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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] is recognized for five minutes. Thank you. Mr. Zuckerberg, thank you for being here today and i want to thank the chairwoman for having this hearing. Youve said a lot of things today that couldnt have been said during the last hearing. Your responses to questions has been very district and very helpful. Thank you for that and thank you very much for being here. I just had a few quick questions about the Libra Association. On the website, one of the benefits before mr. Marcus appeared before our committee was that those contributing, who joined the association, could derive dividends from libra investment tokens and thats since been taken off. Could you elaborate on that . Sure, congressman, i think that there had been an idea that in order to encourage marketing of the payment service, that there might be some investment that other companies could make into this and some return that they could make, but i think that that idea has eith
The middle east, in the midst of these ancient sectarian and tribal conflicts. After all of the blood and treasure america has poured into the deserts of the middle east, i am committed to pursuing a different course, one that leads to victory for america. Through much work, we have done things that everybody said couldnt be done. Todays announcement validates our course of action with turkey that only a couple of weeks ago was scorned and now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome, congratulations. Its too early to me to be congratulated. But weve done a good job. We saved a lot of lives. Most importantly, we have avoided another costly military intervention that could have led to disastrous consequences, many thousands of people could have been killed. The last administration said assad must go. They could have easily produced that outcome, but they didnt. In fact they drew a very powerful red line in the sand, you all remember, the red line in the sand, when children were gass
Without objection the chair is authorized today declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today, were here to examine the impact of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witness is facebooks chairman and ceo, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebooks plans to create a Digital Currency, libra, and a digital wallet raise many concerns relating to privacy, trading risk, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy, and the stability of the Global Financial system. I and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks development of this Digital Currency, libra, and digital wallet until congress can examine the issues associated with a Big Tech Company developing these Digital Products and take action. As i have examined faceboo
In advance of that weare getting windy and cooler out here. 60s and 70s near temperatures today. The Silicon Valley communed is beginning to fire up that here on a live picture interstate 80 coming to vallejo and oakland. Getting across the bay bridge is going to be moderate as steve has been mentioning. Across the bridge looks okay into downtown San Francisco. No issues here in front of the oakland coliseum. And heading down to the san mateo or dumbarton bridges. All of it is emphasis go it looks good. The giants home game is going to be well attended so that will impact your afternoon commute looking at the entire east bay commute looks good. Silicon valley is still a nice drive. From sunnydale all the way to the west valley. Lets go back to the desk. The new information about the whistleblower who is pressuring the ukraine into finding embarrassing information on joe biden and his son hunter. The whistleblower according to leading democrats will meet with the House Intelligence Comm