blackburn: right.e had a hearing last week on continue tod we look at how you deal with extremism, how you deal with some of the violent content that trafficking the sex that is taking place. , several years ago, i led the push to get backpage off the google search. this is one of the things that needs to happen to protect women and children and to thwart the sex trade and to prohibit them from using online to market these women and children. several years ago, we worked with the online gaming industry and made certain they began to do ratings so you would have content that was age-appropriate. in our looked at this task force and will continue to do so. when you look at some of the or some of these that , pardonople get into me, and pedophiles have begun use those apps. they are tracking children online. certainly, having some ratings and awareness so that parents realize what is going on and making certain that children are protected and their information is not being made public and it is not going

blackburn: indeed. peter, i think we last visited when i was finishing work on the reauthorization of the fcc, which had not been done since 1990. and of course the precision agriculture deal. some of those components that really are foundational items in our internet ecosystem. getting those provisions finished was important and bringing that expertise to the senate where we are dealing with the privacy and data security issues not only of commerce but also judiciary committee. one thing i have found so interesting about being in the senate is how you take one issue set and you work cross-platform on it. i am also on the armed services committee and the veterans committee and at veterans, we are working to get everybody's records in the cloud. we are doing the same thing at armed services so that we can have someone enlist, for the rest of their life, their records are cloud-based. as they need medical care or if they want to track what exposures they may have had, such as hazardous toxins, things of t

. >> joining us this week on "the communicators" is senator marsha blackburn, a member of the commerce and science subcommittee on communications and technology. senator blackburn appeared often on this program as a member of the house but this is her first appearance as a senator. welcome back. >> thank you so much. good to join you again. >> i wanted to ask you about

consumer. >> host: senator blackburn, did you have a chance to meet with mark zuckerberg? >> guest: you know, i have talk with him before and it did not meet with him when he was here last week. but i'm delighted that we are beginning to see some of these tech leaders come to the hill. and i'm going to spend some time in the near future out in the silicon valley doing a series of meetings and have full of it better insight into the backbone of some of these platforms and the way their algorithms are developed. needing hopefully with some of their engineers and developers and then also the application of those algorithms on their sites. >> host: also is election security heart of the task force -- >> guest: no. we are not looking at election security. that has not been something that was in the directive we were given when we started the task force, but i think election security, after the 2060 election, is something we look at. we've had hearings on it at commerce. we touched on in armed services, and what we do know is this, for decades, our enemies have tried to thwart o

elizabeth blackburn and her story.sh retailer marks & spencer could see shares being removed from the blue—chip ftse 100 index as shares being removed from the blue—chip ftse100 index as its shares has been falling. it's lost about 40% of its value since last year as the 135—year—old company has been struggling tough competition in clothing and food operations as more online shopping options have become available. losing the ftse100 membership means marks & spencer ‘s shares can no longer be held by investment funds, which only track the index of briton‘s top companies. the fund managers would be forced to dump the stock. a quick recap of the lead story, the pound is falling after prime minister borisjohnson pound is falling after prime minister boris johnson has pound is falling after prime minister borisjohnson has urged mps not to delay brexit further and hinted if they did there might be a general election. it's been falling against the us dollar for the past six months as political uncertainty continues, as you ca

republican senator marsha blackburn. where will they find common ground on gun reform, immigration and government spending, that and more on sunday morning futures. ♪ >> we begin with the white house blaming iran for yesterday's attack on the world's largest oil facility in saudi arabia, forcing the kingdom to cut it daily oil output by nearly half. the iranian backed houthi rebels claimed responsibility. mike pompeo is pointing the finger at iran saying tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on saudi arabia. rouhani pretend to engage in diplomacy amid calls for de-escalation. iran has launched unprecedented attacks on the world's energy supply. there is no evidence the attacks came from yemen. democratic senator from connecticut chris murphy pushed back tweeting this is such a responsible simplification and how we get into wars, the saudi's and houthis are war, the saudi protect the houthi i the houthi's attack back, iran is backing the houthis and has been a bad actor but it is not as simple as houthi equals iran, lindsey

