Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange getting close to new highs well start with facebook. Mark zuckerberg goes to the hill today. Were getting news out of the company on new ad formats as well Julia Boorstin has both those stories. Good morning to you Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds in washington, d. C. , meeting with legislators, looking to regulate two areas, one, facebook privacy policies, two, responsibility for inappropriate, manipulative content on its platform. Zuckerberg met with democratic senator cantwell and also attended a dinner with mark warner and senator blumenthal also joined take a listen. I was impressed by a number of the ideas and interests of facebook in advancing privacy on the internet but i hope that we also can continue the conversation zuckerbergs meetings span the aisle, he is meeting with republican senator moran, and supposed to see hawley an
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Tonight, the art of the stall, another day, another delay in Holding Donald trump accountable in court. How much longer will this tactic work . The multimillion Dollar Effort by republicans to keep trump from another term. Will they support joe biden . We will need a student from gaza who journaled her is gape from the war, building a new life in cairo. Can donald trump run out the clock . The disgraced four times indicted expresident will not face criminal trials before election day. Friday, a new york judge delayed trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial until mid april after his lawyers said they needed more time to sift through Tens Of Thousands of pages of recently released evidence from federal prosecutors. The trial was slated to Begin Next Week on march 25th but the judge has now agreed to a 30 day postponement. Also friday, the judge overseeing the expresident s election interference case in georgia issued a ruling of his own after weeks of public hearings. The Fulton County district
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