Cspan. Org landmarkcases. Members of the British Committee on Digital Culture media and sport recently traveled to washington, d. C. For a day long discussion on the media and socalled fake news. Part of the event included officials from google and youtube and talking about guidelines of dealing with distribution of misinformation on such websites. This portion is just over an hour. Id like to welcome everyone to a special hearing on the house commons Digital Culture, media sports. And our inquiry into fake news and disinformation. We are thrilled to be here and absolutely delight with the support we received from George Washington university and grateful for their efforts in helping us put on these hearings here. This is the first time a select committee has taken live evidence in this way outside of the united kingdom. Im grateful for everyones work who made the logistics behind that possible. Id like to thank the witnesses from the Different Companies well see today for their eviden
Whose made the logistics behind that possible. Id like to thank the witnesses from the Different Companies well seed to for their evidence too. Just one small piece of House Keeping from the start. For people who are unfamiliar with the work of how fast commons select committees maybe more familiar with the work of congressional committees, its understood that anyone taking part in the proceeding of particle lent like this answers questions honestly and truthfully to the committee and its an offense to mislead parliament. Im nol not saying our witnesses would do that but we dont require them to swear an oath because under our rules its implied that theyre telling the truth. Well also we have a number of sessions to get through today and im conscious that we need to do that in good time gand order. Id like to ask the members of the committee to be clear in directing their questions to either individual members of the panel, be clear what theyre asking for as well. And just to say to the
Go big or go home good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and here at post nine. Record highs on the dow and s p this morning all major averages having best month coming as the president addresses the Economic Forum in davos sw davos switzerland yesterday declaring america is open for business sat down with our joe kernen for more well turn to Michelle Carusocabrera in davos this morning. Hey, michelle. Reporter hey, carl, President Trump on a full court press to convince investors around the world to invest in the United States. Trump reiterated how pleased he is about the Corporate Tax cut, what it does for american competitiveness and how its leading to bonuses for workers as a result. I think that the tax plan has been even better than we thought. What did happen that nobody considered is that at t started, but they immediately followed hundreds of companies are giving thousands and thousands of dollars to their workers and now you have almo
As communities and Law Enforcement struggled with overdose death, heroine used increased in trafficking its important to know that they had easy access to diverted opiate is. Approximately 18 billion opiate pills were dispensed in 2012, this is enough to give every american 18 years and older 75 pain pills. They indicate 95 of opiate users do not use heroine four out of five heroin users have used it nonmedically. Well heroine is traditionally regarded as an issue facing large urban areas, where seen a chip in the demographic of heron use. Increasing heroin use, Overdose Deaths and their consequences are being seen in suburban and smalltown america. A recent cbc study showed that heroin use rate remands highest among males. Heroin use is doubling among women than among nonhispanic whites. We also know that o and dcp has used its rolled and scored nadir of the federal drug agent to show their support for Substance Abuse prevention efforts and coordinate in 2011 the Administration Plan t
Even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. [rubenstein continues reading onscreen text] james, thank you very much for doing this. Honored to be here, david. Now, you have an accent compared to me. Maybe in australia, you dont have an accent. But you have an australian accent. I assume thats because you grew up in australia. It is. And its also a measure of me being tonedeaf that after 30 years, i havent been able to get rid of it. So i am an only child, so i dont know what its like to be in a big family. But you were in a family of 11 children . We were 12, originally. Twelve children. Yeah. So, what was that like . Two passed away, so we have 10. It was it was actually very noisy. Um. You, i think, learnt a great deal of empathy for others because youre in an environment where something was going bad every day in our household, and something was going good. What part of australia were you growing up in . Melbourne. Melbourne. So when your parents are producing new ch