we are lucky to have tennessee senator marsha blackburn. it's so great to see you. with the basic question, based on what we know now, would you vote to convict president trump if there's a trial. >> of course not. what we know is that the house is probably going to pick this up. they are wanting to prove quid pro quo that something nefarious was done, but this is their muller do over and they are trying to go at it again. it is so important to realize this is a three-year process for them. what we do know is the call took place on july 25. we do know there is no evidence of a quid pro quo while. and we do know that the rules have been changed by the cia on how a whistleblower complaint can be filed. over the past year, it was changed so that you would have the ability for someone to file a complaint without firsthand knowledge. >> is there anything in this whole story, this is something we've seen over and over in the last few days and i meant to be talking about the media and its bias later on. surely you can't be okay with it, any of this, is there other elements

tonight on the communicators, tennessee senator marsha blackburn chair of the judiciary committees technology task force on china's huawei and regulating big tech. >> some of the social media platforms that are beginning to distribute news and have a news feed, individuals want to see them actually have a news director. >> tonight at eighteastern on cspan2 . up next, a debate with the two republs

. >> ian blackburn. >> thank you, mister speaker. last night, parliament once again defeated the shambolic tory government. today, mister speaker, we have seized back control from a prime minister who is behaving like a dictator more than a democrat. the prime minister must be stopped. mps must unite across this house take know deal off the table tonight. mister speaker, we won't defeat the government again. the primacy tell us, when we succeed will he respect the democratic vote of this house? the democratic will of the people we represent? and finally act to remove the threat of catastrophic know deal brexit? >> mister speaker, i asked the right honorable gentlemen if he will distract -- respect the democrat bill of the united kingdom as the house voted to do time and time and time again and that is implement the results of the referendum. >> ian blackburn. >> i know he is a new voice. may i suggest we ask the questions, he is supposed to answer them. mister speaker, we have a majority. the people of scotland want to remain in the

. >> monday night on "the communicatorss," tennessee senator marsha blackburn, chair of the judiciary's technology task force on china's u.s., company in the antitrust issues and regulating big tech. >> some social media platforms that are beginning to distribute news, and have a news feed, individuals want to see them actually have a news director. >> monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. next on "the presidency," stanford university historian talks about herbert hoover and aid to famine-stricken soviet russia, from 1921 to 1922. this program at the hoover presidential library in west branch, iowa was part of a daylong conference on his humanitarian work, and picks up right after a break. it was hoover's global efforts that propelled him for a run for the white house. some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. >> so welcome to

marsha blackburn chair of the judiciary committee technology task force on china's huawei company in the u.s. anti-trust issues and regulating big tech. >> some of the social media platforms that are going to distribute news and have a news feed individuals want to see them actually have a news director. >> monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> next on american history tv, vice president pence delivers remarks at an event in warsaw, poland. commemorating the 80th anniversary of the start of world war ii. [speaking foreign language] >> ladies and gentlemen, vice president of the united states of america michael richard pence will now deliver an address. ♪ wrap >> president duda, president steinmart. other presidents, prime minsters and heads of state. distinguished guests and most of all, noble citizens of poland. it is an honor to be here on behalf of the president of the united states and all of the american people to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of world war ii. two years ago, president donald trump came to this city and spoke of the remarkable bonds of ame

senator blackburn appeared on this program is a member of the house but this is her first appearance as a senator. welcome back. >> thank you so much. good to join you once again. >> host: i wanted to ask you about the issues you worked on

