simpler trading will tell us and as the media merry go round continues to spin the us federal communications commission tries to stop the media merger madness margot suspect and steve malzberg will join us for that conversation and as we go to break here are the daily new york numbers at the closing bell we'll be back in a flash. but watts when you go. to the filter. you know you go to the. door you know your good fortune this creature has a purpose to play good for. the customer because. president trump indeed has has his way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on you know fate news and junk news because one of the foundations of a democracy has to be the trust in new facts and information and if that trust is fundamentally shaken and the independent media all criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. there's a saying. look there won't be cheap you know bust and then prove it come true so le

simpler trading will tell us and as the media merry go round continues to spin the us federal communications commission tries to stop the media merger madness margot suspect and steve malzberg will join us for that conversation and as we go to break here are the daily new york numbers at the closing bell we'll be back in a flash. that. want to see stocks were up pick up truck it up since he's been pushed across the worst point on the losses since comedic i'm comfortable . if possible will continue. to push at. the system but what's joined up with what you got to put that up because. you know you those little. kids as they do you know. we dispose of know what door you will get for. each. purpose to persuade a person or stock. that when you respond to the customer because. president trump indeed has has he's way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on the you know fate news and junk news because one of the foundations of a democracy

will be here and hello and later the media merry go round continues to spin as the us federal communications commission issues a proposal to stop the merger madness and there's new media news about. what people are watching and professorial lecture at american university margot suskind conservative commentator these both for us will join us for that conversation all that directly ahead but first we have some headlines ready to go. the market moving influence of china leads our global report today as the latest official statistics show a significant slowdown in growth for the month of november the overall growth rate for november was poor point three percent the lowest for china since may of two thousand and three at the same time retail sales growth fell to eight point one percent from eight point six percent in october similar trends prevailed cross almost all sectors in the chinese economy with a rule proving exception in fists fixed asset investments savvy boom busters may recall that in the third quarter chinese growth was six point five percent a number that was almost any other nation would envy

bow out of their attempt to purchase tribune in august after a federal communications commission expressed concern over the deal here to tell us why this deal happened and what it means for the industry is conservative commentator steve malzberg thinks the banks be in here great to be ok so first of all what about these two companies we know a little bit about tribune and a little bit about sinclair but tell us more right now next are. they on about one hundred seventy five broadcast t.v. stations and you know in this day and age that sounds like a lot but they're going to they're going to buy a lot more and what's going to happen is they are at about forty percent of how. olds in the united states to make this work they have to sell off some stations because there's a threshold if you're in thirty nine percent of households as a threshold of the number of stations you could own so in fifteen markets they overlap with tribune stations and we're talking about places in maryland we're talking about places in portland like portland in indianapolis so they're going to sell them off is going to bring in about one hundred seventy fi

the federal communications commission will cease taking complaints and the federal trade commission is having to suspend their investigation into facebook potentially inappropriate use of user's private data. as this shut down continues, more people feel thefects and still it doesn't seem there's any new common ground between theetds two sides. >> thank you so much. >>> well, this shut down is effecting thousands of federal workers who will not be getting a paycheck until this is decided and congress approves the back pay and they're talking about this on social media, about they're worried about how to pay their bills. >> and to real ea highlight, here to talk about what they're tweeting. it highlights this isn't about numbers. this is about people and their lives. i'm surprised almost at how candid they're being on social media. >> we're haring more and more of their heart wrenching stories where their incomes have been zeroed out and their are having to focus on essential expenses. year hearing from federal workers and veterans that depend on pay ecwhiches to keep things going. a marine corps veteran says my children don't care about walls. they care about food i

use other means. >> reporter: they decided to keep this issue off the agenda and will tackle the debate in wednesday. the federal communications commission ruled text messages are information services. similar to e-mail. and not a taxable service. the ruling cast more doubt as to whether the proposed tax can be enacted. jessie gary, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> police are looking for two people who stole packages from two homes earlier this week. investigators released these -- investigators released these pictures. they happened minutes apart on monday. they show a woman and a man. they were both driving a green saturn station wagon. >>> hawaii state hospital workers who all a killer escape under their watch will now return to work. they cleared all hospital employees who were on leave pending the outcome. he escaped from the hospital in november of last year and flew there california where he was arrested. he was committed in 1981 after he was acquitted for murdered after pleasing insanity. the investigation concluded no worker was directly responsible for his escape. >>> families are getting holiday food items today thanks to glide church in

the reagan administration, 35 years ago, the federal communications commission appointed by ronald a doctrine that placed an obligation on broadcasters who use the public airwaves to be fair to different points of view. this question might be relevant if the republican members wanted to bring back the doctrine and expand its scope to social media companies. i doubt we will see any interest in doing so. but we should not let the delusions of the far right distract us from the real issues that should be the focus of today's hearing.for example , we should examine what google is doing to stop hostile foreign powers from using this platform to spread false information in order to harm our political discourse. it has been more than two years since the 2016 election. if this committee has not held a single hearing focused on russia's campaign to manipulate online platforms to underline -- democracy,merican that much engaged in a massive disinformation campaign to influence the 2016 election. i hope mr. pichai can tell us what actions google has taken to counter this unprecedented attack without visa specific as to give a guidance to foreign powers

