Social media. Hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. We have made it to wednesday, rich. Rich we have indeed, im rich in for john roberts. According to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. Sandra also show Biden Administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. Rich Hillary Vaughn is live on capitol hill. Hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. Thats the big take away from the documents that we obtained. Really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. Behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence on the platform and get
coming right up. sandra: begin america reports with the supreme court striking down a new york gun law that could have far-reaching implications for the nation s largest cities. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. great to be with you, john. john: john roberts in washington, welcome to the thursday edition of america reports. justices ruling 6-3, harder to carry a concealed handgun in public if you live in new york and similar laws in other big states will likely be challenged as a result of today s decision. this as the nation awaits another major ruling on abortion, sparked protests outside the home of conservative justices and attacks on pro life centers across the country. sandra: the latest incident in jackson, michigan, 80 miles west of detroit. congressman says several windows were broken and the front door smashed at the building he shares with a pro life group and the vandals left their calling card in a spray painted message on a sign outsid
model t, start pushing them out. model ts are 650, electric were 1700 bucks. no brainer. you could go see grandma three states over and people had anxiety about driving that far. so the marketplace won and the marketplace is saying the same thing today. sandra: regardless, they are coming for your gas powered car. that s the headline. the headline is taking away your rights as an american, they are going to make you do something you don t want to do in the name of the climate volcano gods. sandra: that s what the wall street journal, biden s regulatory onslaught, says the transportation department on friday proposed 690 page rule raising corporate average fuel economy, cafe standards, automakers will have no way to comply but to make more e.v.s. administration, and this is really important, administration is imposing by regulation what it cannot pass through congress
where epa and other agencies must defer back to congress. and there is one that is going to be impacted, dana. that is the sec. security exchange commission which is put together of five or 600 page rule which is pure insanity forcing all these american companies, thousands and thousands of them to go through hoops about carbon emissions and other metrics and to open themselves up to lawsuits. this sec action would probably be stopped because of what the court did today. frankly, there may be other agencies like the federal trade commission. the federal communications commission, et cetera, and will be impacted. do your border question, it has had a very destabilizing effect on the local economy. that is not necessarily the most important issue because it s a national issue.
0 land, air, sea, cyber, and space. we have reaffirmed that our article commitment is sacred. an attack on one is an attack on all and we will defend every inch of nato territory, every inch of nato territory. for our part, the united states is doing exactly what i said we would do if putin invaded. enhanced our force posture in europe. we will station warships in spain. we are stationing more air defense in italy and germany. or after 35 s in the united kingdom. added to strengthen our flag, new permanent headquarters for the army fifth corps in poland. in addition, an additional brigade combat team positioned in romania. an additional rotational deployment in the baltic countries. things are changing. we will adapt to the world as we have it today. although this is against the backdrop of our response to nato s russia s aggression and to help ukraine defend itself. united states is rallying the world to stand with ukraine. allies and partners around the globe are making significant c