. -- that dorsey laid out.ay that regulation as a whole is a positive thing and that gdpr has been beneficial. he also admits that twitter's terms of service is notoriously difficult to read and that it has brought some clarity about how twitter gathers data and how it is used. i think it is also worth mentioning that twitter has less of an incentive to play a strong role in the discourse around regulation. it's in their benefit to let facebook take the heat and any regulation that eventually comes is going to impact a giant like facebook and google much more than a much smaller platform like twitter. emily: i wonder if some of these tech ceos are simply tired of being blamed for all of these problems and would like to shift the responsibility to somebody else. selina: there is an interesting situation here where you have the ceos going out and trying to improve the messaging around the company, the other end of the -- but at the end of the day, we have to see the results of the company. jack dorsey likes to ha

jack dorsey at the white house. the meeting coming after trump attacked social media saying they are biased against conservatives, even slamming twitter for the platform's treatment of him. >> the woaps of woap reported much of the meeting focused on the fact that twitter removed some of his followers but as dorsey explained to the president twitter removes fraud lant spam accounts. >> trevor: the president of the united states is upset because he feels he should have more twitter ferl followers. this is absolutely ridiculous. what's next, he's going to complain to instagram. look at those himself. i will be honest, this is most relateab thing he has ever done because we all think we should have more twitter followers. i don't care who you are. everyone is like, "come othat's it?" the onto dink is when trump gets mald at twitter he doesn't just complain to his friends, he flies in the c.e.o. of twitter. that's the treme right there. i bet this will inspire more people to run for office. people will be on stage, "i'm

jack dorsey just hours after he launched an attack against the social media giant saying that twitter was biased against him the meeting took place behind closed doors but according to the president it went great mike hanna has the latest from washington d.c. . in the past twenty four hour period president trump tweeted or read tweeted fifty two times this is an extraordinary are put even for him he then launched an attack on the platform itself saying that twitter doesn't treat me well as a republican very discriminator he continues hard for people to sign on constantly taking people off the list big complaints from many people different names over one hundred million but should be much higher than that if twitter wasn't playing their political games he then held an unshared jeweled meeting with twitter's c. jack dorsey and his team at the white house which lasted some thirty minutes after the meeting president tweeted that it was great and that dialogue must be maintained see jack dorsey said the health of the public conversation on twitter was discussed but other sources say that p

coming up, our exclusive interview with jack dorsey, ceo and cofounder of twitter. to say about potential big tech regulation. emily: blue apron sword in a newg after it named ceo. she will replace brad dickerson, who is resigning to pursue other opportunities. the cofounder and head of technology will also step down. the meal kit delivery company affirmed its forecast for the first quarter, including profitability on an adjusted basis. twitter cofounder jack dorsey is going to -- is echoing zuckerberg's comments for regulation when it comes to big tech. about fake news, hate speech and misinformation on their platform. in an exclusive interview, dorsey says he would welcome more regulation. take a listen. seen abuse,e harassment, we've seen people the of our platform. seen voices being silenced because of what is happening on the service. that is number one. we can't build a platform of speech, of conversation and a service that will remain relevant to people if people don't feel safe to speak up. for all those who believe in free expression and free speech, it is

emily: that was jack dorsey. now for reaction, we spoke to selina wang.far froms the grand manifesto. when we wrote about that on facebook, twitter declined to comment. -- don't hear dorsey reacting to the points. he says regulation is a positive thing and gdpr has been beneficial. terms andat the conditions are difficult to read. i think it's worth mentioning that twitter has less of an incentive to play a strong role in the discourse around regulation. it's in their benefit to let facebook take the heat and any regulation that eventually comes will impact facebook and google much more than a smaller platform like twitter. i wonder ifmily: they would like to shift the responsibility to somebody else. outou have the ceos who go and try to improve the public relations around the company. at the end of the day, we have to see the results within the company. jack dorsey likes to have idealistic visions about the future of conversation on twitter. we haven't seen how that's going to change in the product. they have started iterating a beta app. they are deemp

