Social media. Hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. We have made it to wednesday, rich. Rich we have indeed, im rich in for john roberts. According to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. Sandra also show Biden Administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. Rich Hillary Vaughn is live on capitol hill. Hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. Thats the big take away from the documents that we obtained. Really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. Behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence on the platform and get
attorney john eastman and others, presented a clear and dangerous threat to american democracy. listen to this. had vice president pence obeyed the orders from his president, and the president of the united states of america, that declaration of donald trump as the next president would have plunged america into what i believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis. revolution within a constitutional crisis. the committee also revealing just how close to serious danger mike pence was on during the day of the insurrection. rioters coming within 40 feet of the former vice president. as the committee prepares to hold more hearings next week, it is also trying to speak to ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court court justice clarence thomas about her role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. let s take you to capitol hill and lauren fox is there for us. what were the main takeaways from thursday s hearings? reporter: well
But does the new president have the right formula to bring backjobs and growth . Plus nafta nerves. Tense times for mexico as its two decade old trade deal with the us is thrown into doubt. Welcome to World Business report, im aaron heslehurst. We have got about nine minutes, my very last Early Morning programme for you all before i moved to a new show. Move. Coming up, who needs the us anyway . Asia pacific trade ministers hope to salvage the Trans Pacific partnership after President Trump pulled the plug. We start in france, where the new president , emmanuel macron, says he expects no honeymoon from the public after his first week in power. He now has try and to win a majority in next months parliamentary elections, and implement the Economic Policy he says can turn the country around. So what is macron economics, and can it solve frances problems . Macron calls himself neither right nor left and sure enough, the team he announced on wednesday is a diverse mix of figures from partie
Only a few have dared to return to their former. T. V. This is to be a news coming to you live from berlin the reverend Jackson Donald trump surprise all for talks for u. S. President said he was willing to meet with irans leader Hassan Rouhani will have the latest on dont surprise you turkey also coming up the city Islamic State turns it into a ghost town since you are in Northern Iraq was liberated three years ago but only
a fraction of the yazidi minority who once lived there have returned we have an exclusive report. Is tell us a little racing towards europe media reports say the american carmakers looking at building a socalled gigafactory in germany to produce factories and car. From cars to green footballs meet the vague unfriendly british scientists who are the first to be sort of by this Carbon Neutral by the United Nations. So im terry martin welcome to the program a Cool Response from tehran to Donald Trumps unexpected offer of talks the head of irans Strategic Council on Fo
Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Zeldin. This is a very serious allegation. He misunderstands, i think, that his failure to directly sell his own shares is whats at issue. Whats at issue is his provision of nonpublic information to his son and another so that they could cut their losses in their sales. That violates the mail fraud statutes, securities fraud statutes, and there is not really much of a defense if in fact the facts in the allegation are true. Michael, this is sdny indicting a sitting member of Congress Months before an election. We know prosecutors are confident but i mean how airtight does this case need to be . Well, two things. First, we know from the from that which happened during the last 2016 election that youre
not supposed to bring indictments against congressman and other political people within 60 days. So they just sort of snuck under the 60day donor election statute. Just. Yeah. But the fact is that, you treat public corruption in the sa