. >> harris: i want to bring you now republican senator marsha blackburn from the great state of tennesseeyou today. we just had a little bit of senator joe manchin talking about the fact that this was a presidential moment for president trump, good politics for him to pass on gun legislation. what do you have to say about that? >> what i have to say about it is this precisely. there is no one who wants someone who has a mental illness or is unstable or is a threat to themselves or others, to have a gun or any type weapon in their possession. this is one of the reasons that you are hearing so many in law enforcement talk about mental illness. and having more beds and facilities and treatment options for those individuals that have mental illness. harris, you just had john mention the juvenile record. when i was busy in august in tennessee, one of the most impactful meetings that i had was a group of law enforcement officers and sheriffs from upper east tennessee. they brought both of these issues and having more beds and facilities which are two things they should be agreement on. when the

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republican senator marsha blackburn of the senate armed services committee, perfect to ask about what's happening right now. senator, welcome to the program, first of all. then thank you. do you feel or do you think, based on what you know on capitol hill, that we are ramping up something other than sanctions with iran? >> president trump does not want to go to war. i don't think anybody wants to go to war. the purpose is to get iran back to the negotiating table. we do not want a nuclear-armed iran. there is no one in the region -- i don't think there's anyone in the world that wants a nuclear-armed iran. we do know that sanctions are working. we know that inflation is at 40%. we know that their old revenues have been driven down about 90%. we know that their economy has shrunk. they say 6% but the estimates are more like 12%. we know that their pension funds are in the red. they cannot feed their people. they do not have revenue. as john just said, what they are doing is lashing out. but we do know that the president prefers the sanctions in the negotiations, and getting them to the n

senator marsha blackburn because this scandal is about and eight in china where she's led the way forrs with this scandal in the broader question of what to do about tranny is when we have the will to fight china's plan to topple america as the supermarket or given. many times the brutal authoritarian regime in china has a stated aim and specific plan for world domination, economically and militarily. they know america is the only thing that stands in their way and that technology is the only way they can be america. that is why for over a decade they been building up their technological capabilities often by stealing hours over the city and covertly by spying. a central component of the strategy is that telecom company terminate all you need to know about that for two america is is contained in the summary of an academic study published in july this year quote, using a unique data set this paper analyzes the relationship between key huawei and the state security analysis. i find there is strong evidence that huawei acts as the direction of chinese state intelligence and that there ex

senator blackburn. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and ms. cogswell, i will tell you that the inconsistency that is happening with the vetting that takes place at the airport, but then we look at the southern border, and we have thousands of people on a weekly basis who are not vetted. we do not know who they are, and we do not know what they are bringing into the country, and many times it is drugs. many times they are bringing in human beings. trafficking women and children. we would never allow that passing through an airport. but yet it is happening at the border, so it is appropriate that the dea and the tsa personnel is there to proside some control and appropriate vetting. let me stay with the vetting process, and senator lee touched on this. in recent years as he mentioned both the gao and the ig has identified very serious security vulnerabilities that exist with the screeners. and i use term screeners, because that is their legislated and stach toirl name, and their description. you have had some true flaws in hereb a here, and the

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. >> joining us this week on "the communicators" is senator marsha blackburn, a member of the commerce and science subcommittee on communications and technology. senator blackburn appeared often on this program as a member of the house but this is her first appearance as a senator. welcome back. >> thank you so much.

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concerned about the pace of tsa's deploynt of new screening technology tennessee senator marsha blackburn agrees. 22 of 2015 report showing agents were letting dangerous items through security weapons getting pass your screeners to 95% of the time the tsa says new technology like biometrics say scanners reduce the chances of human error, but some lawmakers say that same technology raises privacy concerns i'm concerned that we are in the wild west when it comes to facial. >>recognition massachusetts senator ed markey wants the tsa to be more transparent. >>about the facial recognition data the news that check it can t s a. >>in my opinion should stop deploying these invasive tools but the tsa says technology like that will be vital for preventing future attacks. >>in washington recall martin. >>outside right now here in san francisco along the embarcadero nice blue clear sky as we're tracking. a heat wave that's coming our way chief meteorologist lawrence karnow has the details for us i love that we could see some temperatures soaring on not only the 70's maybe start to talk about some 80'

