can we finish up with mr. buck and make sure -- commissioner honda may have a question. >> are you finished for now commissioner tanner? voice president honda? >> just one last question. so, this is the first time i heard the determine lollipop tree and since several of us on this commission have put those things in in the '70s, so are you saying that partially the reason why a lot of these trees are having the issues they have is because of the condition that they were planted in or how we got them? >> sure, chris buck with public works. so, the nurseries want to grow as many trees in a limited amount of space as possible so very often -- people, you know it's also public perception when you buy a tree what should that tree look like? sort of a tall, thin, widely spaced branches was not what people had in mind and nurseries used to really sort of top, essentially top the trees. it said why does one divide into seven or 10 and that was literally because the nurse roman or woman, person, was cutting the top of the t

but maybe mr. buck can do something about that unofficially and without motivation from us. >> clerk: commissioner swig, i want to point out that miss as bury sent an email to me that i forwarded from carla short from d.p.w. so i know that she was going to respond and look into the matter. i don't know the status at this point but she's aware of it. >> commissioner swig: it's what you call a hail mary play. i'm trying to stop -- at the advice of the public comment -- to prevent further problems. so, thank you. >> clerk: thank you. we do have some more public comment. this is from miss asbury. miss asbury, please, go ahead. >> caller: thank you. i appreciate very much the commission listening to our urging. this is an urgent matter. and i don't know what the proper process would be to halt removal until we can investigate what's going on. but we do see an escalation and we -- whether we're -- i d i dot know what the source of it it is. and the only way to find out is to investigate it. and meanwhile i re

>> mr. buck? he may have stepped away. >> i'll sit on it and ask it as an aside in the next item. >> so we have a question from commissioner tanner. >> mr. buck, if we could spotlight chris buck, please. president lazarus, please go ahead. >> i don't know if you heard my question. i was inquiring about the requirement that the tree be planted in conjunction with each of these installations and they were explaining that there is the option if not to plant the tree to pay the in-lieu tree and i was curious if your department keeps track of each installation and whether the tree has been planted or the fee has been paid? >> thank you, chris buck with public works, bureau of urban forestry. i wasn't listening to all of the the details of this particular case, to be honest. but that is correct. the tree is required to be planted if there's room and if there's not enough room, adjacent to that property, sometimes a pole straddles two properties and we look at both sites of that frontage and if there's n

i yield to mr. buck. >> he's just yielded to you mr. stuby. >> yeah, i'm yielding back to him so he can yield to another. >> thank you. we're playing a little ping-pong here. mr. edlow, i wanted to ask you real briefly you mentioned that the backlog and the need for additional funding is a result of the coronavirus issues that we are facing. would you please expand on that? >> yes, certainly. first of all, mr. buck, just so you understand i'm not saying the backlog is a result of covid. the backlog is something we've been dealing with for a number of years. it's the ebb and flow of receipt programs coming in and things of that nature. but the funding issue, is, yes, a direct result. we have a chart i believe we've provided to the committee that shows at least frankly during this administration the dip in receipts in the end of february through march and april of 2020 was significant. it was a drop of several hundred thousand to the point where we could not -- we went from a deficit we could recover from to a deficit where there was no w

and as mr. buck cited, general dunford says your company is directly aiding the chinese militarily and peter teal serves on mr. zuckerberg's board in facebook, that google's activities with china are treasonous. he accused you of treason. so why would an american company with american values so directly aid the chinese military but have ethical concerns about working alongside the u.s. military on project maven? i understand your point about sigher per security and those things, but project maven was a specific way to insure our troops are safe on the battlefield. if you have no problem making the j-20 chinese fighter more effective in its targeting why wouldn't you want to make america as effective? >> congressman, with respect we are not working with the chinese military. it es absolutely false. i had a chance to meet with general dunford personally. we have clarified what we're doing, what we do in china compared to our peers it is very, very limited in nature. our a.i. work in china is limited to

