So were going to be reducing our forces in germany some will be coming home and some will be going to other places as ever we cant say what the plans are with a vague system told i had to train my important during the next couple. Earthshaking changes to why i think we have 3 new American Leadership the future is going back to head of the table but of course the u. S. Presence in germany is the sort of old lethal and let him go back were going to back in do you. Also on the day its crunch time again and post press that negotiations between britain and the European Union this weekend could be crucial oh not we had expected. A fast process of negotiation its the 1st time we thought that we would we will have a clear day which for the end of the decision we will see what will happen in the next. Welcome to the day we start in the u. S. Where lawmakers in congress are preparing to block President Trumps order to withdraw u. S. Troops from germany in july the pentagon announced it would pul
A Game Changing Distribution Plan for next year and has fans rejoicing and cinema owners down in the dumps. Im told me a lot of boy its good to have you with us venezuela will hold parliamentary elections on sunday but the opposition is boycotting the vote called by president Nicolas Maduro Opposition Leader and head of the National Assembly one guy claims the polls will be rigged to strengthen the duros grip on power this follows years of time all that have seen venezuela become increasingly isolated and desperate. An epic predawn line for gasoline in venezuela shortages widespread hunger broken down institutions all made worse by International Sanctions yet despite it all president Nicolas Maduro has clung to power his nemesis speaker of the assembly and selfproclaimed president won by doe now working from home 37 years old hes made a career out of denouncing maduros policies hes organized the National Referendum after the vote aimed at invalidating the upcoming elections. Of action
Published. Meantime, facebook is making a big change to its ad business, announcing it will allow people to opt out of seeing political ads on facebook and instagram. Users will be able to mute electoral ads and ads on social issues as well. For more, i want to bring in purses and strategies founding partner, who was before that president obamas Reelection Campaign digital director. Teddy, good to have you back on the show. Facebook may the controversial decision to not factcheck political ads, not factcheck speech from politicians. What is your take on this now middle ground, saying you can turn off political ads if you dont want to see them . Teddy thanks for having me. I think the truth is it is not much of a middle ground. What its doing is putting the onus on the user to do the work. They are saying we wont provide any Fact Checking or any standards whatsoever on our platform, but you the user can click on a few buttons and hopped out if you make that decision. The thing i think t
The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
Virus committee, saying both were unnecessary at this time. The reporter questioning part of the briefing due to technical issues at the beginning. Our first question comes from Eric Wasserman from bloomberg news. A quick question. You say it would be inappropriate to assess the esp. Could you specifically address infrastructure . Are you opposed to that idea some part later this year . Im not opposed infrastructure but im opposed to is using a crisis to try and restructure government. Watching dealing with when we were trying to put the deal together on sunday. 90 of that will turned out exactly as we had done on sunday. What we were able to add was the retention tax credit later. The speaker wanted to deal with election law, she wanted to deal. Ith tensions for government all of these sanctuary cities that had nothing to do with coronavirus that had a bill up for a number of days not only to hospitals with those who were being laid off. But to have the speaker come back when we had n