Correspondent, john roberts, has more on the president s g7 summit from france. Reporter lou, good morning from france. For most of the weekend, the other g7 leaders were sweating the Economic Uncertainty caused by the escalating trade war between the United States and china, uncertainty that saw the dow plunge off a 600point cliff on friday. But as monday dawned here in france, a new sense of optimism over the summit. The final day of the g7 was dominated by what appeared to be an about face in chinas position on the trade war. The vice chairman telling media china is willing to resolve its trade dispute through calm negotiations and resolutely opposes escalation of the conflict. Markets in asia took a nose dive this morning, and while it is too early to tell whether this represents a sea change in chinas attitude, President Trump is optimistic. Do you trust that they are sincere . I do. I think they want to make a deal very badly, i think they very much want to make a deal, and the l
More on the president s g7 summit from france. Reporter lou, good morning from france. For most of the weekend, the other g7 leaders were sweating the Economic Uncertainty caused by the escalating trade war between the United States and china, uncertainty that saw the dow plunge off a 600point cliff on friday. But as monday dawned here in france, a new sense of optimism over the summit. The final day of the g7 was dominated by what appeared to be an about face in chinas position on the trade war. The vice chairman telling media china is willing to resolve its trade dispute through calm negotiations and resolutely opposes escalation of the conflict. Markets in asia took a nose dive this morning, and while it is too early to tell whether this represents a sea change in chinas attitude, President Trump is optimistic. Do you trust that they are sincere . I do. I think they want to make a deal very badly, i think they very much want to make a deal, and the longer they wait, the harder it is
Threehour hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks are attending i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. We had a series of votes on a singapore that just concluded and so welcome. Welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media buys with witnesses from facebook and twitter. As i noted then, in inquiry into big tech censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what were doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read, and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Google domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that, to google, is now a commonplace. With that market power, google can and often does control our discourse. And sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effects of those products as though their forces outside of big text control. As weve heard time and time agai
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