federal communications commission will have to stop taking complaint. and the trade commission is having to suspend the investigation into facebook and other social media company's inappropriate use of private users' data. so the longer this goes onning, the more we'll feel the effects of it. and we'll ultimately find out if they're willing to make a deal. >> what is now becoming a protracted shutdown is having real consequences for the hundreds of thousands of government employees who find themselves without steady, reliable income. >> overnight, as we said, the environmental protection agency joined that list of government departments who shuttered due to lack of funds. now there's 14,000 epa employees who are less than a week from having to pay mortgage, rent or utility bills with no money coming in. >> i have two mortgages to pay. so i haven't even looked at how my checking account is going to balance out. i don't have children. for people with kids in school, extracurricular activities, putting food on the table for the kids, those are things that make it more disgusting what's happening with the federal government right now. >> so how do republicans and democrats get throug

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used the same operation with the same people to craft and execute their advertising and strategies for the 2016 presidential election. a review of more than a thousand pages of federal communications commissionlection commission documents discovered numerous examples where the nra through its affiliate red eagle media group and the trump campaign through its affiliate american media and advocacy group purchased ad buys that appeared coordinated to enhance each other. both firms are connected to national media, a major conservative media consulting firm whose chief financial officer john farrell authorized both the nra's and the trump campaign's ad buys. individuals who worked for national media or its affiliated either signed or were named in fcc documents which show they knew of both the nra's and trump campaign's advertising plans during the election. >>> republican congressman lewis gomert is drawing heat for anti-semitic comments he made about george soros yesterday on an interview with fox news. >> you mentioned orwell. it reminds of another george, george soros. george soros is supposed to be jewish but you wouldn't know it from the fact he turned on fellow jews and helped take the pro

during the reagan administration, the 35 years ago, the federal communications commission, appointed by ronald reagan, abolished what we usedirness document that placed an obligation of broadcasters to be fair to different points of view. this question might be relevant if the republican members wanted to bring back that doctrine and expand its scope to social media companies. i doubt we will see any interest in doing so. but we should not let the delusions of the far right distract us from the real issues that should be the focus of today's hearing. for example, we should examine what google is doing to stop hostile foreign powers to spread false information in order to harm our political discourse. it has been more than two years since the 2016 election. if this committee has not held a single hearing focused on russia's campaign to manipulate online platforms to undermine american democracy despite the fact it is the consensus view of our intelligence agencies that russia engaged in a massive disinformation kam tain for the 2016 election. i hope mr. pichai can tell us what google has taken to -- don't give a guidance to

during the reagan administration about 35 years ago the federal communications commission appointed by ronald reagan abolish what we usedhat can he call the pairness doctrine, which placed obligation on broadcasters to use the public airwaves to be fair to different points of view. this question might be relevant if the republican members wanted to bring back the fairness doctrine and expand its scope to social media companies. i doubt we will see any interest in doing so. but we should not let the delusions of the far right distract us from the real issues that should be the focus of today's hearing. for example, we should examine what google is doing to stop hostile foreign powers from using its platform to spread false information in order to harm our political discourse? it has been more than two years since the 2016 election, yet this committee has not held a single hearing focused on russia's campaign to manipulate online platforms to undermine american democracy despite the fact it is the consensus view of our intelligence agencies that russia engaged in a massive disinformation campaign to influence the 2016 ele

during the reagan administration, 35 years ago, the federal communications commission appointed by ronald reagan abolished what we used to have called the fairness doctrine, which placed an obligation on broadcasters who use the airwaves to be fair to different points of view. this question might be relevant if the republican members wanted to bring back the fairness doctrine and expand its scope to social media companies. i doubt we will see any interest in doing so. we should not let the delusions of the far right extract us from from the real issues that should be the focus of today's hearing. for example, we should examine what google is doing to stop hostile foreign powers from using its platform to spread false information to harm our political discourse. it has been more than two years since the 2016 election, yet this committee has not held a single hearing focused on russia's campaign to manipulate online platforms to undermine american democracy. despite the fact that it is the consensus view of our intelligence agencies that russia engaged in a massive disinformation campaign to influence the 2016 election.

during the reagan administration, 35 years ago the federal communications commission as appointed by ronald reagan abolished what we used to have called the fairness doctrine which -- this question might be relevant if republicans wanted to bring back the doctrine and expand its scope to social media companies. i doubt we will see any interest in doing so. but we should not let the delusions of the far right distract us from the real issues that should be the focus of today's hearing. we should examine what google is doing to stop hostile powers to spread information to harm our political discourse. it has been two years since the presidential election yet this committee hasn't held a single hearing to discuss about russia engaging in a massive diss information campaign to influence the 2016 election. i hope mr. pichai can held us what actions google has taken to counter-this unprecedented attack without being so specific as to give a guidance to foreign powers. this may help congress determine what more can be done to further insulate our democratic processes from foreign interference. we should also explore how google