Welcome back ourwitnesses and i now recognize the gentle lady from washington. Thank you mister chairman and thank you all for your very informative testimony. You all touched on this but a common refrain we hear from companies is during the course of this committees investigation but also just on my own i have many of them in my district is that they cant possibly be violating antitrust laws and the primary argument is that its because many other products either cheap or free and therefore consumers are inherently benefiting. You all have indifferent ways talk about this. To me the big question of course is is free really free . Consumers i think its increasingly clear are paying for the products that they use read theyre paying in data, theyre paying in privacy and often dont know theyre giving up and of course the Big Tech Companies use that data to build these massive empires of information about consumers then give them spectacular advantage over newcomer businesses, allow these c
The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. This one on the role of data and privacy in competition. I recognize myself for an opening statement. I should state the obvious, im not the chairman of the subcommittee. The chairman of the subcommittee will be here in a few minutes. Digital technologies have provided americans are a remarkable array of services. It has never been easier to share news and information, to publish content and communicate with loved ones. As with technological revolutions of the past this has up ended the balance of power across our country. Its important to understand how these imbalances are affecting americans. The committees ongoing oversight of competition in Digital Markets is a key part of this process. Todays hearing will examine the role that data plays in creating rolls of power and how this affects competition. As previous hearings have shown, its controlled by a small number of companies. They are pe
Road to feature an american city. Continuing our look at detroit, we will go back into the cities tour to learn how it went from farmland to one of the greatest industrial hubs in america by the turn of the 20 century. Welcome to the Detroit Historical museum. We are at the frontiers factory exhibit. This shows us the history of detroit from basically before the city was settled, the actual city of detroit, up through the rise of the barrett industry that takes place in the city. About the span of 200 years. The city of detroit itself was founded by the french in 1701. Detroit is a french name. It means the straight, which means the straight of water being the Detroit River that separates the United States from canada. At that time, it was all one region of land that was inhabited by the various native american people. This is a representation of what it may have looked like around 1701 when the french settled this area. There is a long history that took place before this. Human habita
Well, we will start the debate, mr. Jafari , we will start with you, because i think you agree with the conditional elimination of the Entrance Exam, in the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful. Our noble and dear nation and especially our dear and faithful young people who have to shape their destiny in these days with education and studies , at the very beginning of my work, i know it is my duty to make a wish for relief and opening for all problems. Especially for the oppressed. Dear min gaza , yes, look at the Entrance Exam that you mentioned is one of the problems that has plagued our people for more than a century. Naturally , education has its own 12year course with different systems that it has gone through so far. The bottom line is that people want to enter a stage. At that point, they determine their own destiny and the extent of their influence in the society is determined by the type of field and method they choose and what they will do in the future , so yo
so we re gonna move right to it. have a great show. thanks, alex. the breaking news of the night is that the colorado supreme court made 43 decision ruled that donald trump, quote, is disqualified from holding the office of president under section three of the 14th amendment of united states constitution because he is disqualified it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the colorado secretary of state to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. neal katyal on andrew weissmann will join us to discuss that historic ruling later in the hour, but we begin tonight as we promised you a week ago, with the vice president of the united states and an exclusive interview. i met kamala harris when she was district journey of san francisco, and an actor friend who was wiser than most of us about politics or to be one day, would you like to meet the first black woman president? the next day i found myself in a gathering of lawyers in century city in lo