Good morning, everybody. I think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay, senator blumenthal, if we move forward . Absolutely. Thanks very much. Okay, ill make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorship, suppression and the 2020 election, sort of a deep dive, when it comes to twitter and facebook, about the platforms and the decisions they make, how they make them. Can we do better . Do we need to do better . So the first thing i want to talk about here is Health Risks Associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly. A 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram or snapchat. So why are we having this hearing . The products that these two Companies Offer people like and they use. So the bottom line is, theyve probably been more successful than their wildest dreams. And theyre having to make decisions that offend people on the le
President hes vowing to challenge Election Results in several states. On the welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania of the 99 percent of votes counted and pennsylvania biden won 49. 7 percent trump took home 49. 2 the 20 electoral votes biden takes in this state allowed him to surpass the crucial 270 needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press that is he also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290. 00 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. 00. Im a critic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect biden success from philadelphia to black lives matter plaza in washington to new yorks times square people didnt want to hide their relief and excitement any longer lets take a look at those reactions. To me means everything my mother is a disabled woman european medicaid and m
That is correct, mr. Chairman. We got to find something we can join here. There may be good reasons, im just trying to i want a global fund to be created like we have done for aids and malaria and other things to deal with plastics that we can control. I want us to look at the World Bank Program and see if we can make some contributions there. We are going to leave the hearing open to friday at 2 00 p. M. For additional questions. I just want to thank you both. I look forward to working with you on this. We are going to provide you more resources. Tell us what you think it is best utilized. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much and thank you for the attention. Thank you. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you so much. Today, the conclusion of a q a interview about the relationship between the media and u. S. President s. Todays program talks about president s from Franklin Roosevelt to donald trump. With joe biden as president elect, go to cspan for live coverage of the
Issues that are before him to to the base and really i think most importantly is expanding the map and when we look at this map the fact that we are having a conversation about georgia a state that has not gone through since 99 and 2 means that the lesson here is that all of the states matter and that we had to have a ground that is looking at states that have otherwise been just written off and that entire map is our map in this country and i think that that is going to be one of the most important lessons is that when you organize and that we focus on a strategy that lead to 5 that that we actually. To take found and see if the full cycle strategies many thanks for speaking to us not just their. Youre watching out as a reminder of where we stand with the u. S. Election and the race for the white house remains too close to call with the outcome resting on just a few battleground states the democratic candidate joe biden has taken the lead in pennsylvania georgia and nevada donald trum
The major issues the Incoming Biden Administration may face . Guest one thing that the bike administration pretty early on is going to figure out is they are inheriting at the very least a google antitrust lawsuit from the doj. Speculation about how politically motivated that it y been but nevertheless, the actual textual thing, its fairly narrow and fairly focused on issues that democrats have raised as well about the market power of google. They will have to decide, okay, almost certainly they will continue to litigate this, but do we want to expand this . Do we want to try and rope in some state attorneys general who are also investigating google . The trump doj has the support of group of ags but they are all republicans do we know democrats are looking at the stuff, too. So how expensive do we want to go on at the trust . Host do you think it would be more expensive expansive tha Trump Administration . Guest thats the expectation. Over the last couple years its been rigorous inter