Another 8 today. Facebook, twitter ceos appearing on capitol hill. Mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey were on the hot seat over censorship concerns. Well have the highlights from their testimony in just a few moments. Im connell mcshane. Welcome, everybody, to after the bell. It us great to have you with us. Time now for the news happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage. We have blake burman today in washington, susan li and Jackie Deangelis both in new york an gerri willis coming up. She is watching the retail numbers. Blake, lets start with you, any update from washington on the stimulus talks with virus numbers continuing to spike . Potentially, connell, when you look especially down the road, december 11th. Why . Lawmakers need to come together to pass a spending bill so there is not a government shutdown. That is significant in its own right. Why is that also important . Because there is now starting to be some talk in washington about whether or not lawmakers could also ad
Amazon, the latest in the eu cross hairs, facing a probe over possible anticompetitive Business Practices. Plus, ralph lauren and le le strauss in the red, both downgraded to sell at Goldman Sachs. And a tariff fueled strategy shift. Apple reportedly set to begin trial production of air pods outside of china and into vietnam. Another case of big tech under International Scrutiny amazon facing a formal eu antitrust investigation into its dealings with third party merchants. European competition commissioner margaret says based on the commissions preliminary fact finding, amazon appears to use competitively Sensitive Information about marketplace sellers, products and transactions on the marketplace and response amazon issued a statement saying, quote, we will cooperate fully with the European Commission and continue working hard to support businesses of all size and help them grow. This is the last thing some of these companies i would point out that they just brought an agreement with
What i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland but they were mothers postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. Bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what were being told about. I want to go and i want to see what its like and my process of disenchantment from the western Propaganda Machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. You mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country its a very complex society its sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism its loving russia is its a bit like caring for
Time surfing and i know its a typical but i think its a nice mental picture to get you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russia and theres trial and contacts. The associations are probably not so positive are they. They can be quite negative unfortunately weve been fed a diet of cliches about russia. Russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens. Of success the state to the soviet union and somehow or other. Of starvation in the countries of extreme cold discomfort of. The kinds of things that unfortunately still linger and you wrote the whole book to address some of those negative stereotypes and i think you have a very unusual take for western. Im a western diplomat. When it comes to russia because. I think theres a lot of understanding theres also a lot of compassion in your book and i really appreciate that but i will want to ask you whether you ever felt that you are giving this country an easy pass i dont think so i think that the majority of
Interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. You mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country its a very complex society its sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism and loving russia is its a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept disability rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enough but what i find even more troubling is that thats called thing that irritated russians a lot if you years back now it seems acceptable because it essentially dick rest in