five of them came off buyers, the sixth game of paul blackburn and it was a moon ball by alvarez. the astros wind 15-0. the good news, the still won game up in the wildcard. this little guy, he wanted a giants win for his birthday but he picked the wrong night. the pirates scored four off the bullpen. ryan reynolds got the go-ahead not. he is a former giant prospect who was traded for andrew mccutchen 2 years ago. 6-4, pittsburgh is a winner. but again, the big news last night, the raiders opening night, victory over the denver broncos. granted, it is just one game, but it was a good one. >> 4:57, helping the homeless and giving residency, battle brewing over plans to build a homeless navigation center in fremont. the possible sites up next. >>> we are just a few hours away from apple's big fall event, what we expect them to announce next. wimpy trash bags? c'mon. hefty! hefty! hefty! hey ladies... buy hefty® ultra strong™ at a low price. dada! i wish... get hefty® ultra strong™ costs less than glad® forceflex where sold head to head. >>> live from the cbs bay area studios, this i

women make up less than a third of all scientists working today, but elizabeth blackburn, a nobel laureatere the two ways to get over the gender gap and increase the place of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. i really have a message to women in science, which is keep persisting. this is worth it. being a woman in science, there is the reality that it is different, because we have grown up it is different, because we have grown up in a culture where being a woman is different from being a man. women bring different life experiences to science. that enriches the way you can approach really complex problems. believe me, biology gives you lots of marvellously complex problems. if i looked back and said what would i have done differently, i thought you had to be tough and do it alone, and i think perhaps i made it more difficult that way. it is ok to ask questions, and you don't look as if you are weak. i felt i had to prove myself. luckily, the process of proving myself involved doing something that i loved doing. ifelt that i would be taken more seriously in my science. i s

there were also wins for blackburn, birmingham, middlesbrough, preston and qpr.he beginning about cricket. to cricket and england are in a commanding position after day three of the fifth and final ashes test withjoe denly returning from the birth of his second child to almost add another milestone but he just missed out on a maiden century. ben stokes added his 67 to denly‘s 94 as england built a lead of 382 over australia. 0ur correspondent, joe wilson, reports from the 0val. attention swarms around the ashes. you can get lost between the hope and hype. but sometimes it all falls into place. what a week forjoe denly. he batted today safe in the knowledge that his new daughter had been safely delivered, and what's more important than that? suddenly this was a new denly. his aggressive approach seemed to shock the australians. stand by for another surprise. ben stokes dropped, and by steve smith. no one sees the cricket ball better than smith, normally except perhaps ben stokes. even the weather was helping. ashes test match in mid—september, do you spot a cloud

blackburn: mr. mccarthy, i have been concerned and we have previously talked about the gaps, and they are really critical gaps in army cyber defense. this is all going to be vitally important as we look at the 21st century warfare. as we look at interoperability and integration and working cross platform. -- fund the multifaceted utilization in ai , the way you will have disparate platforms you will be working from in multiple locations. why don't you talk about how you envision and is the army pursuing signet and pw and ciber, and how you see the army shapingfitting into or this strategy. mr. mccarthy: senator, first it is people. we have to recruit more cyber experts. it's a very difficult to recruit and even harder to retain. we have used tool of force solutions across the force and found a lot of success there in trying to retain men and women to stay in the army because they make the move to the private sector because they're clearly very marketable. we've established some unique relationships

there were also wins for cardiff, hull, nottingham forest, blackburn and wigan. 2nd qualifying round. irlam fc from the 9th tier are out, they lost to former league side york city 2—nil. kyle mcfarlane sealed irlams fate with the second of the game. you can keep up to date with the rest of the fa cup and scottish cup scores on the bbc sport website. still to come on sportsday. you'll make as you know, i like to run fast, but did you know that i can run fast, but did you know that i ca n fly run fast, but did you know that i can fly even faster? we hear from the british sprinter on how he's already got a 2nd career mapped out. now back to the rugby world cup and two of the home nations teams face each other in what looks like being the stand out game tomorrow. the big match is in yokohama where ireland — the number one ranked side in the world — take on scotland. the irish narrowly won the last time they met in the six nations earlier this year, and the scottish captain expects that there won't be much between them again. going up against them, and we have a game

