and josh hawley, our young star. he is a young star. thank you, josh. great job, everybody. in addition, the nation owes an immense debt of gratitude to a man whose leadership has been instrumental to our success. so important to him. he always mentions it, number one point. i have always heard that when you become president, the single most important thing you can do is federal judges. they say supreme court judges, but we have them too. but federal judges. based on that i think there is nobody that has done a better job ever than senator mitch mcconnell. [applause] pres. trump: you know mitch. standup. stand up. [applause]

senator josh hawley says big tech is spinning tall tales. he wants facebook and google to stop using "lawyer speak" when it comes to tracking user data. and later, bill gates on how tech r&d is being seriously hampered by u.s.-china trade tensions. his comments from the bloomberg new economy forum. but we begin this hour with apple. the company made news on two fronts this week. the first -- president trump's visit wednesday to apple's austin, texas factory. cook met the president to discuss keeping macs and iphones free from tariffs. the other news involved the way apple tests software. it is changing after a series of bugs marred the latest iphone and ipad operating system. bloomberg's mark gurman and d.a. davidson's tom forte kicked off the conversation thursday. mark: so, basically, apple's ios software has been bugging the past few years. this particular release cycle, with ios 13, macos catalina, it has been especially buggy. what apple is doing is going to make it so that engineers, earlier in the process, can determine what is workin

i want to play you the thoughts of josh hawley, the senator from missouri and his call for regulation of big tech. >> the pathologies associated with social media in the last decade, the data that comes to us about the correlation of social media usage and teenage suicide and teenage depression and teenage loneliness. we need more information, but we are seeing so far is very worrisome. we know what the business model is of these giant media companies. the business model is to get us to spend as much time online as possible and to take as much information from us as they can and then sell it. the business model is based on export of consumers, families, individuals, children in many cases. that is

i want to play this for you, josh hawley and his call for some regulation of big tech. [video clip] >> social media, the pathology associated with social media, the data that comes to us about the correlation between social media usage and teenage suicide, depression, loneliness. we need more information. what we are seeing so far is very worrisome. we know what the business model is of these giant social media companies. the business model is to get us to spend as much time online as possible, to take as much information as they can without telling us, and then sell it and otherwise profit from it. that whole business model is based on the exploitation of consumers, families, individuals, children. that is something we should be concerned about. host: what do you hear from senator hawley? what direction do you think he

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taylor: that was senator josh hawley of missouri. still ahead, santander' chairman -- still ahead, santander's chairman says legislation should be a level playing field across sectors, not just banks and big tech. later, microsoft co-founder bill gates joins us from the bloomberg new economy forum in beijing. hear his thoughts on artificial intelligence. ♪ taylor: the chairman of europe's santander, ana botin, has said that, in the past, there is a discrepancy between regulatory restrictions. she sat down with erik schatzker tuesday for an exclusive interview to discuss her views on regulating and partnering with tech companies. ana: what is a bank? what is a bank? does a bank just take deposits and make loans? of course. but we do payments. we have always -- my strategy since i have arrived is to be a responsible bank and grow loyal customers. loyal customers -- if i asked you, erik, you will have one bank in your head, even though you might have five accounts. is that true? erik: that's true. ana: so you are like 99% of americans

i would say this plan shares a lot of similarities with things proposed by senator josh hawley and other senators in terms of regulating how you interact with platforms, the amount of time you spend on the platform, particular to josh's bill, autoplay and things like that. host: what are the challenges federal regulators have, congress has, the administration has, in regulating, not just technology companies that are different, the challenges that are different from regulating other sorts of businesses? patrick: i think that the challenges aren't so different. i challenge the premise of that a little bit. what we see in trying to regulate these companies, pretend as if these companies are so different because we are on a frontier of a new type of technology. the principles of regulation are still the same. you want to set up a competitive dynamic where these companies are competing with one another, and you are allowing customers to decide which platforms work best for them, which privacy settings work best for them. and when you try to assign a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme in the

