During her town hall on Saturday, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) spoke about tech billionaire influence in the government.
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00:00You know, I do want to say one thing to you too. On the tech, you are so right about the tech CEOs.
00:06And let me just assure you, without making news, they know how I feel.
00:12I sat next to Mark Zuckerberg at the inaugural luncheon. Let's just say, I wasn't quiet.
00:19But, you know, you also have to say, as she is talking, I want, our auto companies have got to, like, we need jobs here in this country.
00:34And they get really threatened. I am going to say to you, people need to understand, people become a ping pong ball.
00:42And those companies want to survive and keep those American jobs here and those UAW workers employed.
00:49So we've got to be the voice. We've got to be the ones that figure out how you protect them.
00:54I don't have an ounce of sympathy for one of those tech CEOs.
00:58They are all out for themselves, making the money, avoiding the privacy legislation that we've tried to do for years.
01:06I don't have an ounce of empathy for them. An ounce.
01:09But there are a lot of companies that are caught in the middle of this that I do understand and I do worry for.
01:19By the way, there's a weekly protest at the Tesla dealership in West Bluefield.
01:23It seems like there's two problems that we need to be fighting on.
01:35One is...
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