lfall right. as 2020 approaches, lawmakers from both parties are united in their suspicions about big tech s role in our elections. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg will testify before the house financial services committee next week. his testimony comes as he just laid out his plan for facebook s policy on political ads. jo ling kent joins us, jo ling, great to have you with us. what does this say about mark zuckerberg s testimony on capitol hill? ayman, critics say zuckerberg doesn t fully understand the ability and his magnitude of his platform, almost 2.5 billion people use facebook on a monthly basis. what he put forward at georgetown university yesterday has both republicans and democrats firing back. listen to this.
spoke at length more about the impeachment inquiry and what he said every time he spoke about it raised more questions than he answered. for instance, he said yesterday that nations it s normal for nations to ask for x to give in exchange y and that the president was just trying to advance the nation s interest in asking for that investigation, but the question that remains open now from that answer really is what was the x that the president was trying to achieve? was it really trying to find out whether ukraine was still corrupt and trying to find out whether there were interruptions or interference from ukraine in the 2016 election, or was he trying to find damaging information on joe biden as the democrats say? jo ling. claudio lavanga in rome, thank you. thank you all, i really appreciate it, guys. a new york times editorial is called trump the self impeaching president. next, why the president and his defenders keep taking the president the ukrainian call was just no bi
damaging information on joe biden ahead of the next elections? jo ling? claudio, i want to know what the perception is like in rome and cross the eu when this sort of drama unfolds? obviously, italy has its own share of political drama a as well. what is the perception of the united states in the current administration? reporter: well, it s in total chaos, really. in a sense, even with this visit throughout europe from secretary of state pompeo, it appeared the further away he traveled from washington, d.c., the more he got himself into trouble. if you remember, he started this trip here in italy where he answered briefly about a question on the impeachment inquiry by saying that there was nothing wrong with it. trying to discard it, downplaying the significance and he moved on to the republic of north macedonia, refusing to answer questions on the impeachment inquiry and yesterday, once he got into greece, he couldn t stop talking about.
they are among the most annoying fees we pay, and atm fees just hit a record high. here is jo ling kent with the price you pay. reporter: tonight, record atm fees are costing consumers a pretty penny getting cash from an out of network atm rising to an average $4.72 that includes both the fee from. consumers are shelling out more than $5 in houston, atlanta, detroit, chicago and philadelphia it boils down to more americans going cashless, opting to pay with cards and apps and we re depositing physical checks at atms less often instead opting to use mobile banking. with fewer people using atms, the cost of maintaining them goes up. there s a risk that going forward, we start to see fees of all kinds, atm fees, overdraft fees and account maintenance fees go up at a faster pace because with interest rates falling, bank interest margins
company said this does not mean we re going out of business. filing for bankruptcy protection is a deliberate and decisive step to put us on a successful track for the future forever 21 s decline comes after rapid expansion and serious competition online and off from zara, h & m, and fashion nova all moving in secondhand start-ups like thred up also pose a threat. and more teenagers want to spend on experiences over clothes, too. sustainability is first and foremost for a young shopper it s not relevant to consume and keep having disposable cloths. reporter: changing tastes, cramping retail style. jo ling kent, nbc news there are important developments in a story we told you about last week. the 12-year-old black student who claimed three white students pinned her down and cut her hair has now admitted her story was false according to her school in virginia in a statement, her family said