Well, good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism including terrorist propaganda and recruitment efforts on online. The social media are well documented. Youtube, twitter and facebook among others give voice around the world and provide a forum of discussion of outlets. They have thrived online. But as is so often the kascase, enemies have sought to take over this. Isis has been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize to go over the internet. Our companies have a very difficult task, preserving the openness upon which their platforms are thrived and swart the actions that have used it for other purposes. Islamic terrorists using social media platforms to inspire well documented. For example, the killer responsible for the orlando nightclub shooting in which 49 people were murdered reportedly digital material readily available on social media. And this itch sue not new. Over the course of several yea
Abdul nafay sana who has written books on jihadism, one of the leaders on the field. Josh is that connor terrorism and senior position in the National Security division. Hes also actually written a book about al qaeda which is the fruit of his at Kings College in london and to his right and youre left, nadia weighed who set new america as is josh and is writing a book about kind of essentially the alternative voices to isis in the arab world, whether that secular, liberal, comedic or any other flavor. We are going to start with josh, reflecting a little bit aboutor. Continuity and change between the a between the obama and Trump Administration and the nokia will talk about what shehe seen in the arab world and talk and meld the domestic and international discussion. I may say a couple of things asa well. This is carried by cspan lines to when we come to the q a, please wait for the microphone so your question be heard not only in this room but also by the audience. Thank you for coming
Mark. Reporter good evening President Trump is at camp daiftd this weekend hes due back in washington tomorrow only hours before the senate is expected to get back to work as well. The house has postponed its planls to return at least for right now citing Health Concern and last night human and Health Services offered to deploy Rapid Testing kits to hill but now this is rare both parties are say thanks but no thanks we have with a joint statement from leader mcconnell and House Speaker nancy pelosi showing testing capacities scale up nationwide and Congress Want toes direct resources to frontline facilities where they can do most good the most quickly. Now white house spokesperson said today thats fine the administration trying to help and administration defending its decision not to sending dr. Anthony fauci up to capitol hill to testify before the house. Fauci no surprise is has become a household name since the pandemic began, House Democrats say they invited him to testify before a
Government silencing doctors and refusing to provide samples to scientists working a vaccine. The president has traveled to camp david. Its his first time leaving the white house in a month. We begin with Mark Meredith. Mark . Reporter President Trump spent saturday on the phone with World Leaders including those from pan ma and paraguay. The investigation how the pandemic started is a focus. The majority of u. S. Intelligence agencies believe the virus did begin in a lab in china, wuhan. But Officials Say they are still compiling the information and there is no smoking gun just yet. President trump a lot of things are happening with respect to china. This is a bad situation. All over the world 182 countries. But well be having a lot the lot to say about that. Reporter we are expecting to get later this week the jobs report for april. It comes out in early may. There are some predictions from the white house suggesting the Unemployment Rate could jump from 16 to 19 percent. You will se
Stuff from a lot of people including the president himself. The mueller team might be looking in on what the president true and when. In north korea a different talk with the president opening the door to direct talks. This once in a decade diplomasy, more meetings today. Well brake down what you you should and what you might not know about the situation in West Virginia. Kids caught in the middle as that state wide teacher strike head into day eight. Everyone thought they had a deal but that is in legislative limbo. Well take you there live. Plus one of those state legislatures. Back here in washington with our News Team Getting us started in that russian investigation. Nbcs Kristin Welker at the white house. We know the president woke up this morning and had russia on the brain. Reporter he certainly did halle, he was tweeting about it. Theres been new headlines about the russian investigation. Take a look at his tweet from today. Why did the Obama Administration start an investigati