Suicide attempts fights on board and people jumping into the sea for say humanitarian rescue ship to declare an emergency. And the palestinians being forced to make way for a new high tech carbon occupied East Jerusalem. And oddly wellings with the store snoozes myside is dominate the opening qualifying for the formula one season. Not Lewis Hamilton who takes time for the austrian gold put on somebody the best of the action coming up. More than 200000 people in spain are back in lockdown as the government grapples with another coronavirus flare up residence and part of the north east in catalonia region will not be allowed to leave the local area but on can. Into their homes as an early lockdowns its a very different story in england where queues have been forming for whats been dubbed Super Saturday pubs restaurants and bars have reopened for the 1st time in 3 months there are fears however that it might be to suit u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson to everyone to behave responsibly.
Coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and Public Policy events. You can watch all of cspans Public Affairs programming on television, online or listen on the free radio app. Be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily Washington Journal Program or through our social media feeds. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. This week on the communicators, our guest is representative frank lucas, republican of oklahoma, and the Top Republican on the science, tech, and space committee. Joining us as our guest reporter gopal ratnam of cq roll call. Thank you for being on the communicators this week. Congressman, what have we learned when it comes to technology in the last couple of months, and whats the role of congress in advancing that . Rep. Lucas i think we have come to finally appreciate as a nation how absolutely important it is that we maintain our technological edge
That we move forward and make sure its accessible to all americans across all landscapes. I cant imagine as a member of congress how we would have functioned in this pandemic without the ability to use a variety of conferencing and communication technologies, not just the traditional phone calls we use for our Republican House conferences but with zima and web acts and a whole variety of platforms to move information back and forth and that is just not in politics and just not in the legislative process but listening to my friends in the industry but its been an absolute necessity because many of them have only spent a minimal amount of time in the office in the last 90 days just as i have spent a minimal amount in my office and last 90 days. So, what is the role of congress in advancing that . Guest we are a facilitator. This is something that going back to the telecommunication acts of the 1930s and things that essentially if everyone in the country will have the best technology and
Cable television companies. Peter this week on the communicators, our guest is representative frank lucas, republican of oklahoma, and the Top Republican on the science, tech, and space committee. Joining us as our guest reporter gopal ratnam of cq roll call. Thank you for being on the communicators this week. Congressman, what have we learned when it comes to technology in the last couple of months, and whats the role of congress in advancing that . Rep. Lucas i think we have come to finally appreciate as a nation how absolutely important it is that we maintain our technological edge and that we move forward. We make sure it is accessible to all. I cant imagine as a member of congress how we would have functioned in this pandemic without the ability to use a variety of conferencing and communications technology. Not just the traditional phone calls that we use for our Republican House conference, but webex, and a whole variety of platforms to move information back and forth. Thats not
From facebook. Julia boorstin has been following the story. Its two reactive and slow about the hate speech. Auditors saying they watched the company make painful decisions that are serious setbacks and has not devoted enough assets to address these issues this report advocating they bring in more civil rights experts to the country, take steps to address concerns dedispute that post violating facebooks broader policies. Sheryl sandberg responding to the findings as hard as its been to expos o they echo the criticisms by the civil rights a groups behind the boycott that met with facebook management yesterday. They called the meeting disappointing. Now, facebook has said it would not fall not fold for pressure, but it does seem they could be compelled to take some of the recommendations. Julia, thank you. Lets get to steve weiss steve, it looks like facebook is under a lot of pressure when it comes to the issues of up civil rights and hate speech. It is im sticking with it ultimately i