the gentleman from colorado, mr. buck, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. bezos, thank you for being here today. i'm concerned that you've used amazon's dominant market position to unfairly harm competition. we've heard from a number of companies that amazon uses proprietary data from third party companies to launch its own private label products. meets with start-ups to discuss investing in the product and then uses the proprietary data from these meetings to create its own private label products, allows the sale of counterfeit items through its web platform. during this subcommittee's field hearing in boulder this january inventor david barnett detailed how amazon allowed counterfeit products to appear on amazon's marketplace ahead of pop socket's products. he told cnbc that pop sockets found at least 1,000 counterfeit products for sale on amazon's marketplace which amazon allegedly failed to remedy until pop sockets agreed to a nearly $2 million marketing deal with amazon. we've also seen troubling reports in the "wall street journal" detailing amazo

syria or any other place and this is just the background what does that about accountability do that mr buck at the proof of neglect and double standards lies lies in the statistics 1000 figures quoted by the state department from the jerusalem institute for policy research 427000 show the dire conditions in which palestinians live in jerusalem 78 percent of our of residents there and 86 percent of arab children in east jerusalem lived that year in poverty and that's a policy decision isn't it are you proud of that. god forbid that's not a policy and by the way you forgot to mention that we have a huge a large ultra-orthodox community in jerusalem that is very similar to the arab communities the arab communities around the country if you look at all villages in our country you find that their social economic status is lower unfortunately now what i've done is i focused on education improve the quality of education there and unfortunately some of the arab residents choose the palestinian system dedications system which is far far less better than the israeli system we've done everything to pr

syria or any other place and this is just the background what does that about and it had to do that mr buck at the proof of neglect and double standard lies lies in the statistics 1000 figures quoted by the state department from the jerusalem institute for policy research 427000 show the dire conditions in which palestinians live in jerusalem 78 percent of our of residents there and 86 percent of arab children in east jerusalem lived that year in poverty and that's a policy decision isn't it you proud of that. god forbid that's not a policy and by the way you forgot to mention that we have a huge a large all truth of doc's community in jerusalem that is very similar to the arab communities the arab communities around the country if you look at all villages in our country you find that their social economic status is lower unfortunately now what i've done is i focused on education improve the quality of education there and unfortunately some of the arab residents choose the palestinian system that you question system which is far far less better than the israeli system we've done everything

syria or any other place and this is just the background what does that about accountability do that mr buck at the proof of neglect and double standards lies lies in the statistics 1000 figures quoted by the state department from the jerusalem institute for policy research for 2017 show the dire conditions in which palestinians live in jerusalem 78 percent of our of residents there and 86 percent of arab children in east jerusalem lived that year in poverty and that's a policy decision isn't it are you proud of that. god forbid that's not a policy and by the way you forgot to mention that we have a huge a large ultra-orthodox community in jerusalem that is very similar to the arab communities the arab communities around the country if you look at all villages in the country you find that there are social economic status is lower unfortunately now what i've done is i focused on education improve the quality of education there and unfortunately some of the arab residents choose the palestinian system dedication system which is far far less better than the israeli system we've done everything

said that the lines have been blurred in china between commercial and military application, and as mr. buck cited, general dunford says your company is directly aiding the chinese military, and peter teal, who surfed on the board at facebook, says google's activities with china are treasonous the he accused of treesing would i would an american company with american values, so directly aid the chinese military but have ethical concerns working alongside with the military about project maven. i understand your concerns about security, but project mach was to ensure that our troops are safe on the battlefield. if you have no problem making the j-20 chinese fighter more effective in targeting, why wouldn't you want to make america as effective inch congressman, with respect, we are not working with the chinese military it's absolutely false. i had a chance to speak with the general personally we have clarifying, it's very, very limited our ai work is limited to people working on open-source projects. i would happy to engage with your office to explain our work in china. >> when the chairman of

