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Because the incumbents have the money and the recognition and the power i also think its possible for new movements to use the targeting that internet purchases provide to spend very little money for very efficient advertising to find the people who are with them and theyve lost that now so i would want them. to get the point about the money here jeff twitter says that we dont want to be where you have to pay to play and spread lies and the c.e.o. of twitter he posted this were working hard to s...

Years ago when he was only 8 years old. >> my son told me someone offered to buy him b bucks if he sent photos. >> reporter: basically an older man knowing your son was a child offered some type of incentive within the video game for pictures? >> yeah. >> reporter: luckily he says his son didnt send any photos but thats not the case for many others. last year alone the fbi looked into almost 6500 potential cases of sextortion. is this like the 2019 version of taking candy from a stranger on a pl...

Minimum age to buying an assa t assault-style weapon. beyond that, in the same meeting the president had in the white house weeks ago, he seemed to back the idea of comprehensive universal background checks. thats not mentioned in the proposals. the white house took steps back from where the president himself was days after the shooting at stoneman douglas high school, wolf. >> hell be criticized by those who thought he was at least willing, for assault weapons, to have a minimum 21-year-old age...

Said. were talking about a bill that would say, you have to have a background check. >> right. >> 72 hours. its a very short background check. so im not making it harder for you to have a gun. all were just saying is that you have to have a background check. that somebody was on the campus with a gun is a violation of that and they should have had better protection for you. but people are generally trying to protect as many people as possible. your situation is heartbreaking, i sympathize with y...

Chief business correspondehrist has more. >> amazon "washington post" sometimes referred to as the guardian of amazon not paying internet taxes, which they should, is fake news. first of all, theyre two separate companies. what the president means, sales tax on internet purchases, that was once true of amazon, but not anymore. that hasnt been true for some time. for years amazon fought collecting sales tax. states-only tax retailers with a physical presenence used to giv online stores this. it c...

Time is of the essence, greek citizens are already being cutoff from many internet purchases because they are unable to send money out of the country and the countrys banks are on the verge of running out of cash. joining me now is professor of economics at the university of chicago, former chair of the council of economic viseors under president obama. is it a fore gone conclusion they will exit the euro zone? >> in my mind yes. greece has added something like 200 billion of debt. the imf has l...

Spectrum. "time" got rave reviews for its choice, which it certainly doesnt always get. 83% positive. it was interesting, a lot of the negatives were, like, thank god they didnt choose miley cyrus. i think "time" made a pretty good choice this time. >> finally, lets talk about the mysterious bitcoin. weve done significaegments on . i dont know if i still understand it. obviously it got fame from the winkleboss twins, from facebook fame. the other day i was downtown and i saw outside a realty off...

Five-story building. everyone who was inside escaped safely without injury. now to a legal decision that could have a big impact on your money and the u.s. states that want them to collect sales taxes from you. and that means youre probably going to pay more. im talking about being taxed on your internet purchases. ill put it more simply for you. cnns business correspondent christine romans is in new york to tell us why thats more likely. >> internet shales taxes, carol. supreme court decided ...

Biggest debut ever behind the $207 million start that we saw for "the avengers." the movie held $505 million internationally which gives the world wide total of over $680 million. that is a lot of money. it is well worth going to see. >> it was good. >> i thought it was the best out of the three. gritty. >> i heard it was darker than the others. >> darker, grittier. lets talk about internet purchases. the senate voting on the inte n internet sales tax bill. >> the vote is scheduled today in th...

Amazon.com. we have elle here. lets say you are senator. >> okay. >> and the vote is on monday. are you yea or nay? >> that is a tricky question. i would say that in parceling this down, it really isnt much of a change from current laws. were supposed to be paying sales tax on internet purchases, but most people dont. so this is a way where its going to be enforced very strictly for some, but not for all. and like all tax legislation, its going to be somewhat confusing. its going to very much de...