White house pressured the platform to Censor Americans and he says he regrets caving to those demands. Good morning im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning, bret. Good to see you. Bret im bret baier and this is americas newsroom. Zuckerberg making that admission in a letter to chairman jim jordan saying the white house pushed facebook to take down posts that included Covid Misinformation even ones defined as humor or satire. Dana when meta denied one of those requests the administration grew frustrated. Back in 2020 when jen psaki was the Press Secretary and said facebook needed to be stronger on policing content. Has facebook been as proactive as the white house would like in terms of its response . I think as i noted yesterday, phil, there is more there are more steps that everyone can take. Facebook responded yesterday after the Press Briefing saying that they removed 18 million pieces of Covid Misinformation. So does the white house find that sufficient . Clearly not becaus
Road map begins with teslas truck rollout, unveiling first all electric pickup. The cybertruck and it is nothing like youve ever seen before. Wall street looking to snap a threeday losing streak. Stocks seem to be set for a positive open as chinese president xi jinping says beijing wants to work for a trade deal and a roller coaster week for retail today it is gap, nordstrom, williams and sonoma and foot locker were going to start with tesla, unveiling first ever pickup truck last night elon musk says it will have a starting price of just under 40k. Production set it begin in late 2021 musk touts the futuristic design, the armored glass. As you might know by now, a demonstration to show how bulletproof the glass was did not go according to plan try to break the glass, please yeah sure . Yeah. Well, maybe that was a little too hard man, this is getting talked about a lot this morning stocks down, bernstein says it looks weird. Like really weird. What do we think well, i mean, since they
A new wave of consolidation in the all the industry chrysler in france is p. S. A. From joe want to create the worlds 4th largest car maker plus the last to get it for the voice of authority in the bronx it debate. Thats been the speaker of the British Parliament john bercow retiring after 10 years in the chair. Im off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin tonight with the historic vote in the u. S. Congress democrats have taken a major step in their efforts to impeach u. S. President donald trump the house of representatives today voted to move forward with the impeached. An investigation with a resolution that sets out the ground rules the lawmakers will use as they begin the transition from closed door sessions to public impeachment hearings the resolution is adopted without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Nancy pelosi presiding over a historic moment as expected the democratic majority carried the vote p
Sources telling Cnbc Softbank is coming to the rescue and will take control of the company. Josh lipton has all the details. Melissa, thats right a new dramatic twist in wework story here cnbc is now reporting that softbank is in advanced talks to take control of wework, thats what sources are telling cnbcs own david faber, a deal could be announced as soon as tomorrow. It is softbank led by japanese billionaire masasan taking control here, after the move softbank would control nearly 80 of wework, prior to the takeover, softbank already invested nearly 11 billion in the company. Softbank economic marcello clarette will be involved in the companys management, former ceo adam newmans stake will fall to low double digits. Last month wework terminated plans to go public the prospectus revealed a huge 900 million loss in the First Six Months of 2019 Corporate Governance practices also causing concern thank you, josh lipton in San Francisco with the latest on wework talk about a down round
Thats right, it is not here at the bay bridge but i wanted to show you the backup, were on schedule. Early backup formed but typical pattern through congretra costa county. There is one incident near the caldecott outside the tunnel, no slowing shows up for 24. The Traffic Alert is on the nimitz, just issued by chp, out of oakland through san leandro, and down toward a street where we have that truck that dropped seven carts out of the back, the report calls it mail carts. I dont know if this is related to the Postal Service at all but i know theres debris out of the lanes. Issued the sig alert in the middle lane, they may have to close a couple more. The slow something souing south. The rest of the bay moves smoothly. Pg e still hasnt made a final decision on whether to cut power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the bay area. And were expecting a decision later this morning. If the outages take effect in San Mateo County, fewer than 1,000 homes are expected to lose powe