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By the international consortium of investigativejournalists, bbc panorama has discovered how uber used political contacts to get what it wanted. richard bilton has the story. when uberfirst arrived in france, it started a taxi war. but while many cab—drivers were on the streets, the leak shows uber had a friend in government. the documents show that despite uber offering an illegal service, emmanuel macron, then minister for economic and digital affairs, agreed to help them change the law. the...

Companies and to remove barriers. the leak shows how uber went about changing laws and rules around the world. in 2016, the documents show their lobbying and pr budget was $90 million. 90 million is an enormous amount of money. the bottom line is that companies spend that amount of money because they want to influence decision—making. it gives them access. the documents seem to show the companys former chief executives saying violence could be good for uber. when told that uber drivers in fran...

Making, but there are still people who say we need the governor of texas to do more. what more can you do about it? >> so lets go -- and i havent been able to see what you put up on the screen, so lets go through the things that were doing. so if we have a category called turnbacks and we turn back tens of thousands of migrants who try to get across the border, and we deny them even coming across the border. once they cross the border, we now have two options. one is to arrest them, and weve mad...

It started a taxi war. but while many cab—drivers were on the streets, the leak shows uber had a friend in government. the documents show that despite uber offering an illegal service, emanuel macron, then minister for economic and digital affairs, agreed to help them change the law. the leak shows uber offered to draft new legislation and thanked mr macron for his cooperation. president macrons spokesperson said it was his job to work with tech companies and to remove barriers. the leak shows...

Absolutely, congress needs to be pro-choice so that you have the opportunity to pass things like the womens health protection act. we see the barriers there. but also, the white house needs to fight, in multiple ways -- i appreciate that vice president harris started by naming the supreme courts facilitating this, the same supreme court that said they will not stop at roe. the same supreme court that the gay marriage or privacy rights are also on the table for reconsideration, being overturned. ...

When uberfirst arrived in france, it started a taxi war. but while many cab—drivers were on the streets, the leak shows uber had a friend in government. the documents show that despite uber offering an illegal service, emmanuel macron, then ministerfor economic and digital affairs, agreed to help them change the law. the leak shows uber offered to draft new legislation and thanked mr macron for his cooperation. president macron�*s spokesperson said it was his job to work with tech companies ...

Making, but there are still people who say we need the governor of texas to do more. what more can you do about it? >> so lets go -- and i havent been able to see what you put up on the screen, so lets go through the things that were doing. so if we have a category called turnbacks and we turn back tens of thousands of migrants who try to get across the border, and we deny them even coming across the border. once they cross the border, we now have two options. one is to arrest them, and weve mad...

Something biggs denies. as the crowd pushes forward, many of the proud boys join in a. they start removing barricades. they urge others on. a chain reaction has been set off. the attack on the capital has begun. >> now part of what made identifying this has a coordinated attack difficult was that the proud boys dressed as what one of them referred to as normies, normal people. but they werent. they had a playbook. they would rile up the crowd. at the key entry points that identified early in the...

Identified early in the day, encouraging members of the crowd to push past police, then they would remove whatever barriers were in the crowds way, if that meant removing literal metal barricades or using chemical spray on police officers so the crowds could push past. when they met too much police resistance, they would back off and regroup and head off to another key entry point. as they are making the second breach of the day on the east side of the capitol. >> for hours hundreds of protester...

Politicians, do typically have security around them. >> yes. so, we know that there was at least one security person around him and that perhaps there may have been maybe ten or 20 people who were there for security purposes. but what may seem perplexing outside of japan looking in is just how little barriers or any sort of watchmen there were around a politician. and thats because japan is such a safe country. crime rates are so low. gun violence almost not happens. they were ten cases of shoot...