[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] is recognized for five minutes. Thank you. Mr. Zuckerberg, thank you for being here today and i want to thank the chairwoman for having this hearing. Youve said a lot of things today that couldnt have been said during the last hearing. Your responses to questions has been very district and very helpful. Thank you for that and thank you very much for being here. I just had a few quick questions about the Libra Association. On the website, one of the benefits before mr. Marcus appeared before our committee was that those contributing, who joined the association, could derive dividends from libra investment tokens and thats since been taken off. Could you elaborate on that . Sure, congressman, i think that there had been an idea that in order to encourage marketing of the payment service, that there might be some investment that other companies could make into this and some return that they could make, but i think that that idea has eith
Their mouths because they were only allowed to be fed on nutritious food i believe them when they said they were sleeping on concrete floors for 2 months i believe them. Now among the other details provided to the House Committee were the fact that the morale of the guards was absolutely put bottom that the would be migrants were being kept in temperatures absolutely sweltering that there is simply not enough facilities for migrants on that border those that are delivered into federal custody or sometimes moved back to the Detention Centers because prosecutors refuse to try the cases or theres not enough evidence to try them so it is a system that is completely broken what ever President Trump has to say and part of that is resulting in what is now documented and substantiated mass small treatment of migrants particularly the very youngest ok mike hanna thank you plenty more ahead on the aljazeera news hour including. More than 120. 00 people who are said to be killed in 48 hours a ser
The paper calls her an in adequate and inappropriate cancerous European Council president all to criticize russias decision to ban flights to georgia as unjustified and disproportionate already tense relations between to police in moscow have deteriorated further since the business of a russian politician to the Georgian Parliament 3 weeks ago or just was speaking at a conference on the e. U. And Eastern Europe in the georgian city of but to me from where Andrew Symonds reports. Its the annual gathering of east european states the e. U. Russia is always irritated by such familiar images of. Whats led the kremlin to direct flights to georgia the unfamiliar images of anti russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the capital tbilisi. Georgias president didnt want to talk about russia at the conference but the e. U. Council president did russia listen this is a flight to churches unjustified. This is a rush of innocence that may be the case but georgias leaders were reluctant to
Is at the house antitrust hearing. Hillary, can you tell us, what do you know . Reporter this is an interesting hearing. These companies are trying to convince lawmakers that their competitors are competitive with them. So they are hyping up their competition. We heard from google executives who say they face intense competition for companies over their search functions. Facebook says they have competition from snapchat, skype, and ticktock over their idea video sharing. But not every lawmaker on the panel bought the argument that these companies are in a position to defend their market share and fight for user competition. I think you are in a unique chair in a unique position among those seated at the table. Each one of you occupy a unique and dominant position. But facebook is stands alone in terms of social media. Any other social media platform that can compete with facebook . There might not an identical competitor to facebook but there is significant competition in advertising.
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. May 23, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable Celeste Malloy to act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the player will be loved by offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Eternal god, we pray to you as wepter this memorial day weekend. That you would bless our efforts to honor our fallen heroes. In the fanfare of parades and picnics, barbecues and summers beginning, may we take time to recall the countless sacrifices that were made to defend our freedoms and uphold our liberty. These noble men and women have stood firm. In the face of wars, alarms, and up against the anguish of adversity they would not be moved. May they rest knowing that they gave themselves fully to the work you, o lord, set before them to a