Impacts much of Silicon Valley print our guest reporter is Emily Birnbaum of the protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host congressman, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district right now in washington . Guest well, i think on one hand there is a lot of positiv positives. If you look at the polling the Tech Companies pull about 60, 70 of their approval and there is a sense that these are companies and some are working on vaccines and companies are working on antivirals and they are allowing for remote work, for remote calls that they are engaged in allowing us to have good medication in the time of a pandemic and allowing them to get groceries or information but that said there are a lot of other ethical issues in a sense of essential workers being paid appropriately and are these doing enough combat hate speech and Voter Suppression and are they d
Polled about 60 to 70 approval. There is a sense that some of these companies are working on vaccines, working on antivirals and such. For are allowing for zoom remote work, for remote calls, they are engaged in allowing us to have communication in the time of a pandemic, allowing us ,o get groceries, that said there are other ethical issues. There is a central essential workers being paid appropriately. Are these platforms doing enough to combat a speech . Are they doing enough to pay workers a living wage . So it is complex. Peter there has been talk on capitol hill of regulating Tech Companies, communications companies, more than they are now. Are you in favor of that . I am, asative khanna long as it is wellcrafted legislation. We came up with legislation to protect privacy, such as being able to move your data. If you have friends on facebook, you should be able to take them to a different platform so it can encourage competition. If it is regulation, to make beinghat we have wage
You for all of you are watching by live stream. As the 2020 Campaign Ramps up, both democrats and republicans are working very hard to rally their base. They are also trying to win over swing voters but i think we all know and we will specially see today, that it is by far the largest bloc of voters out there, 100 million voters are the voting age adults who dont go to the polls. I cant say enough, that the balance of power in the United States rest in those voters. These nonvoters span every demographic. Every racial demographic, age demographic, education demographic. Today we are going to have, a very enlightening panel discussion, discussing with Party Leaders themselves, how they plan to appeal to this group and get some of these people to come to the polls. Were also also going to discuss the very interesting results of this night study that is being studied today. And we have all been anticipating for a long time. I want to encourage you all, as you follow our discussion to also
Power lunch starts now welcome to power hundred mp. Its a record day on wall street the s p 500 notching new highs when tyler mentioned the dow and nasdaq are in striking distance. The nasdaq about 13 points away from that mark kelly. All right thank you very much. For more on whats sending stocks to new records today, lets go to bob at the New York Stock Exchange bob. Three things that are really mattering right now. Number one, trade talk optimism. Number two, the Federal Reserve cutting likely for the third time this year, this week and finally the Consumer Holding up well i think the Consumer Holding up is the key to all of this. I looked at the earnings calls for the 40 of kpacompanies that are reported so far, very clear. The consumer is holding up well and theres no concerns about a recession in 2020. Richard seeing the capital one ceo. I think the u. S. Economy and consumer is in pretty good shape. Me echoed many bank ceos that i heard saying the same thing. As for recession co
Later we visit downtown rapid city for a look at their collection of lifesize statues of our nations past president s. We begin our special feature with the story of Calvin Coolidge in the black hills. We are here in south dakotas black hills in Custer State Park and we are at the State Game Lodge which is a 1920s era building that was constructed can several years before Calvin Coolidge made his summer white house here in 1927 and he and the first lady stayed here for three months from june through september 1927 while they were on vacation. Calvin coolidge took office in 1923 when he was Vice President and Warren Harding died so he served as the last little bit of Warren Hardings term and was elected to his own term in 1924 and so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculative would he or would he not run for another term in 1928 and it was widely expected that he would but he came here in 1927 because he was looking for a place to escape the oppressive summer