Nancy pelosi and frank colon talked about the updated he rose act passed by the house and ongoing negotiations for the next round of the virus relief legislation. Good afternoon. Earlier today the attorney general was joined by officials from the department of justice and the fbi to announce state and federal charges against 13 members of two militia groups who were preparing to kidnap and possibly kill me. When i put my hand on the bible and i took the oath of office 22 months ago, i knew this job would be hard but i will be honest. I never could have imagined anything like this. I want to start by saying thank you to our law enforcement. Thank you to the fearless fbi agents and to the brave Michigan State Police Troopers that participated in this operation acting under the leadership of joe gasper and attorney general nestle and u. S. Attorneys and their teams for pursuing criminal charges that hopefully will lead to convictions bringing these sick men to justice. As a mother with tw
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While futures are off their highs following the release of that complaint but we will still be up about 50 points on the dow, up maybe 4 on the s p, 4. 5 on the nasdaq. We were higher than that before the whistleblower complaint was released. We have come down a little bit but not that much. Look, this is going to be a very big day for politics and of course, for your money. You are going to see Speaker Pelosis news conference. Thats in our 10 00 hour. The speaker owns the impeachment process. She favors quote, a quick, narrow impeachment probe focused on ukraine. Hold on. Theres a great deal happening on the corporate front as well. First off, peloton goes public at 29 a share. This is another big name ipo which is losing money and its facing lawsuits from music stars who want more money for appearing on the peloton workout screen. We will show you the first peloton trade. How about this. An aboutface for mcdonalds. Yes, they are planning a meatless burger. Watch beyond meats stock go
Morning on cspan. On cspan. Org. Click speech of tiktok in the United States or discussion with acxiom stack welcome to the program for. Thank you for having me. Take us back in time a little bit about debating this the president. It was the issue at the core . Whats this all started about a year ago when energy and Commerce Committee really quick to issues were highlighted during that hearing. Number one is the National Security concern. As data privacy concerns with the act. With its owner having too many ties to the Chinese Government paid the started about a year ago. Shortly after words a bill was introduced we have directs the divestment the band of tiktok frequencies the word band would be a technical ban if it were to go through . Works dependency ask the bill authors are adamant clarifying this is not necessarily a bill to ban the app. It gives tiktok the option of finding a different owner put a u. S. Owner that is not a National Security threat. But, because the silt could b
Commerce Committee Representative joe barton a republican of texas. Congressman barton a lot of proposals are coming out now not from the fcc yet but for members of congress in different groups about how to treat Net Neutrality. Your colleague henry waxman recently wrote to the fcc asking it to be reclassified as title ii. What is your reaction to back . Guest i respect henry a lot obviously but he is wrong. You are trying to use an old law passed back in the 1930s for an industry in the 21st century. Its been proven over and over again that the best solution to allocation issues and usage issues is an open transparent market with appropriate oversight by the federal and in some cases state and local government. We have a booming internet. We have a booming telecommunication system and by and large its because for the last 20 Years Congress and various president s have adopted more and more open marketbased policies towards telecommunications. For henry or the fcc to try to use and alm