emily: that was twitter ceo jack dorsey.eaction, we spoke to selina wang, who covers the company. take a listen. it is very far from the grand manifesto zuckerberg had. when we wrote about that on facebook regulation, twitter declined to comment. you don't hear dorsey specifically addressing the four points laid out, but he does say regulation as a whole is a positive thing, and gdpr has been beneficial. he also admits that twitter's terms of service are notoriously difficult to read, and that has brought forth how it is used. i think it's worth mentioning that twitter has less of an incentive to play a strong role in the discourse around regulation. it's in their benefit to let facebook set the tone, to let facebook take the heat and any regulation that eventually comes will impact facebook and google much more than a smaller platform like twitter. emily: i wonder if some of these tech ceos are tired of being blamed for all of these problems, and would like to shift the responsibility to somebody else. an interestingas situ

. >>> a >>> twitter ceo jack dorsey received monies. dorsey did not receive any other benefits from the company and declined all other compensation in 2015, 16, 17. dorsey did, however, make $18 million from selling 1.7 million shares of square, a mobile payment company for which he is also the ceo. he's doing okay. now, he came, he saw, and one awkward tweet may have just been enough to get tom brady to quit twitter. he got a twitter account on april fools' day. but today he tweeted he's enjoyed his time on twitter but he'll be leaving now. for last night's game between last night's game to begin. that was apparently enough for brady. >> listen to this. a father has been locked out of his ipad for 48 years. yep, thanks to his toddler's repeated attempts to type in his password. he begged his twitter followers to unlock his device. the ipad said it would be disabled for another 25,536,442 minutes. yep. hs 3-year-old son added minutes to the clock with each guess. someone joked he should wait it out. one reached out and an apple employee

jack dorsey just hours after he launched an attack against the social media giant saying twitter was biased against him the meeting took place behind closed doors but according to the president it went great mike hanna has the latest for us from washington d.c. in the past twenty four hour period president trump tweeted all reap tweeted fifty two times this is an extraordinary are put even for him you then launched an attack on the platform itself saying that twitter doesn't treat me well as a republican very discriminatory he continues hard for people to sign on constantly taking people off the list big complaints from many people different names over one hundred million but should be much higher than that if twitter wasn't playing their political games he then held an unshared jeweled meeting with twitter's c. jack dorsey and his team at the white house which lasted some thirty minutes after the meeting president tweeted that it was great and that dialogue must be maintained see jack dorsey said the health of the public conversation on twitter was discussed but other sources say th

what jack dorsey said to president trump is that he also lost followers.you, it twitter is discrediting against presidents, then they are also doing so against magazine journalists. it's been a broader phenomenon. i assume what went on in the oval office is jack dorsey the president down, telling him it is universal, not specific to any political party. david: when we hear complaints from republicans and president trump, they talk about shadow banning. >> while twitter will dispute bias,ave any political the question about how these lifeforms are shifting the algorithm is an important one. shadow banning refers to the idea that twitter would be taking tweets and not showing them. not deleting them, but not showing them to as many people. i don't believe twitter says it happens, but something that some suspect. there are ways that twitter has these promoted tweets. it could be monkeying with the algorithm if they wanted to. the critique here is more about social media power than any political power. david: i would not hold my breath for congress to get invo

beyond fast. >>> . >> welcome back dorsey goes to washington, twitter ceo jack dorsey met parietal withils jackie welcome to the fox business network. >> thank you so much so glad to be here. >> great to see you. >> your first appearance we are happy on "mornings with maria". >> i am too. >> welcome to the network happy you are here. >> as you mentioned twitter big, big story the earnings, of course, stellar the stock jumping more than 5% yesterday's session one piece of the story but what about this meeting, the president tweeting a photo with it great meeting this afternoon at the white house, with jack from at twitter, lots subjects discussed regarding. mr. and world of social media in general look forward to keeping an open dialogue, but the twitter conversation started earlier in the day, guys started here on this show, president trump quoting, from appearing on your show maria, the president quoting, i saying the best thing to ever happen to twitter is donald trump then president went on to criticize social media giant not the treating him as well as republicans saying practices d

