Secretary of the United States Steve Mnuchin planning a meeting with nancy pelosi to discuss it which means maybe republicans can go along with this, cobble together something acceptable to both sides but just the talk of that, and some of the stimulus that would give the economy a boost, markets a boost has stocks raising ahead. Hillary vaughn following that, but the postdebate excitement. Both candidates are out on the stump. President trump will be in michigan. Former Vice President in ohio. Busy in a lot of states. Hillary in ohio with more. Reporter hi, neil. Biden has his busiest schedule on the campaign trail weve seen since really the primaries, way before the pandemic. He has seven stops today as he kicks off his train tour. Biden hopped aboard an amtrak train. He will hit seven different cities on one of his favorite modes of transportation the amtrak. It is a nostalgic moment for a man spent decades taking that very train from wilmington to washington. The familiar sound of
Of an effect we might have had. Narrator correspondent, james jacoby takes a hard look at the man who wanted to connect the world. Jacoby is he not recognizing the importance of his platform . He didnt understand what he had built. Narrator but is he accountable for helping divide it . There is something wrong systemically with the facebook algorithms. In effect polarization was the key to the model. Narrator tonight on frontline the facebook dilemma. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. The ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. At ford foundation. Org. Additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journ
Republicans, it is 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You content you can send us a text this morning. F that number, 2027488003 please include your name and where you are from. On cspan it is twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning, Mark Zuckerberg talked about this issue of trust in his Opening Statement before the House Financial Services committee as he was talking about the company entering the arena of Digital Currency. [video clip] thate idea behind libra is sending money should be as easy and secure as sending a message. Is something that needs to get built, but i get that i am not the ideal messenger for this right now. We have faced a lot of issues over the last few years and i am sure there are a lot of people who think it was anyone but facebook proposing this. There is a reason we care about this and that is because facebook is about putting power in peoples hands. Our services give people a voice
Book festival . I got involved with the Madison Council which is a support arm of the library of congress, it gets most of its money from the federal government but it does not get all of its money from the federal government, there are support people around the country who support the library of congress. I have been involved for a while and i share the madison counsel as it is cold and part of the effort is to help with the National Book festival. For the last 10 or 12 years or so i have cochaired this with the library of congress, first with Tim Billington and with carla hayden. Is there money that you give to work this effort . I do. I have given. Money every year for quite a while and i enjoy it very it is a great free, effort to let people know more about authors and books. We get a couple or maybe 100,000 people or more every year coming here and the importance of it is i want people to learn how to read more and United States are roughly 120 fit in the world in literacy, 125th,
About myself. I hope people are helping you to challenge her own concepts and the concerts around you, of you should be or who you are, i think that as time goes on you will feel more yourself, i think you will find people who see you for you and love you and accept you as who you are and that is ok to challenge the world around you. World is not perfect, it is ideas made up by other people. It is ok to challenge ideas. And i love you, and i appreciate you being here. Thank you roswell that is such a perfect way to end this, rk russell everyone, on behalf of the library of congress, if you are for coming to the National Book festival discussions are coming up, he can find a schedule on my comment joining us now is the cochair of this years National Book festival, david rubenstein, how did you get involved with the National Book festival . I got involved with the Madison Council which is a support arm of the library of congress, it gets most of its money from the federal government but