senator josh hawley took office in january 2019, he's the youngest senator in the senate and serves on the armed services committee, the judiciary committee, and the homeland security committee. and this time in congress, senator hawley has emerged as a major voice in the debate over policy towards china, including on the issue of hong kong, on technology issues and on an array of national security issues more broadly. so we are delighted to have him, and i ask you to join me in welcoming senator josh hawley. >> thank you so much. thank you for having me, it is great to be back, it's great to be with you this morning. my theme today is, america relationship with the world. and as any student of american history knows, that relationship has always been unusual, because we are an unusual nation. we were the first colony to break from its parent country, the first republic of the modern era, and the first republic in history to be governed by a middle class. we were in short, a revolutionary nation, and all these years later, we live by that revolution still. this revolutionary republican

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in response to senator josh -- hawley's call for sanctions. ambassador martha cokie wants to talk to the senator about how to reduce drug demand in the united states. that's a clear statement that mexico is continuing to blame american and continuing president obrador's hugs, not bullets. recognizing they are quickly becoming a failed narco state. we would like to hear your thoughts on this. follow lou on instagram @loudobbstonight. lou will be back monday talking to onsolomon and tom fitton. be sure to tune in. gregg: new numbers say otherwise to those saying trump is losing votes among suburban women. rich lowry will be joining me on the set. i saved hundreds on my car insurance when i switched to geico. and this is how it made me feel. it was like that feeling when you go to taco night at your favorite restaurant. and they're the best-tasting tacos in the entire world. and just when you think it couldn't get any better, they bring you out another taco... ...cuz they made an extra one. ♪ extra taco! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fi

senator josh hawley shared as a public -- his opinions, he shared a range of policy topics about the chinese government's influence on states and corporations. he discussed hong kong and his recent trip. this is one hour. richard: and ask ourselves which assumptions hold. how will the future demand different things be done then we have been done in the past? to address these questions and other ones as well, we are very pleased to host senator josh hawley of missouri he has been thinking deeply about foreign policy, the assumptions behind it and how it should and must change america's approach. he took office in january 2019 after serving as missouri's attorney general. he is the youngest senator in the united states senate and serves on the armed services committee, judiciary committee, and homeland security committee. in his time in congress, senator hawley has emerged as a major voice in the debates toward china, including on the issue of hong kong, on technology issues, and on an array of national security issues more broadly. we are asking you to join us in welcoming senator haw

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>>missouri republican senator josh hawley is sounding the alarm over popular video app tip talk the company compromised by the chinese communist party knows where your children are. >>knows what they look like with their voices sound like. >>at a tuesday libor rate at the chinese on platform, accusing them of putting millions of that american users personal data in danger. it's a threat to our national security tick tock declined to appear at the tuesday hearing. but they insist all american data is safely secured in the u s. >>holly isn't buying it all it takes is one knock on the door of their parent company based in china from a communist party official for that to be transferred to cybersecurity experts like car frederick but the center for a new american security agrees to talk is a national threat. >>that is a problem that is something we need to think about well democrat senator sheldon whitehouse says the us should work with other countries to develop security solutions. >>he doesn't think china can be trusted it's a little bit like trying to bring a couple of burglars into a produc

senator josh hawley shared as a public -- his opinions, he shared a range of policy topics about the chinese government's influence on states and corporations. he discussed hong kong

and josh hawley, our young star. he is a young star. thank you, josh. thank you. great job, everybody. in addition, the nation owes an immense debt of gratitude to a man whose leadership has been instrumental to our success. it is so important to him. and that is he always mentions , it, number one point. i have always heard actually that when you become president, the single most important thing you can do is federal judges. they say supreme court judges, but we have them too. but federal judges. and you know based on that i , think there is nobody that has done a better job ever than senator mitch mcconnell. [applause] you know mitch. stand up. come on, stand up. [applause] i always get up and i talk about the economy, the economy, i am always talking. they never write about it, but that is ok. the people get it, but mitch will follow me and talk about judges. it is great when you have done, incredible. the impact is truly amazing. we also have two great supreme court judges. that is in addition to the what will be 182 judges. then we go by what i call normaliza

