window dressing very thoughtful take kristen ruby ruby media group new york thanks as always for your time i appreciate it. happy birthday uncle sam was a month ago and the 4th of july was a very muted celebration in a lot of places there was no big parade in many cases the city or town cancelled the fireworks display although there were and there still are plenty of fireworks knuckleheads in the back yard blowing off cherry bombs or m. 80 s. or whatever you call these things if you have a dog i don't need to tell you if you don't have a dog you cannot imagine how frightening how terrifying this is it just doesn't compute explosions in the sky that the humans are cheering explosions in the yard next door and around here explosions in the yard next door so frighten the dog that he fled he bolted ran out of the house got hit by a car. and when they found them he apparently limp to the side of the road. and who knows how long he lay there in excruciating pain feeling all alone. can we be kinder than that. and that is the big picture we're going to be back next week same time i hope it's

discussing with dr dempsey joining us at the intersection of both of these important stories is kristen ruby president of the new york based ruby media group chris when the c.e.o.'s of apple and amazon and facebook and google's parent company alphabet appeared before a house judiciary subcommittee weigh in anti trust issues they got an earful from both sides of the aisle here is chairman david cicilline a democrat from here in rhode island. it's gatekeepers of the digital economy these platforms enjoy the power to pick winners and losers shake down small businesses and rich themselves while choking off competitors their ability to dictate terms call the shots up entire sectors and inspire fear represent the powers of a private government our founders would not go for king nor should we go for the emperor is the economy. the president and many conservative politicians and gross that social media skews left kristen fair charge or bum rap. so i think that is a fair charge and we've seen that numerous times under its shadow danny or people on the right. or unfairly target from their platform. i