At cspan. Org coronavirus. Host joining us on the communicators is Andrew Marantz, a writer for the new yorker magazine, also the author of the book antisocial online extremists, technoutopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thanks for joining us try to thanks for having me. Host if i understand correctly the book grew and reporting you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Guest yes. Around 2014, 2015 i was writing for the new yorker and its magazine that allows people to kind of rome and the generalists and go wherever they find interesting stories. Something else find it interesting time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt fully political in my mind at that time. It was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know whats true or whats important versus irrelevant or how to spend th
Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
The president today addressed the issue during a meeting with the governor of louisiana. Its coming in, and im getting pieces already, and were not happy about it. We are, by far, the largest contributor to w. H. O. , world health. And they misled us. I dont know, they must have known more than they knew. Right now theyre literally a pipe organ for china. Chinas not to be congratulated for what happened, just so you understand it. Theyre not to be congratulated for what took place. And w. H. O. Is essentially congratulating them. And when they start doing that, weve got problems. Lou and the president s secretary of state, mike pompeo, demanding china provide access to u. S. Investigators into those laboratories in wuhan where it is believed the deadly contagion that has plagued the world originated. It has also been widely reported the Chinese Government weeks ago ordered all virus samples in wuhan laboratories to be destroyed. Secretary pompeo today told fox news that the United Stat
Chinese communist party. The president today addressed the issue during a meeting with the governor of louisiana. Its coming in, and im getting pieces already, and were not happy about it. We are, by far, the largest contributor to w. H. O. , world health. And they misled us. I dont know, they must have known more than they knew. Right now theyre literally a pipe organ for china. Chinas not to be congratulated for what happened, just so you understand it. Theyre not to be congratulated for what took place. And w. H. O. Is essentially congratulating them. And when they start doing that, weve got problems. Lou and the president s secretary of state, mike pompeo, demanding china provide access to u. S. Investigators into those laboratories in wuhan where it is believed the deadly contagion that has plagued the world originated. It has also been widely reported the Chinese Government weeks ago ordered all virus samples in wuhan laboratories to be destroyed. Secretary pompeo today told fox
Seeing this as a sign that they do see sort of a light on the horizon here. With all the states beginning reopening, expanding the reopening, it will continue to be good for the economy, even in a staggered fashion. There is that. Were following markets across the board. Even issues with disappointing numbers and earnings, most seem to have factored that in. So well get detail by detail, casebycase, sector by sector. This is a remarkable comeback here. A lot of this buoyed by this news out of Gilead Sciences that its drug just might be the panacea some hoped it would be for treatment of the coronavirus. Way too early to tell that here but certainly a different reaction as that stock soars close to 6 on the day. Blake burman, monitoring developments at the white house right now including the president having a sitdown with the louisiana governor. Also meeting with more ceos and those in the agriculture, meat industry. The president you might recall has said that the Meat Processing plan