Hello and welcome to bbc news. Here in the uk, borisjohnson is preparing for the biggest act of his political career. On wednesday hell be invited by the queen to form a government, then enter 10 downing street as Prime Minister, fulfilling an ambition hes admitted to holding for decades. Newly elected as conservative party leader on tuesday, he claimed in his acceptance speech that he would unite the country and take britain out of the European Union by the end of october. Heres the bbcs Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Applause. And therefore i give notice that borisjohnson is elected as the leader of the conservative and unionist parties. A brief moment of where do i go now, as the rest of the room got to its feet. A thumping majority for mrjohnson a knowingly controversial pick. There will be people around the place who will question the wisdom of your decision and there may be some people here who still wonder quite what they have done. No one party, no one person has a monopoly
Hearing over cripper to currency planned by facebook, getting panned by the likes of the president and fed chair jerome powell. Well go to capitol hill for that and so much more on making money. Charles facebook welcomed with not so open arms in capitol hill. Senators making their displeasure with the company on a grilling of libra cryptocurrency. Ebb wardlaw recognize live in washington with more. Edward . Reporter senators were very concerned about facebooks past problems, now their plans to lawn of the cryptocurrency called libra. I dont think for a minute that facebook created hate but we know that their competing missions of connecting people and turning a profit creating an algorithm and a Business Model that intensified it. The head of colibra david marcus defending what facebook has done with privacy breaches, selling customers data and slow to react to russian agents trying to affect the election. Why in the world should facebook of all Companies Given the last couple of years
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Practices must take in especially hard look at google. That is what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. The domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a commonplace for. With that market power google can and often does control our discourse and sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effect of those reps as we have heard time and time again google Search Engine is not some Supernatural Force it is a Computer Program written and maintained by people in the order that google decides we should do that. Type a few letters into the search bar and google will tell you what you should be looking for. The same is true of the subsidiary youtube. The second most visited webpage in existence. When you search on youtube programs written by people at youtube provide you with the results. When you watch a video a Program
Weve got a big show coming up and interview with wilbur ross this morning and acting director mark morgan mere to talk border crisis and member of the Senate Budget banking and Arm Service Committee also here this morning on technology, trade, to discuss the real estate market, as we get house hadding data out as well. Plus founder of chairman and chairman of Equity International joining us this morning as well. Dont miss a mommy of it weve got a big three hours joining conversation this morning, cfr investment strategist lindsay belle here as well as former home ceo former ohio state is a senator minority leader American University school of Public Affairs president , capri great to see everybody this morning. Thanks so much for being here. Good morning its exciting. Excite because here we are in the beginning of another week of Second Quarter earnings and were going get a good window into the economy. Lindsay what can you tell us in terms of how earning season has kicked off. So far