in the history of china. he says now his goal is to be more quickly elevating his military in this next term. that as the generally quiet chinese foreign minister now slamming the united states. if the u.s. does not hit the brake, continues to speed on the wrong path no, amount of guardrails can prevent derailing and there will be conflict and confrontation. martha: our nation s top intelligence officials laying out today the escalating china threat. watch this. we assess that during the course of xi s third term that they will attempt to press taiwan on unification, undercut u.s. influence which they perceive as a threat, drive wedges between washington and its allies and partners and promote china s authoritarian system. martha: with that we bring in general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war. good to have you with us. thanks for being here. feels like between these hearings and the china select committee in the house we re hearing a lot more
and were just weeks away from summer break. he crashed his car on the school and was seen running on campus carrying two firearms which were purchased by ramos legally on his 18th birthday. two ar-style 15 rifles were posted. a lone gunman killed 20 children in the first and second grades as well as six adults in newtown, kentucky. joe biden said it s time to stand up to the gun lobby and pass common sense regulations. i am sick and tired. we have to act. and don t tell me we can t have an impact on this carnage. i spent my career as a senator and as a vice president working to pass common sense gun laws. we can t and won t prevent every tragedy, but we know they work and have positive impact. when we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. when the law expired, mass shootings tripled. the idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong. what in god s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill som
cyberbullying. the american federation of teachers issued a report calling on social media organizations to rein it in, citing the dramatic disruption in the teaching and learning ecosystems of our nation s schools. well, now hundreds of school districts across the country suing the instagram, facebook, snapchat, tiktok. why? joining us is mark burn, representing 40 school districts, including the aspen school district and their lawsuit against big tech companies. cnn senior media analyst sara fisher with us as well. mark, regarding social media use among kids, you said that, quote, there is no we have an epidemic that is no different than opioids. can you explain what you mean by that? absolutely. the major social media companies have written their algorithms to intentionally addict children,
would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. you know, the question i hear most often and you probably do, too, is if nothing happens sandy hook when? as biden said a few hours ago when does this country say enough? right. and the key is, john, we have to bring everybody to the table. by the way, john, we ve become very okay with violence in this country. we ve become very okay with death in this country. you ve covered it over and over again, a million people died with covid. it seems to be no big deal to a lot of people. people die from gun violence, 42,000 a year. it seem tuesday be no big deal. i ve asked the president s office about having a summit of social media organizations, gun organizations, people who train people how to use a gun. we need to entertain
of the sunday 60 minutes story in which it became clear a whistleblower says they know exactly what s going on with the addiction, with this with these social media organizations. and how they are fueling the divide in this country. ken, you are one of the people on the right that is supposed to join some on the left. time to reign in social media companies. where do you start. well, what this really is a symptom of monopolies if we had five facebooks and six instagrams and a number of googles we wouldn t have the same issue we are facing right now there are some groups that would appeal to patience and appeal to others in the marketplace to gain market share. and the idea that we can foster competition and deal with this issue is much better than having a government agency decide what is good speech or bad speech. but what is so disappointing about what facebook did is. they have this idea that profit is more important than people.