We extend a special welcome to our witnesses and thank them for appearing. Remotely all appear this morning. Commissioner noah phillips, commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. This agency was established in 1914 by the federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace, including protecting Consumer Privacy and the security of their data, preventing harmful uses of technology and combating deceptive advertising and illegal robo calls, among other issues. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity and theatory business practice fcc is intended to help prevent americans from falling victim to frauds fraudsters and other actors. Recently discussed, the subcommittee hearing on covid19 scams last month, coronavirus becauseted a new avenue of stayathome orders, a prime target for exploitation. I appreciate the ongoing efforts to protect consumers f
In focus with Russian Hackers targeting Companies Working on covid19 vaccine development. This after a massive twitter hack on the accounts of top lyrical and tech leaders. The attackers got access to internal controls. Michael chertoff told bloomberg earlier that twitter must ask itself two big questions. Are they adequately double checking the identity of the people posting on a regular basis . And also get to the bottom of how somebody on the inside was persuaded into turning over the keys to the kingdom. Facebook is also doing some soulsearching after the social net works latest diversity report showing the company is struggling to recruit black engineers. We are going to hear more on that with Maxine Williams. I spoke to her exclusively. She is reporting to sheryl sandberg. Meantime, cases of covid19 continue to rise. California reporting near record new cases and deaths. Florida, arizona, montana also seeing searches. Round ofgton the next stimulus relief could come as early as n
Thank you. The u. S. Ambassador arrives in the u. S. Sorry harboring a degree of skepticism but on the whole what he sees there and what millions of american movie goers saw along with them breaks all the stereotypes about the soviet government of those times we keep experimenting to find ways to increase our efficiency what kind of effect is this that looks different from the rest yesterday even though. It can usually be compared to. The american film might even make the u. S. S. R. Look better than soviet propaganda pictures or books and we see modern army work in factories and friendly people who speak fluent english. Oh how proud i would be if i could do that well its russian perhaps someday we shall all speak the same language if the wood producer even flirted with the idea of making a film like this theyd probably be branded as crazy but it was still possible back in the 940 s. This is one of my favorite parts an aide tells of the American Ambassador mr davis we need to check you
This is boom box the one business show you cant afford to miss more in washington coming up there with. The hard way that is not a luxury item. As some nations have begun to reopen their economies a surge in cope and 19 cases has followed we take a spin around the globe and see which hotspots are seeing a coronavirus comeback plus we analyze how markets have reacted in the wake of the outbreak but could there be a darker horizon ahead and later the u. S. Is no stranger to surging gun sales but how much of the pain demick driven the sector we have so much to get to so lets dive right in. There. And we lead the program with renewed concerns about a 2nd wave of corona virus infections as the World Health Organization reported a Record Number of new cases sunday. Yesterday more than 183000 new cases of quoted were reported to w 2 is really the most you know a single day so far. More than 8800000 cases 7 now been reported to joe and more than 465000 people have lost their lives some countri
And voices from every region of the planet have cried out in unison the black lives matter but that my friends still still has not been enough to keep us Law Enforcement agents from pulling the trigger on black and brown folks across this country late into the heat of the early summer night on friday june 12th Atlanta Police officer Garrett Rolfe chose to shoot and kill 27 year old rae sharp brooks for that most heinous crime of being supremely drunk and passed out in a wendys fast food drive thru or is the state president of georgia and i believe c. P. Reverend james would also rightly observed this is not the 1st time a black man has been killed for sleeping. Just 48 hours later after the wendys burned in the protesters had to add yet another name to that now growing list of lives lost to Police Violence the world celebrated the birthday of a legendary revolutionary ernesto shig levada whose observations on what drives the rebellion still ring true today that the true revolutionary i