jack dorsey took that conversation off one the president personally inviting dorsey for a closed door meeting at the oval office during their conversation the president reportedly complained that he and other conservatives were losing followers twitter says that's due to efforts to purge spam kilts they also discussed how to promote a healthy public conversation ahead of the twenty twenty us elections to afterwards trump said that they had quote a great meeting and that he looks forward to keeping an open dialogue of to see how long that lasts for dorsey it was his latest face to face with a head of state after meetings with leaders from india japan new zealand and south korea and to cap it off that day twitter's stock rose more than fifteen percent that is its biggest one day gain since two thousand and seventy. four the swiss region of him and all is famous for what you see right there cheese cheese makers there they often use centuries old recipes but one of them is adding a brandy been greedy it music he says the type of music played as cheese ripens affects the way it tastes now

the bull market is back, but for how long forget nixon and elvis it's now trump and dorsey.to-face meeting in the oval office yesterday between the tweeter in chief and the head of twitter. we continue our special series about the rising risks in real estate ♪ >> thank you for being with us here it is exactly 5:30 on the nose stock futures are flat of course, we are coming into today with new record highs for the s&p 500, the nasdaq, and the nasdaq 100 more on the markets and your money in moments as always, let's kick off the second half of your show with your executive recap >>> they will hold high level talks and they get underway next week president trump met with twitter ceo jack dorsey late yesterday at the white house the two discussed the 2020 election efforts to stop opioid abuse, and the president's concerns over his follower account. great meeting at the white house with jack. lots of subjects discussed regarding their platform and the world of social media in general. look forward to keeping an own dialogue now to cbs it's suspending its search for a new ceo. kee

we're going to dig into the next topic which president trump met with twitter ceo jack dorsey at the yesterday and the president tweeting, of course, great meeting this afternoon. lots of subjects discussed regarding twitter's platform and the world of social media. look forward to keeping an open dialog jack dorsey replaying and saying, quote, thank you for the time twitter is here to serve the entire public conversation and we intend to make it healthier and more civil thanks for the discussion about that the meeting came just hours after president trump attacked twitter via tweets alleging bias against conservatives. paul, i'll start with you on this one given this meeting and mind you, you know, we don't have all the details around what was discussed per se, but coming into this -- coming into this meeting and given some of the debate, particularly from conservatives and folks on the right, have they had reason, has there been evidence for them to believe that there has been censorship on social media platforms like twitter >> i think by the very nature of an open platform like t

interview,site dorsey says he would welcome more strict rules., i think regulation is a good thing. it is a net positive. our role in the company should be that of an educator. helping regulators and legislators understand what is happening with technology. the trends that we are seeing, however system works. the job of a regulator is to ensure protection of the individual and a level playing field. as long as we're working , that has goodt outcomes. i have not looked at all the postfic feedback to mark's , but i generally think that there are things like gdpr that have been positive, not just for our platform, but also for the industry in general. specifically, it adds a lot more clarity around privacy and how data is being used. typically, a service like ours, our terms of service are hard to read and follow and not necessarily the most customer focused. groundt a stake in the to at least bring out some elements so you have more control over and that is a net positive. there is more room for that, then absolutely. going to be any one party resp

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we don't know what the president was referring to or if he criticized jack dorsey personally. after the meeting the president tweeted quote great meeting at the white house this afternoon with jack dorsey from twitter. lots of subjects discussed regarding their platform and the world of social media in general. look forward to keeping an open dialogue. >>> mexican immigration agents carried out a raid on migrant caravans and detained hundreds of central americans. the agents wrestled men, women and children into their vehicles in southern mexico near the gatt mallan border. reportedly they will be mexico welcomed the first my grant caravans last year but the country is cracking down as they are overwhelmed with the large amount of people heading to the u.s. border. >>> the ceo of one of the biggest pharmaceutical products is now charged with drug trafficking. large dowd is the former ceo of the rochester drug cooperative. the company provided millions of pills to pharmacies known to illegally dispense narcotics. between 2012 and 2016 the company sales of oxycodone and fentanyl