and i think in the critical investigation we recognize mr. buck. >> thank you plrks chairman. i want to offer my appreciation to you. i want to start by saying capitalism is the greatest instrument for freedom this world has ever seen. capitalism has given the united states the freedom and means to defeat the soviet union, defeat fascism and put a man on the moon. it has made america the freest, most prosperous nation in the world. our witnesses have taken ideas born out of a dorm room, and built these dreams into four of the biggest power players in the global economy. you have enjoyed the freedom to succeed. let me be clear, i do not believe big is necessarily bad. in fact, big is often a force for good. however, i want to address one particularly disturbing issue. in october, 2018, google dropped out of the running for pentagon contract to complete the joint enterprise, defense infrastructure or jedi contract that was valued at more than $10 billion. the stated reason for removing itself from the bidding process is the military project did not align with the corporate value

. >> mr. buck is recognized for five minutes. >> attorney general barr, thank you for appearing before the committee today. general barr, there is a disturbing pattern in history of totalitarian systems of government. the leaders first seek to disarm the population and then encourage goon squads to suppress opposing voices and finally once they have disarmed and silenced the opposition the leaders institute policies that root out and crush freedom in every form. unfortunately the american left is infected with this same desire to remove fireworks and silence opposing views as part of a campaign to achieve the political ends. we have seen this scenario play out in every major democratic run city in america. they further then fluns and watching as crime rates soar and saw failed presidential candidate o'rourke proudly tell americans, hell yes, we are going to take your ar-15 and your ak-47. now the american left is aboutively cheering as its fascist militia antifa rages in the streets. it is a domest

. >> madam chair, you can give a questions.nswer if you do the latter, you can questions.wer >> mr. buck is recognized for five minutes. rep. buck: attorney general barr, thank you for appearing today. the committee there is a disturbing pattern leaders istory, the first seek to disarm the population and then they goon squads to oppress they institute policies that root out and crush treatment and reform. unfortunately, the american left as been infected with the same totalitarianism desire to remove firearms and silence opposing views. we have seen the scenario play out in every major democrat run progressive ca, leaders push to further their crime ce and watching as rates soar. we even saw failed presidential proudly e candidate tell americans, hell, yes, we're a.r.15 and ke your your a.k.47. ow the american left is actively cheering as its fascist races in the streets. t's a domestic torist organization that organizes armed riots, attacks peaceful burns buildings, loots stores and spreads hate. circulating in 2017. these thugs armed with sticks pepper spray and other instruments showe

. >> mr. buck is recognized for five minutes. >> attorney general barr, thank you for appearing before the committee today. general barr, there is a disturbing pattern we've seen throughout history with totalitarian systems of government. the leaders first seek to disarm the population, then they encourage goon squads to suppress opposing voices and finally, once they have disarmed and silenced opposition they crush freedom in every form. unfortunately the american left has been infected with this same totalitarian desire to remove firearms and silence opposing views as part of a campaign to achieve its political ends. we've seen this scenario play out in every major democrat-run city in america, to push law abiding americans to affirm their influence. we saw a failed presidential candidate, beto o'rourke, tell americans, hell yes, we're going to take your ak-47. now the american left is cheering as the fascist antifa rages in the streets. antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that attacks pe

mr. buck is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. mr. bezos, thank you for being here today. i'm concerned that you've used amazon's market position to unfairly harm competition. we've heard from a number of companies that amazon uses proprietary data. meets with start-ups to discuss investing in the product and uses the data to create its own private label products. allows the sale of counterfeit items through its web platform. during this field hearing in january, pop sockets ceo detailed how amazon allowed counterfeit products to appear on amazon's marketplace ahead of pop socket's products. he said that pop socket's found 1,000 counterfeit products for sale on amazon's marketplace which amazon allegedly failed to remedy until pop socket's agreed to a nearly $2 million marketing deal with amazon. we've also seen troubling reports in "the wall street journal" detailing amazon's use of third-party sellers proprietary data to develop and markets its own competitive private label products. "the wall street journal" reported last week that amazon's venture capital fund used mee

