Treasonous. Should google be worried . Margaret vester prepares for a summer finale to her fiveyear crackdown on u. S. Tech giants. Story, bigto our top tech in the eye of the storm on capitol hill. Facebook, amazon, apple, google, all appearing in washington to answer lawmakers sques questions. The first to be raked over the of thethe cocreator cryptocurrency project. Facebook is dangerous. Now, facebook might not intend ly theyangerous, but sure do not respect the technologies they are playing with, like a toddler who has gotten a hold of a book of matches. Their motto is to move fast and break things. You mean them a chance to experiment with peoples bank accounts. We will take the time to get this right. Wouldnt it be easier and safer if people could inexpensively secure money transfers through their smartphones just like they do for so many things today . That is what libra is about. I do not trust you guys, so instead of cleaning up your house, now youre are launching into anothe
The whole process feels wildly out of filter with democratic expectations and the tories will be punished for that. They was an ink interesting poll saying 46 of conservative Party Members would not mind having nigel farage as their leader, they are pretty steadfastly ha rd leader, they are pretty steadfastly hard line on brexit arent they . A lot of them very happy not to have a deal if thats what it comes due. Brexit is the overwhelming issue amongst membership at the moment. Which is why in am anyways if you had a brexiteer and a remainder going to the party, it wont be that much of the choice because the overwhelming the party will focus on a brexiteer which is why in many ways if you add Michael Akbar as the two lea d e rs ways if you add Michael Akbar as the two leaders of the Brexit Campaign thats possibly a bit more of an interesting contest. One thing i wish though is that there is an assumption among the members i think that brexit means boris, that he is the most credible, h
Joining me conservative homes executive editor mark wallace. The westminster correspondent for the yorkshire post, liz bates. The liberal democrat mp chuka umunna. And the brexit party mep Ann Widdecombe. Today this man, Boris Johnson, already has the support of almost half the Parliamentary Party. That leaves only one place left to fight for. Im looking forward to making it through to the front two, and looking forward to a civilised debate of ideas. Im sure i will be picking up some votes but these can be unpredictable, so, i want to go for it. May the best man win, and thats going be me. Barring an upset, we expect that challenger to be jeremy hunt or michael gove. Well be live in this room in the commons at 1pm to bring you the results of the latest ballot in this conservative leadership contest. So, we are pretty sure mrjohnson goes forward to the final two, not yet sure who will be with him, we will know by the end of today. Lets find out who you think, who will be the second . I
Eaters should be feeling guilty. And in sport this morning im going to keep it simple. Out of respect for mr holmes. City beat united. There we are. Well leave it there. The trouble at red. Meat eaters. They red. They were meat eaters. They were , werent they . I know were, werent they . Yes, i know they us. It was just a they had us. It was just a carcase of united left there on the pitch. But ill. I dont want it. Want it. Its pretty stupid. That flower right under chin its pretty stupid. That flowthat. Ht under chin its pretty stupid. That flowthat. Butnder chin its pretty stupid. That flowthat. But doer chin its pretty stupid. That flowthat. But do you chin its pretty stupid. That flowthat. But do you see 1in its pretty stupid. That flowthat. But do you see what i like that. But do you see what i mean on the. You think so . Yeah, i do. Is it this one . Is it this one . Id move it away. Id move it away. If you like butter. Lets move that away. Okay. And ill have the instead. Anyway,
finance committee will come into order. today, the committee meets with secretary becerra to discuss the year ahead for the department of health and human services. there is much to cover. i will begin with telemedicine. this committee began to open the door at telemedicine in medicare with a landmark chronic care act, authored with senator hatch in 2017. then in 2020, we shoehorned tele-health services into the cares act. in implementing the law, medicare decide to telehealth audio only on a temporary basis during the pandemic. that has been met with wide open arms from people across the country, especially in rural communities. in this year s appropriations bill, our colleague, senator crepe oh, and i push together to extend the audio only flexibility beyond the public health emergency. there is, as you will hear, mister secretary, bipartisan interest and building on the telemedicine progress. we want to make it permanent. we want to make sure that we are not going to turn