when we see the latest figures from your satellite and space agency inpe, suggesting that in the firstf fires in the amazon is up 42% on the previous year. that is a story of total failure. no, but it was august. if you look into september figures, for instance, we'll see that september is the lower number since 2013. no, no, no, with respect, i've just given you the figure — the latest figure from inpe, which just came out a couple of days ago, for the entire 9—month period, january through september. yes, there was a spike in august, but you say the figures are down in september. i'm, therefore, taking the whole 9—month span — january to september — forest fires, 42% up. well, this year, if you look, it's 42% up, it's compared to 2018, and then 2018 was a year with very low numbers of fires, many different things, but especially things related to the climate. it's more humid, more rain, more. . .appropriate numbers for reducing the fires. so, if you look — just compared to 2018, there is a huge difference, and you are correct, but if you look for the historical numbers, we are in the

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that is the model i can see inping the cost keeping control because we are very cost conscious. it is not billable hours like you have in other professions. basicallye that is what cost plus is. it is billable hours and it goes up so the intent is not there to keep a low cost. i see this as a currently, we keep these contracts that way. because it is more of a service. it i forgot who said it, could be like a service that you book it like you book your ticket basically, you're a certain amount of money to bring stuff from the ground to the moon. and some amount of money that goes to mars. must comelly, cost down dramatically in the next 25 years in order to make this work . in order to make the whole economics of it close. otherwise it might be too extensive. in a perfect world, , the 50 years from now cost of launch will have come down. so people like you guys who are creative and have good expertise in certain areas, have an opportunity to go have these perception shifts that i mentioned earlier. and then the crate of juices flow, and you think of things you can do in low eart

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the last thing i want is somebody to tell me well, i want to separate inp take gram from fume. -- instagrammy companies. if people are concerned about privacy, they don't have to use facebook. >> we're good on the russia stuff. i think anti-trust on advertising is a good deal. i'll counter with microsoft. they got pressure from the courts in order to change their behavior. i think that's what's going to happen here. the problem is, when you have exeat r tosser, facebook just aa -- competitors, facebook just acquires them. we need to be concerned not on russia but with what they're doing with the data. >> why don't you want to whack amazon and google? why not have politicians decide how they should be broken up or what future sets they have. you'll end up like europe with no technology companies. >> i think the big danger is it's so popular to say we're going to regulate these companies, i think americans out there think that this is an easy fix, a lot of democrats especially think it's an easy fix and that's the danger right now. i don't think it's being thought through. >> i don't like the

they stopped enforcing it for fear that the supreme court will inp validatinvalidate the law aa floodgatehe supreme court, say they will stack the court if they hear this case. >> i'm sorry to say that everything he says is true. the democrats, not all of them, a half dozen, all lawyers, have basically said to the supreme court go against us on guns and we will add people to your number. this would not happen in the trump administration. the president would never sign such legislation. maria: typical, more shaming and bullying. >> this is all in the long run maria: a lot of bullying going on. when we come back, ge changing its pension plan, freezing plans for thousands of employees to cut debt. the stock is up on the news, 1 and two-thirds percent. and kids getting paid, parents opening their wallets wider, we'll tell you where the average allowance stands right now. back in a minute. ♪ shout it, shout it, shout it out loud. ♪ shout it, shout it, shout it out loud. [ orchestral music playing ] mom you've got to get yourself a new car. i wish i could save faster. you're making good choices

i am not so much against the idea of facebook pursuing an innovative ideas but perhaps i would have inp the past. it's difficult for me to get onboard witonboard with somethio big being in another country and i would employ you to consider bringing this home perhaps as things move forward. you said i you would pull out of the association efficacy direction you don't want to go. i would argue that you have enough influence to bring this home and keep this american and i would ask that you consider that and i will yield. >> the gentle woman from iowa is recognized for five minutes. >> think you chairwoman and for being here. i asked my constituents what they would like to ask you and the chairwoman, i would like to introduce into the record. without objection such as the order. i'm going to think about privacy in a second, but i want to start by reminding everybody here of facebook's mission. it says the mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. if your goal is to bring the world closer together, i believe that requires you taking your res