Rep. Dean in Lafayette Square, Peaceful Protesters gathered over days and hours to discuss civil rights and the heinous murder of george floyd call for equality and justice. When asked about the use of force displayed in the video against the protesters in Lafayette Square you stated that your attitude was get it done. Lets look at what you got done. If you take a look at the timeline we compiled, we can see that you were spotted in Lafayette Square that monday evening. The president was scheduled to speak in the rose garden at 6 15. The park police began to Disperse Protesters at roughly 6 33. President trump started his speech at 6 43 and finished at 6 50. By 7 01, when the president was ready to take a photo in front of st. Johns church, the square was cleared and ready for him to go. Am i correct . A. G. Barr yes. Rep. Dean the timing is clear. Multiple local officials also confirmed the point of clearing the square. One safety official said that it plan to movepolice the perimeter
Get to your thoughts in just a minute. Golda, a Technology Reporter with axios, joining us on the phone to talk about this hearing that will be taking place at noon eastern time on cspan3, on our website cspan. Org, and you can listen on the go with our free cspan radio app. Committee iswhat holding this hearing and why . Is the House Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee. They are holding this hearing because they have been having an investigation of the Digital Markets and Big Tech Companies in the past few years and this is a culmination of that investigation. Host why are they investigating these companies . Guest they are investigating these Big Tech Companies, apple, amazon, google, and facebook, because amongst the democrats and some republicans, these there is a feeling that these companies are too big, take up too much of the economy, gobble up competition by acquiring Smaller Companies, and amazons case by both selling products and being a platform, and in apples case ru
And so the House Judiciary Committee just wrapping up this hearing on u. S. Citizenship and immigration services. A house judiciary subcommittee will be moving into this same room for a hearing with the ceos from amazon, apple, google and facebook. Theyll be discussing antitrust law and Online Platform market power. The Company Heads expected to appear remotely. Again this hearing being held in the same room as the previous hearing we just showed you. So there will be a little bit of a break as they take time to clean the room. The hearing expected to begin shortly. As for the tech ceos, this will be amazon Ceo Jeff Bezos first appearance ever before congress. Well be watching the room before if gets underway here on cspan3. Once again we are live on capitol hill this afternoon as we await the start of a house subcommittee hearing with the ceos of amazon, apple, facebook and google. Theyre talk about unfair competition and market dominance. They are expected to appear remotely. It was
Pass i as they demured to the passive as they demured to the awesome power of the u. S. Congress. They were dismissive that they could in any way strangle free peach. And crush conservative voices and speech and crush conservative voices and votes. They claim to be the farthest thing from monopolists or oligarchs. They compete not only against one another and viciously but also others. Googles ceo, sundar pichai, claims his company is facing intense competition, yet somehow, some way google manages to dominate search traffic. Accounting for, are you ready . Almost 92 of all searches done online. 92 . Thats very close to monopolistic, dont you think . And google also remains the largest digital ad platform by market share. Last year nearly 32 of all Digital Advertising dollars were spent on google. The company paying a 1. 7 billion fine in march to the European Union where hay the stood accused they stood accused of abusing the giant Advertising Market dominance, well, that denial was f