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Injured several others. Senator graham was chairing a meeting of the crime and terrorism subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee on extremist content and russian disinformation online. Representatives from twitter, facebook, and google appeared as part of the Ongoing Investigation into russian interference in the last president ial election. The hearing lasted about three hours. And we are going to show you some of that now. Starting with Opening Statements from earlier today. Thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle. Ill make an opening statement, senator whitehouse, i think senator feinstein would like to make one, and if senator grassley come, he will certainly be allowed to do this. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformati ....
Papadopoulos r. Guilty plea yeand the indictments that came down yesterday is serious stuff as it relates to collusion. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] we are live on capitol hill this afternoon as congressional committees are holding three hearings today and tomorrow. Looking at russian influence on the 2016 president ial election. This is the first hearing that were about to show you. This is the Senate Judiciary committee here on cspan. Officials from twitter, facebook and google will be explaining how russian organizations purchased ads and they spread fake news. Mr. Graham thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle today. Ill make an opening statement. Senator wh ....
People screaming in fear and the path strewn with mangled bicycles and bodies that were soon covered over with tarps. The attack closed streets across the western edge of manhattan along the hudson river and sent officers rushing to the neighborhood as people prepared for halloween festivities, including the annual parade through Greenwich Village. The drivers identity was not immediately released. New york gov. Andrew cuomo called it a lone wolf attack and said there was no evidence to suggest it was part of a wider plot. Our Cristina Rendon own is live in the newsroom. The suspect is in the hospital. Within the last few moments 2 lawenforcement officials are identifying the 29yearold man. Because he is alive, he may be able to provide clues as to what prompted this attack. Right now the new york governor is calling him a lone wolf. We know eight people are dead. And 11 ....
Mr. Graham thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of today. Ill make an opening statement. Senator whitehouse, senator feinstein would like it make one. I think senator grassley comes, hell certainly be allowed to do so. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformation online, working with tech to find solutions. Thats exactly what we want to do. Were here to try to find solutions. Let me describe, i think, the challenge. I doubt if i would be here if it werent for social media, to be honest with you, President Trump told fox news on october 20, 2017. So this is the president of the United States saying that from his point of view, social media was an invaluable tool to help him win an election. I would dare say that every politician up here today asking you questions uses your service and we find it invaluable to ....