Subcommittee will question the four ceos about their complete dominance of the technology industry. That comes amid criticism that competition and free speech are being stifled. There are also antitrust investigations of all four companies, regulators looking into whether Big Tech Companies should get broken up. Griff jenkins following this live from d. C. Trace, good morning. Its hard to overstate the significance of todays hearing, and it wont lessen the scrutiny from my side of the aisle. The antitrust committee is led by Rhode Islands david sisley who has conducted a 13 month investigation into the industrys practices and amassed more than a million pages of documents and evidence to confront the titans with. Its expected to be particularly rough for amazons jeff bezos, the worlds richest man appearing for the first time before the committee facing questions over a wall street journal article alleging amazon accesses sales data from its authors to launch competing products against
Stephanie because i heard Rush Limbaugh expound on healthcare yesterday and i thought you might have some thoughts on it. Does he want to know if oxycontin is covered . Stephanie i dont know if i have insurance or not. His thoughts are really someone who can afford their own healthcare out of pocket. Thats someone that really has a grip on exactly what the average person goes through. I think hes in touch with the common man. Stephanie exactly. All right. In the meantime, heres nurse jacki in the current news center. As expected, cory booker has won the democratic nomination land go up against republican steve for senate. The popular mayor of newark won about 60 of the vote with 90 of precincts voting. His closest opponent, Frank Pallone came away with 20. If booker wins the special election on october 16th as he is extremely likely to do, he will serve out the remaining 15 month of lautenbergs term then would have to run began in 2014. Egyptian Security Forces in cairo are cracking do
Immigration may take place but they have to wait until october. Saysor ted cruz of texas the fund obamacare. And one out of new york city, Campaign Manager for anthony , he has quit. Has america become or is becoming a decedent nation . At the seated nation a nation . St we want to hear your thoughts. Heres how to take part in the program. If not by phone you can take part several other ways, by twitter cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan, and by e journal cspan. Org. This is on the daily ticker other polls show that 59 of americans feel their nation is on the wrong track, up from 55 at the start of the year. The percentage of americans satisfied with life in the u. S. Andlose to record lows now, of course americans remain disgusted by the political antics in washington, which 77 of americans think are harming the nation here cope us as part of the daily ticker. Areoes on to write, there legitimate reasons for this. Ational dyspepsia were clearly in the midst of an Economic Transformation tha
You seem very far away. Youre like a will who in whoville. What do you call the three amigo senator who is are not satisfied with susan rice. They were not going to be satisfied regardless. Now she should never have said anything because then they would never scream cover up then then. Shell be in a few meetings today which should go better than yesterday but i dont know what the end game is any more. They hate the president. Pretty much. But we love Jacki Schechner in the current news center. And she loves you back. Good morning everybody. President obama talks about his plan to reduce the deficit by raising taxes on top earners today. This part should not be a tough sell for the president especially with the general public. Abc Washington Post conducted a poll that reaffirms that 60 say lets do it. While its mostly democrats and independents in favor, 40 of republicans agree to do it as well. That should give republicans some room to negotiate. Tom call from oklahoma tells politcotha
And wall street is reacting big time. And a b. A. R. T. Strike, the deadline for a deal is one week from today. Were going to hear from a b. A. R. T. Director about how well the negotiations are going and how well is the backup plan. In the meantime, neighbors in oakland are on edge after a woman was killed by the very violence she was working to prevent. The 66yearold judy solomon was gunned down blocks from her home on wednesday afternoon. Now, her neighbors say they have had enough. They have been talking about hiring private security for months now, but as kpix5 dawn lynn tells us. Reporter they have the highest rates in the country. Bill is partthat statistic. His house was broken into twice in one year. I feel cut and run or stay and fight and the urge to stay and fight won out. Reporter staying means paying. The Oakland Police department is stretched extremely thin. Bill and his neighbors are planning to pay into a pool and hire private Security Patrols. Judy solomon worked hard