[applause] thanks, chris. Can you hear me . By the way, the staff for this commission is so good. [applause] they produce 120 questions for me [laughing] to interrogate this panel with. So this is actually a ten hour session, not a one hour session. I am thrilled to be here with this panel, some old friends and new friends are with me on stage. Stage. To my immediate left his Andrea Thompson known to many of you. She was the former under secretary of state for arms control. She was the National Security adviser to the Vice President , and most importantly, 25 years of service, time in combat zones and certainly served her country nobly. So andrea, welcome. I have the great pleasure of having islanders with us, the former danish prime minister, chairman of the Danish Liberal Party and formerly the country generally of nato. Most recently though he is the ceo of rasmussen global as well is the sound of the alliance for democracies, or of democracies can which we will get you a little bit
2018 financial crisis. Are there parallels or is that way overdone . Were on top of all of that. Lets get going. Welcome, everybody, im neil cavuto. Edward lawrence at the white house now with the back and forth on the trade front. Increasing youre hearing from firms like Goldman Sachs, we might not get a deal before the 2020 election, if after that . Reporter looks that way. Both sides digging in. Negotiations with china could start but not over trade but over currency. The Treasury Department labeling the china a currency manipulator. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin will work with the International Monetary fund to level the competitive or unfair advantage, level the Playing Field there the treasury, imf acts an intermediary, a forum for the exchange of these conversations between china and the United States. The Treasury Department has a number of suggestions already for china. First they want to lower the trade imbalance with the u. S. Second be more transparent how the exchange r
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Hate speech, and misinformation on the platforms. They also discussed foreign interference in u. S. Elections. This House Homeland Security Committee Hearing is 2. 5 hours. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on examining social Media Companies efforts to counter online terror content and misinformation. In march, a white supremacist terrorist killed 51 people and wounded 49 more at two mosques in christchurch, new zealand. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the vic dems and their families. The motive behind the attack is not in question. The terrorist had written an extensive manifesto outlining his white supremacist, white nationalist, anti immigrant, anti muslim and baptist beliefs. His act was horrifying beyond words. And it shook the conscience. Shockingly, the terrorist was able to live stream the attack on facebook, with the video and its gruesome contents went undetected initially. Instead, Law Enf
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