Youre watching cspan2. Your unftered view of government. Created by americans Cable Television companies emma is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Acebook market zuckerberg and twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey testified about the president ial election helped erica manng misinformation online. From this in a jewish inhe judiciary committee. This is four hours. Good morning everybody. I think weave senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct. And is it okay if we moveha forward. Absolutely and thank you very much. I will make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorshipuppression in the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when i facebook. Witter and about the platforms and the decisions they make and how they make them. Can we do better. Do we need to do better. So the first thing that i want to talk about here is health risket associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 75013 17 yearolds found that 45 percent online almos
Like ours that witnessed the Police Killing of george floyd. The book is challenging and introspective. Its outraged and quiet and devastating. Early in the book ms. Rankin writes i was always aware that my value in our cultures eyes is determined by my skin color first and foremost. Claudia rankin is a poet, and essayist and playwright. She is a professor of poetry at yale, the new book is titled just us, an american conversation. And we find ms. Rankin at her home in connecticut. I really miss talking to you in person in front of a live audience. Im glad we could make this work. But i just have to say im really going to miss that, so welcome. Host thank you so much kerri for having me. Tell me how, in the before times, before the pandemic you imagined you would be traveling in talking about this book, in front of live audiences. You are right. What we are doing is not what i thought i would be doing. I thought that as close as could come to having conversations with different people
Authors. And then to be simply made of the intensity of an audience in a Community Like ours with the killing of george floyd it is challenging and introspective and quiet and devastating i was always aware my value is determined by my skin color first and foremost. A poet and essayist a professor of poetry at yale and we find her in her home in connecticut. I really miss talking to you in front of a Live Audience im glad we can make this work but i have to say i will miss that. So thank you and welcome. Thank you for having me. Before the pandemic that you would imagine you would be traveling and talking about this book in front of Live Audiences . I thought as close as i could come to have conversations with different people across the country and try to make that happen this is the next best thing. And to speak to a wide range of people before the election to think how we managed to get ourselves where we are. The things that i say about doing these conversations on the stage is tha
Its up about 0. 3 today the dow as we said up over 1 at session highs. The sara crazy to see the s p 500 just wiping out all the pandemic losses the todays show, clorox is a standout winner. Up more than 50 so far this year people stock up on cleaning supplies but can the company keep up with the huge demand for wipes and disinfectants . Were going to talk to the ceo plus, well talk renovations, Small Businesses and more with the ceo of Angie Home Services of that company reporting earnings after the bell. Along with iac, tilray and many more names lets focus in on the big stories that were watching in this final hour of trade mike santoli tracking todays market action. We have the latest on the increasingly complicated stimulus discussion in washington and kate rogers has the details on a scandal involving former mcdonalds ceo steve east easterbrook. Mike, start us off with the Broader Market and the gap were seeing. This is a good illustration of how a broadening out of the market be
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