2020th election. This is also from the Aspen Security Forum. Welcome back everyone after that very short break. Were very happy to be back now and what doing a bit of a change in direction. You already heard this morning about modernizing the defense department. You heard from john bolton. You would from u. N. Ambassador kelly craft. Now we are turning west to Silicon Valley, and we have panel for you on technology and democracy actually going to dive into all of the complex things that either individual actors or nationstates are doing to influence social media, start disinformation campaigns and how that is impacting our democracy. To have that panel we have with us Laura Rosenberger who is i think with us here. I see her in the room. She isnt the director of the alliance for security democracy and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the united states. Previously she was a Foreign Policy advisor for hillary for america where she coordinated the Clinton Campaign to National
Pass i as they demured to the passive as they demured to the awesome power of the u. S. Congress. They were dismissive that they could in any way strangle free peach. And crush conservative voices and speech and crush conservative voices and votes. They claim to be the farthest thing from monopolists or oligarchs. They compete not only against one another and viciously but also others. Googles ceo, sundar pichai, claims his company is facing intense competition, yet somehow, some way google manages to dominate search traffic. Accounting for, are you ready . Almost 92 of all searches done online. 92 . Thats very close to monopolistic, dont you think . And google also remains the largest digital ad platform by market share. Last year nearly 32 of all Digital Advertising dollars were spent on google. The company paying a 1. 7 billion fine in march to the European Union where hay the stood accused they stood accused of abusing the giant Advertising Market dominance, well, that denial was f
Forces at play. Lets get to kaylee. We are marginally positive on the s p 500. Up. 5 . I want to talk about the best performing stocks. Upex was the best performer, 13 after blowing away expectations in the First Quarter. All of those people shopping, ordering things to their home, boosting revenue by 20 . That stock heading to its best day since 1993. Pfizer getting a nice list after positive results nice lift. Beer and wine sales plus better profitability. I want to talk about technicals for a moment. After the best quarter since 1998 for the s p 500, we start the Third Quarter in a strong position from that standpoint. The index starting july back above that support line. I want to talk about longterm ipo performance for this year. As you mentioned, dun and bradstreet returning to the Public Markets today rallying 17 after raising 1. 72 billion. The other large offerings, warner music and zoom into technology which is up more than 100 . E a nice day for dun and bradstreet. The jobs
They expressed their fears, frustrations, and worry, over the outbreaks at several california prisons. We are now at a point of crisis. There is no proactive measures. We are leading behind the ball. We cannot sweep it under the rug. There must be accountability. Reporter blasting state prison officials, lawmakers questioned how inmates with covid19 could be transferred from a prison in chino to san quentin. I still dont understand it. Reporter it was found that deficiencies at san quentin contributed to the spread. Lack of ventilation, slow testing turnaround, inmates refusing testing, and the layout, including a lack of beds. I dont say this lightly, but this is a failure. Reporter 1100 inmates and staff have tested positive. I need to express, we can do better, and i know we will do better. Reporter the biggest concerns now insufficient resources to handle the crisis, and the capacity of local hospitals to handle the flow of patients. Emergency measures like triage tents and more nu
But first, in this country we are rife with conflict and some considerable contradiction among our leaders. The radical dems thirsting for power in the guise of social justice, all of that being undercut in almost every instance by the reality, the lefts insistence on redefining the nation, for example, and shunning those who refuse to inform with their view of the world is often destroyed bier they own by their own leaders or their followers. Or their friends in the leftwing National Media. Or by wall street and the spineless rinos who have long abandoned any of the ideals they claim to stand for. For months weve been reporting on the lefts obsession with President Trump and his handling of the deadly china virus. We detailed their efforts to cover up chinas responsibility for unleashing the deadly contagion on an unsuspecting world. We told you about their unrelenting attempts to besmirch the trump administrations efforts to contain the virus as well as their panicked narrative used