Happen right now on capitol hill 4 of the most powerful men in the u. S. Tech industry are being questioned on whether their platforms have violated antitrust laws in recent years as theyve risen to dominate the internet Rachel Blevins is joining us now to discuss the latest developments there as a ritual who is testifying today and what led us to this point where this hearing comes after more than a year of Research Conducted by the house judiciary subcommittee and which available to 4 of the Top Tech Companies here in the u. S. To ask questions about whether they are unfairly stifling their much smaller competitors now of course were still dealing with the corona virus pandemic so this hearing was carried out virtually and the testimonies included this. Apple and google. Facebook and amazon now all of these companies have been accused of manipulating their search results to promote their own products and interest so this hearing is still going on right now as we speak what have been
Global efforts continue in the race for a covert 19 vaccine or even a treatment that could help probable pull the pandemic will british regulators approve a global trial to restart testing drug sykora quinn and chloroquine to see if they can prevent infection with cobra 19 well the food and Drug Administration revoked emergency use for the drug after a trial showed they did not benefit as treatments but this cop called trial its going to look to see if the drug can be used as a potential preventative medicine meanwhile on tuesday the european writing concerns over the recent krone virus bikes across the country will russia and brazil are also barred the list of countries deemed safe include australia canada japan new zealand and south korea will the u. S. Still leads with the highest number of kate. Says more than 2600000. 00 americans have been infected with the virus leading to more than 125000 deaths and the country that accounts for only 4 percent of the worlds population is also a
But if he wants to feel sick sure if he wants to head into this election with a better than 5050 shot. Reelection he really needs an Approval Rating of about 50 percent and he does not have that now. To your credit when you were last here in late february you said the Donald Trumps reelection chances were good unless the coronavirus epidemic became larger and more disruptive they just see that coming. I saw it coming i still see it coming and i still believe that this election in the end is going to turn out on a its a horrible thing to say but its going to turn on how many people die. Its your turn on whether the perception is that it is trumps fault or chinas fault that we had this crisis and its going to turn on joe biden because we may not have conventions this summer its still possible that they will be like this interview is done online but we are most certainly going to have debate and in that debate biden is going to have to show that he has a capability not only to lead the co