For right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible and i hope youll all join us in the questions as you can bring to our guests and planning to ask you a couple of questions. We are going to take advantage of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates, somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time and talk to him throughout this pandemic and he is far and away the smartest person i know about really helping us set the table understanding where we are. Ive called him a National Treasure and now hes a global treasure. Donated more than 400 million to Covid Research and called this, i hate to say it, in advance back in 2015 whene warned about a possible pandemic of ts sort. I should also note hesrying to get into the journalism business to start a podcast this week which you can go out and get as well. I should also in
Youre watching cspan2. Your unftered view of government. Created by americans Cable Television companies emma is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Acebook market zuckerberg and twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey testified about the president ial election helped erica manng misinformation online. From this in a jewish inhe judiciary committee. This is four hours. Good morning everybody. I think weave senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct. And is it okay if we moveha forward. Absolutely and thank you very much. I will make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorshipuppression in the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when i facebook. Witter and about the platforms and the decisions they make and how they make them. Can we do better. Do we need to do better. So the first thing that i want to talk about here is health risket associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 75013 17 yearolds found that 45 percent online almos
Get into that phil flynn, the senior analyst, Fox News Contributor as you know, adam joined us from agoura financial, jackie deangelis, we will be going through these numbers and sectors as you keep looking at this but alan, looking at it and i want to tip my hat to you because in the middle of this down graph when people were looking for barrels to go over with you said wait a minute, this is not as bad as it looks and sure enough you were proven right, going back to last march and where we are now, what can you do for an encore . Obviously we saw the market snapback as we seen every time in history, we are in a bull market, everything the market has thrown at it its been able to bounce back and bounce back the difference of a selloff, that is a lot higher move, you talk about the 10000point drop in the dow, that pretends 40000, that may seemed like a Staggering Number but its 30 above where we are now and lets remember the dow is 65 off the lows, there is upside left and until the dy
Watch tonight and enjoy American History tv every weekend. Last week, Pharmaceutical Company pfizer announced they have a vaccine for covid19 that is 95 effective. The ceo of the company and bill gates recently talked about the encouraging results from the vaccine and how they would distribute it to the public. Welcome back to deal book. It is a privilege to be with all of you, we have a very, very special conversation planned for right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible. I hope youll all join us in the comments asking questions to bring to our guests. And also planning to ask you a couple of questions. Were going to take advantage of some of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates. Somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time. And to talk to him throughout this pandemic. And he is far and away the smartes
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force painting a bleak picture on the near term outlook. The most recent report warns that there is, quote, now aggressive