alan shearer mention blackburn to his home club when man united was wanted temples up we save are quiteed at the fans reaction to. especially in the match against watford. by your surprise at the reaction? i was mortified. watford. by your surprise at the reaction? iwas mortified. i watford. by your surprise at the reaction? i was mortified. i am a pretty proud lad and i think i would do anything to succeed. my career is still of great moments that, you know, i played football for the right reasons. to get knocked out cold and then to be on a stretcher and hear your own fans singing that, imean, i and hear your own fans singing that, i mean, i was mortified. and hear your own fans singing that, i mean, iwas mortified. nobody and hear your own fans singing that, i mean, i was mortified. nobody will blame the fans, nobody was brave enough to blame their own fans. but when i retired, i think i am well within my rights to say that hurt me. he had already talked about injuries. looking back to korea there are two different ends of the scale. people who remember you as the 16—year—old fast, l

. >> monday night on the communicators, tennessee senator marsha blackburn, chair of the judiciary committees technology chest -- task force on china's huawei company in the u.s.. antitrust issues, and regularly big tech. >> some of these social media platforms that are beginning to distribute news and have a newsfeed, individuals want to see them have a news director. >> monday noted it :00 p.m. >> enn, and c-span2 newsmakers this week, our guest is mark cocaine. ourtudio to help with andrew edgington. >> would you like to include things like emoluments, the president's taxes, and -- aspects of the mueller report. how would you like to see it play out? >> we would like to see done in an expeditious manner. that means taking bombshell allegations and confessions by the president this week to what happened and very probably. that will be the focus. we had adam schiff and jerry i thinknd yesterday and you will see the intelligence committee do its work with what happened this week. the president asking for government to get dirt on his political opponents. the fact that he withheld money from a

. >> tonight, on the communicators, tennessee senator marshall blackburn chair of the judiciary committee technology task force on china's waterway company in the u.s. antitrust issues, and regulating big tech. >> some of the social media platforms that are beginning to distribute news and have a newsfeed and individuals want to see them actually have a news director. >> tonight at eight eastern on c-span2. >> weeknights this week are featuring book tv programs and tonight will look at the opioid crisis and start with the book that did not think. and the bioethicist travis reeder expose opioid addiction and shares his experience. his book is in pain. journalist beth massie talks about her book dope fix. and chris mcgreal reports on the opioid epidemic in america. watch book to be tonight starting at 830 eastern on c-span2 and every weekend on c-span2. earlier today president trump former national security advisor john bolton spoke about u.s. north korea relations and the u.s. role in the asia-pacific region. you can see this event for strategic and international studies at eight eastern o

[loud shouting] >> ian blackburn. >> thank you mr. speaker.ime minister Ãb when i read the first paragraph and it talks about the supreme court verdict, mr. speaker, it wasn't the supreme court verdict, it was the judgments of the supreme court. perhaps the prime minister might start to show some respect for the judiciary. we are here today because the prime minister was absolutely humiliated by the supreme court. by a count of 11 Ãzero. [inaudible] that we might have had some humility. that we might have been able to acknowledge that what we had is the unlawful shutting down of parliament. mr. speaker, who Ãb the former prime minister à tierney begins. mr. speaker, will it pains me to say it, the prime minister is still standing here today, he in fact does believe he's above the law. mr. speaker, he is not. and thank heavens for the action that was brought forth in scotland and england that i want to pay tribute to my honorable fred à [applause] [loud shouting] >> thank goodness the courts have done their job and made sure the parliament is g

