birnbaum: he was subpoenaed. they originally said -- they sent him a letter, sent him communications. they said, please calm, we would like to talk to you about the issue of white supremacism on your platforms. he responded over emailed and posted publicly, i am available by phone whenever you want. so it appears they did subpoena him. host: and i apologize -- >> no, i am fine. i just wanted to emily was saying that bennie thompson did not know what 8chan was a couple of months ago and now he is coming before congress, jim watkins, and so much of these congressional hearings, where we do end up having tech executives hauled before congress, there is a lot of hype around them, there is a lot of talk that this is going to be a real lesson for the tech company ceo's, that congress is going to hand it to them and they are going to be under the spotlight and they are going to have a hard day. more often than not, it ends up just being a learning experience for the lawmakers, where they get to ask questions, ask anythi

host: emily birnbaum, same question.mily: most immediately after we found out the ftc settled with facebook, facebook disclosed they were undergoing an antitrust investigation by the ftc. it is on and we don't know much about how that has played out so far. and then certainly after -- and then shortly after the department of justice antitrust division announced they are probing some of the top tech companies. we can discern which companies from their description of the investigation. we found out the doj is looking into them for competition issues, antitrust issues, and it is still unclear if that is going to result in action, if, how much this is going to affect these companies but it is a big deal to be under investigation. it makes you rethink every decision, and what kind of expositions -- what kind of acquisitions you are looking at, et cetera. facebook is the only of the big companies that has said, yes, we are under antitrust investigation. the other companies have gotten an inkling from reporting that they will a

let's introduce our panel beginning with emily birnbaum of the hill. we also have ashley gold of the information, and alexandra levine of "politico." ms. levine, first question to you. facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town in the last couple of months. do we expect -- what's going on with that case and we expect further attention to that company? >> thank you for having. great to be. the ftc $5 billion settlement with facebook which was the culmination of this long privacy probe prompted by the cambridge analytica data scandal has divided washington. on the one hand, you have republicans and industry groups say this by building daughters find because is the largest to come that that in history of te agency really, that it meant facebook was being held accountable. on the other side you have democrats and consumer privacy advocates blasting the ftc track record on enforcement and saying that because a facebook's size and how much money it has, this will not deter facebook from bad behavior in the future. so right now in washington we are in

with ashley gold from "the information," alexandra levine with "politico," and "the hill's" emily birnbaum. >> people digest peoples quickly. they are actually a way to spread disinformation that experts say will be much more threatening leading up to the election. there's also this question of, is the government ready? is the public ready? and are tech companies ready? the answer, the consensus seems to be that none of the three are ready. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:30 p.m. on c-span2. >> tomorrow, testimony from housing and urban development secretary ben carson and treasury secretary steve mnuchin on housing finance reform. they'll be speaking before the senate banking committee. that gets under way live tuesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. and following that, the house judiciary committee meets to consider several gun prevention bills including measures that aim to ban high capacity magazines while urning -- urging states to create a process to stop high-risk vimmings from buying firearms. that starts at 2:00 p.m. eastern on span -- on c-span3 tuesday. >> wednesday

birnbaum's letter was important. she is an objective physician working with the patients in the unit who was a strong advocate for moving the patients from ste quality of care they would receive and now she is still advocating for those patients and giving his perspective for the quality of care that is being delivered at the unit. >> are the two patient care assistance and three registered nurses supposed to be staffing 24 hours a day? >> yes. >> so that is a 24 hours a day staffing. >> yes. i'm not aware that an overnight shift has a different staffing ratio then the day. >> do they leave the unit often? we just couldn't find anyone on the floor when the alarm went off except for the one rehab worker. it just wasn't what i saw. we were looking for staff. >> i understand. it is why i welcome you to come back to the unit and continue to see maybe a different day, a different time of day experience a different situation then you did in that moment. >> but normally they can't leave the floor. so if the minimum staffing

let's speak now to michael birnbaum, the washington post's brussels bureau chief. what did you make ofthe prime minister of luxembourg is a friendly guy, outgoing, well—known within european circles for being extremely cheerful and always bringing... he always seems to be telling jokes at the outset of summits. today was something different, emotional, passionate, really angry and a real edge and what he was saying, denouncing the current state of brexit affairs. you could just tell he was so frustrated with both the brexit process, and we don't know exactly his conversation with boris johnson today, but you know, he was angry and frustrated immediately upon leaving those one—on—one talks with the british leader. it was pretty noisy and i don't know if they would have heard much of they had continued. let's talk about what he discussed withjean—claude juncker. each said they would intensify their efforts. it is back to the future. they used to say this with theresa may but they went round and round the same issues, and didn't get any further on. we are still going around the same issue

alexander levine with politico and the hills emily birnbaum. >> people digest names quickly, sometimes they seem to considerable but there only to spread misinformation and that what they're saying is going to be more threatening leading up to the election and there's also this question of the government ready, is the public ready and companies ready and the answer is consensus seems to be that none of this already. >> what's the communicators tonight at 8:30 p.m. on cspan2. >>. >> now portions from this past weekend new hampshire democratic party convention met in manchester here from the democratic presidential candidates. we begin with remarks from joe biden and then south bend indiana mayor the judge, senator, harris and former congressman o'rourke. >> hello new hampshire. great to be here. thank you, thank you. they tell me about 10 minutes so i'm better going. my name is joe biden and i'm here for dd shopping. and to defeat donald trump.

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let's introduce our panel, beginning with emily birnbaum of the hill. we also have ashley gold of "the information" and alexander levine of politico. ms. levine, first question to you. facebook has seen a lot of attention in this