And mind games. Elon musk flames new technology can read a rats mind. Elon musk announces his latest startup neuro link, successfully implanting wires into brains and enabling a monkey to control a computer. The next goal, human trials. We begin with the hearings on capitol hill. Facebook, amazon, apple, google all appearing in washington to answer lawmakers questions on antitrust, social media, and cryptocurrency. The first to be raked over the coals, facebook, as the Banking Committee fired searing questions at the cocreator of the social Networks Cryptocurrency project. We will take the time to get this right. Wouldnt it be easier and safer if people could securely receive money transfers through their smart phones, just like they do for so many other things today . That is what libra is about. Emily the chief was grilled on tuesday. We caught up with the senator after the hearing. Sen. Warner lets start with the fact that i think Blockchain Technology, even the possibly of cryptocu
Talking about there the socalled jedi contract, its about a 10 billion contract related to Cloud Computing for the pentagon amazon is seen as the frontrunner for that contract it is a big, big number. Here the president saying that other Technology Companies are complaining about the way it was handled. Hell take a look at it. He doesnt specify exactly what it is hes going to do about that contract or how it will be awarded but poses difficult Business Decisions for them. There will be a political overlay onto this as well, tiger. As you know the president is a robust critic of jeff bezos, irked by his ownership of the Washington Post which the president says he feels is unfair to him calling it the amazon Washington Post. This could be seen by the president s critics as an effort to get back at jeff bezos. Well see where this all plays out. No guidance from the white house yet as to what steps the president will take here but sending a shot acrowe the bow. Secretary steven mnuchin. Re
Host made a decision a lot of the ccf coming debate then vote on that neutrality regulation the newest member of the fcc on the republican side was a guest on the program and here is what he had to say about that neutrality. With this document and from december 14th this to that exact same framework that governed the internet starting in 2015 going back 20 years that preceded it and we saw massive investment in the internet system, consumers protected and a free and open internet the most fundamentally but the question is what is there right to Regulatory Framework to ensure that . Sold the doctrine puts us on the right remark before us. Host you are at the fcc with democratic chair wheeler at the time that neutrality was debated. I think that is a little bit of the of vision mr. I will explain the proposal. Number one broadband. It takes broadband oversight out of the fcc entirely and gives it to that ftc that does not have a strong the tools number one. Number two it eliminates the r
I am manus cranny. Coming up on the pulse, well be speaking to the former a tie in finance minister and the bank of italy director general emeritus the british co simon money emeritus fabrizzio saccomoni. Angela merkel warned that the clock is ticking. Time is running out. Where emphasizing the social cause they need to be made. And on to resolve the situation as it is. Manus let us get to our team. Guy johnson in athens. Once nichols in brussels. Hans nichols and brussels. Guy, let us go to you. It is about the banks. European Central Banks is holding Europeans Bank is holding firm on what they loaned to the banks so far. Guy paul will give you the details of what is happening. The Banking System remained shut. This economy is grinding to a halt. The agency said about depression. That is what it feels like at the moment. Businesses are shutting up. They cannot get more credit. Npls were already bad. They are going through the roof at the moment. The greek tagging system has enough cas
Bill ackman taking 5. 5 in mondalez. Those subscribers worries that originated with disney. A trio of stocks tesla, Green Mountain and fitbit, hit hard. Our top stories are mondalez shares spiking. Bill ackman disclosing that 5. 5 billion shake in cadbury. They welcome Pershing Square as investors and will continue to focus on executing our strategy as we look at another sector where mass sick consolidation is the play. We have been through airlines and health care. Now, it is food. We can remember that nelson felts has a 2. 9 stake. I have to turn to you, david, with more than 10 being held by you. I have to expect that. Thats got to be the expectation in terms of the play for ackman jim. You and i have talked behind the scenes about what it was going to be. I have been chasing this for some time as many have. I have probably put on alert more bankers than we know about. I thought, what could it be what could it be . I dont think any of us would have expected it would be mondelez. The