in response to senator josh -- hawley's call for sanctions. ambassador martha cokie wants to talk to the senator about how to reduce drug demand in the united states. that's a clear statement that mexico is continuing to blame american and continuing president obrador's hugs, not bullets. recognizing they are quickly becoming a failed narco state. we would like to hear your thoughts on this. follow lou on instagram @loudobbstonight. lou will be back monday talking to onsolomon and tom fitton. be sure to tune in. gregg: new numbers say otherwise to those saying trump is losing votes among suburban women. rich lowry will be joining me on the set. stay with (sfx: orchestra warming up) where's tommy? (sfx: stage doors opening) i thought he was with you? no jack! (sfx: piano plays "twinkle twinkle little star" tommy? (sfx: audience laughing) go get him! don't stop. keep playing. (sfx: pianist playing masterful duet) here we go here's the fun part did you do this? great job! (sfx: audience applause) gregg: suburban women could help determine the out

also tomorrow, josh hawley looks at u.s. foreign policy issues. he will be at the center for new american security live at 10: 30 a.m. eastern on c-span. and more on national security and geopolitical challenges with indiana republican senator todd young. he will be speaking at the hudson institute, live at noon eastern on c-span 2. watch the c-span networks live this week, as the house intelligence committee holds the first public impeachment hearings. the committee, led by chairman adam schiff, will hear from three state department officials , starting wednesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, william taylor, and deputy assistant secretary of state will testify. and friday at 11:00 a.m. on c-span 2, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine will appear before the committee. ahead of the hearings, read witness testimony from the deposition, find the transcript at c-span.org/impeachment. >> for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public

senator josh hawley introducing legislation that will protect personal data. and urnghtd the propose -- and under the proposed legislation, they wouldn't be able to collect private data other than what it takes to run their services. they would have to file an even you'll report with the federal trade commission. the ftc. they don't have a lot of bite when it comes to companies in china and russia. morgan, this involves national security. it involves trade negotiation. it involves the future of the country in point of fact. let's go to this 90-day reprieve. i want to put this up to show everyone in the audience what's going on here. when it comes to huawei and zte, these are the increments of events. and we start with the president banning huawei with a national security order. may 20, the united states government grants huawei rrp a temporary reprieve. august, another reprieve, and so it goes, november 18. another 90-day license extension. what in the world are we doing? just last week the attorney general of the united states said huawei and zte are national

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senator josh hawley, last week, he held a hearing where he excoriated facebook. he talked about communist party officials kicking down the door and amending data. he said, parents in the u.s., if you don't know about tiktok, your kids do, and you should. it is a concern animating not just the republican side of the aisle. since my story went up, chuck schumer sent a letter to the army and said there is concern that you are trying to recruit teens on tiktok, trying to recruit young people on this platform where they are flocking by the millions. he said, i want you to reconsider and not do it because it could be a national security threat. taylor: we have heard from others from tech companies, namely mark zuckerberg at facebook. given your history on the national security council, a worried about you -- how worried are you about chinese tech dominance? issues withare the a lot the concerns at the national security council. technology is the new frontier. whether it is data or information communications technology, i think you are fius, supplynd in c chain, taking

taylor: that was senator josh hawley of missouri. coming up, investing with kindred spirit. to helps got a partner bring funding to a generation of new startups. we will have the details. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: kindred ventures is entering a new phase of its and vence meant -- its investment strategy. it is launching a new fund to work with founders to work with startups. previous investors come companies like uber, coinbase, and virgin hyperloop one. joining us now, the man himself. talk to me about this new bigger fund, how it compares to the earlier version. >> sure. kindred ventures, i started the company in 2014 in san francisco. it was really a small seed angel fund with just me and some personal capital. over the years, i have gotten lucky backing some amazing founders solving some really big problems. transportation logistics, cryptocurrency, decentralized systems. even sort of looking at marketplaces like postmates and poshmark and styleseat. it has been a really great ride. one thing i realized -- there is always great seed stage founders looking to bring c

