mr. francis, dr. francis is a lecturer on law at harvard law school where he writes about regulation and competition. his research focuses on antitrust as well as constitutional and other rules that facilitate, constrained and shaped regulatory action and competitive processes. he has a particular interest in digital in high-tech markets. dr. francis previously served as the federal trade commission as senior counsel to the director associate director for digital markets and ultimately deputy director. another witness that's here with us virtually, hal singer. dr. singer is an economist who has researched, and testified on competition related issues in a wide variety of industries, including media, pharmaceuticals, boards and finance. late last republished a paper commissioned by the news media alliance about the impact of google and facebook on newspapers finding that google and facebook under compensate newspapers for content and advertising. if the witnesses now would please stand and raise your rig

mr. francis, dr. francis is a lecturer on law at harvard law school where he writes about regulation and competition. his research focuses on antitrust as well as constitutional and other rules that facilitate, constrained and shaped regulatory action and competitive processes. he has a particular interest in digital in high-tech markets. dr. francis previously served as the federal trade commission as senior counsel to the director associate director for digital markets and ultimately deputy director. another witness that's here with us virtually, hal singer. dr. singer is an economist who has researched, and testified on competition related issues in a wide variety of industries, including media, pharmaceuticals, boards and finance. late last republished a paper commissioned by the news media alliance about the impact of google and facebook on newspapers finding that google and facebook under compensate newspapers for content and advertising. if the witnesses now would please stand and raise your rig

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mr. president b with a prayer ad it was a prayer to thank st. francis is despair we have hope and you have wrought usay hope. mr. cleaver's have their own imagination. they also bring us hope so thank you mr. cleaver for your prayer. again this was a remarkable few days because it was for the people but it was about ukraine. mike mcfaul and others here talked about ukraine and how what our responsibility is to those people. they are fighting for their country and they are fighting for democracy. it's an honor for us to receive you any day. on the one-year anniversary of the rescue package, the american rescue plan thank you forme joining us and thank you for your leadership. [applause] you know when we have all talked about it millions of jobs created under your leadership hundreds of millions of vaccinationshi taking place children school people back to work child tax credit so many things that you made possible to improve the lives of the american people. and it is the one-year anniversary. what we talked about here when i heard you say in that realm

francis: thank you, mr. secretary. without further ado, i defer to mayor hancock from denver.or hancock: thank you. it's great to see you. secretary pete and i were together -- i was showing them back stage, that memory board that pops up on your phone every morning he was sitting at the piano playing show tunes. you remember this in five or six years ago. there are a number of great programs in infrastructure law but one that mayors are excited about is reconnecting community programs. it'll be a topic of discussion at special session after this luncheon with active second -- acting secretary stephanie pawling. can you talk about what it means around transportation equity. mayor pete: the point of transportation is to connect. we also know that sometimes transportation assets have a history of dividing. literally the expression wrong side of the tracks, right, tells us something about how a physical piece of transportation infrastructure has sometimes been socioeconomic or racial dividing line. and sometimes that has happened in very specific and intentional ways. if a discri

mr. president, with a prayer and it was a prayer to saint francis. there is despair may we bring hope. and you brought us hope. now, mr. cleavers prayers have their own imagination. [laughing] but they also bring us hope so thank you mr. cleaver for your dash or i say your introduction. your prayer. again, this was a remarkable few days because it was for the people, but it was about ukraine. michael mccaul, others you have talked about ukraine and how whatur responsibility is there to thoseeople. they are fighting for the country. they are fighting for democracy. now, i just say,r. president, et al. are for us to receive in today, but on the one-year anniversary of the rescue package, the american rescue plan, thank you for joinings and thank you for your leadership. [applause] you know, younow and we all talked about all weekend llages of jobs creatednder your leadership, hundreds of millions of vaccinationsaking place, children come school, people back to work, child tax credit, so many things that you made possible to improve the lives of the amer

mr. biden heads into his address with lower approval ratings than any of his recent predecessors brie, what can we expect tonight? >> reporter: good morning, francis. well, the "state of the union" address is usually an optimistic look forward, but russia's siege on ukraine has forced the president to pivot and with the violent invasion stakes for the prime time address could not be higher. >> this is probably going to be the most important speech we've heard from an american president for the world to see not just the united states but since the end of the cold war. >> the "state of the union" speech is an opportunity for him to pivot, and i hope he does because every decision this president has made over the last year has been to turn to the left instead of turning to public ends across the aisle to form solutions >> foreign policy will form tonight's speech it will also be an opportunity for a presidential reset at home with a focus on the economy president biden will highlight low unemployment he's also expected to address record inflation head on, and highlight his plans to stem surging prices at the pump and at stores. administration officia

mr. fisher, i listen to these young mayors. and i tell you, one of my favorite people was francis sinatra. out of the tree of life, i just picked a plum. you came along and everything started to hum. still, it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come. jack candy said, let us go forth. ronald reagan said you ain't seen nothing yet. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the united states conference of mayors, president mayor of miami francis suarez. [ applause ] >> i forgot to take off the mute button. had to roll with that zoom joke. good afternoon, mayors, and welcome to the official opening session of the 90th winter meeting of the u.s. conference of mayors. we have mayors from 41 states. we have mayors representing every sized community as well. mayors represent every corner, every creed and every version of american life. can we have all the mayors please stand up. [ applause ] [ applause ] this without thanking the following organizations for their partnership, sponsorship and collaboration durin but we also know that we can't have a conference lik

mr. bergman, again, anything beyond the press release on the status of the update on francis going to bee have a timeline and updated agreement and we know what they are seeking to address to make this process better as a follow-up, again, we all know that intimately problems surrounding federal agencies the license and so let's go ahead and get the response from you first. >> thank you so if you are absolutely right the coordination that we want them to attempt to certainly we support the legislation ever some of the mou forwarded thank you so critical that all agencies appreciate and recognize the goal that you talked about with the national spectrum strategy that we have both the mti and the fcc leading in the other agencies think about how do we support those goals we identify the concerns really we can plan for them not thank you so is there a better way to incorporate any federal agencies this year spectrum with adjacent spectrum as a pre- auction process and avoid these wonders without that as well what he thinks. >> i think that you have the processes intergovernmental coordinatio