Landmark cases produced in partnership with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr chief justice. Good evening, welcome to see spencers landmark cases. Tonights case is the New York Times Company Versus the United States, in this 1971 case, the Supreme Court ruled six to three against the knicks this Nixon Administration in a big win for journalism. The decision upheld the New York Times in the Washington Post, which you just saw depicted in this recent movie, the right to project published classified information on the history of the vietnam war over significant objections from the pentagon and the white house. We have to terrific guests at the table tonight, to help us understand how this case unfolded. And what it means for us today in our society. Let me introduce you to flloyd abrams, the bestknown First Amendment lawyer counsel in the New York Times case and he is the attorney in new y
Police operation and forcing chinas new National Security bill. To dominant and too powerful thats whats being leveled against 4 of americas Largest Tech Companies at a congressional hearing in washington d. C. The chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple have been defending their Business Practices via video link theyre accused of stifling competition and monopolizing the industry free from regulation this is the culmination of a yearlong investigation by the u. S. Congress detailing how the Companies Avoid liability under the current laws well amazon has been accused of accessing data from sellers on its Online Shopping platform to create its own products when pressed on the issue chief executive jeff bezos says he called to guarantee his company doesnt engage in that activity. Let me ask you mr amazon after access and use 3rd party seller data when making Business Decisions and just a yes or no will suffice or. I cant answer that question yes or no what i can tell you is
That this subcommittee has been investigating this for more than a year they see there is a significant problem there and essentially this is a short being fired across the bows of the tech giants know that shot was also echoed by the president dont trump seeing that if the Tech Companies didnt do something to stop their monopoly then he would take executive action if congress didnt act well looks as if Congress Might well i this committee has called for further hearings in september and the chairman of the committee who you heard from earlier he said that some of these Companies Need to be broken up some need to be regulated there has to be a change in the law and the legislation particularly in the digital age because a lot of these laws were drawn up at the beginning of last century when there were Big Companies around and they were taking advantage of their position so this is essentially the legislators saying to the big Tech Companies you really need to get your house in order an
A dream shattered the family is still seeking answers about how their teenage son died while training with the time military. For the 1st time Hong Kong Police have used a new National Security law to crack down on social media posts by prodemocracy activists for students belonging to a group called student localism have been arrested theyre accused of posting content that called for hong kongs independence the controversial law was imposed in hong kong 4 weeks ago but it makes subversion and secession criminal offenses and it grants Police Powers to arrest suspects without a warrant. They have some doctor recently that say for example they wanted to be a stuffy a hong kong country and also they wanted to be jews all demands to to keep doing get spanked and finally they wanted to to deny that all of it in the pending books in hong kong. Will be able to promote the independence of the hong kong thats what its about the things they do so probably have ok for more lets go to do be a good
Prices double the last couple of months. We have seen demand picking up. Taking a look at other markets, the focus is on chinese equities. They have been fluctuating between gains and losses. The shanghai cob is lower. They are largely flat after what we saw on friday. State funds trimming their holdings. There was the big news of the haltingetf in china trading until 10 30 a. M. This morning. They are saying the warning of thiss involved here tracks some of the largest stocks in shanghai. Take a look at singapore. This is reopening after the singapore election. Retaining the firm grip on power. When he 89 of seats. That is considered the weakest showing ever. Good. Be for stocks some analysts say a de a diverse up three quarters of 1 . We are taking a look at bonds and currencies. We watched the dollar posting the second weekly loss. It comes toing when the belly of the curve for u. S. Treasuries. Reversing some of the gains after we sell yields touch a record low on friday. Lower by