senator blackburn. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you to our witnesses. we appreciate that you are here. i enjoyed visiting with you for a few minutes before the hearing began. mr. wolfram, i want to pick up where we had discussed. in your testimony computational irreducibility. look at that for just a moment. as we talk about this, does it make algorithmic transparency sound increasingly elusive and would you consider moving towards transparency is a worthy goal or should we be asking another question? >> yeah, i think there are different meanings to transparency. if you are asking tell me why the algorithm did this versus that, that's really hard. if we really want to be able to answer that, we're not going to be able to have algorithms that do anything powerful. in a sense being able to say this is why it did that, we might as well follow the path we used to explain it rather than have it do what it needed to do itself. >> so the transparency, what we can't do is try to get a pragmatic result. >> yeah, we can't go inside, open up the hood and say why t

announcer: monday night on "the communicators," marsha blackburn, chair of the judiciary committee's technology eisk force on china's huaw company in the u.s., regulating big tech. >> some see social media platforms that are beginning to distribute news and have a newsfeed. individuals want to see them actually have a news director. announcer: monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. this weekend, american history tv is joining our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of lansing, michigan. to watch more video from cities on our current tour, visit c-span.org/citiestour. we continue now with a look at the history of lansing. elissa: my district goes from the nort s

. >> monday night on the communicators, tennessee senator marsha blackburn, chair of the judiciary committeestechnology iask force on china's huawe company in the u.s. and regulating big tech. some of the social media platforms that are beginning to distribute news and have a newsfeed, individuals want to see them have a news director. >> monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. next, on the civil war, a talk about the activities of the union regiment during the war and after, including the dedication of a monument at gettysburg. he has taught at the united states military academy, shepherd university, and the graduate school of norwich university.

. >> thank you very much, senator blackburn is next. at the end of her questioning, we will observe a moment of silence in memory of the victims of 9/11. senator blackman. >> thank you mr. chairman, thank you so much for being here, i will tell you, be inconsistency that is happening with the vetting that takes place at the airport, we look at the southern border and we have thousands of people on a weekly basis who are not known, we don't know or what they're bringing into in a country, many times it is drugs, many times they're bringing in human beings, trafficking women and children. we would never allow that passing through airport. but yet, it happens every day at the southern border, so i think it is completely appropriate that the dhs and tsa agents are there on the southern border to help provide some control and appropriate vetting. let me stay with the vetting process and senator lee touched on this. in recent years, he mentioned both the gao and the ig identified various security vulnerabilities which exist with the screeners

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marsha blackburn talks to us ahead of a key hearing today >> how business innovates.join us live as the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now. >>> live from the most powerful city in the world, new york. this is "squawk box. >> good morning and welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc live from the nasdaq market site in times square. i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin and becky quick is in chicago at today's cnbc evolve summit. becky, you've got some special guests coming up who are they >> big mystery guest but let me tell you first of all what evolve is all about, guys. evolve takes a look at companies that have to go through very severe transitions, maybe it's because changing demographics that are out there maybe it's because the customer is looking for more than they used to be looking for and maybe it's just because of how fast the change of pace is really happening these days, especially when it comes to technology. so we have a couple of very special guests joining us to talk through how they have evolved their companies and come out the other

blackburn: thank you, mr. president. yesterday evening i had the opportunity to invite 100,000 of our fellow tennesseans to join me in a telephone town hall. now, we have found that this is something that tennesseans love. instead of having to drive to a location, they are able to just pick up the phone and, as they are doing homework with children or preparing dinner, they are able to jump on the phone and talk about yishes that are -- issues that are important to them. and we covered a wide range of topics yesterday evening. we talked about nuclear power and gun rights and health care for our veterans. we even talked a little bit about an invasive fish species, asian carp, and how that is affecting our beautiful rivers of there was one thing that continued to come out through the course of this telephone town hall, and i bet you can get what that topic was that people continued to talk about. now, bear in mind that tennesseans are by and large dismissive of what i call the d.c.'s shiny object story of the day. tennesse