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the us house of representatives has passed a bill that would require the tiktok owner bytedance to sell its stake in the social media platform or face a total ban in the country. during the debate, lawmakers repeatedly said that tiktok has links to the chinese communist party something denied by both tiktok and bytedance. party something denied by both let s hear some of the debate in congress. our intention is for tiktok to continue to operate, but not under the control of the chinese communist party. i want to emphasise this bill does not ban tiktok. it simply would require the chinese communist party affiliated bytedance to sell tiktok and divest their interests. live to washington and our correspondent nomia iqbal. nomia, given what has happened, how likely is it that tiktok will be banned in the us?i likely is it that tiktok will be banned in the us? likely is it that tiktok will be banned in the us? i would be staggered banned in the us? i would be stagge ....
he was abducted thursday morning while serving in their community near the capital of haiti. i want to bring in cnn national correspondent athena jones for the latest on this. what are officialsg about this alleged abduction? reporter: hi, frederica. we know u.s. authorities are working with our haitian counterparts and agencies to try to resolve this crisis. we don t know or it is unclear who is responsible for this kidnapping and whether they ve made any demands, whether for ransom or anything else. we do have a statement from the christian humanitarian organizationriginally from new hampshire that alex was working for. ey say alex is a deeply comp compassionate person. she has worked tirelessly to bring relief to the suffering of people of haiti in the name of jesus. their highest priority is to return safely alex and her child. they want to limit the information they provided. they say it happened thursday morning at the campus near the capitol of port-au-prince. ....
reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo. she is also the co founder of reframe. welcome. thank you, it s great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected co president of the producers guild of america the first woman of colour to hold the position. stephanie served nine years as vice president in women in film. she runs her own company, homegrown pictures, which focuses on creating content by and about women and people of colour. keri and stephanie, welcome to you both. happy to be here. now, keri, you were set on a career in theatre, but there was a plot twist when hollywood came calling. tell us about what happened. well, that was a very early plot twist in my career. i was co ....
and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo. she is also the co founder of reframe. welcome. thank you, it s great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected co president of the producers guild of america the first woman of colour to hold the position. stephanie served nine years as vice president in women in film. she runs her own company, homegrown pictures, which focuses on creating content by and about women and people of colour. keri and stephanie, welcome to you both. happy to be here. now, keri, you were set on a career in theatre, but there was a plot twist when hollywood came calling. tell us about what happened. we ....
tell us about what happened. well, that was a very early plot twist in my career. i was coming out of college and i was going to go work at a theatre, and i had a a friend who was working at hbo, which at that time was a very start up network, a long time ago pretty start up network and she said, well, you are going to go work in the theatre but there is some guy coming who s going to be making plays for television on hbo. you could maybe be his assistant, and so, i got that job as a secretary at the very bottom, starting out a long time ago. they don t say secretary any more. they did back then! they did back then i had to take a typing test! did you?! and then i was very lucky to be hitting a company like that at the time where my rate of growth and knowledge, really, the company was growing at the same pace, so i was able to move up there and just learn so much about making film and telling stories, still working with a lot of playwrights and still being s ....