mr. buck is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. mr. bezos, thank you for being here today. i'm concerned that you've used amazon's market position to unfairly harm competition. we've heard from a number of companies that amazon uses proprietary data. meets with start-ups to discuss investing in the product and uses the data to create its own private label products. allows the sale of counterfeit items through its web platform. during this field hearing in january, pop sockets ceo detailed how amazon allowed counterfeit products to appear on amazon's marketplace ahead of pop socket's products. he said that pop socket's found 1,000 counterfeit products for sale on amazon's marketplace which amazon allegedly failed to remedy until pop socket's agreed to a nearly $2 million marketing deal with amazon. we've also seen troubling reports in "the wall street journal" detailing amazon's use of third-party sellers proprietary data to develop and markets its own competitive private label products. "the wall street journal" reported last week that amazon's venture capital fund used mee

that is the chair's obligation, the responsibility to allow that -- >> mr. buck is recognized for five minutes. rep. buck: thank you for appearing before the committee today. there is a disturbing pattern we have seen throughout history with totalitarian systems of government. the leaders first seek to disarm the population. then they encourage goon squads to suppress opposing voices and once they have silenced the opposition, these authoritarian leaders seek policy that crush leadership. the american left has been infected with the same totalitarian desire to remove firearms and silence opposing views. as part of a campaign to achieve its political ends. we have seen this scenario play out in every major democrat run city in america. progressive leaders seek to disarm americans while watching crime rates soar. we even saw a failed presidential and senate candidate tell americans, we are going to take your ar-15's and your ak-47s. now the american left is actively cheering as this fascist militia antifa rages in the streets. antifa is a domestic terrorist organiz

mr. buck: i rise today in support of amendment 58, the national defense authorization act and to alert america to a serious national security threat. the chinese communist party is ing ti kmp to kmp to collect data against our citizens. we must take action to protect our action and stop their efforts to undermine our national security. that starts by passing my amendment to ban tik tmp o kmp devices. ent-issued the clock is ticking. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington. mr. smith: i reserve. mr. thornberry: i have no further requests for this en bloc package and if the gentleman would like, i'm happy to yield back. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from washington. mr. smith: i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam speaker, i encourage my colleagues to support the en bloc package and the ndaa package and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: pusht to house resolution 105 , the previous question is

chairman i want to thank mr. buck for the excellent line of questioning and upcoming legislation i look forward to joining that we want -- in the 19th century we had robber behrens in 20th century we have cyber barons, we want to make sure the extraordinary power and wemt you've been able to amassed is not used against the interest of democracy and human rights around the world and not against the interest of a free market at home mr. bezos, let me turn to you. i'm interested in the role that you play as a gatekeeper a lot of consumers want to know when the hbo app will be available on your fire device. i understand negotiations are ongoing but your company is not only asking for financial term but also for content from warner media. is that right? is that a fair way to proceed? in other words, is it fair to use your gatekeeper role in this streaming device market to promote your position as competitor in the video streaming market with respect to content? >> i'm not familiar with the details of those negotiations. as

langevin, mr. buck and ms. haaland for their support on this issue. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the gentleman from california. the alvert: i yield back balance of my time. mrs. lowey: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. lowey: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 067, the previous question is ordered on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from new york. is on the n amendments en bloc. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the have it. the en bloc amendments are agreed to. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, ursuant to house resolution 1067, i offer amendments en bloc. the speaker pro tempore: the lerk will designate the amendments en bloc. he clerk: en bloc number 3 consisting of amendments 58, 65, 6, 77, 79, 85, 88, 98, 113, 207, 214, 88, 201, 249, 268, 296, 333 print

