if that, jamaal khashoggi is on the front page of time magazine after being named one f their people of the year. fred ryan writes we hope this recognition will prompt our nation s leaders to stand up for america s values and hold accountable those who attempt to silence journalists who cover our communities or in jamaal s case unimpressive authoritarian government. the white house warns hopes for peace in the middle east could crumble if congress cracks down too hard. were hoping to make sure there is justice brought but we are focused on the broader region which is figuring out how to hopefully bring a deal together between the israelis and the palestinians. bob corker hopes whatever happens happens before he retires. i think congress is going to deal with saudi arabia and i want to be a part of that even though i m leaving in a couple weeks, i want to be a part of making sure that happens.
questions a lot of heat back at the panel, what do we gain from this? is there anything that comes ou out? i don t think this is one of congress finest moments. a lot of them seem like the modern equivalent of the oldster who doesn t know how to set the clock on the vcr the way they were talking about this technology. 90% of searches on google, that makes looking into abuse of monopoly power and antitrust stuff a legitimate concern for matt congress. we are entering into a brave new world with a lot of new issues we ve never tackled before. i encourage congress to look into this, i don t think worrying about the fewer bias of google searches is the best face of it, there are more important issues. you could also see google asking for regulation which is what these big companies end up doing
you can see the pillars, the leaders who are giving this testimony are trying to not smile. they know if they can run out the clock and not talk about major changes and say we can t share our algorithms, it s true we are trying to improve our privacy protections, they can push it off for another year. while congress tries to keep pace with this furious rate of change. bret: this is a big issue here. with americans carrying their smartphones all day every day, google is able to collect an amount of information from its users that would even make the nsa blush. i think it s fair to say most americans have no idea the sheer volume and detailed information that is collected. bret: that is a true statement. we don t know how much data is being collected. we know it s truly
as it relates to protecting the privacy of individual email emails? we think it s an important individual rights, an important human right and we are committed to upholding that. pichai also addressed speculation about project dragonfly, to develop a tailored search engine for china. he confirmed google spent months working on a prototype and insisted they have no plans to launch it. if this is the company s first public acknowledgment of involvement in this project. bret: more on this with the panel. funding for the wall is causing political divisions, the parties seem to be coming together for criminal justice reform. cheap congressional correspondent mike emanuel looks at that bill and the schedule ahead if congress wants to pass it. mitch mcconnell says lawmakers will vote on a bipartisan package after president trump pressured him to
to lock in their market share. bret: something is going to happen eventually on capitol hill when it comes to big tech. there is a day or a period of reckoning upon them and they know that which is why every hearing they attend when they get asked about their opportunities in china and they get to sort of deflect around that, or they spend most of the entirety of the three hours talking about bias on their engines is a good day for them. what they don t want to talk about his antitrust violations and that kind of bipartisan push, and it is bipartisan coming into the future. congress has shown itself where we are all cringing like this at what the next guy is going to say and their staffs are in the background who should be replacing them at the hearings asking all the questions.