mike vince, a former us state department deputy for i t suggested the washington assisted part us with the risk as it wants to gain control over the social media platform. a telegram is very, very powerful vehicle for the us state department to be able to mobilize protests, to be able to galvanized political support. the national endowment for democracy was actually paying the main administrators of the telegram channels, who were orchestrating those rights. those protests, not employees of telegram, but people in general, administrators, the people are using it or organizing others to use right? us and french, shared military intelligence and diplomatic and economic interest in or in arresting problem. and finally, getting the leverage they have craved for so long to be able to both control, con, kilograms, content, migration practice. but also the, you know, the ability to get this backend access to it for, you know, to just read every russian text message effectively. well, i spoke to new york base lawyer and media and the last line all about the wider wrong vacations of this case o

mike mcguire, refusing to put it into writing. earlier this year, mcguire claimed the bill was too similar to a proposal rejected last year authored by assembly member vince fong. >> i am a stickler for rules. if a bill is defeated in a policy committee that is nearly identical, and please take a look at the code sections within the bill, then it's not going to move in the other house. >> my legislation only applied to lobbyists and legislators, and that's it. no one else where mr. fong's bill applied to basically everybody. >> assembly member paterson says he plans to repitch that nda ban next year. since there's only a week left in california's legislative session, self-driving taxi company cruz is joining forces with uber. >> under this new partnership, passengers will have the option to order a ride in a driverless vehicle. but for now, the option will not be available in california because cruz's robotaxi license has been suspended here in the state. the general motors owned company lost its license to operate last year following a series of crashes in san francisco involving cruise vehicles. stocks were lower today on some mixed data on the u.s. eco