senator lindsey graham and josh hawley note that twitter is a private company and that the company made a business decision and that he has every right to do that. >> the way people communicate and get their word out, especially from the grassroots perspective, social media had been a big boon to them. if you aren't an establishment type of person, if you don't have all the money in the world, using social media to get your word i was actually a very good one. facebook had gotten attacked by aaron sorkin out of hollywood who thought this was a terrible thing and then zuckerberg responded, basically rick quoting sorkin back to him from the american president and one of the lines was to say, if you want to claim this land as the land of the free, then it also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. do you see this more as a free-speech debate and whether big tech should be the decider of what's truth or do you think the american people can decide that? >> i do believe that facebook has a responsibility. any platform, especially the social media pla

it's not just josh hawley, he's not the only u.s. senator. where the rest of them? my lecturing put us over the edge. thanks for your book and thanks for coming on tonight. i appreciate it.he i wish we had more time.e. the media went bonkers today with the first day of impeachment hearings. we collected a sample because we could not control ourselves either. we will show you what they did when we come back. ♪ >> tucker: you watch tv today? if you were watching the other cable channels, it was like christmas, new year's and the super bowl. oar over on msnbc, they also rousted their all-stars for a priest hearing panel >> ambassador bill taylor, they here's part of what they did. will talk about the shadow foreign policy they discovered. >> this is not about donald trump versus his political rivals in congress.>> this is about donald trump extorting america. >> i am not a lawyer.bo maybe i am glad i am not. >> there will be a courtroom drama like the o.j. trial. the great trial at the end of the 20th century where people took sides very quickly. >> day one of the pu

also with us this evening missouri senator josh hawley who believes it is time to sanction the leaders in china. but he also says do not trust what silicon valley executives are telling you. also, with us tonight, jesse watters on that stunning hot mic abc moment that is raising a lot of questions about how jeffrey epstein's story got buried three years ago and, yet, brett kavanaugh's was fair game. good evening, everybody, i'm martha mccallum and this is "the story" and we begin tonight with the

also missouri republican senator josh hawley looks set u.s. issues. at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. more on national security and geopolitical challenges with republican senator todd young. >> watch the c-span networks live this week, the house intelligence committee hold the first public impeachment hearings. the committee will hear from three state department officials, starting wednesday at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span three, top diplomats in ukraine william taylor and secretary of state george kent will testify. at 11 a.m. eastern, former ambassador to ukraine will appear before the committee. >> our c-span campaign team is traveling across the country, visiting key battleground states in the 2020 presidential race, asking what voters they want presidential candidates to address. >> the candidates have to do with environmental rights. i have seen the consequences and the aftermath of the flint water crisis and currently the detroit water shut off, which doesn't get enough attention. i want to see my candidates come up strong with policies that will invite environ

the hearing is hosted by senator josh hawley. he is chairman of this committee. he is looking how big tech exposes user information to bad actors like china. ticktock let's users up load 15 videos. ticktock is a huge competitor to other apps like instagram and apchat and coming under major scrutiny. ticktock is owned by a china based company, spike dance. they are sparking national security concerns and about censorship. ticktock says they don't let china sensor the con it on the. that the government has no access to user data. a "washington post" report today, saying moderators in beijing have final say overflagged content even when u.s. employees disagreed with decisions to block or penalize videos. senator hawley tweeting this about the article, censorship directed from beijing. we know why ticktock was afraid to testify. a lot to discuss this afternoon. including a letter that ticktock submitted to the committee. we got our hands on that letter, dagen. it basically said they do not censor any data. all of the moderate decisions or content decisions are made b

