19 years, fears thing, fears now, im neil cavuto, lets get the very latest on the significance on this day, not on anyone who are alive and remember quite well those who lived on the new york metropolitan area and washington, d. C. Orienting still pennsylvania, hillary bond with the later on some very special visits today. Neil the president says 19 years ago today when the men and women on board united flight 93 charged the cockpit causing the plane to nosedive into a field here in shanksville pennsylvania, it was a show of courage by Everyday Americans that took down terrorist save in the u. S. Capital and also sent a message to the world, america ih fighting for and defending until the very last breath. Flight 93 did the most american of things, they took a vote and then they acted. Together they charged the cockpit, they confronted the pure evil and in their last act on this earth, they saved our capital in this pennsylvania field, the 40 intrepid souls of flight 93 died as true he
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Proposed to celebrate the 30 that members of the forum to berlin would really look at how the Nations Capital has changed in the last 3 decades. Plus for just 2 years ago before the next president ial election in the u. S. The w. Visits a town in rural wisconsin considered a bellwether of the political mood to walk on lookers that predicted. Protesters demanding political reform in lebanon have blocked roads across the capital beirut theyre demanding an end to corruption and calling for president michele alone to step down the protests have been going on for more than 2 weeks and led to the resignation of the government last week but now supporters of the system went off to present. And have also taken to the streets. Human roadblock to help our allies a country they say just isnt working these protesters have little confidence in the future accusing the government of not only corruption but also incompetence. We are escalating our protests because we dont trust this corrupt government
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On internet platforms each witness has information on algorithms and Machine Learning, as well as engagement and persuasion and brings unique perspectives to these matters. Your participation in this hearing is appreciated mr. Rosensteinly as this committee continues to work on drafting data privacy legislation. Icon veeped this hearing in part to inform legislation im developing that would require internet platforms to give the user information to engage with the platforms without using algorithms pushed by certain data. The vast majority of content on these platforms is at its best, entertaining and beneficial to the public. However they also have the ability or at least potential to influence the thoughts and behaviors of literally billions of people. As one reason why theres widespread unease about the power of these platforms and why its important for the public to understand how they use the algorithms to make inferences from the reams of data about us that affect behavior and in