Of the different components, these are huge media and Communications Networks now, and in the United States and in most countries, these industries have been heavily regulated and very clear stipulations about what can and cant appear, how they can be used. You think about the idea of russia coming in and using nbc and comcast to influence our election what would happen . Thats exactly what happened here and the idea that they are going to somehow escape, hey, were just a platform, we have nothing to do with that. Good news, they are moving in that direction the other issue is antitrust, just the amount of power that these companies have and but i think its important to separate whether they think this is a business issue from a different kind of issue. Yes, this is an important political and cultural issue, but is it a threat to facebooks Business Model or reputation i dont think it is, because they dont rely on political advertising in an outsized way Mark Zuckerberg was way ahead of
Andressman from virginia the democratic representative from virginia talking about the standoff with north korea. Cspan washington journal is life now. Host good morning. At three will be in 00 p. M. 3 00 p. M. We will be with you for the next three hours on the washington journal. We will spend the morning talking about the big issues on capitol hill. How the latest Affordable Care act replacement failed bid leaders announcing they cannot get enough votes. Chief Justice Roy Moore now defeated Luther Strange. Despite the backing of republican leadership. What does this all mean . That is what we are asking you grade we want to hear your thoughts. Call the numbers on your screen. You can also catch up with us on social media and on twitter. A very good wednesday morning to you. You can start calling in now greatly what to get your reactions. Taking up the lead spot on the national paper. Here is the front page of the Washington Post this morning. Some fear a backlash over unmet Campaign
Now were going toint dues our head table. Please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. The head table is usually reserved for members of the club , our guests, and guesses of our headlineser speaker. Going from my far left, mike ith, c. E. O. Of green smith p. R. Nabbling press clubHeadliners Team member. Jim noon, vietnam navy veteran and commander of the American Legion nabbling press clubheadliners pl press club, which is founded by general pershing. Myron, my predecessor National Press Club President , 107th president of vet , a vietnam veteran as well. The honorable john elliott, who i have been chasing around capitol hill and all kinds of places for almost 20, 25 years. Way too many years. John is the assistant secretary for public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States department of Veterans Affairs. Katelyn kenny, producer at cbs radios connecting vets dotcom. Thomas murfirks acting undersecretary for benefits at the u. S. Department of Veterans Aff
Spoke about Veterans Health care issues in light of this upcoming veterans day holiday. Speaking at the National Press club, this is an hour. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I know that was a purposeful gavel, wasnt it . Welcome to the National Press club are where we have the trademark motto, the worlds leading professional organizations for journalists. My name is jeff. News editor for the americas with Al Jazeera Media Network and 110th president of the National Press club. Today, were pleased to have as our headliners luncheon speaker, dr. Shulkin, the ninth secretary of Veterans Affairs. First of all, i would like to ask you to please turn your mobile devices to vibrate. Why vibrate instead of off . Because we do encourage you to tweet the proceedings and questions to pressclubdc using npc live. Using the npc live. Now, were going to introduce our head table. And please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. The head table is usually reserved for members of t
We have his a take on the economy and tells us where he sees value right now. In two hourslose time. Lets take a check on where stocks are trading with abigail doolittle. Abigail were looking at a bullish day here with the dow, s p 500 and nasdaq all higher. Up. 1 afters now flipping between small gains and losses. , the techbest day heavy nasdaq carving out another record day. Chart withongterm the nasdaq relative to the s p 500. , the nasdaqcases outperforming the dow and s p 500. Up dow and s p 500 only about 6 or 7 on the year. Relative to the tech heavy other big averages are lagging to some degree. One stock helping is apple. Apple is up in a big way. Hitting yet another record high. Apple does report tomorrow after the bell. Investors are looking for earnings of 2. 02 on 53 billion. One of the big things investors will be looking to see is the cash position. Some are expect things to hundred 50 million 250 billion. Here forood stuff apple. Turning back into the bloomberg on appl