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we begin with vladimir putin delivering a major speech doubling down on the goals of russias so-called special military operation in ukraine that began a year ago. it is a day after president bidens surprise visit to the ukrainian capital. this teach along with bidens planned address in warsaw setting up an extraordinary split screen moment hours apart, the two leaders laying out their vastly different visions of the conflict. we have coverage from every angle. clare sebastian, lets st...

Attack, say google should be held legally responsible for that attack for recommending those videos. but google says that it is immune from that lawsuit because of a federal law known as section 230 of the communications decency act, and that law protects the right of websites and tech platforms to moderate their websites as they see fit. in other words, google says it is not responsible and it cant be sued. now, for years tech platforms have used section 230 to nip these sorts of lawsuits in th...

Focused, do you think? >> lawmakers are angry. they remember back in 2017 when those same three companies were up there testifying, saying they were going to do more to stop this coordinated, inauthentic activity online. here we are, weeks before the 2018 election, and were still getting reports of russia and iran and other bad actors who are spreading this stuff online. it is not just facebook and twitter. google has been invited to testify at the hearing, as well. it hasnt offered up someone a...

Concerns state security and interests and, if leaked, would damage state security and interests in the areas of politics, economy, and national defense, among others. in other words, shep, state secrets would be defined as whatever chinas leaders wake up and decide state secrets are on any given day. >> shepard: wow. any chance that american companies, say google or yahoo could refuse to comply here. >> well, absolutely they could refuse to comply. but given their own economic interests, one chi...

Million, $300 million, $400 million in china. china, as you know, is the growing area. have they shot themselves in the foot? and then, and then youve got the purists who say google sacrificed its censorship fragility by going into china. guess what, it blew up in its face and now it has got all the dirt all over it. >> the question is how can you be google, which is dedicated to information, unfiltered information and you filter information? you just go back to that basic premise and you wonder...

Foot? and then, and then youve got the purists who say google sacrificed its censorship ability by going into china. guess what, it blew up in its face and now it has got all the dirt all over it. >> the question is how can you be google, which is dedicated to information, unfiltered information, even you filter information? you just go back to that basic premise and you wonder how long that could have gone on. yahoo! had an issue where it corpora cooperated with the communist authorities and tu...