standards in this country safeguard animal welfare and opportunities for farmers and bucking sure and across the u.k. >> thank you, mr. speaker. tomorrow, the tory government will publish legislation for the biggest program since the scottish people wanted all the -- voted overwhelmingly for the scottish parliament in 1987. westminster's plan to force an unelected unaccountable body to rule on decisions made by the scottish parliament will not be accepted. the decisions of the scottish parliament must and will be decided by the scottish people. we also reject attempts from one lower standards from one part of the united kingdom being forced on scotland. the tory government is prepared to sell out the food and agriculture industry to its pal donald trump. will the prime minister confirm that his tory government will once again ignore the wishes of the scottish people in launching their hostile agenda against devolution. >> on the contrary, what we are doing is possibly the biggest single act of devolution from scotland, wales, and northern ireland in modern memory. he should be celebrating them. the 70 pounds or more

buck more. order now with no contact delivery. ♪ ♪ >> chris: mr.w that fox news has a new poll out today and you're going to be the very first person to hear about it. in the national horse race, joe biden leads you by eight points, 49%-41. i think that's three or four points slimmer than it was a month ago. and on the issues, people trust biden more to handle the coronavirus by 17 points. on race relations by 21 points. and even on the economy. if they trust biden more by one point. i understand you still have more than 100 days to the selection, but at this point, you're losing. >> president trump: first of all, i'm not losing buried because those are fake polls. they were fake in 2016 and now they're even more fake. if the polls were much worse in 2016. they interviewed 22% republicans. how do you do 22% republican? you see what's going on. i have other polls that put me leading. we have polls where i'm leaving. i have a poll where we are leading in every swing state and i don't believe that your -- first of all, the fox poll's, whoever does or

bucks. >> it's fantastic, right? neat. >> but bobby does find, among the dime-a-dozen don johnsons, alfs, and mr. t's, some real gems.hat do you have? >> well, you know, one of the coolest things i found, which is an original elizabeth montgomery "bewitched" photo. >> i love elizabeth montgomery. >> well, these are original "bewitched" test shots, and you can see she went through herself and put "kill" on them -- she didn't like it -- and she put a question mark on that one, which was kind of neat. >> "i look like i should be sitting in the dentist chair. kill." well, for elizabeth montgomery, someone that's a big fan of hers, this has value? >> yeah, absolutely. probably these are worth $100, $200 each. >> what if there are more like these filed away in these cabinets? here's my bottom-line question about all this. is it worth a million dollars? that's next. what's your "strange inheritance" story? we'd love to tell it. send me an e-mail or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. >> now back to "strange inheritance." >> after inheriting their cousin's trove of nearly 2 million entertainment photos, the lerner bro

mr. howard. >> i'm doing pretty good. >> i'm doing well, thank you, thank you. so the season is set to resume and you saw these bucklayers testing positive. do you think that's going to happen? >> you know what, i do. i think that the nba has done a good job trying to do the best they can and make sure the bubble is safe as possible for, you know, all the players that will be in attendance. i know they're working countless hours to make sure that everything is right, you know, for everybody that's down there and the families that will be joining later on. >> so what do you think? do you think that there should be a season? what do you think of all of this? >> well, you know, like we talked about before, don, i have always felt, you know, strongly about anything, you know, being a distraction right now from what's going on around our world and, you know, i just don't want, you know, us to let this moment slip by. i feel like we have, you know, just opportunity right now ahead of us still, you know, to make some real strides and changes in our nation and, you know, i do think basketball will resume. you know, i think

bucks? he read just about everything. it's a hard question to answer. he loved biographies, but he also loved fiction, he and mrs. bush would also read trash sometimes. a friend of the bushes wrote a book that he read. his main character in danny silva books was a spy, he loved danny silva. movies? that's hard. world war two movies. war movies. he watched just about everything. the only movie i went with him to see that he didn't like, i don't know what i was thinking, it's a movie that came out not very long ago, and it was silent. it was sort of a throwback. he really hated it. he thought it was a little crazy. it's a broad answer. but he liked everything. the only thing he saw in a theater that he didn't like was avon q a. he still stayed for the whole thing. >> mr. bush had a very long career in public service. i'm wondering if you know what his favorite job was? >> i actually know the answer to that. he would say president, but it close second would be head of the cia. he loved being head of the cia, he loved knowing all of those secrets. and i used to ask him what do you know? tell me anything. he's like ge

