Good monday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt along with Morgan Brennan and Contessa Brewer live at post nine at the New York Stock Exchange carl is on assignment, as you probably heard this morning, in hanoi, vietnam hes going to be reporting live all day tomorrow on that countrys recent manufacturing boom and its role in the u. S. china trade war a lot more do not miss our live coverage. Again, all day tomorrow. And meantime, we begin with facebook, google, and your data. Exactly how much is it worth that is the question senators mark warner and josh haolly are asking as they propose new legislation that would force Big Tech Companies to put a price tag on user data and guys, this i find fascinating and very confli complicated. Because one persons data, the way i understand it, is worth very little, but everybodys data is worth a lot. And i dont think its as simple as just doing division like, you divide the total value of the data by the number of people some peoples dat
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With your families or friends . Here are the phone numbers. You can also share your thoughts on social media. The question this morning is whether or not this president ial election and the debates over have caused a rift with your family or friends. Research from the pew research center. They ask how many of your Close Friends support the opposing candidate . Some of this debate is taking place online. Data fromto this Online Harassment dated. Org they also ask whether politics play a role in who was being harassed this year. Politics being an important debate online and amongst family and friends at the Kitchen Table this year. We spoke recently with the institute of civil discourse from arizona and we asked about the state of political discourse in the country this year. The civility in our politics and in our communities is the worst its been since reconstruction. There is no question but what we downward slope in terms of our lack of respect for each other when we speak, the ideol
Basically world war ii and then we started having an impact and what has tha the impact on the balance band blacks its idiotic to do a microscopic scrutiny of this or that intervention. You have to look at the whole picture. Enrich respect, its always easy to say we made a mistake over here and we made a mistake over there. Churchill in his histor historyn analyzing the war it is illegitimate to criticize people for the benefit of hindsight because they didnt have the hindsight at the time. You have to criticize them based on the Information Available to them then. Enrich respect i dont think we should have gone into iraq. I think the vietnam war was stupid but when i look at the overall picture of American Foreign policy to power in the world is either going to be used by us or its going to be had by somebody else. If you took americas power right now and we give it up it would go to russia, it would go to china, somebody else would have it and they would use it more heavy handedly an
Over the weekend the religious freedom laws in arkansas and indiana, and whether businesses should be more socially active. Some of the reaction to those laws in those states, whether businesses should be more engaged in political debates over social issues. Here is how to join our conversation. For those of you in eastern and central time zones, the number is 2027 488000. Mountain and pacific 202748 8001. For social media, send us a tweet cspanwj. Make sure you mute your television or radio when you call in. Over the weekend, the president gave an interview to Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. The front page this morning peter bakers article obama calls the iran deal our best that. Host a quote from the president , this is the best that so far that we have to get an agreement from iran. What we will be doing even as we enter into this deal is sending a clear message to the uranian and to the entire region that if anybody messes with israel america will be there. This is the headl