Tech hearing. We learned this morning that the antitrust subcommittee will put a report out in august about what to do next. What do you think that report will say . Guest well, greta, thank you for having me. Look, this was the first hearing that we have had about the profound antitrust issues that have emerged in the new tech age. In the 19th century, america with and today we have cyber barons, and these are the lords and titans of big tech who have every bit as much power as John D Rockefeller and the vanderbilts and the people who control the new industrial economy of the new postindustrial hightech company is being controlled by huge conglomerates that are fantastically wealthy and powerful, and they have done some remarkable things. Good this is to bring begrudge the achievements of individuals who were there yesterday. But we have to look at what this does to Small Business competition, new entrants to the market, manipulation of prices, and all of the oldfashioned anticompetit
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Taking anywhere up to eight days. Hospitals pushed to the brink again. That breaking point is close. Its very close. Schools and teachers caught in the middle. Im a teacher and i dont want to die. This morning, a bipartisan look at this crisis with Governors Jared Polis and asa hutchinson. Representative Donna Shalala from hardhit florida. Plus, trouble for trump. The latest from our brandnew poll and our analysis from our powerhouse roundtable. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning, and welcome to this week. The Coronavirus Crisis is growing even more dire. Cases increasing in more than 35 states. Well dive into all of that. But we begin by honoring john lewis, whos died at the age of 80 after battling pancreatic cancer. This is the scene this morning at the john lewis mural turned memorial in atlanta. In washington, the flag over the capitol flying at halfstaff. Lewis was a towering figure in the fight in civil rights. A moral compass
During the presidency of clinton and hw and george w bush. Were going to get started here with round two of president s on whom oliphant was able to bestow his gifts and a country on which oliphant was able to give his gifts to the american citizens. We have a cast to add their voices. Once again we have Miller Center people here. And the Miller Center, one of its main emphases is the focus on studying the presidency in depth, historical depths, with objectivity. In other words were all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing, which is reacting to p events on a daytoday basis, which pat oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. Whereas we all trooif to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist, and pat oliphant, as well as anybody has ever done it, to provide comment, to provide opinion, to provide something to provoke discussion rather than perhaps to aspire to settle dis