which of these provides the biggest macroeconomic bang for the buck and where should we look for objective and competent advice on this? mr. bernanke: our recommendations were first public health. that has a very high return. both the medical side and also the safe opening side. the second is unemployment insurance, both because humanitarian reasons and people who are unemployed spend a great deal of their income. those are the priorities. there are other things to look at like supporting small business. i think the p.p.p. program did a lot of good but those are the three i think that in our judgment are ethis most important priorities. mr. foster: as anyone -- has anyone tried to quantify this? specifically the modeling done by the c.b.o. and fed to incorporate the different multipliers for different kinds of spending or not? are we sort of on our own in congress? ms. yellen: i would -- mr. bernanke: i would imagine the c.b.o. has estimates, i don't have them to hand. ms. yellen: huge amounts of work on this. i don't know the c.b.o. stims but different marginal propensities to spend goes to different groups in the econom

mr. continenza. the share price was $2 on monday. it rose to about eight bucks on tuesday. $33 yesterday.s a 1500% increase this week. but wait, stuart, it's rising again this morning and volume has spiked more than 17,000% in this time. so kodak is on a run thanks to its deal with the government to make drug ingredients. stuart: amazing, isn't it. okay. what's causing this crazy stock move, susan? susan: -- that was extraordinary to watch. some have pointed to robinhood, that millenial trading app. looks like 79,000 of these robinhood traders piled into the stock. that's right, 15 times more than the number two most popular stock. in the options market, you saw volume trading on kodak up 6,000% from normal. i mean, that type of activity is something we haven't seen much of, including bankrupt hertz, remember that, that actually doubled after it filed for bankruptcy because of robinhood traders. there are no analysts that cover kodak stock, no price targets so you are flying blind. this company filed for bankruptcy in 2012, reemerging in 2013. guess what the peak was before $43? stuart: t

mr. speaker, i rise today to celebrate the recent 100th birthday of long-time bucks county, pennsylvania, resident, lydia tibielo. a resident, lydia has consistently been a role model for all of us. showing all of us that hard work and serving others is the calling that we all have. a bona fide rosy the riven etter, lydia answered the call during world war ii and began to work as a welder in western pennsylvania where she helped assemble transport vessels. mr. fitzpatrick: the ships that lydia worked on played a critical role in the invasion of normandy. lydia's husband, frank, was drafted to the united states army. once the war was over, lydia and frank set up their permanent residence in bucks county, pennsylvania. and the couple welcomed seven loving children, frank, ralph, sam, paul, lori, lisette and loretta. as their children grew, they had their own families and the large italian american family came together for traditional italian meals during frequent sunday dinners. mr. speaker, we are all extremely fortunate to have lydia in our community. her hard work and service are somethi

carmaker pay back the 60 million bucks in tax credits it got after promising to maintain its operations there. food time now to bring ohio's attorney general dave yost. mrre planning to head to court, right, if gm doesn't pay that money back? >> that's right. there is a couple of steps that have to occur legally in the interim. we're ready to go to court. we didn't get the benefit of our bargain. those jobs are gone and in the valley and we spent $60 million to have them there through 2040. ashley: what's strange about this, surely, wouldn't general motors have known that even if it was in the small print, that part of the deal in getting these tax credits is that they maintain the operation of the facility? it seems, almost like, you get the money because of you're going to keep operations going and they shut it down. to me it is very flagrant? >> well they're arguing market changes that, there is other fine print and the contract and they're claiming, look, nobody is buying small cars anymore. so we clearly can't make small cars at lordstown. our argument is, fine, retool, make some suvs there if that is what you're going to do. ashley: right. >> or c