david: jack dorsey is a minimalist in every way. we also heard he eats one meal a day. a guy who is just very, very disciplined and also i would say unusually sort of ethical in his own mind. lotecognizes he has made a on stock in a number of different companies including many we haven't heard about. she doesn't need the cash salary. -- he doesn't need the cash salary. emily: i don't know how i could anchor a show with one meal a day. david kirkpatrick will be sticking with me. selina wang, thanks for stopping by. big tech was under the capital lights once again, this time to talk about what it is doing to fight hate speech. we are going into this hearing next. this is bloomberg. ♪ g. ♪ this is bloomberg technology. representatives from google and facebook testify before the how she was to a committee. they showed up along with a handful of civil rights and right-wing activists to talk about the spread of hate crime and white nationalism in an online world. and, in the middle of it all, youtube's livestream of the hearing itself had to have its content disabled because

steve dorsey is at the white house. >> they want more people in their sanctuary cities, we'll if give them more people. we can give them a lot. >> if sanctuary cities like new york, chicago, and san francisco are willing to protect illegal immigrants, they can have all of them straight from the border. >> we'll bring the illegals. i call them the illegals. they came across the border illegally. we'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular aa ta careof >>hori ciesrc deimation nts ofpresident's plan to ship migrants, far from the border, call it dehumanizing, costly, and possibly illegal. >> to use immigrants as pawns to put them in difficult and trying circumstances as political theater shows how low a human being can go. and this human being happens to be sadly, tragically, the president of the united states. >> mayor libby shaft says the trump administration wants to attack the enemies in democratic strongholds that don't fall in line with his extreme immigration policies. >> this has less to do with immigration and more to do with a complete abuse of power, and p

>> i don't think this is strong-arming twitter or jack dorsey.rking on the platform for years. in the last year it has really gone hard trying to remove bots and trolls and hate speech and people from other countries trying to steer election sentiment. this is not new. they have been working on this not just for the u.s. elections and midterms in 2018 but for elections around the world because twitter is a platform that people will get on, trying to build up mass sentiment to drive people in one direction or another and that's really what jack dorsey and twitter do not want. neil: all right but i cannot not imagine the president making clear to dorsey, i don't think you're very fair to conservatives? he has said as much, repeatedly. >> i know he has. neil: he is one of the bigger, more popular draws on twitter. he is reminding him, i drive a lot of your business. how do you think that whole thing went? >> i think that jack listened because he is really good at that i think he took it all in. he probably restated. they're not trying to build a pol

that was dorsey's incentive to hold the meeting in the first place?well with some in silicon valley. >> dorsey was summoned by the president, himself, to have this meeting, according to twitter which said the meeting spanned more than just the president's tweets. they talked about things like the 2020 election and efforts to combat opioids. for twitter and some of its peers they have to engage this white house because of the things the president has said and the regulation he has threatened in response to these allegations that tech companies are biased against conservatives. we saw this play out on capitol hill just a few weeks ago when senator ted cruz held a hearing, specifically to grill tech companies on these allegations that they're biased against conservatives. so the stakes are high. there might be criticism in san francisco for dorsey sitting down with the president, but they have to sit down, otherwise they could face regulation. >> let's talk about that regulation. you're also writing about facebook and that meeting, senate finance committ

jack dorsey just hours after he launched an attack against the social media giant saying twitter was biased against him the meeting took place behind closed doors but according to the president it went great donald trump is a prolific twitter user writing on average eleven or twelve posts per day he often uses the social media platform to attack other politicians as well as what he describes as his enemies in the media. tweeted saying twitter is playing their political games no wonder congress wants to get involved and they should must be more and fairer companies to get out the word he also attacked the new york times demanding the paper's editors quote get down on their knees and beg for forgiveness for what he calls false reporting against him it follows a controversial tweet last week in which the u.s. president accused the u.s. democratic representative of downplaying the nine eleven attacks well let's cross to our mike hanna for more so mike how did this meeting go. well all of that it went well president from saying the meeting went great and dialogue will be kept open jack do

plus ceo jack dorsey's salary, he's got a sense of humor about it.iers, virginia beat texas tech last night. the highlights and a look at the nfl quarterback, patrick mahomes, creative way to get around an endorsement deal. joining me to break it down, dagen mcdowell, chairman of the program at business and finance, brian brenburg and deirdre bolton. >> dagen hasn't said much about this yet. dagen: in the show, how do you not mention that? you it was a first -- again, it was the first time texas tech and virginia had been to the ncaa men's basketball finals. virginia finally wins one. i think they won it for my mom and my dad. my daddie dad is a universityf virginia alum. it's a party. >> none of them were streaking on campus. dagen: my mom wouldn't streak. but she'll raise the roof. >> what about your dad? >> my mom wouldn't do that. dagen: nothing more exciting than watching college basketball with my parents. i watched all the elite eight. that was a nail-biter. maria: it ended late, right? dagen: it ended very late. >> you took a nap before you c

