Hours. This hearing of the judiciary subcommittee on technology, privacy in law who will come to order. Thank you everyone for attending. My thanks to Ranking Member hawley and particularly to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee dick durbin for giving us this opportunity. He is interested in this topic im going to call on him after senator hawley for his remarks. We are gathered today to hear testimony from a whistleblower, an engineer widely respected and admired in the industry. And not just any expert at an engineer hired specifically by facebook to help protect against harms to children. And make recommendation for making facebook safer we have known for more than a decade that suffering from suicide, hospitalizations or selfharm and depression have skyrocketed as he knows these numbers are more than statistics they are real people and his daughter is one of them. Arturo behar is the former director of engineering for protect and care at facebook. And he will tell us about the
weapons of war. i d like you to think about that because this whole conversation defies logic, and you know what, it s actually insulting. you know what, you know what, in fairness let s just take a moment to step back and think about each of their arguments and whether that is the environment that you want or that they want for their children. let s start with mental health. as far as we know there was no mental health issue with the individual who stole the futures of 19 children in uvalde, texas. governor greg abbott even said it himself before he contradicted himself. there was no known mental health history of the gunman. we would have a problem with mental health illness in this community. greg, you flipped it around. now you said mental health was the problem. okay. yet nbc news reports abbott slashed more than $200 million from the department overseeing mental health programs in a state that is already dead last in the country for access to mental health care. abb
Possible scenarios that might emerge with respect to terrorist networks that will give us a Good Opportunity to test those areas where we still have work to do and how we can strengthen our collective eve iive efforts these networks. So if i can ask the press to depart promptly, please. Weve been listening to president obamas opening remarks there, before what will be a closed session of World Leaders at that Nuclear Summit. The president making some public brief remarks, and then they go into closed session and he will be holding a press conference afterward, which we will also bring to you live. But we wanted to show you that. The president talking about what has been a priority throughout his second term. The reduction of Nuclear Materials around the world. As i say, well have more on that when the president reemerges. Now we turn, of course, to what is a hot day in president ial politics. Its felt often like the world versus donald trump. Everyone remembers the tough month of march
Rattner, along with willie, joe and me, there are a number of stories this morning on the trump cabinet. Well get to. But first after week of mourning and celebrating the life of first lady barbara bush, the bush family is praying for its patriarch today. George h. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States is in Critical Condition in houston. Hospitalized sunday for a blood infection. Last night a spokesman said the 93yearold former commanderinchief was responding to treemgatments. Bush is the longest living president in American History. Surpassing gerald ford last november. On friday bush saw mourners from the public attending his wifes viewing at houstons st. Maartens Episcopal Church. Greeting families from his wheelchair for 20 minutes. George h. W. Bush in Critical Condition this morning. Yeah. Obviously such a class act going out there. Shaking hands with so many people that came by to bid farewell to the love of his life. For over seven decades. Its, it obviously has to
We now have the US Army jumping into Internet censorship. They have announced a combat partnership with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock that is effective through 2025. They plan to combat disinformation online, which they define as cognitive threats, reports Reclaim the Net. The goal is to