Twitter and facebook scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce committee on wednesday. Examine whether that content liability shield section 230 is still relevant and needed. This is one of the days in the market, im not sure what is happening in the overall dow matters so much to the tech story. April sl about flat on some promising iphone 12 order lead times. Then if you look it at the nasdaq zoom is up amazon, etsy maybe thats some halloween eagerness. Yeah, a bit of a mixed bag today, jon you have the stay at home names you mentioned. Tech broadly lower weve got that doubleheader again this week. A hearing following by earnings from the Big Tech Companies. And its interesting, looking at facebook and alphabet this month, theyre actually outforemaniou outperforming the big tech names. Alphabet is up 8 . Facebook up 7 again, we see the theme. The pressure is on in terms of antitrust and regulatory scrutiny yet, the stock prices not really reacting those are the two names that h
Discusses the Coronavirus Response. House5 am, daniel ober discusses how the u. S. Power grid is responding to the pandemic. Host good morning, it is wednesday, april 1, 2020. President trump in the task force released new estimates projecting the deadly virus 100,000240,000 americans even under the current efforts. He warns those numbers could be much higher if they dont follow the guidelines aimed at keeping the virus from spreading. This morning onwashington journal we get reaction to the projections. Also, you could send us a text this morning. You do, please include your name and where you are from. On social media and twitter it is cspanwj. Very good wednesday morning to you. You could start calling in now. Some of the front pages coming off of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force briefing yesterday. This is Washington Post. Dire, thetoll is front page of the new york and this from the front page of the Washington Times. I want everymp american to be prepared for the hard days
Thousand this year alone. I promised you a little cloak and dagger but let me set it up for you last year u. S. President donald trump famously said and i quote nobody knew health care was so complex well a lot of people that health care is complex and that may be one of the reasons why print the president has not repealed and replaced the Affordable Care act obamacare as he had sought but in fairness we live in an increasingly complex world for example the law that established our us Banking System in eight hundred sixty four was only twenty nine pages ill be speaking about the Federal Reserve in a few minutes and the Federal Reserve act of one nine hundred thirteen the entire thing was only thirty two pages but the wall street reform and Consumer Protection act of two thousand and ten commonly known as dodd frank a law i worked on in the wake of the financial collapse is eight hundred forty eight pages long and there are close to four hundred regulations related to that various agenc
Southbound coming into down, speeds down into the 40s. If youre leaving in the next 10 minutes or so, thats going to take you 15 minutes because well see added volume. We have a trouble spot on sheraton at louisiana. Treat that as a fourway stop. If youre good to get in your car, turn on koa and 94. 1 fm. You get your traffic and weather the tens. One man hurt in an overnight hitandrun around 11 30 last night. Police say 53yearold gorge taylor was found laying near spring park drive. His bicycle and backpack found a short ways away. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police do not have a vehicle description this morning. Theyre asking for the publics help. Breaking overnight, a man shot during a craigslist deal in this shooting happened at 26th and pierce. Police tells us two men were responding to an ad reportedly involving some sort of illegal activity. Police arent specific about what that was. A shooting left the seller hurt. A green fort escort was stolen with a licen
U. S. Person around the world, outside the United States. Previously that had been something that judgment casey could do as attorney general. So someone outside the United States who was a u. S. Person, now needs a fisa court order to do that. Thats one. And the other is there were a series of provisions that prohibited this practice of reverse targeting youll hear about. Which basically said you cannot, the government cannot target something overseas under this statute. Under 702, who is not a u. S. Person in order to collect against a person in the United States. You know for that purpose. That would be an endaround that was prohibited by the statute. To my mind, statute does a very good job of balancing these competing interests and enacting compromises. One of the, you mentioned minimization procedures. One of the other criticisms that ive sometimes heard from people who are worried about the program, is that the procedures themselves and the adherence to them are themselves not s