dorsey met with president trump today.e house confirming the meeting but not offering any other details in terms of who attended the meeting, even where the meeting happened, or what was discussed. you can imagine, though, that the president brought up some of his frustrations with twitter as one of the biggest users of the system the president putting out some tweets himself this morning critical of the twitter system saying as a republican they don't treat me well, very discriminatory, hard for people to sign on, constantly taking people off the list. big complaints from many people, different names. over 100 million presumably the president means there, but should be much higher than that if twitter wasn't playing their political games. no wonder congress wants to get involved and they should must do more and fairer companies to get out the word. presumably that complaint was aired by the president here in talking to jack dorsey we reached out to twitter for their readout of this meeting as well we'll bring that to you

the twitter cofounder and ceo jack dorsey added his voice to the growing chorus of support for governmentsive interview. ♪ >> generally i think that regulation is a good thing, it is a net positive and our role as a company should be about educating. helping regulators and legislators understand what is happening with technology, trends that we see, how our system works and the job of a regulator is to make sure protection of the individual and a level playing field. as long as we are working together on that, it has good outcomes. i generally think there are pr, a netke gd positive for our industry and platform with more clarity around privacy and more clarity around how data is being used. and typically a service like ours, our terms of service are hard to read and hard to follow and not necessarily the most customer focused thing. gdpr put a stake in the ground to bring out some elements and i think that is a net positive. there is more room for that and but they will not be any one party that is responsible for fixing this. weight on one entity, whether a corporation or entity -- indi

emily: meantime, minutes after i sat down with ned segal, news crossed that jack dorsey, ceo of twitter met with president trump in a closed-door meeting. we don't know about that meeting, twitter is not commenting, but the president did tweet about it -- great interview with jack dorsey from twitter, lots of great discussions about social media. look forward to an open dialogue. the president was complaining about how republicans are treated on twitter, and complained about twitter in doing some account cleanup, the president has lost followers, jack dorsey has also. i cannot recall mark zuckerberg meeting with president trump. what do you make of this? om: tim apple met with president trump. [laughter] if he is the president of the country and wants to meet an executive, saying no is a choice you make. but as a citizen of the country, you may not like the person, but you have to meet the president. emily: maybe we don't see it in the growth numbers, but twitter is a huge part of the national conversation, and is the president's platform of choice. om: when news happens, it is on twitt

shery: right after that interview, jack dorsey sat down n a closed door meeting with trump., a huge user of the critical atform but with how twitter treats republicans, has lost many thousands of followers as a of some of the cleanup, so has jack dorsey. platform of the remains a priority. hat do you make of jack's priorities for the coming here on the heels of the meeting with the president? >> the first point in terms of tweet from donald trump this morning as well as the meeting with donald trump and jack from , what i have heard the company is that it was a meeting to talk about the health that it's the , been their long term priorities trying to tter is combat the ongoing opioid crisis. in terms of his priorities for year, he has reiterated over and over again, jack dorsey has, improving the of the service, getting toxicity on service is goal.number one they're hiring a lot more people to do that as well. critics, they see this as too little too late, it is clear they're making progress. you spoke to ned segal about this earlier, prior to the more abusive nths, 0% of co

one ceos of companies all to push back against regulation, but jack dorsey said government oversightview, next. >> there are things like that that have been net positive for our platform in the industry in general. emma: this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ welcome back to "bloomberg best." platformmedia wrestling with issues of hate speech, fake news, end-user privacy. the ceos of the biggest tech companies are coming to see the benefits of regulation. this week, that twitter cofounder and ceo jack dorsey added his voice to silicon valley's growing chorus of support for government oversight. he spoke with jon erlichman in an exclusive interview. ♪ generally, i think regulation is a good thing, it's a net positive, and i think our role as a company should be that of regulators, helping and legislators understand what's happening with technology, the secular trends that we are seeing and are aware of, how our system works. the job of the regulator is to ensure protection of the individual and a level playing field. so as long as we are working together on that, that has good outcomes. i generally t

