Alarmingly high. There good morning youre watching r. T. International will start this hour with breaking news to you because the ukrainian president s office says that the process of implementing a Prisoner Exchange between moscow and kiev is underway but not complete a few hours ago he cranes attorney general posted a Facebook Post on facebook sorry that the exchange was actually happening although there is no official statement or confirmation from the russian side as yet so lets get more details from you goes dan if he joins us again the studio. This storys moved on hasnt it since we last spoke now the ukrainian president s office has said yes the process is underway well indeed well this is a very sensitive story both for russia and for ukraine so most details that we have right now they exist in the realm of. Speculation reports even rumors and the only concrete thing that we have to work with is that post or even rather every post by ukraines attorney general what it does it is
Executives from google testify testifying the company censorship policy. We also hear from andy parker the father of the journalist who was killed on live tv and a conservative communicator said that google and youtube try to restrict video content for texas sanity senator ted cruz chaired the hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. The series of votes on the senate or the just concluded so welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media bias with witnesses from ace books and twitter. As i noted then any inquiry into big tax censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people hear, watch read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Googles domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a common
Independent but failed to act. And watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. One of the most Popular Democratic president ial hopefuls has failed to call for qualifying for the next round of t. V. Debates hawaii representative tolson cowbird was the most searched for counted it on google after the last 2 t. V. Showdowns but this time around the d. N. C. It says she has failed to meet the criteria required something called into question. Whole process really lacks transparency. People deserve having that transparency because ultimately its the people who will decide who our democratic nominee will be and alternately who our next president commander in chief will be and when you see that lack of transparency it creates you know a lack of faith and trust in the process its Primetime Television if you want to be anybody in the Democratic Party you better make sure you get on the stage at the president ial debates so
Id ask each of the witnesses for the second panel to please take your seats. I apologize for that delay. We went through the three votes we had. We will now begin the second panel of five witnesses. Each witness will have a fiveminute Opening Statement followed by rounds of questions. Our first witness is Mister Dennis prager. Dennis prager is a bestselling author, columnist, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and also the cofounder of Prager University, an institution of Higher Learning on the internet which produces fiveminute videos in which experts distill complex topics in political science, history, philosophy, economics and psychology. Mister prager was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the us delegation to the vienna review conference on the helsinki accords. He was also appointed by george w. Bush to the us Holocaust Memorial council. Our second witness is facing kint, ceo of Digital Content, a trade association that serves the unique needs of Digital Content companies. Be
Bases located overseas they claim current figures are being hugely understated. We are surprised sometimes when our young men and women are killed. If youre wondering where youve landed on the t. V. This is R T International always a pleasure to have your company. First this hour one of the most Popular Democratic president ial hopefuls has failed to qualify for the next round of t. V. Debates why representative was the most searched for candidates on google following the 2 most recent t. V. Show downs this time around though the d. N. C. Says that shes failed to meet the required criteria something that was called into question. The whole process really lacks transparency. People deserve having that transparency because ultimately its the people who will decide who our democratic nominee will be an ultimate lean who our next president commander in chief will be and when you see that lack of transparency it creates you know a lack of faith and trust in the process its Primetime Televis