The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized today declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today, were here to examine the impact of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witness is facebooks chairman and ceo, mark zuckerberg. Facebooks plans to create a digital currency, libra, and a digital wallet raise many concerns relating to privacy, trading risk, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy, and the stability of the Global Financial system. I and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks development of this digital currency, libra, and digital wallet until congress can examine the issues associated with a Big Tech Company developing these Digital Products and take
Reports. Our goal is topretty back home for halloween after being forced out for days by the kincaid fire. Good evening. The mayor is hosting trick ortreaters. Gratitude thats the one word that comes to mind when you talk to evacuees returning home. Thankful they have a home to go back to. Its a sound repeated thousands of times today. Evacuees pulling their luggage to the rod to be home. Reporter Stephen Ingle spent the last five days along the creek. Its keki for anything. Thankful his family is safe and the neighbors are all okayt evacuating with his son from their windsor home. And the first order of business, now that he is home. These guys are backed up. Our walls are pretty clear. You can see the outline of where we took everything off. Reporter more families unloading their vehicles. David james hunt evacuated with his wife and their baby boy. Looking to get back into the daily routine. Get back into our own beds. Reporter the mayor windsor who almost lost his own winery says t
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here. Id like to thank the Ranking Member senator white house and the collaborator its great to be here and doing this together. I was just saying i told him that it would be nice to have the answers because hes a tough questioner and he will take you to task. Id like to thank the witnesses for your attendance and also highlight two empty chairs today which i say that he invited witnesses who apparently dont share your commitment to discussing the issues. One is for tiktok. If you dont know what tiktok is, you should. Its a chinese owned social media platform so popular among teenagers mark is reportedly spoofed. For facebook the fear is lost to social media market share and for the rest of us it is somewhat different. A company compromised by the Chinese Communist party knows where your children are, what they look like, with their voicewhat theirvoices sound like watching and what they share with each other. They claim they do
Publisher investigation is underway in the United Kingdom after the bodies of 39. 00 people were found in a container truck with more on this and the rest of the news from europe lets cross to mary in the mozzie in our london news center. Yes thank you stan britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pointed the finger at people traffic has off the bodies were found in a truck which had just arrived in the Country Police are now trying to track where it came from the discovery was made when the lorry was parked in the town of grays east of london from where paul brennan now reports. The circumstances of the grim discovery are still uncertain ambulance paramedics were the 1st to be called to the scene the police wont reveal who it was who raised the alarm but it was immediately obvious that the people inside this container lorry were beyond medical help shortly before 1 40 am today we received reports that a number of people had been found inside the lorries container at the wall to great
Received his bachelors degree and juris doctorate and worked for the house of representatives judiciary committee. Went on the serve as United States attorney for district of massachusetts, and eventually the u. S. Assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division. In 1990 mr. Weld was elected as governor of massachusetts. And in 1994 he was reelected to that position by the largest margin of victory in massachusetts history. Governor weld is now running for president under the republican ticket. Although he is challenging President Trump in the gop primaries, we do have to clarify that this is a policy the event and not a campaign event. Mr. Weld has a history of service in the Republican Party and to his country and the Dartmouth College republicans are proud to host him on campus. Without further ado, governor weld. [ applause ] thank you so much. A pleasure. Well, im going to sit by the side here so theres nothing between me and you and i plan to speck for 10 or 15 minutes on my