Plus, why is facebook reportedly asking banks for your Financial Information . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im Phil Mattingly in for dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, august7th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with Paul Manaforts right hand man rick gates. Back on the Witness Stand in the onetime Trump Campaign chairman trial on tax and fraud charges. The stakes are high for the white house. Manafort and his deputy know a great deal of what went on Behind Closed Doors during key months of the 2016 campaign. Yesterday, gates admitted under a grant of immunity he committed crimes alongside his former boss and against him as well. Cnn has more from the federal court in alexandra, virginia. Reporter rick gates took the stand in the showdown we have been waiting for as gates
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Every time he weighs in. It complicates the previous explanations for it. We are hearing from the president s aides that in t
maintaining the app. s parent company by the bytedance is non agent of china. allowed the platform to serve as a surveillance tool mr. chew, you are here bylaws american people need about the threat tiktok poses to our national security. tiktok collects nearly every data point imaginable. tiktok surveils us all. and the chinese communist party is able to use this as a tool to manipulate america as a whole. when asked if the app. spied on americans. chew said he didn t think spying was the right way to do i have it. debbie dingell focused on the geo locations of americans and whether those are being targeted. has tiktok at any time fed precise g.p.s. information collected from u.s. users into algorithms to serve user ads?
the trump administration to fox news to the fringes of the internet and back again, lather, rinse, repeat. yes, exactly. and each time, through the cycle, it is reaching more people. so, if a rando from north carolina just text mark meadows, like, i think it was antifa. that s a chief of staff of the president of the united states and he s going back and forth in the fox people. the next thing you know, a few million people are watching an opening a block on january 6th being like, yeah, antifa is sprinkled throughout the capital. i think we should be really clear is almost incumbent upon us as we discuss this january 6th has been subject to the largest investigation in fbi history. there have been, i, think over 900 cases. detailed geo locations and depositions people, as you said, who had made what they did. there is maybe one person in that whole group who is debate doubly a leftist. right. and he, we spoke to him today my colleague just prevents the talking points m
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this week we ve seen two more examples of abut how big tech and other big corporations are catering to the political left at every turn. i remember on monday we told you about how quickly credit card companies fell in line of a democrats lobbied that they track gup purses separately. speaking of tracking, this week at multiple senate hearings we learn that twitter has the capability not only to track individual users. user data, geo locations, and twitter users. is that accurate. i was the head of engineering for the whole company. did you have access to user