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senator josh hawley, the chairman of the subcommittee, scolded tik tok for being a no-show, saying it's a big mistake, and shows they have something to hide. "the washington post" is now reporting former tik tok employees say moderators based in beijing had the final say over flagged content and even when u.s. employees disagreed with what the beijing bosses decided, their pleas were ignored. senator hawley tweet iing direcd from beijing, now we know why tik tok was afraid to testify today. lots to discuss this afternoon including an interesting letter tik tok just submitted to the committee. we obtained that letter that tik tok submitted to senate lawmakers. it reads in part quote, tik tok does not remove content based on sensitivities related to china or other countries. we never have been asked by the chinese government to remove any doesn't a content and we would never do so if asked and we were told by lawmakers who are going to be in this hearing today that this "washington post" article and this tik tok letter will be brought up today. neil? neil: hillary, thank you very, very mu

the head of this committee, senator josh hawley, blasted the move, asking on twitter if ticktock has something to hide, saying he will save a place for them. there will be two empty chairs in that hearing today. he says it's a big mistake for them to not show up today but ticktock says they had two short of notice. i talked with someone familiar with the invitation. they tell me they had only six days of a head's up, for them was not enough time to get someone to appear in front of congress. stuart. stuart: six days? not enough time to get somebody on congress on very important security issue? don't like that. but hillary, great report. that very much indeed. >>> world series champs, washington nationals. they went to the white house yesterday. one of the players put on a maga hat. he got a lot of hate mail. brian kilmeade about the national as in the white house. >>> left-leaning media slamming policies and plans. looks like the left is in panic mode. i will have my take in a moment. ♪ the does your broker offer more than just free trades? fidelity has zero commissions for online

hawley, senators on the left they'll say, we have to go back to an antitrust regime that says it's not just about consumer pricing and very narrow markets, it's about google leveraging its monopoly in certain fields to get into others. >> do you think moves like this, google buying fitbit and facebook getting into libra are tone deaf? they figure we better run while we can. >> obviously getting into libra is tone deaf because the music started playing and they had to back off >> right. >> i think -- yeah, i think you're not going to -- i agree we're not going to see a whole lot more acquisition the notion that facebook can get instagram or -- >> wouldn't happen today >> yeah. and it was because antitrust enforcement for the past 10, 15 years mainly look at farm to consumer pricing, which is not much because it's facebook and google because they're free, but the real pricing comes from them having your data. >> i don't know if you saw facebook announce a month ago they're buying something called control labs we talked about this it's a device that goes on to your wrist and it effectivel

that is one point andrew yang and josh engine service and hawley are correct about, it is ultimately about keeping your attention. they are huge competitors with one another. i referenced this earlier, facebook and apple, which you wouldn't think are competitive companies, were trading public treat the how they users' privacy, and taking not-so-subtle shots at each other. i think it was nick clay from facebook and tim cook from apple were having a war of words in press releases and statements. companies that don't compete with the one another don't insult one another. -- with one another don't insult want another -- don't insult one another. anddon't see coca-cola goodyear tires insulting each other and questioning each other's business practices. stillcompanies are ultimately accountable to competition. and we don't know what the new technology that could come online tomorrow will be that could disrupt any of these companies. it wasn't long ago, 2007 or 2009, there was an article in "the guardian" and the headline was something to the effect, it is time to break up the myspace monop

hawley: facebook has said they can turn off location tracking, but it turns out, you can't. scan allcontinues to of the wi-fi in your area. it continues to use your cellular location and transmit that information to facebook. so this is another misrepresentation and i would like to know why it is that facebook is telling its users they can stop tracking when in fact they cannot. google does the same thing and it is one more instance of these companies not being honest about the data they are collecting. sen. hawley: so you think they are purposefully misleading users? taylor: i don't know how to read it any other way. read the posts facebook put up for all of its users, saying you can stop facebook from learning your precise location. a lawyerly phrase, turns out. the consumer would never imagine that if they want to turn off services facebook is still tracking them. tracking wi-fi, using cellular data. i think it is very misleading. taylor: what would you like to hear in response from facebook? sen. hawley: i would like to hear the facts. i want their excavation for the dif