the president invited dorsey for an oval office sit down but hours earlier he slammed dorsey's company. he tweeted the platform doesn't treat him well as a republican and accused twitter of quote, playing political games. >>> still to come, san jose's mayor says no to a $58,000 raise. what he's asking for instead. >>> bay area grad students tackle a problem plaguing classrooms across the country and it all has to do with skeletons. it's part of our bay area proud series. >>> a warm and sunny, 90 in concord but i'll show you why this kind of heat will not stick around and when a few hours will make it back into california. details on that in about eight minutes. children in cages. sheriff )s deputies in modoc county, which is in the northeast corner of the state, arrested "ramon zendejas" and "mercedies williams" for child endangerment. the deputies arrived at the couple )s home to serve a search warrant for illegal firearms. but when they searched the home, they found the couple )s two young son, both under the age of 2, locked in cribs, converted into cages. the boys were turned over

jack dorsey has reiterated that this is the number one priority.f the primary criticisms of thater, any user knows they are flooded with abusive and it, lots of spam, always relied on users, the burden of the victim to report that content. twitter said recently, 38% of the content they take action on has been surfaced by their own algorithms, rather than 0% from before, where it was completely relying on users reporting them. what is jack dorsey saying about his priorities, where they see growth in the quarters ahead? selina: in addition to improving the health of the conversation on the platform, which of their under fire for -- not only twitter, but also facebook and youtube -- and jack dorsey is trying to make the application more conversational. it can get very messy and jumbled, so they are try to streamline that. betahave also released a app. they are testing out different features, rethinking some of the core structures of the product. in addition to that, twitter still has a long way to go in terms of making it easier for those just startin

people off the list that's his way of saying that they were fiddling with his follower numbers now dorsey explained that as part of twitter's efforts to clean up the site a lot of fake accounts and bots have been killed and so follower numbers are being affected for people across twitter but this plays into donald trump's suspicion which exists amongst other conservatives that somehow these big tech companies are out to get the american right correct yeah this is an ongoing conversation happening on the american right that twitter google facebook they're all out to suppress their presence now have to see given the number of pick and changing algorithms there is a case to be made for more clarity in how online platforms function which way to really get into trouble however is when it fails to take action in cases where the rules are clearly being violated take trying for example he regularly treats tweets sexist racist and insightful messages jack dorsey however has clarified that twitter does hold public and prominent leaders in to a different standard earlier this year he said we believe

, we saw this with the president yesterday, president trump had a meeting with dorsey yesterday and he tweeted, great meeting yesterday. lots of subjects discussed regarding their platform and the role of social media in general. look forward to keeping an open dialogue. the president has been consider criticizing social media companies saying they're biased against conservatives. he slammed twitter earlier in the day for the platform's treatment of him and other republicans. lauren: he said he lost about 200,000 followers and he wanted to know why. okay. also heading to the white house, chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi, they're scheduled to meet with the president next week to discuss infrastructure. republicans and democrats have continued to point to infrastructure as a possible area for working together. cheryl. cheryl: the trade issue going to be on the top of the agenda today, when vice president mike pence travels to michigan. pence is going to tour a ford truck plant and talk up the usmca trade deal which needs to be ratified by congress. the trump administration sa

david: jack dorsey is a minimalist in every way. have just recently that he eats one meal a day. this is a guy who is just very, very, very disciplined, and he also, i would say, unusually sort of ethical in his own mind. recognizes he has made a lot on stock in a number of different companies including many we haven't heard about. but certainly twitter and square. he doesn't need the cash salary. he is willing to accept that. emily: and apparently he doesn't need the calories. i don't know how i could anchor a show with one meal a day. david kirkpatrick will be sticking with me. i will be with you after this break. selina wang, thanks for stopping by. coming up, big tech, what is under the capital lights once again, this time to talk about what it is doing to fight hate speech. we are going into this hearing next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang in san francisco. representatives from google and facebook testify before the how house judiciary committee they tuesday. showed up along with

