This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of the internet are under attack, soon we will hear from the ceos of three of the most prominent internet platforms, facebook, google and twitter, with this is include mr. Jack dorsey of twitter, of alphabet inc. And mr. Marx a burger facebook. On october 1 this committee voted on a bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives of the companies witnesses agreed to attend it voluntarily and remotely the stronger agreement on both sides of the aisle t
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Busiest day of earnings season and as we await a vaccine, more positive news from one drug maker about a possible treatment. You are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan. We begin with stock futures pointing to a possible turnaround with the dow kit e indicated high, 175 to the up side, s p up by 27 and nasdaq up by 125 the dow and s p are coming off their first single day performances since june 11 the blue chip index seeing its fourth done day wn kaday in a re late february. Since the selling began on friday, the dow has shed a total of 1843 points, roughly 6. 5 it is on pace for its worst monthly performance since march. And it wasnt just the dow Big Technology also taking it on the chin over the past couple of days take a look at facebook, alphab alphabet, apple, tesla, and more together losing some 270 billion in market value just since tuesday alone. All of this coming as the u. S. Reporting its highest number of coronavirus
History tv. Every weekend on cspan3 explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. [shouting] mr. Chairman, my fellow mr. Chairman, my fellow americans, my fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. [ cheers and applause ] this moment, this moment is one of personal pride and gratification. Yet one cannot help but reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city, and for the personal injuries which have occurred. Thats Hubert Humphrey accepting the 1968 democratic nomination for president where the democrats had gathered for their convention in the midst of the vietnam war while thousands of protesters demonstrated outside. He was unsuccessful for president in 1968 and hes the focus of this weeks Contenders Program. Were live from minnesotas History Center.
Liz cheney was among the 199 who voted to keep the qanon on her committee. You have the guts to impeach the president for inciting the January 6th Insurrection but you vote to keep Important Committee assignments with a qanon person, a person already all over the vakt acts of the day, and someone who echoed deneithers to Kill Democrats and says you will no better than they are. How crazy is this . The qanon lady has more support in that party than cheney, by a lot. How do we see it . 61 republicans voted to remove cheney for her Leadership Post very voting to impeach trump. Almost six times the support. Now, for her sake today, she admitted that everything she has said is a lie. School shooters are absolutely real. I also want to tell you 9 11 absolutely happened. I never once said during my entire campaign qanon, i never said any of the things i am being accused of today during my campaign, i never said any of these things since i have been elected for congress. These were words of th