Test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 acts in a way consistent with American National security and the security of our nato partners as well, diplomats on the ground are working diligently. I had a pointed question. I know that youre a harvard graduate, west point graduate, you know what my question was. Its not about everything else, its about caatsa. Youve decided not to answer that. The final question, you had the Inspector General of the state department, mr. Linick, ultimately fired, that is that correct . I recommended to the president he be terminated, yes. You recommended it to the president he be terminated why . Because he was conducting investigations that may affect you . Senator, at the time i made the recommendation to the president i was unaware of any of the investigations that he had ongoing at the time with one exception i was aware of an investigation he asked me to provide testimony, i provided that testimony. Other than that i was unaware
Washington journal program. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Secretary of state mike pompeo appeared today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify about his 2021 budget requested. He was asked about President Trumps tweet about delaying the president ial election. From earlier today, this is just shy of three hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Today we have with us secretary of state mike pompeo to discuss the state departments fiscal year 2021 budget request. Though, if history is any judge, secretary pompeo, you will face a wide variety of questions which i know you can handle. The United States and our allies and partners continue to face serious foreign challenges that will test us for decades to come. China is our chief competitor. Russia too remains a key advair. The efforts of these nations to sow discord and undue the free and open Intern
Commerce department announced that the United States economy g. D. P. Plunged 32. 9 percent on an annual basis in the april through june quarter this is its worst 2nd quarter period on record for the previous worst quarter contraction was a 10 percent drop during the Eisenhower Administration in 1958 but these records dont date back to the Great Depression while hopes one day old on that v. Shaped recovery is Consumer Spending which actually accounts for about 70 percent of Economic Activity it brought down the g. D. P. On wednesday the Federal Reserve chairman powell warned of the lasting damage to the economy of this expectation. Even with the improve Economic News in may and june overall activity remains well below its level before the pandemic and the contract contraction in real g. D. P. In the 2nd quarter will likely be the largest on record. Now this comes as republicans and democrats are working on the one trillion dollar relief package on a looming friday deadline but it appea
And scaling back the harsh concerns of the growing a virus or change the annual pilgrimage to mecca. Hello too big to dominant and too powerful thats what the bosses of 4 of the worlds Biggest Technology firms are being told the companies have become in an ongoing hearing in washington even the u. S. President has joined in the criticism threatening that hed bring the fairness if congress doesnt take action chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple are all being questioned at a hearing over accusations of anticompetitive behavior together their companies are worth almost 5 trillion dollars but they say they operate fairly and within the rules the politicians leading the hearing say the coronavirus pandemic will only serve to make them stronger. They have too much power these power steves are preforms competition creativity and innovation and while these dont have promise me still produce some new Innovative Products you dominance is killing the Small Businesses and you fract
Platforms have violated antitrust laws in recent years as theyve risen to dominate the internet now arties Rachel Blevins joins us with the latest rachel what have we heard so far was there as we saw c. E. O. s from the 4 Largest Tech Companies in the country testified before the house judiciary antitrust subcommittee as part of an investigation looking at whether they have achieved such a major monopoly that they are no legally stifling their much smaller competitors because of the crown of virus pandemic these testimonies are being carried out virtually and the wind up includes the c. E. O. s of alphabet and Google Facebook apple and amazon now each of these companies have been accused of manipulating their platforms and search results to promote their own products and interests google users know that any time they search for a product the 1st several results are typically advertisements but today the topic of conversation included how google has benefited from those results. What is