plus, an exclusive conversation with twitter's jack dorsey, who says regulation can be a good thing for tech companies. and up next, more of the week's top business headlines. chinese bonds get a game changing boost as they gain inclusion in a global index. >> this is the seal of approval for china's efforts to open up onshore bond markets. emma: this is bloomberg. ♪ emma: this is "bloomberg best." i am emma chandra. let's continue our global tour of the week's top business stories. in australia, the government unveiled its budget proposal for 2019. >> here in australia, scott morrison is hoping the tax cuts announced in tuesday's budget will help sway voters in the upcoming election. first return to surplus in the budget in more than a decade. it should hand morrison more ammunition ahead of the vote, expected in may. the point is, is it going to be enacted? >> that is the key thing. with the budget, the government has a majority gets passed, and on the go, but this year, there as an election to get out of the way first. yes, it is possible none of what was announced tuesday night will

the president and jack dorsey took part in a 30-minute closed-door meeting yesterday.n, quote, the health of the public conversation on social media. and ways to respond to the opioid crisis. following the meeting, the president shared a photo of himself and of dorsey in the oval office on, you guessed it, twitter. but ahead of that sitdown, trump sent a pair of tweets criticizing the company which i'm sure they likely saw. including one claiming his follower account would be higher if twitter were not, quote, playing their political games. in the conversation a large portion of the meeting involved trump campaigning about his follower counts, raising his concerns that twitter has been quietly or deliberately removing some of them. according to the post, dorsey reiterated that twitter has previously explained that accounts fluctuate as the company takes action to remove scam accounts. see, the president is already worried about the followers he has, bill. >> aren't we all? >> you saw some pretty dramatic pictures from -- >> i did, dallas love field. it looks like cars

the president and jack dorsey have both lost followers.recall mark zuckerberg meeting with president trump. >> tim apple met with the president. if he is the president of the country and he wants to meet an executive, saying no is a choice you can make but as a citizen, you may not like the person but you have to go and meet the president. emily: maybe we are not seeing it in the growth numbers but twitter is a huge part of the national conversation. >> it is where news happens. it is not on cnn or any other network, it is on twitter. that is where the genesis of information is. everything comes from there. it is an important platform, there is a lot of work to do for these guys. you can't hold a ceo responsible in a meeting with the president. yes, there are a lot of people in silicon valley who do not appreciate the president, but that does not mean you should not go. that is how i see it. emily: bloomberg lp, produces tictoc for twitter. coming up, after eight years of development, samsung unveiled its foldable phone, but customers will

he said, great meeting with jack dorsey in the white house, lots of things discussed, look forward toopen dialogue. this on the same day when the president was company about how republicans are treated on twitter. he has complained about in a twitter doing this account cleanup, the president himself has lost followers, jack dorsey has also lost followers. i can't recall mark zuckerberg meeting with president trump. >> tim apple met with the president. [laughter] satya has met with the president. the thing is, he is the president of the country and he wants to meet an executive, you have no choice as a citizen, you may not like the person but you have to go and meet the president. emily: maybe we are not seeing it in the gross numbers, but twitter is a huge part of the national conversation. and it is the president that form. om: it is where news happens, now. it is not on cnn or any other network, it is on twitter. that is where the genesis of information is. everything comes from there. so it is an important platform. there is a lot of work to do for these guys. but you can't hold a

of twitter, jack dorsey. prt tweeteafter lots of subjects discussed regarding their platform and the world of social media in general. earlier today, the president criticized twitter saying the platform doesn't treat him well, suggesting that it discriminates against republicans by making it hard for them to sign on and removing them from lists. we are told the tone of the president's 40-minute meeting with dorsey was cordial. former vice president joe biden is expected to jump into the race for president on thursday now. he is expected to join 20 other candidates running for the democratic nomination, a large field that is already divided over the question of whether the house should begin impeachment hearings against the president. here's ed o'keefe. >> reporter: after months of anticipation, he's finally getting in. >> you build america! we build america! >> reporter: the former vice president will launch his campaign with a video announcement on thursday, followed by an official kickoff rally in pittsburg