Roll out some responses to Chinas Hong Kong law as the showdown with twitter gets escalated around the minneapolis protests oil near 33, the focus is squarely on twitter and this rule violation that the president s account got slapped with, and then the white house account, the official white house account retweets were all kind of confused, as marc benioff, who is against this obscure regulation that gives these companies an exception todo this, many are confused it seems President Trump wants to create his own enemy with if you start regulating these Companies Rather than having the exception, theyre always going to have to put a counter to what President Trump wants. I think what he may not understand is free speech is nasty. What he had until this was a great run of things. Its going to make it tough for him to be aggressive on twitter. He doesnt have press conferences that work because of all the displeasure he had with regular reporters. Hes disintermediating himself from the pub
Watching market reaction. Reporter businesses pick up the damage, you have angered protesters unleashing frustration on commercial Residential Property across the country. Right now im at union square, which is epicenter of a lotof protests. What were seeing here, a peaceful protests, about 150 people. Black lives matter. They have been seeking about not looting, that has come up several times. Throughout the entire city, before we show you visuals, if i can say, it sounded like a construction site, many people are boarding up all the walls. Smells like pine everywhere. Feels if were preparing for a hurricane. Look at footage from duane reade. We were there earlier this morning. Completely smashed glass everywhere. Local residents actually cleaning it. It was duane reade. We saw looters in front of us in broad daylight steal things from the locations because they had huge cracks in glass. Across the city many wood is going up. Many businesses are deciding they will shut down and open c
Basis and do coordinate. I would just comment that ive worked closely with ambassador lighthizer on the china agreements and forced Technology Transfer is a major issue that weve been combatting. Fair, but weve heard u. S. Government officials of both administrations for two decades talk about agreements that are eventually going to have feet and they almost never do ambassador lighthizer has been a bit of a pitbull on this piece of it, but discussing it in the interagency process isnt the same as us pushing to help huawei and their state based actors to understand i. P. Theft has real consequences not just press releases i would just say and i know that the chairmans gavel implies im at time, but the Intelligence Community Oversight Committee of the community in the legislature, this is an increasingly bipartisan issue that republicans and democrats believe that its important for us to be holding these faux private Sector Companies in china to more account and the Chinese Government n
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