza. At a cemetery northeast of gaza city 2 hamas policemen killed in tuesday nights attacks abroad for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says gaza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction. We have made arrests and we are investigatin